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  • 61Education of the Blind — • Includes statistics and history Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Education of the Blind     Education of the Blind      …

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  • 62Black Hawk War (1865–1872) — Black Hawk War Part of the Ute Wars, Apache Wars, Navajo Wars An Ute warrior and his bride in 1874, photograph by John K. Hill …

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  • 63broken — past part of break Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. broken …

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  • 64discursive — I (analytical) adjective a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, analytic, argumentative, deductive, dialectic, disquisitional, epagogic, inductive, inferential, interpretative, logical, ratiocinative, ratiocinatory, rational, rationalistic,… …

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  • 65random — I adjective accidental, aimless, blind, casual, chance, cursory, designless, desultory, done without reason, fortuitous, haphazard, immethodical, incidental, indiscriminate, irregular, orderless, promiscuous, purposeless, stray, unaimed,… …

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  • 66unconnected — I adjective absonant, alien, apart, broken, collateral, desultory, detached, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, disengaged, disjoined, disjunctive, disparate, distinct, disunited, divided, foreign, gratuitous, inapposite, incongruous,… …

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  • 67insult — [16] The sult of insult comes from a word that meant ‘jump’. Its source was Latin insultāre ‘jump on’, a compound verb based on saltāre ‘jump’. This was a derivative of salīre ‘jump’, source in one way or another of English assail, assault,… …

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  • 68cursory — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. hasty, superficial. See haste. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. superficial, quick, slight, desultory; see careless 1 , superficial . See Synonym Study at superficial . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus)… …

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  • 69discursive — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wandering, rambling, desultory, digressive. See deviation. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. rambling, desultory, digressive; see verbose . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. rambling, digressive,… …

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  • 70Changeableness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Changeableness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 changeableness changeableness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 mutability mutability inconstancy Sgm: N 1 versatility versatility mobility Sgm: N 1 instability instability unstable e …

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