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TERMINOLOGY
the technical or special terms used in a business, art, science, or special subject
The meaning of the word terminology is the technical or special terms used in a business, art, science, or special subject.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| squander | to spend extravagantly or foolishly : dissipate |
| shimmer | to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| analogy | a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect |
| disarray | a lack of order or sequence : confusion |
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain |
| desperate | having lost hope |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |