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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.
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Word | Meaning |
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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 |