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Simplicity :: Simplicity (n.) Artlessness of mind; freedom from cunning or duplicity; lack of acuteness and sagacity.

Squeak :: Squeak (v. i.) To utter a sharp, shrill cry, usually of short duration; to cry with an acute tone, as an animal; or, to make a sharp, disagreeable noise, as a pipe or quill, a wagon wheel, a door; to creak..

Discernment :: Discernment (n.) The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment..

Proparoxytone :: Proparoxytone (n.) A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.

Discerning :: Discerning (a.) Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted.

Peracute :: Peracute (a.) Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever..

Octahedrite :: Octahedrite (n.) Titanium dioxide occurring in acute octahedral crystals.

Sting :: Sting (v. t.) To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite..

Axinite :: Axinite (n.) A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges..

Plague :: Plague (n.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague..

Deaden :: Deaden (a.) To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound..

Floccillation :: Floccillation (n.) A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases..

Unisonant :: Unisonant (a.) Being in unison; having the same degree of gravity or acuteness; sounded alike in pitch.

Acutely :: Acutely (adv.) In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.

Shrilly :: Shrilly (adv.) In a shrill manner; acutely; with a sharp sound or voice.

Euplastic :: Euplastic (a.) Having the capacity of becoming organizable in a high degree, as the matter forming the false membranes which sometimes result from acute inflammation in a healthy person..

Flat :: Flat (superl.) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound..

Rubella :: Rubella (n.) An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles..

Tone :: Tone (n.) Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone..

Nostril :: Nostril (n.) Perception; insight; acuteness.

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