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  • Public brobdingnagian (brob-ding-NAG-ee-uhn) : adjective :: Of gigantic size. // After Brobdingnag, the fictional region where everything was enormous, in Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels.

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  • Public pleiad (PLEE-ad) : noun :: A group of usually seven illustrious or brilliant persons or things

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  • Public amanuensis (uh-man-yoo-en-sis) : noun :: One employed to take dictation or to copy manuscripts. // 1619, from L. amanuensis, from servus a manu "secretary," lit. "servant from the hand," from a "from" + manu, ablative of manus "hand"

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  • Public tintinnabulation (tin-ti-nab-yuh-ley-shuhn) : noun :: The ringing or sound of bells. // "The ringing of bells," 1831 (perhaps coined by Poe), from L. tintinnabulum "bell," from tintinnare "to ring, jingle" (reduplicated form of tinnire "to ring," from an imitative base) + instrumental suffix -bulum.

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  • Public haplology (hap-LAH-luh-jee) : noun :: Contraction of a word by omission of one or more similar sounds or syllables; such as the common pronunciation of probably as probly.

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  • Public sitzmark (SITS-mark) : noun :: A depression left in the snow by a skier falling backward.

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  • Public somniloquy (som-NIL-uh-kwee) : noun :: The act or habit of talking while asleep. // [From Latin somni- (sleep) + loqui (to speak).]

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