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December 30, 2018
81%    19%    #46 votes

What does bondsman mean?

bondman, bondsman(noun)
a male slave

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December 29, 2018
63%    37%    #36 votes

What does travail mean?

parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed(noun)
concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

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December 28, 2018
65%    35%    #56 votes

What does stillness mean?

hush, stillness, still(noun)
(poetic) tranquil silence

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December 27, 2018
70%    30%    #110 votes

What does foregather mean?

meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather(verb)
collect in one place

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December 26, 2018
82%    18%    #86 votes

What does weasel word mean?

weasel word(noun)
an equivocal qualification; a word used to avoid making an outright assertion

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December 25, 2018
93%    7%    #53 votes

What does rebuke mean?

rebuke, reproof, reproval, reprehension, reprimand(verb)
an act or expression of criticism and censure

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December 24, 2018
84%    16%    #62 votes

What does privy purse mean?

privy purse(noun)
allowance for a monarch's personal expenses

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