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July 4, 2024

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all-American adj
  1. Comprising things that are wholly from the United States of America; completely made in the United States.
  2. Regarded as embodying the ideal qualities of the United States; (specifically) of a person: courageous, heroic; honest, wholesome, etc.
  3. (US, chiefly sports) Of a person or a team, or some other thing: regarded as the best in the United States.

Today is celebrated as Independence Day in the United States.

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July 5, 2024
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July 6, 2024
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July 7, 2024

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hebdomad n
  1. (obsolete) A group of seven.
  2. A period of seven days; a week.
  3. (Gnosticism) A group of seven world-creating archons (supernatural beings) often regarded as somewhat hostile; also, a term of address for the Demiurge (“a being sometimes seen as the creator of evil”).
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July 8, 2024

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pessimize v
  1. (transitive) To take a pessimistic view of; to speak of in a negative or pessimistic way.
  2. (transitive) To make (something) pessimal or the worst; (in a weaker sense) to make (something, such as a computer program) less efficient.
  3. (intransitive) To think like a pessimist; to believe the worst.
  4. (intransitive) To become pessimal or the worst.
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July 9, 2024

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hyperparasite n
  1. (biology) Any parasite whose host is a parasite.
  2. (entomology, specifically) An insect that parasitizes another parasitic insect.
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July 10, 2024

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gorge v
  1. (intransitive, reflexive) Often followed by on: To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities.
  2. (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
  3. (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
  4. (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
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July 11, 2024
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July 12, 2024

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abeyant adj
  1. Being in a state of abeyance; suspended.
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July 13, 2024

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calvous adj
  1. (formal, medicine, rare) Lacking most or all of one's hair; bald, hairless.
  2. (botany, rare) Lacking bristles or pappuses.

The calvous British actor Sir Patrick Stewart was born on this day in 1940.

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July 14, 2024

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bastille v
  1. Chiefly in French contexts: a bastion (“projecting part of a rampart or other fortification”) or tower of a castle; also, a fortified tower or other building; or a small citadel or fortress.
  2. (figuratively)
    1. A jail or prison, especially one regarded as mistreating its prisoners.
    2. (British, derogatory) Synonym of workhouse (“an institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work”)
  3. (military, historical) The fortified encampment of an army besieging a place; also, any of the buildings in such an encampment.

bastille v

  1. (transitive, also figuratively) To confine (someone or something) in, or as if in, a bastille (noun sense 2.1) or prison; to imprison.

Today is Bastille Day, the national day of France which commemorates the storming of the Bastille—a key event in the French Revolution—that took place on this day 235 years ago in 1789, and celebrates the unity of the nation.

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July 15, 2024

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kombu n
  1. Edible kelp (“a type of brown seaweed”) (from the class Phaeophyceae) used in East Asian cuisine.

Today, the third Monday in July in 2019, is 海の日 (Umi no Hi) or Marine Day in Japan, a public holiday for giving thanks for the ocean’s bounty and for recognizing its importance to Japan as an island nation.

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July 16, 2024

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wristlet n
  1. An elastic band worn to keep a glove from slipping off the wrist.
  2. A decorative band or bracelet that encircles the wearer's wrist; especially, a closely knitted one to keep it warm; a muffetee.
  3. A small handbag with a short strap for attaching it to the wearer's wrist.
  4. A handcuff.
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July 17, 2024

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justice delayed is justice denied proverb
  1. If a wrong is not corrected within a reasonable time, it is as though the wrong were not corrected at all.

Today is the Day of International Criminal Justice, which was instituted in 2010 by the states parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to recognize the importance of international criminal justice.

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July 18, 2024
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July 19, 2024
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July 20, 2024

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lunar adj
  1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's moon); Lunar.
  2. Shaped like a crescent moon; lunate.
  3. (chiefly historical) (Believed to be) influenced by the Moon, as in character, growth, or properties.
  4. (alchemy, chemistry, historical) Of or pertaining to silver (which was symbolically associated with the Moon by alchemists).
  5. (astronomy) Of or pertaining to travel through space between the Earth and the Moon, or exploration and scientific investigation of the Moon.

On this day 50 years ago in 1969, Apollo 11 became the first space mission that landed human beings on the Moon.

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July 21, 2024

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man in the moon proper n
  1. An image of a man perceived in the dark maria (plains or “seas”) and light highlands or other features of the Moon, originally regarded as a man with a burden on his back or accompanied by a small dog, and now more commonly as a man's face in the full moon or his profile in a crescent moon; hence, an imaginary man thought to be living on the Moon.
  2. (obsolete, figurative) An imaginary person; also (UK politics, slang), an unidentified person who illegally pays for election expenditure and electors’ expenses, as long as the latter vote as the person wishes.

The American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to step on to the Moon’s surface during the Apollo 11 mission on this day 55 years ago in 1969 at 02:56 UTC.

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July 22, 2024

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radiole n
  1. (zoology) The spine of a sea urchin.
  2. (zoology) A heavily ciliated feather-like tentacle occuring in clusters on the crowns of certain tubeworms, especially those of the order Canalipalpata (the fan-head worms), used for feeding and respiration.
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July 23, 2024

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churchical adj
  1. (Christianity, informal) Pertaining to or characteristic of church; ecclesiastical.
  2. (chiefly Jamaica, music) Belonging to a style of Reggae music that reflects a spiritual sensibility.
  3. (chiefly Jamaica, Rastafari) Pertaining to the strain of Rastafarian culture that emphasizes a traditional theocracy.

Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, was born on this day in 1892. He is worshipped as a deity and messiah by Rastafarians.

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July 24, 2024
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