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Polyphony
- noun - music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments
Polythene
- noun - a lightweight thermoplastic; used especially in packaging and insulation
Preaching
- verb - a moralistic rebuke; "your preaching is wasted on him"
- an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
- deliver a sermon; "The minister is not preaching this Sunday"
- speak, plead, or argue in favor of; "The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house"
Punishing
- verb - characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
- impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on; "The students were penalized for showing up late for class"; "we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again"
- resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"
Pyrophane
- - A mineral which is opaque in its natural state, but is said to change its color and become transparent by heat.
Pyrophone
- - A musical instrument in which the tones are produced by flames of hydrogen, or illuminating gas, burning in tubes of different sizes and lengths.
Quenching
- verb - cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid; "quench steel"
- electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device
- put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"
- reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance
- satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"
- suppress or crush completely; "squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion"
- the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning; "the extinction of the lights"
Quetching
- verb - express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about"
Ravishing
- verb - force (someone) to have sex against their will;
- hold spellbound
- stunningly beautiful; "a ravishing blonde"
Red China
- noun - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world