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Didact
- unknown - One gifted to instruct
Direct
- adjective - (of a current) flowing in one direction only; "direct current"
- be in charge of
- being an immediate result or consequence; "a direct result of the accident"
- cause to go somewhere; "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"
- command with authority; "He directed the children to do their homework"
- direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit"
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction; "I directed them towards the town hall"
- guide the actors in (plays and films)
- having no intervening persons, agents, conditions; "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of
Dreich
- unknown - Scottish term for dull, grey and drizzly weather
Drench
- verb - A large dose of liquid medicine, especially one administered to an animal by pouring down the throat.
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor"
- force to drink
- permeate or impregnate; "The war drenched the country in blood"
Efface
- verb - make inconspicuous; "efface oneself"
- remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"
- remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"
Effect
- noun - (of a law) having legal validity; "the law is still in effect"
- a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon;
- a symptom caused by an illness or a drug; "the effects of sleep loss"; "the effect of the anesthetic"
- act so as to bring into existence; "effect a change"
- an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived); "he just did it for effect"
- an outward appearance; "he made a good impression"; "I wanted to create an impression of success"; "she retained that bold effect in her reproductions of the original painting"
- produce; "The scientists set up a shock wave"
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
Egence
- - The state of needing, or of suffering a natural want.
Elance
- - To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart.
Elench
- - That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation. (b) A specious but fallacious argument; a sophism.