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Oxtant
- noun - a unit of angular distance equal to half a quadrant
Pedant
- noun - a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
Pliant
- adjective - able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract"
- capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; "a flexible wire"; "a pliant young tree"
- capable of being influenced or formed; "the plastic minds of children"; "a pliant nature"
- capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy"
Recant
- verb - formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
- Renounce
Savant
- noun - someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
- Wise person
Secant
- noun - a straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points
- ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
Sejant
- unknown - In heraldry, an animal sitting upright on its haunches
Sonant
- adjective - a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords
- produced with vibration of the vocal cords; "a frequently voiced opinion"; "voiced consonants such as `b' and `g' and `z'";