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Agism
- noun - discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people
Axiom
- noun - (logic) a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof; its truth is assumed to be self-evident
- a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits
- a statement or proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true.
"the axiom that sport builds character"
Chirm
- - Noise; din; esp.; confused noise, clamor, or hum of many voices, notes of birds, or the like.
Deism
- noun - the form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation
Grimm
- noun - the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863)
- the younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859)
Idiom
- noun - a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
- an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
- the style of a particular artist or school or movement; "an imaginative orchestral idiom"
- the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy"
Ilium
- noun - The daughter of Aeneas and Lavinia, who, according to some traditions, was the mother of Romulus and Remus
- an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War
- the upper and widest of the three bones making up the hipbone
Mnium
- noun - mosses similar to those of genus Bryum but larger