"Artifice" is a word in ENGLISH

artifice ENGLISH
Definition:

Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick.
[Now the usual meaning.]

artifice ENGLISH
Definition:

Artful or skillful contrivance.

artifice ENGLISH
Definition:

A handicraft; a trade; art of making.

artifice ENGLISH
Definition:

Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.

Few words of positivity

One of the hardest-to-swallow, most countercultural, counter intuitive implications of the gospel is that bearing up under a difficult burden with patient perseverance is a good thing.

Brant Hansen, Blessed Are the Misfits: Great News for Believers who are Introverts, Spiritual Strugglers, or Just Feel Like They're Missing Something

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A college student in a philosophy class was taking his first examination. On the paper there was a single line which simply said: "Is this a question?" - Discuss. After a short time he wrote: "If that is a question, then this is an answer." The student received an "A" on the exam. A Boston brokerage house advertised for a "young Harvard graduate or the equivalent." Among the inquiries received was one from a Yale grad. He said, "Do you mean two Princeton men, or a Yale man part time?"

baytang TAGALOG

baytang Definition: (noun) grade, level, step

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iluku CEBUANO

ilúku n k. o. thread of several strands made from low-grade cotton, finer and whiter than the tingkal.

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puck ENGLISH
takab HILIGAYNON

takáb - (B) To pilfer, steal, purloin, take secretly or stealthily. Anó ang tinakáb na? (Náno ang íya kináwat)? What …

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pisa TAGALOG

pisa Definition: see pisa1 see pisa2

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Quo Minus LAW AND LEGAL

Lat. A writ upon which all proceedings in the court of exchequer were formerly grounded. In it the plaintiff suggests …

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brantail ENGLISH

The European redstart; -- so called from the red color of its tail.

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fancy ENGLISH

Adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods.

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alakri CEBUANO

alakri (not without l) n sealing wax, for package, letters, etc. v [b] seal s.t. with sealing wax.

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viminal ENGLISH

Of or pertaining to twigs; consisting of twigs; producing twigs.

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unremorseless ENGLISH

Utterly remorseless.

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understanding ENGLISH

The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.

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tiabaw HILIGAYNON

tiábaw - A plaintive cry; to yell, shriek, scream, squeal, squeak, utter a shrill cry, cry out in a loud, …

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turn-buckle ENGLISH

A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp.

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sacrosanct ENGLISH

Sacred; inviolable.

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sickening ENGLISH

Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating.

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impit TAGALOG

impit Definition: (adj) /mag--/ repressed, curbed

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mal-idukada CEBUANO

mal-idukáda = mal-idukádu (female).

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balang-balang HILIGAYNON

baláng-baláng - The pin that passes through the kaw-ít (a small rope) and connects the traces with the plough. (cf. …

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boa ILOKANO

n. 1. the betel-nut or areca-nut palm (Areca catechu. L.). 2. a fruit of this.

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