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• bookish — adj. 1 studious; fond of reading. 2 acquiring knowledge from books rather than practical experience. 3 (of a word, language, etc.) literary; not colloquial. Derivatives: bookishly adv. bookishness n …   Useful english dictionary

• complex word — complex word, a word consisting either of a free form and a bound form or of two bound forms: »Book is a simple word, books and bookish are complex words, and bookcase is a compound word (Simeon Potter) …   Useful english dictionary

• Irkutsk — Infobox Russian city EnglishName=Irkutsk RussianName=Иркутск Skyline=Irkutsk ISS011 E 9913.jpg Skyline LatDeg=52 LatMin=17 LatSec LonDeg=104 LonMin=18 LonSec Locator LocatorMap CityDay=First Sunday of June FederalSubject=Irkutsk Oblast… …   Wikipedia

• difficulty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) That which is hard to overcome Nouns 1. difficulty, hardness, impracticability, hard work, uphill work, hurdle; hard task, Herculean task, large order, hard row to hoe; task of Sisyphus, Sisyphean labor; …   English dictionary for students

• powerful — powerful, potent, puissant, forceful, forcible are comparable when they mean having or manifesting power to effect great or striking results. Powerful is applicable to something which stands out from the rest of its kind as exceeding the others… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• usual — usual, customary, habitual, wonted, accustomed can mean familiar through frequent or regular repetition. Usual stresses the absence of strangeness and is applicable to whatever is normally expected or happens in the ordinary course of events… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• infinite — infinite, eternal, sempiternal, boundless, illimitable, uncircumscribed mean having neither beginning nor end or being without known limits. Infinite especially as applied to God or his attributes implies immeasurability or an incapacity for… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• difficulty — [dif′i kul΄tē, dif′ikəl΄tē] n. pl. difficulties [ME & OFr difficulte < L difficultas < difficilis, difficult < dis , not + facilis, easy: see FACILE] 1. the condition or fact of being difficult 2. something that is difficult, as a hard… …   English World dictionary

• Bulgarian language — Not to be confused with Bulgar language. Bulgarian Български език Bălgarski ezik Spoken in Bulgaria, Turkey, Serbia, Greece, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Albania, Kosovo, Repub …   Wikipedia

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• List of The Sandman characters — This is a list of characters appearing in The Sandman comic book, published by DC Comics Vertigo imprint. This page discusses not only events which occur in The Sandman (1989–1994), but also some occurring in spinoffs of The Sandman (such as The… …   Wikipedia