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| Cenozoic |
of, relating to, or designating the most recent geological era that includes the present and began approximately 70 million years ago, when many mammals appeared, the modern continents took shape, and glacial ice formed. [1/2 definitions] |
| chronicle |
an account of events, told in the order in which those events took place. [1/2 definitions] |
| functionalism |
an early twentieth-century design movement that took this idea as its doctrine. [1/3 definitions] |
| Great Vowel Shift |
a series of shifts in English vowel sounds that took place from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century and changed the vowel system of Middle English into that of Modern English. |
| John Hancock |
a prominent merchant and statesman who took part in the American Revolution and was a signer of the United States Constitution (b. 1737--d. 1793). [1/2 definitions] |
| Nazarite |
among the ancient Hebrews, a person who took strict vows to abstain from wine, leave the hair long, and avoid touching corpses. |
| quinquennial |
a commemoration or anniversary of something that took place five years in the past. [1/5 definitions] |
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