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backgammon |
a board game in which each of two opponents throws dice and tries to move several pieces clockwise around and eventually off the board. |
Berlin Wall |
a barrier first erected in 1961 that separated West Berlin from East Berlin, eventually fortified and extended to create a border between West Germany and East Germany, and ultimately opened to unrestricted transit on November 9, 1989, prior to being dismantled. |
bin |
a storage container or space, as for such things as firewood, foods, or coal, or for things that will eventually be discarded. [1/2 definitions] |
cicatrix |
tissue that forms over a fresh wound and eventually contracts into a scar; scar tissue. [1/2 definitions] |
Civil Rights Movement |
a movement in the United States particularly prominent during the 1950s and 1960s that sought to end racial discrimination, legal segregation of blacks and whites, and racial barriers to voting. The movement was led by black leaders such as Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis, and James Farmer. It mobilized tens of thousands of African Americans in protest against existing laws and practices. Activists, both black and white, endured harassment and violence from the police and others as the movement progressed. Eventually, the American civil rights movement brought about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and other measures. [1/2 definitions] |
conditioned response |
a response elicited by repeated presentation of a stimulus not normally connected with the response together with one that is, leading the subject eventually to respond to the first stimulus when it is presented alone. |
coral |
any of various aquatic invertebrates, polyps, that secrete a hard skeleton and often live in colonies. Their cummulative skeletons eventually form reefs in warm, shallow seas. [1/6 definitions] |
Danube |
a river originating in Germany and flowing through central Europe, eventually emptying into the Black Sea. |
Danube River |
a river originating in Germany and flowing through central Europe, eventually emptying into the Black Sea. |
Gordon Hirabayashi |
an American of Japanese descent who, during World War II, was one of only a few Japanese-Americans to openly defy the relocation orders of the U.S. Government. He challenged the constitutionality of the application of curfews for minority groups, and his case eventually went to the Supreme Court, where he was unanimously ruled against in Hirabayashi v. United States in 1943 (b.1918--2012). |
Great Wall of China |
a defensive fortification in northern China which stretches for thousands of miles. Parts of the structure were built as early as the seventh century BCE. These and other parts were connected in the third century, beginning the creation of what became considered the Great Wall. Later parts were eventually added, especially in the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries. |
insulin shock |
hypoglycemia caused by excessive insulin in the blood, and characterized by shakiness, cold sweat, convulsions, and eventually coma. |
joker |
a concealed, unnoticed, or unknown fact, stipulation in a document, or the like that eventually has a major effect or causes a major unexpected change. [1/4 definitions] |
melioration |
the historical process by which a word gradually acquires positive connotation, and eventually, positive denotation. (Cf. pejoration.) [1/2 definitions] |
milk tooth |
any of the temporary first teeth, found in young mammals, that are eventually replaced by permanent teeth. |
Minoru Yasui |
an American of Japanese descent who, during World War II, was one of few Japanese-Americans to openly violate curfew restrictions and defy the relocation orders of the U.S. Government. He challenged the constitutionality of the application of curfews to people based on their ethnicity, and his case eventually went to the Supreme Court, where he was unanimously ruled against in Yasui v. United States in 1943, in a companion case to Hirabayashi v. United States (b.1915--d.1986). |
Paraná |
a major river in South America originating in Brazil and flowing mostly south, forming the border between Paraguay and Argentina and eventually merging with the Uruguay River to form the Río de la Plata. |
Paraná River |
a major river in South America originating in Brazil and flowing mostly south, forming the border between Paraguay and Argentina and eventually merging with the Uruguay River to form the Río de la Plata. |
pejoration |
the historical process by which a word acquires increasingly negative connotation, and eventually, negative denotation. (Cf. melioration.) [1/2 definitions] |
purgatory |
in Roman Catholicism, a place or state of suffering for the purification of the souls of the dead who will eventually be worthy of heaven. [1/3 definitions] |
recycling bin |
a container used for holding discarded items such as aluminum cans, plastic bottles, and newspapers, which will be collected and eventually recycled. |
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