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5fd520c explicitus est liber Erin McKean
05e8f42 squal*or n. a state of being extremely dirty and unpleasant, esp. as a result of poverty or neglect: they lived in squalor and disease. early 17th cent.: from Latin, from squalere 'be dirty'. Erin McKean
a9643d3 with obj.] Erin McKean
d664ba6 tenacity Erin McKean
09a4cd9 Drake, Sir Francis /drak/ (c. 1540-96), English sailor and explorer. In his ship the Golden Hind he was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe (1577-80). He also played an important part in the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Erin McKean
056b758 kenning /'keniNG/ I. noun a compound expression in Old English and Old Norse poetry with metaphorical meaning, e.g., oar-steed = ship. Erin McKean
47d3006 Proust, Marcel (1871-1922), French novelist, essayist, and critic. He devoted much of his life to writing his novel A la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27). Its central theme is the recovery of the lost past and the releasing of its creative energies through the stimulation of unconscious memory. Erin McKean
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