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Description of stalemate (noun)
drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check



   
Description of terminology (noun: terminologies)
a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; language

Determination of terminology
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Description of bate (verb: bated; bated; bating)
diminish; decrease



   
Description of sully (verb: sullied; sullied; sullying)
charge falsely or with malicious intent; smirch; asperse; denigrate; calumniate; smear; besmirch



   
Description of brackish (adjective)
slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)



   
Description of tightwad (noun)
a miserly person



   
Description of midget (noun)
a person who is markedly small; nanus



   
Description of cadaverous (adjective)
corpse-like; ghastly



   
Description of flint (adjective)
showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; granitic; obdurate; stony



   
Description of maxillary (noun)
the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium



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