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April 17, 2015
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What does dichromia mean?

dichromacy, dichromatism, dichromatopsia, dichromia, dichromasy(noun)
a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision)

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April 16, 2015
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What does fashionable mean?

fashionable, stylish(adj)
being or in accordance with current social fashions

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April 15, 2015
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What does inadmissible mean?

inadmissible(adj)
not deserving to be admitted

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April 14, 2015
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What does reticent mean?

reticent, untalkative(adj)
temperamentally disinclined to talk

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April 13, 2015
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What does absorb mean?

absorb(verb)
become imbued

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April 12, 2015
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What does unserviceable mean?

unserviceable(adj)
not ready for service

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April 11, 2015
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What does relational database mean?

relational database(noun)
a database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes

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