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May 30, 2015
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What does perinatology mean?

perinatology(noun)
the branch of obstetrics concerned with the anatomy and physiology and diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the mother and the fetus or newborn baby during late pregnancy and childbirth and the puerperium

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May 29, 2015
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What does recollective mean?

retentive, recollective, long, tenacious(adj)
good at remembering

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May 28, 2015
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What does braille mean?

Braille, Louis Braille(noun)
French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852)

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May 27, 2015
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What does tongue-in-cheek mean?

bantering, facetious, tongue-in-cheek(adverb)
cleverly amusing in tone

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May 26, 2015
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What does intemperate mean?

intemperate(adj)
(of weather or climate) not mild; subject to extremes

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May 25, 2015
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What does pell-mell mean?

helter-skelter, pell-mell(adverb)
with undue hurry and confusion

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May 24, 2015
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What does quincentennial mean?

quincentennial, quincentenary(adj)
the 500th anniversary (or the celebration of it)

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