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a current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid orgas, especially one having a rotary or whirling motion.

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She could feel time eddying and curling almost visibly around her feet, rising around her... 

a person who is timid or submissive

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They all had a milquetoast personality, which doesn't exactly inspire confidence in a company that could play a central role in your career. 

a public speech or published text in praise of someone or something.

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If we examine the panegyrics that are commonly made of great men, we shall find, that most of the qualities, which are attributed to them, may be divided into two kinds...

Concealed or hidden out of the way

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For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, 'tis certain it must lie very deep and abstruse...

Crudely or irregularly fashioned verse, often of a humorous or burlesque nature.

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Despite the jocular nature of this bit of doggerel, it captures an important point.

(of an account or representation) Clearly expressed and easily understood; lucid.

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Our discussion will be adequate if we make things perspicuous enough to accord with the subject matter; for we would not seek the same degree of exactness in all sorts of arguments alike, any more than in the products of different crafts. 

The positioning of things or the condition of being side by side or close together.

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...these investigators demonstrated that dopamine terminals are found in apposition to small intracortical arterioles and capillaries.

A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, esp. a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.

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If the two stories are happening in different periods in history, this can create humoristic anachronisms, as is often seen in time travel movies.

Originating or produced within an organism, tissue, or cell

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Trauma leads to the release of endogenous stress hormones. 

Liable to change; easily altered.

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The formation of long-term memory (LTM) is generally believed to involve a process by which a labile short-term memory (STM) is converted into a lasting stable trace.

musical term referring to a ‘short, constantly recurring musical phrase’, associated with a particular person, place, or idea

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"The enormous difficulty people have in thinking about integrative simplicity-complexity (or, for that matter, any form of political behaviour) in a value-neutral way is a leitmotif of this chapter."