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Neologism
new word or expression
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Neophyte
novice; beginner
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Nexus
a means of connetion; a connected group or series; a center
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Nostalgia
sentimental longing for a past time
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Nostrum
medicine or remedy of doubtful effectiveness; supposed cure
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Nugatory
trifling; invalid
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Obsequious
overly submissive
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Obviate
to make unnecessary; to anticipate and prevent
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Occult
relating to practices connected with supernatural phenomena
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Odyssey
a long, adventurous voyage; a quest
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Officious
too heplful; meddlesome
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Oligarchy
form of government in which power belongs to only a few leaders
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Onomatopoeia
formation or use of words that imitate sounds of the actions they refer to
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Opprobrium
disgrace; contempt
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Ornithologist
scientist who studies birds
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Oscillate
to move back and forth
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Ostentatious
showy; trying to attract attentionl pretentious
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Overweening
presumptuous; arrogant; overbering
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