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warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wingstypes:galloadult male birdarcheopteryxextinct primitive toothed bird of the Jurassic period having a long feathered tail and hollow bones; usually considered the most primitive of all birdsrapaceany of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animalspappagallousually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic soundsstruzzofast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living birdemùlarge Australian flightless bird similar to the ostrich but smalleratterige, kivi, kiwinocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order ApterygiformesliraAustralian bird that resembles a pheasant; the courting male displays long tail feathers in a lyre shapescriccioloany of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insectsfalcodiurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tailaquilaany of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flightavoltore, avvoltoioany of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrioncivetta, gufo, nottolanocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyesparrocchettoany of numerous small slender long-tailed parrotscuccù, cuculo, cucùany of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tailbigodinoOld World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishersbeccapescinonpasserine large-headed bird with a short tail and long sharp bill; usually crested and bright-colored; feed mostly on fishupupaany of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved billrondonea small bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flightpicchiobird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insectstucanobrilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beakcignostately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adulttrampolieriany of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of foodtype of:notocordato, vertebratoanimals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
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No time to scour the headlines or watch the news? No problem! We’ve rounded up the top words heard, read, debated, and discussed this week. Some weeks are the calm before the storm, and some weeks are the storm itself. In terms of both events and the vocabulary used to describe them, this was a stormy week. The earth itself was volatile, with a 7.3 earthquake occurring the Iran-Iraq border. In a storm of words, President Trump franticallyassailed critics and was adamant in his insistence that the Republican Tax Plan include a repeal of the Obamacare insurance mandate. And, on a lighter note, Taylor Swift's latest release stormed the pop charts like a force of nature. Take a look back at the week that was, vocabulary style.