engram

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  1. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
  2. murine
    of or relating to or transmitted by a member of the family Muridae (rats and mice)
  3. affiant
    a person who makes an affidavit
  4. epistolary
    written in the form of letters or correspondence
  5. epistolatory
    written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence
  6. solecism
    a socially awkward or tactless act
  7. atavism
    a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
  8. augury
    an event indicating important things to come
  9. obstreperous
    noisily and stubbornly defiant
  10. avulsion
    a forcible tearing or surgical separation of one body part from another
  11. afferent
    of nerves and nerve impulses
  12. dilettante
    an amateur engaging in an activity without serious intention
  13. sciolist
    an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
  14. dissociated
  15. engram
    a postulated biochemical change that represents a memory
Created on Tue Jul 22 22:39:55 EDT 2008

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