RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
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INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.
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DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.
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MAGNITUDE, n. Size that is purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.
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MENDACIOUS, adj. Addicted to rhetoric.
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PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.
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