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  • 111mellow — adj. & v. adj. 1 (of sound, colour, light) soft and rich, free from harshness. 2 (of character) softened or matured by age or experience. 3 genial, jovial. 4 partly intoxicated. 5 (of fruit) soft, sweet, and juicy. 6 (of wine) well matured,… …

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  • 112taste perception — noun the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus the candy left him with a bad taste the melon had a delicious taste • Syn: ↑taste, ↑taste sensation,… …

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  • 113taste sensation — noun the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus the candy left him with a bad taste the melon had a delicious taste • Syn: ↑taste, ↑gustatory… …

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  • 114binary opposition — noun phonetics : one of a number of pairs of diametrically opposed characteristics (as voicedness or voicelessness) taken as a basis for the classification of speech sounds * * * Ling. a relation between the members of a pair of linguistic items …

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  • 115VOLOZHINER, ḤAYYIM BEN ISAAC — (1749–1821), rabbi and educator, leading disciple of R. Elijah b. Solomon Zalman the Gaon of Vilna and of R. Aryeh Gunzberg (author of Sha agat Aryeh). R. Ḥayyim was the acknowledged spiritual leader of non ḥasidic Russian Jewry of his day.… …

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