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  • 11SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY, JEWISH — Fantasy is a genre of literature in which realistic narratives are disrupted by unnatural or unexplainable events. The term Science Fiction (SF) emerged during the 1930s as a catchall descriptor for a publishing category with roots traceable to… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 12fantastic — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. bizarre, grotesque; imaginative, fanciful; extravagant, irrational, absurd. See imagination, absurdity. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Based on or suggesting fantasy] Syn. whimsical, capricious,… …

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  • 13The Fast Show — Title Card for the Fosters Funny Series of The Fast Show. Format Sketch comedy …

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  • 14All That Fall — is a one act radio play by Samuel Beckett produced following a request [It has been reported that Beckett wrote this play following a commission from the BBC. This is not correct. Hugh Kenner advises that Beckett had written only some of his… …

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  • 15Metempsychosis — • The doctrine of the transmigration of souls, teaches that the same soul inhabits in succession the bodies of different beings, both men and animals Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Metempsychosis     Metempsychosis …

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  • 16heraldry — heraldist, n. /her euhl dree/, n., pl. heraldries. 1. the science of armorial bearings. 2. the art of blazoning armorial bearings, of settling the rights of persons to bear arms or to use certain bearings, of tracing and recording genealogies, of …

    Universalium

  • 17fantastical — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Appealing to fancy: fanciful, fancy, fantastic, imaginative, whimsical. See PLAIN. 2. Existing only in the imagination: chimeric, chimerical, conceptual, fanciful, fantastic, imaginary, notional, unreal,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 18conceit — con•ceit [[t]kənˈsit[/t]] n. 1) an excessively favorable opinion of one s own ability, importance, wit, etc.; vanity 2) a fancy or whim 3) pro an elaborate, fanciful metaphor, esp. of a strained or far fetched nature 4) something conceived in the …

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  • 19D'Lo, Mississippi —   Town   Location of D …

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  • 20Farce — A farce is a comedy written for the stage or film which aims to entertain the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may… …

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