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11Insane Clown Posse — ICP, 2010. Surnom ICP Inner City Posse JJ Boyz Pays d’origine Détroit (Michigan) …
12triteness — noun unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed • Syn: ↑staleness • Derivationally related forms: ↑stale (for: ↑staleness), ↑trite • Hypernyms: ↑unorig …
13Platitude — Plat i*tude, n. [F., from plat flat. See {Plate}.] 1. The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language. [1913 Webster] To hammer one golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite… …
14candle — I. noun Etymology: Middle English candel, from Old English, from Latin candela, from candēre Date: before 12th century 1. a usually molded or dipped mass of wax or tallow containing a wick that may be burned (as to give light, heat, or scent or… …
15chestnut — I. noun Etymology: Middle English chasteine, chesten chestnut tree, from Anglo French chastein, chestain, from Latin castanea, from Greek kastanea Date: 14th century 1. a. any of a genus (Castanea) of trees or shrubs of the beech family;… …
16stale — I. adjective (staler; stalest) Etymology: Middle English, settled, clear (of ale), not fresh, from Anglo French estale, probably from Middle Dutch stel old (of beer) Date: 15th century 1. tasteless or unpalatable from age < stale bread > 2.… …
17Finnegans Wake — infobox Book | name = Finnegans Wake title orig = translator = author = James Joyce cover artist = country = language = English series = genre = Sui generis publisher = Faber and Faber release date = 4 May 1939 media type = Print (Hardcover… …
18Salsa music — genrebox|name=Salsa color=palegoldenrod bgcolor=black stylistic origins=Primarily Cuban Puerto Rican rhythms cultural origins=1960s and 70s New York City Latin melting pot instruments=piano, conga, trumpet, trombone, bass guitar, claves, cowbell …
19Politics and the English Language — (1946), by George Orwell, is an essay criticizing ugly and inaccurate contemporary written English. He asserted contemporary English prose causes and affects foolish thoughts and dishonest politics. Vagueness and sheer incompetence were the most… …
20John Ashbery — No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery , Langdon Hammer, chairman of the English Department at Yale University, wrote in 2008. [N] o American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, not Whitman …
