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noun • the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791 | ||||
| 41% | 4 | French equivalent of the English “high” and Latin “altus”, thus prefixed to “boy”, “goût”, “monde”, “pas” and “ton”, to mean high wood, high taste, high society/world, high step and high fashion respectively | ||
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| 24% | 5 | High-tension ailment | ||
noun • a circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue | ||||
High Tension Area
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