Riba

R.I.B.A.

Royal Institute of British Architects.
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riba (ˈriːbə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
(in Islam) interest or usury, as forbidden by the Koran
 
[C21: from Arabic al-Riba, literally: to excess or increase]

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Riba is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
RIBA
 
abbreviation for
Royal Institute of British Architects

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