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.

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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The rodeo tests the cowboys' touch with roping, agility with barrel racing and fearlessness in confronting 2000-pound bulls.

Look up into the treetops and you may see a black gibbon swinging across the canopy with unparalleled agility.

The endangered hoolock gibbon -- a small ape -- is known for its agility in trees.

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agile (ˈædʒaɪl)

—*adj*
1.	quick in movement; nimble
2.	mentally quick or acute

[C15: from Latin agilis, from agere to do, act]

'agilely

—*adv*

agility

—n

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agility

early 15c., from M.Fr. agilité (14c.), from L. agilitatem (nom. agilitas) "mobility, nimbleness, quickness," from agilis, from agere "to move" (see act).

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"As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their ocellated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains."

-Jean Baudrillard

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