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Anabasis
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| 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. |
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| anabasis (əˈnæbəsɪs) | |
| —n , pl -ses | |
| 1. | Compare katabasis the march of Cyrus the Younger and his Greek mercenaries from Sardis to Cunaxa in Babylonia in 401 |
| 2. | any military expedition, esp one from the coast to the interior |
| [C18: from Greek: a going up, ascent, from anabainein to go up; see | |
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anabasis
1706, from Gk. "military expedition," lit. "a going up (from the coast)," especially in reference to the advance of Cyrus the Younger from near the Aegean coast into Asia, and the subsequent story of the retreat of the 10,000 narrated by Xenophon (401 B.C.E.); from ana "up" + bainein "to go" (see
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