areopaguses

 [ar-ee-op-uh-guhs]  

Ar·e·op·a·gus

   [ar-ee-op-uh-guhs]
noun
1.
a hill in Athens, Greece, W of the Acropolis.
2.
Greek History. the council that met on this hill, originally having wide public functions but later becoming a purely judicial body.
3.
any high tribunal.
Origin:
< Latin < Greek Áreios págos hill of Ares
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Areopaguses is always a great word to know.
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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.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
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