Gide

Gide

[zheed]
noun
An·dré (Paul Guil·laume) [ahn-drey pawl gee-yohm] , 1869–1951, French novelist, essayist, poet, and critic: Nobel prize 1947.
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Gide (French ʒid) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
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André (ɑ̃dre). 1869--1951, French novelist, dramatist, critic, diarist, and translator, noted particularly for his exploration of the conflict between self-fulfilment and conventional morality. His novels include L'Immoraliste (1902), La Porte étroite (1909), and Les Faux-Monnayeurs (1926): Nobel prize for literature 1947

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Gide is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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 chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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