Phaistos

Phais·tos

[fahy-stuhs]
noun
an ancient city in S central Crete: site of Minoan palace; Linear A tablets and important pottery objects unearthed here.
Also, Phaestus.
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Phaistos is always a great word to know.
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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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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