ven'dettist
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| —n | |
| 1. | a private feud, originally between Corsican or Sicilian families, in which the relatives of a murdered person seek vengeance by killing the murderer or some member of his family |
| 2. | any prolonged feud, quarrel, etc |
| [C19: from Italian, from Latin vindicta, from vindicāre to avenge; see | |
| ven'dettist | |
| —n | |
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Ven'dettist
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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