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One word for someone who doesn't care about anything
How about the adjective related to the word:
Acedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acedia
Does such an adjective exist in English by the way ??
acedious, adj.
http://public.oed.com/the-oed-today/rec …
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What is an official collection of laws/books/etc. called?
A pretty general word can be "digest". But I don't know if it can apply to your case (it does not seem (to me) very "official-sounding"): we should see the context. Google reports one definition: "a c …
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Hypernym for "movie" and "TV series"
How about a show? Is it too broad?
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Hypernym for "trimester" and "quarter"
timespans ? periods ?
(warning: I am non native speaker and too low rep to comment)
PS if you downvote, please explain why, so I can learn. Thank you Shyam and all!
btw the title and body of the q …
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Single word for someone who is being impersonated ("impersonatee"?)
I can think of character or personality. Advise if wrong.
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Word for "invisible god-like voice"
People here seem to say that it is translated by:
"oracle in english, also some says heavenly voices."
http://it.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070201065717AAwzu0Z
Not sure why they say "Or …