concomitant \kuhn-KOM-uh-tuhnt\ (adjective) - Accompanying; attendant; occurring or existing concurrently.

(noun) - Something that accompanies or is collaterally connected with something else; an accompaniment.

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stasis \STAY-sis; STAS-is\ (noun) plural stases \STAY-seez; STAS-eez\: - 1 : A state of balance, equilibrium, or stagnation. 2 : Stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid or semifluid.

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prepotency \pree-POTE-n-see\ (noun) - 1 : The quality or condition of having superior power, influence, or force; predominance. 2 : (Biology) The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to ...Read More

bagatelle \bag-uh-TEL\ (noun) - 1 : A trifle; a thing of little or no importance. 2 : A short, light musical or literary piece. 3 : A game played with a cue and balls on an oblong table having cups or arches at one end.

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insensate \in-SEN-sayt; -sit\ (adjective) - 1 : Lacking sensation or awareness; inanimate. 2 : Lacking human feeling or sensitivity; brutal; cruel. 3 : Lacking sense; stupid; foolish.

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confute \kuhn-FYOOT\ (transitive verb) - To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false.

"And can there still be any need to confute the Diatribe? Who can more effectually confute it, than ...Read More