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• Clowning

  [kloun] /klaʊn/ noun 1. a comic performer, as in a circus, theatrical production, or the like, who wears an outlandish costume and makeup and entertains by pantomiming common situations or actions in exaggerated or ridiculous fashion, by juggling or tumbling, etc. 2. a person who acts like a clown; comedian; joker; buffoon; jester. 3. a […]

• Cloxacillin

  [klok-suh-sil-in] /ˌklɒk səˈsɪl ɪn/ noun, Pharmacology. 1. a semisynthetic penicillin, C 19 H 17 ClN 3 NaO 5 S, used chiefly against penicillin-resistant staphylococcal infections. /ˌklɒksəˈsɪlɪn/ noun 1. a semisynthetic penicillin used to treat staphylococcal infections due to penicillin-resistant organisms cloxacillin clox·a·cil·lin (klŏk’sə-sĭl’ĭn) n. A semisynthetic antibiotic of the penicillin group that is used primarily […]

• Cloy

  [kloi] /klɔɪ/ verb (used with object) 1. to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate. verb (used without object) 2. to become uninteresting or distasteful through overabundance: A diet of cake and candy soon cloys. /klɔɪ/ verb 1. to make weary or cause weariness through an excess of something initially pleasurable […]

• Cloying

  [kloi-ing] /ˈklɔɪ ɪŋ/ adjective 1. causing or tending to cause disgust or aversion through excess: a perfume of cloying sweetness. 2. overly ingratiating or sentimental. [kloi] /klɔɪ/ verb (used with object) 1. to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate. verb (used without object) 2. to become uninteresting or distasteful through […]

• Cloze

  [klohz] /kloʊz/ adjective 1. pertaining to or being a procedure used to measure comprehension or text difficulty, in which a person is called upon to supply elements that have been systematically deleted from a text. noun 2. a cloze procedure or test. n. 1953, in psychological writing, evidently abstracted from the pronunciation of closure.

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