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  • 81“Dreams in the Witch House, The“ —    Short story (4,940 words); written in February 1932. First published in WT (July 1933); first collected in O;corrected text in MM    A mathematics student at Miskatonic University named Walter Gilman who lives in a peculiarly angled room in… …

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  • 82heap — noun 1》 a mound or pile of a substance.     ↘an untidy collection of objects piled up haphazardly. 2》 informal a large amount or number: we have heaps of room. 3》 informal an untidy or dilapidated place or vehicle. adverb (heaps) Brit. informal a …

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  • 83dump — I. /dʌmp / (say dump) verb (t) 1. to throw down in a mass; fling down or drop heavily: *Heavy rain is expected to be dumped on the Western Australian Goldfields today as tropical cyclone Monty makes its way south. –abc online, 2004. 2. to empty… …

  • 84heap — ► NOUN 1) a pile of a substance or of a number of objects. 2) informal a large amount or number: heaps of room. 3) informal an untidy or dilapidated place or vehicle. ► VERB 1) put in or form a heap. 2) (heap with) load copiously with …

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  • 85hill — [hil] n. [ME < OE hyll, akin to MDu hille < IE base * kel , to project, rise high > L collis, hill, Gr kolophōn, peak] 1. a natural raised part of the earth s surface, often rounded and smaller than a mountain 2. a small pile, heap, or… …

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  • 86funeral pyre — noun wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite • Syn: ↑pyre • Hypernyms: ↑pile, ↑heap, ↑mound, ↑agglomerate, ↑cumulation, ↑cumulus …

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  • 87BABI YAR — BABI YAR, ravine on the outskirts of kiev which has come to symbolize the murder of Jews by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) in the German occupied Soviet Union and the persistent failure to acknowledge Jewish memory. On September 19,… …

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