bortsch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht |
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festschrift | (noun) a collection of writings published in honor of a scholar | - |
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kitsch | (noun) excessively garish or sentimental art; usually considered in bad taste | - |
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putsch | (noun) a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force | Synonyms: coup, coup d'etat, takeover |
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welwitschia | (noun) curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old | Synonyms: Welwitschia mirabilis |
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