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Today’s pangram is CONFIRM.
CONFIRM is defined as strengthen or make more firm. It is also defined as establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts. It is also defined as administer the rite of confirmation to. It is also defined as make more firm. It is also defined as support a person for a position.
COCOON is defined as retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment. It is also defined as silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs. It is also defined as wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection.
COFFIN is defined as box in which a corpse is buried or cremated. It is also defined as place into a coffin.
COIN is defined as form by stamping, punching, or printing. It is also defined as a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money. It is also defined as make up.
COMMON is defined as a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area. It is also defined as common to or shared by two or more parties. It is also defined as being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language. It is also defined as commonly encountered. It is also defined as lacking refinement or cultivation or taste. It is also defined as of or associated with the great masses of people. It is also defined as of low or inferior quality or value. It is also defined as belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public. It is also defined as having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual. It is also defined as to be expected; standard.
CONFORM is defined as adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions. It is also defined as be similar, be in line with.
CONIC is defined as (geometry) a curve generated by the intersection of a plane and a circular cone. It is also defined as relating to or resembling a cone.
CORN is defined as a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes. It is also defined as tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times. It is also defined as ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food. It is also defined as whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn. It is also defined as feed (cattle) with corn. It is also defined as (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region–wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland). It is also defined as preserve with salt. It is also defined as something sentimental or trite. It is also defined as the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal.
CROON is defined as sing softly.
ICON is defined as a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface. It is also defined as a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church. It is also defined as (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.
ICONIC is defined as relating to or having the characteristics on an icon.
INFIRM is defined as lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality. It is also defined as lacking firmness of will or character or purpose.
INFO is defined as a message received and understood.
INFORM is defined as act as an informer. It is also defined as give character or essence to. It is also defined as impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to.
IONIC is defined as the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia. It is also defined as containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions. It is also defined as of or pertaining to the Ionic order of classical Greek architecture. It is also defined as of or relating to Ionia or its inhabitants or its language.
IRON is defined as home appliance consisting of a flat metal base that is heated and used to smooth cloth. It is also defined as a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood. It is also defined as extremely robust. It is also defined as press and smooth with a heated iron. It is also defined as implement used to brand live stock. It is also defined as a golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head.
IRONIC is defined as characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is. It is also defined as humorously sarcastic or mocking.
MICRON is defined as a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter.
MINI is defined as a very short skirt. It is also defined as used of women’s clothing; very short with hemline above the knee.
MINIM is defined as a musical note having the time value of half a whole note. It is also defined as a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters. It is also defined as a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram.
MINION is defined as a servile or fawning dependant.
MINOR is defined as not of legal age. It is also defined as relatively moderate, limited, or small. It is also defined as a young person of either sex. It is also defined as warranting only temporal punishment. It is also defined as have as one’s secondary field of study. It is also defined as inferior in number or size or amount. It is also defined as (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees. It is also defined as of lesser importance or stature or rank. It is also defined as of the younger of two boys with the same family name. It is also defined as lesser in scope or effect. It is also defined as of lesser seriousness or danger. It is also defined as of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization.
MONO is defined as designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel. It is also defined as an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing.
MOON is defined as United States religious leader (born in Korea) who founded the Unification Church in 1954; was found guilty of conspiracy to evade taxes (born in 1920). It is also defined as the light of the Moon. It is also defined as be idle in a listless or dreamy way. It is also defined as the period between successive new moons (29.531 days). It is also defined as have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake. It is also defined as any natural satellite of a planet. It is also defined as any object resembling a moon. It is also defined as expose one’s buttocks to. It is also defined as the natural satellite of the Earth.
The word MOONROOF has no known definition.
MORN is defined as the time period between dawn and noon.
MORON is defined as a person of subnormal intelligence. It is also defined as a city in Argentina, to the west of Buenos Aires.
MORONIC is defined as having a mental age of between eight and twelve years.
The word NOIR has no known definition.
NONCOM is defined as a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel.
NOON is defined as the middle of the day.
NORM is defined as a statistic describing the location of a distribution. It is also defined as a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical.
OMICRON is defined as the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet.
ONION is defined as bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb. It is also defined as an aromatic flavorful vegetable. It is also defined as the bulb of an onion plant.
RICIN is defined as a toxic protein extracted from castor beans; used as a chemical reagent; can be used as a bioweapon.
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