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Today’s pangrams are CONFLUENCE and FLOUNCE.
CONFLUENCE is defined as a coming together of people. It is also defined as a flowing together. It is also defined as a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers).
FLOUNCE is defined as a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim. It is also defined as the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions. It is also defined as walk emphatically.
CELLO is defined as a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing.
CLONE is defined as a person who is almost identical to another. It is also defined as a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction. It is also defined as an unauthorized copy or imitation. It is also defined as make multiple identical copies of.
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.
COFFEE is defined as a medium brown to dark-brown color. It is also defined as a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans. It is also defined as any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans. It is also defined as a seed of the coffee tree; ground to make coffee.
COLLEEN is defined as an Irish girl.
COLON is defined as the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos. It is also defined as the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos. It is also defined as a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal. It is also defined as a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter). It is also defined as the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted.
COLONEL is defined as a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general.
CONE is defined as a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point. It is also defined as a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color. It is also defined as cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts. It is also defined as any cone-shaped artifact. It is also defined as make cone-shaped.
COOL is defined as great coolness and composure under strain. It is also defined as marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional. It is also defined as make cool or cooler. It is also defined as loose heat. It is also defined as lose intensity. It is also defined as being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition. It is also defined as fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept. It is also defined as inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets when referring to color. It is also defined as neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat. It is also defined as psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike. It is also defined as the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature. It is also defined as used of a quantity or amount (especially of money) for emphasis.
The word COULEE has no known definition.
FELON is defined as a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail. It is also defined as someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime.
FLOE is defined as a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.
FOOL is defined as a person who lacks good judgment. It is also defined as fool or hoax. It is also defined as a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages. It is also defined as spend frivolously and unwisely. It is also defined as a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of. It is also defined as indulge in horseplay. It is also defined as make a fool or dupe of.
FOUL is defined as become or cause to become obstructed. It is also defined as (of a manuscript) defaced with changes. It is also defined as violating accepted standards or rules. It is also defined as make impure. It is also defined as offensively malodorous. It is also defined as disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter. It is also defined as spot, stain, or pollute. It is also defined as especially of a ship’s lines etc. It is also defined as highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust. It is also defined as characterized by obscenity. It is also defined as an act that violates the rules of a sport. It is also defined as become soiled and dirty. It is also defined as commit a foul; break the rules. It is also defined as hit a foul ball. It is also defined as make unclean. It is also defined as (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines.
LOCO is defined as informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
LOLL is defined as hang loosely or laxly. It is also defined as be lazy or idle.
LONE is defined as lacking companions or companionship. It is also defined as characterized by or preferring solitude. It is also defined as being the only one; single and isolated from others.
LOON is defined as a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought. It is also defined as large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes. It is also defined as a worthless lazy fellow.
NEOCON is defined as a conservative who subscribes to neoconservatism.
NEON is defined as a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts.
NOEL is defined as period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
NONCE is defined as the present occasion.
NONE is defined as a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise. It is also defined as a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier. It is also defined as not any.
NOON is defined as the middle of the day.
NOUN is defined as a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action. It is also defined as the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition.
NUCLEON is defined as a constituent (proton or neutron) of an atomic nucleus.
OLEO is defined as a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
ONCE is defined as on one occasion. It is also defined as at a previous time.
OUNCE is defined as a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams. It is also defined as large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur. It is also defined as a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound.
UNCOOL is defined as (spoken slang) unfashionable and boring.
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