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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.
COCCI is defined as any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria.
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.
COIF is defined as the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman’s hair). It is also defined as arrange attractively. It is also defined as a skullcap worn by nuns under a veil or by soldiers under a hood of mail or formerly by British sergeants-at-law. It is also defined as cover with a coif.
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.
COIR is defined as stiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut.
COMIC is defined as arousing or provoking laughter. It is also defined as a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts. It is also defined as of or relating to or characteristic of comedy.
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.
The word CROC has no known definition.
The word CROCI has no known definition.
CROON is defined as sing softly.
The word FOCI has no known definition.
FORM is defined as the visual appearance of something or someone. It is also defined as a perceptual structure. It is also defined as the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something. It is also defined as make something, usually for a specific function. It is also defined as any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline). It is also defined as establish or impress firmly in the mind. It is also defined as a body of students who are taught together. It is also defined as create (as an entity). It is also defined as (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups. It is also defined as a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality. It is also defined as a life-size dummy used to display clothes. It is also defined as develop into a distinctive entity. It is also defined as alternative names for the body of a human being. It is also defined as the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance. It is also defined as to compose or represent. It is also defined as give shape or form to. It is also defined as (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary. It is also defined as a mold for setting concrete. It is also defined as an ability to perform well. It is also defined as an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse. It is also defined as a particular mode in which something is manifested. It is also defined as a printed document with spaces in which to write. It is also defined as assume a form or shape.
FORMIC is defined as of or relating to or derived from ants. It is also defined as of or containing or derived from formic acid.
FROM is defined as Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; — used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; the anitithesis and correlative of to; .
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.
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.
MICRO is defined as extremely small in scale or scope or capability.
The word MICROFORM has no known definition.
The word MICROMINI has no known definition.
MICRON is defined as a metric unit of length equal to one millionth of a meter.
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.
MIRROR is defined as a faithful depiction or reflection. It is also defined as polished surface that forms images by reflecting light. It is also defined as reflect as if in a mirror. It is also defined as reflect or resemble.
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.
MOOR is defined as secure in or as if in a berth or dock. It is also defined as open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss. It is also defined as come into or dock at a wharf. It is also defined as one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century. It is also defined as secure with cables or ropes.
MORN is defined as the time period between dawn and noon.
MOROCCO is defined as a kingdom (constitutional monarchy) in northwestern Africa with a largely Muslim population; achieved independence from France in 1956. It is also defined as a soft pebble-grained leather made from goatskin; used for shoes and book bindings etc..
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.
The word NORI has no known definition.
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.
ROCOCO is defined as fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century. It is also defined as having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation.
The word ROMCOM has no known definition.
ROOF is defined as an upper limit on what is allowed. It is also defined as a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building. It is also defined as protective covering on top of a motor vehicle. It is also defined as provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof. It is also defined as the inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space.
ROOM is defined as space for movement. It is also defined as live and take one’s meals at or in. It is also defined as an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling. It is also defined as opportunity for. It is also defined as the people who are present in a room.
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