Are These in Your Word HORDE? - Answers1. Dominant influence. Because of its military might, economic power, and cultural predominance, the city’s hegemony was felt throughout the continent.2. Practicing navel-gazing. Young Randy was told that omphaloskepsis was an aid to meditation, but he much preferred gazing upon the navels of others. 3. A medical monkey. The rhesus is a pale-brown macaque commonly used in medical research. (It’s where “Rh-test” and “Rh-factor” get their names.) 4. Effects of a flood. The diluvial plains were built up by centuries of intermittent flooding. 5. Pleasant sounds. One person’s euphony, said the teenager’s father, can be another’s cacophony (kuh-KOFF-uh-nee). |
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