kraws greInd adjective 1. of lumber, having a grain that runs across or diagonally to the length. 2. (informal) stubborn or hard to deal with. He was a cross-grained man, oppressed by…
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swath
swath noun 1. the width or path cut by one pass of a scythe, mower, or the like. 2. grass, grain, or the like cut and deposited along a line. 3. a…
auteur
o tuhr noun a director whose films display a distinctive personal style. Alfred Hitchcock, Quentin Tarantino, and Wes Anderson can all be regarded as auteurs.
omniscient
am nI shənt adjective 1. infinite in knowledge; all-knowing. They believe in an omniscient god. 2. possessing great knowledge; seeming to know everything. Their father seemed omniscient when they were children.
prescient
pre shənt adjective having or exhibiting knowledge of events before they take place. The old science fiction novel now seems remarkably prescient about the role that computers would come to play in…