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Behavior: Definition and part of speech

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Behavior

  1. n. Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one’s self; conduct; deportment; carriage; — used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Beguile: Definition and part of speech

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Beguile

  1. v. t. To cause the time of to pass without notice; to relieve the tedium or weariness of; to while away; to divert.
  2. v. t. To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.
  3. v. t. To elude, or evade by craft; to foil.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.