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( ); His brother's passion being reciprocated, Macumer
sacrificed himself for their happiness. — Repertory of the Comedie Humaine
Part 2;
• (repercussion) – an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some
event or action, ( , , ); When the air
around was no longer shaken by constant repercussion, Bobby fell asleep. —
The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days;
• (backlash) – a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil;
• (rebound) – to bound or spring back from force of impact, (
, ); That remark was
really meant as a kind of rebound argument for General Wood. — The
Adventure of Living;
• (reverberation) – the fact of being reverberated or reflected, (
, ); Except for the reverberation of the torrent deep in the
gorge at their right, no sound at all broke the deep silence. — Running Water;
astronomy
penumbra^ umbra
• (penumbra)- the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow
of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of
illumination is only partly cut off, ( ,
); It does enter a region of space called
the penumbra, in which the Earth partially blocks the Sun;
• (umbra)- Astronomy the completely dark portion of the shadow cast by the
earth, moon, or other body during an eclipse, The Latin word for shadow
was umbra, and the Greek counterpart was skia;
asteroid^ astral = stellar = sidereal
• (asteroid)- also called minor planet. Astronomy. any of the thousands of
small bodies of from 480 miles (775 km) to less than one mile (1.6 km) in
diameter that revolve about the sun in orbits lying mostly between those of
Mars and Jupiter, ( ); We have guessed that the asteroid was a huge
spacecraft. — The Runaway Asteroid;
• (astral)- pertaining to or proceeding from the stars; stellar; star-shaped,
( , ); He had never felt the least desire to join the Theosophical
Society and to speculate in theories of astral-plane life, or elementals. — Four
Weird Tales;