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worm-eaten 422<br />

mondo<br />

the ~ is one: todo el<br />

the ~ is woman's book: le monde<br />

to Rome <strong>and</strong> the ~: urbi<br />

~ full of fools: ce monde<br />

~ of ours: ο κόσμος (ho kósmos)<br />

~ of women of doubtful reputation:<br />

demi-monde<br />

~ weary: weltmüde<br />

~ wishes to be deceived: mundus<br />

vult<br />

worm-eaten: vermoulu<br />

worn out: recru<br />

worry: tracasserie<br />

worse <strong>and</strong> worse: de pis; immer<br />

worship: bhakti; puja<br />

worst: au pis<br />

~ is yet to come: graviora manent<br />

worth: pretium<br />

let it pass for what it's ~: valeat<br />

~ all of them: instar<br />

~ that wins <strong>more</strong> favor: gratior<br />

worthless: dare pondus<br />

~ness of any object: de lana<br />

~ vase never breaks: vaso malo<br />

worthwhile: vale la<br />

not ~: non est tanti<br />

wound<br />

incurable ~: immedicabile<br />

nursing a ~: aeternum servans<br />

~ unuttered lives deep within:<br />

taciturn<br />

wounded: amoché<br />

wraith: Doppelgänger<br />

wrangling: criaillement<br />

wrath<br />

fierce ~: saeva<br />

~ of brothers is ~ of devils: ira de<br />

~ of kings is always heavy: gravis<br />

ira<br />

wrestler: samo; sumo<br />

wrestling: jiu jitsu; judo; kushti;<br />

samo; sumo<br />

wretched to be detected: deprendi<br />

writ<br />

~ against an objector: quare<br />

~ of arrest: capias; lettre<br />

~ of restraint: ne exeat<br />

~ to call up court records: certiorari<br />

~ to execute a judgment: fieri facias<br />

~ to inquire into sanity: de lunatico;<br />

inquirendo<br />

~ to summon a jury: venire<br />

writer: écrivain; gens; homme<br />

representative ~: Träger<br />

Spanish ~s of the cultist school:<br />

cultos<br />

writing<br />

he wrote it: scripsit<br />

I have written: scripsi<br />

skilled in ~: scribere scientes<br />

wall ~s: graffiti<br />

we all write: scribimus<br />

~ is the best memory: escritura<br />

~ surface: codex<br />

wrong, actionable: ex delicto<br />

wrongly or rightly: à tort ou à<br />

yam: camote<br />

yarn, spins a good: il brode<br />

year: annus<br />

bygone ~s: praeteriti<br />

for many ~s: ad multos annos<br />

great ~: annus<br />

he lived (so many) ~s: annos<br />

in the ~ : anno; im Jahre<br />

in this ~: hoc anno<br />

of this ~: huius anni<br />

O that Jove would give back ~s: O<br />

mini<br />

tender ~s: a teneris<br />

travel ~s: W<strong>and</strong>erjahre<br />

wonderful ~: annus<br />

~ after the building of Rome: anno<br />

~ of our Lord: anno<br />

~ of the Hegira: anno<br />

~ of the reign: anno<br />

~ of the world: anno<br />

~s rolling on: volventibus<br />

yellow: jaune<br />

pale ~: feuille-morte<br />

yes: da<br />

~ indeed: si fait<br />

yoke, preserve the: serva<br />

you: usted<br />

not for ~ alone: non vobis<br />

~ are right: avete ragione<br />

~ are what ~ are: du bist<br />

~ are wrong: avete torto<br />

~ don't say: warum<br />

~ too: tu quoque<br />

~ too, Brutus: et tu, Brute<br />

younger: puîné<br />

youngster: gösse<br />

yours: tuum<br />

is it — : tuum<br />

it's ~: tuum<br />

respectfully ~: que besa

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