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Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words

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n. Asiatic palm, yielding nut which is wrapped in leaf <strong>of</strong> same tree and chewed;<br />

areca.<br />

bête noire<br />

n. 'black beast'; pet abomination; bugbear.<br />

bethel<br />

n. sacred place; nonconformist chapel.<br />

bêtise<br />

n. foolishness; foolish or stupid act.<br />

béton<br />

n. concrete made by mixing gravel with cement and sand.<br />

bettong<br />

n. kind <strong>of</strong> Australian kangaroo-rat.<br />

betulin(ol)<br />

n. resinous extract <strong>of</strong> birch bark; birch camphor.<br />

bevatron<br />

n. synchrotron-like apparatus for accelerating charged particles to an immensely<br />

high level.

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