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Jar: (also 'can') another term for the hole or cup

Jargon: Potentially confusing words and phrases used in an occupation, trade, or field of study. We might speak of medical jargon, sports jargon, pedagogic jargon, police jargon, or military jargon, . . . View Full Definition

Kilimanjaro: Coffee from the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

Jarno: A standard taper having 0.600-inch taper per foot used on some machine tools.

Jarabe: Traditional Mexican dance form with multiple sections in contrasting meters and tempos, often performed by mariachi mariachi ensembles.

Jargon Aphasia: incoherent, meaningless, neologistic speech

Euphony: A pleasing harmony of sounds.

Bad Quarto: In the jargon of Shakespearean scholars, a 'bad quarto' is a copy of the play that a disloyal actor would recreate from memory and then submit for publication in a rival publishing house wit . . . View Full Definition

Berserker: (Old Norse Ber-sirk, 'bear-skin', becomes Modern English 'berserk') The Icelandic, Scandinavian, and Norwegian sagas give accounts of fearsome Viking warrior-shamans who could entrance thems . . . View Full Definition

Colloquialism: A word or phrase used everyday in plain and relaxed speech, but rarely found in formal writing. (Compare with cliché, jargon and slang.)