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Brevets
- noun - a document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay)
- a long-distance bicycle ride with check-point controls aka randoneering & Audax
- promote somebody by brevet, in the military
Brevity
- noun - the attribute of being brief or fleeting
- the use of brief expressions
Cravats
- noun - neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front
Gravity
- noun - (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface; "the more remote the body the less the gravity"; "the gravitation between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them"; "gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love"--Albert Einstein
- a manner that is serious and solemn
- a solemn and dignified feeling
Grivets
- noun - white and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face
Pravity
- - Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature.
Private
- adjective - an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines; "our prisoner was just a private and knew nothing of value"
- concerning one person exclusively; "we all have individual cars"; "each room has a private bath"
- concerning things deeply private and personal; "private correspondence"; "private family matters"
- confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy; "a private place"; "private discussions"; "private lessons"; "a private club"; "a private secretary"; "private property"; "the former President is now a private citizen"; "public figures struggle to maintain a private life"
- not expressed; "secret (or private) thoughts"
Privets
- noun - any of various Old World shrubs having smooth entire leaves and terminal panicles of small white flowers followed by small black berries; many used for hedges
Trivets
- noun - a stand with short feet used under a hot dish on a table
- a three-legged metal stand for supporting a cooking vessel in a hearth