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Grab Bag for Word Nerds, Part One: Back-Words: Palindromes

Palindromos means "running back again" in Greek. Learn this list backwards and forwards!
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  1. bib
    a napkin tied under the chin of a child while eating
    The race was made more dramatic by Luke Winters of the United States, who soared wearing start bib No. 40 to be second-fastest in the opening run.
  2. civic
    of or relating or belonging to a city
    As stress mounts, a group of economists and civic leaders in the capital, Monrovia, is urging lawmakers to ditch Liberia’s reliance on outsiders.
  3. deed
    a legal document to effect a transfer of property
    After the deed was done, and the ancient statues were reduced to rubble, the event defined the Taliban as an outlaw regime, uncivilized and evil.
  4. dud
    an explosion that fails to occur
    With Seattle poised to put a stranglehold on the N.F.C. playoff race, with Wilson ready to cement his bid for the M.V.P. award, he composed not a masterpiece, but a dud.
  5. ewe
    female sheep
    It led to a boom in turnip recipes in Britain and celebrated products such as spring lamb from ewes well-fed over winter.
  6. gag
    a restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking
    Judge James Burke refused to issue a gag order, but told both sides: “Leave the witnesses alone, OK? Don’t talk about them in any way.”
  7. gig
    a job, especially a temporary job
    The gig work companies view it as a necessary price to preserve their business model and spare themselves even higher costs down the road.
  8. level
    a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
    He went from a middling quarterback to a superstar on the cusp of greatness – at least on the college level.
  9. radar
    measuring instrument using pulses of microwave radiation
    Perhaps that allows him to fly under the radar and win the major he so desperately needs to be recognized as one of the game’s true elite.
  10. refer
    make a remark that calls attention to
    He referred to the sexism and racism directed at Markle, whose father is white and her mother African-American.
  11. tenet
    a basic principle or belief that is accepted as true
    In the 1960s, as Modernist architects began blurring the boundaries between indoor and outdoor space, the concept migrated from the garden to become a tenet of Japanese contemporary design.
Created on Fri Jan 17 08:18:06 EST 2020

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