Basalt


1) A hard, black, often glassy, volcanic rock. It was produced by the partial melting of the Earth's mantle.

2) A stone-like, hard black unglazed pottery.

1) The statue was built on a basalt tower.
2) That vase cannot break, it's made of basalt.
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Tuition


1. A fee charged for instruction at a school or university.

2. Teaching: instruction, especially when given individually or in a small group.
Like private schools or home teaching, tuition is charged. It isn't for free.
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Savagery


1. Barbarity or violent cruelty.

2. An offensive term for a culture perceived to be inferior to or less advanced than your own.

1. Beating people up is savagery bahavoir.
2. People like baby bush decent from savagery cultures.
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Disdain



Intense scorn: Extreme contempt or disgust for something or somebody. It's pretty much the same as dispising someone.

I disdain those that are rude.
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Dutch

1) Dutch is the language spoken in The Netherlands (aka Holland, The Netherlands Antilles, Belgium, Suriname (South America) and South Africa (African is a form of Dutch).

2) To be Dutch. A person from The Netherlands is Dutch.

3) To go Dutch: To split the costs of a purchase between several parties/persons.

4) Cape Dutch, the early European inhabitants of the Western Cape (South Africa) between the 17th and 19th centuries.

5) Cape Dutch architecture, an architectural style found in South Africa.

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*Non-Dutch people often think that "Dutch" is German for German.
Dutch is NOT german for german, but Dutch for Dutch.

In Dutch: "Ik ben Nederlands."
In English: "I am Dutch."

Nederlands (=from The Netherlands -> Nederland (The Netherlands).
) I speak Dutch.

2) I am Dutch.
3) To go out on a date and split the bill.

4) "Kaap the goede hoop." -> Cape of good hope. Place where the merchanting ships of the V.O.C (Dutch East Indian Trading Company) had her ships take pitt stops.) = Most Southern point of South Africa.

5) The way villa's were built in South Africa for the Dutch colonies.

Dutch is Dutch for Dutch. --> "Nederlands is Nederlands voor Nederlands."

Dutch is NOT german, just related to it, as well as its related to English.
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Dutch


The language we speak in The Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, South Africa, and the Netherlands Antilles. The Netherlands is also known as Holland.

"Dutch" In Dutch: Nederlands.

Anyone who says that Dutch is German for German is wrong and wouldn't even recognise Dutch.

So unlike a lot of US, UK or other native English-speaking people think, Dutch is NOT German! Dutch may be a little simmular to German, but it's more closely related to English.

Dutch is a Germanian language, just like German and English. (french, italian, and spanish are romanian languages).

Dutch is more closely related to English on the grammar, but the vocab is more Germanish. Dutch is in between English and German, but still is a whole language on its own - it's NOT English and NOT German.

Dutch is a lanuage, spoken by about 20 milion spread over The Netherlands, Belgium and the Netherlands antilles.
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Amenity

1. Gesture and words of courtesy or pleasantness, protocol.

2. An attractive extra: the features that, when taken together, make a place such as a hotel or resort attractive to guests or customers.

3. A Luxery when in a poor or undeveloped country.
1. The secretary of state and the foreign minister engaged in the usual diplomatic amenities before signing the treaty.

2. Usual amenities such as hair dryers and a microwave in every room.

3. Having a pool in your back yard is considered an amenity when you live in Africa.
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