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Show Do you know the meanings mean-ings of the modern terms "artsy-craftsy," "Beta fiber" and "biodegradable"? If your present dictionary does not enter these terms, you probably need a new, up-to-date one such as the Second College Edition of Webster's New World Dictionary, Dic-tionary, the newest of the college dictionaries and the only one to be published in the 1970's. Here are the words and their meanings: ARTSY-CRAFTSY: having hav-ing to do with arts and crafts: usually used in a disparaging dis-paraging sense to connote faddishness, dilettantism, superficiality ... BIODEGRADABLE: capable cap-able of being readily decomposed decom-posed by biological means, especially by bacterial action: said of some detergents with reference to disposal in sewage sew-age .. . BETA FIBER: a nonflammable non-flammable glass fiber made into fabrics, insulation . . . Thousands of other terms which you might encounter in your everyday reading are explained in this valuable volume. |