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face
Front part of the head, extending from the forehead to the chin and housing the eyes, nose, mouth, and jaws. The receding of the jaw and the increasing size of the brain in human evolution has made the face essentially vertical, with two distinctively human features: a prominent, projecting nose and a clearly defined chin. The face and braincase follow different patterns of growth. While the face grows more slowly, it ends up much larger compared to the braincase in adults than at birth. The facial muscles move the features to express emotion.


farce
Light dramatic composition that uses highly improbable situations, stereotyped characters, violent horseplay, and broad humor. Farce is generally regarded as intellectually and aesthetically inferior to comedy in its crude characterizations and implausible plots, but it has remained popular throughout the West from ancient times to the present.


acacia
Any of the approximately 800 species of trees and shrubs that make up the genus Acacia, of the mimosa family, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the world, particularly Australia and Africa. Sweet acacia (A. farnesiana) is native to the SW U.S. Acacias have distinctive, finely divided leaflets, and their leafstalks may bear thorns or sharp spines at their base. Their small, often fragrant, yellow or white flowers have many stamens apiece, giving each a fuzzy appearance. On the plains of S and E Africa, acacias are well-known landmarks. Several species are important economically, yielding substances such as gum arabic and tannin, as well as valuable timber.


accent
In prosody, rhythmically significant stress on the syllables of a verse, usually at regular intervals. Though the term is often used interchangeably with "stress," some prosodists use accent to mean the emphasis determined by normal language usage and stress to mean emphasis determined by metrical pattern.


Accra
Capital and largest city (pop., 1988 est.: 949,000) of Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea. When the Portuguese first settled on the coast in 1482, the site was occupied by villages of the Ga tribe. In 1650-80 the Europeans built three fortified trading posts, sponsored by the English, the Danes, and the Dutch. The Danes and Dutch left the region in 1850 and 1872, respectively, and in 1877 Accra became the capital of the British Gold Coast colony. In the later 20th cent. it became Ghana's administrative, economic, and educational center. Tema, 17 mi (27 km) east, has taken over Accra's former port functions.


Baeck
Prussian-Polish rabbi, spiritual leader of German Jewry during the Nazi period. After earning his PhD in philosophy at the Univ. of Berlin, he served as a rabbi in Silesia, Dü sseldorf, and Berlin, becoming the leading liberal Jewish religious thinker of his time. He synthesized Neo-Kantianism and rabbinic ethics in The Essence of Judaism (1905) and ...

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