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   /ɡlôs/

   

   noun

   • 1. a translation or explanation of a word or phrase.
   • ▪ an explanation, interpretation, or paraphrase: "the chapter acts as a helpful gloss on Pynchon's general method"

   verb

   • 1. provide an explanation, interpretation, or paraphrase for (a text, word, etc.): "the Japanese word often glossed as “sincerity” really means something different"
   • ▪ write or make comments, especially unfavorable ones, about (something): "those laws, which they assumed the liberty of interpreting and glossing upon"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: alteration of the noun gloze, from Old French glose (see gloze), suggested by medieval Latin glossa ‘explanation of a difficult word’, from Greek glōssa ‘word needing explanation, language, tongue’.

   Scrabble Points: 6

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   • L

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   • O

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   • S

     1

   • S

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