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...long list of English contranyms or “Janus words,” named after the two-faced Roman god. These are words that have contradictory meanings. My favorites include “fast” (moving rapidly and bound to position), “buckle?? (to fasten and to come undone, collapse), and “impregnable” (able to be impregnated and impossible to enter...

Author: By Victoria Ilyinsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: This Word is Killing Me, Literally | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

Other selective universities will often simply “buckle?? and take such well-qualified legacies off the waitlist to enroll immediately, according to Ali Bhanji, Melvoin’s successor as director of college guidance at Roxbury Latin...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Back Door to the Yard | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

Other selective universities will often simply “buckle?? and take such well-qualified legacies off the waitlist to enroll immediately, according to Ali Bhanji, Melvoin’s successor as director of college guidance at Roxbury Latin...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Back Door to the Yard | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

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