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pentagram
PENT-uh-gram <Greek a five-pointed star
manhandle
MAN-han-duhl <English to manage roughly
muskrat
MUSK-rat <Algonquian an American water rodent with webbed hind feet
ballerina
bal-uh-REEN-uh <Italian a female ballet dancer
heifer
HEF-uhr <English a young cow that has not borne a calf
shogun
SHOH-gun <Chinese any of the hereditary governors of Japan who, until 1867, were absolute rulers
tachometer
tak-AWM-uh-tuhr <Greek a device that measure the rate of rotation of a revolving shaft
koan
koh-AWN <Japanese a paradox used in Zen Buddhism as an instrument of meditation in training monks to despair of an ultimate dependence upon reason and to force them into sudden intuitive enlightenment
cynosure
SIN-uh-shuhr <Greek a center of attention or interest
rasgado
raws-GAW-doh <Spanish the arpeggio effect produced by sweeping the strings with the thumb in guitar playing
