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1. Wit
   During the Renaissance wit was synonymous with intelligence and wisdom. During the 17th century it became more closely associated with fancy. One of the main themes of Pope's An  Essay on Criticism is wit and he concludes that:
   True wit is Nature to advantage dressed,
   What oft was thought, ...
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2. wit
   [n] - a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
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3. WIT
   Web Interactive Talk [Internet]
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4. Wit
   Wit transitive verb & i. [ inf. (To) Wit ; present sing. Wot ; plural Wite ; imperfect Wist(e) ; past pa...
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5. Wit
   Wit noun [ Anglo-Saxon witt , wit ; akin to OFries. wit , German witz , Old High German wizzī , Icelandic vit , Danish vid , Swedish vett . √133. See Wit ,
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6. wit
   <psychology> The faculty of expressing the amusing, clever, or comical or the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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7. wit
   humor noun a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
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8. Wit
   • (v.) A mental faculty, or power of the mind; -- used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one`s wits; at one`s wits` end, and the like. • (v.) Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the powe...
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9. Wit
   Wit is a Polish boy name. The meaning of the name is `Life` The name Wit doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Wit seems to be unique!
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10. wit
    wit 1. The keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. 2. The ability to perceive and express in an ingeniously humorous manner the relationship between seemingly incongruous or disparate things; humor, repartee, sarcasm, irony. ...
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11. wit
    Using language in a clever and funny way.
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12. Wit
    White beer. It is a cloudy wheat beer, spiced with corriander and orange peel.
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13. WIT
    Wordsmith In Training
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14. Wit
    `Wit` is a form of intellectual humour, and a wit is someone skilled in making witty remarks. Forms of wit include the `quip` and `repartee`. Forms of wit: As in the wit of Dorothy Parker`s set, the Algonquin Round Table, witty remarks may be intentionally cruel (as in many epigrams), and perhaps mo...
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15. Wit
    (play) `Wit` (also styled as "W;t") is a play written by American playwright accessdate=2008-03-29-->--> Wit received its world premiere at South Coast Repertory, accessdate=2008-03-29-->--> Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Connecticut subsequently staged the play in N...
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16. Wit
    (film) `Wit` is a 2001 American television movie directed by Mike Nichols. The teleplay by Nichols and Emma Thompson is based on the 1998 Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same title by Margaret Edson. The film was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 9, 2001 be...
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