Word to know

• noun
• 1. a statement or proposition that seems self-contractictory or absurd but in reallity expresses a posible truth.

2. a self-contradictiory and false proposition.

3. any person, thing or situation exhibiting an apparently contradictiory nature.

4. an opinion or statement contrary to commonly accepted opinion.

• Related forms:
• -par a dox i cal, par a dox al, adjective
• -par a dox i cal ly, verb
• -par a dox i cal ness, par a dox i cal i ty, noun
• -par a dox ol o gy, noun

• noun
• 1. a royal domain; kingdom: the realm of england.

2. The region, sphere, or domain within which anything occurs, prevails, or dominates: the realm of dreams.

3. The special province or field of something or someone: the realm of physics; facets within the realm of political scientists.

• noun (used with a plural verb)
• 1. a record of events, esp. a yearly record, usually in chronological order.

2. historical records genely: the annals of war.

3. a periodical publication containing the formal reports of an organization or learned field.

• adjective
• 1. composed of two or more parts, elements, or ingredients: Soap is a comound substance.

2. Grammer. of or pertaining to a compound sentence or compound-complex sentence.

noun

• a slight degree of coloration
• a slight admixture, as of as of some qualitying property or characteristic; trace; smattering: a tinge of garlic; a tinge of anger.

• verb (used with object)
• -to impart a trace or slight degree of some color to; tint.
• -to impart a slight taste or smell to.

How paradoxical that the world's greates chefs have all been men! Cooking would clearly seem to be a field that lies exclusively within women's realm, yet the annals of cookeryare replete with mascluline means: brillate Savarin, Ritz, Diat, Larousse. To compound the puzzle, there are reraly been a tinge of rumor or scandal casting doubts on the masculinity of these heroes of cuisine.