Dictionary Check: humour
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Scrabble
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Words with Friends
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Definition
noun
a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Example:
"whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"
noun
a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
noun
(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state
Example:
"the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"
noun
the liquid parts of the body
noun
the quality of being funny
Example:
"I fail to see the humor in it"
noun
the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
Example:
"she didn't appreciate my humor"
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