Gloss and Take

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Gloss verb - To make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure.

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Take and gloss are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Take" instead a verb "Gloss".

Nearby Words: glossy, glossed, glossiness, glossing

Take verb - To reach for and take hold of by embracing with the fingers or arms.

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Gloss and take are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Gloss" instead a verb "Take".

Nearby Words: taking, taken, taker

perfect	perfect gloss	perfect take
personal	personal gloss	personal take

This makes him a dangerous monkey wrench in the works of the latest plan to unseat Vetinari, because he doesn't gloss over what happened and take the visible facts to be the truth, he goes looking for the actual truth.

Source: Beware the Honest Ones
While they don't gloss over the fact that the Romans had slaves, or that pigs would run around in medieval cities, the characters (typically from a Nuclear Family, with focus on the kids) act more like modern people, so the Values Dissonance doesn't take over and make the protagonists unrelatable.

Source: Politically Correct History
Probably is deconstructed if you consider the fact that every ideology is taken to a utopian extreme, and the game does not gloss over what it would realistically take to make a good number of these philosophies actually work within the frame of a society.

Source: Straw Character

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