| DEC | destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot) |
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| DEC | a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter |
| DEC | a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter |
| DEC | Roman satirist who denounced the vice and folly of Roman society during the reign of the emperor Domitian (60-140) |
| DEC | read with difficulty |
| DEC | convert code into ordinary language |
| DEC | easily deciphered |
| DEC | in a legible manner |
| DEC | converted from cryptic to intelligible language |
| DEC | a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text |
| DEC | the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text |
| DEC | the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text |