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Mensa an international organization founded in England in 1945 whose members must achieve very high scores in IQ tests to be admitted. The name comes from Latin for ‘table’, with allusion to a round table at which all members have equal status.

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mensa. Upper slab of stone forming the top of an altar in a church.

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