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awaken
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v 1: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the
drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn:
awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse]
[ant: cause to sleep]
2: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
[syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come
alive, waken] [ant: dope off, doze off, drift off,
drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod
off]
3: make aware; "They were awakened to the sad facts"
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backbreaking
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adj 1: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion;
especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up
the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor";
"heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours
on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous,
backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy,
laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]
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bacon
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n 1: back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually
sliced thin and fried
2: English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the
importance of experimentation; first showed that air is
required for combustion and first used lenses to correct
vision (1220-1292) [syn: Bacon, Roger Bacon]
3: English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British
empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626) [syn:
Bacon, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Baron
Verulam, 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans]
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baking
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adj 1: as hot as if in an oven [syn: baking, baking hot]
n 1: making bread or cake or pastry etc.
2: cooking by dry heat in an oven
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breaking
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n 1: the act of breaking something; "the breakage was
unavoidable" [syn: breakage, break, breaking]
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earthshaking
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adj 1: loud enough to shake the very earth
2: sufficiently significant to affect the whole world;
"earthshaking proposals"; "the contest was no world-shaking
affair"; "the conversation...could hardly be called world-
shattering" [syn: earthshaking, world-shaking, world-
shattering]
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godforsaken
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adj 1: located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert
island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild
stretch of land"; "waste places" [syn: godforsaken,
waste, wild]
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homemaking
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n 1: the management of a household
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making
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n 1: the act that results in something coming to be; "the
devising of plans"; "the fashioning of pots and pans"; "the
making of measurements"; "it was already in the making"
[syn: devising, fashioning, making]
2: an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits
a person for something; "her qualifications for the job are
excellent"; "one of the qualifications for admission is an
academic degree"; "she has the makings of fine musician"
[syn: qualification, making]
3: (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing
something; "the recipe listed all the makings for a chocolate
cake"
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merrymaking
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n 1: a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity [syn:
merrymaking, conviviality, jollification]
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mistaken
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adj 1: wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment; "well-meaning but
misguided teachers"; "a mistaken belief"; "mistaken
identity" [syn: misguided, mistaken]
2: arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of
the situation" [syn: false, mistaken]
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printmaking
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n 1: artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or
silkscreens
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reawaken
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v 1: awaken once again
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shaken
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adj 1: disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or
shock; "retrieved his named from her jolted memory"; "the
accident left her badly shaken" [syn: jolted, shaken]
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shaking
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n 1: the act of causing something to move up and down (or back
and forth) with quick movements
2: a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his
pipe" [syn: shaking, shakiness, trembling, quiver,
quivering, vibration, palpitation]
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slacken
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v 1: become slow or slower; "Production slowed" [syn: slow,
slow down, slow up, slack, slacken]
2: make less active or fast; "He slackened his pace as he got
tired"; "Don't relax your efforts now" [syn: slack,
slacken, slack up, relax]
3: become looser or slack; "the rope slackened"
4: make slack as by lessening tension or firmness [syn:
slacken, remit]
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stocktaking
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n 1: reappraisal of a situation or position or outlook [syn:
stocktaking, stock-taking]
2: making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand;
"an inventory may be necessary to see if anything is
missing"; "they held an inventory every month" [syn:
inventory, inventorying, stocktaking, stock-taking]
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taken
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adj 1: understood in a certain way; made sense of; "a word taken
literally"; "a smile taken as consent"; "an open door
interpreted as an invitation" [syn: interpreted,
taken]
2: be affected with an indisposition; "the child was taken ill";
"couldn't tell when he would be taken drunk"
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taking
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adj 1: very attractive; capturing interest; "a fetching new
hairstyle"; "something inexpressibly taking in his
manner"; "a winning personality" [syn: fetching,
taking, winning]
n 1: the act of someone who picks up or takes something; "the
pickings were easy"; "clothing could be had for the taking"
[syn: pickings, taking]
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undertaking
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n 1: any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he
prepared for great undertakings" [syn: undertaking,
project, task, labor]
2: the trade of a funeral director
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unshaken
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adj 1: unshaken in purpose; "wholly undismayed by the commercial
failure of the three movies he had made" [syn:
undaunted, undismayed, unshaken]
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waken
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v 1: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the
drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn:
awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse]
[ant: cause to sleep]
2: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
[syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come
alive, waken] [ant: dope off, doze off, drift off,
drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod
off]
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aiken
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n 1: United States writer (1889-1973) [syn: Aiken, Conrad
Aiken, Conrad Potter Aiken]
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speechmaking
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n 1: delivering an address to a public audience; "people came to
see the candidates and hear the speechmaking" [syn: public
speaking, speechmaking, speaking, oral presentation]
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aken
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n 1: a city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian
borders; formerly it was Charlemagne's northern capital
[syn: Aachen, Aken, Aix-la-Chapelle]
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macon
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n 1: a city in central Georgia to the southeast of Atlanta
2: fine Burgundy wine usually white and dry [syn: macon,
maconnais]
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jamaican
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adj 1: of or relating to Jamaica (the island or the country) or
to its inhabitants; "Jamaican rum"; "the Jamaican Prime
Minister"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Jamaica
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forsaken
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glassmaking
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overtaken
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undertaken
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laking
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chaikin
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daikin
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dakin
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shaykin
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aickin
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dechen
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lakin
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brickmaking
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lacemaking
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ropemaking
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steelmaking
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apalachin
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chaiken
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raycon
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shaiken
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mcmaken
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retaken
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betaken
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nimwegen
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unmistaken
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