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ab
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n 1: a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Bachelor of
Arts, BA, Artium Baccalaurens, AB]
2: the eleventh month of the civil year; the fifth month of the
ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in July and
August) [syn: Ab, Av]
3: the muscles of the abdomen [syn: abdominal, abdominal
muscle, ab]
4: the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B
antigens [syn: AB, type AB, group AB]
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abnormally
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adv 1: in an abnormal manner; "they were behaving abnormally";
"his blood pressure was abnormally low"
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absentee
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n 1: one that is absent or not in residence
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abysmally
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adv 1: in a terrible manner; "she sings terribly" [syn:
terribly, atrociously, awfully, abominably,
abysmally, rottenly]
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accidentally
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adv 1: without advance planning; "they met accidentally" [syn:
by chance, accidentally, circumstantially,
unexpectedly] [ant: advisedly, by choice, by
design, deliberately, designedly, intentionally,
on purpose, purposely]
2: of a minor or subordinate nature; "these magnificent
achievements were only incidentally influenced by Oriental
models" [syn: incidentally, accidentally]
3: without intention; in an unintentional manner; "she hit him
unintentionally" [syn: unintentionally, accidentally]
[ant: advisedly, by choice, by design, deliberately,
designedly, intentionally, on purpose, purposely]
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actually
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adv 1: in actual fact; "to be nominally but not actually
independent"; "no one actually saw the shark"; "large
meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt" [syn:
actually, really]
2: used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the
opposite of that stated; surprisingly; "you may actually be
doing the right thing by walking out"; "she actually spoke
Latin"; "they thought they made the rules but in reality they
were only puppets"; "people who seem stand-offish are in
reality often simply nervous" [syn: actually, in reality]
3: at the present moment; "the transmission screen shows the
picture that is actually on the air"
4: as a sentence modifier to add slight emphasis; "actually, we
all help clear up after a meal"; "actually, I haven't seen
the film"; "I'm not all that surprised actually"; "she hasn't
proved to be too satisfactory, actually"
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additionally
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adv 1: in addition, by way of addition; furthermore; "he serves
additionally as the CEO" [syn: additionally, to boot]
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addressee
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n 1: one to whom something is addressed
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adjectivally
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adv 1: as an adjective; in an adjectival manner
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adoptee
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n 1: someone (such as a child) who has been adopted
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agree
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v 1: be in accord; be in agreement; "We agreed on the terms of
the settlement"; "I can't agree with you!"; "I hold with
those who say life is sacred"; "Both philosophers concord
on this point" [syn: agree, hold, concur, concord]
[ant: differ, disagree, dissent, take issue]
2: consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something;
"She agreed to all my conditions"; "He agreed to leave her
alone"
3: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their
characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many
details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the
check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the
gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check, jibe,
gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disaccord, disagree,
discord]
4: go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas
concorded" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, consort,
accord, concord, fit in, agree]
5: show grammatical agreement; "Subjects and verbs must always
agree in English"
6: be agreeable or suitable; "White wine doesn't agree with me"
7: achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose; "No two of
my colleagues would agree on whom to elect chairman"
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airily
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adv 1: in a flippant manner; "he answered the reporters'
questions flippantly"; "this cannot be airily explained
to your children" [syn: flippantly, airily]
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alee
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adv 1: on or toward the lee; "put the helm alee"
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amputee
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n 1: someone who has had a limb removed by amputation
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angrily
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adv 1: with anger; "he angrily denied the accusation"
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annually
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adv 1: without missing a year; "they travel to China annually"
[syn: annually, yearly, every year, each year]
2: by the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of
money paid or received); "he earned $100,000 per annum"; "we
issue six volumes per annum" [syn: per annum, p.a., per
year, each year, annually]
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anomaly
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n 1: deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
[syn: anomaly, anomalousness]
2: a person who is unusual [syn: anomaly, unusual person]
3: (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular
distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
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appointee
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n 1: an official who is appointed
2: a person who is appointed to a job or position [syn:
appointee, appointment]
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arbitrarily
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adv 1: in a random manner; "the houses were randomly scattered";
"bullets were fired into the crowd at random" [syn:
randomly, indiscriminately, haphazardly, willy-
nilly, arbitrarily, at random, every which way]
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argali
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n 1: wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia [syn:
argali, argal, Ovis ammon]
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artfully
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adv 1: in an artful manner; "her foot pointed artfully toward
tapering toes"
2: in a disingenuous manner; "disingenuously, he asked leading
questions abut his opponent's work" [syn: disingenuously,
artfully]
3: in an artful manner; "he craftily arranged to be there when
the decision was announced"; "had ever circumstances
conspired so cunningly?" [syn: craftily, cunningly,
foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily, artfully]
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artificially
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adv 1: not according to nature; not by natural means;
"artificially induced conditions" [syn: artificially,
unnaturally, by artificial means] [ant: naturally]
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attendee
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n 1: a person who is present and participates in a meeting; "he
was a regular attender at department meetings"; "the
gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees" [syn:
attendant, attender, attendee, meeter]
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awfully
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adv 1: used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful
sorry" [syn: terribly, awfully, awful,
frightfully]
2: of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident
on the road this morning" [syn: dreadfully, awfully,
horribly]
3: in a terrible manner; "she sings terribly" [syn: terribly,
atrociously, awfully, abominably, abysmally,
rottenly]
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axially
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adv 1: with respect to an axis; "the jet was directed axially
toward the cathode"
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banshee
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n 1: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of
impending death [syn: banshee, banshie]
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be
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n 1: a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
[syn: beryllium, Be, glucinium, atomic number 4]
v 1: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective
or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good
answer"
2: be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of
the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"
3: occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my
umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind
this behavior?"
4: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn:
exist, be]
5: happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during
the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred
people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the
kitchen"
6: be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000
rubles these days!" [syn: equal, be] [ant: differ]
7: form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone
wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute
my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus";
"This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few
men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute,
represent, make up, comprise, be]
8: work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a
specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our
resident philosopher" [syn: be, follow]
9: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was
Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify]
10: spend or use time; "I may be an hour"
11: have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My
grandfather lived until the end of war" [syn: be, live]
12: to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used
only in infinitive form; "let her be"
13: be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" [syn: cost, be]
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bee
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n 1: any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and
solitary species
2: a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold
competitions
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beneficially
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adv 1: in a beneficial manner; "this medicine will act
beneficially on you"
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bilaterally
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adv 1: with the involvement of two parties or governments; "they
worked out an agreement bilaterally"
2: so as to involve two sides or parts
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blissfully
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adv 1: in a blissful manner; "he was blissfully unaware of the
danger"
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bodily
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adv 1: in bodily form; "he was translated bodily to heaven"
adj 1: of or relating to or belonging to the body; "a bodily
organ"; "bodily functions"
2: affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the
mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect";
"corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness"
[syn: bodily, corporal, corporeal, somatic]
3: having or relating to a physical material body; "bodily
existence"
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bourgeoisie
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n 1: the social class between the lower and upper classes [syn:
middle class, bourgeoisie]
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brie
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n 1: soft creamy white cheese; milder than Camembert
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broccoli
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n 1: plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds [syn:
broccoli, Brassica oleracea italica]
2: branched green undeveloped flower heads
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brutally
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adv 1: in a vicious manner; "he was viciously attacked" [syn:
viciously, brutally, savagely]
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bubbly
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adj 1: emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or
fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy)
beer" [syn: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy,
frothy, effervescing, spumy]
2: full of or showing high spirits; "bright bubbly children"; "a
bubbly personality"
n 1: a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or
resembling that produced there [syn: champagne, bubbly]
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busily
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adv 1: in a busy manner; "they were busily engaged in buying
souvenirs"
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carefully
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adv 1: taking care or paying attention; "they watched carefully"
2: as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact; "she
ventured cautiously downstairs"; "they handled the incident
with kid gloves" [syn: cautiously, carefully] [ant:
carelessly, incautiously]
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casually
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adv 1: not methodically or according to plan; "he dealt with his
course work casually"
2: in an unconcerned manner; "glanced casually at the headlines"
[syn: casually, nonchalantly]
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cc
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adj 1: being ten more than one hundred ninety [syn: two
hundred, 200, cc]
n 1: a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter
[syn: milliliter, millilitre, mil, ml, cubic
centimeter, cubic centimetre, cc]
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centrally
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adv 1: in or near or toward a center or according to a central
role or function; "The theater is centrally located"
[ant: peripherally]
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cerebrally
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adv 1: in an intellectual manner; "cerebrally active"
2: in the brain; "bleeding cerebrally"
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charily
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adv 1: with great caution; warily
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cheerfully
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adv 1: in a cheerful manner; "he cheerfully agreed to do it"
[ant: cheerlessly]
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chickadee
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n 1: any of various small grey-and-black songbirds of North
America
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chronically
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adv 1: in a habitual and longstanding manner; "smoking
chronically" [syn: chronically, inveterate]
2: in a slowly developing and long lasting manner; "chronically
ill persons" [ant: acutely]
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civilly
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adv 1: in a civil manner; "he treats his former wife civilly"
[ant: uncivilly]
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clinically
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adv 1: in a clinical manner; "she is clinically qualified"
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clumsily
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adv 1: in a clumsy manner; "he snatched the bills clumsily"
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cod
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adv 1: collecting the charges upon delivery; "mail a package
C.O.D." [syn: C.O.D., COD, cash on delivery]
adj 1: payable by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call";
"the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel" [syn:
collect, cod]
n 1: the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the
seeds themselves) [syn: pod, cod, seedcase]
2: lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish;
usually baked or poached [syn: cod, codfish]
3: major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters [syn:
cod, codfish]
v 1: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted
everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe,
slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put
one over, put one across]
2: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children
teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my
failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a
jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod,
tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally,
ride]
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comically
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adv 1: in a comical manner; "the tone was comically desperate"
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commercially
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adv 1: in a commercial manner; "the product is commercially
available"
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conceptually
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adv 1: in a conceptual manner; "he can no longer think
conceptually"; "conceptually, the idea is quite simple"
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conferee
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n 1: a person on whom something is bestowed; "six honorary were
conferred; the conferees were..."
2: a member of a conference
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continually
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adv 1: seemingly without interruption; "complained continually
that there wasn't enough money"
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contumely
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n 1: a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a
student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse";
"they yelled insults at the visiting team" [syn: abuse,
insult, revilement, contumely, vilification]
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cordially
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adv 1: in a hearty manner; "`Yes,' the children chorused
heartily"; "We welcomed her warmly" [syn: heartily,
cordially, warmly]
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crazily
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adv 1: in an insane manner; "she behaved insanely"; "he behaves
crazily when he is off his medication"; "the witch
cackled madly"; "screaming dementedly" [syn: insanely,
crazily, dementedly, madly] [ant: sanely]
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criminally
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adv 1: in a shameful manner; "the garden was criminally
neglected" [syn: criminally, reprehensively]
2: in violation of the law; in a criminal manner; "the
alterations in the document were ruled to be criminally
fraudulent"
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critically
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adv 1: in a critical manner; "this must be examined critically"
[ant: uncritically]
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crucially
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adv 1: to a crucial degree; "crucially important"; "crucially,
he must meet us at the airport"
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culturally
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adv 1: with regard to a culture; "culturally integrated"
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curie
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n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a
radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of
37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie,
Ci]
2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn:
Curie, Pierre Curie]
3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one
(with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on
radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and
polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame
Curie, Marya Sklodowska]
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customarily
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adv 1: by custom; according to common practice; "children are
custosby-the-waymarily expected to be seen but not heard"
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cynically
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adv 1: with cynicism; in a cynical manner; "Larsen's frost-
blackened lips curved cynically"
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de
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n 1: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn:
Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]
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debris
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n 1: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken
up [syn: debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus]
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decree
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n 1: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court
record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New
Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
[syn: decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript]
v 1: issue a decree; "The King only can decree"
2: decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn
males should be killed" [syn: rule, decree]
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degree
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n 1: a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; "a
moderate grade of intelligence"; "a high level of care is
required"; "it is all a matter of degree" [syn: degree,
grade, level]
2: a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or
especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness";
"at what stage are the social sciences?" [syn: degree,
level, stage, point]
3: an award conferred by a college or university signifying that
the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study;
"he earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude" [syn:
academic degree, degree]
4: a measure for arcs and angles; "there are 360 degrees in a
circle" [syn: degree, arcdegree]
5: the highest power of a term or variable
6: a unit of temperature on a specified scale; "the game was
played in spite of the 40-degree temperature"
7: the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); "murder
in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"
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delightfully
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adv 1: in a delightful manner; "the farm house, though in itself
a small one, is delightfully situated"
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deportee
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n 1: a person who is expelled from home or country by authority
[syn: exile, deportee]
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detainee
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n 1: some held in custody [syn: detainee, political
detainee]
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devotee
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n 1: an ardent follower and admirer [syn: fan, buff,
devotee, lover]
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diagonally
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adv 1: in a diagonal manner; "she lives diagonally across the
street from us"
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diastole
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n 1: the widening of the chambers of the heart between two
contractions when the chambers fill with blood
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digitally
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adv 1: by means of the fingers; "the exam was carried out
digitally"
2: in terms of integers; "the time was digitally displayed"
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disagree
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v 1: be of different opinions; "I beg to differ!"; "She
disagrees with her husband on many questions" [syn:
disagree, differ, dissent, take issue] [ant:
agree, concord, concur, hold]
2: be different from one another [syn: disagree, disaccord,
discord] [ant: agree, check, correspond, fit,
gibe, jibe, match, tally]
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dismally
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adv 1: in a cheerless manner; "in August 1914 , there was a
dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French,
German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee
drank together to the peace of the future" [syn:
dismally, drearily]
2: in a dreadful manner; "as he looks at the mess he has left
behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to
succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally
failed" [syn: dismally, dreadfully]
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dorsally
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adv 1: in a dorsal location or direction
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draftee
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n 1: someone who is drafted into military service [syn:
draftee, conscript, inductee] [ant: military
volunteer, voluntary, volunteer]
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dramatically
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adv 1: in a very impressive manner; "your performance will
improve dramatically"
2: in a dramatic manner; "he confessed dramatically" [ant:
undramatically]
3: with respect to dramatic value; "the play was dramatically
interesting, but the direction was bad"
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dreadfully
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adv 1: of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody
accident on the road this morning" [syn: dreadfully,
awfully, horribly]
2: in a dreadful manner; "as he looks at the mess he has left
behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to
succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally
failed" [syn: dismally, dreadfully]
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dutifully
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adv 1: out of a sense of duty; in a dutiful manner; "he
dutifully visited his mother every Sunday"
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easily
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adv 1: with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for
`easily'); "she was easily excited"; "was easily
confused"; "he won easily"; "this china breaks very
easily"; "success came too easy" [syn: easily, easy]
2: without question; "easily the best book she's written"
3: indicating high probability; in all likelihood; "I might well
do it"; "a mistake that could easily have ended in disaster";
"you may well need your umbrella"; "he could equally well be
trying to deceive us" [syn: well, easily]
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ecologically
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adv 1: with respect to ecology; "ecologically speaking, this
idea is brilliant; economically, it is a disaster"
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editorially
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adv 1: by means of an editorial; "the paper commented
editorially on the scandal"
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eerily
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adv 1: in an unnatural eery manner; "it was eerily quiet in the
chapel" [syn: eerily, spookily]
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electrically
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adv 1: by electricity; "electrically controlled"
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elementarily
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adv 1: in an elementary manner
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emcee
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n 1: a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an
introductory speech and introduces other speakers) [syn:
master of ceremonies, emcee, host]
v 1: act as a master of ceremonies [syn: emcee, compere]
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emotionally
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adv 1: in an emotional manner; "at the funeral he spoke
emotionally" [ant: unemotionally]
2: with regard to emotions; "emotionally secure"
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emphatically
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adv 1: without question and beyond doubt; "it was decidedly too
expensive"; "she told him off in spades"; "by all odds
they should win" [syn: decidedly, unquestionably,
emphatically, definitely, in spades, by all odds]
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empirically
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adv 1: in an empirical manner; "this can be empirically tested"
[syn: empirically, through empirical observation, by
trial and error] [ant: theoretically]
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enlistee
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n 1: any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces) [syn:
recruit, enlistee]
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equally
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adv 1: to the same degree (often followed by `as'); "they were
equally beautiful"; "birds were singing and the child
sang as sweetly"; "sang as sweetly as a nightingale"; "he
is every bit as mean as she is" [syn: equally, as,
every bit]
2: in equal amounts or shares; in a balanced or impartial way;
"a class evenly divided between girls and boys"; "they split
their winnings equally"; "deal equally with rich and poor"
[syn: evenly, equally] [ant: unequally, unevenly]
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escapee
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n 1: someone who escapes
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especially
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adv 1: to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common;
"he was particularly fussy about spelling"; "a
particularly gruesome attack"; "under peculiarly tragic
circumstances"; "an especially (or specially) cautious
approach to the danger" [syn: particularly,
peculiarly, especially, specially]
2: in a special manner; "a specially arranged dinner" [syn:
specially, especially]
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esprit
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n 1: liveliness of mind or spirit
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essentially
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adv 1: in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature;
"He is basically dishonest"; "the argument was
essentially a technical one"; "for all his bluster he is
in essence a shy person" [syn: basically,
fundamentally, essentially]