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appease
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v 1: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
"She managed to mollify the angry customer" [syn: pacify,
lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify,
placate, gentle, gruntle]
2: overcome or allay; "quell my hunger" [syn: quell, stay,
appease]
3: make peace with [syn: propitiate, appease]
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breeze
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n 1: a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled
by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his
neck" [syn: breeze, zephyr, gentle wind, air]
2: any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product
will be no picnic" [syn: cinch, breeze, picnic, snap,
duck soup, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece
of cake]
v 1: blow gently and lightly; "It breezes most evenings at the
shore"
2: to proceed quickly and easily
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cheese
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n 1: a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
2: erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters
of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States [syn:
tall mallow, high mallow, cheese, cheeseflower,
Malva sylvestris]
v 1: used in the imperative (get away, or stop it); "Cheese it!"
2: wind onto a cheese; "cheese the yarn"
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chemise
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n 1: a woman's sleeveless undergarment [syn: chemise,
shimmy, shift, slip, teddy]
2: a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders
without a waist [syn: chemise, sack, shift]
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diocese
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n 1: the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop [syn: diocese,
bishopric, episcopate]
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ease
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n 1: freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort; "he rose
through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into
containers for ease of transportation"; "the very easiness
of the deed held her back" [syn: ease, easiness,
simplicity, simpleness] [ant: difficultness,
difficulty]
2: a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a
comfortable state; "a life of luxury and ease"; "he had all
the material comforts of this world" [syn: ease, comfort]
3: the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially
after being relieved of distress); "he enjoyed his relief
from responsibility"; "getting it off his conscience gave him
some ease" [syn: relief, ease]
4: freedom from constraint or embarrassment; "I am never at ease
with strangers" [syn: ease, informality]
5: freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility);
"took his repose by the swimming pool" [syn: rest, ease,
repose, relaxation]
v 1: move gently or carefully; "He eased himself into the chair"
2: lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate; "ease the pain in your
legs" [syn: comfort, ease]
3: make easier; "you could facilitate the process by sharing
your knowledge" [syn: facilitate, ease, alleviate]
4: lessen the intensity of or calm; "The news eased my
conscience"; "still the fears" [syn: still, allay,
relieve, ease]
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faeces
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n 1: solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels [syn:
fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM,
stool, ordure, dejection]
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fasces
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n 1: bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade protruding;
in ancient Rome it was a symbol of a magistrate's power; in
modern Italy it is a symbol of fascism
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heartsease
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n 1: a common and long cultivated European herb from which most
common garden pansies are derived [syn: wild pansy,
Johnny-jump-up, heartsease, love-in-idleness, pink
of my John, Viola tricolor]
2: violet of Pacific coast of North America having white petals
tinged with yellow and deep violet [syn: two-eyed violet,
heartsease, Viola ocellata]
3: common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged
flowers [syn: field pansy, heartsease, Viola arvensis]
4: the absence of mental stress or anxiety [syn: peace,
peacefulness, peace of mind, repose, serenity,
heartsease, ataraxis]
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menses
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n 1: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of
nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women
were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a
woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"
--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to
be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia
begin to flow in females"--Aristotle [syn: menstruation,
menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow]
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species
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n 1: (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed
2: a specific kind of something; "a species of molecule"; "a
species of villainy"
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subspecies
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n 1: (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a
species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical
isolation within a species [syn: subspecies, race]
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chinese
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adj 1: of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures;
"Chinese food"
2: of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on
Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese
capital is Taipeh" [syn: Taiwanese, Chinese, Formosan]
n 1: any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded
as dialects of a single language (even though they are
mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic
writing system
2: a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist
China
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burmese
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Myanmar or its
people; "the Burmese capital"; "Burmese tonal languages"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Myanmar
2: the official language of Burma
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pisces
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n 1: the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign
from about February 19 to March 20 [syn: Pisces, Pisces
the Fishes, Fish]
2: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces
[syn: Pisces, Fish]
3: a large faint zodiacal constellation; between Aquarius and
Aries
4: a group of vertebrates comprising both cartilaginous and bony
fishes and sometimes including the jawless vertebrates; not
used technically
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rameses
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n 1: any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC
[syn: Rameses, Ramesses, Ramses]
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fauces
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n 1: the passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx
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ulysses
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n 1: (Roman mythology) Roman spelling for Odysseus
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waldenses
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n 1: a Christian sect of dissenters that originated in southern
France in the late 12th century adopted Calvinist doctrines
in the 16th century [syn: Waldenses, Vaudois]
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albigenses
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n 1: a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th
and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism [syn:
Albigenses, Cathars, Cathari]
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artaxerxes
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n 1: king of Persia who subdued numerous revolutions and made
peace with Sparta (?-359 BC) [syn: Artaxerxes II,
Artaxerxes]
2: king of Persia who sanctioned the practice of Judaism in
Jerusalem (?-424 BC) [syn: Artaxerxes I, Artaxerxes]
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agrees
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amanuenses
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apices
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apotheoses
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appendices
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axes
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bases
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bees
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calyces
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cervices
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codices
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cortices
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crises
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decrees
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diagnoses
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dialyses
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ellipses
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emphases
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erases
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executrices
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helices
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hypnoses
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hypotheses
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indices
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magazines
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matrices
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nemeses
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neuroses
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oases
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paralyses
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parentheses
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praxes
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prognoses
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psychoses
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radices
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sepses
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synapses
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synopses
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syntheses
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taxes
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theses
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thoraces
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thromboses
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vanities
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vertices
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vortices
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crees
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cees
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disseise
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disseize
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halluces
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latices
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scolices
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varices
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directrices
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haruspices
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pontifices
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misdiagnoses
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epicleses
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calces
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xerxes
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arses
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