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andante
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adv 1: at a moderately slow tempo; "this passage must be played
andante"
adj 1: (of tempo) moderately slow
n 1: a moderately slow tempo (a walking pace)
2: a musical composition or musical passage to be performed
moderately slow
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ante
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n 1: (poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to
the pot
v 1: place one's stake
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anti
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adj 1: not in favor of (an action or proposal etc.) [ant: pro]
n 1: a person who is opposed (to an action or policy or practice
etc.); "the antis smelled victory after a long battle"
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auntie
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n 1: the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
[syn: aunt, auntie, aunty] [ant: uncle]
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bacchante
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n 1: (classical mythology) a priestess or votary of Bacchus
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canny
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adj 1: showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with
others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound" [syn:
cagey, cagy, canny, clever]
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chantey
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n 1: a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors [syn:
chantey, chanty, sea chantey, shanty]
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cranny
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n 1: a long narrow depression in a surface [syn: crevice,
cranny, crack, fissure, chap]
2: a small opening or crevice (especially in a rock face or
wall)
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dainty
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adj 1: affectedly dainty or refined [syn: dainty, mincing,
niminy-piminy, prim, twee]
2: delicately beautiful; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"
[syn: dainty, exquisite]
3: especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set
before a kind";
4: excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about
his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would
only touch the toilet handle with his elbow" [syn: dainty,
nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish]
n 1: something considered choice to eat [syn: dainty,
delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat]
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frangipani
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n 1: any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees
of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant
funnel-shaped variously colored flowers [syn: frangipani,
frangipanni]
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granny
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n 1: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma,
grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna]
2: an old woman
3: a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure
[syn: granny knot, granny]
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nanny
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n 1: a woman who is the custodian of children [syn: nanny,
nursemaid, nurse]
2: female goat [syn: nanny, nanny-goat, she-goat]
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panty
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n 1: short underpants for women or children (usually used in the
plural) [syn: pantie, panty, scanty, step-in]
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scanty
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adj 1: lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a
scanty harvest"; "a spare diet" [syn: bare(a),
scanty, spare]
n 1: short underpants for women or children (usually used in the
plural) [syn: pantie, panty, scanty, step-in]
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shanty
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n 1: small crude shelter used as a dwelling [syn: hovel,
hut, hutch, shack, shanty]
2: a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors [syn:
chantey, chanty, sea chantey, shanty]
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slangy
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adj 1: constituting or expressed in slang or given to the use of
slang; "a slangy expression"; "slangy speech"
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tangy
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adj 1: tasting sour like a lemon [syn: lemony, lemonlike,
sourish, tangy, tart]
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uncanny
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adj 1: suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an
eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters";
"stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"-
John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the
unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry
Kingsley [syn: eldritch, weird, uncanny,
unearthly]
2: surpassing the ordinary or normal; "Beyond his preternatural
affability there is some acid and some steel" - George Will;
"his uncanny sense of direction" [syn: preternatural,
uncanny]
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vigilante
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n 1: member of a vigilance committee [syn: vigilante,
vigilance man]
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fanny
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n 1: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he
deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on
your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates,
arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can,
fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister,
posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern,
seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom,
behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
2: external female sex organs; "in England `fanny' is vulgar
slang for female genitals" [syn: female genitalia, female
genitals, female genital organ, fanny]
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ranee
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n 1: (the feminine of raja) a Hindu princess or the wife of a
raja [syn: rani, ranee]
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modigliani
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n 1: Italian painter and sculptor (1884-1920) [syn:
Modigliani, Amedeo Modigliano]
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dante
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n 1: an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that
describes a journey through Hell and purgatory and paradise
guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321)
[syn: Dante, Dante Alighieri]
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chanty
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n 1: a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors [syn:
chantey, chanty, sea chantey, shanty]
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chianti
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n 1: dry red Italian table wine from the Chianti region of
Tuscany
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pakistani
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adj 1: of or relating to Pakistan or its people or language;
"Pakistani mountain passes"; "Pakistani soldiers"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Pakistan
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hani
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n 1: a Loloish language [syn: Hani, Akha]
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cannae
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n 1: ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated
the Romans in 216 BC
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shanny
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n 1: European scaleless blenny [syn: shanny, Blennius
pholis]
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aunty
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n 1: the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
[syn: aunt, auntie, aunty] [ant: uncle]
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hootenanny
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dani
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rabbani
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mariani
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whangee
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ferranti
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frannie
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franny
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stannie
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diianni
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mccraney
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mchaney
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mcnaney
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mcrainey
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mcraney
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chalasani
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modiliani
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annie
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canney
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cranney
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dannie
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danny
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fannie
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hanney
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hanni
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hannie
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hanny
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janney
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lanni
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lanny
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manney
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manni
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mannie
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manny
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nanney
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nanni
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panny
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ranney
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sani
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tanney
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vanni
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vannie
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vanny
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yanni
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zanni
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branny
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nanne
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tranny
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cacanny
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kokanee
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mitanni
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ashanti
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alicante
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ammaccapane
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