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psalmody
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n 1: the act of singing psalms or hymns [syn: psalmody,
hymnody]
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antibody
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n 1: any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the
body or produced in response to an antigen which it
neutralizes, thus producing an immune response
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any
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adv 1: to any degree or extent; "it isn't any better"
adj 1: one or some or every or all without specification; "give
me any peaches you don't want"; "not any milk is left";
"any child would know that"; "pick any card"; "any day
now"; "cars can be rented at almost any airport"; "at
twilight or any other time"; "beyond any doubt"; "need
any help we can get"; "give me whatever peaches you don't
want"; "no milk whatsoever is left" [syn: any(a),
whatever, whatsoever]
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bawdy
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adj 1: humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes";
"ribald language" [syn: bawdy, off-color, ribald]
n 1: lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room
bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy"
[syn: bawdry, bawdy]
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blocky
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adj 1: resembling a block in shape [syn: blockish, blocky]
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blotchy
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adj 1: marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots [syn:
blotched, blotchy, splotched]
2: marred by discolored spots or blotches; "blotchy skin"
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bobby
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n 1: an informal term for a British policeman
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body
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n 1: the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or
human being); "he felt as if his whole body were on fire"
[syn: body, organic structure, physical structure]
2: a group of persons associated by some common tie or
occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed
out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative
body"
3: a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person; "they
found the body in the lake" [syn: body, dead body]
4: an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is
distinguishable from other objects; "heavenly body"
5: the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved
their arms and legs and bodies" [syn: torso, trunk,
body]
6: a collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body
of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents"
7: the property of holding together and retaining its shape;
"wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough
consistency it is ready to bake" [syn: consistency,
consistence, eubstance, body]
8: the central message of a communication; "the body of the
message was short"
9: the main mass of a thing
10: a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of
a violin) [syn: soundbox, body]
11: the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car
was badly rusted"
v 1: invest with or as with a body; give body to [syn: body,
personify]
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botchy
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adj 1: poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an
unskillful attempt" [syn: botchy, butcherly,
unskillful]
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buddy
0
n 1: a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their
activities [syn: buddy, brother, chum, crony,
pal, sidekick]
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busybody
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n 1: a person who meddles in the affairs of others [syn:
busybody, nosy-parker, nosey-parker, quidnunc]
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chiropody
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n 1: the branch of medicine concerned with the feet [syn:
podiatry, chiropody]
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choppy
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adj 1: marked by abrupt transitions; "choppy prose" [syn:
choppy, jerky]
2: rough with small waves; "choppy seas"
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cocky
0
adj 1: overly self-confident or self-assertive; "a very cocky
young man"
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comedy
0
n 1: light and humorous drama with a happy ending [ant:
tragedy]
2: a comic incident or series of incidents [syn: drollery,
clowning, comedy, funniness]
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copy
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n 1: a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or
school record) [syn: transcript, copy]
2: a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing;
"she made a copy of the designer dress"; "the clone was a
copy of its ancestor"
3: matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materials [syn:
copy, written matter]
4: material suitable for a journalistic account; "catastrophes
make good copy"
v 1: copy down as is; "The students were made to copy the
alphabet over and over"
2: reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the
passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older
siblings" [syn: imitate, copy, simulate]
3: reproduce or make an exact copy of; "replicate the cell";
"copy the genetic information" [syn: replicate, copy]
4: make a replica of; "copy that drawing"; "re-create a picture
by Rembrandt" [syn: copy, re-create]
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custody
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n 1: a state of being confined (usually for a short time); "his
detention was politically motivated"; "the prisoner is on
hold"; "he is in the custody of police" [syn: detention,
detainment, hold, custody]
2: holding by the police; "the suspect is in custody"
3: (with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the
right to house and care for and discipline a child; "my fate
is in your hands"; "too much power in the president's hands";
"your guests are now in my custody"; "the mother was awarded
custody of the children" [syn: hands, custody]
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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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disembody
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v 1: free from a body or physical form or reality
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embody
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v 1: represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil
wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the
feelings of the artist" [syn: incarnate, body forth,
embody, substantiate]
2: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was
Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify]
3: represent or express something abstract in tangible form;
"This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period"
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gaudy
0
adj 1: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring";
"garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts";
"a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
[syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish,
gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky,
tatty, tawdry, trashy]
2: (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
[syn: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty]
n 1: (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held
a college
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holiday
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n 1: leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure;
"we get two weeks of vacation every summer"; "we took a
short holiday in Puerto Rico" [syn: vacation, holiday]
2: a day on which work is suspended by law or custom; "no mail
is delivered on federal holidays"; "it's a good thing that
New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover"
v 1: spend or take a vacation [syn: vacation, holiday]
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homebody
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n 1: a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to
wandering or travel [syn: stay-at-home, homebody]
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hymnody
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n 1: the act of singing psalms or hymns [syn: psalmody,
hymnody]
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jeopardy
0
n 1: a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or
misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard" [syn:
hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk, endangerment]
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malady
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n 1: any unwholesome or desperate condition; "what maladies
afflict our nation?"
2: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or
all of an organism [syn: illness, unwellness, malady,
sickness] [ant: health, wellness]
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melody
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n 1: a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she
was humming an air from Beethoven" [syn: tune, melody,
air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase]
2: the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes
[syn: melody, tonal pattern]
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monody
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n 1: music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with
accompaniment) [syn: monophony, monophonic music,
monody] [ant: concerted music, polyphonic music,
polyphony]
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nobody
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n 1: a person of no influence [syn: cipher, cypher,
nobody, nonentity]
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parody
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n 1: a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's
style, usually in a humorous way [syn: parody, lampoon,
spoof, sendup, mockery, takeoff, burlesque,
travesty, charade, pasquinade, put-on]
2: humorous or satirical mimicry [syn: parody, mockery,
takeoff]
v 1: make a spoof of or make fun of
2: make a parody of; "The students spoofed the teachers" [syn:
spoof, burlesque, parody]
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perfidy
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n 1: betrayal of a trust [syn: perfidy, perfidiousness,
treachery]
2: an act of deliberate betrayal [syn: treachery, betrayal,
treason, perfidy]
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prosody
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n 1: the patterns of stress and intonation in a language [syn:
prosody, inflection]
2: (prosody) a system of versification [syn: poetic rhythm,
rhythmic pattern, prosody]
3: the study of poetic meter and the art of versification [syn:
prosody, metrics]
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remedy
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n 1: act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil [syn:
redress, remedy, remediation]
2: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
[syn: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic]
v 1: set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies";
"rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"
[syn: rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amend]
2: provide relief for; "remedy his illness" [syn: remedy,
relieve]
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rhapsody
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n 1: an epic poem adapted for recitation
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shoddy
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adj 1: cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on
the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist [syn:
cheapjack, shoddy, tawdry]
2: of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-
built houses" [syn: jerry-built, shoddy]
3: designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or
inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm";
"deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading
similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are
misleading"; "shoddy business practices" [syn: deceptive,
misleading, shoddy]
n 1: reclaimed wool fiber
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somebody
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n 1: a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
[syn: person, individual, someone, somebody,
mortal, soul]
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subsidy
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n 1: a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits
the public; "a subsidy for research in artificial
intelligence"
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threnody
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n 1: a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a
memorial to a dead person [syn: dirge, coronach,
lament, requiem, threnody]
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toddy
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n 1: a mixed drink made of liquor and water with sugar and
spices and served hot [syn: hot toddy, toddy]
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tragedy
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n 1: an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole
city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the
earthquake was a disaster" [syn: calamity, catastrophe,
disaster, tragedy, cataclysm]
2: drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior
force or circumstance; excites terror or pity [ant: comedy]
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tragicomedy
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n 1: a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy
and comedy usually with the tragic predominating
2: a comedy with serious elements or overtones [syn:
seriocomedy, tragicomedy]
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wadi
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n 1: gully or streambed in northern Africa and the Middle East
that remains dry except during rainy season
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yesterday
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adv 1: on the day preceding today; "yesterday the weather was
beautiful"
2: in the recent past; only a short time ago; "I was not born
yesterday!"
n 1: the day immediately before today; "it was in yesterday's
newspapers"
2: the recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough";
"we shared many yesterdays"
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cloggy
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adj 1: (used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil
was heavy and easily saturated" [syn: clayey, cloggy,
heavy]
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d
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adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units
[syn: five hundred, 500, d]
n 1: a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets [syn: vitamin
D, calciferol, viosterol, ergocalciferol,
cholecalciferol, D]
2: the cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and
five [syn: five hundred, 500, D]
3: the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: D, d]
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dea
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n 1: federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and
regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances;
goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations [syn:
Drug Enforcement Administration, Drug Enforcement
Agency, DEA]
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saturday
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n 1: the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the
Sabbath by Jews and some Christians [syn: Saturday,
Sabbatum, Sat]
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soddy
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n 1: a house built of sod or adobe laid in horizontal courses
[syn: sod house, soddy, adobe house]
2: English chemist whose work on radioactive disintegration led
to the discovery of isotopes (1877-1956) [syn: Soddy,
Frederick Soddy]
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peabody
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n 1: educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United
States (1804-1894) [syn: Peabody, Elizabeth Peabody,
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody]
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irrawaddy
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n 1: the main river of Myanmar rising in the north and flowing
south through the length of Burma to empty into the Andaman
Sea [syn: Irrawaddy, Irrawaddy River]
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kennedy
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n 1: 35th President of the United States; established the Peace
Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963) [syn: Kennedy,
Jack Kennedy, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, JFK,
President Kennedy, President John F. Kennedy]
2: a large airport on Long Island to the east of New York City
[syn: Kennedy, Kennedy Interrnational, Kennedy
International Airport]
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schenectady
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n 1: a city of eastern New York on the Mohawk river; it
prospered after the opening of the Erie Canal
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lombardy
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n 1: a region of north central Italy bordering Switzerland [syn:
Lombardy, Lombardia]
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bastardy
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n 1: the status of being born to parents who were not married
[syn: bastardy, illegitimacy, bar sinister]
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cloddy
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everybody
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hexapody
0
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raggedy
0
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clotty
0
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noddy
0
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adee
0
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droddy
0
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roddy
0
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waddy
0
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alodie
0
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canady
0
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corradi
0
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deandrade
0
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boddie
0
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boddy
0
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poddy
0
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squaddie
0
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swaddy
0
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buddie
0
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arcady
0
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cassidy
0
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accidie
0