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ain
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adj 1: belonging to or on behalf of a specified person
(especially yourself); preceded by a possessive; "for
your own use"; "do your own thing"; "she makes her own
clothes"; "`ain' is Scottish" [syn: own(a), ain]
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an
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n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in
Nursing, AN]
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ban
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n 1: a decree that prohibits something [syn: prohibition,
ban, proscription]
2: 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova
3: 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania
4: an official prohibition or edict against something [syn:
ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding]
5: a bachelor's degree in nursing [syn: Bachelor of Arts in
Nursing, BAN]
v 1: forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
[syn: ban, censor]
2: prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure;
"Smoking is banned in this building"
3: ban from a place of residence, as for punishment [syn:
banish, ban]
4: expel from a community or group [syn: banish, ban,
ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball]
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bang
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adv 1: directly; "he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into
her" [syn: bang, slap, slapdash, smack, bolt]
n 1: a vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a
bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head" [syn:
knock, bash, bang, smash, belt]
2: a sudden very loud noise [syn: bang, clap, eruption,
blast, bam]
3: a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the
forehead [syn: bang, fringe]
4: the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a
great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush
from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" [syn: bang,
boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick]
5: a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and
marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show
is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang" [syn: hit,
smash, smasher, strike, bang]
v 1: strike violently; "slam the ball" [syn: slam, bang]
2: to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive
sound; "One of them banged the sash of the window nearest my
bed"
3: close violently; "He slammed the door shut" [syn: slam,
bang]
4: move noisily; "The window banged shut"; "The old man banged
around the house"
5: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever
intimate with this man?" [syn: sleep together, roll in the
hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get
laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have
intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck,
jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it,
bang, get it on, bonk]
6: leap, jerk, bang; "Bullets spanged into the trees" [syn:
spang, bang]
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bhang
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n 1: a preparation of the leaves and flowers of the hemp plant;
much used in India
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bran
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n 1: broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are
separated from the flour by sifting
2: food prepared from the husks of cereal grains
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can
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n 1: airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint
etc. [syn: can, tin, tin can]
2: the quantity contained in a can [syn: can, canful]
3: a buoy with a round bottom and conical top [syn: can, can
buoy]
4: 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]
5: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn:
toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty,
stool, throne]
6: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn:
toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy,
bathroom]
v 1: preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty"
[syn: can, tin, put up]
2: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or
position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company
terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire,
give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away,
sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant:
employ, engage, hire]
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catamaran
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n 1: a sailboat with two parallel hulls held together by single
deck
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charabanc
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n 1: a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public
transport; "he always rode the bus to work" [syn: bus,
autobus, coach, charabanc, double-decker, jitney,
motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle]
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clan
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n 1: group of people related by blood or marriage [syn: kin,
kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe]
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cyan
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adj 1: of a bluish shade of green [syn: bluish green, blue-
green, cyan, teal]
n 1: a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green
color
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divan
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n 1: a long backless sofa (usually with pillows against a wall)
2: a Muslim council of state [syn: divan, diwan]
3: a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one
author) [syn: divan, diwan]
4: a Muslim council chamber or law court [syn: divan, diwan]
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fan
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n 1: a device for creating a current of air by movement of a
surface or surfaces
2: an enthusiastic devotee of sports [syn: sports fan, fan,
rooter]
3: an ardent follower and admirer [syn: fan, buff,
devotee, lover]
v 1: strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)
2: make (an emotion) fiercer; "fan hatred"
3: agitate the air
4: separate the chaff from by using air currents; "She stood
there winnowing chaff all day in the field" [syn: winnow,
fan]
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flan
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n 1: open pastry filled with fruit or custard
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man
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n 1: an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there
were two women and six men on the bus" [syn: man, adult
male] [ant: adult female, woman]
2: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a
military force; "two men stood sentry duty" [syn:
serviceman, military man, man, military personnel]
[ant: civilian]
3: the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it
was every man for himself"
4: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae
characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech,
and erect carriage [syn: homo, man, human being,
human]
5: a male subordinate; "the chief stationed two men outside the
building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana"
6: an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and
courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you"
7: a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his
employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" [syn: valet,
valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman,
man]
8: a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover
or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman; "she takes
good care of her man" [ant: woman]
9: one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea [syn: Man, Isle
of Man]
10: game equipment consisting of an object used in playing
certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the
chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic
advantage" [syn: man, piece]
11: all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the
world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because
`mankind' seemed to slight the women" [syn: world, human
race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans,
mankind, man]
v 1: take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place;
"Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning"
2: provide with workers; "We cannot man all the desks";
"Students were manning the booths"
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pan
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n 1: cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel [syn:
pan, cooking pan]
2: (Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and
flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and
ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus [syn: Pan,
goat god]
3: shallow container made of metal
4: chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to
other pongids [syn: Pan, genus Pan]
v 1: make a sweeping movement; "The camera panned across the
room"
2: wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
[syn: pan, pan out, pan off]
3: express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned
the performance" [syn: pan, tear apart, trash]
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pecan
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n 1: wood of a pecan tree
2: tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its
nuts [syn: pecan, pecan tree, Carya illinoensis, Carya
illinoinsis]
3: smooth brown oval nut of south central United States
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plan
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n 1: a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be
accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they
discussed plans for a new bond issue" [syn: plan,
program, programme]
2: an arrangement scheme; "the awkward design of the keyboard
made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for
living"; "a plan for seating guests" [syn: design, plan]
3: scale drawing of a structure; "the plans for City Hall were
on file" [syn: plan, architectural plan]
v 1: have the will and intention to carry out some action; "He
plans to be in graduate school next year"; "The rebels had
planned turmoil and confusion" [syn: plan, be after]
2: make plans for something; "He is planning a trip with his
family"
3: make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to
murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an
attack" [syn: plan, project, contrive, design]
4: make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form;
"design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of the
museum" [syn: design, plan]
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rattan
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n 1: climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable
for the great length of the stems which are used for
malacca canes [syn: rattan, rattan palm, Calamus
rotang]
2: the stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and
related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and
canes [syn: rattan, rattan cane]
3: a switch made from the stems of the rattan palms [syn:
rattan, ratan]
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scan
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n 1: the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed
region; "he made a thorough scan of the beach with his
binoculars"
2: an image produced by scanning; "he analyzed the brain scan";
"you could see the tumor in the CAT scan" [syn: scan, CAT
scan]
v 1: examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the
X-ray"
2: examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while
waiting for the taxi" [syn: scan, skim, rake, glance
over, run down]
3: make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night
sky"
4: conform to a metrical pattern
5: move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
6: read metrically; "scan verses"
7: obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read
by the computer" [syn: read, scan]
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sedan
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n 1: a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and
two or four doors [syn: sedan, saloon]
2: a closed litter for one passenger [syn: sedan, sedan
chair]
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shebang
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n 1: an entire system; used in the phrase `the whole shebang'
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span
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n 1: the complete duration of something; "the job was finished
in the span of an hour"
2: the distance or interval between two points
3: two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome,
twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich,
duo, duet, dyad, duad]
4: a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human
hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
5: a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an
obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. [syn:
bridge, span]
6: the act of sitting or standing astride [syn: straddle,
span]
v 1: to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers
traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3
acres"; "The novel spans three centuries" [syn: cross,
traverse, span, sweep]
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tan
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adj 1: of a light yellowish-brown color
n 1: a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays
of the sun [syn: tan, suntan, sunburn, burn]
2: a light brown the color of topaz [syn: tan, topaz]
3: ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled
triangle [syn: tangent, tan]
v 1: treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert
them into leather
2: get a tan, from wind or sun [syn: tan, bronze]
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van
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n 1: any creative group active in the innovation and application
of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially
in the arts) [syn: avant-garde, vanguard, van, new
wave]
2: the leading units moving at the head of an army [syn:
vanguard, van]
3: (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or
freight
4: a camper equipped with living quarters [syn: van,
caravan]
5: a truck with an enclosed cargo space
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spokane
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n 1: a city in eastern Washington near the Idaho border
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cheyenne
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n 1: the capital and largest city of Wyoming; located in the
southeastern corner of the state [syn: Cheyenne, capital
of Wyoming]
2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne
3: a member of a North American Indian people living on the
western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)
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han
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n 1: imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from
206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed
its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of
Chinese civilization [syn: Han, Han dynasty]
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bhutan
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n 1: a landlocked principality in the Himalayas to the northeast
of India [syn: Bhutan, Kingdom of Bhutan]
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iran
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n 1: a theocratic Islamic republic in the Middle East in western
Asia; Iran was the core of the ancient empire that was
known as Persia until 1935; rich in oil [syn: Iran,
Islamic Republic of Iran, Persia]
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kazakhstan
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n 1: a landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the
northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking
inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an
Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991 [syn: Kazakhstan,
Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakstan, Kazakh, Kazak]
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cannes
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n 1: a port and resort city on the French Riviera; site of an
annual film festival
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gran
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n 1: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma,
grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna]
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jan
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n 1: the first month of the year; begins 10 days after the
winter solstice [syn: January, Jan]
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klan
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n 1: a secret society of white Southerners in the United States;
was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation
of slaves; used terrorist tactics to suppress Black people
[syn: Ku Klux Klan, Klan, KKK]
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lan
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n 1: a local computer network for communication between
computers; especially a network connecting computers and
word processors and other electronic office equipment to
create a communication system between offices [syn: local
area network, LAN]
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mann
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n 1: United States educator who introduced reforms that
significantly altered the system of public education
(1796-1859) [syn: Mann, Horace Mann]
2: German writer concerned about the role of the artist in
bourgeois society (1875-1955) [syn: Mann, Thomas Mann]
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nan
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n 1: your grandmother
2: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma,
grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna]
3: a river of western Thailand flowing southward to join the
Ping River to form the Chao Phraya [syn: Nan, Nan River]
4: leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped
like a teardrop [syn: nan, naan]
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quran
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n 1: the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet
Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina [syn: Koran,
Quran, al-Qur'an, Book]
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shan
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n 1: a branch of the Tai languages [syn: Tai Long, Shan]
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cezanne
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n 1: French Post-impressionist painter who influenced modern art
(especially cubism) by stressing the structural components
latent in nature (1839-1906) [syn: Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne]
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japan
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n 1: a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia
extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the
western Pacific Ocean [syn: Japan, Japanese Islands,
Japanese Archipelago]
2: a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago;
a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and
ship building [syn: Japan, Nippon, Nihon]
3: lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner
with a glossy durable black lacquer
4: lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from
the orient
v 1: coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan
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lausanne
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n 1: a city in western Switzerland; cultural and commercial
center
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rodin
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n 1: French sculptor noted for his renderings of the human form
(1840-1917) [syn: Rodin, Auguste Rodin, Francois
Auguste Rene Rodin]
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saran
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n 1: any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things
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sudan
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n 1: a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved
independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956
[syn: Sudan, Republic of the Sudan, Soudan]
2: a region of northern Africa to the south of the Sahara and
Libyan deserts; extends from the Atlantic to the Red Sea
[syn: Sudan, Soudan]
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harmattan
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n 1: a dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western
coast of Africa during the winter
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minivan
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n 1: a small box-shaped passenger van; usually has removable
seats; used as a family car
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anne
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n 1: Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if
James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she
was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over
parliament (1665-1714)
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taliban
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n 1: a fundamentalist Islamic militia; in 1995 the Taliban
militia took over Afghanistan and in 1996 took Kabul and
set up an Islamic government; "the Taliban enforced a
strict Muslim code of behavior" [syn: Taliban, Taleban]
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began
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outman
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overran
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ran
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than
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duan
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petain
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caen
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dahn
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jaan
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pran
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bahn
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bann
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blan
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blann
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brann
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cahn
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cann
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chan
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dan
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dann
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fann
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flann
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fran
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gahn
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gan
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gann
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glahn
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gnann
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grahn
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hann
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jahn
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jann
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kan
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kann
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kanne
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klahn
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klann
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krahn
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lahn
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lann
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mahn
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manne
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phan
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rahn
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ranh
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rann
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san
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spann
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stan
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