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aficionado
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n 1: a fan of bull fighting
2: a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical
performer
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amontillado
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n 1: pale medium-dry sherry from Spain
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avocado
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adj 1: of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado
n 1: a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin
and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed [syn:
avocado, alligator pear, avocado pear, aguacate]
2: tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits [syn:
avocado, avocado tree, Persea Americana]
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bastinado
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n 1: a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the
feet
2: a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten
with whips or cudgels [syn: bastinado, falanga]
v 1: beat somebody on the soles of the feet
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bravado
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n 1: a swaggering show of courage [syn: bravado, bluster]
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desperado
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n 1: a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier) [syn:
desperado, desperate criminal]
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incommunicado
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adj 1: without the means or right to communicate; "a prisoner
held incommunicado"; "incommunicado political detainees"
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mikado
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n 1: the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader
the emperor is called tenno [syn: mikado, tenno]
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colorado
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n 1: a state in west central United States in the Rocky
Mountains [syn: Colorado, Centennial State, CO]
2: a river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico
[syn: Colorado, Colorado River]
3: an important river in the southwestern United States; rises
in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows
southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through
the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip
of Nevada, then forming the border between California and
Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the
Gulf of California; the main source of water in the
southwestern United States [syn: Colorado, Colorado
River]
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eldorado
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n 1: an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought
in South America by 16th-century explorers [syn: El
Dorado, eldorado]
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au
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n 1: a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent)
metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and
alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but
is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia [syn: gold, Au,
atomic number 79]
2: a unit of length used for distances within the solar system;
equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun
(approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers)
[syn: Astronomical Unit, AU]
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pintado
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n 1: large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal
Atlantic waters [syn: cero, pintado, kingfish,
Scomberomorus regalis]
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strappado
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n 1: a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a
person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope
tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall
is checked with a jerk by the rope [syn: strappado,
strapado]
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carbonado
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n 1: an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and
polishing [syn: carbonado, black diamond]
2: a piece of meat (or fish) that has been scored and broiled
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nardo
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n 1: Australian clover fern [syn: nardoo, nardo, common
nardoo, Marsilea drummondii]
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ricardo
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n 1: English economist who argued that the laws of supply and
demand should operate in a free market (1772-1823) [syn:
Ricardo, David Ricardo]
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leonardo
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n 1: Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and
architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian
Renaissance (1452-1519) [syn: Leonardo, Leonardo da
Vinci, da Vinci]
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aux
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gambado
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prado
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delgado
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tostado
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dau
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accardo
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muscovado
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renegado
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zapateado
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gallardo
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pardo
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sardo
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alvardo
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attardo
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barnardo
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bennardo
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berardo
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bernardo
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denardo
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dinardo
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edoardo
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eduardo
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elardo
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fajardo
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gerardo
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guajardo
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gucciardo
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guzzardo
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lombardo
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lonardo
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lopardo
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milardo
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riccardo
0
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velardo
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vilardo
0
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dibernardo
0
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gagliardo
0
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guagliardo
0
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pappalardo
0
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dileonardo
0
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pardoe
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