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appointee
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n 1: an official who is appointed
2: a person who is appointed to a job or position [syn:
appointee, appointment]
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banshee
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n 1: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of
impending death [syn: banshee, banshie]
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be
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n 1: a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
[syn: beryllium, Be, glucinium, atomic number 4]
v 1: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective
or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good
answer"
2: be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of
the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"
3: occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my
umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind
this behavior?"
4: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn:
exist, be]
5: happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during
the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred
people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the
kitchen"
6: be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000
rubles these days!" [syn: equal, be] [ant: differ]
7: form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone
wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute
my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus";
"This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few
men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute,
represent, make up, comprise, be]
8: work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a
specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our
resident philosopher" [syn: be, follow]
9: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was
Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify]
10: spend or use time; "I may be an hour"
11: have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My
grandfather lived until the end of war" [syn: be, live]
12: to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used
only in infinitive form; "let her be"
13: be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" [syn: cost, be]
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bee
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n 1: any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and
solitary species
2: a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold
competitions
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brie
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n 1: soft creamy white cheese; milder than Camembert
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curie
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n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a
radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of
37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie,
Ci]
2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn:
Curie, Pierre Curie]
3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one
(with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on
radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and
polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame
Curie, Marya Sklodowska]
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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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debris
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n 1: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken
up [syn: debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus]
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decree
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n 1: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court
record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New
Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
[syn: decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript]
v 1: issue a decree; "The King only can decree"
2: decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn
males should be killed" [syn: rule, decree]
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cree
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n 1: a member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada
2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Cree
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b
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n 1: aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often
occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
[syn: bacillus, B]
2: originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated
into several B vitamins [syn: B-complex vitamin, B
complex, vitamin B complex, vitamin B, B vitamin, B]
3: a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black
crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder [syn:
boron, B, atomic number 5]
4: a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels
[syn: Bel, B]
5: (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective
circular area that one particle presents to another as a
target for an encounter [syn: barn, b]
6: the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: B, b]
7: the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen [syn:
B, type B, group B]
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c
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adj 1: being ten more than ninety [syn: hundred, one
hundred, 100, c]
n 1: a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature [syn:
degree centigrade, degree Celsius, C]
2: the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy
and universality of the speed of light is recognized by
defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second [syn:
speed of light, light speed, c]
3: a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits)
and vegetables; prevents scurvy [syn: vitamin C, C,
ascorbic acid]
4: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four
nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar
(ribose) [syn: deoxycytidine monophosphate, C]
5: a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine;
pairs with guanine [syn: cytosine, C]
6: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in
three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and
diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, C,
atomic number 6]
7: ten 10s [syn: hundred, 100, C, century, one C]
8: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge
transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn:
coulomb, C, ampere-second]
9: a general-purpose programing language closely associated with
the UNIX operating system
10: (music) the keynote of the scale of C major
11: the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: C, c]
12: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy,
snow, C]
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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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capri
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n 1: an island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in
southern Italy; a tourist attraction noted for beautiful
scenery
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chablis
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n 1: a town in north central France noted for white Burgundy
wines
2: dry white table wine of Chablis, France or a wine resembling
it [syn: Chablis, white Burgundy]
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ailey
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n 1: United States choreographer noted for his use of African
elements (born in 1931) [syn: Ailey, Alvin Ailey]
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disraeli
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n 1: British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling
interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the
empress of India (1804-1881) [syn: Disraeli, Benjamin
Disraeli, First Earl of Beaconsfield]
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israeli
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Israel or its
people
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Israel
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ailee
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aley
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aly
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maley
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maly
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qualey
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railey
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reiley
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reilley
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scali
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stailey
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staley
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whaley
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zaley
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baillie
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bailly
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alae
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