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chant
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n 1: a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary
are assigned to a single tone
v 1: recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a
psalm; "The rabbi chanted a prayer" [syn: chant,
intone, intonate, cantillate]
2: utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The
students chanted the same slogan over and over again" [syn:
tone, chant, intone]
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commandant
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n 1: an officer in command of a military unit [syn: commanding
officer, commandant, commander]
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courante
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n 1: a court dance of the 16th century; consisted of short
advances and retreats
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current
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adj 1: occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current
events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations";
"current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current
position" [ant: noncurrent]
n 1: a flow of electricity through a conductor; "the current was
measured in amperes" [syn: current, electric current]
2: a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes); "the
raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of
air"; "the hose ejected a stream of water" [syn: current,
stream]
3: dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive
events or ideas; "two streams of development run through
American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of
thought"; "the current of history" [syn: stream, flow,
current]
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debutante
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n 1: a young woman making her debut into society [syn:
debutante, deb]
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detente
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n 1: the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially
between nations)
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disenchant
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v 1: free from enchantment [syn: disenchant, disillusion]
[ant: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral,
enthrall, ravish, transport]
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eggplant
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n 1: egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark
purple but occasionally white or yellow [syn: eggplant,
aubergine, mad apple]
2: hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely
cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as
a vegetable [syn: eggplant, aubergine, brinjal,
eggplant bush, garden egg, mad apple, Solanum
melongena]
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replant
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v 1: plant again or anew; "They replanted the land"; "He
replanted the seedlings"
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restaurant
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n 1: a building where people go to eat [syn: restaurant,
eating house, eating place, eatery]
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slant
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n 1: a biased way of looking at or presenting something [syn:
slant, angle]
2: degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; "the roof had a
steep pitch" [syn: pitch, rake, slant]
v 1: lie obliquely; "A scar slanted across his face"
2: present with a bias; "He biased his presentation so as to
please the share holders" [syn: slant, angle, weight]
3: to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over
the banister" [syn: lean, tilt, tip, slant, angle]
4: heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"
[syn: cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitch]
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supplant
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v 1: take the place or move into the position of; "Smith
replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer
has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the
team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"
[syn: supplant, replace, supersede, supervene upon,
supercede]
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transplant
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n 1: (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a
recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and
recipient [syn: graft, transplant]
2: an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to
another (the recipient); "he had a kidney transplant"; "the
long-term results of cardiac transplantation are now
excellent"; "a child had a multiple organ transplant two
months ago" [syn: transplant, transplantation, organ
transplant]
3: the act of removing something from one location and
introducing it in another location; "the transplant did not
flower until the second year"; "too frequent transplanting is
not good for families"; "she returned to Alabama because she
could not bear transplantation" [syn: transplant,
transplantation, transplanting]
v 1: lift and reset in another soil or situation; "Transplant
the young rice plants" [syn: transplant, transfer]
2: be transplantable; "These delicate plants do not transplant
easily"
3: place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient [syn:
transplant, graft]
4: transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient
Greek story was transplanted into Modern America" [syn:
transfer, transpose, transplant]
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nantes
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n 1: a port city in western France on the Loire estuary
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rand
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n 1: the basic unit of money in South Africa; equal to 100 cents
2: United States writer (born in Russia) noted for her polemical
novels and political conservativism (1905-1982) [syn: Rand,
Ayn Rand]
3: a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern
South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and
manganese [syn: Witwatersrand, Rand, Reef]
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aren't
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can't
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debutant
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shan't
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galante
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underplant
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explant
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waxplant
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arant
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arent
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farrant
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garant
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parrent
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tarrant
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arndt
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