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appease
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v 1: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
"She managed to mollify the angry customer" [syn: pacify,
lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify,
placate, gentle, gruntle]
2: overcome or allay; "quell my hunger" [syn: quell, stay,
appease]
3: make peace with [syn: propitiate, appease]
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chemise
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n 1: a woman's sleeveless undergarment [syn: chemise,
shimmy, shift, slip, teddy]
2: a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders
without a waist [syn: chemise, sack, shift]
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disease
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n 1: an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal
functioning
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displease
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v 1: give displeasure to [ant: delight, please]
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ease
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n 1: freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort; "he rose
through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into
containers for ease of transportation"; "the very easiness
of the deed held her back" [syn: ease, easiness,
simplicity, simpleness] [ant: difficultness,
difficulty]
2: a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a
comfortable state; "a life of luxury and ease"; "he had all
the material comforts of this world" [syn: ease, comfort]
3: the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially
after being relieved of distress); "he enjoyed his relief
from responsibility"; "getting it off his conscience gave him
some ease" [syn: relief, ease]
4: freedom from constraint or embarrassment; "I am never at ease
with strangers" [syn: ease, informality]
5: freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility);
"took his repose by the swimming pool" [syn: rest, ease,
repose, relaxation]
v 1: move gently or carefully; "He eased himself into the chair"
2: lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate; "ease the pain in your
legs" [syn: comfort, ease]
3: make easier; "you could facilitate the process by sharing
your knowledge" [syn: facilitate, ease, alleviate]
4: lessen the intensity of or calm; "The news eased my
conscience"; "still the fears" [syn: still, allay,
relieve, ease]
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freeze
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n 1: the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to
a solid [syn: freeze, freezing]
2: weather cold enough to cause freezing [syn: freeze,
frost]
3: an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or
movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze" [syn:
freeze, halt]
4: fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level; "a
freeze on hiring"
v 1: stop moving or become immobilized; "When he saw the police
car he froze" [syn: freeze, stop dead]
2: change to ice; "The water in the bowl froze" [ant: boil]
3: be cold; "I could freeze to death in this office when the air
conditioning is turned on"
4: cause to freeze; "Freeze the leftover food"
5: stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it;
"Suspend the aid to the war-torn country" [syn: freeze,
suspend]
6: be very cold, below the freezing point; "It is freezing in
Kalamazoo"
7: change from a liquid to a solid when cold; "Water freezes at
32 degrees Fahrenheit" [syn: freeze, freeze out, freeze
down]
8: prohibit the conversion or use of (assets); "Blocked funds";
"Freeze the assets of this hostile government" [syn:
freeze, block, immobilize, immobilise] [ant: free,
release, unblock, unfreeze]
9: anesthetize by cold
10: suddenly behave coldly and formally; "She froze when she saw
her ex-husband"
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journalese
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n 1: the style in which newspapers are written
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please
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adv 1: used in polite request; "please pay attention"
v 1: give pleasure to or be pleasing to; "These colors please
the senses"; "a pleasing sensation" [syn: please,
delight] [ant: displease]
2: be the will of or have the will (to); "he could do many
things if he pleased"
3: give satisfaction; "The waiters around her aim to please"
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reprise
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v 1: repeat an earlier theme of a composition [syn: reprise,
reprize, repeat, recapitulate]
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sneeze
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n 1: a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air
from the nose [syn: sneeze, sneezing, sternutation]
v 1: exhale spasmodically, as when an irritant entered one's
nose; "Pepper makes me sneeze"
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squeeze
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n 1: the act of gripping and pressing firmly; "he gave her cheek
a playful squeeze" [syn: squeeze, squeezing]
2: a state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to
businesses and consumers and interest rates are high [syn:
credit crunch, liquidity crisis, squeeze]
3: a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to
the customer; "increased expenses put a squeeze on profits"
4: (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend; "she was his main
squeeze"
5: a twisting squeeze; "gave the wet cloth a wring" [syn:
squeeze, wring]
6: an aggressive attempt to compel acquiescence by the
concentration or manipulation of power; "she laughed at this
sexual power play and walked away" [syn: power play,
squeeze play, squeeze]
7: a tight or amorous embrace; "come here and give me a big hug"
[syn: hug, clinch, squeeze]
8: the act of forcing yourself (or being forced) into or through
a restricted space; "getting through that small opening was a
tight squeeze"
v 1: to compress with violence, out of natural shape or
condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon" [syn:
squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze]
2: press firmly; "He squeezed my hand"
3: squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself
into the corner" [syn: wedge, squeeze, force]
4: to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical,
moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in
the city"; "He squeezed her for information" [syn: coerce,
hale, squeeze, pressure, force]
5: obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from
the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the
company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the
business by threatening him" [syn: extort, squeeze,
rack, gouge, wring]
6: press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust
the letter into his hand" [syn: thrust, stuff, shove,
squeeze]
7: squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind";
"She squeezed the bottle" [syn: pinch, squeeze, twinge,
tweet, nip, twitch]
8: squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with
fondness; "Hug me, please"; "They embraced"; "He hugged her
close to him" [syn: embrace, hug, bosom, squeeze]
9: squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the
spasm contracted the muscle" [syn: compress, constrict,
squeeze, compact, contract, press]
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trapeze
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n 1: a swing used by circus acrobats
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chinese
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adj 1: of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures;
"Chinese food"
2: of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on
Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese
capital is Taipeh" [syn: Taiwanese, Chinese, Formosan]
n 1: any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded
as dialects of a single language (even though they are
mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic
writing system
2: a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist
China
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burmese
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Myanmar or its
people; "the Burmese capital"; "Burmese tonal languages"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Myanmar
2: the official language of Burma
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maltese
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adj 1: of or relating to the island or republic of Malta or its
inhabitants; "Maltese customs officers"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Malta
2: the national language of the Republic of Malta; a Semitic
language derived from Arabic but with many loan words from
Italian, Spanish, and Norman-French [syn: Maltese, Maltese
language, Malti]
3: a term applied indiscriminately in the United States to any
short-haired bluish-grey cat [syn: Maltese, Maltese cat]
4: breed of toy dogs having a long straight silky white coat
[syn: Maltese dog, Maltese terrier, Maltese]
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sleaze
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n 1: tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar [syn:
cheapness, tackiness, tat, sleaze]
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cantonese
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n 1: the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring
provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
[syn: Yue, Yue dialect, Cantonese, Cantonese
dialect]
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japanese
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Japan or its
people or their culture or language; "the Japanese
Emperor"; "Japanese cars" [syn: Japanese, Nipponese]
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Japan [syn: Japanese,
Nipponese]
2: the language (usually considered to be Altaic) spoken by the
Japanese
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javanese
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Java or its
inhabitants or its language; "Javanese temples";
"Javanese dialects" [syn: Javanese, Javan]
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Java [syn: Javanese, Javan]
2: the Indonesian language spoken on Java
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nepalese
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adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of Nepal or its
people or language or culture; "Nepalese troops massed at
the border"; "Nepali mountains are among the highest in
the world"; "the different Nepali words for `rice'" [syn:
Nepalese, Nepali]
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Nepal [syn: Nepalese, Nepali]
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bise
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n 1: a dry cold north wind in southeastern France [syn: bise,
bize]
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bize
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n 1: a dry cold north wind in southeastern France [syn: bise,
bize]
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agrees
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appointees
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bees
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degrees
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guarantees
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skis
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trees
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trustees
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louise
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beas
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beese
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bes
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adoptees
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amputees
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