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amphibrach
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n 1: a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed
syllables (e.g., `remember')
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anorak
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n 1: a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term)
[syn: parka, windbreaker, windcheater, anorak]
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backtrack
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v 1: retrace one's course; "The hikers got into a storm and had
to turn back" [syn: backtrack, turn back, double
back]
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gimcrack
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adj 1: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring";
"garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts";
"a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
[syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish,
gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky,
tatty, tawdry, trashy]
n 1: ornamental objects of no great value [syn: folderal,
falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense,
trumpery]
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hayrack
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n 1: a rack that holds hay for feeding livestock
2: a frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it
can carry [syn: hayrack, hayrig]
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racetrack
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n 1: a course over which races are run [syn: racetrack,
racecourse, raceway, track]
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rickrack
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n 1: a narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming [syn: rickrack,
ricrac]
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sandarac
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n 1: durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of
the cathedral at Cordova, Spain) [syn: sandarac,
citronwood]
2: a brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in
varnishes [syn: sandarac, sandarach]
3: large coniferous evergreen tree of North Africa and Spain
having flattened branches and scalelike leaves yielding a
hard fragrant wood; bark yields a resin used in varnishes
[syn: sandarac, sandarac tree, Tetraclinis articulata,
Callitris quadrivalvis]
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tamarack
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n 1: medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States
including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown
scaly bark [syn: American larch, tamarack, black
larch, Larix laricina]
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wisecrack
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n 1: witty remark [syn: wisecrack, crack, sally, quip]
v 1: make a comment, usually ironic
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soundtrack
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n 1: sound recording on a narrow strip of a motion picture film
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dirac
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n 1: English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory
to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of
antimatter and the positron (1902-1984) [syn: Dirac,
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac]
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iraq
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n 1: a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient
civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as
Iraq [syn: Iraq, Republic of Iraq, Al-Iraq, Irak]
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ricrac
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n 1: a narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming [syn: rickrack,
ricrac]
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bladderwrack
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n 1: similar to and found with black rockweed [syn:
bladderwrack, Ascophyllum nodosum]
2: a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure [syn:
bladderwrack, black rockweed, bladder fucus, tang,
Fucus vesiculosus]
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tanach
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n 1: the Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the
Torah and the Prophets and the Writings [syn: Tanakh,
Tanach, Hebrew Scripture]
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ticktock
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n 1: steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock [syn:
ticktock, tocktact, tictac]
v 1: make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were
ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" [syn:
tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat]
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antioch
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n 1: a town in southern Turkey; ancient commercial center and
capital of Syria; an early center of Christianity [syn:
Antioch, Antakya, Antakiya]
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arawak
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n 1: a member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in
northeastern South America [syn: Arawak, Arawakan]
2: a family of South American Indian languages spoken in
northeastern South America [syn: Arawak, Arawakan]
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mubarak
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n 1: Egyptian statesman who became president in 1981 after Sadat
was assassinated (born in 1929) [syn: Mubarak, Hosni
Mubarak]
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amtrac
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serac
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akh
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tarok
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tatlock
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traprock
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umbach
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warloeck
0
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weinbach
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weinstock
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weisbach
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wheelock
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whitelock
0
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whitlock
0
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woolcock
0
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afflerbach
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allensbach
0
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angakok
0
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antilock
0
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auerbach
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bontebok
0
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cinemark
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condillac
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duikerbok
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eisenach
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everbach
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fensterstock
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fetterlock
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gavelock
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perak
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shabrack
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shadrach
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tribrach
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bacharach
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borak
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