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abhorrent
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adj 1: offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene
massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs";
"repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in
recent novels" [syn: abhorrent, detestable,
obscene, repugnant, repulsive]
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aspirant
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adj 1: desiring or striving for recognition or advancement [syn:
aspirant, aspiring(a), wishful]
n 1: an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant";
"two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was
full of Madonna wannabes" [syn: aspirant, aspirer,
hopeful, wannabe, wannabee]
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concurrent
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adj 1: occurring or operating at the same time; "a series of
coincident events" [syn: coincident, coincidental,
coinciding, concurrent, co-occurrent,
cooccurring, simultaneous]
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crosscurrent
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n 1: a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused
by one current flowing into or across another current [syn:
rip, riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent,
countercurrent]
2: actions counter to the main group activity; "political
crosscurrents disrupted the conference" [syn:
countercurrent, crosscurrent]
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currant
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n 1: any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for
jellies and jams
2: any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing
currants [syn: currant, currant bush]
3: small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region
and California; used in cooking
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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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recurrent
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adj 1: recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to
stipulate the requirements" [syn: perennial,
recurrent, repeated]
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spirant
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adj 1: of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a
constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both
`thin' and `then') [syn: fricative, continuant,
sibilant, spirant, strident]
n 1: a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a
narrowing of the vocal tract [syn: fricative consonant,
fricative, spirant]
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tyrant
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n 1: a cruel and oppressive dictator [syn: tyrant, autocrat,
despot]
2: in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal
right to it
3: any person who exercises power in a cruel way; "his father
was a tyrant"
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undercurrent
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n 1: a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance;
implicit meaning [syn: undertone, undercurrent]
2: a current below the surface of a fluid [syn: undertide,
undercurrent]
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warrant
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n 1: a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified
acts
2: a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together
with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the
right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a
stated price; "as a sweetener they offered warrants along
with the fixed-income securities" [syn: warrant, stock
warrant, stock-purchase warrant]
3: formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the
union's endorsement" [syn: sanction, countenance,
endorsement, indorsement, warrant, imprimatur]
4: a written assurance that some product or service will be
provided or will meet certain specifications [syn:
guarantee, warrant, warrantee, warranty]
v 1: show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; "The
emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns"; "The end
justifies the means" [syn: justify, warrant]
2: stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or
condition of; "The dealer warrants all the cars he sells"; "I
warrant this information" [syn: guarantee, warrant]
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redcurrant
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intercurrent
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insurant
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