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abhor
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v 1: find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"
[syn: abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate]
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booth
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n 1: a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-
backed benches
2: small area set off by walls for special use [syn: booth,
cubicle, stall, kiosk]
3: United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln
(1838-1865) [syn: Booth, John Wilkes Booth]
4: a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment
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bore
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n 1: a person who evokes boredom [syn: bore, dullard]
2: a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by
colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) [syn: tidal
bore, bore, eagre, aegir, eager]
3: diameter of a tube or gun barrel [syn: bore, gauge,
caliber, calibre]
4: a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for
exploratory purposes [syn: bore, bore-hole, drill hole]
v 1: cause to be bored [syn: bore, tire] [ant: interest]
2: make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool;
"don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into
the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes
into the wall" [syn: bore, drill]
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couth
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adj 1: (used facetiously) refined
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dogtooth
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n 1: perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely
cultivated [syn: dogtooth violet, dogtooth,
dog's-tooth violet]
2: one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw)
located between the incisors and the premolars [syn:
canine, canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth,
dogtooth, cuspid]
3: a carved pyramidal ornament; used in 13th century England
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forsooth
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adv 1: an archaic word originally meaning `in truth' but now
usually used to express disbelief
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hellebore
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n 1: perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic
rhizomes [syn: hellebore, false hellebore]
2: any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus
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sleuth
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n 1: a detective who follows a trail [syn: sleuth,
sleuthhound]
v 1: watch, observe, or inquire secretly [syn: spy, stag,
snoop, sleuth]
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smooth
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adj 1: having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges
or irregularities; "smooth skin"; "a smooth tabletop";
"smooth fabric"; "a smooth road"; "water as smooth as a
mirror" [ant: rough, unsmooth]
2: smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of
sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so
important a personage"; "the manager pacified the customer
with a smooth apology for the error" [syn: politic,
smooth, suave, bland]
3: of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth [ant:
rough]
4: smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth
stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a
ballerina" [syn: fluent, fluid, liquid, smooth]
5: (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected;
"a legato passage" [syn: legato, smooth] [ant:
disconnected, staccato]
6: of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or
turbulence; "a smooth ride" [ant: bumpy, jolting,
jolty, jumpy, rocky, rough]
7: lacking obstructions or difficulties; "the bill's path
through the legislature was smooth and orderly"
8: (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves; "a
ribbon of sand between the angry sea and the placid bay";
"the quiet waters of a lagoon"; "a lake of tranquil blue
water reflecting a tranquil blue sky"; "a smooth channel
crossing"; "scarcely a ripple on the still water"; "unruffled
water" [syn: placid, quiet, still, tranquil,
smooth, unruffled]
n 1: the act of smoothing; "he gave his hair a quick smooth"
v 1: make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing; "smooth the
surface of the wood" [syn: smooth, smoothen] [ant:
roughen]
2: make (a surface) shine; "shine the silver, please"; "polish
my shoes" [syn: polish, smooth, smoothen, shine]
3: free from obstructions; "smooth the way towards peace
negotiations" [syn: smooth, smooth out]
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sooth
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n 1: truth or reality; "in sooth"
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soothe
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v 1: give moral or emotional strength to [syn: comfort,
soothe, console, solace]
2: cause to feel better; "the medicine soothes the pain of the
inflammation" [ant: irritate]
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tabor
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n 1: a small drum with one head of soft calfskin [syn: tabor,
tabour]
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tambour
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n 1: a frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering [syn:
tambour, embroidery frame, embroidery hoop]
2: a drum
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tollbooth
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n 1: a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects
tolls [syn: tollbooth, tolbooth, tollhouse]
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tooth
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n 1: hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used
for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
2: something resembling the tooth of an animal
3: toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or
alimentary canal or on a shell
4: a means of enforcement; "the treaty had no teeth in it"
5: one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
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truth
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n 1: a fact that has been verified; "at last he knew the truth";
"the truth is that he didn't want to do it"
2: conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth
of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the
blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the
truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search
for eternal verities" [syn: truth, the true, verity,
trueness] [ant: falseness, falsity]
3: a true statement; "he told the truth"; "he thought of
answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe
it" [syn: truth, true statement] [ant: falsehood,
falsity, untruth]
4: the quality of being near to the true value; "he was
beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass"; "the lawyer
questioned the truth of my account" [syn: accuracy,
truth] [ant: inaccuracy]
5: United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from
slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of
slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883) [syn:
Truth, Sojourner Truth]
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uncouth
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adj 1: lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had
coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that
branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human
being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy";
"appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar
display of the newly rich" [syn: coarse, common,
rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar]
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untruth
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n 1: a false statement [syn: falsehood, falsity, untruth]
[ant: true statement, truth]
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vermouth
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n 1: any of several white wines flavored with aromatic herbs;
used as aperitifs or in mixed drinks
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youth
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n 1: a young person (especially a young man or boy) [syn: young
person, youth, younker, spring chicken]
2: young people collectively; "rock music appeals to the young";
"youth everywhere rises in revolt" [syn: young, youth]
[ant: aged, elderly]
3: the time of life between childhood and maturity
4: early maturity; the state of being young or immature or
inexperienced
5: an early period of development; "during the youth of the
project" [syn: youth, early days]
6: the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
[syn: youth, youthfulness, juvenility]
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gabor
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n 1: British physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on
holography (1900-1979) [syn: Gabor, Dennis Gabor]
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duluth
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n 1: a city in northeast Minnesota on Lake Superior
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ruth
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n 1: United States professional baseball player famous for
hitting home runs (1895-1948) [syn: Ruth, Babe Ruth,
George Herman Ruth, Sultan of Swat]
2: the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in
the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
3: a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of
others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" [syn:
commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos]
4: a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who
was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who
stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died
[syn: Ruth, Book of Ruth]
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eyetooth
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n 1: one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw)
located between the incisors and the premolars [syn:
canine, canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth,
dogtooth, cuspid]
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tolbooth
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n 1: a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects
tolls [syn: tollbooth, tolbooth, tollhouse]
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sawtooth
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n 1: a serration on a saw blade
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forbore
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snaggletooth
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libor
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houndstooth
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