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agree
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v 1: be in accord; be in agreement; "We agreed on the terms of
the settlement"; "I can't agree with you!"; "I hold with
those who say life is sacred"; "Both philosophers concord
on this point" [syn: agree, hold, concur, concord]
[ant: differ, disagree, dissent, take issue]
2: consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something;
"She agreed to all my conditions"; "He agreed to leave her
alone"
3: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their
characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many
details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the
check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the
gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check, jibe,
gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disaccord, disagree,
discord]
4: go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas
concorded" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, consort,
accord, concord, fit in, agree]
5: show grammatical agreement; "Subjects and verbs must always
agree in English"
6: be agreeable or suitable; "White wine doesn't agree with me"
7: achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose; "No two of
my colleagues would agree on whom to elect chairman"
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appointee
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n 1: an official who is appointed
2: a person who is appointed to a job or position [syn:
appointee, appointment]
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assignee
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n 1: (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g.,
someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)
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banshee
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n 1: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of
impending death [syn: banshee, banshie]
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basenji
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n 1: small smooth-haired breed of African origin having a
tightly curled tail and the inability to bark
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be
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n 1: a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
[syn: beryllium, Be, glucinium, atomic number 4]
v 1: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective
or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good
answer"
2: be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of
the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"
3: occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my
umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind
this behavior?"
4: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn:
exist, be]
5: happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during
the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred
people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the
kitchen"
6: be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000
rubles these days!" [syn: equal, be] [ant: differ]
7: form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone
wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute
my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus";
"This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few
men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute,
represent, make up, comprise, be]
8: work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a
specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our
resident philosopher" [syn: be, follow]
9: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was
Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify]
10: spend or use time; "I may be an hour"
11: have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My
grandfather lived until the end of war" [syn: be, live]
12: to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used
only in infinitive form; "let her be"
13: be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" [syn: cost, be]
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bee
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n 1: any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and
solitary species
2: a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold
competitions
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bootee
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n 1: a slipper that is soft and wool (for babies) [syn:
bootee, bootie]
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curie
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n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a
radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of
37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie,
Ci]
2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn:
Curie, Pierre Curie]
3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one
(with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on
radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and
polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame
Curie, Marya Sklodowska]
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debris
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n 1: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken
up [syn: debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus]
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decree
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n 1: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court
record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New
Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
[syn: decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript]
v 1: issue a decree; "The King only can decree"
2: decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn
males should be killed" [syn: rule, decree]
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dingy
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adj 1: thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's
begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby
little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" [syn: begrimed,
dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy]
2: (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear;
"dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy)
white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors";
"dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" [syn: dirty,
dingy, muddied, muddy]
3: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war";
"a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter
landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November";
"a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue,
dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim,
sorry, drab, drear, dreary]
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fringy
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adj 1: at or constituting a border or edge; "the marginal strip
of beach" [syn: fringy, marginal]
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mangy
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adj 1: having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap; "a mangy
carpet"; "a mangy old fur coat" [syn: mangy, mangey]
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mingy
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adj 1: (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or
indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he
left a miserly tip" [syn: mean, mingy, miserly,
tight]
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rangy
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adj 1: tall and thin and having long slender limbs; "a gangling
teenager"; "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into
a handsome young man" [syn: gangling, gangly,
lanky, rangy]
2: adapted to wandering or roaming
3: allowing ample room for ranging
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spongy
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adj 1: easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft
porous texture and compressibility; "spongy bread" [syn:
spongy, squashy, squishy, spongelike]
2: like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it
back when compressed [syn: spongy, spongelike]
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stingy
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adj 1: unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being
stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"
[syn: stingy, ungenerous] [ant: generous]
2: deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources";
"meager fare" [syn: meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy,
scrimpy] [ant: ample]
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cree
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n 1: a member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada
2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Cree
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grungy
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adj 1: thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's
begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby
little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" [syn: begrimed,
dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy]
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ge
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n 1: a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting
metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs
in germanite and argyrodite [syn: germanium, Ge,
atomic number 32]
2: (Greek mythology) goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus
and the Titans in ancient mythology [syn: Gaea, Gaia,
Ge]
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bungee
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n 1: an elasticized rope [syn: bungee, bungee cord]
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mangey
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adj 1: having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap; "a mangy
carpet"; "a mangy old fur coat" [syn: mangy, mangey]
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bouie
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bouilli
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allottee
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angie
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kanji
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