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abracadabra
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n 1: gibberish and nonsense
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algebra
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n 1: the mathematics of generalized arithmetical operations
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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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brie
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n 1: soft creamy white cheese; milder than Camembert
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candelabra
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n 1: branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights [syn:
candelabrum, candelabra]
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cay
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n 1: a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida [syn: key,
cay, Florida key]
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cobra
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n 1: venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand
the skin of the neck into a hood
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de
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n 1: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn:
Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]
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hombre
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n 1: an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the
guy's only doing it for some doll" [syn: guy, cat,
hombre, bozo]
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macabre
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adj 1: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds";
"the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of
burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome
evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and
plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived
by madmen" [syn: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome,
macabre, sick]
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okay
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adv 1: in a satisfactory or adequate manner; "she'll do okay on
her own"; "held up all right under pressure"; (`alright'
is a nonstandard variant of `all right') [syn: okay,
O.K., all right, alright]
adj 1: being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an all-
right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all
right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine";
"things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine";
"another minute I'd have been fine" [syn: all right,
fine, o.k., ok, okay, hunky-dory]
n 1: an endorsement; "they gave us the O.K. to go ahead" [syn:
O.K., OK, okay, okey, okeh]
v 1: give sanction to; "I approve of his educational policies"
[syn: approve, O.K., okay, sanction] [ant:
disapprove, reject]
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penumbra
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n 1: a fringe region of partial shadow around an umbra
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quay
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n 1: wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline
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re
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n 1: a rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles
manganese chemically and is used in some alloys; is
obtained as a by-product in refining molybdenum [syn:
rhenium, Re, atomic number 75]
2: ancient Egyptian sun god with the head of a hawk; a universal
creator; he merged with the god Amen as Amen-Ra to become the
king of the gods [syn: Ra, Re]
3: the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major
scale in solmization [syn: re, ray]
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umbra
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n 1: a region of complete shadow resulting from total
obstruction of light
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vertebra
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n 1: one of the bony segments of the spinal column
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zebra
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n 1: any of several fleet black-and-white striped African
equines
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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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b
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n 1: aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often
occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
[syn: bacillus, B]
2: originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated
into several B vitamins [syn: B-complex vitamin, B
complex, vitamin B complex, vitamin B, B vitamin, B]
3: a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black
crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder [syn:
boron, B, atomic number 5]
4: a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels
[syn: Bel, B]
5: (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective
circular area that one particle presents to another as a
target for an encounter [syn: barn, b]
6: the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: B, b]
7: the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen [syn:
B, type B, group B]
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d
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adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units
[syn: five hundred, 500, d]
n 1: a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets [syn: vitamin
D, calciferol, viosterol, ergocalciferol,
cholecalciferol, D]
2: the cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and
five [syn: five hundred, 500, D]
3: the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: D, d]
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dea
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n 1: federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and
regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances;
goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations [syn:
Drug Enforcement Administration, Drug Enforcement
Agency, DEA]
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depardieu
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n 1: French film actor (born in 1948) [syn: Depardieu, Gerard
Depardieu]
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ca
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n 1: a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light;
the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an
important component of most plants and animals [syn:
calcium, Ca, atomic number 20]
2: a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd
largest state; known for earthquakes [syn: California,
Golden State, CA, Calif.]
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a
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n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a
meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of
electromagnetic radiation [syn: angstrom, angstrom
unit, A]
2: any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal
vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness
of the eyes [syn: vitamin A, antiophthalmic factor,
axerophthol, A]
3: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four
nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar
(ribose) [syn: deoxyadenosine monophosphate, A]
4: (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with
thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA [syn: adenine, A]
5: the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme
International d'Unites; "a typical household circuit carries
15 to 50 amps" [syn: ampere, amp, A]
6: the 1st letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: A, a]
7: the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen [syn:
A, type A, group A]
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ley
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n 1: a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for
grazing by livestock [syn: pasture, pastureland,
grazing land, lea, ley]
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paye
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n 1: the British system of withholding tax [syn: PAYE, pay as
you earn]
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dah
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n 1: the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse
code [syn: dash, dah]
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sabra
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n 1: a native-born Israeli
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libra
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n 1: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra
[syn: Libra, Balance]
2: a small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern
hemisphere; between Virgo and Scorpius
3: the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from
about September 23 to October 22 [syn: Libra, Libra the
Balance, Balance, Libra the Scales]
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bruch
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n 1: German composer (1838-1920) [syn: Bruch, Max Bruch]
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alhambra
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n 1: a fortified Moorish palace built near Granada by Muslim
kings in the Middle Ages
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sambre
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n 1: a river in western Europe that rises in northern France and
flows generally east into Belgium where it joins the Meuse
at Namur [syn: Sambre, Sambre River]
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dobra
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n 1: the basic unit of money on Sao Tome e Principe
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huh
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the
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bea
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blea
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labra
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abra
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sta
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cobre
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uh
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duh
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klugh
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krugh
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rugh
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ruh
0
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suh
0
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uhh
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cobbra
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ambra
0
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kabbah
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kumbaya
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barbara
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barbra
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cambra
0
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dambra
0
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hambro
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debora
0
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deborah
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debra
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celebre
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lumbra
0
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giambra
0
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felibre
0
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lehmbruck
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lubra
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delambre
0
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malabre
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nacobre
0
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terebra
0