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centaury
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n 1: any of various plants of the genus Centaurium
2: any plant of the genus Centaurea
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clearstory
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n 1: part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof
with windows admitting light [syn: clerestory,
clearstory]
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clerestory
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n 1: part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof
with windows admitting light [syn: clerestory,
clearstory]
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cure
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n 1: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
[syn: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic]
v 1: provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment
cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal
patients but never managed to" [syn: bring around,
cure, heal]
2: prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order
to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay"
3: make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure
resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap"
4: be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun"
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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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dory
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n 1: a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats
and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled [syn:
dinghy, dory, rowboat]
2: pike-like freshwater perches [syn: walleye, walleyed
pike, jack salmon, dory, Stizostedion vitreum]
3: marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope
waters
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furore
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n 1: an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always
follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season"
[syn: fad, craze, furor, furore, cult, rage]
2: a sudden outburst (as of protest) [syn: furor, furore]
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fury
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n 1: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman
scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury,
rage, madness]
2: state of violent mental agitation [syn: craze, delirium,
frenzy, fury, hysteria]
3: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's
violence" [syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness,
fury, vehemence, violence, wildness]
4: (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters
(usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
[syn: Fury, Eumenides, Erinyes]
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glory
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n 1: a state of high honor; "he valued glory above life itself"
[syn: glory, glorification]
2: brilliant radiant beauty; "the glory of the sunrise" [syn:
glory, resplendence, resplendency]
3: an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a
saint [syn: aura, aureole, halo, nimbus, glory,
gloriole]
v 1: rejoice proudly
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gory
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adj 1: covered with blood; "a bloodstained shirt"; "a gory
dagger" [syn: bloodstained, gory]
2: accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
[syn: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous,
butcherly]
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hoary
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adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or
white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge;
"nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey-
haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed,
grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired]
2: ancient; "hoary jokes" [syn: hoary, rusty]
3: covered with fine whitish hairs or down [syn: canescent,
hoary]
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inventory
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n 1: a detailed list of all the items in stock [syn:
inventory, stock list]
2: the merchandise that a shop has on hand; "they carried a vast
inventory of hardware"; "they stopped selling in exact sizes
in order to reduce inventory" [syn: stock, inventory]
3: (accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including
raw materials and work in progress and finished goods
4: a collection of resources; "he dipped into his intellectual
armory to find an answer" [syn: armory, armoury,
inventory]
5: making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand;
"an inventory may be necessary to see if anything is
missing"; "they held an inventory every month" [syn:
inventory, inventorying, stocktaking, stock-taking]
v 1: make or include in an itemized record or report; "Inventory
all books before the end of the year" [syn: inventory,
take stock, stock-take]
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jury
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n 1: a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according
to the evidence presented in a court of law
2: a committee appointed to judge a competition [syn: jury,
panel]
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kauri
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n 1: resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a
fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum
[syn: kauri, kauri copal, kauri resin, kauri gum]
2: tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained
wood [syn: kauri, kaury, Agathis australis]
3: white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis
especially Agathis australis
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lorry
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n 1: a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides
2: a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without
sides [syn: lorry, camion]
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moray
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n 1: family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal
waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger
species are dangerous if provoked [syn: moray, moray
eel]
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oboe
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n 1: a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical
bore and a double-reed mouthpiece [syn: oboe, hautboy,
hautbois]
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outlawry
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n 1: illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of
the law [syn: lawlessness, outlawry]
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puree
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n 1: food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a
blender
v 1: rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender;
"puree the vegetables for the baby" [syn: puree,
strain]
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quarry
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n 1: a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim
of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or
influence; "he fell prey to muggers"; "everyone was fair
game"; "the target of a manhunt" [syn: prey, quarry,
target, fair game]
2: a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a
British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'" [syn: pit,
quarry, stone pit]
3: animal hunted or caught for food [syn: prey, quarry]
v 1: extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a
quarry; "quarry marble"
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sorry
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adj 1: feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss
over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his
vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made";
"he felt bad about breaking the vase" [syn: regretful,
sorry, bad] [ant: unregretful, unregretting]
2: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state";
"a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a
sorry state of affairs" [syn: deplorable, distressing,
lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry]
3: without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-
count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good
piece of junk" [syn: good-for-nothing, good-for-naught,
meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry]
4: 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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storey
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n 1: a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a
single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the
office on?" [syn: floor, level, storey, story]
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story
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n 1: a message that tells the particulars of an act or
occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or
drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his
narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain
adults as well as children" [syn: narrative, narration,
story, tale]
2: a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events;
"he writes stories for the magazines"
3: a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single
position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office
on?" [syn: floor, level, storey, story]
4: a record or narrative description of past events; "a history
of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to
kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead" [syn:
history, account, chronicle, story]
5: a short account of the news; "the report of his speech"; "the
story was on the 11 o'clock news"; "the account of his speech
that was given on the evening news made the governor furious"
[syn: report, news report, story, account, write
up]
6: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how
can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: fib,
story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle]
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vainglory
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n 1: outspoken conceit [syn: boastfulness, vainglory]
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corrie
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n 1: a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may
contain a lake [syn: cirque, corrie, cwm]
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tory
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n 1: an American who favored the British side during the
American Revolution
2: a member of political party in Great Britain that has been
known as the Conservative Party since 1832; was the
opposition party to the Whigs
3: a supporter of traditional political and social institutions
against the forces of reform; a political conservative
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saury
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n 1: slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters [syn:
saury, billfish, Scomberesox saurus]
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florey
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n 1: British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin,
which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming
(1898-1968) [syn: Florey, Howard Florey, Sir Howard
Walter Florey]
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flory
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n 1: United States chemist who developed methods for studying
long-chain molecules (1910-1985) [syn: Flory, Paul John
Flory]
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lory
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n 1: small brightly colored Australasian parrots having a brush-
tipped tongue for feeding on nectar and soft fruits
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montessori
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n 1: Italian educator who developed a method of teaching
mentally handicapped children and advocated a child-
centered approach (1870-1952) [syn: Montessori, Maria
Montesorri]
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zori
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n 1: a sandal attached to the foot by a thong over the toes
[syn: pusher, zori]
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satori
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n 1: (Zen Buddhism) a state of sudden spiritual enlightenment
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hunky-dory
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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]
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pylori
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aurae
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morae
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tori
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signori
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dore
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faure
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delore
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montefiore
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inscore
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salvatore
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corey
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corry
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cory
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coury
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dorey
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dori
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dorie
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dorrie
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flori
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florrie
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florry
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forie
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forrey
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forry
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glori
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gorey
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gori
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haury
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hori
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jory
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kaori
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korey
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korry
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kory
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laurey
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lauri
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laurie
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laury
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lawrie
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lawry
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lorey
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lori
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lorie
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lorrie
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lowrie
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mauri
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maurie
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maury
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morey
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mori
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morrie
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morry
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mory
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mowrey
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mowry
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norrie
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norry
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ori
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ory
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rorie
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rory
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shorey
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sorey
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storie
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tempore
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