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bodice
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n 1: part of a dress above the waist
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exodus
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n 1: a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile
environment [syn: exodus, hegira, hejira]
2: the second book of the Old Testament: tells of the departure
of the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt led by Moses; God
gave them the Ten Commandments and the rest of Mosaic law on
Mount Sinai during the Exodus [syn: Exodus, Book of
Exodus]
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goddess
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n 1: a female deity
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grade
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n 1: a body of students who are taught together; "early morning
classes are always sleepy" [syn: class, form, grade,
course]
2: a relative position or degree of value in a graded group;
"lumber of the highest grade" [syn: grade, level, tier]
3: the gradient of a slope or road or other surface; "the road
had a steep grade"
4: one-hundredth of a right angle [syn: grad, grade]
5: a degree of ablaut [syn: grade, gradation]
6: a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a
student's performance); "she made good marks in algebra";
"grade A milk"; "what was your score on your homework?" [syn:
mark, grade, score]
7: the height of the ground on which something stands; "the base
of the tower was below grade" [syn: grade, ground level]
8: a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; "a
moderate grade of intelligence"; "a high level of care is
required"; "it is all a matter of degree" [syn: degree,
grade, level]
9: a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior
breed
v 1: assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these
students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food
guide" [syn: rate, rank, range, order, grade,
place]
2: level to the right gradient
3: assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation;
"grade tests"; "score the SAT essays"; "mark homework" [syn:
grade, score, mark]
4: determine the grade of or assign a grade to
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hazardous
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adj 1: involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous
sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog";
"a wild financial scheme" [syn: hazardous, risky,
wild]
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horrendous
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adj 1: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an
awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so
direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of
the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease
it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling";
"horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible
curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a),
dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome,
frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]
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lacy
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adj 1: made of or resembling lace; "a lacy gown"; "a lacy leaf"
[syn: lacy, lacelike]
2: having open interstices or resembling a web [syn: lacy,
netlike, netted, webbed, weblike, webby]
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pace
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n 1: the rate of moving (especially walking or running) [syn:
pace, gait]
2: the distance covered by a step; "he stepped off ten paces
from the old tree and began to dig" [syn: footstep, pace,
step, stride]
3: the relative speed of progress or change; "he lived at a fast
pace"; "he works at a great rate"; "the pace of events
accelerated" [syn: pace, rate]
4: a step in walking or running [syn: pace, stride, tread]
5: the rate of some repeating event [syn: tempo, pace]
6: a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44
centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a
stride [syn: yard, pace]
v 1: walk with slow or fast paces; "He paced up and down the
hall"
2: go at a pace; "The horse paced"
3: measure (distances) by pacing; "step off ten yards" [syn:
pace, step]
4: regulate or set the pace of; "Pace your efforts"
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racy
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adj 1: full of zest or vigor; "a racy literary style" [syn:
lively, racy]
2: marked by richness and fullness of flavor; "a rich ruby
port"; "full-bodied wines"; "a robust claret"; "the robust
flavor of fresh-brewed coffee" [syn: full-bodied, racy,
rich, robust]
3: suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue
jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details";
"a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy
anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip" [syn: blue,
gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque,
spicy]
4: designed or suitable for competing in a race
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shepherdess
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n 1: a woman shepherd
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stupendous
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adj 1: so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe;
"colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a
colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous
field of grass"; "stupendous demand" [syn: colossal,
prodigious, stupendous]
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tremendous
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adj 1: extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or
power or degree; "an enormous boulder"; "enormous
expenses"; "tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous
fact in human experience; that a whole civilization
should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman; "a
plane took off with a tremendous noise" [syn: enormous,
tremendous]
2: extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as
intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was
fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of
rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a
tremendous achievement" [syn: fantastic, grand,
howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a),
terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous]
3: extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a
frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money" [syn:
frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous]
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judas
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n 1: (New Testament) supposed brother of St. James; one of the
Apostles who is invoked in prayer when a situation seems
hopeless [syn: Jude, Saint Jude, St. Jude, Judas,
Thaddaeus]
2: (New Testament) the Apostle who betrayed Jesus to his enemies
for 30 pieces of silver [syn: Judas, Judas Iscariot]
3: someone who betrays under the guise of friendship
4: a one-way peephole in a door
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midas
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n 1: (Greek legend) the greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave
the power to turn everything he touched into gold
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tracy
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n 1: United States film actor who appeared in many films with
Katharine Hepburn (1900-1967) [syn: Tracy, Spencer
Tracy]
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spacey
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adj 1: stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug [syn:
spaced-out, spacy, spacey]
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barbados
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n 1: a parliamentary democracy on the island of Barbados; former
British colony; a popular resort area
2: easternmost of the West Indies about 300 miles to the north
of Venezuela
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sulawesi
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n 1: a mountainous island in eastern Indonesia [syn: Celebes,
Sulawesi]
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nidus
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n 1: a central point or locus of an infection in an organism;
"the focus of infection" [syn: focus, focal point,
nidus]
2: a nest in which spiders or insects deposit their eggs
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indus
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n 1: a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near
Telescopium and Tucana
2: an Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern
India and then southwest through Kashmir and Pakistan to the
Arabian Sea; "the valley of the Indus was the site of an
early civilization" [syn: Indus, Indus River]
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fundus
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n 1: (anatomy) the base of a hollow organ or that part of the
organ farthest from its opening; "the uterine fundus"; "the
fundus of the stomach"
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demigoddess
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tetrapodous
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basie
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casey
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stacy
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landess
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aldous
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nodus
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andis
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candice
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candys
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pindus
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enceladus
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vendace
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dundas
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theocrasy
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vanadous
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