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cashmere
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n 1: a soft fabric made from the wool of the Cashmere goat
2: the wool of the Kashmir goat
3: an area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed
between Pakistan and India [syn: Kashmir, Cashmere,
Jammu and Kashmir]
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emir
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n 1: an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or
Arabia) [syn: emir, amir, emeer, ameer]
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here
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adv 1: in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is; "I
work here"; "turn here"; "radio waves received here on
Earth" [ant: at that place, in that location,
there]
2: in this circumstance or respect or on this point or detail;
"what do we have here?"; "here I must disagree"
3: to this place (especially toward the speaker); "come here,
please" [syn: here, hither] [ant: there, thither]
4: at this time; now; "we'll adjourn here for lunch and discuss
the remaining issues this afternoon"
adj 1: being here now; "is everyone here?"
n 1: the present location; this place; "where do we go from
here?" [ant: there]
2: queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology; sister
and wife of Zeus remembered for her jealously of the many
mortal women Zeus fell in love with; identified with Roman
Juno [syn: Hera, Here]
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mere
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adj 1: being nothing more than specified; "a mere child"
2: apart from anything else; without additions or modifications;
"only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the
simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth" [syn:
bare(a), mere(a), simple(a)]
n 1: a small pond of standing water
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near
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adv 1: near in time or place or relationship; "as the wedding
day drew near"; "stood near the door"; "don't shoot until
they come near"; "getting near to the true explanation";
"her mother is always near"; "The end draws nigh"; "the
bullet didn't come close"; "don't get too close to the
fire" [syn: near, nigh, close]
2: (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite
accomplished; all but; "the job is (just) about done"; "the
baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; "we're almost
finished"; "the car all but ran her down"; "he nearly
fainted"; "talked for nigh onto 2 hours"; "the recording is
well-nigh perfect"; "virtually all the parties signed the
contract"; "I was near exhausted by the run"; "most everyone
agrees" [syn: about, almost, most, nearly, near,
nigh, virtually, well-nigh]
adj 1: not far distant in time or space or degree or
circumstances; "near neighbors"; "in the near future";
"they are near equals"; "his nearest approach to
success"; "a very near thing"; "a near hit by the bomb";
"she was near tears"; "she was close to tears"; "had a
close call" [syn: near, close, nigh] [ant: far]
2: being on the left side; "the near or nigh horse is the one on
the left"; "the animal's left side is its near or nigh side"
[syn: near(a), nigh(a)]
3: closely resembling the genuine article; "near beer"; "a dress
of near satin"
4: giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing
administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a
penny-pinching miserly old man" [syn: cheeseparing,
close, near, penny-pinching, skinny]
5: with or in a close or intimate relationship; "a good friend";
"my sisters and brothers are near and dear" [syn: dear,
good, near]
6: very close in resemblance; "sketched in an approximate
likeness"; "a near likeness" [syn: approximate, near]
v 1: move towards; "We were approaching our destination"; "They
are drawing near"; "The enemy army came nearer and nearer"
[syn: approach, near, come on, go up, draw near,
draw close, come near]
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peer
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n 1: a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
[syn: peer, equal, match, compeer]
2: a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who
is a member of the British peerage
v 1: look searchingly; "We peered into the back of the shop to
see whether a salesman was around"
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pier
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n 1: a platform built out from the shore into the water and
supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
[syn: pier, wharf, wharfage, dock]
2: (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion
of wall between two doors or windows)
3: a support for two adjacent bridge spans
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premiere
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adj 1: preceding all others in time; "the premiere showing"
[syn: premier, premiere]
n 1: the first public performance of a play or movie
v 1: be performed for the first time; "We premiered the opera of
the young composer and it was a critical success" [syn:
premier, premiere]
2: perform a work for the first time [syn: premier,
premiere]
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queer
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adj 1: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a
curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang";
"they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd
name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something
definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow";
"singular behavior" [syn: curious, funny, odd,
peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular]
2: homosexual or arousing homosexual desires [syn: gay,
queer, homophile(a)]
n 1: offensive term for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot,
faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen,
queer, poof, poove, pouf]
v 1: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of;
"What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's
amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn:
thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross,
frustrate, baffle, bilk]
2: put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
[syn: queer, expose, scupper, endanger, peril]
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rear
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adj 1: located in or toward the back or rear; "the chair's rear
legs"; "the rear door of the plane"; "on the rearward
side" [syn: rear(a), rearward(a)]
n 1: the back of a military formation or procession;
"infantrymen were in the rear" [ant: head]
2: the side of an object that is opposite its front; "his room
was toward the rear of the hotel" [syn: rear, backside,
back end] [ant: forepart, front, front end]
3: the part of something that is furthest from the normal
viewer; "he stood at the back of the stage"; "it was hidden
in the rear of the store" [syn: back, rear] [ant:
front]
4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he
deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on
your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates,
arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can,
fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister,
posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern,
seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom,
behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
5: the side that goes last or is not normally seen; "he wrote
the date on the back of the photograph" [syn: rear, back]
[ant: front]
v 1: stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds; "The horse reared
in terror" [syn: rear, rise up]
2: bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children" [syn: rear,
raise, bring up, nurture, parent]
3: rise up; "The building rose before them" [syn: rise,
lift, rear]
4: cause to rise up [syn: rear, erect]
5: construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn" [syn: raise,
erect, rear, set up, put up] [ant: dismantle,
level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear
down]
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reindeer
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n 1: Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called
`reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America [syn:
caribou, reindeer, Greenland caribou, Rangifer
tarandus]
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revere
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n 1: American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride
(celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists
in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming
(1735-1818) [syn: Revere, Paul Revere]
2: a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse
side [syn: revers, revere]
v 1: love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess;
venerate as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles"
[syn: idolize, idolise, worship, hero-worship,
revere]
2: regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider
hallowed or exalted or be in awe of; "Fear God as your
father"; "We venerate genius" [syn: reverence, fear,
revere, venerate]
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sear
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adj 1: (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture;
"dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere
vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered
seedlings"; "withered vines" [syn: dried-up, sere,
sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered]
v 1: make very hot and dry; "The heat scorched the countryside"
[syn: sear, scorch]
2: become superficially burned; "my eyebrows singed when I bent
over the flames" [syn: scorch, sear, singe]
3: burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The
cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the
ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the
ceiling" [syn: char, blacken, sear, scorch]
4: cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat; "The sun
parched the earth" [syn: parch, sear]
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seer
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n 1: a person with unusual powers of foresight [syn:
visionary, illusionist, seer]
2: an observer who perceives visually; "an incurable seer of
movies"
3: an authoritative person who divines the future [syn:
prophet, prophesier, oracle, seer, vaticinator]
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severe
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adj 1: intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or
quality; "severe pain"; "a severe case of flu"; "a
terrible cough"; "under wicked fire from the enemy's
guns"; "a wicked cough" [syn: severe, terrible,
wicked]
2: very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the
chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow" [syn: hard,
knockout, severe]
3: severely simple; "a stark interior" [syn: austere,
severe, stark, stern]
4: unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; "a
parent severe to the pitch of hostility"- H.G.Wells; "a hefty
six-footer with a rather severe mien"; "a strict
disciplinarian"; "a Spartan upbringing" [syn: severe,
spartan]
5: causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a
dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness";
"grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of
events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening
disease" [syn: dangerous, grave, grievous, serious,
severe, life-threatening]
6: very bad in degree or extent; "a severe worldwide
depression"; "the house suffered severe damage"
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shear
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n 1: (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel
planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction
parallel to themselves; "the shear changed the
quadrilateral into a parallelogram"
2: a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade
through it
v 1: cut with shears; "shear hedges"
2: shear the wool from; "shear sheep" [syn: fleece, shear]
3: cut or cut through with shears; "shear the wool off the lamb"
4: become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing
strain
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sheer
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adv 1: straight up or down without a break [syn: sheer,
perpendicularly]
2: directly; "he fell sheer into the water"
adj 1: complete and without restriction or qualification;
sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute
freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-
and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider";
"many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer
persistence"; "sheer stupidity" [syn: absolute,
downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down,
sheer(a)]
2: not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer
wine"; "not an unmixed blessing" [syn: plain, sheer,
unmingled, unmixed]
3: very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front; "a
bluff headland"; "where the bold chalk cliffs of England
rise"; "a sheer descent of rock" [syn: bluff, bold,
sheer]
4: so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil";
"filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down";
"gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent
chiffon"; "vaporous silks" [syn: diaphanous, filmy,
gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer,
transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby]
v 1: turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to
the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the
right" [syn: swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer,
slue, slew, cut]
2: cause to sheer; "She sheered her car around the obstacle"
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sincere
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adj 1: open and genuine; not deceitful; "he was a good man,
decent and sincere"; "felt sincere regret that they were
leaving"; "sincere friendship" [ant: insincere]
2: characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity
of your opinions; "both sides were deeply in earnest, even
passionate"; "an entirely sincere and cruel tyrant"; "a film
with a solemn social message" [syn: earnest, sincere,
solemn]
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spear
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n 1: a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon [syn: spear,
lance, shaft]
2: an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching
fish [syn: spear, gig, fizgig, fishgig, lance]
v 1: pierce with a spear; "spear fish"
2: thrust up like a spear; "The branch speared up into the air"
[syn: spear, spear up]
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stratosphere
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n 1: the atmospheric layer between the troposphere and the
mesosphere
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amir
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n 1: an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or
Arabia) [syn: emir, amir, emeer, ameer]
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crimea
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n 1: a Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of
Azov
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goodyear
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n 1: United States inventor of vulcanized rubber (1800-1860)
[syn: Goodyear, Charles Goodyear]
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shakespeare
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n 1: English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest
English writers (1564-1616) [syn: Shakespeare, William
Shakespeare, Shakspere, William Shakspere, Bard of
Avon]
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ameer
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n 1: an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or
Arabia) [syn: emir, amir, emeer, ameer]
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izmir
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n 1: a port city in western Turkey [syn: Izmir, Smyrna]
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vermeer
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n 1: Dutch painter renowned for his use of light (1632-1675)
[syn: Vermeer, Jan Vermeer, Jan van der Meer]
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kashmir
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n 1: an area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed
between Pakistan and India [syn: Kashmir, Cashmere,
Jammu and Kashmir]
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midyear
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mishear
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shamir
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