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colonel
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n 1: a commissioned military officer in the United States Army
or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant
colonel and below a brigadier general
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diurnal
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adj 1: of or belonging to or active during the day; "diurnal
animals are active during the day"; "diurnal flowers are
open during the day and closed at night"; "diurnal and
nocturnal offices" [ant: nocturnal]
2: having a daily cycle or occurring every day; "diurnal
rotation of the heavens"
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eternal
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adj 1: continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes
of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life
everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending
bliss of heaven" [syn: ageless, aeonian, eonian,
eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unending,
unceasing]
2: tiresomely long; seemingly without end; "endless debates";
"an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed eternal";
"eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon" [syn:
endless, eternal, interminable]
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external
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adj 1: happening or arising or located outside or beyond some
limits or especially surface; "the external auditory
canal"; "external pressures" [ant: internal]
2: coming from the outside; "extraneous light in the camera
spoiled the photograph"; "relying upon an extraneous income";
"disdaining outside pressure groups" [syn: external,
extraneous, outside]
3: from or between other countries; "external commerce";
"international trade"; "developing nations need outside help"
[syn: external, international, outside(a)]
4: purely outward or superficial; "external composure"; "an
external concern for reputation"- A.R.Gurney,Jr.
n 1: outward features; "he enjoyed the solemn externals of
religion"
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fraternal
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adj 1: of or relating to a fraternity or society of usually men;
"a fraternal order"
2: (of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova;
"fraternal twins are biovular" [syn: fraternal, biovular]
[ant: identical, monovular]
3: like or characteristic of or befitting a brother; "brotherly
feelings"; "close fraternal ties" [syn: brotherly,
brotherlike, fraternal] [ant: sisterlike, sisterly,
sororal]
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hibernal
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adj 1: characteristic of or relating to winter; "bears in brumal
sleep" [syn: brumal, hibernal, hiemal]
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infernal
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adj 1: characteristic of or resembling Hell; "infernal noise";
"infernal punishment"
2: extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting
hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be
cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical
sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish
despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war";
"satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces" [syn: demonic,
diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal,
satanic, unholy]
3: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted
idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a
blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or
goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or
goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal
nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed,
damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn,
goddamned, infernal]
4: of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled
and intense fire; "infernal heat"
5: being of the underworld; "infernal regions" [ant: supernal]
n 1: an inhabitant of Hell; "his roar made the infernals quake"
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internal
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adj 1: happening or arising or located within some limits or
especially surface; "internal organs"; "internal
mechanism of a toy"; "internal party maneuvering" [ant:
external]
2: occurring within an institution or community; "intragroup
squabbling within the corporation" [syn: internal,
intragroup]
3: inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader
responsibilities than the United States Department of the
Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a),
interior(a), internal, national]
4: located inward; "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody
record of a tremendous inner battle"- Leonard Bernstein; "she
thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is
that she has no access to it"- David Denby; "an internal
sense of rightousness"- A.R.Gurney,Jr. [syn: inner,
interior, internal]
5: innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the
internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate
structure of matter" [syn: inner, internal, intimate]
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journal
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n 1: a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences
and observations [syn: diary, journal]
2: a periodical dedicated to a particular subject; "he reads the
medical journals"
3: a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they
occurred [syn: daybook, journal]
4: a record book as a physical object
5: the part of the axle contained by a bearing
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kernel
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n 1: the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut
or fruit stone; "black walnut kernels are difficult to get
out of the shell" [syn: kernel, meat]
2: a single whole grain of a cereal; "a kernel of corn"
3: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some
idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument";
"the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the
story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center,
centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul,
inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-
gritty]
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maternal
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adj 1: characteristic of a mother; "warm maternal affection for
her guest"- Dorothy Sayers [ant: paternal]
2: relating to or derived from one's mother; "maternal genes"
3: relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent;
"parental guidance" [syn: parental, maternal, paternal]
[ant: filial]
4: related on the mother's side; "my maternal grandmother" [syn:
enate, enatic, maternal(p)]
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nocturnal
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adj 1: belonging to or active during the night; "nocturnal
animals are active at night"; "nocturnal plants have
flowers that open at night and close by day" [ant:
diurnal]
2: of or relating to or occurring in the night; "nocturnal
darkness"
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paternal
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adj 1: belonging to or inherited from one's father; "spent his
childhood on the paternal farm"; "paternal traits"
2: characteristic of a father [ant: maternal]
3: relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent;
"parental guidance" [syn: parental, maternal, paternal]
[ant: filial]
4: related on the father's side; "a paternal aunt" [syn:
agnate, agnatic, paternal]
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supernal
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adj 1: being or coming from on high; "interpret the plague as a
visitation from heaven, a supernal punishment for the
sins of men" [ant: infernal]
2: of heaven or the spirit; "celestial peace"; "ethereal
melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death" [syn:
celestial, ethereal, supernal]
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vernal
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adj 1: suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh; "he is young for
his age" [syn: youthful, vernal, young]
2: of or characteristic of or occurring in spring; "the vernal
equinox" [ant: autumnal, summery, wintery, wintry]
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sternal
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adj 1: of or relating to or near the sternum
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sempiternal
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adj 1: having no known beginning and presumably no end; "the
dateless rise and fall of the tides"; "time is endless";
"sempiternal truth" [syn: dateless, endless,
sempiternal]
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bernal
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burnell
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pernell
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purnell
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durnell
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durnil
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