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decree
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n 1: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court
record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New
Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
[syn: decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript]
v 1: issue a decree; "The King only can decree"
2: decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn
males should be killed" [syn: rule, decree]
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ab
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n 1: a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Bachelor of
Arts, BA, Artium Baccalaurens, AB]
2: the eleventh month of the civil year; the fifth month of the
ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in July and
August) [syn: Ab, Av]
3: the muscles of the abdomen [syn: abdominal, abdominal
muscle, ab]
4: the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B
antigens [syn: AB, type AB, group AB]
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adoptee
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n 1: someone (such as a child) who has been adopted
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agree
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v 1: be in accord; be in agreement; "We agreed on the terms of
the settlement"; "I can't agree with you!"; "I hold with
those who say life is sacred"; "Both philosophers concord
on this point" [syn: agree, hold, concur, concord]
[ant: differ, disagree, dissent, take issue]
2: consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something;
"She agreed to all my conditions"; "He agreed to leave her
alone"
3: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their
characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many
details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the
check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the
gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check, jibe,
gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disaccord, disagree,
discord]
4: go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas
concorded" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, consort,
accord, concord, fit in, agree]
5: show grammatical agreement; "Subjects and verbs must always
agree in English"
6: be agreeable or suitable; "White wine doesn't agree with me"
7: achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose; "No two of
my colleagues would agree on whom to elect chairman"
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appointee
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n 1: an official who is appointed
2: a person who is appointed to a job or position [syn:
appointee, appointment]
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banshee
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n 1: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of
impending death [syn: banshee, banshie]
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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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cc
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adj 1: being ten more than one hundred ninety [syn: two
hundred, 200, cc]
n 1: a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter
[syn: milliliter, millilitre, mil, ml, cubic
centimeter, cubic centimetre, cc]
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cod
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adv 1: collecting the charges upon delivery; "mail a package
C.O.D." [syn: C.O.D., COD, cash on delivery]
adj 1: payable by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call";
"the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel" [syn:
collect, cod]
n 1: the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the
seeds themselves) [syn: pod, cod, seedcase]
2: lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish;
usually baked or poached [syn: cod, codfish]
3: major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters [syn:
cod, codfish]
v 1: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted
everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe,
slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put
one over, put one across]
2: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children
teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my
failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a
jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod,
tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally,
ride]
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compliancy
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n 1: a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
[syn: complaisance, compliance, compliancy,
obligingness, deference]
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conferee
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n 1: a person on whom something is bestowed; "six honorary were
conferred; the conferees were..."
2: a member of a conference
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constituency
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n 1: the body of voters who elect a representative for their
area
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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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debris
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n 1: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken
up [syn: debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus]
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degree
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n 1: 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]
2: a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or
especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness";
"at what stage are the social sciences?" [syn: degree,
level, stage, point]
3: an award conferred by a college or university signifying that
the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study;
"he earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude" [syn:
academic degree, degree]
4: a measure for arcs and angles; "there are 360 degrees in a
circle" [syn: degree, arcdegree]
5: the highest power of a term or variable
6: a unit of temperature on a specified scale; "the game was
played in spite of the 40-degree temperature"
7: the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); "murder
in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"
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emcee
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n 1: a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an
introductory speech and introduces other speakers) [syn:
master of ceremonies, emcee, host]
v 1: act as a master of ceremonies [syn: emcee, compere]
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foresee
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v 1: realize beforehand [syn: anticipate, previse,
foreknow, foresee]
2: picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him
as President" [syn: envision, foresee]
3: act in advance of; deal with ahead of time [syn:
anticipate, foresee, forestall, counter]
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gutsy
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adj 1: marked by courage and determination in the face of
difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited; "you have
to admire her; it was a gutsy thing to do"; "the
gutsy...intensity of her musical involvement"-Judith
Crist; "a gutsy red wine" [syn: gutsy, plucky] [ant:
gutless]
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lessee
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n 1: a tenant who holds a lease [syn: leaseholder, lessee]
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licensee
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n 1: someone to whom a license is granted
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pliancy
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n 1: the property of being pliant and flexible [syn: pliancy,
pliantness, suppleness]
2: adaptability of mind or character; "he was valued for his
reliability and pliability"; "he increased the leanness and
suppleness of the organization" [syn: pliability,
pliancy, pliantness, suppleness]
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sightsee
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v 1: visit famous or interesting sights
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undersea
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adj 1: beneath the surface of the sea [syn: submarine,
undersea]
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mc
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n 1: one million periods per second [syn: megahertz, MHz,
megacycle per second, megacycle, Mc]
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yangtze
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n 1: the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into
the East China Sea near Shanghai [syn: Chang Jiang,
Changjiang, Chang, Yangtze, Yangtze River, Yangtze
Kiang]
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c
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adj 1: being ten more than ninety [syn: hundred, one
hundred, 100, c]
n 1: a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature [syn:
degree centigrade, degree Celsius, C]
2: the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy
and universality of the speed of light is recognized by
defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second [syn:
speed of light, light speed, c]
3: a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits)
and vegetables; prevents scurvy [syn: vitamin C, C,
ascorbic acid]
4: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four
nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar
(ribose) [syn: deoxycytidine monophosphate, C]
5: a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine;
pairs with guanine [syn: cytosine, C]
6: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in
three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and
diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, C,
atomic number 6]
7: ten 10s [syn: hundred, 100, C, century, one C]
8: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge
transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn:
coulomb, C, ampere-second]
9: a general-purpose programing language closely associated with
the UNIX operating system
10: (music) the keynote of the scale of C major
11: the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: C, c]
12: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy,
snow, C]
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ac
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n 1: a radioactive element of the actinide series; found in
uranium ores [syn: actinium, Ac, atomic number 89]
2: an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally; "In
the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second"
[syn: alternating current, AC, alternating electric
current] [ant: DC, direct current, direct electric
current]
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se
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n 1: a toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and
tellurium; occurs in several allotropic forms; a stable
grey metallike allotrope conducts electricity better in the
light than in the dark and is used in photocells; occurs in
sulfide ores (as pyrite) [syn: selenium, Se, atomic
number 34]
2: the compass point midway between south and east; at 135
degrees [syn: southeast, sou'-east, southeastward,
SE]
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apc
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n 1: (military) an armored vehicle (usually equipped with
caterpillar treads) that is used to transport infantry
[syn: armored personnel carrier, armoured personnel
carrier, APC]
2: a drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache
remedies (aspirin and phenacetin and caffeine)
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oversea
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adv 1: beyond or across the sea; "He lived overseas for many
years" [syn: oversea, overseas]
adj 1: being or passing over or across the sea; "some overseas
trade in grain arose" [syn: oversea, overseas]
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tennessee
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n 1: a state in east central United States [syn: Tennessee,
Volunteer State, TN]
2: a river formed by the confluence of two other rivers near
Knoxville; it follows a U-shaped course to become a tributary
of the Ohio River in western Kentucky [syn: Tennessee,
Tennessee River]
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cie
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amc
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