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abseil
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n 1: (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made
by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and
wrapped around the body [syn: rappel, abseil]
v 1: lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a
mountainside; "The ascent was easy--roping down the
mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You
have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical
climbing" [syn: rappel, abseil, rope down]
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carboxyl
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adj 1: relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl
radical [syn: carboxyl, carboxylic]
n 1: the univalent radical -COOH; present in and characteristic
of organic acids [syn: carboxyl, carboxyl group]
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codicil
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n 1: a supplement to a will; a testamentary instrument intended
to alter an already executed will
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docile
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adj 1: willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed;
"the docile masses of an enslaved nation" [ant:
obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate]
2: ready and willing to be taught; "docile pupils eager for
instruction"; "teachable youngsters" [syn: docile,
teachable]
3: easily handled or managed; "a gentle old horse, docile and
obedient" [syn: docile, gentle]
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domicile
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n 1: (law) the residence where you have your permanent home or
principal establishment and to where, whenever you are
absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to
have one and only one domicile at a time; "what's his legal
residence?" [syn: domicile, legal residence]
2: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest
dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes
for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile,
abode, habitation, dwelling house]
v 1: make one's home in a particular place or community; "may
parents reside in Florida" [syn: reside, shack,
domicile, domiciliate]
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ensile
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v 1: store in a silo; "ensile fodder for the cows"
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extensile
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adj 1: capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out;
"an extensile tongue"; "an extensible measuring rule"
[syn: extensile, extensible] [ant: inextensible,
nonextensile, nonprotractile]
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facile
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adj 1: arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth;
"too facile a solution for so complex a problem"
2: performing adroitly and without effort; "a facile hand"
3: expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to
dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" [syn:
eloquent, facile, fluent, silver, silver-tongued,
smooth-spoken]
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fissile
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adj 1: capable of undergoing nuclear fission; "a fissionable
nucleous"; "fissionable material" [syn: fissionable,
fissile] [ant: nonfissionable]
2: capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction
of the grain; "fissile crystals"; "fissile wood" [ant:
nonfissile]
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flexile
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adj 1: able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible
birches" [syn: flexible, flexile] [ant: inflexible]
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hydroxyl
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n 1: the monovalent group -OH in such compounds as bases and
some acids and alcohols [syn: hydroxyl, hydroxyl group,
hydroxyl radical]
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missile
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n 1: a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear
explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control
2: a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets
but is not self-propelled [syn: projectile, missile]
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prehensile
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adj 1: adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an
object; "a monkey's prehensile tail" [ant:
nonprehensile]
2: having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely
prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
3: immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are
avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous
eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser";
"grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew
richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with
raises for their employees" [syn: avaricious, covetous,
grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile]
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reconcile
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v 1: make (one thing) compatible with (another); "The scientists
had to accommodate the new results with the existing
theories" [syn: accommodate, reconcile, conciliate]
2: bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one's goals with
one's abilities" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, reconcile]
3: come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up"
[syn: reconcile, patch up, make up, conciliate,
settle]
4: accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate" [syn:
resign, reconcile, submit]
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sessile
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adj 1: permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move
about; "sessile marine animals and plants" [ant:
vagile]
2: attached directly by the base; not having an intervening
stalk; "sessile flowers"; "the shell of a sessile barnacle is
attached directly to a substrate" [syn: sessile,
stalkless] [ant: pedunculate, stalked]
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tensile
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adj 1: of or relating to tension; "tensile stress"; "tensile
pull"
2: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile
copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the
leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of
highly tensile steel alloy" [syn: ductile, malleable,
pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile]
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utensil
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n 1: an implement for practical use (especially in a household)
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windowsill
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n 1: the sill of a window; the horizontal member at the bottom
of the window frame
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gracile
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adj 1: slender and graceful [syn: gracile, willowy]
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decile
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n 1: (statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution
of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval
contains one-tenth of the scores
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pensile
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scissile
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cecil
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