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an
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n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in
Nursing, AN]
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ban
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n 1: a decree that prohibits something [syn: prohibition,
ban, proscription]
2: 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova
3: 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania
4: an official prohibition or edict against something [syn:
ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding]
5: a bachelor's degree in nursing [syn: Bachelor of Arts in
Nursing, BAN]
v 1: forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
[syn: ban, censor]
2: prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure;
"Smoking is banned in this building"
3: ban from a place of residence, as for punishment [syn:
banish, ban]
4: expel from a community or group [syn: banish, ban,
ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball]
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bedizen
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v 1: decorate tastelessly
2: dress up garishly and tastelessly [syn: bedizen, dizen]
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bipartisan
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adj 1: supported by both sides; "a two-way treaty" [syn:
bipartisan, bipartizan, two-party, two-way]
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blazon
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n 1: the official symbols of a family, state, etc. [syn: coat
of arms, arms, blazon, blazonry]
v 1: decorate with heraldic arms [syn: emblazon, blazon]
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bran
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n 1: broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are
separated from the flour by sifting
2: food prepared from the husks of cereal grains
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brazen
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adj 1: unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious
trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most
bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los
Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance";
"the modern world with its quick material successes and
insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of
progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn: audacious,
barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy,
brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]
2: made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness)
v 1: face with defiance or impudence; "brazen it out"
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can
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n 1: airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint
etc. [syn: can, tin, tin can]
2: the quantity contained in a can [syn: can, canful]
3: a buoy with a round bottom and conical top [syn: can, can
buoy]
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: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn:
toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty,
stool, throne]
6: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn:
toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy,
bathroom]
v 1: preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty"
[syn: can, tin, put up]
2: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or
position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company
terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire,
give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away,
sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant:
employ, engage, hire]
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chosen
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n 1: one who is the object of choice; who is given preference;
"she was Mama's chosen"
2: the name for Korea as a Japanese province (1910-1945)
3: an exclusive group of people; "one of the elect who have
power inside the government" [syn: chosen, elect]
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citizen
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n 1: a native or naturalized member of a state or other
political community [ant: alien, foreigner,
noncitizen, outlander]
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clan
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n 1: group of people related by blood or marriage [syn: kin,
kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe]
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cousin
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n 1: the child of your aunt or uncle [syn: cousin, first
cousin, cousin-german, full cousin]
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cozen
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v 1: be false to; be dishonest with [syn: deceive, lead on,
delude, cozen]
2: act with artful deceit
3: cheat or trick; "He cozened the money out of the old man"
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crimson
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adj 1: of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to
orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or
tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy,
blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red,
crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet]
2: characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson
deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's
crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson
Strode [syn: crimson, red, violent]
3: (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if
with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury";
"turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-
faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"
[syn: crimson, red, reddened, red-faced, flushed]
n 1: a deep and vivid red color [syn: crimson, ruby, deep
red]
v 1: turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl
blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by" [syn:
blush, crimson, flush, redden]
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denizen
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n 1: a person who inhabits a particular place [syn:
inhabitant, habitant, dweller, denizen,
indweller]
2: a plant or animal naturalized in a region; "denizens of field
and forest"; "denizens of the deep"
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diapason
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n 1: either of the two main stops on a pipe organ [syn:
diapason, diapason stop]
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diocesan
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adj 1: belonging to or governing a diocese
n 1: a bishop having jurisdiction over a diocese
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dozen
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adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units [syn:
twelve, 12, xii, dozen]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one [syn:
twelve, 12, XII, dozen]
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emblazon
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v 1: decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm
tones" [syn: color, colour, emblazon]
2: decorate with heraldic arms [syn: emblazon, blazon]
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fan
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n 1: a device for creating a current of air by movement of a
surface or surfaces
2: an enthusiastic devotee of sports [syn: sports fan, fan,
rooter]
3: an ardent follower and admirer [syn: fan, buff,
devotee, lover]
v 1: strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)
2: make (an emotion) fiercer; "fan hatred"
3: agitate the air
4: separate the chaff from by using air currents; "She stood
there winnowing chaff all day in the field" [syn: winnow,
fan]
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flan
0
n 1: open pastry filled with fruit or custard
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frozen
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adj 1: turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and
severe cold; "the frozen North"; "frozen pipes";
"children skating on a frozen brook" [ant: unfrozen]
2: absolutely still; "frozen with horror"; "they stood rooted in
astonishment" [syn: frozen(p), rooted(p), stock-still]
3: devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness
or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a
frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy
stare"; "wintry smile" [syn: frigid, frosty, frozen,
glacial, icy, wintry]
4: not thawed
5: (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to
retain flavor and nutritional value; "frozen foods" [syn:
flash-frozen, quick-frozen, frozen]
6: not convertible to cash; "frozen assets"
7: incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen
prices"; "living on fixed incomes" [syn: fixed, frozen]
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horizon
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n 1: the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet [syn:
horizon, apparent horizon, visible horizon, sensible
horizon, skyline]
2: the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated;
"It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge" [syn:
horizon, view, purview]
3: a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical
cross section of land
4: the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes
through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth
[syn: horizon, celestial horizon]
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imprison
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v 1: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were
imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated
for the rest of his life" [syn: imprison, incarcerate,
lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol,
put away, remand]
2: confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually
imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out
without a chaperone"
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jettison
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v 1: throw away, of something encumbering
2: throw as from an airplane
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lederhosen
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n 1: leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially
by men and boys in Bavaria
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liaison
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n 1: a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship [syn:
affair, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement,
amour]
2: a channel for communication between groups; "he provided a
liaison with the guerrillas" [syn: liaison, link,
contact, inter-group communication]
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man
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n 1: an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there
were two women and six men on the bus" [syn: man, adult
male] [ant: adult female, woman]
2: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a
military force; "two men stood sentry duty" [syn:
serviceman, military man, man, military personnel]
[ant: civilian]
3: the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it
was every man for himself"
4: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae
characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech,
and erect carriage [syn: homo, man, human being,
human]
5: a male subordinate; "the chief stationed two men outside the
building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana"
6: an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and
courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you"
7: a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his
employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" [syn: valet,
valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman,
man]
8: a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover
or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman; "she takes
good care of her man" [ant: woman]
9: one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea [syn: Man, Isle
of Man]
10: game equipment consisting of an object used in playing
certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the
chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic
advantage" [syn: man, piece]
11: all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the
world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because
`mankind' seemed to slight the women" [syn: world, human
race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans,
mankind, man]
v 1: take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place;
"Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning"
2: provide with workers; "We cannot man all the desks";
"Students were manning the booths"
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mizzen
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n 1: third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more
masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or
dandy [syn: mizzenmast, mizenmast, mizzen, mizen]
2: fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast [syn: mizzen,
mizen]
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orison
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n 1: reverent petition to a deity [syn: prayer, petition,
orison]
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pan
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n 1: cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel [syn:
pan, cooking pan]
2: (Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and
flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and
ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus [syn: Pan,
goat god]
3: shallow container made of metal
4: chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to
other pongids [syn: Pan, genus Pan]
v 1: make a sweeping movement; "The camera panned across the
room"
2: wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
[syn: pan, pan out, pan off]
3: express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned
the performance" [syn: pan, tear apart, trash]
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partisan
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adj 1: devoted to a cause or party [syn: partisan, partizan]
[ant: nonpartisan, nonpartizan]
n 1: a fervent and even militant proponent of something [syn:
partisan, zealot, drumbeater] [ant: nonpartisan,
nonpartizan]
2: an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or
activity [syn: enthusiast, partisan, partizan]
3: a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral
projections; 16th and 17th centuries [syn: partisan,
partizan]
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plan
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n 1: a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be
accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they
discussed plans for a new bond issue" [syn: plan,
program, programme]
2: an arrangement scheme; "the awkward design of the keyboard
made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for
living"; "a plan for seating guests" [syn: design, plan]
3: scale drawing of a structure; "the plans for City Hall were
on file" [syn: plan, architectural plan]
v 1: have the will and intention to carry out some action; "He
plans to be in graduate school next year"; "The rebels had
planned turmoil and confusion" [syn: plan, be after]
2: make plans for something; "He is planning a trip with his
family"
3: make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to
murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an
attack" [syn: plan, project, contrive, design]
4: make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form;
"design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of the
museum" [syn: design, plan]
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poison
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n 1: any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a
living organism [syn: poison, toxicant, poisonous
substance]
2: anything that harms or destroys; "the poison of fascism"
v 1: spoil as if by poison; "poison someone's mind"; "poison the
atmosphere in the office"
2: kill with poison; "She poisoned her husband"
3: add poison to; "Her husband poisoned her drink in order to
kill her" [syn: poison, envenom]
4: kill by its poison; "This mushrooms can poison"
5: administer poison to; "She poisoned her husband but he did
not die"
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prison
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n 1: a correctional institution where persons are confined while
on trial or for punishment [syn: prison, prison house]
2: a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement [syn:
prison, prison house]
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raisin
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n 1: dried grape
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reason
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n 1: a rational motive for a belief or action; "the reason that
war was declared"; "the grounds for their declaration"
[syn: reason, ground]
2: an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon; "the reason a
steady state was never reached was that the back pressure
built up too slowly"
3: the capacity for rational thought or inference or
discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason
and capable of distinguishing good from evil" [syn: reason,
understanding, intellect]
4: the state of having good sense and sound judgment; "his
rationality may have been impaired"; "he had to rely less on
reason than on rousing their emotions" [syn: rationality,
reason, reasonableness]
5: a justification for something existing or happening; "he had
no cause to complain"; "they had good reason to rejoice"
[syn: cause, reason, grounds]
6: a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion;
"there is reason to believe he is lying"
v 1: decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; "We
reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house"
[syn: reason, reason out, conclude]
2: present reasons and arguments [syn: argue, reason]
3: think logically; "The children must learn to reason"
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risen
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adj 1: (of e.g. celestial bodies) above the horizon; "the risen
sun"
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scan
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n 1: the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed
region; "he made a thorough scan of the beach with his
binoculars"
2: an image produced by scanning; "he analyzed the brain scan";
"you could see the tumor in the CAT scan" [syn: scan, CAT
scan]
v 1: examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the
X-ray"
2: examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while
waiting for the taxi" [syn: scan, skim, rake, glance
over, run down]
3: make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night
sky"
4: conform to a metrical pattern
5: move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
6: read metrically; "scan verses"
7: obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read
by the computer" [syn: read, scan]
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span
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n 1: the complete duration of something; "the job was finished
in the span of an hour"
2: the distance or interval between two points
3: two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome,
twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich,
duo, duet, dyad, duad]
4: a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human
hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
5: a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an
obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. [syn:
bridge, span]
6: the act of sitting or standing astride [syn: straddle,
span]
v 1: to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers
traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3
acres"; "The novel spans three centuries" [syn: cross,
traverse, span, sweep]
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tan
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adj 1: of a light yellowish-brown color
n 1: a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays
of the sun [syn: tan, suntan, sunburn, burn]
2: a light brown the color of topaz [syn: tan, topaz]
3: ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled
triangle [syn: tangent, tan]
v 1: treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert
them into leather
2: get a tan, from wind or sun [syn: tan, bronze]
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treason
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n 1: a crime that undermines the offender's government [syn:
treason, high treason, lese majesty]
2: disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior [syn: treason,
subversiveness, traitorousness]
3: an act of deliberate betrayal [syn: treachery, betrayal,
treason, perfidy]
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unfrozen
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adj 1: not frozen; "unfrozen ground" [ant: frozen]
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unison
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n 1: corresponding exactly; "marching in unison"
2: occurring together or simultaneously; "the two spoke in
unison"
3: (music) two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in
octaves; "singing in unison"
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unreason
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n 1: the state of being irrational; lacking powers of
understanding [syn: irrationality, unreason]
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van
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n 1: any creative group active in the innovation and application
of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially
in the arts) [syn: avant-garde, vanguard, van, new
wave]
2: the leading units moving at the head of an army [syn:
vanguard, van]
3: (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or
freight
4: a camper equipped with living quarters [syn: van,
caravan]
5: a truck with an enclosed cargo space
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venison
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n 1: meat from a deer used as food
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damson
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n 1: dark purple plum of the damson tree [syn: damson, damson
plum]
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tarzan
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n 1: (sometimes used ironically) a man of great strength and
agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice
Burroughs)
2: a man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels
by Edgar Rice Burroughs [syn: Tarzan, Tarzan of the Apes]
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cheyenne
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n 1: the capital and largest city of Wyoming; located in the
southeastern corner of the state [syn: Cheyenne, capital
of Wyoming]
2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne
3: a member of a North American Indian people living on the
western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)
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han
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n 1: imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from
206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed
its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of
Chinese civilization [syn: Han, Han dynasty]
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cannes
0
n 1: a port and resort city on the French Riviera; site of an
annual film festival
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gran
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n 1: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma,
grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna]
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mann
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n 1: United States educator who introduced reforms that
significantly altered the system of public education
(1796-1859) [syn: Mann, Horace Mann]
2: German writer concerned about the role of the artist in
bourgeois society (1875-1955) [syn: Mann, Thomas Mann]
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nan
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n 1: your grandmother
2: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma,
grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna]
3: a river of western Thailand flowing southward to join the
Ping River to form the Chao Phraya [syn: Nan, Nan River]
4: leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped
like a teardrop [syn: nan, naan]
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shan
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n 1: a branch of the Tai languages [syn: Tai Long, Shan]
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anne
0
n 1: Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if
James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she
was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over
parliament (1665-1714)
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amazon
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n 1: a large strong and aggressive woman [syn: amazon,
virago]
2: (Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of
Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a
bow and arrow more effectively)
3: a major South American river; arises in the Andes and flows
eastward into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest
river (4000 miles) [syn: Amazon, Amazon River]
4: mainly green tropical American parrots
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kansan
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n 1: a native or resident of Kansas
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greisen
0
n 1: a granitic rock composed of quartz and mica
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grison
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n 1: carnivore of Central America and South America resembling a
weasel with a greyish-white back and dark underparts [syn:
grison, Grison vittatus, Galictis vittatus]
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munchausen
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n 1: German raconteur who told preposterous stories about his
adventures as a soldier and hunter; his name is now
associated with any telling of exaggerated stories or
winning lies (1720-1797) [syn: Munchhausen, Karl
Friedrich Hieronymus von Munchhausen, Munchausen, Baron
Munchausen]
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spiegeleisen
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n 1: pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent
and to raise the manganese content in making steel [syn:
spiegeleisen, spiegel, spiegel iron]
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benison
0
n 1: a spoken blessing
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pilsen
0
n 1: a town in Czech Republic where Pilsner beer originated
[syn: Pilsen, Plzen]
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arisen
0
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bartizan
0
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raison
0
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ran
0
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than
0
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dan
0
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fran
0
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san
0
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diane
0
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liane
0
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marianne
0
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ann
0
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susan
0
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ramson
0
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unrisen
0
-
malison
0
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rosen
0
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unchosen
0
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gossan
0
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disseisin
0
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stockhausen
0