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ample
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adj 1: more than enough in size or scope or capacity; "had ample
food for the party"; "an ample supply" [ant: meager,
meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy]
2: affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the party";
"copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a plenteous grape
harvest"; "a rich supply" [syn: ample, copious,
plenteous, plentiful, rich]
3: fairly large; "a sizable fortune"; "an ample waistline"; "of
ample proportions" [syn: ample, sizable, sizeable]
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candidly
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adv 1: (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it
is sincerely the case that; "honestly, I don't believe
it"; "candidly, I think she doesn't have a conscience";
"frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" [syn: honestly,
candidly, frankly]
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confoundedly
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adv 1: in a perplexed manner; "he looked at his professor
perplexedly" [syn: perplexedly, confoundedly]
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crumple
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v 1: fall apart; "the building crumbled after the explosion";
"Negotiations broke down" [syn: crumble, crumple,
tumble, break down, collapse]
2: fold or collapse; "His knees buckled" [syn: buckle,
crumple]
3: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She
puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle,
crumple, knit]
4: become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't
wrinkle" [syn: rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease,
crinkle]
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decidedly
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adv 1: without question and beyond doubt; "it was decidedly too
expensive"; "she told him off in spades"; "by all odds
they should win" [syn: decidedly, unquestionably,
emphatically, definitely, in spades, by all odds]
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dimple
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n 1: a chad that has been punched or dimpled but all four
corners are still attached [syn: dimpled chad, pregnant
chad, dimple]
2: any slight depression in a surface; "there are approximately
336 dimples on a golf ball"
3: a small natural hollow in the cheek or chin; "His dimple
appeared whenever he smiled"
v 1: mark with, or as if with, dimples; "drops dimpled the
smooth stream"
2: produce dimples while smiling; "The child dimpled up to the
adults"
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example
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n 1: an item of information that is typical of a class or group;
"this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome";
"there is an example on page 10" [syn: example,
illustration, instance, representative]
2: a representative form or pattern; "I profited from his
example" [syn: model, example]
3: something to be imitated; "an exemplar of success"; "a model
of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major general"
[syn: exemplar, example, model, good example]
4: punishment intended as a warning to others; "they decided to
make an example of him" [syn: example, deterrent example,
lesson, object lesson]
5: an occurrence of something; "it was a case of bad judgment";
"another instance occurred yesterday"; "but there is always
the famous example of the Smiths" [syn: case, instance,
example]
6: a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill
or understanding; "you must work the examples at the end of
each chapter in the textbook" [syn: exercise, example]
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high
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adv 1: at a great altitude; "he climbed high on the ladder"
[syn: high, high up]
2: in or to a high position, amount, or degree; "prices have
gone up far too high"
3: in a rich manner; "he lives high" [syn: high, richly,
luxuriously]
4: far up toward the source; "he lives high up the river"
adj 1: greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "a
high temperature"; "a high price"; "the high point of his
career"; "high risks"; "has high hopes"; "the river is
high"; "he has a high opinion of himself" [ant: low]
2: (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or
specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in
combinations like `knee-high'); "a high mountain"; "high
ceilings"; "high buildings"; "a high forehead"; "a high
incline"; "a foot high" [ant: low]
3: standing above others in quality or position; "people in high
places"; "the high priest"; "eminent members of the
community" [syn: eminent, high]
4: used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency [syn:
high, high-pitched] [ant: low, low-pitched]
5: happy and excited and energetic [syn: high, in high
spirits]
6: (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted [syn:
gamey, gamy, high]
7: slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug
(especially marijuana) [syn: high, mellow]
n 1: a lofty level or position or degree; "summer temperatures
reached an all-time high" [ant: low]
2: an air mass of higher than normal pressure; "the east coast
benefits from a Bermuda high"
3: a state of sustained elation; "I'm on a permanent high these
days" [ant: low spirits]
4: a state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or
narcotics; "they took drugs to get a high on"
5: a high place; "they stood on high and observed the
countryside"; "he doesn't like heights" [syn: high,
heights]
6: a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through
12; "he goes to the neighborhood highschool" [syn: senior
high school, senior high, high, highschool, high
school]
7: a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest
vehicle velocity for a given engine speed [syn: high gear,
high]
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lopsidedly
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adv 1: in a crooked lopsided manner; "he smiled lopsidedly"
[syn: lopsidedly, crookedly]
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nipple
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n 1: the small projection of a mammary gland [syn: nipple,
mammilla, mamilla, pap, teat, tit]
2: a flexible cap on a baby's feeding bottle or pacifier
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offhandedly
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adv 1: without previous thought or preparation; "couldn't give
the figures offhand"; "we decided offhand to go to
Canada"; "she had made these remarks offhandedly" [syn:
offhand, offhanded, offhandedly]
2: in a casually inconsiderate manner; "replied offhand, his
mind a million miles away"; "she threw him over offhandedly
without even a Dear-John letter" [syn: offhand,
offhanded, offhandedly]
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people
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n 1: (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or
children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least
200 people in the audience"
2: the body of citizens of a state or country; "the Spanish
people" [syn: citizenry, people]
3: members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for
generations"; "are your people still alive?"
4: the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the
mass"; "power to the people" [syn: multitude, masses,
mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed]
v 1: fill with people; "Stalin wanted to people the empty
steppes"
2: furnish with people; "The plains are sparsely populated"
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pimple
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n 1: a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or
papule; common symptom in acne [syn: pimple, hickey,
zit]
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rumple
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v 1: disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the
water" [syn: ruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess up]
2: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She
puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle,
crumple, knit]
3: become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't
wrinkle" [syn: rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease,
crinkle]
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sample
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n 1: a small part of something intended as representative of the
whole
2: items selected at random from a population and used to test
hypotheses about the population [syn: sample distribution,
sample, sampling]
3: all or part of a natural object that is collected and
preserved as an example of its class
v 1: take a sample of; "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the
regional dishes" [syn: sample, try, try out, taste]
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simple
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adj 1: having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved;
"a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple
design"; "a simple substance" [ant: complex]
2: easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem
in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple
game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem" [syn:
elementary, simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic]
3: 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)]
4: exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike
trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "listened in round-eyed
wonder" [syn: childlike, wide-eyed, round-eyed, dewy-
eyed, simple]
5: lacking mental capacity and subtlety [syn: dim-witted,
simple, simple-minded]
6: (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or
subdivisions [syn: simple, unsubdivided] [ant:
compound]
7: unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black
dress--simple to austerity"
n 1: any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
2: a person lacking intelligence or common sense [syn:
simpleton, simple]
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sordidly
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adv 1: in a sordid or squalid way [syn: sordidly, squalidly]
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temple
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n 1: place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship
of a deity
2: the flat area on either side of the forehead; "the veins in
his temple throbbed"
3: an edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes
4: (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation
[syn: synagogue, temple, tabernacle]
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trample
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n 1: the sound of heavy treading or stomping; "he heard the
trample of many feet" [syn: trample, trampling]
v 1: tread or stomp heavily or roughly; "The soldiers trampled
across the fields" [syn: tread, trample]
2: injure by trampling or as if by trampling; "The passerby was
trampled by an elephant"
3: walk on and flatten; "tramp down the grass"; "trample the
flowers" [syn: tramp down, trample, tread down]
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underhandedly
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adv 1: slyly and secretly; "Mean revenge, committed underhand"-
John Donne; "oldline aristocratic diplomats underhandedly
undermined the attempt...to align Germany with the
Western democracies"- C.G.Bowers [syn: underhandedly,
underhand]
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wimple
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n 1: headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck
and ears by medieval women
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backhandedly
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misguidedly
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unguardedly
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intendedly
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handedly
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hotheadedly
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scrumple
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semple
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stemple
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