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garnet
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n 1: any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of
various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive
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geminate
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n 1: a doubled or long consonant; "the `n' in `thinness' is a
geminate"
v 1: form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a
short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to
emphasize the meaning of the word" [syn: reduplicate,
geminate]
2: occur in pairs [syn: pair, geminate]
3: arrange in pairs; "Pair these numbers" [syn: pair,
geminate]
4: arrange or combine in pairs; "The consonants are geminated in
these words"
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incarnate
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adj 1: possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed
corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare;
"an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term"
[syn: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied,
incarnate]
2: invested with a bodily form especially of a human body; "a
monarch...regarded as a god incarnate"
v 1: make concrete and real [ant: disincarnate]
2: represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong
with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of
the artist" [syn: incarnate, body forth, embody,
substantiate]
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rennet
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n 1: a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket
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senate
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n 1: assembly possessing high legislative powers
2: the upper house of the United States Congress [syn: United
States Senate, U.S. Senate, US Senate, Senate]
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sonnet
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n 1: a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme
scheme
v 1: praise in a sonnet
2: compose a sonnet
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subordinate
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adj 1: lower in rank or importance [syn: subordinate, low-
level] [ant: dominant]
2: subject or submissive to authority or the control of another;
"a subordinate kingdom" [ant: insubordinate]
3: (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a
complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause
functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence"
[syn: dependent, subordinate] [ant: independent,
main(a)]
n 1: an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
[syn: subordinate, subsidiary, underling, foot
soldier]
2: a word that is more specific than a given word [syn:
hyponym, subordinate, subordinate word]
v 1: rank or order as less important or consider of less value;
"Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools"
2: make subordinate, dependent, or subservient; "Our wishes have
to be subordinated to that of our ruler" [syn: subordinate,
subdue]
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sultanate
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n 1: country or territory ruled by a sultan
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tenet
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n 1: a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without
proof [syn: dogma, tenet]
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turbinate
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adj 1: of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in
the nasal passages
2: in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical, spiral,
spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate]
n 1: any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in
man and other vertebrates [syn: turbinate bone,
turbinate, turbinal]
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pectinate
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adj 1: like a comb
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lionet
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n 1: a small or young lion
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lunate
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adj 1: resembling the new moon in shape [syn: crescent(a),
crescent-shaped, semilunar, lunate]
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bipinnate
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adj 1: of a leaf shape; having doubly pinnate leaflets (as
ferns)
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tripinnate
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adj 1: (of a leaf shape) thrice pinnate [syn: tripinnate,
tripinnated]
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staminate
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adj 1: capable of fertilizing female organs [syn: antheral,
staminate]
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falconet
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janet
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pulmonate
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resupinate
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garnett
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tabinet
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sinnott
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sinnet
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barnet
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harnett
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discarnate
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diaconate
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connaught
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subdiaconate
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