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attune
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v 1: adjust or accustom to; bring into harmony with
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autoimmune
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adj 1: of or relating to the immune response of the body against
substance normally present in the body
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cartoon
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n 1: a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or
magazine [syn: cartoon, sketch]
2: a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to
give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid
sequence [syn: cartoon, animated cartoon, toon]
v 1: draw cartoons of
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cocoon
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n 1: silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to
protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs
v 1: retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly
environment; "Families cocoon around the T.V. set most
evenings"; "She loves to stay at home and cocoon"
2: wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection
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commune
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n 1: the smallest administrative district of several European
countries
2: a body of people or families living together and sharing
everything
v 1: communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened,
intimate receptivity; "He seemed to commune with nature"
2: receive Communion, in the Catholic church [syn: commune,
communicate]
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festoon
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n 1: a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form
graceful curves
2: an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of
a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on
pottery or in architectural work
3: flower chains suspended in curves between points as a
decoration [syn: festoon, festoonery]
v 1: decorate with strings of flowers; "The public buildings
were festooned for the holiday"
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fortune
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n 1: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an
event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck
caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure
chance" [syn: luck, fortune, chance, hazard]
2: a large amount of wealth or prosperity
3: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a
favorable outcome; "it was my good luck to be there"; "they
say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand"
[syn: luck, fortune]
4: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including
everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may
be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck
of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was
her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck,
lot, circumstances, portion]
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immune
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adj 1: relating to the condition of immunity; "the immune
system"
2: secure against; "immune from taxation as long as he resided
in Bermuda"; "immune from criminal prosecution"
3: relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)
[syn: immune, resistant]
4: (usually followed by `to') not affected by a given influence;
"immune to persuasion"
n 1: a person who is immune to a particular infection
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importune
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v 1: beg persistently and urgently; "I importune you to help
them" [syn: importune, insist]
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impugn
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v 1: attack as false or wrong
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inopportune
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adj 1: not opportune; "arrived at a most inopportune hour"; "an
inopportune visit" [ant: opportune]
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lagoon
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n 1: a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of
sand or coral [syn: lagoon, laguna, lagune]
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lampoon
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n 1: a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's
style, usually in a humorous way [syn: parody, lampoon,
spoof, sendup, mockery, takeoff, burlesque,
travesty, charade, pasquinade, put-on]
v 1: ridicule with satire; "The writer satirized the
politician's proposal" [syn: satirize, satirise,
lampoon]
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loon
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n 1: a worthless lazy fellow
2: large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the
northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back;
related to the grebes [syn: loon, diver]
3: a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought
[syn: addle-head, addlehead, loon, birdbrain]
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maroon
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adj 1: of dark brownish to purplish red [syn: maroon,
brownish-red]
n 1: a person who is stranded (as on an island); "when the tide
came in I was a maroon out there"
2: a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
3: an exploding firework used as a warning signal
v 1: leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue; "the
travellers were marooned" [syn: maroon, strand]
2: leave stranded on a desert island without resources; "The
mutinous sailors were marooned on an island"
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misfortune
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n 1: unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an
unfortunate event [syn: misfortune, bad luck]
2: an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes
[syn: misfortune, bad luck, tough luck, ill luck]
[ant: good fortune, good luck, luckiness]
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monsoon
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n 1: a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest
(bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter
2: rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon
blows, bringing heavy rains
3: any wind that changes direction with the seasons
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moon
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n 1: the natural satellite of the Earth; "the average distance
to the Moon is 384,400 kilometers"; "men first stepped on
the moon in 1969" [syn: Moon, moon]
2: any object resembling a moon; "he made a moon lamp that he
used as a night light"; "the clock had a moon that showed
various phases"
3: the period between successive new moons (29.531 days) [syn:
lunar month, moon, lunation, synodic month]
4: the light of the Moon; "moonlight is the smuggler's enemy";
"the Moon was bright enough to read by" [syn: moonlight,
moonshine, Moon]
5: United States religious leader (born in Korea) who founded
the Unification Church in 1954; was found guilty of
conspiracy to evade taxes (born in 1920) [syn: Moon, Sun
Myung Moon]
6: any natural satellite of a planet; "Jupiter has sixteen
moons"
v 1: have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake; "She
looked out the window, daydreaming" [syn: daydream,
moon]
2: be idle in a listless or dreamy way [syn: moon, moon
around, moon on]
3: expose one's buttocks to; "moon the audience"
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noon
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n 1: the middle of the day [syn: noon, twelve noon, high
noon, midday, noonday, noontide]
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opportune
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adj 1: suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous
especially for a particular purpose; "an opportune place
to make camp"; "an opportune arrival" [ant:
inopportune]
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oppugn
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v 1: challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of; "We must
question your judgment in this matter" [syn: question,
oppugn, call into question]
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picayune
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adj 1: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling
sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are
lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at
war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over
niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises";
"piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal
may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune
infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian,
little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty,
picayune, trivial]
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platoon
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n 1: a military unit that is a subdivision of a company; usually
has a headquarters and two or more squads; usually
commanded by a lieutenant
2: a team of policemen working under the military platoon system
3: a group of persons who are engaged in a common activity;
"platoons of tourists poured out of the busses"; "the
defensive platoon of the football team"
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pontoon
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n 1: (nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat)
that serves as a dock or to support a bridge
2: a float supporting a seaplane
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prune
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n 1: dried plum
v 1: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the
plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim,
lop, dress, prune, cut back]
2: weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose
weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet" [syn: cut,
prune, rationalize, rationalise]
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raccoon
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n 1: the fur of the North American racoon
2: an omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North America and
Central America [syn: raccoon, racoon]
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saloon
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n 1: a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served
over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the
bar" [syn: barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill,
taproom]
2: tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms;
often provides light meals [syn: public house, pub,
saloon, pothouse, gin mill, taphouse]
3: a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and
two or four doors [syn: sedan, saloon]
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soon
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adv 1: in the near future; "the doctor will soon be here"; "the
book will appear shortly"; "she will arrive presently";
"we should have news before long" [syn: soon,
shortly, presently, before long]
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spoon
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n 1: a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and
a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
2: as much as a spoon will hold; "he added two spoons of sugar"
[syn: spoon, spoonful]
3: formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face
v 1: scoop up or take up with a spoon; "spoon the sauce over the
roast"
2: snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back
of the others [syn: smooch, spoon]
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swoon
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n 1: a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient
blood to the brain [syn: faint, swoon, syncope,
deliquium]
v 1: pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due
to a loss of blood supply to the brain [syn: faint,
conk, swoon, pass out]
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tribune
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n 1: (ancient Rome) an official elected by the plebeians to
protect their interests
2: the apse of a Christian church that contains the bishop's
throne
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triune
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adj 1: being three in one; used especially of the Christian
Trinity; "a triune God"
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tycoon
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n 1: a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron"
[syn: baron, big businessman, business leader,
king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive,
tycoon]
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typhoon
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n 1: a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or
Indian oceans
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june
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n 1: the month following May and preceding July
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bethune
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n 1: United States educator who worked to improve race relations
and educational opportunities for Black Americans
(1875-1955) [syn: Bethune, Mary McLeod Bethune]
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rangoon
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n 1: the capital and largest city of Myanmar; located in the
south near the Irrawaddy river delta [syn: Yangon,
Rangoon]
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perilune
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n 1: periapsis in orbit around the moon [syn: periselene,
perilune] [ant: apolune, aposelene]
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neptune
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n 1: (Roman mythology) god of the sea; counterpart of Greek
Poseidon
2: a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet
from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants; "the
existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the
orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846"
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strewn
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retune
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changchun
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