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alley
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n 1: a narrow street with walls on both sides [syn: alley,
alleyway, back street]
2: a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins [syn:
bowling alley, alley, skittle alley]
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ally
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n 1: a friendly nation
2: an associate who provides cooperation or assistance; "he's a
good ally in fight" [syn: ally, friend] [ant: enemy,
foe]
v 1: become an ally or associate, as by a treaty or marriage;
"He allied himself with the Communists"
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canal
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n 1: (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once
thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed
to be an optical illusion
2: a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and
conveying a secretion or other substance; "the tear duct was
obstructed"; "the alimentary canal"; "poison is released
through a channel in the snake's fangs" [syn: duct,
epithelial duct, canal, channel]
3: long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for
irrigation
v 1: provide (a city) with a canal [syn: canal, canalize,
canalise]
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challis
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n 1: a soft lightweight fabric (usually printed)
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chaparral
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n 1: dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
[syn: scrub, chaparral, bush]
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chorale
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n 1: a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune [syn:
chorale, choral]
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corral
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n 1: a pen for cattle [syn: cow pen, cattle pen, corral]
v 1: enclose in a corral; "corral the horses"
2: arrange wagons so that they form a corral
3: collect or gather; "corralling votes for an election"
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dally
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v 1: behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a
young girl's affection" [syn: dally, toy, play,
flirt]
2: waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" [syn: dally, dawdle]
3: talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The
guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband
never flirts with other women" [syn: chat up, flirt,
dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance,
philander, mash]
4: consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She
plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania" [syn: dally,
trifle, play]
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finale
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n 1: the closing section of a musical composition [syn:
finale, coda]
2: the temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of
each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the
finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the
season" [syn: stopping point, finale, finis, finish,
last, conclusion, close]
3: the concluding part of any performance [syn: finale,
close, closing curtain, finis]
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gal
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n 1: United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
[syn: gallon, gal]
2: a unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter
per second per second (named after Galileo)
3: alliterative term for girl (or woman)
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galley
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n 1: a large medieval vessel with a single deck propelled by
sails and oars with guns at stern and prow; a complement of
1,000 men; used mainly in the Mediterranean for war and
trading
2: (classical antiquity) a crescent-shaped seagoing vessel
propelled by oars
3: the kitchen area for food preparation on an airliner
4: the area for food preparation on a ship [syn: galley,
ship's galley, caboose, cookhouse]
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locale
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n 1: the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a
meeting) [syn: venue, locale, locus]
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morale
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n 1: a state of individual psychological well-being based upon a
sense of confidence and usefulness and purpose
2: the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group
to succeed [syn: esprit de corps, morale, team spirit]
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pal
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n 1: a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their
activities [syn: buddy, brother, chum, crony,
pal, sidekick]
v 1: become friends; act friendly towards [syn: pal, pal up,
chum up]
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rally
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n 1: a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm
[syn: rally, mass meeting]
2: the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort; "he
singled to start a rally in the 9th inning"; "he feared the
rallying of their troops for a counterattack" [syn: rally,
rallying]
3: a marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness
4: an automobile race run over public roads
5: (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes;
"after a short rally Connors won the point" [syn: rally,
exchange]
v 1: gather; "drum up support" [syn: beat up, drum up,
rally]
2: call to arms; of military personnel [syn: call up,
mobilize, mobilise, rally] [ant: demobilise,
demobilize, inactivate]
3: gather or bring together; "muster the courage to do
something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your
courage" [syn: muster, rally, summon, come up,
muster up]
4: return to a former condition; "The jilted lover soon rallied
and found new friends"; "The stock market rallied" [syn:
rally, rebound]
5: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children
teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my
failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a
jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod,
tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally,
ride]
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rationale
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n 1: (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially
an explanation of the working of some device in terms of
laws of nature); "the rationale for capital punishment";
"the principles of internal-combustion engines" [syn:
rationale, principle]
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sally
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n 1: witty remark [syn: wisecrack, crack, sally, quip]
2: a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from
their position [syn: sortie, sally]
3: a venture off the beaten path; "a sally into the wide world
beyond his home" [syn: sally, sallying forth]
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tally
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n 1: a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four
bases safely; "the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of
the 9th"; "their first tally came in the 3rd inning" [syn:
run, tally]
2: a bill for an amount due [syn: reckoning, tally]
3: the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order;
"the counting continued for several hours" [syn: count,
counting, numeration, enumeration, reckoning,
tally]
v 1: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their
characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many
details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the
check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on
the gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check,
jibe, gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disaccord,
disagree, discord]
2: gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He
hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season" [syn:
score, hit, tally, rack up]
3: keep score, as in games [syn: tally, chalk up]
4: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to
those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot
up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add
together, tally, add up]
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valley
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n 1: a long depression in the surface of the land that usually
contains a river [syn: valley, vale]
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verbally
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adv 1: as a verb; "he had a habit of using nouns verbally"
2: by means of language; "verbally expressive"
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chagall
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n 1: French painter (born in Russia) noted for his imagery and
brilliant colors (1887-1985) [syn: Chagall, Marc
Chagall]
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thralldom
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n 1: the state of being under the control of another person
[syn: bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom,
thraldom]
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halle
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n 1: a city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River;
a member of the Hanseatic League during the 13th and 14th
centuries [syn: Halle, Halle-an-der-Saale]
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pally
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adj 1: (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or
pals [syn: chummy, matey, pally, palsy-walsy]
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cali
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n 1: city in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area
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bally
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adj 1: informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking)
nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you
flaming idiot" [syn: bally(a), blinking(a),
bloody(a), blooming(a), crashing(a), flaming(a),
fucking(a)]
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al
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n 1: a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in
bauxite [syn: aluminum, aluminium, Al, atomic number
13]
2: a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of
Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American
Civil War [syn: Alabama, Heart of Dixie, Camellia
State, AL]
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dal
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n 1: a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters
[syn: dekaliter, dekalitre, decaliter, decalitre,
dal, dkl]
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lasalle
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n 1: French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France
(1643-1687) [syn: LaSalle, Sieur de LaSalle, Rene-
Robert Cavelier]
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pascal
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n 1: a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter
[syn: pascal, Pa]
2: French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented
an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of
probability (1623-1662) [syn: Pascal, Blaise Pascal]
3: a programing language designed to teach programming through a
top-down modular approach
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vidal
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n 1: United States writer (born in 1925) [syn: Vidal, Gore
Vidal, Eugene Luther Vidal]
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guadalcanal
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n 1: a mountainous island; the largest of the Solomon Islands in
the independent state that is a member of the British
Commonwealth
2: a battle in World War II in the Pacific (1942-1943); the
island was occupied by the Japanese and later recaptured by
American forces [syn: Guadalcanal, Battle of Guadalcanal]
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lally
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n 1: support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with
concrete [syn: lally, lally column]
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mal
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shall
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bansal
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coval
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braley
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bralley
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cavalli
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vitale
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bal
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cal
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hal
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kral
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lal
0
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malle
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sal
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schmal
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thal
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val
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cargal
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coufal
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doral
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duval
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huval
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pascale
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prchal
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roubal
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royale
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amaral
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carbajal
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carvajal
0
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generale
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commerciale
0
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alie
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alli
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allie
0
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balli
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calley
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cally
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dalley
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