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am
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n 1: a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by
bombarding uranium with helium atoms [syn: americium,
Am, atomic number 95]
2: a master's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Master of
Arts, MA, Artium Magister, AM]
3: modulation of the amplitude of the (radio) carrier wave [syn:
amplitude modulation, AM]
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bam
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n 1: an ancient city in southeastern Iran; destroyed by an
earthquake in 2003
2: a sudden very loud noise [syn: bang, clap, eruption,
blast, bam]
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cam
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n 1: a river in east central England that flows past Cambridge
to join the Ouse River [syn: Cam, River Cam, Cam
River]
2: a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion
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clam
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n 1: burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell
closes with viselike firmness
2: a piece of paper money worth one dollar [syn: dollar,
dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, clam]
3: flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams
v 1: gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean
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cram
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v 1: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked"
[syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad]
2: put something somewhere so that the space is completely
filled; "cram books into the suitcase"
3: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my
Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind
away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot
up, bone]
4: prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam
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dam
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n 1: a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to
keep out the sea [syn: dam, dike, dyke]
2: a metric unit of length equal to ten meters [syn:
decameter, dekameter, decametre, dekametre, dam,
dkm]
3: female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock
v 1: obstruct with, or as if with, a dam; "dam the gorges of the
Yangtse River" [syn: dam, dam up]
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damn
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adv 1: extremely; "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all-
fired aggressive?" [syn: bloody, damn, all-fired]
adj 1: used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!" [syn:
damn, goddamn]
2: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted
idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a
blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or
goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or
goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal
nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed,
damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn,
goddamned, infernal]
n 1: something of little value; "his promise is not worth a
damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" [syn:
damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks,
tinker's damn, tinker's dam]
v 1: wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the
child" [syn: curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn,
anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict] [ant:
bless]
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dram
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n 1: a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce
or to 60 grains [syn: dram, drachm, drachma]
2: 1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams
3: the basic unit of money in Armenia
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exam
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n 1: a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or
knowledge; "when the test was stolen the professor had to
make a new set of questions" [syn: examination, exam,
test]
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graham
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n 1: United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass
evangelist (born in 1918) [syn: Graham, Billy Graham,
William Franklin Graham]
2: United States dancer and choreographer whose work was noted
for its austerity and technical rigor (1893-1991) [syn:
Graham, Martha Graham]
3: flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the
bran; (`whole meal flour' is British usage) [syn: whole
wheat flour, graham flour, graham, whole meal flour]
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gramme
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n 1: a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a
kilogram [syn: gram, gramme, gm, g]
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ham
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n 1: meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) [syn:
ham, jambon, gammon]
2: (Old Testament) son of Noah
3: a licensed amateur radio operator
4: an unskilled actor who overacts [syn: ham, ham actor]
v 1: exaggerate one's acting [syn: overact, ham it up,
ham, overplay] [ant: underact, underplay]
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jam
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n 1: preserve of crushed fruit
2: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a
terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn:
fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of
fish]
3: a dense crowd of people [syn: crush, jam, press]
4: deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy
for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices
or systems [syn: jamming, electronic jamming, jam]
v 1: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the
auditorium" [syn: throng, mob, pack, pile, jam]
2: push down forcibly; "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the
floor"
3: crush or bruise; "jam a toe" [syn: jam, crush]
4: interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the
Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this
station" [syn: jam, block]
5: get stuck and immobilized; "the mechanism jammed"
6: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn:
jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad]
7: block passage through; "obstruct the path" [syn: obstruct,
obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up]
[ant: disengage, free]
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jamb
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n 1: upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or
window frame
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lam
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n 1: a rapid escape (as by criminals); "the thieves made a clean
getaway"; "after the expose he had to take it on the lam"
[syn: getaway, lam]
v 1: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this
man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed
up" [syn: scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam,
run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills,
take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break
away]
2: give a thrashing to; beat hard [syn: thrash, thresh,
lam, flail]
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lamb
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n 1: young sheep
2: English essayist (1775-1834) [syn: Lamb, Charles Lamb,
Elia]
3: a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial
matters)
4: a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child)
[syn: lamb, dear]
5: the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food
v 1: give birth to a lamb; "the ewe lambed"
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ram
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n 1: the most common computer memory which can be used by
programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is
on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to
be stored or accessed in any order and all storage
locations are equally accessible [syn: random-access
memory, random access memory, random memory, RAM,
read/write memory]
2: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries
[syn: Aries, Ram]
3: the first sign of the zodiac which the sun enters at the
vernal equinox; the sun is in this sign from about March 21
to April 19 [syn: Aries, Aries the Ram, Ram]
4: a tool for driving or forcing something by impact
5: uncastrated adult male sheep; "a British term is `tup'" [syn:
ram, tup]
v 1: strike or drive against with a heavy impact; "ram the gate
with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door" [syn: ram, ram
down, pound]
2: force into or from an action or state, either physically or
metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives
me mad" [syn: force, drive, ram]
3: undergo damage or destruction on impact; "the plane crashed
into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post" [syn:
crash, ram]
4: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn:
jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad]
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scam
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n 1: a fraudulent business scheme [syn: scam, cozenage]
v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my
inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted
her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little
change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick,
nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct,
gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]
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scram
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v 1: leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form;
"Scram!" [syn: scram, buzz off, fuck off, get,
bugger off]
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sham
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adj 1: adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an
assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive
sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish
voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: assumed, false,
fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham]
n 1: something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
[syn: fake, sham, postiche]
2: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter,
impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham,
shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player]
v 1: make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though
she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep" [syn:
simulate, assume, sham, feign]
2: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he
was ill"; "He shammed a headache" [syn: feign, sham,
pretend, affect, dissemble]
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slam
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n 1: winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge [syn:
slam, sweep]
2: the noise made by the forceful impact of two objects
3: a forceful impact that makes a loud noise
4: an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and
intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was
`drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig
at me every chance she gets" [syn: shot, shaft, slam,
dig, barb, jibe, gibe]
v 1: close violently; "He slammed the door shut" [syn: slam,
bang]
2: strike violently; "slam the ball" [syn: slam, bang]
3: dance the slam dance [syn: slam dance, slam, mosh,
thrash]
4: throw violently; "He slammed the book on the table" [syn:
slam, flap down]
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spam
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n 1: a canned meat made largely from pork
2: unwanted e-mail (usually of a commercial nature sent out in
bulk) [syn: spam, junk e-mail]
v 1: send unwanted or junk e-mail
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tam
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n 1: a woolen cap of Scottish origin [syn: tam,
tam-o'-shanter, tammy]
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tram
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n 1: a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in
carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of
towers [syn: tramway, tram, aerial tramway, cable
tramway, ropeway]
2: a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine; "a
tramcar carries coal out of a coal mine" [syn: tramcar,
tram]
3: a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by
electricity [syn: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley,
trolley car]
v 1: travel by tram
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wham
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v 1: hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy" [syn: whack,
wham, whop, wallop]
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yam
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n 1: edible tuber of any of several yams
2: any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many
having edible tuberous roots [syn: yam, yam plant]
3: sweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when
baked
4: edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus
Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food
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madame
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n 1: title used for a married Frenchwoman
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gram
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n 1: a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a
kilogram [syn: gram, gramme, gm, g]
2: Danish physician and bacteriologist who developed a method of
staining bacteria to distinguish among them (1853-1938) [syn:
Gram, Hans C. J. Gram]
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sam
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n 1: a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an
airborne target [syn: surface-to-air missile, SAM]
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siam
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n 1: a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along
the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay Peninsula; "Thailand is the
official name of the former Siam" [syn: Thailand,
Kingdom of Thailand, Siam]
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mam
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n 1: a member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala
2: a Mayan language spoken by the Mam
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durham
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n 1: a city of north central North Carolina; site of Duke
University
2: English breed of short-horned cattle [syn: Durham,
shorthorn]
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flam
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swam
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damme
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abram
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bahm
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bram
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camm
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cham
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dahm
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damm
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fram
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gramm
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hamm
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kam
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lamm
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nam
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pam
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sram
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alam
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burcham
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beacham
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