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abhor
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v 1: find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"
[syn: abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate]
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adore
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v 1: love intensely; "he just adored his wife"
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anymore
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adv 1: at the present or from now on; usually used with a
negative; "Alice doesn't live here anymore"; "the
children promised not to quarrel any more" [syn:
anymore, any longer]
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ashore
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adv 1: towards the shore from the water; "we invited them
ashore"
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before
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adv 1: earlier in time; previously; "I had known her before";
"as I said before"; "he called me the day before but your
call had come even earlier"; "her parents had died four
years earlier"; "I mentioned that problem earlier" [syn:
earlier, before]
2: at or in the front; "I see the lights of a town ahead"; "the
road ahead is foggy"; "staring straight ahead"; "we couldn't
see over the heads of the people in front"; "with the cross
of Jesus marching on before" [syn: ahead, in front,
before]
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boar
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n 1: Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent
tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in
United States [syn: wild boar, boar, Sus scrofa]
2: an uncastrated male hog
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bore
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n 1: a person who evokes boredom [syn: bore, dullard]
2: a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by
colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) [syn: tidal
bore, bore, eagre, aegir, eager]
3: diameter of a tube or gun barrel [syn: bore, gauge,
caliber, calibre]
4: a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for
exploratory purposes [syn: bore, bore-hole, drill hole]
v 1: cause to be bored [syn: bore, tire] [ant: interest]
2: make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool;
"don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into
the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes
into the wall" [syn: bore, drill]
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chore
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n 1: a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or
for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that
job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of
repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task
of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"
[syn: job, task, chore]
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core
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n 1: a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five
periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"
[syn: core, nucleus, core group]
2: the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core"
3: the central part of the Earth
4: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some
idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument";
"the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the
story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center,
centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul,
inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-
gritty]
5: a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow
drill
6: an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to
work for racial equality [syn: Congress of Racial Equality,
CORE]
7: the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
[syn: effect, essence, burden, core, gist]
8: (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a
random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded
by semiconductor memories; "each core has three wires passing
through it, providing the means to select and detect the
contents of each bit" [syn: core, magnetic core]
9: the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile
material where the reaction takes place
10: a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes
through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the
coil
v 1: remove the core or center from; "core an apple"
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corps
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n 1: an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions
and their support [syn: corps, army corps]
2: a body of people associated together; "diplomatic corps"
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decor
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n 1: decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a
livable interior [syn: interior decoration, decor]
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deplore
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v 1: express strong disapproval of; "We deplore the government's
treatment of political prisoners"
2: regret strongly; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we
lamented the loss of benefits" [syn: deplore, lament,
bewail, bemoan]
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door
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n 1: a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance
to a room or building or vehicle; "he knocked on the door";
"he slammed the door as he left"
2: the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or
leave a room or building; the space that a door can close;
"he stuck his head in the doorway" [syn: doorway, door,
room access, threshold]
3: anything providing a means of access (or escape); "we closed
the door to Haitian immigrants"; "education is the door to
success"
4: a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along
a street or road); "the office next door"; "they live two
doors up the street from us"
5: a room that is entered via a door; "his office is the third
door down the hall on the left"
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drawer
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n 1: a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to
slide in and out
2: the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee
to pay someone else
3: an artist skilled at drawing [syn: draftsman, drawer]
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explore
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v 1: inquire into; "the students had to research the history of
the Second World War for their history project"; "He
searched for information on his relatives on the web";
"Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness"
[syn: research, search, explore]
2: travel to or penetrate into; "explore unknown territory in
biology"
3: examine minutely
4: examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes
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floor
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n 1: the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway,
tent, or other structure); "they needed rugs to cover the
bare floors"; "we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor
of the tent" [syn: floor, flooring]
2: a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single
position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office
on?" [syn: floor, level, storey, story]
3: a lower limit; "the government established a wage floor"
[syn: floor, base]
4: the ground on which people and animals move about; "the fire
spared the forest floor"
5: the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water
6: the lower inside surface of any hollow structure; "the floor
of the pelvis"; "the floor of the cave"
7: the occupants of a floor; "the whole floor complained about
the lack of heat"
8: the parliamentary right to address an assembly; "the chairman
granted him the floor"
9: the legislative hall where members debate and vote and
conduct other business; "there was a motion from the floor"
10: a large room in a exchange where the trading is done; "he is
a floor trader" [syn: floor, trading floor]
v 1: surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored
when I heard that I was promoted" [syn: shock, floor,
ball over, blow out of the water, take aback]
2: knock down with force; "He decked his opponent" [syn: deck,
coldcock, dump, knock down, floor]
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fore
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adv 1: near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane;
"the captain went fore (or forward) to check the
instruments" [syn: fore, forward] [ant: abaft,
aft, astern]
adj 1: situated at or toward the bow of a vessel [ant: aft(a)]
n 1: front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of
the boat toward the finish line" [syn: bow, fore,
prow, stem]
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four
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adj 1: being one more than three [syn: four, 4, iv]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one [syn:
four, 4, IV, tetrad, quatern, quaternion,
quaternary, quaternity, quartet, quadruplet,
foursome, Little Joe]
2: a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four
pips [syn: four-spot, four]
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galore
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adj 1: in great numbers; "daffodils galore"
2: existing in abundance; "abounding confidence"; "whiskey
galore" [syn: abounding, galore(ip)]
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guarantor
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n 1: one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another [syn:
guarantor, surety, warrantor, warranter]
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heretofore
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adv 1: used in negative statement to describe a situation that
has existed up to this point or up to the present time;
"So far he hasn't called"; "the sun isn't up yet" [syn:
so far, thus far, up to now, hitherto,
heretofore, as yet, yet, til now, until now]
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hoar
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adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or
white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge;
"nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey-
haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed,
grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired]
n 1: ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects
outside) [syn: frost, hoar, hoarfrost, rime]
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ignore
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v 1: refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting"
[syn: ignore, disregard, snub, cut]
2: bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his
advances" [syn: dismiss, disregard, brush aside, brush
off, discount, push aside, ignore]
3: fail to notice [ant: mark, note, notice]
4: give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors" [syn:
neglect, ignore, disregard]
5: be ignorant of or in the dark about [ant: cognise,
cognize, know]
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implore
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v 1: call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!"
[syn: beg, implore, pray]
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inshore
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adv 1: toward the shore; "we swam two miles inshore"
adj 1: (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land; "an
inshore breeze"; "an onshore gale"; "sheltered from
seaward winds" [syn: inshore, onshore, seaward,
shoreward] [ant: offshore, seaward]
2: close to a shore; "inshore fisheries"
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lore
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n 1: knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote; "early
peoples passed on plant and animal lore through legend"
[syn: lore, traditional knowledge]
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more
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adv 1: used to form the comparative of some adjectives and
adverbs; "more interesting"; "more beautiful"; "more
quickly" [syn: more, to a greater extent] [ant:
less, to a lesser extent]
2: comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent; "he works
more now"; "they eat more than they should" [ant: less]
adj 1: (comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) a quantifier
meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree;
"more land"; "more support"; "more rain fell"; "more than
a gallon" [syn: more(a), more than] [ant: less(a)]
2: (comparative of `many' used with count nouns) quantifier
meaning greater in number; "a hall with more seats"; "we have
no more bananas"; "more than one" [ant: fewer]
n 1: English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from
Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded;
recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state [syn:
More, Thomas More, Sir Thomas More]
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oar
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n 1: an implement used to propel or steer a boat
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offshore
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adv 1: away from shore; away from land; "cruising three miles
offshore" [ant: onshore]
adj 1: (of winds) coming from the land; "offshore winds" [syn:
offshore, seaward] [ant: inshore, onshore,
seaward, shoreward]
2: at some distance from the shore; "offshore oil reserves"; "an
offshore island"
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or
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n 1: a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific [syn:
Oregon, Beaver State, OR]
2: a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical
operations; "great care is taken to keep the operating rooms
aseptic" [syn: operating room, OR, operating theater,
operating theatre, surgery]
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ore
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n 1: a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be
mined
2: a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore
equal 1 krona
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rapport
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n 1: a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and
agreement between people [syn: rapport, resonance]
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restore
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v 1: return to its original or usable and functioning condition;
"restore the forest to its original pristine condition"
[syn: restore, reconstruct]
2: return to life; get or give new life or energy; "The week at
the spa restored me" [syn: regenerate, restore,
rejuvenate]
3: give or bring back; "Restore the stolen painting to its
rightful owner" [syn: restore, restitute]
4: restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn
or broken; "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes
please" [syn: repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor,
furbish up, restore, touch on] [ant: break, bust]
5: bring back into original existence, use, function, or
position; "restore law and order"; "reestablish peace in the
region"; "restore the emperor to the throne" [syn: restore,
reinstate, reestablish]
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roar
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n 1: a deep prolonged loud noise [syn: boom, roar,
roaring, thunder]
2: a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his
bellow filled the hallway" [syn: bellow, bellowing,
holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar,
roaring, yowl]
3: the sound made by a lion
v 1: make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles; "The
wind was howling in the trees"; "The water roared down the
chute" [syn: roar, howl]
2: utter words loudly and forcefully; "`Get out of here,' he
roared" [syn: thunder, roar]
3: emit long loud cries; "wail in self-pity"; "howl with sorrow"
[syn: howl, ululate, wail, roar, yawl, yaup]
4: act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way;
"desperadoes from the hills regularly roared in to take over
the town"-R.A.Billington
5: make a loud noise, as of animal; "The bull bellowed" [syn:
bellow, roar]
6: laugh unrestrainedly and heartily [syn: roar, howl]
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score
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n 1: a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a
student's performance); "she made good marks in algebra";
"grade A milk"; "what was your score on your homework?"
[syn: mark, grade, score]
2: a written form of a musical composition; parts for different
instruments appear on separate staves on large pages; "he
studied the score of the sonata" [syn: score, musical
score]
3: a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an
individual in a game or contest; "the score was 7 to 0"
4: a set of twenty members; "a score were sent out but only one
returned"
5: grounds; "don't do it on my account"; "the paper was rejected
on account of its length"; "he tried to blame the victim but
his success on that score was doubtful" [syn: score,
account]
6: the facts about an actual situation; "he didn't know the
score"
7: an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar); "add it to my
score and I'll settle later"
8: a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep
a tally) [syn: score, scotch]
9: a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; "holding a
grudge"; "settling a score" [syn: grudge, score,
grievance]
10: the act of scoring in a game or sport; "the winning score
came with less than a minute left to play"
11: a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse; "calling his
seduction of the girl a `score' was a typical example of
male slang" [syn: sexual conquest, score]
v 1: 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]
2: make small marks into the surface of; "score the clay before
firing it" [syn: score, nock, mark]
3: make underscoring marks [syn: score, mark]
4: write a musical score for
5: induce to have sex; "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you
score last night?"; "Harry made Sally" [syn: seduce,
score, make]
6: get a certain number or letter indicating quality or
performance; "She scored high on the SAT"; "He scored a 200"
7: assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation;
"grade tests"; "score the SAT essays"; "mark homework" [syn:
grade, score, mark]
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senor
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n 1: a Spanish title or form of address for a man; similar to
the English `Mr' or `sir'
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shore
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n 1: the land along the edge of a body of water
2: a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to
provide support [syn: shore, shoring]
v 1: serve as a shore to; "The river was shored by trees"
2: arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor" [syn:
land, set ashore, shore]
3: support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore
and buttress an old building" [syn: prop up, prop, shore
up, shore]
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snore
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n 1: the rattling noise produced when snoring
2: the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound [syn:
snore, snoring, stertor]
v 1: breathe noisily during one's sleep; "she complained that
her husband snores" [syn: snore, saw wood, saw logs]
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soar
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n 1: the act of rising upward into the air [syn: soar, zoom]
v 1: rise rapidly; "the dollar soared against the yen" [syn:
soar, soar up, soar upwards, surge, zoom]
2: fly by means of a hang glider [syn: hang glide, soar]
3: fly upwards or high in the sky
4: go or move upward; "The stock market soared after the cease-
fire was announced"
5: fly a plane without an engine [syn: sailplane, soar]
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sore
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adj 1: hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" [syn: sensitive,
sore, raw, tender]
2: causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to
him"; "the painful process of growing up" [syn: afflictive,
painful, sore]
3: roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain;
"she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his
friend"; "sore over a remark" [syn: huffy, mad, sore]
n 1: an open skin infection
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spore
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n 1: a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body
produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some
bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing
into a new individual without sexual fusion; "a sexual
spore is formed after the fusion of gametes"
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store
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n 1: a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or
services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod" [syn:
shop, store]
2: a supply of something available for future use; "he brought
back a large store of Cuban cigars" [syn: store, stock,
fund]
3: an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the
central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
[syn: memory, computer memory, storage, computer
storage, store, memory board]
4: a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the
docks" [syn: storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage,
store]
v 1: keep or lay aside for future use; "store grain for the
winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation
when he doesn't eat" [syn: store, hive away, lay in,
put in, salt away, stack away, stash away]
2: find a place for and put away for storage; "where should we
stow the vegetables?"; "I couldn't store all the books in the
attic so I sold some"
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underscore
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n 1: a line drawn underneath (especially under written matter)
[syn: underscore, underline]
v 1: give extra weight to (a communication); "Her gesture
emphasized her words" [syn: underscore, underline,
emphasize, emphasise]
2: draw a line or lines underneath to call attention to [syn:
underline, underscore]
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war
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n 1: the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands
of people were killed in the war" [syn: war, warfare]
2: a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by
official declaration during which the international rules of
war apply; "war was declared in November but actual fighting
did not begin until the following spring" [syn: war, state
of war] [ant: peace]
3: an active struggle between competing entities; "a price war";
"a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare" [syn: war, warfare]
4: a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious; "the
war on poverty"; "the war against crime"
v 1: make or wage war [ant: make peace]
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whore
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n 1: a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money [syn:
prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart,
cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady,
lady of pleasure, woman of the street]
v 1: work as a prostitute
2: have unlawful sex with a whore
3: compromise oneself for money or other gains; "She whored
herself to Hollywood"
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yore
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n 1: time long past
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boer
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n 1: a white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of
Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans [syn: Afrikaner,
Afrikander, Boer]
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bohr
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n 1: Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and
radiations; the Bohr theory of the atom accounted for the
spectrum of hydrogen (1885-1962) [syn: Bohr, Niels
Bohr, Niels Henrik David Bohr]
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moore
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n 1: United States composer of works noted for their use of the
American vernacular (1893-1969) [syn: Moore, Douglas
Moore]
2: English actor and comedian who appeared on television and in
films (born in 1935) [syn: Moore, Dudley Moore, Dudley
Stuart John Moore]
3: English philosopher (1873-1958) [syn: Moore, G. E. Moore,
George Edward Moore]
4: Irish poet who wrote nostalgic and patriotic verse
(1779-1852) [syn: Moore, Thomas Moore]
5: United States poet noted for irony and wit (1887-1872) [syn:
Moore, Marianne Moore, Marianne Craig Moore]
6: British sculptor whose works are monumental organic forms
(1898-1986) [syn: Moore, Henry Moore, Henry Spencer
Moore]
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thor
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n 1: (Norse mythology) god of thunder and rain and farming;
pictured as wielding a hammer emblematic of the
thunderbolt; identified with Teutonic Donar
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postwar
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adj 1: belonging to the period after a war; "postwar
resettlement"; "postwar inflation" [ant: prewar]
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prewar
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adj 1: existing or belonging to a time before a war; "prewar
levels of industrial production" [ant: postwar]
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for
0
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nor
0
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swore
0
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wore
0
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your
0
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baur
0
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borre
0
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clore
0
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coar
0
-
cohr
0
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cor
0
-
corr
0
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loehr
0
-
lohr
0
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ador
0
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bator
0
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antiwar
0
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armentor
0
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balthazor
0