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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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ashore
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adv 1: towards the shore from the water; "we invited them
ashore"
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assignor
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n 1: (law) the party who makes an assignment
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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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cantor
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n 1: the musical director of a choir [syn: choirmaster,
precentor, cantor]
2: the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part
of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be
performed as solos [syn: cantor, hazan]
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centaur
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n 1: (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and
half horse
2: a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near
the Southern Cross [syn: Centaurus, Centaur]
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contour
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n 1: a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height
[syn: contour, contour line]
2: any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline);
"he could barely make out their shapes" [syn: shape,
form, configuration, contour, conformation]
3: a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of
anything having a complex structure; "the contours of the
melody"; "it defines a major contour of this administration"
v 1: form the contours of
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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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dissenter
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n 1: a person who dissents from some established policy [syn:
dissenter, dissident, protester, objector,
contestant]
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enter
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v 1: to come or go into; "the boat entered an area of shallow
marshes" [syn: enter, come in, get into, get in,
go into, go in, move into] [ant: exit, get out,
go out, leave]
2: become a participant; be involved in; "enter a race"; "enter
an agreement"; "enter a drug treatment program"; "enter
negotiations" [syn: enter, participate] [ant: chuck up
the sponge, drop by the wayside, drop out, fall by the
wayside, give up, quit, throw in, throw in the
towel]
3: register formally as a participant or member; "The party
recruited many new members" [syn: enroll, inscribe,
enter, enrol, recruit]
4: be or play a part of or in; "Elections figure prominently in
every government program"; "How do the elections figure in
the current pattern of internal politics?" [syn: figure,
enter]
5: make a record of; set down in permanent form [syn: record,
enter, put down]
6: come on stage
7: take on duties or office; "accede to the throne" [syn:
accede, enter]
8: put or introduce into something; "insert a picture into the
text" [syn: insert, infix, enter, introduce]
9: set out on (an enterprise or subject of study); "she embarked
upon a new career" [syn: embark, enter]
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mentor
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n 1: a wise and trusted guide and advisor [syn: mentor, wise
man]
v 1: serve as a teacher or trusted counselor; "The famous
professor mentored him during his years in graduate
school"; "She is a fine lecturer but she doesn't like
mentoring"
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renter
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n 1: someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car
that is owned by someone else; "the landlord can evict a
tenant who doesn't pay the rent" [syn: tenant, renter]
2: an owner of property who receives payment for its use by
another person
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warrantor
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n 1: one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another [syn:
guarantor, surety, warrantor, warranter]
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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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center
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adj 1: equally distant from the extremes [syn: center(a),
halfway, middle(a), midway]
2: of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically
or intellectually [ant: left, right]
n 1: an area that is approximately central within some larger
region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward
into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of
the storm" [syn: center, centre, middle, heart,
eye]
2: the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the
catcher; "he hit the ball to deep center" [syn: center
field, centerfield, center]
3: a building dedicated to a particular activity; "they were
raising money to build a new center for research" [syn:
center, centre]
4: a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the
extremities of a figure [syn: center, centre, midpoint]
5: 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]
6: the object upon which interest and attention focuses; "his
stories made him the center of the party" [syn: center,
centre, center of attention, centre of attention]
7: a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process;
"in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"
[syn: center, centre, nerve center, nerve centre]
8: the middle of a military or naval formation; "they had to
reinforce the center"
9: (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team
10: (football) the person who plays center on the line of
scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback; "the center
fumbled the handoff" [syn: center, snapper]
11: a place where some particular activity is concentrated;
"they received messages from several centers" [syn:
center, centre]
12: politically moderate persons; centrists
13: (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team
14: the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is
enclosed in chocolate or some other covering [syn: center,
centre]
15: mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully
landscaped complex of shops representing leading
merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient
parking area; a modern version of the traditional
marketplace; "a good plaza should have a movie house"; "they
spent their weekends at the local malls" [syn: plaza,
mall, center, shopping mall, shopping center,
shopping centre]
16: the position on a hockey team of the player who participates
in the face off at the beginning of the game
17: (American football) the position of the player on the line
of scrimmage who puts the ball in play; "it is a center's
responsibility to get the football to the quarterback"
18: a position on a basketball team of the player who
participates in the jump that starts the game
v 1: center upon; "Her entire attention centered on her
children"; "Our day revolved around our work" [syn: focus
on, center on, revolve around, revolve about,
concentrate on, center]
2: direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your
studies and not on your hobbies" [syn: concentrate,
focus, center, centre, pore, rivet]
3: move into the center; "That vase in the picture is not
centered" [syn: center, centre]
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stentor
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n 1: a speaker with an unusually loud voice
2: the mythical Greek warrior with an unusually loud voice who
died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes
3: any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are
members of the genus Stentor
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venter
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n 1: a speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion
or grievance
2: the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and
the pelvis [syn: abdomen, venter, stomach, belly]
3: the womb; "`in venter' is legal terminology for `conceived
but not yet born'"
4: a bulging body part (as the belly of a muscle)
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augmenter
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consenter
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assentor
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bucentaur
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