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afternoon
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n 1: the part of the day between noon and evening; "he spent a
quiet afternoon in the park"
2: a conventional expression of greeting or farewell [syn: good
afternoon, afternoon]
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amen
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n 1: a primeval Egyptian personification of air and breath;
worshipped especially at Thebes [syn: Amen, Amon,
Amun]
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attune
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v 1: adjust or accustom to; bring into harmony with
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baboon
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n 1: large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles
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balloon
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n 1: large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air
2: small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck
v 1: ride in a hot-air balloon; "He tried to balloon around the
earth but storms forced him to land in China"
2: become inflated; "The sails ballooned" [syn: balloon,
inflate, billow]
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bassoon
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n 1: a double-reed instrument; the tenor of the oboe family
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boon
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adj 1: very close and convivial; "boon companions"
n 1: a desirable state; "enjoy the blessings of peace"; "a
spanking breeze is a boon to sailors" [syn: blessing,
boon]
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buffoon
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n 1: a rude or vulgar fool [syn: clown, buffoon]
2: a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior [syn:
clown, buffoon, goof, goofball, merry andrew]
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cardoon
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n 1: southern European plant having spiny leaves and purple
flowers cultivated for its edible leafstalks and roots
[syn: cardoon, Cynara cardunculus]
2: only parts eaten are roots and especially stalks (blanched
and used as celery); related to artichokes
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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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common
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adj 1: belonging to or participated in by a community as a
whole; public; "for the common good"; "common lands are
set aside for use by all members of a community" [ant:
individual, single]
2: having no special distinction or quality; widely known or
commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; "the
common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common
nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common
knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a
common brand of soap" [ant: uncommon]
3: common to or shared by two or more parties; "a common
friend"; "the mutual interests of management and labor" [syn:
common, mutual]
4: commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint";
"the usual greeting" [syn: common, usual]
5: being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday
language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular
speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical
and vulgar names for an animal species" [syn: common,
vernacular, vulgar]
6: of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common
people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that
branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar
and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses" [syn:
common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed]
7: of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye
are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used
by the poorer population" [syn: coarse, common]
8: lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse
manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as
common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth
soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste
for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich" [syn:
coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar]
9: to be expected; standard; "common decency"
n 1: a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area;
"they went for a walk in the park" [syn: park, commons,
common, green]
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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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coon
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n 1: an eccentric or undignified rustic; "I'll be a gone coon
when the battle starts"
2: (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person;
"only a Black can call another Black a nigga" [syn: nigger,
nigga, spade, coon, jigaboo, nigra]
3: North American raccoon [syn: common raccoon, common
racoon, coon, ringtail, Procyon lotor]
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croon
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v 1: sing softly
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dune
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n 1: a ridge of sand created by the wind; found in deserts or
near lakes and oceans [syn: dune, sand dune]
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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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goon
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n 1: an awkward stupid person [syn: lout, clod,
stumblebum, goon, oaf, lubber, lummox, lump,
gawk]
2: an aggressive and violent young criminal [syn: hood,
hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, tough, toughie,
strong-armer]
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harpoon
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n 1: a spear with a shaft and barbed point for throwing; used
for catching large fish or whales; a strong line is
attached to it
v 1: spear with a harpoon; "harpoon whales"
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hewn
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adj 1: cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting
instrument like an ax or chisel; "a house built of hewn
logs"; "rough-hewn stone"; "a path hewn through the
underbrush" [syn: hewn, hand-hewn]
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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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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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lawman
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n 1: an officer of the law [syn: lawman, law officer, peace
officer]
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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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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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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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rune
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n 1: any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in
Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages; "each
rune had its own magical significance" [syn: rune, runic
letter]
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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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tune
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n 1: a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she
was humming an air from Beethoven" [syn: tune, melody,
air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase]
2: the property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch;
"he cannot sing in tune"; "the clarinet was out of tune"
3: the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a
required frequency
v 1: adjust for (better) functioning; "tune the engine" [syn:
tune, tune up]
2: adjust the pitches of (musical instruments); "My piano needs
to be tuned" [syn: tune, tune up] [ant: untune]
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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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uncommon
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adj 1: not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in
amount or remarkable in character or kind; "uncommon
birds"; "frost and floods are uncommon during these
months"; "doing an uncommon amount of business"; "an
uncommon liking for money"; "he owed his greatest debt to
his mother's uncommon character and ability" [ant:
common]
2: marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or
extreme of its kind; "what is so rare as a day in
June"-J.R.Lowell; "a rare skill"; "an uncommon sense of
humor"; "she was kind to an uncommon degree" [syn: rare,
uncommon]
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boone
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n 1: an American pioneer and guide and explorer (1734-1820)
[syn: Boone, Daniel Boone]
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june
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n 1: the month following May and preceding July
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kroon
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n 1: the basic unit of money in Estonia
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poon
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n 1: wood of any poon tree; used for masts and spars
2: any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum
having shiny leathery leaves and lightweight hard wood
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toon
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n 1: 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]
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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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cancun
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n 1: a popular island resort off the northeastern tip of the
Yucatan peninsula
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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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amon
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n 1: a primeval Egyptian personification of air and breath;
worshipped especially at Thebes [syn: Amen, Amon,
Amun]
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galloon
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strewn
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broun
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bruen
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brune
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bruun
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choon
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clune
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coone
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koon
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antoon
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aoun
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banoun
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barloon
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cahoon
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calhoon
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calhoun
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cohoon
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corroon
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hamdoon
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aman
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ahmann
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dahman
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bahman
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