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coeval
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adj 1: of the same period [syn: coetaneous, coeval,
contemporaneous]
n 1: a person of nearly the same age as another [syn:
contemporary, coeval]
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devil
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n 1: (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of
evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of
Hell [syn: Satan, Old Nick, Devil, Lucifer,
Beelzebub, the Tempter, Prince of Darkness]
2: an evil supernatural being [syn: devil, fiend, demon,
daemon, daimon]
3: a word used in exclamations of confusion; "what the devil";
"the deuce with it"; "the dickens you say" [syn: devil,
deuce, dickens]
4: a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man); "he
chased the young hellions out of his yard" [syn: hellion,
heller, devil]
5: a cruel wicked and inhuman person [syn: monster, fiend,
devil, demon, ogre]
v 1: cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor
irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers
me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after
she leaves" [syn: annoy, rag, get to, bother, get
at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex,
chafe, devil]
2: coat or stuff with a spicy paste; "devilled eggs"
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evil
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adj 1: morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil
influence"; "evil deeds" [ant: good]
2: having the nature of vice [syn: evil, vicious]
3: having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars";
"a malefic force" [syn: malefic, malevolent, malign,
evil]
n 1: morally objectionable behavior [syn: evil, immorality,
wickedness, iniquity]
2: that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune; "the
evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred
with their bones"- Shakespeare
3: the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice;
"attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world" [syn:
evil, evilness] [ant: good, goodness]
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medieval
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adj 1: relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages; "Medieval
scholars"; "Medieval times" [syn: medieval,
mediaeval]
2: as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and
unenlightened; "a medieval attitude toward dating" [syn:
medieval, mediaeval, gothic]
3: characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the
Middle Ages; "chivalric rites"; "the knightly years" [syn:
chivalric, knightly, medieval]
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primeval
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adj 1: having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or
original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal
eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest
primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of
life" [syn: aboriginal, primal, primeval,
primaeval, primordial]
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retrieval
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n 1: (computer science) the operation of accessing information
from the computer's memory
2: the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory;
"my retrieval of people's names is very poor"
3: the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger
of becoming lost) [syn: recovery, retrieval]
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upheaval
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n 1: a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics
or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution
was a period of great turbulence" [syn: turbulence,
upheaval, Sturm und Drang]
2: a violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock market"
[syn: convulsion, turmoil, upheaval]
3: (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the
process of mountain building) [syn: upheaval, uplift,
upthrow, upthrust]
4: disturbance usually in protest [syn: agitation,
excitement, turmoil, upheaval, hullabaloo]
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weevil
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n 1: any of several families of mostly small beetles that feed
on plants and plant products; especially snout beetles and
seed beetles
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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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shrieval
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