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angostura
0
n 1: the bitter bark of a South American tree; used in medicines
and liqueurs and bitters [syn: angostura bark,
angostura]
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awe
0
n 1: an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration; "he stared
over the edge with a feeling of awe"
2: a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; "the
fear of God"; "the Chinese reverence for the dead"; "the
French treat food with gentle reverence"; "his respect for
the law bordered on veneration" [syn: fear, reverence,
awe, veneration]
v 1: inspire awe in; "The famous professor awed the
undergraduates"
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baccarat
0
n 1: a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters
gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3
cards that total closest to nine [syn: baccarat, chemin
de fer]
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blah
0
n 1: pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: bombast,
fustian, rant, claptrap, blah]
-
bourgeois
0
adj 1: (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-
owning class and exploitive of the working class
2: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle
class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: bourgeois,
conservative, materialistic]
3: belonging to the middle class
n 1: a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial
enterprise [syn: businessperson, bourgeois]
2: a member of the middle class [syn: bourgeois, burgher]
-
bra
0
n 1: an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts
[syn: brassiere, bra, bandeau]
-
bravura
0
n 1: brilliant and showy technical skill; "in a final bravura
the ballerina appeared to be floating in water"; "the music
ends with a display of bravura"
-
coloratura
0
n 1: a lyric soprano who specializes in coloratura vocal music
[syn: coloratura, coloratura soprano]
2: singing with florid ornamentation
-
devourer
0
n 1: someone who eats greedily or voraciously
-
durra
0
n 1: sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa [syn:
durra, doura, dourah, Egyptian corn, Indian
millet, Guinea corn]
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emperor
0
n 1: the male ruler of an empire
2: red table grape of California
3: large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily
scaled transparent wings [syn: emperor, emperor moth,
Saturnia pavonia]
4: large richly colored butterfly [syn: emperor butterfly,
emperor]
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enquirer
0
n 1: someone who asks a question [syn: inquirer, enquirer,
questioner, querier, asker]
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ha
0
n 1: (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point
measured westward along the celestial equator from the
zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a
particular location and time of day [syn: hour angle,
HA]
-
hurrah
0
n 1: a victory cheer; "let's give the team a big hurrah" [syn:
hurrah, hooray]
v 1: shout `hurrah!'
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insurer
0
n 1: a financial institution that sells insurance [syn:
insurance company, insurance firm, insurer,
insurance underwriter, underwriter]
-
juror
0
n 1: someone who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a
jury [syn: juror, juryman, jurywoman]
-
la
0
n 1: a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily;
occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as
a rare earth [syn: lanthanum, La, atomic number 57]
2: a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one
of the Confederate states during the American Civil War [syn:
Louisiana, Pelican State, LA]
3: the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or
minor scale in solmization [syn: la, lah]
-
law
0
n 1: the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization
presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for
jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" [syn:
law, jurisprudence]
2: legal document setting forth rules governing a particular
kind of activity; "there is a law against kidnapping"
3: a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature
and essential to or binding upon human society [syn: law,
natural law]
4: a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in
nature; "the laws of thermodynamics" [syn: law, law of
nature]
5: the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the
principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
[syn: jurisprudence, law, legal philosophy]
6: the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in
a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system;
"he studied law at Yale" [syn: law, practice of law]
7: the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking
for him" [syn: police, police force, constabulary,
law]
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ma
0
n 1: informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma,
mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy]
2: a master's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Master of
Arts, MA, Artium Magister, AM]
3: one thousandth of an ampere [syn: milliampere, mA]
4: a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies [syn:
Massachusetts, Bay State, Old Colony, MA]
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opera
0
n 1: a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral
accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
2: a commercial browser
3: a building where musical dramas are performed [syn: opera,
opera house]
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pa
0
n 1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby
talk [syn: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa,
pop]
2: a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from
uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead
[syn: protactinium, protoactinium, Pa, atomic number
91]
3: a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter [syn:
pascal, Pa]
4: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn:
Pennsylvania, Keystone State, PA]
5: an electronic amplification system used as a communication
system in public areas [syn: public address system, P.A.
system, PA system, P.A., PA]
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pasha
0
n 1: a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt [syn:
pasha, pacha]
-
pleura
0
n 1: the thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls
of the chest
-
procurer
0
n 1: someone who procures customers for whores (in England they
call a pimp a ponce) [syn: pimp, procurer, panderer,
pander, pandar, fancy man, ponce]
2: someone who obtains or acquires; "the procurer of opera
tickets" [syn: procurer, securer]
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raw
0
adj 1: (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or
manufactured using only simple or minimal processes;
"natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw
sugar"; "bales of rude cotton" [syn: natural, raw(a),
rude(a)]
2: having the surface exposed and painful; "a raw wound"
3: not treated with heat to prepare it for eating [ant:
cooked]
4: not processed or refined; "raw sewage"
5: devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and
pure; "naked ambition"; "raw fury"; "you may kill someone
someday with your raw power" [syn: naked, raw]
6: brutally unfair or harsh; "received raw treatment from his
friends"; "a raw deal"
7: not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw
cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics" [syn:
crude, raw]
8: untempered and unrefined; "raw talent"; "raw beauty"
9: hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" [syn: sensitive,
sore, raw, tender]
10: unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North
Atlantic" [syn: bleak, cutting, raw]
11: used of wood and furniture; "raw wood" [syn: raw(a),
unsanded]
12: lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to
fight"; "raw recruits" [syn: raw, new]
13: (used informally) completely unclothed [syn: bare-assed,
bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff, in the
raw, raw, peeled, naked as a jaybird, stark naked]
n 1: informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the
altogether"; "in his birthday suit" [syn: raw,
altogether, birthday suit]
-
shah
0
n 1: title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran [syn:
Shah, Shah of Iran]
-
spa
0
n 1: a health resort near a spring or at the seaside [syn:
watering place, watering hole, spa]
2: a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area [syn: resort
hotel, spa]
3: a place of business with equipment and facilities for
exercising and improving physical fitness [syn: health spa,
spa, health club]
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tempera
0
n 1: pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such
as size and egg yolk [syn: tempera, poster paint,
poster color, poster colour]
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tempura
0
n 1: vegetables and seafood dipped in batter and deep-fried
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whisperer
0
n 1: one who speaks in a whisper
-
scourer
0
n 1: someone who cleanses by scouring
2: someone who travels widely and energetically; "he was a
scourer of the seven seas"
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ka
0
n 1: unknown god; an epithet of Prajapati and Brahma
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na
0
n 1: a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal
group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially
in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts
violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral
halite (rock salt) [syn: sodium, Na, atomic number
11]
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ra
0
n 1: an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in
minute amounts in uranium ores [syn: radium, Ra,
atomic number 88]
2: ancient Egyptian sun god with the head of a hawk; a universal
creator; he merged with the god Amen as Amen-Ra to become the
king of the gods [syn: Ra, Re]
3: (astronomy) the equatorial coordinate specifying the angle,
measured eastward along the celestial equator, from the
vernal equinox to the intersection of the hour circle that
passes through an object in the sky; usually expressed in
hours and minutes and seconds; used with declination to
specify positions on the celestial sphere; "one hour of right
ascension equals fifteen degrees" [syn: right ascension,
RA, celestial longitude]
-
ta
0
n 1: a hard grey lustrous metallic element that is highly
resistant to corrosion; occurs in niobite and fergusonite
and tantalite [syn: tantalum, Ta, atomic number 73]
-
wa
0
n 1: a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific [syn:
Washington, Evergreen State, WA]
-
artois
0
n 1: a former province of northern France near the English
Channel (between Picardy and Flanders)
-
sura
0
n 1: one of the sections (or chapters) in the Koran; "the Quran
is divided in 114 suras"
2: the muscular back part of the shank [syn: calf, sura]
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acquirer
0
n 1: a person who acquires something (usually permanently)
2: a corporation gaining financial control over another
corporation or financial institution through a payment in
cash or an exchange of stock
3: the financial institution that dispenses cash in automated
teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that issued
the credit card
4: a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for
credit card receipts less a processing fee [syn: merchant
bank, acquirer]
-
dura
0
n 1: the outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges [syn: dura
mater, dura]
-
datura
0
n 1: thorn apple [syn: Datura, genus Datura]
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bujumbura
0
n 1: the capital and largest city of Burundi; "Usumbura was
renamed Bujumbura when Burundi became independent in 1962"
[syn: Bujumbura, Usumbura, capital of Burundi]
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nomenklatura
0
n 1: the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled
by committees in the Communist Party
-
durer
0
n 1: a leading German painter and engraver of the Renaissance
(1471-1528) [syn: Durer, Albrecht Durer]
-
paperer
0
n 1: one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper
[syn: paperhanger, paperer]
-
tourer
0
n 1: someone who travels for pleasure [syn: tourist, tourer,
holidaymaker]
2: large open car seating four with folding top [syn: touring
car, phaeton, tourer]
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ah
0
-
aha
0
-
bah
0
-
corpora
0
-
flowerer
0
-
hah
0
-
qua
0
-
rah
0
-
yah
0
-
cha
0
-
gras
0
-
nah
0
-
ya
0
-
ahh
0
-
jura
0
-
tempore
0
-
surah
0
-
surra
0
-
figura
0
-
scordatura
0
-
tessitura
0
-
bonaventura
0
-
fioritura
0
-
imprimatura
0
-
madura
0
-
klemperer
0
-
tamboura
0