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abseil
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n 1: (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made
by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and
wrapped around the body [syn: rappel, abseil]
v 1: lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a
mountainside; "The ascent was easy--roping down the
mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You
have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical
climbing" [syn: rappel, abseil, rope down]
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abyssal
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adj 1: relating to ocean depths from 2000 to 5000 meters
2: resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable;
"the abyssal depths of the ocean" [syn: abysmal, abyssal,
unfathomable]
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artificial
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adj 1: contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial
flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial
diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"
[syn: artificial, unreal] [ant: natural]
2: artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her
husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of
acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech
they develop a stilted pronunciation" [syn: artificial,
contrived, hokey, stilted]
3: not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital
processes
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beneficial
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adj 1: promoting or enhancing well-being; "an arms limitation
agreement beneficial to all countries"; "the beneficial
effects of a temperate climate"; "the experience was good
for her" [syn: beneficial, good]
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bristle
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n 1: a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or
synthetic
2: a stiff hair
v 1: be in a state of movement or action; "The room abounded
with screaming children"; "The garden bristled with
toddlers" [syn: abound, burst, bristle]
2: rise up as in fear; "The dog's fur bristled"; "It was a sight
to make one's hair uprise!" [syn: bristle, uprise, stand
up]
3: have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles;
"bristling leaves"
4: react in an offended or angry manner; "He bristled at her
suggestion that he should teach her how to use the program"
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carboxyl
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adj 1: relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl
radical [syn: carboxyl, carboxylic]
n 1: the univalent radical -COOH; present in and characteristic
of organic acids [syn: carboxyl, carboxyl group]
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chisel
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n 1: an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge
v 1: engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud;
"Who's chiseling on the side?" [syn: cheat, chisel]
2: deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me
out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated
by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my
money" [syn: cheat, rip off, chisel]
3: carve with a chisel; "chisel the marble"
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dismissal
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n 1: a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial [syn:
judgment of dismissal, judgement of dismissal,
dismissal]
2: official notice that you have been fired from your job [syn:
dismissal, dismission, pink slip]
3: permission to go; the sending away of someone
4: the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to
depart) [syn: dismissal, dismission, discharge,
firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking]
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docile
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adj 1: willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed;
"the docile masses of an enslaved nation" [ant:
obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate]
2: ready and willing to be taught; "docile pupils eager for
instruction"; "teachable youngsters" [syn: docile,
teachable]
3: easily handled or managed; "a gentle old horse, docile and
obedient" [syn: docile, gentle]
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domicile
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n 1: (law) the residence where you have your permanent home or
principal establishment and to where, whenever you are
absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to
have one and only one domicile at a time; "what's his legal
residence?" [syn: domicile, legal residence]
2: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest
dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes
for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile,
abode, habitation, dwelling house]
v 1: make one's home in a particular place or community; "may
parents reside in Florida" [syn: reside, shack,
domicile, domiciliate]
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ensile
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v 1: store in a silo; "ensile fodder for the cows"
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epistle
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n 1: a specially long, formal letter
2: a book of the New Testament written in the form of a letter
from an Apostle
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extensile
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adj 1: capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out;
"an extensile tongue"; "an extensible measuring rule"
[syn: extensile, extensible] [ant: inextensible,
nonextensile, nonprotractile]
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facile
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adj 1: arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth;
"too facile a solution for so complex a problem"
2: performing adroitly and without effort; "a facile hand"
3: expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to
dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" [syn:
eloquent, facile, fluent, silver, silver-tongued,
smooth-spoken]
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fissile
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adj 1: capable of undergoing nuclear fission; "a fissionable
nucleous"; "fissionable material" [syn: fissionable,
fissile] [ant: nonfissionable]
2: capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction
of the grain; "fissile crystals"; "fissile wood" [ant:
nonfissile]
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gristle
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n 1: tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults
[syn: cartilage, gristle]
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missal
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n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) a book containing all the prayers
and responses needed to celebrate Mass throughout the year
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missile
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n 1: a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear
explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control
2: a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets
but is not self-propelled [syn: projectile, missile]
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prehensile
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adj 1: adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an
object; "a monkey's prehensile tail" [ant:
nonprehensile]
2: having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely
prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
3: immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are
avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous
eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser";
"grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew
richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with
raises for their employees" [syn: avaricious, covetous,
grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile]
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reconcile
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v 1: make (one thing) compatible with (another); "The scientists
had to accommodate the new results with the existing
theories" [syn: accommodate, reconcile, conciliate]
2: bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one's goals with
one's abilities" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, reconcile]
3: come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up"
[syn: reconcile, patch up, make up, conciliate,
settle]
4: accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate" [syn:
resign, reconcile, submit]
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sessile
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adj 1: permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move
about; "sessile marine animals and plants" [ant:
vagile]
2: attached directly by the base; not having an intervening
stalk; "sessile flowers"; "the shell of a sessile barnacle is
attached directly to a substrate" [syn: sessile,
stalkless] [ant: pedunculate, stalked]
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tensile
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adj 1: of or relating to tension; "tensile stress"; "tensile
pull"
2: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile
copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the
leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of
highly tensile steel alloy" [syn: ductile, malleable,
pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile]
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thistle
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n 1: any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and
especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum
having prickly-edged leaves
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whistle
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n 1: the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam
coming out of a small aperture [syn: whistle,
whistling]
2: the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or
blowing a whistle; "the whistle signalled the end of the
game" [syn: whistle, whistling]
3: a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by
blowing into it
4: acoustic device that forces air or steam against an edge or
into a cavity and so produces a loud shrill sound
5: an inexpensive fipple flute [syn: pennywhistle, tin
whistle, whistle]
v 1: make whistling sounds; "He lay there, snoring and
whistling"
2: move with, or as with, a whistling sound; "The bullets
whistled past him"
3: utter or express by whistling; "She whistled a melody"
4: move, send, or bring as if by whistling; "Her optimism
whistled away these worries"
5: make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound; "the kettle was
singing"; "the bullet sang past his ear" [syn: whistle,
sing]
6: give a signal by whistling; "She whistled for her maid"
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decile
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n 1: (statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution
of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval
contains one-tenth of the scores
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antimissile
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pensile
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scissile
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bisel
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bissell
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cissell
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glycel
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entwistle
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