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adamantine
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adj 1: consisting of or having the hardness of adamant
2: having the hardness of a diamond
3: impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is
adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was
inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an
intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency"
[syn: adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent]
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amethystine
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adj 1: containing or resembling amethyst
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argentine
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Argentina or its
people; "Argentinian tango" [syn: Argentine,
Argentinian]
n 1: any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine
fishes
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clandestine
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adj 1: conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods;
"clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger
activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner
intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret
sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops";
"an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance"
[syn: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-
corner(a), hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret,
surreptitious, undercover, underground]
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diamantine
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adj 1: consisting of diamonds or resembling diamonds
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eglantine
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n 1: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and
bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips [syn:
sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine,
Rosa eglanteria]
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elephantine
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adj 1: of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo
shrimp" [syn: elephantine, gargantuan, giant,
jumbo]
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serpentine
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adj 1: resembling a serpent in form; "a serpentine wall"; "snaky
ridges in the sand" [syn: serpentine, snaky,
snakelike]
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tontine
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n 1: a form of life insurance whereby on the death or default of
a participant his share is distributed to the remaining
members [syn: tontine, tontine insurance]
2: an annuity scheme wherein participants share certain benefits
and on the death of any participant his benefits are
redistributed among the remaining participants; can run for a
fixed period of time or until the death of all but one
participant
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turpentine
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n 1: obtained from conifers (especially pines) [syn:
turpentine, gum terpentine]
2: volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as
paint thinner and solvent and medicinally [syn: turpentine,
oil of turpentine, spirit of turpentine, turps]
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valentine
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n 1: a sweetheart chosen to receive a greeting on Saint
Valentine's Day; "will you be my valentine?"
2: a card sent or given (as to a sweetheart) on Saint
Valentine's Day
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epstein
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n 1: British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for
busts and large controversial works (1880-1959) [syn:
Epstein, Jacob Epstein, Sir Jacob Epstein]
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augustine
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n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the
early Christian church; after a dramatic conversion to
Christianity he became bishop of Hippo Regius in North
Africa; St. Augustine emphasized man's need for grace
(354-430) [syn: Augustine, Saint Augustine, St.
Augustine, Augustine of Hippo]
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byzantine
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adj 1: of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the
rites performed in it; "Byzantine monks"; "Byzantine
rites"
2: of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire
or the ancient city of Byzantium
3: highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the
Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on
to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language";
"convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a
knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering";
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott;
"tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting
for months" [syn: Byzantine, convoluted, involved,
knotty, tangled, tortuous]
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine
Empire
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clementine
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n 1: a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the
Mediterranean and in South Africa [syn: clementine,
clementine tree]
2: a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few
seeds
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constantine
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n 1: Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians
and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the
Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to
Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337) [syn:
Constantine, Constantine I, Constantine the Great,
Flavius Valerius Constantinus]
2: a walled city in northeastern Algeria to the east of Algiers;
was destroyed in warfare in the 4th century and rebuilt by
Constantine I
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florentine
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the city of
Florence; "Florentine art"
n 1: a native or resident of Florence, Italy
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frankenstein
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n 1: an agency that escapes control and destroys its creator
2: the monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary
Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used
to refer to his creation) [syn: Frankenstein,
Frankenstein's monster]
3: the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a
gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a
monster from parts of corpses
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hammerstein
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n 1: United States lyricist who collaborated on many musical
comedies (most successfully with Richard Rodgers)
(1895-1960) [syn: Hammerstein, Oscar Hammerstein,
Oscar Hammerstein II]
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lichtenstein
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n 1: United States painter who was a leading exponent of pop art
(1923-1997) [syn: Lichtenstein, Roy Lichtenstein]
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philistine
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adj 1: of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its
people
2: smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and
cultural values [syn: anti-intellectual, philistine]
n 1: a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits [syn:
philistine, anti-intellectual, lowbrow]
2: a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia
around the 12th century BC
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rubinstein
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n 1: United States pianist (born in Poland) known for his
interpretations of the music of Chopin (1886-1982) [syn:
Rubinstein, Arthur Rubinstein, Artur Rubinstein]
2: Russian composer and pianist (1829-1894) [syn: Rubinstein,
Anton Rubenstein, Anton Gregor Rubinstein, Anton
Grigorevich Rubinstein]
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eisenstein
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n 1: Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is
considered among the most influential film makers in the
history of motion pictures (1898-1948) [syn: Eisenstein,
Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein]
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levantine
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adj 1: of or relating to the Levant or its inhabitants; "the
Levantine coast"
n 1: (formerly) a native or inhabitant of the Levant
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palestine
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n 1: a former British mandate on the east coast of the
Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948
2: an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of
the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity
and Islam and Judaism [syn: Palestine, Canaan, Holy
Land, Promised Land]
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wittgenstein
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n 1: British philosopher born in Austria; a major influence on
logic and logical positivism (1889-1951) [syn:
Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johan
Wittgenstein]
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einstein
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n 1: physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory
of relativity and the general theory of relativity;
Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete
quantized bundles of energy (later called photons)
(1879-1955) [syn: Einstein, Albert Einstein]
2: someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and
originality; "Mozart was a child genius"; "he's smart but
he's no Einstein" [syn: genius, mastermind, brain,
brainiac, Einstein]
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bernstein
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n 1: United States conductor and composer (1918-1990) [syn:
Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein]
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chryselephantine
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goldstein
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heseltine
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celestine
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ballantine
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infantine
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lacertine
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vespertine
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tridentine
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asbestine
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transpontine
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