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aculeate
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adj 1: having or resembling a stinger or barb; "aculeate insects
such as bees and wasps" [syn: aculeate, aculeated]
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affiliate
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n 1: a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is
affiliated with another or with an organization
2: a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated
with another organization; "network affiliates"
v 1: keep company with; hang out with; "He associates with
strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues" [syn:
consort, associate, affiliate, assort]
2: join in an affiliation; "The two colleges affiliated"; "They
affiliated with a national group"
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at
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n 1: a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the
halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium
[syn: astatine, At, atomic number 85]
2: 100 at equal 1 kip in Laos
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ate
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n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
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exfoliate
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v 1: spread by opening the leaves of
2: cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters
3: remove the surface, in scales or laminae
4: come off in a very thin piece
5: grow by producing or unfolding leaves; "plants exfoliate"
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foliate
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adj 1: ornamented with foliage or foils; "foliate tracery"; "a
foliated capital" [syn: foliate, foliated]
2: (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf
or having a specified kind or number of leaves; "`foliate' is
combined with the prefix `tri' to form the word `trifoliate'"
3: (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers
or strata [syn: foliate, foliated, foliaceous]
v 1: hammer into thin flat foils; "foliate metal"
2: decorate with leaves
3: coat or back with metal foil; "foliate glass"
4: number the pages of a book or manuscript [syn: foliate,
paginate, page]
5: grow leaves; "the tree foliated in Spring"
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mediate
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adj 1: acting through or dependent on an intervening agency;
"the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact"
[ant: immediate]
2: being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series;
"adolescence is an awkward in-between age"; "in a mediate
position"; "the middle point on a line" [syn: in-between,
mediate, middle]
v 1: act between parties with a view to reconciling differences;
"He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a
settlement" [syn: intercede, mediate, intermediate,
liaise, arbitrate]
2: occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a
connecting link or stage between two others; "mediate between
the old and the new"
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misappropriate
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v 1: appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care)
fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled
thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"
[syn: embezzle, defalcate, peculate,
misappropriate, malversate]
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nauseate
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v 1: upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the food turned the
pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened
the diners" [syn: sicken, nauseate, turn one's
stomach]
2: cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The
pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: disgust, revolt,
nauseate, sicken, churn up]
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negotiate
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v 1: discuss the terms of an arrangement; "They negotiated the
sale of the house" [syn: negociate, negotiate, talk
terms]
2: succeed in passing through, around, or over; "The hiker
negociated the high mountain pass" [syn: negotiate,
negociate]
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nucleate
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adj 1: having a nucleus or occurring in the nucleus; "nucleated
cells" [syn: nucleated, nucleate]
v 1: form into a nucleus; "Some cells had nucleated"
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obviate
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v 1: do away with [syn: obviate, rid of, eliminate] [ant:
ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate,
need, postulate, require, take]
2: prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's
avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a
strike" [syn: debar, forefend, forfend, obviate,
deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off,
avoid, ward off]
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officiate
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v 1: act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious
ritual, such as a wedding; "Who officiated at your
wedding?"
2: perform duties attached to a particular office or place or
function; "His wife officiated as his private secretary"
[syn: officiate, function]
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palliate
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v 1: lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of;
"The circumstances extenuate the crime" [syn: extenuate,
palliate, mitigate]
2: provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will
relieve your headaches" [syn: relieve, alleviate,
palliate, assuage]
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permeate
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v 1: spread or diffuse through; "An atmosphere of distrust has
permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the
entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with
accusations and personal attacks" [syn: permeate,
pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse,
imbue, riddle]
2: pass through; "Water permeates sand easily" [syn:
percolate, sink in, permeate, filter]
3: penetrate mutually or be interlocked; "The territories of two
married people interpenetrate a lot" [syn: interpenetrate,
permeate]
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potentiate
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v 1: increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug
or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon); "potentiate
the drug"
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procreate
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v 1: have offspring or produce more individuals of a given
animal or plant; "The Bible tells people to procreate"
[syn: reproduce, procreate, multiply]
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propitiate
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v 1: make peace with [syn: propitiate, appease]
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radiate
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adj 1: arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common
center; "radial symmetry"; "a starlike or stellate
arrangement of petals"; "many cities show a radial
pattern of main highways" [syn: radial, stellate,
radiate]
2: having rays or ray-like parts as in the flower heads of
daisies
v 1: send out rays or waves; "The sun radiates heat"
2: send out real or metaphoric rays; "She radiates happiness"
3: extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward
towards a center; "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel";
"This plants radiate spines in all directions" [syn:
radiate, ray]
4: have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or
pink; "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna" [syn:
glow, beam, radiate, shine]
5: cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays; "The sun is
radiating"
6: experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good
health or an intense emotion; "She was beaming with joy";
"Her face radiated with happiness" [syn: glow, beam,
radiate, shine]
7: issue or emerge in rays or waves; "Heat radiated from the
metal box"
8: spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate;
"The plants on this island diversified" [syn: diversify,
radiate]
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recreate
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v 1: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me";
"This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired
my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate,
revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify,
revivify]
2: engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy
oneself in a diversion; "On weekends I play"; "The students
all recreate alike" [syn: play, recreate]
3: give encouragement to [syn: cheer, hearten, recreate,
embolden] [ant: dishearten, put off]
4: create anew; "she recreated the feeling of the 1920's with
her stage setting"
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renegotiate
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v 1: negociate anew; "The two warring parties will have to
renegociate" [syn: renegociate, renegotiate]
2: revise the terms of in order to limit or regain excess
profits gained by the contractor; "We renegociated our old
mortgage now that the interest rates have come down" [syn:
renegociate, renegotiate]
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repatriate
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n 1: a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose
citizenship has been restored
v 1: send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of
refugees
2: admit back into the country [ant: deport, exile,
expatriate]
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repudiate
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v 1: cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents
repudiated their son" [syn: disown, renounce,
repudiate]
2: refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid; "The
woman repudiated the divorce settlement"
3: refuse to recognize or pay; "repudiate a debt"
4: reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust; "She repudiated the
accusations"
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retaliate
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v 1: take revenge for a perceived wrong; "He wants to avenge the
murder of his brother" [syn: revenge, avenge,
retaliate]
2: make a counterattack and return like for like, especially
evil for evil; "The Empire strikes back"; "The Giants struck
back and won the opener"; "The Israeli army retaliated for
the Hamas bombing" [syn: retaliate, strike back]
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roseate
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adj 1: of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the
roseate glow of dawn" [syn: rose, roseate,
rosaceous]
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satiate
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adj 1: supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction [syn:
satiate, satiated] [ant: insatiable, insatiate,
unsatiable]
v 1: fill to satisfaction; "I am sated" [syn: satiate, sate,
replete, fill]
2: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She
stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice
cream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut,
englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat,
gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig
out, satiate, scarf out]
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substantiate
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v 1: establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his
story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the
defendant" [syn: confirm, corroborate, sustain,
substantiate, support, affirm] [ant: contradict,
negate]
2: represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong
with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of
the artist" [syn: incarnate, body forth, embody,
substantiate]
3: make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our
ideas must be substantiated into actions" [syn: realize,
realise, actualize, actualise, substantiate]
4: solidify, firm, or strengthen; "The president's trip will
substantiate good relations with the former enemy country"
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transubstantiate
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v 1: change (the Eucharist bread and wine) into the body and
blood of Christ
2: change or alter in form, appearance, or nature; "This
experience transformed her completely"; "She transformed the
clay into a beautiful sculpture"; "transubstantiate one
element into another" [syn: transform, transmute,
transubstantiate]
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trifoliate
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adj 1: (of a leaf shape) having three leaflets [syn:
trifoliate, trifoliolate, trifoliated]
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eliot
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n 1: British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel
prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of
modern verse drama (1888-1965) [syn: Eliot, T. S.
Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot]
2: British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis
of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880) [syn: Eliot,
George Eliot, Mary Ann Evans]
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aydt
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ait
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galeate
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oleate
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tritiate
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impropriate
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juliet
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elliot
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galliot
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italiot
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curvifoliate
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