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aficionado
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n 1: a fan of bull fighting
2: a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical
performer
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amontillado
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n 1: pale medium-dry sherry from Spain
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avocado
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adj 1: of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado
n 1: a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin
and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed [syn:
avocado, alligator pear, avocado pear, aguacate]
2: tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits [syn:
avocado, avocado tree, Persea Americana]
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bastinado
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n 1: a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the
feet
2: a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten
with whips or cudgels [syn: bastinado, falanga]
v 1: beat somebody on the soles of the feet
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bravado
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n 1: a swaggering show of courage [syn: bravado, bluster]
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bushido
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n 1: traditional code of the Japanese samurai which stressed
courage and loyalty and self-discipline and simple living
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credo
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n 1: any system of principles or beliefs [syn: creed, credo]
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dado
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n 1: panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is
finished differently from the rest of the wall [syn:
wainscot, dado]
2: the section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase
3: a rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece
can fit into it
v 1: provide with a dado; "The owners wanted to dado their
dining room"
2: cut a dado into or fit into a dado
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desperado
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n 1: a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier) [syn:
desperado, desperate criminal]
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incommunicado
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adj 1: without the means or right to communicate; "a prisoner
held incommunicado"; "incommunicado political detainees"
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libido
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n 1: (psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire
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lido
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n 1: a recreational facility including a swimming pool for water
sports
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tornado
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n 1: a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring
over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending
toward the ground [syn: tornado, twister]
2: a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather
than snorted; highly addictive [syn: crack, crack
cocaine, tornado]
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torpedo
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n 1: a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman,
gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire,
triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter]
2: a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise
and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and
lettuce and condiments); different names are used in
different sections of the United States [syn: bomber,
grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban
sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub,
submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep]
3: an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas
well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas)
4: a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some
gravel wrapped in paper; explodes when thrown forcefully
against a hard surface
5: a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track
and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the
explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead
6: armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled
underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target
7: any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes
having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the
head capable of emitting strong electric discharges [syn:
electric ray, crampfish, numbfish, torpedo]
v 1: attack or hit with torpedoes
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tuxedo
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n 1: semiformal evening dress for men [syn: dinner jacket,
tux, tuxedo, black tie]
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mikado
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n 1: the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader
the emperor is called tenno [syn: mikado, tenno]
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colorado
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n 1: a state in west central United States in the Rocky
Mountains [syn: Colorado, Centennial State, CO]
2: a river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico
[syn: Colorado, Colorado River]
3: an important river in the southwestern United States; rises
in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows
southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through
the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip
of Nevada, then forming the border between California and
Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the
Gulf of California; the main source of water in the
southwestern United States [syn: Colorado, Colorado
River]
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eldorado
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n 1: an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought
in South America by 16th-century explorers [syn: El
Dorado, eldorado]
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laredo
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n 1: a city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande
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pintado
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n 1: large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal
Atlantic waters [syn: cero, pintado, kingfish,
Scomberomorus regalis]
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strappado
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n 1: a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a
person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope
tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall
is checked with a jerk by the rope [syn: strappado,
strapado]
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carbonado
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n 1: an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and
polishing [syn: carbonado, black diamond]
2: a piece of meat (or fish) that has been scored and broiled
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oviedo
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n 1: a city in northwestern Spain near the Cantabrian Mountains
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edo
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n 1: a member of a west African people living in the tropical
forest region of southern Nigeria
2: the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and
cultural center of Japan [syn: Tokyo, Tokio, Yeddo,
Yedo, Edo, Japanese capital, capital of Japan]
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ricardo
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n 1: English economist who argued that the laws of supply and
demand should operate in a free market (1772-1823) [syn:
Ricardo, David Ricardo]
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leonardo
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n 1: Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and
architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian
Renaissance (1452-1519) [syn: Leonardo, Leonardo da
Vinci, da Vinci]
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ido
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n 1: an artificial language that is a revision and
simplification of Esperanto
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toledo
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n 1: an industrial city in northwestern Ohio on Lake Erie
2: a city in central Spain on the Tagus river; famous for steel
and swords since the first century
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albedo
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n 1: the ratio of reflected to incident light [syn: albedo,
reflective power]
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teredo
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n 1: typical shipworm
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prado
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delgado
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tostado
0
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dau
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bastedo
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caicedo
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canedo
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robledo
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salcedo
0
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saucedo
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shiseido
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tancredo
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wilfredo
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azevedo
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escobedo
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muscovado
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renegado
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zapateado
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bardo
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barnardo
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speedo
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pardoe
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guido
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escondido
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phaedo
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