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bodice
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n 1: part of a dress above the waist
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caucus
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n 1: a closed political meeting
v 1: meet to select a candidate or promote a policy
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coppice
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n 1: a dense growth of bushes [syn: brush, brushwood,
coppice, copse, thicket]
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exodus
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n 1: a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile
environment [syn: exodus, hegira, hejira]
2: the second book of the Old Testament: tells of the departure
of the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt led by Moses; God
gave them the Ten Commandments and the rest of Mosaic law on
Mount Sinai during the Exodus [syn: Exodus, Book of
Exodus]
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goddess
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n 1: a female deity
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hazardous
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adj 1: involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous
sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog";
"a wild financial scheme" [syn: hazardous, risky,
wild]
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horrendous
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adj 1: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an
awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so
direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of
the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease
it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling";
"horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible
curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a),
dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome,
frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]
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incandesce
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v 1: cause to become incandescent or glow; "the lamp was
incandesced"
2: become incandescent or glow with heat; "an incandescing body"
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leopardess
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n 1: female leopard
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recrudesce
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v 1: happen; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political
movements recrudesce from time to time" [syn: break,
recrudesce, develop]
2: become raw or open; "He broke out in hives"; "My skin breaks
out when I eat strawberries"; "Such boils tend to recrudesce"
[syn: erupt, recrudesce, break out]
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shepherdess
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n 1: a woman shepherd
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stewardess
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n 1: a woman steward on an airplane [syn: stewardess, air
hostess, hostess]
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stupendous
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adj 1: so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe;
"colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a
colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous
field of grass"; "stupendous demand" [syn: colossal,
prodigious, stupendous]
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midas
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n 1: (Greek legend) the greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave
the power to turn everything he touched into gold
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barbados
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n 1: a parliamentary democracy on the island of Barbados; former
British colony; a popular resort area
2: easternmost of the West Indies about 300 miles to the north
of Venezuela
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caracas
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n 1: the capital and largest city of Venezuela [syn: Caracas,
capital of Venezuela]
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nidus
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n 1: a central point or locus of an infection in an organism;
"the focus of infection" [syn: focus, focal point,
nidus]
2: a nest in which spiders or insects deposit their eggs
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indus
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n 1: a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near
Telescopium and Tucana
2: an Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern
India and then southwest through Kashmir and Pakistan to the
Arabian Sea; "the valley of the Indus was the site of an
early civilization" [syn: Indus, Indus River]
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fundus
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n 1: (anatomy) the base of a hollow organ or that part of the
organ farthest from its opening; "the uterine fundus"; "the
fundus of the stomach"
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demigoddess
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tetrapodous
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addis
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candace
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aldous
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nodus
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candice
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pindus
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enceladus
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vendace
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dundas
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