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ab
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n 1: a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Bachelor of
Arts, BA, Artium Baccalaurens, AB]
2: the eleventh month of the civil year; the fifth month of the
ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in July and
August) [syn: Ab, Av]
3: the muscles of the abdomen [syn: abdominal, abdominal
muscle, ab]
4: the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B
antigens [syn: AB, type AB, group AB]
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adoptee
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n 1: someone (such as a child) who has been adopted
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agree
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v 1: be in accord; be in agreement; "We agreed on the terms of
the settlement"; "I can't agree with you!"; "I hold with
those who say life is sacred"; "Both philosophers concord
on this point" [syn: agree, hold, concur, concord]
[ant: differ, disagree, dissent, take issue]
2: consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something;
"She agreed to all my conditions"; "He agreed to leave her
alone"
3: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their
characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many
details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the
check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the
gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check, jibe,
gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disaccord, disagree,
discord]
4: go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas
concorded" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, consort,
accord, concord, fit in, agree]
5: show grammatical agreement; "Subjects and verbs must always
agree in English"
6: be agreeable or suitable; "White wine doesn't agree with me"
7: achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose; "No two of
my colleagues would agree on whom to elect chairman"
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appointee
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n 1: an official who is appointed
2: a person who is appointed to a job or position [syn:
appointee, appointment]
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attendee
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n 1: a person who is present and participates in a meeting; "he
was a regular attender at department meetings"; "the
gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees" [syn:
attendant, attender, attendee, meeter]
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banshee
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n 1: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of
impending death [syn: banshee, banshie]
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brie
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n 1: soft creamy white cheese; milder than Camembert
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cc
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adj 1: being ten more than one hundred ninety [syn: two
hundred, 200, cc]
n 1: a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter
[syn: milliliter, millilitre, mil, ml, cubic
centimeter, cubic centimetre, cc]
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chickadee
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n 1: any of various small grey-and-black songbirds of North
America
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cod
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adv 1: collecting the charges upon delivery; "mail a package
C.O.D." [syn: C.O.D., COD, cash on delivery]
adj 1: payable by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call";
"the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel" [syn:
collect, cod]
n 1: the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the
seeds themselves) [syn: pod, cod, seedcase]
2: lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish;
usually baked or poached [syn: cod, codfish]
3: major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters [syn:
cod, codfish]
v 1: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted
everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe,
slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put
one over, put one across]
2: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children
teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my
failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a
jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod,
tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally,
ride]
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curie
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n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a
radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of
37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie,
Ci]
2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn:
Curie, Pierre Curie]
3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one
(with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on
radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and
polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame
Curie, Marya Sklodowska]
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de
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n 1: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn:
Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]
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debris
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n 1: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken
up [syn: debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus]
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decree
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n 1: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court
record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New
Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
[syn: decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript]
v 1: issue a decree; "The King only can decree"
2: decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn
males should be killed" [syn: rule, decree]
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degree
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n 1: a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; "a
moderate grade of intelligence"; "a high level of care is
required"; "it is all a matter of degree" [syn: degree,
grade, level]
2: a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or
especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness";
"at what stage are the social sciences?" [syn: degree,
level, stage, point]
3: an award conferred by a college or university signifying that
the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study;
"he earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude" [syn:
academic degree, degree]
4: a measure for arcs and angles; "there are 360 degrees in a
circle" [syn: degree, arcdegree]
5: the highest power of a term or variable
6: a unit of temperature on a specified scale; "the game was
played in spite of the 40-degree temperature"
7: the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); "murder
in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"
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deportee
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n 1: a person who is expelled from home or country by authority
[syn: exile, deportee]
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detainee
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n 1: some held in custody [syn: detainee, political
detainee]
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devotee
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n 1: an ardent follower and admirer [syn: fan, buff,
devotee, lover]
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disagree
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v 1: be of different opinions; "I beg to differ!"; "She
disagrees with her husband on many questions" [syn:
disagree, differ, dissent, take issue] [ant:
agree, concord, concur, hold]
2: be different from one another [syn: disagree, disaccord,
discord] [ant: agree, check, correspond, fit,
gibe, jibe, match, tally]
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draftee
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n 1: someone who is drafted into military service [syn:
draftee, conscript, inductee] [ant: military
volunteer, voluntary, volunteer]
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emcee
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n 1: a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an
introductory speech and introduces other speakers) [syn:
master of ceremonies, emcee, host]
v 1: act as a master of ceremonies [syn: emcee, compere]
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enlistee
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n 1: any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces) [syn:
recruit, enlistee]
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escapee
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n 1: someone who escapes
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esprit
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n 1: liveliness of mind or spirit
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fee
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n 1: a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services
2: an interest in land capable of being inherited
v 1: give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond
the compensation agreed on; "Remember to tip the waiter";
"fee the steward" [syn: tip, fee, bung]
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flea
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n 1: any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for
ability to leap
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flee
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v 1: run away quickly; "He threw down his gun and fled" [syn:
flee, fly, take flight]
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grandee
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n 1: a nobleman of highest rank in Spain or Portugal
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id
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n 1: a state in the Rocky Mountains [syn: Idaho, Gem State,
ID]
2: a card or badge used to identify the bearer; "you had to show
your ID in order to get in" [syn: ID, I.D.]
3: (psychoanalysis) primitive instincts and energies underlying
all psychic activity
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led
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n 1: diode such that light emitted at a p-n junction is
proportional to the bias current; color depends on the
material used [syn: light-emitting diode, LED]
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midi
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adj 1: used of women's clothing having a hemline at mid-calf;
"midiskirts"; "wore her dresses midi length" [ant:
maxi, mini]
n 1: the southern part of France
2: a standard protocol for communication between electronic
musical instruments and computers [syn: musical instrument
digital interface, MIDI]
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spondee
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n 1: a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables
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standee
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n 1: someone who stands in a place where one might otherwise sit
(as a spectator who uses standing room in a theater or a
passenger on a crowded bus or train); "the allowed number
of standees is posted"
2: a lifesize cardboard cutout (usually of a celebrity); "he had
his picture taken with a standee of the president"
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vendee
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n 1: a person who buys [syn: buyer, purchaser, emptor,
vendee]
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cd
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adj 1: being one hundred more than three hundred [syn: four
hundred, 400, cd]
n 1: a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent
metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores
[syn: cadmium, Cd, atomic number 48]
2: the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the
Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous
intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at
the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin [syn: candle,
candela, cd, standard candle]
3: a debt instrument issued by a bank; usually pays interest
[syn: certificate of deposit, CD]
4: a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is
smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser
[syn: compact disk, compact disc, CD]
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hindi
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adj 1: of or relating to or supporting Hinduism; "the Hindu
faith" [syn: Hindu, Hindi, Hindoo]
n 1: the most widely spoken of modern Indic vernaculars; spoken
mostly in the north of India; along with English it is the
official language of India; usually written in Devanagari
script
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od
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n 1: a doctor's degree in optometry [syn: Doctor of Optometry,
OD]
2: the right eye [syn: oculus dexter, OD]
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d
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adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units
[syn: five hundred, 500, d]
n 1: a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets [syn: vitamin
D, calciferol, viosterol, ergocalciferol,
cholecalciferol, D]
2: the cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and
five [syn: five hundred, 500, D]
3: the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: D, d]
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dea
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n 1: federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and
regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances;
goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations [syn:
Drug Enforcement Administration, Drug Enforcement
Agency, DEA]
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lsd
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n 1: a powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic
acid [syn: lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD]
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chaldee
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adj 1: of or relating to ancient Chaldea or its people or
language or culture [syn: Chaldean, Chaldaean,
Chaldee]
n 1: a wise man skilled in occult learning [syn: Chaldean,
Chaldaean, Chaldee]
2: an inhabitant of ancient Chaldea [syn: Chaldean,
Chaldaean, Chaldee]
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thee
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cacld
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dundee
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zebedee
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glissandi
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vivendi
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modi
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