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an
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n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in
Nursing, AN]
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awaken
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v 1: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the
drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn:
awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse]
[ant: cause to sleep]
2: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
[syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come
alive, waken] [ant: dope off, doze off, drift off,
drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod
off]
3: make aware; "They were awakened to the sad facts"
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can
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n 1: airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint
etc. [syn: can, tin, tin can]
2: the quantity contained in a can [syn: can, canful]
3: a buoy with a round bottom and conical top [syn: can, can
buoy]
4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he
deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on
your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates,
arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can,
fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister,
posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern,
seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom,
behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
5: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn:
toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty,
stool, throne]
6: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn:
toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy,
bathroom]
v 1: preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty"
[syn: can, tin, put up]
2: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or
position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company
terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire,
give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away,
sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant:
employ, engage, hire]
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mistaken
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adj 1: wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment; "well-meaning but
misguided teachers"; "a mistaken belief"; "mistaken
identity" [syn: misguided, mistaken]
2: arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of
the situation" [syn: false, mistaken]
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reawaken
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v 1: awaken once again
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unshaken
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adj 1: unshaken in purpose; "wholly undismayed by the commercial
failure of the three movies he had made" [syn:
undaunted, undismayed, unshaken]
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aiken
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n 1: United States writer (1889-1973) [syn: Aiken, Conrad
Aiken, Conrad Potter Aiken]
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rubicon
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n 1: the boundary in ancient times between Italy and Gaul;
Caesar's crossing it with his army in 49 BC was an act of
war
2: a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically
results in irrevocable commitment [syn: Rubicon, point of
no return]
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achaean
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adj 1: of or relating to Achaea or its ancient Greek people
n 1: a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the
prehistoric Greeks [syn: Achaean, Achaian]
2: the ancient Greek inhabitants of Achaea [syn: Achaean,
Arcado-Cyprians]
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aken
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n 1: a city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian
borders; formerly it was Charlemagne's northern capital
[syn: Aachen, Aken, Aix-la-Chapelle]
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jamaican
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adj 1: of or relating to Jamaica (the island or the country) or
to its inhabitants; "Jamaican rum"; "the Jamaican Prime
Minister"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Jamaica
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alaskan
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adj 1: relating to or characteristic of the state or people of
Alaska
n 1: a native or resident of Alaska
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etruscan
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n 1: a native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria; the Etruscans
influenced the Romans (who had suppressed them by about 200
BC)
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archaean
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adj 1: of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during
the Precambrian Eon [syn: archean, archaean]
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chaldean
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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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linnaean
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adj 1: of or relating to Linnaeus or to the system of taxonomic
classification that Linnaeus proposed [syn: Linnaean,
Linnean]
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mandaean
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adj 1: of or relating to the Mandaean people or their language
or culture [syn: Mandaean, Mandean]
n 1: a member of a small Gnostic sect that originated in Jordan
and survives in Iraq and who believes that John the Baptist
was the Messiah [syn: Mandaean, Mandean]
2: the form of Aramaic used by the Mandeans [syn: Mandaean,
Mandean]
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hebridean
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adj 1: of or relating to the Hebrides
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sisyphean
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adj 1: of or relating to Sisyphus
2: both extremely effortful and futile
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aachen
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n 1: a city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian
borders; formerly it was Charlemagne's northern capital
[syn: Aachen, Aken, Aix-la-Chapelle]
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moroccan
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its
people; "Moroccan mosques cannot be entered by infidels"
[syn: Moroccan, Maroc]
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Morocco
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clachan
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ian
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meehan
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mccracken
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molluscan
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paeon
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cadmean
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orphean
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rugbeian
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sabaean
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hasmonean
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nabataean
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tacitean
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kochan
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locken
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lokken
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conshohocken
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hawken
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