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acting
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adj 1: serving temporarily especially as a substitute; "the
acting president"
n 1: the performance of a part or role in a drama [syn:
acting, playing, playacting, performing]
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awing
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adj 1: inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an
amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring
sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this
sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some
hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing
majesty, so vast, so high, so silent" [syn: amazing,
awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing]
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drawing
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n 1: an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a
book, magazine, or newspaper; "it is shown by the drawing
in Fig. 7"
2: a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of
lines; "drawings of abstract forms"; "he did complicated pen-
and-ink drawings like medieval miniatures"
3: the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams; "he learned
drawing from his father" [syn: drawing, draftsmanship,
drafting]
4: players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed
by casting lots [syn: lottery, drawing]
5: act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a
liquid from a source; "the drawing of water from the well"
[syn: drawing, drawing off]
6: the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling [syn: draft,
draught, drawing]
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falling
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adj 1: decreasing in amount or degree; "falling temperature"
2: becoming lower or less in degree or value; "a falling
market"; "falling incomes" [ant: rising]
3: coming down freely under the influence of gravity; "the eerie
whistle of dropping bombs"; "falling rain" [syn: dropping,
falling]
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killing
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adj 1: very funny; "a killing joke"; "sidesplitting antics"
[syn: killing, sidesplitting]
n 1: an event that causes someone to die [syn: killing,
violent death]
2: the act of terminating a life [syn: killing, kill,
putting to death]
3: a very large profit [syn: killing, cleanup]
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searching
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adj 1: diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation; "a
probing inquiry"; "a searching investigation of their
past dealings" [syn: inquisitory, probing,
searching]
2: having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought,
expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant
criticism" [syn: searching, trenchant]
3: exploring thoroughly
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seeking
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n 1: the act of searching for something; "a quest for diamonds"
[syn: quest, seeking]
2: an attempt to acquire or gain something
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thawing
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n 1: the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to
a liquid; "the power failure caused a refrigerator melt
that was a disaster"; "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes
several hours" [syn: thaw, melt, thawing, melting]
2: warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt; "they
welcomed the spring thaw" [syn: thaw, thawing, warming]
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thinking
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adj 1: endowed with the capacity to reason [syn: intelligent,
reasoning(a), thinking(a)]
n 1: the process of using your mind to consider something
carefully; "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused
for thought" [syn: thinking, thought, thought
process, cerebration, intellection, mentation]
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cawing
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clawing
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gnawing
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pawing
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redrawing
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sawing
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withdrawing
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yawing
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baaing
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jawing
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lawing
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