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actuary
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n 1: someone versed in the collection and interpretation of
numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to
calculate insurance premiums) [syn: statistician,
actuary]
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aerie
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n 1: the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)
[syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry]
2: any habitation at a high altitude [syn: aerie, aery,
eyrie, eyry]
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bowery
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adj 1: like a bower; leafy and shady; "a bowery lane"
n 1: a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by
homeless derelicts
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brewery
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n 1: a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation
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contemporary
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adj 1: characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in
design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
[syn: contemporary, modern-day]
2: belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders" [syn:
contemporary, present-day(a)]
3: occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest
rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in
inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with
Mozart" [syn: contemporaneous, contemporary]
n 1: a person of nearly the same age as another [syn:
contemporary, coeval]
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coppery
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adj 1: of something having the color of copper [syn: coppery,
copper colored]
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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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diary
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n 1: a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences
and observations [syn: diary, journal]
2: a personal journal (as a physical object)
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dowry
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n 1: money or property brought by a woman to her husband at
marriage [syn: dowry, dowery, dower, portion]
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drapery
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n 1: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
[syn: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall]
2: cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds
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fiery
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adj 1: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an
ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a
fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned
appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: ardent,
fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid,
torrid]
2: like or suggestive of fire; "a fiery desert wind"; "an
igneous desert atmosphere" [syn: fiery, igneous]
3: very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions" [syn:
fiery, flaming]
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floury
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adj 1: resembling flour in fine powdery texture; "a floury clay"
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flowery
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adj 1: of or relating to or suggestive of flowers; "a flowery
hat"; "flowery wine"
2: marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative
details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of
the rule of Plato"-John Milton [syn: flowery, ornate]
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fury
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n 1: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman
scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury,
rage, madness]
2: state of violent mental agitation [syn: craze, delirium,
frenzy, fury, hysteria]
3: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's
violence" [syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness,
fury, vehemence, violence, wildness]
4: (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters
(usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
[syn: Fury, Eumenides, Erinyes]
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jury
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n 1: a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according
to the evidence presented in a court of law
2: a committee appointed to judge a competition [syn: jury,
panel]
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scurry
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n 1: rushing about hastily in an undignified way [syn:
scamper, scramble, scurry]
v 1: to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the
extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to
higher ground" [syn: scurry, scamper, skitter,
scuttle]
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showery
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adj 1: (of weather) wet by periods of rain; "showery weather";
"rainy days" [syn: showery, rainy]
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slippery
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adj 1: causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide;
"slippery sidewalks"; "a slippery bar of soap"; "the
streets are still slippy from the rain" [syn: slippery,
slippy] [ant: nonslippery]
2: not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the
camera is"- James Agee [syn: slippery, tricky]
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surrey
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n 1: a county in southeastern England on the Thames
2: a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four
seats
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wiry
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adj 1: lean and sinewy [syn: stringy, wiry]
2: of or relating to wire
3: of hair that resembles wire in stiffness; "wiry red hair"
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briery
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adj 1: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or
spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short
bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits";
"setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate,
briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred,
burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny,
thorny]
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cowrie
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n 1: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus
Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked
shells [syn: cowrie, cowry]
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jewry
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n 1: Jews collectively
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maori
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n 1: an ethnic minority of Polynesian and Melanesian descent who
speak Maori and live in New Zealand
2: the Oceanic language spoken by the Maori in New Zealand
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zedoary
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spiry
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towery
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loughery
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lowery
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mowery
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