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amphibious
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adj 1: relating to or characteristic of animals of the class
Amphibia [syn: amphibious, amphibian]
2: operating or living on land and in water; "amphibious
vehicles"; "amphibious operations"; "amphibious troops";
"frogs are amphibious animals" [ant: aquatic,
terrestrial]
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bilious
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adj 1: relating to or containing bile [syn: bilious,
biliary]
2: suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric
distress [syn: bilious, liverish, livery]
3: irritable as if suffering from indigestion [syn:
atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic, liverish]
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fastidious
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adj 1: giving careful attention to detail; hard to please;
excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and
incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal
cleanliness" [ant: unfastidious]
2: having complicated nutritional requirements; especially
growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious
microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are
extremely exacting in their requirements" [syn: fastidious,
exacting] [ant: unfastidious]
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hideous
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adj 1: grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror;
"subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of
injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
[syn: hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous]
2: so extremely ugly as to be terrifying; "a hideous scar"; "a
repulsive mask" [syn: hideous, repulsive]
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idiocy
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n 1: extreme mental retardation [syn: idiocy, amentia]
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igneous
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adj 1: produced under conditions involving intense heat;
"igneous rock is rock formed by solidification from a
molten state; especially from molten magma"; "igneous
fusion is fusion by heat alone"; "pyrogenic strata" [syn:
igneous, pyrogenic, pyrogenous]
2: produced by the action of fire or intense heat; "rocks formed
by igneous agents" [syn: igneous, eruptive] [ant:
aqueous, sedimentary]
3: like or suggestive of fire; "a fiery desert wind"; "an
igneous desert atmosphere" [syn: fiery, igneous]
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ignominious
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adj 1: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing
disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest
records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel
Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat";
"an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful
display of cowardice" [syn: black, disgraceful,
ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful]
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insidious
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adj 1: beguiling but harmful; "insidious pleasures"
2: intended to entrap
3: working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way;
"glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison" [syn:
insidious, pernicious, subtle]
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invidious
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adj 1: containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice;
"discriminatory attitudes and practices"; "invidious
comparisons" [syn: discriminatory, invidious]
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lascivious
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adj 1: driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful
desires; "libidinous orgies" [syn: lascivious, lewd,
libidinous, lustful]
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oblivious
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adj 1: (followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness
of; "oblivious of the mounting pressures for political
reform"; "oblivious to the risks she ran"; "not unmindful
of the heavy responsibility" [syn: oblivious(p),
unmindful(p)]
2: failing to keep in mind; "forgetful of her responsibilities";
"oblivious old age" [syn: forgetful, oblivious]
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punctilious
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adj 1: marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous
research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of
etiquette" [syn: meticulous, punctilious]
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resilience
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n 1: the physical property of a material that can return to its
original shape or position after deformation that does not
exceed its elastic limit [syn: resilience, resiliency]
2: an occurrence of rebounding or springing back [syn:
resilience, resiliency]
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serious
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adj 1: concerned with work or important matters rather than play
or trivialities; "a serious student of history"; "a
serious attempt to learn to ski"; "gave me a serious
look"; "a serious young man"; "are you serious or
joking?"; "Don't be so serious!" [ant: frivolous]
2: of great consequence; "marriage is a serious matter"
3: causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a
dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness";
"grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of
events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening
disease" [syn: dangerous, grave, grievous, serious,
severe, life-threatening]
4: appealing to the mind; "good music"; "a serious book" [syn:
good, serious]
5: completely lacking in playfulness [syn: unplayful,
serious, sober] [ant: playful]
6: requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to
answer or solve; "raised serious objections to the proposal";
"the plan has a serious flaw"
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supercilious
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adj 1: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of
those one views as unworthy; "some economists are
disdainful of their colleagues in other social
disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners
were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very
sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my
clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood
than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty,
imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful,
sniffy, supercilious, swaggering]
2: expressive of contempt; "curled his lip in a supercilious
smile"; "spoke in a sneering jeering manner"; "makes many a
sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one" [syn:
supercilious, sneering, snide]
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tedious
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adj 1: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a
boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening
effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his
competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who
couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task
the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious
days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"-
Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully
wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum,
irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome]
2: using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy)
speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods";
"newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials";
"proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes" [syn: long-
winded, tedious, verbose, windy, wordy]
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vitreous
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adj 1: of or relating to or constituting the vitreous humor of
the eye; "the vitreous chamber"
2: relating to or resembling or derived from or containing
glass; "vitreous rocks"; "vitreous silica"
3: (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by
fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy
porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures"
[syn: glassy, vitreous, vitrified]
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mauritius
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n 1: a parliamentary state on the island of Mauritius [syn:
Mauritius, Republic of Mauritius]
2: an island in the southwestern Indian Ocean
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odysseus
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n 1: (Greek mythology) a famous mythical Greek hero; his return
to Ithaca after the siege of Troy was described in the
Odyssey
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vilnius
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n 1: the capital and largest city of Lithuania; located in
southeastern Lithuania [syn: Vilnius, Vilna, Vilno,
Wilno, capital of Lithuania]
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