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chalet
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n 1: a Swiss house with a sloping roof and wide eaves or a house
built in this style
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clay
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n 1: a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but
hard when fired
2: water soaked soil; soft wet earth [syn: mud, clay]
3: United States general who commanded United States forces in
Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift
(1897-1978) [syn: Clay, Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon
Clay]
4: United States politician responsible for the Missouri
Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852) [syn:
Clay, Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser]
5: the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for
dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery
of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff
in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps
their clay" [syn: cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay,
remains]
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crochet
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n 1: needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a
hooked needle [syn: crochet, crocheting]
v 1: create by looping or crocheting; "crochet a bedspread"
2: make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread
with a hooked needle; "She sat there crocheting all day"
[syn: crochet, hook]
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croquet
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n 1: a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series
of hoops; the winner is the first to traverse all the hoops
and hit a peg
v 1: drive away by hitting with one's ball, "croquet the
opponent's ball"
2: play a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a
series of hoops
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day
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n 1: time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis;
"two days later they left"; "they put on two performances
every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day" [syn:
day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period,
24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day]
2: some point or period in time; "it should arrive any day now";
"after that day she never trusted him again"; "those were the
days"; "these days it is not unusual"
3: a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance;
"Mother's Day"
4: the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light
outside; "the dawn turned night into day"; "it is easier to
make the repairs in the daytime" [syn: day, daytime,
daylight] [ant: dark, night, nighttime]
5: the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially
those when you are working); "my day began early this
morning"; "it was a busy day on the stock exchange"; "she
called it a day and went to bed"
6: an era of existence or influence; "in the day of the
dinosaurs"; "in the days of the Roman Empire"; "in the days
of sailing ships"; "he was a successful pianist in his day"
7: the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars)
to make a complete rotation on its axis; "how long is a day
on Jupiter?"
8: the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a
particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar
day [syn: sidereal day, day]
9: a period of opportunity; "he deserves his day in court";
"every dog has his day"
10: United States writer best known for his autobiographical
works (1874-1935) [syn: Day, Clarence Day, Clarence
Shepard Day Jr.]
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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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decay
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n 1: the process of gradually becoming inferior
2: a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current [syn:
decay, decline]
3: the organic phenomenon of rotting [syn: decay,
decomposition]
4: an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying;
"the corpse was in an advanced state of decay"; "the house
had fallen into a serious state of decay and disrepair"
5: the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance
along with the emission of ionizing radiation [syn: decay,
radioactive decay, disintegration]
v 1: lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the
particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process"
[syn: disintegrate, decay, decompose]
2: fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to
decay" [syn: decay, crumble, dilapidate]
3: undergo decay or decomposition; "The body started to decay
and needed to be cremated"
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diarrhoea
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n 1: frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of
infection or food poisoning or colitis or a
gastrointestinal tumor [syn: diarrhea, diarrhoea,
looseness of the bowels, looseness]
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idea
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n 1: the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking
about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered
my mind" [syn: idea, thought]
2: your intention; what you intend to do; "he had in mind to see
his old teacher"; "the idea of the game is to capture all the
pieces" [syn: mind, idea]
3: a personal view; "he has an idea that we don't like him"
4: an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth;
"an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how long
it would take" [syn: estimate, estimation,
approximation, idea]
5: (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme
is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked
up the idea and elaborated it" [syn: theme, melodic
theme, musical theme, idea]
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panacea
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n 1: (Greek mythology) the goddess of healing; daughter of
Aesculapius and sister of Hygeia
2: hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by
the alchemists [syn: panacea, nostrum, catholicon,
cure-all]
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da
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n 1: an official prosecutor for a judicial district [syn:
district attorney, DA]
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cliche
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n 1: a trite or obvious remark [syn: platitude, cliche,
banality, commonplace, bromide]
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cia
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n 1: an independent agency of the United States government
responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence
and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national
interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence
under the supervision of the President and National
Security Council [syn: Central Intelligence Agency,
CIA]
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gaea
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n 1: (Greek mythology) goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus
and the Titans in ancient mythology [syn: Gaea, Gaia,
Ge]
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pia
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n 1: perennial herb of East Indies to Polynesia and Australia;
cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite
arrowroot starch [syn: pia, Indian arrowroot, Tacca
leontopetaloides, Tacca pinnatifida]
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rhea
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n 1: fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology; wife of
Cronus and mother of Zeus; identified with Roman Ops and
Cybele of ancient Asia Minor
2: smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to
ostriches but three-toed; found from Peru to Strait of
Magellan [syn: rhea, nandu, Pterocnemia pennata]
3: larger of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to
ostriches but three-toed; found from Brazil to Patagonia
[syn: rhea, Rhea americana]
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crimea
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n 1: a Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of
Azov
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hosea
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n 1: a minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC)
2: an Old Testament book telling Hosea's prophecies [syn:
Hosea, Book of Hosea]
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korea
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n 1: an Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow
Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Dae-Han-Min-
Gook or Han-Gook [syn: Korea, Korean Peninsula, Dae-
Han-Min-Gook, Han-Gook]
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maria
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n 1: a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the
moon [syn: mare, maria]
2: valuable timber tree of Panama [syn: Maria, Calophyllum
longifolium]
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sofia
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n 1: capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western
Bulgaria [syn: Sofia, Serdica, Bulgarian capital]
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eritrea
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n 1: an African country to the north of Ethiopia on the Red Sea;
achieved independence from Ethiopia in 1993 [syn:
Eritrea, State of Eritrea]
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galleria
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n 1: a genus of Pyralidae [syn: Galleria, genus Galleria]
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gonorrhea
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n 1: a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria
gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around
the urethra [syn: gonorrhea, gonorrhoea, clap]
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nicosia
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n 1: the capital and largest city of Cyprus [syn: Nicosia,
capital of Cyprus]
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felicia
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n 1: genus of tropical African herbs or subshrubs with usually
blue flowers [syn: Felicia, genus Felicia]
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lycia
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n 1: an ancient region on the coast of southwest Asia Minor
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galicia
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n 1: a region (and former kingdom) in northwestern Spain on the
Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay
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ay
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ae
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cea
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leah
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mia
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garcia
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alicia
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leticia
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letitia
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mysia
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