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decontrol
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v 1: relax or remove controls of; "decontrol marijuana"
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dole
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n 1: a share of money or food or clothing that has been
charitably given
2: money received from the state [syn: dole, pogy, pogey]
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extol
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v 1: praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's
children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking" [syn: laud,
extol, exalt, glorify, proclaim]
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foal
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n 1: a young horse
v 1: give birth to a foal; "the mare foaled"
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goal
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n 1: the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and
that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to
achieve it; "the ends justify the means" [syn: goal,
end]
2: the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey); "a
crowd assembled at the finish"; "he was nearly exhausted as
their destination came into view" [syn: finish,
destination, goal]
3: game equipment consisting of the place toward which players
of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score
points
4: a successful attempt at scoring; "the winning goal came with
less than a minute left to play"
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hole
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n 1: an opening into or through something
2: an opening deliberately made in or through something
3: one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course; "he
played 18 holes" [syn: hole, golf hole]
4: an unoccupied space
5: a depression hollowed out of solid matter [syn: hole,
hollow]
6: a fault; "he shot holes in my argument"
7: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a
terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn:
fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of
fish]
8: informal terms for the mouth [syn: trap, cakehole,
hole, maw, yap, gob]
v 1: hit the ball into the hole [syn: hole, hole out]
2: make holes in
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knoll
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n 1: a small natural hill [syn: knoll, mound, hillock,
hummock, hammock]
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mole
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n 1: the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the
basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the Systeme
International d'Unites [syn: gram molecule, mole,
mol]
2: a spy who works against enemy espionage [syn: counterspy,
mole]
3: spicy sauce often containing chocolate
4: a small congenital pigmented spot on the skin
5: a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from
shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away
[syn: breakwater, groin, groyne, mole, bulwark,
seawall, jetty]
6: small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and
fossorial forefeet
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parole
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n 1: a promise; "he gave his word" [syn: parole, word, word
of honor]
2: a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group; "he
forgot the password" [syn: password, watchword, word,
parole, countersign]
3: (law) a conditional release from imprisonment that entitles
the person to serve the remainder of the sentence outside the
prison as long as the terms of release are complied with
v 1: release a criminal from detention and place him on parole;
"The prisoner was paroled after serving 10 years in prison"
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patrol
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n 1: a detachment used for security or reconnaissance
2: the activity of going around or through an area at regular
intervals for security purposes
3: a group that goes through a region at regular intervals for
the purpose of security
v 1: maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol [syn:
patrol, police]
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pole
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n 1: a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic
2: a native or inhabitant of Poland
3: one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions; "they
are at opposite poles"; "they are poles apart"
4: a linear measure of 16.5 feet [syn: perch, rod, pole]
5: a square rod of land [syn: perch, rod, pole]
6: one of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and the
celestial sphere [syn: pole, celestial pole]
7: one of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of
rotation intersects the Earth's surface
8: a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at
which electric current enters or leaves [syn: terminal,
pole]
9: a long fiberglass sports implement used for pole vaulting
10: one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to
be concentrated [syn: pole, magnetic pole]
v 1: propel with a pole; "pole barges on the river"; "We went
punting in Cambridge" [syn: punt, pole]
2: support on poles; "pole climbing plants like beans"
3: deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole
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poll
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n 1: an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a
random sample of people [syn: poll, opinion poll,
public opinion poll, canvass]
2: the top of the head [syn: pate, poll, crown]
3: the part of the head between the ears
4: a tame parrot [syn: poll, poll parrot]
5: the counting of votes (as in an election)
v 1: get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
[syn: poll, canvass, canvas]
2: vote in an election at a polling station
3: get the votes of
4: convert into a pollard; "pollard trees" [syn: poll,
pollard]
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shoal
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n 1: a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low
tide
2: a stretch of shallow water [syn: shoal, shallow]
3: a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish
swam by" [syn: school, shoal]
v 1: make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal" [syn:
shallow, shoal]
2: become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time" [syn:
shallow, shoal]
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sole
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adj 1: not divided or shared with others; "they have exclusive
use of the machine"; "sole rights of publication" [syn:
exclusive, sole(a)]
2: being the only one; single and isolated from others; "the
lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an
only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary
instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky" [syn:
lone(a), lonesome(a), only(a), sole(a),
solitary(a)]
n 1: the underside of footwear or a golf club
2: lean flesh of any of several flatfish [syn: sole, fillet
of sole]
3: the underside of the foot
4: right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in
warm seas especially European
v 1: put a new sole on; "sole the shoes" [syn: sole, resole]
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soul
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n 1: the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an
individual life [syn: soul, psyche]
2: a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
[syn: person, individual, someone, somebody,
mortal, soul]
3: deep feeling or emotion [syn: soul, soulfulness]
4: the human embodiment of something; "the soul of honor"
5: a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre
in the 1960s and 1970s; "soul was politically significant
during the Civil Rights movement"
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stole
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n 1: a wide scarf worn about their shoulders by women
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stroll
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n 1: a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) [syn:
amble, promenade, saunter, stroll, perambulation]
v 1: walk leisurely and with no apparent aim [syn: stroll,
saunter]
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toll
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n 1: a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for
maintenance)
2: value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to
obtain something; "the cost in human life was enormous"; "the
price of success is hard work"; "what price glory?" [syn:
price, cost, toll]
3: the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she
heard the distant toll of church bells" [syn: bell, toll]
v 1: ring slowly; "For whom the bell tolls"
2: charge a fee for using; "Toll the bridges into New York City"
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whole
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adv 1: to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent
(`whole' is often used informally for `wholly'); "he was
wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the meal";
"it was completely different from what we expected"; "was
completely at fault"; "a totally new situation"; "the
directions were all wrong"; "it was not altogether her
fault"; "an altogether new approach"; "a whole new idea"
[syn: wholly, entirely, completely, totally,
all, altogether, whole] [ant: part, partially,
partly]
adj 1: including all components without exception; being one
unit or constituting the full amount or extent or
duration; complete; "gave his whole attention"; "a whole
wardrobe for the tropics"; "the whole hog"; "a whole
week"; "the baby cried the whole trip home"; "a whole
loaf of bread" [ant: fractional]
2: (of siblings) having the same parents; "whole brothers and
sisters" [ant: half]
3: not injured [syn: unharmed, unhurt, unscathed, whole]
4: exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health; "hale and
hearty"; "whole in mind and body"; "a whole person again"
[syn: hale, whole]
5: acting together as a single undiversified whole; "a solid
voting bloc" [syn: solid, unanimous, whole]
n 1: all of something including all its component elements or
parts; "Europe considered as a whole"; "the whole of
American literature"
2: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity;
"how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a
unit" [syn: whole, unit]
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seoul
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n 1: the capital of South Korea and the largest city of Asia;
located in northwestern South Korea [syn: Seoul, capital
of South Korea]
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sol
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n 1: a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a
solid is suspended in a liquid [syn: sol, colloidal
solution, colloidal suspension]
2: (Roman mythology) ancient Roman god; personification of the
sun; counterpart of Greek Helios
3: the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical
scale in solmization [syn: sol, soh, so]
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dhole
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n 1: fierce wild dog of the forests of central and southeast
Asia that hunts in packs [syn: dhole, Cuon alpinus]
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thole
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n 1: a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the
oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing [syn: peg,
pin, thole, tholepin, rowlock, oarlock]
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tole
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n 1: enameled or lacquered metalware (usually gilded and
elaborately painted); popular in the 18th century; "the
Pennsylvania Dutch tole watering can might be a
reproduction but it looks convincing"
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enroll
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v 1: register formally as a participant or member; "The party
recruited many new members" [syn: enroll, inscribe,
enter, enrol, recruit]
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croll
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noll
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skoal
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stol
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pistole
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