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accentor
1
n 1: small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of
Eurasia
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accrue
0
v 1: grow by addition; "The interest accrues"
2: come into the possession of; "The house accrued to the oldest
son" [syn: accrue, fall]
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adieu
0
n 1: a farewell remark; "they said their good-byes" [syn:
adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au
revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby,
good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, so long]
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ado
0
n 1: a rapid active commotion [syn: bustle, hustle,
flurry, ado, fuss, stir]
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anew
0
adv 1: again but in a new or different way; "start afresh";
"wanted to write the story anew"; "starting life anew in
a fresh place" [syn: afresh, anew]
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anointer
0
n 1: one who anoints as a religious ceremony
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askew
0
adv 1: turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with
his necktie twisted awry" [syn: askew, awry, skew-
whiff]
adj 1: turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a
gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig
was, as the British say, skew-whiff" [syn: askew,
awry(p), cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff]
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assenter
0
n 1: a person who assents
-
ballyhoo
0
n 1: blatant or sensational promotion [syn: ballyhoo,
hoopla, hype, plug]
v 1: advertize noisily or blatantly
-
bamboo
0
n 1: the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction
and crafts and fishing poles
2: woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes
used for construction and furniture
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banter
0
n 1: light teasing repartee [syn: banter, raillery, give-
and-take, backchat]
v 1: be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just
kidded around" [syn: kid, chaff, jolly, josh,
banter]
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bedew
0
v 1: cover with drops of dew or as with dew
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bestrew
0
v 1: cover by strewing
-
blue
0
adj 1: of the color intermediate between green and violet;
having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky;
"October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a
blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke" [syn: blue,
bluish, blueish]
2: used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War
(who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line"
3: filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the
thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a
gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the
darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city";
"depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and
resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his
defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn:
gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited,
down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth,
low, low-spirited]
4: characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and
blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" [syn:
blasphemous, blue, profane]
5: suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue
jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details";
"a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy
anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip" [syn: blue,
gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque,
spicy]
6: belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or
aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic
Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family";
"blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle
blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South";
"aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician
tastes" [syn: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue,
blue-blooded, gentle, patrician]
7: morally rigorous and strict; "the puritan work ethic";
"puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but
puritanical in her behavior" [syn: blue(a), puritanic,
puritanical]
8: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war";
"a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter
landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November";
"a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue,
dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim,
sorry, drab, drear, dreary]
n 1: blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear
sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue" [syn:
blue, blueness]
2: blue clothing; "she was wearing blue"
3: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue;
"the Union army was a vast blue"
4: the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the
blue" [syn: blue sky, blue, blue air, wild blue
yonder]
5: used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
[syn: bluing, blueing, blue]
6: the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate;
used as a sedative and a hypnotic [syn: amobarbital sodium,
blue, blue angel, blue devil, Amytal]
7: any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
v 1: turn blue
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boo
0
n 1: a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
[syn: boo, hoot, Bronx cheer, hiss, raspberry,
razzing, razz, snort, bird]
v 1: show displeasure, as after a performance or speech [syn:
boo, hiss] [ant: acclaim, applaud, clap, spat]
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brew
0
n 1: drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather
than distilling [syn: brew, brewage]
v 1: prepare by brewing; "people have been brewing beer for
thousands of years"
2: sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor;
"the tea is brewing"
-
bunter
0
n 1: a batter who bunts
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canoe
0
n 1: small and light boat; pointed at both ends; propelled with
a paddle
v 1: travel by canoe; "canoe along the canal"
-
canter
0
n 1: a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop [syn:
canter, lope]
v 1: ride at a canter; "The men cantered away"
2: go at a canter, of horses
3: ride at a cantering pace; "He cantered the horse across the
meadow"
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cantor
0
n 1: the musical director of a choir [syn: choirmaster,
precentor, cantor]
2: the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part
of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be
performed as solos [syn: cantor, hazan]
-
carpenter
0
n 1: a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects
v 1: work as a carpenter
-
centre
0
n 1: a low-lying region in central France
2: an area that is approximately central within some larger
region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into
the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the
storm" [syn: center, centre, middle, heart, eye]
3: a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the
extremities of a figure [syn: center, centre, midpoint]
4: a place where some particular activity is concentrated; "they
received messages from several centers" [syn: center,
centre]
5: the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is
enclosed in chocolate or some other covering [syn: center,
centre]
6: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some
idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument";
"the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the
story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center,
centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul,
inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-
gritty]
7: the object upon which interest and attention focuses; "his
stories made him the center of the party" [syn: center,
centre, center of attention, centre of attention]
8: a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process;
"in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere"
[syn: center, centre, nerve center, nerve centre]
9: a building dedicated to a particular activity; "they were
raising money to build a new center for research" [syn:
center, centre]
v 1: move into the center; "That vase in the picture is not
centered" [syn: center, centre]
2: direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your
studies and not on your hobbies" [syn: concentrate,
focus, center, centre, pore, rivet]
-
chanter
0
n 1: reed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played
[syn: chanter, melody pipe]
-
chew
0
n 1: a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew,
chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad]
2: biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft
enough to swallow [syn: chew, chewing, mastication,
manduction]
v 1: chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth; "He jawed
his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!";
"The cows were masticating the grass" [syn: chew,
masticate, manducate, jaw]
-
chough
0
n 1: a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red
legs and glossy black plumage
-
clue
0
n 1: a slight indication [syn: hint, clue]
2: evidence that helps to solve a problem [syn: clue, clew,
cue]
v 1: roll into a ball [syn: clue, clew]
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concentre
0
v 1: bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to
converge; of ideas or emotions [syn: concenter,
concentre, focalize, focalise, focus]
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construe
0
v 1: make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you
see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"
[syn: interpret, construe, see]
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coo
0
n 1: the sound made by a pigeon
v 1: speak softly or lovingly; "The mother who held her baby was
cooing softly"
2: cry softly, as of pigeons
-
counter
0
adv 1: in the opposite direction; "run counter"
adj 1: indicating opposition or resistance [syn: antagonistic,
counter]
n 1: table consisting of a horizontal surface over which
business is transacted
2: game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used
for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or
board games
3: a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times
something happens [syn: counter, tabulator]
4: a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining
room; has shelves and drawers [syn: buffet, counter,
sideboard]
5: a person who counts things
6: a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or
critical one); "it brought a sharp rejoinder from the
teacher" [syn: rejoinder, retort, return, riposte,
replication, comeback, counter]
7: (computer science) a register whose contents go through a
regular series of states (usually states indicating
consecutive integers)
8: a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot; "a
counter may be used to stiffen the material around the heel
and to give support to the foot" [syn: counter, heel
counter]
9: a return punch (especially by a boxer) [syn: counterpunch,
parry, counter]
v 1: speak in response; "He countered with some very persuasive
arguments"
2: act in advance of; deal with ahead of time [syn:
anticipate, foresee, forestall, counter]
-
coup
0
n 1: a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by
force [syn: coup d'etat, coup, putsch, takeover]
2: a brilliant and notable success
-
crew
0
n 1: the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.)
2: an organized group of workmen [syn: gang, crew, work
party]
3: an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the
same crowd" [syn: crowd, crew, gang, bunch]
4: the team of men manning a racing shell
v 1: serve as a crew member on
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cue
0
n 1: an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a
reminder for some action or speech
2: evidence that helps to solve a problem [syn: clue, clew,
cue]
3: a stimulus that provides information about what to do [syn:
discriminative stimulus, cue]
4: sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike
a cue ball in pool or billiards [syn: cue, cue stick,
pool cue, pool stick]
v 1: assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next
words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned [syn:
prompt, remind, cue]
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debut
0
n 1: the act of beginning something new; "they looked forward to
the debut of their new product line" [syn: introduction,
debut, first appearance, launching, unveiling,
entry]
2: the presentation of a debutante in society
v 1: present for the first time to the public; "The band debuts
a new song or two each month"
2: appear for the first time in public; "The new ballet that
debuts next months at Covent Garden, is already sold out"
3: make one's debut; "This young soprano debuts next month at
the Metropolitan Opera"
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decanter
0
n 1: a bottle with a stopper; for serving wine or water [syn:
carafe, decanter]
-
dew
0
n 1: water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from
water vapor in the air; "in the morning the grass was wet
with dew"
-
dissenter
0
n 1: a person who dissents from some established policy [syn:
dissenter, dissident, protester, objector,
contestant]
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do
0
n 1: an uproarious party [syn: bash, do, brawl]
2: the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale
in solmization [syn: do, doh, ut]
3: doctor's degree in osteopathy [syn: Doctor of Osteopathy,
DO]
v 1: engage in; "make love, not war"; "make an effort"; "do
research"; "do nothing"; "make revolution" [syn: make,
do]
2: carry out or perform an action; "John did the painting, the
weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater
executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance" [syn:
perform, execute, do]
3: get (something) done; "I did my job" [syn: do, perform]
4: proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?";
"How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a
long way" [syn: do, fare, make out, come, get
along]
5: give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always
intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an
accident" [syn: cause, do, make]
6: carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions; "practice
law" [syn: practice, practise, exercise, do]
7: be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity; "A
few words would answer"; "This car suits my purpose well";
"Will $100 do?"; "A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into
medical school"; "Nothing else will serve" [syn: suffice,
do, answer, serve]
8: create or design, often in a certain way; "Do my room in
blue"; "I did this piece in wood to express my love for the
forest" [syn: do, make] [ant: undo, unmake]
9: behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct
or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't
behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog
acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" [syn:
act, behave, do]
10: spend time in prison or in a labor camp; "He did six years
for embezzlement" [syn: serve, do]
11: carry on or function; "We could do with a little more help
around here" [syn: do, manage]
12: arrange attractively; "dress my hair for the wedding" [syn:
dress, arrange, set, do, coif, coiffe,
coiffure]
13: travel or traverse (a distance); "This car does 150 miles
per hour"; "We did 6 miles on our hike every day"
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drew
0
n 1: United States actor (born in Ireland); father of Georgiana
Emma Barrymore (1827-1862) [syn: Drew, John Drew]
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due
0
adv 1: directly or exactly; straight; "went due North"
adj 1: owed and payable immediately or on demand; "payment is
due" [ant: undue]
2: scheduled to arrive; "the train is due in 15 minutes"
3: suitable to or expected in the circumstances; "all due
respect"; "due cause to honor them"; "a long due promotion";
"in due course"; "due esteem"; "exercising due care" [ant:
undue]
4: capable of being assigned or credited to; "punctuation errors
ascribable to careless proofreading"; "the cancellation of
the concert was due to the rain"; "the oversight was not
imputable to him" [syn: ascribable, due, imputable,
referable]
n 1: that which is deserved or owed; "give the devil his due"
2: a payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership);
"the society dropped him for non-payment of dues"
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enchanter
0
n 1: a sorcerer or magician
-
encounter
0
n 1: a minor short-term fight [syn: brush, clash,
encounter, skirmish]
2: a casual or unexpected convergence; "he still remembers their
meeting in Paris"; "there was a brief encounter in the
hallway" [syn: meeting, encounter]
3: a casual meeting with a person or thing [syn: encounter,
coming upon]
4: a hostile disagreement face-to-face [syn: confrontation,
encounter, showdown, face-off]
v 1: come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How
nice to see you again!" [syn: meet, run into,
encounter, run across, come across, see]
2: come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea
in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not
very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in
the bookstore the other day" [syn: find, happen,
chance, bump, encounter]
3: be beset by; "The project ran into numerous financial
difficulties" [syn: run into, encounter]
4: experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much
opposition" [syn: meet, encounter, receive]
5: contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle;
"Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play
Mary" [syn: meet, encounter, play, take on]
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enter
0
v 1: to come or go into; "the boat entered an area of shallow
marshes" [syn: enter, come in, get into, get in,
go into, go in, move into] [ant: exit, get out,
go out, leave]
2: become a participant; be involved in; "enter a race"; "enter
an agreement"; "enter a drug treatment program"; "enter
negotiations" [syn: enter, participate] [ant: chuck up
the sponge, drop by the wayside, drop out, fall by the
wayside, give up, quit, throw in, throw in the
towel]
3: register formally as a participant or member; "The party
recruited many new members" [syn: enroll, inscribe,
enter, enrol, recruit]
4: be or play a part of or in; "Elections figure prominently in
every government program"; "How do the elections figure in
the current pattern of internal politics?" [syn: figure,
enter]
5: make a record of; set down in permanent form [syn: record,
enter, put down]
6: come on stage
7: take on duties or office; "accede to the throne" [syn:
accede, enter]
8: put or introduce into something; "insert a picture into the
text" [syn: insert, infix, enter, introduce]
9: set out on (an enterprise or subject of study); "she embarked
upon a new career" [syn: embark, enter]
-
epicentre
0
n 1: the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus
of an earthquake [syn: epicenter, epicentre]
-
eschew
0
v 1: avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of [syn:
shun, eschew]
-
ewe
0
n 1: a member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and
southeastern Ghana
2: a Kwa language spoken by the Ewe in Ghana and Togo and Benin
3: female sheep
-
experimenter
0
n 1: a research worker who conducts experiments
2: a person who enjoys testing innovative ideas; "she was an
experimenter in new forms of poetry"
-
few
0
adj 1: a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is
often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number; "a
few weeks ago"; "a few more wagons than usual"; "an
invalid's pleasures are few and far between"; "few roses
were still blooming"; "few women have led troops in
battle" [ant: many]
n 1: a small elite group; "it was designed for the
discriminating few"
-
flu
0
n 1: an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease [syn:
influenza, flu, grippe]
-
flue
0
n 1: flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor [syn:
fluke, flue]
2: organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the
sharp edge of a fissure or lip [syn: flue pipe, flue,
labial pipe]
3: a conduit to carry off smoke
-
fomenter
0
n 1: one who agitates; a political troublemaker [syn:
agitator, fomenter]
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fondue
0
n 1: cubes of meat or seafood cooked in hot oil and then dipped
in any of various sauces [syn: fondue, fondu]
2: hot cheese or chocolate melted to the consistency of a sauce
into which bread or fruits are dipped [syn: fondue,
fondu]
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frequenter
0
n 1: a regular customer [syn: patron, frequenter]
-
glue
0
n 1: cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an
adhesive [syn: glue, gum, mucilage]
v 1: join or attach with or as if with glue; "paste the sign on
the wall"; "cut and paste the sentence in the text" [syn:
glue, paste]
2: be fixed as if by glue; "His eyes were glued on her"
-
gnu
0
n 1: large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox
and a long tufted tail [syn: gnu, wildebeest]
-
granter
0
n 1: a person who grants or gives something [ant: withholder]
-
grantor
0
n 1: a person who makes a grant in legal form; "conveyed from
grantor to grantee"
-
grunter
0
n 1: a person who grunts
2: domestic swine [syn: hog, pig, grunter, squealer,
Sus scrofa]
-
hew
0
v 1: make or shape as with an axe; "hew out a path in the rock"
[syn: hew, hew out]
2: strike with an axe; cut down, strike; "hew an oak"
-
hitherto
0
adv 1: used in negative statement to describe a situation that
has existed up to this point or up to the present time;
"So far he hasn't called"; "the sun isn't up yet" [syn:
so far, thus far, up to now, hitherto,
heretofore, as yet, yet, til now, until now]
-
hue
0
n 1: the quality of a color as determined by its dominant
wavelength [syn: hue, chromaticity]
v 1: take on color or become colored; "In highlights it hued to
a dull silver-grey"
2: suffuse with color [syn: imbue, hue]
-
hullabaloo
0
n 1: disturbance usually in protest [syn: agitation,
excitement, turmoil, upheaval, hullabaloo]
-
hunter
0
n 1: someone who hunts game [syn: hunter, huntsman]
2: a person who searches for something; "a treasure hunter"
3: a constellation on the equator to the east of Taurus;
contains Betelgeuse and Rigel [syn: Orion, Hunter]
4: a watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystal [syn:
hunter, hunting watch]
-
imbue
0
v 1: spread or diffuse through; "An atmosphere of distrust has
permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the
entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with
accusations and personal attacks" [syn: permeate,
pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse,
imbue, riddle]
2: fill, soak, or imbue totally; "soak the bandage with
disinfectant" [syn: soak, imbue]
3: suffuse with color [syn: imbue, hue]
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impedimenta
0
n 1: any structure that makes progress difficult [syn:
obstruction, obstructor, obstructer, impediment,
impedimenta]
2: the baggage and equipment carried by an army
-
inter
0
v 1: place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the
Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaohs were entombed in
the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last
Sunday" [syn: bury, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to
rest]
-
inventor
0
n 1: someone who is the first to think of or make something
[syn: inventor, discoverer, artificer]
-
jobcentre
0
n 1: a government office in a town where information about
available jobs is displayed and where unemployment benefits
are administered
-
jointer
0
n 1: a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards
so they will fit together [syn: jointer, jointer plane,
jointing plane, long plane]
-
junta
0
n 1: a group of military officers who rule a country after
seizing power [syn: military junta, junta]
-
kangaroo
0
n 1: any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia
and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long
thick tail
-
kazoo
0
n 1: a toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a
sound when you hum into the mouthpiece
-
levanter
0
n 1: an easterly wind in the western Mediterranean area
-
lieu
0
n 1: the post or function properly or customarily occupied or
served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his
place"; "in lieu of" [syn: stead, position, place,
lieu]
-
loo
0
n 1: a toilet in Britain [syn: water closet, closet, W.C.,
loo]
-
magenta
0
adj 1: of deep purplish red
n 1: a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red
color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year
of the battle of Magenta
2: a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces
under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis
Joseph I [syn: Magenta, Battle of Magenta]
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mew
0
n 1: the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)
[syn: meow, mew, miaou, miaow, miaul]
2: the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America
[syn: mew, mew gull, sea mew, Larus canus]
v 1: cry like a cat; "the cat meowed" [syn: meow, mew]
2: utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls
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midwinter
0
n 1: the middle of winter
-
minter
0
n 1: a skilled worker who coins or stamps money [syn: coiner,
minter, moneyer]
-
misconstrue
0
v 1: interpret in the wrong way; "Don't misinterpret my comments
as criticism"; "She misconstrued my remarks" [syn:
misconstrue, misinterpret, misconceive,
misunderstand, misapprehend, be amiss]
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moo
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n 1: the sound made by a cow or bull
v 1: make a low noise, characteristic of bovines [syn: moo,
low]
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new
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adv 1: very recently; "they are newly married"; "newly raised
objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed
by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor"; "we are fresh
out of tomatoes" [syn: newly, freshly, fresh,
new]
adj 1: not of long duration; having just (or relatively
recently) come into being or been made or acquired or
discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a
new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World" [ant: old]
2: original and of a kind not seen before; "the computer
produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"
[syn: fresh, new, novel]
3: lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to
fight"; "raw recruits" [syn: raw, new]
4: having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time
of unexampled prosperity" [syn: new, unexampled]
5: other than the former one(s); different; "they now have a new
leaders"; "my new car is four years old but has only 15,000
miles on it"; "ready to take a new direction"
6: unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new" [ant:
worn]
7: (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new; "newfangled
ideas"; "she buys all these new-fangled machines and never
uses them" [syn: newfangled, new]
8: in use after medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language
of the 18th to 21st dynasties"
9: used of a living language; being the current stage in its
development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
[syn: Modern, New]
10: (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development;
before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn" [syn:
new, young]
11: unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him";
"errors of someone new to the job"
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ooh
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v 1: express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah';
"They oohed and aahed when they unwrapped the presents"
[syn: ooh, aah]
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outdo
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v 1: be or do something to a greater degree; "her performance
surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes
all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations";
"This car outperforms all others in its class" [syn:
surpass, outstrip, outmatch, outgo, exceed,
outdo, surmount, outperform]
2: get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"
[syn: outdo, outflank, trump, best, scoop]
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overdo
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v 1: do something to an excessive degree; "He overdid it last
night when he did 100 pushups" [syn: overdo,
exaggerate]
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overdue
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adj 1: past due; not paid at the scheduled time; "an overdue
installment"; "a delinquent account" [syn: delinquent,
overdue]
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painter
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n 1: an artist who paints
2: a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint
3: a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for
tying up (as when docking or towing)
4: large American feline resembling a lion [syn: cougar,
puma, catamount, mountain lion, painter, panther,
Felis concolor]
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pew
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n 1: long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation
[syn: pew, church bench]
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placenta
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n 1: that part of the ovary of a flowering plant where the
ovules form
2: the vascular structure in the uterus of most mammals
providing oxygen and nutrients for and transferring wastes
from the developing fetus
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plantar
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adj 1: relating to or occurring on the undersurface of the foot;
"plantar warts can be very painful"
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planter
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n 1: the owner or manager of a plantation [syn: planter,
plantation owner]
2: a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground
3: a decorative pot for house plants
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pointer
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n 1: a mark to indicate a direction or relation [syn: arrow,
pointer]
2: an indicator as on a dial
3: (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of
light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the
user to point to commands or screen positions [syn: cursor,
pointer]
4: a strong slender smooth-haired dog of Spanish origin having a
white coat with brown or black patches; scents out and points
to game [syn: pointer, Spanish pointer]
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printer
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n 1: someone whose occupation is printing [syn: printer,
pressman]
2: (computer science) an output device that prints the results
of data processing
3: a machine that prints [syn: printer, printing machine]
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punter
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n 1: someone who propels a boat with a pole
2: (football) a person who kicks the football by dropping it
from the hands and contacting it with the foot before it hits
the ground
3: someone who bets [syn: bettor, better, wagerer,
punter]
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pursue
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v 1: carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in;
"She pursued many activities"; "They engaged in a
discussion" [syn: prosecute, engage, pursue]
2: follow in or as if in pursuit; "The police car pursued the
suspected attacker"; "Her bad deed followed her and haunted
her dreams all her life" [syn: pursue, follow]
3: go in search of or hunt for; "pursue a hobby" [syn: quest
for, go after, quest after, pursue]
4: carry further or advance; "Can you act on this matter soon?"
[syn: pursue, follow up on, act on]
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queue
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n 1: a line of people or vehicles waiting for something [syn:
queue, waiting line]
2: (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be
performed or messages to be transmitted
3: a braid of hair at the back of the head
v 1: form a queue, form a line, stand in line; "Customers lined
up in front of the store" [syn: line up, queue up,
queue]
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redo
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v 1: make new; "She is remaking her image" [syn: remake,
refashion, redo, make over]
2: do over, as of (part of) a house; "We are remodeling these
rooms" [syn: remodel, reconstruct, redo]
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re-enter
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v 1: enter again; "You cannot re-enter the country with this
visa"
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renew
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v 1: reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new
or like new; "We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of
twenty years"; "They renewed their membership" [syn:
regenerate, renew]
2: cause to appear in a new form; "the old product was
reincarnated to appeal to a younger market" [syn:
reincarnate, renew]
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renter
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n 1: someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car
that is owned by someone else; "the landlord can evict a
tenant who doesn't pay the rent" [syn: tenant, renter]
2: an owner of property who receives payment for its use by
another person