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black
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adj 1: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having
little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all
incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as
coal"; "rich black soil" [ant: white]
2: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially
of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black
people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of
civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. [ant: white]
3: marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks";
"black words"
4: offering little or no hope; "the future looked black";
"prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always
been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of
things" [syn: black, bleak, dim]
5: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or
dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart
has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the
dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic
hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on
punishing him"-Thomas Hardy [syn: black, dark,
sinister]
6: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire
consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on
Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a
disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if
true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles
Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win
it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: black,
calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful]
7: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood;
"a face black with fury" [syn: black, blackened]
8: extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-
black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar" [syn:
black, pitch-black, pitch-dark]
9: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke";
"grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to
savage mordant wit" [syn: black, grim, mordant]
10: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black
propaganda"
11: distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no
taxes" [syn: bootleg, black, black-market,
contraband, smuggled]
12: (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]
13: (of coffee) without cream or sugar
14: soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing
outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" [syn:
black, smutty]
n 1: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least
lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) [syn:
black, blackness, inkiness] [ant: white,
whiteness]
2: total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total
darkness"; "in the black of night" [syn: total darkness,
lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black]
3: British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who
formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat
(1728-1799) [syn: Black, Joseph Black]
4: popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) [syn:
Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple]
5: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose
ancestors came from Africa) [syn: Black, Black person,
blackamoor, Negro, Negroid]
6: (board games) the darker pieces [ant: white]
7: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore
black"
v 1: make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling";
"The ceiling blackened" [syn: blacken, melanize,
melanise, nigrify, black] [ant: white, whiten]
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cardiac
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adj 1: of or relating to the heart; "cardiac arrest"
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celeriac
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n 1: grown for its thickened edible aromatic root [syn:
celeriac, celery root, knob celery, root celery,
turnip-rooted celery, Apium graveolens rapaceum]
2: thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant
[syn: celeriac, celery root]
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clack
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n 1: a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be
repeated [syn: clack, clap]
2: a simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow
in only one direction [syn: clack valve, clack, clapper
valve]
v 1: make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes" [syn: clatter,
clack, brattle]
2: make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens [syn: cluck,
click, clack]
3: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
[syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-
tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab,
gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]
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claque
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n 1: a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance
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insomniac
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adj 1: experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac
old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all
night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"-
Shakespeare [syn: insomniac, sleepless, watchful]
n 1: someone who cannot sleep [syn: insomniac, sleepless
person]
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monomaniac
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n 1: a person suffering from monomania
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nymphomaniac
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adj 1: (used of women) affected with excessive sexual desire
[syn: nymphomaniacal, nymphomaniac]
n 1: a woman with abnormal sexual desires [syn: nymphomaniac,
nympho]
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pyromaniac
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n 1: a person with a mania for setting things on fire
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zodiac
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n 1: a belt-shaped region in the heavens on either side to the
ecliptic; divided into 12 constellations or signs for
astrological purposes
2: (astrology) a circular diagram representing the 12 zodiacal
constellations and showing their signs
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coeliac
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adj 1: of or in or belonging to the cavity of the abdomen [syn:
coeliac, celiac]
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kodiak
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n 1: an island off southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska; site
of the first European settlement in the area which was
founded by the Russians in 1784 [syn: Kodiak, Kodiak
Island]
2: brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia [syn:
Alaskan brown bear, Kodiak bear, Kodiak, Ursus
middendorffi, Ursus arctos middendorffi]
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pontiac
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n 1: famous chief of the Ottawa who led an unsuccessful
rebellion against the British (1715-1769)
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hemophiliac
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n 1: someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable
bleeding [syn: hemophiliac, haemophiliac, bleeder,
hemophile, haemophile]
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mauriac
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n 1: French novelist who wrote about the conflict between desire
and religious belief (1885-1970) [syn: Mauriac, Francois
Mauriac, Francois Charles Mauriac]
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bibliomaniac
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sacroiliac
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ack
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akc
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cluniac
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syriac
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umiak
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simoniac
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theriac
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anglomaniac
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dionysiac
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diplocardiac
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mythomaniac
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necrophiliac
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erotomaniac
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