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agglutinate
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adj 1: united as if by glue [syn: agglutinate,
agglutinative]
v 1: string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language)
2: clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc.
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archidiaconate
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n 1: office or position of an archdeacon
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at
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n 1: a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the
halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium
[syn: astatine, At, atomic number 85]
2: 100 at equal 1 kip in Laos
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bayonet
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n 1: a knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as
a weapon
v 1: stab or kill someone with a bayonet
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bonnet
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n 1: a hat tied under the chin [syn: bonnet, poke bonnet]
2: protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers
the engine; "there are powerful engines under the hoods of
new cars"; "the mechanic removed the cowling in order to
repair the plane's engine" [syn: hood, bonnet, cowl,
cowling]
v 1: dress in a bonnet
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cabinet
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n 1: a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and
shelves and drawers; for storage or display
2: persons appointed by a head of state to head executive
departments of government and act as official advisers
3: a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it
has a lock [syn: cabinet, locker, storage locker]
4: housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television
[syn: cabinet, console]
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carbonate
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n 1: a salt or ester of carbonic acid (containing the anion CO3)
v 1: turn into a carbonate
2: treat with carbon dioxide; "Carbonated soft drinks"
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coordinate
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adj 1: of equal importance, rank, or degree
n 1: a number that identifies a position relative to an axis
[syn: coordinate, co-ordinate]
v 1: bring order and organization to; "Can you help me organize
my files?" [syn: organize, organise, coordinate]
2: bring into common action, movement, or condition; "coordinate
the painters, masons, and plumbers"; "coordinate his actions
with that of his colleagues"; "coordinate our efforts"
3: be co-ordinated; "These activities coordinate well"
4: bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable
coordination correlation; "align the wheels of my car";
"ordinate similar parts" [syn: align, ordinate,
coordinate]
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cornet
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n 1: a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a
narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of
valves [syn: cornet, horn, trumpet, trump]
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discriminate
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adj 1: marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions;
"discriminate judgments"; "discriminate people" [ant:
indiscriminate]
v 1: recognize or perceive the difference [syn: discriminate,
know apart]
2: treat differently on the basis of sex or race [syn:
discriminate, separate, single out]
3: distinguish; "I could not discriminate the different tastes
in this complicated dish"
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dragonet
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n 1: small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-
dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of
Europe and America
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effeminate
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adj 1: having unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: effeminate,
emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified,
sissyish, sissy]
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gannet
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n 1: large heavily built seabird with a long stout bill noted
for its plunging dives for fish
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garnet
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n 1: any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of
various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive
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geminate
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n 1: a doubled or long consonant; "the `n' in `thinness' is a
geminate"
v 1: form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a
short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to
emphasize the meaning of the word" [syn: reduplicate,
geminate]
2: occur in pairs [syn: pair, geminate]
3: arrange in pairs; "Pair these numbers" [syn: pair,
geminate]
4: arrange or combine in pairs; "The consonants are geminated in
these words"
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genet
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n 1: French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States
into the war between France and England (1763-1834) [syn:
Genet, Edmund Charles Edouard Genet, Citizen Genet]
2: French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the
absurd (1910-1986) [syn: Genet, Jean Genet]
3: agile Old World viverrine having a spotted coat and long
ringed tail [syn: genet, Genetta genetta]
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granite
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n 1: plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture;
generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz
2: something having the quality of granite (unyielding
firmness); "a man of granite"
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hornet
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n 1: large stinging paper wasp
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incarnate
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adj 1: possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed
corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare;
"an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term"
[syn: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied,
incarnate]
2: invested with a bodily form especially of a human body; "a
monarch...regarded as a god incarnate"
v 1: make concrete and real [ant: disincarnate]
2: represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong
with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of
the artist" [syn: incarnate, body forth, embody,
substantiate]
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inordinate
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adj 1: beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of
inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue
elegance"; "unreasonable demands" [syn: excessive,
inordinate, undue, unreasonable]
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insubordinate
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adj 1: not submissive to authority; "a history of insubordinate
behavior"; "insubordinate boys" [ant: subordinate]
2: disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority
[syn: insubordinate, resistant, resistive]
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laminate
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n 1: a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or
layers
v 1: create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a
bonding material
2: press or beat (metals) into thin sheets
3: cover with a thin sheet of non-fabric material; "laminate the
table"
4: split (wood) into thin sheets
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linnet
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n 1: small finch originally of the western United States and
Mexico [syn: house finch, linnet, Carpodacus
mexicanus]
2: small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and
forehead [syn: linnet, lintwhite, Carduelis cannabina]
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minute
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adj 1: infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike
threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale"
[syn: infinitesimal, minute]
2: characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination;
"a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny";
"an exact and minute report" [syn: minute, narrow]
n 1: a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour;
"he ran a 4 minute mile" [syn: minute, min]
2: an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "in a mo";
"it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit" [syn: moment,
mo, minute, second, bit]
3: a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party
began" [syn: moment, minute, second, instant]
4: a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree [syn:
minute, arcminute, minute of arc]
5: a short note; "the secretary keeps the minutes of the
meeting"
6: distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an
hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away" [syn:
hour, minute]
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obstinate
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adj 1: tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious
unwillingness to yield [syn: stubborn, obstinate,
unregenerate] [ant: docile]
2: stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing [syn: cussed,
obdurate, obstinate, unrepentant]
3: resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite
contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a
perverse mood"; "wayward behavior" [syn: contrary,
obstinate, perverse, wayward]
v 1: persist stubbornly; "he obstinates himself against all
rational arguments"
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ordinate
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n 1: the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis
v 1: appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the
Church" [syn: ordain, consecrate, ordinate, order]
2: bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable
coordination correlation; "align the wheels of my car";
"ordinate similar parts" [syn: align, ordinate,
coordinate]
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palatinate
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n 1: a territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the
counts palatine [syn: Palatinate, Pfalz]
2: a territory under the jurisdiction of a count palatine
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pinnate
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adj 1: (of a leaf shape) featherlike; having leaflets on each
side of a common axis [syn: pinnate, pinnated]
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planet
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n 1: (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the
solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by
reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their
proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation
Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a
counterclockwise direction [syn: planet, major planet]
2: a person who follows or serves another [syn: satellite,
planet]
3: any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that
revolves around a star
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pomegranate
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n 1: shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having
large red many-seeded fruit [syn: pomegranate,
pomegranate tree, Punica granatum]
2: large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in
a tough brownish-red rind
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rabbinate
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n 1: rabbis collectively
2: the office or function of a rabbi
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reincarnate
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adj 1: having a new body
v 1: be born anew in another body after death; "Hindus believe
that we transmigrate" [syn: reincarnate, transmigrate]
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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rennet
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n 1: a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket
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senate
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n 1: assembly possessing high legislative powers
2: the upper house of the United States Congress [syn: United
States Senate, U.S. Senate, US Senate, Senate]
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sonnet
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n 1: a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme
scheme
v 1: praise in a sonnet
2: compose a sonnet
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spinet
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n 1: a small and compactly built upright piano
2: early model harpsichord with only one string per note
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subordinate
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adj 1: lower in rank or importance [syn: subordinate, low-
level] [ant: dominant]
2: subject or submissive to authority or the control of another;
"a subordinate kingdom" [ant: insubordinate]
3: (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a
complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause
functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence"
[syn: dependent, subordinate] [ant: independent,
main(a)]
n 1: an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
[syn: subordinate, subsidiary, underling, foot
soldier]
2: a word that is more specific than a given word [syn:
hyponym, subordinate, subordinate word]
v 1: rank or order as less important or consider of less value;
"Art is sometimes subordinated to Science in these schools"
2: make subordinate, dependent, or subservient; "Our wishes have
to be subordinated to that of our ruler" [syn: subordinate,
subdue]
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sultanate
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n 1: country or territory ruled by a sultan
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sunbonnet
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n 1: a large bonnet that shades the face; worn by girls and
women
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tenet
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n 1: a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without
proof [syn: dogma, tenet]
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turbinate
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adj 1: of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in
the nasal passages
2: in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical, spiral,
spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate]
n 1: any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in
man and other vertebrates [syn: turbinate bone,
turbinate, turbinal]
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unit
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n 1: any division of quantity accepted as a standard of
measurement or exchange; "the dollar is the United States
unit of currency"; "a unit of wheat is a bushel"; "change
per unit volume" [syn: unit of measurement, unit]
2: an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded
as a structural or functional constituent of a whole; "the
reduced the number of units and installations"; "the word is
a basic linguistic unit"
3: an organization regarded as part of a larger social group;
"the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after
the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit" [syn:
unit, social unit]
4: a single undivided whole; "an idea is not a unit that can be
moved from one brain to another"
5: a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition
of something else; "units of nucleic acids" [syn: unit,
building block]
6: 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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whodunit
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n 1: a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel
or play or movie [syn: mystery, mystery story,
whodunit]
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pectinate
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adj 1: like a comb
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manat
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n 1: the basic unit of money in Turkmenistan
2: the basic unit of money in Azerbaijan
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lionet
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n 1: a small or young lion
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bennett
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n 1: United States aviator who (with Richard E. Byrd) piloted
the first flight over the North Pole (1890-1928) [syn:
Bennett, Floyd Bennett]
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jennet
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n 1: female donkey [syn: jennet, jenny, jenny ass]
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sennett
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n 1: United States filmmaker (born in Canada) noted for
slapstick movies (1880-1960) [syn: Sennett, Mack
Sennett]
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sennit
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n 1: flat braided cordage that is used on ships
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lunate
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adj 1: resembling the new moon in shape [syn: crescent(a),
crescent-shaped, semilunar, lunate]
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bipinnate
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adj 1: of a leaf shape; having doubly pinnate leaflets (as
ferns)
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tripinnate
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adj 1: (of a leaf shape) thrice pinnate [syn: tripinnate,
tripinnated]
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staminate
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adj 1: capable of fertilizing female organs [syn: antheral,
staminate]
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bobbinet
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cannot
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polycarbonate
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barnett
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falconet
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pulmonate
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resupinate
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garnett
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tabinet
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sennet
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sinnott
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unknit
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banet
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gannett
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interknit
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sinnet
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unbonnet
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barnet
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discarnate
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granat
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manatt
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diaconate
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connaught
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subdiaconate
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