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accidental
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adj 1: happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally ;
"with an inadvertent gesture she swept the vase off the
table"; "accidental poisoning"; "an accidental shooting"
[syn: accidental, inadvertent]
n 1: a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or
natural although that is not part of the key signature
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cantle
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n 1: the back of a saddle seat
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coincidental
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adj 1: occurring or operating at the same time; "a series of
coincident events" [syn: coincident, coincidental,
coinciding, concurrent, co-occurrent,
cooccurring, simultaneous]
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compartmental
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adj 1: divided up into compartments or categories; "most
sciences have become woefully compartmentalized" [syn:
compartmental, compartmentalized,
compartmentalised]
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consonantal
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adj 1: being or marked by or containing or functioning as a
consonant; "consonantal sounds"; "a consonantal Hebrew
text"; "consonantal alliteration"; "a consonantal
cluster" [ant: vocalic]
2: relating to or having the nature of a consonant
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continental
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adj 1: of or pertaining to or typical of Europe; "a Continental
breakfast"
2: of or relating to or concerning the American colonies during
and immediately after the American Revolutionary War; "the
Continental Army"; "the Continental Congress"
3: of or relating to or characteristic of a continent; "the
continental divide"; "continental drift"
4: being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the
continents of North America or Europe; "the continental
United States"; "continental Europe"; "continental waters"
[ant: intercontinental]
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contrapuntal
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adj 1: relating to or characteristic of or according to the
rules of counterpoint; "contrapuntal base"
2: having two or more independent but harmonically related
melodic parts sounding together [syn: polyphonic,
contrapuntal] [ant: monophonic]
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dental
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adj 1: of or relating to the teeth; "dental floss"
2: of or relating to dentistry; "dental student"
n 1: a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the
gum ridge [syn: alveolar consonant, dental consonant,
alveolar, dental]
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departmental
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adj 1: of or relating to a department; "departmental policy"
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detrimental
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adj 1: (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury;
"damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's
coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the
defendant" [syn: damaging, detrimental,
prejudicial, prejudicious]
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developmental
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adj 1: of or relating to or constituting development;
"developmental psychology"
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dismantle
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v 1: tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building
was levelled" [syn: level, raze, rase, dismantle,
tear down, take down, pull down] [ant: erect, put
up, raise, rear, set up]
2: take apart into its constituent pieces [syn: disassemble,
dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart] [ant:
assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack
together]
3: take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" [syn:
strip, dismantle]
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documental
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adj 1: relating to or consisting of or derived from documents
[syn: documentary, documental]
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mantel
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n 1: shelf that projects from wall above fireplace; "in Britain
they call a mantel a chimneypiece" [syn: mantel,
mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece, chimneypiece]
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mantle
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n 1: the cloak as a symbol of authority; "place the mantle of
authority on younger shoulders"
2: United States baseball player (1931-1997) [syn: Mantle,
Mickey Mantle, Mickey Charles Mantle]
3: the layer of the earth between the crust and the core
4: anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow" [syn:
blanket, mantle]
5: (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or
brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell [syn:
mantle, pallium]
6: shelf that projects from wall above fireplace; "in Britain
they call a mantel a chimneypiece" [syn: mantel,
mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece, chimneypiece]
7: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn:
curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall]
8: a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter [syn: cape,
mantle]
v 1: spread over a surface, like a mantle
2: cover like a mantle; "The ivy mantles the building"
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segmental
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adj 1: divided or organized into speech segments or isolable
speech sounds
2: having the body divided into successive metameres or
segments, as in earthworms or lobsters [syn: metameric,
segmental, segmented]
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sentimental
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adj 1: given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality
2: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
"maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a
schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
[syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish,
kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental,
soppy, soupy, slushy]
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supplemental
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adj 1: functioning in a supporting capacity; "the main library
and its auxiliary branches" [syn: auxiliary,
subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary]
2: added to complete or make up a deficiency; "produced
supplementary volumes" [syn: supplementary, supplemental]
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temperamental
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adj 1: relating to or caused by temperament; "temperamental
indifference to neatness"; "temperamental peculiarities"
2: subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera
singer" [syn: moody, temperamental]
3: likely to perform unpredictably; "erratic winds are the bane
of a sailor"; "a temperamental motor; sometimes it would
start and sometimes it wouldn't"; "that beautiful but
temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster [syn:
erratic, temperamental]
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transcendental
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adj 1: existing outside of or not in accordance with nature;
"find transcendental motives for sublunary action"-Aldous
Huxley [syn: nonnatural, otherworldly,
preternatural, transcendental]
2: of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing
the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
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transcontinental
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adj 1: spanning or crossing or on the farther side of a
continent; "transcontinental railway"; "transcontinental
travelers"; "a transcontinental city"
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cental
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n 1: a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
[syn: hundredweight, cwt, short hundredweight,
centner, cental, quintal]
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trental
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n 1: a drug (trade name Trental) used to treat claudication;
believed to increase the flexibility of red blood cells so
they can flow through the blood vessels to the legs and
feet [syn: pentoxifylline, Trental]
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judgmental
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adj 1: depending on judgment; "a judgmental error"; "I think
that she is too judgmental to be a good therapist" [ant:
nonjudgmental]
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complemental
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adj 1: acting as or providing a complement (something that
completes the whole) [syn: complemental,
complementary, completing]
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covenantal
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antal
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antle
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chantal
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bantle
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