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booth
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n 1: a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-
backed benches
2: small area set off by walls for special use [syn: booth,
cubicle, stall, kiosk]
3: United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln
(1838-1865) [syn: Booth, John Wilkes Booth]
4: a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment
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couth
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adj 1: (used facetiously) refined
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dogtooth
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n 1: perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely
cultivated [syn: dogtooth violet, dogtooth,
dog's-tooth violet]
2: one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw)
located between the incisors and the premolars [syn:
canine, canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth,
dogtooth, cuspid]
3: a carved pyramidal ornament; used in 13th century England
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forsooth
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adv 1: an archaic word originally meaning `in truth' but now
usually used to express disbelief
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sleuth
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n 1: a detective who follows a trail [syn: sleuth,
sleuthhound]
v 1: watch, observe, or inquire secretly [syn: spy, stag,
snoop, sleuth]
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sooth
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n 1: truth or reality; "in sooth"
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tollbooth
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n 1: a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects
tolls [syn: tollbooth, tolbooth, tollhouse]
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tooth
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n 1: hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used
for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
2: something resembling the tooth of an animal
3: toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or
alimentary canal or on a shell
4: a means of enforcement; "the treaty had no teeth in it"
5: one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
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truth
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n 1: a fact that has been verified; "at last he knew the truth";
"the truth is that he didn't want to do it"
2: conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth
of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the
blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the
truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search
for eternal verities" [syn: truth, the true, verity,
trueness] [ant: falseness, falsity]
3: a true statement; "he told the truth"; "he thought of
answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe
it" [syn: truth, true statement] [ant: falsehood,
falsity, untruth]
4: the quality of being near to the true value; "he was
beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass"; "the lawyer
questioned the truth of my account" [syn: accuracy,
truth] [ant: inaccuracy]
5: United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from
slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of
slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883) [syn:
Truth, Sojourner Truth]
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uncouth
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adj 1: lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had
coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that
branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human
being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy";
"appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar
display of the newly rich" [syn: coarse, common,
rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar]
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untruth
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n 1: a false statement [syn: falsehood, falsity, untruth]
[ant: true statement, truth]
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vermouth
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n 1: any of several white wines flavored with aromatic herbs;
used as aperitifs or in mixed drinks
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youth
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n 1: a young person (especially a young man or boy) [syn: young
person, youth, younker, spring chicken]
2: young people collectively; "rock music appeals to the young";
"youth everywhere rises in revolt" [syn: young, youth]
[ant: aged, elderly]
3: the time of life between childhood and maturity
4: early maturity; the state of being young or immature or
inexperienced
5: an early period of development; "during the youth of the
project" [syn: youth, early days]
6: the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
[syn: youth, youthfulness, juvenility]
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duluth
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n 1: a city in northeast Minnesota on Lake Superior
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ruth
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n 1: United States professional baseball player famous for
hitting home runs (1895-1948) [syn: Ruth, Babe Ruth,
George Herman Ruth, Sultan of Swat]
2: the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in
the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
3: a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of
others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" [syn:
commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos]
4: a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who
was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who
stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died
[syn: Ruth, Book of Ruth]
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eyetooth
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n 1: one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw)
located between the incisors and the premolars [syn:
canine, canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth,
dogtooth, cuspid]
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tolbooth
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n 1: a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects
tolls [syn: tollbooth, tolbooth, tollhouse]
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sawtooth
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n 1: a serration on a saw blade
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snaggletooth
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gluth
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meuth
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pluth
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bluth
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buth
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boothe
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houndstooth
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