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baroness
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n 1: a noblewoman who holds the rank of baron or who is the wife
or widow of a baron
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bonus
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n 1: anything that tends to arouse; "his approval was an added
fillip" [syn: bonus, fillip]
2: an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as
a means of increasing output [syn: bonus, incentive]
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cacophonous
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adj 1: having an unpleasant sound; "as cacophonous as a
henyard"- John McCarten [syn: cacophonous,
cacophonic] [ant: euphonious, euphonous]
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callowness
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n 1: lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life [syn:
callowness, jejuneness, juvenility]
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cavernous
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adj 1: being or suggesting a cavern; "vast cavernous chambers
hollowed out of limestone"
2: filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming
distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood;
"erectile tissue"; "the penis is an erectile organ" [syn:
erectile, cavernous]
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cleverness
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n 1: the power of creative imagination [syn: inventiveness,
ingeniousness, ingenuity, cleverness]
2: intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty [syn:
brightness, cleverness, smartness]
3: the property of being ingenious; "a plot of great ingenuity";
"the cleverness of its design" [syn: ingenuity,
ingeniousness, cleverness]
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conterminous
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adj 1: connecting without a break; within a common boundary;
"the 48 conterminous states"; "the contiguous 48 states"
[syn: conterminous, contiguous]
2: having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching; "Rhode
Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and
Conncecticut"; "the side of Germany conterminous with
France"; "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho";
"neighboring cities" [syn: adjacent, conterminous,
contiguous, neighboring(a)]
3: being of equal extent or scope or duration [syn:
coextensive, coterminous, conterminous]
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coterminous
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adj 1: being of equal extent or scope or duration [syn:
coextensive, coterminous, conterminous]
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dampness
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n 1: a slight wetness [syn: damp, dampness, moistness]
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deepness
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n 1: the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
[syn: astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth,
deepness]
2: the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the
mine was almost a mile" [syn: deepness, profundity,
profoundness] [ant: shallowness]
3: the extent downward or backward or inward; "the depth of the
water"; "depth of a shelf"; "depth of a closet" [syn:
depth, deepness]
4: a low pitch that is loud and voluminous
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drabness
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n 1: having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or
elegance [syn: dowdiness, drabness, homeliness]
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glibness
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n 1: a kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness of a
high-pressure salesman" [syn: glibness, slickness]
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larcenous
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n 1: having a disposition to steal [syn: thievishness,
larcenous]
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lowness
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n 1: a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or
fortune or estimation [syn: low status, lowness,
lowliness] [ant: high status]
2: a feeling of low spirits; "he felt responsible for her
lowness of spirits" [syn: downheartedness, dejectedness,
low-spiritedness, lowness, dispiritedness]
3: the quality of being low; lacking height; "he was suddenly
aware of the lowness of the ceiling" [ant: highness,
loftiness]
4: a low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or
temperature etc.); "he took advantage of the lowness of
interest rates"
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onus
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n 1: an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of
responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind" [syn:
burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus]
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plumpness
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n 1: the bodily property of being well rounded [syn:
plumpness, embonpoint, roundness]
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proneness
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n 1: being disposed to do something; "accident proneness"
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slowness
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n 1: unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training [syn:
awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude,
maladroitness, slowness]
2: a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry [syn:
slowness, deliberation, deliberateness,
unhurriedness]
3: lack of normal development of intellectual capacities [syn:
retardation, mental retardation, backwardness,
slowness, subnormality]
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tonus
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n 1: the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that
facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my
tonicity" [syn: tonicity, tonus, tone] [ant:
amyotonia, atonia, atonicity, atony]
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adonis
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n 1: any handsome young man
2: annual or perennial herbs [syn: Adonis, genus Adonis]
3: (Greek mythology) a handsome youth loved by both Aphrodite
and Persephone; "when Adonis died Zeus decreed that he should
spend winters in the underworld with Persephone and spend
summers with Aphrodite"
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clonus
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n 1: convulsion characterized by alternating contractions and
relaxations
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cronus
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n 1: (Greek mythology) the supreme god until Zeus dethroned him;
son of Uranus and Gaea in ancient Greek mythology;
identified with Roman Saturn
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keratoconus
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n 1: abnormal cone-shaped protrusion of the cornea of the eye;
can be treated by epikeratophakia
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conus
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colonus
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petronas
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jonas
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monus
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tithonus
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