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awaken
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v 1: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the
drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn:
awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse]
[ant: cause to sleep]
2: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
[syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come
alive, waken] [ant: dope off, doze off, drift off,
drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod
off]
3: make aware; "They were awakened to the sad facts"
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awestricken
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adj 1: having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and
respect and wonder and dread; "stood in awed silence
before the shrine"; "in grim despair and awestruck
wonder" [syn: awed, awestruck, awestricken] [ant:
unawed]
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beckon
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v 1: signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends";
"He waved his hand hospitably" [syn: beckon, wave]
2: appear inviting; "The shop window decorations beckoned"
3: summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture
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bespoken
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adj 1: (of clothing) custom-made [syn: bespoke, bespoken,
made-to-order, tailored, tailor-made]
2: pledged to be married; "the engaged couple" [syn: bespoken,
betrothed]
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betoken
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v 1: be a signal for or a symptom of; "These symptoms indicate a
serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe
neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is
undervalued" [syn: bespeak, betoken, indicate,
point, signal]
2: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode,
portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage,
betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure,
forecast, predict]
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blacken
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v 1: make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling";
"The ceiling blackened" [syn: blacken, melanize,
melanise, nigrify, black] [ant: white, whiten]
2: burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The
cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the
ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the
ceiling" [syn: char, blacken, sear, scorch]
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bracken
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n 1: fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate
regions [syn: bracken, Pteridium esculentum]
2: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed
ferns; cosmopolitan [syn: bracken, pasture brake,
brake, Pteridium aquilinum]
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broken
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adj 1: physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked
or split; "a broken mirror"; "a broken tooth"; "a broken
leg"; "his neck is broken" [ant: unbroken]
2: not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying
abruptly; "broken lines of defense"; "a broken cable
transmission"; "broken sleep"; "tear off the stub above the
broken line"; "a broken note"; "broken sobs" [ant:
unbroken]
3: subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low";
"a broken man"; "his broken spirit" [syn: broken,
crushed, humbled, humiliated, low]
4: (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or
disregarded; "broken (or unkept) promises"; "broken
contracts" [syn: broken, unkept] [ant: kept,
unbroken]
5: tamed or trained to obey; "a horse broken to the saddle";
"this old nag is well broken in" [syn: broken, broken in]
6: topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged
ground" [syn: broken, rugged]
7: imperfectly spoken or written; "broken English"
8: thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing
in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk";
"the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset" [syn:
broken, confused, disordered, upset]
9: weakened and infirm; "broken health resulting from
alcoholism"
10: destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"
[syn: broken, wiped out(p), impoverished]
11: out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for
`broken'); "a broken washing machine"; "the coke machine is
broken"; "the coke machine is busted" [syn: broken,
busted]
12: discontinuous; "broken clouds"; "broken sunshine"
13: lacking a part or parts; "a broken set of encyclopedia"
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can
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n 1: airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint
etc. [syn: can, tin, tin can]
2: the quantity contained in a can [syn: can, canful]
3: a buoy with a round bottom and conical top [syn: can, can
buoy]
4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he
deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on
your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates,
arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can,
fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister,
posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern,
seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom,
behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
5: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn:
toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty,
stool, throne]
6: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn:
toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy,
bathroom]
v 1: preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty"
[syn: can, tin, put up]
2: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or
position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company
terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire,
give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away,
sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant:
employ, engage, hire]
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chicken
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adj 1: easily frightened [syn: chicken, chickenhearted,
lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-
bellied]
n 1: the flesh of a chicken used for food [syn: chicken,
poulet, volaille]
2: a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been
developed from the red jungle fowl [syn: chicken, Gallus
gallus]
3: a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
[syn: wimp, chicken, crybaby]
4: a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is
continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops
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darken
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v 1: become dark or darker; "The sky darkened" [ant: lighten,
lighten up]
2: tarnish or stain; "a scandal that darkened the family's good
name"
3: make dark or darker; "darken a room" [ant: brighten,
lighten, lighten up]
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oaken
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adj 1: consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree; "a solid
oak table"; "the old oaken bucket"
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outspoken
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adj 1: given to expressing yourself freely or insistently;
"outspoken in their opposition to segregation"; "a vocal
assembly" [syn: outspoken, vocal]
2: characterized by directness in manner or speech; without
subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting";
"a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid
opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to
the problem"; "tell me what you think--and you may just as
well be frank"; "it is possible to be outspoken without being
rude"; "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank
accusation" [syn: blunt, candid, forthright, frank,
free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank,
straight-from-the-shoulder]
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spoken
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adj 1: uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by
speech; sometimes used in combination; "a spoken
message"; "the spoken language"; "a soft-spoken person";
"sharp-spoken" [ant: written]
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token
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adj 1: insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish'
is informal); "the fee was nominal"; "a token gesture of
resistance"; "a toknenish gesture" [syn: nominal,
token(a), tokenish]
n 1: an individual instance of a type of symbol; "the
word`error' contains three tokens of `r'" [syn: token,
item]
2: something serving as a sign of something else
3: a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in
designated slot machines
4: something of sentimental value [syn: keepsake, souvenir,
token, relic]
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unbroken
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adj 1: marked by continuous or uninterrupted extension in space
or time or sequence; "cars in an unbroken procession";
"the unbroken quiet of the afternoon" [ant: broken]
2: not subdued or trained for service or use; "unbroken colts"
3: (of farmland) not plowed; "unplowed fields"; "unbroken land"
[syn: unplowed, unploughed, unbroken] [ant: ploughed,
plowed]
4: (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or
disregarded; "unbroken promises"; "promises kept" [syn:
unbroken, kept] [ant: broken, unkept]
5: not broken; whole and intact; in one piece; "fortunately the
other lens is unbroken" [ant: broken]
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unspoken
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adj 1: expressed without speech; "a mute appeal"; "a silent
curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the
words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief";
"choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe
[syn: mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless]
2: not made explicit; "the unexpressed terms of the agreement";
"things left unsaid"; "some kind of unspoken agreement"; "his
action is clear but his reason remains unstated" [syn:
unexpressed, unsaid, unstated, unuttered,
unverbalized, unverbalised, unvoiced, unspoken]
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caribbean
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n 1: an arm of the Atlantic Ocean between North and South
America; the origin of the Gulf stream [syn: Caribbean,
Caribbean Sea]
2: region including the Caribbean Islands
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andean
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adj 1: relating to the Andes and their inhabitants
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american
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adj 1: of or relating to the United States of America or its
people or language or culture; "American citizens";
"American English"; "the American dream"
2: of or relating to or characteristic of the continents and
islands of the Americas; "the American hemisphere"; "American
flora and fauna"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of the United States
2: the English language as used in the United States [syn:
American English, American language, American]
3: a native or inhabitant of a North American or Central
American or South American country
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anglican
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adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Anglican
church; "an Anglican bishop"
n 1: a Protestant who is a follower of Anglicanism [ant:
Nonconformist, chapelgoer]
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awoken
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woken
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michoacan
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goeken
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jochen
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kokan
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koken
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misspoken
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betaken
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bowcan
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