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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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bacon
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n 1: back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually
sliced thin and fried
2: English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the
importance of experimentation; first showed that air is
required for combustion and first used lenses to correct
vision (1220-1292) [syn: Bacon, Roger Bacon]
3: English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British
empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626) [syn:
Bacon, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Baron
Verulam, 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans]
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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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drunken
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adj 1: given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a
bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous evening"; "his boozy
drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a drunken
binge"; "two drunken gentlemen holding each other up";
"sottish behavior" [syn: bibulous, boozy, drunken,
sottish]
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slacken
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v 1: become slow or slower; "Production slowed" [syn: slow,
slow down, slow up, slack, slacken]
2: make less active or fast; "He slackened his pace as he got
tired"; "Don't relax your efforts now" [syn: slack,
slacken, slack up, relax]
3: become looser or slack; "the rope slackened"
4: make slack as by lessening tension or firmness [syn:
slacken, remit]
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balkan
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n 1: an inhabitant of the Balkan Peninsula
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aiken
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n 1: United States writer (1889-1973) [syn: Aiken, Conrad
Aiken, Conrad Potter Aiken]
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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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takin
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n 1: large heavily built goat antelope of eastern Himalayan area
[syn: takin, gnu goat, Budorcas taxicolor]
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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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copernican
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adj 1: of radical or major importance; "a Copernican revolution
in modern art"
2: according to Copernicus; "in the Copernican system the earth
and other planets revolve around the sun"
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chacon
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hakon
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machen
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macken
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mccracken
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mcmackin
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mcmakin
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bakken
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betaken
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