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appellate
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adj 1: of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually
legal appeals); "appellate court" [syn: appellate,
appellant]
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articulate
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adj 1: expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear
expressive language; "articulate speech"; "an articulate
orator"; "articulate beings" [ant: inarticulate,
unarticulate]
2: consisting of segments held together by joints [syn:
articulated, articulate] [ant: unarticulated]
v 1: provide with a joint; "the carpenter jointed two pieces of
wood" [syn: joint, articulate]
2: put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns
to the board of trustees" [syn: give voice, formulate,
word, phrase, articulate]
3: speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces
French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can
the child sound out this complicated word?" [syn:
pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out,
enunciate, say]
4: unite by forming a joint or joints; "the ankle bone
articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle bones"
5: express or state clearly [syn: articulate, enunciate,
vocalize, vocalise]
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ate
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n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
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ballot
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n 1: a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting
2: a choice that is made by counting the number of people in
favor of each alternative; "there were only 17 votes in favor
of the motion"; "they allowed just one vote per person" [syn:
vote, ballot, voting, balloting]
v 1: vote by ballot; "The voters were balloting in this state"
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billet
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n 1: a short personal letter; "drop me a line when you get
there" [syn: note, short letter, line, billet]
2: lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home)
3: a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the
treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office,
spot, billet, place, situation]
v 1: provide housing for (military personnel) [syn: quarter,
billet, canton]
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bullet
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n 1: a projectile that is fired from a gun [syn: bullet,
slug]
2: a high-speed passenger train [syn: bullet train, bullet]
3: (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung
late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke"
[syn: fastball, heater, smoke, hummer, bullet]
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capsulate
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adj 1: used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule
[syn: capsulate, capsulated]
v 1: enclose in a capsule [syn: capsule, capsulate,
capsulize, capsulise]
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collate
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v 1: compare critically; of texts
2: to assemble in proper sequence; "collate the papers"
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correlate
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adj 1: mutually related [syn: correlative, correlate,
correlated]
n 1: either of two or more related or complementary variables
[syn: correlate, correlative]
v 1: to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation; "Do these facts
correlate?"
2: bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation;
"I cannot correlate these two pieces of information"
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couplet
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n 1: two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair,
twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet,
distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad]
2: a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually
rhymed
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coverlet
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n 1: a decorative bedspread (usually quilted)
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cutlet
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n 1: thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or
broiled [syn: cutlet, scallop, scollop, escallop]
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denticulate
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adj 1: having a very finely toothed margin
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desolate
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adj 1: providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills";
"barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high
Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark
landscape" [syn: bare, barren, bleak, desolate,
stark]
2: crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low
desolate wail"
v 1: leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the
lurch; "The mother deserted her children" [syn: abandon,
forsake, desolate, desert]
2: reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the
countryside" [syn: depopulate, desolate]
3: cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay
waste to the countryside after the invasion" [syn: lay waste
to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge]
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disconsolate
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adj 1: sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled;
"inconsolable when her son died" [syn: inconsolable,
disconsolate, unconsolable] [ant: consolable]
2: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war";
"a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter
landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November";
"a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue,
dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim,
sorry, drab, drear, dreary]
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distillate
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n 1: a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor
during distilling; the product of distilling [syn:
distillate, distillation]
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doublet
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n 1: a man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance
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driblet
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n 1: a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); "he
had a drop too much to drink"; "a drop of each sample was
analyzed"; "there is not a drop of pity in that man";
"years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet
by driblet"--Kipling [syn: drop, drib, driblet]
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droplet
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n 1: a tiny drop
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helot
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n 1: (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned
by the feudal lord [syn: serf, helot, villein]
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prelate
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n 1: a senior clergyman and dignitary [syn: archpriest,
hierarch, high priest, prelate, primate]
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zealot
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n 1: a member of an ancient Jewish sect in Judea in the first
century who fought to the death against the Romans and who
killed or persecuted Jews who collaborated with the Romans
2: a fervent and even militant proponent of something [syn:
partisan, zealot, drumbeater] [ant: nonpartisan,
nonpartizan]
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chelate
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adj 1: relating to or characterized by chelation [syn:
chelate, chelated]
2: having or resembling chelae or claws
n 1: a heterocyclic compound having a metal ion attached by
coordinate bonds to at least two nonmetal ions [syn:
chelate, chelate compound]
v 1: form a chelate, in chemistry
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branchlet
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n 1: a small branch or division of a branch (especially a
terminal division); usually applied to branches of the
current or preceding year [syn: branchlet, twig,
sprig]
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brooklet
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n 1: a small brook
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charlotte
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n 1: the largest city in North Carolina; located in south
central North Carolina [syn: Charlotte, Queen City]
2: a mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or
whipped cream or custard
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ait
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gelett
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ellett
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kellett
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