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amulet
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n 1: a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck
and thought to be a magical protection against evil or
disease [syn: amulet, talisman]
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anklet
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n 1: a shoe for a child or woman that has a strap around the
ankle
2: a sock that reaches just above the ankle [syn: anklet,
anklets, bobbysock, bobbysocks]
3: an ornament worn around the ankle [syn: anklet, ankle
bracelet]
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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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armlet
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n 1: a band worn around the arm for decoration [syn: armlet,
arm band]
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at
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n 1: a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the
halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium
[syn: astatine, At, atomic number 85]
2: 100 at equal 1 kip in Laos
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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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booklet
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n 1: a small book usually having a paper cover [syn: booklet,
brochure, folder, leaflet, pamphlet]
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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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consulate
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n 1: diplomatic building that serves as the residence or
workplace of a consul
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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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millet
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n 1: any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage
grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria,
Sorghum, and Eleusine
2: French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875) [syn: Millet,
Jean Francois Millet]
3: small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially
Setaria italica
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pamphlet
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n 1: a small book usually having a paper cover [syn: booklet,
brochure, folder, leaflet, pamphlet]
2: a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the
form of a booklet [syn: tract, pamphlet]
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skillet
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n 1: a pan used for frying foods [syn: frying pan, frypan,
skillet]
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twilit
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adj 1: lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides
down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the
twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"
[syn: dusky, twilight(a), twilit]
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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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stylet
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n 1: small needlelike appendage; especially the feeding organ of
a tardigrade
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grillot
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billett
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gillott
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