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allocate
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v 1: distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special
purpose; "I am allocating a loaf of bread to everyone on a
daily basis"; "I'm allocating the rations for the camping
trip" [syn: allocate, apportion]
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ate
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n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
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cheapskate
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n 1: a miserly person [syn: cheapskate, tightwad]
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locate
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v 1: discover the location of; determine the place of; find by
searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the
Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing" [syn: locate,
turn up]
2: determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by
an instrument or by a survey; "Our sense of sight enables us
to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the
property" [syn: situate, locate]
3: assign a location to; "The company located some of their
agents in Los Angeles" [syn: locate, place, site]
4: take up residence and become established; "The immigrants
settled in the Midwest" [syn: settle, locate]
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lubricate
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v 1: have lubricating properties; "the liquid in this can
lubricates well"
2: apply a lubricant to; "lubricate my car" [syn: lubricate,
lube]
3: make slippery or smooth through the application of a
lubricant; "lubricate the key"
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masticate
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v 1: grind and knead; "masticate rubber"
2: chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth; "He jawed his
bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The
cows were masticating the grass" [syn: chew, masticate,
manducate, jaw]
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medicate
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v 1: impregnate with a medicinal substance
2: treat medicinally, treat with medicine [syn: medicate,
medicine]
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obfuscate
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v 1: make obscure or unclear [ant: clarify, clear up,
elucidate]
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placate
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v 1: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
"She managed to mollify the angry customer" [syn: pacify,
lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify,
placate, gentle, gruntle]
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prevaricate
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v 1: be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or
withhold information [syn: beat around the bush,
equivocate, tergiversate, prevaricate, palter]
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prognosticate
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v 1: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome
of an election" [syn: predict, foretell,
prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate,
promise]
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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quadruplicate
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adj 1: having four units or components; "quadruple rhythm has
four beats per measure"; "quadruplex wire" [syn:
quadruple, quadruplicate, quadruplex, fourfold,
four-fold]
n 1: any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one
another exactly; "it was signed in quadruplicate"
v 1: reproduce fourfold; "quadruplicate the bill"
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reallocate
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v 1: allocate, distribute, or apportion anew; "Congressional
seats are reapportioned on the basis of census data" [syn:
reapportion, reallocate]
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reciprocate
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v 1: act, feel, or give mutually or in return; "We always invite
the neighbors and they never reciprocate!"
2: alternate the direction of motion of; "the engine
reciprocates the propeller"
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rededicate
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v 1: dedicate anew; "They were asked to rededicate themselves to
their country"
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reduplicate
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v 1: form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a
short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to
emphasize the meaning of the word" [syn: reduplicate,
geminate]
2: make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his
brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate,
reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate]
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relocate
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v 1: become established in a new location; "Our company
relocated to the Midwest"
2: move or establish in a new location; "We had to relocate the
office because the rent was too high"
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replicate
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v 1: bend or turn backward [syn: retroflex, replicate]
2: reproduce or make an exact copy of; "replicate the cell";
"copy the genetic information" [syn: replicate, copy]
3: make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his
brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate,
reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate]
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truncate
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adj 1: terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or
point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic
mountains"; "a truncated pyramid" [syn: truncate,
truncated]
v 1: replace a corner by a plane
2: approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one;
"truncate a series"
3: make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word";
"Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains" [syn:
truncate, cut short]
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vacate
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v 1: leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily; "She vacated
the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned
when he was found to have misappropriated funds" [syn:
vacate, resign, renounce, give up]
2: leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office
by tonight" [syn: vacate, empty, abandon]
3: cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an
embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" [syn: revoke, annul,
lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn,
rescind, vacate]
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sulcate
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adj 1: having deep narrow furrows or grooves
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translocate
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v 1: transfer (a chromosomal segment) to a new position
2: move from one place to another, especially of wild animals;
"The endangered turtles were translocated to a safe
environment"
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umbilicate
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adj 1: depressed like a navel
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photoduplicate
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aydt
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cate
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saccate
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unallocate
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ait
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trisulcate
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