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curious
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adj 1: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a
curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang";
"they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd
name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something
definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow";
"singular behavior" [syn: curious, funny, odd,
peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular]
2: eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about
others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's delight";
"a trap door that made me curious"; "curious investigators";
"traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers"; "curious about
the neighbor's doings" [ant: incurious]
3: having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning
more; "a trap door that made me curious"
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furious
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adj 1: marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious
beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" [syn:
ferocious, fierce, furious, savage]
2: marked by extreme anger; "the enraged bull attached";
"furious about the accident"; "a furious scowl"; "infuriated
onlookers charged the police who were beating the boy";
"could not control the maddened crowd" [syn: angered,
enraged, furious, infuriated, maddened]
3: (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds
on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" [syn:
angry, furious, raging, tempestuous, wild]
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injurious
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adj 1: harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical
additives" [syn: deleterious, hurtful, injurious]
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luxurious
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adj 1: displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the
senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious
suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs";
"Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous
magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic
lavishness" [syn: epicurean, luxurious, luxuriant,
sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous]
2: rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded
dining rooms" [syn: deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious,
opulent, princely, sumptuous]
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notorious
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adj 1: known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious
gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for
vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold"; [syn: ill-famed,
infamous, notorious]
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spurious
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adj 1: plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious
inferences" [syn: specious, spurious]
2: born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed
away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman
[syn: bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten, spurious]
3: intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art" [syn:
inauthentic, unauthentic, spurious]
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various
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adj 1: of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking
any uniformity; "assorted sizes"; "his disguises are many
and various"; "various experiments have failed to
disprove the theory"; "cited various reasons for his
behavior" [syn: assorted, various]
2: considered individually; "the respective club members";
"specialists in their several fields"; "the various reports
all agreed" [syn: respective(a), several(a),
various(a)]
3: distinctly dissimilar or unlike; "celebrities as diverse as
Bob Hope and Bob Dylan"; "animals as various as the jaguar
and the cavy and the sloth" [syn: diverse, various]
4: having great diversity or variety; "his various achievements
are impressive"; "his vast and versatile erudition" [syn:
versatile, various]
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vicarious
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adj 1: experienced at secondhand; "read about mountain climbing
and felt vicarious excitement"
2: occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the
usual site involved in that function; "vicarious
menstruation"
3: suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another;
"vicarious atonement"
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victorious
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adj 1: having won; "the victorious entry"; "the winning team"
[syn: victorious, winning]
2: experiencing triumph [syn: triumphant, victorious]
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vitreous
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adj 1: of or relating to or constituting the vitreous humor of
the eye; "the vitreous chamber"
2: relating to or resembling or derived from or containing
glass; "vitreous rocks"; "vitreous silica"
3: (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by
fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy
porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures"
[syn: glassy, vitreous, vitrified]
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aquarius
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n 1: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in
Aquarius [syn: Aquarius, Water Bearer]
2: a zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere; between
Capricornus and Pisces
3: the eleventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from
about January 20 to February 18 [syn: Aquarius, Aquarius
the Water Bearer, Water Bearer]
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stradivarius
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n 1: Italian violin maker who developed the modern violin and
created violins of unequaled tonal quality (1644?-1737)
[syn: Stradivari, Antonio Stradivari, Stradivarius,
Antonius Stradivarius]
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nereus
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n 1: (Greek mythology) a sea god son of Pontus and Gaea; lived
in the depths of the sea with his wife Doris and their
daughters the Nereids
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guarnerius
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n 1: Italian violin maker and grandson of Andrea Guarneri
(1687?-1745) [syn: Guarneri, Guarnieri, Guarnerius,
Guiseppe Guarneri]
2: founder of a family of Italian violin makers (1626?-1698)
[syn: Guarneri, Guarnieri, Guarnerius, Andrea
Guarneri]
3: a violin made by a member of the Guarneri family
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belisarius
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n 1: Byzantine general under Justinian I; he recovered former
Roman territories in northern Africa and fought against the
Persians
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tiberius
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n 1: son-in-law of Augustus who became a suspicious tyrannical
Emperor of Rome after a brilliant military career (42 BC to
AD 37) [syn: Tiberius, Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar
Augustus]
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sirius
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n 1: the brightest star in the sky; in Canis Major [syn:
Sirius, Dog Star, Canicula, Sothis]
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sartorius
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n 1: a muscle in the thigh that helps to rotate the leg into the
sitting position assumed by a tailor; the longest muscle in
the human body [syn: sartorius, sartorius muscle,
musculus sartorius]
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demetrius
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n 1: son of Antigonus Cyclops and king of Macedonia; he and his
father were defeated at the battle of Ipsus (337-283 BC)
[syn: Demetrius, Demetrius I, Demetrius Poliorcetes]
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arboreous
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adj 1: inhabiting or frequenting trees; "arboreal apes" [syn:
arboreal, arboreous, tree-living] [ant:
nonarboreal]
2: abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in
woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway" [syn:
arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy, woody]
3: resembling a tree in form and branching structure;
"arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda";
"dendriform sponges" [syn: arboreal, arboreous,
arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform,
dendroid, dendroidal, treelike, tree-shaped]
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nestorius
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n 1: Syrian who was a Christian bishop and Patriarch of
Constantinople in the early fifth century; one of the major
heresies concerning the doctrine of the hypostasis of
Christ was named after him (died in 451)
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atreus
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n 1: (Greek mythology) the king of Mycenae and father of
Agamemnon and of Menelaus
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darius
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scarious
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marius
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malarious
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denarius
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senarius
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subdelirious
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sulphureous
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