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abhor
0
v 1: find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"
[syn: abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate]
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adore
0
v 1: love intensely; "he just adored his wife"
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allure
0
n 1: the power to entice or attract through personal charm [syn:
allure, allurement, temptingness]
v 1: dispose or incline or entice to; "We were tempted by the
delicious-looking food" [syn: tempt, allure]
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anymore
0
adv 1: at the present or from now on; usually used with a
negative; "Alice doesn't live here anymore"; "the
children promised not to quarrel any more" [syn:
anymore, any longer]
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ashore
0
adv 1: towards the shore from the water; "we invited them
ashore"
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assure
0
v 1: make certain of; "This nest egg will ensure a nice
retirement for us"; "Preparation will guarantee success!"
[syn: guarantee, ensure, insure, assure, secure]
2: inform positively and with certainty and confidence; "I tell
you that man is a crook!" [syn: assure, tell]
3: assure somebody of the truth of something with the intention
of giving the listener confidence; "I assured him that
traveling to Cambodia was safe"
4: be careful or certain to do something; make certain of
something; "He verified that the valves were closed"; "See
that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the
product" [syn: see, check, insure, see to it,
ensure, control, ascertain, assure]
5: cause to feel sure; give reassurance to; "The airline tried
to reassure the customers that the planes were safe" [syn:
reassure, assure] [ant: vex, worry]
6: make a promise or commitment [syn: promise, assure]
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before
0
adv 1: earlier in time; previously; "I had known her before";
"as I said before"; "he called me the day before but your
call had come even earlier"; "her parents had died four
years earlier"; "I mentioned that problem earlier" [syn:
earlier, before]
2: at or in the front; "I see the lights of a town ahead"; "the
road ahead is foggy"; "staring straight ahead"; "we couldn't
see over the heads of the people in front"; "with the cross
of Jesus marching on before" [syn: ahead, in front,
before]
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boar
0
n 1: Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent
tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in
United States [syn: wild boar, boar, Sus scrofa]
2: an uncastrated male hog
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boor
0
n 1: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or
refinement [syn: peasant, barbarian, boor, churl,
Goth, tyke, tike]
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bore
0
n 1: a person who evokes boredom [syn: bore, dullard]
2: a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by
colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) [syn: tidal
bore, bore, eagre, aegir, eager]
3: diameter of a tube or gun barrel [syn: bore, gauge,
caliber, calibre]
4: a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for
exploratory purposes [syn: bore, bore-hole, drill hole]
v 1: cause to be bored [syn: bore, tire] [ant: interest]
2: make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool;
"don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into
the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes
into the wall" [syn: bore, drill]
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chore
0
n 1: a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or
for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that
job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of
repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task
of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"
[syn: job, task, chore]
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core
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n 1: a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five
periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"
[syn: core, nucleus, core group]
2: the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core"
3: the central part of the Earth
4: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some
idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument";
"the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the
story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center,
centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul,
inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-
gritty]
5: a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow
drill
6: an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to
work for racial equality [syn: Congress of Racial Equality,
CORE]
7: the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
[syn: effect, essence, burden, core, gist]
8: (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a
random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded
by semiconductor memories; "each core has three wires passing
through it, providing the means to select and detect the
contents of each bit" [syn: core, magnetic core]
9: the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile
material where the reaction takes place
10: a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes
through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the
coil
v 1: remove the core or center from; "core an apple"
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corps
0
n 1: an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions
and their support [syn: corps, army corps]
2: a body of people associated together; "diplomatic corps"
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cure
0
n 1: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
[syn: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic]
v 1: provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment
cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal
patients but never managed to" [syn: bring around,
cure, heal]
2: prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order
to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay"
3: make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure
resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap"
4: be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun"
-
decor
0
n 1: decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a
livable interior [syn: interior decoration, decor]
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drawer
0
n 1: a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to
slide in and out
2: the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee
to pay someone else
3: an artist skilled at drawing [syn: draftsman, drawer]
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floor
0
n 1: the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway,
tent, or other structure); "they needed rugs to cover the
bare floors"; "we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor
of the tent" [syn: floor, flooring]
2: a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single
position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office
on?" [syn: floor, level, storey, story]
3: a lower limit; "the government established a wage floor"
[syn: floor, base]
4: the ground on which people and animals move about; "the fire
spared the forest floor"
5: the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water
6: the lower inside surface of any hollow structure; "the floor
of the pelvis"; "the floor of the cave"
7: the occupants of a floor; "the whole floor complained about
the lack of heat"
8: the parliamentary right to address an assembly; "the chairman
granted him the floor"
9: the legislative hall where members debate and vote and
conduct other business; "there was a motion from the floor"
10: a large room in a exchange where the trading is done; "he is
a floor trader" [syn: floor, trading floor]
v 1: surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored
when I heard that I was promoted" [syn: shock, floor,
ball over, blow out of the water, take aback]
2: knock down with force; "He decked his opponent" [syn: deck,
coldcock, dump, knock down, floor]
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lure
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n 1: qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of
reward [syn: lure, enticement, come-on]
2: anything that serves as an enticement [syn: bait, come-
on, hook, lure, sweetener]
3: something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so
they can be trapped or killed [syn: bait, decoy, lure]
v 1: provoke someone to do something through (often false or
exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into
temptation" [syn: entice, lure, tempt]
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moor
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n 1: one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and
Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century;
conqueror of Spain in the 8th century
2: open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and
bracken and moss [syn: moor, moorland]
v 1: secure in or as if in a berth or dock; "tie up the boat"
[syn: moor, berth, tie up]
2: come into or dock at a wharf; "the big ship wharfed in the
evening" [syn: moor, berth, wharf]
3: secure with cables or ropes; "moor the boat"
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oar
0
n 1: an implement used to propel or steer a boat
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offshore
0
adv 1: away from shore; away from land; "cruising three miles
offshore" [ant: onshore]
adj 1: (of winds) coming from the land; "offshore winds" [syn:
offshore, seaward] [ant: inshore, onshore,
seaward, shoreward]
2: at some distance from the shore; "offshore oil reserves"; "an
offshore island"
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or
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n 1: a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific [syn:
Oregon, Beaver State, OR]
2: a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical
operations; "great care is taken to keep the operating rooms
aseptic" [syn: operating room, OR, operating theater,
operating theatre, surgery]
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ore
0
n 1: a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be
mined
2: a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore
equal 1 krona
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outscore
0
v 1: score more points than one's opponents [syn: outpoint,
outscore]
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pore
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n 1: any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)
2: any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal
3: a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases
and water vapor can pass [syn: stoma, stomate, pore]
v 1: direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your
studies and not on your hobbies" [syn: concentrate,
focus, center, centre, pore, rivet]
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pour
0
v 1: cause to run; "pour water over the floor"
2: move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the
theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" [syn: pour,
swarm, stream, teem, pullulate]
3: pour out; "the sommelier decanted the wines" [syn: decant,
pour, pour out]
4: flow in a spurt; "Water poured all over the floor"
5: supply in large amounts or quantities; "We poured money into
the education of our children"
6: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"
[syn: pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain
buckets]
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pure
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adj 1: free of extraneous elements of any kind; "pure air and
water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's
pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"; "pure oxygen" [ant:
impure]
2: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative)
intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a
consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross
negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding
mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter
nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant(a),
complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a),
everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a),
sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a),
utter(a), unadulterated]
3: (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white
or grey or black [syn: saturated, pure] [ant:
unsaturated]
4: free from discordant qualities
5: concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed
to applied; "pure science"
6: (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless; "I
felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath; "pure as
the driven snow" [ant: impure]
7: in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a
spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women
must be pure and virginal" [syn: pure, vestal, virgin,
virginal, virtuous]
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rapport
0
n 1: a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and
agreement between people [syn: rapport, resonance]
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restore
0
v 1: return to its original or usable and functioning condition;
"restore the forest to its original pristine condition"
[syn: restore, reconstruct]
2: return to life; get or give new life or energy; "The week at
the spa restored me" [syn: regenerate, restore,
rejuvenate]
3: give or bring back; "Restore the stolen painting to its
rightful owner" [syn: restore, restitute]
4: restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn
or broken; "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes
please" [syn: repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor,
furbish up, restore, touch on] [ant: break, bust]
5: bring back into original existence, use, function, or
position; "restore law and order"; "reestablish peace in the
region"; "restore the emperor to the throne" [syn: restore,
reinstate, reestablish]
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roar
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n 1: a deep prolonged loud noise [syn: boom, roar,
roaring, thunder]
2: a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his
bellow filled the hallway" [syn: bellow, bellowing,
holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar,
roaring, yowl]
3: the sound made by a lion
v 1: make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles; "The
wind was howling in the trees"; "The water roared down the
chute" [syn: roar, howl]
2: utter words loudly and forcefully; "`Get out of here,' he
roared" [syn: thunder, roar]
3: emit long loud cries; "wail in self-pity"; "howl with sorrow"
[syn: howl, ululate, wail, roar, yawl, yaup]
4: act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way;
"desperadoes from the hills regularly roared in to take over
the town"-R.A.Billington
5: make a loud noise, as of animal; "The bull bellowed" [syn:
bellow, roar]
6: laugh unrestrainedly and heartily [syn: roar, howl]
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score
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n 1: a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a
student's performance); "she made good marks in algebra";
"grade A milk"; "what was your score on your homework?"
[syn: mark, grade, score]
2: a written form of a musical composition; parts for different
instruments appear on separate staves on large pages; "he
studied the score of the sonata" [syn: score, musical
score]
3: a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an
individual in a game or contest; "the score was 7 to 0"
4: a set of twenty members; "a score were sent out but only one
returned"
5: grounds; "don't do it on my account"; "the paper was rejected
on account of its length"; "he tried to blame the victim but
his success on that score was doubtful" [syn: score,
account]
6: the facts about an actual situation; "he didn't know the
score"
7: an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar); "add it to my
score and I'll settle later"
8: a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep
a tally) [syn: score, scotch]
9: a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; "holding a
grudge"; "settling a score" [syn: grudge, score,
grievance]
10: the act of scoring in a game or sport; "the winning score
came with less than a minute left to play"
11: a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse; "calling his
seduction of the girl a `score' was a typical example of
male slang" [syn: sexual conquest, score]
v 1: gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times";
"He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season" [syn:
score, hit, tally, rack up]
2: make small marks into the surface of; "score the clay before
firing it" [syn: score, nock, mark]
3: make underscoring marks [syn: score, mark]
4: write a musical score for
5: induce to have sex; "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you
score last night?"; "Harry made Sally" [syn: seduce,
score, make]
6: get a certain number or letter indicating quality or
performance; "She scored high on the SAT"; "He scored a 200"
7: assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation;
"grade tests"; "score the SAT essays"; "mark homework" [syn:
grade, score, mark]
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senor
0
n 1: a Spanish title or form of address for a man; similar to
the English `Mr' or `sir'
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shore
0
n 1: the land along the edge of a body of water
2: a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to
provide support [syn: shore, shoring]
v 1: serve as a shore to; "The river was shored by trees"
2: arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor" [syn:
land, set ashore, shore]
3: support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore
and buttress an old building" [syn: prop up, prop, shore
up, shore]
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snore
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n 1: the rattling noise produced when snoring
2: the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound [syn:
snore, snoring, stertor]
v 1: breathe noisily during one's sleep; "she complained that
her husband snores" [syn: snore, saw wood, saw logs]
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soar
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n 1: the act of rising upward into the air [syn: soar, zoom]
v 1: rise rapidly; "the dollar soared against the yen" [syn:
soar, soar up, soar upwards, surge, zoom]
2: fly by means of a hang glider [syn: hang glide, soar]
3: fly upwards or high in the sky
4: go or move upward; "The stock market soared after the cease-
fire was announced"
5: fly a plane without an engine [syn: sailplane, soar]
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sore
0
adj 1: hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" [syn: sensitive,
sore, raw, tender]
2: causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to
him"; "the painful process of growing up" [syn: afflictive,
painful, sore]
3: roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain;
"she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his
friend"; "sore over a remark" [syn: huffy, mad, sore]
n 1: an open skin infection
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spoor
0
n 1: the trail left by a person or an animal; what the hunter
follows in pursuing game; "the hounds followed the fox's
spoor"
-
spore
0
n 1: a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body
produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some
bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing
into a new individual without sexual fusion; "a sexual
spore is formed after the fusion of gametes"
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store
0
n 1: a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or
services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod" [syn:
shop, store]
2: a supply of something available for future use; "he brought
back a large store of Cuban cigars" [syn: store, stock,
fund]
3: an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the
central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
[syn: memory, computer memory, storage, computer
storage, store, memory board]
4: a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the
docks" [syn: storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage,
store]
v 1: keep or lay aside for future use; "store grain for the
winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation
when he doesn't eat" [syn: store, hive away, lay in,
put in, salt away, stack away, stash away]
2: find a place for and put away for storage; "where should we
stow the vegetables?"; "I couldn't store all the books in the
attic so I sold some"
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sure
0
adv 1: definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used
informally for `surely'); "the results are surely
encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's
going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for
certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough";
"he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good";
"sure he'll come" [syn: surely, certainly, sure,
for sure, for certain, sure enough, sure as
shooting]
adj 1: having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and
assured; "felt certain of success"; "was sure (or
certain) she had seen it"; "was very sure in his
beliefs"; "sure of her friends" [syn: certain(p),
sure] [ant: incertain, uncertain, unsure]
2: exercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance;
"be certain to disconnect the iron when you are through"; "be
sure to lock the doors" [syn: certain, sure]
3: certain to occur; destined or inevitable; "he was certain to
fail"; "his fate is certain"; "In this life nothing is
certain but death and taxes"- Benjamin Franklin; "he faced
certain death"; "sudden but sure regret"; "he is sure to win"
[syn: certain, sure] [ant: uncertain]
4: physically secure or dependable; "a sure footing"; "was on
sure ground"
5: reliable in operation or effect; "a quick and certain
remedy"; "a sure way to distinguish the two"; "wood dust is a
sure sign of termites" [syn: certain, sure]
6: (of persons) worthy of trust or confidence; "a sure (or
trusted) friend" [syn: sure, trusted]
7: infallible or unfailing; "a sure (or true) sign of one's
commitment"
8: certain not to fail; "a sure hand on the throttle"
9: impossible to doubt or dispute; "indisputable (or sure)
proof" [syn: indisputable, sure]
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tore
0
n 1: commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column [syn:
torus, tore]
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tour
0
n 1: a journey or route all the way around a particular place or
area; "they took an extended tour of Europe"; "we took a
quick circuit of the park"; "a ten-day coach circuit of the
island" [syn: tour, circuit]
2: a time for working (after which you will be relieved by
someone else); "it's my go"; "a spell of work" [syn: go,
spell, tour, turn]
3: a period of time spent in military service [syn:
enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty,
duty tour, tour]
v 1: make a tour of a certain place; "We toured the Provence
this summer"
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underscore
0
n 1: a line drawn underneath (especially under written matter)
[syn: underscore, underline]
v 1: give extra weight to (a communication); "Her gesture
emphasized her words" [syn: underscore, underline,
emphasize, emphasise]
2: draw a line or lines underneath to call attention to [syn:
underline, underscore]
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war
0
n 1: the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands
of people were killed in the war" [syn: war, warfare]
2: a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by
official declaration during which the international rules of
war apply; "war was declared in November but actual fighting
did not begin until the following spring" [syn: war, state
of war] [ant: peace]
3: an active struggle between competing entities; "a price war";
"a war of wits"; "diplomatic warfare" [syn: war, warfare]
4: a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious; "the
war on poverty"; "the war against crime"
v 1: make or wage war [ant: make peace]
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whore
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n 1: a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money [syn:
prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart,
cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady,
lady of pleasure, woman of the street]
v 1: work as a prostitute
2: have unlawful sex with a whore
3: compromise oneself for money or other gains; "She whored
herself to Hollywood"
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yore
0
n 1: time long past
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boer
0
n 1: a white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of
Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans [syn: Afrikaner,
Afrikander, Boer]
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bohr
0
n 1: Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and
radiations; the Bohr theory of the atom accounted for the
spectrum of hydrogen (1885-1962) [syn: Bohr, Niels
Bohr, Niels Henrik David Bohr]
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moore
0
n 1: United States composer of works noted for their use of the
American vernacular (1893-1969) [syn: Moore, Douglas
Moore]
2: English actor and comedian who appeared on television and in
films (born in 1935) [syn: Moore, Dudley Moore, Dudley
Stuart John Moore]
3: English philosopher (1873-1958) [syn: Moore, G. E. Moore,
George Edward Moore]
4: Irish poet who wrote nostalgic and patriotic verse
(1779-1852) [syn: Moore, Thomas Moore]
5: United States poet noted for irony and wit (1887-1872) [syn:
Moore, Marianne Moore, Marianne Craig Moore]
6: British sculptor whose works are monumental organic forms
(1898-1986) [syn: Moore, Henry Moore, Henry Spencer
Moore]
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orr
0
n 1: Canadian hockey player (born 1948) [syn: Orr, Bobby
Orr, Robert Orr]
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thor
0
n 1: (Norse mythology) god of thunder and rain and farming;
pictured as wielding a hammer emblematic of the
thunderbolt; identified with Teutonic Donar
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tor
0
n 1: a prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill
2: a high rocky hill
-
torr
0
n 1: a unit of pressure equal to 0.001316 atmosphere; named
after Torricelli [syn: torr, millimeter of mercury, mm
Hg]
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dior
0
n 1: French couturier whose first collection in 1947 created a
style that became known as the New Look (1905-1957) [syn:
Dior, Christian Dior]
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postwar
0
adj 1: belonging to the period after a war; "postwar
resettlement"; "postwar inflation" [ant: prewar]
-
prewar
0
adj 1: existing or belonging to a time before a war; "prewar
levels of industrial production" [ant: postwar]
-
timor
0
n 1: an island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago; the
largest and most eastern of the Lesser Sunda Islands
-
muir
0
n 1: United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated
the creation of national parks (1838-1914) [syn: Muir,
John Muir]
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ruhr
0
n 1: a tributary of the Rhine [syn: Ruhr, Ruhr River]
2: a major industrial and coal mining region in the valley of
the Ruhr river in northwestern Germany [syn: Ruhr, Ruhr
Valley]
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nor
0
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outpour
0
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swore
0
-
wore
0
-
your
0
-
baur
0
-
borre
0
-
clore
0
-
coar
0
-
cohr
0
-
cor
0
-
corr
0
-
por
0
-
saur
0
-
schorr
0
-
storr
0
-
ador
0
-
bator
0
-
antiwar
0
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armentor
0
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balthazor
0