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absolute
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adj 1: perfect or complete or pure; "absolute loyalty";
"absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol"
[ant: comparative, relative]
2: complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes
used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an
absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem";
"an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down
vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer
stupidity" [syn: absolute, downright, out-and-out(a),
rank(a), right-down, sheer(a)]
3: not limited by law; "an absolute monarch"
4: expressing finality with no implication of possible change;
"an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority"
5: not capable of being violated or infringed; "infrangible
human rights" [syn: absolute, infrangible, inviolable]
n 1: something that is conceived or that exists independently
and not in relation to other things; something that does
not depend on anything else and is beyond human control;
something that is not relative; "no mortal being can
influence the absolute"
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convolute
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adj 1: rolled longitudinally upon itself; "a convolute petal"
[syn: convolute, convoluted]
v 1: curl, wind, or twist together [syn: convolve,
convolute]
2: practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about
in order to mislead or deceive; "Don't twist my words" [syn:
twist, twist around, pervert, convolute,
sophisticate]
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dilute
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adj 1: reduced in strength or concentration or quality or
purity; "diluted alcohol"; "a dilute solution"; "dilute
acetic acid" [syn: diluted, dilute] [ant:
undiluted]
v 1: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture;
"cut bourbon" [syn: dilute, thin, thin out, reduce,
cut]
2: corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or
inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients
with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor" [syn: load,
adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase]
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dissolute
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adj 1: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a
debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated
and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn:
debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated,
dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous,
fast]
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elute
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v 1: wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography
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galoot
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n 1: a disreputable or clumsy man
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impute
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v 1: attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to
Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
[syn: impute, ascribe, assign, attribute]
2: attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source;
"The teacher imputed the student's failure to his
nervousness"
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irresolute
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adj 1: uncertain how to act or proceed; "the committee was timid
and mediocre and irresolute" [ant: resolute]
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loot
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n 1: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty,
pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money]
2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage,
clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce,
lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch,
shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
v 1: take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer
plundered from famous authors" [syn: loot, plunder]
2: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people
looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn:
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle,
ransack, pillage, foray]
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lute
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n 1: a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface
to make it impervious to gas or liquid [syn: lute,
luting]
2: chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-
shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard
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pollute
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v 1: make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"
[syn: pollute, foul, contaminate]
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refute
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v 1: overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; "The speaker
refuted his opponent's arguments" [syn: refute, rebut]
2: prove to be false or incorrect [syn: refute, rebut,
controvert]
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repute
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n 1: the state of being held in high esteem and honor [syn:
repute, reputation] [ant: discredit, disrepute]
v 1: look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a
joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He
is reputed to be intelligent" [syn: think of, repute,
regard as, look upon, look on, esteem, take to
be]
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resolute
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adj 1: firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and
determination; "stood resolute against the enemy"; "faced
with a resolute opposition"; "a resolute and unshakeable
faith" [ant: irresolute]
2: characterized by quickness and firmness; "his reply was
unhesitating" [syn: unhesitating, resolute]
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root
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n 1: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or
leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually
it anchors the plant to the ground
2: the place where something begins, where it springs into
being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter
was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source
of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn:
beginning, origin, root, rootage, source]
3: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are
removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn: root,
root word, base, stem, theme, radical]
4: a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of
times, equals a given number
5: the set of values that give a true statement when substituted
into an equation [syn: solution, root]
6: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote
than a grandparent) [syn: ancestor, ascendant,
ascendent, antecedent, root] [ant: descendant,
descendent]
7: a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related
words in several languages can be derived by linguistic
processes [syn: etymon, root]
8: the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as
support [syn: root, tooth root]
v 1: take root and begin to grow; "this plant roots quickly"
2: come into existence, originate; "The problem roots in her
depression"
3: plant by the roots
4: dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles" [syn:
rout, root, rootle]
5: become settled or established and stable in one's residence
or life style; "He finally settled down" [syn: settle,
root, take root, steady down, settle down]
6: cause to take roots
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route
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n 1: an established line of travel or access [syn: path,
route, itinerary]
2: an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
[syn: road, route]
v 1: send documents or materials to appropriate destinations
2: send via a specific route
3: divert in a specified direction; "divert the low voltage to
the engine cylinders"
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salute
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n 1: an act of honor or courteous recognition; "a musical salute
to the composer on his birthday" [syn: salute,
salutation]
2: a formal military gesture of respect [syn: salute,
military greeting]
3: an act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like
bowing or lifting the hat
v 1: propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!";
"Let's drink to the New Year" [syn: toast, drink,
pledge, salute, wassail]
2: greet in a friendly way; "I meet this men every day on my way
to work and he salutes me"
3: express commendation of; "I salute your courage!"
4: become noticeable; "a terrible stench saluted our nostrils"
5: honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead
soldiers
6: recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation;
assume a prescribed position; "When the officers show up, the
soldiers have to salute" [syn: salute, present]
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scoot
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v 1: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the
yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash,
shoot]
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shoot
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n 1: a new branch
2: the act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every
weekend during the summer"
v 1: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: shoot, hit,
pip]
2: kill by firing a missile [syn: shoot, pip]
3: fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away" [syn: blast,
shoot]
4: make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene";
"shoot a movie" [syn: film, shoot, take]
5: send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; "shoot a glance"
6: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the
yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash,
shoot]
7: move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street";
"He came charging into my office" [syn: tear, shoot,
shoot down, charge, buck]
8: throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific
objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball"
9: record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the
accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President" [syn:
photograph, snap, shoot]
10: emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully;
"The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"
11: cause a sharp and sudden pain in; "The pain shot up her leg"
12: force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject
hydrogen into the balloon" [syn: inject, shoot]
13: variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors;
"shoot cloth"
14: throw dice, as in a crap game
15: spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's
inheritance" [syn: fritter, frivol away, dissipate,
shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away]
16: score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal"
17: utter fast and forcefully; "She shot back an answer"
18: measure the altitude of by using a sextant; "shoot a star"
19: produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes
sprouted" [syn: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate,
bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout]
20: give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the
patient's vein" [syn: inject, shoot]
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snakeroot
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n 1: a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound
leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by
bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers [syn:
sanicle, snakeroot]
2: any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris
having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads
[syn: blazing star, button snakeroot, gayfeather, gay-
feather, snakeroot]
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volute
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adj 1: in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical,
spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled,
turbinate]
n 1: ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around
a center with an increasing distance from the center [syn:
spiral, volute]
2: a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous
series of loops; "a coil of rope" [syn: coil, spiral,
volute, whorl, helix]
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aleut
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n 1: a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and
southwestern Alaska [syn: Aleut, Aleutian]
2: a community of Native Americans who speak an Eskimo-Aleut
language and inhabit the Aleutian Islands and southwestern
Alaska; "the Aleut and the Eskimo are related culturally and
linguistically"
3: the language spoken by the Aleut
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involute
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adj 1: especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins
rolled inward [syn: involute, rolled]
2: (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured
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revolute
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undilute
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archlute
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galloot
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consolute
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devolute
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evolute
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