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biting
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adj 1: capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting
aphorism"; "pungent satire" [syn: barbed, biting,
nipping, pungent, mordacious]
2: causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used
especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind" [syn:
biting, bitter]
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exciting
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adj 1: creating or arousing excitement; "an exciting account of
her trip" [ant: unexciting]
2: stimulating interest and discussion; "an exciting novel"
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fighting
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adj 1: engaged in or ready for military or naval operations; "on
active duty"; "the platoon is combat-ready"; "review the
fighting forces" [syn: active, combat-ready,
fighting(a)]
n 1: the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight
broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the
streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"
[syn: fight, fighting, combat, scrap]
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inviting
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adj 1: attractive and tempting; "an inviting offer" [ant:
uninviting]
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lighting
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n 1: having abundant light or illumination; "they played as long
as it was light"; "as long as the lighting was good" [syn:
light, lighting] [ant: dark, darkness]
2: apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the
stage or a film
3: the craft of providing artificial light; "an interior
decorator must understand lighting"
4: the act of setting something on fire [syn: ignition,
firing, lighting, kindling, inflammation]
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rewriting
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n 1: editing that involves writing something again [syn:
rewriting, revising]
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sighting
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n 1: the act of observing; "several sightings of enemy troops
were reported"
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slighting
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adj 1: tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments";
"managed a deprecating smile at the compliment";
"deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting
remark" [syn: belittling, deprecating, deprecative,
deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory,
slighting]
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uniting
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n 1: the combination of two or more commercial companies [syn:
amalgamation, merger, uniting]
2: the act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of
opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of
his family for the holidays" [syn: union, unification,
uniting, conjugation, jointure] [ant: disunion]
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whiting
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n 1: flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
2: flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of
Atlantic coasts of North America
3: a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish
4: any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters
5: found off Atlantic coast of North America [syn: silver
hake, Merluccius bilinearis, whiting]
6: a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the
cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus [syn: whiting,
Merlangus merlangus, Gadus merlangus]
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writing
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n 1: the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of
therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"
[syn: writing, authorship, composition, penning]
2: the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the
alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view
of style and effect); "the writing in her novels is
excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing"
[syn: writing, written material, piece of writing]
3: (usually plural) the collected work of an author; "the idea
occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings"
4: letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface
to represent the sounds or words of a language; "he turned
the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"; "the doctor's
writing was illegible"
5: the activity of putting something in written form; "she did
the thinking while he did the writing" [syn: writing,
committal to writing]
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unexciting
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adj 1: not stimulating [syn: unstimulating, unexciting]
[ant: stimulating]
2: not exciting; "an unexciting novel"; "lived an unexciting
life" [ant: exciting]
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uninviting
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adj 1: neither attractive nor tempting [ant: inviting]
2: not tempting [syn: uninviting, untempting]
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delighting
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igniting
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inciting
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kiting
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overwriting
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reuniting
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underwriting
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indicting
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nonbiting
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reigniting
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