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messiah
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n 1: any expected deliverer [syn: messiah, christ]
2: Jesus Christ; considered by Christians to be the promised
deliverer
3: the awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected
deliverer of the Jewish people
4: an oratorio composed by Handel in 1742
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papaya
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n 1: tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply
palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit [syn:
papaya, papaia, pawpaw, papaya tree, melon tree,
Carica papaya]
2: large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh
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pariah
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n 1: a person who is rejected (from society or home) [syn:
outcast, castaway, pariah, Ishmael]
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hosea
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n 1: a minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC)
2: an Old Testament book telling Hosea's prophecies [syn:
Hosea, Book of Hosea]
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maya
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n 1: a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize
and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak
between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding
architecture and pottery and astronomy; "Mayans had a
system of writing and an accurate calendar" [syn: Mayan,
Maya]
2: a family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya [syn:
Maya, Mayan, Mayan language]
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gaia
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n 1: (Greek mythology) goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus
and the Titans in ancient mythology [syn: Gaea, Gaia,
Ge]
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maia
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n 1: type genus of the Majidae; nearly cosmopolitan in
distribution [syn: Maja, genus Maja, Maia, genus
Maia]
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elia
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n 1: English essayist (1775-1834) [syn: Lamb, Charles Lamb,
Elia]
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rupiah
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n 1: the basic unit of money in Indonesia; equal to 100 sen
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himalaya
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n 1: a mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between
India and Tibet; this range contains the world's highest
mountain [syn: Himalayas, Himalaya Mountains,
Himalaya]
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jeremiah
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n 1: (Old Testament) an Israelite prophet who is remembered for
his angry lamentations (jeremiads) about the wickedness of
his people (circa 626-587 BC)
2: a book in the Old Testament containing the oracles of the
prophet Jeremiah [syn: Jeremiah, Book of Jeremiah]
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nehemiah
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n 1: an Old Testament book telling how a Jewish official at the
court of Artaxerxes I in 444 BC became a leader in
rebuilding Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity [syn:
Nehemiah, Book of Nehemiah]
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obadiah
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n 1: a Hebrew minor prophet [syn: Obadiah, Abdias]
2: an Old Testament book telling Obadiah's prophecies; the
shortest book in the Christian Bible [syn: Obadiah,
Abdias, Book of Obadiah]
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somalia
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n 1: a republic in extreme eastern Africa on the Somali
peninsula; subject to tribal warfare
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malaya
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n 1: a constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo
and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the
United Kingdom in 1957 [syn: Malaysia, Malaya]
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playa
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via
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aja
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czaja
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daya
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araya
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berjaya
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cartaya
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josiah
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zachariah
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andrea
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antaya
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penthesilea
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atalaya
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caya
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celaya
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