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airily
0
adv 1: in a flippant manner; "he answered the reporters'
questions flippantly"; "this cannot be airily explained
to your children" [syn: flippantly, airily]
-
alee
0
adv 1: on or toward the lee; "put the helm alee"
-
amorally
0
adv 1: without regard for morality; "he acted immorally when his
own interests were at stake" [syn: immorally,
amorally] [ant: morally, virtuously]
-
arbitrarily
0
adv 1: in a random manner; "the houses were randomly scattered";
"bullets were fired into the crowd at random" [syn:
randomly, indiscriminately, haphazardly, willy-
nilly, arbitrarily, at random, every which way]
-
aurally
0
adv 1: with regard to sound or the ear; "the new musical was
visually and aurally appealing"
-
bilaterally
0
adv 1: with the involvement of two parties or governments; "they
worked out an agreement bilaterally"
2: so as to involve two sides or parts
-
charily
0
adv 1: with great caution; warily
-
cheerily
0
adv 1: in a cheerful manner; "`I'll do the dishes,' he said
pleasantly" [syn: pleasantly, cheerily, sunnily]
-
chorally
0
adv 1: by a chorus; "chorally accompanied"
-
contradictorily
0
adv 1: in a contradictory manner; "he argued contradictorily"
-
contrarily
0
adv 1: in a contrary disobedient manner [syn: perversely,
contrarily, contrariwise]
2: contrary to expectations; "he didn't stay home; on the
contrary, he went out with his friends" [syn: contrarily,
to the contrary, contrariwise, on the contrary]
-
drearily
0
adv 1: in a cheerless manner; "in August 1914 , there was a
dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French,
German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee
drank together to the peace of the future" [syn:
dismally, drearily]
-
elementarily
0
adv 1: in an elementary manner
-
enlistee
0
n 1: any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces) [syn:
recruit, enlistee]
-
escapee
0
n 1: someone who escapes
-
esprit
0
n 1: liveliness of mind or spirit
-
federally
0
adv 1: by federal government; "it's federally regulated"
-
fierily
0
adv 1: with passionate fervor; "both those for and against are
fervently convinced they speak for the great majority of
the people"; "a fierily opinionated book" [syn:
fierily, fervently, fervidly]
-
foresee
0
v 1: realize beforehand [syn: anticipate, previse,
foreknow, foresee]
2: picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him
as President" [syn: envision, foresee]
3: act in advance of; deal with ahead of time [syn:
anticipate, foresee, forestall, counter]
-
free
0
adv 1: without restraint; "cows in India are running loose"
[syn: loose, free]
adj 1: able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion
or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free
country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of
racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free
choice" [ant: unfree]
2: unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not
fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion; "free
expansion"; "free oxygen"; "a free electron" [ant: bound]
3: costing nothing; "complimentary tickets"; "free admission"
[syn: complimentary, costless, free, gratis(p),
gratuitous]
4: not occupied or in use; "a free locker"; "a free lane"
5: not fixed in position; "the detached shutter fell on him";
"he pulled his arm free and ran" [syn: detached, free]
6: not held in servitude; "after the Civil War he was a free
man" [ant: unfree]
7: not taken up by scheduled activities; "a free hour between
classes"; "spare time on my hands" [syn: spare, free]
8: completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight";
"young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of
literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" [syn:
barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent]
9: not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been
told"; "a free translation of the poem" [syn: free,
loose, liberal]
n 1: people who are free; "the home of the free and the brave"
[syn: free, free people]
v 1: grant freedom to; free from confinement [syn: free,
liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose]
[ant: confine, detain]
2: relieve from; "Rid the house of pests" [syn: rid, free,
disembarrass]
3: remove or force out from a position; "The dentist dislodged
the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"; "He
finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was
buried in the rubble" [syn: dislodge, free] [ant:
deposit, lodge, stick, wedge]
4: grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to;
"She exempted me from the exam" [syn: exempt, relieve,
free] [ant: apply, enforce, implement]
5: make (information) available for publication; "release the
list with the names of the prisoners" [syn: free,
release]
6: free from obligations or duties [syn: free, discharge]
7: free or remove obstruction from; "free a path across the
cluttered floor" [syn: free, disengage] [ant: block,
close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate,
occlude]
8: let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility"
[syn: absolve, justify, free] [ant: blame, fault]
9: part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my
bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the
throne" [syn: release, relinquish, resign, free,
give up]
10: release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction
or physical decomposition [syn: release, free,
liberate]
11: make (assets) available; "release the holdings in the
dictator's bank account" [syn: unblock, unfreeze,
free, release] [ant: block, freeze, immobilise,
immobilize]
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gee
0
n 1: a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used
to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it
is accelerated [syn: g, gee, g-force]
v 1: turn to the right side; "the horse geed"
2: give a command to a horse to turn to the right side
-
ghee
0
n 1: clarified butter used in Indian cookery
-
goatee
0
n 1: a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its
resemblance to a goat's beard
-
guarantee
0
n 1: a written assurance that some product or service will be
provided or will meet certain specifications [syn:
guarantee, warrant, warrantee, warranty]
2: an unconditional commitment that something will happen or
that something is true; "there is no guarantee that they are
not lying"
3: a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in
case that person defaults [syn: guarantee, guaranty]
v 1: give surety or assume responsibility; "I vouch for the
quality of my products" [syn: guarantee, vouch]
2: make certain of; "This nest egg will ensure a nice retirement
for us"; "Preparation will guarantee success!" [syn:
guarantee, ensure, insure, assure, secure]
3: promise to do or accomplish; "guarantee to free the
prisoners" [syn: undertake, guarantee]
4: stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or
condition of; "The dealer warrants all the cars he sells"; "I
warrant this information" [syn: guarantee, warrant]
-
guaranty
0
n 1: a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in
case that person defaults [syn: guarantee, guaranty]
-
gutsy
0
adj 1: marked by courage and determination in the face of
difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited; "you have
to admire her; it was a gutsy thing to do"; "the
gutsy...intensity of her musical involvement"-Judith
Crist; "a gutsy red wine" [syn: gutsy, plucky] [ant:
gutless]
-
he
0
n 1: a very light colorless element that is one of the six inert
gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in
economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases
(as those found in Texas and Kansas) [syn: helium, He,
atomic number 2]
2: the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
-
id
0
n 1: a state in the Rocky Mountains [syn: Idaho, Gem State,
ID]
2: a card or badge used to identify the bearer; "you had to show
your ID in order to get in" [syn: ID, I.D.]
3: (psychoanalysis) primitive instincts and energies underlying
all psychic activity
-
illiberally
0
adv 1: in a narrow-minded manner; "his illiberally biased way of
thinking" [syn: intolerantly, illiberally]
-
immorally
0
adv 1: without regard for morality; "he acted immorally when his
own interests were at stake" [syn: immorally,
amorally] [ant: morally, virtuously]
-
internee
0
n 1: a person who is interned; "the internees were enemy aliens
and suspected terrorists"
-
jubilee
0
n 1: a special anniversary (or the celebration of it)
-
laterally
0
adv 1: to or by or from the side; "such women carry in their
heads kinship knowledge of six generations depth and
extending laterally among consanguineal kin as far as the
grandchildren of second cousin"
2: in a lateral direction or location; "the body is spindle-
shaped and only slightly compressed laterally"
-
liberally
0
adv 1: freely in a nonliteral manner; "he embellished his
stories liberally"
2: in a generous manner; "he gave liberally to several
charities" [syn: liberally, munificently, generously]
-
literally
0
adv 1: in a literal sense; "literally translated"; "he said so
literally" [ant: figuratively]
2: (intensifier before a figurative expression) without
exaggeration; "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during
the Gulf War"
-
merrily
0
adv 1: in a joyous manner; "they shouted happily" [syn:
happily, merrily, mirthfully, gayly, blithely,
jubilantly] [ant: unhappily]
-
militarily
0
adv 1: with respect to the military; "on a militarily
significant scale"
-
momentarily
0
adv 1: for an instant or moment; "we paused momentarily before
proceeding"; "a cardinal perched momently on the dogwood
branch" [syn: momentarily, momently]
2: at any moment; "she will be with you momently" [syn:
momentarily, momently]
-
monaurally
0
adv 1: in a monaural manner; "the stimuli were presented
monaurally" [syn: monaurally, to one ear, in one
ear] [ant: binaurally, in both ears, to both ears]
-
morally
0
adv 1: with respect to moral principles; "morally unjustified"
2: in a moral manner; "he acted morally under the circumstances"
[syn: morally, virtuously] [ant: amorally, immorally]
-
multilaterally
0
adv 1: in a multilateral manner;so as to affect many parties or
governments; "they worked out an agreement unilaterally"
[ant: one-sidedly, unilaterally]
-
necessarily
0
adv 1: in an essential manner; "such expenses are necessarily
incurred" [syn: necessarily, needfully] [ant:
unnecessarily]
2: in such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is
necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective" [syn:
inevitably, necessarily, of necessity, needs]
3: as a highly likely consequence; "we are necessarily bound for
federalism in Europe"
-
obligatorily
0
adv 1: in an obligatory manner; "this rule applies obligatorily"
[ant: optionally]
2: in a manner that cannot be evaded; "the ministry considers
that contributions to such a fund should be met from
voluntary donations rather than from rates compulsorily
levied." [syn: compulsorily, obligatorily, mandatorily]
-
orally
0
adv 1: (of drugs) through the mouth rather than through
injection; by_mouth; "he was administered the drug
orally"
2: by spoken rather than written means; "these stories were
transmitted by word of mouth" [syn: orally, by word of
mouth]
-
peremptorily
0
adv 1: in an imperative and commanding manner [syn:
imperatively, peremptorily]
-
perfunctorily
0
adv 1: in a set manner without serious attention; "they answered
my letter pro forma"; "he kissed her cheek perfunctorily"
[syn: perfunctorily, as a formality, pro forma]
-
primarily
0
adv 1: for the most part; "he is mainly interested in
butterflies" [syn: chiefly, principally, primarily,
mainly, in the main]
2: of primary import; "this is primarily a question of
economics"; "it was in the first place a local matter" [syn:
primarily, in the first place] [ant: secondarily]
-
rurally
0
adv 1: in a rural manner
-
satisfactorily
0
adv 1: in a satisfactory manner [ant: unsatisfactorily]
-
scarify
0
v 1: puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal
identification or rituals; "The men in some African tribes
scarify their faces"
2: scratch the surface of; "scarify seeds"
3: break up; "scarify soil"
-
solitarily
0
adv 1: in solitude; "a hermit chooses to live solitarily"
-
spirally
0
adv 1: with spirals; "spirally fluted handles"
-
statutorily
0
adv 1: according to statute; "placed statutorily under the
council's supervision"
-
temporally
0
adv 1: with regard to temporal order; "temporally processed"
-
temporarily
0
adv 1: for a limited time only; not permanently; "he will work
here temporarily"; "he was brought out of retirement
temporarily"; "a power failure temporarily darkened the
town" [ant: for good, permanently]
-
thoroughly
0
adv 1: in an exhaustive manner; "we searched the files
thoroughly" [syn: thoroughly, exhaustively]
2: completely and absolutely (`good' is sometimes used
informally for `thoroughly'); "he was soundly defeated"; "we
beat him good" [syn: thoroughly, soundly, good]
-
three
0
adj 1: being one more than two [syn: three, 3, iii]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
[syn: three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce,
leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary,
ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce-
ace]
2: one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips [syn:
trey, three]
-
trainee
0
n 1: someone who is being trained
-
transitorily
0
adv 1: for a very brief time
-
tree
0
n 1: a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and
branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both
gymnosperms and angiosperms
2: a figure that branches from a single root; "genealogical
tree" [syn: tree, tree diagram]
3: English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish
productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917) [syn: Tree, Sir
Herbert Beerbohm Tree]
v 1: force a person or an animal into a position from which he
cannot escape [syn: corner, tree]
2: plant with trees; "this lot should be treed so that the house
will be shaded in summer"
3: chase an animal up a tree; "the hunters treed the bear with
dogs and killed it"; "her dog likes to tree squirrels"
4: stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree [syn: tree, shoetree]
-
trustee
0
n 1: a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property
is entrusted to use for another's benefit [syn: trustee,
legal guardian]
2: members of a governing board [syn: regent, trustee]
-
undersea
0
adj 1: beneath the surface of the sea [syn: submarine,
undersea]
-
unilaterally
0
adv 1: in a unilateral manner; by means of one part or party;
"they worked out an agreement unilaterally" [syn:
unilaterally, one-sidedly] [ant: multilaterally]
-
unnecessarily
0
adv 1: in an unnecessary manner; "they were unnecessarily rude"
[ant: necessarily, needfully]
2: without any necessity; "this marathon would exhaust him
unnecessarily"
-
unsatisfactorily
0
adv 1: in an unsatisfactory manner; "He performed
unsatisfactorily as a manager" [ant: satisfactorily]
-
unwarily
0
adv 1: without heed or caution [ant: warily]
-
vendee
0
n 1: a person who buys [syn: buyer, purchaser, emptor,
vendee]
-
verily
0
adv 1: in truth; certainly; "I verily think so"; "trust in the
Lord...and verily thou shalt be fed"- Ps 37:3
-
vi
0
adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units
[syn: six, 6, vi, half dozen, half-dozen]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one [syn:
six, 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a
dozen, sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexad]
2: more than 130 southeastern Virgin Islands; a dependent
territory of the United States [syn: United States Virgin
Islands, American Virgin Islands, VI]
-
warily
0
adv 1: in a wary manner; "the sailor watched the sky warily"
[ant: unwarily]
-
wearily
0
adv 1: in a weary manner; "he walked around tiredly" [syn:
tiredly, wearily]
-
wee
0
adj 1: (used informally) very small; "a wee tot" [syn: bitty,
bittie, teensy, teentsy, teeny, wee, weeny,
weensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, itty-bitty,
itsy-bitsy]
2: very early; "the wee hours of the morning"
n 1: a short time; "bide a wee"
v 1: eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive
rug" [syn: make, urinate, piddle, puddle,
micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water,
relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee,
wee-wee, pass water]
-
whoopee
0
n 1: noisy and boisterous revelry
-
b
0
n 1: aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often
occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
[syn: bacillus, B]
2: originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated
into several B vitamins [syn: B-complex vitamin, B
complex, vitamin B complex, vitamin B, B vitamin, B]
3: a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black
crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder [syn:
boron, B, atomic number 5]
4: a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels
[syn: Bel, B]
5: (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective
circular area that one particle presents to another as a
target for an encounter [syn: barn, b]
6: the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: B, b]
7: the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen [syn:
B, type B, group B]
-
c
0
adj 1: being ten more than ninety [syn: hundred, one
hundred, 100, c]
n 1: a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature [syn:
degree centigrade, degree Celsius, C]
2: the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy
and universality of the speed of light is recognized by
defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second [syn:
speed of light, light speed, c]
3: a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits)
and vegetables; prevents scurvy [syn: vitamin C, C,
ascorbic acid]
4: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four
nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar
(ribose) [syn: deoxycytidine monophosphate, C]
5: a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine;
pairs with guanine [syn: cytosine, C]
6: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in
three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and
diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, C,
atomic number 6]
7: ten 10s [syn: hundred, 100, C, century, one C]
8: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge
transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn:
coulomb, C, ampere-second]
9: a general-purpose programing language closely associated with
the UNIX operating system
10: (music) the keynote of the scale of C major
11: the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: C, c]
12: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy,
snow, C]
-
zea
0
n 1: corn [syn: Zea, genus Zea]
-
capri
0
n 1: an island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in
southern Italy; a tourist attraction noted for beautiful
scenery
-
chablis
0
n 1: a town in north central France noted for white Burgundy
wines
2: dry white table wine of Chablis, France or a wine resembling
it [syn: Chablis, white Burgundy]
-
blearily
0
-
collaterally
0
-
complimentarily
0
-
contemporarily
0
-
corporally
0
-
derogatorily
0
-
dilatorily
0
-
documentarily
0
-
explanatorily
0
-
extramurally
0
-
florally
0
-
fragmentarily
0
-
hereditarily
0
-
monetarily
0
-
predatorily
0
-
rudimentarily
0
-
sanitarily
0
-
trilaterally
0
-
unitarily
0
-
virally
0
-
we
0
-
wirily
0