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actuary
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n 1: someone versed in the collection and interpretation of
numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to
calculate insurance premiums) [syn: statistician,
actuary]
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aerie
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n 1: the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)
[syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry]
2: any habitation at a high altitude [syn: aerie, aery,
eyrie, eyry]
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airy
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adj 1: open to or abounding in fresh air; "airy rooms" [syn:
aired, airy]
2: not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories
about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for
getting rich" [syn: airy, impractical, visionary,
Laputan, windy]
3: having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to
resemble air; "airy gauze curtains"
4: characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as
impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform
come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial
fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than
ethereal forms" [syn: aeriform, aerial, airy, aery,
ethereal]
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apery
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n 1: the act of mimicking; imitative behavior [syn: apery,
mimicry]
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apiary
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n 1: a shed containing a number of beehives [syn: apiary, bee
house]
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berry
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n 1: any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as
desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
2: a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple
(grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
3: United States rock singer (born in 1931) [syn: Berry,
Chuck Berry, Charles Edward Berry]
v 1: pick or gather berries; "We went berrying in the summer"
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bowery
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adj 1: like a bower; leafy and shady; "a bowery lane"
n 1: a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by
homeless derelicts
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brewery
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n 1: a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation
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bury
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v 1: cover from sight; "Afghani women buried under their burkas"
2: place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the
Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaohs were entombed in
the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday"
[syn: bury, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest]
3: place in the earth and cover with soil; "They buried the
stolen goods"
4: enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge
waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly
thereafter" [syn: immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury,
eat up]
5: embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He
buried his head in her lap" [syn: bury, sink]
6: dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "I tried to bury
these unpleasant memories" [syn: forget, bury] [ant:
remember, think of]
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canary
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adj 1: having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate
yellow [syn: canary, canary-yellow]
n 1: someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police [syn:
fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool
pigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary]
2: a female singer
3: a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge [syn: canary
yellow, canary]
4: any of several small Old World finches [syn: canary,
canary bird]
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carry
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n 1: the act of carrying something
v 1: move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's
hands or on one's body; "You must carry your camping gear";
"carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying
nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the
river" [syn: transport, carry]
2: have with oneself; have on one's person; "She always takes an
umbrella"; "I always carry money"; "She packs a gun when she
goes into the mountains" [syn: carry, pack, take]
3: transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound
carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound";
"Many metals conduct heat" [syn: impart, conduct,
transmit, convey, carry, channel]
4: serve as a means for expressing something; "The painting of
Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot of
anger" [syn: carry, convey, express]
5: bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or
responsibility of; "His efforts carried the entire project";
"How many credits is this student carrying?"; "We carry a
very large mortgage"
6: support or hold in a certain manner; "She holds her head
high"; "He carried himself upright" [syn: hold, carry,
bear]
7: contain or hold; have within; "The jar carries wine"; "The
canteen holds fresh water"; "This can contains water" [syn:
hold, bear, carry, contain]
8: extend to a certain degree; "carry too far"; "She carries her
ideas to the extreme"
9: continue or extend; "The civil war carried into the
neighboring province"; "The disease extended into the remote
mountain provinces" [syn: carry, extend]
10: be necessarily associated with or result in or involve;
"This crime carries a penalty of five years in prison"
11: win in an election; "The senator carried his home state"
12: include, as on a list; "How many people are carried on the
payroll?"
13: behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he
bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well
during these difficult times" [syn: behave, acquit,
bear, deport, conduct, comport, carry]
14: have on hand; "Do you carry kerosene heaters?" [syn:
stock, carry, stockpile]
15: include as the content; broadcast or publicize; "We ran the
ad three times"; "This paper carries a restaurant review";
"All major networks carried the press conference" [syn:
carry, run]
16: propel, "Carry the ball"; "dribble the ball" [syn:
dribble, carry]
17: pass on a communication; "The news was carried to every
village in the province"
18: have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a
consequence; "This new washer carries a two year guarantee";
"The loan carries a high interest rate"; "this undertaking
carries many dangers"; "She carries her mother's genes";
"These bonds carry warrants"; "The restaurant carries an
unusual name"
19: be conveyed over a certain distance; "Her voice carries very
well in this big opera house"
20: keep up with financial support; "The Federal Government
carried the province for many years"
21: have or possess something abstract; "I carry her image in my
mind's eye"; "I will carry the secret to my grave"; "I carry
these thoughts in the back of my head"; "I carry a lot of
life insurance"
22: be equipped with (a mast or sail); "This boat can only carry
a small sail"
23: win approval or support for; "Carry all before one"; "His
speech did not sway the voters" [syn: carry, persuade,
sway]
24: compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own
performance; "I resent having to carry her all the time"
25: take further or advance; "carry a cause"
26: have on the surface or on the skin; "carry scars"
27: capture after a fight; "The troops carried the town after a
brief fight"
28: transfer (entries) from one account book to another [syn:
post, carry]
29: transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column
or unit's place before or after, in addition or
multiplication; "put down 5 and carry 2"
30: pursue a line of scent or be a bearer; "the dog was taught
to fetch and carry"
31: bear (a crop); "this land does not carry olives"
32: propel or give impetus to; "The sudden gust of air propelled
the ball to the other side of the fence"
33: drink alcohol without showing ill effects; "He can hold his
liquor"; "he had drunk more than he could carry" [syn:
carry, hold]
34: be able to feed; "This land will carry ten cows to the acre"
35: have a certain range; "This rifle carries for 3,000 feet"
36: cover a certain distance or advance beyond; "The drive
carried to the green"
37: secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions); "The
motion carried easily"
38: be successful in; "She lost the game but carried the match"
39: sing or play against other voices or parts; "He cannot carry
a tune"
40: be pregnant with; "She is bearing his child"; "The are
expecting another child in January"; "I am carrying his
child" [syn: have a bun in the oven, bear, carry,
gestate, expect]
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cherry
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adj 1: of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to
orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or
tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy,
blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red,
crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet]
n 1: wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black
cherry
2: any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy
round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a
valuable hardwood [syn: cherry, cherry tree]
3: a red fruit with a single hard stone
4: a red the color of ripe cherries [syn: cerise, cherry,
cherry red]
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contemporary
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adj 1: characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in
design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
[syn: contemporary, modern-day]
2: belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders" [syn:
contemporary, present-day(a)]
3: occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest
rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in
inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with
Mozart" [syn: contemporaneous, contemporary]
n 1: a person of nearly the same age as another [syn:
contemporary, coeval]
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contrary
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adj 1: very opposed in nature or character or purpose; "acts
contrary to our code of ethics"; "the facts point to a
contrary conclusion"
2: of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true
but both may be false; "`hot' and `cold' are contrary terms"
3: resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite
contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a
perverse mood"; "wayward behavior" [syn: contrary,
obstinate, perverse, wayward]
4: in an opposing direction; "adverse currents"; "a contrary
wind" [syn: adverse, contrary]
n 1: a relation of direct opposition; "we thought Sue was older
than Bill but just the reverse was true" [syn: reverse,
contrary, opposite]
2: exact opposition; "public opinion to the contrary he is not
guilty"
3: a logical relation such that two propositions are contraries
if both cannot be true but both can be false
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coppery
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adj 1: of something having the color of copper [syn: coppery,
copper colored]
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curie
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n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a
radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of
37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie,
Ci]
2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn:
Curie, Pierre Curie]
3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one
(with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on
radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and
polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame
Curie, Marya Sklodowska]
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dairy
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n 1: a farm where dairy products are produced [syn: dairy,
dairy farm]
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diary
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n 1: a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences
and observations [syn: diary, journal]
2: a personal journal (as a physical object)
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dowry
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n 1: money or property brought by a woman to her husband at
marriage [syn: dowry, dowery, dower, portion]
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drapery
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n 1: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
[syn: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall]
2: cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds
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dupery
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n 1: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended
to gain an advantage [syn: fraud, fraudulence,
dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on]
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enquiry
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n 1: an instance of questioning; "there was a question about my
training"; "we made inquiries of all those who were
present" [syn: question, inquiry, enquiry, query,
interrogation] [ant: answer]
2: a search for knowledge; "their pottery deserves more research
than it has received" [syn: inquiry, enquiry, research]
3: a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest
[syn: inquiry, enquiry]
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expiry
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n 1: a coming to an end of a contract period; "the expiry of his
driver's license" [syn: termination, expiration,
expiry]
2: the event of dying or departure from life; "her death came as
a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass
to your grandchildren" [syn: death, decease, expiry]
[ant: birth, nascence, nascency, nativity]
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extemporary
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adj 1: with little or no preparation or forethought; "his ad-lib
comments showed poor judgment"; "an extemporaneous piano
recital"; "an extemporary lecture"; "an extempore skit";
"an impromptu speech"; "offhand excuses"; "trying to
sound offhanded and reassuring"; "an off-the-cuff toast";
"a few unrehearsed comments" [syn: ad-lib,
extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore,
impromptu, offhand, offhanded, off-the-cuff,
unrehearsed]
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eyrie
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n 1: the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)
[syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry]
2: any habitation at a high altitude [syn: aerie, aery,
eyrie, eyry]
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fairy
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n 1: a small being, human in form, playful and having magical
powers [syn: fairy, faery, faerie, fay, sprite]
2: offensive term for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot,
faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer,
poof, poove, pouf]
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ferry
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n 1: a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of
water and operates on a regular schedule [syn: ferry,
ferryboat]
2: transport by boat or aircraft [syn: ferry, ferrying]
v 1: transport from one place to another
2: transport by ferry
3: travel by ferry
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fiery
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adj 1: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an
ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a
fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned
appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: ardent,
fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid,
torrid]
2: like or suggestive of fire; "a fiery desert wind"; "an
igneous desert atmosphere" [syn: fiery, igneous]
3: very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions" [syn:
fiery, flaming]
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floury
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adj 1: resembling flour in fine powdery texture; "a floury clay"
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flowery
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adj 1: of or relating to or suggestive of flowers; "a flowery
hat"; "flowery wine"
2: marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative
details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of
the rule of Plato"-John Milton [syn: flowery, ornate]
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friary
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n 1: a monastery of friars
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frippery
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n 1: something of little value or significance [syn:
bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity]
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fury
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n 1: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman
scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury,
rage, madness]
2: state of violent mental agitation [syn: craze, delirium,
frenzy, fury, hysteria]
3: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's
violence" [syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness,
fury, vehemence, violence, wildness]
4: (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters
(usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
[syn: Fury, Eumenides, Erinyes]
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glary
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adj 1: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding
headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of
sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding,
dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary]
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hairy
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adj 1: having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a
hairy caterpillar" [syn: hairy, haired, hirsute]
[ant: hairless]
2: hazardous and frightening; "hairy moments in the mountains"
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inquiry
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n 1: a search for knowledge; "their pottery deserves more
research than it has received" [syn: inquiry, enquiry,
research]
2: an instance of questioning; "there was a question about my
training"; "we made inquiries of all those who were present"
[syn: question, inquiry, enquiry, query,
interrogation] [ant: answer]
3: a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest
[syn: inquiry, enquiry]
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japery
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n 1: acting like a clown or buffoon [syn: buffoonery,
clowning, japery, frivolity, harlequinade, prank]
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jerry
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n 1: offensive term for a person of German descent [syn:
Kraut, Krauthead, Boche, Jerry, Hun]
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jury
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n 1: a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according
to the evidence presented in a court of law
2: a committee appointed to judge a competition [syn: jury,
panel]
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kauri
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n 1: resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a
fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum
[syn: kauri, kauri copal, kauri resin, kauri gum]
2: tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained
wood [syn: kauri, kaury, Agathis australis]
3: white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis
especially Agathis australis
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marry
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v 1: take in marriage [syn: marry, get married, wed,
conjoin, hook up with, get hitched with, espouse]
2: perform a marriage ceremony; "The minister married us on
Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple got
spliced on Hawaii" [syn: marry, wed, tie, splice]
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merry
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adj 1: full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts
were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in
such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at
the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old
gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry
laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: gay, jocund,
jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful]
2: offering fun and gaiety; "a festive (or festal) occasion";
"gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening" [syn: gay,
festal, festive, merry]
3: quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively
gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a
snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze" [syn: alert, brisk,
lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy]
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miry
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adj 1: (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under
foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky
lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the
sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: boggy,
marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy,
sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged]
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mortuary
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of death
2: of or relating to a funeral
n 1: a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before
burial or cremation [syn: morgue, mortuary, dead
room]
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napery
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n 1: linens for the dining table [syn: table linen, napery]
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nary
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adj 1: (used with singular count nouns) colloquial for `not a'
or `not one' or `never a'; "heard nary a sound"
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obituary
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n 1: a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short
biography [syn: obituary, obit, necrology]
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papery
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adj 1: thin and paperlike; "papery leaves"; "wasps that make
nests of papery material"
2: of or like paper [syn: chartaceous, papery, paperlike]
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parry
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n 1: (fencing) blocking a lunge or deflecting it with a circular
motion of the sword
2: a return punch (especially by a boxer) [syn: counterpunch,
parry, counter]
v 1: impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball); "block an
attack" [syn: parry, block, deflect]
2: avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing
(duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she
skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their
responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully" [syn:
hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry,
elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep]
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peppery
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adj 1: having the piquant burning taste of peppers; "corn chips
with peppery salsa"
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popery
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n 1: offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman
Catholic Church [syn: popery, papism]
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prairie
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n 1: a treeless grassy plain
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priory
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n 1: religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a
convent governed by a prioress
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residuary
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adj 1: entitled to the residue of an estate (after payment of
debts and specific gifts); "the residuary part of the
estate"; "the residuary beneficiary"
2: relating to or indicating a remainder; "residual quantity"
[syn: residual, residuary]
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sanctuary
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n 1: a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept
2: a shelter from danger or hardship [syn: refuge,
sanctuary, asylum]
3: area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir;
often enclosed by a lattice or railing [syn: chancel,
sanctuary, bema]
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scary
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adj 1: provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most
terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"
[syn: chilling, scarey, scary, shivery,
shuddery]
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sherry
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n 1: dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern
Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as
an aperitif
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showery
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adj 1: (of weather) wet by periods of rain; "showery weather";
"rainy days" [syn: showery, rainy]
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slippery
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adj 1: causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide;
"slippery sidewalks"; "a slippery bar of soap"; "the
streets are still slippy from the rain" [syn: slippery,
slippy] [ant: nonslippery]
2: not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the
camera is"- James Agee [syn: slippery, tricky]
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statuary
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adj 1: of or relating to or suitable for statues
n 1: statues collectively
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sumptuary
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adj 1: regulating or controlling expenditure or personal
behavior; "sumptuary laws discouraging construction of
large houses on small plots"; "sumptuary laws forbidding
gambling"
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temporary
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adj 1: not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent
factor of life"- James Thurber; "impermanent palm
cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary housing"
[syn: impermanent, temporary] [ant: lasting,
permanent]
2: lacking continuity or regularity; "an irregular worker";
"employed on a temporary basis" [syn: irregular,
temporary]
n 1: a worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary
basis [syn: temp, temporary, temporary worker]
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terry
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n 1: English actress (1847-1928) [syn: Terry, Dame Ellen
Terry, Dame Alice Ellen Terry]
2: a pile fabric (usually cotton) with uncut loops on both
sides; used to make bath towels and bath robes [syn: terry,
terry cloth, terrycloth]
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trumpery
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n 1: nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish,
tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce,
codswallop]
2: ornamental objects of no great value [syn: folderal,
falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense,
trumpery]
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unwary
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adj 1: not alert to danger or deception; "the shrieks of unwary
animals taken by surprise"; "some thieves prey especially
on unwary travelers"; "seduce the unwary reader into easy
acquiescence"- O.J.Campbell [ant: wary]
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vary
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v 1: become different in some particular way, without
permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or
essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather";
"The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according
to the season" [syn: change, alter, vary]
2: be at variance with; be out of line with [syn: deviate,
vary, diverge, depart] [ant: conform]
3: be subject to change in accordance with a variable; "Prices
vary"; "His moods vary depending on the weather"
4: make something more diverse and varied; "Vary the menu" [syn:
vary, variegate, motley]
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venturi
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n 1: United States architect (born in 1925) [syn: Venturi,
Robert Venturi, Robert Charles Venturi]
2: a tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in
the air inlet of a carburetor)
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very
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adv 1: used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally
for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very
gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable
evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good
yarn" [syn: very, really, real, rattling]
2: precisely so; "on the very next page"; "he expected the very
opposite"
adj 1: precisely as stated; "the very center of town"
2: being the exact same one; not any other:; "this is the
identical room we stayed in before"; "the themes of his
stories are one and the same"; "saw the selfsame quotation in
two newspapers"; "on this very spot"; "the very thing he said
yesterday"; "the very man I want to see" [syn: identical,
selfsame(a), very(a)]
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voluptuary
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adj 1: displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the
senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious
suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs";
"Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous
magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic
lavishness" [syn: epicurean, luxurious, luxuriant,
sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous]
n 1: a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
[syn: voluptuary, sybarite]
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wary
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adj 1: marked by keen caution and watchful prudence; "they were
wary in their movements"; "a wary glance at the black
clouds"; "taught to be wary of strangers" [ant: unwary]
2: openly distrustful and unwilling to confide [syn: leery,
mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary]
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wherry
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n 1: sailing barge used especially in East Anglia [syn:
wherry, Norfolk wherry]
2: light rowboat for use in racing or for transporting goods and
passengers in inland waters and harbors
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wiry
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adj 1: lean and sinewy [syn: stringy, wiry]
2: of or relating to wire
3: of hair that resembles wire in stiffness; "wiry red hair"
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briery
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adj 1: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or
spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short
bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits";
"setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate,
briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred,
burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny,
thorny]
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cowrie
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n 1: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus
Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked
shells [syn: cowrie, cowry]
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jewry
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n 1: Jews collectively
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maori
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n 1: an ethnic minority of Polynesian and Melanesian descent who
speak Maori and live in New Zealand
2: the Oceanic language spoken by the Maori in New Zealand
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urey
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n 1: United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981)
[syn: Urey, Harold Urey, Harold Clayton Urey]
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houri
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n 1: a voluptuously beautiful young woman [syn: nymph,
houri]
2: (Islam) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty
believed to live with the blessed in Paradise
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aery
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adj 1: characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as
impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and
aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas
Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition";
"physical rather than ethereal forms" [syn: aeriform,
aerial, airy, aery, ethereal]
n 1: the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)
[syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry]
2: any habitation at a high altitude [syn: aerie, aery,
eyrie, eyry]
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biliary
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adj 1: relating to or containing bile [syn: bilious,
biliary]
2: relating to the bile ducts or the gallbladder
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usufructuary
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adj 1: of or relating to the nature of a usufruct
n 1: someone who holds property by usufruct
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missouri
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n 1: a midwestern state in central United States; a border state
during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the
Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union [syn:
Missouri, Show Me State, MO]
2: the longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and
flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi
at Saint Louis; "The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers together
form the third longest river in the world" [syn: Missouri,
Missouri River]
3: a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley
of the Missouri river in Missouri
4: a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri
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lowry
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n 1: English painter (1887-1976) [syn: Lowry, L. S. Lowry,
Laurence Stephen Lowry]
2: English novelist (1909-1957) [syn: Lowry, Malcolm Lowry,
Clarence Malcolm Lowry]
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electuary
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foppery
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zedoary
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spiry
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airey
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arie
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ary
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lowrie
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towery
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fleury
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transire
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dioscuri
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lowery
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drury
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loury
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grapery
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vapory
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