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afar
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adv 1: (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far;
"we traveled afar"; "we could see the ship afar off";
"the Magi came from afar"
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ajar
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adj 1: slightly open; "the door was ajar"
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are
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n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn:
are, ar]
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bar
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n 1: a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served
over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the
bar" [syn: barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill,
taproom]
2: a counter where you can obtain food or drink; "he bought a
hot dog and a coke at the bar"
3: a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening
or obstruction or weapon; "there were bars in the windows to
prevent escape"
4: musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats;
"the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song"
[syn: measure, bar]
5: an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal;
"it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar"
6: the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving";
"money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of
influenza" [syn: prevention, bar]
7: (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per
square centimeter; "unfortunately some writers have used bar
for one dyne per square centimeter"
8: a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a
shore; "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river"
9: the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a
particular jurisdiction; "he was admitted to the bar in New
Jersey" [syn: legal profession, bar, legal community]
10: a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the
background; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars";
"may the Stars and Stripes forever wave" [syn: stripe,
streak, bar]
11: a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of
chocolate" [syn: cake, bar]
12: a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas
pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by
United States troops in World War I and in World War II and
in the Korean War [syn: Browning automatic rifle, BAR]
13: a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as
they perform exercises
14: a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire
with three bars"
15: (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom
where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried;
"spectators were not allowed past the bar"
v 1: prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from
membership in the club" [syn: bar, debar, exclude]
2: render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade
the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: barricade,
block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar]
3: expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his
own country" [syn: banish, relegate, bar]
4: secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door" [ant:
unbar]
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bazaar
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n 1: a shop where a variety of goods are sold [syn: bazaar,
bazar]
2: a street of small shops (especially in Orient) [syn:
bazaar, bazar]
3: a sale of miscellany; often for charity; "the church bazaar"
[syn: bazaar, fair]
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bizarre
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adj 1: conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual;
"restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another
like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a
freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall
antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre
and affected stage antics" [syn: bizarre, eccentric,
freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off-
the-wall, outlandish, outre]
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car
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n 1: a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an
internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work"
[syn: car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar]
2: a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad; "three
cars had jumped the rails" [syn: car, railcar, railway
car, railroad car]
3: the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that
carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant [syn:
car, gondola]
4: where passengers ride up and down; "the car was on the top
floor" [syn: car, elevator car]
5: a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway;
"they took a cable car to the top of the mountain" [syn:
cable car, car]
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char
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n 1: a charred substance
2: a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean
the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day
while I write" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning woman,
cleaning lady, woman]
3: any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus
[syn: char, charr]
v 1: burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest
fire will char everything" [syn: char, coal]
2: burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The
cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the
ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the
ceiling" [syn: char, blacken, sear, scorch]
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cigar
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n 1: a roll of tobacco for smoking
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czar
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n 1: a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to
1917) [syn: czar, tsar, tzar]
2: a person having great power
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scar
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n 1: a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured
tissue [syn: scar, cicatrix, cicatrice]
2: an indication of damage [syn: scratch, scrape, scar,
mark]
v 1: mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face
permanently" [syn: scar, mark, pock, pit]
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sitar
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n 1: a stringed instrument of India; has a long neck and movable
frets; has 6 or 7 metal strings for playing and usually 13
resonating strings
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spar
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n 1: any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar)
that are light in color and transparent or translucent and
cleavable
2: a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging
3: making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and
arms; a part of training for a boxer [syn: spar,
sparring]
v 1: furnish with spars
2: fight with spurs; "the gamecocks were sparring"
3: box lightly
4: fight verbally; "They were sparring all night"
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star
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adj 1: indicating the most important performer or role; "the
leading man"; "prima ballerina"; "prima donna"; "a star
figure skater"; "the starring role"; "a stellar role"; "a
stellar performance" [syn: leading(p), prima(p),
star(p), starring(p), stellar(a)]
n 1: (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates
energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
2: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace,
adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin,
virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz,
whizz, wizard, wiz]
3: any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the
Earth at night
4: an actor who plays a principal role [syn: star,
principal, lead]
5: a plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem
6: a performer who receives prominent billing [syn: headliner,
star]
7: a star-shaped character * used in printing [syn: asterisk,
star]
8: the topology of a network whose components are connected to a
hub [syn: star topology, star]
v 1: feature as the star; "The movie stars Dustin Hoffman as an
autistic man"
2: be the star in a performance
3: mark with an asterisk; "Linguists star unacceptable
sentences" [syn: star, asterisk]
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superstar
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n 1: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace,
adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin,
virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar,
whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz]
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tar
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n 1: any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a
residue [syn: pitch, tar]
2: a man who serves as a sailor [syn: mariner, seaman,
tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob,
sea dog]
v 1: coat with tar; "tar the roof"; "tar the roads"
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tsar
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n 1: a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to
1917) [syn: czar, tsar, tzar]
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ar
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n 1: a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert
gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere
[syn: argon, Ar, atomic number 18]
2: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn:
are, ar]
3: a state in south central United States; one of the
Confederate states during the American Civil War [syn:
Arkansas, Land of Opportunity, AR]
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r
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n 1: a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing
radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of
electricity in 1 cc of dry air [syn: roentgen, R]
2: (physics) the universal constant in the gas equation:
pressure times volume = R times temperature; equal to 8.3143
joules per kelvin per mole [syn: gas constant, universal
gas constant, R]
3: the 18th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: R, r]
4: the length of a line segment between the center and
circumference of a circle or sphere [syn: radius, r]
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starr
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n 1: rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940) [syn:
Starr, Ringo Starr, Starkey, Richard Starkey]
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bazar
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n 1: a street of small shops (especially in Orient) [syn:
bazaar, bazar]
2: a shop where a variety of goods are sold [syn: bazaar,
bazar]
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dakar
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n 1: the capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal
[syn: Dakar, capital of Senegal]
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dinar
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n 1: 100 dinars equal 1 rial in Iran [syn: Iranian dinar,
dinar]
2: the basic unit of money in Yugoslavia [syn: Yugoslavian
dinar, dinar]
3: the basic unit of money in Tunisia [syn: Tunisian dinar,
dinar]
4: the basic unit of money in Libya [syn: Libyan dinar,
dinar]
5: the basic unit of money in Kuwait; equal 1,000 fils [syn:
Kuwaiti dinar, dinar]
6: the basic unit of money in Jordan; equal to 1,000 fils [syn:
Jordanian dinar, dinar]
7: the basic unit of money in Iraq; equal to 1,000 fils [syn:
Iraqi dinar, dinar]
8: the basic unit of money in Bahrain; equal to 1,000 fils [syn:
Bahrain dinar, dinar]
9: the basic unit of money in Algeria [syn: Algerian dinar,
dinar]
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myanmar
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n 1: a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of
Bengal; "much opium is grown in Myanmar" [syn: Myanmar,
Union of Burma, Burma]
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qatar
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n 1: an Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar; achieved
independence from the United Kingdom in 1971; the economy
is dominated by oil [syn: Qatar, State of Qatar,
Katar, State of Katar]
2: a peninsula extending northward from the Arabian mainland
into the Persian Gulf [syn: Qatar, Qatar Peninsula,
Katar, Katar Peninsula]
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renoir
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n 1: French impressionist painter (1841-1919) [syn: Renoir,
Pierre Auguste Renoir]
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adar
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n 1: the sixth month of the civil year; the twelfth month of the
ecclesiastic year in the Jewish calendar (in February and
March)
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boyar
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barre
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ahr
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baar
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bahr
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bahre
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barr
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carr
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carre
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claar
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clar
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csar
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dar
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darr
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saar
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sar
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thar
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voir
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algar
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alvare
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azar
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bargar
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bejar
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bodnar
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bogar
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bognar
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bomar
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bondar
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ceasar
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cisar
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cotnoir
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cousar
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dardar
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dzhokhar
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dzokhar
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farquar
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hribar
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jiar
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kadar
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kumar
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labar
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lamar
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lamarr
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lebar
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lemar
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mcgarr
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melgar
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minnaar
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najar
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najjar
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navar
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navarre
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nazar
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obarr
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paccar
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pickar
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pintar
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qasr
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almanzar
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andujar
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aquilar
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avelar
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baldemar
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baltazar
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bonior
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almodovar
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balakumar
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allar
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amar
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azhar
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