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harass
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v 1: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his
staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female
co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy,
chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest,
provoke]
2: exhaust by attacking repeatedly; "harass the enemy"
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madras
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n 1: a state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south
of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras [syn: Tamil Nadu,
Madras]
2: a city in Tamil Nadu on the Bay of Bengal; formerly Madras
[syn: Chennai, Madras]
3: a light patterned cotton cloth
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morass
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n 1: a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
[syn: mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slack]
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sassafras
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n 1: yellowwood tree with brittle wood and aromatic leaves and
bark; source of sassafras oil; widely distributed in
eastern North America [syn: sassafras, sassafras tree,
Sassafras albidum]
2: dried root bark of the sassafras tree
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traitorous
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adj 1: having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor;
"the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous
insurrectionist" [syn: faithless, traitorous,
unfaithful, treasonable, treasonous]
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viviparous
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adj 1: producing living young (not eggs) [syn: viviparous,
live-bearing] [ant: oviparous, ovoviviparous]
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vociferous
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adj 1: conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement
outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident
demands"; "a vociferous mob" [syn: blatant, clamant,
clamorous, strident, vociferous]
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waitress
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n 1: a woman waiter
v 1: serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant; "I'm waiting
on tables at Maxim's" [syn: wait, waitress]
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walrus
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n 1: either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory
tusks and tough hide over thick blubber [syn: walrus,
seahorse, sea horse]
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wardress
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n 1: a woman warder
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wondrous
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adv 1: (used as an intensifier) extremely well; "her voice is
superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously
slowly" [syn: wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously,
superbly, toppingly, marvellously, terrifically,
marvelously]
adj 1: extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as
intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film
was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous
collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation
about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" [syn:
fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous,
marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous,
wonderful, wondrous]
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cyprus
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n 1: a country on the island of Cyprus; 80% of the people are of
Greek origin and 20% or Turkish origin [syn: Cyprus,
Republic of Cyprus]
2: an island in the eastern Mediterranean
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foundress
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n 1: a woman founder
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glabrous
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adj 1: having no hair or similar growth; smooth; "glabrous
stems"; "glabrous leaves"; "a glabrous scalp"
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horace
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n 1: Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry
(65-8 BC)
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traitress
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n 1: female traitor
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tetramerous
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adj 1: having or consisting of four similar parts; tetramerous
flowers
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arcturus
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n 1: the 4th brightest star and the brightest star in the
constellation Bootes; 36 light-years from Earth
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honduras
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n 1: a republic in Central America; achieved independence from
Spain in 1821; an early center of Mayan culture [syn:
Honduras, Republic of Honduras]
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mercurous
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adj 1: of or containing mercury [syn: mercuric, mercurous]
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epicurus
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n 1: Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a random
combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good
(341-270 BC)
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varus
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n 1: a deformity in which part of a limb is turned inward to an
abnormal degree [ant: valgus]
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apterous
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adj 1: (of insects) without wings [syn: apterous, apteral]
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anaxagoras
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n 1: a presocratic Athenian philosopher who maintained that
everything is composed of very small particles that were
arranged by some eternal intelligence (500-428 BC)
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hippocras
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jointress
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nacrous
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scirrhous
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scirrhus
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sclerous
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iras
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matrass
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dolores
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scarus
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hatteras
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esdras
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