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ester
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n 1: formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with
elimination of water
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fester
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n 1: a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus [syn:
fester, suppurating sore]
v 1: ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering" [syn:
fester, maturate, suppurate]
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investor
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n 1: someone who commits capital in order to gain financial
returns
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jester
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n 1: a professional clown employed to entertain a king or
nobleman in the Middle Ages [syn: jester, fool, motley
fool]
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molester
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n 1: someone who subjects others to unwanted or improper sexual
activities
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nester
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n 1: someone who settles lawfully on government land with the
intent to acquire title to it [syn: squatter,
homesteader, nester]
2: a bird that has built (or is building) a nest
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pester
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v 1: annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of
his stammer" [syn: tease, badger, pester, bug,
beleaguer]
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polyester
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n 1: any of numerous synthetic resins; they are light and strong
and weather resistant
2: a complex ester used for making fibers or resins or plastics
or as a plasticizer
3: any of a large class of synthetic fabrics
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requester
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n 1: one praying humbly for something; "a suppliant for her
favors" [syn: petitioner, suppliant, supplicant,
requester]
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semester
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n 1: one of two divisions of an academic year
2: half a year; a period of 6 months
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sequester
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v 1: requisition forcibly, as of enemy property; "the estate was
sequestered"
2: take temporary possession of as a security, by legal
authority; "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents
impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the
stolen artwork" [syn: impound, attach, sequester,
confiscate, seize]
3: undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an
ion; "The cations were sequestered"
4: keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study
to write a book" [syn: seclude, sequester, sequestrate,
withdraw]
5: set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he
is working on" [syn: sequester, sequestrate, keep
apart, set apart, isolate]
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tester
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n 1: someone who administers a test to determine your
qualifications [syn: examiner, tester, quizzer]
2: a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed)
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trimester
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n 1: a period of three months; especially one of the three
three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided
2: one of three divisions of an academic year
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rester
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n 1: a person who rests
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chester
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n 1: a city of southeastern Pennsylvania on the Delaware river
(an industrial suburb of Philadelphia)
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esther
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n 1: (Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of
Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all
the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the
feast of Purim)
2: an Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who
became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre
[syn: Esther, Book of Esther]
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leicester
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n 1: a largely agricultural county in central England [syn:
Leicestershire, Leicester]
2: an industrial city in Leicestershire in central England;
built on the site of a Roman settlement
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nestor
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n 1: (Greek mythology) a wise old counselor to the Greeks at
Troy
2: a genus of Psittacidae [syn: Nestor, genus Nestor]
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bester
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trester
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amvestor
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ivester
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mclester
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silvester
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sylvester
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sylvestre
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brester
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hester
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kester
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lester
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mester
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mestre
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testor
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