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aficionado
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n 1: a fan of bull fighting
2: a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical
performer
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amontillado
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n 1: pale medium-dry sherry from Spain
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avocado
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adj 1: of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado
n 1: a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin
and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed [syn:
avocado, alligator pear, avocado pear, aguacate]
2: tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits [syn:
avocado, avocado tree, Persea Americana]
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bastinado
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n 1: a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the
feet
2: a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten
with whips or cudgels [syn: bastinado, falanga]
v 1: beat somebody on the soles of the feet
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bravado
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n 1: a swaggering show of courage [syn: bravado, bluster]
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desperado
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n 1: a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier) [syn:
desperado, desperate criminal]
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foreshadow
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v 1: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn:
bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen,
presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell,
prefigure, forecast, predict]
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incommunicado
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adj 1: without the means or right to communicate; "a prisoner
held incommunicado"; "incommunicado political detainees"
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overshadow
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v 1: be greater in significance than; "the tragedy overshadowed
the couple's happiness" [syn: overshadow, dominate,
eclipse]
2: make appear small by comparison; "This year's debt dwarfs
that of last year" [syn: shadow, overshadow, dwarf]
3: cast a shadow upon; "The tall tree overshadowed the house"
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shadow
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n 1: shade within clear boundaries
2: an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness" [syn:
darkness, dark, shadow]
3: something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition
at midnight" [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm,
phantasma, fantasm, shadow]
4: a premonition of something adverse; "a shadow over his
happiness"
5: an indication that something has been present; "there wasn't
a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of
condescension" [syn: trace, vestige, tincture,
shadow]
6: refuge from danger or observation; "he felt secure in his
father's shadow"
7: a dominating and pervasive presence; "he received little
recognition working in the shadow of his father"
8: a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
[syn: tail, shadow, shadower]
9: an inseparable companion; "the poor child was his mother's
shadow"
v 1: follow, usually without the person's knowledge; "The police
are shadowing her"
2: cast a shadow over [syn: shadow, shade, shade off]
3: make appear small by comparison; "This year's debt dwarfs
that of last year" [syn: shadow, overshadow, dwarf]
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dorado
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n 1: a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Reticulum
and Pictor; contains most of the Large Magellanic Cloud
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mikado
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n 1: the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader
the emperor is called tenno [syn: mikado, tenno]
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colorado
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n 1: a state in west central United States in the Rocky
Mountains [syn: Colorado, Centennial State, CO]
2: a river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico
[syn: Colorado, Colorado River]
3: an important river in the southwestern United States; rises
in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows
southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through
the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip
of Nevada, then forming the border between California and
Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the
Gulf of California; the main source of water in the
southwestern United States [syn: Colorado, Colorado
River]
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eldorado
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n 1: an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought
in South America by 16th-century explorers [syn: El
Dorado, eldorado]
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pintado
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n 1: large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal
Atlantic waters [syn: cero, pintado, kingfish,
Scomberomorus regalis]
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strappado
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n 1: a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a
person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope
tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall
is checked with a jerk by the rope [syn: strappado,
strapado]
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carbonado
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n 1: an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and
polishing [syn: carbonado, black diamond]
2: a piece of meat (or fish) that has been scored and broiled
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ricardo
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n 1: English economist who argued that the laws of supply and
demand should operate in a free market (1772-1823) [syn:
Ricardo, David Ricardo]
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leonardo
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n 1: Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and
architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian
Renaissance (1452-1519) [syn: Leonardo, Leonardo da
Vinci, da Vinci]
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gambado
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prado
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aguado
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alzado
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amado
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casado
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collado
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cruzado
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delgado
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furtado
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tostado
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albarado
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alvarado
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baldonado
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dau
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bladow
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muscovado
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zapateado
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bardo
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barnardo
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pardoe
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