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compel
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v 1: force somebody to do something; "We compel all students to
fill out this form" [syn: compel, oblige, obligate]
2: necessitate or exact; "the water shortage compels
conservation"
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dispel
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v 1: force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric
meanings; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad
thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn
back many disappointed customers" [syn: chase away,
drive out, turn back, drive away, dispel, drive
off, run off]
2: to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She
waved her hand and scattered the crowds" [syn: disperse,
dissipate, dispel, break up, scatter]
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expel
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v 1: force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his
native country" [syn: expel, throw out, kick out]
2: remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted
after he misappropriated funds" [syn: oust, throw out,
drum out, boot out, kick out, expel]
3: cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves" [syn:
rout, rout out, expel]
4: eliminate (a substance); "combustion products are exhausted
in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas" [syn: exhaust,
discharge, expel, eject, release]
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farewell
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n 1: an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting
[syn: farewell, word of farewell]
2: the act of departing politely; "he disliked long farewells";
"he took his leave"; "parting is such sweet sorrow" [syn:
farewell, leave, leave-taking, parting]
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fell
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adj 1: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict
pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal
beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod
treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious
kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell,
roughshod, savage, vicious]
n 1: the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
[syn: hide, fell]
2: seam made by turning under or folding together and stitching
the seamed materials to avoid rough edges [syn: fell,
felled seam]
3: the act of felling something (as a tree)
v 1: cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike
down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers" [syn:
fell, drop, strike down, cut down]
2: pass away rapidly; "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing
beneath him" [syn: fly, fell, vanish]
3: sew a seam by folding the edges
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foretell
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v 1: foreshadow or presage [syn: announce, annunciate,
harbinger, foretell, herald]
2: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome
of an election" [syn: predict, foretell, prognosticate,
call, forebode, anticipate, promise]
3: 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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gazelle
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n 1: small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having
lustrous eyes
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gel
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n 1: a colloid in a more solid form than a sol [syn: gel,
colloidal gel]
2: a thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color
effects [syn: gelatin, gel]
v 1: become a gel; "The solid, when heated, gelled"
2: apply a styling gel to; "she mousses her hair" [syn:
mousse, gel]
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hell
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n 1: any place of pain and turmoil; "the hell of battle"; "the
inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas
is the pits"; [syn: hell, hell on earth, hellhole,
snake pit, the pits, inferno]
2: a cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to
blazes" [syn: hell, blaze]
3: (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil;
where sinners suffer eternal punishment; "Hurl'd
headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John
Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit"; "Hell is paved
with good intentions"-Dr. Johnson [syn: Hell, perdition,
Inferno, infernal region, nether region, pit] [ant:
Heaven]
4: (religion) the world of the dead; "No one goes to Hades with
all his immense wealth"-Theognis [syn: Hell, Hades,
infernal region, netherworld, Scheol, underworld]
5: violent and excited activity; "they began to fight like sin"
[syn: sin, hell]
6: noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes" [syn:
hell, blaze]
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hotel
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n 1: a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals
and other services
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impel
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v 1: urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or
motivate [syn: impel, force]
2: cause to move forward with force; "Steam propels this ship"
[syn: propel, impel]
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jell
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v 1: become gelatinous; "the liquid jelled after we added the
enzyme" [syn: jell, set, congeal]
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lapel
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n 1: lap at the front of a coat; continuation of the coat collar
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misspell
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v 1: spell incorrectly
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morel
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n 1: any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella
having a brownish spongelike cap
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motel
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n 1: a motor hotel
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pastel
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adj 1: lacking in body or vigor; "faded pastel charms of the
naive music"
2: delicate and pale in color; "pastel pink"
n 1: any of various pale or light colors
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propel
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v 1: cause to move forward with force; "Steam propels this ship"
[syn: propel, impel]
2: give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my
career" [syn: motivate, actuate, propel, move,
prompt, incite]
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quell
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v 1: suppress or crush completely; "squelch any sign of
dissent"; "quench a rebellion" [syn: squelch, quell,
quench]
2: overcome or allay; "quell my hunger" [syn: quell, stay,
appease]
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rappel
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n 1: (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made
by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and
wrapped around the body [syn: rappel, abseil]
v 1: lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a
mountainside; "The ascent was easy--roping down the
mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You
have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical
climbing" [syn: rappel, abseil, rope down]
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rebel
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n 1: `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers
by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War;
`greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
[syn: Rebel, Reb, Johnny Reb, Johnny, greyback]
2: a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the
constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving
conditions) [syn: insurgent, insurrectionist, freedom
fighter, rebel]
3: someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action
[syn: maverick, rebel]
v 1: take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
[syn: rebel, arise, rise, rise up]
2: break with established customs [syn: rebel, renegade]
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repel
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v 1: cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the
enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the
invaders" [syn: repel, drive, repulse, force back,
push back, beat back] [ant: attract, draw, draw
in, pull, pull in]
2: be repellent to; cause aversion in [syn: repel, repulse]
[ant: appeal, attract]
3: force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the
onslaught"; "rebuff the attack" [syn: repel, repulse,
fight off, rebuff, drive back]
4: reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal" [syn:
rebuff, snub, repel]
5: fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me" [syn:
disgust, gross out, revolt, repel]
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resell
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v 1: sell (something) again after having bought it
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retell
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v 1: render verbally, "recite a poem"; "retell a story" [syn:
recite, retell]
2: make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of his
parents in his latest novel" [syn: fictionalize,
fictionalise, retell]
3: to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her
request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate,
iterate, restate, retell]
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sell
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n 1: the activity of persuading someone to buy; "it was a hard
sell"
v 1: exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent; "He sold
his house in January"; "She sells her body to survive and
support her drug habit" [ant: buy, purchase]
2: be sold at a certain price or in a certain way; "These books
sell like hot cakes"
3: persuade somebody to accept something; "The French try to
sell us their image as great lovers"
4: do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood; "She
deals in gold"; "The brothers sell shoes" [syn: deal,
sell, trade]
5: give up for a price or reward; "She sold her principles for a
successful career"
6: be approved of or gain acceptance; "The new idea sold well in
certain circles"
7: be responsible for the sale of; "All her publicity sold the
products"
8: deliver to an enemy by treachery; "Judas sold Jesus"; "The
spy betrayed his country" [syn: betray, sell]
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shell
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n 1: ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing
containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from
a large gun
2: the material that forms the hard outer covering of many
animals
3: hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as
arthropods and turtles [syn: carapace, shell, cuticle,
shield]
4: the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits
especially nuts
5: the exterior covering of a bird's egg [syn: shell,
eggshell]
6: a rigid covering that envelops an object; "the satellite is
covered with a smooth shell of ice"
7: a very light narrow racing boat [syn: shell, racing
shell]
8: the housing or outer covering of something; "the clock has a
walnut case" [syn: shell, case, casing]
9: a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield
attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) [syn:
plate, scale, shell]
10: the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a
brachiopod
v 1: use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day"
[syn: blast, shell]
2: create by using explosives; "blast a passage through the
mountain" [syn: blast, shell]
3: fall out of the pod or husk; "The corn shelled"
4: hit the pitches of hard and regularly; "He shelled the
pitcher for eight runs in the first inning"
5: look for and collect shells by the seashore
6: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi
beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the
competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football
game" [syn: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce,
vanquish]
7: remove from its shell or outer covering; "shell the legumes";
"shell mussels"
8: remove the husks from; "husk corn" [syn: husk, shell]
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smell
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n 1: the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the
nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous
form; "she loved the smell of roses" [syn: smell, odor,
odour, olfactory sensation, olfactory perception]
2: any property detected by the olfactory system [syn:
olfactory property, smell, aroma, odor, odour,
scent]
3: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect
that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a
clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the
smell of treason" [syn: spirit, tone, feel, feeling,
flavor, flavour, look, smell]
4: the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents [syn:
smell, sense of smell, olfaction, olfactory modality]
5: the act of perceiving the odor of something [syn: smell,
smelling]
v 1: inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
2: emit an odor; "The soup smells good"
3: smell bad; "He rarely washes, and he smells"
4: have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches
smacked of racism"; "this passage smells of plagiarism" [syn:
smack, reek, smell]
5: become aware of not through the senses but instinctively; "I
sense his hostility"; "i smell trouble"; "smell out
corruption" [syn: smell, smell out, sense]
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spell
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n 1: a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a
magical incantation [syn: enchantment, spell, trance]
2: a time for working (after which you will be relieved by
someone else); "it's my go"; "a spell of work" [syn: go,
spell, tour, turn]
3: a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by
some action or condition; "he was here for a little while";
"I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a
patch of bad weather" [syn: while, piece, spell,
patch]
4: a verbal formula believed to have magical force; "he
whispered a spell as he moved his hands"; "inscribed around
its base is a charm in Balinese" [syn: spell, magic
spell, magical spell, charm]
v 1: orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of; "How
do you spell this word?" "We had to spell out our names for
the police officer" [syn: spell, spell out]
2: indicate or signify; "I'm afraid this spells trouble!" [syn:
spell, import]
3: write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally
accepted form of (a word or part of a word); "He spelled the
word wrong in this letter" [syn: spell, write]
4: relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn; "She spelled
her husband at the wheel"
5: place under a spell [ant: unspell]
6: take turns working; "the workers spell every four hours"
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cornell
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n 1: United States actress noted for her performances in
Broadway plays (1893-1974) [syn: Cornell, Katherine
Cornell]
2: United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in
the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White)
founded Cornell University (1807-1874) [syn: Cornell, Ezra
Cornell]
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nobel
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n 1: Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite
and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes
(1833-1896) [syn: Nobel, Alfred Nobel, Alfred Bernhard
Nobel]
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noel
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n 1: period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6 [syn: Christmas,
Christmastide, Christmastime, Yule, Yuletide,
Noel]
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pell
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