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banal
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adj 1: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
"bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and
commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer";
"repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn
axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn:
banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat,
shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn,
tired, trite, well-worn]
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cabal
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n 1: a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through
intrigue [syn: cabal, faction, junto, camarilla]
2: a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a
political plot) [syn: conspiracy, cabal]
v 1: engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear
together; "They conspired to overthrow the government"
[syn: conspire, cabal, complot, conjure,
machinate]
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loll
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v 1: hang loosely or laxly; "His tongue lolled" [syn: droop,
loll]
2: be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day"
[syn: bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse
about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's
time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge
about]
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mall
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n 1: a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk [syn:
promenade, mall]
2: mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped
complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually
includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern
version of the traditional marketplace; "a good plaza should
have a movie house"; "they spent their weekends at the local
malls" [syn: plaza, mall, center, shopping mall,
shopping center, shopping centre]
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moll
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n 1: the girlfriend of a gangster [syn: moll, gun moll,
gangster's moll]
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natal
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adj 1: relating to or accompanying birth; "natal injuries";
"natal day"; "natal influences"
2: of or relating to the buttocks
n 1: a region of eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean;
"Natal was renamed KwaZulu-Natal in 1994" [syn: Natal,
KwaZulu-Natal]
2: a port city in northeastern Brazil
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pall
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n 1: a sudden numbing dread [syn: chill, pall]
2: burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped [syn: pall,
shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes]
3: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn:
curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall]
v 1: become less interesting or attractive [syn: pall, dull]
2: cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: daunt,
dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away,
frighten away, scare]
3: cover with a pall
4: cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too
much spicy food cloyed his appetite" [syn: cloy, pall]
5: cause to become flat; "pall the beer"
6: lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall" [syn:
die, pall, become flat]
7: lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring,
insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her"
8: lose interest or become bored with something or somebody;
"I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my
food" [syn: tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade]
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recall
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n 1: a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to
return the product (as for replacement or repair) [syn:
recall, callback]
2: a call to return; "the recall of our ambassador"
3: a bugle call that signals troops to return
4: the process of remembering (especially the process of
recovering information by mental effort); "he has total
recall of the episode" [syn: recall, recollection,
reminiscence]
5: the act of removing an official by petition
v 1: recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't
remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her
last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do
you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories"
[syn: remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call
up, recollect, think] [ant: blank out, block,
draw a blank, forget]
2: go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous
remark of his" [syn: hark back, return, come back,
recall]
3: call to mind; "His words echoed John F. Kennedy" [syn:
echo, recall]
4: summon to return; "The ambassador was recalled to his
country"; "The company called back many of the workers it had
laid off during the recession" [syn: recall, call back]
5: cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to
return from a reverie or digression; "She was recalled by a
loud laugh"
6: make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution; "The company
recalled the product when it was found to be faulty" [ant:
issue, supply]
7: cause to be returned; "recall the defective auto tires"; "The
manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt" [syn:
recall, call in, call back, withdraw]
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reinstall
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v 1: install again; "She reinstalled the washer after it had
been repaired"
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caul
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n 1: part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the
colon and covering the intestines [syn: greater omentum,
gastrocolic omentum, caul]
2: the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates
(especially when covering the head at birth) [syn: caul,
veil, embryonic membrane]
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dahl
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n 1: tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat
pods; much cultivated in the tropics [syn: pigeon pea,
pigeon-pea plant, cajan pea, catjang pea, red gram,
dhal, dahl, Cajanus cajan]
2: small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant
[syn: cajan pea, pigeon pea, dahl]
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molle
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n 1: small Peruvian evergreen with broad rounded head and
slender pendant branches with attractive clusters of
greenish flowers followed by clusters of rose-pink fruits
[syn: pepper tree, molle, Peruvian mastic tree,
Schinus molle]
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sol
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n 1: a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a
solid is suspended in a liquid [syn: sol, colloidal
solution, colloidal suspension]
2: (Roman mythology) ancient Roman god; personification of the
sun; counterpart of Greek Helios
3: the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical
scale in solmization [syn: sol, soh, so]
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chagall
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n 1: French painter (born in Russia) noted for his imagery and
brilliant colors (1887-1985) [syn: Chagall, Marc
Chagall]
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nepal
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n 1: a small landlocked Asian country high in the Himalayas
between India and China [syn: Nepal, Kingdom of Nepal]
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transvaal
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n 1: a province of northeastern South Africa originally
inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the
Boers
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montreal
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n 1: a city in southern Quebec province on the Saint Lawrence
River; the largest city in Quebec and 2nd largest in
Canada; the 2nd largest French-speaking city in the world
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senegal
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n 1: a republic in northwestern Africa on the coast of the
Atlantic; formerly a French colony but achieved
independence in 1960 [syn: Senegal, Republic of
Senegal]
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ahl
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bahl
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bol
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bolle
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coll
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amal
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bhopal
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bonsall
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cabrall
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casal
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centrale
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laval
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avenall
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roncesvalles
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