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assailable
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adj 1: not defended or capable of being defended; "an open
city"; "open to attack" [syn: assailable,
undefendable, undefended, open]
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available
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adj 1: obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service;
"kept a fire extinguisher available"; "much information
is available through computers"; "available in many
colors"; "the list of available candidates is unusually
long" [ant: unavailable]
2: not busy; not otherwise committed; "he was not available for
comment"; "he was available and willing to accompany her"
[syn: available, uncommitted]
3: convenient for use or disposal; "the house is available after
July 1"; "2000 square feet of usable office space" [syn:
available, usable, useable]
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calculable
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adj 1: capable of being calculated or estimated; "a calculable
risk"; "calculable odds" [ant: incalculable]
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conceal
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v 1: prevent from being seen or discovered; "Muslim women hide
their faces"; "hide the money" [syn: hide, conceal]
[ant: show]
2: hold back; keep from being perceived by others; "She conceals
her anger well" [syn: conceal, hold back, hold in]
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congeal
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v 1: become gelatinous; "the liquid jelled after we added the
enzyme" [syn: jell, set, congeal]
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consolable
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adj 1: able to be consoled [ant: disconsolate, inconsolable,
unconsolable]
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controllable
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adj 1: capable of being controlled [syn: controllable,
governable]
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corneal
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adj 1: of or related to the cornea
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creel
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n 1: a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish
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eel
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n 1: the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh
water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked
or pickled
2: voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth
slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical
fin but no ventral fins
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fallible
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adj 1: likely to fail or make errors; "everyone is fallible to
some degree" [ant: infallible]
2: wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the
attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only
a fallible human"; "frail humanity" [syn: fallible,
frail, imperfect, weak]
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genteel
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adj 1: marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated
speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a
genteel old lady"; "polite society" [syn: civilized,
civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel,
polite]
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gullible
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adj 1: naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age
she had been gullible and in love" [syn: fleeceable,
green, gullible]
2: easily tricked because of being too trusting; "gullible
tourists taken in by the shell game"
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ideal
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adj 1: conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or
excellence; embodying an ideal
2: constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or
mental image or conception; "a poem or essay may be typical
of its period in idea or ideal content"
3: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality
of ideas [syn: ideal, idealistic]
n 1: the idea of something that is perfect; something that one
hopes to attain
2: model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no
equal [syn: ideal, paragon, nonpareil, saint,
apotheosis, nonesuch, nonsuch]
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incalculable
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adj 1: not capable of being computed or enumerated [ant:
calculable]
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inconsolable
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adj 1: sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled;
"inconsolable when her son died" [syn: inconsolable,
disconsolate, unconsolable] [ant: consolable]
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indelible
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adj 1: cannot be removed or erased; "an indelible stain";
"indelible memories" [syn: indelible, unerasable]
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infallible
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adj 1: incapable of failure or error; "an infallible antidote";
"an infallible memory"; "the Catholic Church considers
the Pope infallible"; "no doctor is infallible" [ant:
fallible]
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inviolable
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adj 1: incapable of being transgressed or dishonored; "the
person of the king is inviolable"; "an inviolable oath"
[ant: violable]
2: immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with; "an
impregnable fortress"; "fortifications that made the frontier
inviolable"; "a secure telephone connection" [syn:
impregnable, inviolable, secure, strong,
unassailable, unattackable]
3: must be kept sacred [syn: inviolable, inviolate,
sacrosanct]
4: not capable of being violated or infringed; "infrangible
human rights" [syn: absolute, infrangible, inviolable]
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irreconcilable
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adj 1: impossible to reconcile; "irreconcilable differences"
[syn: irreconcilable, unreconcilable] [ant:
reconcilable]
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ordeal
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n 1: a severe or trying experience
2: a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or
innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or
painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was
usually taken as a sign of innocence [syn: ordeal, trial
by ordeal]
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puerile
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adj 1: of or characteristic of a child; "puerile breathing"
2: displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent
insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their
behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" [syn: adolescent,
jejune, juvenile, puerile]
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reconcilable
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adj 1: capable of being reconciled; "her way of thinking is
reconcilable with mine" [ant: irreconcilable,
unreconcilable]
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recyclable
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adj 1: capable of being used again [syn: reclaimable,
recyclable, reusable]
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repeal
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n 1: the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation
[syn: abrogation, repeal, annulment]
v 1: cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift
an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" [syn: revoke,
annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal,
overturn, rescind, vacate]
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reveal
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v 1: make visible; "Summer brings out bright clothes"; "He
brings out the best in her" [syn: uncover, bring out,
unveil, reveal]
2: make known to the public information that was previously
known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a
secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at
which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how
old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to
her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" [syn:
unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal,
discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let
out]
3: disclose directly or through prophets; "God rarely reveal his
plans for Mankind"
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saleable
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adj 1: capable of being sold; fit for sale; "saleable at a low
price" [syn: salable, saleable] [ant: unsalable,
unsaleable]
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scalable
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adj 1: capable of being scaled; possible to scale; "the scalable
slope of a mountain" [ant: unclimbable, unscalable]
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sellable
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adj 1: fit to be offered for sale; "marketable produce" [syn:
marketable, merchantable, sellable, vendable,
vendible]
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spiel
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n 1: plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson)
[syn: spiel, patter, line of gab]
v 1: replay (as a melody); "Play it again, Sam"; "She played the
third movement very beautifully" [syn: play, spiel]
2: speak at great length (about something)
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squeal
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n 1: a high-pitched howl
v 1: utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs [syn:
squeal, oink]
2: confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under
pressure [syn: confess, squeal, fink]
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steal
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n 1: an advantageous purchase; "she got a bargain at the
auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price" [syn:
bargain, buy, steal]
2: a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances
safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a
hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)
v 1: take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet
on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my
dissertation"
2: move stealthily; "The ship slipped away in the darkness"
[syn: steal, slip]
3: steal a base
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steel
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n 1: an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used
in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a
wide range
2: a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and
a hilt with a hand guard [syn: sword, blade, brand,
steel]
3: knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod
v 1: get ready for something difficult or unpleasant [syn:
steel, nerve]
2: cover, plate, or edge with steel
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surreal
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adj 1: characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous
juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric
shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal
art and literature" [syn: phantasmagoric,
phantasmagorical, surreal, surrealistic]
2: resembling a dream; "night invested the lake with a dreamlike
quality"; "as irrational and surreal as a dream" [syn:
dreamlike, surreal]
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unassailable
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adj 1: immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with; "an
impregnable fortress"; "fortifications that made the
frontier inviolable"; "a secure telephone connection"
[syn: impregnable, inviolable, secure, strong,
unassailable, unattackable]
2: impossible to assail [syn: unassailable, untouchable]
3: without flaws or loopholes; "an ironclad contract"; "a
watertight alibi"; "a bulletproof argument" [syn:
unassailable, unshakable, watertight, bulletproof]
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unavailable
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adj 1: not available or accessible or at hand; "fresh milk was
unavailable during the emergency"; "his secretary said he
was unavailable for comment" [ant: available]
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uncontrollable
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adj 1: difficult to solve or alleviate; "uncontrollable pain"
[syn: uncontrollable, unmanageable]
2: of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited,
but his teacher finds him unruly" [syn: indocile,
uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly]
3: incapable of being controlled or managed; "uncontrollable
children"; "an uncorrectable habit" [syn: uncontrollable,
uncorrectable, unmanageable]
4: impossible to repress or control; "an irrepressible
chatterbox"; "uncontrollable laughter" [syn: irrepressible,
uncontrollable]
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unreal
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adj 1: lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not
corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts
and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as
news" [ant: existent, real]
2: not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary;
"this conversation is getting more and more unreal"; "the
fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy"; "the
unreal world of advertising art" [ant: real(a)]
3: contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers";
"artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial
fibers"; "artificial sweeteners" [syn: artificial,
unreal] [ant: natural]
4: lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial
as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon" [syn:
insubstantial, unsubstantial, unreal] [ant: material,
real, substantial]
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unseal
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v 1: break the seal of; "He unsealed the letter" [ant: seal]
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violable
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adj 1: capable of being violated; "a violable rule"; "a violable
contract" [ant: inviolable]
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weil
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n 1: French philosopher (1909-1943) [syn: Weil, Simone Weil]
2: United States mathematician (born in France) (1906-1998)
[syn: Weil, Andre Weil]
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brasil
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n 1: the largest Latin American country and the largest
Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the
central and northeastern part of South America; world's
leading coffee exporter [syn: Brazil, Federative
Republic of Brazil, Brasil]
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steele
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n 1: English writer (1672-1729) [syn: Steele, Sir Richrd
Steele]
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emile
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n 1: the boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques
Rousseau
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reseal
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v 1: seal again; "reseal the bottle after using the medicine"
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bailable
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adj 1: admitting of bail; "a bailable offense"
2: eligible for bail; "a bailable defendant"
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unsaleable
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adj 1: impossible to sell [syn: unsalable, unsaleable] [ant:
salable, saleable]
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unscalable
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adj 1: incapable of being ascended [syn: unscalable,
unclimbable] [ant: scalable]
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isolable
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adj 1: capable of being isolated or disjoined
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assimilable
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adj 1: able to be absorbed and incorporated into body tissues
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coagulable
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adj 1: capable of coagulating and becoming thick
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octosyllable
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n 1: a verse line having eight syllables or a poem of
octosyllabic lines
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unconsolable
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adj 1: sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled;
"inconsolable when her son died" [syn: inconsolable,
disconsolate, unconsolable] [ant: consolable]
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compellable
0
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expellable
0
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hendecasyllable
0
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recallable
0
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sailable
0
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beal
0
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beale
0
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beall
0
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beel
0
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beil
0
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camille
0
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jarriel
0
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lucille
0
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mailable
0
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semblable
0
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regulable
0
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inappellable
0
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inoculable
0