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abhor
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v 1: find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"
[syn: abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate]
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adore
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v 1: love intensely; "he just adored his wife"
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anymore
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adv 1: at the present or from now on; usually used with a
negative; "Alice doesn't live here anymore"; "the
children promised not to quarrel any more" [syn:
anymore, any longer]
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ashore
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adv 1: towards the shore from the water; "we invited them
ashore"
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before
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adv 1: earlier in time; previously; "I had known her before";
"as I said before"; "he called me the day before but your
call had come even earlier"; "her parents had died four
years earlier"; "I mentioned that problem earlier" [syn:
earlier, before]
2: at or in the front; "I see the lights of a town ahead"; "the
road ahead is foggy"; "staring straight ahead"; "we couldn't
see over the heads of the people in front"; "with the cross
of Jesus marching on before" [syn: ahead, in front,
before]
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boar
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n 1: Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent
tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in
United States [syn: wild boar, boar, Sus scrofa]
2: an uncastrated male hog
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bore
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n 1: a person who evokes boredom [syn: bore, dullard]
2: a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by
colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) [syn: tidal
bore, bore, eagre, aegir, eager]
3: diameter of a tube or gun barrel [syn: bore, gauge,
caliber, calibre]
4: a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for
exploratory purposes [syn: bore, bore-hole, drill hole]
v 1: cause to be bored [syn: bore, tire] [ant: interest]
2: make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool;
"don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into
the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes
into the wall" [syn: bore, drill]
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chore
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n 1: a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or
for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that
job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of
repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task
of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"
[syn: job, task, chore]
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core
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n 1: a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five
periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"
[syn: core, nucleus, core group]
2: the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core"
3: the central part of the Earth
4: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some
idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument";
"the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the
story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center,
centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul,
inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-
gritty]
5: a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow
drill
6: an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to
work for racial equality [syn: Congress of Racial Equality,
CORE]
7: the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
[syn: effect, essence, burden, core, gist]
8: (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a
random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded
by semiconductor memories; "each core has three wires passing
through it, providing the means to select and detect the
contents of each bit" [syn: core, magnetic core]
9: the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile
material where the reaction takes place
10: a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes
through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the
coil
v 1: remove the core or center from; "core an apple"
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corps
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n 1: an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions
and their support [syn: corps, army corps]
2: a body of people associated together; "diplomatic corps"
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decor
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n 1: decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a
livable interior [syn: interior decoration, decor]
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underscore
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n 1: a line drawn underneath (especially under written matter)
[syn: underscore, underline]
v 1: give extra weight to (a communication); "Her gesture
emphasized her words" [syn: underscore, underline,
emphasize, emphasise]
2: draw a line or lines underneath to call attention to [syn:
underline, underscore]
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boer
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n 1: a white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of
Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans [syn: Afrikaner,
Afrikander, Boer]
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bohr
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n 1: Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and
radiations; the Bohr theory of the atom accounted for the
spectrum of hydrogen (1885-1962) [syn: Bohr, Niels
Bohr, Niels Henrik David Bohr]
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crore
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n 1: the number that is represented as a one followed by 7
zeros; ten million
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hardcore
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adj 1: intensely loyal; "his hard-core supporters" [syn: hard-
core, hardcore]
2: extremely explicit; "hard-core pornography" [syn: hard-
core, hardcore]
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timor
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n 1: an island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago; the
largest and most eastern of the Lesser Sunda Islands
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baur
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borre
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clore
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coar
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cohr
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cor
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corr
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shorr
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spaur
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ador
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bator
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antiwar
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armentor
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balthazor
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