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glorious
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adj 1: having or deserving or conferring glory; "a long and
glorious career"; "our glorious literature" [ant:
inglorious]
2: characterized by grandeur; "the brilliant court life at
Versailles"; "a glorious work of art"; "magnificent
cathedrals"; "the splendid coronation ceremony" [syn:
brilliant, glorious, magnificent, splendid]
3: having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring
morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind
of splendiferous native simplicity" [syn: glorious,
resplendent, splendid, splendiferous]
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inglorious
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adj 1: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing
disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest
records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel
Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat";
"an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful
display of cowardice" [syn: black, disgraceful,
ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful]
2: not bringing honor and glory; "some mute inglorious Milton
here may rest" [ant: glorious]
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laborious
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adj 1: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion;
especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up
the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor";
"heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours
on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous,
backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy,
laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]
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meritorious
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adj 1: deserving reward or praise; "a lifetime of meritorious
service"; "meritorious conduct" [syn: meritorious,
meritable]
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notorious
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adj 1: known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious
gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for
vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold"; [syn: ill-famed,
infamous, notorious]
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victorious
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adj 1: having won; "the victorious entry"; "the winning team"
[syn: victorious, winning]
2: experiencing triumph [syn: triumphant, victorious]
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urease
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n 1: an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of urea into carbon
dioxide and ammonia; is present in intestinal bacteria
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boreas
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n 1: a wind that blows from the north [syn: north wind,
northerly, norther, boreas]
2: (Greek mythology) the god who personified the north wind;
"Boreas was pictured as bearded and powerful and winged and
draped against the cold"
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sartorius
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n 1: a muscle in the thigh that helps to rotate the leg into the
sitting position assumed by a tailor; the longest muscle in
the human body [syn: sartorius, sartorius muscle,
musculus sartorius]
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arboreous
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adj 1: inhabiting or frequenting trees; "arboreal apes" [syn:
arboreal, arboreous, tree-living] [ant:
nonarboreal]
2: abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in
woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway" [syn:
arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy, woody]
3: resembling a tree in form and branching structure;
"arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda";
"dendriform sponges" [syn: arboreal, arboreous,
arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform,
dendroid, dendroidal, treelike, tree-shaped]