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adieu
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n 1: a farewell remark; "they said their good-byes" [syn:
adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au
revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby,
good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, so long]
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ado
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n 1: a rapid active commotion [syn: bustle, hustle,
flurry, ado, fuss, stir]
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anew
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adv 1: again but in a new or different way; "start afresh";
"wanted to write the story anew"; "starting life anew in
a fresh place" [syn: afresh, anew]
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askew
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adv 1: turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with
his necktie twisted awry" [syn: askew, awry, skew-
whiff]
adj 1: turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a
gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig
was, as the British say, skew-whiff" [syn: askew,
awry(p), cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff]
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bamboo
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n 1: the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction
and crafts and fishing poles
2: woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes
used for construction and furniture
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bedew
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v 1: cover with drops of dew or as with dew
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bestrew
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v 1: cover by strewing
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blue
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adj 1: of the color intermediate between green and violet;
having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky;
"October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a
blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke" [syn: blue,
bluish, blueish]
2: used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War
(who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line"
3: filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the
thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a
gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the
darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city";
"depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and
resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his
defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn:
gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited,
down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth,
low, low-spirited]
4: characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and
blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" [syn:
blasphemous, blue, profane]
5: suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue
jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details";
"a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy
anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip" [syn: blue,
gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque,
spicy]
6: belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or
aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic
Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family";
"blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle
blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South";
"aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician
tastes" [syn: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue,
blue-blooded, gentle, patrician]
7: morally rigorous and strict; "the puritan work ethic";
"puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but
puritanical in her behavior" [syn: blue(a), puritanic,
puritanical]
8: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war";
"a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter
landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November";
"a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue,
dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim,
sorry, drab, drear, dreary]
n 1: blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear
sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue" [syn:
blue, blueness]
2: blue clothing; "she was wearing blue"
3: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue;
"the Union army was a vast blue"
4: the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the
blue" [syn: blue sky, blue, blue air, wild blue
yonder]
5: used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
[syn: bluing, blueing, blue]
6: the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate;
used as a sedative and a hypnotic [syn: amobarbital sodium,
blue, blue angel, blue devil, Amytal]
7: any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
v 1: turn blue
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crew
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n 1: the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.)
2: an organized group of workmen [syn: gang, crew, work
party]
3: an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the
same crowd" [syn: crowd, crew, gang, bunch]
4: the team of men manning a racing shell
v 1: serve as a crew member on
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cue
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n 1: an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a
reminder for some action or speech
2: evidence that helps to solve a problem [syn: clue, clew,
cue]
3: a stimulus that provides information about what to do [syn:
discriminative stimulus, cue]
4: sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike
a cue ball in pool or billiards [syn: cue, cue stick,
pool cue, pool stick]
v 1: assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next
words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned [syn:
prompt, remind, cue]
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curlew
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n 1: large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely
related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill
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debut
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n 1: the act of beginning something new; "they looked forward to
the debut of their new product line" [syn: introduction,
debut, first appearance, launching, unveiling,
entry]
2: the presentation of a debutante in society
v 1: present for the first time to the public; "The band debuts
a new song or two each month"
2: appear for the first time in public; "The new ballet that
debuts next months at Covent Garden, is already sold out"
3: make one's debut; "This young soprano debuts next month at
the Metropolitan Opera"
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halloo
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n 1: a shout to attract attention; "he gave a great halloo but
no one heard him"
v 1: urge on with shouts; "halloo the dogs in a hunt"
2: shout `halloo', as when greeting someone or attracting
attention
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hullabaloo
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n 1: disturbance usually in protest [syn: agitation,
excitement, turmoil, upheaval, hullabaloo]
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igloo
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n 1: an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in
the shape of a dome [syn: igloo, iglu]
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lulu
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n 1: a very attractive or seductive looking woman [syn:
smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher,
sweetheart, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish]
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ormolu
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n 1: brass that looks like gold; used to decorate furniture
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waterloo
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n 1: a town in central Belgium where in 1815 Napoleon met his
final defeat
2: a final crushing defeat; "he met his waterloo"
3: the battle on 18 June 1815 in which Prussian and British
forces under Blucher and the Duke of Wellington routed the
French forces under Napoleon [syn: Waterloo, Battle of
Waterloo]
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tolu
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n 1: aromatic yellowish brown balsam from the tolu balsam tree
used especially in cough syrups [syn: tolu, balsam of
tolu, tolu balsam]
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yalu
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n 1: river in eastern Asia; rises in North Korea and flows
southwest to Korea Bay (forming part of the border between
North Korea and China) [syn: Yalu, Yalu River]
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zulu
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n 1: a member of the tall Negroid people of eastern South
Africa; some live in KwaZulu-Natal under the traditional
clan system but many now work in the cities
2: a community of Negroid people in eastern South Africa
3: a Bantu language of considerable literary importance in
southeastern Africa
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poilu
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n 1: a French soldier (especially in World War I)
2: thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; southern
U.S. [syn: purloo, chicken purloo, poilu]
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honolulu
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n 1: the capital and largest city of Hawaii; located on a large
bay on the island of Oahu [syn: Honolulu, capital of
Hawaii, Hawaiian capital]
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blew
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angelou
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superglue
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kinabalu
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kwazulu
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quazulu
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sisulu
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