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appease
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v 1: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
"She managed to mollify the angry customer" [syn: pacify,
lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify,
placate, gentle, gruntle]
2: overcome or allay; "quell my hunger" [syn: quell, stay,
appease]
3: make peace with [syn: propitiate, appease]
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breeze
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n 1: a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled
by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his
neck" [syn: breeze, zephyr, gentle wind, air]
2: any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product
will be no picnic" [syn: cinch, breeze, picnic, snap,
duck soup, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece
of cake]
v 1: blow gently and lightly; "It breezes most evenings at the
shore"
2: to proceed quickly and easily
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breezy
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adj 1: fresh and animated; "her breezy nature"
2: abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes; "blowy
weather"; "a windy bluff" [syn: blowy, breezy, windy]
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cheese
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n 1: a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
2: erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters
of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States [syn:
tall mallow, high mallow, cheese, cheeseflower,
Malva sylvestris]
v 1: used in the imperative (get away, or stop it); "Cheese it!"
2: wind onto a cheese; "cheese the yarn"
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cheesy
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adj 1: of very poor quality; flimsy [syn: bum, cheap,
cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny]
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chemise
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n 1: a woman's sleeveless undergarment [syn: chemise,
shimmy, shift, slip, teddy]
2: a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders
without a waist [syn: chemise, sack, shift]
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lees
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n 1: the sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage
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tease
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n 1: someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring
curiosity) [syn: tease, teaser, annoyer, vexer]
2: a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
[syn: coquette, flirt, vamp, vamper, minx, tease,
prickteaser]
3: the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously
(especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent
annoyances; "he ignored their teases"; "his ribbing was
gentle but persistent" [syn: tease, teasing, ribbing,
tantalization]
v 1: annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of
his stammer" [syn: tease, badger, pester, bug,
beleaguer]
2: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children
teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my
failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a
jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod,
tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally,
ride]
3: to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them;
"The advertisement is intended to tease the customers"; "She
has a way of teasing men with her flirtatious behavior"
4: tear into pieces; "tease tissue for microscopic examinations"
5: raise the nap of (fabrics)
6: disentangle and raise the fibers of; "tease wool" [syn:
tease, tease apart, loosen]
7: separate the fibers of; "tease wool" [syn: tease, card]
8: mock or make fun of playfully; "the flirting man teased the
young woman"
9: ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp,
for a full effect [syn: tease, fluff]
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trapeze
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n 1: a swing used by circus acrobats
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tweeze
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v 1: pluck with tweezers; "tweeze facial hair"
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unease
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n 1: physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression) [syn:
malaise, unease, uneasiness]
2: the trait of seeming ill at ease [syn: disquiet, unease,
uneasiness]
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uneasy
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adj 1: lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or
reassurance; "farmers were uneasy until rain finally
came"; "uneasy about his health"; "gave an uneasy laugh";
"uneasy lies the head that wears the crown"; "an uneasy
coalition government"; "an uneasy calm"; "an uneasy
silence fell on the group" [ant: easy]
2: lacking or not affording physical or mental rest; "a restless
night"; "she fell into an uneasy sleep" [syn: restless,
uneasy] [ant: relaxing, reposeful, restful]
3: causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious
night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances
behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an
unquiet mind" [syn: anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy,
unquiet]
4: socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner;
"awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among eddies
of people he didn't know"; "was always uneasy with strangers"
[syn: awkward, ill at ease(p), uneasy]
5: relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort
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wheeze
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n 1: breathing with a husky or whistling sound
2: (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick; "a clever
wheeze probably succeeded in neutralizing the German
espionage threat"
v 1: breathe with difficulty
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wheezy
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adj 1: having a tone of a reed instrument [syn: reedy,
wheezy]
2: relating to breathing with a whistling sound [syn:
asthmatic, wheezing, wheezy]
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chinese
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adj 1: of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures;
"Chinese food"
2: of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on
Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese
capital is Taipeh" [syn: Taiwanese, Chinese, Formosan]
n 1: any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded
as dialects of a single language (even though they are
mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic
writing system
2: a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist
China
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burmese
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Myanmar or its
people; "the Burmese capital"; "Burmese tonal languages"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Myanmar
2: the official language of Burma
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belize
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n 1: a country on the northeastern coast of Central America on
the Caribbean; formerly under British control [syn:
Belize, British Honduras]
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cadiz
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n 1: an ancient port city in southwestern Spain
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annamese
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n 1: a native or inhabitant of Vietnam [syn: Vietnamese,
Annamese]
2: the Mon-Khmer language spoken in Vietnam [syn: Vietnamese,
Annamese, Annamite]
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balinese
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n 1: the Indonesian language of the people of Bali
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cantonese
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n 1: the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring
provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
[syn: Yue, Yue dialect, Cantonese, Cantonese
dialect]
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absentees
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agrees
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appointees
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bees
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conferees
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decrees
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degrees
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fees
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knees
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sprees
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teas
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tees
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these
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trees
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trustees
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crees
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beas
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beese
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bes
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brees
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breese
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briese
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cees
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deas
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andries
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ashis
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aziz
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brunjes
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abductees
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abdulaziz
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adelizzi
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caseze
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