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awn
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n 1: slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of
grasses
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born
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adj 1: brought into existence; "he was a child born of adultery"
[ant: unborn]
2: being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural
leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent" [syn:
natural, born(p), innate(p)]
n 1: British nuclear physicist (born in Germany) honored for his
contributions to quantum mechanics (1882-1970) [syn:
Born, Max Born]
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bourn
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n 1: an archaic term for a boundary [syn: bourn, bourne]
2: an archaic term for a goal or destination [syn: bourn,
bourne]
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brawn
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n 1: possessing muscular strength [syn: brawn, brawniness,
muscle, muscularity, sinew, heftiness]
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bygone
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adj 1: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of
foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers";
"relics of a departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast,
departed, foregone, gone]
n 1: past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones" [syn:
bygone, water under the bridge]
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corn
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n 1: tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears:
widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the
principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America
since pre-Columbian times [syn: corn, maize, Indian
corn, Zea mays]
2: the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or
ground for meal
3: ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
[syn: corn, edible corn]
4: a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides
of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes
[syn: corn, clavus]
5: (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the
dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats
in Scotland and Ireland)
6: whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent
corn [syn: corn whiskey, corn whisky, corn]
7: something sentimental or trite; "that movie was pure corn"
v 1: feed (cattle) with corn
2: preserve with salt; "corned beef"
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coupon
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n 1: a negotiable certificate that can be detached and redeemed
as needed [syn: coupon, voucher]
2: a test sample of some substance
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dawn
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n 1: the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they
talked until morning" [syn: dawn, dawning, morning,
aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break
of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow]
[ant: sundown, sunset]
2: the earliest period; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning
of the world" [syn: dawn, morning]
3: an opening time period; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire"
v 1: become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It
dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was
penetrated with sorrow" [syn: click, get through,
dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate,
fall into place]
2: appear or develop; "The age of computers had dawned"
3: become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up"
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decathlon
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n 1: an athletic contest consisting of ten different events
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drawn
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adj 1: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or
suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her
mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from
sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face";
"shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young
face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn, drawn,
haggard, raddled, worn]
2: having the curtains or draperies closed or pulled shut; "the
drawn draperies kept direct sunlight from fading the rug"
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faun
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n 1: ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed
ears and a goat's tail; equivalent to Greek satyr
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fawn
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n 1: a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color;
"she wore dun" [syn: dun, greyish brown, grayish
brown, fawn]
2: a young deer
v 1: show submission or fear [syn: fawn, crawl, creep,
cringe, cower, grovel]
2: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always
kowtowing to his boss" [syn: fawn, toady, truckle,
bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up]
3: have fawns; "deer fawn"
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foregone
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adj 1: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of
foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers";
"relics of a departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast,
departed, foregone, gone]
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gone
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adj 1: destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese" [syn: done
for(p), kaput(p), gone(a)]
2: dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend" [syn:
asleep(p), at peace(p), at rest(p), deceased,
departed, gone]
3: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone
times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a
departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast, departed,
foregone, gone]
4: no longer retained; "gone with the wind"
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home
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adv 1: at or to or in the direction of one's home or family; "He
stays home on weekends"; "after the game the children
brought friends home for supper"; "I'll be home
tomorrow"; "came riding home in style"; "I hope you will
come home for Christmas"; "I'll take her home"; "don't
forget to write home"
2: on or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home"
3: to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home";
"drove his point home"; "his comments hit home"
adj 1: used of your own ground; "a home game" [ant: away]
2: relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots
are; "my home town"
3: inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader
responsibilities than the United States Department of the
Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a),
interior(a), internal, national]
n 1: where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package
to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place
or mine?" [syn: home, place]
2: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest
dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes
for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile,
abode, habitation, dwelling house]
3: the country or state or city where you live; "Canadian
tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise
prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey"
4: (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter
stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to
score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home" [syn:
home plate, home base, home, plate]
5: the place where you are stationed and from which missions
start and end [syn: base, home]
6: place where something began and flourished; "the United
States is the home of basketball"
7: an environment offering affection and security; "home is
where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home";
"there's no place like home"
8: a social unit living together; "he moved his family to
Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited
until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how
many people made up his home" [syn: family, household,
house, home, menage]
9: an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the
elderly" [syn: home, nursing home, rest home]
v 1: provide with, or send to, a home
2: return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons"
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horn
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n 1: a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud
noise when you blow through it
2: one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates
3: a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;
4: a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with
leather) [syn: horn, saddle horn]
5: a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a
narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of
valves [syn: cornet, horn, trumpet, trump]
6: any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is
similar to or suggestive of a horn
7: the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of
ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
8: a device having the shape of a horn; "horns at the ends of a
new moon"; "the hornof an anvil"; "the cleat had two horns"
9: an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound
10: a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that
is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves [syn:
French horn, horn]
11: a device on an automobile for making a warning noise [syn:
automobile horn, car horn, motor horn, horn,
hooter]
v 1: stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; "the rhino horned the
explorer" [syn: horn, tusk]
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lawn
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n 1: a field of cultivated and mowed grass
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morn
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n 1: the time period between dawn and noon; "I spent the morning
running errands" [syn: morning, morn, morning time,
forenoon]
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mourn
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v 1: feel sadness; "She is mourning her dead child"
2: observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved
one
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on
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adv 1: with a forward motion; "we drove along admiring the
view"; "the horse trotted along at a steady pace"; "the
circus traveled on to the next city"; "move along";
"march on" [syn: along, on]
2: indicates continuity or persistence or concentration; "his
spirit lives on"; "shall I read on?"
3: in a state required for something to function or be
effective; "turn the lights on"; "get a load on"
adj 1: in operation or operational; "left the oven on"; "the
switch is in the on position" [ant: off]
2: (of events) planned or scheduled; "the picnic is on, rain or
shine"; "we have nothing on for Friday night" [ant:
cancelled, off]
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pawn
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n 1: an article deposited as security
2: a person used by another to gain an end [syn: instrument,
pawn, cat's-paw]
3: (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and
captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more
powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank
4: borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of
the loan
v 1: leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your
grandfather's gold watch" [syn: pawn, soak, hock]
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porn
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n 1: creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no
literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual
desire [syn: pornography, porno, porn, erotica,
smut]
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prawn
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n 1: any of various edible decapod crustaceans [syn: prawn,
shrimp]
2: shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers;
most are edible
v 1: fish for prawns
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scorn
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n 1: lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense
dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which
outsiders were held is legendary" [syn: contempt,
disdain, scorn, despite]
2: open disrespect for a person or thing [syn: contempt,
scorn]
v 1: look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has
to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't
catch on immediately" [syn: contemn, despise, scorn,
disdain]
2: reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" [syn:
reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh,
disdain, turn down]
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shorn
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adj 1: having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with
shears or clippers; "picked up the baby's shorn curls
from the floor"; "naked as a sheared sheep" [syn:
sheared, shorn] [ant: unsheared, unshorn]
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spawn
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n 1: the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or
molluscs
v 1: call forth [syn: engender, breed, spawn]
2: lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"
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swan
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n 1: stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and
usually white plumage as adult
v 1: to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before
God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify,
assert, avow, aver, swan, swear]
2: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in
search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods";
"roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam
across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the
next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll,
wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble,
rove, range, drift, vagabond]
3: sweep majestically; "Airplanes were swanning over the
mountains"
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sworn
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adj 1: bound by or as if by an oath; "according to an early
tradition became his sworn brother"; "sworn enemies"
[syn: pledged, sworn]
2: bound by or stated on oath; "now my sworn friend and then
mine enemy"- Shakespeare [ant: unsworn]
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thorn
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n 1: something that causes irritation and annoyance; "he's a
thorn in my flesh" [syn: irritant, thorn]
2: a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or
leaf [syn: spine, thorn, prickle, pricker, sticker,
spikelet]
3: a Germanic character of runic origin
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torn
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adj 1: having edges that are jagged from injury [syn:
lacerate, lacerated, mangled, torn]
2: disrupted by the pull of contrary forces; "torn between love
and hate"; "torn by conflicting loyalties"; "torn by
religious dissensions"
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warn
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v 1: notify of danger, potential harm, or risk; "The director
warned him that he might be fired"; "The doctor warned me
about the dangers of smoking"
2: admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior; "I warned
him not to go too far"; "I warn you against false
assumptions"; "She warned him to be quiet" [syn: warn,
discourage, admonish, monish]
3: ask to go away; "The old man warned the children off his
property"
4: notify, usually in advance; "I warned you that I would ask
some difficult questions"
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withdrawn
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adj 1: withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an
unsocial reclusive life" [syn: recluse, reclusive,
withdrawn]
2: tending to reserve or introspection; "a quiet indrawn man"
[syn: indrawn, withdrawn]
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worn
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adj 1: affected by wear; damaged by long use; "worn threads on
the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the
jacket" [ant: new]
2: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering;
"looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face
was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but
still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his
handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn,
drawn, haggard, raddled, worn]
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yawn
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n 1: an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth;
usually triggered by fatigue or boredom; "he could not
suppress a yawn"; "the yawning in the audience told him it
was time to stop"; "he apologized for his oscitancy" [syn:
yawn, yawning, oscitance, oscitancy]
v 1: utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired;
"The child yawned during the long performance"
2: be wide open; "the deep gaping canyon" [syn: gape, yawn,
yaw]
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braun
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n 1: the German mistress of Adolf Hitler (1910-1945) [syn:
Braun, Eva Braun]
2: United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he
designed a missile used against England); he led the United
States Army team that put the first American satellite into
space (1912-1977) [syn: Braun, von Braun, Wernher von
Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun]
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vaughan
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n 1: United States jazz singer noted for her complex bebop
phrasing and scat singing (1924-1990) [syn: Vaughan,
Sarah Vaughan]
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maintenon
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n 1: French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king
after the death of his first wife (1635-1719) [syn:
Maintenon, Marquise de Maintenon, Francoise
d'Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon]
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borne
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doggone
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predawn
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sawn
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bjorn
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thorne
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aune
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sean
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shaun
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vaughn
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strachan
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lorn
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begone
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limon
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maughan
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