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bolero
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n 1: music written in the rhythm of the bolero dance
2: a short jacket; worn mostly by women
3: a Spanish dance in triple time accompanied by guitar and
castanets
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bureau
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n 1: an administrative unit of government; "the Central
Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of
Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority" [syn:
agency, federal agency, government agency, bureau,
office, authority]
2: furniture with drawers for keeping clothes [syn: chest of
drawers, chest, bureau, dresser]
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chiaroscuro
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n 1: a monochrome picture made by using several different shades
of the same color
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deliverer
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n 1: a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in
Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for
Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29) [syn: Jesus, Jesus of
Nazareth, the Nazarene, Jesus Christ, Christ,
Savior, Saviour, Good Shepherd, Redeemer,
Deliverer]
2: a person who rescues you from harm or danger [syn: savior,
saviour, rescuer, deliverer]
3: someone employed to make deliveries [syn: deliveryman,
delivery boy, deliverer]
4: a person who gives up or transfers money or goods
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discoverer
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n 1: someone who is the first to think of or make something
[syn: inventor, discoverer, artificer]
2: someone who is the first to observe something [syn: finder,
discoverer, spotter]
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guacharo
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n 1: nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty
young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter [syn:
oilbird, guacharo, Steatornis caripensis]
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oeuvre
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n 1: the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial
part of it); "he studied the entire Wagnerian oeuvre";
"Picasso's work can be divided into periods" [syn:
oeuvre, work, body of work]
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politburo
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n 1: the chief executive and political committee of the
Communist Party
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fuchs
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n 1: British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi
persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to
the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the
United States (1911-1988) [syn: Fuchs, Klaus Fuchs,
Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs]
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jabiru
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n 1: large mostly white Australian stork [syn: policeman bird,
black-necked stork, jabiru, Xenorhyncus asiaticus]
2: large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill
has a black band around the middle [syn: saddlebill,
jabiru, Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis]
3: large white stork of warm regions of the world especially
America [syn: jabiru, Jabiru mycteria]
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le
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n 1: a chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting
connective tissue (skin or joints) [syn: lupus
erythematosus, LE]
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euro
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n 1: the basic monetary unit of most members of the European
Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations
(Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,
Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland)
adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned
their traditional currencies
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cicero
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n 1: a linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an
em
2: a Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of
Latin prose (106-43 BC) [syn: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Cicero, Tully]
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diderot
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n 1: French philosopher who was a leading figure of the
Enlightenment in France; principal editor of an
encyclopedia that disseminated the scientific and
philosophical knowledge of the time (1713-1784) [syn:
Diderot, Denis Diderot]
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carnivora
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n 1: cats; lions; tigers; panthers; dogs; wolves; jackals;
bears; raccoons; skunks; and members of the suborder
Pinnipedia [syn: Carnivora, order Carnivora]
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bureaux
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coverer
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hetero
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hoverer
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jukes
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gadzooks
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roo
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devereux
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zingaro
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figaro
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gaspereau
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prospero
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prothero
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vigoro
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truro
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oruro
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