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allegory
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n 1: a short moral story (often with animal characters) [syn:
fable, parable, allegory, apologue]
2: a visible symbol representing an abstract idea [syn:
emblem, allegory]
3: an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events
to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an
extended metaphor
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beggary
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n 1: a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street
by an apparently penniless person) [syn: beggary,
begging, mendicancy]
2: the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced
to mendicancy" [syn: beggary, mendicancy, mendicity]
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buggery
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n 1: intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or
woman [syn: sodomy, buggery, anal sex, anal
intercourse]
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category
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n 1: a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there
are two classes of detergents" [syn: class, category,
family]
2: a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a
conceptual scheme
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curie
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n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a
radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of
37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie,
Ci]
2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn:
Curie, Pierre Curie]
3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one
(with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on
radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and
polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame
Curie, Marya Sklodowska]
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demagoguery
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n 1: impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the
populace [syn: demagoguery, demagogy]
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glory
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n 1: a state of high honor; "he valued glory above life itself"
[syn: glory, glorification]
2: brilliant radiant beauty; "the glory of the sunrise" [syn:
glory, resplendence, resplendency]
3: an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a
saint [syn: aura, aureole, halo, nimbus, glory,
gloriole]
v 1: rejoice proudly
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gory
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adj 1: covered with blood; "a bloodstained shirt"; "a gory
dagger" [syn: bloodstained, gory]
2: accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
[syn: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous,
butcherly]
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hoary
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adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or
white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge;
"nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey-
haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed,
grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired]
2: ancient; "hoary jokes" [syn: hoary, rusty]
3: covered with fine whitish hairs or down [syn: canescent,
hoary]
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ironmongery
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n 1: the merchandise that is sold in an ironmonger's shop
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jury
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n 1: a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according
to the evidence presented in a court of law
2: a committee appointed to judge a competition [syn: jury,
panel]
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lorry
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n 1: a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides
2: a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without
sides [syn: lorry, camion]
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quarry
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n 1: a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim
of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or
influence; "he fell prey to muggers"; "everyone was fair
game"; "the target of a manhunt" [syn: prey, quarry,
target, fair game]
2: a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a
British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'" [syn: pit,
quarry, stone pit]
3: animal hunted or caught for food [syn: prey, quarry]
v 1: extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a
quarry; "quarry marble"
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roguery
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n 1: reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or
annoyance in others [syn: mischief, mischief-making,
mischievousness, deviltry, devilry, devilment,
rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan]
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skulduggery
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n 1: verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you
in some way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness,
hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery,
skullduggery]
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snuggery
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n 1: a small secluded room [syn: cubby, cubbyhole,
snuggery, snug]
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sorry
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adj 1: feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss
over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his
vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made";
"he felt bad about breaking the vase" [syn: regretful,
sorry, bad] [ant: unregretful, unregretting]
2: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state";
"a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a
sorry state of affairs" [syn: deplorable, distressing,
lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry]
3: without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-
count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good
piece of junk" [syn: good-for-nothing, good-for-naught,
meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry]
4: 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]
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story
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n 1: a message that tells the particulars of an act or
occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or
drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his
narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain
adults as well as children" [syn: narrative, narration,
story, tale]
2: a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events;
"he writes stories for the magazines"
3: a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single
position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office
on?" [syn: floor, level, storey, story]
4: a record or narrative description of past events; "a history
of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to
kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead" [syn:
history, account, chronicle, story]
5: a short account of the news; "the report of his speech"; "the
story was on the 11 o'clock news"; "the account of his speech
that was given on the evening news made the governor furious"
[syn: report, news report, story, account, write
up]
6: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how
can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: fib,
story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle]
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sugary
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adj 1: containing sugar; "he eats too much sugary food" [ant:
nonsweet, sugarless]
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vagary
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n 1: an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a
situation or a person's behavior, etc.); "the vagaries of
the weather"; "his wealth fluctuates with the vagaries of
the stock market"; "he has dealt with human vagaries for
many years"
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vinegary
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adj 1: tasting or smelling like vinegar [syn: acetose,
acetous, vinegary, vinegarish]
2: having a sour disposition; ill-tempered [syn: vinegary,
vinegarish]
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corrie
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n 1: a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may
contain a lake [syn: cirque, corrie, cwm]
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tory
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n 1: an American who favored the British side during the
American Revolution
2: a member of political party in Great Britain that has been
known as the Conservative Party since 1832; was the
opposition party to the Whigs
3: a supporter of traditional political and social institutions
against the forces of reform; a political conservative
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devanagari
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n 1: a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi [syn:
Devanagari, Devanagari script, Nagari, Nagari
script]
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thuggery
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n 1: violent or brutal acts as of thugs
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calgary
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n 1: the largest city in southern Alberta; an oil and gas center
and a technology center for Alberta and most of western
Canada
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waggery
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n 1: waggish behavior [syn: waggery, waggishness]
2: a quaint and amusing jest [syn: drollery, waggery]
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gregory
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n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) a church father known for his
constant fight against perceived heresies; a saint and
Doctor of the Church (329-391) [syn: Gregory, Gregory
Nazianzen, Gregory of Nazianzen, St. Gregory of
Nazianzen]
2: Italian pope from 1831 to 1846; conservative in politics and
theology; worked to propagate Catholicism in England and the
United States (1765-1846) [syn: Gregory, Gregory XVI,
Bartolomeo Alberto Capillari]
3: the pope who sponsored the introduction of the modern
calendar (1572-1585) [syn: Gregory, Gregory XIII, Ugo
Buoncompagni]
4: the Italian pope from 1406 to 1415 who worked to end the
Great Schism and who retired to make it possible (1327-1417)
[syn: Gregory, Gregory XII, Angelo Correr]
5: the Italian pope who fought to establish the supremacy of the
pope over the Roman Catholic Church and the supremacy of the
church over the state (1020-1085) [syn: Gregory, Gregory
VII, Hildebrand]
6: (Roman Catholic Church) an Italian pope distinguished for his
spiritual and temporal leadership; a saint and Doctor of the
Church (540?-604) [syn: Gregory, Gregory I, Saint
Gregory I, St. Gregory I, Gregory the Great]
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humbuggery
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aurae
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morae
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tori
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puggaree
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hoggery
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