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accusatory
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adj 1: containing or expressing accusation; "an accusitive
forefinger"; "black accusatory looks"; "accusive shoes
and telltale trousers"- O.Henry; "his accusing glare"
[syn: accusative, accusatory, accusing, accusive]
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adjudicatory
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adj 1: concerned with adjudicating [syn: adjudicative,
adjudicatory]
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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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ambulatory
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adj 1: relating to or adapted for walking; "an ambulatory
corridor"
2: able to walk about; "the patient is ambulatory" [syn:
ambulant, ambulatory]
n 1: a covered walkway (as in a cloister); "it has an ambulatory
and seven chapels"
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anticipatory
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adj 1: in anticipation [syn: anticipatory, prevenient]
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auditory
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adj 1: of or relating to the process of hearing; "auditory
processing"; "an audile person" [syn: auditory,
audile, auditive]
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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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circulatory
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adj 1: of or relating to circulation [syn: circulative,
circulatory]
2: relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood
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conciliatory
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adj 1: making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore
through him...whenever he thought of...even the
compromising Louis du Tillet" [syn: compromising,
conciliatory, flexible] [ant: inflexible, sturdy,
uncompromising]
2: intended to placate; "spoke in a conciliating tone"; "a
conciliatory visit" [syn: conciliatory, conciliative]
[ant: antagonistic]
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condemnatory
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adj 1: containing or imposing condemnation or censure; "a
condemnatory decree" [syn: condemnatory, condemning]
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confirmatory
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adj 1: serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence"
[syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming,
confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory,
substantiating, substantiative, validating,
validatory, verificatory, verifying]
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congratulatory
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adj 1: expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of
someone's success or good fortune; "a congratulatory
telegram"; "the usual congratulatory crowd was
conspicuously absent"; "a gratulatory address" [syn:
congratulatory, gratulatory]
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conservatory
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n 1: the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of
the fine arts
2: a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts [syn:
conservatory, conservatoire]
3: a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing
manner [syn: conservatory, hothouse, indoor garden]
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corroboratory
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adj 1: serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence"
[syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming,
confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory,
substantiating, substantiative, validating,
validatory, verificatory, verifying]
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cosignatory
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adj 1: signing jointly with others
n 1: one of two or more signers of the same document (as a
treaty or declaration) [syn: cosigner, cosignatory]
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crematory
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n 1: a mortuary where corpses are cremated [syn: crematory,
crematorium]
2: a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes
[syn: crematory, crematorium, cremation chamber]
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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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defamatory
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adj 1: (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to
discredit or malign [syn: calumniatory, calumnious,
defamatory, denigrative, denigrating,
denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous]
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depository
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n 1: a facility where things can be deposited for storage or
safekeeping [syn: depository, deposit, depositary,
repository]
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derogatory
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adj 1: expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments";
"disparaging remarks about the new house" [syn:
derogative, derogatory, disparaging]
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dilatory
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adj 1: wasting time [syn: dilatory, laggard, poky,
pokey]
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discriminatory
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adj 1: being biased or having a belief or attitude formed
beforehand; "a prejudiced judge" [syn: prejudiced,
discriminatory] [ant: impartial, unprejudiced]
2: containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice;
"discriminatory attitudes and practices"; "invidious
comparisons" [syn: discriminatory, invidious]
3: capable of making fine distinctions [syn: discriminative,
discriminatory]
4: manifesting partiality; "a discriminatory tax"; "preferential
tariff rates"; "preferential treatment"; "a preferential shop
gives priority or advantage to union members in hiring or
promoting" [syn: discriminatory, preferential]
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dormitory
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n 1: a college or university building containing living quarters
for students [syn: dormitory, dorm, residence hall,
hall, student residence]
2: a large sleeping room containing several beds [syn:
dormitory, dormitory room, dorm room]
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dory
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n 1: a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats
and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled [syn:
dinghy, dory, rowboat]
2: pike-like freshwater perches [syn: walleye, walleyed
pike, jack salmon, dory, Stizostedion vitreum]
3: marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope
waters
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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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inventory
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n 1: a detailed list of all the items in stock [syn:
inventory, stock list]
2: the merchandise that a shop has on hand; "they carried a vast
inventory of hardware"; "they stopped selling in exact sizes
in order to reduce inventory" [syn: stock, inventory]
3: (accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including
raw materials and work in progress and finished goods
4: a collection of resources; "he dipped into his intellectual
armory to find an answer" [syn: armory, armoury,
inventory]
5: making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand;
"an inventory may be necessary to see if anything is
missing"; "they held an inventory every month" [syn:
inventory, inventorying, stocktaking, stock-taking]
v 1: make or include in an itemized record or report; "Inventory
all books before the end of the year" [syn: inventory,
take stock, stock-take]
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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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memento
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n 1: a reminder of past events [syn: memento, souvenir]
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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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storey
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n 1: 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]
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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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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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ai
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n 1: an agency of the United States Army responsible for
providing timely and relevant and accurate and synchronized
intelligence to tactical and operational and strategic
level commanders [syn: Army Intelligence, AI]
2: the branch of computer science that deal with writing
computer programs that can solve problems creatively;
"workers in AI hope to imitate or duplicate intelligence in
computers and robots" [syn: artificial intelligence, AI]
3: a sloth that has three long claws on each forefoot and each
hindfoot [syn: three-toed sloth, ai, Bradypus
tridactylus]
4: the introduction of semen into the oviduct or uterus by some
means other than sexual intercourse [syn: artificial
insemination, AI]
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saury
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n 1: slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters [syn:
saury, billfish, Scomberesox saurus]
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florey
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n 1: British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin,
which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming
(1898-1968) [syn: Florey, Howard Florey, Sir Howard
Walter Florey]
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flory
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n 1: United States chemist who developed methods for studying
long-chain molecules (1910-1985) [syn: Flory, Paul John
Flory]
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lory
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n 1: small brightly colored Australasian parrots having a brush-
tipped tongue for feeding on nectar and soft fruits
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montessori
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n 1: Italian educator who developed a method of teaching
mentally handicapped children and advocated a child-
centered approach (1870-1952) [syn: Montessori, Maria
Montesorri]
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articulatory
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adj 1: of or relating to articulation; "articulatory features";
"articulatory phonetics" [syn: articulatory,
articulative]
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consultatory
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adj 1: giving advice; "an advisory memorandum", "his function
was purely consultative" [syn: advisory,
consultative, consultatory, consultive]
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criminatory
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adj 1: charging or suggestive of guilt or blame; "incriminatory
testimony" [syn: criminative, criminatory,
incriminating, incriminatory]
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appreciatory
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aye
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cacciatore
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compensatory
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dedicatory
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pylori
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thesauri
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aurae
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signori
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delore
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montefiore
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ay
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salvatore
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corey
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corry
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cory
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coury
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flori
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florrie
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florry
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glori
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lori
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lowrie
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maury
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mori
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rory
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tempore
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torie
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basore
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detore
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dettore
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fiore
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fiori
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gregori
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hattori
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kgori
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komori
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kumouri
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latorre
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lepore
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liguori
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liquori
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mcclory
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mccorry
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mccrorey
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mccrory
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mcglory
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mcgrory
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mclaury
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mcrorie
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montuori
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omori
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pecore
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priore
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recore
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santore
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