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abhor
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v 1: find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"
[syn: abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate]
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adore
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v 1: love intensely; "he just adored his wife"
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afar
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adv 1: (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far;
"we traveled afar"; "we could see the ship afar off";
"the Magi came from afar"
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ajar
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adj 1: slightly open; "the door was ajar"
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anymore
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adv 1: at the present or from now on; usually used with a
negative; "Alice doesn't live here anymore"; "the
children promised not to quarrel any more" [syn:
anymore, any longer]
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are
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n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn:
are, ar]
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ashore
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adv 1: towards the shore from the water; "we invited them
ashore"
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bar
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n 1: a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served
over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the
bar" [syn: barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill,
taproom]
2: a counter where you can obtain food or drink; "he bought a
hot dog and a coke at the bar"
3: a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening
or obstruction or weapon; "there were bars in the windows to
prevent escape"
4: musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats;
"the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song"
[syn: measure, bar]
5: an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal;
"it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar"
6: the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving";
"money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of
influenza" [syn: prevention, bar]
7: (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per
square centimeter; "unfortunately some writers have used bar
for one dyne per square centimeter"
8: a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a
shore; "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river"
9: the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a
particular jurisdiction; "he was admitted to the bar in New
Jersey" [syn: legal profession, bar, legal community]
10: a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the
background; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars";
"may the Stars and Stripes forever wave" [syn: stripe,
streak, bar]
11: a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of
chocolate" [syn: cake, bar]
12: a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas
pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by
United States troops in World War I and in World War II and
in the Korean War [syn: Browning automatic rifle, BAR]
13: a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as
they perform exercises
14: a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire
with three bars"
15: (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom
where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried;
"spectators were not allowed past the bar"
v 1: prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from
membership in the club" [syn: bar, debar, exclude]
2: render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade
the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: barricade,
block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar]
3: expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his
own country" [syn: banish, relegate, bar]
4: secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door" [ant:
unbar]
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bazaar
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n 1: a shop where a variety of goods are sold [syn: bazaar,
bazar]
2: a street of small shops (especially in Orient) [syn:
bazaar, bazar]
3: a sale of miscellany; often for charity; "the church bazaar"
[syn: bazaar, fair]
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before
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adv 1: earlier in time; previously; "I had known her before";
"as I said before"; "he called me the day before but your
call had come even earlier"; "her parents had died four
years earlier"; "I mentioned that problem earlier" [syn:
earlier, before]
2: at or in the front; "I see the lights of a town ahead"; "the
road ahead is foggy"; "staring straight ahead"; "we couldn't
see over the heads of the people in front"; "with the cross
of Jesus marching on before" [syn: ahead, in front,
before]
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bizarre
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adj 1: conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual;
"restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another
like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a
freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall
antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre
and affected stage antics" [syn: bizarre, eccentric,
freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off-
the-wall, outlandish, outre]
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boar
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n 1: Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent
tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in
United States [syn: wild boar, boar, Sus scrofa]
2: an uncastrated male hog
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bore
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n 1: a person who evokes boredom [syn: bore, dullard]
2: a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by
colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) [syn: tidal
bore, bore, eagre, aegir, eager]
3: diameter of a tube or gun barrel [syn: bore, gauge,
caliber, calibre]
4: a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for
exploratory purposes [syn: bore, bore-hole, drill hole]
v 1: cause to be bored [syn: bore, tire] [ant: interest]
2: make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool;
"don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into
the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes
into the wall" [syn: bore, drill]
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car
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n 1: a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an
internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work"
[syn: car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar]
2: a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad; "three
cars had jumped the rails" [syn: car, railcar, railway
car, railroad car]
3: the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that
carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant [syn:
car, gondola]
4: where passengers ride up and down; "the car was on the top
floor" [syn: car, elevator car]
5: a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway;
"they took a cable car to the top of the mountain" [syn:
cable car, car]
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char
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n 1: a charred substance
2: a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean
the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day
while I write" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning woman,
cleaning lady, woman]
3: any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus
[syn: char, charr]
v 1: burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest
fire will char everything" [syn: char, coal]
2: burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The
cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the
ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the
ceiling" [syn: char, blacken, sear, scorch]
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chore
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n 1: a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or
for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that
job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of
repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task
of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"
[syn: job, task, chore]
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cigar
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n 1: a roll of tobacco for smoking
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core
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n 1: a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five
periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"
[syn: core, nucleus, core group]
2: the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core"
3: the central part of the Earth
4: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some
idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument";
"the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the
story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center,
centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul,
inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-
gritty]
5: a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow
drill
6: an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to
work for racial equality [syn: Congress of Racial Equality,
CORE]
7: the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
[syn: effect, essence, burden, core, gist]
8: (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a
random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded
by semiconductor memories; "each core has three wires passing
through it, providing the means to select and detect the
contents of each bit" [syn: core, magnetic core]
9: the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile
material where the reaction takes place
10: a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes
through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the
coil
v 1: remove the core or center from; "core an apple"
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corps
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n 1: an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions
and their support [syn: corps, army corps]
2: a body of people associated together; "diplomatic corps"
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czar
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n 1: a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to
1917) [syn: czar, tsar, tzar]
2: a person having great power
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decor
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n 1: decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a
livable interior [syn: interior decoration, decor]
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boer
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n 1: a white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of
Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans [syn: Afrikaner,
Afrikander, Boer]
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bohr
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n 1: Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and
radiations; the Bohr theory of the atom accounted for the
spectrum of hydrogen (1885-1962) [syn: Bohr, Niels
Bohr, Niels Henrik David Bohr]
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ar
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n 1: a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert
gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere
[syn: argon, Ar, atomic number 18]
2: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn:
are, ar]
3: a state in south central United States; one of the
Confederate states during the American Civil War [syn:
Arkansas, Land of Opportunity, AR]
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bazar
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n 1: a street of small shops (especially in Orient) [syn:
bazaar, bazar]
2: a shop where a variety of goods are sold [syn: bazaar,
bazar]
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dakar
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n 1: the capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal
[syn: Dakar, capital of Senegal]
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dinar
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n 1: 100 dinars equal 1 rial in Iran [syn: Iranian dinar,
dinar]
2: the basic unit of money in Yugoslavia [syn: Yugoslavian
dinar, dinar]
3: the basic unit of money in Tunisia [syn: Tunisian dinar,
dinar]
4: the basic unit of money in Libya [syn: Libyan dinar,
dinar]
5: the basic unit of money in Kuwait; equal 1,000 fils [syn:
Kuwaiti dinar, dinar]
6: the basic unit of money in Jordan; equal to 1,000 fils [syn:
Jordanian dinar, dinar]
7: the basic unit of money in Iraq; equal to 1,000 fils [syn:
Iraqi dinar, dinar]
8: the basic unit of money in Bahrain; equal to 1,000 fils [syn:
Bahrain dinar, dinar]
9: the basic unit of money in Algeria [syn: Algerian dinar,
dinar]
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myanmar
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n 1: a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of
Bengal; "much opium is grown in Myanmar" [syn: Myanmar,
Union of Burma, Burma]
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qatar
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n 1: an Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar; achieved
independence from the United Kingdom in 1971; the economy
is dominated by oil [syn: Qatar, State of Qatar,
Katar, State of Katar]
2: a peninsula extending northward from the Arabian mainland
into the Persian Gulf [syn: Qatar, Qatar Peninsula,
Katar, Katar Peninsula]
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renoir
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n 1: French impressionist painter (1841-1919) [syn: Renoir,
Pierre Auguste Renoir]
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adar
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n 1: the sixth month of the civil year; the twelfth month of the
ecclesiastic year in the Jewish calendar (in February and
March)
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boyar
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baur
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borre
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clore
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coar
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cohr
0
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cor
0
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corr
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ador
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bator
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antiwar
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armentor
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balthazor
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barre
0
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ahr
0
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baar
0
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bahr
0
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bahre
0
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barr
0
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carr
0
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carre
0
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claar
0
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clar
0
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csar
0
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dar
0
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darr
0
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algar
0
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azar
0
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bargar
0
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bejar
0
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bodnar
0
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bogar
0
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bognar
0
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bomar
0
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bondar
0
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ceasar
0
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cisar
0
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cotnoir
0
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cousar
0
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dardar
0
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dzhokhar
0
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dzokhar
0
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farquar
0
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hribar
0
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jiar
0
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kadar
0
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kumar
0
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labar
0
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lamar
0
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lamarr
0
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lebar
0
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lemar
0
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mcgarr
0
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melgar
0
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minnaar
0
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najar
0
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najjar
0
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navar
0
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navarre
0
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nazar
0
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obarr
0
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paccar
0
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pickar
0
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pintar
0
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preslar
0
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qasr
0
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almanzar
0
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andujar
0
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aquilar
0