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anon
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adv 1: at another time; "ever and anon"
2: (old-fashioned or informal) in a little while; "see you anon"
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baton
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n 1: a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra
or choir [syn: baton, wand]
2: a short stout club used primarily by policemen [syn:
truncheon, nightstick, baton, billy, billystick,
billy club]
3: a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an
office or an authority
4: a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major
or drum majorette
5: a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay
race
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chiffon
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n 1: a sheer fabric of silk or rayon
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con
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adv 1: in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc.; "much was
written pro and con" [ant: pro]
n 1: an argument opposed to a proposal [ant: pro]
2: a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison [syn:
convict, con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird]
3: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person
to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game,
bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence
game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam]
v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my
inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted
her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little
change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick,
nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct,
gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]
2: commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your
lines for the play yet?" [syn: memorize, memorise, con,
learn]
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guenon
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n 1: small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and
tail and long hair around the face [syn: guenon, guenon
monkey]
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john
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n 1: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn:
toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy,
bathroom]
2: youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216;
succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard
I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by
the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216) [syn: John,
King John, John Lackland]
3: (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be
the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book
of Revelation [syn: John, Saint John, St. John, Saint
John the Apostle, St. John the Apostle, John the
Evangelist, John the Divine]
4: a prostitute's customer [syn: whoremaster, whoremonger,
john, trick]
5: the last of the four Gospels in the New Testament [syn:
John, Gospel According to John]
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khan
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n 1: a title given to rulers or other important people in Asian
countries
2: an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that
provides accommodation for caravans [syn: caravansary,
caravanserai, khan, caravan inn]
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moron
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n 1: a person of subnormal intelligence [syn: idiot,
imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit,
retard]
2: a city in Argentina, to the west of Buenos Aires
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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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salon
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n 1: gallery where works of art can be displayed
2: a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work [syn: salon,
beauty salon, beauty parlor, beauty parlour, beauty
shop]
3: elegant sitting room where guests are received
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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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wan
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adj 1: (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or
feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun";
"the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks
fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the
pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn" [syn:
pale, pallid, wan, sick]
2: abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or
emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her
wan face suddenly flushed" [syn: pale, pallid, wan]
3: lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness;
"a wan smile"
n 1: a computer network that spans a wider area than does a
local area network [syn: wide area network, WAN]
v 1: become pale and sickly
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xenon
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n 1: a colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the
earth's atmosphere in trace amounts [syn: xenon, Xe,
atomic number 54]
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yon
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adv 1: at or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is
archaic and dialectal); "the house yonder"; "scattered
here and yon"- Calder Willingham [syn: yonder, yon]
adj 1: distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal); "yonder
valley"; "the hills yonder"; "what is yon place?" [syn:
yonder, yon]
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yuan
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n 1: the basic unit of money in China [syn: yuan, kwai]
2: the imperial dynasty of China from 1279 to 1368 [syn: Yuan,
Yuan dynasty, Mongol dynasty]
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bonn
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n 1: a city in western Germany on the Rhine River; was the
capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1989
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conn
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v 1: conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane
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kahn
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n 1: United States architect (born in Estonia) (1901-1974) [syn:
Kahn, Louis Isadore Kahn]
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ceylon
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n 1: an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of
India
2: a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the
United Kingdom in 1948 [syn: Sri Lanka, Democratic
Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Ceylon]
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saigon
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n 1: a city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the
capital of French Indochina [syn: Ho Chi Minh City,
Saigon]
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taiwan
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n 1: a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by
Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the
Communists led by Mao Zedong [syn: Taiwan, China,
Nationalist China, Republic of China]
2: an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of
mainland China in the South China Sea [syn: Taiwan,
Formosa]
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anne
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n 1: Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if
James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she
was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over
parliament (1665-1714)
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noumenon
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n 1: the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself,
not as it is known through perception [syn: noumenon,
thing-in-itself]
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organon
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n 1: a system of principles for philosophic or scientific
investigations; an instrument for acquiring knowledge
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parthenon
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n 1: the main temple of the goddess Athena; built on the
acropolis in Athens more than 400 years B.C.; example of
Doric architecture
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agamemnon
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n 1: (Greek mythology) the king who lead the Greeks against Troy
in the Trojan War
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olecranon
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n 1: process of the ulna that forms the outer bump of the elbow
and fits into the fossa of the humerus when the arm is
extended [syn: olecranon, olecranon process]
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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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ninon
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n 1: a fine strong sheer silky fabric made of silk or rayon or
nylon
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bon
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forgone
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phonon
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upon
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memnon
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algernon
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rhiannon
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