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n. a large, sweet pineapple grown especially in Brazil


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n. the concluding section in musical and poetic


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a. not giving the biuret reaction


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v. agree or express agreement


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n. the letter h or the sound represented by it


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n. a mineral consisting of hydrous subsilicate of calcium, ferrous iron, magnesium, and sodium


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a. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period


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n. someone who denies the existence of god


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n. stick used by some indigenous peoples of North America


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a. of rocks, deposits, etc.; found where they and their constituents were formed, originating where it is found


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n. sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell, someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity


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n. a devotional worshipper of a deity, especially of Vishnu


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n. a Buddhist monk or religious mendicant


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n. large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork


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a. conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class, belonging to the middle class


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n. a shrub of the southern US, and also its fruit


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n. a tract of land used for burials


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n. a man paid to drive a privately owned car


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n. a funerary monument, a chapel built over a tomb


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n. any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms


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a. of, relating to, or occupied in the gaining of wealth


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a. dwelling beneath the surface of the earth


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n. fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa


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n. an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts


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a. guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong, characterized by extreme care and great effort


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n. cocktail containing rum and lime juice;


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n. small coffee cup;


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n. fierce wild dog of the forests of central and southeast Asia that hunts in packs


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v. become wider, add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing


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n. a class of compound words having two immediate constituents that are equal in rank and related to each other as if joined by


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n. generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin; particularly with vesiculation in the acute stages


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n. a mineral that consists of a hydrous basic ferric iron phosphate with a little calcium and aluminum


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n. a genus of chiefly tropical floating aquatic herbs having rounded or broad clustered leaves


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a. conducive to happiness


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n. part of newspaper or magazine devoted to fiction


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n. a barren plateau of the Scandinavian upland


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a. coming on suddenly with great severity


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n. any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers; Central and South America and New Zealand and Tahiti


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a. relating to a governor


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v. annoy continually or chronically, exhaust by attacking repeatedly


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n. a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system, the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body


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n. a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual


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v. accuse formally of a crime


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a. absolutely necessary; vitally necessary, not to be dispensed with; essential


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v. introduce a microorganism into, perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation


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a. quickly aroused to anger, characterized by anger


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n. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience, a single whole grain of a cereal


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n. one of the Turkish viceroys who ruled Egypt between 1867 and 1914


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n. a New Zealand climbing shrub with edible berries


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a. relating to or characteristic of Kierkegaard or his works, follower of Kierkegaard;


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n. member of North American people of NW Pacific coast; Wakashan language of Kwakiutl, now with few speakers


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n. a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship, a channel for communication between groups


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v. make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating, become liquid or fluid when heated


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n. pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking


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n. wrongful conduct by a public official


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v. perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense


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n.an African musical instrument that consists of a wooden or gourd resonator and a varying number of tuned metal or wooden strips


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n. a reminder of past events


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n. a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive


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n. a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts, very small


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a. deliberately causing harm or damage, naughtily or annoyingly playful


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n.one who does not practice Hinduism


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n. the state that precedes vomiting, disgust so strong it makes you feel sick


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a. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit, causing or able to cause nausea


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n. an important African cichlid food fish


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n. monetary unit of Zambia, equal to one hundredth of kwacha;


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n. using words that imitate the sound they denote


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n. large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits


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n. equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.


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n. (until introduction of euro in 2002) monetary unit of Germany, equal to one hundredth of mark;


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n. pulmonary tuberculosis or similar progressive wasting disease;


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a. characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity, especially in mental aptitude


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n. raw cured Italian ham


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n. the act of looking forward, foresight


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n. headdress of the later Egyptian pharaohs formed of the two crowns


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n. statistical study of elections and trends in voting;


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n. a chronic skin disease characterized by dry red patches covered with scales; occurs especially on the scalp and ears and genitalia and the skin over bony prominences


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n. a substance that causes sneezing


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n. extinct flying reptile


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n. drooping of upper eyelid due to paralysis or disease


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n. any of various small long-legged marine arthropods (class Pycnogonida) that superficially resemble spiders


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n. the wool of the undercoat of the musk ox


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n. the state of being carefree : light-heartedness


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n. recurring at regular intervals


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a. grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred


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n. a large Dutch cutter, yawl, or ketch-rigged pleasure boat


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n. an accented chord, (music) a notation written above a note and indicating that it is to be played with a strong initial attack


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n. an Italian-Renaissance wooden side chair consisting of a stool or similar form with a simple upright back


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n. a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin


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n. long, stiff whip, originally made of rhinoceros hide


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n. actress playing lively flirtatious role;


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n. dialogue in which two characters speak alternate lines of verse;


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v. take the place or move into the position of


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n. close observation of a person or group (usually by the police)


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n. unit of time equal to 10 13 seconds;


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n. substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa


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n. a rabbinic ordinance initiating a practice not directly based on biblical authority or oral tradition


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n. a large, usually red-fleshed, commercially important salmon


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n. any of several mushrooms that are sources of hallucinogens


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n. frozen ground, permanently frozen ground


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n. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator, dominance through threat of punishment and violence


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n. Hungarian Gypsy;


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n. the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life


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n. a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books), a brief literary description


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n. particular philosophy or view of life;


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n. (in Big Bang theory) primordial matter of universe, originally conceived as composed of neutrons;


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n. chemical element of atomic number 70, silvery-white metal of lanthanide series;


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n. a colorless plum brandy with a bitter almond taste


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