| gag | (noun) restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting | Synonyms: muzzle |
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| (noun) a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter | Synonyms: jape, jest, joke, laugh |
| gage | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. | Synonyms: gauge |
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| (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
| gaggle | (noun) a flock of geese | - |
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| gagman | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagster, gagwriter |
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| (noun) a comedian who uses gags | Synonyms: standup comedian |
| gagster | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagman, gagwriter |
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| gagwriter | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagman, gagster |
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| galactagogue | (noun) agent that induces milk secretion | - |
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| galago | (noun) agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears | Synonyms: bush baby, bushbaby |
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| gamebag | (noun) a canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter | - |
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| garage | (noun) an outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles | - |
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| (noun) a repair shop where cars and trucks are serviced and repaired | Synonyms: service department |
| garbage | (noun) a receptacle where waste can be discarded | - |
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| (noun) a worthless message | Synonyms: drivel |
| (noun) food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) | Synonyms: food waste, refuse, scraps |
| garbageman | (noun) someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse | Synonyms: dustman, garbage carter, garbage collector, garbage hauler, garbage man, refuse collector |
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| gasbag | (noun) the bag containing the gas in a balloon | Synonyms: envelope |
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| (noun) a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics | Synonyms: windbag |
| gastrogavage | (noun) feeding a nutrient solution into the stomach through a tube through a surgically created opening | - |
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| gavage | (noun) feeding that consists of the delivery of a nutrient solution (as through a nasal tube) to someone who cannot or will not eat | Synonyms: forced feeding |
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| geophagia | (noun) eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior | Synonyms: geophagy |
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| geophagy | (noun) eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior | Synonyms: geophagia |
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| glucagon | (noun) a hormone secreted by the pancreas; stimulates increases in blood sugar levels in the blood (thus opposing the action of insulin) | - |
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| graylag | (noun) common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds | Synonyms: Anser anser, graylag goose, greylag, greylag goose |
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| greengage | (noun) sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum | Synonyms: greengage plum |
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| greylag | (noun) common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds | Synonyms: Anser anser, graylag, graylag goose, greylag goose |
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| gulag | (noun) a Russian prison camp for political prisoners | - |
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| haemagglutination | (noun) agglutination of red blood cells | Synonyms: hemagglutination |
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| haemorrhage | (noun) the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel | Synonyms: bleeding, hemorrhage |
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| hag | (noun) eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies | Synonyms: hagfish, slime eels |
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| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, beldame, crone, witch |
| hagberry | (noun) small cherry much liked by birds | - |
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| hagbut | (noun) an obsolete firearm with a long barrel | Synonyms: arquebus, hackbut, harquebus |
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| hagfish | (noun) eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies | Synonyms: hag, slime eels |
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| haggis | (noun) made of sheep's or calf's viscera minced with oatmeal and suet and onions and boiled in the animal's stomach | - |
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| haggle | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggling, wrangle, wrangling |
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| haggler | (noun) an intense bargainer | - |
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| haggling | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, wrangle, wrangling |
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| hagiographer | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographist, hagiologist |
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| hagiographist | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographer, hagiologist |
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| hagiography | (noun) a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint) | - |
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| hagiolatry | (noun) the worship of saints | Synonyms: hierolatry |
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| hagiologist | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographer, hagiographist |
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| hagiology | (noun) literature narrating the lives (and legends) of the saints | - |
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| hagionym | (noun) The name of a Saint taken as a proper name. | - |
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| handbag | (noun) a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) | Synonyms: bag, pocketbook, purse |
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| harborage | (noun) (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) | Synonyms: harbourage |
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| harbourage | (noun) (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) | Synonyms: harborage |
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| hashtag | (noun) metadata tag used on social network and microblogging services which makes it easier for users to find messages with a specific theme or content | - |
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| haulage | (noun) the act of drawing or hauling something | Synonyms: draw, haul |
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| hemagglutination | (noun) agglutination of red blood cells | Synonyms: haemagglutination |
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| hemorrhage | (noun) the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel | Synonyms: bleeding, haemorrhage |
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| heptagon | (noun) a seven-sided polygon | - |
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| herbage | (noun) succulent herbaceous vegetation of pastureland | Synonyms: pasturage |
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| heritage | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: inheritance |
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| (noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: inheritance |
| (noun) practices that are handed down from the past by tradition | - |
| (noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: inheritance |
| hermitage | (noun) the abode of a hermit | - |
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| hexagon | (noun) a six-sided polygon | - |
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| hexagram | (noun) a regular polygon formed by extending each of the sides of a regular hexagon to form two equilateral triangles | - |
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| hoagie | (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
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| hoagy | (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
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| homage | (noun) respectful deference | Synonyms: court |
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| homepage | (noun) the opening page of a web site; also, the first page opened when a web browser is launched (default or start-up page) | Synonyms: home page |
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| hostage | (noun) a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms | Synonyms: surety |
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| hypallage | (noun) reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face') | - |
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| hypnagogue | (noun) an agent that induces drowsiness or sleep | - |
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| hypogammaglobulinemia | (noun) an abnormally low concentration of gamma globulin in the blood and increased risk of infection | - |
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| image | (noun) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface | Synonyms: icon, ikon, picture |
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| (noun) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | Synonyms: effigy, simulacrum |
| (noun) (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world | Synonyms: persona |
| (noun) the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public | - |
| (noun) an iconic mental representation | Synonyms: mental image |
| (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: epitome, paradigm, prototype |
| (noun) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Synonyms: figure, figure of speech, trope |
| (noun) (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined | Synonyms: range, range of a function |
| (noun) someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor) | Synonyms: double, look-alike |
| imagery | (noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagination, imaging, mental imagery |
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| imaginary | (noun) (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 | Synonyms: complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number |
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| imagination | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imaginativeness, vision |
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| (noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagery, imaging, mental imagery |
| (noun) the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems | Synonyms: resource, resourcefulness |
| imaginativeness | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imagination, vision |
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| imaging | (noun) (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body | Synonyms: tomography |
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| (noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagery, imagination, mental imagery |
| imagism | (noun) a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery | - |
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| imago | (noun) an adult insect produced after metamorphosis | - |
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| (noun) (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood | - |
| inmarriage | (noun) marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law | Synonyms: endogamy, intermarriage |
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| instagay | (noun) A photo on the Instagram website, which is related to homosexuality | - |
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| intaglio | (noun) glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo) | Synonyms: diaglyph |
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| (noun) a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print | Synonyms: gravure, intaglio printing |
| interlanguage | (noun) a common language used by speakers of different languages | Synonyms: koine, lingua franca |
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| intermarriage | (noun) marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law | Synonyms: endogamy, inmarriage |
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| (noun) marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law | Synonyms: exogamy |
| invagination | (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, introversion, intussusception |
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| (noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: introversion |
| isoagglutination | (noun) agglutination of an agglutinogen of one individual by a serum from another individual of the same species | - |
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| isoagglutinin | (noun) an antibody produced by one individual that causes agglutination of red blood cells in other individuals of the same species | - |
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| isoagglutinogen | (noun) an antigen capable of causing the production of (or reacting with) an isoagglutinin | - |
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| jag | (noun) a bout of drinking or drug taking | - |
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| (noun) a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing | Synonyms: dag |
| (noun) a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing | - |
| (noun) a sharp projection on an edge or surface | - |
| jaggary | (noun) unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap | Synonyms: jaggery, jagghery |
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| jaggedness | (noun) something irregular like a bump or crack in a smooth surface | - |
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| jaggery | (noun) unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap | Synonyms: jaggary, jagghery |
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| jagghery | (noun) unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap | Synonyms: jaggary, jaggery |
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| jagua | (noun) tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit | Synonyms: Genipa Americana, genipap fruit, marmalade box |
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| jaguar | (noun) a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis | Synonyms: Felis onca, panther, Panthera onca |
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| jaguarondi | (noun) long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat | Synonyms: eyra, Felis yagouaroundi, jaguarundi, jaguarundi cat |
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| jaguarundi | (noun) long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat | Synonyms: eyra, Felis yagouaroundi, jaguarondi, jaguarundi cat |
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| kagura | (noun) a stately dance of the Shinto religion that now forms a part of Japanese village festivals. | - |
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| kilometrage | (noun) the number of kilometres travelled by a vehicle. | - |
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| kitbag | (noun) a knapsack (usually for a soldier) | Synonyms: kit bag |
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| laager | (noun) a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons | Synonyms: lager |
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| lag | (noun) the act of slowing down or falling behind | Synonyms: retardation, slowdown |
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| (noun) one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket | Synonyms: stave |
| (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, meantime, meanwhile |
| lagan | (noun) goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered | Synonyms: lagend, ligan |
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| lagend | (noun) goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered | Synonyms: lagan, ligan |
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| lager | (noun) a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons | Synonyms: laager |
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| (noun) a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September | Synonyms: lager beer |
| lagerphone | (noun) an Australian percussion instrument used for playing bush music; a long stick with bottle caps nailed loosely to it; played by hitting it with a stick or banging it on the ground | - |
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| laggard | (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: dawdler, drone, lagger, poke, trailer |
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| lagger | (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: dawdler, drone, laggard, poke, trailer |
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| lagging | (noun) insulation used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat | - |
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| lagniappe | (noun) a small gift (especially one given by a merchant to a customer who makes a purchase) | - |
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| lagomorph | (noun) relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing | Synonyms: gnawing mammal |
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