| abridgement | (noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgment, capsule, condensation |
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| abridger | (noun) one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | Synonyms: abbreviator |
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| acknowledgement | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgment |
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| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgment, recognition |
| badge | (noun) any feature that is regarded as a sign of status (a particular power or quality or rank) | - |
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| (noun) an emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.) | - |
| badger | (noun) sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere | - |
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| badgerer | (noun) someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections | Synonyms: heckler |
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| badgering | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: bedevilment, torment, worrying |
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| bludgeon | (noun) a club used as a weapon | - |
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| bludgeoner | (noun) an assailant who uses a bludgeon | - |
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| bridge | (noun) any of various card games based on whist for four players | - |
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| (noun) a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. | Synonyms: span |
| (noun) an upper deck where a ship is steered and the captain stands | Synonyms: bridge deck |
| (noun) the link between two lenses; rests on the nose | Synonyms: nosepiece |
| (noun) a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth | Synonyms: bridgework |
| (noun) a wooden support that holds the strings up | - |
| (noun) a circuit consisting of two branches (4 arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected | Synonyms: bridge circuit |
| (noun) the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose | - |
| (noun) something resembling a bridge in form or function | - |
| bridgehead | (noun) an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies | Synonyms: foothold |
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| (noun) a defensive post at the end of a bridge nearest to the enemy | - |
| bridgework | (noun) a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth | Synonyms: bridge |
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| budgereegah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| budgerigar | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| budgerygah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| budget | (noun) a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose | - |
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| (noun) a summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them | - |
| cadger | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: mooch, moocher, scrounger |
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| cartridge | (noun) ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun | - |
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| (noun) an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable | Synonyms: pickup |
| (noun) a module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment | - |
| (noun) a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required | Synonyms: magazine |
| codger | (noun) used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man | Synonyms: old codger |
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| cudgel | (noun) a club that is used as a weapon | - |
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| curmudgeon | (noun) a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas | - |
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| dislodgement | (noun) forced removal from a position of advantage | Synonyms: dislodgment |
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| dodge | (noun) a quick evasive movement | - |
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| (noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | Synonyms: contrivance, stratagem |
| (noun) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | Synonyms: dodging, scheme |
| dodger | (noun) small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern) | Synonyms: corn dab, corn dodger |
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| (noun) a shifty deceptive person | Synonyms: fox, slyboots |
| drawbridge | (noun) a bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it | Synonyms: lift bridge |
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| dredge | (noun) a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed | - |
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| dredger | (noun) a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging | - |
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| drudge | (noun) a laborer who is obliged to do menial work | Synonyms: galley slave, navvy, peon |
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| (noun) one who works hard at boring tasks | Synonyms: hack, hacker |
| drudgery | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, grind, plodding |
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| dudgeon | (noun) a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon') | Synonyms: high dudgeon |
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| edge | (noun) a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object | - |
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| (noun) the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something | - |
| (noun) a slight competitive advantage | - |
| (noun) the attribute of urgency in tone of voice | Synonyms: sharpness |
| (noun) the boundary of a surface | Synonyms: border |
| (noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
| edger | (noun) garden tool for cutting grass around the edges of a yard | - |
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| (noun) a person who puts finishing edges on a garment | - |
| featheredge | (noun) a thin tapering edge | - |
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| fidget | (noun) a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion | Synonyms: fidgetiness, restlessness |
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| fidgetiness | (noun) a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion | Synonyms: fidget, restlessness |
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| fledgeling | (noun) young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying | Synonyms: fledgling |
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| (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
| flybridge | (noun) the highest navigational bridge on a ship; a small (often open) deck above the pilot house | Synonyms: fly bridge, flying bridge, monkey bridge |
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| footbridge | (noun) a bridge designed for pedestrians | Synonyms: overcrossing, pedestrian bridge |
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| foredge | (noun) the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved; the part opposite the spine | Synonyms: fore edge |
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| foreknowledge | (noun) knowledge of an event before it occurs | Synonyms: precognition |
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| fridge | (noun) a refrigerator in which the coolant is pumped around by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric refrigerator |
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| fudge | (noun) soft creamy candy | - |
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| gadget | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gismo, gizmo, widget |
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| gadgeteer | (noun) a person who delights in designing or building or using gadgets | - |
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| gadgetry | (noun) appliances collectively | - |
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| gidgee | (noun) scrubby Australian acacia having extremely foul-smelling blossoms | Synonyms: Acacia cambegei, stinking wattle |
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| grudge | (noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grievance, score |
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| gudgeon | (noun) small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: Gobio gobio |
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| (noun) small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker | Synonyms: goby |
| headgear | (noun) clothing for the head | Synonyms: headdress |
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| (noun) stable gear consisting of any part of a harness that fits about the horse's head | - |
| (noun) the hoist at the pithead of a mine | - |
| hedge | (noun) a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes | Synonyms: hedgerow |
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| (noun) an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement | Synonyms: hedging |
| (noun) any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change | Synonyms: hedging |
| hedgefund | (noun) a flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million); can use high-risk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging | Synonyms: hedge fund |
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| hedgehog | (noun) small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines | Synonyms: Erinaceus europaeus, Erinaceus europeaeus |
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| (noun) relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur | Synonyms: porcupine |
| hedger | (noun) a gardener who takes care of and trims hedges | - |
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| (noun) someone who counterbalances one transaction (as a bet) against another in order to protect against loss | - |
| (noun) a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer | Synonyms: equivocator, tergiversator |
| hedgerow | (noun) a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes | Synonyms: hedge |
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| hodgepodge | (noun) a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas | Synonyms: jumble, patchwork |
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| (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
| judge | (noun) a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice | Synonyms: jurist, justice |
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| (noun) an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality | Synonyms: evaluator |
| judgement | (noun) (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it | Synonyms: judgment, judicial decision |
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| (noun) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | Synonyms: assessment, judgment |
| (noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgment, perspicacity, sound judgement, sound judgment |
| (noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judging, judgment |
| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity |
| (noun) an opinion formed by judging something | Synonyms: judgment, mind |
| (noun) the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision | Synonyms: judgment, legal opinion, opinion |
| judgeship | (noun) the position of judge | Synonyms: judicature |
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| kedgeree | (noun) a dish of rice and hard-boiled eggs and cooked flaked fish | - |
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| kludge | (noun) a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose | - |
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| knowledge | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: cognition, noesis |
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| knowledgeability | (noun) wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | Synonyms: initiation, knowledgeableness |
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| knowledgeableness | (noun) wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | Synonyms: initiation, knowledgeability |
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| ledge | (noun) a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water | Synonyms: shelf |
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| ledgeman | (noun) a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone | Synonyms: breaker |
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| ledger | (noun) an accounting journal as a physical object | Synonyms: daybook |
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| (noun) a record in which commercial accounts are recorded | Synonyms: account book, book, book of account, leger |
| lodge | (noun) any of various Native American dwellings | Synonyms: indian lodge |
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| (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostel, hostelry, inn |
| (noun) a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter | Synonyms: hunting lodge |
| (noun) small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener | - |
| (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, gild, guild, order, social club, society |
| lodgement | (noun) the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily | Synonyms: lodging, lodgment |
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| lodgepole | (noun) shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares | Synonyms: lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta, shore pine, spruce pine |
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| lodger | (noun) a tenant in someone's house | Synonyms: boarder, roomer |
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| metaknowledge | (noun) knowledge about knowledge | - |
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| midge | (noun) minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts; appear in dancing swarms especially near water | - |
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| midget | (noun) a person who is markedly small | Synonyms: dwarf, nanus |
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| nudge | (noun) a slight push or shake | Synonyms: jog |
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| nudger | (noun) someone who nudges; someone who gives a gentle push | - |
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| nutsedge | (noun) a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers | Synonyms: Cyperus rotundus, nut grass, nut sedge, nutgrass |
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| partridge | (noun) small Old World gallinaceous game birds | - |
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| (noun) a popular North American game bird; named for its call | Synonyms: bobwhite, bobwhite quail |
| (noun) valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada | Synonyms: Bonasa umbellus, ruffed grouse |
| (noun) heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds | Synonyms: tinamou |
| (noun) flesh of either quail or grouse | - |
| partridgeberry | (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: boxberry, Mitchella repens, twinberry |
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| pepperidge | (noun) columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall | Synonyms: black gum, Nyssa sylvatica, sour gum |
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| pledge | (noun) a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something | Synonyms: assurance |
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| (noun) a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event | Synonyms: toast |
| (noun) someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group | - |
| (noun) a deposit of personal property as security for a debt | - |
| pledgee | (noun) someone to whom a pledge is made or someone with whom something is deposited as a pledge | - |
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| pledger | (noun) someone who makes or gives a pledge | - |
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| porridge | (noun) soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick | - |
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| prejudgement | (noun) a judgment reached before the evidence is available | Synonyms: prejudgment |
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| pudge | (noun) a short fat person | - |
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| ridge | (noun) a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters | Synonyms: ridgepole, rooftree |
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| (noun) any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane | - |
| (noun) a long narrow natural elevation or striation | - |
| (noun) a long narrow range of hills | Synonyms: ridgeline |
| (noun) a long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean | - |
| (noun) any long raised strip | - |
| ridgel | (noun) a colt with undescended testicles | Synonyms: ridgeling, ridgil, ridgling |
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| ridgeline | (noun) a long narrow range of hills | Synonyms: ridge |
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| ridgeling | (noun) a colt with undescended testicles | Synonyms: ridgel, ridgil, ridgling |
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| ridgepole | (noun) a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters | Synonyms: ridge, rooftree |
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| sedge | (noun) grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers | - |
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| selvedge | (noun) the edge of a fabric that is woven so that it will not ravel or fray | Synonyms: selvage |
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| (noun) border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet | Synonyms: selvage |
| sledge | (noun) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges | Synonyms: maul, sledgehammer |
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| (noun) a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow | Synonyms: sled, sleigh |
| sledgehammer | (noun) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges | Synonyms: maul, sledge |
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| sludge | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime |
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| (noun) the precipitate produced by sewage treatment | - |
| smidge | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit |
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| smidgen | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit |
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| smidgeon | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgin, tittle, whit |
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| smudge | (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, daub, slur, smear, smirch, spot |
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| (noun) a smoky fire to drive away insects | - |
| splodge | (noun) an irregularly shaped spot | Synonyms: blotch, splotch |
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