| abnegation | (noun) renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others | Synonyms: denial, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation |
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| (noun) the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief | - |
| abnegator | (noun) one who gives up or relinquishes or renounces something | - |
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| abrogation | (noun) the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation | Synonyms: annulment, repeal |
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| abrogator | (noun) an authority or official empowered to abolish or annul or repeal | - |
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| agate | (noun) an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles | - |
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| agateware | (noun) pottery that is veined and mottled to resemble agate | - |
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| aggregate | (noun) the whole amount | Synonyms: sum, total, totality |
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| (noun) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | Synonyms: congeries, conglomeration |
| (noun) material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster | - |
| aggregation | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: assembling, collecting, collection |
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| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, assemblage, collection |
| aggregator | (noun) a person who collects things | Synonyms: collector |
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| allegation | (noun) (law) a formal accusation against somebody (often in a court of law) | - |
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| (noun) statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove | Synonyms: allegement |
| alligator | (noun) either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts | Synonyms: gator |
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| (noun) leather made from alligator's hide | - |
| alligatorfish | (noun) small very elongate sea poachers | Synonyms: Aspidophoroides monopterygius |
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| arrogation | (noun) seizure by the government | Synonyms: confiscation |
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| arrogator | (noun) a person who through conceit makes pretentious claims to rights or advantages that he or she is not entitled to or to qualities that he or she does not possess | - |
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| astrogator | (noun) the navigator of a spacecraft | - |
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| astronavigation | (noun) navigating according to the positions of the stars | Synonyms: celestial navigation |
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| bagatelle | (noun) a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over | Synonyms: bar billiards |
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| (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: fluff, frippery, frivolity |
| (noun) a light piece of music for piano | - |
| billingsgate | (noun) foul-mouthed or obscene abuse | Synonyms: scurrility |
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| castigation | (noun) verbal punishment | Synonyms: chastisement |
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| (noun) a severe scolding | Synonyms: bawling out, chewing out, dressing down, earful, going-over, upbraiding |
| centrifugation | (noun) the process of separating substances of different densities by the use of a centrifuge | - |
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| circumnavigation | (noun) traveling around something (by ship or plane) | - |
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| colligation | (noun) the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis | - |
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| (noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: conjugation, conjunction, junction |
| congregating | (noun) the act of congregating | Synonyms: congregation |
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| congregation | (noun) the act of congregating | Synonyms: congregating |
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| (noun) a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church | Synonyms: faithful, fold |
| (noun) an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together | - |
| conjugate | (noun) a mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions: one of A in B and another of B in A | Synonyms: conjugate solution |
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| conjugation | (noun) the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes | Synonyms: coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union |
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| (noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: jointure, unification, union, uniting |
| (noun) a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms | - |
| (noun) the complete set of inflected forms of a verb | - |
| (noun) the inflection of verbs | - |
| (noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: colligation, conjunction, junction |
| corrugation | (noun) the act of shaping into parallel ridges and grooves | - |
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| (noun) a ridge on a corrugated surface | - |
| delegate | (noun) a person appointed or elected to represent others | - |
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| delegating | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegation, deputation, relegating, relegation |
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| delegation | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegating, deputation, relegating, relegation |
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| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegacy, deputation, mission |
| derogation | (noun) (law) the partial taking away of the effectiveness of a law; a partial repeal or abolition of a law | - |
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| (noun) a communication that belittles somebody or something | Synonyms: depreciation, disparagement |
| desegregation | (noun) the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community | Synonyms: integrating, integration |
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| divagation | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, diversion |
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| (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, excursus, parenthesis |
| electronegativity | (noun) (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond | Synonyms: negativity |
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| elongation | (noun) the act of lengthening something | - |
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| (noun) an addition to the length of something | Synonyms: extension |
| (noun) the quality of being elongated | - |
| expurgation | (noun) the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work | Synonyms: castration |
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| expurgator | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdleriser, bowdlerizer |
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| floodgate | (noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: head gate, penstock, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate |
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| (noun) something that restrains a flood or outpouring | - |
| frigate | (noun) a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser | - |
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| (noun) a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries | - |
| fumigation | (noun) the application of a gas or smoke to something for the purpose of disinfecting it | - |
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| fumigator | (noun) a device that generates a gas for the purpose of disinfecting or eradicating pests | - |
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| (noun) someone whose job is to fumigate | - |
| gat | (noun) a gangster's pistol | Synonyms: rod |
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| gate | (noun) a movable barrier in a fence or wall | - |
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| (noun) a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs | Synonyms: logic gate |
| (noun) passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark | - |
| (noun) total admission receipts at a sports event | - |
| gateau | (noun) any of various rich and elaborate cakes | - |
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| gatecrasher | (noun) someone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or without paying | Synonyms: crasher, unwelcome guest |
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| gatefold | (noun) an oversize page that is folded in to a book or magazine | Synonyms: foldout |
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| gatehouse | (noun) a house built at a gateway; usually the gatekeeper's residence | - |
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| gatekeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| (noun) someone who controls access to something | - |
| gatepost | (noun) either of two posts that bound a gate | - |
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| gateway | (noun) an entrance that can be closed by a gate | - |
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| gather | (noun) the act of gathering something | Synonyms: gathering |
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| (noun) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching | Synonyms: gathering |
| gatherer | (noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: accumulator, collector |
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| (noun) a person who gathers | - |
| gathering | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assemblage, assembly |
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| (noun) the act of gathering something | Synonyms: gather |
| (noun) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching | Synonyms: gather |
| (noun) a group of persons together in one place | Synonyms: assemblage |
| gator | (noun) either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts | Synonyms: alligator |
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| gigatonne | (noun) a unit of weight equivalent to 1 billion tonnes. | Synonyms: Gt |
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| ingathering | (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, collection, solicitation |
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| instigation | (noun) deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord) | Synonyms: fomentation |
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| (noun) the verbal act of urging on | Synonyms: abetment, abettal |
| instigator | (noun) a person who initiates a course of action | Synonyms: initiator |
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| (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, inciter, instigant, provoker |
| interrogation | (noun) formal systematic questioning | Synonyms: examination, interrogatory |
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| (noun) a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply | Synonyms: interrogative, interrogative sentence, question |
| (noun) an instance of questioning | Synonyms: enquiry, inquiry, query, question |
| (noun) a transmission that will trigger an answering transmission from a transponder | - |
| interrogative | (noun) a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply | Synonyms: interrogation, interrogative sentence, question |
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| (noun) some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood | Synonyms: interrogative mood |
| interrogator | (noun) a questioner who is excessively harsh | Synonyms: inquisitor |
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| interrogatory | (noun) formal systematic questioning | Synonyms: examination, interrogation |
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| investigating | (noun) the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically | Synonyms: investigation |
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| investigation | (noun) the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically | Synonyms: investigating |
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| (noun) an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities | Synonyms: probe |
| investigator | (noun) someone who investigates | - |
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| (noun) a scientist who devotes himself to doing research | Synonyms: research worker, researcher |
| (noun) a police officer who investigates crimes | Synonyms: detective, police detective, tec |
| irrigation | (noun) supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc | - |
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| (noun) (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution | - |
| legate | (noun) a member of a legation | Synonyms: official emissary |
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| legatee | (noun) someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed | - |
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| legateship | (noun) the post or office of legate | Synonyms: legation |
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| legation | (noun) the post or office of legate | Synonyms: legateship |
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| (noun) a permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister | Synonyms: foreign mission |
| lichgate | (noun) a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used as a temporary shelter for the bier during funerals | Synonyms: lychgate |
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| liftgate | (noun) a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open | Synonyms: hatch, hatchback, hatchback door |
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| ligation | (noun) (surgery) tying a duct or blood vessel with a ligature (as to prevent bleeding during surgery) | - |
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| ligature | (noun) the act of tying or binding things together | Synonyms: tying |
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| (noun) something used to tie or bind | Synonyms: binder |
| (noun) thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood) | - |
| (noun) a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone | - |
| (noun) (music) a group of notes connected by a slur | - |
| (noun) character consisting of two or more letters combined into one | - |
| litigation | (noun) a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights | Synonyms: judicial proceeding |
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| litigator | (noun) (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation | Synonyms: litigant |
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| lychgate | (noun) a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used as a temporary shelter for the bier during funerals | Synonyms: lichgate |
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| margate | (noun) a grunt with a red mouth that is found from Florida to Brazil | Synonyms: Haemulon album |
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| megathere | (noun) gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America | Synonyms: ground sloth |
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| megatherian | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian mammal, megatheriid |
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| megatheriid | (noun) a large extinct ground sloth | Synonyms: megatherian, megatherian mammal |
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| megaton | (noun) one million tons | - |
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| (noun) a measure of explosive power (of an atomic weapon) equal to that of one million tons of TNT | - |
| mitigation | (noun) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious | Synonyms: extenuation, palliation |
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| (noun) the action of lessening in severity or intensity | Synonyms: moderation |
| (noun) a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances | Synonyms: extenuation |
| mulligatawny | (noun) a soup of eastern India that is flavored with curry; prepared with a meat or chicken base | - |
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| navigation | (noun) the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place | Synonyms: pilotage, piloting |
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| (noun) the work of a sailor | Synonyms: sailing, seafaring |
| (noun) ship traffic | - |
| navigator | (noun) in earlier times, a person who explored by ship | - |
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| (noun) the member of an aircrew who is responsible for the aircraft's course | - |
| (noun) the ship's officer in charge of navigation | Synonyms: sailing master |
| negation | (noun) the speech act of negating | - |
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| (noun) a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement | - |
| (noun) (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false | - |
| negative | (noun) a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed | - |
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| (noun) a reply of denial | - |
| negativeness | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativism, negativity |
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| (noun) an amount less than zero | Synonyms: negativity |
| (noun) the character of the negative electric pole | Synonyms: negativity |
| negativism | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativeness, negativity |
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| negativist | (noun) someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions | Synonyms: defeatist |
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| (noun) someone who refuses to do what is asked or does the opposite of what is asked | - |
| negativity | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativeness, negativism |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond | Synonyms: electronegativity |
| (noun) an amount less than zero | Synonyms: negativeness |
| (noun) the character of the negative electric pole | Synonyms: negativeness |
| negatron | (noun) an elementary particle with negative charge | Synonyms: electron |
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| nougat | (noun) nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste | - |
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| obbligato | (noun) a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission | Synonyms: obligato |
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| (noun) a persistent but subordinate motif | Synonyms: obligato |
| objurgation | (noun) rebuking a person harshly | Synonyms: chiding, scolding, tongue-lashing |
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| obligation | (noun) the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force | Synonyms: duty, responsibility |
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| (noun) a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply | - |
| (noun) a written promise to repay a debt | Synonyms: certificate of indebtedness, debt instrument |
| (noun) a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor | Synonyms: indebtedness |
| (noun) the state of being obligated to do or pay something | - |
| obligato | (noun) a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission | Synonyms: obbligato |
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| (noun) a persistent but subordinate motif | Synonyms: obbligato |
| prerogative | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, privilege |
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| profligate | (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, rake, rakehell, rip, roue |
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| (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: prodigal, squanderer |