angelique | (noun) any of various tall and stout herbs of the genus Angelica having pinnately compound leaves and small white or greenish flowers in compound umbels | Synonyms: angelica |
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antique | (noun) any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity | - |
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(noun) an elderly man | Synonyms: gaffer, old-timer, old geezer, oldtimer |
antiqueness | (noun) the quality or state of being in the style or fashion of former times. | - |
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applique | (noun) a decorative design made of one material sewn over another | - |
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bezique | (noun) a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist | Synonyms: penuchle, pinochle, pinocle |
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boutique | (noun) a shop that sells women's clothes and jewelry | Synonyms: dress shop |
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briquet | (noun) a block made from charcoal or coal dust and burned as fuel | Synonyms: briquette |
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briquette | (noun) a block made from charcoal or coal dust and burned as fuel | Synonyms: briquet |
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cacique | (noun) black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics | Synonyms: cazique |
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cazique | (noun) black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics | Synonyms: cacique |
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clique | (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: camp, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack |
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communique | (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch |
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critique | (noun) a serious examination and judgment of something | Synonyms: criticism |
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(noun) an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play) | Synonyms: critical review, review, review article |
etiquette | (noun) rules governing socially acceptable behavior | - |
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liquefaction | (noun) the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid | - |
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liqueur | (noun) strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal | Synonyms: cordial |
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mystique | (noun) an aura of heightened value or interest or meaning surrounding a person or thing | - |
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netiquette | (noun) Etiquette practiced or advocated in electronic communication over a computer network. | - |
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oblique | (noun) a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso | Synonyms: abdominal external oblique muscle, external oblique muscle, musculus obliquus externus abdominis |
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(noun) any grammatical case other than the nominative | Synonyms: oblique case |
obliqueness | (noun) the property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle | - |
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(noun) the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly | Synonyms: deviousness |
physique | (noun) constitution of the human body | Synonyms: body-build, build, habitus |
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(noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, shape, soma |
pique | (noun) tightly woven fabric with raised cords | - |
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(noun) a sudden outburst of anger | Synonyms: irritation, temper |
piquet | (noun) a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards | - |
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(noun) a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake | Synonyms: picket |
plastique | (noun) an explosive material that is easily molded around the object it is intended to destroy | Synonyms: plastic explosive |
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silique | (noun) narrow elongated seed capsule peculiar to the family Cruciferae | Synonyms: siliqua |
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sobriquet | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, soubriquet |
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soubriquet | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, sobriquet |
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technique | (noun) a practical method or art applied to some particular task | - |
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(noun) skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity | Synonyms: proficiency |
tourniquet | (noun) bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure | Synonyms: compression bandage |
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triquetral | (noun) a wrist bone that articulates with the pisiform and hamate and lunate bones | Synonyms: cuneiform bone, os triquetrum, pyramidal bone, triquetral bone |
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uniqueness | (noun) the quality of being one of a kind | Synonyms: singularity |
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