bitstock | (noun) a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring | Synonyms: brace |
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blewits | (noun) edible agaric that is pale lilac when young; has a smooth moist cap | Synonyms: Clitocybe nuda |
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credits | (noun) a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film) | - |
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fitspiration | (noun) something that inspires you to exercise | - |
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fitspo | (noun) an image of promoting proper exercise and diet | - |
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grits | (noun) coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States | Synonyms: hominy grits |
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gritstone | (noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: grit, gritrock |
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jiujitsu | (noun) a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength | Synonyms: jujitsu, jujutsu |
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jujitsu | (noun) a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength | Synonyms: jiujitsu, jujutsu |
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kitsch | (noun) excessively garish or sentimental art; usually considered in bad taste | - |
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mitsvah | (noun) (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty | Synonyms: mitzvah |
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(noun) (Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law | Synonyms: mitzvah |
ninjitsu | (noun) the traditional Japanese method of espionage; involves stealthy movements and the use of camouflage | Synonyms: ninjutsu |
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pitsaw | (noun) a large two-handed saw formerly used to cut logs into planks; one man stood above the log and the other in a pit below | - |
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plaudits | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, acclamation, eclat, plaudit |
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profits | (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit |
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(noun) something won (especially money) | Synonyms: win, winnings |
quoits | (noun) a game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it | Synonyms: horseshoes |
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shitstorm | (noun) A considerable backlash or controversy | - |
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spirits | (noun) an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented | Synonyms: booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, liquor, strong drink |
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splitsaw | (noun) a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood | Synonyms: ripsaw |
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splitsville | (noun) separation or breakup or divorce | - |
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spritsail | (noun) a fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit | - |
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straits | (noun) a difficult juncture | Synonyms: head, pass |
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(noun) a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Synonyms: pass, strait |
tsaritsa | (noun) the wife or widow of a czar | Synonyms: czarina, czaritza, tsarina, tzarina |
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welwitschia | (noun) curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old | Synonyms: Welwitschia mirabilis |
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wits | (noun) the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception | Synonyms: marbles |
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