| alignment | (noun) the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other | - |
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| (noun) the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines | - |
| (noun) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac | Synonyms: conjunction |
| (noun) an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: alinement, alliance, coalition |
| 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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| antireligiousness | (noun) The state or condition of being opposed to religion. | - |
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| backlighting | (noun) lighting from behind | - |
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| belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
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| (noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |
| belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
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| (noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |
| belligerent | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
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| blight | (noun) a state or condition being blighted | - |
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| (noun) any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting | - |
| blighter | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: cuss, gadfly, pest, pesterer |
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| (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
| calligrapher | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligraphist |
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| calligraphist | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligrapher |
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| calligraphy | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: chirography, penmanship |
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| candlelight | (noun) the light provided by a burning candle | Synonyms: candle flame |
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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 |
| coreligionist | (noun) someone having the same religion as another person | - |
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| counterintelligence | (noun) intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism | - |
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| daylight | (noun) light during the daytime | - |
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| (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daytime |
| deadlight | (noun) a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather | - |
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| dealignment | (noun) a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties | - |
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| delight | (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: joy, pleasure |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction | Synonyms: delectation |
| diligence | (noun) a diligent effort | Synonyms: application |
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| (noun) persevering determination to perform a task | Synonyms: industriousness, industry |
| (noun) conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation | - |
| eligibility | (noun) the quality or state of being eligible | - |
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| enlightened | (noun) people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity | Synonyms: initiate |
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| enlightenment | (noun) education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge | - |
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| (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness | Synonyms: nirvana |
| fanlight | (noun) a semicircular window over a door or window; usually has sash bars like the ribs of a fan | - |
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| (noun) a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door | Synonyms: transom, transom window |
| (noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: skylight |
| filigree | (noun) delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire) | Synonyms: filagree, fillagree |
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| firelight | (noun) the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace) | - |
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| firelighter | (noun) (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire | - |
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| flashlight | (noun) a small portable battery-powered electric lamp | Synonyms: torch |
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| flight | (noun) an instance of traveling by air | Synonyms: flying |
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| (noun) the act of escaping physically | Synonyms: escape |
| (noun) a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports | - |
| (noun) a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next | Synonyms: flight of stairs, flight of steps |
| (noun) passing above and beyond ordinary bounds | - |
| (noun) an air force unit smaller than a squadron | - |
| (noun) a formation of aircraft in flight | - |
| (noun) a flock of flying birds | - |
| (noun) the path followed by an object moving through space | Synonyms: trajectory |
| flightiness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
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| flightlessness | (noun) The condition of being unable to fly, usually used with birds such as the penguin, ostrich, and emu. | - |
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| floodlight | (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood, flood lamp, photoflood |
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| footlights | (noun) theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors | - |
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| gaslight | (noun) light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas | - |
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| gelignite | (noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate | Synonyms: gelly |
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| headlight | (noun) a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | Synonyms: headlamp |
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| highlight | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlighting |
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| (noun) the most interesting or memorable part | Synonyms: high spot |
| highlighter | (noun) a fluorescent marker used to mark important passages in a text | - |
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| (noun) a cosmetic used to highlight the eyes or cheekbones | - |
| highlighting | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlight |
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| hooligan | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| hooliganism | (noun) willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others | Synonyms: malicious mischief, vandalism |
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| houselights | (noun) lights that illuminate the audience's part of a theater or other auditorium | - |
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| hyperintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: superintelligence |
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| ineligibility | (noun) the quality or state of being ineligible | - |
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| intelligence | (noun) the operation of gathering information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence activity, intelligence operation |
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| (noun) the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience | - |
| (noun) information about recent and important events | Synonyms: news, tidings, word |
| (noun) secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy) | Synonyms: intelligence information |
| (noun) a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence agency, intelligence service |
| intelligentsia | (noun) an educated and intellectual elite | Synonyms: clerisy |
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| intelligibility | (noun) the quality of language that is comprehensible | - |
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| irreligion | (noun) the quality of not being devout | Synonyms: irreligiousness |
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| irreligionist | (noun) someone who is indifferent or hostile to religion | - |
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| irreligiousness | (noun) the quality of not being devout | Synonyms: irreligion |
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| jacklight | (noun) a light used as a lure in hunting or fishing at night | - |
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| lamplight | (noun) light from a lamp | - |
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| lamplighter | (noun) (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights | - |
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| ligament | (noun) any connection or unifying bond | - |
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| (noun) a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles or organs | - |
| ligan | (noun) goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered | Synonyms: lagan, lagend |
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| ligand | (noun) a substance (an atom or molecule or radical or ion) that forms a complex around a central atom | - |
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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 | - |
| liger | (noun) offspring of a male lion and a female tiger | - |
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| light | (noun) any device serving as a source of illumination | Synonyms: light source |
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| (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, ignitor, lighter |
| (noun) the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures | Synonyms: lightness |
| (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness, brightness level, luminance, luminosity, luminousness |
| (noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: spark, sparkle, twinkle |
| (noun) mental understanding as an enlightening experience | - |
| (noun) a particular perspective or aspect of a situation | - |
| (noun) public awareness | - |
| (noun) a visual warning signal | - |
| (noun) an illuminated area | - |
| (noun) a person regarded very fondly | - |
| (noun) (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation | Synonyms: visible light, visible radiation |
| (noun) having abundant light or illumination | Synonyms: lighting |
| (noun) a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination | Synonyms: illumination |
| lightbulb | (noun) electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity | Synonyms: bulb, electric-light bulb, electric light, incandescent lamp, light bulb |
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| lightener | (noun) any type of lightening agent that can be used to brighten the appearance of hair, skin, wood and other surfaces. | - |
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| lightening | (noun) changing to a lighter color | Synonyms: whitening |
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| (noun) descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped | - |
| lighter | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, ignitor, light |
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| (noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | Synonyms: barge, flatboat, hoy |
| (noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: igniter, ignitor |
| lighterage | (noun) the transportation of goods on a lighter | - |
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| (noun) the fee charged for carrying goods in lighters | - |
| lighterman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, bargeman |
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| lightheadedness | (noun) a frivolous lack of prudence | - |
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| (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: dizziness, giddiness, vertigo |
| lightheartedness | (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, insouciance, lightsomeness |
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| lighthouse | (noun) a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships | Synonyms: beacon, beacon light, pharos |
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| lighting | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, ignition, inflammation, kindling |
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| (noun) the craft of providing artificial light | - |
| (noun) apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film | - |
| (noun) having abundant light or illumination | Synonyms: light |
| lightlessness | (noun) total absence of light | Synonyms: black, blackness, pitch blackness, total darkness |
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| lightness | (noun) the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous | Synonyms: lightsomeness |
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| (noun) the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures | Synonyms: light |
| (noun) the property of being comparatively small in weight | Synonyms: weightlessness |
| (noun) having a light color | - |
| (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, legerity, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
| (noun) a feeling of joy and pride | Synonyms: elation, high spirits |
| lightning | (noun) the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more | - |
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| (noun) abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light | - |
| lightship | (noun) a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable | - |
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| lightsomeness | (noun) the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous | Synonyms: lightness |
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| (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, legerity, lightness, nimbleness |
| (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, insouciance, lightheartedness |
| lightstick | (noun) A portable rod used for illumination. | - |
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| lightweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds | - |
| (noun) someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous | Synonyms: jackanapes, whippersnapper |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds | - |
| lightwood | (noun) tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber | Synonyms: Acacia melanoxylon |
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| ligne | (noun) a linear unit (1/40 inch) used to measure diameter of buttons | - |
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| lignin | (noun) a complex polymer; the chief constituent of wood other than carbohydrates; binds to cellulose fibers to harden and strengthen cell walls of plants | - |
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| lignite | (noun) intermediate between peat and bituminous coal | Synonyms: brown coal, wood coal |
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| lignosae | (noun) a category in some early taxonomies | - |
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| lignum | (noun) woody tissue | - |
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| ligule | (noun) (botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap | - |
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| limelight | (noun) a lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light; formerly used for stage lighting | Synonyms: calcium light |
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| (noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: glare, public eye, spotlight |
| loligo | (noun) somewhat flattened cylindrical squid | - |
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| malignance | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignancy, malignity |
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| (noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignancy |
| malignancy | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignance, malignity |
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| (noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignance |
| maligner | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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| malignity | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignance, malignancy |
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| (noun) wishing evil to others | Synonyms: malevolence |
| malignment | (noun) slanderous defamation | Synonyms: smear, vilification |
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| milligram | (noun) one thousandth (1/1,000) gram | Synonyms: mg |
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| misalignment | (noun) the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned | - |
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| moonlight | (noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonshine |
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| moonlighter | (noun) a person who holds a second job (usually after hours) | - |
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| mulligan | (noun) Irish version of burgoo | Synonyms: Irish burgoo, mulligan stew |
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| mulligatawny | (noun) a soup of eastern India that is flavored with curry; prepared with a meat or chicken base | - |
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| neglige | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, negligee, peignoir, wrapper |
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