| aficionado | (noun) a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer | - |
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| (noun) a fan of bull fighting | - |
| anadiplosis | (noun) repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next | Synonyms: reduplication |
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| bastinado | (noun) a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels | Synonyms: falanga |
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| (noun) a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet | - |
| cannonade | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: drumfire |
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| carbonado | (noun) a piece of meat (or fish) that has been scored and broiled | - |
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| (noun) an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing | Synonyms: black diamond |
| colonnade | (noun) structure consisting of a row of evenly spaced columns | - |
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| (noun) a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns | Synonyms: arcade |
| cryptomonad | (noun) common in fresh and salt water appearing along the shore as algal blooms | Synonyms: cryptophyte |
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| esplanade | (noun) a long stretch of open level ground (paved or grassy) for walking beside the seashore | - |
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| gasconade | (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, bragging, crow, crowing, line-shooting, vaporing |
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| gonad | (noun) a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced | Synonyms: sex gland |
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| gonadotrophin | (noun) hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity | Synonyms: gonadotrophic hormone, gonadotropic hormone, gonadotropin |
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| gonadotropin | (noun) hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity | Synonyms: gonadotrophic hormone, gonadotrophin, gonadotropic hormone |
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| granadilla | (noun) the egg-shaped edible fruit of tropical American vines related to passionflowers | - |
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| (noun) tropical American passionflower yielding the large granadilla fruit | Synonyms: giant granadilla, Passiflora quadrangularis |
| (noun) Brazilian passionflower cultivated for its deep purple fruit | Synonyms: Passiflora edulis, purple granadillo |
| (noun) considered best for fruit | Synonyms: Passiflora ligularis, sweet granadilla |
| granadillo | (noun) West Indian tree yielding a fine grade of green ebony | Synonyms: Brya ebenus, granadilla tree |
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| grenade | (noun) a small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile | - |
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| grenadier | (noun) deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail | Synonyms: rattail, rattail fish |
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| (noun) an infantryman equipped with grenades | Synonyms: grenade thrower |
| grenadine | (noun) thin syrup made from pomegranate juice; used in mixed drinks | - |
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| harlequinade | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, japery, prank |
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| hypogonadism | (noun) incompetence of the gonads (especially in the male with low testosterone); results in deficient development of secondary sex characteristics and (in prepubertal males) a body with long legs and a short trunk | - |
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| inadequacy | (noun) unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate | Synonyms: inadequateness |
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| (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number | Synonyms: deficiency, insufficiency |
| (noun) a lack of competence | Synonyms: insufficiency |
| inadequateness | (noun) unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate | Synonyms: inadequacy |
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| inadmissibility | (noun) unacceptability as a consequence of not being admissible | - |
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| inadvertence | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities | Synonyms: heedlessness, inadvertency, unmindfulness |
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| (noun) an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something | Synonyms: oversight |
| inadvertency | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities | Synonyms: heedlessness, inadvertence, unmindfulness |
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| inadvisability | (noun) the quality of being ill-advised | - |
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| lemonade | (noun) sweetened beverage of diluted lemon juice | - |
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| maenad | (noun) (Greek mythology) a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus | - |
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| (noun) an unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman | - |
| marinade | (noun) mixtures of vinegar or wine and oil with various spices and seasonings; used for soaking foods before cooking | - |
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| menadione | (noun) a synthetic chemical compound that is a form of vitamin K, it is an analog of 1,4-naphthoquinone with a methyl group in the 2-position | Synonyms: vitamin K3 |
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| monad | (noun) (biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan) | - |
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| (noun) a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive | Synonyms: monas |
| (noun) (chemistry) an atom having a valence of one | - |
| nada | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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| nadir | (noun) the point below the observer that is directly opposite the zenith on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected | - |
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| (noun) an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything | Synonyms: low-water mark |
| nadolol | (noun) a beta-adrenergic blocking agent (trade name Corgard) that is used to treat hypertension and angina | Synonyms: Corgard |
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| orphenadrine | (noun) a skeletal muscle relaxant (trade name Norflex) used to treat severe muscle strain and Parkinsonism | Synonyms: Norflex |
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| pasquinade | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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| phytonadione | (noun) a form of vitamin K, based on 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone, with a 3-phytyl substituent | Synonyms: phylloquinone, vitamin K1 |
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| promenade | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: amble, perambulation, saunter, stroll |
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| (noun) a march of all the guests at the opening of a formal dance | - |
| (noun) a square dance figure; couples march counterclockwise in a circle | - |
| (noun) a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk | Synonyms: mall |
| (noun) a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year | Synonyms: prom |
| pseudomonad | (noun) bacteria usually producing greenish fluorescent water-soluble pigment; some pathogenic for plants and animals | - |
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| serenade | (noun) a song characteristically played outside the house of a woman | - |
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| (noun) a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form | Synonyms: divertimento |
| tamponade | (noun) blockage or closure (as of a wound or body cavity) by (or as if by) a tampon (especially to stop bleeding) | Synonyms: tamponage |
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| tapenade | (noun) a spread consisting of capers and black olives and anchovies made into a puree with olive oil | - |
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| tornado | (noun) a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive | Synonyms: crack, crack cocaine |
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| (noun) a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground | Synonyms: twister |
| trichomonad | (noun) cause of trichomoniasis in women and cattle and birds | - |
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| unadaptability | (noun) the inability to change or be changed to fit changed circumstances | - |
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| vanadate | (noun) a salt or ester of vanadic acid; an anion containing pentavalent vanadium | - |
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| vanadinite | (noun) a mineral consisting of chloride and vanadate of lead; a source of vanadium | - |
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| vanadium | (noun) a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite | Synonyms: atomic number 23, V |
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| xanthomonad | (noun) bacteria producing yellow non-water-soluble pigments; some pathogenic for plants | - |
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