brag | (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: bragging, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
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braggadocio | (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: bluster, rhodomontade, rodomontade |
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braggart | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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bragger | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, braggart, line-shooter, vaunter |
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bragging | (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
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brahman | (noun) the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category | Synonyms: brahmin |
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(noun) a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas | Synonyms: brahmin |
(noun) a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family) | Synonyms: brahmin |
brahmin | (noun) the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category | Synonyms: brahman |
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(noun) a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas | Synonyms: brahman |
(noun) a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family) | Synonyms: brahman |
braid | (noun) trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains | Synonyms: braiding, gold braid |
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(noun) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair | Synonyms: plait, tress, twist |
braiding | (noun) trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains | Synonyms: braid, gold braid |
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brail | (noun) a small rope (one of several) used to draw a sail in | - |
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(noun) a small net used to draw fish into a boat | - |
braille | (noun) a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals | - |
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brain | (noun) that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord | Synonyms: encephalon |
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(noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit |
(noun) that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason | Synonyms: head, mind, nous, psyche |
(noun) the brain of certain animals used as meat | - |
(noun) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | Synonyms: brainiac, Einstein, genius, mastermind |
braincase | (noun) the part of the skull that encloses the brain | Synonyms: brainpan, cranium |
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brainchild | (noun) a product of your creative thinking and work | Synonyms: inspiration |
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brainiac | (noun) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | Synonyms: brain, Einstein, genius, mastermind |
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brainpan | (noun) the part of the skull that encloses the brain | Synonyms: braincase, cranium |
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brainpower | (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brain, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit |
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brainstem | (noun) the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus | Synonyms: brain-stem, brain stem |
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brainstorm | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainwave, insight |
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brainstorming | (noun) a group problem-solving technique in which members spontaneously share ideas and solutions | - |
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brainwashing | (noun) forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
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brainwave | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainstorm, insight |
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(noun) (neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph | Synonyms: brain wave, cortical potential |
brainworker | (noun) someone whose profession involves using his head to solve problems | Synonyms: brain-worker |
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braising | (noun) cooking slowly in fat in a closed pot with little moisture | - |
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brake | (noun) a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle | - |
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(noun) anything that slows or hinders a process | - |
(noun) an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant | - |
(noun) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: bracken, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum |
(noun) any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants | - |
brakeman | (noun) a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes | - |
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brakes | (noun) a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle | Synonyms: brake system |
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bramble | (noun) any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines | - |
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brambling | (noun) Eurasian finch | Synonyms: Fringilla montifringilla |
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bran | (noun) food prepared from the husks of cereal grains | - |
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(noun) broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting | - |
branch | (noun) any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm | Synonyms: arm, limb |
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(noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: arm, subdivision |
(noun) a stream or river connected to a larger one | - |
(noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: offset, offshoot, outgrowth |
(noun) a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant | - |
(noun) a part of a forked or branching shape | Synonyms: leg, ramification |
branchia | (noun) respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water | Synonyms: gill |
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branching | (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: fork, forking, ramification |
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branchiopod | (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan |
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branchiopodan | (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean |
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branchlet | (noun) a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year | Synonyms: sprig, twig |
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brand | (noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: blade, steel, sword |
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(noun) a recognizable kind | Synonyms: make |
(noun) a name given to a product or service | Synonyms: brand name, marque, trade name |
(noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: mark, stain, stigma |
(noun) identification mark on skin, made by burning | - |
(noun) a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning | Synonyms: firebrand |
branding | (noun) the act of stigmatizing | Synonyms: stigmatisation, stigmatization |
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brandish | (noun) the act of waving | Synonyms: flourish |
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brandy | (noun) distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice | - |
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brandyball | (noun) a British candy flavored with brandy | - |
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brandysnap | (noun) a gingersnap flavored with brandy | - |
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brant | (noun) small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward | Synonyms: brant goose, brent, brent goose |
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brashness | (noun) the trait of being rash and hasty | - |
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(noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
brasier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brazier |
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brass | (noun) a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece | Synonyms: brass instrument |
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(noun) a memorial made of brass | Synonyms: memorial tablet, plaque |
(noun) an ornament or utensil made of brass | - |
(noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: boldness, cheek, face, nerve |
(noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
(noun) the section of a band or orchestra that plays brass instruments | Synonyms: brass section |
(noun) an alloy of copper and zinc | - |
brassard | (noun) armor plate that protects the arm | - |
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brassavola | (noun) any of various tropical American orchids with usually solitary fleshy leaves and showy white to green nocturnally fragrant blossoms solitary or in racemes of up to 7 | - |
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brasserie | (noun) a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap | - |
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brassie | (noun) (formerly) a golfing wood with a face more elevated than a driver but less than a spoon | - |
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brassiere | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bandeau, bra |
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brat | (noun) a very troublesome child | Synonyms: holy terror, little terror, terror |
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(noun) a small pork sausage | Synonyms: bratwurst |
brattice | (noun) a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine | - |
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brattiness | (noun) The state or condition of acting like a brat, being unruly and impolite. | - |
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bratwurst | (noun) a small pork sausage | Synonyms: brat |
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bravado | (noun) a swaggering show of courage | Synonyms: bluster |
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brave | (noun) people who are brave | - |
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(noun) a North American Indian warrior | - |
braveness | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: bravery, courage, courageousness |
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bravery | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, courage, courageousness |
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(noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: fearlessness |
bravo | (noun) a cry of approval as from an audience at the end of great performance | - |
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(noun) a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed | Synonyms: assassin, assassinator |
bravura | (noun) brilliant and showy technical skill | - |
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brawl | (noun) a noisy fight in a crowd | Synonyms: free-for-all |
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(noun) an uproarious party | Synonyms: bash, do |
brawler | (noun) a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls) | - |
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brawn | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawniness, heftiness, muscle, muscularity, sinew |
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brawniness | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, heftiness, muscle, muscularity, sinew |
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bray | (noun) the cry of an ass | - |
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brazenness | (noun) behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame | Synonyms: shamelessness |
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brazier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brasier |
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brazil | (noun) three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell | Synonyms: brazil nut |
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brazilwood | (noun) tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry | Synonyms: Caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, peachwood, pernambuco wood |
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(noun) heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods | - |
bristlegrass | (noun) grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet | Synonyms: bristle grass |
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brokerage | (noun) place where a broker conducts his business | Synonyms: brokerage house |
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(noun) a stock broker's business; charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller | Synonyms: brokerage firm, securities firm |
(noun) the business of a broker; charges a fee to arrange a contract between two parties | - |
bromegrass | (noun) any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions | Synonyms: brome |
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buckram | (noun) a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing | - |
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bunchgrass | (noun) any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States | Synonyms: bunch grass |
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bureaucracy | (noun) nonelective government officials | Synonyms: bureaucratism |
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(noun) a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials | - |
(noun) any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape | - |
bureaucrat | (noun) an official of a bureaucracy | Synonyms: administrative official |
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bureaucratism | (noun) nonelective government officials | Synonyms: bureaucracy |
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burgrass | (noun) a grass of the genus Cenchrus | Synonyms: bur grass |
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burgrave | (noun) the military governor of a German town in the 12th and 13th centuries | - |
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(noun) a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right | - |
burrawong | (noun) large attractive palmlike evergreen cycad of New South Wales | Synonyms: Macrozamia communis, Macrozamia spiralis |
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cablegram | (noun) a telegram sent abroad | Synonyms: cable, overseas telegram |
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cacography | (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: scratch, scrawl, scribble |
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caesura | (noun) a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line | - |
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(noun) a pause or interruption (as in a conversation) | - |
calabura | (noun) a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and fleshy edible fruit; a bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves | Synonyms: calabur tree, Jamaican cherry, Muntingia calabura, silk wood, silkwood |
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caldera | (noun) a large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression | - |
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calibration | (noun) the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument | Synonyms: standardisation, standardization |
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calliandra | (noun) any of various shrubs and small trees valued for their fine foliage and attractive spreading habit and clustered white to deep pink or red flowers | - |
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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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calyptra | (noun) the hood or cap covering the calyx of certain plants: e.g., the California poppy | - |
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camaraderie | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: chumminess, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship |
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camera | (noun) equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other) | Synonyms: photographic camera |
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(noun) television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam | Synonyms: television camera, tv camera |
cameraman | (noun) a photographer who operates a movie camera | Synonyms: camera operator, cinematographer |
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candelabra | (noun) branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights | Synonyms: candelabrum |
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canebrake | (noun) a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane) | - |
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capibara | (noun) pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent | Synonyms: capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris |
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capybara | (noun) pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent | Synonyms: capibara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris |
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carabao | (noun) water buffalo of the Philippines | - |
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