spectacular | (noun) a lavishly produced performance | - |
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sportswear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: activewear, athletic wear |
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star | (noun) the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub | Synonyms: star topology |
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(noun) a star-shaped character * used in printing | Synonyms: asterisk |
(noun) (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior | - |
(noun) any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night | - |
(noun) an actor who plays a principal role | Synonyms: lead, principal |
(noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
(noun) a performer who receives prominent billing | Synonyms: headliner |
(noun) a plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem | - |
stockcar | (noun) boxcar with latticed sides; for transporting livestock | - |
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streetcar | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | Synonyms: tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car |
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sugar | (noun) a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative | Synonyms: refined sugar |
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(noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, wampum |
(noun) an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain | Synonyms: carbohydrate, saccharide |
superstar | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
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sweetbriar | (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbrier |
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swimwear | (noun) tight fitting garment worn for swimming | Synonyms: bathing costume, bathing suit, swimming costume, swimsuit |
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tar | (noun) a man who serves as a sailor | Synonyms: gob, Jack-tar, Jack, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman |
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(noun) any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue | Synonyms: pitch |
tartar | (noun) an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums | Synonyms: calculus, tophus |
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(noun) a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman | Synonyms: dragon |
(noun) a salt used especially in baking powder | Synonyms: cream of tartar, potassium bitartrate, potassium hydrogen tartrate |
tear | (noun) a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands | Synonyms: teardrop |
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(noun) the act of tearing | - |
(noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: binge, bout, bust |
(noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | Synonyms: rent, rip, snag, split |
thenar | (noun) the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers | Synonyms: palm |
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(noun) the fleshy area of the palm at the base of the thumb | - |
tollbar | (noun) a gate or bar across a toll bridge or toll road which is lifted when the toll is paid | Synonyms: tollgate |
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tramcar | (noun) a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine | Synonyms: tram |
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(noun) a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | Synonyms: streetcar, tram, trolley, trolley car |
trichobezoar | (noun) a compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur) | Synonyms: hair ball, hairball |
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trochlear | (noun) either of the two cranial nerves on either side that control the superior oblique muscles of the eyes | Synonyms: fourth cranial nerve, trochlear nerve, trochlearis |
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tsar | (noun) a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) | Synonyms: czar, tzar |
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tubercular | (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: consumptive, lunger |
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tzar | (noun) a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) | Synonyms: czar, tsar |
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underwear | (noun) undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments | Synonyms: underclothes, underclothing |
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uproar | (noun) loud confused noise from many sources | Synonyms: brouhaha, hubbub, katzenjammer |
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(noun) a state of commotion and noise and confusion | Synonyms: garboil, tumult, tumultuousness |
var | (noun) a unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere | Synonyms: volt-ampere |
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velar | (noun) a consonant produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate | Synonyms: velar consonant |
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vernacular | (noun) the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) | - |
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(noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang |
vicar | (noun) a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman | - |
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(noun) (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish | - |
(noun) (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel | - |
vinegar | (noun) sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative | Synonyms: acetum |
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(noun) dilute acetic acid | - |
war | (noun) the waging of armed conflict against an enemy | Synonyms: warfare |
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(noun) a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious | - |
(noun) an active struggle between competing entities | Synonyms: warfare |
(noun) a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply | Synonyms: state of war |
wear | (noun) the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment | Synonyms: wearing |
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(noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | Synonyms: article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, vesture, wearable |
(noun) impairment resulting from long use | - |
wheatear | (noun) small songbird of northern America and Eurasia having a distinctive white rump | - |
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workwear | (noun) heavy-duty clothes for manual or physical work | - |
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year | (noun) a body of students who graduate together | Synonyms: class |
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(noun) the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun | - |
(noun) a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days | Synonyms: twelvemonth, yr |
(noun) a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity | - |
yesteryear | (noun) the time that has elapsed | Synonyms: past, past times |
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zaatar | (noun) a famous Middle Eastern condiment made from dried hyssop leaves, mixed with sesame seeds, dried sumac, and often salt, as well as other spices. | - |
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