| acre | (noun) a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries | - |
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| chancre | (noun) a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis) | - |
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| involucre | (noun) a highly conspicuous bract or bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence | - |
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| lucre | (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: earnings, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| massacre | (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: butchery, carnage, mass murder, slaughter |
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| nacre | (noun) the iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell | Synonyms: mother-of-pearl |
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| sucre | (noun) the basic unit of money in Ecuador; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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| wiseacre | (noun) an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments | Synonyms: smart aleck, weisenheimer, wise guy, wisenheimer |
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