amigo | (noun) a friend or comrade | - |
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archipelago | (noun) a group of many islands in a large body of water | - |
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balibago | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, majagua, purau |
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bingo | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: beano, keno, lotto |
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bongo | (noun) large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns | Synonyms: Boocercus eurycerus, Tragelaphus eurycerus |
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(noun) a small drum; played with the hands | Synonyms: bongo drum |
cargo | (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: consignment, freight, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
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colugo | (noun) arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps | Synonyms: flying cat, flying lemur |
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congo | (noun) black tea grown in China | Synonyms: congou, congou tea, English breakfast tea |
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dago | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: ginzo, greaseball, Guinea, wop |
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dingo | (noun) wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia | Synonyms: Canis dingo, warragal, warrigal |
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ego | (noun) (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind | - |
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(noun) your consciousness of your own identity | Synonyms: self |
(noun) an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others | Synonyms: egotism, self-importance |
embargo | (noun) a government order imposing a trade barrier | Synonyms: trade embargo, trade stoppage |
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eringo | (noun) any plant of the genus Eryngium | Synonyms: eryngo |
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eryngo | (noun) any plant of the genus Eryngium | Synonyms: eringo |
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fandango | (noun) a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets | - |
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farrago | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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filago | (noun) any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads | Synonyms: cotton rose, cudweed |
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flamingo | (noun) large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes | - |
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galago | (noun) agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears | Synonyms: bush baby, bushbaby |
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ginkgo | (noun) deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree | Synonyms: gingko, Ginkgo biloba, maidenhair tree |
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go | (noun) a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters | Synonyms: go game |
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(noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, fling, offer, pass, whirl |
(noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine | Synonyms: Adam, cristal, disco biscuit, ecstasy, hug drug, X, XTC |
(noun) a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) | Synonyms: spell, tour, turn |
gringo | (noun) a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen) | - |
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imago | (noun) an adult insect produced after metamorphosis | - |
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(noun) (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood | - |
impetigo | (noun) a very contagious infection of the skin; common in children; localized redness develops into small blisters that gradually crust and erode | - |
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indigo | (noun) a blue-violet color | - |
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(noun) deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye | Synonyms: indigo plant, Indigofera tinctoria |
(noun) a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | Synonyms: anil, indigotin |
intertrigo | (noun) chafing between two skin surfaces that are in contact (as in the armpit or under the breasts or between the thighs) | - |
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jingo | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingoist, patrioteer |
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lanugo | (noun) the fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation | - |
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largo | (noun) (music) a composition or passage that is to be performed in a slow and dignified manner | - |
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lentigo | (noun) a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin | Synonyms: freckle |
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lingo | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, patois, slang, vernacular |
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logo | (noun) a company emblem or device | Synonyms: logotype |
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loligo | (noun) somewhat flattened cylindrical squid | - |
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lumbago | (noun) backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back; can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc | Synonyms: lumbar pain |
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mango | (noun) large oval tropical fruit having smooth skin, juicy aromatic pulp, and a large hairy seed | - |
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(noun) large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit | Synonyms: Mangifera indica, mango tree |
monggo | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, moong, mung, mung bean, munggo |
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(noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, moong, mung, mung bean, munggo |
mongo | (noun) 100 mongo equal 1 tugrik in Mongolia | - |
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munggo | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung, mung bean |
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(noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung, mung bean |
oligo | (noun) (biochemistry) a polynucleotide whose molecules contain relatively few nucleotides | Synonyms: oligonucleotide |
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outgo | (noun) money paid out; an amount spent | Synonyms: expenditure, outlay, spending |
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pengo | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Hungary until it was replaced by the forint in 1946 | - |
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pichiciago | (noun) very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck | Synonyms: chlamyphore, Chlamyphorus truncatus, fairy armadillo, pichiciego |
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pichiciego | (noun) very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck | Synonyms: chlamyphore, Chlamyphorus truncatus, fairy armadillo, pichiciago |
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plumbago | (noun) any plumbaginaceous plant of the genus Plumbago | - |
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(noun) used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors | Synonyms: black lead, graphite |
prurigo | (noun) chronic inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by blister capped papules and intense itching | - |
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quango | (noun) a quasi nongovernmental organization; an organization that is financed by the government yet acts independently of the government | Synonyms: quasi-NGO |
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sago | (noun) powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener | - |
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sapsago | (noun) a hard green Swiss cheese made with skim-milk curd and flavored with clover | - |
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sorgo | (noun) any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup | Synonyms: sorgho, sugar sorghum, sweet sorghum |
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supercargo | (noun) an officer on a merchant ship in charge of the cargo and its sale and purchase | - |
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superego | (noun) (psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience | - |
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tango | (noun) a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin | - |
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(noun) music written in duple time for dancing the tango | - |
vertigo | (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: dizziness, giddiness, lightheadedness |
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virago | (noun) a noisy or scolding or domineering woman | - |
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(noun) a large strong and aggressive woman | Synonyms: amazon |
vitiligo | (noun) an acquired skin disease characterized by patches of unpigmented skin (often surrounded by a heavily pigmented border) | - |
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