ague | (noun) a mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: acute, acute accent |
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(noun) a fit of shivering or shaking | - |
(noun) successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria | Synonyms: chills and fever |
analogue | (noun) something having the property of being analogous to something else | Synonyms: analog, parallel |
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apologue | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: allegory, fable, parable |
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bluetongue | (noun) a viral disease of sheep and cattle that is transmitted by biting midges | - |
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brogue | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogan, clodhopper, work shoe |
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cangue | (noun) an instrument of punishment formerly used in China for petty criminals; consists of a heavy wooden collar enclosing the neck and arms | - |
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catalogue | (noun) a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things | Synonyms: catalog |
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(noun) a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically | Synonyms: catalog |
colleague | (noun) an associate that one works with | Synonyms: co-worker, fellow worker, workfellow |
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(noun) a person who is member of one's class or profession | Synonyms: confrere, fellow |
demagogue | (noun) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices | Synonyms: demagog, rabble-rouser |
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dengue | (noun) an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints | Synonyms: breakbone fever, dandy fever, dengue fever |
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dialogue | (noun) the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction | Synonyms: dialog |
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(noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialog, duologue |
(noun) a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people | Synonyms: dialog |
(noun) a discussion intended to produce an agreement | Synonyms: negotiation, talks |
drogue | (noun) a parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly | Synonyms: drogue chute, drogue parachute |
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(noun) restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind | Synonyms: sea anchor |
(noun) a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: air-sleeve, air sock, sock, wind cone, wind sleeve, wind sock, windsock |
(noun) a funnel-shaped device towed as a target by an airplane | - |
duologue | (noun) a part of the script in which the speaking roles are limited to two actors | - |
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(noun) a conversation between two persons | Synonyms: dialog, dialogue |
earthtongue | (noun) any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum | Synonyms: earth-tongue |
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eclogue | (noun) a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life | Synonyms: bucolic, idyl, idyll |
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emmenagogue | (noun) any agent that promotes menstrual discharge | - |
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epilogue | (noun) a short passage added at the end of a literary work | Synonyms: epilog |
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(noun) a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play | Synonyms: epilog |
fatigue | (noun) labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on) | Synonyms: fatigue duty |
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(noun) (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something | - |
(noun) temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work | Synonyms: tiredness, weariness |
(noun) used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress | - |
fugue | (noun) a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement | - |
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(noun) a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days | - |
(noun) dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state | Synonyms: psychogenic fugue |
galactagogue | (noun) agent that induces milk secretion | - |
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gigue | (noun) music in three-four time for dancing a jig | Synonyms: jig |
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harangue | (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: rant, ranting |
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hypnagogue | (noun) an agent that induces drowsiness or sleep | - |
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idealogue | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer |
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ideologue | (noun) an advocate of some ideology | Synonyms: ideologist |
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intrigue | (noun) a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends | Synonyms: machination |
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(noun) a clandestine love affair | - |
league | (noun) an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action | - |
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(noun) an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members | Synonyms: conference |
(noun) an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles) | - |
meringue | (noun) sweet topping especially for pies made of beaten egg whites and sugar | - |
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monologue | (noun) speech you make to yourself | Synonyms: soliloquy |
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(noun) a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor | - |
(noun) a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation) | - |
morgue | (noun) a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation | Synonyms: dead room, mortuary |
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oxtongue | (noun) widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: bitterweed, bristly oxtongue, bugloss, Picris echioides |
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pedagogue | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: educator, pedagog |
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philologue | (noun) a humanist specializing in classical scholarship | Synonyms: philologist |
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pirogue | (noun) a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log | Synonyms: dugout, dugout canoe |
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plague | (noun) an annoyance | - |
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(noun) any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) | - |
(noun) a swarm of insects that attack plants | Synonyms: infestation |
(noun) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal | Synonyms: pest, pestilence, pestis |
(noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate | Synonyms: pest, pestilence |
prologue | (noun) an introduction to a play | - |
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rogue | (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, varlet |
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segue | (noun) the act of changing smoothly from one state or situation to another | - |
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synagogue | (noun) (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation | Synonyms: tabernacle, temple |
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tongue | (noun) the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot | - |
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(noun) metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side | Synonyms: clapper |
(noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: clapper, glossa, lingua |
(noun) a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language | Synonyms: natural language |
(noun) a manner of speaking | - |
(noun) the tongue of certain animals used as meat | - |
(noun) a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea | Synonyms: spit |
(noun) any long thin projection that is transient | Synonyms: knife |
travelogue | (noun) a film or illustrated lecture on traveling | Synonyms: travelog |
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vogue | (noun) the popular taste at a given time | Synonyms: style, trend |
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(noun) a current state of general acceptance and use | - |