| abattoir | (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse |
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| acyclovir | (noun) an oral antiviral drug (trade name Zovirax) used to treat genital herpes; does not cure the disease but relieves the symptoms | Synonyms: Zovirax |
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| aegir | (noun) a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) | Synonyms: bore, eager, eagre, tidal bore |
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| affair | (noun) a vaguely specified concern | Synonyms: matter, thing |
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| (noun) a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people | Synonyms: function, occasion, social affair, social function, social gathering, social occasion |
| (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affaire, amour, intimacy, involvement, liaison |
| air | (noun) travel via aircraft | Synonyms: air travel, aviation |
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| (noun) a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing | Synonyms: atmosphere, aura |
| (noun) a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence | Synonyms: line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, strain, tune |
| (noun) medium for radio and television broadcasting | Synonyms: airwave |
| (noun) the region above the ground | - |
| (noun) the mass of air surrounding the Earth | Synonyms: atmosphere |
| (noun) a slight wind (usually refreshing) | Synonyms: breeze, gentle wind, zephyr |
| (noun) a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of | - |
| (noun) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour blood | - |
| amir | (noun) an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia) | Synonyms: ameer, emeer, emir |
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| armchair | (noun) chair with a support on each side for arms | - |
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| bookfair | (noun) bazaar at which books are sold or auctioned off in order to raise funds for a worthy cause | Synonyms: book fair |
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| (noun) fair organized by publishers or booksellers to promote the sale of books | Synonyms: book fair |
| boudoir | (noun) a lady's bedroom or private sitting room | - |
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| camelhair | (noun) a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel | Synonyms: camel's hair |
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| chair | (noun) the position of professor | Synonyms: professorship |
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| (noun) a seat for one person, with a support for the back | - |
| (noun) an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person | Synonyms: death chair, electric chair, hot seat |
| (noun) a particular seat in an orchestra | - |
| (noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chairperson, president |
| choir | (noun) the area occupied by singers; the part of the chancel between sanctuary and nave | - |
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| (noun) a chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony | - |
| (noun) a family of similar musical instrument playing together | Synonyms: consort |
| coir | (noun) stiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut | - |
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| corsair | (noun) a swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction) | - |
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| (noun) a pirate along the Barbary Coast | Synonyms: Barbary pirate |
| despair | (noun) the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well | - |
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| (noun) a state in which all hope is lost or absent | Synonyms: desperation |
| devoir | (noun) formal expression of respect | - |
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| diapir | (noun) a domed rock formation where a core of rock has moved upward and pierced through the more brittle overlying strata | - |
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| disrepair | (noun) in need of repairs; in need of repair | - |
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| eclair | (noun) oblong cream puff | - |
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| elixir | (noun) a substance believed to cure all ills | - |
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| (noun) a sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste | - |
| (noun) hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing base metals into gold | Synonyms: philosopher's stone, philosophers' stone |
| emir | (noun) an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia) | Synonyms: ameer, amir, emeer |
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| eyrir | (noun) 100 aurar equal 1 krona in Iceland | - |
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| fair | (noun) a sale of miscellany; often for charity | Synonyms: bazaar |
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| (noun) a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. | Synonyms: carnival, funfair |
| (noun) a competitive exhibition of farm products | - |
| (noun) gathering of producers to promote business | - |
| fakir | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakeer, faqir, faquir |
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| faqir | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakeer, fakir, faquir |
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| faquir | (noun) a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man | Synonyms: fakeer, fakir, faqir |
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| fir | (noun) any of various evergreen trees of the genus Abies; chiefly of upland areas | Synonyms: fir tree, true fir |
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| (noun) nonresinous wood of a fir tree | - |
| flair | (noun) distinctive and stylish elegance | Synonyms: dash, elan, panache, style |
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| (noun) a natural talent | Synonyms: genius |
| (noun) a shape that spreads outward | Synonyms: flare |
| funfair | (noun) a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. | Synonyms: carnival, fair |
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| (noun) a commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement | Synonyms: amusement park, pleasure ground |
| hair | (noun) a filamentous projection or process on an organism | - |
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| (noun) cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments | Synonyms: haircloth |
| (noun) a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss | - |
| (noun) any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal | Synonyms: pilus |
| (noun) filamentous hairlike growth on a plant | Synonyms: fuzz, tomentum |
| (noun) a very small distance or space | Synonyms: hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, whisker |
| heir | (noun) a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another | Synonyms: heritor, inheritor |
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| (noun) a person who inherits some title or office | Synonyms: successor |
| highchair | (noun) a chair for feeding a very young child; has four long legs and a footrest and a detachable tray | Synonyms: feeding chair |
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| horsehair | (noun) a fabric made from fibers taken from the mane or tail of horses; used for upholstery | - |
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| (noun) hair taken from the mane or tail of a horse | - |
| indinavir | (noun) a protease inhibitor (trade name Crixivan) used for treating HIV | Synonyms: Crixivan |
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| kaffir | (noun) an offensive and insulting term for any Black African | Synonyms: caffer, caffre, kafir |
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| (noun) important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves | Synonyms: great millet, kaffir corn, kafir corn, Sorghum bicolor |
| kafir | (noun) an offensive and insulting term for any Black African | Synonyms: caffer, caffre, kaffir |
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| lair | (noun) the habitation of wild animals | Synonyms: den |
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| loir | (noun) large European dormouse | Synonyms: Glis glis |
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| maidenhair | (noun) any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds | Synonyms: maidenhair fern |
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| memoir | (noun) an account of the author's personal experiences | - |
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| (noun) an essay on a scientific or scholarly topic | - |
| menhir | (noun) a tall upright megalith; found primarily in England and northern France | Synonyms: standing stone |
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| midair | (noun) some point in the air; above ground level | - |
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| mohair | (noun) fabric made with yarn made from the silky hair of the Angora goat | - |
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| nadir | (noun) the point below the observer that is directly opposite the zenith on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected | - |
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| (noun) an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything | Synonyms: low-water mark |
| nelfinavir | (noun) a protease inhibitor (trade name Viracept) used in treating HIV usually in combination with other drugs | Synonyms: Viracept |
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| pair | (noun) two people considered as a unit | - |
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| (noun) a set of two similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: brace |
| (noun) a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value | - |
| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
| peignoir | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, negligee, wrapper |
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| pushchair | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pusher, stroller |
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| repair | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation |
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| (noun) a frequently visited place | Synonyms: hangout, haunt, resort, stamping ground |
| (noun) a formal way of referring to the condition of something | - |
| reservoir | (noun) tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil) | - |
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| (noun) lake used to store water for community use; a lake (natural or artificial) used to store water and used as a source of water | Synonyms: artificial lake, man-made lake |
| (noun) anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies | Synonyms: source |
| (noun) a large or extra supply of something | - |
| ritonavir | (noun) a protease inhibitor (trade name Norvir) used in treating HIV | Synonyms: Norvir |
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| saquinavir | (noun) a weak protease inhibitor (trade name Invirase) used in treating HIV | Synonyms: Invirase |
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| sir | (noun) term of address for a man | - |
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| souvenir | (noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: keepsake, relic, token |
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| (noun) a reminder of past events | Synonyms: memento |
| stair | (noun) support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway | Synonyms: step |
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| stir | (noun) a rapid active commotion | Synonyms: ado, bustle, flurry, fuss, hustle |
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| (noun) emotional agitation and excitement | - |
| (noun) a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event | Synonyms: splash |
| tamanoir | (noun) large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America | Synonyms: ant bear, giant anteater, great anteater, Myrmecophaga jubata |
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| tapir | (noun) large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout | - |
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| triumvir | (noun) one of a group of three sharing public administration or civil authority especially in ancient Rome | - |
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| voussoir | (noun) wedge-shaped stone building block used in constructing an arch or vault | - |
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| wasteweir | (noun) a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction | Synonyms: spill, spillway |
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| weir | (noun) a low dam built across a stream to raise its level or divert its flow | - |
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| (noun) a fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain fish | - |
| wheelchair | (noun) a movable chair mounted on large wheels; for invalids or those who cannot walk; frequently propelled by the occupant | - |
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| whir | (noun) sound of something in rapid motion | Synonyms: birr, whirr, whirring |
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| wirehair | (noun) a terrier with wiry hair | Synonyms: wire-haired terrier, wirehaired terrier |
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