| potluck | (noun) whatever happens to be available especially when offered to an unexpected guest or when brought by guests and shared by all | - |
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| prank | (noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: antic, caper, joke, put-on, trick |
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| (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, japery |
| prayerbook | (noun) a book containing prayers | Synonyms: prayer book |
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| pressmark | (noun) a mark consisting of characters written on a book; used to indicate shelf location | Synonyms: call mark, call number |
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| prick | (noun) the act of puncturing with a small point | Synonyms: pricking |
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| (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, putz, shaft, tool |
| (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
| (noun) a depression scratched or carved into a surface | Synonyms: dent, incision, scratch, slit |
| prickleback | (noun) small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines | - |
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| (noun) small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | Synonyms: stickleback |
| prisonbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking |
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| promptbook | (noun) the copy of the playscript used by the prompter | Synonyms: prompt copy |
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| prongbuck | (noun) fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns | Synonyms: American antelope, Antilocapra americana, pronghorn, pronghorn antelope |
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| puck | (noun) a vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey | Synonyms: hockey puck |
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| pullback | (noun) (military) the act of pulling back (especially an orderly withdrawal of troops) | - |
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| (noun) a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back | Synonyms: tieback |
| punk | (noun) rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock | Synonyms: punk rock |
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| (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie |
| (noun) a teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture | Synonyms: punk rocker |
| (noun) substance that smolders when ignited; used to light fuses (especially fireworks) | - |
| (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, spunk, tinder, touchwood |
| quack | (noun) the harsh sound of a duck | - |
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| (noun) an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice | - |
| quark | (noun) fresh unripened cheese of a smooth texture made from pasteurized milk, a starter, and rennet | Synonyms: quark cheese |
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| (noun) (physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six flavors of quarks (and their antiquarks), which come in pairs; each has an electric charge of +2/3 or -1/3 | - |
| quarterback | (noun) (American football) the position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team | Synonyms: field general, signal caller |
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| (noun) (football) the person who plays quarterback | Synonyms: field general, signal caller |
| quarterdeck | (noun) the stern area of a ship's upper deck | - |
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| quick | (noun) any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail) | - |
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| quirk | (noun) a narrow groove beside a beading | - |
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| (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, queerness, quirkiness |
| racetrack | (noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racecourse, raceway, track |
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| rack | (noun) a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately | Synonyms: single-foot |
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| (noun) a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body | - |
| (noun) a support for displaying ot holding various articles | Synonyms: stand |
| (noun) an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims | Synonyms: wheel |
| (noun) the destruction or collapse of something | Synonyms: wrack |
| (noun) rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton | - |
| rank | (noun) a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another | - |
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| (noun) the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army) | Synonyms: rank and file |
| (noun) the body of members of an organization or group | Synonyms: membership |
| (noun) relative status | - |
| (noun) position in a social hierarchy | Synonyms: social rank, social station, social status |
| ravehook | (noun) a hooked hand tool used to prepare the seams of a boat for oakum | - |
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| razorback | (noun) a mongrel hog with a thin body and long legs and a ridged back; a wild or semi-wild descendant of improved breeds; found chiefly in the southeastern United States | Synonyms: razorback hog, razorbacked hog |
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| (noun) any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin | Synonyms: rorqual |
| realpolitik | (noun) politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations | Synonyms: practical politics |
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| redneck | (noun) a poor White person in the southern United States | Synonyms: cracker |
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| redshank | (noun) a common Old World wading bird with long red legs | Synonyms: Tringa totanus |
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| reek | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, stench, stink |
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| remark | (noun) explicit notice | - |
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| (noun) a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information | Synonyms: comment, input |
| rethink | (noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: afterthought, reconsideration, second thought |
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| rick | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: hayrick, haystack |
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| (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, kink, wrick |
| rickrack | (noun) a narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming | Synonyms: ricrac |
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| rink | (noun) building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating | Synonyms: skating rink |
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| risk | (noun) a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury | Synonyms: danger, peril |
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| (noun) the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent | Synonyms: risk of exposure |
| (noun) the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred | Synonyms: risk of infection |
| (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: endangerment, hazard, jeopardy, peril |
| riverbank | (noun) the bank of a river | Synonyms: riverside |
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| roadblock | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: barricade |
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| (noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: barrier |
| roadbook | (noun) a guidebook describing the roads of a country; contains maps and (sometimes) a gazetteer | - |
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| rock | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: careen, sway, tilt |
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| (noun) a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western | Synonyms: rock-and-roll, rock'n'roll, rock 'n' roll, rock and roll, rock music |
| (noun) hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint) | Synonyms: rock candy |
| (noun) a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter | Synonyms: stone |
| (noun) (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable | - |
| (noun) material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust | Synonyms: stone |
| rockchuck | (noun) heavy-bodied yellowish-brown marmot of rocky areas of western North America | Synonyms: Marmota flaviventris, yellowbelly marmot |
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| roebuck | (noun) male roe deer | - |
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| rollback | (noun) the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw | Synonyms: push back |
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| (noun) reducing prices back to some earlier level | - |
| rook | (noun) common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow | Synonyms: Corvus frugilegus |
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| (noun) (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard | Synonyms: castle |
| rootstalk | (noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rhizome, rootstock |
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| rootstock | (noun) root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots | - |
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| (noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rhizome, rootstalk |
| ropebark | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, moosewood, wicopy |
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| ropewalk | (noun) workplace consisting of a long narrow path or shed where rope is made | Synonyms: rope yard |
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| roughneck | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| rowlock | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: oarlock, peg, pin, thole, tholepin |
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| rubberneck | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubbernecker |
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| (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, sightseer, tripper |
| ruck | (noun) a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things | Synonyms: herd |
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| (noun) an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth) | Synonyms: pucker |
| rucksack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, haversack, knapsack, packsack |
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| rudderstock | (noun) a vertical post at the forward edge of a rudder that enables the rudder to pivot | Synonyms: rudderpost |
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| rusk | (noun) slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp | Synonyms: Brussels biscuit, twice-baked bread, zwieback |
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| sack | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sacking |
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| (noun) the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter | - |
| (noun) a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases | Synonyms: carrier bag, paper bag, poke |
| (noun) a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist | Synonyms: chemise, shift |
| (noun) a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily | Synonyms: hammock |
| (noun) a woman's full loose hiplength jacket | Synonyms: sacque |
| (noun) any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry) | - |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a sack | Synonyms: sackful |
| (noun) an enclosed space | Synonyms: pocket, pouch, sac |
| saddleback | (noun) a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end | Synonyms: gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback roof |
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| (noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddle |
| salesclerk | (noun) a salesperson in a store | Synonyms: clerk, shop assistant, shop clerk |
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| sandbank | (noun) a submerged bank of sand near a shore or in a river; can be exposed at low tide | - |
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| sawbuck | (noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, horse, sawhorse |
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| schlock | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: dreck, shlock |
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| schmuck | (noun) (Yiddish) a jerk | Synonyms: schmo, shmo, shmuck |
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| schnook | (noun) (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised | Synonyms: shnook |
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| schoolbook | (noun) a book prepared for use in schools or colleges | Synonyms: school text, text, text edition, textbook |
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| schoolwork | (noun) work, such as schoolwork or piecework, that is done at home | Synonyms: homework, school assignment |
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| schtick | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
| schtik | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
| scrapbook | (noun) an album into which clippings or notes or pictures can be pasted | - |
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| seek | (noun) the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk | - |
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| setback | (noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reversal, reverse |
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| shack | (noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling | Synonyms: hovel, hut, hutch, shanty |
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| shaddock | (noun) large pear-shaped fruit similar to grapefruit but with coarse dry pulp | Synonyms: pomelo |
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| (noun) southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits | Synonyms: Citrus decumana, Citrus grandis, Citrus maxima, pomelo, pomelo tree, pummelo |
| shagbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark hickory |
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| shamrock | (noun) clover native to Ireland with yellowish flowers; often considered the true or original shamrock | Synonyms: hop clover, lesser yellow trefoil, Trifolium dubium |
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| (noun) creeping European clover having white to pink flowers and bright green leaves; naturalized in United States; widely grown for forage | Synonyms: dutch clover, Trifolium repens, white clover |
| (noun) Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers | Synonyms: common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, Oxalis acetosella |
| shank | (noun) a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball | - |
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| (noun) lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals | Synonyms: cannon |
| (noun) the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole | Synonyms: waist |
| (noun) cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill | - |
| (noun) cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head | - |
| (noun) cylinder forming a long narrow part of something | Synonyms: stem |
| (noun) the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle | - |
| (noun) a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg | - |
| shark | (noun) any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales | - |
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| (noun) a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways | - |
| (noun) a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest | - |
| sheepshank | (noun) a knot for shortening a line | - |
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| sheepwalk | (noun) farm devoted to raising sheep | Synonyms: sheeprun |
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| sheik | (noun) the leader of an Arab village or family | Synonyms: Arab chief, sheikh, tribal sheik, tribal sheikh |
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| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, swell |
| shelduck | (noun) female sheldrake | - |
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| shellbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark hickory |
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| sherlock | (noun) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | Synonyms: operative, PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus |
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| shipwreck | (noun) a wrecked ship (or a part of one) | - |
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| (noun) an accident that destroys a ship at sea | Synonyms: wreck |
| (noun) an irretrievable loss | - |
| shitwork | (noun) trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores | Synonyms: scut work |
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| shlock | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: dreck, schlock |
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| shmuck | (noun) (Yiddish) a jerk | Synonyms: schmo, schmuck, shmo |
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| shnook | (noun) (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised | Synonyms: schnook |
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| shock | (noun) a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body | Synonyms: electric shock, electrical shock |
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| (noun) the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat | Synonyms: impact |
| (noun) a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses | Synonyms: cushion, shock absorber |
| (noun) an instance of agitation of the earth's crust | Synonyms: seismic disturbance |
| (noun) an unpleasant or disappointing surprise | Synonyms: blow |
| (noun) a sudden jarring impact | Synonyms: jar, jolt, jounce |
| (noun) the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally | Synonyms: daze, stupor |
| (noun) a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field | - |
| (noun) a bushy thick mass (especially hair) | - |
| (noun) (pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor | - |
| shoeblack | (noun) a person who polishes shoes and boots | Synonyms: bootblack |
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| shook | (noun) a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment | - |
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| shriek | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shrieking |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shrieking |
| shrink | (noun) a physician who specializes in psychiatry | Synonyms: head-shrinker, psychiatrist |
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| shtick | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
| shtik | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |
| shuck | (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, husk, stalk, straw, stubble |
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| shuttlecock | (noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: bird, birdie, shuttle |
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| shylock | (noun) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | Synonyms: loan shark, moneylender, usurer |
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| sick | (noun) people who are sick | - |
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| sidekick | (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: brother, buddy, chum, crony, pal |
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| sidetrack | (noun) a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass | Synonyms: railroad siding, siding, turnout |
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| sidewalk | (noun) walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway | Synonyms: pavement |
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| silk | (noun) a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae | - |
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| (noun) animal fibers produced by silkworms and other larvae that spin cocoons and by most spiders | - |
| silverback | (noun) an adult male gorilla with grey hairs across the back | - |
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