| folio | (noun) a book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages | - |
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| (noun) a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book) | Synonyms: leaf |
| (noun) the system of numbering pages | Synonyms: page number, pagination, paging |
| fortissimo | (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed very loudly | - |
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| fresco | (noun) a durable method of painting on a wall by using watercolors on wet plaster | - |
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| (noun) a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster | - |
| frijolillo | (noun) shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans | Synonyms: coral bean, frijolito, mescal bean, Sophora secundiflora |
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| frijolito | (noun) shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans | Synonyms: coral bean, frijolillo, mescal bean, Sophora secundiflora |
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| gabbro | (noun) one of a family of granular intrusive rocks | - |
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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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| garbanzo | (noun) large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried | Synonyms: chickpea |
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| (noun) the seed of the chickpea plant | Synonyms: chickpea |
| gaucho | (noun) a cowboy of the South American Pampas | - |
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| gazebo | (noun) a small roofed building affording shade and rest | Synonyms: summerhouse |
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| gazpacho | (noun) a soup made with chopped tomatoes and onions and cucumbers and peppers and herbs; served cold | - |
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| gecko | (noun) any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless | - |
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| generalissimo | (noun) the officer who holds the supreme command | Synonyms: commander-in-chief, commander in chief |
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| gesso | (noun) gypsum or plaster of Paris spread on a surface to make it suitable for painting or gilding (or a surface so prepared) | - |
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| ghetto | (noun) formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live | - |
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| (noun) a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions | - |
| (noun) any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping | - |
| gigolo | (noun) a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman | - |
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| gingko | (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: ginkgo, Ginkgo biloba, maidenhair tree |
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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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| ginzo | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, greaseball, Guinea, wop |
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| giro | (noun) a British financial system in which a bank or a post office transfers money from one account to another when they receive authorization to do so | - |
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| (noun) a check given by the British government to someone who is unemployed; it can be cashed either at a bank or at the post office | Synonyms: giro cheque |
| gismo | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gizmo, widget |
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| (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
| gitano | (noun) a Spanish male Gypsy | - |
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| gizmo | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gismo, widget |
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| (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
| glissando | (noun) a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale | - |
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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 |
| goo | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
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| graffito | (noun) a rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls | Synonyms: graffiti |
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| granadillo | (noun) West Indian tree yielding a fine grade of green ebony | Synonyms: Brya ebenus, granadilla tree |
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| gringo | (noun) a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen) | - |
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| grissino | (noun) a long slender crusty breadstick | - |
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| grotto | (noun) a small cave (usually with attractive features) | Synonyms: grot |
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| guacharo | (noun) nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter | Synonyms: oilbird, Steatornis caripensis |
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| guanaco | (noun) wild llama | Synonyms: Lama guanicoe |
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| guano | (noun) the excrement of sea birds; used as fertilizer | - |
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| gumbo | (noun) a soup or stew thickened with okra pods | - |
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| (noun) long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews | Synonyms: okra |
| (noun) tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus | Synonyms: Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus, lady's-finger, okra, okra plant |
| (noun) any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water | Synonyms: gumbo soil |
| gusto | (noun) vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment | Synonyms: relish, zest, zestfulness |
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| gyro | (noun) rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction | Synonyms: gyroscope |
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| (noun) a Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread | - |
| hairdo | (noun) the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) | Synonyms: coif, coiffure, hair style, hairstyle |
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| halloo | (noun) a shout to attract attention | - |
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| halo | (noun) an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint | Synonyms: aura, aureole, gloriole, glory, nimbus |
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| (noun) a circle of light around the sun or moon | - |
| (noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, annulus, doughnut, ring |
| hao | (noun) 10 hao equal 1 dong in Vietnam | - |
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| hello | (noun) an expression of greeting | Synonyms: hi, how-do-you-do, howdy, hullo |
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| hero | (noun) the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem | - |
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| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
| (noun) a person distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength | - |
| (noun) someone who fights for a cause | Synonyms: champion, fighter, paladin |
| (noun) (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god | - |
| hippo | (noun) massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa | Synonyms: hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius, river horse |
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| ho | (noun) A sexually loose woman | Synonyms: hoe, hussy, slut, trollop |
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| hobo | (noun) a vagrant | Synonyms: bum, tramp |
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| (noun) a worker who moves around and works temporarily in different places | Synonyms: migrant worker |
| hollo | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| homo | (noun) any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage | Synonyms: human, human being, man |
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| (noun) someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gay, homophile, homosexual |
| honcho | (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: boss, chief, foreman, gaffer |
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| hoodoo | (noun) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers | Synonyms: fetich, fetish, juju, voodoo |
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| (noun) something believed to bring bad luck | - |
| (noun) a practitioner of voodoo | - |
| (noun) (geology) a column of weathered and unusually shaped rock | - |
| hoopoo | (noun) any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill | Synonyms: hoopoe |
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| hullabaloo | (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, excitement, turmoil, upheaval |
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| hullo | (noun) an expression of greeting | Synonyms: hello, hi, how-do-you-do, howdy |
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| hypo | (noun) a piston syringe that is fitted with a hypodermic needle for giving injections | Synonyms: hypodermic, hypodermic syringe |
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| (noun) a compound used as a fixing agent in photographic developing | Synonyms: sodium thiosulfate, sodium thiosulphate |
| icaco | (noun) plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves; tropical American | Synonyms: coco plum, cocoa plum |
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| (noun) small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit | Synonyms: Chrysobalanus icaco, coco plum, coco plum tree, cocoa plum |
| igloo | (noun) an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome | Synonyms: iglu |
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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 | - |
| imbroglio | (noun) a very embarrassing misunderstanding | - |
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| (noun) an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation | Synonyms: embroilment |
| impasto | (noun) painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible | - |
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| 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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| impresario | (noun) a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments | Synonyms: promoter, showman |
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| inamorato | (noun) a man with whom you are in love or have an intimate relationship | - |
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| incienso | (noun) fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine | Synonyms: brittle bush, brittlebush, Encelia farinosa |
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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 |
| inferno | (noun) a very intense and uncontrolled fire | Synonyms: conflagration |
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| (noun) any place of pain and turmoil | Synonyms: hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits |
| info | (noun) a message received and understood | Synonyms: information |
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| innuendo | (noun) an indirect (and usually malicious) implication | Synonyms: insinuation |
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| intaglio | (noun) glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo) | Synonyms: diaglyph |
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| (noun) a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print | Synonyms: gravure, intaglio printing |
| intercessio | (noun) the right of veto possessed by Roman magistrates. | - |
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| intermezzo | (noun) a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance | Synonyms: entr'acte, interlude |
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| (noun) a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera | - |
| (noun) a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony | - |
| internuncio | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope ranking below a nuncio | - |
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| 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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| intro | (noun) formally making a person known to another or to the public | Synonyms: introduction, presentation |
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| (noun) a brief introductory passage to a piece of popular music | - |
| jaboncillo | (noun) evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans | Synonyms: China tree, chinaberry, false dogwood, Sapindus saponaria |
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| jalapeno | (noun) hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: jalapeno pepper |
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| (noun) plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red | Synonyms: Capsicum annuum longum, cayenne, cayenne pepper, chili pepper, chilli pepper, long pepper |
| jello | (noun) fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder | Synonyms: Jell-O |
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| jiao | (noun) 10 jiao equal 1 yuan in China | - |
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| jigaboo | (noun) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person | Synonyms: nigga, nigger, nigra |
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| jingo | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingoist, patrioteer |
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| judo | (noun) a sport adapted from jujitsu (using principles of not resisting) and similar to wrestling; developed in Japan | - |
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| junco | (noun) small North American finch seen chiefly in winter | Synonyms: snowbird |
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| junto | (noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | Synonyms: cabal, camarilla, faction |
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| kangaroo | (noun) any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail | - |
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| kayo | (noun) a blow that renders the opponent unconscious | Synonyms: knockout, KO |
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| kazoo | (noun) a toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece | - |
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| keno | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: beano, bingo, lotto |
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| kilo | (noun) one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: kg, kilogram |
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| kimono | (noun) a loose robe; imitated from robes originally worn by Japanese | - |
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| kino | (noun) East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning | Synonyms: Pterocarpus marsupium |
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| (noun) a gum obtained from various tropical plants; used as an astringent and in tanning | Synonyms: gum kino, kino gum |
| kiwano | (noun) a fruit that has orange skin and lime green, jelly-like flesh with a refreshingly fruity taste, and texture similar to a passionfruit or pomegranate; grows on the annual vine Cucumis metuliferus. | - |
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| kobo | (noun) 100 kobos equal 1 naira in Nigeria | - |
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| koodoo | (noun) either of two spiral-horned antelopes of the African bush | Synonyms: koudou, kudu |
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| koto | (noun) Japanese stringed instrument that resembles a zither; has a rectangular wooden sounding board and usually 13 silk strings that are plucked with the fingers | - |
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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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| larghetto | (noun) (music) a composition or passage played in a slow tempo slightly faster than largo but slower than adagio | - |
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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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| lasso | (noun) a long noosed rope used to catch animals | Synonyms: lariat, reata, riata |
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| lavabo | (noun) a basin for washing the hands | Synonyms: handbasin, wash-hand basin, washbasin, washbowl |
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| lazaretto | (noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy) | Synonyms: lazar house, lazaret, lazarette, pesthouse |
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| (noun) a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship | Synonyms: glory hole |
| lentigo | (noun) a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin | Synonyms: freckle |
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