| flattop | (noun) a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings | Synonyms: aircraft carrier, attack aircraft carrier, carrier |
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| (noun) a closely cropped haircut; usually for men or boys | Synonyms: butch, crew cut |
| flip | (noun) (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team | Synonyms: pass, toss |
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| (noun) the act of flipping a coin | Synonyms: toss |
| (noun) a dive in which the diver somersaults before entering the water | - |
| (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: somersault, somersaulting, somerset, summersault, summerset |
| (noun) a sudden, quick movement | - |
| (noun) hot or cold alcoholic mixed drink containing a beaten egg | - |
| flop | (noun) the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink | Synonyms: collapse |
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| (noun) a complete failure | Synonyms: bust, fizzle |
| (noun) someone who is unsuccessful | Synonyms: dud, washout |
| (noun) an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers | Synonyms: floating-point operation |
| flytrap | (noun) a trap for catching flies | - |
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| foglamp | (noun) headlight that provides strong beam for use in foggy weather | - |
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| followup | (noun) a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment | Synonyms: follow-up, reexamination, review |
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| (noun) an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done | Synonyms: follow-up |
| (noun) a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work | Synonyms: follow-up |
| foolscap | (noun) a size of paper used especially in Britain | - |
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| footstep | (noun) the act of taking a step in walking | - |
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| (noun) the sound of a step of someone walking | Synonyms: footfall, step |
| (noun) the distance covered by a step | Synonyms: pace, step, stride |
| fop | (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, gallant, sheik, swell |
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| foremanship | (noun) the position of foreman | - |
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| foretop | (noun) a lock of a horse's mane that grows forward between the ears | Synonyms: forelock |
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| (noun) a platform at the head of a foremast | - |
| friendship | (noun) the state of being friends (or friendly) | Synonyms: friendly relationship |
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| frump | (noun) a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman | Synonyms: dog |
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| fuckup | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, pratfall |
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| (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
| gallop | (noun) a fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously | - |
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| galop | (noun) music suitable for a galop dance | - |
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| gamesmanship | (noun) the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win a game | - |
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| gamp | (noun) colloquial terms for an umbrella | Synonyms: brolly |
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| gap | (noun) an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Synonyms: break, disruption, interruption |
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| (noun) a narrow opening | Synonyms: crack |
| (noun) a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures | Synonyms: spread |
| (noun) a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations | - |
| (noun) an open or empty space in or between things | Synonyms: opening |
| (noun) a pass between mountain peaks; geomorphological term for the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks | Synonyms: col |
| gasp | (noun) a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open | Synonyms: pant |
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| generalship | (noun) the office and authority of a general | Synonyms: generalcy |
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| (noun) the leadership ability of a military general | - |
| genip | (noun) round one-inch Caribbean fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp; eaten like grapes | Synonyms: Spanish lime |
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| (noun) tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp | Synonyms: ginep, honey berry, mamoncillo, Melicocca bijuga, Melicocca bijugatus, Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree |
| genipap | (noun) a succulent orange-sized tropical fruit with a thick rind | Synonyms: genipap fruit |
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| getup | (noun) a set of clothing (with accessories) | Synonyms: outfit, rig, turnout |
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| gigaflop | (noun) a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion floating point operations per second. | Synonyms: billion floating point operations per second, GFLOPS |
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| gimp | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimpiness, lameness, limping |
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| ginep | (noun) tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp | Synonyms: genip, honey berry, mamoncillo, Melicocca bijuga, Melicocca bijugatus, Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree |
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| gingersnap | (noun) a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger | Synonyms: ginger nut, ginger snap, snap |
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| gip | (noun) (sometimes offensive) an act of swindling or cheating | Synonyms: gyp |
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| glop | (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: mush, slop, treacle |
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| (noun) any gummy shapeless matter; usually unpleasant | - |
| goldcup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, crowfoot, kingcup |
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| goop | (noun) street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate | Synonyms: easy lay, Georgia home boy, grievous bodily harm, liquid ecstasy, max, scoop, soap |
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| (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
| goosebump | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, gooseflesh, horripilation, pilomotor reflex |
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| gossip | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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| (noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: comment, scuttlebutt |
| (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
| governorship | (noun) the office of governor | - |
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| grasp | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grip, hold |
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| (noun) an intellectual hold or understanding | Synonyms: grip |
| (noun) understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something | Synonyms: appreciation, hold |
| (noun) the limit of capability | Synonyms: compass, range, reach |
| grip | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, hold |
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| (noun) a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes | Synonyms: bag, suitcase, traveling bag, travelling bag |
| (noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: handgrip, handle, hold |
| (noun) a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place | Synonyms: bobby pin, hairgrip |
| (noun) an intellectual hold or understanding | Synonyms: grasp |
| (noun) worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made | - |
| (noun) the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road) | Synonyms: adhesive friction, traction |
| group | (noun) any number of entities (members) considered as a unit | Synonyms: grouping |
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| (noun) a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse | Synonyms: mathematical group |
| (noun) (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule | Synonyms: chemical group, radical |
| grownup | (noun) a fully developed person from maturity onward | Synonyms: adult |
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| grump | (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crank, crosspatch, grouch |
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| guardianship | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: keeping, safekeeping |
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| (noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, charge, tutelage |
| gulp | (noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draft, draught, swig |
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| (noun) a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing | Synonyms: gulping |
| gumdrop | (noun) a jellied candy coated with sugar crystals | - |
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| gymslip | (noun) a sleeveless tunic worn by English girls as part of a school uniform | - |
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| gyp | (noun) (sometimes offensive) an act of swindling or cheating | Synonyms: gip |
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| hairgrip | (noun) a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place | Synonyms: bobby pin, grip |
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| handclap | (noun) a clap of the hands to indicate approval | - |
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| handclasp | (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handshake, handshaking, shake |
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| handgrip | (noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: grip, handle, hold |
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| handicap | (noun) advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning | - |
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| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
| (noun) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness | Synonyms: disability, disablement, impairment |
| handstamp | (noun) a stamp (usually made of rubber) for imprinting a mark or design by hand | Synonyms: rubber stamp |
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| hap | (noun) an accidental happening | - |
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| hardship | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) something that causes or entails suffering | - |
| (noun) a state of misfortune or affliction | Synonyms: adversity, hard knocks |
| hardtop | (noun) a car that resembles a convertible but has a fixed rigid top | - |
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| harelip | (noun) a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip | Synonyms: cheiloschisis, cleft lip |
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| harp | (noun) a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade | - |
| (noun) a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole | Synonyms: harmonica, mouth harp, mouth organ |
| hasp | (noun) a fastener for a door or lid; a hinged metal plate is fitted over a staple and is locked with a pin or padlock | - |
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| headlamp | (noun) a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | Synonyms: headlight |
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| headmastership | (noun) the position of headmaster | - |
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| headmistressship | (noun) the position of headmistress | - |
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| headship | (noun) the position of head | - |
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| (noun) the position of headmaster or headmistress | - |
| heap | (noun) a car that is old and unreliable | Synonyms: bus, jalopy |
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| (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, mound, pile |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| heeltip | (noun) The bottom end of a heel, usually made of plastic or metal. | Synonyms: heel tip |
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| help | (noun) the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: aid, assist, assistance |
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| (noun) a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do | Synonyms: aid, assistance |
| (noun) a means of serving | Synonyms: avail, service |
| (noun) a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: assistant, helper, supporter |
| hemp | (noun) a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging | Synonyms: halter, hangman's halter, hangman's rope, hempen necktie |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs | Synonyms: cannabis |
| (noun) a plant fiber | - |
| hencoop | (noun) a farm building for housing poultry | Synonyms: chicken coop, coop, henhouse |
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| hiccup | (noun) (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion | Synonyms: hiccough, singultus |
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| hilltop | (noun) the peak of a hill | Synonyms: brow |
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| hip | (noun) either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh | - |
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| (noun) the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates | Synonyms: pelvic arch, pelvic girdle, pelvis |
| (noun) the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum | Synonyms: articulatio coxae, coxa, hip joint |
| (noun) the fruit of a rose plant | Synonyms: rose hip, rosehip |
| (noun) (architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof | - |
| holdup | (noun) robbery at gunpoint | Synonyms: armed robbery, heist, stickup |
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| (noun) the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time | Synonyms: delay |
| hookup | (noun) a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose | Synonyms: assemblage |
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| (noun) a device providing a connection between a power source and a user | - |
| hoop | (noun) a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling | Synonyms: ring |
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| (noun) a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt | - |
| (noun) a small arch used as croquet equipment | Synonyms: wicket |
| (noun) horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball | Synonyms: basket, basketball hoop |
| hop | (noun) the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot) | - |
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| (noun) an informal dance where popular music is played | Synonyms: record hop |
| (noun) twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer | Synonyms: hops |
| horsemanship | (noun) skill in handling and riding horses | - |
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| horsewhip | (noun) a whip for controlling horses | - |
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| housetop | (noun) the roof of a house | - |
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| hubcap | (noun) cap that fits over the hub of a wheel | - |
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| hump | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
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| hyssop | (noun) bitter leaves used sparingly in salads; dried flowers used in soups and tisanes | - |
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| (noun) a European mint with aromatic and pungent leaves used in perfumery and as a seasoning in cookery; often cultivated as a remedy for bruises; yields hyssop oil | Synonyms: Hyssopus officinalis |
| icecap | (noun) a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak) | Synonyms: ice cap |
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| imp | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
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| (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: brownie, elf, gremlin, hob, pixie, pixy |
| ingroup | (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: camp, clique, coterie, inner circle, pack |
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| inspectorship | (noun) the office of inspector | - |
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| instep | (noun) the part of a shoe or stocking that covers the arch of the foot | - |
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| (noun) the arch of the foot | - |
| instructorship | (noun) the position of instructor | - |
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| internship | (noun) the position of a medical intern | - |
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| interrelationship | (noun) mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness | Synonyms: interrelatedness, interrelation |
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| jeep | (noun) a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain | Synonyms: landrover |
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| jockstrap | (noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jock, supporter, suspensor |
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| judgeship | (noun) the position of judge | Synonyms: judicature |
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| julep | (noun) bourbon and sugar and mint over crushed ice | Synonyms: mint julep |
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| jump | (noun) the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground | Synonyms: jumping |
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| (noun) a sudden involuntary movement | Synonyms: start, startle |
| (noun) descent with a parachute | Synonyms: parachuting |
| (noun) (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another | - |
| (noun) an abrupt transition | Synonyms: leap, saltation |
| (noun) a sudden and decisive increase | Synonyms: leap |
| keep | (noun) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress | Synonyms: donjon, dungeon |
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| (noun) a cell in a jail or prison | Synonyms: hold |
| (noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, livelihood, living, support, sustenance |
| kelp | (noun) large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds | - |
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| ketchup | (noun) thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes | Synonyms: catsup, cetchup, tomato ketchup |
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| kingcup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup |
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| (noun) swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups | Synonyms: Caltha palustris, cowslip, marsh marigold, May blob, meadow bright, water dragon |
| kingship | (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a king | - |
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| kinship | (noun) (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption | Synonyms: family relationship, relationship |
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| (noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character | Synonyms: affinity |
| kip | (noun) a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright | Synonyms: upstart |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Laos | - |
| (noun) sleep | - |
| kneecap | (noun) a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint | Synonyms: kneepan, patella |
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