| bribe | (noun) payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment | Synonyms: payoff |
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| caribe | (noun) small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals | Synonyms: pirana, piranha |
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| diatribe | (noun) thunderous verbal attack | Synonyms: fulmination |
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| scribe | (noun) a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut | Synonyms: scratch awl, scriber |
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| (noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: penman, scribbler |
| (noun) someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts | Synonyms: copyist, scrivener |
| tribe | (noun) a social division of (usually preliterate) people | Synonyms: folk |
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| (noun) a federation (as of American Indians) | Synonyms: federation of tribes |
| (noun) group of people related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group |
| (noun) (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily | - |