| aggro | (noun) (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression | - |
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| allegro | (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed quickly in a brisk lively manner | - |
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| (noun) a brisk and lively tempo | - |
| antihero | (noun) a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine) | - |
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| appro | (noun) an informal British abbreviation of approval | - |
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| autogiro | (noun) an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller | Synonyms: autogyro, gyroplane |
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| autogyro | (noun) an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller | Synonyms: autogiro, gyroplane |
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| banderillero | (noun) the bullfighter who implants decorated darts (banderillas) into the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight | - |
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| bistro | (noun) a small informal restaurant; serves wine | - |
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| bolero | (noun) a Spanish dance in triple time accompanied by guitar and castanets | - |
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| (noun) a short jacket; worn mostly by women | - |
| (noun) music written in the rhythm of the bolero dance | - |
| bracero | (noun) a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II | - |
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| burro | (noun) small donkey used as a pack animal | - |
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| cero | (noun) large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters | Synonyms: kingfish, pintado, Scomberomorus regalis |
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| (noun) large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil | Synonyms: cavalla, king mackerel, Scomberomorus cavalla |
| chiaroscuro | (noun) a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color | - |
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| cicero | (noun) a linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em | - |
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| cilantro | (noun) parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, coriander |
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| (noun) Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, coriander, coriander plant, Coriandrum sativum |
| claro | (noun) a cigar made with light-colored tobacco | - |
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| curandero | (noun) a Mexican man who practices healing techniques inherited from the Mayans | - |
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| dinero | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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| euro | (noun) the basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies | - |
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| faro | (noun) a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box | - |
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| gabbro | (noun) one of a family of granular intrusive rocks | - |
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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 |
| 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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| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| macro | (noun) a single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language | Synonyms: macro instruction |
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| maestro | (noun) an artist of consummate skill | Synonyms: master |
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| metro | (noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | Synonyms: subway, subway system, tube, underground |
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| miro | (noun) New Zealand conifer used for lumber; the dark wood is used for interior carpentry | Synonyms: black pine, Podocarpus ferruginea, Prumnopitys ferruginea |
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| novillero | (noun) a bullfighter who is required to fight bulls less than four years of age | - |
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| politburo | (noun) the chief executive and political committee of the Communist Party | - |
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| poroporo | (noun) Australian annual sometimes cultivated for its racemes of purple flowers and edible yellow egg-shaped fruit | Synonyms: kangaroo apple, Solanum aviculare |
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| pro | (noun) an argument in favor of a proposal | - |
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| (noun) an athlete who plays for pay | Synonyms: professional |
| retro | (noun) a fashion reminiscent of the past | - |
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| saguaro | (noun) extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit | Synonyms: Carnegiea gigantea, sahuaro |
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| sahuaro | (noun) extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit | Synonyms: Carnegiea gigantea, saguaro |
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| semipro | (noun) an athlete who plays for pay on a part-time basis | Synonyms: semiprofessional |
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| sombrero | (noun) a straw hat with a tall crown and broad brim; worn in American southwest and in Mexico | - |
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| synchro | (noun) a system consisting of a generator and a motor so connected that the motor will assume the same relative position as the generator; the generator and the motor are synchronized | Synonyms: selsyn |
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| taro | (noun) tropical starchy tuberous root | Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, edda, taro root |
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| (noun) herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves | Synonyms: Colocasia esculenta, dalo, dasheen, taro plant |
| (noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: cocoyam, dasheen, eddo |
| tiro | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: beginner, initiate, novice, tyro |
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| torero | (noun) a matador or one of the supporting team during a bull fight | - |
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| tyro | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: beginner, initiate, novice, tiro |
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| vaquero | (noun) local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) | Synonyms: buckaroo, buckeroo |
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| zero | (noun) the sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing | - |
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| (noun) the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured | Synonyms: zero point |
| (noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number | Synonyms: 0, cipher, cypher, nought |
| (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zilch, zip, zippo |