analects | (noun) a collection of excerpts from a literary work | Synonyms: analecta |
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ancients | (noun) people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe) | - |
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anklets | (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklet, bobbysock, bobbysocks |
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arts | (noun) studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) | Synonyms: humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts |
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assets | (noun) anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company | - |
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beats | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | Synonyms: beat generation, beatniks |
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blewits | (noun) edible agaric that is pale lilac when young; has a smooth moist cap | Synonyms: Clitocybe nuda |
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boxershorts | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, drawers, shorts, underdrawers |
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castanets | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | Synonyms: bones, clappers, finger cymbals |
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cleats | (noun) shoes with leather or metal projections on the soles | - |
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comforts | (noun) things that make you comfortable and at ease | Synonyms: amenities, conveniences, creature comforts |
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compliments | (noun) (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare | Synonyms: regard, wish |
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contents | (noun) a list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start | Synonyms: table of contents |
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(noun) (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something | Synonyms: content |
costs | (noun) pecuniary reimbursement to the winning party for the expenses of litigation | - |
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credits | (noun) a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film) | - |
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darts | (noun) a game in which small pointed missiles are thrown at a dartboard | - |
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descendants | (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: posterity |
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draughts | (noun) a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | Synonyms: checkers |
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eats | (noun) informal terms for a meal | Synonyms: chow, chuck, grub |
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effects | (noun) property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business | Synonyms: personal effects |
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elements | (noun) violent or severe weather (viewed as caused by the action of the four elements) | - |
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entremets | (noun) a dish that is served with, but is subordinate to, a main course | Synonyms: side dish, side order |
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esports | (noun) electronic sports | - |
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flats | (noun) footwear (shoes or slippers) with no heel (or a very low heel) | - |
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footlights | (noun) theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors | - |
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giblets | (noun) edible viscera of a fowl | Synonyms: giblet |
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grits | (noun) coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States | Synonyms: hominy grits |
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groats | (noun) the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals | - |
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guts | (noun) fortitude and determination | Synonyms: backbone, grit, gumption, moxie, sand |
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hearts | (noun) a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades | Synonyms: Black Maria |
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heights | (noun) a high place | Synonyms: high |
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houselights | (noun) lights that illuminate the audience's part of a theater or other auditorium | - |
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lats | (noun) the basic unit of money in Latvia | - |
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lots | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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muniments | (noun) deeds and other documentary evidence of title to land | - |
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oddments | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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outskirts | (noun) outlying areas (as of a city or town) | - |
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pants | (noun) (used in the plural) underpants worn by women | Synonyms: bloomers, drawers, knickers |
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parts | (noun) the local environment | - |
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peanuts | (noun) an insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount | - |
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plaudits | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, acclamation, eclat, plaudit |
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profits | (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit |
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(noun) something won (especially money) | Synonyms: win, winnings |
quoits | (noun) a game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it | Synonyms: horseshoes |
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rafts | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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receipts | (noun) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made | Synonyms: gross, revenue |
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regrets | (noun) a polite refusal of an invitation | Synonyms: declination |
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respects | (noun) (often used with `pay') a formal expression of esteem | - |
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rickets | (noun) childhood disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D and sunlight associated with impaired metabolism of calcium and phosphorus | Synonyms: rachitis |
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roots | (noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage | - |
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rudiments | (noun) the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural) | Synonyms: alphabet, first principles |
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(noun) a statement of fundamental facts or principles | Synonyms: basics |
seats | (noun) an area that includes places where several people can sit | Synonyms: seating, seating area, seating room |
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shorts | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee | Synonyms: short pants, trunks |
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(noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, drawers, underdrawers |
sights | (noun) an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument | - |
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silents | (noun) a movie without a soundtrack | Synonyms: silent movie, silent picture |
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slyboots | (noun) a shifty deceptive person | Synonyms: dodger, fox |
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spirits | (noun) an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented | Synonyms: booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, liquor, strong drink |
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spots | (noun) spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens | Synonyms: floater, musca volitans, muscae volitantes |
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starets | (noun) a religious adviser (not necessarily a priest) in the Eastern Orthodox Church | - |
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straits | (noun) a difficult juncture | Synonyms: head, pass |
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(noun) a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Synonyms: pass, strait |
sweatpants | (noun) loose-fitting trousers with elastic cuffs; worn by athletes | Synonyms: sweat pants |
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sweats | (noun) garment consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt | Synonyms: sweat suit, sweatsuit, workout suit |
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tights | (noun) skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls | Synonyms: leotards |
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trumpets | (noun) pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with wide mouths and erect lids | Synonyms: huntsman's horn, huntsman's horns, Sarracenia flava, yellow pitcher plant, yellow trumpet |
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underpants | (noun) an undergarment that covers the body from the waist no further than to the thighs; usually worn next to the skin | - |
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whereabouts | (noun) the general location where something is | - |
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wits | (noun) the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception | Synonyms: marbles |
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