charade | (noun) making a false outward show | Synonyms: masquerade |
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(noun) a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades | - |
charades | (noun) guessing game in which one player pantomimes a word or phrase for others to guess | - |
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charcoal | (noun) a stick of black carbon material used for drawing | Synonyms: fusain |
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(noun) a drawing made with a stick of black carbon material | - |
(noun) a very dark grey color | Synonyms: charcoal gray, charcoal grey, oxford gray, oxford grey |
(noun) a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air | Synonyms: wood coal |
charcuterie | (noun) a delicatessen that specializes in meats | - |
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chard | (noun) long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves | Synonyms: leaf beet, spinach beet, Swiss chard |
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(noun) beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks | Synonyms: Beta vulgaris cicla, chard plant, leaf beet, spinach beet, Swiss chard |
charge | (noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, guardianship, tutelage |
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(noun) an impetuous rush toward someone or something | - |
(noun) a special assignment that is given to a person or group | Synonyms: commission, mission |
(noun) a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time | Synonyms: burster, bursting charge, explosive charge |
(noun) heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield | Synonyms: armorial bearing, bearing, heraldic bearing |
(noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | Synonyms: complaint |
(noun) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something | Synonyms: commission, direction |
(noun) request for payment of a debt | Synonyms: billing |
(noun) an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence | Synonyms: accusation |
(noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, flush, kick, rush, thrill |
(noun) (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object | Synonyms: cathexis |
(noun) a person committed to your care | - |
(noun) the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons | Synonyms: electric charge |
(noun) financial liabilities (such as a tax) | - |
(noun) the price charged for some article or service | - |
chargeman | (noun) a workman employed to blast with explosives | Synonyms: blaster |
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charger | (noun) formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle | Synonyms: courser |
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(noun) a device that can hold a rechargeable battery by means of an electrical cable | Synonyms: battery charger |
chariness | (noun) the trait of being cautious and watchful | Synonyms: wariness |
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chariot | (noun) a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage | - |
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(noun) a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome | - |
charioteer | (noun) the driver of a chariot | - |
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charisma | (noun) a personal attractiveness or interestingness that enables you to influence others | Synonyms: personal appeal, personal magnetism |
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charitableness | (noun) generosity as manifested by practicing charity (as for the poor or unfortunate) | - |
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charity | (noun) an activity or gift that benefits the public at large | - |
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(noun) a kindly and lenient attitude toward people | Synonyms: brotherly love |
(noun) a foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals) | - |
(noun) an institution set up to provide help to the needy | - |
(noun) pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers | Synonyms: Greek valerian, Jacob's ladder, Polemonium caeruleum, Polemonium van-bruntiae, Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae |
charivari | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, chivaree, shivaree |
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charlatan | (noun) a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes | Synonyms: mountebank |
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charlatanism | (noun) the dishonesty of a charlatan | Synonyms: quackery |
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charlock | (noun) weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields | Synonyms: Brassica kaber, chadlock, field mustard, Sinapis arvensis, wild mustard |
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charlotte | (noun) a mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custard | - |
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charm | (noun) something believed to bring good luck | Synonyms: good luck charm |
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(noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appeal, appealingness |
(noun) (physics) one of the six flavors of quark, the third most massive of all quarks | - |
(noun) a verbal formula believed to have magical force | Synonyms: magic spell, magical spell, spell |
charman | (noun) a human male employed to do housework | - |
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charmer | (noun) a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness) | Synonyms: beguiler |
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(noun) someone with an assured and ingratiating manner | Synonyms: smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker |
charnel | (noun) a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited | Synonyms: charnel house |
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charr | (noun) any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus | Synonyms: char |
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chart | (noun) a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea | - |
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(noun) a visual display of information | Synonyms: graph |
(noun) (usually plural) a listing of best-selling recorded music | - |
charter | (noun) a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation | - |
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(noun) a contract to hire or lease transportation | - |
charterhouse | (noun) a Carthusian monastery | - |
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chartist | (noun) a stock market analyst who tries to predict market trends from graphs of recent prices of securities | Synonyms: technical analyst |
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chartreuse | (noun) a shade of green tinged with yellow | Synonyms: Paris green, pea green, yellow green, yellowish green |
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charwoman | (noun) a human female employed to do housework | Synonyms: char, cleaning lady, cleaning woman |
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chase | (noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture | Synonyms: following, pursual, pursuit |
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(noun) a rectangular metal frame used in letterpress printing to hold together the pages or columns of composed type that are printed at one time | - |
chased | (noun) a person who is being chased | Synonyms: pursued |
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chaser | (noun) a drink to follow immediately after another drink | - |
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(noun) a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture | Synonyms: pursuer |
chasm | (noun) a deep opening in the earth's surface | - |
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chasse | (noun) (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading | Synonyms: sashay |
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chassis | (noun) the skeleton of a motor vehicle consisting of a steel frame supported on springs that holds the body and motor | - |
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(noun) a metal mounting for the circuit components of an electronic device | - |
(noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
chasteness | (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: restraint, simpleness, simplicity |
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chastening | (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastisement, correction |
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chastisement | (noun) verbal punishment | Synonyms: castigation |
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(noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastening, correction |
chastity | (noun) abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) | Synonyms: celibacy, sexual abstention |
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(noun) morality with respect to sexual relations | Synonyms: sexual morality, virtue |
chasuble | (noun) a long sleeveless vestment worn by a priest when celebrating Mass | - |
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chat | (noun) songbirds having a chattering call | Synonyms: Old World chat |
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(noun) birds having a chattering call | Synonyms: New World chat |
(noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: confab, confabulation, schmoose, schmooze |
chateau | (noun) an impressive country house (or castle) in France | - |
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chatelaine | (noun) a chain formerly worn at the waist by women; for carrying a purse or bunch of keys etc. | - |
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(noun) the mistress of a chateau or large country house | - |
chatroom | (noun) a site on the internet where a number of users can communicate in real time (typically one dedicated to a particular topic) | Synonyms: chat room |
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chattel | (noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) | Synonyms: movable, personal chattel |
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chatter | (noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: cackle, yack, yak, yakety-yak |
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(noun) the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) | Synonyms: chattering |
(noun) the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine | Synonyms: chattering |
chatterbox | (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter |
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(noun) orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf | Synonyms: Epipactis gigantea, giant helleborine, stream orchid |
chatterer | (noun) passerine bird of New World tropics | Synonyms: cotinga |
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(noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, magpie, prater, spouter |
chattering | (noun) the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) | Synonyms: chatter |
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(noun) the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine | Synonyms: chatter |
chauffeur | (noun) a person paid to drive a privately owned car | - |
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chauffeuse | (noun) a woman chauffeur | - |
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chaulmoogra | (noun) East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy | Synonyms: chaulmoogra tree, chaulmugra, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Taraktagenos kurzii, Taraktogenos kurzii |
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chaulmugra | (noun) East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy | Synonyms: chaulmoogra, chaulmoogra tree, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Taraktagenos kurzii, Taraktogenos kurzii |
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chauvinism | (noun) activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women | Synonyms: antifeminism, male chauvinism |
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(noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: jingoism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism |
chauvinist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist, patrioteer |
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(noun) a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind | - |
chaw | (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chew, cud, plug, quid, wad |
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chawbacon | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel |
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cheapjack | (noun) a peddler of inferior goods | - |
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cheapness | (noun) a price below the standard price | Synonyms: bargain rate, cut price, cut rate |
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(noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: sleaze, tackiness, tat |
cheapskate | (noun) a miserly person | Synonyms: tightwad |
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cheat | (noun) a deception for profit to yourself | Synonyms: cheating |
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(noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: fraud, rig, swindle |
(noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
(noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, darnel, Lolium temulentum, tare |
(noun) weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat | Synonyms: Bromus secalinus, chess |
cheater | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
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cheatgrass | (noun) annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean | Synonyms: Bromus tectorum, downy brome, downy bromegrass, downy cheat, downy chess, drooping brome |
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cheating | (noun) a deception for profit to yourself | Synonyms: cheat |
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chebab | (noun) a Palestinian juvenile 10-15 years old who fights against the Israelis | - |
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check | (noun) the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess | Synonyms: bridle, curb |
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(noun) obstructing an opponent in ice hockey | - |
(noun) (chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king | - |
(noun) the act of inspecting or verifying | Synonyms: check-out procedure, checkout |
(noun) a textile pattern of squares or crossed lines (resembling a checkerboard) | - |
(noun) a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something | Synonyms: chip |
(noun) an appraisal of the state of affairs | Synonyms: assay |
(noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: confirmation, substantiation, verification |
(noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
(noun) the bill in a restaurant | Synonyms: chit, tab |
(noun) a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc. | Synonyms: check mark, tick |
(noun) a written order directing a bank to pay money | Synonyms: bank check, cheque |
(noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage |
checkbook | (noun) a book issued to holders of checking accounts | Synonyms: chequebook |
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checker | (noun) one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers | Synonyms: chequer |
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(noun) one who checks the correctness of something | - |
(noun) an attendant who checks coats or baggage | - |
checkerberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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(noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen |
checkerbloom | (noun) perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of western North America that is also cultivated | Synonyms: Sidalcea malviflora, wild hollyhock |
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checkerboard | (noun) a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors | Synonyms: checker board, chequerboard |
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checkers | (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: draughts |
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checklist | (noun) a list of items (names or tasks etc.) to be checked or consulted | - |
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checkmate | (noun) a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king | Synonyms: mate |
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(noun) complete victory | - |
checkout | (noun) the act of inspecting or verifying | Synonyms: check-out procedure, check |
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(noun) a counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases | Synonyms: checkout counter |
(noun) the latest time for vacating a hotel room | Synonyms: checkout time |
checkpoint | (noun) a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance | - |
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checkrein | (noun) a rein designed to keep the horse's head in the desired position | Synonyms: bearing rein |
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checkroom | (noun) a room where baggage or parcels are checked | Synonyms: left-luggage office |
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checksum | (noun) a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage | - |
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checkup | (noun) a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person | Synonyms: health check, medical, medical checkup, medical exam, medical examination |
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cheddar | (noun) hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England | Synonyms: American cheese, Armerican cheddar, cheddar cheese |
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cheek | (noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: boldness, brass, face, nerve |
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(noun) either side of the face below the eyes | - |
(noun) either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump | Synonyms: buttock |
(noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: impertinence, impudence |
cheekbone | (noun) the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek | Synonyms: jugal bone, malar, malar bone, os zygomaticum, zygomatic, zygomatic bone |
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cheekiness | (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence |
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cheekpiece | (noun) either of two straps of a bridle that connect the bit to the headpiece | - |
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cheep | (noun) the short weak cry of a young bird | Synonyms: peep |
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cheer | (noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | Synonyms: cheerfulness, sunniness, sunshine |
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(noun) a cry or shout of approval | - |
cheerer | (noun) a spectator who shouts encouragement | - |
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cheerfulness | (noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | Synonyms: cheer, sunniness, sunshine |
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(noun) a feeling of spontaneous good spirits | Synonyms: blitheness |
cheering | (noun) encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators | Synonyms: shouting |
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cheerio | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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cheerleader | (noun) someone who leads the cheers by spectators at a sporting event | - |
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(noun) an enthusiastic and vocal supporter | - |
cheerlessness | (noun) a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness | Synonyms: uncheerfulness |
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cheese | (noun) a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk | - |
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(noun) erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States | Synonyms: cheeseflower, high mallow, Malva sylvestris, tall mallow |
cheeseboard | (noun) tray on which cheeses are served | Synonyms: cheese tray |
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cheeseburger | (noun) a hamburger with melted cheese on it | - |
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cheesecake | (noun) a photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attire | - |
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(noun) made with sweetened cream cheese and eggs and cream baked in a crumb crust | - |
cheesecloth | (noun) a coarse loosely woven cotton gauze; originally used to wrap cheeses | - |
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cheeseflower | (noun) erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States | Synonyms: cheese, high mallow, Malva sylvestris, tall mallow |
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