| chant | (noun) a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone | - |
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| chantarelle | (noun) widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma | Synonyms: Cantharellus cibarius, chanterelle |
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| chanter | (noun) reed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played | Synonyms: melody pipe |
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| chanterelle | (noun) widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma | Synonyms: Cantharellus cibarius, chantarelle |
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| chantey | (noun) a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors | Synonyms: chanty, sea chantey, shanty |
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| chanting | (noun) the act of singing in a monotonous tone | Synonyms: intonation |
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| chantry | (noun) a chapel endowed for singing Masses for the soul of the donor | - |
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| (noun) an endowment for the singing of Masses | - |
| chanty | (noun) a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors | Synonyms: chantey, sea chantey, shanty |
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| chaos | (noun) (physics) a dynamical system that is extremely sensitive to its initial conditions | - |
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| (noun) the formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos | - |
| (noun) a state of extreme confusion and disorder | Synonyms: bedlam, pandemonium, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness |
| chap | (noun) (usually in the plural) leather leggings without a seat; joined by a belt; often have flared outer flaps; worn over trousers by cowboys to protect their legs | - |
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| (noun) a crack in a lip caused usually by cold | - |
| (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: crack, cranny, crevice, fissure |
| chaparral | (noun) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes | Synonyms: bush, scrub |
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| chapati | (noun) flat pancake-like bread cooked on a griddle | Synonyms: chapatti |
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| chapatti | (noun) flat pancake-like bread cooked on a griddle | Synonyms: chapati |
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| chapeau | (noun) headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim | Synonyms: hat, lid |
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| chapel | (noun) a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar | Synonyms: chapel service |
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| (noun) a place of worship that has its own altar | - |
| chapelgoer | (noun) a Protestant in England who is not a member of the Church of England | Synonyms: Nonconformist |
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| chaperon | (noun) one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people | Synonyms: chaperone |
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| chaperone | (noun) one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people | Synonyms: chaperon |
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| chapiter | (noun) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | Synonyms: cap, capital |
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| chaplain | (noun) a clergyman ministering to some institution | - |
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| chaplaincy | (noun) the position of chaplain | Synonyms: chaplainship |
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| chaplainship | (noun) the position of chaplain | Synonyms: chaplaincy |
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| chaplet | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: coronal, garland, lei, wreath |
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| chapman | (noun) archaic term for an itinerant peddler | - |
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| chapter | (noun) a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled | - |
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| (noun) a series of related events forming an episode | - |
| (noun) a local branch of some fraternity or association | - |
| (noun) an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church | - |
| (noun) any distinct period in history or in a person's life | - |
| chapterhouse | (noun) a house used as a residence by a chapter of a fraternity | Synonyms: frat house, fraternity house |
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| (noun) a building attached to a monastery or cathedral; used as a meeting place for the chapter | - |
| char | (noun) any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus | Synonyms: charr |
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| (noun) a human female employed to do housework | Synonyms: charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman |
| (noun) a charred substance | - |
| charabanc | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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| characid | (noun) any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae | Synonyms: characin, characin fish |
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| characin | (noun) any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae | Synonyms: characid, characin fish |
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| character | (noun) (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes | - |
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| (noun) the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions | Synonyms: fiber, fibre |
| (noun) a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something | Synonyms: lineament, quality |
| (noun) an actor's portrayal of someone in a play | Synonyms: part, persona, role, theatrical role |
| (noun) a written symbol that is used to represent speech | Synonyms: graph, grapheme, graphic symbol |
| (noun) a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability | Synonyms: character reference, reference |
| (noun) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) | Synonyms: case, eccentric, type |
| (noun) an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story) | Synonyms: fictional character, fictitious character |
| (noun) good repute | - |
| characterisation | (noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterization, delineation, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture |
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| (noun) the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features | Synonyms: characterization |
| characteristic | (noun) a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something | - |
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| (noun) any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions | Synonyms: device characteristic |
| (noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: feature |
| (noun) the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2 | - |
| characteristicness | (noun) The quality or state of being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing. | - |
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| characterization | (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: enactment, personation, portrayal |
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| (noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, delineation, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture |
| (noun) the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features | Synonyms: characterisation |
| 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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