| grease | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grime, grunge, soil, stain |
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| (noun) a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery) | Synonyms: lubricating oil |
| greaseball | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, ginzo, Guinea, wop |
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| greasepaint | (noun) a greasy substance used as makeup by actors | - |
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| greaser | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent | Synonyms: taco, wetback |
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| greasewood | (noun) low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America | Synonyms: black greasewood, Sarcobatus vermiculatus |
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| greasiness | (noun) consisting of or covered with oil | Synonyms: oiliness, oleaginousness |
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| great | (noun) a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field | - |
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| greatcoat | (noun) a heavy coat worn over clothes in winter | Synonyms: overcoat, topcoat |
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| greatness | (noun) the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence | Synonyms: illustriousness |
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| (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
| greave | (noun) armor plate that protects legs below the knee | Synonyms: jambeau |
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| greaves | (noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: crackling |
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| grebe | (noun) small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests; similar to loons but smaller and with lobate rather than webbed feet | - |
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| greed | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avarice, avaritia, covetousness, rapacity |
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| (noun) excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves | - |
| greediness | (noun) an excessive desire for wealth (usually in large amounts) | Synonyms: rapaciousness, voraciousness |
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| (noun) an excessive desire for food | Synonyms: hoggishness, piggishness |
| greegree | (noun) an African amulet | Synonyms: gres-gris, grigri |
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| green | (noun) street names for ketamine | Synonyms: cat valium, honey oil, jet, K, special K, super acid, super C |
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| (noun) green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass | Synonyms: greenness, viridity |
| (noun) any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables | Synonyms: greens, leafy vegetable |
| (noun) an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course | Synonyms: putting green, putting surface |
| (noun) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | Synonyms: common, commons, park |
| greenback | (noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, bill, Federal Reserve note, government note, note |
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| greenbelt | (noun) a belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city | Synonyms: greenway |
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| greenbottle | (noun) blowfly with brilliant coppery green body | Synonyms: greenbottle fly |
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| greenbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| greenery | (noun) green foliage | Synonyms: verdure |
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| greeneye | (noun) bottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green luster | - |
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| greenfly | (noun) greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants | - |
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| greengage | (noun) sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum | Synonyms: greengage plum |
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| greengrocer | (noun) a grocer who sells fresh fruits and vegetables | - |
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| greengrocery | (noun) a greengrocer's grocery store | - |
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| (noun) groceries sold by a greengrocer | - |
| greenhood | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood | Synonyms: helmet orchid |
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| greenhorn | (noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: cub, rookie |
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| greenhouse | (noun) a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions | Synonyms: glasshouse |
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| greening | (noun) the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored | Synonyms: rejuvenation |
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| greenishness | (noun) the property of being somewhat green | - |
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| greenling | (noun) food fish of the northern Pacific | - |
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| greenmail | (noun) (corporation) the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing the owners to buy those shares back at a premium in order to stay in business | - |
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| greenmarket | (noun) an open-air marketplace for farm products | Synonyms: farmer's market, green market |
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| greenness | (noun) green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass | Synonyms: green, viridity |
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| (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: verdancy, verdure |
| (noun) the state of not being ripe | - |
| greenockite | (noun) ore of cadmium; a rare yellowish mineral consisting of cadmium sulphide in crystalline form | Synonyms: cadmium sulphide |
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| greenroom | (noun) a backstage room in a theater where performers rest or have visitors | - |
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| greens | (noun) any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables | Synonyms: green, leafy vegetable |
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| greensand | (noun) an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite | - |
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| greenshank | (noun) large European sandpiper with greenish legs | Synonyms: Tringa nebularia |
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| greensickness | (noun) iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin | Synonyms: chlorosis |
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| greenskeeper | (noun) someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course | - |
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| greensward | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: sod, sward, turf |
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| greenway | (noun) a belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city | Synonyms: greenbelt |
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| greenweed | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, whin, woadwaxen, woodwaxen |
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| greenwing | (noun) common teal of Eurasia and North America | Synonyms: Anas crecca, green-winged teal |
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| greenwood | (noun) woodlands in full leaf | - |
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| greeter | (noun) a person who greets | Synonyms: saluter, welcomer |
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| greeting | (noun) (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting) | Synonyms: salutation |
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| gregarine | (noun) vermiform protozoans parasitic in insects and other invertebrates | - |
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| gregariousness | (noun) the quality of being gregarious--having a dislike of being alone | - |
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| greisen | (noun) a granitic rock composed of quartz and mica | - |
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| gremlin | (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: brownie, elf, hob, imp, pixie, pixy |
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| grenade | (noun) a small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile | - |
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| grenadier | (noun) deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail | Synonyms: rattail, rattail fish |
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| (noun) an infantryman equipped with grenades | Synonyms: grenade thrower |
| grenadine | (noun) thin syrup made from pomegranate juice; used in mixed drinks | - |
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| grevillea | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea | - |
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| grey | (noun) horse of a light gray or whitish color | Synonyms: gray |
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| (noun) clothing that is a grey color | Synonyms: gray |
| (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayness, greyness |
| (noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey | Synonyms: gray |
| greyback | (noun) a dowitcher with a grey back | Synonyms: grayback, Limnodromus griseus |
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| (noun) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere | Synonyms: Calidris canutus, grayback, knot |
| (noun) `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms | Synonyms: Johnny, Johnny Reb, Reb, Rebel |
| greybeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, long-beard, longbeard |
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| (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: graybeard, Methuselah, old man |
| greyhen | (noun) female black grouse | Synonyms: gray hen, grayhen, grey hen, heath hen |
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| greyhound | (noun) a tall slender dog of an ancient breed noted for swiftness and keen sight; used as a racing dog | - |
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| greylag | (noun) common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds | Synonyms: Anser anser, graylag, graylag goose, greylag goose |
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| greyness | (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayness, grey |
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