| scincid | (noun) alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide | Synonyms: scincid lizard, skink |
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| scintigram | (noun) a recording of the radioactivity emitted by a tracer in an organism or organ system. | - |
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| scintigraph | (noun) The apparatus used to make a scintigram. | Synonyms: scintiscanner |
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| scintilla | (noun) a sparkling glittering particle | - |
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| (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit |
| scintillation | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glister, glitter, sparkle |
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| (noun) the twinkling of the stars caused when changes in the density of the earth's atmosphere produce uneven refraction of starlight | - |
| (noun) a brilliant display of wit | - |
| (noun) a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash | Synonyms: sparkling, twinkle |
| (noun) (physics) a flash of light that is produced in a phosphor when it absorbs a photon or ionizing particle | - |
| scintiscanner | (noun) The apparatus used to make a scintigram. | Synonyms: scintigraph |
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| sciolism | (noun) pretentious superficiality of knowledge | - |
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| sciolist | (noun) an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | Synonyms: dabbler, dilettante |
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| scion | (noun) a descendant or heir | - |
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| scission | (noun) the act of dividing by cutting or splitting | - |
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| scissors | (noun) a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze | Synonyms: scissor grip, scissor hold, scissors grip, scissors hold |
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| (noun) a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as the blades of scissors move | - |
| (noun) an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades | Synonyms: pair of scissors |
| scissortail | (noun) grey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings | Synonyms: Muscivora-forficata, scissortailed flycatcher |
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| scissure | (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, crevice, fissure |
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| sclaff | (noun) a poor golf stroke in which the club head hits the ground before hitting the ball | - |
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| sclera | (noun) the whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering and protection of the eyeball | Synonyms: sclerotic coat |
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| scleredema | (noun) a skin disease marked by hard edema of the tissue usually beginning in the face | - |
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| sclerite | (noun) hard plate or element of the exoskeleton of some arthropods | - |
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| scleritis | (noun) inflammation of the sclera | - |
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| scleroderma | (noun) an autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin | Synonyms: dermatosclerosis |
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| sclerometer | (noun) a measuring instrument that measures the hardness of materials by penetrating them with a stylus that has a diamond point | - |
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| scleroprotein | (noun) a simple protein found in horny and cartilaginous tissues and in the lens of the eye | Synonyms: albuminoid |
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| sclerosis | (noun) any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue | Synonyms: induration |
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| sclerotinia | (noun) any fungus of the genus Sclerotinia; some causing brown rot diseases in plants | - |
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| sclerotium | (noun) compact usually dark-colored mass of hardened mycelium constituting a vegetative food-storage body in various true fungi; detaches when mature and can give rise to new growth | - |
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| sclerotomy | (noun) surgical incision of the sclerotic coat of the eye | - |
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| scoff | (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, jeering, mockery, scoffing |
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| scoffer | (noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision | Synonyms: flouter, jeerer, mocker |
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| (noun) someone who eats food rapidly and greedily | Synonyms: gorger |
| scoffing | (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff |
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| scofflaw | (noun) one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses | - |
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| scoke | (noun) tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous | Synonyms: garget, Phytolacca americana, pigeon berry, poke |
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| scold | (noun) someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault | Synonyms: common scold, nag, nagger, scolder |
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| scolder | (noun) someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault | Synonyms: common scold, nag, nagger, scold |
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| scolding | (noun) rebuking a person harshly | Synonyms: chiding, objurgation, tongue-lashing |
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| scolion | (noun) a song (sometimes improvised) sung by guests at a banquet | Synonyms: banquet song |
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| scoliosis | (noun) an abnormal lateral curve to the vertebral column | - |
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| scollop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: escallop, scallop |
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| (noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: escallop, scallop |
| (noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, escallop, scallop |
| scolopendrium | (noun) a fern thought to resemble a millipede | - |
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| scombroid | (noun) important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters | Synonyms: scombroid fish |
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| sconce | (noun) a decorative wall bracket for holding candles or other sources of light | - |
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| (noun) a candle or flaming torch secured in a sconce | - |
| (noun) a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate | - |
| (noun) a shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather | - |
| scone | (noun) small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle | - |
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| scoop | (noun) a large ladle | - |
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| (noun) the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe | Synonyms: scoop shovel |
| (noun) street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate | Synonyms: easy lay, Georgia home boy, goop, grievous bodily harm, liquid ecstasy, max, soap |
| (noun) a news report that is reported first by one news organization | Synonyms: exclusive |
| (noun) the quantity a scoop will hold | Synonyms: scoopful |
| (noun) a hollow concave shape made by removing something | Synonyms: pocket |
| scoopful | (noun) the quantity a scoop will hold | Synonyms: scoop |
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| scooter | (noun) large black diving duck of northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: scoter |
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| (noun) child's two-wheeled vehicle operated by foot | - |
| (noun) a wheeled vehicle with small wheels and a low-powered gasoline engine geared to the rear wheel | Synonyms: motor scooter |
| (noun) a sailing vessel with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for traveling over ice | Synonyms: ice yacht, iceboat |
| (noun) a motorboat resembling a motor scooter | Synonyms: sea scooter, water scooter |
| scope | (noun) electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities | Synonyms: cathode-ray oscilloscope, CRO, oscilloscope |
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| (noun) a magnifier of images of distant objects | Synonyms: telescope |
| (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, compass, orbit, range, reach |
| (noun) the state of the environment in which a situation exists | Synonyms: background, setting |
| scopolamine | (noun) an alkaloid with anticholinergic effects that is used as a sedative and to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils in ophthalmic procedures | Synonyms: hyoscine |
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| scorbutus | (noun) a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) | Synonyms: scurvy |
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| scorch | (noun) a discoloration caused by heat | - |
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| (noun) a surface burn | Synonyms: singe |
| (noun) a plant disease that produces a browning or scorched appearance of plant tissues | - |
| scorcher | (noun) a very hard hit ball | Synonyms: screamer |
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| (noun) an extremely hot day | - |
| scorchingness | (noun) The quality of being scorching; extreme heat. | - |
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| score | (noun) the act of scoring in a game or sport | - |
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| (noun) a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: sexual conquest |
| (noun) a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance) | Synonyms: grade, mark |
| (noun) the facts about an actual situation | - |
| (noun) a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages | Synonyms: musical score |
| (noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grievance, grudge |
| (noun) a set of twenty members | - |
| (noun) grounds | Synonyms: account |
| (noun) a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest | - |
| (noun) a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally) | Synonyms: scotch |
| (noun) an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar) | - |
| scoreboard | (noun) a large board for displaying the score of a contest (and some other information) | - |
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| scorecard | (noun) (golf) a record of scores (as in golf) | Synonyms: card |
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| scorekeeper | (noun) an official who records the score during the progress of a game | Synonyms: scorer |
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| scorer | (noun) a player who makes a score in a game or contest | - |
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| (noun) a logger who marks trees to be felled | - |
| (noun) an official who records the score during the progress of a game | Synonyms: scorekeeper |
| scores | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| scoria | (noun) the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals | Synonyms: dross, slag |
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| scoring | (noun) evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score | Synonyms: grading, marking |
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| scorn | (noun) open disrespect for a person or thing | Synonyms: contempt |
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| (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: contempt, despite, disdain |
| scorner | (noun) a person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression | Synonyms: sneerer |
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| scorpaenid | (noun) any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific | Synonyms: scorpaenid fish |
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| scorpaenoid | (noun) fishes having the head armored with bony plates | Synonyms: scorpaenoid fish |
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| scorper | (noun) a graver used to scoop out broad areas when engraving wood or metal | Synonyms: scauper |
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| scorpion | (noun) arachnid of warm dry regions having a long segmented tail ending in a venomous stinger | - |
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| scorpionfish | (noun) marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spines | Synonyms: scorpion fish, sea scorpion |
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| scorpionweed | (noun) any plant of the genus Phacelia | Synonyms: phacelia, scorpion weed |
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| scorzonera | (noun) long black salsify | Synonyms: black salsify |
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| (noun) perennial south European herb having narrow entire leaves and solitary yellow flower heads and long black edible roots shaped like carrots | Synonyms: black salsify, Scorzonera hispanica, viper's grass |
| scotch | (noun) a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally) | Synonyms: score |
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| scoter | (noun) large black diving duck of northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: scooter |
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| scotoma | (noun) an isolated area of diminished vision within the visual field | - |
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| scoundrel | (noun) a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately | Synonyms: villain |
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| scour | (noun) a place that is scoured (especially by running water) | - |
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| scourer | (noun) someone who cleanses by scouring | - |
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| (noun) someone who travels widely and energetically | - |
| scourge | (noun) a whip used to inflict punishment | Synonyms: flagellum |
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| (noun) a person who inspires fear or dread | Synonyms: terror, threat |
| (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, curse, nemesis |
| scourger | (noun) a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders) | Synonyms: flogger |
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| scouring | (noun) the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water | Synonyms: scrub, scrubbing |
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| (noun) moving over territory to search for something | - |
| scours | (noun) diarrhea in livestock | - |
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| scouse | (noun) a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors | Synonyms: lobscouse, lobscuse |
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| scout | (noun) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory | Synonyms: guide, pathfinder |
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| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch |
| (noun) someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports) | Synonyms: talent scout |
| scouter | (noun) an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement | Synonyms: rover |
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| scouting | (noun) exploring in order to gain information | Synonyms: exploratory survey, reconnoitering, reconnoitring |
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| scoutmaster | (noun) the leader of a troop of Scouts | - |
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| scow | (noun) a barge carrying bulk materials in an open hold | - |
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| (noun) any of various flat-bottomed boats with sloping ends | - |
| scowl | (noun) a facial expression of dislike or displeasure | Synonyms: frown |
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| scrabble | (noun) an aimless drawing | Synonyms: doodle, scribble |
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| scrag | (noun) the lean end of a neck of veal | Synonyms: scrag end |
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| (noun) lean end of the neck | - |
| (noun) a person who is unusually thin and scrawny | Synonyms: skin and bones, thin person |
| scramasax | (noun) A single-edged knife or sword used by the Anglo-Saxons for fighting and hunting. | Synonyms: scramaseax, scramsax |
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| scramaseax | (noun) A single-edged knife or sword used by the Anglo-Saxons for fighting and hunting. | Synonyms: scramasax, scramsax |
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| scramble | (noun) rushing about hastily in an undignified way | Synonyms: scamper, scurry |
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| (noun) an unceremonious and disorganized struggle | Synonyms: scuffle |
| scrambler | (noun) electronic equipment that makes speech unintelligible during transmission and restores it at reception | - |
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| (noun) a lightweight motorcycle equipped with rugged tires and suspension; an off-road motorcycle designed for riding cross country or over unpaved ground | Synonyms: dirt bike, trail bike |
| (noun) a rapid mover; someone who scrambles | - |
| scramsax | (noun) A single-edged knife or sword used by the Anglo-Saxons for fighting and hunting. | Synonyms: scramasax, scramaseax |
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| scrap | (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fight, fighting |
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| (noun) a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used | - |
| (noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole | Synonyms: bit, chip, flake, fleck |
| (noun) worthless material that is to be disposed of | Synonyms: rubbish, trash |
| scrapbook | (noun) an album into which clippings or notes or pictures can be pasted | - |
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| scrape | (noun) an indication of damage | Synonyms: mark, scar, scratch |
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| (noun) a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility) | Synonyms: scraping |
| (noun) a harsh noise made by scraping | Synonyms: scraping, scratch, scratching |
| (noun) an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off | Synonyms: abrasion, excoriation, scratch |
| scraper | (noun) any of various hand tools for scraping | - |
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| scrapheap | (noun) pile of discarded metal | - |
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| (noun) an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter | Synonyms: garbage heap, junk heap, junk pile, refuse heap, rubbish heap, trash heap, trash pile |
| scrapie | (noun) a fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system | - |
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| scraping | (noun) a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility) | Synonyms: scrape |
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| (noun) a harsh noise made by scraping | Synonyms: scrape, scratch, scratching |
| (noun) (usually plural) a fragment scraped off of something and collected | - |
| scrapper | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter |
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| scrappiness | (noun) the trait of being scrappy and pugnacious | - |
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| (noun) The quality or state of being tenacious, energetic, spunky. | Synonyms: feistiness |
| scrapple | (noun) scraps of meat (usually pork) boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying | - |
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