| ado | (noun) a rapid active commotion | Synonyms: bustle, flurry, fuss, hustle, stir |
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| adobe | (noun) sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates | Synonyms: adobe brick |
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| (noun) the clay from which adobe bricks are made | - |
| adobo | (noun) a dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish; served with rice | - |
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| adolesce | (verb) become adolescent; pass through adolescence | - |
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| adolescence | (noun) in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood | - |
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| (noun) the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood | - |
| adolescent | (adjective) relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent | - |
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| (adjective) in the state of development between puberty and maturity | - |
| (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: jejune, juvenile, puerile |
| (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: teen, teenage, teenaged |
| (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: stripling, teen, teenager |
| adonis | (noun) any handsome young man | - |
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| adopt | (verb) take into one's family | Synonyms: take in |
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| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: acquire, assume, take, take on |
| (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: embrace, espouse, sweep up |
| (verb) put into dramatic form | Synonyms: dramatise, dramatize |
| (verb) take up and practice as one's own | Synonyms: borrow, take over, take up |
| (verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: espouse, follow |
| (verb) take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities | Synonyms: assume, take on, take over |
| adoptable | (adjective) suitable or eligible for adoption | - |
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| adopted | (adjective) acquired as your own by free choice | Synonyms: adoptive |
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| adoptee | (noun) someone (such as a child) who has been adopted | - |
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| adopter | (noun) a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child | Synonyms: adoptive parent |
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| adoption | (noun) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | Synonyms: acceptance, acceptation, espousal |
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| (noun) the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source | Synonyms: borrowing |
| (noun) a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit) | - |
| adoptive | (adjective) of parents and children; related by adoption | - |
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| (adjective) acquired as your own by free choice | Synonyms: adopted |
| adorability | (noun) extreme attractiveness | Synonyms: adorableness |
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| adorable | (adjective) lovable especially in a childlike or naive way | Synonyms: endearing, lovely |
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| adorableness | (noun) extreme attractiveness | Synonyms: adorability |
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| adorably | (adverb) in an adorable manner | Synonyms: endearingly |
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| adoration | (noun) the act of admiring strongly | Synonyms: idolisation, idolization |
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| (noun) the worship given to God alone | Synonyms: latria |
| (noun) a feeling of profound love and admiration | Synonyms: worship |
| adore | (verb) love intensely | - |
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| adored | (adjective) regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god) | Synonyms: idolised, idolized, worshipped |
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| adorer | (noun) someone who admires a young woman | Synonyms: admirer |
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| adoring | (adjective) extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent | Synonyms: doting, fond |
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| (adjective) showing adoration | Synonyms: worshipful |
| adoringly | (adverb) with adoration | - |
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| adorn | (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
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| (verb) furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors | Synonyms: clothe, invest |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: beautify, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
| adorned | (adjective) provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction | Synonyms: decorated |
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| adornment | (noun) the action of decorating yourself with something colorful and interesting | - |
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| (noun) a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness | - |
| adoxography | (noun) fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects | - |
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| aficionado | (noun) a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer | - |
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| (noun) a fan of bull fighting | - |
| ambassador | (noun) a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another | Synonyms: embassador |
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| (noun) an informal representative | - |
| ambassadorial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of ambassadors | - |
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| ambassadorship | (noun) the post of ambassador | - |
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| avocado | (adjective) of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado | - |
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| (noun) a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed | Synonyms: aguacate, alligator pear, avocado pear |
| (noun) tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits | Synonyms: avocado tree, Persea Americana |
| barricado | (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricade |
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| bastinado | (noun) a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels | Synonyms: falanga |
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| (noun) a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet | - |
| (verb) beat somebody on the soles of the feet | - |
| belladonna | (noun) an alkaloidal extract or tincture of the poisonous belladonna plant that is used medicinally | - |
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| (noun) perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine | Synonyms: Atropa belladonna, belladonna plant, deadly nightshade |
| braggadocio | (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: bluster, rhodomontade, rodomontade |
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| bravado | (noun) a swaggering show of courage | Synonyms: bluster |
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| carbonado | (noun) a piece of meat (or fish) that has been scored and broiled | - |
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| (noun) an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing | Synonyms: black diamond |
| chador | (noun) a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women | Synonyms: chadar, chaddar, chuddar |
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| cladode | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladophyll, phylloclad, phylloclade |
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| cladogram | (noun) a tree diagram used to illustrate phylogenetic relationships | - |
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| cladophyll | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladode, phylloclad, phylloclade |
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| conquistador | (noun) an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century) | - |
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| dado | (noun) panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall | Synonyms: wainscot |
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| (noun) a rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece can fit into it | - |
| (noun) the section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase | - |
| (verb) cut a dado into or fit into a dado | - |
| (verb) provide with a dado | - |
| desperado | (noun) a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier) | Synonyms: desperate criminal |
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| eldorado | (noun) an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers | Synonyms: El Dorado |
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| embassador | (noun) a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another | Synonyms: ambassador |
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| extrados | (noun) the exterior curve of an arch | - |
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| eyeshadow | (noun) makeup consisting of a cosmetic substance used to darken the eyes | - |
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| fado | (noun) a sad Portuguese folksong | - |
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| foreshadow | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| foreshadowing | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, prefigurative |
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| (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, prefiguration |
| gadoid | (noun) a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae | Synonyms: gadoid fish |
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| gadolinite | (noun) a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium | Synonyms: ytterbite |
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| gadolinium | (noun) a ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group | Synonyms: atomic number 64, Gd |
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| gonadotrophic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving gonadotropin | Synonyms: gonadotropic |
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| gonadotrophin | (noun) hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity | Synonyms: gonadotrophic hormone, gonadotropic hormone, gonadotropin |
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| gonadotropic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving gonadotropin | Synonyms: gonadotrophic |
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| gonadotropin | (noun) hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity | Synonyms: gonadotrophic hormone, gonadotrophin, gonadotropic hormone |
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| incommunicado | (adjective) without the means or right to communicate | - |
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| intrados | (noun) the interior curve of an arch | - |
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| maquiladora | (noun) an assembly plant in Mexico (near the United States border); parts are shipped into Mexico and the finished product is shipped back across the border | - |
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| matador | (noun) the principal bullfighter who is appointed to make the final passes and kill the bull | - |
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| meadow | (noun) a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay | Synonyms: hayfield |
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| meadowgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture | Synonyms: meadow grass |
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| meadowlark | (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: lark |
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| megadose | (noun) an exceptionally large dose, as of a drug or vitamin. | - |
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| methadon | (noun) synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in narcotic detoxification and maintenance of heroin addiction | Synonyms: dolophine hydrochloride, fixer, methadone, methadone hydrochloride, synthetic heroin |
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| methadone | (noun) synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in narcotic detoxification and maintenance of heroin addiction | Synonyms: dolophine hydrochloride, fixer, methadon, methadone hydrochloride, synthetic heroin |
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| mikado | (noun) the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader the emperor is called tenno | Synonyms: tenno |
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| nadolol | (noun) a beta-adrenergic blocking agent (trade name Corgard) that is used to treat hypertension and angina | Synonyms: Corgard |
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| overshadow | (verb) cast a shadow upon | - |
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| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: dominate, eclipse |
| (verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: dwarf, shadow |
| padouk | (noun) tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain | Synonyms: amboyna, padauk, Pterocarpus indicus |
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| paradox | (noun) (logic) a statement that contradicts itself | - |
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| paradoxical | (adjective) seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true | Synonyms: self-contradictory |
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| paradoxically | (adverb) in a paradoxical manner | - |
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| passado | (noun) (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward | Synonyms: lunge, straight thrust |
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| picador | (noun) the horseman who pricks the bull with a lance early in the bullfight to goad the bull and to make it keep its head low | - |
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| pintado | (noun) large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters | Synonyms: cero, kingfish, Scomberomorus regalis |
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| pompadour | (noun) a hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the forehead | - |
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| (verb) style women's hair in a pompadour | - |
| preadolescent | (adjective) of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12 | Synonyms: preteen |
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| radome | (noun) a housing for a radar antenna; transparent to radio waves | Synonyms: radar dome |
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| radon | (noun) a radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium; the heaviest of the inert gasses; occurs naturally (especially in areas over granite) and is considered a hazard to health | Synonyms: atomic number 86, Rn |
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| readout | (noun) an electronic device that displays information | Synonyms: read-out |
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| (noun) the information displayed or recorded on an electronic device | Synonyms: read-out |
| (noun) the output of a computer in readable form | Synonyms: read-out |
| sadomasochism | (noun) sadism and masochism combined in one person | - |
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| sadomasochist | (noun) someone who enjoys both sadism and masochism | - |
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| sadomasochistic | (adjective) of or relating to sadomasochism | - |
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| shadow | (noun) refuge from danger or observation | - |
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| (noun) something existing in perception only | Synonyms: apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom |
| (noun) an indication that something has been present | Synonyms: tincture, trace, vestige |
| (noun) a premonition of something adverse | - |
| (noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: dark, darkness |
| (noun) a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements | Synonyms: shadower, tail |
| (noun) an inseparable companion | - |
| (noun) a dominating and pervasive presence | - |
| (noun) shade within clear boundaries | - |
| (verb) follow, usually without the person's knowledge | - |
| (verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: dwarf, overshadow |
| (verb) cast a shadow over | Synonyms: shade, shade off |
| shadowbox | (verb) go through boxing motions without an opponent | - |
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| shadowboxing | (noun) sparring with an imaginary opponent (for exercise or training) | - |
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| shadowed | (adjective) filled with shade | Synonyms: shadowy, shady, umbrageous |
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| shadower | (noun) a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements | Synonyms: shadow, tail |
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| shadowgraph | (noun) a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays) | Synonyms: radiogram, radiograph, skiagram, skiagraph |
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| shadowiness | (noun) relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body | Synonyms: shade, shadiness |
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| shadowing | (noun) the act of following someone secretly | Synonyms: tailing |
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| shadowy | (adjective) lacking clarity or distinctness | Synonyms: dim, faint, vague, wispy |
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| (adjective) lacking in substance | Synonyms: wraithlike |
| (adjective) filled with shade | Synonyms: shadowed, shady, umbrageous |
| strapado | (noun) a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope | Synonyms: strappado |
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| strappado | (noun) a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope | Synonyms: strapado |
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| toreador | (noun) someone who fights bulls | Synonyms: bullfighter |
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