ague | (noun) a mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: acute, acute accent |
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(noun) a fit of shivering or shaking | - |
(noun) successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria | Synonyms: chills and fever |
agueweed | (noun) gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers | Synonyms: ague weed, five-flowered gentian, Gentiana quinquefolia, Gentianella quinquefolia, stiff gentian |
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(noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum, thoroughwort |
baguet | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguette |
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baguette | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguet |
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beleaguer | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround |
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(verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, bug, pester, tease |
beleaguering | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: besieging, military blockade, siege |
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colleague | (noun) an associate that one works with | Synonyms: co-worker, fellow worker, workfellow |
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(noun) a person who is member of one's class or profession | Synonyms: confrere, fellow |
daguerreotype | (noun) a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor | - |
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league | (noun) an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action | - |
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(noun) an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members | Synonyms: conference |
(noun) an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles) | - |
(verb) unite to form a league | - |
maguey | (noun) Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine | Synonyms: Agave cantala, cantala |
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(noun) Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal | Synonyms: Agave atrovirens |
plague | (noun) an annoyance | - |
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(noun) any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) | - |
(noun) a swarm of insects that attack plants | Synonyms: infestation |
(noun) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal | Synonyms: pest, pestilence, pestis |
(noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate | Synonyms: pest, pestilence |
(verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, provoke |
(verb) cause to suffer a blight | Synonyms: blight |
plaguey | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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(adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential |
(adverb) in a pernicious or annoying manner | Synonyms: plaguily, plaguy |
vague | (adjective) not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished | Synonyms: undefined |
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(adjective) lacking clarity or distinctness | Synonyms: dim, faint, shadowy, wispy |
(adjective) not clearly expressed or understood | Synonyms: obscure |
vaguely | (adverb) in a vague way | Synonyms: mistily |
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vagueness | (noun) unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning | - |
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(noun) indistinctness of shape or character | - |