| allargando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo and broadening in manner | - |
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| argal | (noun) wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia | Synonyms: argali, Ovis ammon |
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| argali | (noun) wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia | Synonyms: argal, Ovis ammon |
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| argasid | (noun) tick lacking a dorsal shield and having mouth parts on the under side of the head | Synonyms: soft tick |
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| argemone | (noun) any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods; chiefly of tropical America | Synonyms: devil's fig, prickly poppy, white thistle |
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| argent | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: silver, silverish, silvery |
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| (noun) a metal tincture used in heraldry to give a silvery appearance | - |
| argentic | (adjective) relating to compounds in which silver is bivalent | - |
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| argentiferous | (adjective) containing or yielding silver | - |
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| argentine | (noun) any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes | - |
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| argentinosaur | (noun) huge herbivorous dinosaur of Cretaceous found in Argentina | - |
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| argentite | (noun) a valuable silver ore consisting of silver sulfide (Ag2S) | - |
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| argentous | (adjective) relating to compounds in which silver is univalent | - |
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| argil | (noun) a white clay (especially a white clay used by potters) | - |
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| argillaceous | (adjective) resembling or containing clay | Synonyms: clayey |
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| argillite | (noun) a sedimentary rock differing from shale in being bound by silica and from slate in having no slate cleavages | - |
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| arginine | (noun) a bitter tasting amino acid found in proteins and necessary for nutrition; its absence from the diet leads to a reduced production of spermatozoa | - |
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| argon | (noun) a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere | Synonyms: Ar, atomic number 18 |
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| argonaut | (noun) someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure | - |
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| argonon | (noun) any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group in the periodic table | Synonyms: inert gas, noble gas |
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| argosy | (noun) one or more large merchant ships | - |
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| argot | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular |
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| arguable | (adjective) open to argument or debate | Synonyms: debatable, disputable, moot |
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| (adjective) capable of being supported by argument | - |
| arguably | (adverb) as can be shown by argument | - |
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| argue | (verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: contend, debate, fence |
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| (verb) give evidence of | Synonyms: indicate |
| (verb) present reasons and arguments | Synonyms: reason |
| arguer | (noun) someone who engages in debate | Synonyms: debater |
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| argufy | (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: altercate, dispute, quarrel, scrap |
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| arguing | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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| argument | (noun) a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable; if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable | - |
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| (noun) a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning | Synonyms: argumentation, line, line of reasoning, logical argument |
| (noun) a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal | Synonyms: argumentation, debate |
| (noun) a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie | Synonyms: literary argument |
| (noun) a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true | Synonyms: statement |
| (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
| (noun) (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program | Synonyms: parameter |
| argumentation | (noun) a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning | Synonyms: argument, line, line of reasoning, logical argument |
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| (noun) a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal | Synonyms: argument, debate |
| argumentative | (adjective) given to or characterized by argument | - |
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| argumentatively | (adverb) in a disputatious manner | Synonyms: disputatiously |
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| argus | (noun) large brilliantly patterned East Indian pheasant | Synonyms: argus pheasant |
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| argyle | (noun) a sock knitted or woven with an argyle design | Synonyms: argyll |
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| (noun) a design consisting of a pattern of varicolored diamonds on a solid background (originally for knitted articles); patterned after the tartan of a clan in western Scotland | Synonyms: argyll |
| (noun) a covered gravy holder of silver or other metal containing a detachable central vessel for hot water to keep the gravy warm | Synonyms: argyll |
| argyll | (noun) a sock knitted or woven with an argyle design | Synonyms: argyle |
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| (noun) a design consisting of a pattern of varicolored diamonds on a solid background (originally for knitted articles); patterned after the tartan of a clan in western Scotland | Synonyms: argyle |
| (noun) a covered gravy holder of silver or other metal containing a detachable central vessel for hot water to keep the gravy warm | Synonyms: argyle |
| argyrodite | (noun) a rare steel-grey mineral consisting of silver and germanium and sulfur | - |
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| bargain | (noun) an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each | Synonyms: deal |
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| (noun) an advantageous purchase | Synonyms: buy, steal |
| (verb) come to terms; arrive at an agreement | - |
| (verb) negotiate the terms of an exchange | Synonyms: dicker |
| bargainer | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: dealer, monger, trader |
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| (noun) negotiator of the terms of a transaction | - |
| bargaining | (noun) the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement | - |
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| barge | (noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | Synonyms: flatboat, hoy, lighter |
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| (verb) push one's way | Synonyms: push forward, thrust ahead |
| (verb) transport by barge on a body of water | - |
| bargee | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargeman, lighterman |
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| bargello | (noun) needlepoint embroidery stitch that produces zigzag lines | Synonyms: flame stitch |
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| bargeman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, lighterman |
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| cargo | (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: consignment, freight, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
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| 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 | - |
| (verb) energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge | - |
| (verb) cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on | - |
| (verb) saturate | - |
| (verb) attribute responsibility to | Synonyms: blame |
| (verb) set or ask for a certain price | - |
| (verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: file, lodge |
| (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, saddle |
| (verb) blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against | Synonyms: accuse |
| (verb) make an accusatory claim | - |
| (verb) instruct or command with authority | - |
| (verb) instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence | - |
| (verb) to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle | Synonyms: bear down |
| (verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: level, point |
| (verb) fill or load to capacity | - |
| (verb) provide (a device) with something necessary | Synonyms: load |
| (verb) place a heraldic bearing on | - |
| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, shoot, shoot down, tear |
| (verb) lie down on command, of hunting dogs | - |
| (verb) pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt | - |
| (verb) enter a certain amount as a charge | - |
| (verb) demand payment | Synonyms: bill |
| (verb) give over to another for care or safekeeping | Synonyms: consign |
| (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: commit, institutionalise, institutionalize, send |
| (verb) assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to | Synonyms: appoint |
| chargeable | (adjective) liable to be accused, or cause for such liability | Synonyms: indictable |
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| (adjective) capable of being charged | - |
| charged | (adjective) of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge | - |
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| (adjective) supplied with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: aerated |
| (adjective) fraught with great emotion | Synonyms: supercharged |
| (adjective) capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy | - |
| 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 |
| counterargument | (noun) an argument offered in opposition to another argument | - |
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| countercharge | (noun) a retaliatory charge | - |
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| (noun) a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser | - |
| discharge | (noun) the act of discharging a gun | Synonyms: firing, firing off |
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| (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
| (noun) a formal written statement of relinquishment | Synonyms: release, waiver |
| (noun) the act of venting | Synonyms: venting |
| (noun) the sudden giving off of energy | - |
| (noun) the pouring forth of a fluid | Synonyms: outpouring, run |
| (noun) electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field | Synonyms: arc, electric arc, electric discharge, spark |
| (noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: emission, expelling |
| (noun) a substance that is emitted or released | Synonyms: emission |
| (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: eject, exhaust, expel, release |
| (verb) become empty or void of its content | Synonyms: empty |
| (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, exculpate, exonerate |
| (verb) release from military service | Synonyms: muster out |
| (verb) cause to go off | Synonyms: fire |
| (verb) go off or discharge | Synonyms: fire, go off |
| (verb) pour forth or release | - |
| (verb) remove the charge from | - |
| (verb) remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave | Synonyms: drop, drop off, put down, set down, unload |
| (verb) complete or carry out | Synonyms: complete, dispatch |
| (verb) free from obligations or duties | Synonyms: free |
| discharged | (adjective) having lost your job | Synonyms: dismissed, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped |
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| emarginate | (adjective) having a notched tip | - |
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| embargo | (noun) a government order imposing a trade barrier | Synonyms: trade embargo, trade stoppage |
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| (verb) prevent commerce | - |
| (verb) ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons | - |
| enlarge | (verb) become larger or bigger | - |
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| (verb) make large | Synonyms: blow up, magnify |
| (verb) make larger | - |
| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| enlarged | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells | Synonyms: hypertrophied |
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| (adjective) as of a photograph; made larger | Synonyms: blown-up |
| (adjective) larger than normal | - |
| (adjective) enlarged to an abnormal degree | Synonyms: exaggerated, magnified |
| enlargement | (noun) the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope | Synonyms: expansion |
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| (noun) a photographic print that has been enlarged | Synonyms: blowup, magnification |
| (noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: elaboration, expansion |
| (noun) the state of being enlarged | - |
| enlarger | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of an optical projector used to enlarge a photograph | - |
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| escargot | (noun) edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic | Synonyms: snail |
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| garganey | (noun) small Eurasian teal | Synonyms: Anas querquedula |
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| gargantuan | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: elephantine, giant, jumbo |
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| garget | (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: Phytolacca americana, pigeon berry, poke, scoke |
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| gargle | (noun) the sound produced while gargling | - |
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| (noun) a medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth | Synonyms: mouthwash |
| (verb) rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash | Synonyms: rinse |
| (verb) utter with gargling or burbling sounds | - |
| gargoyle | (noun) an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal | - |
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| (noun) a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal | - |
| gargoylism | (noun) hereditary disease (autosomal recessive) consisting of an error is mucopolysaccharide metabolism; characterized by severe abnormalities in development of skeletal cartilage and bone and mental retardation | Synonyms: dysostosis multiplex, Hurler's disease, Hurler's syndrome, lipochondrodystrophy |
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| hydrargyrum | (noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, mercury, quicksilver |
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| inarguable | (adjective) against which no argument can be made | Synonyms: unarguable |
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| inarguably | (adverb) in an unarguable and undisputed manner | Synonyms: unarguably, undisputedly |
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| jargon | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular |
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| (noun) specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject | - |
| (noun) a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon | Synonyms: jargoon |
| jargoon | (noun) a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon | Synonyms: jargon |
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| large | (adjective) above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent | Synonyms: big |
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| (adjective) having broad power and range and scope | - |
| (adjective) conspicuous in position or importance | Synonyms: big, prominent |
| (adjective) generous and understanding and tolerant | Synonyms: big, magnanimous |
| (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, with child |
| (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, turgid |
| (adjective) fairly large or important in effect; influential | - |
| (noun) a garment size for a large person | - |
| (adverb) with the wind abaft the beam | - |
| (adverb) at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark) | - |
| (adverb) in a boastful manner | Synonyms: big, boastfully, vauntingly |
| largely | (adverb) in large part; mainly or chiefly | Synonyms: for the most part, mostly |
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| (adverb) on a large scale | - |
| largemouth | (noun) a large black bass; the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye | Synonyms: largemouth bass, largemouth black bass, largemouthed bass, largemouthed black bass, Micropterus salmoides |
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| largeness | (noun) the property of having a relatively great size | Synonyms: bigness |
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| (noun) large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness | Synonyms: extensiveness |
| (noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: pretension, pretentiousness |
| (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, comprehensiveness |
| larger | (adjective) large or big relative to something else | Synonyms: bigger |
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| largess | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largesse, magnanimity, munificence, openhandedness |
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| (noun) a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously | Synonyms: largesse |
| largesse | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, magnanimity, munificence, openhandedness |
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| (noun) a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously | Synonyms: largess |
| larghetto | (adjective) (of tempo) less slow and broad than largo | - |
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| (noun) (music) a composition or passage played in a slow tempo slightly faster than largo but slower than adagio | - |
| larghissimo | (adjective) (of tempo) as slow and broad as possible | - |
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| largish | (adjective) somewhat large | Synonyms: biggish |
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| largo | (adjective) very slow in tempo and broad in manner | - |
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| (noun) (music) a composition or passage that is to be performed in a slow and dignified manner | - |
| (adverb) slowly and broadly | - |
| lethargic | (adjective) deficient in alertness or activity | Synonyms: unenergetic |
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| lethargically | (adverb) without energy; in a lethargic manner | Synonyms: unenergetically |
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| lethargy | (noun) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy | Synonyms: inanition, lassitude, slackness |
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| (noun) inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy | Synonyms: flatness, languor, phlegm, sluggishness |
| (noun) a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) | Synonyms: lassitude, sluggishness |
| margarin | (noun) a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter | Synonyms: margarine, marge, oleo, oleomargarine |
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| (noun) a glyceryl ester of margaric acid | Synonyms: glycerol trimargarate |
| margarine | (noun) a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter | Synonyms: margarin, marge, oleo, oleomargarine |
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| margarita | (noun) a cocktail made of tequila and triple sec with lime and lemon juice | - |
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| margate | (noun) a grunt with a red mouth that is found from Florida to Brazil | Synonyms: Haemulon album |
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| margay | (noun) small spotted wildcat found from Texas to Brazil | Synonyms: Felis wiedi, margay cat |
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| marge | (noun) a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter | Synonyms: margarin, margarine, oleo, oleomargarine |
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| margin | (noun) an amount beyond the minimum necessary | - |
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| (noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: allowance, leeway, tolerance |
| (noun) the blank space that surrounds the text on a page | - |
| (noun) the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities | Synonyms: security deposit |
| (noun) (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold | Synonyms: gross profit, gross profit margin |
| (noun) the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary | Synonyms: border, perimeter |
| marginal | (adjective) of questionable or minimal quality | Synonyms: borderline |
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| (adjective) just barely adequate or within a lower limit | Synonyms: bare |
| (adjective) at or constituting a border or edge | Synonyms: fringy |
| (adjective) producing at a rate that barely covers production costs | - |
| marginalia | (noun) notes written in the margin | - |
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| marginalisation | (noun) the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society) | Synonyms: marginalization |
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| marginalise | (verb) relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people | Synonyms: marginalize |
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| marginality | (noun) the property of being marginal or on the fringes | - |
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| marginalization | (noun) the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society) | Synonyms: marginalisation |
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| marginalize | (verb) relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people | Synonyms: marginalise |
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| marginally | (adverb) in a marginal manner | - |
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| marginocephalian | (noun) includes boneheaded (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs | Synonyms: Marginocephalia, suborder Marginocephalia |
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