| arrears | (noun) an unpaid overdue debt | - |
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| (noun) the state of being behind in payments | - |
| arse | (noun) vulgar slang for anus | Synonyms: arsehole, asshole, bunghole |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| arsehole | (noun) vulgar slang for anus | Synonyms: arse, asshole, bunghole |
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| arsenal | (noun) a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
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| (noun) a place where arms are manufactured | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
| (noun) all the weapons and equipment that a country has | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
| arsenate | (noun) a salt or ester of arsenic acid | - |
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| arsenic | (noun) a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and in various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar | Synonyms: As, atomic number 33 |
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| (noun) a white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer | Synonyms: arsenic trioxide, arsenous anhydride, arsenous oxide, ratsbane, white arsenic |
| arsenical | (adjective) relating to or containing arsenic | - |
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| (noun) a pesticide or drug containing arsenic | - |
| arsenide | (noun) a compound of arsenic with a more positive element | - |
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| arsenious | (adjective) relating to compounds in which arsenic is trivalent | - |
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| arsenopyrite | (noun) a silver-white or grey ore of arsenic | Synonyms: mispickel |
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| arsine | (noun) a poisonous colorless flammable gas used in organic synthesis and to dope transistors and as a poison gas in warfare | - |
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| arson | (noun) malicious burning to destroy property | Synonyms: fire-raising, incendiarism |
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| arsonist | (noun) a criminal who illegally sets fire to property | Synonyms: firebug, incendiary |
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| bars | (noun) gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights | Synonyms: parallel bars |
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| bearskin | (noun) tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: busby, shako |
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| (noun) the pelt of a bear | - |
| binoculars | (noun) (plural) an optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes | Synonyms: field glasses, opera glasses |
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| boxcars | (noun) (usually plural) an expression used when two dice are thrown and both come up showing six spots | - |
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| carsick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, airsick, seasick |
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| catharsis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions | Synonyms: abreaction, katharsis |
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| (noun) purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: katharsis, purgation |
| churidars | (noun) tight trousers worn by people from the Indian subcontinent (typically with a kameez or kurta) | - |
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| clearstory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clerestory |
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| coarse | (adjective) of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles | Synonyms: harsh |
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| (adjective) of low or inferior quality or value | Synonyms: common |
| (adjective) lacking refinement or cultivation or taste | Synonyms: common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar |
| coarsely | (adverb) in coarse pieces | - |
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| coarsen | (verb) make less subtle or refined | - |
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| (verb) make or become coarse or coarser | - |
| coarsened | (adjective) made coarse or crude by lack of skill | - |
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| coarseness | (noun) looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) | Synonyms: nubbiness, tweediness |
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| (noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles | Synonyms: graininess, granularity |
| (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity |
| (noun) language or humor that is down-to-earth | Synonyms: saltiness |
| earshot | (noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earreach, hearing |
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| earsplitting | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: deafening, thunderous, thundery |
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| farseeing | (adjective) capable of seeing to a great distance | Synonyms: eagle-eyed, keen-sighted, longsighted |
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| (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted, prospicient |
| farsighted | (adjective) able to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: presbyopic |
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| (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted, prospicient |
| farsightedness | (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: foresight, prevision, prospicience |
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| (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness |
| (noun) a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45 | Synonyms: presbyopia |
| fearsome | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| fearsomely | (adverb) in a fearsome manner | - |
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| gearset | (noun) a set of gears | - |
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| gearshift | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearstick, shifter |
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| gearstick | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearshift, shifter |
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| harsh | (adjective) of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles | Synonyms: coarse |
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| (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: abrasive |
| (adjective) severe | - |
| (adjective) unkind or cruel or uncivil | Synonyms: rough |
| (adjective) unpleasantly stern | Synonyms: rough |
| (adjective) unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses | - |
| harshen | (verb) make harsh or harsher | - |
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| harshly | (adverb) in a harsh and grating manner | Synonyms: gratingly, raspingly |
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| (adverb) in a harsh or unkind manner | - |
| harshness | (noun) the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses | Synonyms: roughness |
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| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
| (noun) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions | Synonyms: abrasiveness, scratchiness |
| (noun) the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance | Synonyms: cruelness, cruelty |
| hearsay | (adjective) heard through another rather than directly | - |
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| (noun) gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth | Synonyms: rumor, rumour |
| hearse | (noun) a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle | - |
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| hoarse | (adjective) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion | Synonyms: gruff, husky |
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| hoarsely | (adverb) in a hoarse or husky voice | Synonyms: huskily |
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| hoarseness | (noun) a throaty harshness | Synonyms: gruffness, huskiness |
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| katharsis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions | Synonyms: abreaction, catharsis |
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| (noun) purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: catharsis, purgation |
| marseille | (noun) strong cotton fabric with a raised pattern; used for bedspreads | - |
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| marsh | (noun) low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water | Synonyms: fen, fenland, marshland |
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| marshal | (noun) a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law | Synonyms: marshall |
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| (noun) (in some countries) a military officer of highest rank | Synonyms: marshall |
| (verb) make ready for action or use | Synonyms: mobilise, mobilize, summon |
| (verb) arrange in logical order | - |
| (verb) place in proper rank | - |
| (verb) lead ceremoniously, as in a procession | - |
| marshall | (noun) a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law | Synonyms: marshal |
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| (noun) (in some countries) a military officer of highest rank | Synonyms: marshal |
| marshalship | (noun) the post of marshall | - |
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| marshland | (noun) low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water | Synonyms: fen, fenland, marsh |
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| marshmallow | (noun) spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar | - |
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| marshy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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| marsupial | (adjective) of or relating to the marsupials | - |
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| (noun) mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried | Synonyms: pouched mammal |
| marsupium | (noun) an external abdominal pouch in most marsupials where newborn offspring are suckled | - |
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| mearstone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: meerestone, merestone |
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| metatarsal | (adjective) of or relating to the metatarsus | - |
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| (noun) any bone of the foot between the ankle and the toes | - |
| metatarsus | (noun) the skeleton of the human foot between the toes and the tarsus; the corresponding part of the foot in birds or of the hind foot in quadrupeds | - |
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| nearside | (noun) the side of a vehicle nearest the kerb | - |
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| nearsighted | (adjective) unable to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: myopic, shortsighted |
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| nearsightedness | (noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, shortsightedness |
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| oarsman | (noun) a male who rows a boat | - |
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| oarsmanship | (noun) skill as an oarsman | - |
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| oarswoman | (noun) a woman oarsman | - |
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| parse | (verb) analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence) | - |
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| parsec | (noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years | Synonyms: secpar |
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| parser | (noun) a computer program that divides code up into functional components | - |
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| parsimonious | (adjective) excessively unwilling to spend | Synonyms: penurious |
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| parsimoniousness | (noun) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily | Synonyms: parsimony, penny-pinching, thrift |
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| (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
| parsimony | (noun) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily | Synonyms: parsimoniousness, penny-pinching, thrift |
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| (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness, tightness |
| parsley | (noun) aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food | - |
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| (noun) annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves | Synonyms: Petroselinum crispum |
| parsnip | (noun) whitish edible root; eaten cooked | - |
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| (noun) a strong-scented plant cultivated for its edible root | Synonyms: Pastinaca sativa |
| (noun) the whitish root of cultivated parsnip | - |
| parson | (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: curate, minister, minister of religion, pastor, rector |
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| parsonage | (noun) an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector | Synonyms: rectory, vicarage |
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| rehearsal | (noun) (psychology) a form of practice; repetition of information (silently or aloud) in order to keep it in short-term memory | - |
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| (noun) a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert) | Synonyms: dry run |
| rehearse | (verb) engage in a rehearsal (of) | Synonyms: practice, practise |
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| samarskite | (noun) a complex black mineral occurring in pegmatites | - |
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| sarsaparilla | (noun) carbonated drink flavored with an extract from sarsaparilla root or with birch oil and sassafras | - |
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| (noun) any of various prickly climbing plants of the tropical American genus Smilax having aromatic roots and heart-shaped leaves | - |
| sarsenet | (noun) a fine soft silk fabric often used for linings | Synonyms: sarcenet |
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| scholarship | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning |
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| (noun) financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit | - |
| shears | (noun) large scissors with strong blades | - |
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| sparse | (adjective) not dense | Synonyms: thin |
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| sparsely | (adverb) in a sparse way | - |
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| sparseness | (noun) the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness | Synonyms: spareness, sparsity, thinness |
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| sparsity | (noun) the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness | Synonyms: spareness, sparseness, thinness |
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| starship | (noun) a spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space (especially in science fiction) | Synonyms: spaceship |
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| tarsal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the tarsus of the foot | - |
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| (noun) any bone of the tarsus | Synonyms: tarsal bone |
| tarsier | (noun) nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates | - |
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| tarsitis | (noun) inflammation of the eyelid | - |
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| tarsus | (noun) the part of the foot of a vertebrate between the metatarsus and the leg; in human beings the bones of the ankle and heel collectively | - |
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| tears | (noun) the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds) | Synonyms: crying, weeping |
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| tetramethyldiarsine | (noun) a poisonous oily liquid with a garlicky odor composed of 2 cacodyl groups; undergoes spontaneous combustion in dry air | Synonyms: cacodyl |
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| unrehearsed | (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded |
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| varsity | (noun) a British abbreviation of `university'; usually refers to Oxford University or Cambridge University | - |
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| (noun) a team representing a college or university | Synonyms: first team |
| vicarship | (noun) the religious institution under the authority of a vicar | Synonyms: vicariate |
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| warship | (noun) a government ship that is available for waging war | Synonyms: combat ship, war vessel |
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| years | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, eld, geezerhood, old age |
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| (noun) a prolonged period of time | Synonyms: age, long time |
| (noun) the time during which someone's life continues | Synonyms: days |