| amateurishly | (adverb) in an amateurish manner | - |
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| amateurishness | (noun) something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency | - |
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| amateurism | (noun) the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money | - |
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| ambulate | (verb) walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking | - |
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| ameliorate | (verb) get better | Synonyms: better, improve, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: amend, better, improve, meliorate |
| ammoniate | (verb) treat with ammonia | - |
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| ammoniated | (adjective) combined or treated with ammonia | - |
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| amphitheater | (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held | Synonyms: amphitheatre, coliseum |
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| (noun) a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) | Synonyms: amphitheatre |
| amputate | (verb) remove surgically | Synonyms: cut off |
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| angulate | (adjective) having angles or an angular shape | Synonyms: angular |
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| (verb) make or become angular | - |
| animate | (adjective) endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings | - |
| (adjective) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness | Synonyms: sentient |
| (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
| (verb) make lively | Synonyms: enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up |
| (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animise, animize |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate |
| animated | (adjective) having life or vigor or spirit | Synonyms: alive |
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| (adjective) made to appear to move as living creatures do | - |
| animatedly | (adverb) in an animated manner | - |
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| animateness | (noun) the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life | Synonyms: aliveness, liveness |
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| annihilate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| annihilated | (adjective) destroyed completely | Synonyms: exterminated, wiped out |
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| annotate | (verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | Synonyms: comment, gloss |
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| (verb) add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments | Synonyms: footnote |
| annulate | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulated, circinate, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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| annulated | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulate, circinate, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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| annunciate | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, foretell, harbinger, herald |
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| anteater | (noun) any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites | Synonyms: New World anteater |
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| (noun) nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata | Synonyms: aardvark, ant bear, Orycteropus afer |
| (noun) a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia | Synonyms: echidna, spiny anteater |
| (noun) a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea | Synonyms: echidna, spiny anteater |
| (noun) toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites | Synonyms: pangolin, scaly anteater |
| (noun) small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct | Synonyms: banded anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus, numbat |
| antedate | (verb) establish something as being earlier relative to something else | Synonyms: foredate, predate |
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| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, forego, forgo, precede, predate |
| antepenultimate | (adjective) third from last | - |
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| (noun) the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end | Synonyms: antepenult, antepenultima |
| anticipate | (verb) be a forerunner of or occur earlier than | - |
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| (verb) regard something as probable or likely | Synonyms: expect |
| (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: foreknow, foresee, previse |
| (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
| (verb) be excited or anxious about | Synonyms: look for, look to |
| (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: counter, foresee, forestall |
| anticipated | (adjective) expected hopefully | Synonyms: awaited, hoped-for |
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| antiquate | (verb) give an antique appearance to | Synonyms: antique |
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| (verb) make obsolete or old-fashioned | - |
| antiquated | (adjective) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | Synonyms: antediluvian, archaic |
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| antiquatedness | (noun) The state or quality of being outmoded or discredited by reason of age, of being out of style or fashion. | - |
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| antisatellite | (adjective) of or relating to a system to destroy satellites in orbit | Synonyms: ASAT |
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| apiculate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a short sharply pointed tip | - |
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| apostate | (adjective) not faithful to religion or party or cause | - |
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| (noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: deserter, ratter, recreant, renegade, turncoat |
| appellate | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellant |
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| appreciate | (verb) gain in value | Synonyms: apprise, apprize, revalue |
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| (verb) increase the value of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
| (verb) be fully aware of; realize fully | Synonyms: take account |
| (verb) recognize with gratitude; be grateful for | - |
| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: prize, treasure, value |
| appreciated | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: apprehended, comprehended |
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| approbate | (verb) accept (documents) as valid | - |
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| (verb) approve or sanction officially | - |
| appropriate | (adjective) suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc | - |
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| (adjective) meant or adapted for an occasion or use | Synonyms: suitable, suited |
| (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: allow, earmark, reserve, set aside |
| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: capture, conquer, seize |
| appropriately | (adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances | Synonyms: befittingly, duly, fitly, fittingly, properly, suitably |
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| appropriateness | (noun) the quality of being specially suitable | - |
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| (noun) appropriate conduct; doing the right thing | Synonyms: rightness |
| approximate | (adjective) located close together | Synonyms: close together |
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| (adjective) very close in resemblance | Synonyms: near |
| (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximative, rough |
| (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: estimate, gauge, guess, judge |
| (verb) be close or similar | Synonyms: come close |
| approximately | (adverb) (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | Synonyms: about, around, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly, some |
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| arbitrate | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: intercede, intermediate, liaise, mediate |
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| archegoniate | (adjective) of or relating to an archegonium | Synonyms: archegonial |
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| archidiaconate | (noun) office or position of an archdeacon | - |
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| arcuate | (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arciform, bowed |
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| areolate | (adjective) relating to or like or divided into areolae | Synonyms: areolar |
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| arillate | (adjective) (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover | Synonyms: ariled |
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| arrogate | (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: assume, seize, take over, usurp |
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| (verb) make undue claims to having | Synonyms: assign |
| (verb) demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to | Synonyms: claim, lay claim |
| arsenate | (noun) a salt or ester of arsenic acid | - |
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| articulate | (adjective) expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of segments held together by joints | Synonyms: articulated |
| (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out |
| (verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: enunciate, vocalise, vocalize |
| (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: formulate, give voice, phrase, word |
| (verb) provide with a joint | Synonyms: joint |
| (verb) unite by forming a joint or joints | - |
| articulated | (adjective) consisting of segments held together by joints | Synonyms: articulate |
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| articulately | (adverb) in an articulate manner | Synonyms: eloquently |
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| (adverb) with eloquence | Synonyms: eloquently |
| articulateness | (noun) the quality of being facile in speech and writing | Synonyms: fluency, volubility |
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| asphyxiate | (verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: stifle, suffocate |
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| (verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing | Synonyms: smother, suffocate |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: choke, stifle, suffocate |
| asphyxiated | (adjective) in a state of asphyxia | - |
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| aspirate | (noun) a consonant pronounced with aspiration | - |
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| (noun) a speech sound having as an obvious concomitant an audible puff of breath, as initial stop consonants or initial h -sounds. | - |
| (verb) inhale (air, water, etc.) | - |
| (verb) pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds | - |
| (verb) remove by suction | Synonyms: draw out, suck out |
| assassinate | (verb) destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation | - |
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| (verb) murder; especially of socially prominent persons | - |
| assassinated | (adjective) murdered by surprise attack for political reasons | - |
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| asseverate | (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, maintain |
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| assibilate | (verb) change into a sibilant | - |
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| (verb) insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound) | - |
| assimilate | (verb) become similar to one's environment | - |
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| (verb) make similar | - |
| (verb) become similar in sound | - |
| (verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: absorb, ingest, take in |
| (verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: imbibe |
| associate | (adjective) having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status | - |
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| (noun) a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies | Synonyms: associate degree |
| (noun) any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another | - |
| (noun) a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor | - |
| (noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: companion, comrade, familiar, fellow |
| (noun) a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise | - |
| (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: colligate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in |
| (verb) bring or come into association or action | Synonyms: consociate |
| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: affiliate, assort, consort |
| associateship | (noun) the position of associate (as in an office or academy) | - |
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| assonate | (verb) correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance | - |
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| asteriated | (adjective) (of some crystals especially gemstones) exhibiting asterism | - |
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| astrogate | (verb) navigate in space | - |
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| (verb) guide in interplanetary travel | - |
| atelectasis | (noun) collapse of an expanded lung (especially in infants); also failure of pulmonary alveoli to expand at birth | - |
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| ateleiosis | (noun) a form of infantilism characterized by physical underdevelopment but normal intelligence | Synonyms: ateliosis |
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| ateleiotic | (adjective) of or relating to ateleiosis | - |
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| atelier | (noun) a studio especially for an artist or designer | Synonyms: artist's workroom |
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| ateliosis | (noun) a form of infantilism characterized by physical underdevelopment but normal intelligence | Synonyms: ateleiosis |
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| atenolol | (noun) an oral beta blocker (trade name Tenormin) used in treating hypertension and angina; has adverse side effects (depression and exacerbation of congestive heart failure etc.) | Synonyms: Tenormin |
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| attenuate | (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuated, faded, weakened |
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| (verb) become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude | - |
| (verb) weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) | Synonyms: rarefy |
| attenuated | (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuate, faded, weakened |
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| (adjective) of an electrical signal; reduced in amplitude with little or no distortion | - |
| aureate | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: gilded, gilt, gold, golden |
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| (adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: flamboyant, florid |
| auriculate | (adjective) having auricles | Synonyms: auriculated |
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| auriculated | (adjective) having auricles | Synonyms: auriculate |
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| auscultate | (verb) examine by auscultation | - |
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| auspicate | (verb) commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck | - |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| authenticate | (verb) establish the authenticity of something | - |
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| authenticated | (adjective) established as genuine | Synonyms: attested, documented |
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| automate | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automatise, automatize |
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| automated | (adjective) operated by automation | Synonyms: machine-controlled, machine-driven |
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| aviate | (verb) operate an airplane | Synonyms: fly, pilot |
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| baccalaureate | (noun) an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies | Synonyms: bachelor's degree |
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| (noun) a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies | - |
| baccate | (adjective) resembling a berry | Synonyms: berrylike |
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| (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: bacciferous, berried |
| backdate | (verb) make effective from an earlier date | - |
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| backplate | (noun) plate armor protecting the back; worn as part of a cuirass | - |
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| backwater | (noun) a place or condition in which no development or progress is occurring | - |
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| (noun) a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam | - |
| bagatelle | (noun) a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over | Synonyms: bar billiards |
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| (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: fluff, frippery, frivolity |
| (noun) a light piece of music for piano | - |
| baldpate | (noun) a widgeon the male of which has a white crown | Synonyms: American widgeon, Anas americana |
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| (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldy, skin, skinhead |
| barbate | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: bearded, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery |
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| barbellate | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| barbiturate | (noun) organic compound having powerful soporific effect; overdose can be fatal | - |
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| barrater | (noun) someone guilty of barratry | Synonyms: barrator |
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| bate | (verb) soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments | - |
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| (verb) flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons | - |
| (verb) moderate or restrain; lessen the force of | - |
| bated | (adjective) diminished or moderated | - |
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| beaten | (adjective) formed or made thin by hammering | - |
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| (adjective) much trodden and worn smooth or bare | - |
| beater | (noun) an implement for beating | - |
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| (noun) a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter | - |
| bedmate | (noun) a person with whom you share a bed | Synonyms: bedfellow |
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| beefeater | (noun) officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch | Synonyms: yeoman, yeoman of the guard |
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