| augend | (noun) a number to which another number (the addend) is added | - |
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| auger | (noun) hand tool for boring holes | Synonyms: gimlet, screw auger, wimble |
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| (noun) a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes | Synonyms: plumber's snake, snake |
| aught | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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| augite | (noun) dark-green to black glassy mineral of the pyroxene group containing large amounts of aluminum and iron and magnesium | - |
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| augitic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing the mineral augite | - |
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| augment | (verb) grow or intensify | - |
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| (verb) enlarge or increase | - |
| augmentation | (noun) the act of augmenting | - |
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| (noun) the statement of a theme in notes of greater duration (usually twice the length of the original) | - |
| (noun) the amount by which something becomes greater | - |
| augmentative | (adjective) increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree | - |
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| (adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: enhancive |
| augmented | (adjective) added to or made greater in amount or number or strength | - |
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| augur | (noun) (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy | Synonyms: auspex |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| (verb) predict from an omen | - |
| augury | (noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: foretoken, preindication, sign |
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| august | (adjective) profoundly honored | Synonyms: revered, venerable |
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| (adjective) of or befitting a lord | Synonyms: grand, lordly |
| beaugregory | (noun) a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies | Synonyms: Pomacentrus leucostictus |
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| bellylaugh | (verb) laugh a deep, hearty laugh | - |
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| daughter | (noun) a female human offspring | Synonyms: girl |
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| daughterly | (adjective) befitting a daughter | - |
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| distraught | (adjective) deeply agitated especially from emotion | Synonyms: overwrought |
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| draught | (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draft, drawing |
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| (noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draft, gulp, swig |
| (noun) a dose of liquid medicine | Synonyms: draft |
| (noun) the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) | Synonyms: draft |
| (noun) a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg | Synonyms: draft, potation, tipple |
| (noun) a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle) | Synonyms: draft |
| (verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: blueprint, draft |
| draughts | (noun) a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | Synonyms: checkers |
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| draughtsman | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draftsperson |
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| draughty | (adjective) not airtight | Synonyms: drafty |
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| dreadnaught | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnought |
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| exaugural | (adjective) occurring at or marking the close of a term of office | - |
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| fraught | (adjective) filled with or attended with | Synonyms: pregnant |
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| (adjective) marked by distress | - |
| gauge | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. | Synonyms: gage |
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| (noun) the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train | - |
| (noun) the thickness of wire | - |
| (noun) diameter of a tube or gun barrel | Synonyms: bore, caliber, calibre |
| (noun) accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared | Synonyms: standard of measurement |
| (verb) measure precisely and against a standard | - |
| (verb) adapt to a specified measurement | - |
| (verb) mix in specific proportions | - |
| (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, estimate, guess, judge |
| (verb) determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation | - |
| (verb) rub to a uniform size | - |
| goddaughter | (noun) a female godchild | - |
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| granddaughter | (noun) a female grandchild | - |
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| haughtily | (adverb) in a haughty manner | - |
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| haughtiness | (noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | Synonyms: arrogance, hauteur, high-handedness, lordliness |
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| haughty | (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering |
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| horselaugh | (noun) a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing | Synonyms: ha-ha, haw-haw, hee-haw |
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| inaugural | (adjective) occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction | - |
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| (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, initiative, initiatory, maiden |
| (noun) the ceremonial induction into a position | Synonyms: inauguration |
| (noun) an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president) | Synonyms: inaugural address |
| inaugurally | (adverb) so as to inaugurate | - |
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| inaugurate | (verb) be a precursor of | Synonyms: introduce, usher in |
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| (verb) commence officially | Synonyms: kick off |
| (verb) open ceremoniously or dedicate formally | - |
| inauguration | (noun) the ceremonial induction into a position | Synonyms: inaugural |
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| (noun) the act of starting a new operation or practice | Synonyms: startup |
| laugh | (noun) the sound of laughing | Synonyms: laughter |
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| (noun) a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter | Synonyms: gag, jape, jest, joke |
| (noun) a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing | - |
| (verb) produce laughter | Synonyms: express joy, express mirth |
| laughable | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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| (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: amusing, comic, comical, funny, mirthful, risible |
| laughably | (adverb) so as to arouse or deserve laughter | Synonyms: ludicrously, preposterously, ridiculously |
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| laugher | (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, romp, runaway, shoo-in, walkaway |
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| (noun) a person who is laughing or who laughs easily | - |
| laughing | (adjective) showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness | Synonyms: riant |
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| laughingly | (adverb) with laughter; while laughing | - |
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| laughingstock | (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, goat, stooge |
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| laughter | (noun) the activity of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth or scorn | - |
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| (noun) the sound of laughing | Synonyms: laugh |
| manslaughter | (noun) homicide without malice aforethought | - |
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| massasauga | (noun) pygmy rattlesnake found in moist areas from the Great Lakes to Mexico; feeds on mice and small amphibians | Synonyms: massasauga rattler, Sistrurus catenatus |
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| (noun) small pygmy rattlesnake | Synonyms: ground rattler, Sistrurus miliaris |
| misgauge | (verb) gauge something incorrectly or improperly | - |
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| naught | (noun) complete failure | - |
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| (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
| naughtily | (adverb) in a disobedient or naughty way | Synonyms: badly, mischievously |
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| naughtiness | (noun) an attribute of mischievous children | Synonyms: badness, mischievousness |
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| naughty | (adjective) badly behaved | - |
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| (adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamey, gamy, juicy, racy, risque, spicy |
| onslaught | (noun) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Synonyms: attack, onrush, onset |
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| (noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: barrage, bombardment, outpouring |
| (noun) a sudden and severe onset of trouble | - |
| quahaug | (noun) an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians | Synonyms: hard-shell clam, hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, quahog, round clam, Venus mercenaria |
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| (noun) Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes | Synonyms: hard-shell clam, quahog, round clam |
| schnittlaugh | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, chives, cive |
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| slaughter | (noun) the killing of animals (as for food) | - |
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| (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre |
| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
| (verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately | Synonyms: massacre, mow down |
| (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: butcher |
| slaughterer | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: butcher |
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| slaughterhouse | (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, butchery, shambles |
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| slaughterous | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, gory, sanguinary, sanguineous |
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| stepdaughter | (noun) a daughter of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
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| untaught | (adjective) lacking in schooling | Synonyms: unschooled, untutored |
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