| chemotaxis | (noun) movement by a cell or organism in reaction to a chemical stimulus | - |
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| chemotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutical |
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| chemotherapeutical | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutic |
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| chemotherapy | (noun) the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness) | - |
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| chenfish | (noun) small silvery marine food fish found off California | Synonyms: Genyonemus lineatus, kingfish, white croaker |
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| chenille | (noun) a heavy fabric woven with chenille cord; used in rugs and bedspreads | - |
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| (noun) a soft tufted cord used in embroidery | Synonyms: chenille cord |
| cheque | (noun) a written order directing a bank to pay money | Synonyms: bank check, check |
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| (verb) withdraw money by writing a check | Synonyms: check out |
| chequebook | (noun) a book issued to holders of checking accounts | Synonyms: checkbook |
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| chequer | (noun) one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers | Synonyms: checker |
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| (verb) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns | Synonyms: checker |
| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: check, checker |
| chequerboard | (noun) a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors | Synonyms: checker board, checkerboard |
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| chequered | (adjective) patterned with alternating squares of color | Synonyms: checked, checkered |
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| cherimolla | (noun) large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples | Synonyms: cherimoya |
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| cherimoya | (noun) large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples | Synonyms: cherimolla |
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| (noun) small tropical American tree bearing round or oblong fruit | Synonyms: Annona cherimola, cherimoya tree |
| cherish | (verb) be fond of; be attached to | Synonyms: care for, hold dear, treasure |
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| cherished | (adjective) characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for | Synonyms: precious, treasured, wanted |
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| cheroot | (noun) a cigar with both ends cut flat | - |
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| cherry | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| (noun) a red the color of ripe cherries | Synonyms: cerise, cherry red |
| (noun) a red fruit with a single hard stone | - |
| (noun) any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood | Synonyms: cherry tree |
| (noun) wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry | - |
| cherrystone | (noun) a half-grown quahog | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
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| (noun) small quahog larger than a littleneck; eaten raw or cooked as in e.g. clams casino | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
| chert | (noun) variety of silica containing microcrystalline quartz | - |
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| cherty | (adjective) resembling or containing chert | - |
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| cherub | (noun) an angel of the second order whose gift is knowledge; usually portrayed as a winged child | - |
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| (noun) a sweet innocent baby | - |
| cherubic | (adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, seraphic, sweet |
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| chervil | (noun) fresh ferny parsley-like leaves used as a garnish with chicken and veal and omelets and green salads and spinach | - |
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| (noun) aromatic annual Old World herb cultivated for its finely divided and often curly leaves for use especially in soups and salads | Synonyms: Anthriscus cereifolium, beaked parsley |
| chess | (noun) a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king | Synonyms: chess game |
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| (noun) weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat | Synonyms: Bromus secalinus, cheat |
| chessboard | (noun) a checkerboard used to play chess | Synonyms: chess board |
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| chessman | (noun) any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess | Synonyms: chess piece |
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| chest | (noun) box with a lid; used for storage; usually large and sturdy | - |
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| (noun) furniture with drawers for keeping clothes | Synonyms: bureau, chest of drawers, dresser |
| (noun) the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates | Synonyms: pectus, thorax |
| (noun) the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen | Synonyms: breast |
| chesterfield | (noun) a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar | - |
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| (noun) an overstuffed davenport with upright armrests | - |
| chestnut | (adjective) (of hair or feathers) of a golden brown to reddish brown color | - |
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| (noun) a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse | - |
| (noun) a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg | - |
| (noun) the brown color of chestnuts | - |
| (noun) edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea | - |
| (noun) any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur | Synonyms: chestnut tree |
| (noun) wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea | - |
| chesty | (adjective) having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride | Synonyms: arrogant, self-important |
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| (adjective) marked by a large or well-developed chest | Synonyms: big-chested |
| chetah | (noun) long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game | Synonyms: Acinonyx jubatus, cheetah |
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| chetrum | (noun) 100 chetrums equal 1 ngultrum in Bhutan | - |
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| chevalier | (noun) a gallant or courtly gentleman | Synonyms: cavalier |
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| chevre | (noun) made from goats' milk | Synonyms: goat cheese |
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| chevron | (noun) an inverted V-shaped charge | - |
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| (noun) V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service | Synonyms: grade insignia, stripe, stripes |
| chevrotain | (noun) very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa | Synonyms: mouse deer |
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| chevvy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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| chevy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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| chew | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chewing, manduction, mastication |
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| (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chaw, cud, plug, quid, wad |
| (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: jaw, manducate, masticate |
| chewable | (adjective) able to be chewed or cut | Synonyms: cuttable |
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| chewer | (noun) someone who chews (especially someone who chews tobacco) | - |
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| chewing | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chew, manduction, mastication |
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| chewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: cheewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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| chewy | (adjective) (of a consistency) requiring chewing | - |
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| (adjective) requiring much chewing | - |
| chincherinchee | (noun) South African perennial with long-lasting spikes of white blossoms that are shipped in to Europe and America for use as winter cut flowers | Synonyms: Ornithogalum thyrsoides, wonder flower |
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| chokecherry | (noun) a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds | Synonyms: chokecherry tree, Prunus virginiana |
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| (noun) the fruit of the chokecherry tree | - |
| clenched | (adjective) closed or squeezed together tightly | Synonyms: clinched |
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| cliche | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: banality, bromide, commonplace, platitude |
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| cliched | (adjective) repeated regularly without thought or originality | Synonyms: ready-made |
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| clinched | (adjective) closed or squeezed together tightly | Synonyms: clenched |
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| clincher | (noun) a tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets | - |
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| (noun) a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively | Synonyms: decisive factor |
| (noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: determiner, determining factor |
| cloche | (noun) a woman's close-fitting hat that resembles a helmet | - |
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| (noun) a low transparent cover put over young plants to protect them from cold | - |
| clutches | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutch, grasp, grip, hold |
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| couchette | (noun) a compartment on a European passenger train; contains 4 to 6 berths for sleeping | - |
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| (noun) a sleeping berth in a couchette compartment. | - |
| countercheck | (noun) something that checks the correctness of a previous check | Synonyms: double check |
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| (noun) a check that restrains another check | - |
| (verb) check a second time | - |
| (verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: counteract |
| cowcatcher | (noun) an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track | Synonyms: buffer, fender, pilot |
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| cowpuncher | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowhand, cowherd, cowpoke, puncher |
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| creche | (noun) a hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for | Synonyms: foundling hospital |
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| (noun) a representation of Christ's nativity in the stable at Bethlehem | - |
| crochet | (noun) needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle | Synonyms: crocheting |
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| (verb) make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle | Synonyms: hook |
| (verb) create by looping or crocheting | - |
| crocheting | (noun) creating a garment of needlework | - |
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| (noun) needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle | Synonyms: crochet |
| crossbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who does not vote regularly with either the government or the Opposition | - |
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| crosscheck | (noun) an illegal check (chopping at an opponent's arms or stick) | - |
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| (noun) an instance of confirming something by considering information from several sources | - |
| crosshatched | (adjective) shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines | Synonyms: hatched |
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| crotchet | (noun) a small tool or hooklike implement | - |
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| (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness |
| (noun) a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note | Synonyms: quarter note |
| (noun) a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook | Synonyms: hook |
| crotchetiness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: contrariness, crankiness, grumpiness |
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| crotchety | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: cantankerous, ornery |
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| debauched | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| debauchee | (noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: libertine, rounder |
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| debaucher | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: ravisher, violator |
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| debauchery | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| deinocheirus | (noun) lightly built medium-sized theropod with long limbs and neck | - |
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| demarche | (noun) a move or step or maneuver in political or diplomatic affairs | - |
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| detached | (adjective) used of buildings; standing apart from others | - |
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| (adjective) being or feeling set or kept apart from others | Synonyms: isolated, separated, set-apart |
| (adjective) showing lack of emotional involvement | Synonyms: degage, uninvolved |
| (adjective) no longer connected or joined | Synonyms: separated |
| (adjective) not fixed in position | Synonyms: free |
| (adjective) lacking affection or warm feeling | Synonyms: unaffectionate, uncaring |
| dispatcher | (noun) the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition | Synonyms: starter |
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| (noun) employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service | - |
| douche | (noun) irrigation with a jet of water or medicated solution into or around a body part (especially the vagina) to treat infections or cleanse from odorous contents | - |
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| (noun) a small syringe with detachable nozzles; used for vaginal lavage and enemas | Synonyms: douche bag |
| (verb) direct a spray of water into a bodily cavity, for cleaning | - |
| dowitcher | (noun) shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe | - |
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| drenched | (adjective) abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination | Synonyms: drenched in |
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| duchess | (noun) the wife of a duke or a woman holding ducal title in her own right | - |
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| dyschezia | (noun) difficulty in defecating (usually as a consequence of long continued voluntary suppression of the urge to defecate) | - |
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| earache | (noun) an ache localized in the middle or inner ear | Synonyms: otalgia |
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| echelon | (noun) a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset | - |
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| (noun) a body of troops arranged in a line | - |
| (noun) status in a society or organization | - |
| electrochemical | (adjective) of or involving electrochemistry | - |
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| electrochemistry | (noun) branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of electricity and the production of electricity by chemical reactions | - |
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| encroacher | (noun) someone who enters by force in order to conquer | Synonyms: invader |
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| entrenched | (adjective) established firmly and securely | - |
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| (adjective) dug in | - |
| epicheirema | (noun) a syllogism in which some statement supporting one or both of the premises is introduced with the premises themselves. | - |
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| escheat | (noun) a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs | - |
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| (noun) the property that reverts to the state | - |
| escherichia | (noun) a genus of enteric bacteria | - |
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| eschew | (verb) avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of | Synonyms: shun |
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| escutcheon | (noun) a shield; especially one displaying a coat of arms | Synonyms: scutcheon |
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| (noun) (nautical) a plate on a ship's stern on which the name is inscribed | - |
| (noun) a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers | Synonyms: finger plate, scutcheon |
| etched | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: engraved, graven, incised, inscribed |
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| etcher | (noun) someone who etches | - |
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| exchequer | (noun) the funds of a government or institution or individual | Synonyms: treasury |
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| farfetched | (adjective) (of an idea or story) so exaggerated or ludicrous as to be improbable | Synonyms: far-fetched |
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| (adjective) (of a theory or explanation) highly imaginative but unlikely and unconvincing | Synonyms: far-fetched |
| femtochemistry | (noun) the branch of chemistry that studies elementary (often very fast) chemical reactions as they occur; the experimental methods are often based on the use of femtosecond laser pulses | - |
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| flycatcher | (noun) any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing | Synonyms: Old World flycatcher, true flycatcher |
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| (noun) large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing | Synonyms: New World flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher |
| frontbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is a minister in the government or who holds an official position in an opposition party | - |
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| gauche | (adjective) lacking social polish | Synonyms: graceless, unpolished |
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| gaucheness | (noun) an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity |
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| gaucherie | (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, slip, solecism |
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| (noun) the quality of being rustic or gauche | Synonyms: rusticity |