acreage | (noun) an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming) | Synonyms: land area |
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beagle | (noun) a small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound | - |
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beagling | (noun) hunting rabbits with beagles | - |
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beleaguer | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround |
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(verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, bug, pester, tease |
beleaguering | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: besieging, military blockade, siege |
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colleague | (noun) an associate that one works with | Synonyms: co-worker, fellow worker, workfellow |
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(noun) a person who is member of one's class or profession | Synonyms: confrere, fellow |
eager | (adjective) having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy | - |
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(noun) a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) | Synonyms: aegir, bore, eagre, tidal bore |
eagerly | (adverb) with eagerness; in an eager manner | Synonyms: thirstily |
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eagerness | (noun) prompt willingness | Synonyms: forwardness, readiness, zeal |
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(noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidity, avidness, keenness |
eagle | (noun) any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight | Synonyms: bird of Jove |
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(noun) an emblem representing power | - |
(noun) a former gold coin in the United States worth 10 dollars | - |
(noun) (golf) a score of two strokes under par on a hole | - |
(verb) shoot in two strokes under par | - |
(verb) shoot two strokes under par | Synonyms: double birdie |
eaglet | (noun) a young eagle | - |
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eagre | (noun) a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) | Synonyms: aegir, bore, eager, tidal bore |
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league | (noun) an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action | - |
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(noun) an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members | Synonyms: conference |
(noun) an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles) | - |
(verb) unite to form a league | - |
lineage | (noun) inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | Synonyms: ancestry, derivation, filiation |
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(noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
(noun) a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted | Synonyms: linage |
(noun) the number of lines in a piece of printed material | Synonyms: linage |
(noun) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors | Synonyms: descent, filiation, line of descent |
matrilineage | (noun) line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family | Synonyms: cognation, enation |
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meager | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy |
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meagerly | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagre, scrimpy, stingy |
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(adverb) to a meager degree or in a meager manner | Synonyms: meagrely, slenderly, sparingly |
meagerness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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meagre | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagerly, scrimpy, stingy |
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meagrely | (adverb) to a meager degree or in a meager manner | Synonyms: meagerly, slenderly, sparingly |
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meagreness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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mileage | (noun) distance measured in miles | Synonyms: milage |
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(noun) a travel allowance at a given rate per mile traveled | - |
(noun) the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned | Synonyms: fuel consumption rate, gas mileage, gasoline mileage |
oleaginous | (adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: greasy, oily, sebaceous |
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(adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: buttery, fulsome, oily, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
oleaginousness | (noun) consisting of or covered with oil | Synonyms: greasiness, oiliness |
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(noun) smug self-serving earnestness | Synonyms: fulsomeness, oiliness, smarminess, unction, unctuousness |
overeager | (adjective) excessively eager | - |
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patrilineage | (noun) line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family | Synonyms: agnation |
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peag | (noun) small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency | Synonyms: wampum, wampumpeag |
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porbeagle | (noun) voracious pointed-nose shark of northern Atlantic and Pacific | Synonyms: Lamna nasus |
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reagent | (noun) a chemical agent for use in chemical reactions | - |
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reagin | (noun) an immunoglobulin E that is formed as an antibody against allergens (such as pollen); attaches to cell membranes causing the release of histamine and other substances responsible for the local inflammation characteristic of an allergy | - |
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seagirt | (adjective) surrounded or enclosed by the sea | - |
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seagoing | (adjective) used on the high seas | Synonyms: oceangoing, seafaring |
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seagrass | (noun) any of various seaweeds that grow underwater in shallow beds | - |
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seagull | (noun) mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs | Synonyms: gull, sea gull |
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spreadeagle | (verb) defeat disastrously | Synonyms: rout, spread-eagle |
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uneager | (adjective) lacking interest or spirit or animation | - |
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wampumpeag | (noun) small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency | Synonyms: peag, wampum |
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