| speedskater | (noun) an ice-skater who races competitively; usually around an oval course | Synonyms: speed skater |
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| speedup | (noun) the act of accelerating; increasing the speed | Synonyms: acceleration, quickening |
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| speedway | (noun) a racetrack for racing automobiles or motorcycles | - |
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| (noun) road where high speed driving is allowed | - |
| speedwell | (noun) any plant of the genus Veronica | Synonyms: veronica |
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| speedy | (adjective) characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed | Synonyms: rapid |
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| (adjective) accomplished rapidly and without delay | Synonyms: quick |
| spoonfeed | (verb) teach without challenging the students | - |
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| (verb) feed with a spoon | - |
| spoonfeeding | (noun) feeding someone (as a baby) from a spoon | - |
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| (noun) teaching in an overly simplified way that discourages independent thought | - |
| steed | (noun) (literary) a spirited horse for state of war | - |
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| stickweed | (noun) any of several herbaceous plants having seeds that cling to clothing | - |
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| stinkweed | (noun) foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America | Synonyms: fanweed, field pennycress, French weed, mithridate mustard, penny grass, Thlaspi arvense |
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| succeed | (verb) attain success or reach a desired goal | Synonyms: bring home the bacon, come through, deliver the goods, win |
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| (verb) be the successor (of) | Synonyms: come after, follow |
| succeeder | (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: achiever, success, winner |
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| succeeding | (adjective) coming after or following | - |
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| (adjective) (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving | Synonyms: future, next |
| tarweed | (noun) any of various resinous glandular plants of the genus Madia; of western North and South America | - |
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| (noun) any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: gum plant, gumweed, rosinweed |
| thimbleweed | (noun) a common North American anemone with cylindrical fruit clusters resembling thimbles | Synonyms: Anemone cylindrica |
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| tickseed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America | Synonyms: coreopsis, tick-weed, tickweed |
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| tickweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America | Synonyms: coreopsis, tick-weed, tickseed |
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| toupeed | (adjective) wearing a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness | - |
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| treed | (adjective) forced to turn and face attackers | Synonyms: at bay, cornered, trapped |
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| tumbleweed | (noun) any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass | - |
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| (noun) bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds | Synonyms: Cycloloma atriplicifolium, winged pigweed |
| (noun) bushy plant of western United States | Synonyms: Amaranthus albus, Amaranthus graecizans |
| (noun) prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States | Synonyms: Russian cactus, Russian thistle, Russian tumbleweed, Salsola kali tenuifolia |
| tweed | (noun) thick woolen fabric used for clothing; originated in Scotland | - |
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| (noun) (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth | Synonyms: flannel, gabardine, white |
| tweediness | (noun) looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) | Synonyms: coarseness, nubbiness |
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| (noun) an informal, homely, outdoor look characteristic of those who wear tweeds | - |
| tweedle | (verb) entice through the use of music | - |
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| (verb) play negligently on a musical instrument | - |
| (verb) sing in modulation | Synonyms: chirp |
| tweedy | (adjective) of textiles; having a rough surface | Synonyms: homespun, nubbly, nubby, slubbed |
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| (adjective) (of country gentry) informal, clannish and outdoorsy | - |
| unexceeded | (adjective) not capable of being improved on | Synonyms: unexcelled, unsurpassed |
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| unguaranteed | (adjective) without financial security | Synonyms: unsecured |
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| unheeded | (adjective) disregarded | Synonyms: ignored, neglected |
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| unheeding | (adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention | Synonyms: heedless |
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| unneeded | (adjective) not necessary | Synonyms: unnecessary |
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| unseeded | (adjective) not seeded; used of players of lesser skill | - |
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| (adjective) (of a piece of ground) not have a crop sown on it | Synonyms: unsown |
| velvetweed | (noun) tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States | Synonyms: Abutilon theophrasti, butter-print, China jute, Indian mallow, velvet-leaf, velvetleaf |
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| vinegarweed | (noun) aromatic plant of western United States | Synonyms: camphorweed, Trichostema lanceolatum, turpentine camphor weed |
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| wartweed | (noun) not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun | Synonyms: devil's milk, Euphorbia helioscopia, sun spurge, wartwort |
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| waterweed | (noun) a weedy aquatic plant of genus Elodea | - |
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| weed | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke |
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| (noun) a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning | Synonyms: mourning band |
| (noun) any plant that crowds out cultivated plants | - |
| (verb) clear of weeds | - |
| weeder | (noun) a hand tool for removing weeds | Synonyms: weed-whacker |
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| (noun) a farmhand hired to remove weeds | - |
| weedkiller | (noun) a chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits their growth | Synonyms: herbicide, weed killer |
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| weedless | (adjective) free from weeds | - |
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| weeds | (noun) a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning | Synonyms: widow's weeds |
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| weedy | (adjective) abounding with or resembling weeds | - |
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| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight |
| wheedle | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk |
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| wheedler | (noun) someone who tries to persuade by blandishment and coaxing | Synonyms: coaxer |
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| wheedling | (noun) the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery | Synonyms: blandishment |
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| wormseed | (noun) rank-smelling tropical American pigweed | Synonyms: American wormseed, Chenopodium ambrosioides, Mexican tea, Spanish tea |
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