afghan | (noun) a blanket knitted or crocheted in strips or squares; sometimes used as a shawl | - |
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(noun) a coat made of sheepskin | Synonyms: sheepskin coat |
afghani | (noun) the basic unit of money in Afghanistan | - |
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aghast | (adjective) struck with fear, dread, or consternation | Synonyms: appalled, dismayed, shocked |
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brougham | (noun) a sedan that has no roof over the driver's seat | - |
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(noun) light carriage; pulled by a single horse | - |
gharry | (noun) a horse-drawn carriage in India | - |
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ghastliness | (noun) the quality of being ghastly | Synonyms: grimness, gruesomeness, luridness |
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ghastly | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick |
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(adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: charnel, sepulchral |
ghat | (noun) stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water | - |
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ghatti | (noun) an Indian gum from the dhawa tree; used as a substitute for gum arabic | Synonyms: ghatti gum |
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gingham | (noun) a clothing fabric in a plaid weave | - |
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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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longhand | (adjective) having words written out in full by hand | - |
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(noun) rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper | Synonyms: cursive, cursive script, running hand |
nylghai | (noun) large Indian antelope; male is blue-grey with white markings; female is brownish with no horns | Synonyms: blue bull, Boselaphus tragocamelus, nilgai, nylghau |
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nylghau | (noun) large Indian antelope; male is blue-grey with white markings; female is brownish with no horns | Synonyms: blue bull, Boselaphus tragocamelus, nilgai, nylghai |
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ringhals | (noun) highly venomous snake of southern Africa able to spit venom up to seven feet | Synonyms: Hemachatus haemachatus, rinkhals, spitting snake |
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roughage | (noun) coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis | Synonyms: fiber, fibre |
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shanghai | (verb) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship | Synonyms: impress |
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shanghaier | (noun) a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship | Synonyms: seizer |
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yataghan | (noun) a long Turkish knife with a curved blade having a single edge | - |
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