| gorgerin | (noun) the molding at the top of a column | Synonyms: necking |
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| gorget | (noun) armor plate that protects the neck | - |
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| gorgonian | (noun) corals having a horny or calcareous branching skeleton | Synonyms: gorgonian coral |
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| gorgonzola | (noun) Italian blue cheese | - |
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| gorilla | (noun) largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa | Synonyms: Gorilla gorilla |
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| gormandise | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| gormandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| gormless | (adjective) (British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality | Synonyms: gaumless |
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| gorse | (noun) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe | Synonyms: furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, whin |
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| gory | (adjective) covered with blood | Synonyms: bloodstained |
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| (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
| goshawk | (noun) large hawk of Eurasia and North America used in falconry | Synonyms: Accipiter gentilis |
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| gosling | (noun) young goose | - |
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| gosmore | (noun) European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears | Synonyms: California dandelion, capeweed, cat's-ear, Hypochaeris radicata |
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| gospel | (noun) a doctrine that is believed to be of great importance | - |
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| (noun) the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group | Synonyms: church doctrine, creed, religious doctrine |
| (noun) an unquestionable truth | Synonyms: gospel truth |
| (noun) folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul) | Synonyms: gospel singing |
| gospeler | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeller, revivalist |
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| gospeller | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeler, revivalist |
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| gossamer | (adjective) characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy | Synonyms: ethereal |
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| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
| (noun) a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture | - |
| (noun) filaments from a web that was spun by a spider | Synonyms: cobweb |
| gossip | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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| (noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: comment, scuttlebutt |
| (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
| (verb) wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies | Synonyms: dish the dirt |
| (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
| gossiper | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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| gossiping | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossipmongering |
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| gossipmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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| gossipmongering | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossiping |
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| gossipy | (adjective) prone to friendly informal communication | Synonyms: chatty, newsy |
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| gothic | (adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened | Synonyms: mediaeval, medieval |
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| (adjective) characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque | - |
| gothite | (noun) a red or yellow or brown mineral; an oxide of iron that is a common constituent of rust | Synonyms: goethite |
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| gouache | (noun) a watercolor executed with opaque watercolors mixed with gum | - |
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| (noun) an opaque watercolor prepared with gum | - |
| gouge | (noun) the act of gouging | - |
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| (noun) and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves | - |
| (noun) an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) | Synonyms: dent, ding, nick |
| (verb) force with the thumb | Synonyms: force out |
| (verb) make a groove in | Synonyms: rout |
| (verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: extort, rack, squeeze, wring |
| gouger | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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| (noun) an attacker who gouges out the antagonist's eye | - |
| goujon | (noun) large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw | Synonyms: flathead catfish, mudcat, Pylodictus olivaris, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish |
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| goulash | (noun) a rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika | Synonyms: gulyas, Hungarian goulash |
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| gourd | (noun) bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd | Synonyms: calabash |
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| (noun) any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds | Synonyms: gourd vine |
| (noun) any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds | - |
| gourde | (noun) the basic unit of money in Haiti | - |
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| gourmand | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmandizer, trencherman |
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| gourmandism | (noun) the disposition and habits of a gourmand | - |
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| gourmandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| gourmandizer | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, trencherman |
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| gourmet | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, foodie, gastronome |
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| gout | (noun) a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints | Synonyms: gouty arthritis, urarthritis |
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| gouty | (adjective) suffering from gout | - |
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| govern | (verb) exercise authority over; as of nations | Synonyms: rule |
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| (verb) direct or strongly influence the behavior of | - |
| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: order, regularise, regularize, regulate |
| (verb) require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood | - |
| governable | (adjective) capable of being controlled | Synonyms: controllable |
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| governance | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governing, government, government activity |
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| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, establishment, governing body, organisation, organization |
| governed | (noun) the body of people who are citizens of a particular government | - |
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| governess | (noun) a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home) | - |
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| governing | (adjective) responsible for making and enforcing rules and laws | - |
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| (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, government, government activity |
| government | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, governing, government activity |
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| (noun) (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed | - |
| (noun) the study of government of states and other political units | Synonyms: political science, politics |
| (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: authorities, regime |
| governmental | (adjective) relating to or dealing with the affairs or structure of government or politics or the state | - |
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| governmentally | (adverb) by government | - |
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| governor | (noun) a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel) | Synonyms: regulator |
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| (noun) the head of a state government | - |
| governorship | (noun) the office of governor | - |
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| gown | (noun) a woman's dress, usually with a close-fitting bodice and a long flared skirt, often worn on formal occasions | - |
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| (noun) outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: robe |
| (noun) protective garment worn by surgeons during operations | Synonyms: scrubs, surgical gown |
| (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: night-robe, nightdress, nightgown, nightie |
| (noun) the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located | - |
| (verb) dress in a gown | - |
| gowned | (adjective) wearing a gown | - |
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| goy | (noun) a Christian as contrasted with a Jew | Synonyms: gentile, non-Jew |
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| gringo | (noun) a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen) | - |
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| hangout | (noun) a frequently visited place | Synonyms: haunt, repair, resort, stamping ground |
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| hangover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: holdover |
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| (noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: holdover |
| (noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: katzenjammer |
| heptagon | (noun) a seven-sided polygon | - |
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| heterologous | (adjective) derived from organisms of a different but related species | - |
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| (adjective) not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin | Synonyms: heterologic, heterological |
| heterozygosity | (noun) the state of being heterozygous; having two different alleles of the same gene | - |
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| heterozygote | (noun) (genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring | - |
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| heterozygous | (adjective) having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci | - |
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| hexagon | (noun) a six-sided polygon | - |
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| hexagonal | (adjective) having six sides or divided into hexagons | Synonyms: hexangular |
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| hobgoblin | (noun) an object of dread or apprehension | Synonyms: bugbear |
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| (noun) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings | Synonyms: goblin, hob |
| homologous | (adjective) corresponding or similar in position or structure or function or characteristics; especially derived from an organism of the same species | - |
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| (adjective) having the same evolutionary origin but not necessarily the same function | - |
| homozygosity | (noun) the state of being homozygous; having two identical alleles of the same gene | - |
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| homozygote | (noun) (genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic | - |
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| homozygous | (adjective) having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci | - |
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| hoosegow | (noun) slang for a jail | Synonyms: hoosgow |
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| hoosgow | (noun) slang for a jail | Synonyms: hoosegow |
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| humongous | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: banging, thumping, walloping, whopping |
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| hungover | (adjective) Suffering the aftereffects of the consumption of alcohol | - |
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| hypermastigote | (noun) flagellate symbiotic in the intestines of e.g. termites | - |
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| hypnagogic | (adjective) sleep inducing | Synonyms: hypnogogic, somniferous, somnific, soporiferous, soporific |
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| hypnagogue | (noun) an agent that induces drowsiness or sleep | - |
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| hypnogogic | (adjective) sleep inducing | Synonyms: hypnagogic, somniferous, somnific, soporiferous, soporific |
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| hypogonadism | (noun) incompetence of the gonads (especially in the male with low testosterone); results in deficient development of secondary sex characteristics and (in prepubertal males) a body with long legs and a short trunk | - |
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| hysterosalpingogram | (noun) X ray of the uterus and Fallopian tubes; usually done in diagnosing infertility (to see if there any blockages) | - |
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| imago | (noun) an adult insect produced after metamorphosis | - |
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| (noun) (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood | - |
| impetigo | (noun) a very contagious infection of the skin; common in children; localized redness develops into small blisters that gradually crust and erode | - |
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| indigo | (adjective) having a color between blue and violet | - |
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| (noun) a blue-violet color | - |
| (noun) deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye | Synonyms: indigo plant, Indigofera tinctoria |
| (noun) a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | Synonyms: anil, indigotin |
| indigotin | (noun) a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | Synonyms: anil, indigo |
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| ingot | (noun) metal that is cast in the shape of a block for convenient handling | - |
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| instagood | (adjective) likely to get many upvotes on Instagram | - |
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| intertrigo | (noun) chafing between two skin surfaces that are in contact (as in the armpit or under the breasts or between the thighs) | - |
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| invigorate | (verb) impart vigor, strength, or vitality to | Synonyms: reinvigorate |
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| (verb) make lively | Synonyms: animate, enliven, liven, liven up |
| (verb) give life or energy to | Synonyms: quicken |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, enliven, exalt, inspire |
| invigorated | (adjective) with restored energy | Synonyms: fresh, refreshed, reinvigorated |
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| invigorating | (adjective) imparting strength and vitality | - |
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| invigoration | (noun) the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something | Synonyms: animation, vivification |
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| (noun) quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous | Synonyms: animation, brio, spiritedness, vivification |
| invigorator | (noun) an agent that gives or restores life or vigor | Synonyms: enlivener, quickener |
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| isogon | (noun) an equiangular polygon | - |
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| isogone | (noun) an imaginary line connecting points on the Earth's surface where the magnetic declination is the same | Synonyms: isogonal line, isogonic line |
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| isogonic | (adjective) having or making equal angles | - |
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| jargon | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular |
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| (noun) specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject | - |
| (noun) a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon | Synonyms: jargoon |
| jargoon | (noun) a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon | Synonyms: jargon |
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| jingo | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingoist, patrioteer |
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| jingoism | (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: chauvinism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism |
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| (noun) an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions | Synonyms: flag waving |
| jingoist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, patrioteer |
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| jingoistic | (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
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| lagomorph | (noun) relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing | Synonyms: gnawing mammal |
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