schoolbook | (noun) a book prepared for use in schools or colleges | Synonyms: school text, text, text edition, textbook |
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schoolboy | (noun) a boy attending school | - |
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schoolboyish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boyish, boylike |
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schoolchild | (noun) a young person attending school (up through senior high school) | Synonyms: pupil, school-age child |
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schooldays | (noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooltime |
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schoolfellow | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolmate |
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schoolfriend | (noun) a friend who attends the same school | - |
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schoolgirl | (noun) a girl attending school | - |
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schoolgirlish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young girl | Synonyms: girlish |
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schoolhouse | (noun) a building where young people receive education | Synonyms: school |
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schooling | (noun) the act of teaching at school | - |
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(noun) the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage) | - |
(noun) the process of being formally educated at a school | Synonyms: school |
schoolman | (noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: academician |
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schoolmarm | (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmistress |
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schoolmaster | (noun) food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Lutjanus apodus |
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(noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: headmaster, master |
(noun) any person (or institution) who acts as an educator | - |
schoolmate | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolfellow |
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schoolmistress | (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmarm |
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schoolroom | (noun) a room in a school where lessons take place | Synonyms: classroom |
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schoolteacher | (noun) a teacher in a school below the college level | Synonyms: school teacher |
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schooltime | (noun) the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session | Synonyms: school, school day |
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(noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooldays |
schoolwide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a school | - |
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schoolwork | (noun) work, such as schoolwork or piecework, that is done at home | Synonyms: homework, school assignment |
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schoolyard | (noun) the yard associated with a school | - |
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schooner | (noun) sailing vessel used in former times | - |
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(noun) a large beer glass | - |
serfhood | (noun) the state of a serf | Synonyms: serfdom, vassalage |
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sharpshoot | (verb) aim and shoot with great precision | Synonyms: snipe |
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sharpshooter | (noun) a fast schooner once used by New England fisherman for illegal fishing in Canadian waters | - |
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(noun) someone skilled in shooting | Synonyms: crack shot, marksman |
(noun) an athlete noted for accurate aim | - |
shoo | (verb) drive away by crying `shoo!' | Synonyms: shoo away, shoo off |
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shoofly | (noun) a child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck) | - |
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(noun) an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen | - |
shook | (noun) a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment | - |
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shoot | (noun) the act of shooting at targets | - |
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(noun) a new branch | - |
(verb) give an injection to | Synonyms: inject |
(verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, sprout, spud |
(verb) measure the altitude of by using a sextant | - |
(verb) record on photographic film | Synonyms: photograph, snap |
(verb) make a film or photograph of something | Synonyms: film, take |
(verb) utter fast and forcefully | - |
(verb) fire a shot; release | Synonyms: blast |
(verb) hit with a missile from a weapon | Synonyms: hit, pip |
(verb) score | - |
(verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away |
(verb) force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing | Synonyms: inject |
(verb) throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective | - |
(verb) throw dice, as in a crap game | - |
(verb) variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors | - |
(verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scoot, scud |
(verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, charge, shoot down, tear |
(verb) send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly | - |
(verb) cause a sharp and sudden pain in | - |
(verb) kill by firing a missile | Synonyms: pip |
(verb) emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully | - |
shooter | (noun) a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles | Synonyms: taw |
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(noun) a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot) | Synonyms: shot |
(noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, torpedo, triggerman |
(noun) (sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket) | - |
(noun) a gambler who throws dice in the game of craps | Synonyms: crap-shooter |
shooting | (noun) the act of firing a projectile | Synonyms: shot |
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(noun) killing someone by gunfire | - |
shootout | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunfight, gunplay |
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sisterhood | (noun) a religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns) | - |
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(noun) an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest | Synonyms: sistership |
(noun) the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings | Synonyms: sistership |
skyhook | (noun) a hook that is imagined to be suspended from the sky | - |
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(noun) helicopter carrying a reel of steel cable that can be used to lift and transport heavy objects | - |
spinsterhood | (noun) the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman) | - |
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tenterhook | (noun) one of a series of hooks used to hold cloth on a tenter | - |
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trapshooter | (noun) a person who engages in shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled into the air by a trap | - |
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trapshooting | (noun) the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird | Synonyms: skeet, skeet shooting |
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troubleshoot | (verb) solve problems | Synonyms: trouble-shoot |
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troubleshooter | (noun) a worker whose job is to locate and fix sources of trouble (especially in mechanical devices) | Synonyms: trouble shooter |
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typhoon | (noun) a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans | - |
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undershoot | (verb) shoot short of or below (a target) | - |
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(verb) fall short of (the runway) in a landing | - |
unhook | (verb) take off a hook | - |
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unlikelihood | (noun) the improbability of a specified outcome | Synonyms: unlikeliness |
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unschooled | (adjective) lacking in schooling | Synonyms: untaught, untutored |
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wahoo | (noun) large fast-moving predacious food and game fish; found worldwide | Synonyms: Acanthocybium solandri |
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(noun) deciduous shrub having purple capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | Synonyms: burning bush, Euonymus atropurpureus |
(noun) upright deciduous plant with crimson pods and seeds; the eastern United States from New York to Florida and Texas | Synonyms: Euonymus americanus, strawberry bush |
whoop | (noun) a loud hooting cry of exultation or excitement | - |
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(verb) shout, as if with joy or enthusiasm | - |
(verb) cough spasmodically | Synonyms: hack |
whoopee | (noun) noisy and boisterous revelry | - |
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whooper | (noun) common Old World swan noted for its whooping call | Synonyms: Cygnus cygnus, whooper swan |
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(noun) rare North American crane having black-and-white plumage and a trumpeting call | Synonyms: Grus americana, whooping crane |
whoosh | (noun) the noise produced by the sudden rush of a fluid (a gas or liquid) | Synonyms: swoosh |
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(verb) gush or squirt out | - |
(verb) move with a whooshing sound | Synonyms: hiss |
(verb) move with a sibilant sound | Synonyms: woosh |
whooty | (noun) a white woman with a large butt | - |
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widowhood | (noun) the state of being a widow who has not remarried | - |
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(noun) the time of a woman's life when she is a widow | - |
womanhood | (noun) the status of a woman | - |
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(noun) women as a class | Synonyms: fair sex, woman |
(noun) the state of being an adult woman | Synonyms: muliebrity |
yahoo | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yokel |
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