| frightfulness | (noun) the quality of being frightful | - |
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| frigid | (adjective) extremely cold | Synonyms: arctic, gelid, glacial, icy, polar |
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| (adjective) devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain | Synonyms: frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry |
| (adjective) sexually unresponsive | Synonyms: cold |
| frigidity | (noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coldness, coolness, frigidness, iciness |
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| (noun) sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse | Synonyms: frigidness |
| (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: cold, coldness, frigidness, low temperature |
| frigidly | (adverb) without warmth or enthusiasm | Synonyms: frostily |
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| frigidness | (noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coldness, coolness, frigidity, iciness |
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| (noun) sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse | Synonyms: frigidity |
| (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: cold, coldness, frigidity, low temperature |
| frigorific | (adjective) causing cold; cooling or chilling | - |
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| fumigant | (noun) a chemical substance used in fumigation | - |
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| fumigate | (verb) treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests | Synonyms: fume |
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| fumigation | (noun) the application of a gas or smoke to something for the purpose of disinfecting it | - |
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| fumigator | (noun) a device that generates a gas for the purpose of disinfecting or eradicating pests | - |
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| (noun) someone whose job is to fumigate | - |
| fustigate | (verb) strike with a cudgel | Synonyms: cudgel |
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| gaslight | (noun) light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas | - |
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| gelignite | (noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate | Synonyms: gelly |
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| gig | (noun) a booking for musicians | - |
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| (noun) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood | - |
| (noun) tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain | - |
| (noun) long and light rowing boat; especially for racing | - |
| (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fishgig, fizgig, lance, spear |
| (noun) a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting | - |
| gigabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits | Synonyms: Gb, Gbit |
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| gigabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes | Synonyms: G, GB, GiB, gibibyte |
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| (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes | Synonyms: G, GB |
| gigacycle | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle per second, gigahertz |
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| gigaflop | (noun) a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion floating point operations per second. | Synonyms: billion floating point operations per second, GFLOPS |
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| gigahertz | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle, gigacycle per second |
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| gigantic | (adjective) so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth | Synonyms: mammoth |
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| gigantism | (noun) excessive largeness of stature | Synonyms: giantism |
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| (noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: giantism, overgrowth |
| gigatonne | (noun) a unit of weight equivalent to 1 billion tonnes. | Synonyms: Gt |
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| giggle | (noun) a foolish or nervous laugh | - |
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| (verb) laugh nervously | Synonyms: titter |
| giggler | (noun) a person who laughs nervously | Synonyms: titterer |
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| gigolo | (noun) a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman | - |
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| gigot | (noun) lamb leg suitable for roasting | Synonyms: leg of lamb |
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| gigue | (noun) music in three-four time for dancing a jig | Synonyms: jig |
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| globigerina | (noun) marine protozoan having a rounded shell with spiny processes | - |
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| gravedigger | (noun) a person who earns a living by digging graves | - |
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| greenlight | (verb) to allow a project (especially a TV show) to go ahead | - |
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| grigri | (noun) an African amulet | Synonyms: greegree, gres-gris |
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| gunfight | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunplay, shootout |
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| gunsight | (noun) a sight used for aiming a gun | Synonyms: gun-sight |
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| hayrig | (noun) a frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry | Synonyms: hayrack |
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| headlight | (noun) a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | Synonyms: headlamp |
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| heavyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the heaviest. | Synonyms: super heavyweight |
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| (noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, titan |
| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds | - |
| (noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, hulk, whale |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds | - |
| height | (noun) the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top | Synonyms: tallness |
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| (noun) (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot | Synonyms: stature |
| (noun) elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface | Synonyms: altitude |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| heighten | (verb) increase the level of | Synonyms: enhance, raise |
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| (verb) become more extreme | Synonyms: rise |
| (verb) make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity | - |
| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, deepen, intensify |
| (verb) make (one's senses) more acute | Synonyms: sharpen |
| (verb) increase the height of | - |
| heightening | (adjective) reaching a higher intensity | - |
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| heights | (noun) a high place | Synonyms: high |
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| higgle | (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, huckster |
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| high | (adjective) (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high') | - |
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| (adjective) greater than normal in quantity or amount | - |
| (adjective) used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency | Synonyms: high-pitched |
| (adjective) happy and excited and energetic | Synonyms: in high spirits |
| (adjective) slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana) | Synonyms: mellow |
| (adjective) (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted | Synonyms: gamey, gamy |
| (adjective) standing above others in quality or position | Synonyms: eminent |
| (noun) a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed | Synonyms: high gear |
| (noun) a lofty level or position or degree | - |
| (noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high school, highschool, senior high, senior high school |
| (noun) a high place | Synonyms: heights |
| (noun) an air mass of higher than normal pressure | - |
| (noun) a state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics | - |
| (noun) a state of sustained elation | - |
| (adverb) at a great altitude | Synonyms: high up |
| (adverb) far up toward the source | - |
| (adverb) in or to a high position, amount, or degree | - |
| (adverb) in a rich manner | Synonyms: luxuriously, richly |
| highball | (noun) a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass | - |
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| highbinder | (noun) a corrupt politician | - |
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| highboard | (noun) a high diving board | - |
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| highborn | (adjective) belonging to the peerage | Synonyms: coroneted, titled |
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| highboy | (noun) a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs | Synonyms: tallboy |
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| highbrow | (adjective) highly cultured or educated | Synonyms: highbrowed |
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| (noun) a person of intellectual or erudite tastes | - |
| highbrowed | (adjective) highly cultured or educated | Synonyms: highbrow |
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| highchair | (noun) a chair for feeding a very young child; has four long legs and a footrest and a detachable tray | Synonyms: feeding chair |
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| higher | (adjective) of education beyond the secondary level | - |
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| (adjective) advanced in complexity or elaboration | - |
| highfalutin | (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: grandiose, hifalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
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| highfaluting | (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
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| highflier | (noun) a person of great ability and ambition | Synonyms: highflyer |
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| highflyer | (noun) a person of great ability and ambition | Synonyms: highflier |
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| highflying | (adjective) moving upward or along at a considerable height | - |
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| (adjective) extravagant or ambitious or extreme in aims or opinions | - |
| highjack | (noun) seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination | Synonyms: hijack |
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| (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: commandeer, hijack, pirate |
| highjacker | (noun) a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it | Synonyms: highwayman, hijacker, road agent |
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| (noun) someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination | Synonyms: hijacker |
| highjacking | (noun) robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force | Synonyms: hijacking |
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| highland | (adjective) used of high or hilly country | Synonyms: upland |
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| (noun) elevated (e.g., mountainous) land | Synonyms: upland |
| highlife | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: extravagance, high life, lavishness, prodigality |
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| highlight | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlighting |
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| (noun) the most interesting or memorable part | Synonyms: high spot |
| (verb) apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent | - |
| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: foreground, play up, spotlight |
| highlighter | (noun) a fluorescent marker used to mark important passages in a text | - |
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| (noun) a cosmetic used to highlight the eyes or cheekbones | - |
| highlighting | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlight |
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| highly | (adverb) in a high position or level or rank | - |
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| (adverb) to a high degree or extent; favorably or with much respect | Synonyms: extremely |
| (adverb) at a high rate or wage | - |
| highness | (noun) the quality of being high or lofty | Synonyms: loftiness |
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| (noun) a high degree (of amount or force etc.) | - |
| highroad | (noun) a highway | Synonyms: trunk road |
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| highschool | (noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high, high school, senior high, senior high school |
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| hightail | (verb) retreat at full speed | Synonyms: high-tail |
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| highwater | (noun) the tide when the water is highest | Synonyms: high tide, high water |
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| highway | (noun) a major road for any form of motor transport | Synonyms: main road |
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| highwayman | (noun) a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it | Synonyms: highjacker, hijacker, road agent |
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| hindsight | (noun) understanding the nature of an event after it has happened | - |
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| hooligan | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| hooliganism | (noun) willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others | Synonyms: malicious mischief, vandalism |
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| houselights | (noun) lights that illuminate the audience's part of a theater or other auditorium | - |
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| hundredweight | (noun) a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds | Synonyms: cwt, long hundredweight |
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| (noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | Synonyms: cental, centner, cwt, quintal, short hundredweight |
| (noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, doppelzentner, metric hundredweight |
| hyperintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: superintelligence |
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| hypermastigote | (noun) flagellate symbiotic in the intestines of e.g. termites | - |
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| hyperpigmentation | (noun) unusual darkening of the skin | - |
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| hypopigmentation | (noun) unusual lack of skin color | - |
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| igloo | (noun) an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome | Synonyms: iglu |
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| iglu | (noun) an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome | Synonyms: igloo |
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| igneous | (adjective) produced by the action of fire or intense heat | Synonyms: eruptive |
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| (adjective) produced under conditions involving intense heat | Synonyms: pyrogenic, pyrogenous |
| (adjective) like or suggestive of fire | Synonyms: fiery |
| ignescent | (adjective) can emit sparks or burst into flame | - |
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| ignitable | (adjective) capable of burning | Synonyms: burnable, ignitible |
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| ignite | (verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: fire, light |
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| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, inflame, stir up, wake |
| (verb) cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat | Synonyms: light |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, conflagrate, erupt, take fire |
| ignited | (adjective) set afire | Synonyms: enkindled, kindled |
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| igniter | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: ignitor, light, lighter |
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| (noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: ignitor, lighter |
| ignitible | (adjective) capable of burning | Synonyms: burnable, ignitable |
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| ignition | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, inflammation, kindling, lighting |
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| (noun) the mechanism that ignites the fuel in an internal-combustion engine | Synonyms: ignition system |
| (noun) the process of initiating combustion or catching fire | - |
| ignitor | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, light, lighter |
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| (noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: igniter, lighter |
| ignobility | (noun) the quality of being ignoble | Synonyms: ignobleness |
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| ignoble | (adjective) completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose | - |
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| (adjective) not of the nobility | Synonyms: ungentle, untitled |
| ignobleness | (noun) the quality of being ignoble | Synonyms: ignobility |
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| ignobly | (adverb) in a currish manner; meanspiritedly | Synonyms: currishly |
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| ignominious | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, disgraceful, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
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| ignominiously | (adverb) in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree | Synonyms: discreditably, disgracefully, dishonorably, dishonourably, ingloriously, shamefully |
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| ignominiousness | (noun) unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor | Synonyms: disgracefulness, shamefulness |
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| ignominy | (noun) a state of dishonor | Synonyms: disgrace, shame |
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