| junta | (noun) a group of military officers who rule a country after seizing power | Synonyms: military junta |
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| junto | (noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | Synonyms: cabal, camarilla, faction |
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| jupati | (noun) a tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes | Synonyms: jupati palm, jupaty, Raffia taedigera |
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| jupaty | (noun) a tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes | Synonyms: jupati, jupati palm, Raffia taedigera |
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| jural | (adjective) of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations | Synonyms: juristic |
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| juridic | (adjective) relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge | Synonyms: judicial, juridical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the law or jurisprudence | Synonyms: juridical |
| juridical | (adjective) relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge | Synonyms: judicial, juridic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the law or jurisprudence | Synonyms: juridic |
| jurisdiction | (noun) (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law | Synonyms: legal power |
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| (noun) in law; the territory within which power can be exercised | - |
| jurisdictional | (adjective) restricted to the geographic area under a particular jurisdiction | - |
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| jurisprudence | (noun) the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | Synonyms: law, legal philosophy |
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| (noun) the collection of rules imposed by authority | Synonyms: law |
| jurisprudential | (adjective) relating to the science or philosophy of law or a system of laws | - |
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| jurisprudentially | (adverb) in respect to jurisprudence or the science or philosophy of law | - |
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| jurist | (noun) a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations | Synonyms: legal expert |
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| (noun) a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice | Synonyms: judge, justice |
| juristic | (adjective) of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations | Synonyms: jural |
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| juror | (noun) someone who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury | - |
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| jury | (noun) a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law | - |
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| (noun) a committee appointed to judge a competition | Synonyms: panel |
| juryman | (noun) a male who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury | - |
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| jurywoman | (noun) a female who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury | - |
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| just | (adjective) used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting | - |
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| (adjective) fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience | Synonyms: equitable |
| (adjective) free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules | Synonyms: fair |
| (adjective) of moral excellence | Synonyms: good, upright |
| (adverb) and nothing more | Synonyms: but, merely, only, simply |
| (adverb) only a moment ago | Synonyms: just now |
| (adverb) (used for emphasis) absolutely | Synonyms: simply |
| (adverb) only a very short time before | Synonyms: barely, hardly, scarce, scarcely |
| (adverb) indicating exactness or preciseness | Synonyms: exactly, precisely, properly |
| (adverb) exactly at this moment or the moment described | - |
| (adverb) possibly (indicating a slight chance of something being true) | - |
| (adverb) by a little | Synonyms: barely |
| justice | (noun) judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being just or fair | Synonyms: justness |
| (noun) a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice | Synonyms: judge, jurist |
| justiciar | (noun) formerly a high judicial officer | Synonyms: justiciary |
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| justiciary | (noun) the jurisdiction of a justiciar | - |
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| (noun) formerly a high judicial officer | Synonyms: justiciar |
| justifiable | (adjective) capable of being justified | - |
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| justifiably | (adverb) with good reason | - |
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| justification | (noun) the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning | - |
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| (noun) something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary | - |
| (noun) a statement in explanation of some action or belief | - |
| justificative | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificatory |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificatory, vindicatory |
| justificatory | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificative |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, vindicatory |
| justified | (adjective) having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins | - |
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| justifiedly | (adverb) with honesty | Synonyms: justly, rightly |
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| justifier | (noun) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | Synonyms: apologist, vindicator |
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| justify | (verb) adjust the spaces between words | - |
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| (verb) show to be right by providing justification or proof | Synonyms: vindicate |
| (verb) (used of God) declare innocent; absolve from the penalty of sin | - |
| justly | (adverb) in accordance with moral or social standards | Synonyms: right |
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| (adverb) with honesty | Synonyms: justifiedly, rightly |
| justness | (noun) the quality of being just or fair | Synonyms: justice |
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| (noun) conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety | Synonyms: nicety, rightness |
| jut | (noun) the act of projecting out from something | Synonyms: jutting, projection, protrusion |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
| (verb) extend out or project in space | Synonyms: jut out, project, protrude, stick out |
| jute | (noun) a plant fiber used in making rope or sacks | - |
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| jutting | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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| (noun) the act of projecting out from something | Synonyms: jut, projection, protrusion |
| juvenescence | (noun) the process of growing into a youth | - |
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| juvenile | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people | - |
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| (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, jejune, puerile |
| (noun) a young person, not fully developed | Synonyms: juvenile person |
| juvenility | (noun) the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person | Synonyms: youth, youthfulness |
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| (noun) lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life | Synonyms: callowness, jejuneness |
| juxtapose | (verb) place side by side | - |
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| juxtaposed | (adjective) placed side by side often for comparison | - |
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| juxtaposition | (noun) the act of positioning close together (or side by side) | Synonyms: apposition, collocation |
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| (noun) a side-by-side position | - |
| katzenjammer | (noun) loud confused noise from many sources | Synonyms: brouhaha, hubbub, uproar |
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| (noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: hangover |
| keratoconjunctivitis | (noun) inflammation of the cornea and conjunctiva | - |
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| killjoy | (noun) someone who spoils the pleasure of others | Synonyms: party pooper, spoilsport, wet blanket |
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| kindjal | (noun) a kind of short sword or dagger with a slightly curved blade, probably originated in Chechnya. | - |
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| kinkajou | (noun) a kind of gray-brown lemur (Perodicticus potto) | Synonyms: Perodicticus potto, potto |
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| (noun) arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail | Synonyms: honey bear, Potos caudivolvulus, Potos flavus, potto |
| kopje | (noun) a small hill rising up from the African veld | Synonyms: koppie |
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| kurrajong | (noun) widely distributed tree of eastern Australia yielding a tough durable fiber and soft light attractively grained wood; foliage is an important emergency food for cattle | Synonyms: Brachychiton populneus, currajong |
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| leatherjack | (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leatherjacket | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherfish |
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| (noun) any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales | Synonyms: leatherjack |
| (noun) tough-skinned larva of certain crane flies | - |
| lockjaw | (noun) an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages | Synonyms: tetanus |
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| logjam | (noun) an immovable mass of logs blocking a river | - |
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| (noun) any stoppage attributable to unusual activity | - |
| lumberjack | (noun) a short warm outer jacket | Synonyms: lumber jacket |
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| (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, feller, logger, lumberman |
| maharaja | (noun) a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja | Synonyms: maharajah |
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| maharajah | (noun) a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja | Synonyms: maharaja |
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| mahjong | (noun) Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles | Synonyms: Mah-Jongg |
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| majagua | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: balibago, Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, purau |
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| (noun) erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a moderately dense timber for cabinetwork and gunstocks | Synonyms: blue mahoe, Cuban bast, Hibiscus elatus, mahagua, mahoe |
| majestic | (adjective) having or displaying great dignity or nobility | Synonyms: gallant, lofty, proud |
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| (adjective) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler | Synonyms: imperial, purple, regal, royal |
| (adjective) majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters | Synonyms: olympian |
| majestically | (adverb) in a majestic manner | - |
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| majesty | (noun) impressiveness in scale or proportion | Synonyms: loftiness, stateliness |
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| majolica | (noun) highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide | Synonyms: maiolica |
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| major | (adjective) greater in number or size or amount | - |
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| (adjective) greater in scope or effect | - |
| (adjective) of full legal age | - |
| (adjective) (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the third and fourth degrees and the seventh and eighth degrees | - |
| (adjective) of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes | - |
| (adjective) of greater importance or stature or rank | - |
| (adjective) of greater seriousness or danger | - |
| (adjective) of the elder of two boys with the same family name | - |
| (noun) the principal field of study of a student at a university | - |
| (noun) a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain | - |
| (noun) a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject | - |
| (verb) have as one's principal field of study | - |
| majorette | (noun) a female drum major | Synonyms: drum majorette |
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| (noun) a female baton twirler who accompanies a marching band | Synonyms: drum majorette |
| majority | (noun) the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part | Synonyms: bulk |
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| (noun) (elections) more than half of the votes | Synonyms: absolute majority |
| (noun) the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs | Synonyms: legal age |
| majors | (noun) the most important league in any sport (especially baseball) | Synonyms: big league, major league |
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| majuscular | (adjective) of the nature of a majuscule or written in majuscules | - |
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| majuscule | (adjective) of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries | - |
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| (adjective) uppercase | Synonyms: capital, great |
| (noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | Synonyms: capital, capital letter, upper-case letter, uppercase |
| maladjusted | (adjective) poorly adjusted to demands and stresses of daily living | - |
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| (adjective) emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships | Synonyms: disturbed |
| (adjective) not well adjusted | - |
| maladjustive | (adjective) poorly adjusted | - |
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| maladjustment | (noun) the condition of being unable to adapt properly to your environment with resulting emotional instability | - |
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| marijuana | (noun) the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect | Synonyms: cannabis, ganja, marihuana |
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| (noun) a strong-smelling plant whose dried leaves can be smoked for a pleasant effect or pain reduction | Synonyms: Cannabis sativa, ganja, marihuana |
| marjoram | (noun) pungent leaves used as seasoning with meats and fowl and in stews and soups and omelets | Synonyms: oregano |
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| (noun) aromatic Eurasian perennial | Synonyms: oregano, Origanum vulgare, pot marjoram, wild marjoram, winter sweet |
| masjid | (noun) (Islam) a Muslim place of worship | Synonyms: musjid |
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| misjudge | (verb) judge incorrectly | - |
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| mojarra | (noun) small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters | - |
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| mojo | (noun) a magic power or magic spell | - |
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| moujik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: mujik, muzhik, muzjik |
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| mujahadeen | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahadein | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahadin | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahedeen | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahedin | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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| mujahid | (noun) a Muslim engaged in what he considers to be a jihad | - |
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| mujahideen | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahidin |
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| mujahidin | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen |
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| mujik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: moujik, muzhik, muzjik |
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| mujtihad | (noun) an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts | - |
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| munj | (noun) tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets | Synonyms: munja, Saccharum bengalense, Saccharum munja |
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| munja | (noun) tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets | Synonyms: munj, Saccharum bengalense, Saccharum munja |
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| munjeet | (noun) perennial East Indian creeping or climbing herb used for dye in the orient | Synonyms: Indian madder, Rubia cordifolia |
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| muntjac | (noun) small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark | Synonyms: barking deer |
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| musjid | (noun) (Islam) a Muslim place of worship | Synonyms: masjid |
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| muzjik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: moujik, mujik, muzhik |
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| naranjilla | (noun) small perennial shrub cultivated in uplands of South America for its edible bright orange fruits resembling tomatoes or oranges | Synonyms: Solanum quitoense |
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| natterjack | (noun) common brownish-yellow short-legged toad of western Europe; runs rather than hops | Synonyms: Bufo calamita |
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| nightjar | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: caprimulgid, goatsucker |
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| ninja | (noun) a class of 14th century Japanese who were trained in martial arts and were hired for espionage and assassinations | - |
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| (noun) a member of the ninja who were trained in martial arts and hired for espionage or sabotage or assassinations; a person skilled in ninjutsu | - |
| ninjitsu | (noun) the traditional Japanese method of espionage; involves stealthy movements and the use of camouflage | Synonyms: ninjutsu |
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| ninjutsu | (noun) the traditional Japanese method of espionage; involves stealthy movements and the use of camouflage | Synonyms: ninjitsu |
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