| dwindling | (adjective) gradually decreasing until little remains | Synonyms: tapering, tapering off |
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| (noun) a becoming gradually less | Synonyms: dwindling away |
| earthling | (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthman, tellurian, worldling |
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| enabling | (adjective) providing legal power or sanction | - |
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| encircling | (adjective) being all around the edges; enclosing | Synonyms: skirting |
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| enfeebling | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: debilitative, enervating, weakening |
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| ennobling | (adjective) tending to exalt | Synonyms: exalting |
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| (adjective) investing with dignity or honor | Synonyms: dignifying |
| enthralling | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, entrancing, fascinating |
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| enthrallingly | (adverb) in a bewitching manner | Synonyms: bewitchingly, captivatingly, enchantingly |
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| expelling | (noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: discharge, emission |
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| extralinguistic | (adjective) not included within the realm of language | - |
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| failing | (adjective) below acceptable in performance | - |
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| (noun) failure to reach a minimum required performance | Synonyms: flunk |
| (noun) a flaw or weak point | Synonyms: weakness |
| falling | (adjective) becoming lower or less in degree or value | - |
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| (adjective) decreasing in amount or degree | - |
| (adjective) coming down freely under the influence of gravity | Synonyms: dropping |
| feeling | (noun) the experiencing of affective and emotional states | - |
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| (noun) an intuitive understanding of something | Synonyms: intuitive feeling |
| (noun) a physical sensation that you experience | - |
| (noun) the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin | Synonyms: tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch, touch sensation |
| (noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: belief, impression, notion, opinion |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone |
| feelingly | (adverb) with great feeling | - |
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| feelings | (noun) emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to personal principles or dignity) | - |
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| fiddling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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| filing | (noun) preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc. | - |
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| (noun) the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object) | - |
| (noun) the entering of a legal document into the public record | - |
| (noun) a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file | - |
| filling | (noun) the act of filling something | - |
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| (noun) the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | Synonyms: pick, weft, woof |
| (noun) (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth | - |
| (noun) a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc. | - |
| (noun) flow into something (as a container) | - |
| (noun) any material that fills a space or container | Synonyms: fill |
| fingerling | (noun) a young or small fish | - |
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| fingerspelling | (noun) an alphabet of manual signs | Synonyms: finger spelling |
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| fledgeling | (adjective) (of a young bird) having acquired its flight feathers | Synonyms: fledgling |
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| (noun) young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying | Synonyms: fledgling |
| (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
| fledgling | (adjective) (of a young bird) having acquired its flight feathers | Synonyms: fledgeling |
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| (adjective) young and inexperienced | Synonyms: callow, unfledged |
| (noun) young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying | Synonyms: fledgeling |
| (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgeling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
| fling | (noun) a brief indulgence of your impulses | Synonyms: spree |
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| (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, go, offer, pass, whirl |
| (noun) the act of flinging | - |
| (verb) throw with force or recklessness | - |
| (verb) move in an abrupt or headlong manner | - |
| (verb) indulge oneself | Synonyms: splurge |
| (verb) throw or cast away | Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out |
| foiling | (noun) an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts | Synonyms: frustration, thwarting |
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| fondling | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| fooling | (adjective) characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility | Synonyms: casual |
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| footling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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| forestalling | (noun) the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively | Synonyms: obviation, preclusion |
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| foretelling | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: divination, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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| (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, prediction, prognostication |
| fortunetelling | (noun) the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment) | - |
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| fosterling | (noun) a child who is raised by foster parents | Synonyms: foster-child, foster child |
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| foundling | (noun) a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown | Synonyms: abandoned infant |
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| freestyling | (noun) A form of rapping in which the emcee makes up lyrics while rapping. | - |
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| freewheeling | (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: carefree, devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy |
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| (adjective) free of restraints or rules | - |
| fueling | (noun) the activity of supplying or taking on fuel | Synonyms: fuelling, refueling |
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| fuelling | (noun) the activity of supplying or taking on fuel | Synonyms: fueling, refueling |
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| fumbling | (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: bungling, clumsy, incompetent |
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| galingale | (noun) European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots | Synonyms: Cyperus longus, galangal |
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| galling | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| gambling | (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: betting, card-playing, dissipated, sporting |
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| (noun) the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize) | Synonyms: gaming, play |
| gangling | (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangly, lanky, rangy |
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| (adjective) tall and thin | Synonyms: gangly, lanky |
| gosling | (noun) young goose | - |
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| grappling | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle, wrestling |
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| (noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: rassling, wrestling |
| greenling | (noun) food fish of the northern Pacific | - |
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| grilling | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broil, broiling |
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| groundling | (noun) in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section | - |
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| groveling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, grovelling, wormlike, wormy |
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| grovelling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, groveling, wormlike, wormy |
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| growling | (noun) a gruff or angry utterance (suggestive of the growling of an animal) | - |
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| (noun) the sound of growling (as made by animals) | Synonyms: growl |
| grueling | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| gruelling | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| grumbling | (adjective) continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound | Synonyms: rumbling |
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| (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, murmur, murmuring, mutter, muttering |
| (noun) a loud low dull continuous noise | Synonyms: grumble, rumble, rumbling |
| gunslinger | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
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| guzzling | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: gulping, swilling |
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| haggling | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, wrangle, wrangling |
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| handling | (noun) manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something | - |
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| (noun) the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means | Synonyms: manipulation |
| (noun) the management of someone or something | Synonyms: treatment |
| hatchling | (noun) any recently hatched animal (especially birds) | - |
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| hauling | (noun) the activity of transporting goods by truck | Synonyms: truckage, trucking |
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| healing | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, curative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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| (noun) the natural process by which the body repairs itself | - |
| heckling | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: barracking |
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| hireling | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: pensionary |
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| howling | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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| (noun) a long loud emotional utterance | Synonyms: howl, ululation |
| humbling | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: demeaning, humiliating, mortifying |
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| hurdling | (noun) a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles | Synonyms: hurdle race, hurdles |
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| hurling | (noun) a traditional Irish game resembling hockey; played by two teams of 15 players each | - |
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| idling | (noun) having no employment | Synonyms: idleness, loafing |
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| impelling | (adjective) markedly effective as if by emotional pressure | - |
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| indwelling | (adjective) existing or residing as an inner activating spirit or force or principle | - |
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| inkling | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, glimmering, intimation |
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| installing | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installment, instalment |
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| instilling | (noun) teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition | Synonyms: inculcation, ingraining |
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| intralinguistic | (adjective) within a particular language | - |
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| jangling | (adjective) like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together | Synonyms: jangly |
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| jingling | (adjective) having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells | Synonyms: jingly |
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| jostling | (noun) the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing) | Synonyms: jostle |
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| juggling | (noun) throwing and catching several objects simultaneously | Synonyms: juggle |
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| (noun) the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression | Synonyms: juggle |
| killing | (adjective) very funny | Synonyms: sidesplitting |
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| (noun) the act of terminating a life | Synonyms: kill, putting to death |
| (noun) an event that causes someone to die | Synonyms: violent death |
| (noun) a very large profit | Synonyms: cleanup |
| killingly | (adverb) in a very humorous manner | Synonyms: sidesplittingly |
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| kindling | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, ignition, inflammation, lighting |
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| (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: punk, spunk, tinder, touchwood |
| kneeling | (noun) supporting yourself on your knees | Synonyms: kneel |
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| leveling | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalisation, equalization |
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| (noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: demolishing, razing, tearing down |
| (noun) changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface | Synonyms: grading |
| ling | (noun) elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried | Synonyms: Molva molva |
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| (noun) American hakes | - |
| (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, cusk, eelpout, Lota lota |
| (noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, heather, Scots heather |
| (noun) water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs | Synonyms: ling ko, Trapa bicornis |
| lingam | (noun) the Hindu phallic symbol of Siva | - |
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| lingberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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| lingcod | (noun) food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings | Synonyms: Ophiodon elongatus |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States | - |
| lingenberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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| linger | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: dawdle |
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| (verb) leave slowly and hesitantly | Synonyms: tarry |
| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| (verb) to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time | Synonyms: hover |
| (verb) remain present although waning or gradually dying | - |
| lingerer | (noun) someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place | Synonyms: loiterer |
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| lingerie | (noun) women's underwear and nightclothes | Synonyms: intimate apparel |
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| lingering | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: tarriance |
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| lingeringly | (adverb) in a slow, leisurely or prolonged way | Synonyms: protractedly |
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| lingo | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, patois, slang, vernacular |
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| lingonberry | (noun) tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller | Synonyms: cowberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry |
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| (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
| lingua | (noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: clapper, glossa, tongue |
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| lingual | (adjective) consisting of or related to language | Synonyms: linguistic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or resembling or lying near the tongue | - |
| (noun) a consonant that is produced with the tongue and other speech organs | - |
| lingually | (adverb) with respect to language | Synonyms: linguistically |
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| linguica | (noun) a highly seasoned Portuguese pork sausage flavored with garlic and onions | - |
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| linguine | (noun) pasta in long slender flat strips | Synonyms: linguini |
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| linguini | (noun) pasta in long slender flat strips | Synonyms: linguine |
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| linguist | (noun) a person who speaks more than one language | Synonyms: polyglot |
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| (noun) a specialist in linguistics | Synonyms: linguistic scientist |