| enumerator | (noun) someone who collects census data by visiting individual homes | Synonyms: census taker |
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| ephemera | (noun) something transitory; lasting a day | - |
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| ephemeral | (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: fugacious, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory |
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| (noun) anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form | Synonyms: ephemeron |
| ephemerality | (noun) the property of lasting for a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeralness, fleetingness |
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| ephemeralness | (noun) the property of lasting for a very short time | Synonyms: ephemerality, fleetingness |
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| ephemerid | (noun) short-lived insect | Synonyms: ephemeropteran |
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| ephemeris | (noun) an annual publication containing astronomical tables that give the positions of the celestial bodies throughout the year | - |
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| ephemeron | (noun) anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form | Synonyms: ephemeral |
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| ephemeropteran | (noun) short-lived insect | Synonyms: ephemerid |
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| farmer | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: granger, husbandman, sodbuster |
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| farmerette | (noun) a woman working on a farm | - |
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| flummery | (noun) meaningless ceremonies and flattery | Synonyms: mummery |
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| (noun) a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal | - |
| former | (adjective) referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several) | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the distant past | Synonyms: early, other |
| (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: erstwhile, old, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime |
| (adjective) (used especially of persons) of the immediate past | Synonyms: late, previous |
| (noun) the first of two or the first mentioned of two | - |
| formerly | (adverb) at a previous time | Synonyms: at one time, erst, erstwhile, once |
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| framer | (noun) someone who writes a new law or plan | - |
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| (noun) someone who makes frames (as for pictures) | - |
| fumeroot | (noun) delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Fumaria officinalis, fumewort, fumitory |
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| (noun) herb of northern Europe and Asia having erect racemes of red flowers | Synonyms: Corydalis solida, fumewort |
| gendarmerie | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmery |
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| gendarmery | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmerie |
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| glimmer | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmering, inkling, intimation |
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| (noun) a flash of light (especially reflected light) | Synonyms: gleam, gleaming |
| (verb) shine brightly, like a star or a light | Synonyms: gleam |
| glimmering | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, inkling, intimation |
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| glimmery | (adjective) shining softly and intermittently | - |
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| glomerular | (adjective) of or relating to glomeruli | - |
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| glomerule | (noun) a compacted or sessile cyme | - |
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| glomerulonephritis | (noun) nephritis marked by inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney; characterized by decreased production of urine and by the presence of blood and protein in the urine and by edema | - |
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| glomerulus | (noun) a small intertwined group of capillaries in the malpighian body; it filters the blood during urine formation | - |
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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 |
| hammer | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammering, pound, pounding |
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| (noun) a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking | - |
| (noun) a power tool for drilling rocks | Synonyms: power hammer |
| (noun) a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate | - |
| (noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. | Synonyms: mallet |
| (noun) the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled | Synonyms: cock |
| (noun) a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw | - |
| (noun) the ossicle attached to the eardrum | Synonyms: malleus |
| (verb) beat with or as if with a hammer | - |
| (verb) create by hammering | Synonyms: forge |
| hammered | (adjective) shaped or worked with a hammer and often showing hammer marks | - |
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| hammerhead | (noun) medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous | Synonyms: hammerhead shark |
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| (noun) the striking part of a hammer | - |
| (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
| hammering | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, pound, pounding |
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| hammerlock | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back | - |
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| hammertoe | (noun) a deformed toe which is bent in a clawlike arch | - |
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| hemeralopia | (noun) inability to see clearly in bright light | Synonyms: day blindness |
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| hemerobiid | (noun) small dark-colored lacewing fly | Synonyms: brown lacewing, hemerobiid fly |
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| homer | (noun) a base hit on which the batter scores a run | Synonyms: home run |
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| (noun) pigeon trained to return home | Synonyms: homing pigeon |
| (noun) an ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs | Synonyms: kor |
| (verb) hit a home run | - |
| homeroom | (noun) a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business | Synonyms: home room |
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| humerus | (noun) bone extending from the shoulder to the elbow | - |
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| hummer | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: bullet, fastball, heater, smoke |
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| (noun) a singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming words | - |
| immerse | (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, plunge, soak up, steep |
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| (verb) cause to be immersed | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) thrust or throw into | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: bury, eat up, swallow, swallow up |
| immersion | (noun) a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged | - |
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| (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, ducking, submersion |
| (noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, concentration, engrossment |
| (noun) sinking until covered completely with water | Synonyms: submergence, submerging, submersion |
| (noun) (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse | Synonyms: ingress |
| infomercial | (noun) a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary | Synonyms: informercial |
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| informer | (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: betrayer, blabber, rat, squealer |
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| informercial | (noun) a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary | Synonyms: infomercial |
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| innumerable | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| innumerableness | (noun) a number beyond counting | Synonyms: countlessness |
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| innumerate | (adjective) lacking knowledge and understanding of mathematical concepts and methods | - |
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| innumerous | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| isomer | (noun) a compound that exists in forms having different arrangements of atoms but the same molecular weight | - |
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| isomerase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes its substrate to an isomeric form | - |
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| isomeric | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting isomerism | - |
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| isomerisation | (noun) the conversion of a compound into an isomer of itself | Synonyms: isomerization |
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| isomerise | (verb) change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerize |
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| (verb) cause to change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerize |
| isomerism | (noun) the state of being an isomer; the complex of chemical and physical phenomena characteristic of isomers | - |
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| isomerization | (noun) the conversion of a compound into an isomer of itself | Synonyms: isomerisation |
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| isomerize | (verb) change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerise |
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| (verb) cause to change into an isomer | Synonyms: isomerise |
| jackhammer | (noun) a hammer driven by compressed air | Synonyms: air hammer, pneumatic hammer |
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| jammer | (noun) a transmitter used to broadcast electronic jamming | - |
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| 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 |
| lammergeier | (noun) the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill | Synonyms: bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, lammergeyer |
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| lammergeyer | (noun) the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill | Synonyms: bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, lammergeier |
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| latecomer | (noun) someone who arrives late | - |
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| limerick | (noun) a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba | - |
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| maimer | (noun) a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples | Synonyms: mangler, mutilator |
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| meralgia | (noun) pain in the thigh | - |
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| merbromine | (noun) a mercurial compound applied topically as an antiseptic; Mercurochrome is the trademark | Synonyms: Mercurochrome |
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| mercantile | (adjective) of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of trade or traders | - |
| (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercenary, moneymaking |
| mercantilism | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commerce, commercialism |
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| (noun) an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | Synonyms: mercantile system |
| mercaptopurine | (noun) a drug (trade name Purinethol) that interferes with the metabolism of purine and is used to treat acute lymphocytic leukemia | Synonyms: Purinethol |
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| mercenariness | (noun) The state or condition of being motivated by private gain. | - |
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| mercenary | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, moneymaking |
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| (adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, freelance |
| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: materialistic, worldly-minded |
| (noun) a person hired to fight for another country than their own | Synonyms: soldier of fortune |
| mercer | (noun) a dealer in textiles (especially silks) | - |
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| mercerise | (verb) treat to strengthen and improve the luster | Synonyms: mercerize |
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| mercerised | (adjective) of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye | Synonyms: mercerized |
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| mercerize | (verb) treat to strengthen and improve the luster | Synonyms: mercerise |
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| mercerized | (adjective) of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye | Synonyms: mercerised |
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| merchandise | (noun) items for sale to the individual consumer | Synonyms: product, ware |
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| (noun) branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups | Synonyms: merchandising |
| (verb) engage in the trade of | Synonyms: trade |
| merchandiser | (noun) a businessperson engaged in retail trade | Synonyms: merchant |
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| merchandising | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: marketing, selling |
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| (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: advertising, publicizing |
| (noun) branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups | Synonyms: merchandise |
| merchant | (noun) a businessperson engaged in retail trade | Synonyms: merchandiser |
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| merchantability | (noun) the state of being fit for market; ready to be bought or sold | - |
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| merchantable | (adjective) fit to be offered for sale | Synonyms: marketable, sellable, vendable, vendible |
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| merchantman | (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: bottom, freighter, merchant ship |
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| merciful | (adjective) showing or giving mercy | - |
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| (adjective) (used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious | - |
| mercifully | (adverb) in a compassionate manner | - |
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| mercifulness | (noun) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice | Synonyms: clemency, mercy |
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| (noun) a disposition to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: mercy |
| (noun) the feeling that motivates compassion | Synonyms: mercy |
| merciless | (adjective) having or showing no mercy | Synonyms: unmerciful |
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| mercilessly | (adverb) without pity; in a merciless manner | Synonyms: pitilessly, remorselessly, unmercifully |
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| mercilessness | (noun) inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving | Synonyms: unmercifulness |
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| (noun) feelings of extreme heartlessness | Synonyms: cruelty, pitilessness, ruthlessness |
| mercurial | (adjective) relating to or containing or caused by mercury | - |
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| (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, fickle, quicksilver |
| mercuric | (adjective) of or containing mercury | Synonyms: mercurous |
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| mercurous | (adjective) of or containing mercury | Synonyms: mercuric |
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| mercury | (noun) temperature measured by a mercury thermometer | - |
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| (noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, quicksilver |
| mercy | (noun) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice | Synonyms: clemency, mercifulness |
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| (noun) alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed | - |
| (noun) a disposition to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: mercifulness |
| (noun) the feeling that motivates compassion | Synonyms: mercifulness |
| (noun) something for which to be thankful | - |
| mere | (adjective) apart from anything else; without additions or modifications | Synonyms: bare, simple |
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| (adjective) being nothing more than specified | - |
| (noun) a small pond of standing water | - |
| merely | (adverb) and nothing more | Synonyms: but, just, only, simply |
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| merestone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: mearstone, meerestone |
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| meretricious | (adjective) like or relating to a prostitute | - |
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| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: gilded, glossy, specious |
| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| meretriciously | (adverb) in a meretricious manner | Synonyms: flashily |
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| meretriciousness | (noun) an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility | Synonyms: speciousness |
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| (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, tawdriness |
| merganser | (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, sawbill, sheldrake |
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