drunkenly | (adverb) showing effects of much strong drink | - |
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drunkenness | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drinking |
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(noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
(noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, inebriation |
dunk | (noun) a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket | Synonyms: dunk shot, stuff shot |
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(verb) dip into a liquid while eating | Synonyms: dip |
(verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, douse, plunge, souse |
(verb) make a dunk shot, in basketball | - |
dunker | (noun) a basketball player who is able to make dunk shots | - |
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(noun) an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it | - |
embank | (verb) enclose with banks, as for support or protection | - |
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embankment | (noun) a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | - |
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enkephalin | (noun) an endorphin having opiate qualities that occurs in the brain and spinal cord and elsewhere | - |
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enkindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
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(verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, inflame, kindle |
enkindled | (adjective) set afire | Synonyms: ignited, kindled |
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fink | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
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(verb) confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure | Synonyms: confess, squeal |
(verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, scab |
flank | (noun) the side between ribs and hipbone | - |
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(noun) a cut from the fleshy part of an animal's side between the ribs and the leg | - |
(noun) the side of military or naval formation | Synonyms: wing |
(noun) a subfigure consisting of a side of something | - |
(verb) be located at the sides of something or somebody | - |
flanker | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a detachment assigned to guard the flanks of a military formation | - |
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(noun) a back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver | Synonyms: flanker back |
flunk | (noun) failure to reach a minimum required performance | Synonyms: failing |
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(verb) fail to get a passing grade | Synonyms: bomb, fail, flush it |
flunkey | (noun) a person of unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: flunky, stooge, yes-man |
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(noun) a male servant (especially a footman) | Synonyms: flunky, lackey |
flunky | (noun) a person of unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: flunkey, stooge, yes-man |
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(noun) a male servant (especially a footman) | Synonyms: flunkey, lackey |
fogbank | (noun) a large mass of fog on the sea (as seen from a distance) | - |
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foreshank | (noun) a cut of meat from the upper part of a front leg | - |
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frank | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: blunt, candid, forthright, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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(adjective) clearly manifest; evident | - |
(noun) device or marking such as postage stamp, printed or stamped impressions, codings, labels, manuscript writings, or any other authorized form of markings affixed or applied to mails to qualify them to be postally serviced. | Synonyms: franking |
(noun) a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll | Synonyms: dog, frankfurter, hot dog, hotdog, weenie, wiener, wienerwurst |
(verb) exempt by means of an official pass or letter, as from customs or other checks | - |
(verb) stamp with a postmark to indicate date and time of mailing | Synonyms: postmark |
frankfurter | (noun) a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll | Synonyms: dog, frank, hot dog, hotdog, weenie, wiener, wienerwurst |
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frankincense | (noun) an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation | Synonyms: gum olibanum, olibanum, thus |
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franking | (noun) device or marking such as postage stamp, printed or stamped impressions, codings, labels, manuscript writings, or any other authorized form of markings affixed or applied to mails to qualify them to be postally serviced. | Synonyms: frank |
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franklin | (noun) a landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth | - |
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frankly | (adverb) (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that | Synonyms: candidly, honestly |
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frankness | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, directness, forthrightness |
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(noun) the trait of being blunt and outspoken | Synonyms: outspokenness |
freethinker | (noun) a person who rejects religion | - |
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freethinking | (noun) the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct | Synonyms: rationalism |
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funk | (noun) an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar | - |
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(noun) a state of nervous depression | Synonyms: blue funk |
(verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
funkiness | (noun) (US, slang) The property of being original, offbeat, unconventional or eccentric. | - |
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funky | (adjective) in a state of cowardly fright | - |
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(adjective) (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues | Synonyms: low-down |
(adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, ill-scented, noisome, smelly, stinking |
(adjective) stylish and modern in an unconventional way | - |
gangplank | (noun) a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside | Synonyms: gangboard, gangway |
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gank | (verb) to kill with little effort in a video game | - |
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ginkgo | (noun) deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree | Synonyms: gingko, Ginkgo biloba, maidenhair tree |
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greenshank | (noun) large European sandpiper with greenish legs | Synonyms: Tringa nebularia |
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groupthink | (noun) decision making by a group (especially in a manner that discourages creativity or individual responsibility) | - |
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gunk | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, guck, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
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hank | (noun) a coil of rope or wool or yarn | - |
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hanker | (verb) desire strongly or persistently | Synonyms: long, yearn |
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hankering | (noun) a yearning for something or to do something | Synonyms: yen |
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hankey | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: handkerchief, hankie, hanky |
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hankie | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: handkerchief, hankey, hanky |
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hanky | (noun) a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory | Synonyms: handkerchief, hankey, hankie |
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hijinks | (noun) noisy and mischievous merrymaking | Synonyms: high jinks, high jinx, jinks |
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hindshank | (noun) a cut of meat from the upper part of a rear leg | - |
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honk | (noun) the cry of a goose (or any sound resembling this) | - |
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(verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
(verb) cry like a goose | Synonyms: cronk |
(verb) use the horn of a car | Synonyms: claxon |
(verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: beep, blare, claxon, toot |
honker | (noun) common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call | Synonyms: Branta canadensis, Canada goose, Canadian goose |
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(noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
(noun) a driver who causes his car's horn to make a loud honking sound | - |
honkey | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkie, honky, whitey |
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honkie | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkey, honky, whitey |
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honky | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkey, honkie, whitey |
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honkytonk | (noun) a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall | Synonyms: dive |
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hoodwink | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: bamboozle, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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(verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: beguile, juggle |
humankind | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humans, man, mankind, world |
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hunk | (noun) a large piece of something without definite shape | Synonyms: lump |
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(noun) a well-built sexually attractive man | - |
hunker | (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up, squat |
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hyperlink | (noun) a link from a hypertext file to another location or file; typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or icon at a particular location on the screen | - |
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ink | (noun) dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods | - |
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(noun) a liquid used for printing or writing or drawing | - |
(verb) fill with ink | - |
(verb) mark, coat, cover, or stain with ink | - |
(verb) append one's signature to | - |
inkberry | (noun) evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries | Synonyms: evergreen winterberry, gall-berry, gallberry, Ilex glabra |
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inkblot | (noun) a blot made with ink | - |
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inkiness | (noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) | Synonyms: black, blackness |
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inkle | (noun) a linen tape used for trimming as a decoration | - |
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inkling | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, glimmering, intimation |
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inkpad | (noun) a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp | Synonyms: inking pad, pad, stamp pad |
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inkpot | (noun) a bottle of ink | Synonyms: ink bottle |
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inkstand | (noun) a tray or stand for writing implements and containers for ink | - |
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(noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkwell |
inkwell | (noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkstand |
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inky | (adjective) of the color of black ink | Synonyms: ink-black, inky-black |
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innkeeper | (noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: boniface, host |
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interlink | (verb) cause to be interconnected or interwoven | Synonyms: interconnect |
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(verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: complect, interconnect |
interlinking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlocking, interwoven |
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jinks | (noun) noisy and mischievous merrymaking | Synonyms: high jinks, high jinx, hijinks |
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junk | (noun) any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails | - |
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(noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: debris, detritus, dust, rubble |
(verb) dispose of (something useless or old) | Synonyms: scrap, trash |
junket | (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, expedition, jaunt, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
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(noun) a trip taken by an official at public expense | - |
(noun) dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet | - |
(verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
(verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
(verb) go on a pleasure trip | Synonyms: junketeer |
junketeer | (verb) go on a pleasure trip | Synonyms: junket |
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junketing | (noun) taking an excursion for pleasure | - |
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junkie | (noun) a narcotics addict | Synonyms: drug addict, junky |
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(noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, freak, junky, nut |
junky | (noun) a narcotics addict | Synonyms: drug addict, junkie |
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(noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, freak, junkie, nut |
junkyard | (noun) a field where junk is collected and stored for resale | - |
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kink | (noun) a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation | - |
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(noun) an eccentric idea | - |
(noun) a person with unusual sexual tastes | - |
(noun) a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight | Synonyms: twirl, twist |
(noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, rick, wrick |
(verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curl, curve |
(verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizz, frizzle, kink up |
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 |
kinky | (adjective) (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes | Synonyms: perverted |
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(adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzly, frizzy, nappy |
(adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, offbeat, quirky, way-out |
lank | (adjective) long and thin and often limp | - |
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(adjective) long and lean | Synonyms: spindly |
lankiness | (noun) a tall and thin physique | - |
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lanky | (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangling, gangly, rangy |
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(adjective) tall and thin | Synonyms: gangling, gangly |
link | (noun) a fastener that serves to join or connect | Synonyms: linkup, tie-in, tie |
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(noun) a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network | Synonyms: radio link |
(noun) an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data | Synonyms: data link |
(noun) a channel for communication between groups | Synonyms: contact, inter-group communication, liaison |
(noun) (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list | - |
(noun) a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain | - |
(noun) the means of connection between things linked in series | Synonyms: nexus |
(noun) a connecting shape | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
(noun) the state of being connected | Synonyms: connectedness, connection |
(verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, connect, link up, relate, tie in |
(verb) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces | Synonyms: connect, link up, tie |
(verb) link with or as with a yoke | Synonyms: yoke |
(verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: connect, join, link up, unite |
linkage | (noun) the act of linking things together | - |
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(noun) a mechanical system of rods or springs or pivots that transmits power or motion | - |
(noun) (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go) | Synonyms: gene linkage |
(noun) an associative relation | - |
linkboy | (noun) (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets | Synonyms: linkman |
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linked | (adjective) connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks | Synonyms: coupled, joined |
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linkman | (noun) (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for pedestrians in dark streets | Synonyms: linkboy |
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links | (noun) a golf course that is built on sandy ground near a shore | Synonyms: golf links |
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linksman | (noun) someone who plays the game of golf | Synonyms: golf player, golfer |
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linkup | (noun) a fastener that serves to join or connect | Synonyms: link, tie-in, tie |
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lunkhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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mankind | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, world |
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manky | (adjective) inferior and worthless | - |
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mink | (noun) slender-bodied semiaquatic mammal having partially webbed feet; valued for its fur | - |
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(noun) fur coat made from the soft lustrous fur of minks | Synonyms: mink coat |
(noun) the expensive fur of a mink | - |
monk | (noun) a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work | Synonyms: monastic |
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monkey | (noun) any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) | - |
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(noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp |
(verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, putter, tinker |
(verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: fiddle, tamper |
monkeypod | (noun) large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle | Synonyms: Albizia saman, monkey pod, rain tree, saman, zaman, zamang |
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monkfish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte |
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(noun) sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do | Synonyms: angel shark, angelfish, Squatina squatina |
(noun) flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America | - |
monkhood | (noun) monks collectively, considered as a group. | - |
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monkish | (adjective) befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial | - |
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