bluegrass | (noun) a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars | - |
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(noun) any of various grasses of the genus Poa | Synonyms: blue grass |
brass | (noun) a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece | Synonyms: brass instrument |
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(noun) a memorial made of brass | Synonyms: memorial tablet, plaque |
(noun) an ornament or utensil made of brass | - |
(noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: boldness, cheek, face, nerve |
(noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
(noun) the section of a band or orchestra that plays brass instruments | Synonyms: brass section |
(noun) an alloy of copper and zinc | - |
brassard | (noun) armor plate that protects the arm | - |
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brassavola | (noun) any of various tropical American orchids with usually solitary fleshy leaves and showy white to green nocturnally fragrant blossoms solitary or in racemes of up to 7 | - |
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brassbound | (adjective) having trim or fittings of brass | - |
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(adjective) inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable | Synonyms: ironclad |
brasserie | (noun) a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap | - |
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brassie | (noun) (formerly) a golfing wood with a face more elevated than a driver but less than a spoon | - |
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brassiere | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bandeau, bra |
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brasslike | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brassy |
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brassy | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brasslike |
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(adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
(adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
bristlegrass | (noun) grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet | Synonyms: bristle grass |
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bromegrass | (noun) any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions | Synonyms: brome |
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bunchgrass | (noun) any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States | Synonyms: bunch grass |
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burgrass | (noun) a grass of the genus Cenchrus | Synonyms: bur grass |
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cheatgrass | (noun) annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean | Synonyms: Bromus tectorum, downy brome, downy bromegrass, downy cheat, downy chess, drooping brome |
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cordgrass | (noun) any of several perennial grasses of the genus Spartina; some important as coastal soil binders | Synonyms: cord grass |
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crabgrass | (noun) grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns | Synonyms: crab grass, finger grass |
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crass | (adjective) (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility | - |
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crassitude | (noun) the quality of being crass--devoid of refinement | Synonyms: crassness |
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crassness | (noun) the quality of being crass--devoid of refinement | Synonyms: crassitude |
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cuirass | (noun) medieval body armor that covers the chest and back | - |
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cuirassier | (noun) a cavalryman equipped with a cuirass | - |
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curassow | (noun) large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails; highly esteemed as game and food | - |
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dallisgrass | (noun) tall tufted perennial tropical American grass naturalized as pasture and forage grass in southern United States | Synonyms: dallis grass, paspalum, Paspalum dilatatum |
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disembarrass | (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: free, rid |
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disembarrassment | (noun) something that extricates you from embarrassment | - |
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eelgrass | (noun) submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts | Synonyms: grass wrack, sea wrack, Zostera marina |
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(noun) submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia | Synonyms: tape grass, Vallisneria spiralis, wild celery |
embarrass | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: abash |
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(verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
embarrassed | (adjective) made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride | Synonyms: humiliated, mortified |
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(adjective) feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed | Synonyms: abashed, chagrined |
embarrassing | (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: awkward, sticky, unenviable |
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(adjective) causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation | Synonyms: mortifying |
embarrassingly | (adverb) causing embarrassment | - |
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embarrassment | (noun) extreme excess | Synonyms: overplus, plethora, superfluity |
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(noun) some event that causes someone to be embarrassed | - |
(noun) the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public | - |
(noun) the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy) | - |
grass | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
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(noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, forage, pasturage, pasture |
(noun) a police informer who implicates many people | Synonyms: supergrass |
(noun) narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay | - |
(verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
(verb) shoot down, of birds | - |
(verb) feed with grass | - |
(verb) cover with grass | Synonyms: grass over |
(verb) spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach | - |
grassfinch | (noun) usually brightly-colored Australian weaverbirds; often kept as cage birds | Synonyms: grass finch |
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grassfire | (noun) an uncontrolled fire in a grassy area | Synonyms: prairie fire |
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grasshopper | (noun) terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: hopper |
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(noun) a cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao) | - |
grassland | (noun) land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life | - |
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grassless | (adjective) lacking grass | - |
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grasslike | (adjective) resembling grass | - |
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grassroots | (adjective) fundamental | - |
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(adjective) of or involving the common people as constituting a fundamental political and economic group | - |
grassy | (adjective) abounding in grass | - |
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harass | (verb) exhaust by attacking repeatedly | - |
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(verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
harassed | (adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: annoyed, harried, pestered, vexed |
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harasser | (noun) a persistent attacker | Synonyms: harrier |
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(noun) a persistent tormentor | - |
harassment | (noun) the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism | Synonyms: molestation |
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(noun) a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented | Synonyms: torment |
hardinggrass | (noun) perennial grass of Australia and South Africa; introduced in North America as forage grass | Synonyms: Harding grass, Phalaris aquatica, Phalaris tuberosa, toowomba canary grass |
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knotgrass | (noun) low-growing weedy grass with spikelets along the leaf stems | Synonyms: Paspalum distichum |
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lemongrass | (noun) a tropical grass native to India and Sri Lanka | Synonyms: lemon grass |
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(noun) an aromatic oil that smells like lemon and is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumes and medicines | Synonyms: lemon grass, lemongrass oil |
meadowgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture | Synonyms: meadow grass |
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midgrass | (noun) any of various grasses of moderate height which covered the undisturbed prairie in the United States; includes most of the forage grasses of the temperate zone | - |
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morass | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: mire, quag, quagmire, slack |
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nutgrass | (noun) a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers | Synonyms: Cyperus rotundus, nut grass, nut sedge, nutsedge |
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quackgrass | (noun) European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed | Synonyms: Agropyron repens, couch grass, dog grass, quack grass, quick grass, witch grass, witchgrass |
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rassling | (noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: grappling, wrestling |
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ribgrass | (noun) an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions | Synonyms: buckthorn, English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribwort, ripple-grass |
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ricegrass | (noun) any grass of the genus Oryzopsis | Synonyms: rice grass |
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ryegrass | (noun) any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses | Synonyms: rye grass |
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seagrass | (noun) any of various seaweeds that grow underwater in shallow beds | - |
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shortgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions; common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains | Synonyms: short-grass |
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silkgrass | (noun) valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico | Synonyms: Indian millet, mountain rice, Oryzopsis hymenoides, silk grass |
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supergrass | (noun) a police informer who implicates many people | Synonyms: grass |
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tallgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that are tall and that flourish with abundant moisture | Synonyms: tall-grass |
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terrasse | (verb) provide (a house) with a terrace | Synonyms: terrace |
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unembarrassed | (adjective) not embarrassed | Synonyms: unabashed |
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wheatgrass | (noun) a grass of the genus Agropyron | Synonyms: wheat-grass |
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witchgrass | (noun) North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land | Synonyms: old witch grass, old witchgrass, Panicum capillare, tumble grass, witch grass |
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(noun) European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed | Synonyms: Agropyron repens, couch grass, dog grass, quack grass, quackgrass, quick grass, witch grass |
wrasse | (noun) chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored | - |
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yardgrass | (noun) coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere | Synonyms: Eleusine indica, goose grass, wire grass, yard grass |
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