avarice | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avaritia, covetousness, greed, rapacity |
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(noun) extreme greed for material wealth | Synonyms: avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity |
caprice | (noun) a sudden desire | Synonyms: impulse, whim |
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cicatrice | (noun) a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue | Synonyms: cicatrix, scar |
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cockatrice | (noun) monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance | - |
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dentifrice | (noun) a substance for cleaning the teeth; applied with a toothbrush | - |
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licorice | (noun) a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant | Synonyms: liquorice |
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(noun) deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots | Synonyms: Glycyrrhiza glabra, liquorice |
liquorice | (noun) a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant | Synonyms: licorice |
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(noun) deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots | Synonyms: Glycyrrhiza glabra, licorice |
matricentric | (adjective) centered upon the mother | - |
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monitrice | (noun) an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes | Synonyms: birthing coach, doula, labor coach |
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overprice | (verb) price excessively high | - |
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overpriced | (adjective) too costly for the value | - |
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patricentric | (adjective) centered upon the father | - |
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pericementoclasia | (noun) pus pocket formation around a tooth | - |
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price | (noun) the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold) | Synonyms: cost, monetary value |
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(noun) the high value or worth of something | - |
(noun) value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something | Synonyms: cost, toll |
(noun) a monetary reward for helping to catch a criminal | - |
(noun) the amount of money needed to purchase something | Synonyms: damage, terms |
(noun) cost of bribing someone | - |
(verb) ascertain or learn the price of | - |
(verb) determine the price of | - |
priceless | (adjective) having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth | Synonyms: invaluable |
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pricelessness | (noun) the positive quality of being precious and beyond value | Synonyms: invaluableness, preciousness, valuableness |
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pricey | (adjective) having a high price | Synonyms: costly, dear, high-priced, pricy |
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quadriceps | (noun) a muscle of the thigh that extends the leg | Synonyms: musculus quadriceps femoris, quad, quadriceps femoris |
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rice | (noun) grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished | - |
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(noun) annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper | - |
(verb) sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice | - |
ricebird | (noun) migratory American songbird | Synonyms: bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, reedbird |
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(noun) small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields | Synonyms: Java finch, Java sparrow, Padda oryzivora |
ricegrass | (noun) any grass of the genus Oryzopsis | Synonyms: rice grass |
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ricer | (noun) a kitchen utensil used for ricing soft foods by extruding them through small holes | - |
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sericeous | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: downy, puberulent, pubescent |
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thrice | (adverb) three times | - |
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trice | (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, twinkling, wink |
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(verb) hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope | Synonyms: trice up |
(verb) raise with a line | Synonyms: trice up |
tricentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 300 years | Synonyms: tricentennial |
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tricentennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 300 years | Synonyms: tricentenary |
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triceps | (noun) any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii) | - |
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triceratops | (noun) huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill | - |
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underprice | (verb) sell at artificially low prices | Synonyms: dump |
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varicella | (noun) an acute contagious disease caused by herpes varicella zoster virus; causes a rash of vesicles on the face and body | Synonyms: chickenpox |
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varicelliform | (adjective) resembling the rash of chickenpox | - |
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