| adrift | (adjective) afloat on the surface of a body of water | - |
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| (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: afloat, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
| (adverb) off course, wandering aimlessly | - |
| (adverb) floating freely; not anchored | - |
| aeriferous | (adjective) conveying air; as the bronchial tubes | - |
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| aeriform | (adjective) resembling air or having the form of air | Synonyms: airlike |
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| (adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air | Synonyms: aerial, aery, airy, ethereal |
| aerify | (verb) turn into gas | Synonyms: gasify, vaporise, vaporize |
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| arboriform | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| auriferous | (adjective) containing gold | Synonyms: gold-bearing |
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| auriform | (adjective) having a shape resembling an ear | Synonyms: ear-like, ear-shaped |
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| aurify | (verb) turn golden | - |
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| (verb) transform into gold | - |
| calorifacient | (adjective) producing heat; usually used of foods | - |
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| calorific | (adjective) heat-generating | - |
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| caprifig | (noun) wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs | Synonyms: Ficus carica sylvestris |
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| centrifugal | (adjective) tending to move away from a center | - |
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| (adjective) tending away from centralization, as of authority | - |
| (adjective) conveying information to the muscles from the CNS | Synonyms: motor |
| centrifugate | (verb) rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids | Synonyms: centrifuge |
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| centrifugation | (noun) the process of separating substances of different densities by the use of a centrifuge | - |
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| centrifuge | (noun) an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension | Synonyms: extractor, separator |
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| (verb) rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids | Synonyms: centrifugate |
| chlorpyrifos | (noun) a common organophosphate insecticide | - |
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| chondrify | (verb) turn into cartilage | - |
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| clarification | (noun) the act of removing solid particles from a liquid | Synonyms: clearing |
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| (noun) an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding | Synonyms: elucidation, illumination |
| clarify | (verb) make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating | - |
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| (verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clear up, elucidate |
| clarifying | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: elucidative |
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| countrified | (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countryfied, rustic |
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| dendriform | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| denitrify | (verb) remove nitrogen from | - |
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| devitrify | (verb) become crystalline | - |
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| (verb) make (glassy materials) brittle or opaque | - |
| dolabriform | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabrate |
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| drift | (noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine | Synonyms: gallery, heading |
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| (noun) the pervading meaning or tenor | Synonyms: purport |
| (noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: movement, trend |
| (noun) a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents | - |
| (noun) a force that moves something along | Synonyms: impetus, impulsion |
| (noun) the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) | - |
| (noun) a process of linguistic change over a period of time | - |
| (verb) be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current | - |
| (verb) be subject to fluctuation | - |
| (verb) drive slowly and far afield for grazing | - |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, blow, float |
| (verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: err, stray |
| (verb) move in an unhurried fashion | - |
| (verb) cause to be carried by a current | - |
| (verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | Synonyms: freewheel |
| (verb) vary or move from a fixed point or course | - |
| driftage | (noun) the deviation (by a vessel or aircraft) from its intended course due to drifting | - |
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| drifter | (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: clochard, floater, vagabond, vagrant |
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| driftfish | (noun) small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide | - |
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| (noun) larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico | - |
| drifting | (adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | Synonyms: aimless, floating, vagabond, vagrant |
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| (noun) aimless wandering from place to place | - |
| driftwood | (noun) wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore | - |
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| electrification | (noun) the activity of thrilling or markedly exciting some person or group | - |
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| (noun) the act of providing electricity | - |
| electrify | (verb) equip for use with electricity | Synonyms: wire |
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| (verb) charge (a conductor) with electricity | - |
| (verb) excite suddenly and intensely | - |
| electrifying | (adjective) causing a surge of emotion or excitement | Synonyms: thrilling |
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| esterify | (verb) change (a compound) into an ester | - |
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| etherify | (verb) change into an ether | - |
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| febrifuge | (noun) any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever | Synonyms: antipyretic |
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| festschrift | (noun) a collection of writings published in honor of a scholar | - |
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| frigorific | (adjective) causing cold; cooling or chilling | - |
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| gentrification | (noun) the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of low-income residents) | - |
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| gentrify | (verb) renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations | - |
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| glorification | (noun) the act of glorifying (as in worship) | - |
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| (noun) a portrayal of something as ideal | Synonyms: idealisation, idealization |
| (noun) a state of high honor | Synonyms: glory |
| glorified | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonised, canonized |
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| glorify | (verb) bestow glory upon | - |
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| (verb) cause to seem more splendid | - |
| (verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: spiritualize, transfigure |
| (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, laud, proclaim |
| griffin | (noun) winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion | Synonyms: griffon, gryphon |
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| griffon | (noun) breed of various very small compact wiry-coated dogs of Belgian origin having a short bearded muzzle | Synonyms: Belgian griffon, Brussels griffon |
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| (noun) breed of medium-sized long-headed dogs with downy undercoat and harsh wiry outer coat; originated in Holland but largely developed in France | Synonyms: wire-haired pointing griffon |
| (noun) large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings | Synonyms: griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus |
| (noun) winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion | Synonyms: griffin, gryphon |
| grifter | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, scammer, swindler |
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| honorific | (adjective) conferring or showing honor or respect | - |
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| (noun) an expression of respect | - |
| horrific | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, terrible |
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| (adjective) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror | Synonyms: hideous, horrid, outrageous |
| horrified | (adjective) stricken with horror | Synonyms: horror-stricken, horror-struck |
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| horrify | (verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appal, appall, dismay |
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| horrifying | (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: atrocious, frightful, horrible, ugly |
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| horrifyingly | (adverb) in a horrifying manner | - |
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| loosestrife | (noun) any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum | - |
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| (noun) any of various herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lysimachia | - |
| metrification | (noun) the act of changing from imperial units of measurement to metric units: meters, grams, seconds | Synonyms: metrication |
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| (noun) writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition) | - |
| metrify | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricate, metricise, metricize |
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| (verb) compose in poetic meter | - |
| midriff | (noun) (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration | Synonyms: diaphragm |
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| (noun) the middle area of the human torso (usually in front) | Synonyms: middle, midsection |
| nectariferous | (adjective) possessing nectaries | - |
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| nitrification | (noun) the oxidation of ammonium compounds in dead organic material into nitrates and nitrites by soil bacteria (making nitrogen available to plants) | - |
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| (noun) the chemical process in which a nitro group is added to an organic compound (or substituted for another group in an organic compound) | - |
| nitrify | (verb) treat (soil) with nitrates | - |
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| (verb) treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound | Synonyms: nitrogenise, nitrogenize |
| (verb) convert into nitric acid, nitrous acid, or nitrate, especially with the action of nitrobacteria | - |
| nutrify | (verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: aliment, nourish |
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| odoriferous | (adjective) having a natural fragrance | Synonyms: odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, sweet |
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| (adjective) emitting an odor | Synonyms: odorous |
| orifice | (noun) an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity | Synonyms: opening, porta |
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| oriflamme | (noun) a red or orange-red flag used as a standard by early French kings | - |
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| (noun) an inspiring symbol or ideal that serves as a rallying point in a struggle | - |
| panduriform | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having rounded ends and a contracted center | Synonyms: fiddle-shaped, pandurate |
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| petrifaction | (noun) a rock created by petrifaction; an organic object infiltrated with mineral matter and preserved in its original form | - |
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| (noun) the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape | Synonyms: petrification |
| petrification | (noun) the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape | Synonyms: petrifaction |
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| petrify | (verb) change into stone | Synonyms: lapidify |
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| (verb) cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright | - |
| (verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | Synonyms: ossify, rigidify |
| petrifying | (adjective) paralyzing with terror | - |
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| poriferan | (noun) primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies | Synonyms: parazoan, sponge |
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| poriferous | (adjective) full of pores or vessels or holes | Synonyms: porous |
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| purification | (noun) the act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities | - |
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| (noun) the act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing | - |
| (noun) a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites | Synonyms: purgation |
| (noun) the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.) | Synonyms: refinement, refining |
| purificator | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: emunctorium, purificatorium |
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| purificatorium | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: emunctorium, purificator |
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| purifier | (noun) an apparatus for removing impurities | - |
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| purify | (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill, make pure, sublimate |
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| (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, sanctify |
| (verb) become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin | - |
| purifying | (adjective) freeing from noxious matter | - |
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| (adjective) serving to purge or rid of sin | Synonyms: purgatorial, purging |
| (adjective) acting like an antiseptic | Synonyms: cleansing |
| rarified | (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, sublime |
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| (adjective) having low density | Synonyms: rare, rarefied |
| rarify | (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, elaborate, refine |
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| rifampin | (noun) an antibacterial drug (trade names Rifadin and Rimactane) used to treat tuberculosis | Synonyms: Rifadin, Rimactane |
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| rife | (adjective) excessively abundant | Synonyms: overabundant, plethoric |
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| (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, predominant, prevailing, prevalent |
| riff | (noun) a jazz ostinato; usually provides a background for a solo improvisation | - |
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| (verb) play riffs | - |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riffle, thumb |
| riffle | (noun) shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners | - |
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| (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: ripple, rippling, wavelet |
| (verb) shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix | - |
| (verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: flick, ruffle |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, ripple, ruffle, undulate |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riff, thumb |
| riffraff | (noun) disparaging terms for the common people | Synonyms: rabble, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail |
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| rifle | (noun) a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore | - |
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| (verb) go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, strip |
| riflebird | (noun) velvety black Australian bird of paradise with green and purple iridescence on head and tail | Synonyms: Ptloris paradisea |
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| rifled | (adjective) of a firearm; having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel | - |
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| rifleman | (noun) a soldier whose weapon is a rifle | - |
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| (noun) someone skilled in the use of a rifle | - |
| rifling | (noun) the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm | Synonyms: grooving |
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| rift | (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rupture, severance |
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| (noun) a narrow fissure in rock | - |
| (noun) a gap between cloud masses | - |
| saccharify | (verb) convert into a simple soluble fermentable sugar by hydrolyzing a sugar derivative or complex carbohydrate | - |
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| (verb) sweeten with sugar | Synonyms: sugar |
| sacrifice | (noun) the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity | Synonyms: ritual killing |
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| (noun) the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. | Synonyms: forfeit, forfeiture |
| (noun) (baseball) an out that advances the base runners | - |
| (noun) personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective) | - |
| (noun) a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value | - |
| (verb) kill or destroy | - |
| (verb) endure the loss of | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals | - |
| (verb) sell at a loss | - |
| sacrificeable | (adjective) may be deliberately sacrificed to achieve an objective | - |
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| sacrificer | (noun) a religious person who offers up a sacrifice | - |
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| sacrificial | (adjective) used in or connected with a sacrifice | - |
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| salamandriform | (adjective) shaped like a salamander | - |
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| scarify | (verb) puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals | - |
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| (verb) break up | - |
| (verb) scratch the surface of | - |
| serif | (noun) a short line at the end of the main strokes of a character | Synonyms: seriph |
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| sheriff | (noun) the principal law-enforcement officer in a county | - |
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| shrift | (noun) the act of being shriven | - |
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