| aardvark | (noun) nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata | Synonyms: ant bear, anteater, Orycteropus afer |
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| antiquark | (noun) the antiparticle of a quark | - |
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| ark | (noun) a boat built by Noah to save his family and animals from the flood | - |
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| artwork | (noun) photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication | Synonyms: art, graphics, nontextual matter |
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| autarkic | (adjective) of countries; not relying on imports | Synonyms: autarkical |
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| autarkical | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchic, autarchical |
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| (adjective) of countries; not relying on imports | Synonyms: autarkic |
| autarky | (noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarchy |
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| ballpark | (noun) a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games) | Synonyms: park |
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| (noun) near to the scope or range of something | Synonyms: approximate range |
| bark | (noun) a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts | Synonyms: barque |
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| (noun) the sound made by a dog | - |
| (noun) a noise resembling the bark of a dog | - |
| (noun) tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants | - |
| (verb) tan (a skin) with bark tannins | - |
| (verb) make barking sounds | - |
| (verb) speak in an unfriendly tone | - |
| (verb) remove the bark of a tree | Synonyms: skin |
| (verb) cover with bark | - |
| barkeep | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeeper, bartender, mixologist |
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| barkeeper | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, bartender, mixologist |
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| barker | (noun) informal terms for dogs | Synonyms: bow-wow, doggie, doggy, pooch |
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| (noun) someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers | - |
| barky | (adjective) resembling the rough bark of a tree | - |
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| beadwork | (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: astragal, bead, beading |
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| (noun) ornamentation with beads | Synonyms: beading |
| benchmark | (noun) a standard by which something can be measured or judged | - |
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| (noun) a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point | Synonyms: bench mark |
| berk | (noun) a stupid person who is easy to take advantage of | - |
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| berkelium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding americium with helium | Synonyms: atomic number 97, Bk |
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| berserk | (adjective) wildly frenzied and out of control | Synonyms: amok, amuck |
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| (noun) one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury | Synonyms: berserker |
| berserker | (noun) one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury | Synonyms: berserk |
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| birchbark | (noun) a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree | Synonyms: birch bark, birchbark canoe |
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| birken | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree | Synonyms: birch, birchen |
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| birthmark | (noun) a blemish on the skin that is formed before birth | Synonyms: nevus |
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| bismark | (noun) a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam | Synonyms: Berlin doughnut, jelly doughnut |
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| bodywork | (noun) the work of making or repairing vehicle bodies | - |
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| (noun) the exterior body of a motor vehicle | - |
| bookmark | (noun) a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place | Synonyms: bookmarker |
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| bookmarker | (noun) a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place | Synonyms: bookmark |
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| brainworker | (noun) someone whose profession involves using his head to solve problems | Synonyms: brain-worker |
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| brandmark | (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, trademark |
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| breastwork | (noun) fortification consisting of a low wall | Synonyms: parapet |
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| brickwork | (noun) masonry done with bricks and mortar | - |
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| bridgework | (noun) a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth | Synonyms: bridge |
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| brushwork | (noun) an artist's distinctive technique of applying paint with a brush | - |
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| bulwark | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: breakwater, groin, groyne, jetty, mole, seawall |
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| (noun) an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes | Synonyms: rampart, wall |
| (noun) a fencelike structure around a deck | - |
| (verb) defend with a bulwark | - |
| burka | (noun) a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan | Synonyms: burqa |
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| burke | (verb) get rid of, silence, or suppress | - |
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| (verb) murder without leaving a trace on the body | - |
| burked | (adjective) suppressed quietly or indirectly | - |
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| busywork | (noun) active work of little value | Synonyms: make-work |
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| cabinetwork | (noun) the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) | Synonyms: cabinetry |
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| (noun) woodwork finished by hand by a cabinetmaker | - |
| cark | (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
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| casework | (noun) close sociological study of a maladjusted person or family for diagnosis and treatment | - |
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| caseworker | (noun) someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged) | Synonyms: social worker, welfare worker |
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| chirk | (verb) make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird | - |
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| classwork | (noun) the part of a student's work that is done in the classroom | - |
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| clerk | (noun) an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts) | - |
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| (noun) a salesperson in a store | Synonyms: salesclerk, shop assistant, shop clerk |
| (verb) work as a clerk, as in the legal business | - |
| clerking | (noun) the activity of recording business transactions | Synonyms: bookkeeping |
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| clerkship | (noun) the job of clerk | - |
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| clockwork | (noun) any mechanism of geared wheels that is driven by a coiled spring; resembles the works of a mechanical clock | - |
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| coldwork | (verb) shape (metal) without heat | Synonyms: cold work |
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| cork | (noun) the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle) | Synonyms: bottle cork |
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| (noun) a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line | Synonyms: bob, bobber, bobfloat |
| (noun) outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc. | - |
| (noun) (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells | Synonyms: phellem |
| (verb) stuff with cork | - |
| (verb) close a bottle with a cork | Synonyms: cork up |
| corkage | (noun) a charge added at a restaurant for every bottle of wine served that was not bought on the premises | - |
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| corkboard | (noun) a heat-insulating building material consisting of cork granules that are made into sheets by compressing and baking | - |
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| corked | (adjective) (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin | Synonyms: corky |
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| corker | (noun) a machine that is used to put corks in bottles | - |
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| (noun) (dated slang) a remarkable or excellent thing or person | - |
| corking | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| corkscrew | (noun) a bottle opener that pulls corks | Synonyms: bottle screw |
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| (verb) move in a spiral or zigzag course | Synonyms: spiral |
| corkwood | (noun) very small deciduous dioecious tree or shrub of damp habitats in southeastern United States having extremely light wood | Synonyms: corkwood tree, Leitneria floridana |
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| corky | (adjective) (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin | Synonyms: corked |
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| coursework | (noun) work assigned to and done by a student during a course of study; usually it is evaluated as part of the student's grade in the course | - |
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| crampbark | (noun) deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries | Synonyms: cranberry tree, European cranberry bush, European cranberrybush, guelder rose, Viburnum opulus |
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| crewelwork | (noun) embroidery done with loosely twisted worsted yarn | - |
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| crownwork | (noun) (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth | Synonyms: cap, crown, jacket, jacket crown |
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| (noun) a type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from which longer flank walls run back towards the main fortress. | - |
| cutwork | (noun) embroidery in which the design is outlined in a buttonhole stitch and the intervening material is cut away | - |
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| dark | (adjective) devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black | - |
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| (adjective) (used of color) having a dark hue | - |
| (adjective) brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes) | - |
| (adjective) secret | - |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
| (adjective) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | Synonyms: black, sinister |
| (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
| (adjective) not giving performances; closed | - |
| (adjective) marked by difficulty of style or expression | Synonyms: obscure |
| (adjective) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture | Synonyms: benighted |
| (noun) an unenlightened state | Synonyms: darkness |
| (noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: darkness, shadow |
| (noun) absence of light or illumination | Synonyms: darkness |
| (noun) absence of moral or spiritual values | Synonyms: darkness, wickedness |
| (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: night, nighttime |
| darken | (verb) become dark or darker | - |
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| (verb) make dark or darker | - |
| (verb) tarnish or stain | - |
| darkened | (adjective) become or made dark by lack of light | - |
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| (adjective) (of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time | - |
| darkening | (adjective) becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over | - |
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| (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: blackening |
| darkey | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkie, darky |
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| darkie | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkey, darky |
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| darkish | (adjective) slightly dark | - |
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| darkling | (adjective) (poetic) occurring in the dark or night | - |
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| (adjective) uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure | - |
| darkly | (adverb) without light | Synonyms: in darkness |
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| (adverb) in a dark glowering menacing manner | - |
| darkness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: duskiness, swarthiness |
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| (noun) having a dark or somber color | - |
| (noun) an unenlightened state | Synonyms: dark |
| (noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: dark, shadow |
| (noun) absence of light or illumination | Synonyms: dark |
| (noun) absence of moral or spiritual values | Synonyms: dark, wickedness |
| darkroom | (noun) a room in which photographs are developed | - |
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| darky | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkey, darkie |
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| datemark | (verb) mark with a date and place | Synonyms: date-mark, dateline |
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| debark | (verb) go ashore | Synonyms: disembark, set down |
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| debarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: disembarkation, disembarkment |
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| dirk | (noun) a relatively long dagger with a straight blade | - |
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| disembark | (verb) go ashore | Synonyms: debark, set down |
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| disembarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: debarkation, disembarkment |
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| disembarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: debarkation, disembarkation |
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| dockworker | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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| donkeywork | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: drudgery, grind, plodding |
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| doorkeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| (noun) an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber | Synonyms: usher |
| (noun) the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: ostiarius, ostiary |
| doorknob | (noun) a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain) | Synonyms: doorhandle |
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| doorknocker | (noun) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door | Synonyms: knocker, rapper |
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| dork | (noun) a dull stupid fatuous person | Synonyms: jerk |
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| downmarket | (adjective) designed for low-income consumers | - |
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| drawnwork | (noun) ornamental needlework done by drawing threads to form lacelike patterns | - |
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| earmark | (noun) a distinctive characteristic or attribute of someone or something | Synonyms: hallmark, stylemark, trademark |
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| (noun) identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal | - |
| (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: allow, appropriate, reserve, set aside |
| earthwork | (noun) an earthen rampart | - |
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| embark | (verb) set out on (an enterprise or subject of study) | Synonyms: enter |
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| (verb) go on board | Synonyms: ship |
| (verb) proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers | Synonyms: venture |
| embarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkment |
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| embarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkation |
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| fancywork | (noun) decorative needlework | Synonyms: embroidery |
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| farkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: sparkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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| fieldwork | (noun) a temporary fortification built by troops in the field | - |
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| fieldworker | (noun) a researcher who works in the field | - |
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| fingermark | (noun) a smudge made by a (dirty) finger | Synonyms: fingerprint |
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| firework | (noun) (usually plural) a device with an explosive that burns at a low rate and with colored flames; can be used to illuminate areas or send signals etc. | Synonyms: pyrotechnic |
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