| acorn | (noun) fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base | - |
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| adjourn | (verb) close at the end of a session | Synonyms: break up, recess |
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| (verb) break from a meeting or gathering | Synonyms: retire, withdraw |
| adjournment | (noun) the termination of a meeting | Synonyms: dissolution |
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| (noun) the act of postponing to another time or place | - |
| adorn | (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
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| (verb) furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors | Synonyms: clothe, invest |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: beautify, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
| adorned | (adjective) provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction | Synonyms: decorated |
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| adornment | (noun) the action of decorating yourself with something colorful and interesting | - |
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| (noun) a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness | - |
| aepyornis | (noun) huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar | Synonyms: elephant bird |
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| afterburner | (noun) a device that injects fuel into a hot exhaust for extra thrust | - |
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| afternoon | (noun) a conventional expression of greeting or farewell, used to wish someone a good afternoon | Synonyms: good afternoon |
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| (noun) the part of the day between noon and evening | - |
| airborne | (adjective) moved or conveyed by or through air | - |
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| alternate | (adjective) of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternative, substitute |
| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternating |
| (adjective) every second one of a series | - |
| (noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: replacement, surrogate |
| (verb) do something in turns | Synonyms: take turns |
| (verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: jump |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch, tack |
| (verb) be an understudy or alternate for a role | Synonyms: understudy |
| (verb) exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions | - |
| alternately | (adverb) in an alternating sequence or position | - |
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| alternating | (adjective) (of a current) reversing direction | - |
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| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternate |
| alternation | (noun) successive change from one thing or state to another and back again | - |
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| alternative | (adjective) necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, substitute |
| (adjective) pertaining to unconventional choices | - |
| (noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: choice, option |
| alternatively | (adverb) in place of, or as an alternative to | Synonyms: instead, or else |
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| alternator | (noun) an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles) | - |
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| archaeornis | (noun) extinct primitive toothed bird with a long feathered tail and three free clawed digits on each wing | - |
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| arnica | (noun) an ointment used in treating bruises | - |
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| (noun) any of various rhizomatous usually perennial plants of the genus Arnica | - |
| (noun) used especially in treating bruises | - |
| astern | (adverb) (of a ship or an airplane) behind | - |
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| (adverb) at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane | Synonyms: abaft, aft |
| (adverb) stern foremost or backward | - |
| asternal | (adjective) not connected to the sternum or breastbone | - |
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| attorn | (verb) acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord | - |
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| attorney | (noun) a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice | Synonyms: lawyer |
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| attorneyship | (noun) the position of attorney | - |
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| auburn | (adjective) (of hair) colored a moderate reddish-brown | - |
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| bairn | (noun) a child: son or daughter | - |
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| barleycorn | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barley |
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| (noun) a grain of barley | - |
| barn | (noun) an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter | Synonyms: b |
| barnacle | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: cirriped, cirripede |
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| (noun) European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north | Synonyms: barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis |
| barnburner | (noun) an impressively successful event | - |
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| (noun) someone who burns down a barn | - |
| barndoor | (noun) an opaque adjustable flap on a lamp fixture; used in photography to cut off light from particular areas | - |
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| barnful | (noun) the quantity that a barn will hold | - |
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| barnstorm | (verb) tour the country making political speeches, giving lectures, or presenting plays | - |
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| (verb) appear at county fairs and carnivals as a stunt flier and parachute jumper | - |
| barnstormer | (noun) a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits of stunt flying and parachuting | Synonyms: stunt flier, stunt pilot |
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| (noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: play-actor, playactor, trouper |
| barnyard | (noun) a yard adjoining a barn | - |
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| baseborn | (adjective) illegitimate | Synonyms: base |
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| (adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: base, humble, lowly |
| bearnaise | (noun) a sauce like hollandaise but made with white wine and tarragon and shallots instead of lemon juice | - |
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| bicorn | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicornate, bicorned, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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| (noun) a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points | Synonyms: bicorne |
| bicornate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicorned, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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| bicorne | (noun) a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points | Synonyms: bicorn |
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| bicorned | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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| bicornuate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicorned, bicornuous |
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| bicornuous | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicorned, bicornuate |
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| bighorn | (noun) wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns | Synonyms: bighorn sheep, cimarron, Ovis canadensis, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep |
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| bittern | (noun) relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes | - |
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| bitterness | (noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste | Synonyms: bitter |
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| (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
| (noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: bitter |
| (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: gall, rancor, rancour, resentment |
| bitternut | (noun) hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts | Synonyms: bitter hickory, bitter pignut, bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, swamp hickory |
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| blackthorn | (noun) erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries | Synonyms: Crataegus calpodendron, Crataegus tomentosa, pear haw, pear hawthorn |
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| (noun) a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits | Synonyms: Prunus spinosa, sloe |
| bladdernose | (noun) medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Cystophora cristata, hooded seal |
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| blarney | (noun) flattery designed to gain favor | Synonyms: coaxing, soft soap, sweet talk |
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| (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
| born | (adjective) brought into existence | - |
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| (adjective) being talented through inherited qualities | Synonyms: innate, natural |
| bornite | (noun) a mineral consisting of sulfides of copper and iron that is found in copper deposits | Synonyms: peacock ore |
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| bourn | (noun) an archaic term for a goal or destination | Synonyms: bourne |
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| (noun) an archaic term for a boundary | Synonyms: bourne |
| bourne | (noun) an archaic term for a goal or destination | Synonyms: bourn |
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| (noun) an archaic term for a boundary | Synonyms: bourn |
| boxthorn | (noun) any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries | Synonyms: matrimony vine |
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| broomcorn | (noun) tall grasses grown for the elongated stiff-branched panicle used for brooms and brushes | Synonyms: Sorghum vulgare technicum |
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| buckthorn | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia | - |
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| (noun) a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments | - |
| (noun) an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions | Synonyms: English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass |
| bullhorn | (noun) a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier | Synonyms: loud-hailer, loud hailer |
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| burn | (noun) damage inflicted by fire | - |
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| (noun) a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: burn mark |
| (noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burning |
| (noun) an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation | - |
| (verb) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun | Synonyms: sunburn |
| (verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: combust |
| (verb) cause to undergo combustion | Synonyms: incinerate |
| (verb) destroy by fire | Synonyms: burn down, fire |
| (verb) damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation | - |
| (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize |
| (verb) use up (energy) | Synonyms: burn off, burn up |
| (verb) create by duplicating data | Synonyms: cut |
| (verb) feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion | - |
| (verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | Synonyms: bite, sting |
| (verb) feel hot or painful | - |
| (verb) spend (significant amounts of money) | - |
| (verb) execute by tying to a stake and setting alight | - |
| (verb) shine intensely, as if with heat | Synonyms: glow |
| (verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: combust |
| burnability | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: combustibility, combustibleness |
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| burnable | (adjective) capable of burning | Synonyms: ignitable, ignitible |
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| burned | (adjective) ruined by overcooking | Synonyms: burnt |
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| (adjective) destroyed or badly damaged by fire | Synonyms: burned-out, burned-over, burnt-out, burnt |
| (adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point | Synonyms: burnt |
| burner | (noun) an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse) | - |
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| (noun) the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking | - |
| burning | (adjective) of immediate import | - |
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| (noun) the act of burning something | Synonyms: combustion |
| (noun) execution by electricity | Synonyms: electrocution |
| (noun) execution by fire | Synonyms: burning at the stake |
| (noun) a form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin | - |
| (noun) a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light | Synonyms: combustion |
| (noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burn |
| burnish | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: gloss, glossiness, polish |
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| (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, furbish |
| burnished | (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, lustrous, shining, shiny |
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| burnisher | (noun) a hand tool with polished agate tips (or other gemstone) for rubbing the gold leaf in order to obtain a highly polished surface, used in gilding. | Synonyms: burnishing tool |
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| burnoose | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnous, burnouse |
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| burnous | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnoose, burnouse |
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| burnouse | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnoose, burnous |
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| burnside | (noun) facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off) | Synonyms: mutton chop, side-whiskers, sideburn |
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| burnt | (adjective) ruined by overcooking | Synonyms: burned |
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| (adjective) destroyed or badly damaged by fire | Synonyms: burned-out, burned-over, burned, burnt-out |
| (adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point | Synonyms: burned |
| burnup | (noun) the amount of fuel used up (as in a nuclear reactor) | - |
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| (noun) a high-speed motorcycle race on a public road | - |
| butternut | (noun) oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family | - |
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| (noun) North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye | Synonyms: butternut tree, Juglans cinerea, white walnut |
| byrnie | (noun) a long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor | Synonyms: hauberk |
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| cairn | (noun) small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland | Synonyms: cairn terrier |
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| (noun) a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path | - |
| cairned | (adjective) marked by cairns | - |
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| cairngorm | (noun) a smoky yellow or brown quartz | Synonyms: smoky quartz |
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| californium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding curium with alpha particles | Synonyms: atomic number 98, Cf |
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| careworn | (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: drawn, haggard, raddled, worn |
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| carnage | (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: butchery, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
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| carnal | (adjective) of or relating to the body or flesh | - |
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| (adjective) marked by the appetites and passions of the body | Synonyms: animal, fleshly, sensual |
| carnalise | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalize, sensualise, sensualize |
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| carnality | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: lasciviousness, lubricity, prurience, pruriency |
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| carnalize | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, sensualise, sensualize |
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| (verb) ascribe to an origin in sensation | Synonyms: sensualize |
| (verb) represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture | Synonyms: sensualize |
| carnallite | (noun) a white or reddish mineral consisting of hydrous chlorides of potassium and magnesium; used as a fertilizer and as a source of potassium and magnesium | - |
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| carnally | (adverb) in a carnal manner | - |
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| carnassial | (adjective) (of a tooth) adapted for shearing flesh | - |
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| carnation | (adjective) pink or pinkish | - |
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| (noun) a pink or reddish-pink color | - |
| (noun) Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors | Synonyms: clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus, gillyflower |
| carnauba | (noun) Brazilian fan palm having an edible root; source of a useful leaf fiber and a brittle yellowish wax | Synonyms: carnauba palm, Copernicia cerifera, Copernicia prunifera, wax palm |
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| (noun) hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes | Synonyms: carnauba wax |
| carnelian | (noun) a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: cornelian |
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| carnify | (verb) become muscular or fleshy | - |
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| carnival | (noun) a festival marked by merrymaking and processions | - |
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| (noun) a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. | Synonyms: fair, funfair |
| (noun) a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment | Synonyms: circus |
| carnivore | (noun) a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal | - |
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| (noun) any animal that feeds on flesh | - |
| carnivorous | (adjective) (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of carnivores | - |
| carnivorousness | (noun) The quality of being an animal that eats meat as the main part of its diet. | Synonyms: zoophagy |
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| carnosaur | (noun) large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having huge claws | - |
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| carnotite | (noun) a yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadium | - |
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| casern | (noun) military barracks in a garrison town | - |
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| catacorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, cater-cornered, catercorner, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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