| augury | (noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: foretoken, preindication, sign |
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| auscultatory | (adjective) of or relating to auscultation | - |
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| autolatry | (noun) the worship of yourself | Synonyms: idiolatry, self-worship |
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| auxiliary | (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary |
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| (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant |
| (noun) someone who acts as assistant | Synonyms: aide |
| aviary | (noun) a building where birds are kept | Synonyms: bird sanctuary, volary |
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| aweary | (adjective) physically and mentally fatigued | Synonyms: weary |
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| awry | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: askew, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky |
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| (adjective) not functioning properly | Synonyms: amiss, haywire, wrong |
| (adverb) away from the correct or expected course | Synonyms: amiss |
| (adverb) turned or twisted to one side | Synonyms: askew, skew-whiff |
| axillary | (adjective) of or relating to the armpit | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the axil | Synonyms: alar |
| bacillary | (adjective) relating to or produced by or containing bacilli | Synonyms: bacillar |
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| (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped |
| bakery | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakeshop |
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| banditry | (noun) the practice of plundering in gangs | - |
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| baneberry | (noun) a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries | Synonyms: cohosh, herb Christopher |
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| (noun) a poisonous berry of a plant of the genus Actaea | - |
| baptistery | (noun) bowl for baptismal water | Synonyms: baptismal font, baptistry, font |
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| baptistry | (noun) bowl for baptismal water | Synonyms: baptismal font, baptistery, font |
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| barberry | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries | - |
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| bardolatry | (noun) the idolization of William Shakespeare | - |
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| barratry | (noun) the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels | - |
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| (noun) (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo | - |
| (noun) the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery | - |
| (noun) traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments | Synonyms: simony |
| barycenter | (noun) (astronomy) the common center of mass around which two or more bodies revolve | - |
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| barye | (noun) the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter | Synonyms: bar absolute, microbar |
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| baryon | (noun) any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1 | Synonyms: heavy particle |
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| baryta | (noun) any of several compounds of barium | - |
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| barytes | (noun) a white or colorless mineral (BaSO4); the main source of barium | Synonyms: barite, barium sulphate, heavy spar |
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| barytic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing baryta | - |
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| barytone | (noun) a male singer | Synonyms: baritone |
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| basilary | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilar |
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| basketry | (noun) the craft of basket making | - |
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| bathymetry | (noun) measuring the depths of the oceans | Synonyms: plumbing |
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| battery | (noun) an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact | Synonyms: assault and battery |
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| (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, bombardment, shelling |
| (noun) a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series | Synonyms: electric battery |
| (noun) a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores | Synonyms: stamp battery |
| (noun) a collection of related things intended for use together | - |
| (noun) group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place | - |
| (noun) a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher | - |
| bawdry | (noun) lewd or obscene talk or writing | Synonyms: bawdy |
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| bayberry | (noun) West Indian tree; source of bay rum | Synonyms: bay-rum tree, Jamaica bayberry, Pimenta acris, wild cinnamon |
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| (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: candleberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry, waxberry |
| bearberry | (noun) chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas | - |
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| (noun) deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States | Synonyms: Ilex decidua, possum haw, winterberry |
| (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
| beaugregory | (noun) a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies | Synonyms: Pomacentrus leucostictus |
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| beery | (adjective) smelling of beer | - |
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| beggary | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: begging, mendicancy |
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| (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: mendicancy, mendicity |
| belfry | (noun) a room (often at the top of a tower) where bells are hung | - |
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| (noun) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | Synonyms: campanile |
| benedictory | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictive |
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| beneficiary | (adjective) having or arising from a benefice | - |
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| (noun) the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: benefactive role |
| (noun) the recipient of funds or other benefits | Synonyms: donee |
| berry | (noun) any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves | - |
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| (noun) a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry) | - |
| (verb) pick or gather berries | - |
| berrylike | (adjective) resembling a berry | Synonyms: baccate |
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| beryl | (noun) the chief source of beryllium; colored transparent varieties are valued as gems | - |
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| beryllium | (noun) a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element | Synonyms: atomic number 4, Be, glucinium |
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| bestiary | (noun) a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals | - |
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| bewitchery | (noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, beguilement |
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| bibliolatry | (noun) the worship of the Bible | Synonyms: Bible-worship |
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| bicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentennial |
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| (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentennial |
| bigotry | (noun) the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot | - |
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| bilberry | (noun) blue-black berries similar to American blueberries | Synonyms: European blueberry, whortleberry |
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| (noun) erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries | Synonyms: mountain blue berry, thin-leaved bilberry, Viccinium membranaceum |
| (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry, whortleberry |
| biliary | (adjective) relating to the bile ducts or the gallbladder | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or containing bile | Synonyms: bilious |
| bimillenary | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillennium |
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| (noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillennium |
| binary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) | - |
| (noun) a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system | Synonyms: binary program |
| (noun) a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation | Synonyms: binary star, double star |
| bindery | (noun) a workshop where books are bound | - |
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| biochemistry | (noun) the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry | - |
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| biometry | (noun) a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis | Synonyms: biometrics, biostatistics |
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| biryani | (noun) an Indian dish made with highly seasoned rice and meat or fish or vegetables | Synonyms: biriani |
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| bishopry | (noun) the office and dignity of a bishop | Synonyms: episcopate |
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| bitchery | (noun) aggressive remarks and behavior like that of a spiteful malicious woman | - |
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| blackberry | (noun) large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus | - |
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| (noun) bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle | Synonyms: blackberry bush |
| (verb) pick or gather blackberries | - |
| bladdery | (adjective) resembling a bladder | Synonyms: bladderlike |
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| blaeberry | (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry, whortleberry |
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| blazonry | (noun) the official symbols of a family, state, etc. | Synonyms: arms, blazon, coat of arms |
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| bleary | (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
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| (adjective) tired to the point of exhaustion | Synonyms: blear-eyed, blear, bleary-eyed |
| blistery | (adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistering |
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| (adjective) covered with small blisters | Synonyms: blebby |
| bloodberry | (noun) bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas | Synonyms: blood berry, Rivina humilis, rouge plant, rougeberry |
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| blubbery | (adjective) swollen with fat | - |
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| blueberry | (noun) sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries | Synonyms: blueberry bush |
| blurry | (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
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| blustery | (adjective) noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others | Synonyms: bullying |
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| (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blustering, blusterous |
| bookbindery | (noun) a bookbinder's workshop; a place for binding books | - |
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| botryoid | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoidal, boytrose |
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| botryoidal | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoid, boytrose |
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| bouldery | (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldered, rocky, stony |
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| boundary | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, limit |
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| (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, bounds |
| (noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: bound, edge |
| bowery | (adjective) like a bower; leafy and shady | - |
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| boxberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: Mitchella repens, partridgeberry, twinberry |
| boysenberry | (noun) large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries | - |
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| (noun) cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries | Synonyms: boysenberry bush |
| bravery | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, courage, courageousness |
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| (noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: fearlessness |
| breviary | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a book of prayers to be recited daily by certain priests and members of religious orders | - |
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| brewery | (noun) a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation | - |
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| briary | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| bribery | (noun) the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage | Synonyms: graft |
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| briery | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| bryanthus | (noun) procumbent Old World mat-forming evergreen shrub with racemes of pinkish-white flowers | - |
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| bryony | (noun) a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties | Synonyms: briony |
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| bryophyte | (noun) any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta | Synonyms: nonvascular plant |
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| bryophytic | (adjective) relating to plants of the division Bryophyta | - |
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| bryozoan | (noun) sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding | Synonyms: moss animal, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss |
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| budgerygah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| budgetary | (adjective) of or relating to a budget | - |
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| buffoonery | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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| buggery | (noun) intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman | Synonyms: anal intercourse, anal sex, sodomy |
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| bunchberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: Cornus canadensis, crackerberry, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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| burglary | (noun) entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property | - |
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| burry | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| bursary | (noun) the treasury of a public institution or religious order | - |
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| bury | (verb) dismiss from the mind; stop remembering | Synonyms: forget |
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| (verb) place in the earth and cover with soil | - |
| (verb) embed deeply | Synonyms: sink |
| (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: eat up, immerse, swallow, swallow up |
| (verb) cover from sight | - |
| (verb) place in a grave or tomb | Synonyms: entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest |
| burying | (noun) concealing something under the ground | Synonyms: burial |
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| butchery | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchering |
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| (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
| (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse |
| buttery | (adjective) resembling or containing or spread with butter | - |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
| (noun) a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals | - |
| (noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: larder, pantry |
| cabinetry | (noun) the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) | Synonyms: cabinetwork |
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| cajolery | (noun) flattery intended to persuade | Synonyms: blandishment, palaver |
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