| couscous | (noun) a pasta made in northern Africa of crushed and steamed semolina | - |
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| (noun) a spicy dish that originated in northern Africa; consists of pasta steamed with a meat and vegetable stew | - |
| discount | (noun) the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise | Synonyms: deduction, price reduction |
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| (noun) an amount or percentage deducted | Synonyms: deduction |
| (noun) interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan | Synonyms: bank discount, discount rate |
| (noun) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid | Synonyms: rebate |
| (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside |
| (verb) give a reduction in price on | - |
| discountenance | (verb) show disapproval by discouraging | - |
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| (verb) look with disfavor on | - |
| discounter | (noun) a sales outlet offering goods at a discounted price | Synonyms: discount house, discount store, wholesale house |
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| discourage | (verb) try to prevent; show opposition to | Synonyms: deter |
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| (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, monish, warn |
| (verb) deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged | - |
| discouraged | (adjective) lacking in resolution | - |
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| (adjective) made less hopeful or enthusiastic | Synonyms: demoralised, demoralized, disheartened |
| discouragement | (noun) the act of discouraging | - |
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| (noun) the expression of opposition and disapproval | - |
| (noun) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | Synonyms: disheartenment, dismay |
| discouraging | (adjective) depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action | - |
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| (adjective) expressing disapproval in order to dissuade | - |
| discouragingly | (adverb) in a discouraging manner | - |
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| discourse | (noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic | Synonyms: discussion, treatment |
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| (noun) extended verbal expression in speech or writing | - |
| (noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | Synonyms: preaching, sermon |
| (verb) talk at length and formally about a topic | Synonyms: dissertate, hold forth |
| (verb) carry on a conversation | Synonyms: converse |
| (verb) to consider or examine in speech or writing | Synonyms: discuss, talk about |
| discourteous | (adjective) showing no courtesy; rude | - |
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| (adjective) lacking social graces | Synonyms: ungracious |
| discourteously | (adverb) in an impolite manner | Synonyms: impolitely, rudely |
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| discourtesy | (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: offence, offense, offensive activity |
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| (noun) a manner that is rude and insulting | Synonyms: rudeness |
| (noun) an expression of lack of respect | Synonyms: disrespect |
| fuscous | (adjective) of something having a dusky brownish grey color | Synonyms: taupe |
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| lobscouse | (noun) a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors | Synonyms: lobscuse, scouse |
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| miscount | (noun) an inaccurate count | - |
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| (verb) count wrongly | - |
| scoundrel | (noun) a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately | Synonyms: villain |
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| scoundrelly | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: blackguardly, rascally, roguish |
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| scour | (noun) a place that is scoured (especially by running water) | - |
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| (verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: flush, purge |
| (verb) rub hard or scrub | Synonyms: abrade |
| (verb) clean with hard rubbing | Synonyms: scrub |
| (verb) examine minutely | - |
| scoured | (adjective) worn away as by water or ice or wind | Synonyms: eroded |
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| scourer | (noun) someone who cleanses by scouring | - |
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| (noun) someone who travels widely and energetically | - |
| scourge | (noun) a whip used to inflict punishment | Synonyms: flagellum |
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| (noun) a person who inspires fear or dread | Synonyms: terror, threat |
| (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, curse, nemesis |
| (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, waste |
| (verb) whip | Synonyms: flagellate |
| (verb) punish severely; excoriate | - |
| scourger | (noun) a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders) | Synonyms: flogger |
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| scouring | (noun) the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water | Synonyms: scrub, scrubbing |
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| (noun) moving over territory to search for something | - |
| scours | (noun) diarrhea in livestock | - |
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| scouse | (noun) a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors | Synonyms: lobscouse, lobscuse |
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| scout | (noun) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory | Synonyms: guide, pathfinder |
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| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch |
| (noun) someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports) | Synonyms: talent scout |
| (verb) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody | Synonyms: reconnoiter, reconnoitre |
| scouter | (noun) an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement | Synonyms: rover |
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| scouting | (noun) exploring in order to gain information | Synonyms: exploratory survey, reconnoitering, reconnoitring |
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| scoutmaster | (noun) the leader of a troop of Scouts | - |
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| undiscouraged | (adjective) not deterred | Synonyms: undeterred |
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| viscount | (noun) a British peer who ranks below an earl and above a baron | - |
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| (noun) (in various countries) a son or younger brother or a count | - |
| viscountcy | (noun) the title of a viscount | - |
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| (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a viscount or viscountess | Synonyms: viscounty |
| viscountess | (noun) a noblewoman holding the rank of viscount in her own right | - |
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| (noun) a wife or widow of a viscount | - |
| viscounty | (noun) the domain controlled by a viscount or viscountess | - |
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| (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a viscount or viscountess | Synonyms: viscountcy |
| viscous | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid |
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| (adjective) having a relatively high resistance to flow | Synonyms: syrupy |
| viscousness | (noun) resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow) | Synonyms: viscosity |
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