| congenital | (adjective) present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development | Synonyms: inborn, innate |
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| consonantal | (adjective) being or marked by or containing or functioning as a consonant | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or having the nature of a consonant | - |
| continental | (adjective) being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the continents of North America or Europe | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a continent | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or concerning the American colonies during and immediately after the American Revolutionary War | - |
| contrapuntal | (adjective) having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together | Synonyms: polyphonic |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or according to the rules of counterpoint | - |
| cornstalk | (noun) the stalk of a corn plant | Synonyms: corn stalk |
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| corticipetal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticoafferent |
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| costal | (adjective) of or relating to or near a rib | - |
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| costalgia | (noun) pain in the chest caused by inflammation of the muscles between the ribs | Synonyms: pleuralgia, pleurodynia |
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| cristal | (noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine | Synonyms: Adam, disco biscuit, ecstasy, go, hug drug, X, XTC |
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| crosstalk | (noun) the presence of an unwanted signal via an accidental coupling | Synonyms: XT |
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| crotal | (noun) any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made | Synonyms: crottal, crottle |
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| crotalaria | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops | Synonyms: rattlebox |
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| crottal | (noun) any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made | Synonyms: crotal, crottle |
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| crustal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the crust of the earth or moon | - |
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| crystal | (noun) a protective cover that protects the face of a watch | Synonyms: watch crystal, watch glass |
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| (noun) glassware made of quartz | - |
| (noun) a crystalline element used as a component in various electronic devices | - |
| (noun) a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces | Synonyms: crystallization |
| (noun) a solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure | - |
| (noun) colorless glass made of almost pure silica | Synonyms: lechatelierite, quartz, quartz glass, vitreous silica |
| crystalise | (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalize, crystallize, effloresce |
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| (verb) cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form | Synonyms: crystalize, crystallise, crystallize |
| (verb) cause to take on a definite and clear shape | Synonyms: crystalize, crystallise, crystallize |
| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| crystalised | (adjective) having both internal structure and external form of a crystal | Synonyms: crystallized |
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| (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: candied, crystalized, glace |
| crystalize | (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystallize, effloresce |
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| (verb) cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form | Synonyms: crystalise, crystallise, crystallize |
| (verb) cause to take on a definite and clear shape | Synonyms: crystalise, crystallise, crystallize |
| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| crystalized | (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: candied, crystalised, glace |
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| crystalline | (adjective) consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals | - |
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| (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent |
| (adjective) distinctly or sharply outlined | - |
| crystallinity | (noun) (chemistry) The degree of structural order in a solid. | - |
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| crystallisation | (noun) the formation of crystals | Synonyms: crystallization, crystallizing |
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| crystallise | (verb) cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
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| (verb) cause to take on a definite and clear shape | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| crystallised | (adjective) having become fixed and definite in form | Synonyms: crystallized |
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| crystallite | (noun) any of numerous minute rudimentary crystalline bodies of unknown composition found in glassy igneous rock | - |
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| crystallization | (noun) a mental synthesis that becomes fixed or concrete by a process resembling crystal formation | - |
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| (noun) a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces | Synonyms: crystal |
| (noun) the formation of crystals | Synonyms: crystallisation, crystallizing |
| crystallize | (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, effloresce |
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| (verb) cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallise |
| (verb) cause to take on a definite and clear shape | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallise |
| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| crystallized | (adjective) having become fixed and definite in form | Synonyms: crystallised |
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| (adjective) having both internal structure and external form of a crystal | Synonyms: crystalised |
| crystallizing | (noun) the formation of crystals | Synonyms: crystallisation, crystallization |
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| crystallogen | (noun) any chemical element that belongs to the carbon group. | Synonyms: carbon group element, Group 14 element, tetragen, tetrel |
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| crystallographer | (noun) a specialist in crystallography | - |
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| crystallography | (noun) the branch of science that studies the formation and structure of crystals | - |
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| cubital | (adjective) of or relating to the elbow | - |
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| curtal | (adjective) (archaic) docked | - |
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| decentalisation | (noun) the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts | Synonyms: decentralization |
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| deerstalker | (noun) a tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly worn by hunters | - |
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| deerstalking | (noun) stalking deer | - |
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| dental | (adjective) of or relating to the teeth | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to dentistry | - |
| (noun) a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge | Synonyms: alveolar, alveolar consonant, dental consonant |
| departmental | (adjective) of or relating to a department | - |
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| departmentally | (adverb) dependent on a department | - |
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| destalinisation | (noun) social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor | Synonyms: de-Stalinisation, de-Stalinization, destalinization |
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| destalinise | (verb) counteract the effects and policies of Stalinism | Synonyms: destalinize |
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| destalinization | (noun) social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor | Synonyms: de-Stalinisation, de-Stalinization, destalinisation |
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| destalinize | (verb) counteract the effects and policies of Stalinism | Synonyms: destalinise |
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| detrimental | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: damaging, prejudicial, prejudicious |
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| detrimentally | (adverb) in a detrimental manner | Synonyms: harmfully, noxiously |
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| developmental | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting development | - |
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| developmentally | (adverb) with respect to development | - |
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| devitalisation | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalization |
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| devitalise | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalize |
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| devitalization | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalisation |
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| devitalize | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalise |
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| dialectal | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of a dialect | - |
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| digital | (adjective) of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or performed with the fingers | - |
| (adjective) displaying numbers rather than scale positions | - |
| digitalin | (noun) a powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove | Synonyms: digitalis, digitalis glycoside |
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| digitalis | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Digitalis | Synonyms: foxglove |
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| (noun) a powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove | Synonyms: digitalin, digitalis glycoside |
| digitalisation | (noun) the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders | Synonyms: digitalization |
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| digitalise | (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalize, digitise, digitize |
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| digitalization | (noun) the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders | Synonyms: digitalisation |
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| digitalize | (verb) administer digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects | - |
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| (verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer | Synonyms: digitalise, digitise, digitize |
| digitally | (adverb) in terms of integers | - |
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| (adverb) by means of the fingers | - |
| distal | (adjective) situated farthest from point of attachment or origin, as of a limb or bone | - |
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| (adjective) directed away from the midline or mesial plane of the body | - |
| distally | (adverb) far from the center | - |
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| documental | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or derived from documents | Synonyms: documentary |
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| edental | (adjective) having few if any teeth | Synonyms: edentate, edentulate |
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| elemental | (adjective) relating to or being an element | - |
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| (adjective) relating to severe atmospheric conditions | - |
| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elementary, primary |
| environmental | (adjective) concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings | - |
| environmentalism | (noun) the activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction | - |
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| (noun) the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth | - |
| environmentalist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: conservationist |
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| environmentally | (adverb) for the environment | - |
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| experimental | (adjective) relating to or based on experiment | - |
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| (adjective) relying on observation or experiment | Synonyms: data-based, observational |
| (adjective) of the nature of or undergoing an experiment | - |
| experimentalism | (noun) an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation | - |
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| (noun) an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles | - |
| experimentally | (adverb) in an experimental fashion | Synonyms: by experimentation, through an experiment |
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| extramarital | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: adulterous, extracurricular |
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| fairytale | (noun) a story about fairies; told to amuse children | Synonyms: fairy story, fairy tale |
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| (noun) an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse | Synonyms: cock-and-bull story, fairy story, fairy tale, song and dance |
| fatal | (adjective) bringing death | - |
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| (adjective) having momentous consequences; of decisive importance | Synonyms: fateful |
| (adjective) controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined | Synonyms: fateful |
| (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, calamitous, disastrous, fateful |
| fatalism | (noun) a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them | - |
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| (noun) a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable | - |
| fatalist | (adjective) of or relating to fatalism | Synonyms: fatalistic |
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| (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
| fatalistic | (adjective) of or relating to fatalism | Synonyms: fatalist |
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| fatality | (noun) the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters | - |
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| (noun) a death resulting from an accident or a disaster | Synonyms: human death |
| fatally | (adverb) with fatal consequences or implications | - |
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| festal | (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festive, gay, merry |
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| fetal | (adjective) of or relating to a fetus | Synonyms: foetal |
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| fingerstall | (noun) a sheath worn to protect a finger | Synonyms: cot |
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| firmamental | (adjective) relating to the firmament or upper regions | - |
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| foetal | (adjective) of or relating to a fetus | Synonyms: fetal |
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| folktale | (noun) a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk | Synonyms: folk tale |
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| footstall | (noun) an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue) | Synonyms: pedestal, plinth |
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| forestall | (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, counter, foresee |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, preclude, prevent |
| forestalling | (noun) the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively | Synonyms: obviation, preclusion |
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| fractal | (noun) (mathematics) a geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geometry | - |
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| fragmental | (adjective) consisting of small disconnected parts | Synonyms: fragmentary |
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| frontal | (adjective) of or relating to the front of an advancing mass of air | - |
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| (adjective) meeting front to front | Synonyms: head-on |
| (adjective) belonging to the front part | - |
| (adjective) of or adjacent to the forehead or frontal bone | - |
| (noun) an adornment worn on the forehead | Synonyms: frontlet |
| (noun) a drapery that covers the front of an altar | - |
| (noun) the face or front of a building | Synonyms: facade, frontage |
| frontally | (adverb) in, at, or toward the front | - |
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| frontstall | (noun) medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head | Synonyms: chamfron, chanfron, front-stall, testiere |
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| fundamental | (adjective) being or involving basic facts or principles | Synonyms: rudimentary, underlying |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, central, key, primal |
| (adjective) far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something | Synonyms: profound |
| (noun) the lowest tone of a harmonic series | Synonyms: first harmonic, fundamental frequency |
| (noun) any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business | - |
| fundamentalism | (noun) a form of Protestantism that takes the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth | - |
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| (noun) the strict adherence to the basic principles or doctrines of a religion, ideology, etc. | - |
| fundamentalist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents | Synonyms: fundamentalistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism | Synonyms: fundamentalistic |
| (noun) a supporter of fundamentalism | - |
| (noun) an adherent of fundamentalist principles | - |
| fundamentalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents | Synonyms: fundamentalist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism | Synonyms: fundamentalist |
| fundamentally | (adverb) in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature | Synonyms: basically, essentially |
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