| cauliflower | (noun) compact head of white undeveloped flowers | - |
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| (noun) a plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea botrytis |
| causeway | (noun) a road that is raised above water or marshland or sand | - |
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| (verb) pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles | - |
| (verb) provide with a causeway | - |
| caw | (noun) the sound made by corvine birds | - |
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| (verb) utter a cry, characteristic of crows, rooks, or ravens | - |
| cedarwood | (noun) durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests | Synonyms: cedar |
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| chafeweed | (noun) weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike | Synonyms: Gnaphalium sylvaticum, wood cudweed |
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| chaffweed | (noun) weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves | Synonyms: bastard pimpernel, false pimpernel |
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| chainsaw | (noun) portable power saw; teeth linked to form an endless chain | Synonyms: chain saw |
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| chairwoman | (noun) the female officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
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| charwoman | (noun) a human female employed to do housework | Synonyms: char, cleaning lady, cleaning woman |
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| chaw | (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chew, cud, plug, quid, wad |
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| (verb) chew without swallowing | - |
| chawbacon | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel |
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| checkrow | (verb) plant in checkrows | - |
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| cheeseflower | (noun) erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States | Synonyms: cheese, high mallow, Malva sylvestris, tall mallow |
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| cheewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: chewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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| chew | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chewing, manduction, mastication |
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| (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chaw, cud, plug, quid, wad |
| (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: jaw, manducate, masticate |
| chewable | (adjective) able to be chewed or cut | Synonyms: cuttable |
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| chewer | (noun) someone who chews (especially someone who chews tobacco) | - |
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| chewing | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chew, manduction, mastication |
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| chewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: cheewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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| chewy | (adjective) (of a consistency) requiring chewing | - |
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| (adjective) requiring much chewing | - |
| chickweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Stellaria | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants related to the common chickweed | Synonyms: clammy chickweed, mouse-ear chickweed, mouse ear, mouse eared chickweed |
| chiggerflower | (noun) erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers | Synonyms: Asclepias tuberosa, butterfly weed, chigger flower, Indian paintbrush, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber root |
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| chimneysweep | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweeper, sweep |
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| chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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| chinaware | (noun) dishware made of high quality porcelain | Synonyms: china |
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| chittamwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittimwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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| (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
| (noun) shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke | Synonyms: American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus |
| chittimwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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| (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
| chow | (noun) breed of medium-sized dogs with a thick coat and fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in northern China | Synonyms: chow chow |
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| (noun) informal terms for a meal | Synonyms: chuck, eats, grub |
| chowchow | (noun) a Chinese preserve of mixed fruits and ginger | - |
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| (noun) chopped pickles in mustard sauce | - |
| chowder | (noun) a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes | - |
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| chuckwalla | (noun) a herbivorous lizard that lives among rocks in the arid parts of southwestern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: Sauromalus obesus |
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| churchwarden | (noun) an officer in the Episcopal church who helps a parish priest with secular matters | - |
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| citronwood | (noun) wood of a citron tree | - |
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| (noun) durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain) | Synonyms: sandarac |
| citywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a city | - |
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| clammyweed | (noun) strong-scented herb common in southern United States covered with intermixed gland and hairs | Synonyms: Polanisia dodecandra, Polanisia graveolens |
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| clampdown | (noun) sudden restriction on an activity | - |
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| clanswoman | (noun) a female member of a clan | - |
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| clapperclaw | (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, shout |
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| (verb) claw with the nails | - |
| classwork | (noun) the part of a student's work that is done in the classroom | - |
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| claw | (noun) sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles | - |
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| (noun) a bird's foot | - |
| (noun) a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods | Synonyms: chela, nipper, pincer |
| (noun) a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something | Synonyms: hook |
| (verb) attack as if with claws | - |
| (verb) scratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails | - |
| (verb) clutch as if in panic | - |
| (verb) move as if by clawing, seizing, or digging | - |
| clawback | (noun) finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way | - |
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| clawed | (adjective) (of predatory animals) armed with claws or talons | Synonyms: taloned |
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| (adjective) having or resembling a claw or claws; often used as a combining form | - |
| clawfoot | (noun) a deformity of the foot characterized by an abnormally high arch and hyperextension of the toes which gives the foot the appearance of a claw | Synonyms: pes cavus |
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| clawhammer | (noun) a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails | Synonyms: carpenter's hammer, claw hammer |
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| clawlike | (adjective) resembling a claw | - |
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| clayware | (noun) ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln | Synonyms: pottery |
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| clearway | (noun) a road on which you are not allowed to stop (unless you have a breakdown) | - |
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| clearweed | (noun) a plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves | Synonyms: dead nettle, Pilea pumilla, richweed |
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| clerihew | (noun) a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person | - |
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| clew | (noun) evidence that helps to solve a problem | Synonyms: clue, cue |
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| (noun) a ball of yarn or cord or thread | - |
| (verb) roll into a ball | Synonyms: clue |
| clews | (noun) the cords used to suspend a hammock | - |
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| clockwise | (adjective) in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock | - |
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| (adverb) in the direction that the hands of a clock move | - |
| 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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| closedown | (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closing, closure, shutdown |
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| clowder | (noun) a group of cats | - |
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| clown | (noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: buffoon, goof, goofball, merry andrew |
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| (noun) a rude or vulgar fool | Synonyms: buffoon |
| (verb) act as or like a clown | Synonyms: antic, clown around |
| clowning | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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| (noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: comedy, drollery, funniness |
| clownish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: buffoonish, clownlike, zany |
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| clownlike | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: buffoonish, clownish, zany |
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| coachwhip | (noun) a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip | Synonyms: coachwhip snake, Masticophis flagellum |
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| (noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers | Synonyms: Fouquieria splendens, Jacob's staff, ocotillo, vine cactus |
| coastward | (adverb) in the direction of the coast | - |
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| coastwise | (adjective) along or following a coast | Synonyms: coastal |
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| (adverb) by way of, or along the coast | - |
| cobweb | (noun) a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web | - |
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| (noun) filaments from a web that was spun by a spider | Synonyms: gossamer |
| (noun) a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider | - |
| cobwebby | (adjective) covered with cobwebs | - |
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| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
| cockcrow | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| cocoswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocuswood, granadilla wood |
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| cocuswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocoswood, granadilla wood |
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| codswallop | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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| cogwheel | (noun) a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion | Synonyms: gear, gear wheel, geared wheel |
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| coldwork | (verb) shape (metal) without heat | Synonyms: cold work |
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| coleslaw | (noun) basically shredded cabbage | Synonyms: slaw |
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| colewort | (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, kail, kale |
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| collywobbles | (noun) severe gastroenteritis of unknown etiology; characterized by severe colic and vomiting and diarrhea | Synonyms: cholera morbus |
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| comedown | (noun) decline to a lower status or level | - |
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| committeewoman | (noun) a woman who is a member of a committee | - |
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| commonweal | (noun) the good of a community | Synonyms: common good |
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| commonwealth | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, country, land, nation, res publica, state |
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| (noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: democracy, republic |
| (noun) a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another | - |
| (noun) the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) | - |
| companionway | (noun) a stairway or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship | - |
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| coneflower | (noun) any of various perennials of the eastern United States having thick rough leaves and long-stalked showy flowers with drooping rays and a conelike center | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Rudbeckia cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones | - |
| (noun) a wildflower of the genus Ratibida | - |
| congresswoman | (noun) a female member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
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| contraclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, counterclockwise |
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| contrariwise | (adverb) contrary to expectations | Synonyms: contrarily, on the contrary, to the contrary |
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| (adverb) with the order reversed | Synonyms: the other way around, vice versa |
| (adverb) in a contrary disobedient manner | Synonyms: contrarily, perversely |
| cookware | (noun) a kitchen utensil made of material that does not melt easily; used for cooking | Synonyms: cooking utensil |
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| coolwart | (noun) stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant | Synonyms: false miterwort, false mitrewort, foamflower, Tiarella cordifolia |
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| copperware | (noun) utensils made with copper | - |
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| copywriter | (noun) a person employed to write advertising or publicity copy | - |
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| coralwood | (noun) East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental | Synonyms: Adenanthera pavonina, Barbados pride, coral-wood, peacock flower fence, red sandalwood |
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| coralwort | (noun) European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock | Synonyms: Cardamine bulbifera, coral-root bittercress, coralroot, Dentaria bulbifera |
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| cordwood | (noun) firewood cut and stacked in cords; wood sold by the cord | - |
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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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| cornflower | (noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus |
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| (noun) plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried | Synonyms: strawflower, Uvularia grandiflora |
| cottonweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers | - |
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| (noun) an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts | Synonyms: Anaphalis margaritacea, pearly everlasting |
| cottonwick | (noun) of warm Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Haemulon malanurum |
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| cottonwood | (noun) any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed | - |
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| (noun) American basswood of the Allegheny region | Synonyms: Tilia heterophylla, white basswood |
| councilwoman | (noun) a woman who is a council member | - |
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| countdown | (noun) counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle) | - |
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| counterblow | (noun) a return blow; a retaliatory blow | - |
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| counterclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, contraclockwise |
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| (adverb) in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move | Synonyms: anticlockwise |
| counterglow | (noun) a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space | Synonyms: gegenschein |
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