ado | (noun) a rapid active commotion | Synonyms: bustle, flurry, fuss, hustle, stir |
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aficionado | (noun) a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer | - |
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(noun) a fan of bull fighting | - |
avocado | (adjective) of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado | - |
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(noun) a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed | Synonyms: aguacate, alligator pear, avocado pear |
(noun) tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits | Synonyms: avocado tree, Persea Americana |
barricado | (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricade |
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bastinado | (noun) a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels | Synonyms: falanga |
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(noun) a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet | - |
(verb) beat somebody on the soles of the feet | - |
bravado | (noun) a swaggering show of courage | Synonyms: bluster |
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carbonado | (noun) a piece of meat (or fish) that has been scored and broiled | - |
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(noun) an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing | Synonyms: black diamond |
dado | (noun) panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall | Synonyms: wainscot |
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(noun) a rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece can fit into it | - |
(noun) the section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase | - |
(verb) cut a dado into or fit into a dado | - |
(verb) provide with a dado | - |
desperado | (noun) a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier) | Synonyms: desperate criminal |
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eldorado | (noun) an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers | Synonyms: El Dorado |
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fado | (noun) a sad Portuguese folksong | - |
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incommunicado | (adjective) without the means or right to communicate | - |
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mikado | (noun) the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader the emperor is called tenno | Synonyms: tenno |
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passado | (noun) (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward | Synonyms: lunge, straight thrust |
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pintado | (noun) large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters | Synonyms: cero, kingfish, Scomberomorus regalis |
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strapado | (noun) a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope | Synonyms: strappado |
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strappado | (noun) a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope | Synonyms: strapado |
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tornado | (noun) a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive | Synonyms: crack, crack cocaine |
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(noun) a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground | Synonyms: twister |