| abreast | (adjective) being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge | Synonyms: au courant, au fait, up on |
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| (adverb) alongside each other, facing in the same direction | - |
| aghast | (adjective) struck with fear, dread, or consternation | Synonyms: appalled, dismayed, shocked |
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| ameloblast | (noun) a cell from which tooth enamel develops | - |
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| aminoplast | (noun) a plastic (synthetic resin) made from amino compounds; used as an adhesive and as a coating for paper and textiles | Synonyms: amino plastic, amino resin |
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| backblast | (noun) backfire from a recoilless weapon | Synonyms: back-blast |
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| ballast | (noun) any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship | - |
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| (noun) an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps | Synonyms: light ballast |
| (noun) a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations) | Synonyms: ballast resistor, barretter |
| (noun) an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings | - |
| (noun) coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads | - |
| (verb) make steady with a ballast | - |
| bast | (noun) (botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes | Synonyms: phloem |
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| (noun) strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants | Synonyms: bast fiber |
| beanfeast | (noun) an annual dinner party given by an employer for the employees | - |
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| beast | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, brute, creature, fauna |
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| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: brute, savage, wildcat, wolf |
| bedfast | (adjective) confined to bed (by illness) | Synonyms: bedrid, bedridden, sick-abed |
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| blast | (noun) a very long fly ball | - |
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| (noun) intense adverse criticism | Synonyms: attack, fire, flack, flak |
| (noun) an explosion (as of dynamite) | - |
| (noun) a sudden very loud noise | Synonyms: bam, bang, clap, eruption |
| (noun) a highly pleasurable or exciting experience | Synonyms: good time |
| (noun) a strong current of air | Synonyms: blow, gust |
| (verb) shatter as if by explosion | Synonyms: knock down |
| (verb) shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly | - |
| (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: crucify, pillory, savage |
| (verb) use explosives on | Synonyms: shell |
| (verb) fire a shot; release | Synonyms: shoot |
| (verb) hit with great force | Synonyms: boom, nail, smash |
| (verb) create by using explosives | Synonyms: shell |
| (verb) make with or as if with an explosion | - |
| (verb) apply a draft or strong wind to to | - |
| (verb) make a strident sound | Synonyms: blare |
| boast | (noun) speaking of yourself in superlatives | Synonyms: boasting, jactitation, self-praise |
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| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: feature, sport |
| bombast | (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: blah, claptrap, fustian, rant |
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| breakfast | (noun) the first meal of the day (usually in the morning) | - |
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| (verb) eat an early morning meal | - |
| (verb) provide breakfast for | - |
| breast | (noun) the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest | - |
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| (noun) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman | Synonyms: boob, bosom, knocker, tit, titty |
| (noun) the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen | Synonyms: chest |
| (noun) meat carved from the breast of a fowl | Synonyms: white meat |
| (verb) confront bodily | Synonyms: front |
| (verb) reach the summit (of a mountain) | Synonyms: summit |
| (verb) meet at breast level | - |
| broadcast | (noun) message that is transmitted by radio or television | - |
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| (noun) a radio or television show | Synonyms: program, programme |
| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
| (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, beam, send, transmit |
| (verb) sow over a wide area, especially by hand | - |
| bypast | (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, departed, foregone, gone |
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| cast | (noun) the act of throwing dice | Synonyms: roll |
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| (noun) the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel | Synonyms: casting |
| (noun) a violent throw | Synonyms: hurl |
| (noun) object formed by a mold | Synonyms: casting |
| (noun) bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal | Synonyms: plaster bandage, plaster cast |
| (noun) container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens | Synonyms: mold, mould |
| (noun) the visual appearance of something or someone | Synonyms: form, shape |
| (noun) the actors in a play | Synonyms: cast of characters, dramatis personae |
| (noun) the distinctive form in which a thing is made | Synonyms: mold, mould, stamp |
| (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
| (verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: couch, frame, put, redact |
| (verb) choose at random | Synonyms: draw |
| (verb) throw forcefully | Synonyms: hurl, hurtle |
| (verb) to remove | Synonyms: cast off, drop, shake off, shed, throw, throw away, throw off |
| (verb) form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold | Synonyms: mold, mould |
| (verb) select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet | - |
| (verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: contrive, project, throw |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) deposit | - |
| (verb) assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors | - |
| chiliast | (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: millenarian, millenarist |
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| chloroplast | (noun) plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments; in plants that carry out photosynthesis | - |
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| chromoplast | (noun) plastid containing pigments other than chlorophyll usually yellow or orange carotenoids | - |
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| clast | (noun) (geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock | - |
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| coast | (noun) the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it | Synonyms: glide, slide |
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| (noun) the area within view | - |
| (noun) the shore of a sea or ocean | Synonyms: sea-coast, seacoast, seashore |
| (noun) a slope down which sleds may coast | - |
| (verb) move effortlessly; by force of gravity | - |
| colorcast | (noun) a television program that is broadcast in color | Synonyms: colourcast |
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| (verb) broadcast in color | - |
| colorfast | (adjective) having color that is resistant to fading or running | - |
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| colourcast | (noun) a television program that is broadcast in color | Synonyms: colorcast |
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| contrast | (noun) the act of distinguishing by comparing differences | - |
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| (noun) the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness) | - |
| (noun) the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors | - |
| (noun) a conceptual separation or distinction | Synonyms: demarcation, dividing line, line |
| (noun) the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared | Synonyms: direct contrast |
| (verb) put in opposition to show or emphasize differences | - |
| (verb) to show differences when compared; be different | Synonyms: counterpoint |
| counterblast | (noun) a vigorous and unrestrained response | - |
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| cragfast | (adjective) stranded on or as if on a crag | - |
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| cytoplast | (noun) the intact cytoplasmic content of a cell | - |
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| downcast | (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
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| (adjective) directed downward | - |
| (noun) a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine | - |
| durmast | (noun) deciduous European oak valued for its tough elastic wood | Synonyms: Quercus petraea, Quercus sessiliflora |
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| dynast | (noun) a hereditary ruler | - |
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| east | (adjective) situated in or facing or moving toward the east | - |
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| (noun) a location in the eastern part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees | Synonyms: due east, E, eastward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the eastward cardinal compass point | - |
| (adverb) to, toward, or in the east | - |
| ecdysiast | (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease, striptease artist, stripteaser |
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| ectoblast | (noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue | Synonyms: ectoderm, exoderm |
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| endoblast | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoderm, entoblast, entoderm, hypoblast |
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| enthusiast | (noun) an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity | Synonyms: partisan, partizan |
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| (noun) a person having a strong liking for something | Synonyms: fancier |
| entoblast | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, endoderm, entoderm, hypoblast |
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| erythroblast | (noun) a nucleated cell in bone marrow from which red blood cells develop | - |
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| fantast | (noun) someone who predicts the future | Synonyms: futurist |
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| fast | (adjective) acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly | - |
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| (adjective) at a rapid tempo | - |
| (adjective) (used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time | - |
| (adjective) (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time | - |
| (adjective) unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause | Synonyms: firm, loyal, truehearted |
| (adjective) securely fixed in place | Synonyms: firm, immobile |
| (adjective) hurried and brief | Synonyms: flying, quick |
| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous |
| (adjective) resistant to destruction or fading | - |
| (adjective) (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds | - |
| (noun) abstaining from food | Synonyms: fasting |
| (adverb) quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form) | - |
| (adverb) firmly or closely | Synonyms: tight |
| (verb) abstain from eating | - |
| (verb) abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons | - |
| feast | (noun) something experienced with great delight | - |
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| (noun) an elaborate party (often outdoors) | Synonyms: fete, fiesta |
| (noun) a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed | Synonyms: banquet, spread |
| (noun) a ceremonial dinner party for many people | Synonyms: banquet |
| (verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: banquet, junket |
| (verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: banquet, junket |
| (verb) gratify | Synonyms: feed |
| fibroblast | (noun) a cell from which connective tissue develops | - |
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| flabbergast | (verb) overcome with amazement | Synonyms: boggle, bowl over |
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| flypast | (noun) a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground | Synonyms: fly-by, flyover |
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| forecast | (noun) a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop | Synonyms: prognosis |
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| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, figure, reckon |
| (verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: calculate |
| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| foremast | (noun) the mast nearest the bow in vessels with two or more masts | - |
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| gymnast | (noun) an athlete who is skilled in gymnastics | - |
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| headfast | (noun) a mooring line that secures the bow of a boat or ship to a wharf | - |
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| holdfast | (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastener, fastening, fixing |
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| hypoblast | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, endoderm, entoblast, entoderm |
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| iconoclast | (noun) someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions | - |
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| (noun) a destroyer of images used in religious worship | Synonyms: image breaker |
| jiggermast | (noun) any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl | Synonyms: jigger |
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| lambast | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambaste |
| last | (adjective) coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining | - |
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| (adjective) occurring at or forming an end or termination | Synonyms: concluding, final, terminal |
| (adjective) occurring at the time of death | - |
| (adjective) highest in extent or degree | - |
| (adjective) immediately past | - |
| (adjective) conclusive in a process or progression | Synonyms: final, net |
| (adjective) not to be altered or undone | Synonyms: final |
| (adjective) most unlikely or unsuitable | - |
| (adjective) lowest in rank or importance | Synonyms: last-place, lowest |
| (noun) a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do | - |
| (noun) holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes | Synonyms: cobbler's last, shoemaker's last |
| (noun) the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence | Synonyms: end |
| (noun) a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels | - |
| (noun) a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds | - |
| (noun) the last or lowest in an ordering or series | - |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finale, finis, finish, stopping point |
| (noun) the time at which life ends; continuing until dead | Synonyms: death |
| (adverb) most recently | - |
| (adverb) the item at the end | Synonyms: finally, in conclusion, lastly |
| (verb) persist for a specified period of time | Synonyms: endure |
| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, live, live on, survive |
| least | (adjective) the superlative of `little' that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by `the'; a quantifier meaning smallest in amount or extent or degree | - |
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| (noun) something that is of no importance | - |
| (adverb) used to form the superlative, smallest in size or degree | Synonyms: to the lowest degree |
| lymphoblast | (noun) an immature lymphocyte | - |
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| mainmast | (noun) the chief mast of a sailing vessel with two or more masts | - |
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| mast | (noun) a vertical spar for supporting sails | - |
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| (noun) any sturdy upright pole | - |
| (noun) nuts of forest trees used as feed for swine | - |
| (noun) nuts of forest trees (as beechnuts and acorns) accumulated on the ground | - |
| megaloblast | (noun) abnormally large red blood cell present in pernicious anemia and folic acid deficiency | - |
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| melanoblast | (noun) an epidermal cell that is a precursor of a melanocyte | - |
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| mesoblast | (noun) the middle germ layer that develops into muscle and bone and cartilage and blood and connective tissue | Synonyms: mesoderm |
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| miscast | (verb) cast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role | - |
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| mizenmast | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizen, mizzen, mizzenmast |
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| mizzenmast | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizen, mizenmast, mizzen |
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| monoblast | (noun) a large immature monocyte normally found in bone marrow | - |
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| myeloblast | (noun) a precursor of leukocytes that normally occurs only in bone marrow | - |
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| neuroblast | (noun) a cell from which a nerve cell develops | - |
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| newscast | (noun) a broadcast of news or commentary on the news | - |
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| northeast | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northeast | Synonyms: northeasterly, northeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the northeast | Synonyms: northeasterly |
| (noun) a location in the northeastern part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees | Synonyms: NE, nor'-east, northeastward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the northeastward compass point | - |
| (adverb) to, toward, or in the northeast | Synonyms: nor'-east, north-east |
| oast | (noun) a kiln for drying hops | - |
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| opencast | (adjective) (of mines and mining) worked from the exposed surface | Synonyms: opencut |
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| osteoblast | (noun) a cell from which bone develops | Synonyms: bone-forming cell |
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| osteoclast | (noun) cell that functions in the breakdown and resorption of bone tissue | - |
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| outcast | (adjective) excluded from a society | Synonyms: friendless |
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| (noun) a person who is rejected (from society or home) | Synonyms: castaway, Ishmael, pariah |
| outlast | (verb) live longer than | Synonyms: outlive, survive |
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| overcast | (adjective) filled or abounding with clouds | Synonyms: cloud-covered, clouded, sunless |
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| (noun) a cast that falls beyond the intended spot | - |
| (noun) a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling | Synonyms: overcasting |
| (noun) the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds | Synonyms: cloud cover, cloudiness |
| (noun) gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover | Synonyms: cloudiness |
| (verb) sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next | - |
| (verb) sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches | - |
| (verb) make overcast or cloudy | Synonyms: cloud |
| paederast | (noun) a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner | Synonyms: child molester, pederast |
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| past | (adjective) earlier than the present time; no longer current | - |
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| (adjective) of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office | Synonyms: preceding, retiring |
| (noun) a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past | Synonyms: past tense |
| (noun) the time that has elapsed | Synonyms: past times, yesteryear |
| (noun) a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret) | - |
| (adverb) so as to pass a given point | Synonyms: by |
| pederast | (noun) a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner | Synonyms: child molester, paederast |
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| phenoplast | (noun) a thermosetting resin | Synonyms: phenolic, phenolic resin |
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| plasmablast | (noun) the precursor of a plasma cell | - |
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| podcast | (verb) distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer | - |
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| precast | (adjective) of structural members especially of concrete; cast into form before being transported to the site of installation | - |
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| protoplast | (noun) a biological unit consisting of a nucleus and the body of cytoplasm with which it interacts | Synonyms: energid |
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| rebroadcast | (noun) a broadcast that repeated at a later time | - |
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| (verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rerun |
| recast | (verb) cast again, in a different role | - |
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| (verb) cast again | Synonyms: remold, remould |
| (verb) cast or model anew | Synonyms: reforge, remodel |
| redbreast | (noun) small Old World songbird with a reddish breast | Synonyms: Erithacus rubecola, Old World robin, robin, robin redbreast |
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| repast | (noun) the food served and eaten at one time | Synonyms: meal |
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| roast | (adjective) (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven | Synonyms: roasted |
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| (noun) negative criticism | Synonyms: knock |
| (noun) a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion | Synonyms: joint |
| (verb) cook with dry heat, usually in an oven | - |
| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule |
| roughcast | (noun) a rough preliminary model | - |
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| (noun) a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls | - |
| (verb) hew roughly, without finishing the surface | Synonyms: rough-hew |
| (verb) apply roughcast to | - |
| (verb) shape roughly | - |
| sandblast | (noun) a blast of wind laden with sand | - |
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| (verb) grind with a sandblast | - |
| scholiast | (noun) a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author) | - |
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| seacoast | (noun) the shore of a sea or ocean | Synonyms: coast, sea-coast, seashore |
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| sideroblast | (noun) an erythroblast having granules of ferritin | - |
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| simulcast | (noun) a broadcast that is carried simultaneously by radio and television (or by FM and AM radio) | - |
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| southeast | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeasterly, southeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southeast | Synonyms: southeasterly |
| (noun) a location in the southeastern part of a country, region, or city | - |
| (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeastward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southeastward compass point | - |
| (adverb) to, toward, or in the southeast | Synonyms: sou'-east, south-east |
| spongioblast | (noun) any of various columnar epithelial cells in the central nervous system that develop into neuroglia | - |
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| sportscast | (noun) a broadcast of sports news or commentary | - |
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| (verb) broadcast a sports event | - |