| steadfast | (adjective) firm and dependable especially in loyalty | Synonyms: staunch, unswerving |
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| (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering |
| symposiast | (noun) someone who participates in a symposium | - |
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| telecast | (noun) a television broadcast | - |
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| (verb) broadcast via television | Synonyms: televise |
| toast | (noun) slices of bread that have been toasted | - |
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| (noun) a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event | Synonyms: pledge |
| (noun) a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention | - |
| (noun) a person in desperate straits; someone doomed | Synonyms: goner |
| (verb) make brown and crisp by heating | Synonyms: crisp, crispen |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, salute, wassail |
| topmast | (noun) the mast next above a lower mast and topmost in a fore-and-aft rig | - |
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| trophoblast | (noun) the membrane that forms the wall of the blastocyst in early development; aids implantation in the uterine wall | - |
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| typecast | (verb) identify as belonging to a certain type | Synonyms: type |
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| (verb) cast repeatedly in the same kind of role | - |
| upcast | (noun) air passage consisting of a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine | - |
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| vast | (adjective) unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope | Synonyms: Brobdingnagian, huge, immense |
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| wormcast | (noun) fossil trail of a worm | - |
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| (noun) cylindrical mass of earth voided by a burrowing earthworm or lugworm | - |
| yeast | (noun) any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division | - |
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| (noun) a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey | Synonyms: barm |