| aperitif | (noun) alcoholic beverage taken before a meal as an appetizer | - |
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| calif | (noun) the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | Synonyms: caliph, kalif, kaliph, khalif, khalifah |
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| coif | (noun) a skullcap worn by nuns under a veil or by soldiers under a hood of mail or formerly by British sergeants-at-law | - |
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| (noun) the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) | Synonyms: coiffure, hair style, hairdo, hairstyle |
| (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coiffe, coiffure, do, dress, set |
| (verb) cover with a coif | - |
| gonif | (noun) (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse) | Synonyms: ganef, ganof, goniff |
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| kalif | (noun) the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | Synonyms: calif, caliph, kaliph, khalif, khalifah |
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| khalif | (noun) the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | Synonyms: calif, caliph, kalif, kaliph, khalifah |
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| leitmotif | (noun) a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in Wagner's operas) | Synonyms: leitmotiv |
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| massif | (noun) a block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range | - |
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| motif | (noun) a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration | Synonyms: motive |
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| (noun) a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work | Synonyms: theme |
| (noun) a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music | Synonyms: motive |
| mudhif | (noun) a reed hut in the marshlands of Iraq; rare since the marshes were drained | - |
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| naif | (adjective) marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience | Synonyms: naive |
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| (noun) a naive or inexperienced person | - |
| serif | (noun) a short line at the end of the main strokes of a character | Synonyms: seriph |
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| waif | (noun) a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned | Synonyms: street child |
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