| facsimile | (noun) duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio | Synonyms: facsimile machine, fax |
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| (noun) an exact copy or reproduction | Synonyms: autotype |
| (verb) send something via a facsimile machine | Synonyms: fax, telefax |
| faille | (noun) a ribbed woven fabric of silk or rayon or cotton | - |
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| fairytale | (noun) a story about fairies; told to amuse children | Synonyms: fairy story, fairy tale |
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| (noun) an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse | Synonyms: cock-and-bull story, fairy story, fairy tale, song and dance |
| fallible | (adjective) likely to fail or make errors | - |
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| (adjective) wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings | Synonyms: frail, imperfect, weak |
| falsifiable | (adjective) capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation | Synonyms: confirmable, verifiable |
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| farandole | (noun) a lively dance from Provence; all the dancers join hands and execute various figures | - |
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| farfalle | (noun) pasta shaped with scalloped edges and pinched in the middle, suggestive of a bow tie | Synonyms: bowtie pasta |
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| farthingale | (noun) a hoop worn beneath a skirt to extend it horizontally; worn by European women in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
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| fascicle | (noun) a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) | Synonyms: fasciculus, fiber bundle, fibre bundle |
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| (noun) an installment of a printed work | Synonyms: fascicule |
| fascicule | (noun) an installment of a printed work | Synonyms: fascicle |
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| fashionable | (adjective) being or in accordance with current social fashions | Synonyms: stylish |
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| (adjective) having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress | Synonyms: stylish |
| (adjective) popular and considered appealing or fashionable at the time | Synonyms: in fashion |
| fathomable | (adjective) (of depth) capable of being sounded or measured for depth | Synonyms: plumbable, soundable |
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| (adjective) (of meaning) capable of being penetrated or comprehended | - |
| favorable | (adjective) (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate | Synonyms: favourable |
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| (adjective) encouraging or approving or pleasing | Synonyms: favourable |
| (adjective) giving an advantage | Synonyms: advantageous, favourable |
| (adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favourable, golden, lucky, prosperous |
| favourable | (adjective) (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate | Synonyms: favorable |
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| (adjective) encouraging or approving or pleasing | Synonyms: favorable |
| (adjective) giving an advantage | Synonyms: advantageous, favorable |
| (adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, golden, lucky, prosperous |
| feasible | (adjective) capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are | Synonyms: executable, practicable, viable, workable |
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| febrile | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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| feeble | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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| (adjective) lacking strength | Synonyms: nerveless |
| (adjective) lacking strength or vigor | Synonyms: faint |
| (adjective) pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness | Synonyms: lame |
| female | (adjective) being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop | - |
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| (adjective) for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls | - |
| (adjective) characteristic of or peculiar to a woman | Synonyms: distaff |
| (noun) an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa) | - |
| (noun) a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies | Synonyms: female person |
| fermentable | (adjective) capable of being fermented | - |
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| ferrule | (noun) a metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting | Synonyms: collet |
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| fertile | (adjective) capable of reproducing | - |
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| (adjective) marked by great fruitfulness | Synonyms: fat, productive, rich |
| (adjective) bearing in abundance especially offspring | Synonyms: prolific |
| (adjective) intellectually productive | Synonyms: fecund, prolific |
| fertilizable | (adjective) capable of being fertilized | - |
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| ferule | (noun) a switch (a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children | - |
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| fettle | (noun) a state of fitness and good health | - |
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| (verb) remove mold marks or sand from (a casting) | - |
| fickle | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, mercurial, quicksilver |
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| (adjective) marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments | Synonyms: volatile |
| fictile | (adjective) of or relating to the craft of pottery | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material) | Synonyms: moldable, plastic |
| (adjective) susceptible to being led or directed | Synonyms: pliable |
| fiddle | (noun) bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow | Synonyms: violin |
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| (verb) try to fix or mend | Synonyms: tinker |
| (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, play, toy |
| (verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: monkey, tamper |
| (verb) play the violin or fiddle | - |
| (verb) play on a violin | - |
| (verb) commit fraud and steal from one's employer | - |
| (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: goldbrick, shirk, shrink from |
| file | (noun) a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal | - |
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| (noun) office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order | Synonyms: file cabinet, filing cabinet |
| (noun) a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together | Synonyms: data file |
| (noun) a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other | Synonyms: Indian file, single file |
| (verb) place in a container for keeping records | Synonyms: file away |
| (verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: charge, lodge |
| (verb) record in a public office or in a court of law | Synonyms: register |
| (verb) smooth with a file | - |
| (verb) proceed in line | - |
| fille | (noun) a young female | Synonyms: girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman |
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| filmable | (adjective) (used of a story or literary work) capable of being adapted to motion picture form | - |
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| filoselle | (noun) a soft silk embroidery thread. | - |
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| finable | (adjective) liable to a fine | Synonyms: fineable |
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| finagle | (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: manage, wangle |
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| finale | (noun) the concluding part of any performance | Synonyms: close, closing curtain, finis |
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| (noun) the closing section of a musical composition | Synonyms: coda |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finis, finish, last, stopping point |
| fineable | (adjective) liable to a fine | Synonyms: finable |
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| fipple | (noun) a wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder) | - |
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| fissile | (adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain | - |
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| (adjective) capable of undergoing nuclear fission | Synonyms: fissionable |
| fissionable | (adjective) capable of undergoing nuclear fission | Synonyms: fissile |
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| fistmele | (noun) about seven inches; the breadth of a fist with the thumb stuck out (used especially in archery to give the correct distance of the string from the bow) | - |
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| fizzle | (noun) a complete failure | Synonyms: bust, flop |
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| (noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: hiss, hissing, hushing, sibilation |
| (verb) end weakly | Synonyms: fizzle out, peter out, taper off |
| flagpole | (noun) a tall staff or pole on which a flag is raised | Synonyms: flagstaff |
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| (noun) surveying instrument consisting of a straight rod painted in bands of alternate red and white each one foot wide; used for sightings by surveyors | Synonyms: range pole, ranging pole |
| flammable | (adjective) easily ignited | Synonyms: inflammable |
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| fleeceable | (adjective) naive and easily deceived or tricked | Synonyms: green, gullible |
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| flexible | (adjective) able to flex; able to bend easily | Synonyms: flexile |
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| (adjective) capable of being changed | - |
| (adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: compromising, conciliatory |
| (adjective) able to adjust readily to different conditions | Synonyms: elastic, pliable, pliant |
| (adjective) bending and snapping back readily without breaking | Synonyms: whippy |
| flexile | (adjective) able to flex; able to bend easily | Synonyms: flexible |
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| floccule | (noun) a small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid | Synonyms: floc |
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| foible | (noun) the weaker part of a sword's blade from the forte to the tip | - |
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| (noun) a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual | Synonyms: idiosyncrasy, mannerism |
| (noun) a minor flaw or shortcoming in character or behavior. | - |
| foldable | (adjective) capable of being folded up and stored | Synonyms: foldaway, folding |
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| folktale | (noun) a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk | Synonyms: folk tale |
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| follicle | (noun) any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity | - |
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| fondle | (verb) touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner | Synonyms: caress |
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| fontanelle | (noun) any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus | Synonyms: fontanel, soft spot |
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| footcandle | (noun) a unit of illuminance on a surface that is everywhere 1 foot from a point source of 1 candle | - |
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| footle | (verb) act foolishly, as by talking nonsense | - |
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| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| forcible | (adjective) impelled by physical force especially against resistance | Synonyms: physical, strong-arm |
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| fordable | (adjective) shallow enough to be crossed by walking or riding on an animal or in a vehicle | - |
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| forecastle | (noun) living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed | Synonyms: fo'c'sle |
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| foreseeable | (adjective) capable of being anticipated | - |
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| forgettable | (adjective) easily forgotten | - |
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| forgivable | (adjective) easily excused or forgiven | Synonyms: excusable, venial |
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| formidable | (adjective) inspiring fear | Synonyms: redoubtable, unnerving |
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| (adjective) extremely impressive in strength or excellence | - |
| foxhole | (noun) a small dugout with a pit for individual shelter against enemy fire | Synonyms: fox hole |
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| fragile | (adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: delicate, frail |
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| (adjective) vulnerably delicate | - |
| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, slight, tenuous, thin |
| frangible | (adjective) capable of being broken | - |
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| frazzle | (noun) a state of extreme exhaustion | - |
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| (verb) exhaust physically or emotionally | - |
| (verb) wear away by rubbing | Synonyms: fray |
| freckle | (noun) a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin | Synonyms: lentigo |
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| (verb) mark with freckles | - |
| (verb) become freckled | - |
| freestyle | (noun) a race (as in swimming) in which each contestant has a free choice of the style to use | - |
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| friable | (adjective) easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder | Synonyms: crumbly |
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| frijole | (noun) Mexican bean; usually dried | - |
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| (noun) the common bean plant grown for the beans rather than the pods (especially a variety with large red kidney-shaped beans) | Synonyms: frijol, kidney bean |
| frizzle | (verb) fry something until it curls and becomes crisp | - |
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| (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizz, kink, kink up |
| fuckhole | (noun) A hole that can be used for sexual intercourse | - |
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| fuddle | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter |
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| (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, throw |
| (verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: booze, drink, hit the bottle |
| (verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: befuddle |
| fumble | (noun) (sports) dropping the ball | Synonyms: muff |
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| (verb) drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder | - |
| (verb) feel about uncertainly or blindly | Synonyms: grope |
| (verb) handle clumsily | - |
| (verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly | Synonyms: blunder |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| fungible | (adjective) of goods or commodities; freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation | - |
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| (noun) a commodity that is freely interchangeable with another in satisfying an obligation | - |
| funicle | (noun) the stalk of a plant ovule or seed | Synonyms: funiculus |
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| furuncle | (noun) a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus | Synonyms: boil |
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| fusible | (adjective) capable of being melted and fused | - |
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| futile | (adjective) unproductive of success | Synonyms: bootless, fruitless, sleeveless, vain |
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| (adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: ineffectual, meaningless, otiose, unavailing |
| gabble | (noun) rapid and indistinct speech | Synonyms: jabber, jabbering |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| gable | (noun) the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof | Synonyms: gable end, gable wall |
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| gaggle | (noun) a flock of geese | - |
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| (verb) make a noise characteristic of a goose | Synonyms: cackle |
| galactocele | (noun) a cystic tumor containing milk or a milky substance (especially in the mammary glands) | - |
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| gale | (noun) a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale | - |
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| galingale | (noun) European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots | Synonyms: Cyperus longus, galangal |
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| gallinule | (noun) any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens | Synonyms: marsh hen, swamphen, water hen |
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| gamble | (noun) a risky act or venture | - |
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| (noun) money that is risked for possible monetary gain | - |
| (verb) play games for money | - |
| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| garble | (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: distort, falsify, warp |
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| gargle | (noun) the sound produced while gargling | - |
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| (noun) a medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth | Synonyms: mouthwash |
| (verb) rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash | Synonyms: rinse |
| (verb) utter with gargling or burbling sounds | - |
| gargoyle | (noun) an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal | - |
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| (noun) a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal | - |
| gazelle | (noun) small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes | - |
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| gemmule | (noun) the physically discrete element that Darwin proposed as responsible for heredity | - |
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| gentile | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of non-Jewish peoples | - |
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| (noun) a Christian as contrasted with a Jew | Synonyms: goy, non-Jew |
| (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: heathen, infidel, pagan |
| (noun) a person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus | - |
| (noun) a Christian | - |
| gentle | (adjective) marked by moderate steepness | Synonyms: easy |
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| (adjective) having little impact | Synonyms: easy, soft |
| (adjective) soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe | Synonyms: soft |
| (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, patrician |
| (adjective) quiet and soothing | - |
| (adjective) easily handled or managed | Synonyms: docile |
| (adjective) having or showing a kindly or tender nature | - |
| (verb) stroke soothingly | - |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| (verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: ennoble, entitle |
| gerbille | (noun) small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: gerbil |
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| getable | (adjective) capable of being obtained | Synonyms: gettable, obtainable, procurable |
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| getatable | (adjective) capable of being reached or attained | Synonyms: come-at-able, get-at-able |
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| gettable | (adjective) capable of being obtained | Synonyms: getable, obtainable, procurable |
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| gigacycle | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle per second, gigahertz |
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| giggle | (noun) a foolish or nervous laugh | - |
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| (verb) laugh nervously | Synonyms: titter |
| girandole | (noun) an ornate candle holder; often with a mirror | Synonyms: girandola |
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