too | (adverb) to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits | Synonyms: excessively, overly, to a fault |
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(adverb) in addition | Synonyms: also, as well, besides, likewise |
torero | (noun) a matador or one of the supporting team during a bull fight | - |
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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 |
tornillo | (noun) shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods | Synonyms: Prosopis pubescens, screw bean, screwbean, screwbean mesquite |
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torpedo | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: crampfish, electric ray, numbfish |
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(noun) armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target | - |
(noun) a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead | - |
(noun) a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some gravel wrapped in paper; explodes when thrown forcefully against a hard surface | - |
(noun) an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas) | - |
(noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, wedge, zep |
(noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, triggerman |
(verb) attack or hit with torpedoes | - |
torso | (noun) the body excluding the head and neck and limbs | Synonyms: body, trunk |
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touraco | (noun) large brightly crested bird of Africa | Synonyms: turaco, turacou, turakoo |
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tremendismo | (noun) post-war Spanish literary style marked by a tendency to emphasize violence and grotesque imagery. | - |
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tremolo | (noun) vocal vibrato especially an excessive or poorly controlled one | - |
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(noun) (music) a tremulous effect produced by rapid repetition of a single tone or rapid alternation of two tones | - |
trio | (noun) a musical composition for three performers | - |
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(noun) three people considered as a unit | Synonyms: threesome, triad, trinity |
(noun) a set of three similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: triad, triple, triplet |
(noun) three performers or singers who perform together | - |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, triplet, troika |
trompillo | (noun) weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers; roundish berry widely used to curdle milk; central United States to South America | Synonyms: prairie berry, purple nightshade, silver-leaved nettle, silver-leaved nightshade, silverleaf nightshade, Solanum elaeagnifolium, white horse nettle |
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tupelo | (noun) any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America | Synonyms: tupelo tree |
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(noun) pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum | - |
turaco | (noun) large brightly crested bird of Africa | Synonyms: touraco, turacou, turakoo |
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turakoo | (noun) large brightly crested bird of Africa | Synonyms: touraco, turaco, turacou |
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tuxedo | (noun) semiformal evening dress for men | Synonyms: black tie, dinner jacket, tux |
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two | (adjective) being one more than one | Synonyms: 2, ii |
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(noun) one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots | Synonyms: deuce |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number | Synonyms: 2, deuce, II |
typo | (noun) a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind | Synonyms: erratum, literal, literal error, misprint, typographical error |
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tyro | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: beginner, initiate, novice, tiro |
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ultimo | (adjective) in or of the month preceding the present one | Synonyms: ult |
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umbo | (noun) a slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum | - |
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unco | (adverb) to a remarkable degree or extent | Synonyms: notably, remarkably, unusually |
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undergo | (verb) go through | - |
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undo | (verb) cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect | - |
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(verb) cause to become loose | Synonyms: loosen, untie |
(verb) remove the outer cover or wrapping of | Synonyms: unwrap |
(verb) deprive of certain characteristics | Synonyms: unmake |
(verb) cause the ruin or downfall of | - |
vaquero | (noun) local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) | Synonyms: buckaroo, buckeroo |
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velcro | (verb) fasten with Velcro | - |
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verso | (noun) the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design | Synonyms: reverse |
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(noun) left-hand page | - |
vertigo | (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: dizziness, giddiness, lightheadedness |
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veto | (noun) a vote that blocks a decision | - |
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(noun) the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature) | - |
(verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe |
(verb) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | Synonyms: blackball, negative |
vibrato | (noun) (music) a pulsating effect in an instrumental or vocal tone produced by slight and rapid variations in pitch | - |
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vibrio | (noun) curved rodlike motile bacterium | Synonyms: vibrion |
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video | (noun) a recording of both the visual and audible components (especially one containing a recording of a movie or television program) | Synonyms: video recording |
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(noun) the visible part of a television transmission | Synonyms: picture |
(noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: telecasting, television, TV |
(noun) (computer science) the appearance of text and graphics on a video display | - |
vino | (noun) fermented juice (of grapes especially) | Synonyms: wine |
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violoncello | (noun) a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing | Synonyms: cello |
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virago | (noun) a noisy or scolding or domineering woman | - |
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(noun) a large strong and aggressive woman | Synonyms: amazon |
vireo | (noun) any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-grey in color | - |
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virino | (noun) (microbiology) a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system; consists of nucleic acid in a protective coat of host cell proteins | - |
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virtuoso | (adjective) having or revealing supreme mastery or skill | Synonyms: consummate, masterful, masterly |
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(noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
(noun) a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry | - |
vitiligo | (noun) an acquired skin disease characterized by patches of unpigmented skin (often surrounded by a heavily pigmented border) | - |
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volcano | (noun) a mountain formed by volcanic material | - |
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(noun) a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt | Synonyms: vent |
voodoo | (noun) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers | Synonyms: fetich, fetish, hoodoo, juju |
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(noun) a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | Synonyms: hoodooism, vodoun, voodooism |
(noun) (Haiti) followers of a religion that involves witchcraft and animistic deities | - |
(verb) bewitch by or as if by a voodoo | - |
wacko | (noun) a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad | Synonyms: nutter, whacko |
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wahoo | (noun) large fast-moving predacious food and game fish; found worldwide | Synonyms: Acanthocybium solandri |
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(noun) deciduous shrub having purple capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | Synonyms: burning bush, Euonymus atropurpureus |
(noun) upright deciduous plant with crimson pods and seeds; the eastern United States from New York to Florida and Texas | Synonyms: Euonymus americanus, strawberry bush |
waterloo | (noun) a final crushing defeat | - |
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weeaboo | (noun) A white person, who is obsessed with Japanese culture, usually pejorative | Synonyms: weeb |
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weirdo | (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: creep, spook, weirdie, weirdy |
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(noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, looney, loony, nutcase |
whacko | (noun) a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad | Synonyms: nutter, wacko |
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wino | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot |
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woo | (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: court, romance, solicit |
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(verb) seek someone's favor | Synonyms: court |
yahoo | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yokel |
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yatobyo | (noun) a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals | Synonyms: deer fly fever, rabbit fever, tularaemia, tularemia |
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yobbo | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobo |
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yobo | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo |
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zero | (adjective) of or relating to the null set (a set with no members) | - |
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(adjective) indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration | Synonyms: 0 |
(adjective) having no measurable or otherwise determinable value | - |
(adjective) indicating an initial point or origin | - |
(noun) the sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing | - |
(noun) the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured | Synonyms: zero point |
(noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number | Synonyms: 0, cipher, cypher, nought |
(noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zilch, zip, zippo |
(verb) adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun) | Synonyms: zero in |
(verb) adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value | - |
zippo | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip |
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zoo | (noun) the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition | Synonyms: menagerie, zoological garden |
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zydeco | (noun) music of southern Louisiana that combines French dance melodies with Caribbean music and blues | - |
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