| abort | (noun) the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed | - |
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| (verb) terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion | - |
| (verb) cease development, die, and be aborted | - |
| (verb) terminate before completion | - |
| airport | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: aerodrome, airdrome, drome |
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| amort | (adjective) utterly cast down | - |
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| assort | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: class, classify, separate, sort, sort out |
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| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: affiliate, associate, consort |
| awlwort | (noun) small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumboreal | Synonyms: Subularia aquatica |
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| barrenwort | (noun) slow-growing creeping plant with semi-evergreen leaves on erect wiry stems; used as ground cover | Synonyms: bishop's hat, Epimedium grandiflorum |
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| bellwort | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: merry bells, wild oats |
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| birthwort | (noun) creeping plant having curving flowers thought to resemble fetuses; native to Europe; naturalized Great Britain and eastern North America | Synonyms: Aristolochia clematitis |
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| bladderwort | (noun) any of numerous aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia some of whose leaves are modified as small urn-shaped bladders that trap minute aquatic animals | - |
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| bloodwort | (noun) any of various plants of the family Haemodoraceae; roots contain a deep red coloring matter | - |
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| butterwort | (noun) any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects | - |
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| carport | (noun) garage for one or two cars consisting of a flat roof supported on poles | Synonyms: car port |
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| cavort | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| cohort | (noun) a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion) | - |
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| (noun) a company of companions or supporters | - |
| (noun) a group of people having approximately the same age | Synonyms: age bracket, age group |
| colewort | (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, kail, kale |
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| comfort | (noun) the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction | Synonyms: consolation, solace |
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| (noun) assistance, such as that provided to an enemy or to a known criminal | - |
| (noun) bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | Synonyms: comforter, puff, quilt |
| (noun) a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment | - |
| (noun) a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain | Synonyms: comfortableness |
| (noun) a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state | Synonyms: ease |
| (noun) satisfaction or physical well-being provided by a person or thing | - |
| (verb) lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate | Synonyms: ease |
| (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: console, solace, soothe |
| comport | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, conduct, deport, do |
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| (verb) behave well or properly | Synonyms: behave |
| consort | (noun) a family of similar musical instrument playing together | Synonyms: choir |
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| (noun) the husband or wife of a reigning monarch | - |
| (verb) keep company | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: affiliate, associate, assort |
| (verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, concord, fit in, harmonise, harmonize |
| contort | (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: deform, distort, wring |
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| coralwort | (noun) European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock | Synonyms: Cardamine bulbifera, coral-root bittercress, coralroot, Dentaria bulbifera |
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| danewort | (noun) dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor | Synonyms: dwarf elder, Sambucus ebulus |
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| davenport | (noun) a large sofa usually convertible into a bed | - |
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| (noun) a small decorative writing desk | - |
| deport | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, do |
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| (verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: exile, expatriate |
| (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deliver, extradite |
| discomfort | (noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: irritation, soreness |
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| (noun) the state of being tense and feeling pain | Synonyms: uncomfortableness |
| disport | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, divert |
| distort | (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: deform, strain |
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| (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: falsify, garble, warp |
| (verb) affect as in thought or feeling | Synonyms: color, colour, tinge |
| (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: contort, deform, wring |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: twine, twist |
| effort | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, endeavor, endeavour, try |
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| (noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work | Synonyms: elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail |
| (noun) a notable achievement | Synonyms: exploit, feat |
| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement |
| escort | (noun) the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them | Synonyms: accompaniment |
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| (noun) a participant in a date | Synonyms: date |
| (noun) someone who escorts and protects a prominent person | Synonyms: bodyguard |
| (noun) an attendant who is employed to accompany someone | - |
| (verb) accompany as an escort | - |
| (verb) conduct someone someplace | Synonyms: see |
| exhort | (verb) force or impel in an indicated direction | Synonyms: press, urge, urge on |
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| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| export | (noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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| (verb) cause to spread in another part of the world | - |
| (verb) sell or transfer abroad | - |
| (verb) transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs | - |
| extort | (verb) get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner | Synonyms: wring from |
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| (verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: gouge, rack, squeeze, wring |
| (verb) obtain through intimidation | - |
| fanwort | (noun) common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers | Synonyms: Cabomba caroliniana, water-shield |
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| felwort | (noun) gentian of Europe and China having creamy white flowers with fringed corollas | Synonyms: gentianella amarella |
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| figwort | (noun) any of numerous tall coarse woodland plants of the genus Scrophularia | - |
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| fleawort | (noun) plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative | Synonyms: Plantago psyllium, psyllium, Spanish psyllium |
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| fort | (noun) a fortified defensive structure | Synonyms: fortress |
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| (noun) a fortified military post where troops are stationed | Synonyms: garrison |
| (verb) station (troops) in a fort | - |
| (verb) enclose by or as if by a fortification | Synonyms: fortify |
| (verb) gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense | Synonyms: fort up |
| frostwort | (noun) perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers; so-called because ice crystals form on it during first frosts | Synonyms: Crocanthemum canadense, frost-weed, frostweed, Helianthemum canadense |
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| fumewort | (noun) delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Fumaria officinalis, fumeroot, fumitory |
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| (noun) herb of northern Europe and Asia having erect racemes of red flowers | Synonyms: Corydalis solida, fumeroot |
| gipsywort | (noun) hairy Eurasian herb with two-lipped white flowers | Synonyms: gypsywort, Lycopus europaeus |
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| glasswort | (noun) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass | Synonyms: Salicornia europaea, samphire |
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| (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: barilla, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
| gypsywort | (noun) hairy Eurasian herb with two-lipped white flowers | Synonyms: gipsywort, Lycopus europaeus |
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| heliport | (noun) an airport for helicopters | - |
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| hornwort | (noun) liverworts with slender hornlike capsules | - |
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| (noun) any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum; forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams | - |
| import | (noun) commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country | Synonyms: importation |
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| (noun) having important effects or influence | Synonyms: consequence, moment |
| (noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: implication, significance |
| (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: meaning, significance, signification |
| (noun) an imported person brought from a foreign country | Synonyms: importee |
| (verb) indicate or signify | Synonyms: spell |
| (verb) bring in from abroad | - |
| (verb) transfer (electronic data) into a database or document | - |
| kelpwort | (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: barilla, glasswort, kali, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
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| leadwort | (noun) a plant of the genus Plumbago with blue flowers | Synonyms: Plumbago europaea |
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| liverwort | (noun) any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses | Synonyms: hepatic |
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| madderwort | (noun) any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae | Synonyms: rubiaceous plant |
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| madwort | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of small yellow or white flowers | Synonyms: alyssum |
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| masterwort | (noun) any plant of the genus Astrantia | Synonyms: astrantia |
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| milkwort | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Polygala | - |
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| miterwort | (noun) any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter | Synonyms: bishop's cap, mitrewort |
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| mitrewort | (noun) any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter | Synonyms: bishop's cap, miterwort |
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| moneywort | (noun) a loosestrife vine | Synonyms: creeping Charlie, creeping Jenny, Lysimachia nummularia |
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| moonwort | (noun) of America and Eurasia and Australia | Synonyms: Botrychium lunaria, common moonwort |
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| moorwort | (noun) wiry evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of wet acidic areas in Arctic and Canada to northeastern United States | Synonyms: Andromeda glaucophylla, bog rosemary |
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| motherwort | (noun) bitter Old World herb of hedgerows and woodland margins having toothed leaves and white or pale pink flowers | Synonyms: Leonurus cardiaca |
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| mugwort | (noun) any of several weedy composite plants of the genus Artemisia | - |
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| outport | (noun) a subsidiary port built in deeper water than the original port (but usually farther from the center of trade) | - |
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| passport | (noun) any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission | Synonyms: recommendation |
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| (noun) a document issued by a country to a citizen allowing that person to travel abroad and re-enter the home country | - |
| (noun) any authorization to pass or go somewhere | Synonyms: pass |
| pearlwort | (noun) any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls | Synonyms: pearl-weed, pearlweed |
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| pepperwort | (noun) annual herb used as salad green and garnish | Synonyms: common garden cress, garden pepper cress, Lepidium sativum, pepper grass |
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| (noun) any of several water ferns of the genus Marsilea having four leaflets | Synonyms: clover fern |
| pilewort | (noun) perennial herb native to Europe but naturalized elsewhere having heart-shaped leaves and yellow flowers resembling buttercups; its tuberous roots have been used as a poultice to relieve piles | Synonyms: lesser celandine, Ranunculus ficaria |
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| pillwort | (noun) European water fern found around margins of bodies of water or in wet acid soil having small globose sporocarps | Synonyms: Pilularia globulifera |
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| pipewort | (noun) aquatic perennial of North America and Ireland and Hebrides having translucent green leaves in a basal spiral and dense buttonlike racemes of minute white flowers | Synonyms: Eriocaulon aquaticum |
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| port | (adjective) located on the left side of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: larboard |
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| (noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | Synonyms: embrasure, porthole |
| (noun) (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals) | Synonyms: interface |
| (noun) the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose | Synonyms: larboard |
| (noun) sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal | Synonyms: port wine |
| (noun) a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country | - |
| (verb) modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform | - |
| (verb) drink port | - |
| (verb) carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons | - |
| (verb) carry, bear, convey, or bring | - |
| (verb) turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship | - |
| (verb) put or turn on the left side, of a ship | - |
| (verb) land at or reach a port | - |
| (verb) bring to port | - |
| purport | (noun) the pervading meaning or tenor | Synonyms: drift |
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| (noun) the intended meaning of a communication | Synonyms: intent, spirit |
| (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, propose, purpose |
| (verb) have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming | - |
| quillwort | (noun) any of several spore-bearing aquatic or marsh plants having short rhizomes and leaves resembling quills; worldwide except Polynesia | - |
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| ragwort | (noun) widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity | Synonyms: benweed, ragweed, Senecio jacobaea, tansy ragwort |
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| (noun) American ragwort with yellow flowers | Synonyms: butterweed, Senecio glabellus |
| rapport | (noun) a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people | Synonyms: resonance |
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| report | (noun) the general estimation that the public has for a person | Synonyms: reputation |
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| (noun) a short account of the news | Synonyms: account, news report, story, write up |
| (noun) the act of informing by verbal report | Synonyms: account |
| (noun) an essay (especially one written as an assignment) | Synonyms: composition, paper, theme |
| (noun) a written document describing the findings of some individual or group | Synonyms: study, written report |
| (noun) a written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment | Synonyms: report card |
| (noun) a sharp explosive sound (especially the sound of a gun firing) | - |
| (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: account, describe |
| (verb) make known to the authorities | - |
| (verb) complain about; make a charge against | - |
| (verb) announce one's presence | - |
| (verb) announce as the result of an investigation or experience or finding | - |
| (verb) be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism | Synonyms: cover |
| resort | (noun) act of turning to for assistance | Synonyms: recourse, refuge |
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| (noun) something or someone turned to for assistance or security | Synonyms: recourse, refuge |
| (noun) a hotel located in a resort area | Synonyms: holiday resort, resort hotel |
| (noun) a frequently visited place | Synonyms: hangout, haunt, repair, stamping ground |
| (verb) move, travel, or proceed toward some place | Synonyms: repair |
| (verb) have recourse to | Synonyms: fall back, recur |
| retort | (noun) a vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat | - |
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| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, return, riposte |
| (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, return, riposte |
| ribwort | (noun) an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions | Synonyms: buckthorn, English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ripple-grass |
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| rupturewort | (noun) common prostrate Old World herb often used as a ground cover; formerly reputed to cure ruptures | Synonyms: Hernaria glabra |
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| saltwort | (noun) low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves | Synonyms: Batis maritima |
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| (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: barilla, glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda |
| sandwort | (noun) low-growing chiefly perennial plant usually with small white flowers suitable for e.g. rock gardens | - |
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| (noun) low-growing herb having clusters of small white four-petaled flowers | Synonyms: Moehringia lateriflora |
| (noun) loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe | Synonyms: Moehringia mucosa |
| sawwort | (noun) European perennial whose serrate leaves yield a yellow dye | Synonyms: Serratula tinctoria |
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| seaport | (noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbor, harbour, haven |
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| setterwort | (noun) digitate-leaved hellebore with an offensive odor and irritant qualities when taken internally | Synonyms: bear's foot, Helleborus foetidus, stinking hellebore |
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| short | (adjective) (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range | Synonyms: forgetful, unretentive |
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| (adjective) (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length | - |
| (adjective) primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration | - |
| (adjective) low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal | Synonyms: little |
| (adjective) of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration | - |
| (adjective) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices | - |
| (adjective) tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening | - |
| (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, brusque, curt |
| (adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, shortsighted, unforesightful |
| (adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, jejune, poor |
| (adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: light, scant |
| (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base | Synonyms: shortstop |
| (noun) the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed | - |
| (noun) accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference | Synonyms: short circuit |
| (adverb) in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner | Synonyms: curtly, shortly |
| (adverb) at a disadvantage | Synonyms: unawares |
| (adverb) so as to interrupt | - |
| (adverb) at some point or distance before a goal is reached | - |
| (adverb) clean across | - |
| (adverb) without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold | - |
| (adverb) quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation | Synonyms: abruptly, all of a sudden, dead, of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, suddenly |
| (verb) create a short circuit in | Synonyms: short-circuit |
| (verb) cheat someone by not returning him enough money | Synonyms: short-change |
| slipperwort | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip | Synonyms: calceolaria |
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| sneezewort | (noun) Eurasian herb having loose heads of button-shaped white flowers and long grey-green leaves that cause sneezing when powdered | Synonyms: Achillea ptarmica, sneezeweed yarrow |
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| snort | (noun) a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt | Synonyms: bird, boo, Bronx cheer, hiss, hoot, raspberry, razz, razzing |
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| (noun) a disrespectful laugh | Synonyms: snicker, snigger |
| (verb) make a snorting sound by exhaling hard | - |
| (verb) indicate contempt by breathing noisily and forcefully through the nose | - |
| (verb) inhale through the nose | Synonyms: take a hit |
| (verb) inhale recreational drugs | Synonyms: huff |
| soapwort | (noun) plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised | Synonyms: bouncing Bess, bouncing Bet, hedge pink, Saponaria officinalis |
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| sort | (noun) an approximate definition or example | - |
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| (noun) a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality | Synonyms: form, kind, variety |
| (noun) a person of a particular character or nature | - |
| (noun) an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion | Synonyms: sorting |
| (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, class, classify, separate, sort out |
| (verb) examine in order to test suitability | Synonyms: screen, screen out, sieve |
| spiderwort | (noun) any plant of the family Commelinaceae | Synonyms: dayflower |
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| spleenwort | (noun) any of various chiefly rock-inhabiting ferns of the genus Asplenium | - |
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| spoilsport | (noun) someone who spoils the pleasure of others | Synonyms: killjoy, party pooper, wet blanket |
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| sport | (noun) an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition | Synonyms: athletics |
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| (noun) the occupation of athletes who compete for pay | - |
| (noun) verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously) | Synonyms: fun, play |
| (noun) someone who engages in sports | - |
| (noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutant, mutation, variation |
| (noun) a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances | - |
| (noun) (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine | Synonyms: summercater |
| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark |
| (verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: boast, feature |
| starwort | (noun) low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowers; named for its alleged ability to ease sharp pains in the side | Synonyms: greater stitchwort, Stellaria holostea, stitchwort |
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| stitchwort | (noun) low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowers; named for its alleged ability to ease sharp pains in the side | Synonyms: greater stitchwort, starwort, Stellaria holostea |
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| stonewort | (noun) any of various submerged aquatic algae of the genus Chara having nodes with whorled filamentlike branches; usually encrusted with calcium carbonate deposits | - |
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| support | (noun) aiding the cause or policy or interests of | - |
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| (noun) the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening | Synonyms: supporting |
| (noun) documentary validation | Synonyms: documentation |
| (noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reenforcement, reinforcement |
| (noun) the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities | - |
| (noun) any device that bears the weight of another thing | - |
| (noun) supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation | - |
| (noun) something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest | - |
| (noun) a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Synonyms: accompaniment, backup, musical accompaniment |
| (noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, sustenance |
| (noun) financial resources provided to make some project possible | Synonyms: backing, financial backing, financial support, funding |
| (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, sustain |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, tolerate |
| (verb) adopt as a belief | Synonyms: subscribe |
| (verb) argue or speak in defense of | Synonyms: defend, fend for |
| (verb) be a regular customer or client of | Synonyms: keep going, patronage, patronise, patronize |
| (verb) be the physical support of; carry the weight of | Synonyms: hold, hold up, sustain |
| (verb) play a subordinate role to (another performer) | - |
| (verb) support materially or financially | - |
| (verb) give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to | Synonyms: back up |
| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for |
| (verb) support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm | Synonyms: bear out, corroborate, underpin |
| swallowwort | (noun) perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers | Synonyms: celandine, Chelidonium majus, greater celandine, swallow wort |
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| (noun) tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics | Synonyms: Asclepias curassavica, blood flower |
| tailwort | (noun) hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach | Synonyms: borage, Borago officinalis |
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| teleport | (verb) transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another | - |
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| tetterwort | (noun) perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant | Synonyms: bloodroot, puccoon, redroot, Sanguinaria canadensis |
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| thoroughwort | (noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: agueweed, boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum |
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| throatwort | (noun) European bellflower with blue-purple to lilac flowers formerly used to treat sore throat | Synonyms: Campanula trachelium, nettle-leaved bellflower |
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