borough | (noun) one of the administrative divisions of a large city | - |
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(noun) an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament | - |
bough | (noun) any of the larger branches of a tree | - |
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breakthrough | (noun) a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense | - |
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(noun) making an important discovery | - |
(noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: discovery, find |
chough | (noun) a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage | - |
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cough | (noun) a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis | Synonyms: coughing |
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(verb) exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion | - |
dough | (noun) a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll | - |
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(noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
enough | (adjective) sufficient for the purpose | Synonyms: adequate |
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(noun) an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose | Synonyms: sufficiency |
(adverb) as much as necessary | Synonyms: plenty |
furlough | (noun) a temporary leave of absence from military duty | - |
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(verb) grant a leave to | - |
(verb) dismiss, usually for economic reasons | Synonyms: lay off |
hiccough | (noun) (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion | Synonyms: hiccup, singultus |
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(verb) breathe spasmodically, and make a sound | Synonyms: hiccup |
lough | (noun) Irish word for a lake | - |
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(noun) a long narrow (nearly landlocked) cove in Ireland | - |
plough | (noun) a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing | Synonyms: plow |
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(verb) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow | Synonyms: plow, turn |
(verb) move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil | Synonyms: plow |
rough | (adjective) having or caused by an irregular surface | Synonyms: unsmooth |
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(adjective) of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped | - |
(adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky |
(adjective) not shaped by cutting or trimming | Synonyms: uncut |
(adjective) ready and able to resort to force or violence | Synonyms: pugnacious |
(adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, scratchy |
(adjective) full of hardship or trials | Synonyms: rocky |
(adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximate, approximative |
(adjective) violently agitated and turbulent | Synonyms: boisterous, fierce |
(adjective) unkind or cruel or uncivil | Synonyms: harsh |
(adjective) unpleasantly stern | Synonyms: harsh |
(adjective) not perfected | - |
(adjective) (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse | - |
(adjective) not carefully or expertly made | Synonyms: crude |
(noun) the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short | - |
(adverb) with rough motion as over a rough surface | Synonyms: roughly |
(adverb) with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly') | Synonyms: roughly |
(verb) prepare in preliminary or sketchy form | Synonyms: rough in, rough out |
slough | (noun) any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake) | - |
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(noun) necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass | Synonyms: gangrene, sphacelus |
(noun) a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou) | - |
(noun) a hollow filled with mud | - |
(verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: exuviate, molt, moult, shed |
snowplough | (noun) a vehicle used to push snow from roads | Synonyms: snowplow |
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sough | (verb) make a murmuring sound | Synonyms: purl |
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sourdough | (noun) a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska) | - |
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(noun) a leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread | - |
thorough | (adjective) painstakingly careful and accurate | - |
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(adjective) performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial | Synonyms: exhaustive, thoroughgoing |
(adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
though | (adverb) (postpositive) however | - |
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through | (adjective) (of a route or journey etc.) continuing without requiring stops or changes | - |
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(adjective) having finished or arrived at completion | Synonyms: done, through with |
(adverb) over the whole distance | - |
(adverb) in diameter | - |
(adverb) from beginning to end | - |
(adverb) to completion | - |
(adverb) throughout the entire extent | Synonyms: through and through |
tough | (adjective) resistant to cutting or chewing | - |
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(adjective) physically toughened | Synonyms: toughened |
(adjective) not given to gentleness or sentimentality | - |
(adjective) unfortunate or hard to bear | Synonyms: hard |
(adjective) substantially made or constructed | Synonyms: sturdy |
(adjective) feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad') | Synonyms: bad |
(adjective) violent and lawless | Synonyms: ruffianly |
(adjective) very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution | Synonyms: rugged |
(adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical |
(noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, toughie |
(noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, yob, yobbo, yobo |
(noun) someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing | Synonyms: street fighter |
trough | (noun) a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater | Synonyms: gutter |
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(noun) a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed | Synonyms: manger |
(noun) a long narrow shallow receptacle | - |
(noun) a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed) | - |
(noun) a treasury for government funds | Synonyms: public treasury, till |
(noun) a concave shape with an open top | Synonyms: bowl |