| ample | (adjective) more than enough in size or scope or capacity | - |
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| (adjective) affording an abundant supply | Synonyms: copious, plenteous, plentiful, rich |
| (adjective) fairly large in size | Synonyms: sizable, sizeable |
| apple | (noun) fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh | - |
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| (noun) native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits | Synonyms: Malus pumila, orchard apple tree |
| bakeapple | (noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: baked-apple berry, cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus, salmonberry |
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| businesspeople | (noun) people who transact business (especially business executives) | Synonyms: business people |
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| counterexample | (noun) refutation by example | - |
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| couple | (noun) a pair who associate with one another | Synonyms: duet, duo, twosome |
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| (noun) a pair of people who live together | Synonyms: match, mates |
| (noun) (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines | - |
| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
| (noun) a small indefinite number | - |
| (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: copulate, mate, pair |
| (verb) link together | Synonyms: couple on, couple up |
| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: match, mate, pair, twin |
| (verb) form a pair or pairs | Synonyms: pair, pair off, partner off |
| crabapple | (noun) small sour apple; suitable for preserving | Synonyms: crab apple |
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| (noun) any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit | Synonyms: crab apple, wild apple |
| (noun) any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acidic (usually bright red) fruit used for preserves or as ornamentals for their blossoms | Synonyms: crab apple, cultivated crab apple |
| cripple | (noun) someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back | - |
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| (verb) deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg | Synonyms: lame |
| (verb) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless | Synonyms: stultify |
| crumple | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, rumple, wrinkle |
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| (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, knit, pucker, rumple |
| (verb) fold or collapse | Synonyms: buckle |
| (verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumble, tumble |
| dapple | (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: fleck, maculation, patch, speckle, spot |
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| (verb) colour with streaks or blotches of different shades | Synonyms: cloud, mottle |
| decouple | (verb) reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another) | - |
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| (verb) eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive) | - |
| (verb) regard as unconnected | Synonyms: dissociate |
| (verb) disconnect or separate | Synonyms: uncouple |
| dimple | (noun) a small natural hollow in the cheek or chin | - |
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| (noun) any slight depression in a surface | - |
| (noun) a chad that has been punched or dimpled but all four corners are still attached | Synonyms: dimpled chad, pregnant chad |
| (verb) produce dimples while smiling | - |
| (verb) mark with, or as if with, dimples | - |
| disciple | (noun) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another | Synonyms: adherent |
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| duple | (adjective) consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs | Synonyms: double, dual |
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| empurple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: purple, purpurate |
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| example | (noun) a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding | Synonyms: exercise |
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| (noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: illustration, instance, representative |
| (noun) something to be imitated | Synonyms: exemplar, good example, model |
| (noun) a representative form or pattern | Synonyms: model |
| (noun) punishment intended as a warning to others | Synonyms: deterrent example, lesson, object lesson |
| (noun) an occurrence of something | Synonyms: case, instance |
| fipple | (noun) a wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder) | - |
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| grapple | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle, wrestling |
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| (noun) a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope | Synonyms: grapnel, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron |
| (noun) a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam | Synonyms: clamshell |
| (verb) to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match | Synonyms: grip |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, deal, get by, make do, make out, manage |
| hopple | (verb) strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison | Synonyms: hobble |
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| maple | (noun) any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone | - |
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| (noun) wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring | - |
| mayapple | (noun) North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit | Synonyms: May apple, Podophyllum peltatum, wild mandrake |
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| multiple | (adjective) having or involving or consisting of more than one part or entity or individual | - |
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| (noun) the product of a quantity by an integer | - |
| nipple | (noun) a flexible cap on a baby's feeding bottle or pacifier | - |
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| (noun) the small projection of a mammary gland | Synonyms: mamilla, mammilla, pap, teat, tit |
| nonuple | (adjective) having nine units or components | Synonyms: nine-fold, ninefold |
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| octuple | (adjective) having eight units or components | Synonyms: eight-fold, eightfold |
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| participle | (noun) a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses | Synonyms: participial |
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| people | (noun) (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively | - |
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| (noun) the body of citizens of a state or country | Synonyms: citizenry |
| (noun) members of a family line | - |
| (noun) the common people generally | Synonyms: hoi polloi, mass, masses, multitude, the great unwashed |
| (verb) fill with people | - |
| (verb) furnish with people | - |
| pimple | (noun) a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne | Synonyms: hickey, zit |
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| pineapple | (noun) large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated | Synonyms: ananas |
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| (noun) a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics | Synonyms: Ananas comosus, pineapple plant |
| principle | (noun) a basic truth or law or assumption | - |
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| (noun) a rule or standard especially of good behavior | - |
| (noun) (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature) | Synonyms: rationale |
| (noun) a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) rule of personal conduct | Synonyms: precept |
| purple | (adjective) of a color intermediate between red and blue | Synonyms: purplish, violet |
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| (adjective) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler | Synonyms: imperial, majestic, regal, royal |
| (adjective) excessively elaborate or showily expressed | Synonyms: empurpled, over-embellished |
| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes | Synonyms: the purple |
| (noun) a color between red and blue | Synonyms: purpleness |
| (noun) (in ancient Rome) position of imperial status | Synonyms: the purple |
| (verb) color purple | Synonyms: empurple, purpurate |
| (verb) become purple | - |
| quadruple | (adjective) four times as great or many | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold |
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| (adjective) having four units or components | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold, quadruplex, quadruplicate |
| (noun) a quantity that is four times as great as another | - |
| (noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruplet, quartet, quartette |
| (verb) increase fourfold | - |
| quintuple | (adjective) having five units or components | Synonyms: five-fold, fivefold |
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| (noun) a set of five similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette, quintuplet |
| (verb) increase fivefold | - |
| ripple | (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: riffle, rippling, wavelet |
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| (noun) (electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value | - |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ruffle, undulate |
| (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle |
| rumple | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, wrinkle |
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| (verb) disturb the smoothness of | Synonyms: mess up, ruffle, ruffle up |
| (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, pucker |
| sample | (noun) a small part of something intended as representative of the whole | - |
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| (noun) items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population | Synonyms: sample distribution, sampling |
| (noun) all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class | - |
| (verb) take a sample of | Synonyms: taste, try, try out |
| scrapple | (noun) scraps of meat (usually pork) boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying | - |
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| scruple | (noun) an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action | - |
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| (noun) uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety) | Synonyms: misgiving, qualm |
| (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains | - |
| (verb) have doubts about | - |
| (verb) raise scruples | - |
| (verb) hesitate on moral grounds | - |
| septuple | (adjective) having seven units or components | Synonyms: seven-fold, sevenfold |
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| sextuple | (adjective) having six units or components | Synonyms: six-fold, sixfold |
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| simple | (adjective) (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions | Synonyms: unsubdivided |
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| (adjective) having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved | - |
| (adjective) easy and not involved or complicated | Synonyms: elementary, uncomplicated, unproblematic |
| (adjective) exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity | Synonyms: childlike, dewy-eyed, round-eyed, wide-eyed |
| (adjective) unornamented | - |
| (adjective) lacking mental capacity and subtlety | Synonyms: dim-witted, simple-minded |
| (adjective) apart from anything else; without additions or modifications | Synonyms: bare, mere |
| (noun) a person lacking intelligence or common sense | Synonyms: simpleton |
| (noun) any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties | - |
| staple | (adjective) necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities | - |
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| (noun) (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant | Synonyms: basic |
| (noun) paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together | - |
| (noun) a short U-shaped wire nail | - |
| (noun) material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing | Synonyms: raw material |
| (noun) a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn | Synonyms: staple fiber, staple fibre |
| (verb) secure or fasten with a staple or staples | - |
| steeple | (noun) a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top | Synonyms: spire |
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| stipple | (verb) produce a mottled effect | Synonyms: speckle |
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| (verb) engrave by means of dots and flicks | - |
| (verb) make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink | - |
| (verb) apply (paint) in small dots or strokes | - |
| stopple | (noun) blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly | Synonyms: plug, stopper |
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| (verb) close or secure with or as if with a stopper | Synonyms: stopper |
| supple | (adjective) (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable | Synonyms: limber |
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| (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, sinuous |
| (adjective) (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely | Synonyms: limber |
| (verb) make pliant and flexible | - |
| temple | (noun) place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity | - |
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| (noun) an edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes | - |
| (noun) (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation | Synonyms: synagogue, tabernacle |
| (noun) the flat area on either side of the forehead | - |
| thermocouple | (noun) a kind of thermometer consisting of two wires of different metals that are joined at both ends; one junction is at the temperature to be measured and the other is held at a fixed lower temperature; the current generated in the circuit is proportional to the temperature difference | Synonyms: thermocouple junction |
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| tipple | (noun) a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg | Synonyms: draft, draught, potation |
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| (verb) drink moderately but regularly | Synonyms: bib |
| topple | (verb) fall down, as if collapsing | Synonyms: tumble |
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| (verb) cause to topple or tumble by pushing | Synonyms: tip, tumble |
| townspeople | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: town, townsfolk |
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| tradespeople | (noun) people engaged in trade | - |
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| trample | (noun) the sound of heavy treading or stomping | Synonyms: trampling |
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| (verb) injure by trampling or as if by trampling | - |
| (verb) tread or stomp heavily or roughly | Synonyms: tread |
| (verb) walk on and flatten | Synonyms: tramp down, tread down |
| triple | (adjective) having three units or components or elements | Synonyms: ternary, treble, triplex |
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| (adjective) three times as great or many | Synonyms: three-fold, threefold, treble |
| (noun) a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base | Synonyms: three-bagger, three-base hit |
| (noun) a quantity that is three times as great as another | - |
| (noun) a set of three similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: triad, trio, triplet |
| (verb) increase threefold | Synonyms: treble |
| (verb) hit a three-base hit | - |
| uncouple | (verb) disconnect or separate | Synonyms: decouple |
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| unstaple | (verb) take the staples off | - |
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| wimple | (noun) headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women | - |
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