| divestiture | (noun) the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division | - |
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| (noun) an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior | - |
| doctrinaire | (adjective) stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability | - |
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| (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: dogmatist |
| drugstore | (noun) a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold | Synonyms: apothecary's shop, chemist's, chemist's shop, pharmacy |
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| drumfire | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: cannonade |
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| eagre | (noun) a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) | Synonyms: aegir, bore, eager, tidal bore |
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| earthenware | (noun) ceramic ware made of porous clay fired at low heat | - |
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| elaphure | (noun) large Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds | Synonyms: Elaphurus davidianus, pere david's deer |
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| elsewhere | (adverb) in or to another place | - |
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| embouchure | (noun) the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly | Synonyms: mouthpiece |
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| embrasure | (noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | Synonyms: port, porthole |
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| emigre | (noun) someone who leaves one country to settle in another | Synonyms: emigrant, emigree, outgoer |
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| empire | (noun) a monarchy with an emperor as head of state | - |
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| (noun) a group of countries under a single authority | - |
| (noun) a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization | Synonyms: conglomerate |
| (noun) the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised | Synonyms: imperium |
| enamelware | (noun) cooking utensil of enameled iron | - |
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| enclosure | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, envelopment, inclosure |
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| (noun) a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose | - |
| (noun) something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter | Synonyms: inclosure |
| (noun) a naturally enclosed space | Synonyms: natural enclosure |
| encolure | (noun) the mane of a horse | - |
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| encore | (noun) an extra or repeated performance; usually given in response to audience demand | - |
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| (verb) request an encore, from a performer | - |
| endospore | (noun) a small asexual spore that develops inside the cell of some bacteria and algae | - |
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| endure | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
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| (verb) undergo or be subjected to | Synonyms: suffer |
| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive |
| (verb) last and be usable | Synonyms: hold out, wear |
| (verb) face and withstand with courage | Synonyms: brave, brave out, weather |
| (verb) persist for a specified period of time | Synonyms: last |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, persist, prevail, run |
| enquire | (verb) have a wish or desire to know something | Synonyms: inquire, wonder |
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| (verb) address a question to and expect an answer from | Synonyms: ask, inquire |
| (verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: inquire, investigate |
| enrapture | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
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| ensnare | (verb) catch in or as if in a trap | Synonyms: entrap, snare, trammel, trap |
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| (verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap | Synonyms: entrap, frame, set up |
| ensure | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, check, control, insure, see, see to it |
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| (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: assure, guarantee, insure, secure |
| entablature | (noun) (architecture) the structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof | - |
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| entire | (adjective) (of leaves or petals) having a smooth edge; not broken up into teeth or lobes | - |
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| (adjective) (used of domestic animals) sexually competent | Synonyms: intact |
| (adjective) constituting the full quantity or extent; complete | Synonyms: full, total |
| (adjective) constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged | Synonyms: intact, integral |
| (noun) uncastrated adult male horse | Synonyms: stallion |
| epauliere | (noun) armor plate that protects the shoulder | - |
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| epicentre | (noun) the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake | Synonyms: epicenter |
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| epicure | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicurean, foodie, gastronome, gourmet |
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| erasure | (noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing | Synonyms: expunction, expunging |
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| (noun) a correction made by erasing | - |
| (noun) a surface area where something has been erased | - |
| escritoire | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: secretaire, secretary, writing table |
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| esquire | (noun) (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood | - |
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| etagere | (noun) a piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying small ornaments | - |
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| euchre | (noun) a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand | Synonyms: five hundred |
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| evermore | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: eternally, everlastingly, forever |
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| (adverb) at any future time; in the future | Synonyms: forevermore |
| everywhere | (adverb) to or in any or all places; pronoun, location; quantifier: universal | Synonyms: all over, everyplace |
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| exosphere | (noun) the outermost atmospheric layer | - |
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| expenditure | (noun) the act of spending money for goods or services | Synonyms: expending |
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| (noun) the act of consuming something | Synonyms: consumption, using up |
| (noun) money paid out; an amount spent | Synonyms: outgo, outlay, spending |
| expire | (verb) expel air | Synonyms: breathe out, exhale |
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| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) lose validity | Synonyms: run out |
| explore | (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: research, search |
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| (verb) travel to or penetrate into | - |
| (verb) inquire into a subject in detail | - |
| (verb) examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes | - |
| exposure | (noun) abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving an infant out in the open) | - |
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| (noun) the act of exposing film to light | - |
| (noun) presentation to view in an open or public manner | - |
| (noun) the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience | - |
| (noun) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format | Synonyms: photo, photograph, pic, picture |
| (noun) vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain | - |
| (noun) aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces | - |
| (noun) the disclosure of something secret | - |
| (noun) the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate | - |
| (noun) the state of being vulnerable or exposed | Synonyms: vulnerability |
| extempore | (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded, unrehearsed |
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| (adverb) without prior preparation | Synonyms: extemporaneously, extemporarily |
| extraordinaire | (adjective) extraordinary in a particular capacity | - |
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| eyesore | (noun) something very ugly and offensive | - |
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| failure | (noun) an act that fails | - |
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| (noun) an unexpected omission | - |
| (noun) an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose | - |
| (noun) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently | Synonyms: loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person |
| (noun) lack of success | - |
| (noun) loss of ability to function normally | - |
| (noun) inability to discharge all your debts as they come due | Synonyms: bankruptcy |
| fanfare | (noun) a gaudy outward display | Synonyms: flash, ostentation |
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| (noun) (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments | Synonyms: flourish, tucket |
| fare | (noun) an agenda of things to do | Synonyms: menu |
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| (noun) the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed | - |
| (noun) a paying (taxi) passenger | - |
| (noun) the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance | Synonyms: transportation |
| (verb) eat well | - |
| (verb) proceed or get along | Synonyms: come, do, get along, make out |
| feature | (noun) an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles | - |
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| (noun) the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin | Synonyms: lineament |
| (noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: characteristic |
| (noun) (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind | Synonyms: feature of speech |
| (noun) the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater | Synonyms: feature film |
| (noun) a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: feature article |
| (verb) have as a feature | Synonyms: have |
| (verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: boast, sport |
| femtometre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter | Synonyms: femtometer, fermi |
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| fibre | (noun) a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth | Synonyms: fiber, vulcanized fiber |
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| (noun) the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions | Synonyms: character, fiber |
| (noun) any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber) | Synonyms: fiber |
| (noun) coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis | Synonyms: fiber, roughage |
| (noun) a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn | Synonyms: fiber |
| fieldfare | (noun) medium-sized Eurasian thrush seen chiefly in winter | Synonyms: snowbird, Turdus pilaris |
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| figure | (noun) a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating | - |
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| (noun) a model of a bodily form (especially of a person) | - |
| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: design, pattern |
| (noun) the impression produced by a person | - |
| (noun) the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals | Synonyms: number |
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (noun) a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground | - |
| (noun) a diagram or picture illustrating textual material | Synonyms: fig |
| (noun) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Synonyms: figure of speech, image, trope |
| (noun) a well-known or notable person | Synonyms: name, public figure |
| (noun) an amount of money expressed numerically | - |
| (noun) one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration | Synonyms: digit |
| (noun) a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape | - |
| (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, reckon, work out |
| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, forecast, reckon |
| (verb) understand | - |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| (verb) be or play a part of or in | Synonyms: enter |
| filature | (noun) a bobbin used in spinning silk into thread | - |
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| fire | (noun) the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy | Synonyms: firing |
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| (noun) a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning | - |
| (noun) intense adverse criticism | Synonyms: attack, blast, flack, flak |
| (noun) the event of something burning (often destructive) | - |
| (noun) a severe trial | - |
| (noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour |
| (noun) the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke | Synonyms: flame, flaming |
| (noun) fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking | - |
| (noun) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour bile | - |
| (verb) bake in a kiln so as to harden | - |
| (verb) destroy by fire | Synonyms: burn, burn down |
| (verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: ignite, light |
| (verb) become ignited | Synonyms: flame up |
| (verb) cause to go off | Synonyms: discharge |
| (verb) start firing a weapon | Synonyms: open fire |
| (verb) go off or discharge | Synonyms: discharge, go off |
| (verb) generate an electrical impulse | - |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, kindle, provoke, raise |
| (verb) drive out or away by or as if by fire | - |
| (verb) provide with fuel | Synonyms: fuel |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| firmware | (noun) (computer science) coded instructions that are stored permanently in read-only memory | Synonyms: microcode |
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| fissure | (noun) (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes | - |
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| (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, crevice, scissure |
| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, cranny, crevice |
| (verb) break into fissures or fine cracks | - |
| fixture | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixing, mend, mending, repair, reparation |
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| (noun) an object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household) | - |
| (noun) the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment | Synonyms: fastness, fixedness, fixity, secureness |
| (noun) a regular patron | Synonyms: habitue, regular |
| flare | (noun) (baseball) a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield | - |
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| (noun) a short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines | Synonyms: flare pass |
| (noun) a device that produces a bright light for warning or illumination or identification | - |
| (noun) a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate | Synonyms: flash |
| (noun) a sudden outburst of emotion | - |
| (noun) a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference | Synonyms: solar flare |
| (noun) an unwanted reflection in an optical system (or the fogging of an image that is caused by such a reflection) | - |
| (noun) a sudden burst of flame | - |
| (noun) a shape that spreads outward | Synonyms: flair |
| (noun) reddening of the skin spreading outward from a focus of infection or irritation | - |
| (noun) a sudden recurrence or worsening of symptoms | - |
| (verb) become flared and widen, usually at one end | Synonyms: flare out |
| (verb) erupt or intensify suddenly | Synonyms: break open, burst out, erupt, flare up, irrupt |
| (verb) burn brightly | Synonyms: blaze up, burn up, flame up |
| (verb) shine with a sudden light | Synonyms: flame |
| flatware | (noun) silverware eating utensils | Synonyms: silver |
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| (noun) tableware that is relatively flat and fashioned as a single piece | - |
| flexure | (noun) act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased | Synonyms: flexion |
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| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crease, crimp, fold, plication |
| (noun) the state of being flexed (as of a joint) | Synonyms: flection, flexion |
| floriculture | (noun) the cultivation of flowering plants | Synonyms: flower gardening |
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| folklore | (noun) the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture | - |
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| footsore | (adjective) having sore or tired feet | - |
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| footsure | (adjective) not liable to stumble or fall | Synonyms: sure-footed, surefooted |
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| fore | (adjective) situated at or toward the bow of a vessel | - |
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| (noun) front part of a vessel or aircraft | Synonyms: bow, prow, stem |
| (adverb) near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane | Synonyms: forward |
| foreclosure | (noun) the legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in default | - |
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| foreshore | (noun) the part of the seashore between the highwater mark and the low-water mark | - |
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| forevermore | (adverb) at any future time; in the future | Synonyms: evermore |
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| forfeiture | (noun) the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. | Synonyms: forfeit, sacrifice |
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| (noun) a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something | Synonyms: forfeit |
| (noun) something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: forfeit |
| fourscore | (adjective) being ten more than seventy | Synonyms: 80, eighty, lxxx |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight | Synonyms: 80, eighty, LXXX |
| foursquare | (adjective) characterized by firm and unwavering conviction | - |
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| (noun) (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon | Synonyms: square |
| (adverb) with firmness and conviction; without compromise | Synonyms: squarely, straightforwardly |
| (adverb) in a square position | - |
| fracture | (noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: crack, cracking |
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| (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, faulting, geological fault, shift |
| (noun) breaking of hard tissue such as bone | Synonyms: break |
| (verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: break |
| (verb) become fractured | - |
| (verb) violate or abuse | - |
| (verb) break into pieces | - |
| (verb) interrupt, break, or destroy | - |
| freeware | (noun) software that is provided without charge | - |
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| frore | (adjective) very cold | - |
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| furniture | (noun) furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy | Synonyms: article of furniture, piece of furniture |
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| furore | (noun) a sudden outburst (as of protest) | Synonyms: furor |
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| (noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal | Synonyms: craze, cult, fad, furor, rage |
| furthermore | (adverb) denoting additional information | Synonyms: in addition, moreover, what is more |
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| future | (adjective) yet to be or coming | - |
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| (adjective) a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened | - |
| (adjective) (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving | Synonyms: next, succeeding |
| (adjective) effective in or looking toward the future | - |
| (noun) bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date | - |
| (noun) a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future | Synonyms: future tense |
| (noun) the time yet to come | Synonyms: futurity, hereafter, time to come |
| galere | (noun) a coterie of undesirable people | Synonyms: rogue's gallery |
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| galore | (adjective) existing in abundance | Synonyms: abounding |
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| (adjective) in great numbers | - |
| gametophore | (noun) a modified branch bearing gametangia as in the thalloid liverworts | - |
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| genre | (noun) a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique | - |
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| (noun) a kind of literary or artistic work | - |
| (noun) a style of expressing yourself in writing | Synonyms: literary genre, writing style |
| geosphere | (noun) the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle | Synonyms: lithosphere |
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| gesture | (noun) motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling | - |
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| (noun) something done as an indication of intention | - |
| (noun) the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals | Synonyms: motion |
| (verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesticulate, motion |
| glare | (noun) an angry stare | Synonyms: glower |
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| (noun) a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted | Synonyms: blaze, brilliance |
| (noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: limelight, public eye, spotlight |
| (verb) look at with a fixed gaze | Synonyms: glower |
| (verb) shine intensely | - |
| (verb) be sharply reflected | - |
| glassware | (noun) an article of tableware made of glass | Synonyms: glasswork |
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| goitre | (noun) abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet | Synonyms: goiter, struma, thyromegaly |
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| gomphothere | (noun) extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene | - |
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| gondoliere | (noun) a (Venetian) boatman who propels a gondola | Synonyms: gondolier |
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| gore | (noun) the shedding of blood resulting in murder | Synonyms: bloodshed |
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| (noun) a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails | Synonyms: panel |
| (noun) coagulated blood from a wound | - |
| (verb) cut into gores | - |
| (verb) wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument | - |
| gosmore | (noun) European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears | Synonyms: California dandelion, capeweed, cat's-ear, Hypochaeris radicata |
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| graniteware | (noun) a kind of stone-grey enamelware | - |
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| grassfire | (noun) an uncontrolled fire in a grassy area | Synonyms: prairie fire |
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| gravure | (noun) the act of intaglio printing | - |
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| (noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: heliogravure, photogravure |
| (noun) a printing plate used in the process of gravure | - |
| (noun) a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print | Synonyms: intaglio, intaglio printing |
| grimoire | (noun) a manual of black magic (for invoking spirits and demons) | - |
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| groupware | (noun) software that can be used by a group of people who are working on the same information but may be distributed in space | - |
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| gunfire | (noun) the act of shooting a gun | Synonyms: gunshot |
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| gynophore | (noun) the stalk of a pistil that raises it above the receptacle | - |
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| gyre | (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl |
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| hachure | (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: crosshatch, hatch, hatching |
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| hackamore | (noun) rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading | Synonyms: halter |
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| haircare | (noun) care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair | Synonyms: hair care, hairdressing |
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