| aftertaste | (noun) an afterimage of a taste | - |
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| arriviste | (noun) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart |
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| artiste | (noun) a public performer (a dancer or singer) | - |
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| baste | (noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: basting, basting stitch, tacking |
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| (verb) cover with liquid before cooking | - |
| (verb) sew together loosely, with large stitches | Synonyms: tack |
| (verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: batter, clobber |
| batiste | (noun) a thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric; used for shirts or dresses | - |
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| caste | (noun) in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony | - |
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| (noun) a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth | - |
| (noun) (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity | - |
| (noun) social status or position conferred by a system based on class | - |
| chaste | (adjective) morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse) | - |
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| (adjective) abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse | - |
| (adjective) pure and simple in design or style | - |
| conacaste | (noun) tropical South American tree having a wide-spreading crown of bipinnate leaves and coiled ear-shaped fruits; grown for shade and ornament as well as valuable timber | Synonyms: elephant's ear, Enterolobium cyclocarpa |
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| distaste | (noun) a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: antipathy, aversion |
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| fishpaste | (noun) a paste of fish or shellfish | - |
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| foretaste | (noun) an early limited awareness of something yet to occur | - |
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| haste | (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: hurry, rush, rushing |
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| (noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: hastiness, hurriedness, hurry, precipitation |
| (noun) a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry | Synonyms: hurry |
| lambaste | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambast |
| langouste | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crawfish, crayfish, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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| (noun) warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California | Synonyms: crayfish, rock lobster, spiny lobster |
| modiste | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: needlewoman, seamstress, sempstress |
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| (noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatmaker, hatter, milliner |
| outcaste | (adjective) not belonging to or having been expelled from a caste and thus having no place or status in society | Synonyms: casteless |
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| (noun) a person belonging to no caste | - |
| paste | (noun) a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes | Synonyms: spread |
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| (noun) an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard | Synonyms: library paste |
| (noun) any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency | - |
| (noun) a hard, brilliant lead glass that is used in making artificial jewelry | - |
| (verb) hit with the fists | - |
| (verb) join or attach with or as if with glue | Synonyms: glue |
| (verb) cover the surface of | - |
| piste | (noun) a ski run densely packed with snow | - |
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| (noun) a flat rectangular area for fencing bouts | - |
| pleonaste | (noun) a dark-colored spinel containing iron | Synonyms: ceylonite |
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| riposte | (noun) (fencing) a counterattack made immediately after successfully parrying the opponents lunge | - |
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| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, return |
| (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, retort, return |
| (verb) make a return thrust | - |
| tagasaste | (noun) shrub of Canary Islands having bristle-tipped oblanceolate leaves; used as cattle fodder | Synonyms: Chamaecytisus palmensis, Cytesis proliferus |
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| taste | (noun) a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds | Synonyms: tasting |
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| (noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness |
| (noun) the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus | Synonyms: gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste perception, taste sensation |
| (noun) the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth | Synonyms: gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste |
| (noun) a brief experience of something | - |
| (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: penchant, predilection, preference |
| (noun) a small amount eaten or drunk | Synonyms: mouthful |
| (verb) experience briefly | - |
| (verb) take a sample of | Synonyms: sample, try, try out |
| (verb) perceive by the sense of taste | - |
| (verb) distinguish flavors | - |
| (verb) have flavor; taste of something | Synonyms: savor, savour |
| (verb) have a distinctive or characteristic taste | Synonyms: smack |
| toothpaste | (noun) a dentifrice in the form of a paste | - |
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| unchaste | (adjective) not chaste | - |
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| waste | (adjective) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate | Synonyms: godforsaken, wild |
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| (noun) useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Synonyms: dissipation, wastefulness |
| (noun) (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect | Synonyms: permissive waste |
| (noun) the trait of wasting resources | Synonyms: thriftlessness, wastefulness |
| (noun) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation | Synonyms: barren, wasteland |
| (noun) any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted | Synonyms: waste material, waste matter, waste product |
| (verb) become physically weaker | Synonyms: rot |
| (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge |
| (verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: emaciate, macerate |
| (verb) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief | Synonyms: languish, pine away |
| (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, squander, ware |
| (verb) use inefficiently or inappropriately | - |
| (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize |
| (verb) run off as waste | Synonyms: run off |
| (verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away | Synonyms: blow, squander |
| (verb) dispose of | - |