| blintz | (noun) (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked | Synonyms: blintze |
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| blitz | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitzkrieg |
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| (noun) (American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line | Synonyms: linebacker blitzing, safety blitz |
| (verb) attack suddenly and without warning | - |
| chintz | (noun) a brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric | - |
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| ersatz | (adjective) artificial and inferior | Synonyms: substitute |
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| (noun) an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation | - |
| gigahertz | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle, gigacycle per second |
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| glitz | (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
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| hertz | (noun) the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz) | Synonyms: cps, cycle, cycle per second, cycles/second, Hz |
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| kibbitz | (verb) make unwanted and intrusive comments | Synonyms: kibitz |
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| kibbutz | (noun) a collective farm or settlement owned by its members in modern Israel; children are reared collectively | - |
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| kibitz | (verb) make unwanted and intrusive comments | Synonyms: kibbitz |
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| kilohertz | (noun) one thousand periods per second | Synonyms: kc, kHz, kilocycle, kilocycle per second |
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| klutz | (noun) (Yiddish) a clumsy dolt | - |
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| megahertz | (noun) one million periods per second | Synonyms: Mc, megacycle, megacycle per second, MHz |
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| putz | (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, prick, shaft, tool |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a fool; an idiot | - |
| quartz | (noun) a hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities | - |
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| (noun) colorless glass made of almost pure silica | Synonyms: crystal, lechatelierite, quartz glass, vitreous silica |
| ritz | (noun) ostentatious display of elegance | - |
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| schmaltz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmalz, shmaltz |
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| shegetz | (noun) an offensive term for non-Jewish young man | - |
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| shmaltz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmaltz, schmalz |
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| slivovitz | (noun) a colorless plum brandy popular in the Balkans | - |
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| spitz | (noun) any of various stocky heavy-coated breeds of dogs native to northern regions having pointed muzzles and erect ears with a curled furry tail | - |
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| spritz | (noun) a quick squirt of some liquid (usually carbonated water) | - |
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| (verb) cover (a location) wholly or partially by squirting a liquid onto it | - |
| (verb) eject (a liquid) quickly | - |
| terahertz | (noun) one trillion periods per second | Synonyms: THz |
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| waltz | (noun) a ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat | Synonyms: valse |
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| (noun) music composed in triple time for waltzing | - |
| (noun) an assured victory (especially in an election) | Synonyms: walk-in |
| (verb) dance a waltz | Synonyms: waltz around |