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1. A desire or craving.
2. An aluminum coin and monetary unit of Japan, equal to 100 sen or 1000 rin.
"If you have a yen for real-life adventure stories" |
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1. To move unsteadily; weave.
2. To deviate temporarily from a straight course, as a ship.
3. (Of a vehicle) to have a motion about the vertical axis. |
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1. Gruesome and horrifying.
2. Pertaining to or representing death, esp. its grimmer or uglier aspect. |
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| About as well as one could wish or expect; satisfactory; fine; OK. |
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1. A gradual dissappearance.
2. The state of becoming imperceptible. |
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1. A gradual dissappearance.
2. The state of becoming imperceptible. |
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1. Of, pertaining to, or occurring in the evening.
2. Botany. Opening or expanding in the evening, as certain flowers.
3. Zoology. Becoming active in the evening, as bats and owls. |
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1. Of, pertaining to, or occurring in the evening.
2. Botany. Opening or expanding in the evening, as certain flowers.
3. Zoology. Becoming active in the evening, as bats and owls. |
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1. To produce the sound as of the beating of a drum.
noun:
1. A sound of or as of the beating of a drum.
2. A tattoo, as of a drum, the hooves of a galloping horse, or machine-gun fire. |
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1. To put down, suppress, or silence, as with a crushing retort or argument.
2. To strike or press with crushing force; crush down.
3. To make a splashing sound.
4. To tread heavily in water, mud, wet shoes, etc., with such a sound. |
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1. Something small, delicate, and exquisitely wrought.
1. A jewel. |
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| mechanical device or part whose name is forgotten or unknown; a gadget |
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1. Prophetic; oracular.
2. Of, resembling, or characteristic of a sibyl; prophetic; oracular.
3. Mysterious; cryptic. |
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adjective:
1. Swift; rapid.
adverb:
1. At full gallop.
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1. A rush, a gallop or stampede.
interjection:
1. (used as a hunting cry when the chase is at full speed.) |
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verb:
1. To extinguish or suppress.
2. To cut off or remove the snuff of (candles, tapers, etc.).
noun:
1. The charred or partly consumed portion of a candlewick.
2. A preparation of tobacco, either powdered and taken into the nostrils by inhalation or ground and placed between the cheek and gum.
verb:
1. To draw in through the nose by inhaling. |
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noun:
The prediction of future events from observation of weather conditions |
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verb:
1. To make (the mind, senses, etc.) keen or discerning.
2. To elevate in character.
3. To make thin, rare, or more fluid or volatile; refine. |
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1. Relating to a body part that has become small and lost its use because of evolutionary change.
2. Pertaining to, or of the nature of anything that is no longer present or in existence. |
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noun:
1. A track or trail, esp. that of a wild animal pursued as game.
verb:
1. To track by or follow a spoor. |
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noun
1. A carouse.
2. A squabble; a brawl. |
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noun:
1. Something viewed from above through another medium, as of clouds viewed from an airplane.
2. Mining. A crossing of two passages, as airways, dug at the same level so that one descends to pass beneath the other without any opening into it. |
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adjective
1. Pertaining to wisdom, knowledge, or study.
2. Of or pertaining to the goddess Athena.
3. Pertaining to, introduced by, or in the architectural style of Andrea Palladio. |
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noun:
1. Sloth.
2. Laziness or indifference in religious matters. |
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noun:
Love of or liking for women (opposite of misogyny.) |
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im-ped-uh-MEN-tuh\, noun:
Baggage or other things that retard one's progress |
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uh-KLOOD\, verb:
1. To shut in, out, or off.
2. Physical Chemistry. (Of certain metals and other solids) to incorporate (gases and other foreign substances), as by absorption or adsorption.
3. Dentistry. To shut or close, with the cusps of the opposing teeth of the upper and lower jaws fitting together. |
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adjective:
Of or pertaining to a form of marriage in which a person of high rank, as a member of the nobility, marries someone of lower station with the stipulation that neither the low-ranking spouse nor their children, if any, will have any claim to the titles or entailed property of the high-ranking partner |
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verb:
1. To flash or dart like lightning.
2. Medicine. To destroy (esp. an abnormal growth) by electricity |
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adjective:
Full-bodied; well-proportioned. |
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verb:
1. To put on or dress in.
noun:
1. A Spanish title prefixed to a man's given name.
2. (In the Mafia) a head of a family or syndicate. |
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noun:
A ceremony at which gifts are bestowed on the guests in a show of wealth that the guests later attempt to surpass. |
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adjective:
Bright; lustrous. |
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