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Having a secret or hidden meaning; occult: cabalistic symbols engraved in stone. |
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n. Dead and decaying flesh.
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Of or similar to dead and decaying flesh. |
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–verb (used with object) 1. to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
2. to avoid (defeat, failure, unpleasantness, etc.) by artfulness or deception; avoid by anticipating or outwitting: He circumvented capture by anticipating their movements. |
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A pirate, especially along the Barbary Coast.
A swift pirate ship, often operating with official sanction. |
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adj. Characterized by abject fear; cowardly.
n. A coward. |
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An inhabitant; a resident: denizens of Monte Carlo.
One that frequents a particular place: a bar and its denizens.
Ecology An animal or a plant naturalized in a region. |
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verb (used with object) 1. to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
2. to put on the appearance of; feign: to dissemble innocence. |
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| adjective shining forth brilliantly; radiant. |
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noun 1. an acute, recurrent disease characterized by painful inflammation of the joints, chiefly those in the feet and hands, and esp. in the great toe, and by an excess of uric acid in the blood.
2. a mass or splash, as of blood; spurt. |
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adjective 1. fond of the company of others; sociable.
2. living in flocks or herds, as animals.
3. Botany. growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together. |
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verb (used with object) 1. (of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against, as a means of bringing to trial: The grand jury indicted him for murder.
2. to charge with an offense or crime; accuse of wrongdoing; castigate; criticize: He tends to indict everyone of plotting against him. |
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verb (used with object), -dit⋅ed, -dit⋅ing. 1. to compose or write, as a poem.
2. to treat in a literary composition. |
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noun 1. a natural covering, as a skin, shell, or rind.
2. any covering, coating, enclosure, etc.
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noun 1. a wailing lament for the dead.
–verb (used without object) 2. to wail in lamentation for the dead.
–verb (used with object) 3. to bewail or lament by or with keening. |
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noun 1. sleight of hand.
2. trickery; deception.
3. any artful trick.
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noun, plural -mas, -ma⋅ta /-mətə/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [-muh-tuh] Show IPA . 1. noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
2. a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere. |
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noun 1. a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation.
2. the future state of the wicked.
3. hell (def. 1). |
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noun 1. a small, slender dagger.
–verb (used with object) 2. to stab with a poniard. |
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adjective 1. out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
2. outside of nature; supernatural. |
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adjective 1. understood without being openly expressed; implied: tacit approval.
2. silent; saying nothing: a tacit partner.
3. unvoiced or unspoken: a tacit prayer.
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A figure of speech using words in nonliteral ways, such as a metaphor.
A word or phrase interpolated as an embellishment in the sung parts of certain medieval liturgies. |
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adjective 1. full of tumult or riotousness; marked by disturbance and uproar: a tumultuous celebration.
2. raising a great clatter and commotion; disorderly or noisy: a tumultuous crowd of students. |
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| noun, plural -ros. a beginner in learning anything; novice. |
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adjective 1. characterized by excessive piousness or moralistic fervor, esp. in an affected manner; excessively smooth, suave, or smug.
2. of the nature of or characteristic of an unguent or ointment; oily; greasy.
3. having an oily or soapy feel, as certain minerals |
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–verb (used without object) 1. to move with a sinuous or wavelike motion; display a smooth rising-and-falling or side-to-side alternation of movement: The flag undulates in the breeze.
2. to have a wavy form or surface; bend with successive curves in alternate directions. |
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