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anopheles |
Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, which can carry the malaria parasite and transmit the disease to humans. |
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mosquito |
Any of various two-winged insects of the family Culicidae, in which the female of most species is distinguished by a long proboscis for sucking blood. Some species are vectors of diseases such as malaria and yellow fever. Also called regionally skeeter. See Regional Note at possum. |
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nuisance |
One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother: Having to stand in line was a nuisance. The disruptive child was a nuisance to the class. Law A use of property or course of conduct that interferes with the legal rights of others by causing damage, annoyance, or inconvenience. |
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rehabilitate |
To restore to good health or useful life, as through therapy and education. To restore to good condition, operation, or capacity. To reinstate the good name of. To restore the former rank, privileges, or rights of. |
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inoculate |
To introduce a serum, vaccine, or antigenic substance into (the body of a person or animal), especially to produce or boost immunity to a specific disease. To communicate a disease to (a living organism) by transferring its causative agent into the organism. To implant microorganisms or infectious material into (a culture medium). To safeguard as if by inoculation; protect. To introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of. |
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desiccate |
To dry out thoroughly To preserve (foods) by removing the moisture. See Synonyms at dry. To make dry, dull, or lifeless. To become dry; dry out. Lacking spirit or animation; arid: "There was only the sun-bruised and desiccate feeling in his mind” ( J.R. Salamanca). |
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eradicate |
To tear up by the roots. To get rid of as if by tearing up by the roots: Their goal was to eradicate poverty. See Synonyms at abolish, eliminate. |
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disservice |
A harmful action; an injury. |
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monopoly |
Exclusive control by one group of the means of producing or selling a commodity or service Law A right granted by a government giving exclusive control over a specified commercial activity to a single party. A company or group having exclusive control over a commercial activity. A commodity or service so controlled. Exclusive possession or control Something that is exclusively possessed or controlled |
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limousine |
Any of various large passenger vehicles, especially a luxurious automobile usually driven by a chauffeur and sometimes having a partition separating the passenger compartment from the driver's seat. A van or small bus used to carry passengers on a regular route, as between an airport and a downtown area. |
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evict |
To put out (a tenant, for example) by legal process; expel. To force out; eject. See Synonyms at eject. Law To recover (property, for example) by a superior claim or legal process. |
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indignity |
Humiliating, degrading, or abusive treatment. A source of offense, as to a person's pride or sense of dignity; an affront. |
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layman |
A man who is not a cleric. A man who is a nonprofessional: His is just the layman's view of medicine. See Usage Note at man. |
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spurn |
To reject disdainfully or contemptuously; scorn. See Synonyms at refuse1 To kick at or tread on disdainfully To reject something contemptuously. A contemptuous rejection. |
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askance |
With disapproval, suspicion, or distrust: "The area is so dirty that merchants report the tourists are looking askance” ( Chris Black). With a sideways glance; obliquely. |
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smug |
Exhibiting or feeling great or offensive satisfaction with oneself or with one's situation; self-righteously complacent: "the smug look of a toad breakfasting on fat marsh flies” |
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condescend |
To descend to the level of one considered inferior; lower oneself. See Synonyms at stoop1. To deal with people in a patronizingly superior manner. |
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stoop |
debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward sag, bend, bend over or downv. carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward descend swiftly, as if on prey basin for holy water bend one's back forward from the waist on down small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house |
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podium |
An elevated platform, as for an orchestra conductor or public speaker. A stand for holding the notes of a public speaker; a lectern. Architecture A low wall serving as a foundation. Architecture A wall circling the arena of an ancient amphitheater. Biology A structure resembling or functioning as a foot. |
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vanish |
To pass out of sight, especially quickly; disappear. See Synonyms at disappear. To pass out of existence. Mathematics To become zero. Used of a function or variable. |
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finch |
Any of various relatively small birds of the family Fringillidae, including the goldfinches, sparrows, cardinals, grosbeaks, and canaries, having a short stout bill adapted for cracking seeds. |
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invincible |
capable of being overcome or defeated; unconquerable. |
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loan |
Something lent for temporary use A sum of money lent at interest. An act of lending; a grant for temporary use: asked for the loan of a garden hose. A temporary transfer to a duty or place away from a regular job: an efficiency expert on loan from the main office. Usage Problem To lend. |
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spawn |
call forth the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs lay spawn |
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instrument |
A means by which something is done; an agency. One used by another to accomplish a purpose; a dupe. An implement used to facilitate work. See Synonyms at tool. A device for recording, measuring, or controlling, especially such a device functioning as part of a control system Music A device for playing or producing music: a keyboard instrument. A legal document, such as a deed, will, mortgage, or insurance policy To provide or equip with instruments. Music To compose or arrange for performance. To address a legal document to. |
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odyssey |
An extended adventurous voyage or trip. An intellectual or spiritual quest: an odyssey of discovery. |
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veil |
make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl a garment that covers the head and face to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) |
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hillbilly |
Informal A person from the backwoods or a remote mountain area. |
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plaster |
A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with fiber added, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings. A pastelike mixture applied to a part of the body for healing or cosmetic purposes. Also called sticking plaster. To cover, coat, or repair with plaster. cover or hide with or as if with a coat of plaster: plastered over our differences. To apply a plaster to: plaster an aching muscle. To cover conspicuously, as with things pasted on; overspread: plaster the walls with advertising. |
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scramble |
bring into random order an unceremonious and disorganized strugglev. to move hurriedly stir vigorously make unintelligible climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling rushing about hastily in an undignified way |
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funeral |
A ceremony or group of ceremonies held in connection with the burial or cremation of a dead person. The burial procession accompanying a body to the grave. An end or a cessation of existence Of, relating to, or resembling a funeral. |
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wrestle |
the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat engage in a wrestling match engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force |
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formidable |
Arousing fear, dread, or alarm: the formidable prospect of major surgery. Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder: "Though a true hero, he was also a thoroughgoing bureaucrat and politician, a formidable combination” ( Mario Puzo). Difficult to undertake, surmount, or defeat: a formidable challenge; a formidable opponent. |
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tenor |
the pitch range of the highest male voicen. a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life the adult male singing voice above baritone an adult male with a tenor voice of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice (of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass the general meaning or substance of an utterance |
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pungent |
Affecting the organs of taste or smell with a sharp acrid sensation. Penetrating, biting, or caustic: pungent satire. To the point; sharp: pungent talks during which the major issues were confronted. Pointed: a pungent leaf. |
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ribald |
Characterized by or indulging in vulgar, lewd humor. A vulgar, lewdly funny person. |
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piquant |
Pleasantly pungent or tart in taste; spicy. Appealingly provocative: a piquant wit Charming, interesting, or attractive: a piquant face. |
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transmute |
To change from one form, nature, substance, or state into another; transform: Alchemists tried to transmute lead into gold. See Synonyms at convert. To undergo transmutation. |
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canard |
An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story. A short winglike control surface projecting from the fuselage of an aircraft, such as a space shuttle, mounted forward of the main wing and serving as a horizontal stabilizer An aircraft whose horizontal stabilizing surfaces are forward of the main wing. |
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sordid |
Filthy or dirty; foul. Depressingly squalid; wretched: sordid shantytowns Morally degraded: "The sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils” ( James Joyce). See Synonyms at mean2. Exceedingly mercenary; grasping. |
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shabby |
Showing signs of wear and tear; threadbare or worn-out: shabby furniture. Dilapidated or deteriorated in condition, especially through neglect; seedy: a shabby little park. Wearing threadbare clothing. Despicable; mean: a shabby trick. Not generous or just; unfair: shabby treatment. Of mediocre or substandard quality: a shabby performance. |
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fabricate |
To make; create. To construct by combining or assembling diverse, typically standardized parts: fabricate small boats. To concoct in order to deceive: fabricated an excuse. |
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concoct |
To prepare by mixing ingredients, as in cooking. To devise, using skill and intelligence; contrive: concoct a mystery story. |
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implausible |
Difficult to believe; not plausible. |
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rote |
A memorizing process using routine or repetition, often without full attention or comprehension: learn by rote. Mechanical routine. The sound of surf breaking on the shore. A medieval stringed instrument variably identified with a lyre, lute, or harp. |
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remote |
a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance located far away spatially inaccessible and sparsely populated separate or apart in time very unlikely far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship |
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hew |
To make or shape with or as if with an ax: hew a path through the underbrush. To cut down with an ax; fell: hew an oak. To strike or cut; cleave. To cut something by repeated blows, as of an ax. To adhere or conform strictly; hold: hew to the line. |
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caput capita |
The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum. The top or superior part of a thing. The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856. |
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protuberant |
Swelling outward; bulging. |
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dire |
Warning of or having dreadful or terrible consequences; calamitous: a dire economic forecast; dire threats. Urgent; desperate: in dire need; dire poverty. |
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reconcile |
To reestablish a close relationship between. To settle or resolve. To bring (oneself) to accept: He finally reconciled himself to the change in management. To make compatible or consistent: reconcile my way of thinking with yours. See Synonyms at adapt To reestablish a close relationship, as in marriage: The estranged couple reconciled after a year. To become compatible or consistent: The figures would not reconcile. |
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extricate |
To release from an entanglement or difficulty; disengage. |
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scrap |
A small piece or bit; a fragment. Leftover bits of food Discarded waste material, especially metal suitable for reprocessing. Crisp pieces of rendered animal fat; cracklings. To break down into parts for disposal or salvage. To discard as worthless or sell to be reused as parts; junk. To fight, often with the fists. A fight or a scuffle. |
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salvage |
The rescue of a ship, its crew, or its cargo from fire or shipwreck. The ship, crew, or cargo so rescued. Compensation given to those who voluntarily aid in such a rescue. The act of saving imperiled property from loss. The property so saved. Something saved from destruction or waste and put to further use. To save from loss or destruction To save (discarded or damaged material) for further use. |
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curb |
A concrete border or row of joined stones forming part of a gutter along the edge of a street. An enclosing framework, such as that around a skylight. A raised margin along an edge used to confine or strengthen. Something that checks or restrains: High interest rates put a curb on spending. A chain or strap that passes under a horse's lower jaw and serves in conjunction with the bit to restrain the horse. A market, originally on a street or sidewalk, for trading securities that are not listed on a stock exchange. To check, restrain, or control as if with a curb; rein in. See Synonyms at restrain. To lead (a dog) off the sidewalk into the gutter so that it can excrete waste. To furnish with a curb. |
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ordinance |
An authoritative command or order. A custom or practice established by long usage A Christian rite, especially the Eucharist. A statute or regulation, especially one enacted by a city government. |
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enrage |
To put into a rage; infuriate. |
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fluster |
To make or become nervous or upset. A state of agitation, confusion, or excitement. |
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inure |
To habituate to something undesirable, especially by prolonged subjection; accustom |
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hubhub |
Loud noise; din. See Synonyms at noise. Confusion; tumult. |
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din |
A jumble of loud, usually discordant sounds. See Synonyms at noise. To stun with deafening noise To instill by wearying repetition: dinned the Latin conjugations into the students' heads. To make a loud noise. |
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weary |
Physically or mentally fatigued. Expressive of or prompted by fatigue: a weary smile Having one's interest, forbearance, or indulgence worn out: weary of delays. Causing fatigue; tiresome: a weary wait. To make or become weary. See Synonyms at tire1. |
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dearth |
A scarce supply; a lack: Shortage of food; famine. |
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famine |
A drastic, wide-reaching food shortage. A drastic shortage; a dearth. Severe hunger; starvation. |
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disgruntle |
To make discontented. |
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coverage |
The extent or degree to which something is observed, analyzed, and reported: complete news coverage of the election. Inclusion in an insurance policy or protective plan. The extent of protection afforded by an insurance policy. The amount of funds reserved to meet liabilities. The percentage of persons reached by a medium of communication, such as television or a newspaper. |
