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grenadier

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a member of the first regiment of household infantry

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gracioso

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a buffoon or clown in Spanish comedy

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grimalkin

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an old cat

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guillemot

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a black or brown-speckled seabird

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gustatory

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of or pertaining to taste or tasting

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habergeon

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a short, sleeveless coat of mail

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Haifa

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a seaport in NW Israel

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halophile

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any organism that requires a salt-rich environment for its growth and survival

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haplology

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the omission of one of two similar adjacent syllables or sounds in a word

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hecatomb

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a public sacrifice; a great slaughter

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hemialgia

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pain or neuralgia involving only one side of the body or head

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heresiarch

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a leader in heresy

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hidalgo

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a man of the lower nobility in Spain

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hippodrome

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an oval track for horse races and chariot races

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hookah

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a tobacco pipe with a long, flexible tube by which the smoke is drawn through a jar of water and thus cooled

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huarache

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a Mexican sandal having the upper woven of leather strips

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hydrarch

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originating in a wet habitat

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ichneumon

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a slender, long-tailed mongoose inhabiting Africa and southern Europe

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ikebana

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the art of floral arrangement

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imbroglio

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a complicated or difficult situation

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immanent

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remaining within; inherent

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immolation

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a sacrifice

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impetigos

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a contagious skin disease, especially of children marked by a superficial pustular eruption

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impudicity

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immodesty

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in absentia

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in absence

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in vacuo

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in a vacuum

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innominate

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having no name, anonymous

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interminable

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unending

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ipse dixit

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an assertion without proof

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irascible

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irritable

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jaconet

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a cotton fabric of light weight

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jaguarundi, jaguarondi

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a long-bodied and long-tailed tropical endangered wildcat

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jejune

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without interest or significance, dull

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jugate

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overlapping

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kaffiyeh

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an Arab headdress for men

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kakemono

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a vertical hanging scroll containing either text or a painting

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kedge

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to warp or pull along by hauling on the cable of an anchor carried out from the ship and dropped

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keratectomy

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excision of part of the cornea

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kerygma

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the content or message of Gospel preaching

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kinesthesia

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muscle sense

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knobkerrie

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a short, heavy wooden club with a knob on one end

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