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constituent

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Noun:

  1. a member of a constituency (group of voters in a specified area who elect a representative to a legislative body)
  2. a component part of something.
    “the essential constituents of the human diet”
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Venison

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Noun:

meat from a deer.

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Conformist

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Noun:
a person who conforms to accepted behavior or established practices.
“organizations where employees are loyal without being unthinking conformists”

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Surreptitious

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adjective
kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of.
“they carried on a surreptitious affair”

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Supersede

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verb
take the place of (a person or thing previously in authority or use); supplant.
“the older models have now been superseded”

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Supplant

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verb
supersede and replace.
“another discovery could supplant the original finding”

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Hash

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noun
a dish of cooked meat cut into small pieces and cooked again, usually with potatoes.

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Maimed

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verb
wound or injure (someone) so that part of the body is permanently damaged.

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Apathy

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noun
lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern.

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nettle

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irritate or annoy (someone).
“I was nettled by Alene’s tone of superiority”

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lager

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noun:
a kind of beer, effervescent and light in color and body.

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effervescent

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adjective:
1. (of a liquid) giving off bubbles; fizzy.

  1. vivacious and enthusiastic.
    “effervescent young people”
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Vivacious

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adjective
attractively lively and animated (typically used of a woman).

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Floozy

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Noun:
a young woman who has many casual sexual partners or who dresses or behaves in a sexually provocative way.
“he runs off with some floozy that’s only interested in fame and money”

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Pretentious

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adjective
attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed

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Doobie

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noun

a cannabis cigarette.

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Euphemism

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Noun:
a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.

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Jot

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verb
write (something) quickly.

noun
a very small amount.
“you didn’t care a jot”

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Pendulum

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noun
1. used to refer to the tendency of a situation to oscillate between one extreme and another.
“the pendulum of fashion”

  1. a weight hung from a fixed point so that it can swing freely backward and forward, especially a rod with a weight at the end that regulates the mechanism of a clock.
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Blunt

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adjective
1. (of a knife, pencil, etc.) having a worn-down edge or point; not sharp.

  1. (of a person or remark) uncompromisingly forthright.
    “a blunt statement of fact”
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Forthright

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adjective

  1. (of a person or their manner or speech) direct and outspoken; straightforward and honest.
    “his most forthright attack yet on the reforms”
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posse

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noun:
a group of people who have a common characteristic, occupation, or purpose.
“he pompously led around a posse of medical students”

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Spliff

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noun

a cannabis cigarette.

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Garnish

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verb
decorate or embellish (something, especially food).
“salad garnished with an orange slice”

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Haphazardous

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adjective

lacking any obvious principle of organization.
“the kitchen drawers contained a haphazard collection of silver souvenir spoons”

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Satchel

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noun
a bag carried on the shoulder by a long strap and typically closed by a flap. (Backpack)

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Molotov Cocktail

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Noun
a crude bomb made of a bottle filled with a flammable liquid (such as gasoline) and usually fitted with a wick (such as a saturated rag) that is ignited just before the bottle is hurled

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Coogi

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Noun:
An Australian fashion brand known for colorful knitwear

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Dookie

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poop

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Moschino

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Noun:
an Italian luxury fashion house known for over-the-top, campy designs. The company specializes in ready-to-wear, handbags, and fashion accessories.

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Arraignment

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Noun:
a legal process in a law court where someone is accused of a particular crime and asked to say if they are guilty or not
“She was in custody last night awaiting arraignment.”

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plaintiff

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Noun:
a person who brings a case against another in a court of law.

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Denfendant

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noun
an individual, company, or institution sued or accused in a court of law.

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Elope

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Verb
run away secretly in order to get married, especially without parental consent.

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Valium

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Noun
a tranquilizing muscle-relaxant drug used chiefly to relieve anxiety.

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Viagra

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Noun
a drug taken to increase blood flow to the penis and improve erectile function.

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Ovulation

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Noun
the process in which a mature egg is released from the ovary

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Hellion

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Noun:
a rowdy or mischievous person, especially a child.

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Pager

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Noun:
a small radio device, activated from a central point, which emits a series of bleeps or vibrates to inform the wearer that someone wishes to contact them or that it has received a short text message.

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Downer

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Noun:
1. a depressant or tranquilizing drug, especially a barbiturate.
“during that week I was heavily doped on downers”

  1. a dispiriting or depressing experience or factor.
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Lethargy

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Noun:

  1. a lack of energy and enthusiasm.
  2. a pathological state of sleepiness or deep unresponsiveness and inactivity.
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Pathological

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Adjective
1. involving, caused by, or of the nature of a physical or mental disease.

  1. compulsive; obsessive. “a pathological gambler”
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Oscillate

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Verb.
1. waver between extremes of opinion, action, or quality “he was oscillating between fear and bravery”

  1. move or swing back and forth at a regular speed.
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Medley

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Noun:
a varied mixture of people or things; a miscellany.
“an interesting medley of flavors”

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Ivory

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Noun
1. hard creamy-white substance composing the main part of the tusks of an elephant, walrus, or narwhal, often (especially formerly) used to make ornaments and other articles.

  1. A creamy white colour
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Conglomerate

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Noun
1. a number of different things or parts that are put or grouped together to form a whole but remain distinct entities.
“the Earth is a specialized conglomerate of organisms”

  1. a coarse-grained sedimentary rock composed of rounded fragments (> 2 mm) within a matrix of finer grained material.
    “the sediments vary from coarse conglomerate to fine silt and clay”

Adjective
3. relating to a conglomerate, especially a large corporation.
“conglomerate businesses”

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Mortise

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noun:
a hole or recess cut into a part which is designed to receive a corresponding projection (a tenon) on another part so as to join or lock the parts together.
ex: a usb port. The tenon is the usb

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tenon

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noun:
a projecting piece of wood made for insertion into a mortise in another piece.
ex: a usb. The Mortise is the usb port.

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heroine

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noun:
a woman admired or idealized for her courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.
“she was the heroine of a materialist generation”

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heroin

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a highly addictive analgesic drug derived from morphine, often used illicitly as a narcotic producing euphoria.

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analgesic

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noun/adjective
(of a drug) acting to relieve pain

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morphine

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Noun
an analgesic and narcotic drug obtained from opium and used medicinally to relieve pain.

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Opium

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Noun:
a reddish-brown heavy-scented addictive drug prepared from the juice of the opium poppy, used as a narcotic and in medicine as an analgesic.

Phrases
the opium of the people — something regarded as inducing a false and unrealistic sense of contentment among people.

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Illicit

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Adjective:
forbidden by law, rules, or custom.

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Elicit

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Verb:
1. evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one’s own actions or questions.
“they invariably elicit exclamations of approval from guests”

  1. draw forth (something that is latent or potential) into existence.
    “a corrupt heart elicits in an hour all that is bad in us”
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Archaic

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Adjective:
1. very old or old-fashioned.
“prisons are run on archaic methods”

  1. (of a word or a style of language) no longer in everyday use but sometimes used to impart an old-fashioned flavor.
    “a term with a rather archaic ring to it”
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Narcotic

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Noun:
1. a drug or other substance that affects mood or behavior and is consumed for nonmedical purposes, especially one sold illegally.

  1. a drug that relieves pain and induces drowsiness, stupor, or insensibility.
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Guzzle

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Verb:
eat or drink (something) greedily.
“this car guzzles gas”

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Teeny bopper

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Noun:
a young teenager, typically a girl, who keenly follows the latest fashions in clothes and pop music.

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Wolf

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Noun:
1. A wolf
2. a harsh or out-of-tune effect produced when playing particular notes or intervals on a musical instrument, caused either by the instrument’s construction or by divergence from equal temperament.

  1. a man who habitually seduces women.

Verb:
4. devour (food) greedily.
“he wolfed down his breakfast”

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archetype

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Noun:
1. a very typical example of a certain person or thing.

  1. an original that has been imitated.
    “the archetype of faith is Abraham”
  2. a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology.
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Denote

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Verb
1. be a sign of; indicate.

  1. stand as a name or symbol for.
    “the level of output per firm, denoted by X”
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Firm

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Noun
1. having a solid, almost unyielding surface or structure.

  1. strongly felt and unlikely to change.
  2. a business concern, especially one involving a partnership of two or more people.
    “a law firm”
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Saugus

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A town in Massachusetts

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Macabre

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Adjective
disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury.
“a macabre series of murders”

Synonyms: Grisly, Lurid

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Repugnant

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  1. in conflict with;incompatiblewith. “a bylaw must not be repugnant to the general law of the country”
  2. Extremely distastefull/unnacceptable
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Potty-mouth

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a person who tends to use bad language.

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Repugnant

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Adjective
1. extremely distasteful; unacceptable.

  1. in conflict with; incompatible with.
    “a bylaw must not be repugnant to the general law of the country”
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lurid

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Adjective
1. very vivid in colour, especially so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect.

  1. (of a description) presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms, especially giving explicit details of crimes or sexual matters.
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degenerate

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Adjective
1. having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline.

  1. lacking some property, order, or distinctness of structure previously or usually present.
  2. relating to or denoting matter at densities so high that gravitational contraction is counteracted either by the Pauli exclusion principle or by an analogous quantum effect between closely packed neutrons.
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Burr

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Noun
1. a rough edge or ridge left on an object (especially of metal) by the action of a tool or machine.

  1. a whirring sound, such as a phone ringing tone or the sound of cogs turning.
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Indeterminate

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Adjective
1. not exactly known, established, or defined.

  1. (of a judicial sentence) such that the convicted person’s conduct determines the date of release.
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Pauli Principle

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Noun
Pauli’s Exclusion Principle states that no two electrons in the same atom can have identical values for all four of their quantum numbers. In other words, (1) no more than two electrons can occupy the same orbital and (2) two electrons in the same orbital must have opposite spins

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Mill-wheel

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Noun
a wheel used to drive a water mill.

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Locution

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Noun
1. a word or phrase, especially with regard to style or idiom.
“y’all”

  1. a person’s style of speech.
    “his impeccable locution”
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Idiom

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Noun:
1. a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ).

  1. a form of expression natural to a language, person, or group of people.
    “he had a feeling for phrase and idiom”
  2. a characteristic mode of expression in music or art.
    “they were both working in a neo-impressionist idiom”
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utterance

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noun
a spoken word, statement, or vocal sound.
“he whispered, as if to lend his utterances an added confidentiality”

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implicit

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adjective
implied though not plainly expressed.
“comments seen as implicit criticism of the policies”

synonym: indirect

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Stave

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Noun:
1.a vertical wooden post or plank in a building or other structure.

  1. a strong wooden stick or iron pole used as a weapon.
  2. a verse or stanza of a poem.
  3. another term for staff1 (sense 4 of the noun).
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Barrell

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Verb:
drive or move in a way that is so fast as to almost be out of control.

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Debauchee

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Noun
a person given to excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.

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Skirt-chaser

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Noun
a man who pursues women amorously and is casual in his affections; a womanizer.

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Amorous

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Adjective
showing, feeling, or relating to sexual desire.
“she rejected his amorous advances”

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rapacious

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Adjective
aggressively greedy or grasping.
“rapacious landlords”

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Scoff

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Verb:
1. To steal; carry off

  1. To eat or drink hastily in large amounts
  2. speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way.

noun:
4. an expression of scornful derision.
“scoffs of disbelief”

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Derision

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noun:
contemptuous ridicule or mockery.
“my stories were greeted with derision and disbelief”

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Stupor

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Noun:
a state of near-unconsciousness or insensibility.
“a drunken stupor”

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Derisive

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Adjective
expressing contempt or ridicule.
“a harsh, derisive laugh”

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