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yahoo

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n. a coarse or brutish person

Those yahoos are fighting again.

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yen

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n. strong desire; yearning or craving

Steward and his wife have a yen to travel.

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yoga

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n. a school of Hindu philosophy advocating a course of physical and mental disciplines for attaining liberation from the material world and union of the self with the Supreme Being or ultimate principle

Many Westerners practice yoga to improve both their physical and spiritual life.

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yoke

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v. to join together; to harness

The horses were yoked to the plough.

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