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(noun) a variety of water chestnut
Jesuits' nut, water caltrop, Trapa natans
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(noun) a local and well-defined elevation of the land; "they loved to roam the hills of West Virginia"
hill
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(noun) any of various small dipterous flies; bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis
sandfly, Phlebotomus papatasii, sand fly
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(noun) a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage
tuber
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(noun) a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"
chain of mountains, range, mountain chain, chain, range of mountains, mountain range
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(noun) a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern
damask
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(noun) graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
antelope
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(noun) (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer
writ, judicial writ
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(noun) a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave"
tomb, grave
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(noun) a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"
zilch, zero, nil, nothing, zippo, null, aught, cipher, naught, zip, nix, nada, goose egg, cypher
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(noun) the rays of the sun; "the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind"
sun, sunlight, sunshine
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(verb) hear with intention; "Listen to the sound of this cello"
listen
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(verb) waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!"
dawdle, dally
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(verb) wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"
shrivel up, wither, shrivel, shrink
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(verb) be responsible for the sale of; "All her publicity sold the products"
sell
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(verb) speak softly; in a low voice
whisper
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(adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect; "an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long-distance transportation"-LewisMumford; "effective teaching methods"; "effective steps toward peace"; "made an effective entrance"; "his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action"; "an efficacious law"
efficacious, effective, effectual
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(adverb) apart from others; "taken individually, the rooms were, in fact, square"; "the fine points are treated singly"
one by one, singly, separately, individually, on an individual basis, severally
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