admire |
| verb (admir, es)
- (transitive) To regard with wonder and delight;
- (transitive) to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence;
- (transitive) to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape.
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agile |
| adjective
- Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.
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Alamo |
| proper noun the
- An infamous fort in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
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alderman |
| noun
- a member of several municipal legislative bodies in a city or town
- (1811) A roasted turkey garnished with sausages; the latter are supposed to represent the gold chain worn by those magistrates. (1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue)
- (slang) a man's pot belly
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all |
| noun (alls, -)
- (context, with a possessive pronoun) Everything possible.
- She gave her , and collapsed at the finish line.
- (countable) The totality of one's possessions
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angry |
| adjective (angr, ier)
- Irritated, in a temper; displaying anger.
- An mob started looting the warehouse.
- (italbrac, said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
- The broken glass left two cuts across my arm.
- (italbrac, figurative, said about the sky or the sea) Dark and stormy, menacing.
- ...nor dreads he the sea... (Horace, The Book of the Epodes, Ode II)
- Angry clouds racing across the sky.
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applejack |
| noun
- Apple brandy, a distilled alcoholic beverage made from applejuice. The domestic equivalent of Calvados.
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armful |
| noun
- The amount an arm or arms can hold.
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AS |
| abbreviation
- Anglo-Saxon
- Advanced Supplementary
- (neurology) Asperger's Syndrome
- (geography) American Samoa
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ashamed |
| verb
- (past of, ashame)
adjective
- Feeling shame or guilt.
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aunt |
| noun
- a sister of someone"s parent
- a sister-in-law of someone"s parent; a wife of someone"s uncle
- (also great-aunt or grandaunt) a person's grandparent's sister.
- (usually auntie) a grandmother.
- an affectionate term for a woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
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