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admire
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verb (admir, es)
  1. (transitive) To regard with wonder and delight;
  2. (transitive) to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence;
  3. (transitive) to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape.
agile
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adjective
  1. Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.
Alamo
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proper noun the
  1. An infamous fort in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
alderman
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noun
  1. a member of several municipal legislative bodies in a city or town
  2. (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)
  3. (slang) a man's pot belly
all
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noun (alls, -)
  1. (context, with a possessive pronoun) Everything possible.
She gave her , and collapsed at the finish line.
  1. (countable) The totality of one's possessions
angry
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adjective (angr, ier)
  1. Irritated, in a temper; displaying anger.
An mob started looting the warehouse.
  1. (italbrac, said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
The broken glass left two cuts across my arm.
  1. (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.
applejack
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noun
  1. Apple brandy, a distilled alcoholic beverage made from applejuice. The domestic equivalent of Calvados.
armful
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noun
  1. The amount an arm or arms can hold.
AS
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abbreviation
  1. Anglo-Saxon
  2. Advanced Supplementary
  3. (neurology) Asperger's Syndrome
  4. (geography) American Samoa
ashamed
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verb
  1. (past of, ashame)
adjective
  1. Feeling shame or guilt.
aunt
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noun
  1. a sister of someone"s parent
  2. a sister-in-law of someone"s parent; a wife of someone"s uncle
  3. (also great-aunt or grandaunt) a person's grandparent's sister.
  4. (usually auntie) a grandmother.
  5. 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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