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Adjectives
1. (adj.) dispensable;
  - capable of being dispensed with or done without;
  - “dispensable items of personal property”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) herbarium;
  - a collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study;

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Nouns
1. (n.) dearth, famine, shortage;
  - an acute insufficiency;

2. (n.) dearth, paucity;
  - an insufficient quantity or number;

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Verbs
1. (verb) appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate;
  - cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
  - “She managed to mollify the angry customer”;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) uncommon;
  - not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind;
  - “uncommon birds”; “frost and floods are uncommon during these months”; “doing an uncommon amount of business”; “an uncommon liking for money”; “he owed his greatest debt to his mother’s uncommon character and ability”;

2. (adj.) rare, uncommon;
  - marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind;
  - “what is so rare as a day in June”; “a rare skill”; “an uncommon sense of humor”; “she was kind to an uncommon degree”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) vacuity, vacuum;
  - the absence of matter;

2. (n.) emptiness, vacancy, vacuum, void;
  - an empty area or space;
  - “the huge desert voids”; “the emptiness of outer space”; “without their support he’ll be ruling in a vacuum”;

3. (n.) vacuity, vacuum;
  - a region that is devoid of matter;

4. (n.) vacuum, vacuum cleaner;
  - an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction;

Verbs
1. (verb) hoover, vacuum, vacuum-clean;
  - clean with a vacuum cleaner;
  - “vacuum the carpets”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) employer;
  - a person or firm that employs workers;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) despondent, heartsick;
  - without or almost without hope;
  - “despondent about his failure”; “too heartsick to fight back”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) breastpin, broach, brooch;
  - a decorative pin worn by women;

Verbs
1. (verb) broach, initiate;
  - bring up a topic for discussion;

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Nouns
1. (n.) colloidal solution, colloidal suspension, sol;
  - a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid;

2. (n.) sol;
  - (Roman mythology) ancient Roman god; personification of the sun; counterpart of Greek Helios;

3. (n.) so, soh, sol;
  - the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization;

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