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Nouns
1. (n.) lieutenant;
  - a commissioned military officer;

2. (n.) lieutenant, police lieutenant;
  - an officer in a police force;

3. (n.) deputy, lieutenant;
  - an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent;

4. (n.) lieutenant;
  - an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade;

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Nouns
1. (n.) fulminate;
  - a salt or ester of fulminic acid;

Verbs
1. (verb) fulminate, rail;
  - criticize severely;
  - “He fulminated against the Republicans’ plan to cut Medicare”; “She railed against the bad social policies”;

2. (verb) fulminate;
  - come on suddenly and intensely;
  - “the disease fulminated”;

3. (verb) fulminate;
  - cause to explode violently and with loud noise;

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Nouns
1. (n.) slander;
  - words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another;

2. (n.) aspersion, calumny, defamation, denigration, slander;
  - an abusive attack on a person’s character or good name;

Verbs
1. (verb) asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully;
  - charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone;
  - “The journalists have defamed me!”; “The article in the paper sullied my reputation”;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) furtive, sneak, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious;
  - marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed;
  - “a furtive manner”; “a sneak attack”; “stealthy footsteps”; “a surreptitious glance at his watch”;

2. (adj.) clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground;
  - conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods;
  - “clandestine intelligence operations”; “cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines”; “hole-and-corner intrigue”; “secret missions”; “a secret agent”; “secret sales of arms”; “surreptitious mobilization of troops”; “an undercover investigation”; “underground resistance”;

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Verbs
1. (verb) exceed, surpass, transcend;
  - be greater in scope or size than some standard;
  - “Their loyalty exceeds their national bonds”;

2. (verb) exceed, go past, overstep, pass, top, transcend;
  - be superior or better than some standard;
  - “She exceeded our expectations”; “She topped her performance of last year”;

3. (verb) exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpass;
  - be or do something to a greater degree;
  - “her performance surpasses that of any other student I know”; “She outdoes all other athletes”; “This exceeds all my expectations”; “This car outperforms all others in its class”;

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Adverbs
1. (adv.) basically, essentially, fundamentally;
  - in essence; at bottom or by one’s (or its) very nature;
  - “He is basically dishonest”; “the argument was essentially a technical one”; “for all his bluster he is in essence a shy person”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) exhaust, exhaust fumes, fumes;
  - gases ejected from an engine as waste products;

2. (n.) exhaust, exhaust system;
  - system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged;

Verbs
1. (verb) beat, exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up;
  - wear out completely;
  - “This kind of work exhausts me”; “I’m beat”; “He was all washed up after the exam”;

2. (verb) consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out;
  - use up (resources or materials);
  - “this car consumes a lot of gas”; “We exhausted our savings”; “They run through 20 bottles of wine a week”;

3. (verb) exhaust, play out, run down, sap, tire;
  - deplete;
  - “exhaust one’s savings”; “We quickly played out our strength”;

4. (verb) exhaust;
  - use up the whole supply of;
  - “We have exhausted the food supplies”;

5. (verb) discharge, eject, exhaust, expel, release;
  - eliminate (a substance);
  - “combustion products are exhausted in the engine”; “the plant releases a gas”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) penchant, predilection, preference, taste;
  - a strong liking;
  - “my own preference is for good literature”; “the Irish have a penchant for blarney”;

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Verbs
1. (verb) beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke;
  - annoy continually or chronically;
  - “He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked”; “This man harasses his female co-workers”;

2. (verb) beset, set upon;
  - assail or attack on all sides:;
  - “The zebra was beset by leopards”;

3. (verb) beset, encrust, incrust;
  - decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems);

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) a la mode, in style, in vogue, latest, modish;
  - in the current fashion or style;

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