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Nouns
1. (n.) earnings, pay, remuneration, salary, wage;
  - something that remunerates;
  - “wages were paid by check”; “he wasted his pay on drink”; “they saved a quarter of all their earnings”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) elocution;
  - an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture;

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Nouns
1. (n.) spartan;
  - a resident of Sparta;

Adjectives
1. (adj.) spartan;
  - of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people;

2. (adj.) spartan;
  - resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity;
  - “spartan courage”;

3. (adj.) severe, spartan;
  - unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment;
  - “a parent severe to the pitch of hostility”; “a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien”; “a strict disciplinarian”; “a Spartan upbringing”;

4. (adj.) ascetic, ascetical, austere, spartan;
  - practicing great self-denial;
  - “Be systematically ascetic…do…something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it”; “a desert nomad’s austere life”; “a spartan diet”; “a spartan existence”;

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Verbs
1. (verb) scintillate;
  - give off;
  - “the substance scintillated sparks and flashes”;

2. (verb) coruscate, scintillate, sparkle;
  - reflect brightly;
  - “Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside”;

3. (verb) scintillate, twinkle, winkle;
  - emit or reflect light in a flickering manner;
  - “Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?”;

4. (verb) scintillate;
  - physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon;
  - “the phosphor fluoresced”;

5. (verb) coruscate, scintillate, sparkle;
  - be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity;
  - “The musical performance sparkled”; “A scintillating conversation”; “his playing coruscated throughout the concert hall”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) old maid, spinster;
  - an elderly unmarried woman;

2. (n.) spinner, spinster, thread maker;
  - someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads);

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