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04
2009
Adjectives
1. (adj.) athirst, hungry, thirsty;
- (usually followed by `for’) extremely desirous;
- “athirst for knowledge”; “hungry for recognition”; “thirsty for informaton”;
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30
04
2009
Verbs
1. (verb) commemorate, mark;
- mark by some ceremony or observation;
- “The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade”;
2. (verb) commemorate, remember;
- call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony;
- “We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz”; “Remember the dead of the First World War”;
3. (verb) commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize, record;
- be or provide a memorial to a person or an event;
- “This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps”; “We memorialized the Dead”;
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30
04
2009
Adjectives
1. (adj.) amorphous, formless, shapeless;
- having no definite form or distinct shape;
- “amorphous clouds of insects”; “an aggregate of formless particles”; “a shapeless mass of protoplasm”;
2. (adj.) amorphous, unstructured;
- lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies;
3. (adj.) amorphous, uncrystallised, uncrystallized;
- without real or apparent crystalline form;
- “an amorphous mineral”; “amorphous structure”;
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30
04
2009
Nouns
1. (n.) parricide;
- someone who kills his or her parent;
2. (n.) parricide;
- the murder of your own father or mother;
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29
04
2009
Adjectives
1. (adj.) inconstant;
- likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable;
- “inconstant affections”; “an inconstant lover”; “swear not by…the inconstant moon”;
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