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especially
1. adv. (manner) In a special manner; specially.
2. adv. (focus) Particularly; to a greater extent than is normal.
3. adv. (focus) Used to place greater emphasis upon someone or something.
Invite them all, especially Molly.
pejorative
1. adj. Disparaging, belittling or derogatory.
2. n. A disparaging, belittling, or derogatory word or expression.
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
bad
1. adj. Unfavorable; negative; not good.
You have bad credit.
The weather looks pretty bad right now.
Don't talk to him; he's in a bad mood.
2. adj. Not suitable or fitting.
Do you think it is a bad idea to confront him directly?
3. adj. Not appropriate, of manners etc.
It is bad manners to talk with your mouth full.
4. adj. Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
Lard is bad for you. Smoking is bad for you, too. Grapes are bad for dogs but not for humans.
5. adj. Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
Joe's in a bad way; he can't even get out of bed.
I went to the hospital to see how my grandfather was doing. Unfortunately, he's in a bad state.
I've had a bad back since the accident.
6. adj. Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
Divorce is usually a bad experience for everybody involved.
7. adj. Evil; wicked.
Be careful. There are bad people in the world.
8. adj. Faulty; not functional.
I had a bad headlight.
9. adj. (of food) spoiled, Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
These apples have gone bad.
10. adj. (of breath) malodorous, Malodorous; foul.
Bad breath is not pleasant for anyone.
11. adj. False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
They were caught trying to pass bad coinage.
12. adj. Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
I'm pretty bad at speaking French.
He's a bad gardener; everything he tries to grow ends up dying.
13. adj. Of poor physical appearance.
I look really bad whenever I get less than seven hours of sleep.
I don't look bad in this dress, do I?
14. adj. (informal) Bold and daring.
15. adj. (hip-hop slang) Good; superlative.
16. adj. (of a need or want) Severe, urgent.
He is in bad need of a haircut.
17. adj. (US, slang) Overly promiscuous, licentious.
18. adv. (now colloquial) Badly.
I didn't do too bad in the last exam.
19. n. (slang) Error, mistake.
Sorry, my bad!
20. n. (economics) An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.
You is (SIC) bad, man!
21. v. (archaic) Alternative past tense of bid. See bade, bade.
22. v. (UK, dialect, transitive) To shell (a walnut).
tempered
1. adj. (in combination) Having a specified disposition or temper.
2. adj. Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals.
3. adj. Moderated or balanced by other considerations.
4. adj. (music) Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it wil
5. v. simple past tense and past participle of temper
temper
1. n. A tendency to be in a certain type of mood; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
to have a good, bad, or calm temper
2. n. State of mind; mood.
3. n. A tendency to become angry.
to have a hasty temper
He has quite a temper when dealing with salespeople.
4. n. Anger; a fit of anger.
an outburst of temper
5. n. Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
to keep one's temper; to lose one's temper; to recover one's temper
6. n. (obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
7. n. Middle state or course; mean; medium.
8. n. The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
the temper of mortar
9. n. The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
10. n. The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
the temper of iron or steel
11. n. (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
12. v. To moderate or control.
Temper your language around children.
13. v. To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
Tempering is a heat treatment technique applied to metals, alloys, and glass to achieve greater toughness by increasing the strength of materials and/or ductility. Tempering is performed by a c
14. v. To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
15. v. To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
16. v. (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
17. v. (obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage.
18. v. (archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
19. v. (archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.
20. v. (obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
disreputable
1. adj. Not respectable, lacking repute; discreditable.
2. n. A person who is not reputable.
woman
1. n. An adult female human.
2. n. (collective) All females collectively; womankind.
3. n. A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).
4. n. A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)
5. n. A female attendant or servant.
6. v. To staff with female labor.
7. v. To make effeminate or womanish.
8. v. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
9. v. To call (a person) "woman" in a disrespectful fashion.

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