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hear

Verb: hear
v.tr.
1. To perceive (sound) by the ear: Can you hear the signal?
2. To learn by hearing; be told by others: I heard she got married.
3. a. To listen to attentively: Hear what I have to tell you.
b. To listen to in an official, professional, or formal capacity: heard the last witness in the afternoon.
c. To listen to and consider favorably: Lord, hear my prayer!
d. To attend or participate in: hear Mass.

v.intr.
1. To be capable of perceiving sound.
2. To receive news or information; learn: I heard about your accident.
3. To consider, permit, or consent to something. Used only in the negative: I won't hear of your going!

Phrasal Verb: hear from
1.
To get a letter, telephone call, or transmitted communication from.
2. To be reprimanded by: If you don't do your homework, you're going to hear from me.

Idiom:hear, hear Used to express approval.
 

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herb

= A plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests

= Aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savoury qualities
 

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B.E. harbour (A.E. harbor)

1. (Transport / Nautical Terms) a sheltered port
2. a place of refuge or safety

vb
1. (tr) to give shelter to to harbour a criminal
2. (tr) to maintain secretly to harbour a grudge
3. (Transport / Nautical Terms) to shelter (a vessel) in a harbour or (of a vessel) to seek shelter
 

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hut

1. A crude or makeshift dwelling or shelter; a shack, a small house.
2. A temporary structure for sheltering troops.
 

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hatch

= Emerge from the eggs

= Devise or invent

= Inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating

= Draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper

= Sit on (eggs)
 

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handheld

Compact enough to be used or operated while being held in the hand or hands: a handheld (also: hand-held) video camera.
 

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haddock

= Lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets saut?ed or fried

= Important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller
 

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shack

A small, crudely built cabin; a shanty.
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) a roughly built hut
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) South African a building providing basic accommodation on a wilderness trail
 

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skipper

= A student who fails to attend classes

= An officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship

= The naval officer in command of a military ship
 

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arsenic (First I wanted to choose .... without nic :D)

1. Symbol As A highly poisonous metallic element having three allotropic forms, yellow, black, and gray, of which the brittle, crystalline gray is the most common. Arsenic and its compounds are used in insecticides, weed killers, solid-state doping agents, and various alloys. Atomic number 33; atomic weight 74.922; valence 3, 5. Gray arsenic melts at 817°C (at 28 atm pressure), sublimes at 613°C, and has a specific gravity of 5.73.
See Table of elements.
2. Arsenic trioxide.
ar·sen·ic Of or containing arsenic, especially with valence 5.
 

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anchovy

= Tiny fishes usually canned or salted; used for hors d'oeuvres or as seasoning in sauces

= Small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide
 

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may

1. The fifth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
2. The springtime of life; youth.
3. The celebration of May Day.
 

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myth

= A traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
 

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mayhem

1. Law The offense of willfully maiming or crippling a person.
2. Infliction of violent injury on a person or thing; wanton destruction: children committing mayhem in the flower beds.
3. A state of violent disorder or riotous confusion; havoc.
 

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mumble

= Talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice

= Grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty

"the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food"
 

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marker

= Some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something

"the buoys were markers for the channel"

= A writing implement for making a mark
 

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remedy

n pl -dies
1. (Medicine) (usually foll by for or against) any drug or agent that cures a disease or controls its symptoms
2. (usually foll by for or against) anything that serves to put a fault to rights, cure defects, improve conditions, etc. a remedy for industrial disputes
3. the legally permitted variation from the standard weight or quality of coins; tolerance

vb
(tr)
1. (Medicine) to relieve or cure (a disease, illness, etc.) by or as if by a remedy
2. to put to rights (a fault, error, etc.); correct
 

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recycle

= Cause to repeat a cycle

= Use again after processing

"We must recycle the cardboard boxes"
 
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