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02367363-v:
perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
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00950206-v:
be dared to do something and attempt it
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02407338-v:
make a strenuous or labored effort
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02530770-v:
make an attempt at something
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02530936-v:
search blindly or uncertainly
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02531199-v:
attempt by employing effort
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02532458-v:
try
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02544348-v:
take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
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02545578-v:
expose to a chance of loss or damage
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00786195-n:
earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
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a tentative attempt
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one who tries
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02531625-v:
put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
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02524171-v:
attain success or reach a desired goal
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00786195-n:
earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
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01755816-v:
perform or carry out
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00011361-v:
try very hard to please someone
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00080705-v:
try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury
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00091013-n:
the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away
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00174950-n:
a measure used by an acquirer to gain control of a takeover target; acquirer tries to persuade other shareholders that the management of the target should be replaced
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00261314-v:
try to fix or mend
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00396344-n:
the concerted action of depositors who try to withdraw their money from a bank because they think it will fail
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00447540-n:
the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down
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00460078-n:
an outdoor game; one group of players (the hares) start off on a long run scattering bits of paper (the scent) and pursuers (the hounds) try to catch them before they reach a designated spot
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00460706-n:
a game in which players try to find hidden articles by using a series of clues
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00463543-n:
a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks
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00464037-n:
the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring
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00464478-n:
a game played in a swimming pool by two teams of swimmers who try to throw an inflated ball into the opponents' goal
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00467122-n:
a game that simulates military combat; players on one team try to eliminate players on the opposing team by shooting capsules of paint at them
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00468480-n:
any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal
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00469651-n:
a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays
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00471277-n:
(rugby) knocking the ball forward while trying to catch it (a foul)
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a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
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00476389-n:
a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs
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00477827-n:
a game using a leather ball six feet in diameter; the two side try to push it across the opponents' goal
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00477986-n:
a game between two teams whose players try to toss a Frisbee to one another until they cross the opponents goal; possession changes hands when the Frisbee is intercepted or touches the ground or goes out of bounds
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00478262-n:
a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal
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00484362-n:
a children's game in which a blindfolded player tries to catch and identify other players
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00484910-n:
a game in which a child covers his eyes while the other players hide then tries to find them
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00485450-n:
a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others
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00488051-n:
a game in which players try to flip plastic disks into a cup by pressing them on the side sharply with a larger disk
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00492871-n:
a card game for two players who try to assemble books of cards by asking the opponent for particular cards
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00503981-n:
a board game in which each player tries to move a set of marbles through a set of holes from one point of a six-pointed star to the opposite point
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00504526-n:
a board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases
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00505238-n:
a board game in which players try to gain a monopoly on real estate as pieces advance around the board according to the throw of a die
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00515159-n:
as a joke: trying to make somebody believe something that is not true
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00547244-n:
singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
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00564710-n:
a baseball play in which a runner on third base tries to score as the batter bunts the pitch
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00588703-v:
to try to avoid detection especially by police
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00598629-v:
try to forget; put out of one's memory or knowledge
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00621653-v:
try to solve
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00630223-v:
try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it
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00700979-n:
psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior
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00716520-n:
a surgical procedure that attempts to restore the function of the vas deferens after a vasectomy
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00722984-n:
the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
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00728393-v:
produce or try to produce a vivid impression of
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00744572-v:
attempt to communicate
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00757056-v:
try to establish
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00772550-n:
physical efforts to oppose a lawful arrest; the resistance is classified as assault and battery upon the person of the police officer attempting to make the arrest
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00784184-v:
try presumptuously
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00789448-v:
get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
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00804708-n:
(engineering) the art or technique of trying to control rivers with dams etc in order to minimize the occurrence of floods
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00809071-v:
try to learn someone's opinions and intentions
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00809654-v:
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
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00832626-n:
an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen
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00880978-v:
try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
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lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
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try to prevent; show opposition to
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00917651-v:
attempt to anticipate or predict
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00950206-v:
be dared to do something and attempt it
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00950337-v:
be dared to do something and not attempt it
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00962129-n:
organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
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00968715-n:
any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims
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00976085-n:
(American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line
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00976653-v:
make publicity for; try to sell (a product)
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01008801-n:
an arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effect
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01014362-v:
make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something
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01020936-n:
copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else
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01025089-v:
refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them
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activity that tries to conceal something
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01050187-n:
concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public
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01085874-v:
attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant
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01126335-n:
(law) government activities seeking to dissolve corporate trusts and monopolies (especially under the United States antitrust laws)
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01128266-n:
the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws
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01140794-v:
catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
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01174742-v:
eat lightly, try different dishes
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01181212-n:
impeding those who seek justice in a court (as by trying to influence or intimidate any juror or witness or officer of the court); can result in a finding of contempt of court
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01198068-n:
the prosecution of a defendant for a criminal offense for which he has already been tried; prohibited in the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution
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01202994-a:
of female homosexual behavior that attempts to simulate heterosexual behavior
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01241594-n:
a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects
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01276875-n:
battle in 401 BC when the Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne
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01290162-n:
a naval battle in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Passero in which the Spanish navy was destroyed by France and England while attempting to recover Sicily and Sardinia from Italy (1719)
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01290997-n:
a naval battle in World War II (1944); a decisive naval victory for the United States fleet over the Japanese who were trying to block supplies from reaching American troops on Leyte
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01293832-n:
a naval battle in the Spanish-American War (1898); the United States fleet bottled up the Spanish ships in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba and destroyed them when they tried to escape
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01294791-n:
a battle in World War I (May 1918); the Germans tried to attack before the American numbers were too great to defeat; the tactical success of the Germans proved to be a strategic failure
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a famous battle in 480 BC; a Greek army under Leonidas was annihilated by the Persians who were trying to conquer Greece
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01300508-n:
battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others
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01300782-n:
battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
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01311344-n:
a war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France
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01315613-v:
try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
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attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring
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attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing
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fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location)
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try to seduce
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trying to maintain dignity and self respect despite shabbiness
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02146674-v:
keep a low profile, try to be inconspicuous
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attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
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seek to employ
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02240481-v:
try to get or reach
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try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying
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02333880-a:
tried unsuccessfully
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02501159-v:
hear or try a court case anew
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02525868-v:
fail by aiming too high or trying too hard
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02531088-v:
try very hard to do something
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attempt by employing effort
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02532458-v:
try
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02532886-v:
try something new, as in order to gain experience
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02545045-v:
to be courageous enough to try or do something
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02585050-v:
try to stir up public opinion
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02588122-v:
try to manage without help
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02802215-n:
horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball
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game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points
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an electrical device that sets off an alarm when someone tries to break in
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the right to try to find happiness
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trying something to find out about it
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05848182-n:
a heuristic for solving problems; you try to look at the problem from many angles instead of tackling it head-on
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05970012-n:
a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning
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06107436-n:
(physics) a theory that tries to link the four fundamental forces
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06138347-n:
any of several branches of psychology that seek to apply psychological principles to practical problems of education or industry or marketing etc.
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06171650-n:
the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis)
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06235977-n:
a militant group of extremist Sunnis who believe themselves the only correct interpreters of the Koran and consider moderate Muslims to be infidels; seek to convert all Muslims and to insure that its own fundamentalist version of Islam will dominate the world
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06485593-n:
(law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities
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a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out
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06572204-n:
(computer science) a natural language processing application that tries to determine the intended meaning of a word or phrase by examining the linguistic context in which it is used
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a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
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an argument in which the participants are trying to gain some advantage
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a concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures
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a careful study of some social unit (as a corporation or division within a corporation) that attempts to determine what factors led to its success or failure
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07245125-n:
the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action
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a speech of exhortation attempting to instill enthusiasm and determination in a team or staff
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a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
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a communication that makes you afraid to try something
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07494363-n:
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
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07571903-n:
a school of French cooking that uses light sauces and tries to bring out the natural flavors of foods instead of making heavy use of butter and cream
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07968974-n:
an individual or group who are concerned with some particular part of the economy and who try to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor
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07969192-n:
groups that seek to control a social system or activity from which they derive private benefit
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08010191-n:
an international organization that provides a support group for persons trying to overcome alcoholism
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08012765-n:
an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s; seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells
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08016900-n:
a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again
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08017257-n:
an extremist Palestinian Sunni group active in Lebanon in the early 1990s that advocates Salafism; responsible for murders and bombings; seeks to overthrow the Lebanese government and control Palestinian refugee camps; funded by al-Qaeda
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08021129-n:
an armed wing of the (illegal) Communist Party of Spain; seeks to overthrow the Spanish government and replace it with a Marxist-Leninist regime
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08021785-n:
a little known Palestinian group responsible for bombings and for killing Israelis; seeks to defeat Israel and liberate southern Lebanon, Palestine, and Golan Heights
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08022259-n:
a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon; seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel; is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel; pioneered suicide bombing
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08023374-n:
a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran; seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon; car bombs are the signature weapon
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08025112-n:
Yemen-based terrorist group that supports al-Qaeda's goals; seeks to overthrow the Yemeni government and eliminate United States interests; responsible for bombings and kidnappings and killing western tourists in Yemen
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08026197-n:
a terrorist organization founded in 2000; a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with al-Rashid Trust; seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings
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08026539-n:
an Islamic terrorist group organized in the 1980s; seeks to purify Islam through violence; the cells in North America and the Caribbean insulate themselves from Western culture and will even attack other Muslims who they regard as heretics
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08027314-n:
an indigenous Islamic terrorist group in Azerbaijan that attempted to bomb the United States embassy in 1999
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08028623-n:
a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany; seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran
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08029908-n:
a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey
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08032023-n:
a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel
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08032594-n:
a Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda; seeks to radicalize the Libyan government; attempted to assassinate Qaddafi
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08033194-n:
a terrorist group formed in 1996 in Northern Ireland; seeks to prevent the peace process; murders Catholics and any Protestant leaders who favor peace
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08034028-n:
a terrorist group of radical leftists formed in the late 1980s; seeks to prevent the United States from intervening in Honduran economic and political affairs
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08034778-n:
a terrorist organization formed in the 1960s by children of Iranian merchants; sought to counter the Shah of Iran's pro-western policies of modernization and opposition to communism; following a philosophy that mixes Marxism and Islam it now attacks the Islamic fundamentalists who deposed the Shah
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08041840-n:
a paramilitary group of Protestants in Northern Ireland that tries to prevent any political settlement with the Irish Republic; attacks interests of Catholic civilians in Northern Ireland; responsible for arson and bombing and murder
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08043848-n:
a terrorist group formed in the 1980s in Sierra Leone; seeks to overthrow the government and gain control of the diamond producing regions; responsible for attacks on civilians and children, widespread torture and murder and using children to commit atrocities; sponsored by the president of Liberia
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08044265-n:
an Algerian extremist Islamic offshoot of the Armed Islamic Group; now the largest and most active armed terrorist group in Algeria that seeks to overthrow the government; a major source of support and recruitment for al-Qaeda operations in Europe and northern Africa
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08044676-n:
a terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru; is among the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world; seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them with a Maoist peasant regime; is involved in the cocaine trade
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an ethnic Kurdish group of Sunni extremists formed in the late 1980s in southeastern Turkey; seeks to replace Turkey's secular regime with an Islamic state and strict shariah law; responsible for bombings and the torture and murder of Turkish and Kurdish journalists and businessmen; receives support from Iran
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the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score
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(sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
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the most liberal Jews; Jews who do not follow the Talmud strictly but try to adapt all of the historical forms of Judaism to the modern world
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a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services; located in Atlanta; investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases)
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a school of 19th century German economists and legal philosophers who tried to explain modern economic systems in evolutionary or historical terms
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a military court to try members of the armed services who are accused of serious breaches of martial law
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a group of people who try actively to influence legislation
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a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
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a movement that tried to go beyond expressionism
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an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age
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an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images
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(Greek mythology) a sea nymph transformed into a sea monster who lived on one side of a narrow strait; drowned and devoured sailors who tried to escape Charybdis (a whirlpool) on the other side of the strait
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(Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her
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(Greek mythology) son of Helios; killed when trying to drive his father's chariot and came too close to earth
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(Greek mythology) a beautiful princess loved by Cupid who visited her at night and told her she must not try to see him; became the personification of the soul
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(Greek mythology) a wicked king and son of Zeus; condemned in Hades to stand in water that receded when he tried to drink and beneath fruit that receded when he reached for it
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a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy; when he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his `Achilles' heel'
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a person who tries to please or amuse
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a person who witnesses a crime but does not try to prevent it
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someone who tries to bring peace by acceding to demands
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(football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play
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a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)
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09860248-n:
a football player whose responsibility is to block players attempting to stop an offensive play
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a person who tries to bluff other people
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a stock market analyst who tries to predict market trends from graphs of recent prices of securities
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someone who tries to bring peace
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someone who attempts to prevent terrorism
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10087255-n:
a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
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a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
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someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice
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someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections
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(rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot
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a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance)
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someone who tries to attract social lions as guests
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someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others
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someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program
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someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
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a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines
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(football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass
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10418841-n:
someone who tries to persuade or induce or lead on
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10451450-n:
a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways
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10458111-n:
a thinker who focuses on the problem as stated and tries to synthesize information and knowledge to achieve a solution
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a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture
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10515863-n:
liberal Jew who tries to adapt all aspects of Judaism to modern circumstances
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a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position
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(football) a back on the offensive team (a fullback or halfback) who tries to advance the ball by carrying it on plays from the line of scrimmage
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(football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by running with the ball
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10608385-n:
a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime)
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a public relations person who tries to forestall negative publicity by publicizing a favorable interpretation of the words or actions of a company or political party or famous person
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10639047-n:
a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances
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someone who tries to insure their personal survival or the survival of their group or nation
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someone (usually maleficent) who tries to persuade or force another person to do his bidding
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a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
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someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time
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an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend
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one who tries
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a homeowner who acts as a contractor and tries to do major improvement projects on weekends (often without understanding the scope of the work to be done)
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someone who tries to persuade by blandishment and coaxing
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combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground
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(Roman Catholic Church) archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170; murdered following his opposition to Henry II's attempts to control the clergy (1118-1170)
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French neurologist who tried to use hypnotism to cure hysteria (1825-1893)
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patron saint of shoemakers; he and his brother were martyred for trying to spread Christianity (3rd century)
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Greek mathematician who was the first to try to develop an algebraic notation (3rd century)
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French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834)
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king of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC)
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United States labor leader who was president of the Teamsters Union; he was jailed for trying to bribe a judge and later disappeared and is assumed to have been murdered (1913-1975)
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English navigator who discovered the Hudson River; in 1610 he attempted to winter in Hudson Bay but his crew mutinied and set him adrift to die (1565-1611)
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wife of Ahab who was king of Israel; according to the Old Testament she was a cruel immoral queen who fostered the worship of Baal and tried to kill Elijah and other prophets of Israel (9th century BC)
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United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900)
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Roman philosopher and poet; in a long didactic poem he tried to provide a scientific explanation of the universe (96-55 BC)
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Austrian physician who tried to treat diseases with a form of hypnotism (1734-1815)
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English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618)
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Mexican general who tried to crush the Texas revolt and who lost battles to Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War (1795-1876)
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Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
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a famous chief of the Shawnee who tried to unite Indian tribes against the increasing white settlement (1768-1813)
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Japanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who assumed dictatorial control of Japan during World War II; he was subsequently tried and executed as a war criminal (1884-1948)
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French pope from 1362 to 1370 who tried to reestablish the papacy in Rome but in 1367 returned to Avignon hoping to end the war between France and England; canonized in 1870 (1310-1370)
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an auditing procedure based on ratios among accounts and tries to identify significant changes
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(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
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a method of childbirth that tries to minimize the trauma for the newborn; delivery occurs in a quiet dimly lit room and the infant's head is not pulled and immediate bonding between mother and child is encouraged
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any social process undertaken by governments who want their citizens to believe they are trying to avoid armed hostilities
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(immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)
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a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
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