
Description of stalemate (noun) drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check
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Description of terminology (noun: terminologies) a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; language
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Description of bate (verb: bated; bated; bating) diminish; decrease
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Description of sully (verb: sullied; sullied; sullying) charge falsely or with malicious intent; smirch; asperse; denigrate; calumniate; smear; besmirch
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Description of brackish (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)
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Description of tightwad (noun) a miserly person
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Description of midget (noun) a person who is markedly small; nanus
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Description of cadaverous (adjective) corpse-like; ghastly
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Description of flint (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; granitic; obdurate; stony
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Description of maxillary (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium
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