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| Noun:strong desire, longing, or aim; ambition: intellectual aspirations. |
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| Noun:a person appointed by a national government to conduct official negotiations and maintain political, economic, and social relations with another country or countries. |
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| Noun:a short introductory statement in a published work, as a book, especially when written by someone other than the author. |
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| Noun:a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper. |
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| Noun:the head of the cabinet in France or Italy or certain other countries; first minister; prime minister. |
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| Noun:the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words. |
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| Noun:an Old World weasellike mammal, Mustela zibellina, of cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur. |
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something uttered, written, or done by way of saluting. |
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| Noun:the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. |
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| Noun:an official list or table showing the duties or customs imposed by a government on imports or exports. |
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