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| tablet | 
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| n.  a small flat compressed cake of some substance; a dose of medicine; simplified computer with only screen | 
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| taboo | 
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| n.  ban or inhibition resulting from social custom or emotional aversion; prohibition | 
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| tackle | 
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| n.  apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; stopping an opposing player carrying the ball | 
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| tactic | 
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| n. Syn. tactical plan for attaining a particular goal; action calculated to achieve some end | 
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| tame | 
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| a.  domesticated; very restrained or quiet; make less strong or intense; soften | 
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| tangle | 
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| n.  uniting or knitting together confusedly; knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged | 
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| tar | 
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| n.  sailor or seaman; thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal | 
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| tarnish | 
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| v. Syn. discoloration; stain make dirty or spotty; stain; dull the luster of; discolor, especially by exposure to air or dirt | 
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| taxation | 
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| n.  laying a tax, or imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by authority; raising of revenue | 
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| tedious | 
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| a. Syn. boring; wearisome tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; progressing very slowly | 
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| telex | 
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| n.  communications system consisting of teletypewriters connected to a telephonic network to send and receive signals |