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n. primary social group; parents and children
n. a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities


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n. a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)


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n. preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.
n. the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object)


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n. flow into something (as a container)
n. any material that fills a space or container


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n. designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race)
n. the act of finishing


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n. a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown
v. form flutes in


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n. the science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber


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v. derive a benefit from
v. increase or develop


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n. the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic
a. of or pertaining to or characteristic of Germany or its people or language


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n. a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990


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