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1. Definition: 1. not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth"

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1. Definition: 1. having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing; "a sharp knife"; "a pencil with a sharp point"

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1. Definition: 1. moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it"

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1. Definition: 1. affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow; "tight money"; "a tight market"

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1. Definition: 1. constituting the full quantity or extent; complete; "an entire town devastated by an earthquake"; "gave full attention"; "a total failure"

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1. Definition: 1. brief and to the point; effectively cut short;

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1. Definition: 1. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"

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1. Definition: 1. characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed; "a rapid movement"; "a speedy car"; "a speedy errand boy"

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1. Definition: 1. an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit"

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1. Definition: 1. United States blues musician who transcribed and published traditional blues music (1873-1958)

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1. Definition: 1. create a short circuit in

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1. Definition: 1. give essential information to someone; "The reporters were briefed about the President's plan to invade"

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1. Definition: 1. having a useful function; "utilitarian steel tables"

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1. Definition: 1. weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"

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1. Definition: 1. expressing much in few words; "a concise explanation"

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1. Definition: 1. practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"

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1. Definition: 1. briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"

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1. Definition: 1. in a casually inconsiderate manner; "replied offhand, his mind a million miles away"; "she threw him over offhandedly without even a Dear-John letter"

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1. Definition: 1. make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data"

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1. Definition: 1. habitually reserved and uncommunicative

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1. Definition: 1. obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance; "We managed to reserve a table at Maxim's"

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1. Definition: 1. ignoring distinctions; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction"

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1. Definition: 1. not formal; "conservative people unaccustomed to informal dress"; "an informal free-and-easy manner"; "an informal gathering of friends"

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1. Definition: 1. briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"

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1. Definition: 1. (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting; "an abridged version"

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1. Definition: 1. forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis; "a critical point in the campaign"; "the critical test"

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1. Definition: 1. (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load

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1. Definition: 1. terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid"

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1. Definition: 1. of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience"

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1. Definition: 1. with parts removed; "the drastically cut film"

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1. Definition: 1. concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen

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1. Definition: 1. gathered together or made less diffuse; "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore"

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1. Definition: 1. broad in scope; "a comprehensive survey of world affairs"

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