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This was Madden 's suggestion ; the police chief shook his head over it. | shook | {
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"building material used as siding or roofing",
"frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream",
"a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it",
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"move or cause to move back and forth"
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This was Madden 's suggestion ; the police chief shook his head over it. | head | {
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"the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains",
"a single domestic animal",
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"the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains"
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If Arthur Williams was involved in the fraud or the murder, then he too had another identity. | Arthur Williams | {
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"a human being",
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"a human being"
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If Arthur Williams was involved in the fraud or the murder, then he too had another identity. | was | {
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"a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element",
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If Arthur Williams was involved in the fraud or the murder, then he too had another identity. | involved | {
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"connect closely and often incriminatingly",
"engage as a participant",
"have as a necessary feature",
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"connected by participation or association or use"
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If Arthur Williams was involved in the fraud or the murder, then he too had another identity. | fraud | {
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"intentional deception resulting in injury to another person",
"a person who makes deceitful pretenses",
"something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage"
]
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"intentional deception resulting in injury to another person"
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If Arthur Williams was involved in the fraud or the murder, then he too had another identity. | murder | {
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"unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being",
"kill intentionally and with premeditation",
"alter so as to make unrecognizable"
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"unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being"
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If Arthur Williams was involved in the fraud or the murder, then he too had another identity. | then | {
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"that time; that moment",
"at a specific prior time",
"subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)",
"in that case or as a consequence",
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"in that case or as a consequence"
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If Arthur Williams was involved in the fraud or the murder, then he too had another identity. | too | {
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"to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits",
"in addition"
]
} | [
"in addition"
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"too%4:02:01::"
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If Arthur Williams was involved in the fraud or the murder, then he too had another identity. | had | {
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"a person who possesses great material wealth",
"have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense",
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"an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates",
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"the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity"
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No one the Medfield police had questioned professed to know any more about him than about Johnston. | Medfield | {
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"a point or extent in space",
"the act of putting something in a certain place",
"a determination of the place where something is",
"a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made"
]
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"a point or extent in space"
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No one the Medfield police had questioned professed to know any more about him than about Johnston. | police | {
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"the force of policemen and officers",
"maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol"
]
} | [
"the force of policemen and officers"
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"police%1:14:00::"
] |
No one the Medfield police had questioned professed to know any more about him than about Johnston. | questioned | {
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"the subject matter at issue",
"a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply",
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No one the Medfield police had questioned professed to know any more about him than about Johnston. | professed | {
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"practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about",
"confess one's faith in, or allegiance to",
"admit (to a wrongdoing)",
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"receive into a religious order or congregation",
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"admit (to a wrongdoing)"
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"profess%2:32:02::"
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No one the Medfield police had questioned professed to know any more about him than about Johnston. | know | {
"name": "know",
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"be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object"
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"know%2:31:00::"
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No one the Medfield police had questioned professed to know any more about him than about Johnston. | any | {
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"to any degree or extent"
]
} | [
"one or some or every or all without specification"
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"any%5:00:00:some:00"
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No one the Medfield police had questioned professed to know any more about him than about Johnston. | more | {
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"English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state",
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] |
No one the Medfield police had questioned professed to know any more about him than about Johnston. | Johnston | {
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Scholarship applicant? | Scholarship | {
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"financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit",
"profound scholarly knowledge"
]
} | [
"financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit"
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Scholarship applicant? | applicant | {
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"a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission"
]
} | [
"a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission"
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Pauling looked doubtful. | Pauling | {
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"a human being",
"a human body (usually including the clothing)",
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Pauling looked doubtful. | looked | {
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"the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually",
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"have a certain outward or facial expression"
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"look%2:29:00::"
] |
Pauling looked doubtful. | doubtful | {
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"open to doubt or suspicion; ; ; ; - Karen Horney",
"fraught with uncertainty or doubt",
"unsettled in mind or opinion"
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"fraught with uncertainty or doubt"
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Madden explained that he was thinking of an application sent directly to Mrs. Meeker. | Madden | {
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"a human being",
"a human body (usually including the clothing)",
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Madden explained that he was thinking of an application sent directly to Mrs. Meeker. | explained | {
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"make plain and comprehensible",
"define",
"serve as a reason or cause or justification of"
]
} | [
"define"
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] |
Madden explained that he was thinking of an application sent directly to Mrs. Meeker. | thinking of | {
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"take into consideration, have in view",
"look on as or consider",
"intend to refer to",
"devise or invent",
"choose in one's mind"
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"think_of%2:31:00::",
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Madden explained that he was thinking of an application sent directly to Mrs. Meeker. | application | {
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"a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school",
"the work of applying something",
"a program that gives a computer instructions that p... | [
"a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school"
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Madden explained that he was thinking of an application sent directly to Mrs. Meeker. | sent | {
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"cause to go somewhere",
"to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place",
"cause to be directed or transmitted to another place",
"transport commercially",
"assign to a station",
"transfer",
"cause to be admitted; o... | [
"cause to be directed or transmitted to another place"
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"send%2:32:00::"
] |
Madden explained that he was thinking of an application sent directly to Mrs. Meeker. | directly | {
"name": "directly",
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"without deviation",
"without anyone or anything intervening",
"without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening",
"in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly"
]
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"without deviation"
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Madden explained that he was thinking of an application sent directly to Mrs. Meeker. | Mrs. Meeker | {
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"a human being",
"a human body (usually including the clothing)",
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"a human being"
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"person%1:03:00::"
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Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o ' clock. | Then | {
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"that time; that moment",
"at a specific prior time",
"subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)",
"in that case or as a consequence",
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Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o ' clock. | asked | {
"name": "ask",
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"inquire about",
"make a request or demand for something to somebody",
"direct or put; seek an answer to",
"consider obligatory; request and expect",
"address a question to and expect an answer from",
"require as useful, just, or proper",
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"make a request or demand for something to somebody"
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Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o ' clock. | use | {
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Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o ' clock. | phone | {
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Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o ' clock. | called | {
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"a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition",
"a demand especially in the phrase",
"the characteristic sound produced by a bird",
... | [
"get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone"
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"call%2:32:01::"
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Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o ' clock. | Brian Thayer | {
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Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o ' clock. | said | {
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Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o ' clock. | just | {
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Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o ' clock. | leaving | {
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"go away from a place"
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Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o ' clock. | keep | {
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"the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress",
"a cell in a jail or prison",
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"continue a certain state, condition, or activity",
... | [
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Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o ' clock. | lunch | {
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"take the midday meal",
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Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o ' clock. | date | {
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"a meeting arranged in advance",
"a particular but unspecified point in time",
"the present",
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"a meeting arranged in advance"
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Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o ' clock. | be | {
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Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o ' clock. | home | {
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"where you live at a particular time",
"housing that someone is living in",
"the country or state or city where you live",
"(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score",
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Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o ' clock. | two | {
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"one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots",
"being one more than one"
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"two%1:23:00::"
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Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o ' clock. | clock | {
"name": "o'clock",
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"according to the clock"
]
} | [
"according to the clock"
] | [
"o'clock%4:02:00::"
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Madden said that he would see him at two and made another call, this one to Mrs. Meeker 's lawyers. | Madden | {
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"a human being",
"a human body (usually including the clothing)",
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"a human being"
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Madden said that he would see him at two and made another call, this one to Mrs. Meeker 's lawyers. | said | {
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Madden said that he would see him at two and made another call, this one to Mrs. Meeker 's lawyers. | see | {
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Madden said that he would see him at two and made another call, this one to Mrs. Meeker 's lawyers. | two | {
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"one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots",
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"two%1:23:00::"
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Madden said that he would see him at two and made another call, this one to Mrs. Meeker 's lawyers. | call | {
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"a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course",
"a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition",
"a demand especially in the phrase",
"the characteristic sound produced by a bird",
... | [
"a telephone connection"
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"call%1:10:01::"
] |
Madden said that he would see him at two and made another call, this one to Mrs. Meeker 's lawyers. | Mrs. Meeker | {
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"a human being",
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] |
Madden said that he would see him at two and made another call, this one to Mrs. Meeker 's lawyers. | lawyers | {
"name": "lawyer",
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"a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice"
]
} | [
"a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice"
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"lawyer%1:18:00::"
] |
Mr. Hohlbein was out for the day, but Mr. Garth would be free at one-thirty. | Mr. Hohlbein | {
"name": "person",
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"a human being",
"a human body (usually including the clothing)",
"a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party"
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"a human being"
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"person%1:03:00::"
] |
Mr. Hohlbein was out for the day, but Mr. Garth would be free at one-thirty. | was | {
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"a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element",
"have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)",
"be identical to; be someone or something",
"occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere",
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"occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere"
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"be%2:42:05::"
] |
Mr. Hohlbein was out for the day, but Mr. Garth would be free at one-thirty. | day | {
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"time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis",
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"a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance",
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"day%1:28:04::"
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"a human body (usually including the clothing)",
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"a human being"
] | [
"person%1:03:00::"
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Mr. Hohlbein was out for the day, but Mr. Garth would be free at one-thirty. | be | {
"name": "be",
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"have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)"
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Mr. Hohlbein was out for the day, but Mr. Garth would be free at one-thirty. | free | {
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The secretary 's tone indicated that an appointment at such short notice was a concession for which Madden should be duly grateful. | secretary | {
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The secretary 's tone indicated that an appointment at such short notice was a concession for which Madden should be duly grateful. | tone | {
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"(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)",
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"the quality of a person's voice"
] | [
"tone%1:10:01::"
] |
The secretary 's tone indicated that an appointment at such short notice was a concession for which Madden should be duly grateful. | indicated | {
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"indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively",
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"indicate%2:32:01::"
] |
The secretary 's tone indicated that an appointment at such short notice was a concession for which Madden should be duly grateful. | appointment | {
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"sense_definitions_list": [
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"a meeting arranged in advance"
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"appointment%1:14:00::"
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The secretary 's tone indicated that an appointment at such short notice was a concession for which Madden should be duly grateful. | such | {
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"sense_definitions_list": [
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]
} | [
"to so extreme a degree"
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"such%4:02:00::"
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The secretary 's tone indicated that an appointment at such short notice was a concession for which Madden should be duly grateful. | short | {
"name": "short",
"sense_definitions_list": [
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"primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration"
] | [
"short%3:00:02::"
] |
The secretary 's tone indicated that an appointment at such short notice was a concession for which Madden should be duly grateful. | notice | {
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"a request for payment",
"advance notification (usually written) of the intention to withdraw from an arrangement of contract",
... | [
"an announcement containing information about an event; ; ; \"a notice of sale"
] | [
"notice%1:10:01::"
] |
The secretary 's tone indicated that an appointment at such short notice was a concession for which Madden should be duly grateful. | was | {
"name": "be",
"sense_definitions_list": [
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"have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)",
"be identical to; be someone or something",
"occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere",
"have an ex... | [
"be identical to; be someone or something"
] | [
"be%2:42:06::"
] |
The secretary 's tone indicated that an appointment at such short notice was a concession for which Madden should be duly grateful. | concession | {
"name": "concession",
"sense_definitions_list": [
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"the act of conceding or yielding",
"a point conceded or yielded"
]
} | [
"the act of conceding or yielding"
] | [
"concession%1:10:02::"
] |
The secretary 's tone indicated that an appointment at such short notice was a concession for which Madden should be duly grateful. | Madden | {
"name": "person",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a human being",
"a human body (usually including the clothing)",
"a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party"
]
} | [
"a human being"
] | [
"person%1:03:00::"
] |
The secretary 's tone indicated that an appointment at such short notice was a concession for which Madden should be duly grateful. | be | {
"name": "be",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element",
"have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)",
"be identical to; be someone or something",
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"have an ex... | [
"have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)"
] | [
"be%2:42:03::"
] |
The secretary 's tone indicated that an appointment at such short notice was a concession for which Madden should be duly grateful. | duly | {
"name": "duly",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"at the proper time"
]
} | [
"at the proper time"
] | [
"duly%4:02:00::"
] |
The secretary 's tone indicated that an appointment at such short notice was a concession for which Madden should be duly grateful. | grateful | {
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"sense_definitions_list": [
"feeling or showing gratitude",
"affording comfort or pleasure"
]
} | [
"feeling or showing gratitude"
] | [
"grateful%3:00:00::"
] |
He inferred that Hohlbein and Garth were high-priced lawyers. | inferred | {
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"draw from specific cases for more general cases",
"conclude by reasoning; in logic",
"guess correctly; solve by guessing",
"believe to be the case"
]
} | [
"reason by deduction; establish by deduction"
] | [
"infer%2:31:00::"
] |
He inferred that Hohlbein and Garth were high-priced lawyers. | Hohlbein | {
"name": "person",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a human being",
"a human body (usually including the clothing)",
"a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party"
]
} | [
"a human being"
] | [
"person%1:03:00::"
] |
He inferred that Hohlbein and Garth were high-priced lawyers. | Garth | {
"name": "person",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a human being",
"a human body (usually including the clothing)",
"a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party"
]
} | [
"a human being"
] | [
"person%1:03:00::"
] |
He inferred that Hohlbein and Garth were high-priced lawyers. | were | {
"name": "be",
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"occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere",
"have an ex... | [
"be identical to; be someone or something"
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"be%2:42:06::"
] |
He inferred that Hohlbein and Garth were high-priced lawyers. | high-priced | {
"name": "high-priced",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"having a high price"
]
} | [
"having a high price"
] | [
"high-priced%5:00:00:expensive:00"
] |
He inferred that Hohlbein and Garth were high-priced lawyers. | lawyers | {
"name": "lawyer",
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"a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice"
]
} | [
"a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice"
] | [
"lawyer%1:18:00::"
] |
He had lunch with Pauling. | had | {
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] | [
"have%2:34:00::"
] |
He had lunch with Pauling. | lunch | {
"name": "lunch",
"sense_definitions_list": [
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"take the midday meal",
"provide a midday meal for"
]
} | [
"take the midday meal"
] | [
"lunch%2:34:00::"
] |
He had lunch with Pauling. | Pauling | {
"name": "person",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a human being",
"a human body (usually including the clothing)",
"a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party"
]
} | [
"a human being"
] | [
"person%1:03:00::"
] |
Promptly at one-thirty he entered Hohlbein and Garth 's elegant suite of offices in Medfield 's newest professional building. | Promptly | {
"name": "promptly",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"with little or no delay",
"in a punctual manner",
"at once (usually modifies an undesirable occurrence)"
]
} | [
"in a punctual manner"
] | [
"promptly%4:02:00::"
] |
Promptly at one-thirty he entered Hohlbein and Garth 's elegant suite of offices in Medfield 's newest professional building. | entered | {
"name": "enter",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"to come or go into",
"become a participant; be involved in",
"register formally as a participant or member",
"be or play a part of or in",
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"come on stage",
"take on duties or office",
"put... | [
"to come or go into"
] | [
"enter%2:38:00::"
] |
Promptly at one-thirty he entered Hohlbein and Garth 's elegant suite of offices in Medfield 's newest professional building. | Hohlbein | {
"name": "person",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a human being",
"a human body (usually including the clothing)",
"a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party"
]
} | [
"a human being"
] | [
"person%1:03:00::"
] |
Promptly at one-thirty he entered Hohlbein and Garth 's elegant suite of offices in Medfield 's newest professional building. | Garth | {
"name": "person",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a human being",
"a human body (usually including the clothing)",
"a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party"
]
} | [
"a human being"
] | [
"person%1:03:00::"
] |
Promptly at one-thirty he entered Hohlbein and Garth 's elegant suite of offices in Medfield 's newest professional building. | elegant | {
"name": "elegant",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style",
"suggesting taste, ease, and wealth",
"displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution"
]
} | [
"refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style"
] | [
"elegant%3:00:00::"
] |
Promptly at one-thirty he entered Hohlbein and Garth 's elegant suite of offices in Medfield 's newest professional building. | suite | {
"name": "suite",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected",
"apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)",
"the group following and attending to some important person",
"a matching set of furniture"... | [
"apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)"
] | [
"suite%1:06:00::"
] |
Promptly at one-thirty he entered Hohlbein and Garth 's elegant suite of offices in Medfield 's newest professional building. | offices | {
"name": "office",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed",
"an administrative unit of government",
"the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group",
"(of a government or government official) holding an... | [
"place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed"
] | [
"office%1:06:00::"
] |
Promptly at one-thirty he entered Hohlbein and Garth 's elegant suite of offices in Medfield 's newest professional building. | Medfield | {
"name": "person",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a human being",
"a human body (usually including the clothing)",
"a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party"
]
} | [
"a human being"
] | [
"person%1:03:00::"
] |
Promptly at one-thirty he entered Hohlbein and Garth 's elegant suite of offices in Medfield 's newest professional building. | newest | {
"name": "new",
"sense_definitions_list": [
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"original and of a kind not seen before",
"lacking training or experience",
"having no previous example or precedent or parallel",
"ot... | [
"not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered"
] | [
"new%3:00:00::"
] |
Promptly at one-thirty he entered Hohlbein and Garth 's elegant suite of offices in Medfield 's newest professional building. | professional | {
"name": "professional",
"sense_definitions_list": [
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"an athlete who plays for pay",
"an authority qualified to teach apprentices",
"engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood",
"of or relating to or suitab... | [
"of or relating to or suitable as a profession"
] | [
"professional%3:01:01::"
] |
Promptly at one-thirty he entered Hohlbein and Garth 's elegant suite of offices in Medfield 's newest professional building. | building | {
"name": "building",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place",
"the act of constructing something",
"the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones",
"the occupants of a building",
... | [
"a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place"
] | [
"building%1:06:00::"
] |
He disliked Garth on sight, conservative clothes and haircut, smile a shade too earnestly boyish for a man who must be well into his thirties, handclasp too consciously quick and firm. | disliked | {
"name": "dislike",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group",
"a feeling of aversion or antipathy",
"have or feel a dislike or distaste for"
]
} | [
"have or feel a dislike or distaste for"
] | [
"dislike%2:37:00::"
] |
He disliked Garth on sight, conservative clothes and haircut, smile a shade too earnestly boyish for a man who must be well into his thirties, handclasp too consciously quick and firm. | Garth | {
"name": "person",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a human being",
"a human body (usually including the clothing)",
"a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party"
]
} | [
"a human being"
] | [
"person%1:03:00::"
] |
He disliked Garth on sight, conservative clothes and haircut, smile a shade too earnestly boyish for a man who must be well into his thirties, handclasp too consciously quick and firm. | sight | {
"name": "sight",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"an instance of visual perception",
"anything that is seen",
"the ability to see; the visual faculty",
"a range of mental vision",
"the range of vision",
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"(often followed by `of') a large number o... | [
"the act of looking or seeing or observing"
] | [
"sight%1:04:00::"
] |
He disliked Garth on sight, conservative clothes and haircut, smile a shade too earnestly boyish for a man who must be well into his thirties, handclasp too consciously quick and firm. | conservative | {
"name": "conservative",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas",
"a member of a Conservative Party",
"resistant to change",
"having social or political views favoring conservatism",
"avoiding excess",
"unimaginatively conventional; - Newsweek... | [
"resistant to change"
] | [
"conservative%3:00:00::"
] |
He disliked Garth on sight, conservative clothes and haircut, smile a shade too earnestly boyish for a man who must be well into his thirties, handclasp too consciously quick and firm. | clothes | {
"name": "clothes",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"clothing in general",
"provide with clothes or put clothes on",
"furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors",
"cover as if with clothing"
]
} | [
"clothing in general"
] | [
"clothes%1:06:00::"
] |
He disliked Garth on sight, conservative clothes and haircut, smile a shade too earnestly boyish for a man who must be well into his thirties, handclasp too consciously quick and firm. | haircut | {
"name": "haircut",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"the style in which hair has been cut",
"the act of cutting the hair"
]
} | [
"the style in which hair has been cut"
] | [
"haircut%1:08:00::"
] |
He disliked Garth on sight, conservative clothes and haircut, smile a shade too earnestly boyish for a man who must be well into his thirties, handclasp too consciously quick and firm. | smile | {
"name": "smile",
"sense_definitions_list": [
"a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement",
"change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure",
"express with a smile"
]
} | [
"a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement"
] | [
"smile%1:10:00::"
] |
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