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Ticklish

Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish.

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Difficult 84% connected

Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.

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Difficult 84% connected

Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.

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Hard 84% connected

Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to so…

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Hard 84% connected

Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to so…

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Delicate 92% connected

Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Touchy 92% connected

Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.

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Abanga noun · 78% connection

A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.

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Arenga noun · 78% connection

A palm tree (Saguerus saccharifer) which furnishes sago, wine, and fibers for ropes; the gomuti palm.

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Arrack noun · 78% connection

A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, m…

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Back noun · 78% connection

The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back…

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Caesura noun · 78% connection

A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle…

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Carnauba noun · 78% connection

The Brazilian wax palm. See Wax palm.

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Date noun · 78% connection

The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.

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Exoskeleton noun · 78% connection

The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor…

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Fist noun · 78% connection

The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.

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Flat foot unknown · 78% connection

A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, us…

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Foot noun · 78% connection

The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a mountain or column; also, the last of a row or series; the end or extrem…

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Hand noun · 78% connection

An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a…

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Hard-mouthed adjective · 78% connection

Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard-mouthed horse.

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Hogchoker noun · 78% connection

An American sole (Achirus lineatus, or A. achirus), related to the European sole, but of no market value.

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Jaggery noun · 78% connection

Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically that of the pa…

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Left-hand adjective · 78% connection

Situated on the left; nearer the left hand than the right; as, the left-hand side; the left-hand road.

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Medley noun · 78% connection

The confusion of a hand to hand battle; a brisk, hand to hand engagement; a melee.

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Palmyra noun · 78% connection

tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used…

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