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alone
  • s  isolated from others
    could be alone in a crowded room
    was alone with her thoughts
    I want to be alone
  • s  lacking companions or companionship
    he was alone when we met him
    she is alone much of the time
  • s  exclusive of anyone or anything else
    she alone believed him
    cannot live by bread alone
  • s  radically distinctive and without equal
    he is alone in the field of microbiology
    this theory is altogether alone in its penetration of the problem
  • r  without any others being included or involved
    the burden of proof rests on the prosecution alone
  • r  without anybody else or anything else
    the child stayed home alone
    the pillar stood alone, supporting nothing
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aloof
  • s  remote in manner
    stood apart with aloof dignity
  • r  in an aloof manner
    the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough
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alpha
  • n  the 1st letter of the Greek alphabet
  • n  the beginning of a series or sequence
  • s  first in order of importance
    the alpha male in the group of chimpanzees
    the alpha star in a constellation is the brightest or main star
  • s  early testing stage of a software or hardware product
    alpha version
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alphabetic
  • a  relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet
    alphabetical writing system
  • a  arranged in order according to the alphabet
    an alphabetic arrangement
    dictionaries list words in alphabetical order
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alphabetical
  • a  relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet
    alphabetical writing system
  • a  arranged in order according to the alphabet
    dictionaries list words in alphabetical order
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alphabetised
  • v  arrange in alphabetical order
  • s  having been put in alphabetical order
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alphabetized
  • v  arrange in alphabetical order
  • v  provide with an alphabet
    Cyril and Method alphabetized the Slavic languages
  • s  having been put in alphabetical order
    the cards are all alphabetized, as you requested
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alpine
  • a  relating to or characteristic of alps
    alpine sports
  • a  relating to the Alps and their inhabitants
  • s  living or growing above the timber line
    alpine flowers
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