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kamet
  • n  a mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high)
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katsina
  • n  a city in northern Nigeria; a major center of the Hausa people
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irridentism
  • n  the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related
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ironworks
  • n  the workplace where iron is smelted or where iron goods are made
  • n  work made of iron (gratings or rails or railings etc)
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irony
  • n  witty language used to convey insults or scorn
    irony is wasted on the stupid
  • n  incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
    the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated
  • n  a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
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iroquoian
  • n  a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois
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iroquoian language
  • n  a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois
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iroquois
  • n  any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution
  • n  a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois
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iroquois league
  • n  a league of Iroquois tribes including originally the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca (the Five Nations); after 1722 they were joined by the Tuscarora (the Six Nations)
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irradiation
  • n  the condition of being exposed to radiation
  • n  a column of light (as from a beacon)
  • n  (physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex
  • n  the apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark background
  • n  (Pavolvian conditioning) the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus
  • n  (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
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