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• faint — [[t]fe͟ɪnt[/t]] fainter, faintest, faints, fainting, fainted 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n A faint sound, colour, mark, feeling, or quality has very little strength or intensity. He became aware of the soft, faint sounds of water dripping... The room… …   English dictionary

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• Zoe — noun a common spelling variant of Zoë. Rosalie smiled faintly, and at the clapping of her hands, the raven haired Zoe, in all her surpassing beauty, entered the apartment …   Wiktionary

• big one — noun a) One hundred or one thousand dollars. “Little Caesar stopped by. You guessed it. himself, and paid four big ones for the seated figure. ” b) A dollar. He smiled faintly and dropped 100 big ones down on the bar …   Wiktionary

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• smile — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, bright, broad, huge, wide ▪ She had a big smile on her face. ▪ faint, slight …   Collocations dictionary

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• vaguely — adverb 1) she looks vaguely familiar Syn: slightly, a little, a bit, somewhat, rather, in a way; faintly, obscurely; informal sort of, kind of, kinda Ant: very 2) he fired his rifle vaguely in our direct …   Thesaurus of popular words