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agent provocateur collapse: a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts

shill collapse: a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others; act as a shill; "The shill bid for the expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up"

ectoplasm collapse: the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm; (spiritualism) a substance supposed to emanate from the body of the medium during a trance

corn collapse: something sentimental or trite; "that movie was pure corn"; ears of corn grown for human food; tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times; (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in England or oats in Scotland and Ireland); the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal; a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes; preserve with salt; "corned beef"; feed (cattle) with corn

preprandial collapse: preceding a meal (especially dinner); "a preprandial drink"

carnivorous collapse: (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals; "carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects"; relating to or characteristic of carnivores; "the lion and other carnivorous animals"

denizen collapse: a plant or animal naturalized in a region; "denizens of field and forest"; "denizens of the deep"

embed collapse: attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war; "The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division"

reed collapse: a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it; "the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece"; United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902); United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920); tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites

appliance collapse: durable goods for home or office use; a device or control that is very useful for a particular job

stow away collapse: hide aboard a ship or a plane to get free transportation; "The illegal immigrants stowed away on board the freighter"

vegetarian collapse: eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products

vest collapse: a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat; clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes; clothe oneself in ecclesiastical garments; become legally vested; "The property vests in the trustees"; place (authority, property, or rights) in the control of a person or group of persons; "She vested her vast fortune in her two sons"

cold storage collapse: refrigerated storage for preservation; in a state of abeyance or postponement

belladonna collapse: an alkaloidal extract or tincture of the poisonous belladonna plant that is used medicinally; perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine

grass collapse: German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927); narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay; shoot down, of birds; feed with grass; cover with grass; spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach; cover with grass; "The owners decided to grass their property"

dibble collapse: a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs; make a hole with a wooden hand tool; "dibble the ground"; plant with a wooden hand tool; "dibble Spring bulbs"

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