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Plebs
- noun - one of the common people
Poems
- noun - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
Poets
- noun - a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
Preps
- noun - preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home)
Press
- noun - a dense crowd of people
- a machine used for printing
- a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
- a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead
- any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids
- ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons"
- be urgent; "This is a pressing problem"
- clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping when not in use
- create by pressing; "Press little holes into the soft clay"
- crowd closely; "The crowds pressed along the street"
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean
Preys
- noun - a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence; "he fell prey to muggers"; "everyone was fair game"; "the target of a manhunt"
- animal hunted or caught for food
- prey on or hunt for; "These mammals predate certain eggs"
- profit from in an exploitatory manner; "He feeds on her insecurity"
Reeds
- noun - a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
- 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"
- tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
- 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)
- United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
Reefs
- noun - a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese
- a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water
- lower and bring partially inboard; "reef the sailboat's mast"
- one of several strips across a sail that can be taken in or rolled up to lessen the area of the sail that is exposed to the wind
- reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef
- roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area
Reeks
- noun - a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
- be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face
- give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc.; "Marshes reeking in the sun"
- have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches smacked of racism"; "this passage smells of plagiarism"
- smell badly and offensively; "The building reeks of smoke"