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Snare
- noun - a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head
- a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities
- a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose
- catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes"
- entice and trap; "The car salesman had snared three potential customers"
- something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares; "the exam was full of trap questions"; "it was all a snare and delusion"
- strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit
Snore
- noun - breathe noisily during one's sleep; "she complained that her husband snores"
- the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound
- the rattling noise produced when snoring
Spare
- adjective - a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- give up what is not strictly needed; "he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey"
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use; "a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts"
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
- lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"
- more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was s
Spere
- - To search; to pry; to ask; to inquire.
Spire
- noun - a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
Spore
- noun - a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion; "a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes"
Stare
- noun - a fixed look with eyes open wide
- fixate one's eyes; "The ancestor in the painting is staring down menacingly"
- look at with fixed eyes; "The students stared at the teacher with amazement"
Stere
- - A unit of cubic measure in the metric system, being a cubic meter, or kiloliter, and equal to 35.3 cubic feet, or nearly 1
Store
- noun - a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks"
- a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod"
- a supply of something available for future use; "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars"
- an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
- find a place for and put away for storage; "where should we stow the vegetables?"; "I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some"
- keep or lay aside for future use; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat"
Sucre
- noun - the basic unit of money in Ecuador; equal to 100 centavos
- the judicial capital and seat of the judiciary in Bolivia