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DEFINITION: (noun) A person who is of equal standing with another in a group. SYNONYMS: equal, peer, match. USAGE: He was a motivated and slightly competitive student who worked hard to distinguish himself from his compeers.

Lady Godiva was a noblewoman and a benefactor of several monasteries. According to legend, her husband agreed to remit the heavy taxation on the people of Coventry if she would ride naked through the town on a white horse. Lady Godiva took him at his word and, after issuing a proclamation that all the townspeople go indoors and shut their windows, she rode through, clothed only in her long hair. According to the legend, all but one of the townspeople obeyed her ordinance; who disobeyed?