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+package org.apache.lucene.wordnet;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.TermQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.Hits;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
+import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+public class SynLookup {
+
+  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
+    if (args.length != 2) {
+      System.out.println(
+    "java org.apache.lucene.wordnet.SynLookup <index path> <word>");
+    }
+
+    FSDirectory directory = FSDirectory.getDirectory(args[0], false);
+    IndexSearcher searcher = new IndexSearcher(directory);
+
+    String word = args[1];
+    Hits hits = searcher.search(
+      new TermQuery(new Term("word", word)));
+
+    if (hits.length() == 0) {
+      System.out.println("No synonyms found for " + word);
+    } else {
+      System.out.println("Synonyms found for \"" + word + "\":");
+    }
+
+    for (int i = 0; i < hits.length(); i++) {
+      Document doc = hits.doc(i);
+
+      String[] values = doc.getValues("syn");
+
+      for (int j = 0; j < values.length; j++) {
+        System.out.println(values[j]);
+      }
+    }
+
+    searcher.close();
+    directory.close();
+  }
+}