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interdict
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(n.) Authoritative act of prohibition.
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interim
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(n.) Time between acts or periods.
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interlocutor
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(n.) One who takes part in a conversation or oral discussion.
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interlude
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(n.) An action or event considered as coming between others of greater length.
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intermediate
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(adj.) Being in a middle place or degree or between extremes.
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interminable
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(adj.) Having no limit or end.
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intermission
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(n.) A recess.
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intermit
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(v.) To cause to cease temporarily.
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intermittent
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(adj.) A temporary discontinuance.
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interpolation
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(n.) Verbal interference.
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interpose
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(v.) To come between other things or persons.
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interposition
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(n.) A coming between.
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interpreter
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(n.) A person who makes intelligible the speech of a foreigner by oral translation.
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interrogate
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(v.) To examine formally by questioning.
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interrogative
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(adj.) Having the nature or form of a question.
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interrogatory
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(n.) A question or inquiry.
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interrupt
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(v.) To stop while in progress.
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intersect
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(v.) To cut through or into so as to divide.
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intervale
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(n.) A low tract of land between hills, especially along a river.
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intervene
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(v.) To interfere for some end.
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intestacy
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(n.) The condition resulting from one's dying not having made a valid will.
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intestate
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(adj.) Not having made a valid will.
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intestine
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(n.) That part of the digestive tube below or behind the stomach, extending to the anus.
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intimacy
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(n.) Close or confidential friendship.
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intimidate
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(v.) To cause to become frightened.
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intolerable
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(adj.) Insufferable.
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intolerance
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(n.) Inability or unwillingness to bear or endure.
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intolerant
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(adj.) Bigoted.
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intoxicant
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(n.) Anything that unduly exhilarates or excites.
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intoxicate
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(v.) To make drunk.
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intracellular
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(adj.) Occurring or situated within a cell.
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intramural
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(adj.) Situated within the walls of a city.
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intrepid
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(adj.) Fearless and bold.
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intricacy
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(n.) Perplexity.
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intricate
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(adj.) Difficult to follow or understand.
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intrigue
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(n.) A plot or scheme, usually complicated and intended to accomplish something by secret ways.
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intrinsic
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(adj.) Inherent.
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introductory
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(adj.) Preliminary.
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introgression
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(n.) Entrance.
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intromit
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(v.) To insert.
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introspect
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(v.) To look into.
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introspection
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(n.) The act of observing and analyzing one's own thoughts and feelings.
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introversion
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(n.) The act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally.
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introvert
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(v.) To turn within.
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intrude
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(v.) To come in without leave or license.
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intrusion
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(n.) The act of entering without warrant or invitation; encroachment.
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intuition
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(n.) Instinctive knowledge or feeling.
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inundate
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(v.) To fill with an overflowing abundance.
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inundation
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(n.) Flood.
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inure
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(v.) To harden or toughen by use, exercise, or exposure.
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invalid
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(adj.) Having no force, weight, or cogency.
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invalid
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(n.) One who is disabled by illness or injury.
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invalidate
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(v.) To render of no force or effect.
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invaluable
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(adj.) Exceedingly precious.
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invariable
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(adj.) Unchangeable.
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invasion
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(n.) Encroachment, as by an act of intrusion or trespass.
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invective
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(n.) An utterance intended to cast censure, or reproach.
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inveigh
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(v.) To utter vehement censure or invective.
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inventive
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(adj.) Quick at contrivance.
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inverse
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(adj.) Contrary in tendency or direction.
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inversion
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(n.) Change of order so that the first shall become last and the last first.
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invert
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(v.) To turn inside out, upside down, or in opposite direction.
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investigator
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(n.) One who investigates.
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investor
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(n.) One who invests money.
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inveterate
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(adj.) Habitual.
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invidious
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(adj.) Showing or feeling envy.
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invigorate
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(v.) To animate.
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invincible
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(adj.) Not to be conquered, subdued, or overcome.
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inviolable
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(adj.) Incapable of being injured or disturbed.
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invoke
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(v.) To call on for assistance or protection.
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involuntary
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(adj.) Unwilling.
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involution
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(n.) Complication.
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involve
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(v.) To draw into entanglement, literally or figuratively.
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invulnerable
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(adj.) That can not be wounded or hurt.
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inwardly
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(adv.) With no outward manifestation.
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iota
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(n.) A small or insignificant mark or part.
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irascible
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(adj.) Prone to anger.
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irate
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(adj.) Moved to anger.
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ire
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(n.) Wrath.
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iridescence
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(n.) A many-colored appearance.
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iridescent
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(adj.) Exhibiting changing rainbow-colors due to the interference of the light.
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irk
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(v.) To afflict with pain, vexation, or fatigue.
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irksome
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(adj.) Wearisome.
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irony
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(n.) Censure or ridicule under cover of praise or compliment.
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irradiance
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(n.) Luster.
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irradiate
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(v.) To render clear and intelligible.
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irrational
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(adj.) Not possessed of reasoning powers or understanding.
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irreducible
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(adj.) That can not be lessened.
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irrefragable
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(adj.) That can not be refuted or disproved.
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irrefrangible
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(adj.) That can not be broken or violated.
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irrelevant
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(adj.) Inapplicable.
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irreligious
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(adj.) Indifferent or opposed to religion.
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irreparable
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(adj.) That can not be rectified or made amends for.
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irrepressible
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(adj.) That can not be restrained or kept down.
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irresistible
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(adj.) That can not be successfully withstood or opposed.
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irresponsible
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(adj.) Careless of or unable to meet responsibilities.
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irreverence
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(n.) The quality showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
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irreverent
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(adj.) Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
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irreverential
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(adj.) Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
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irreversible
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(adj.) Irrevocable.
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irrigant
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(adj.) Serving to water lands by artificial means.
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irrigate
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(v.) To water, as land, by ditches or other artificial means.
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irritable
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(adj.) Showing impatience or ill temper on little provocation.
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irritancy
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(n.) The quality of producing vexation.
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irritant
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(n.) A mechanical, chemical, or pathological agent of inflammation, pain, or tension.
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irritate
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(v.) To excite ill temper or impatience in.
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irruption
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(n.) Sudden invasion.
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isle
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(n.) An island.
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islet
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(n.) A little island.
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isobar
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(n.) A line joining points at which the barometric pressure is the same at a specified moment.
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isochronous
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(adj.) Relating to or denoting equal intervals of time.
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isolate
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(v.) To separate from others of its kind.
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isothermal
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(adj.) Having or marking equality of temperature.
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itinerant
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(adj.) Wandering.
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itinerary
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(n.) A detailed account or diary of a journey.
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itinerate
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(v.) To wander from place to place.
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jargon
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(n.) Confused, unintelligible speech or highly technical speech.
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jaundice
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(n.) A morbid condition, due to obstructed excretion of bile or characterized by yellowing of the skin.
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jeopardize
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(v.) To imperil.
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Jingo
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(n.) One of a party in Great Britain in favor of spirited and demonstrative foreign policy.
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jocose
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(adj.) Done or made in jest.
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jocular
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(adj.) Inclined to joke.
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joggle
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(n.) A sudden irregular shake or a push causing such a shake.
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journalize
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(v.) To keep a diary.
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jovial
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(adj.) Merry.
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jubilation
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(n.) Exultation.
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judgment
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(n.) The faculty by the exercise of which a deliberate conclusion is reached.
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judicature
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(n.) Distribution and administration of justice by trial and judgment.
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judicial
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(adj.) Pertaining to the administration of justice.
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judiciary
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(n.) That department of government which administers the law relating to civil and criminal justice.
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judicious
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(adj.) Prudent.
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juggle
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(v.) To play tricks of sleight of hand.
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jugglery
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(n.) The art or practice of sleight of hand.
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jugular
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(adj.) Pertaining to the throat.
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juicy
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(adj.) Succulent.
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junction
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(n.) The condition of being joined.
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juncture
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(n.) An articulation, joint, or seam.
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junta
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(n.) A council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of government.
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juridical
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(adj.) Assumed by law to exist.
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jurisdiction
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(n.) Lawful power or right to exercise official authority.
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jurisprudence
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(n.) The science of rights in accordance with positive law.
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juror
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(n.) One who serves on a jury or is sworn in for jury duty in a court of justice.
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joust
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(v.) To engage in a tilt with lances on horseback.
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justification
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(n.) Vindication.
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juvenile
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(adj.) Characteristic of youth.
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juxtapose
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(v.) To place close together.
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keepsake
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(n.) Anything kept or given to be kept for the sake of the giver.
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kerchief
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(n.) A square of linen, silk, or other material, used as a covering for the head or neck.
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kernel
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(n.) A grain or seed.
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kiln
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(n.) An oven or furnace for baking, burning, or drying industrial products.
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kiloliter
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(n.) One thousand liters.
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kilometer
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(n.) A length of 1,000 meters.
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kilowatt
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(n.) One thousand watts.
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kimono
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(n.) A loose robe, fastening with a sash, the principal outer garment in Japan.
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kind-hearted
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(adj.) Having a kind and sympathetic nature.
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kingling
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(n.) A petty king.
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kingship
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(n.) Royal state.
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kinsfolk
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(n.) pl. Relatives.
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knavery
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(n.) Deceitfulness in dealing.
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knead
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(v.) To mix and work into a homogeneous mass, especially with the hands.
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knickknack
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(n.) A small article, more for ornament that use.
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knight errant
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(n.) One of the wandering knights who in the middle ages went forth in search of adventure.
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knighthood
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(n.) Chivalry.
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laborious
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(adj.) Toilsome.
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labyrinth
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(n.) A maze.
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lacerate
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(v.) To tear rudely or raggedly.
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lackadaisical
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(adj.) Listless.
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lactation
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(n.) The secretion of milk.
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lacteal
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(adj.) Milky.
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lactic
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(adj.) Pertaining to milk.
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laddie
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(n.) A lad.
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ladle
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(n.) A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, intended for dipping up and pouring liquids.
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laggard
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(adj.) Falling behind.
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landholder
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(n.) Landowner.
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landlord
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(n.) A man who owns and lets a tenement or tenements.
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landmark
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(n.) A familiar object in the landscape serving as a guide to an area otherwise easily lost track of.
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landscape
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(n.) A rural view, especially one of picturesque effect, as seen from a distance or an elevation.
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languid
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(adj.) Relaxed.
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languor
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(n.) Lassitude of body or depression.
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lapse
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(n.) A slight deviation from what is right, proper, or just.
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lascivious
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(adj.) Lustful.
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lassie
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(n.) A little lass.
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latent
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(adj.) Dormant.
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latency
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(n.) The state of being dormant.
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later
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(adv.) At a subsequent time.
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lateral
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(adj.) Directed toward the side.
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latish
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(adj.) Rather late.
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lattice
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(n.) Openwork of metal or wood, formed by crossing or interlacing strips or bars.
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laud
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(v.) To praise in words or song.
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laudable
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(adj.) Praiseworthy.
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laudation
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(n.) High praise.
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laudatory
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(adj.) Pertaining to, expressing, or containing praise.
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laundress
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(n.) Washerwoman.
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laureate
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(adj.) Crowned with laurel, as a mark of distinction.
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lave
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(v.) To wash or bathe.
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lawgiver
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(n.) A legislator.
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lawmaker
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(n.) A legislator.
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lax
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(adj.) Not stringent or energetic.
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laxative
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(adj.) Having power to open or loosen the bowels.
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lea
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(n.) A field.
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leaflet
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(n.) A little leaf or a booklet.
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leaven
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(v.) To make light by fermentation, as dough.
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leeward
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(n.) That side or direction toward which the wind blows.
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left-handed
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(adj.) Using the left hand or arm more dexterously than the right.
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legacy
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(n.) A bequest.
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legalize
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(v.) To give the authority of law to.
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legging
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(n.) A covering for the leg.
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legible
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(adj.) That may be read with ease.
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legionary
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(n.) A member of an ancient Roman legion or of the modern French Legion of Honor.
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legislate
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(v.) To make or enact a law or laws.
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legislative
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(adj.) That makes or enacts laws.
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legislator
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(n.) A lawgiver.
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legitimacy
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(n.) Accordance with law.
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legitimate
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(adj.) Having the sanction of law or established custom.
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leisure
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(n.) Spare time.
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leniency
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(n.) Forbearance.
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lenient
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(adj.) Not harsh.
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leonine
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(adj.) Like a lion.
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lethargy
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(n.) Prolonged sluggishness of body or mind.
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levee
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(n.) An embankment beside a river or stream or an arm of the sea, to prevent overflow.
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lever
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(n.) That which exerts, or through which one may exert great power.
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leviathan
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(n.) Any large animal, as a whale.
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levity
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(n.) Frivolity.
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levy
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(v.) To impose and collect by force or threat of force.
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lewd
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(adj.) Characterized by lust or lasciviousness.
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lexicographer
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(n.) One who makes dictionaries.
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lexicography
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(n.) The making of dictionaries.
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lexicon
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(n.) A dictionary.
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liable
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(adj.) Justly or legally responsible.
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libel
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(n.) Defamation.
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liberalism
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(n.) Opposition to conservatism.
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liberate
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(v.) To set free or release from bondage.
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licentious
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(adj.) Wanton.
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licit
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(adj.) Lawful.
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liege
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(adj.) Sovereign.
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lien
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(n.) A legal claim or hold on property, as security for a debt or charge.
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lieu
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(n.) Stead.
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lifelike
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(adj.) Realistic.
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lifelong
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(adj.) Lasting or continuous through life.
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lifetime
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(n.) The time that life continues.
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ligament
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(n.) That which binds objects together.
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ligature
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(n.) Anything that constricts, or serves for binding or tying.
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light-hearted
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(adj.) Free from care.
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ligneous
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(adj.) Having the texture of appearance of wood.
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likelihood
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(n.) A probability.
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likely
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(adj.) Plausible.
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liking
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(n.) Fondness.
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limitation
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(n.) A restriction.
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linear
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(adj.) Of the nature of a line.
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liner
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(n.) A vessel belonging to a steamship-line.
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lingo
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(n.) Language.
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lingua
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(n.) The tongue.
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lingual
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(adj.) Pertaining to the use of the tongue in utterance.
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linguist
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(n.) One who is acquainted with several languages.
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linguistics
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(n.) The science of languages, or of the origin, history, and significance of words.
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liniment
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(n.) A liquid preparation for rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, inflammation, etc.
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liquefacient
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(adj.) Possessing a liquefying nature or power.
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liquefy
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(v.) To convert into a liquid or into liquid form.
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liqueur
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(n.) An alcoholic cordial sweetened and flavored with aromatic substances.
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liquidate
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(v.) To deliver the amount or value of.
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liquor
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(n.) Any alcoholic or intoxicating liquid.
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listless
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(adj.) Inattentive.
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literacy
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(n.) The state or condition of knowing how to read and write.
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literal
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(adj.) Following the exact words.
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literature
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(n.) The written or printed productions of the human mind collectively.
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lithe
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(adj.) Supple.
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lithesome
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(adj.) Nimble.
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lithograph
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(n.) A print made by printing from stone.
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lithotype
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(n.) In engraving, an etched stone surface for printing.
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litigant
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(n.) A party to a lawsuit.
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litigate
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(v.) To cause to become the subject-matter of a suit at law.
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litigious
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(adj.) Quarrelsome.
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littoral
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(adj.) Of, pertaining to, or living on a shore.
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liturgy
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(n.) A ritual.
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livelihood
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(n.) Means of subsistence.
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livid
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(adj.) Black-and-blue, as contused flesh.
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loam
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(n.) A non-coherent mixture of sand and clay.
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loath
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(adj.) Averse.
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loathe
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(v.) To abominate.
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locative
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(adj.) Indicating place, or the place where or wherein an action occurs.
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loch
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(n.) A lake.
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locomotion
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(n.) The act or power of moving from one place to another.
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lode
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(n.) A somewhat continuous unstratified metal- bearing vein.
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lodgment
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(n.) The act of furnishing with temporary quarters.
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logic
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(n.) The science of correct thinking.
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logical
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(adj.) Capable of or characterized by clear reasoning.
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logician
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(n.) An expert reasoner.
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loiterer
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(n.) One who consumes time idly.
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loneliness
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(n.) Solitude.
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longevity
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(n.) Unusually prolonged life.
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loot
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(v.) To plunder.
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loquacious
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(adj.) Talkative.
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lordling
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(n.) A little lord.
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lough
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(n.) A lake or loch.
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louse
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(n.) A small insect parasitic on and sucking the blood of mammals.
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lovable
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(adj.) Amiable.
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low-spirited
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(adj.) Despondent.
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lowly
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(adv.) Rudely.
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lucid
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(adj.) Mentally sound.
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lucrative
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(adj.) Highly profitable.
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ludicrous
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(adj.) Laughable.
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luminary
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(n.) One of the heavenly bodies as a source of light.
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luminescent
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(adj.) Showing increase of light.
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luminescence
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(n.) Showing increase.
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luminosity
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(n.) The quality of giving or radiating light.
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luminous
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(adj.) Giving or radiating light.
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lunacy
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(n.) Mental unsoundness.
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lunar
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(adj.) Pertaining to the moon.
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lunatic
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(n.) An insane person.
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lune
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(n.) The moon.
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lurid
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(adj.) Ghastly and sensational.
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luscious
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(adj.) Rich, sweet, and delicious.
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lustrous
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(adj.) Shining.
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luxuriance
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(n.) Excessive or superfluous growth or quantity.
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luxuriant
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(adj.) Abundant or superabundant in growth.
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luxuriate
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(v.) To live sumptuously.
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lying
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(n.) Untruthfulness.
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lyre
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(n.) One of the most ancient of stringed instruments of the harp class.
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lyric
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(adj.) Fitted for expression in song.
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macadamize
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(v.) To cover or pave, as a path or roadway, with small broken stone.
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machinery
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(n.) The parts of a machine or engine, taken collectively.
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machinist
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(n.) One who makes or repairs machines, or uses metal-working tools.
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macrocosm
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(n.) The whole of any sphere or department of nature or knowledge to which man is related.
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madden
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(v.) To inflame with passion.
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Madonna
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(n.) A painted or sculptured representation of the Virgin, usually with the infant Jesus.
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magician
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(n.) A sorcerer.
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magisterial
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(adj.) Having an air of authority.
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magistracy
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(n.) The office or dignity of a magistrate.
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magnanimous
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(adj.) Generous in treating or judging others.
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magnate
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(n.) A person of rank or importance.
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magnet
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(n.) A body possessing that peculiar form of polarity found in nature in the lodestone.
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magnetize
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(v.) To make a magnet of, permanently, or temporarily.
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magnificence
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(n.) The exhibition of greatness of action, character, intellect, wealth, or power.
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magnificent
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(adj.) Grand or majestic in appearance, quality, or action.
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magnitude
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(n.) Importance.
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maharaja
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(n.) A great Hindu prince.
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maidenhood
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(n.) Virginity.
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maintain
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(v.) To hold or preserve in any particular state or condition.
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maintenance
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(n.) That which supports or sustains.
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maize
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(n.) Indian corn: usually in the United States called simply corn.
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makeup
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(n.) The arrangements or combination of the parts of which anything is composed.
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malady
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(n.) Any physical disease or disorder, especially a chronic or deep-seated one.
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malaria
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(n.) A fever characterized by alternating chills, fever, and sweating.
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malcontent
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(n.) One who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs.
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malediction
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(n.) The calling down of a curse or curses.
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malefactor
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(n.) One who injures another.
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maleficent
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(adj.) Mischievous.
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malevolence
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(n.) Ill will.
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malevolent
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(adj.) Wishing evil to others.
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malign
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(v.) To speak evil of, especially to do so falsely and severely.
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malignant
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(adj.) Evil in nature or tending to do great harm or mischief.
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malleable
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(adj.) Pliant.
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mallet
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(n.) A wooden hammer.
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maltreat
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(v.) To treat ill, unkindly, roughly, or abusively.
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man-trap
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(n.) A place or structure dangerous to human life.
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mandate
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(n.) A command.
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mandatory
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(adj.) Expressive of positive command, as distinguished from merely directory.
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mane
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(n.) The long hair growing upon and about the neck of certain animals, as the horse and the lion.
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man-eater
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(n.) An animal that devours human beings.
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maneuver
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(v.) To make adroit or artful moves: manage affairs by strategy.
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mania
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(n.) Insanity.
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maniac
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(n.) a person raving with madness.
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manifesto
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(n.) A public declaration, making announcement, explanation or defense of intentions, or motives.
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manlike
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(adj.) Like a man.
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manliness
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(n.) The qualities characteristic of a true man, as bravery, resolution, etc.
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mannerism
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(n.) Constant or excessive adherence to one manner, style, or peculiarity, as of action or conduct.
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manor
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(n.) The landed estate of a lord or nobleman.
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mantel
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(n.) The facing, sometimes richly ornamented, about a fireplace, including the usual shelf above it.
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mantle
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(n.) A cloak.
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manufacturer
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(n.) A person engaged in manufacturing as a business.
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manumission
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(n.) Emancipation.
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manumit
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(v.) To set free from bondage.
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marine
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(adj.) Of or pertaining to the sea or matters connected with the sea.
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maritime
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(adj.) Situated on or near the sea.
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maroon
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(v.) To put ashore and abandon (a person) on a desolate coast or island.
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martial
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(adj.) Pertaining to war or military operations.
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Martian
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(adj.) Pertaining to Mars, either the Roman god of war or the planet.
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martyrdom
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(n.) Submission to death or persecution for the sake of faith or principle.
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marvel
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(v.) To be astonished and perplexed because of (something).
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masonry
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(n.) The art or work of constructing, as buildings, walls, etc., with regularly arranged stones.
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masquerade
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(n.) A social party composed of persons masked and costumed so as to be disguised.
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massacre
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(n.) The unnecessary and indiscriminate killing of human beings.
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massive
|
(adj.) Of considerable bulk and weight.
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masterpiece
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(n.) A superior production.
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mastery
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(n.) The attainment of superior skill.
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material
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(n.) That of which anything is composed or may be constructed.
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materialize
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(v.) To take perceptible or substantial form.
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maternal
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(adj.) Pertaining or peculiar to a mother or to motherhood.
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matinee
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(n.) An entertainment (especially theatrical) held in the daytime.
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matricide
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(n.) The killing, especially the murdering, of one's mother.
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matrimony
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(n.) The union of a man and a woman in marriage.
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matrix
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(n.) That which contains and gives shape or form to anything.
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matter of fact
|
(n.) Something that has actual and undeniable existence or reality.
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maudlin
|
(adj.) Foolishly and tearfully affectionate.
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mausoleum
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(n.) A tomb of more than ordinary size or architectural pretensions.
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mawkish
|
(adj.) Sickening or insipid.
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maxim
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(n.) A principle accepted as true and acted on as a rule or guide.
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maze
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(n.) A labyrinth.
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mead
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(n.) A meadow.
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meager
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(adj.) scanty.
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mealy-mouthed
|
(adj.) Afraid to express facts or opinions plainly.
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meander
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(v.) To wind and turn while proceeding in a course.
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mechanics
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(n.) The branch of physics that treats the phenomena caused by the action of forces.
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medallion
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(n.) A large medal.
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meddlesome
|
(adj.) Interfering.
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medial
|
(adj.) Of or pertaining to the middle.
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mediate
|
(v.) To effect by negotiating as an agent between parties.
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medicine
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(n.) A substance possessing or reputed to possess curative or remedial properties.
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medieval
|
(adj.) Belonging or relating to or descriptive of the middle ages.
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mediocre
|
(adj.) Ordinary.
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meditation
|
(n.) The turning or revolving of a subject in the mind.
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medley
|
(n.) A composition of different songs or parts of songs arranged to run as a continuous whole.
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meliorate
|
(v.) To make better or improve, as in quality or social or physical condition.
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mellifluous
|
(adj.) Sweetly or smoothly flowing.
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melodious
|
(adj.) Characterized by a sweet succession of sounds.
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melodrama
|
(n.) A drama with a romantic story or plot and sensational situation and incidents.
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memento
|
(n.) A souvenir.
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memorable
|
(adj.) Noteworthy.
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menace
|
(n.) A threat.
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|
menagerie
|
(n.) A collection of wild animals, especially when kept for exhibition.
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mendacious
|
(adj.) Untrue.
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mendicant
|
(n.) A beggar.
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mentality
|
(n.) Intellectuality.
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mentor
|
(n.) A wise and faithful teacher, guide, and friend.
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mercantile
|
(adj.) Conducted or acting on business principles; commercial.
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mercenary
|
(adj.) Greedy
|
|
merciful
|
(adj.) Disposed to pity and forgive.
|
|
merciless
|
(adj.) Cruel.
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|
meretricious
|
(adj.) Alluring by false or gaudy show.
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mesmerize
|
(v.) To hypnotize.
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messieurs
|
(n.) pl. Gentlemen.
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metal
|
(n.) An element that forms a base by combining with oxygen, is usually hard, heavy, and lustrous.
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metallurgy
|
(n.) The art or science of extracting a metal from ores, as by smelting.
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metamorphosis
|
(n.) A passing from one form or shape into another.
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metaphor
|
(n.) A figure of speech in which one object is likened to another, by speaking as if the other.
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metaphysical
|
(adj.) Philosophical.
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metaphysician
|
(n.) One skilled in metaphysics.
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metaphysics
|
(n.) The principles of philosophy as applied to explain the methods of any particular science.
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mete
|
(v.) To apportion.
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|
metempsychosis
|
(n.) Transition of the soul of a human being at death into another body, whether human or beast.
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meticulous
|
(adj.) Over-cautious.
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metonymy
|
(n.) A figure of speech that consists in the naming of a thing by one of its attributes.
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|
metric
|
(adj.) Relating to measurement.
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|
metronome
|
(n.) An instrument for indicating and marking exact time in music.
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metropolis
|
(n.) A chief city, either the capital or the largest or most important city of a state.
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metropolitan
|
(adj.) Pertaining to a chief city.
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mettle
|
(n.) Courage.
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mettlesome
|
(adj.) Having courage or spirit.
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microcosm
|
(n.) The world or universe on a small scale.
|
|
micrometer
|
(n.) An instrument for measuring very small angles or dimensions.
|
|
microphone
|
(n.) An apparatus for magnifying faint sounds.
|
|
microscope
|
(n.) An instrument for assisting the eye in the vision of minute objects or features of objects.
|
|
microscopic
|
(adj.) Adapted to or characterized by minute observation.
|
|
microscopy
|
(n.) The art of examing objects with the microscope.
|
|
midsummer
|
(n.) The middle of the summer.
|
|
midwife
|
(n.) A woman who makes a business of assisting at childbirth.
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mien
|
(n.) The external appearance or manner of a person.
|
|
migrant
|
(adj.) Wandering.
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migrate
|
(v.) To remove or pass from one country, region, or habitat to another.
|
|
migratory
|
(adj.) Wandering.
|
|
mileage
|
(n.) A distance in miles.
|
|
militant
|
(adj.) Of a warlike or combative disposition or tendency.
|
|
militarism
|
(n.) A policy of maintaining great standing armies.
|
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militate
|
(v.) To have weight or influence (in determining a question).
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|
militia
|
(n.) Those citizens, collectively, who are enrolled and drilled in temporary military organizations.
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Milky Way
|
(n.) The galaxy.
|
|
millet
|
(n.) A grass cultivated for forage and cereal.
|
|
mimic
|
(v.) To imitate the speech or actions of.
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|
miniature
|
(adj.) Much smaller than reality or that the normal size.
|
|
minimize
|
(v.) To reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree.
|
|
minion
|
(n.) A servile favorite.
|
|
ministration
|
(n.) Any religious ceremonial.
|
|
ministry
|
(n.) A service.
|
|
minority
|
(n.) The smaller in number of two portions into which a number or a group is divided.
|
|
minute
|
(adj.) Exceedingly small in extent or quantity.
|
|
minutia
|
(n.) A small or unimportant particular or detail.
|
|
mirage
|
(n.) An optical effect looking like a sheet of water in the desert.
|
|
misadventure
|
(n.) An unlucky accident.
|
|
misanthropic
|
(adj.) Hating mankind.
|
|
misanthropy
|
(n.) Hatred of mankind.
|
|
misapprehend
|
(v.) To misunderstand.
|
|
misbehave
|
(v.) To behave ill.
|
|
misbehavior
|
(n.) Ill or improper behavior.
|
|
mischievous
|
(adj.) Fond of tricks.
|
|
miscount
|
(v.) To make a mistake in counting.
|
|
miscreant
|
(n.) A villain.
|
|
misdeed
|
(n.) A wrong or improper act.
|
|
misdemeanor
|
(n.) Evil conduct, small crime.
|
|
miser
|
(n.) A person given to saving and hoarding unduly.
|
|
mishap
|
(n.) Misfortune.
|
|
misinterpret
|
(v.) To misunderstand.
|
|
mislay
|
(v.) To misplace.
|
|
mismanage
|
(v.) To manage badly, improperly, or unskillfully.
|
|
misnomer
|
(n.) A name wrongly or mistakenly applied.
|
|
misogamy
|
(n.) Hatred of marriage.
|
|
misogyny
|
(n.) Hatred of women.
|
|
misplace
|
(v.) To put into a wrong place.
|
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misrepresent
|
(v.) To give a wrong impression.
|
|
misrule
|
(v.) To misgovern.
|
|
missal
|
(n.) The book containing the service for the celebration of mass.
|
|
missile
|
(n.) Any object, especially a weapon, thrown or intended to be thrown.
|
|
missive
|
(n.) A message in writing.
|
|
mistrust
|
(v.) To regard with suspicion or jealousy.
|
|
misty
|
(adj.) Lacking clearness
|
|
misunderstand
|
(v.) To Take in a wrong sense.
|
|
misuse
|
(v.) To maltreat.
|
|
mite
|
(n.) A very small amount, portion, or particle.
|
|
miter
|
(n.) The junction of two bodies at an equally divided angle.
|
|
mitigate
|
(v.) To make milder or more endurable.
|
|
mnemonics
|
(n.) A system of principles and formulas designed to assist the recollection in certain instances.
|
|
moat
|
(n.) A ditch on the outside of a fortress wall.
|
|
mobocracy
|
(n.) Lawless control of public affairs by the mob or populace.
|
|
moccasin
|
(n.) A foot-covering made of soft leather or buckskin.
|
|
mockery
|
(n.) Ridicule.
|
|
moderation
|
(n.) Temperance.
|
|
moderator
|
(n.) The presiding officer of a meeting.
|
|
modernity
|
(n.) The state or character of being modern.
|
|
modernize
|
(v.) To make characteristic of the present or of recent times.
|
|
modification
|
(n.) A change.
|
|
modify
|
(v.) To make somewhat different.
|
|
modish
|
(adj.) Fashionable.
|
|
modulate
|
(v.) To vary in tone, inflection, pitch or other quality of sound.
|
|
mollify
|
(v.) To soothe.
|
|
molt
|
(v.) To cast off, as hair, feathers, etc.
|
|
momentary
|
(adj.) Lasting but a short time.
|
|
momentous
|
(adj.) Very significant.
|
|
momentum
|
(n.) An impetus.
|
|
monarchy
|
(n.) Government by a single, sovereign ruler.
|
|
monastery
|
(n.) A dwelling-place occupied in common by persons under religious vows of seclusion.
|
|
monetary
|
(adj.) Financial.
|
|
mongrel
|
(n.) The progeny resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varieties.
|
|
monition
|
(n.) Friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof.
|
|
monitory
|
(n.) Admonition or warning.
|
|
monocracy
|
(n.) Government by a single person.
|
|
monogamy
|
(n.) The habit of pairing, or having but one mate.
|
|
monogram
|
(n.) A character consisting of two or more letters interwoven into one, usually initials of a name.
|
|
monograph
|
(n.) A treatise discussing a single subject or branch of a subject.
|
|
monolith
|
(n.) Any structure or sculpture in stone formed of a single piece.
|
|
monologue
|
(n.) A story or drama told or performed by one person.
|
|
monomania
|
(n.) The unreasonable pursuit of one idea.
|
|
monopoly
|
(n.) The control of a thing, as a commodity, to enable a person to raise its price.
|
|
monosyllable
|
(n.) A word of one syllable.
|
|
monotone
|
(n.) The sameness or monotony of utterance.
|
|
monotonous
|
(adj.) Unchanging and tedious.
|
|
monotony
|
(n.) A lack of variety.
|
|
monsieur
|
(n.) A French title of respect, equivalent to Mr. and sir.
|
|
monstrosity
|
(n.) Anything unnaturally huge or distorted.
|
|
moonbeam
|
(n.) A ray of moonlight.
|
|
morale
|
(n.) A state of mind with reference to confidence, courage, zeal, and the like.
|
|
moralist
|
(n.) A writer on ethics.
|
|
morality
|
(n.) Virtue.
|
|
moralize
|
(v.) To render virtuous.
|
|
moratorium
|
(n.) An emergency legislation authorizing a government suspend some action temporarily.
|
|
morbid
|
(adj.) Caused by or denoting a diseased or unsound condition of body or mind.
|
|
mordacious
|
(adj.) Biting or giving to biting.
|
|
mordant
|
(adj.) Biting.
|
|
moribund
|
(adj.) On the point of dying.
|
|
morose
|
(adj.) Gloomy.
|
|
morphology
|
(n.) the science of organic forms.
|
|
motley
|
(adj.) Composed of heterogeneous or inharmonious elements.
|
|
motto
|
(n.) An expressive word or pithy sentence enunciating some guiding rule of life, or faith.
|
|
mountaineer
|
(n.) One who travels among or climbs mountains for pleasure or exercise.
|
|
mountainous
|
(adj.) Full of or abounding in mountains.
|
|
mouthful
|
(n.) As much as can be or is usually put into the or exercise.
|
|
muddle
|
(v.) To confuse or becloud, especially with or as with drink.
|
|
muffle
|
(v.) To deaden the sound of, as by wraps.
|
|
mulatto
|
(n.) The offspring of a white person and a black person.
|
|
muleteer
|
(n.) A mule-driver.
|
|
multiform
|
(adj.) Having many shapes, or appearances.
|
|
multiplicity
|
(n.) the condition of being manifold or very various.
|
|
mundane
|
(adj.) Worldly, as opposed to spiritual or celestial.
|
|
municipal
|
(adj.) Of or pertaining to a town or city, or to its corporate or local government.
|
|
municipality
|
(n.) A district enjoying municipal government.
|
|
munificence
|
(n.) A giving characterized by generous motives and extraordinary liberality.
|
|
munificent
|
(adj.) Extraordinarily generous.
|
|
muster
|
(n.) An assemblage or review of troops for parade or inspection, or for numbering off.
|
|
mutation
|
(n.) The act or process of change.
|
|
mutilate
|
(v.) To disfigure.
|
|
mutiny
|
(n.) Rebellion against lawful or constituted authority.
|
|
myriad
|
(n.) A vast indefinite number.
|
|
mystic
|
(n.) One who professes direct divine illumination, or relies upon meditation to acquire truth.
|
|
mystification
|
(n.) The act of artfully perplexing.
|
|
myth
|
(n.) A fictitious narrative presented as historical, but without any basis of fact.
|
|
mythology
|
(n.) The whole body of legends cherished by a race concerning gods and heroes.
|
|
nameless
|
(adj.) Having no fame or reputation.
|
|
naphtha
|
(n.) A light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints.
|
|
Narcissus
|
(n.) The son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection.
|
|
narrate
|
(v.) To tell a story.
|
|
narration
|
(n.) The act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence.
|
|
narrative
|
(n.) An orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event.
|
|
narrator
|
(n.) One who narrates anything.
|
|
narrow-minded
|
(adj.) Characterized by illiberal views or sentiments.
|
|
nasal
|
(adj.) Pertaining to the nose.
|
|
natal
|
(adj.) Pertaining to one's birth.
|
|
nationality
|
(n.) A connection with a particular nation.
|
|
naturally
|
(adv.) According to the usual order of things.
|
|
nausea
|
(n.) An affection of the stomach producing dizziness and usually an impulse to vomit
|
|
nauseate
|
(v.) To cause to loathe.
|
|
nauseous
|
(adj.) Loathsome.
|
|
nautical
|
(adj.) Pertaining to ships, seamen, or navigation.
|
|
naval
|
(adj.) Pertaining to ships.
|
|
navel
|
(n.) The depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached.
|
|
navigable
|
(adj.) Capable of commercial navigation.
|
|
navigate
|
(v.) To traverse by ship.
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nebula
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(n.) A gaseous body of unorganized stellar substance.
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necessary
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(adj.) Indispensably requisite or absolutely needed to accomplish a desired result.
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necessitate
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(v.) To render indispensable.
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necessity
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(n.) That which is indispensably requisite to an end desired.
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necrology
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(n.) A list of persons who have died in a certain place or time.
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necromancer
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(n.) One who practices the art of foretelling the future by means of communication with the dead.
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necropolis
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(n.) A city of the dead.
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necrosis
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(n.) the death of part of the body.
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nectar
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(n.) Any especially sweet and delicious drink.
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nectarine
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(n.) A variety of the peach.
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needlework
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(n.) Embroidery.
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needy
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(adj.) Being in need, want, or poverty.
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nefarious
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(adj.) Wicked in the extreme.
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negate
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(v.) To deny.
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negation
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(n.) The act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition.
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neglectful
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(adj.) Exhibiting or indicating omission.
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negligee
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(n.) A loose gown worn by women.
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negligence
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(n.) Omission of that which ought to be done.
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negligent
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(adj.) Apt to omit what ought to be done.
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negligible
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(adj.) Transferable by assignment, endorsement, or delivery.
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negotiable
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(v.) To bargain with others for an agreement, as for a treaty or transfer of property.
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Nemesis
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(n.) A goddess; divinity of chastisement and vengeance.
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neocracy
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(n.) Government administered by new or untried persons.
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neo-Darwinsim
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(n.) Darwinism as modified and extended by more recent students.
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neo-Latin
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(n.) Modernized Latin.
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neopaganism
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(n.) A new or revived paganism.
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Neolithic
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(adj.) Pertaining to the later stone age.
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neology
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(n.) The coining or using of new words or new meanings of words.
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neophyte
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(adj.) Having the character of a beginner.
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nestle
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(v.) To adjust cozily in snug quarters.
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nestling
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(adj.) Recently hatched.
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nettle
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(v.) To excite sensations of uneasiness or displeasure in.
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network
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(n.) Anything that presents a system of cross- lines.
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neural
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(adj.) Pertaining to the nerves or nervous system.
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neurology
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(n.) The science of the nervous system.
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neuter
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(adj.) Neither masculine nor feminine.
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neutral
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(adj.) Belonging to or under control of neither of two contestants.
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nevertheless
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(conj.) Notwithstanding.
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Newtonian
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(adj.) Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, the English philosopher.
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niggardly
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(adj.) Stingy. (no longer acceptable to use)
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nihilist
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(n.) An advocate of the doctrine that nothing either exists or can be known.
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nil
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(n.) Nothing
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nimble
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(adj.) Light and quick in motion or action.
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nit
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(n.) The egg of a louse or some other insect.
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nocturnal
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(adj.) Of or pertaining to the night.
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noiseless
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(adj.) Silent.
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noisome
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(adj.) Very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell.
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noisy
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(adj.) Clamorous.
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nomad
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(adj.) Having no fixed abode.
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nomic
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(adj.) Usual or customary.
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nominal
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(adj.) Trivial.
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nominate
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(v.) To designate as a candidate for any office.
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nomination
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(n.) The act or ceremony of naming a man or woman for office.
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nominee
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(n.) One who receives a nomination.
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non-existent
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(n.) That which does not exist.
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non-resident
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(adj.) Not residing within a given jurisdiction.
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nonchalance
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(n.) A state of mind indicating lack of interest.
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non-combatant
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(n.) One attached to the army or navy, but having duties other than that of fighting.
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nondescript
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(adj.) Indescribable.
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nonentity
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(n.) A person or thing of little or no account.
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nonpareil
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(n.) One who or that which is of unequaled excellence.
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norm
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(n.) A model.
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normalcy
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(n.) The state of being normal.
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Norman
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(adj.) Of or peculiar to Normandy, in northern France.
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nostrum
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(n.) Any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character.
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noticeable
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(adj.) Perceptible.
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notorious
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(adj.) Unfavorably known to the general public.
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novellette
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(n.) A short novel.
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novice
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(n.) A beginner in any business or occupation.
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nowadays
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(adv.) In the present time or age.
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nowhere
|
(adv.) In no place or state.
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noxious
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(adj.) Hurtful.
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nuance
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(n.) A slight degree of difference in anything perceptible to the sense of the mind.
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nucleus
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(n.) A central point or part about which matter is aggregated.
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nude
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(adj.) Naked.
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nugatory
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(adj.) Having no power or force.
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nuisance
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(n.) That which annoys, vexes, or irritates.
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numeration
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(n.) The act or art of reading or naming numbers.
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numerical
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(adj.) Of or pertaining to number.
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nunnery
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(n.) A convent for nuns.
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nuptial
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(adj.) Of or pertaining to marriage, especially to the marriage ceremony.
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nurture
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(n.) The process of fostering or promoting growth.
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nutriment
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(n.) That which nourishes.
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nutritive
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(adj.) Having nutritious properties.
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oaken
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(adj.) Made of or from oak.
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oakum
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(n.) Hemp-fiber obtained by untwisting and picking out loosely the yarns of old hemp rope.
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obdurate
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(adj.) Impassive to feelings of humanity or pity.
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obelisk
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(n.) A square shaft with pyramidal top, usually monumental or commemorative.
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obese
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(adj.) Exceedingly fat.
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obesity
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(n.) Excessive fatness.
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obituary
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(adj.) A published notice of a death.
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objective
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(adj.) Grasping and representing facts as they are.
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objector
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(n.) One who objects, as to a proposition, measure, or ruling.
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obligate
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(v.) To hold to the fulfillment of duty.
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obligatory
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(adj.) Binding in law or conscience.
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oblique
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(adj.) Slanting; said of lines.
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obliterate
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(v.) To cause to disappear.
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oblivion
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(n.) The state of having passed out of the memory or of being utterly forgotten.
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oblong
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(adj.) Longer than broad: applied most commonly to rectangular objects considerably elongated
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obnoxious
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(adj.) Detestable.
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obsequies
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(n.) Funeral rites.
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obsequious
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(adj.) Showing a servile readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another.
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observance
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(n.) A traditional form or customary act.
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observant
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(adj.) Quick to notice.
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observatory
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(n.) A building designed for systematic astronomical observations.
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obsolescence
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(n.) The condition or process of gradually falling into disuse.
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obsolescent
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(adj.) Passing out of use, as a word.
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obsolete
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(adj.) No longer practiced or accepted.
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obstetrician
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(n.) A practitioner of midwifery.
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obstetrics
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(n.) The branch of medical science concerned with the treatment and care of women during pregnancy.
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obstinacy
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(n.) Stubborn adherence to opinion, arising from conceit or the desire to have one's own way.
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obstreperous
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(adj.) Boisterous.
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obstruct
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(v.) To fill with impediments so as to prevent passage, either wholly or in part.
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obstruction
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(n.) Hindrance.
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obtrude
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(v.) To be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence.
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obtrusive
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(adj.) Tending to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence.
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obvert
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(v.) To turn the front or principal side of (a thing) toward any person or object.
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obviate
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(v.) To clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty.
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occasion
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(n.) An important event or celebration.
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Occident
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(n.) The countries lying west of Asia and the Turkish dominions.
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occlude
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(v.) To absorb, as a gas by a metal.
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occult
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(adj.) Existing but not immediately perceptible.
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occupant
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(n.) A tenant in possession of property, as distinguished from the actual owner.
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occurrence
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(n.) A happening.
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octagon
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(n.) A figure with eight sides and eight angles.
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octave
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(n.) A note at this interval above or below any other, considered in relation to that other.
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octavo
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(n.) A book, or collection of paper in which the sheets are so folded as to make eight leaves.
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octogenarian
|
(adj.) A person of between eighty and ninety years.
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ocular
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(adj.) Of or pertaining to the eye.
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oculist
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(n.) One versed or skilled in treating diseases of the eye.
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oddity
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(n.) An eccentricity.
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ode
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(n.) The form of lyric poetry anciently intended to be sung.
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odious
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(adj.) Hateful.
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odium
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(n.) A feeling of extreme repugnance, or of dislike and disgust.
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odoriferous
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(adj.) Having or diffusing an odor or scent, especially an agreeable one.
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odorous
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(adj.) Having an odor, especially a fragrant one.
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off
|
(adj.) Farther or more distant.
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offhand
|
(adv.) Without preparation.
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officiate
|
(v.) To act as an officer or leader.
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officious
|
(adj.) Intermeddling with what is not one's concern.
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offshoot
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(n.) Something that branches off from the parent stock.
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ogre
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(n.) A demon or monster that was supposed to devour human beings.
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ointment
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(n.) A fatty preparation with a butter-like consistency in which a medicinal substance exists.
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olfactory
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(adj.) of or pertaining to the sense of smell.
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olive-branch
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(n.) A branch of the olive-tree, as an emblem of peace.
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ominous
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(adj.) Portentous.
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omission
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(n.) Exclusion.
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omnipotence
|
(n.) Unlimited and universal power.
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Omnipotent
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(adj.) Possessed of unlimited and universal power.
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omniscience
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(n.) Unlimited or infinite knowledge.
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omniscient
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(adj.) Characterized by unlimited or infinite knowledge.
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omnivorous
|
(adj.) Eating or living upon food of all kinds indiscriminately.
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onerous
|
(adj.) Burdensome or oppressive.
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onrush
|
(n.) Onset.
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onset
|
(n.) An assault, especially of troops, upon an enemy or fortification.
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onslaught
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(n.) A violent onset.
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onus
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(n.) A burden or responsibility.
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opalescence
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(n.) The property of combined refraction and reflection of light, resulting in smoky tints.
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opaque
|
(adj.) Impervious to light.
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operate
|
(v.) To put in action and supervise the working of.
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operative
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(adj.) Active.
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operator
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(n.) One who works with or controls some machine or scientific apparatus.
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operetta
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(n.) A humorous play in dialogue and music, of more than one act.
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opinion
|
(n.) A conclusion or judgment held with confidence, but falling short of positive knowledge.
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opponent
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(n.) One who supports the opposite side in a debate, discussion, struggle, or sport.
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opportune
|
(adj.) Especially fit as occurring, said, or done at the right moment.
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opportunist
|
(n.) One who takes advantage of circumstances to gain his ends.
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opportunity
|
(n.) Favorable or advantageous chance or opening.
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opposite
|
(adj.) Radically different or contrary in action or movement.
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opprobrium
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(n.) The state of being scornfully reproached or accused of evil.
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optic
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(n.) Pertaining to the eye or vision.
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optician
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(n.) One who makes or deals in optical instruments or eye-glasses.
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optics
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(n.) The science that treats of light and vision, and all that is connected with sight.
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optimism
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(n.) The view that everything in nature and the history of mankind is ordered for the best.
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option
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(n.) The right, power, or liberty of choosing.
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optometry
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(n.) Measurement of the powers of vision.
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opulence
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(n.) Affluence.
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opulent
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(adj.) Wealthy.
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oral
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(adj.) Uttered through the mouth.
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orate
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(v.) To deliver an elaborate or formal public speech.
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oration
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(n.) An elaborate or formal public speech.
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orator
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(n.) One who delivers an elaborate or formal speech.
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oratorio
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(n.) A composition for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, generally taken from the Scriptures.
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oratory
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(n.) The art of public speaking.
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ordeal
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(n.) Anything that severely tests courage, strength, patience, conscience, etc.
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ordinal
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(n.) That form of the numeral that shows the order of anything in a series, as first, second, third.
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ordination
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(n.) A consecration to the ministry.
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ordnance
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(n.) A general name for all kinds of weapons and their appliances used in war.
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orgies
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(n.) Wild or wanton revelry.
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origin
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(n.) The beginning of that which becomes or is made to be.
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original
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(adj.) Not copied nor produced by imitation.
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originate
|
(v.) To cause or constitute the beginning or first stage of the existence of.
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ornate
|
(adj.) Ornamented to a marked degree.
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orthodox
|
(adj.) Holding the commonly accepted faith.
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orthodoxy
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(n.) Acceptance of the common faith.
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orthogonal
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(adj.) Having or determined by right angles.
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orthopedic
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(adj.) Relating to the correcting or preventing of deformity
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orthopedist
|
(n.) One who practices the correcting or preventing of deformity
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oscillate
|
(v.) To swing back and forth.
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osculate
|
(v.) To kiss.
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ossify
|
(v.) to convert into bone.
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ostentation
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(n.) A display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery.
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ostracism
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(n.) Exclusion from intercourse or favor, as in society or politics.
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ostracize
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(v.) To exclude from public or private favor.
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ought
|
(v.) To be under moral obligation to be or do.
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oust
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(v.) To eject.
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out-and-out
|
(adv.) Genuinely.
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outbreak
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(n.) A sudden and violent breaking forth, as of something that has been pent up or restrained.
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outburst
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(n.) A violent issue, especially of passion in an individual.
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outcast
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(n.) One rejected and despised, especially socially.
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outcry
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(n.) A vehement or loud cry or clamor.
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outdo
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(v.) To surpass.
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outlandish
|
(adj.) Of barbarous, uncouth, and unfamiliar aspect or action.
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outlast
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(v.) To last longer than.
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outlaw
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(n.) A habitual lawbreaker.
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outlive
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(v.) To continue to exist after.
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out-of-the-way
|
(adj.) Remotely situated.
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outpost
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(n.) A detachment of troops stationed at a distance from the main body to guard against surprise.
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outrage
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(n.) A gross infringement of morality or decency.
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outrageous
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(adj.) Shocking in conduct.
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outreach
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(v.) To reach or go beyond.
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outride
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(v.) To ride faster than.
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outrigger
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(n.) A part built or arranged to project beyond a natural outline for support.
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outright
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(adv.) Entirely.
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outskirt
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(n.) A border region.
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outstretch
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(v.) To extend.
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outstrip
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(v.) To go beyond.
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outweigh
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(v.) To surpass in importance or excellence.
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overdo
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(v.) To overtax the strength of.
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overdose
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(n.) An excessive dose, usually so large a dose of a medicine that its effect is toxic.
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overeat
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(v.) To eat to excess.
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overhang
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(n.) A portion of a structure which projects or hangs over.
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overleap
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(v.) To leap beyond.
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overlord
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(n.) One who holds supremacy over another.
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overpass
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(v.) To pass across or over, as a river.
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overpay
|
(v.) To pay or reward in excess.
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overpower
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(v.) To gain supremacy or victory over by superior power.
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overproduction
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(n.) Excessive production.
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overreach
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(v.) To stretch out too far.
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overrun
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(v.) To infest or ravage.
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oversee
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(v.) To superintend.
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overseer
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(n.) A supervisor.
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overshadow
|
(v.) To cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison.
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overstride
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(v.) To step beyond.
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overthrow
|
(v.) To vanquish an established ruler or government.
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|
overtone
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(n.) A harmonic.
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overture
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(n.) An instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio, or ballet.
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overweight
|
(n.) Preponderance.
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pacify
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(v.) To bring into a peaceful state.
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packet
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(n.) A bundle, as of letters.
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pact
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(n.) A covenant.
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pagan
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(n.) A worshiper of false gods.
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pageant
|
(n.) A dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one.
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palate
|
(n.) The roof of the mouth.
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palatial
|
(adj.) Magnificent.
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|
paleontology
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(n.) The branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms.
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palette
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(n.) A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting.
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palinode
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(n.) A retraction.
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|
pall
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(v.) To make dull by satiety.
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palliate
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(v.) To cause to appear less guilty.
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pallid
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(adj.) Of a pale or wan appearance.
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palpable
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(n.) perceptible by feeling or touch.
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palsy
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(n.) Paralysis.
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paly
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(adj.) Lacking color or brilliancy.
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pamphlet
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(n.) A brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest.
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pamphleteer
|
(v.) To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones.
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panacea
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(n.) A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases.
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Pan-American
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(adj.) Including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South.
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pandemic
|
(adj.) Affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease.
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pandemonium
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(n.) A fiendish or riotous uproar.
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panegyric
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(n.) A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act.
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panel
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(n.) A rectangular piece set in or as in a frame.
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panic
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(n.) A sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear.
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panoply
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(n.) A full set of armor.
|
|
panorama
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(n.) A series of large pictures representing a continuous scene.
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pantheism
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(n.) The worship of nature for itself or its beauty.
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Pantheon
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(n.) A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof.
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pantomime
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(n.) Sign-language.
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pantoscope
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(n.) A very wide-angled photographic lens.
|
|
papacy
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(n.) The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
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papyrus
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(n.) The writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians, and later of the Romans.
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parable
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(n.) A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral.
|
|
paradox
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(n.) A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief.
|
|
paragon
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(n.) A model of excellence.
|
|
parallel
|
(v.) To cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts.
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|
parallelism
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(n.) Essential likeness.
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|
paralysis
|
(n.) Loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles.
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paralyze
|
(v.) To deprive of the power to act.
|
|
paramount
|
(adj.) Supreme in authority.
|
|
paramour
|
(n.) One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress.
|
|
paraphernalia
|
(n.) Miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment.
|
|
paraphrase
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(v.) Translate freely.
|
|
pare
|
(v.) To cut, shave, or remove (the outside) from anything.
|
|
parentage
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(n.) The relation of parent to child, of the producer to the produced, or of cause to effect.
|
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Pariah
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(n.) A member of a degraded class; a social outcast.
|
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parish
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(n.) The ecclesiastical district in charge of a pastor.
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Parisian
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(adj.) Of or pertaining to the city of Paris.
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parity
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(n.) Equality, as of condition or rank.
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parlance
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(n.) Mode of speech.
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parley
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(v.) To converse in.
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parliament
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(n.) A legislative body.
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parlor
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(n.) A room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests.
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parody
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(v.) To render ludicrous by imitating the language of.
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paronymous
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(adj.) Derived from the same root or primitive word.
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paroxysm
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(n.) A sudden outburst of any kind of activity.
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parricide
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(n.) The murder of a parent.
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parse
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(v.) To describe, as a sentence, by separating it into its elements and describing each word.
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parsimonious
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(adj.) Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money.
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partible
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(adj.) Separable.
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participant
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(n.) One having a share or part.
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participate
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(v.) To receive or have a part or share of.
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partition
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(n.) That which separates anything into distinct parts.
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partisan
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(adj.) Characterized by or exhibiting undue or unreasoning devotion to a party.
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passible
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(adj.) Capable of feeling of suffering.
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passive
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(adj.) Unresponsive.
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pastoral
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(adj.) Having the spirit or sentiment of rural life.
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paternal
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(adj.) Fatherly.
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paternity
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(n.) Fatherhood.
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pathos
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(n.) The quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy.
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patriarch
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(n.) The chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right.
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patrician
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(adj.) Of senatorial or noble rank.
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patrimony
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(n.) An inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father.
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patriotism
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(n.) Love and devotion to one's country.
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patronize
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(v.) To exercise an arrogant condescension toward.
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patronymic
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(adj.) Formed after one's father's name.
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patter
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(v.) To mumble something over and over.
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paucity
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(n.) Fewness.
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pauper
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(n.) One without means of support.
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pauperism
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(n.) Dependence on charity.
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pavilion
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(n.) An open structure for temporary shelter.
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payee
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(n.) A person to whom money has been or is to be paid.
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peaceable
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(adj.) Tranquil.
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peaceful
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(adj.) Tranquil.
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peccable
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(adj.) Capable of sinning.
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peccadillo
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(n.) A small breach of propriety or principle.
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peccant
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(adj.) Guilty.
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pectoral
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(adj.) Pertaining to the breast or thorax.
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pecuniary
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(adj.) Consisting of money.
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pedagogics
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(n.) The science and art of teaching.
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pedagogue
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(n.) A schoolmaster.
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pedagogy
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(n.) The science and art of teaching
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pedal
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(n.) A lever for the foot usually applied only to musical instruments, cycles, and other machines.
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pedant
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(n.) A scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning.
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peddle
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(v.) To go about with a small stock of goods to sell.
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pedestal
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(n.) A base or support as for a column, statue, or vase.
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pedestrian
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(n.) One who journeys on foot.
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pediatrics
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(n.) The department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood.
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pedigree
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(n.) One's line of ancestors.
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peddler
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(n.) One who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail.
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peerage
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(n.) The nobility.
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peerless
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(adj.) Of unequaled excellence or worth.
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peevish
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(adj.) Petulant. (irritable)
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pellucid
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(adj.) Translucent.
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penalty
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(n.) The consequences that follow the transgression of natural or divine law.
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penance
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(n.) Punishment to which one voluntarily submits or subjects himself as an expression of penitence.
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penchant
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(n.) A bias in favor of something.
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pendant
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(n.) Anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use.
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pendulous
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(adj.) Hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part.
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pendulum
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(n.) A weight hung on a rod, serving by its oscillation to regulate the rate of a clock.
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penetrable
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(adj.) That may be pierced by physical, moral, or intellectual force.
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penetrate
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(v.) To enter or force a way into the interior parts of.
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penetration
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(n.) Discernment.
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peninsular
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(adj.) Pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water.
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penitence
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(n.) Sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
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penitential
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(adj.) Pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
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pennant
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(n.) A small flag.
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pension
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(n.) A periodical allowance to an individual on account of past service done by him/her.
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pentagram
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(n.) A figure having five points or lobes.
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pentavalent
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(adj.) Quinqeuvalent.
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pentad
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(n.) The number five.
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pentagon
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(n.) A figure, especially, with five angles and five sides.
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pentahedron
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(n.) A solid bounded by five plane faces.
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pentameter
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(n.) In prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet.
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pentathlon
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(n.) The contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants.
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penultimate
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(adj.) A syllable or member of a series that is last but one.
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penurious
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(adj.) Excessively sparing in the use of money.
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penury
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(n.) Indigence.
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perambulate
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(v.) To walk about.
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perceive
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(v.) To have knowledge of, or receive impressions concerning, through the medium of the body senses.
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perceptible
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(adj.) Cognizable.
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perception
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(n.) Knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world.
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percipience
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(n.) The act of perceiving.
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percipient
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(n.) One who or that which perceives.
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percolate
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(v.) To filter.
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percolator
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(n.) A filter.
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percussion
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(n.) The sharp striking of one body against another.
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peremptory
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(adj.) Precluding question or appeal.
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perennial
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(adj.) Continuing though the year or through many years.
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perfectible
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(adj.) Capable of being made perfect.
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perfidy
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(n.) Treachery.
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perforate
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(v.) To make a hole or holes through.
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perform
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(v.) To accomplish.
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perfumery
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(n.) The preparation of perfumes.
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perfunctory
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(adj.) Half-hearted.
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perhaps
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(adv.) Possibly.
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perigee
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(n.) The point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth.
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periodicity
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(n.) The habit or characteristic of recurrence at regular intervals.
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peripatetic
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(adj.) Walking about.
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perjure
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(v.) To swear falsely to.
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perjury
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(n.) A solemn assertion of a falsity.
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permanence
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(n.) A continuance in the same state, or without any change that destroys the essential form or nature.
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permanent
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(adj.) Durable.
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permeate
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(v.) To pervade.
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permissible
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(adj.) That may be allowed.
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permutation
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(n.) Reciprocal change, different ordering of same items.
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pernicious
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(adj.) Tending to kill or hurt.
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perpendicular
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(adj.) Straight up and down.
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perpetrator
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(n.) The doer of a wrong or a criminal act.
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perpetuate
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(v.) To preserve from extinction or oblivion.
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perquisite
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(n.) Any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages.
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persecution
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(n.) Harsh or malignant oppression.
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perseverance
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(n.) A persistence in purpose and effort.
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persevere
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(v.) To continue striving in spite of discouragements.
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persiflage
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(n.) Banter.
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persist
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(v.) To continue steadfast against opposition.
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persistence
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(n.) A fixed adherence to a resolve, course of conduct, or the like.
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personage
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(n.) A man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station.
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personal
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(adj.) Not general or public.
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personality
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(n.) The attributes, taken collectively, that make up the character and nature of an individual.
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personnel
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(n.) The force of persons collectively employed in some service.
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perspective
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(n.) The relative importance of facts or matters from any special point of view.
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perspicacious
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(adj.) Astute.
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perspicacity
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(n.) Acuteness or discernment.
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perspicuous
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(adj.) Lucid.
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perspiration
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(n.) Sweat.
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perspire
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(v.) To excrete through the pores of the skin.
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persuade
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(v.) To win the mind of by argument, eloquence, evidence, or reflection.
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persuadable
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(adj.) capable of influencing to action by entreaty, statement, or anything that moves the feelings.
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pertinacious
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(adj.) Persistent or unyielding.
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pertinacity
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(n.) Unyielding adherence.
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pertinent
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(adj.) Relevant.
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perturb
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(v.) To disturb greatly.
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perturbation
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(n.) Mental excitement or confusion.
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perusal
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(n.) The act of reading carefully or thoughtfully.
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pervade
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(v.) To pass or spread through every part.
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pervasion
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(n.) The state of spreading through every part.
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pervasive
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(adj.) Thoroughly penetrating or permeating.
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perverse
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(adj.) Unreasonable.
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perversion
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(n.) Diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose.
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perversity
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(n.) Wickedness.
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pervert
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(n.) One who has forsaken a doctrine regarded as true for one esteemed false.
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pervious
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(adj.) Admitting the entrance or passage of another substance.
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pestilence
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(n.) A raging epidemic.
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pestilent
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(adj.) Having a malign influence or effect.
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pestilential
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(adj.) having the nature of or breeding pestilence.
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peter
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(v.) To fail or lose power, efficiency, or value.
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petrify
|
(v.) To convert into a substance of stony hardness and character.
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petulance
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(n.) The character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant.
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petulant
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(adj.) Displaying impatience.
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pharmacopoeia
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(n.) A book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists.
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pharmacy
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(n.) The art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines.
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phenomenal
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(adj.) Extraordinary or marvelous.
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phenomenon
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(n.) Any unusual occurrence.
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philander
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(v.) To play at courtship with a woman.
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philanthropic
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(adj.) Benevolent.
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philanthropist
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(n.) One who endeavors to help his fellow men.
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philanthropy
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(n.) Active humanitarianism.
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philately
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(n.) The study and collection of stamps.
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philharmonic
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(adj.) Fond of music.
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philogynist
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(n.) One who is fond of women.
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philologist
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(n.) An expert in linguistics.
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philology
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(n.) The study of language in connection with history and literature.
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philosophize
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(v.) To seek ultimate causes and principles.
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philosophy
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(n.) The general principles, laws, or causes that furnish the rational explanation of anything.
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phlegmatic
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(adj.) Not easily roused to feeling or action.
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phonetic
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(adj.) Representing articulate sounds or speech.
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phonic
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(adj.) Pertaining to the nature of sound.
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phonogram
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(n.) A graphic character symbolizing an articulate sound.
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phonology
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(n.) The science of human vocal sounds.
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phosphorescence
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(n.) The property of emitting light.
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photoelectric
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(adj.) Pertaining to the combined action of light and electricity.
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photometer
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(n.) Any instrument for measuring the intensity of light or comparing the intensity of two lights.
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photometry
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(n.) The art of measuring the intensity of light.
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physicist
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(n.) A specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy.
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physics
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(n.) The science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy.
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physiocracy
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(n.) The doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth.
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physiognomy
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(n.) The external appearance merely.
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physiography
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(n.) Description of nature.
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physiology
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(n.) The science of organic functions.
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physique
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(n.) The physical structure or organization of a person.
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picayune
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(adj.) Of small value.
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piccolo
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(n.) A small flute.
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piece
|
(n.) A loose or separated part, as distinguished from the whole or the mass.
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piecemeal
|
(adv.) Gradually.
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pillage
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(n.) Open robbery, as in war.
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pillory
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(n.) A wooden framework in which an offender is fastened to boards and is exposed to public scorn.
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pincers
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(n.) An instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot.
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pinchers
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(n.) An instrument having two jaws working on a pivot.
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pinnacle
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(n.) A high or topmost point, as a mountain-peak.
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pioneer
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(n.) One among the first to explore a country.
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pious
|
(adj.) Religious.
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pique
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(v.) To excite a slight degree of anger in.
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piteous
|
(adj.) Compassionate.
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pitiable
|
(adj.) Contemptible.
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pitiful
|
(adj.) Wretched.
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pitiless
|
(adj.) Hard-hearted.
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pittance
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(n.) Any small portion or meager allowance.
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placate
|
(v.) To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness.
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placid
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(adj.) Serene.
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|
plagiarism
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(n.) The stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one's own.
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planisphere
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(n.) A polar projection of the heavens on a chart.
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|
plasticity
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(n.) The property of some substances through which the form of the mass can readily be changed.
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platitude
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(n.) A written or spoken statement that is flat, dull, or commonplace.
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plaudit
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(n.) An expression of applause.
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plausible
|
(adj.) Seeming likely to be true, though open to doubt.
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playful
|
(adj.) Frolicsome.
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playwright
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(n.) A maker of plays for the stage.
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plea
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(n.) An argument to obtain some desired action.
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pleasant
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(adj.) Agreeable.
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pleasurable
|
(adj.) Affording gratification.
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plebeian
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(adj.) Common.
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|
pledgee
|
(n.) The person to whom anything is pledged.
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pledgeor
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(n.) One who gives a pledge.
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plenary
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(adj.) Entire.
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plenipotentiary
|
(n.) A person fully empowered to transact any business.
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plenitude
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(n.) Abundance.
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plenteous
|
(adj.) Abundant.
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plumb
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(n.) A weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something.
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plummet
|
(n.) A piece of lead for making soundings, adjusting walls to the vertical.
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pluperfect
|
(adj.) Expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action.
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plural
|
(adj.) Containing or consisting of more than one.
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|
plurality
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(n.) A majority.
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plutocracy
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(n.) A wealthy class in a political community who control the government by means of their money.
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pneumatic
|
(adj.) Pertaining to or consisting of air or gas.
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poesy
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(n.) Poetry.
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poetaster
|
(n.) An inferior poet.
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poetic
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(adj.) Pertaining to poetry.
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poetics
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(n.) The rules and principles of poetry.
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poignancy
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(n.) Severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief.
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poignant
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(adj.) Severely painful or acute to the spirit.
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poise
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(n.) Equilibrium.
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polar
|
(adj.) Pertaining to the poles of a sphere, especially of the earth.
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polemics
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(n.) The art of controversy or disputation.
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pollen
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(n.) The fine dust-like grains or powder formed within the anther of a flowering plant.
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pollute
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(v.) To contaminate.
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polyarchy
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(n.) Government by several or many persons of what- ever class.
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polycracy
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(n.) The rule of many.
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polygamy
|
(n.) the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at once.
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polyglot
|
(adj.) Speaking several tongues.
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|
polygon
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(n.) A figure having many angles.
|
|
polyhedron
|
(n.) A solid bounded by plane faces, especially by more than four.
|
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polysyllable
|
(adj.) Having several syllables, especially more than three syllables.
|
|
polytechnic
|
(adj.) Pertaining to, embracing, or practicing many arts.
|
|
polytheism
|
(n.) The doctrine or belief that there are more gods than one.
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pommel
|
(v.) To beat with something thick or bulky.
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|
pomposity
|
(n.) The quality of being marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner.
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pompous
|
(adj.) Marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner.
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ponder
|
(v.) To meditate or reflect upon.
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ponderous
|
(adj.) Unusually weighty or forcible.
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|
pontiff
|
(n.) The Pope.
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|
populace
|
(n.) The common people.
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|
populous
|
(adj.) Containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory.
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portend
|
(v.) To indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs.
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portent
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(n.) Anything that indicates what is to happen.
|
|
portfolio
|
(n.) A portable case for holding writing-materials, drawings, etc.
|
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posit
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(v.) To present in an orderly manner.
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|
position
|
(n.) The manner in which a thing is placed.
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|
positive
|
(adj.) Free from doubt or hesitation.
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posse
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(n.) A force of men.
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possess
|
(v.) To own.
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|
possession
|
(n.) The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command.
|
|
possessive
|
(adj.) Pertaining to the having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command.
|
|
possessor
|
(n.) One who owns, enjoys, or controls anything, as property.
|
|
possible
|
(adj.) Being not beyond the reach of power natural, moral, or supernatural.
|
|
postdate
|
(v.) To make the date of any writing later than the real date.
|
|
posterior
|
(n.) The hinder part.
|
|
postgraduate
|
(adj.) Pertaining to studies that are pursued after receiving a degree.
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|
postscript
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(n.) Something added to a letter after the writer's signature.
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|
potency
|
(n.) Power.
|
|
potent
|
(adj.) Physically powerful.
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potentate
|
(n.) One possessed of great power or sway.
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potential
|
(n.) Anything that may be possible.
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potion
|
(n.) A dose of liquid medicine.
|
|
powerless
|
(adj.) Impotent.
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practicable
|
(adj.) Feasible.
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prate
|
(v.) To talk about vainly or foolishly.
|
|
prattle
|
(v.) To utter in simple or childish talk.
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|
preamble
|
(n.) A statement introductory to and explanatory of what follows.
|
|
precarious
|
(adj.) Perilous.
|
|
precaution
|
(n.) A provision made in advance for some possible emergency or danger.
|
|
precede
|
(v.) To happen first.
|
|
precedence
|
(n.) Priority in place, time, or rank.
|
|
precedent
|
(n.) An instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
|
|
precedential
|
(adj.) Of the nature of an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
|
|
precession
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(n.) The act of going forward.
|
|
precipice
|
(n.) A high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff.
|
|
precipitant
|
(adj.) Moving onward quickly and heedlessly.
|
|
precipitate
|
(v.) To force forward prematurely.
|
|
precise
|
(adj.) Exact.
|
|
precision
|
(n.) Accuracy of limitation, definition, or adjustment.
|
|
preclude
|
(v.) To prevent.
|
|
precocious
|
(adj.) Having the mental faculties prematurely developed.
|
|
precursor
|
(n.) A forerunner or herald.
|
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predatory
|
(adj.) Prone to pillaging.
|
|
predecessor
|
(n.) An incumbent of a given office previous to another.
|
|
predicament
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(n.) A difficult, trying situation or plight.
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predicate
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(v.) To state as belonging to something.
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predict
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(v.) To foretell.
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prediction
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(n.) A prophecy.
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predominance
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(n.) Ascendancy or preponderance.
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predominant
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(adj.) Superior in power, influence, effectiveness, number, or degree.
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predominate
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(v.) To be chief in importance, quantity, or degree.
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preeminence
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(n.) Special eminence.
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preempt
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(v.) To secure the right of preference in the purchase of public land.
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preemption
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(n.) The right or act of purchasing before others.
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preengage
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(v.) To preoccupy.
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preestablish
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(v.) To settle or arrange beforehand.
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preexist
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(v.) To exist at a period or in a state earlier than something else.
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preexistence
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(n.) Existence antecedent to something.
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preface
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(n.) A brief explanation or address to the reader, at the beginning of a book.
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prefatory
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(adj.) Pertaining to a brief explanation to the reader at the beginning of a book.
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prefer
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(v.) To hold in higher estimation.
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preferable
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(adj.) More desirable than others.
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preference
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(n.) An object of favor or choice.
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preferential
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(adj.) Possessing, giving, or constituting preference or priority.
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preferment
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(n.) Preference.
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prefix
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(v.) To attach at the beginning.
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prehensible
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(adj.) Capable of being grasped.
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prehensile
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(adj.) Adapted for grasping or holding.
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prehension
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(n.) The act of laying hold of or grasping.
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prejudice
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(n.) A judgment or opinion formed without due examination of the facts.
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prelacy
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(n.) A system of church government.
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prelate
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(n.) One of a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy.
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prelude
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(n.) An introductory or opening performance.
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premature
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(adj.) Coming too soon.
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premier
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(adj.) First in rank or position.
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premise
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(n.) A judgment as a conclusion.
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premonition
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(n.) Foreboding.
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preoccupation
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(n.) The state of having the mind, attention, or inclination preoccupied.
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preoccupy
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(v.) To fill the mind of a person to the exclusion of other subjects.
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preordain
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(v.) To foreordain.
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preparation
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(n.) An act or proceeding designed to bring about some event.
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preparatory
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(adj.) Having to do with what is preliminary.
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preponderant
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(adj.) Prevalent.
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preponderate
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(v.) To exceed in influence or power.
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prepossession
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(n.) A preconceived liking.
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preposterous
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(adj.) Utterly ridiculous or absurd.
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prerogative
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(adj.) Having superior rank or precedence.
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presage
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(v.) To foretell.
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prescience
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(n.) Knowledge of events before they take place.
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prescient
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(adj.) Foreknowing.
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prescript
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(adj.) Prescribed as a rule or model.
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prescriptible
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(adj.) Derived from authoritative direction.
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prescription
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(n.) An authoritative direction.
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presentient
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(adj.) Perceiving or feeling beforehand.
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presentiment
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(n.) Foreboding.
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presentment
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(n.) Semblance.
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preservation
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(n.) Conservation.
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presumption
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(n.) That which may be logically assumed to be true until disproved.
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presumptuous
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(adj.) Assuming too much.
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pretension
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(n.) A bold or presumptuous assertion.
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pretentious
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(adj.) Marked by pretense, conceit, or display.
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preternatural
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(adj.) Extraordinary.
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pretext
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(n.) A fictitious reason or motive.
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prevalence
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(n.) Frequency.
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prevalent
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(adj.) Of wide extent or frequent occurrence.
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prevaricate
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(v.) To use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention.
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prevention
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(n.) Thwarting.
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prickle
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(v.) To puncture slightly with fine, sharp points.
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priggish
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(adj.) Conceited.
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prim
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(adj.) Stiffly proper.
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prima
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(adj.) First.
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primer
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(n.) An elementary reading-book for children.
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primeval
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(adj.) Belonging to the first ages.
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primitive
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(adj.) Pertaining to the beginning or early times.
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principal
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(adj.) Most important.
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principality
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(n.) The territory of a reigning prince.
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principle
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(n.) A general truth or proposition.
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priory
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(n.) A monastic house.
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pristine
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(adj.) Primitive.
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privateer
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(n.) A vessel owned and officered by private persons, but carrying on maritime war.
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privilege
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(n.) A right or immunity not enjoyed by all, or that may be enjoyed only under special conditions.
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privity
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(n.) Knowledge shared with another or others regarding a private matter.
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privy
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(adj.) Participating with another or others in the knowledge of a secret transaction.
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probate
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(adj.) Relating to making proof, as of a will.
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probation
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(n.) Any proceeding designed to ascertain or test character, qualification, or the like.
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probe
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(v.) To search through and through.
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probity
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(n.) Virtue or integrity tested and confirmed.
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procedure
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(n.) A manner or method of acting.
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proceed
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(v.) To renew motion or action, as after rest or interruption.
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proclamation
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(n.) Any announcement made in a public manner.
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procrastinate
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(v.) To put off till tomorrow or till a future time.
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procrastination
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(n.) Delay.
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proctor
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(n.) An agent acting for another.
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prodigal
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(n.) One wasteful or extravagant, especially in the use of money or property.
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prodigious
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(adj.) Immense.
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prodigy
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(n.) A person or thing of very remarkable gifts or qualities.
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productive
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(adj.) Yielding in abundance.
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profession
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(n.) Any calling or occupation involving special mental or other special disciplines.
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professor
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(n.) A public teacher of the highest grade in a university or college.
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proffer
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(v.) To offer to another for acceptance.
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proficiency
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(n.) An advanced state of acquirement, as in some knowledge, art, or science.
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proficient
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(adj.) Possessing ample and ready knowledge or of skill in any art, science, or industry.
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profile
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(n.) An outline or contour.
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profiteer
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(n.) One who profits.
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profligacy
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(n.) Shameless viciousness.
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profligate
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(adj.) Abandoned to vice.
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profuse
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(adj.) Produced or displayed in overabundance.
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progeny
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(n.) Offspring.
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progression
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(n.) A moving forward or proceeding in course.
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prohibition
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(n.) A decree or an order forbidding something.
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prohibitionist
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(n.) One who favors the prohibition by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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prohibitory
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(adj.) Involving or equivalent to prohibition, especially of the sale of alcoholic beverages.
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projection
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(n.) A prominence.
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proletarian
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(n.) A person of the lowest or poorest class.
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prolific
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(adj.) Producing offspring or fruit.
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prolix
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(adj.) Verbose.
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prologue
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(n.) A prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse, or performance.
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prolong
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(v.) To extend in time or duration.
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promenade
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(v.) To walk for amusement or exercise.
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prominence
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(n.) The quality of being noticeable or distinguished.
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prominent
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(adj.) Conspicuous in position, character, or importance.
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promiscuous
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(adj.) Brought together without order, distinction, or design (for sex).
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promissory
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(adj.) Expressing an engagement to pay.
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promontory
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(n.) A high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea.
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promoter
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(n.) A furtherer, forwarder, or encourager.
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promulgate
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(v.) To proclaim.
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propaganda
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(n.) Any institution or systematic scheme for propagating a doctrine or system.
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propagate
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(v.) To spread abroad or from person to person.
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propel
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(v.) To drive or urge forward.
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propellant
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(adj.) Propelling.
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propeller
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(n.) One who or that which propels.
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prophecy
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(n.) Any prediction or foretelling.
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prophesy
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(v.) To predict or foretell, especially under divine inspiration and guidance.
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propitious
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(adj.) Kindly disposed.
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proportionate
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(adj.) Being in proportion.
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propriety
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(n.) Accordance with recognized usage, custom, or principles.
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propulsion
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(n.) A driving onward or forward.
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prosaic
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(adj.) Unimaginative.
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proscenium
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(n.) That part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra.
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proscribe
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(v.) To reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation.
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proscription
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(n.) Any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege.
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proselyte
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(n.) One who has been won over from one religious belief to another.
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prosody
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(n.) The science of poetical forms.
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prospector
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(n.) One who makes exploration, search, or examination, especially for minerals.
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prospectus
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(n.) A paper or pamphlet containing information of a proposed undertaking.
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prostrate
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(adj.) Lying prone, or with the head to the ground.
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protagonist
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(n.) A leader in any enterprise or contest.
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protection
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(n.) Preservation from harm, danger, annoyance, or any other evil.
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protective
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(adj.) Sheltering.
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protector
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(n.) A defender.
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protege
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(n.) One specially cared for and favored by another usually older person.
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Protestant
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(n.) A Christian who denies the authority of the Pope and holds the right of special judgment.
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protomartyr
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(n.) The earliest victim in any cause.
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protocol
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(n.) A declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty.
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protoplasm
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(n.) The substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell.
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prototype
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(n.) A work, original in character, afterward imitated in form or spirit.
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protract
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(v.) To prolong.
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protrude
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(v.) To push out or thrust forth.
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protrusion
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(n.) The act of protruding.
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protuberance
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(n.) Something that swells out from a surrounding surface.
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protuberant
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(adj.) Bulging.
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protuberate
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(v.) To swell or bulge beyond the surrounding surface.
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proverb
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(n.) A brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience.
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provident
|
(adj.) Anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies.
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providential
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(adj.) Effected by divine guidance.
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provincial
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(adj.) Uncultured in thought and manner.
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proviso
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(n.) A clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional.
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provocation
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(n.) An action or mode of conduct that excites resentment.
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prowess
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(n.) Strength, skill, and intrepidity in battle.
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proximately
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(adv.) Immediately.
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proxy
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(n.) A person who is empowered by another to represent him or her in a given matter.
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prudence
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(n.) Caution.
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prudential
|
(adj.) Proceeding or marked by caution.
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prudery
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(n.) An undue display of modesty or delicacy.
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prurient
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(adj.) Inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires.
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pseudapostle
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(n.) A pretended or false apostle.
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pseudonym
|
(n.) A fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer.
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pseudonymity
|
(n.) The state or character of using a fictitious name.
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psychiatry
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(n.) The branch of medicine that relates to mental disease.
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psychic
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(adj.) Pertaining to the mind or soul.
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psychopathic
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(adj.) Morally irresponsible.
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psychotherapy
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(n.) The treatment of mental disease.
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pudgy
|
(adj.) Small and fat.
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puerile
|
(adj.) Childish.
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pugnacious
|
(adj.) Quarrelsome.
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puissant
|
(adj.) Possessing strength.
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pulmonary
|
(adj.) Pertaining to the lungs.
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punctilious
|
(adj.) Strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom.
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punctual
|
(adj.) Observant and exact in points of time.
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pungent
|
(adj.) Affecting the sense of smell.
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pungency
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(n.) The quality of affecting the sense of smell.
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punitive
|
(adj.) Pertaining to punishment.
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pupilage
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(n.) The state or period of being a student.
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purgatory
|
(n.) An intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering.
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purl
|
(v.) To cause to whirl, as in an eddy.
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purloin
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(v.) To steal.
|
|
purport
|
(n.) Intent.
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purveyor
|
(n.) one who supplies
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pusillanimous
|
(adj.) Without spirit or bravery.
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putrescent
|
(adj.) Undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors.
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pyre
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(n.) A heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body.
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pyromania
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(n.) An insane propensity to set things on fire.
|
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pyrotechnic
|
(adj.) Pertaining to fireworks or their manufacture.
|
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pyx
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(n.) A vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved.
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quackery
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(n.) Charlatanry
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quadrate
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(v.) To divide into quarters.
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quadruple
|
(v.) To multiply by four.
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qualification
|
(n.) A requisite for an employment, position, right, or privilege.
|
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qualify
|
(v.) To endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill, or possessions.
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qualm
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(n.) A fit of nausea.
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quandary
|
(n.) A puzzling predicament.
|
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quantity
|
(n.) Magnitude.
|
|
quarantine
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(n.) The enforced isolation of any person or place infected with contagious disease.
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quarrelsome
|
(adj.) Irascible.
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quarter
|
(n.) One of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided.
|
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quarterly
|
(adj.) Occurring or made at intervals of three months.
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quartet
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(n.) A composition for four voices or four instruments.
|
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quarto
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(n.) An eight-page newspaper of any size.
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quay
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(n.) A wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it.
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querulous
|
(adj.) Habitually complaining.
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|
query
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(v.) To make inquiry.
|
|
queue
|
(n.) A file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance.
|
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quibble
|
(n.) An utterly trivial distinction or objection.
|
|
quiescence
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(n.) Quiet.
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quiescent
|
(adj.) Being in a state of repose or inaction.
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quiet
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(adj.) Making no noise.
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quietus
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(n.) A silencing, suppressing, or ending.
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quintessence
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(n.) The most essential part of anything.
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quintet
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(n.) Musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments.
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quite
|
(adv.) Fully.
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Quixotic
|
(adj.) Chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree.
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rabid
|
(adj.) Affected with rabies or hydrophobia.
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racy
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(adj.) Exciting or exhilarating to the mind.
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radiance
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(n.) Brilliant or sparkling luster.
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radiate
|
(v.) To extend in all directions, as from a source or focus.
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radical
|
(n.) One who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures.
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radix
|
(n.) That from or on which something is developed.
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raillery
|
(n.) Good-humored satire.
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ramify
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(v.) To divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions.
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ramose
|
(adj.) Branch-like.
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rampant
|
(adj.) Growing, climbing, or running without check or restraint.
|
|
rampart
|
(n.) A bulwark or construction to oppose assault or hostile entry.
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rancor
|
(n.) Malice.
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rankle
|
(v.) To produce irritation or festering.
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rapacious
|
(adj.) Disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods.
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rapid
|
(adj.) Having great speed.
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rapine
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(n.) The act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war.
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rapt
|
(adj.) Enraptured.
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raptorial
|
(adj.) Seizing and devouring living prey.
|
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ration
|
(v.) To provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food.
|
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rationalism
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(n.) The formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority.
|
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raucous
|
(adj.) Harsh.
|
|
ravage
|
(v.) To lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods.
|
|
ravenous
|
(adj.) Furiously voracious or hungry.
|
|
ravine
|
(n.) A deep gorge or hollow, especially one worn by a stream or flow of water.
|
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reaction
|
(n.) Tendency towards a former, or opposite state of things, as after reform, revolution, or inflation.
|
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reactionary
|
(adj.) Pertaining to, of the nature of, causing, or favoring reaction.
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readily
|
(adv.) Without objection or reluctance.
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readjust
|
(v.) To put in order after disarrangement.
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|
ready
|
(adj.) In a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasion.
|
|
realism
|
(n.) The principle and practice of depicting persons and scenes as they are believed really to exist.
|
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rearrange
|
(v.) To arrange again or in a different order.
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reassure
|
(v.) To give new confidence.
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rebellious
|
(adj.) Insubordinate.
|
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rebuff
|
(n.) A peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches.
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rebuild
|
(v.) To build again or anew.
|
|
rebut
|
(v.) To oppose by argument or a sufficient answer.
|
|
recant
|
(v.) To withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained).
|
|
recapitulate
|
(v.) To repeat again the principal points of.
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|
recapture
|
(v.) To capture again.
|
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recede
|
(v.) To move back or away.
|
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receivable
|
(adj.) Capable of being or fit to be received - often money.
|
|
receptive
|
(adj.) Having the capacity, quality, or ability of receiving, as truths or impressions.
|
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recessive
|
(adj.) Having a tendency to go back.
|
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recidivist
|
(n.) A confirmed criminal.
|
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reciprocal
|
(adj.) Mutually interchangeable or convertible.
|
|
reciprocate
|
(v.) To give and take mutually.
|
|
reciprocity
|
(n.) Equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed.
|
|
recitation
|
(n.) The act of reciting or repeating, especially in public and from memory.
|
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reck
|
(v.) To have a care or thought for.
|
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reckless
|
(adj.) Foolishly headless of danger.
|
|
reclaim
|
(v.) To demand or to obtain the return or restoration of.
|
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recline
|
(v.) To cause to assume a leaning or recumbent attitude or position.
|
|
recluse
|
(n.) One who lives in retirement or seclusion.
|
|
reclusory
|
(n.) A hermitage.
|
|
recognizance
|
(n.) An acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act.
|
|
recognize
|
(v.) To recall the identity of (a person or thing).
|
|
recoil
|
(v.) To start back as in dismay, loathing, or dread.
|
|
recollect
|
(v.) To recall the knowledge of.
|
|
reconcilable
|
(adj.) Capable of being adjusted or harmonized.
|
|
reconnoiter
|
(v.) To make a preliminary examination of for military, surveying, or geological purposes.
|
|
reconsider
|
(v.) To review with care, especially with a view to a reversal of previous action.
|
|
reconstruct
|
(v.) To rebuild.
|
|
recourse
|
(n.) Resort to or application for help in exigency or trouble.
|
|
recover
|
(v.) To regain.
|
|
recreant
|
(n.) A cowardly or faithless person.
|
|
recreate
|
(v.) To refresh after labor.
|
|
recrudescence
|
(n.) The state of becoming raw or sore again.
|
|
recrudescent
|
(adj.) Becoming raw or sore again.
|
|
recruit
|
(v.) To enlist men for military or naval service.
|
|
rectify
|
(v.) To correct.
|
|
rectitude
|
(n.) The quality of being upright in principles and conduct.
|
|
recuperate
|
(v.) To recover.
|
|
recur
|
(v.) To happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals.
|
|
recure
|
(v.) To cure again.
|
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recurrent
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(adj.) Returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals.
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redemption
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(n.) The recovery of what is mortgaged or pledged, by paying the debt.
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redolent
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(adj.) Smelling sweet and agreeable.
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redolence
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(n.) Smelling sweet and agreeable.
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redoubtable
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(adj.) Formidable.
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redound
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(n.) Rebound.
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redress
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(v.) To set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer.
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reducible
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(adj.) That may be reduced.
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redundance
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(n.) Excess.
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redundant
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(adj.) Constituting an excess.
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reestablish
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(v.) To restore.
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refer
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(v.) To direct or send for information or other purpose.
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referrer
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(n.) One who refers.
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referable
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(adj.) Ascribable.
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referee
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(n.) An umpire.
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refinery
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(n.) A place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified.
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reflectible
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(adj.) Capable of being turned back.
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reflection
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(n.) The throwing off or back of light, heat, sound, or any form of energy that travels in waves.
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reflector
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(n.) A mirror, as of metal, for reflecting light, heat, or sound in a particular direction.
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reflexible
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(adj.) Capable of being reflected.
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reform
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(n.) Change for the better.
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reformer
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(n.) One who carries out a reform.
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refract
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(v.) To bend or turn from a direct course.
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refractory
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(adj.) Not amenable to control.
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refragable
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(adj.) Capable of being refuted.
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refringency
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(n.) Power to refract.
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refringent
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(adj.) Having the power to refract.
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refusal
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(n.) Denial of what is asked.
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refute
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(v.) To prove to be wrong.
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regale
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(v.) To give unusual pleasure.
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regalia
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(n.) pl. The emblems of royalty.
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regality
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(n.) Royalty.
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regenerate
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(v.) To reproduce.
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regent
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(n.) One who is lawfully deputized to administer the government for the time being in the name of the ruler.
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regicide
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(n.) The killing of a king or sovereign.
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regime
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(n.) Particular conduct or administration of affairs.
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regimen
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(n.) A systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits.
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regiment
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(n.) A body of soldiers.
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regnant
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(adj.) Exercising royal authority in one's own right.
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regress
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(v.) To return to a former place or condition.
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regretful
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(adj.) Feeling, expressive of, or full of regret.
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rehabilitate
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(v.) To restore to a former status, capacity, right rank, or privilege.
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reign
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(v.) To hold and exercise sovereign power.
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reimburse
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(v.) To pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended.
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rein
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(n.) A step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal.
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reinstate
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(v.) To restore to a former state, station, or authority.
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reiterate
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(v.) To say or do again and again.
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rejoin
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(v.) To reunite after separation.
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rejuvenate
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(v.) To restore to youth.
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rejuvenescence
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(n.) A renewal of youth.
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relapse
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(v.) To suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery.
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relegate
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(v.) To send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination.
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relent
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(v.) To yield.
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relevant
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(adj.) Bearing upon the matter in hand.
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reliance
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(n.) Dependence.
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reliant
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(adj.) Having confidence.
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relinquish
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(v.) To give up using or having.
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reliquary
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(n.) A casket, coffer, or repository in which relics are kept.
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relish
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(v.) To like the taste or savor of.
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reluctance
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(n.) Unwillingness.
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reluctant
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(adj.) Unwilling.
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remembrance
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(n.) Recollection.
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reminiscence
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(n.) The calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience.
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reminiscent
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(adj.) Pertaining to the recollection of matters of personal interest.
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remiss
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(adj.) Negligent.
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remission
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(n.) Temporary diminution of a disease.
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remodel
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(v.) Reconstruct.
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remonstrance
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(n.) Reproof.
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remonstrant
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(adj.) Having the character of a reproof.
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remonstrate
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(v.) To present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong.
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remunerate
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(v.) To pay or pay for.
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remuneration
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(n.) Compensation.
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Renaissance
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(n.) The revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time.
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rendezvous
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(n.) A prearranged place of meeting.
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rendition
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(n.) Interpretation.
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renovate
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(v.) To restore after deterioration, as a building.
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renunciation
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(n.) An explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege.
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reorganize
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(v.) To change to a more satisfactory form of organization.
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reparable
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(adj.) Capable of repair.
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reparation
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(n.) The act of making amends, as for an injury, loss, or wrong.
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repartee
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(n.) A ready, witty, or apt reply.
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repeal
|
(v.) To render of no further effect.
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repel
|
(v.) To force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally.
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repellent
|
(adj.) Having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally.
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repentance
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(n.) Sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong.
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repertory
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(n.) A place where things are stored or gathered together.
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repetition
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(n.) The act of repeating.
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repine
|
(v.) To indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding.
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replenish
|
(v.) To fill again, as something that has been emptied.
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replete
|
(adj.) Full to the uttermost.
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replica
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(n.) A duplicate executed by the artist himself, and regarded, equally with the first, as an original.
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repository
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(n.) A place in which goods are stored.
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reprehend
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(v.) To find fault with.
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reprehensible
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(adj.) Censurable.
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reprehension
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(n.) Expression of blame.
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repress
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(v.) To keep under restraint or control.
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repressible
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(adj.) Able to be kept under restraint or control.
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reprieve
|
(v.) To grant a respite from punishment to.
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reprimand
|
(v.) To chide or rebuke for a fault.
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reprisal
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(n.) Any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy.
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reprobate
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(n.) One abandoned to depravity and sin.
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reproduce
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(v.) To make a copy of.
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reproduction
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(n.) The process by which an animal or plant gives rise to another of its kind.
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reproof
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(n.) An expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured.
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repudiate
|
(v.) To refuse to have anything to do with.
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repugnance
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(n.) Thorough dislike.
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repugnant
|
(adj.) Offensive to taste and feeling.
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repulse
|
(n.) The act of beating or driving back, as an attacking or advancing enemy.
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repulsive
|
(adj.) Grossly offensive.
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repute
|
(v.) To hold in general opinion.
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requiem
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(n.) A solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead.
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requisite
|
(adj.) Necessary.
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requital
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(n.) Adequate return for good or ill.
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requite
|
(v.) To repay either good or evil to, as to a person.
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rescind
|
(v.) To make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority.
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reseat
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(v.) To place in position of office again.
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resemblance
|
(n.) Similarity in quality or form.
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resent
|
(v.) To be indignant at, as an injury or insult.
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reservoir
|
(n.) A receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept.
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residue
|
(n.) A remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated.
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resilience
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(n.) The power of springing back to a former position
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resilient
|
(adj.) Having the quality of springing back to a former position.
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resistance
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(n.) The exertion of opposite effort or effect.
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resistant
|
(adj.) Offering or tending to produce resistance.
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resistive
|
(adj.) Having or exercising the power of resistance.
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resistless
|
(adj.) Powerless.
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resonance
|
(n.) The quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
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|
resonance
|
(adj.) Able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
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resonate
|
(v.) To have or produce resonance.
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resource
|
(n.) That which is restored to, relied upon, or made available for aid or support.
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respite
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(n.) Interval of rest.
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resplendent
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(adj.) Very bright.
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respondent
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(adj.) Answering.
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restitution
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(n.) Restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs.
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resumption
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(n.) The act of taking back, or taking again.
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resurgent
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(adj.) Surging back or again.
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resurrection
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(n.) A return from death to life
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resuscitate
|
(v.) To restore from apparent death.
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retaliate
|
(v.) To repay evil with a similar evil.
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retch
|
(v.) To make an effort to vomit.
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retention
|
(n.) The keeping of a thing within one's power or possession.
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reticence
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(n.) The quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
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reticent
|
(adj.) Habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
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retinue
|
(n.) The body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance.
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retort
|
(n.) A retaliatory speech.
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retouch
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(v.) To modify the details of.
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retrace
|
(v.) To follow backward or toward the place of beginning, as a track or marking.
|
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retract
|
(v.) To recall or take back (something that one has said).
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|
retrench
|
(v.) To cut down or reduce in extent or quantity.
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retrieve
|
(v.) To recover something by searching.
|
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retroactive
|
(adj.) Operative on, affecting, or having reference to past events, transactions, responsibilities.
|
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retrograde
|
(v.) To cause to deteriorate or to move backward.
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|
retrogression
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(n.) A going or moving backward or in a reverse direction.
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retrospect
|
(n.) A view or contemplation of something past.
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retrospective
|
(adj.) Looking back on the past.
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reunite
|
(v.) To unite or join again, as after separation.
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|
revelation
|
(n.) A disclosing, discovering, or making known of what was before secret, private, or unknown.
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revere
|
(v.) To regard with worshipful veneration.
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reverent
|
(adj.) Humble.
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|
reversion
|
(n.) A return to or toward some former state or condition.
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|
revert
|
(v.) To return, or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like.
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revile
|
(v.) To heap approach or abuse upon.
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revisal
|
(n.) Revision.
|
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revise
|
(v.) To examine for the correction of errors, or for the purpose of making changes.
|
|
revocation
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(n.) Repeal.
|
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revoke
|
(v.) To rescind.
|
|
rhapsody
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(n.) Rapt or rapturous utterance.
|
|
rhetoric
|
(n.) The art of discourse.
|
|
rhetorician
|
(n.) A showy writer or speaker.
|
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ribald
|
(adj.) Indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity.
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|
riddance
|
(n.) The act or ridding or delivering from something undesirable.
|
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ridicule
|
(n.) Looks or acts expressing amused contempt.
|
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ridiculous
|
(adj.) Laughable and contemptible.
|
|
rife
|
(adj.) Abundant.
|
|
righteousness
|
(n.) Rectitude.
|
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rightful
|
(adj.) Conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage.
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rigmarole
|
(n.) Nonsense.
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|
rigor
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(n.) Inflexibility.
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|
rigorous
|
(adj.) Uncompromising.
|
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ripplet
|
(n.) A small ripple, as of water.
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|
risible
|
(adj.) capable of exciting laughter.
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|
rivulet
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(n.) A small stream or brook.
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robust
|
(adj.) Characterized by great strength or power of endurance.
|
|
rondo
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(n.) A musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times.
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rookery
|
(n.) A place where crows congregate to breed.
|
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rotary
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(adj.) Turning around its axis, like a wheel, or so constructed as to turn thus.
|
|
rotate
|
(v.) To cause to turn on or as on its axis, as a wheel.
|
|
rote
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(n.) Repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attention.
|
|
rotund
|
(adj.) Round from fullness or plumpness.
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rudimentary
|
(adj.) Being in an initial, early, or incomplete stage of development.
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rue
|
(v.) To regret extremely.
|
|
ruffian
|
(adj.) A lawless or recklessly brutal fellow.
|
|
ruminant
|
(adj.) Chewing the cud.
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|
ruminate
|
(v.) To chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated.
|
|
rupture
|
(v.) To separate the parts of by violence.
|
|
rustic
|
(adj.) Characteristic of dwelling in the country.
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|
ruth
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(n.) Sorrow for another's misery.
|
|
sacrifice
|
(v.) To make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar.
|
|
sacrificial
|
(adj.) Offering or offered as an atonement for sin.
|
|
sacrilege
|
(n.) The act of violating or profaning anything sacred.
|
|
sacrilegious
|
(adj.) Impious.
|
|
safeguard
|
(v.) To protect.
|
|
sagacious
|
(adj.) Able to discern and distinguish with wise perception.
|
|
salacious
|
(adj.) Having strong sexual desires.
|
|
salience
|
(n.) The condition of standing out distinctly.
|
|
salient
|
(adj.) Standing out prominently.
|
|
saline
|
(adj.) Constituting or consisting of salt.
|
|
salutary
|
(adj.) Beneficial.
|
|
salutation
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(n.) Any form of greeting, hailing, or welcome, whether by word or act.
|
|
salutatory
|
(n.) The opening oration at the commencement in American colleges.
|
|
salvage
|
(n.) Any act of saving property.
|
|
salvo
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(n.) A salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer.
|
|
sanctimonious
|
(adj.) Making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety.
|
|
sanction
|
(v.) To approve authoritatively.
|
|
sanctity
|
(n.) Holiness.
|
|
sanguinary
|
(adj.) Bloody.
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|
sanguine
|
(adj.) Having the color of blood.
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|
sanguineous
|
(adj.) Consisting of blood.
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|
sapid
|
(adj.) Affecting the sense of taste.
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|
sapience
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(n.) Deep wisdom or knowledge.
|
|
sapient
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(adj.) Possessing wisdom.
|
|
sapiential
|
(adj.) Possessing wisdom.
|
|
saponaceous
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(adj.) Having the nature or quality of soap.
|
|
sarcasm
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(n.) Cutting and reproachful language.
|
|
sarcophagus
|
(n.) A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb.
|
|
sardonic
|
(adj.) Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic.
|
|
satiate
|
(v.) To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of.
|
|
satire
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(n.) The employment of sarcasm, irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices.
|
|
satiric
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(adj.) Resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity ,or corruption is held up to ridicule.
|
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satirize
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(v.) To treat with sarcasm or derisive wit.
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|
satyr
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(n.) A very lascivious person.
|
|
savage
|
(n.) A wild and uncivilized human being.
|
|
savor
|
(v.) To perceive by taste or smell.
|
|
scabbard
|
(n.) The sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon.
|
|
scarcity
|
(n.) Insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands.
|
|
scholarly
|
(adj.) Characteristic of an erudite person.
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scholastic
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(adj.) Pertaining to education or schools.
|
|
scintilla
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(n.) The faintest ray.
|
|
scintillate
|
(v.) To emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light.
|
|
scope
|
(n.) A range of action or view.
|
|
scoundrel
|
(n.) A man without principle.
|
|
scribble
|
(n.) Hasty, careless writing.
|
|
scribe
|
(n.) One who writes or is skilled in writing.
|
|
script
|
(n.) Writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form.
|
|
Scriptural
|
(adj.) Pertaining to, contained in, or warranted by the Holy Scriptures.
|
|
scruple
|
(n.) Doubt or uncertainty regarding a question of moral right or duty.
|
|
scrupulous
|
(adj.) Cautious in action for fear of doing wrong.
|
|
scurrilous
|
(adj.) Grossly indecent or vulgar.
|
|
scuttle
|
(v.) To sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom.
|
|
scythe
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(n.) A long curved blade for mowing, reaping, etc.
|
|
seance
|
(n.) A meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits.
|
|
sear
|
(v.) To burn on the surface.
|
|
sebaceous
|
(adj.) Pertaining to or appearing like fat.
|
|
secant
|
(adj.) Cutting, especially into two parts.
|
|
secede
|
(v.) To withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body.
|
|
secession
|
(n.) Voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies.
|
|
seclude
|
(v.) To place, keep, or withdraw from the companionship of others.
|
|
seclusion
|
(n.) Solitude.
|
|
secondary
|
(adj.) Less important or effective than that which is primary.
|
|
secondly
|
(adv.) In the second place in order or succession.
|
|
second-rate
|
(adj.) Second in quality, size, rank, importance, etc.
|
|
secrecy
|
(n.) Concealment.
|
|
secretary
|
(n.) One who attends to correspondence, keeps records. or does other writing for others.
|
|
secretive
|
(adj.) Having a tendency to conceal.
|
|
sedate
|
(adj.) Even-tempered.
|
|
sedentary
|
(adj.) Involving or requiring much sitting.
|
|
sediment
|
(n.) Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid.
|
|
sedition
|
(n.) Conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state.
|
|
seditious
|
(adj.) Promotive of conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state.
|
|
seduce
|
(v.) To entice to surrender chastity.
|
|
sedulous
|
(adj.) Persevering in effort or endeavor.
|
|
seer
|
(n.) A prophet.
|
|
seethe
|
(v.) To be violently excited or agitated.
|
|
seignior
|
(n.) A title of honor or respectful address, equivalent to sir.
|
|
seismograph
|
(n.) An instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes.
|
|
seize
|
(v.) To catch or take hold of suddenly and forcibly.
|
|
selective
|
(adj.) Having the power of choice.
|
|
self-respect
|
(n.) Rational self-esteem.
|
|
semblance
|
(n.) Outward appearance.
|
|
semicivilized
|
(adj.) Half-civilized.
|
|
semiconscious
|
(adj.) Partially conscious.
|
|
semiannual
|
(adj.) Recurring at intervals of six months.
|
|
semicircle
|
(n.) A half-circle.
|
|
seminar
|
(n.) Any assemblage of pupils for real research in some specific study under a teacher.
|
|
seminary
|
(n.) A special school, as of theology or pedagogics.
|
|
senile
|
(adj.) Peculiar to or proceeding from the weakness or infirmity of old age.
|
|
sensation
|
(n.) A condition of mind resulting from spiritual or inherent feeling.
|
|
sense
|
(n.) The signification conveyed by some word, phrase, or action.
|
|
sensibility
|
(n.) Power to perceive or feel.
|
|
sensitive
|
(adj.) Easily affected by outside operations or influences.
|
|
sensorium
|
(n.) The sensory apparatus.
|
|
sensual
|
(adj.) Pertaining to the body or the physical senses.
|
|
sensuous
|
(adj.) Having a warm appreciation of the beautiful or of the refinements of luxury.
|
|
sentence
|
(n.) A related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought.
|
|
sentience
|
(n.) Capacity for sensation or sense-perception.
|
|
sentient
|
(adj.) Possessing the power of sense or sense-perception.
|
|
sentinel
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(n.) Any guard or watch stationed for protection.
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separable
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(adj.) Capable of being disjoined or divided.
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separate
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(v.) To take apart.
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separatist
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(n.) A seceder.
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septennial
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(adj.) Recurring every seven years.
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sepulcher
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(n.) A burial-place.
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sequacious
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(adj.) Ready to be led.
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sequel
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(n.) That which follows in consequence of what has previously happened.
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sequence
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(n.) The order in which a number or persons, things, or events follow one another in space or time.
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sequent
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(adj.) Following in the order of time.
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sequester
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(v.) To cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life.
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sequestrate
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(v.) To confiscate.
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sergeant
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(n.) A non-commissioned military officer ranking next above a corporal.
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sergeant-at-arms
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(n.) An executive officer in legislative bodies who enforces the orders of the presiding officer.
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sergeant-major
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(n.) The highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment.
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service
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(n.) Any work done for the benefit of another.
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serviceable
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(adj.) Durable.
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servitude
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(n.) Slavery.
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severance
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(n.) Separation.
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severely
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(adv.) Extremely.
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sextet
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(n.) A band of six singers or players.
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sextuple
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(adj.) Multiplied by six.
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sheer
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(adj.) Absolute.
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shiftless
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(adj.) Wanting in resource, energy, or executive ability.
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shrewd
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(adj.) Characterized by skill at understanding and profiting by circumstances.
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shriek
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(n.) A sharp, shrill outcry or scream, caused by agony or terror.
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shrinkage
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(n.) A contraction of any material into less bulk or dimension.
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shrivel
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(v.) To draw or be drawn into wrinkles.
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shuffle
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(n.) A mixing or changing the order of things.
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sibilance
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(n.) A hissing sound.
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sibilant
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(adj.) Made with a hissing sound.
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sibilate
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(v.) To give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s.
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sidelong
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(adj.) Inclining or tending to one side.
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sidereal
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(adj.) Pertaining to stars or constellations.
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siege
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(n.) A beleaguerment.
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significance
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(n.) Importance.
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significant
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(adj.) Important, especially as pointing something out.
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signification
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(n.) The meaning conveyed by language, actions, or signs.
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similar
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(adj.) Bearing resemblance to one another or to something else.
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simile
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(n.) A comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself.
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similitude
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(n.) Similarity.
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simplify
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(v.) To make less complex or difficult.
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simulate
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(v.) Imitate.
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simultaneous
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(adj.) Occurring, done, or existing at the same time.
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sinecure
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(n.) Any position having emoluments with few or no duties.
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singe
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(v.) To burn slightly or superficially.
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sinister
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(adj.) Evil.
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sinuosity
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(n.) The quality of curving in and out.
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sinuous
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(adj.) Curving in and out.
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sinus
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(n.) An opening or cavity.
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siren
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(n.) A sea-nymph, described by Homer as dwelling between the island of Circe and Scylla.
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sirocco
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(n.) hot winds from Africa.
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sisterhood
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(n.) A body of sisters united by some bond of sympathy or by a religious vow.
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skeptic
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(n.) One who doubts any statements.
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skepticism
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(n.) The entertainment of doubt concerning something.
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skiff
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(n.) Usually, a small light boat propelled by oars.
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skirmish
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(n.) Desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies.
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sleight
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(n.) A trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation.
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slight
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(adj.) Of a small importance or significance.
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slothful
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(adj.) Lazy.
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sluggard
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(n.) A person habitually lazy or idle.
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sociable
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(adj.) Inclined to seek company.
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socialism
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(n.) A theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society.
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socialist
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(adj.) One who advocates reconstruction of society by collective ownership of land and capital.
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sociology
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(n.) The philosophical study of society.
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Sol
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(n.) The sun.
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solace
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(n.) Comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity.
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solar
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(adj.) Pertaining to the sun.
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solder
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(n.) A fusible alloy used for joining metallic surfaces or margins.
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soldier
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(n.) A person engaged in military service.
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solecism
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(n.) Any violation of established rules or customs.
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solicitor
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(n.) One who represents a client in court of justice; an attorney.
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solicitude
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(n.) Uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety, or fear.
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soliloquy
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(n.) A monologue.
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solstice
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(n.) The time of year when the sun is at its greatest declination.
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soluble
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(adj.) Capable of being dissolved, as in a fluid.
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solvent
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(adj.) Having sufficient funds to pay all debts.
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somber
|
(adj.) Gloomy.
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somniferous
|
(adj.) Tending to produce sleep.
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somnolence
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(n.) Oppressive drowsiness.
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somnolent
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(adj.) Sleepy.
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sonata
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(n.) An instrumental composition.
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sonnet
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(n.) A poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases.
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sonorous
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(adj.) Resonant.
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soothsayer
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(n.) One who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight.
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sophism
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(n.) A false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive
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sophistical
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(adj.) Fallacious.
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sophisticate
|
(v.) To deprive of simplicity of mind or manner.
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sophistry
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(n.) Reasoning sound in appearance only, especially when designedly deceptive.
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soprano
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(n.) A woman's or boy's voice of high range.
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sorcery
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(n.) Witchcraft.
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sordid
|
(adj.) Of degraded character or nature.
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souvenir
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(n.) A token of remembrance.
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sparse
|
(adj.) Thinly diffused.
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Spartan
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(adj.) Exceptionally brave; rigorously severe.
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spasmodic
|
(adj.) Convulsive.
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specialize
|
(v.) To assume an individual or specific character, or adopt a singular or special course.
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specialty
|
(n.) An employment limited to one particular line of work.
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specie
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(n.) A coin or coins of gold, silver, copper, or other metal.
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species
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(n.) A classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus.
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specimen
|
(n.) One of a class of persons or things regarded as representative of the class.
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specious
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(adj.) Plausible.
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spectator
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(n.) One who beholds or looks on.
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specter
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(n.) Apparition.
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|
spectrum
|
(n.) An image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy.
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speculate
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(v.) To pursue inquiries and form conjectures.
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|
speculator
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(n.) One who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss, but also a chance of profit.
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sphericity
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(n.) The state or condition of being a sphere.
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|
spheroid
|
(n.) A body having nearly the form of a sphere.
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spherometer
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(n.) An instrument for measuring curvature or radii of spherical surfaces.
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spinous
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(adj.) Having spines.
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spinster
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(n.) A woman who has never been married.
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spontaneous
|
(adj.) Arising from inherent qualities or tendencies without external efficient cause.
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sprightly
|
(adj.) Vivacious.
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spurious
|
(adj.) Not genuine.
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squabble
|
(v.) To quarrel.
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squalid
|
(adj.) Having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance.
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squatter
|
(n.) One who settles on land without permission or right.
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stagnant
|
(adj.) Not flowing: said of water, as in a pool.
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stagnate
|
(v.) To become dull or inert.
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stagnation
|
(n.) The condition of not flowing or not changing.
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stagy
|
(adj.) Having a theatrical manner.
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staid
|
(adj.) Of a steady and sober character.
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stallion
|
(n.) An uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding.
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stanchion
|
(n.) A vertical bar, or a pair of bars, used to confine cattle in a stall.
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stanza
|
(n.) A group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem.
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statecraft
|
(n.) The art of conducting state affairs.
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static
|
(adj.) Pertaining to or designating bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium.
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|
statics
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(n.) The branch of mechanics that treats of the relations that subsist among forces in order.
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stationary
|
(adj.) Not moving.
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statistician
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(n.) One who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts.
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statuesque
|
(adj.) Having the grace, pose, or quietude of a statue.
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statuette
|
(n.) A figurine.
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stature
|
(n.) The natural height of an animal body.
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statute
|
(n.) Any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree, or law.
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stealth
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(n.) A concealed manner of acting.
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stellar
|
(adj.) Pertaining to the stars.
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steppe
|
(n.) One of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia.
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sterling
|
(adj.) Genuine.
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stifle
|
(v.) To smother.
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|
stigma
|
(n.) A mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing.
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stiletto
|
(n.) A small dagger.
|
|
stimulant
|
(n.) Anything that rouses to activity or to quickened action.
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stimulate
|
(v.) To rouse to activity or to quickened action.
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|
stimulus
|
(n.) Incentive.
|
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stingy
|
(adj.) Cheap, unwilling to spend money.
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stipend
|
(n.) A definite amount paid at stated periods in compensation for services or as an allowance.
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Stoicism
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(n.) The principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure.
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stolid
|
(adj.) Expressing no power of feeling or perceiving.
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strait
|
(n.) A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
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stratagem
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(n.) Any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage.
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|
stratum
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(n.) A natural or artificial layer, bed, or thickness of any substance or material.
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streamlet
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(n.) Rivulet.
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stringency
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(n.) Strictness.
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stringent
|
(adj.) Rigid.
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stripling
|
(n.) A mere youth.
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studious
|
(adj.) Having or showing devotion to the acquisition of knowledge.
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stultify
|
(v.) To give an appearance of foolishness to.
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stupendous
|
(adj.) Of prodigious size, bulk, or degree.
|
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stupor
|
(n.) Profound lethargy.
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suasion
|
(n.) The act of persuading.
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|
suave
|
(adj.) Smooth and pleasant in manner.
|
|
subacid
|
(adj.) Somewhat sharp or biting.
|
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subaquatic
|
(adj.) Being, formed, or operating under water.
|
|
subconscious
|
(adj.) Being or occurring in the mind, but without attendant consciousness or conscious perception.
|
|
subjacent
|
(adj.) Situated directly underneath.
|
|
subjection
|
(n.) The act of bringing into a state of submission.
|
|
subjugate
|
(v.) To conquer.
|
|
subliminal
|
(adj.) Being beneath the threshold of consciousness.
|
|
sublingual
|
(adj.) Situated beneath the tongue.
|
|
submarine
|
(adj.) Existing, done, or operating beneath the surface of the sea.
|
|
submerge
|
(v.) To place or plunge under water.
|
|
submergence
|
(n.) The act of submerging.
|
|
submersible
|
(adj.) Capable of being put underwater.
|
|
submersion
|
(n.) The act of submerging.
|
|
submission
|
(n.) A yielding to the power or authority of another.
|
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submittal
|
(n.) The act of submitting.
|
|
subordinate
|
(adj.) Belonging to an inferior order in a classification.
|
|
subsequent
|
(adj.) Following in time.
|
|
subservience
|
(n.) The quality, character, or condition of being servilely following another's behests.
|
|
subservient
|
(adj.) Servilely following another's behests.
|
|
subside
|
(v.) To relapse into a state of repose and tranquillity.
|
|
subsist
|
(v.) To be maintained or sustained.
|
|
subsistence
|
(n.) Sustenance.
|
|
substantive
|
(adj.) Solid.
|
|
subtend
|
(v.) To extend opposite to.
|
|
subterfuge
|
(n.) Evasion.
|
|
subterranean
|
(adj.) Situated or occurring below the surface of the earth.
|
|
subtle
|
(adj.) Discriminating.
|
|
subtrahend
|
(n.) That which is to be subtracted.
|
|
subversion
|
(n.) An overthrow, as from the foundation.
|
|
subvert
|
(v.) To bring to ruin.
|
|
succeed
|
(v.) To accomplish what is attempted or intended.
|
|
success
|
(n.) A favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted.
|
|
successful
|
(adj.) Having reached a high degree of worldly prosperity.
|
|
successor
|
(n.) One who or that which takes the place of a predecessor or preceding thing.
|
|
succinct
|
(adj.) Concise.
|
|
succulent
|
(adj.) Juicy.
|
|
succumb
|
(v.) To cease to resist.
|
|
sufferance
|
(n.) Toleration.
|
|
sufficiency
|
(n.) An ample or adequate supply.
|
|
suffrage
|
(n.) The right or privilege of voting.
|
|
suffuse
|
(v.) To cover or fill the surface of.
|
|
suggestible
|
(adj.) That can be suggested.
|
|
suggestive
|
(adj.) Stimulating to thought or reflection.
|
|
summary
|
(n.) An abstract.
|
|
sumptuous
|
(adj.) Rich and costly.
|
|
superabundance
|
(n.) An excessive amount.
|
|
superadd
|
(v.) To add in addition to what has been added.
|
|
superannuate
|
(v.) To become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service.
|
|
superb
|
(adj.) Sumptuously elegant.
|
|
supercilious
|
(adj.) Exhibiting haughty and careless contempt.
|
|
superficial
|
(adj.) Knowing and understanding only the ordinary and the obvious.
|
|
superfluity
|
(n.) That part of anything that is in excess of what is needed.
|
|
superfluous
|
(adj.) Being more than is needed.
|
|
superheat
|
(v.) To heat to excess.
|
|
superintend
|
(v.) To have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
|
|
superintendence
|
(n.) Direction and management.
|
|
superintendent
|
(n.) One who has the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
|
|
superlative
|
(n.) That which is of the highest possible excellence or eminence.
|
|
supernatural
|
(adj.) Caused miraculously or by the immediate exercise of divine power.
|
|
supernumerary
|
(adj.) Superfluous.
|
|
supersede
|
(v.) To displace.
|
|
supine
|
(adj.) Lying on the back.
|
|
supplant
|
(v.) To take the place of.
|
|
supple
|
(adj.) Easily bent.
|
|
supplementary
|
(adj.) Being an addition to.
|
|
supplicant
|
(n.) One who asks humbly and earnestly.
|
|
supplicate
|
(v.) To beg.
|
|
supposition
|
(n.) Conjecture.
|
|
suppress
|
(v.) To prevent from being disclosed or punished.
|
|
suppressible
|
(adj.) Capable of being suppressed.
|
|
suppression
|
(n.) A forcible putting or keeping down.
|
|
supramundane
|
(adj.) Supernatural.
|
|
surcharge
|
(n.) An additional amount charged.
|
|
surety
|
(n.) Security for payment or performance.
|
|
surfeit
|
(v.) To feed to fullness or to satiety.
|
|
surmise
|
(v.) To conjecture.
|
|
surmount
|
(v.) To overcome by force of will.
|
|
surreptitious
|
(adj.) Clandestine.
|
|
surrogate
|
(n.) One who or that which is substituted for or appointed to act in place of another.
|
|
surround
|
(v.) To encircle.
|
|
surveyor
|
(n.) A land-measurer.
|
|
susceptibility
|
(n.) A specific capability of feeling or emotion.
|
|
susceptible
|
(adj.) Easily under a specified power or influence.
|
|
suspense
|
(n.) Uncertainty.
|
|
suspension
|
(n.) A hanging from a support.
|
|
suspicious
|
(adj.) Inclined to doubt or mistrust.
|
|
sustenance
|
(n.) Food.
|
|
swarthy
|
(adj.) Having a dark hue, especially a dark or sunburned complexion.
|
|
Sybarite
|
(n.) A luxurious person.
|
|
sycophant
|
(n.) A servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence.
|
|
syllabic
|
(adj.) Consisting of that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
|
|
syllabication
|
(n.) Division of words into that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
|
|
syllable
|
(n.) That which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
|
|
syllabus
|
(n.) Outline of a subject, course, lecture, or treatise.
|
|
sylph
|
(n.) A slender, graceful young woman or girl.
|
|
symmetrical
|
(adj.) Well-balanced.
|
|
symmetry
|
(n.) Relative proportion and harmony.
|
|
sympathetic
|
(adj.) Having a fellow-feeling for or like feelings with another or others.
|
|
sympathize
|
(v.) To share the sentiments or mental states of another.
|
|
symphonic
|
(adj.) Characterized by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
|
|
symphonious
|
(adj.) Marked by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
|
|
symphony
|
(n.) A harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
|
|
synchronism
|
(n.) Simultaneousness.
|
|
syndicate
|
(n.) An association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise.
|
|
syneresis
|
(n.) The coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever.
|
|
synod
|
(n.) An ecclesiastical council.
|
|
synonym
|
(n.) A word having the same or almost the same meaning as some other.
|
|
synopsis
|
(n.) A syllabus or summary.
|
|
systematic
|
(adj.) Methodical.
|
|
tableau
|
(n.) An arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life.
|
|
tacit
|
(adj.) Understood.
|
|
taciturn
|
(adj.) Disinclined to conversation.
|
|
tack
|
(n.) A small sharp-pointed nail.
|
|
tact
|
(n.) Fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing.
|
|
tactician
|
(n.) One who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness.
|
|
tactics
|
(n.) Any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object.
|
|
tangency
|
(n.) The state of touching.
|
|
tangent
|
(adj.) Touching.
|
|
tangible
|
(adj.) Perceptible by touch.
|
|
tannery
|
(n.) A place where leather is tanned.
|
|
tantalize
|
(v.) To tease.
|
|
tantamount
|
(adj.) Having equal or equivalent value, effect, or import.
|
|
tapestry
|
(n.) A fabric to which a pattern is applied with a needle, designed for ornamental hangings.
|
|
tarnish
|
(v.) To lessen or destroy the luster of in any way.
|
|
taut
|
(adj.) Stretched tight.
|
|
taxation
|
(n.) A levy, by government, of a fixed contribution.
|
|
taxidermy
|
(n.) The art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them.
|
|
technic
|
(adj.) Technical.
|
|
technicality
|
(n.) Something peculiar to a particular art, trade, or the like.
|
|
technique
|
(n.) Manner of performance.
|
|
technography
|
(n.) The scientific description or study of human arts and industries in their historic development.
|
|
technology
|
(n.) The knowledge relating to industries and manufactures.
|
|
teem
|
(v.) To be full to overflowing.
|
|
telepathy
|
(n.) Thought-transference.
|
|
telephony
|
(n.) The art or process of communicating by telephone.
|
|
telescope
|
(v.) To drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass.
|
|
telltale
|
(adj.) That gives warning or information.
|
|
temerity
|
(n.) Recklessness.
|
|
temporal
|
(adj.) Pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life.
|
|
temporary
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(adj.) Lasting for a short time only.
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temporize
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(v.) To pursue a policy of delay.
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tempt
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(v.) To offer to (somebody) an inducement to do wrong.
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tempter
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(n.) An allurer or enticer to evil.
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tenacious
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(adj.) Unyielding.
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tenant
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(n.) An occupant.
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tendency
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(n.) Direction or inclination, as toward some objector end.
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tenet
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(n.) Any opinion, principle, dogma, or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true.
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tenor
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(n.) A settled course or manner of progress.
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tense
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(adj.) Strained to stiffness.
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tentative
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(adj.) Done as an experiment.
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tenure
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(n.) The term during which a thing is held.
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tercentenary
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(adj.) Pertaining to a period of 300 years.
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termagant
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(adj.) Violently abusive and quarrelsome.
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terminal
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(adj.) Pertaining to or creative of a boundary, limit.
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terminate
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(v.) To put an end or stop to.
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termination
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(n.) The act of ending or concluding.
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terminus
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(n.) The final point or goal.
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terrify
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(v.) To fill with extreme fear.
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territorial
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(adj.) Pertaining to the domain over which a sovereign state exercises jurisdiction.
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terse
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(adj.) Pithy.
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testament
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(n.) A will.
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testator
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(n.) The maker of a will.
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testimonial
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(n.) A formal token of regard, often presented in public.
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thearchy
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(n.) Government by a supreme deity.
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theism
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(n.) Belief in God.
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theocracy
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(n.) A government administered by ecclesiastics.
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theocrasy
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(n.) The mixed worship of polytheism.
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theologian
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(n.) A professor of divinity.
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theological
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(adj.) Based on or growing out of divine revelation.
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theology
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(n.) The branch of theological science that treats of God.
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theoretical
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(adj.) Directed toward knowledge for its own sake without respect to applications.
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theorist
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(n.) One given to speculating.
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theorize
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(v.) To speculate.
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thereabout
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(adv.) Near that number, quantity, degree, place, or time, approximately.
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therefor
|
(adv.) For that or this.
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thermal
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(adj.) Of or pertaining to heat.
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thermoelectric
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(adj.) Denoting electricity produced by heat.
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thermoelectricity
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(n.) Electricity generated by differences of temperature,
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thesis
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(n.) An essay or treatise on a particular subject.
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thoroughbred
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(adj.) Bred from the best or purest blood or stock.
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thoroughfare
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(n.) A public street or road.
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thrall
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(n.) One controlled by an appetite or a passion.
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tilth
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(n.) Cultivation.
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timbre
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(n.) The quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch.
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timorous
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(adj.) Lacking courage.
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tincture
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(n.) A solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine.
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tinge
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(n.) A faint trace of color.
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tipsy
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(adj.) Befuddled with drinks.
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tirade
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(n.) Harangue.
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tireless
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(adj.) Untiring.
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tiresome
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(adj.) Wearisome.
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Titanic
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(adj.) Of vast size or strength.
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toilsome
|
(adj.) Laborious.
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tolerable
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(adj.) Moderately good.
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tolerance
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(n.) Forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others.
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tolerant
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(adj.) Indulgent.
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tolerate
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(v.) To passively permit or put up with.
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toleration
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(n.) A spirit of charitable leniency.
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topography
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(n.) The art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy.
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torpor
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(n.) Apathy.
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torrid
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(adj.) Excessively hot.
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tortious
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(adj.) Wrongful.
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tortuous
|
(adj.) Abounding in irregular bends or turns.
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torturous
|
(adj.) Marked by extreme suffering.
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tractable
|
(adj.) Easily led or controlled.
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trait
|
(n.) A distinguishing feature or quality.
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trajectory
|
(n.) The path described by a projectile moving under given forces.
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trammel
|
(n.) An impediment.
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tranquil
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(adj.) Calm.
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tranquilize
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(v.) To soothe.
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tranquility
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(n.) Calmness.
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transalpine
|
(adj.) Situated on the other side of the Alps.
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transact
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(v.) To do business.
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transatlantic
|
(adj.) Situated beyond or on the other side of the Atlantic.
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transcend
|
(v.) To surpass.
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transcendent
|
(adj.) Surpassing.
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transcontinental
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(adj.) Extending or passing across a continent.
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transcribe
|
(v.) To write over again (something already written)
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|
transcript
|
(n.) A copy made directly from an original.
|
|
transfer
|
(v.) To convey, remove, or cause to pass from one person or place to another.
|
|
transferable
|
(adj.) Capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another.
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transferee
|
(n.) The person to whom a transfer is made.
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transference
|
(n.) The act of conveying from one person or place to another.
|
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transferrer
|
(n.) One who or that which conveys from one person or place to another.
|
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transfigure
|
(v.) To give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to.
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|
transfuse
|
(v.) To pour or cause to pass, as a fluid, from one vessel to another.
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|
transfusible
|
(adj.) Capable of being poured from one vessel to another.
|
|
transfusion
|
(n.) The act of pouring from one vessel to another.
|
|
transgress
|
(v.) To break a law.
|
|
transience
|
(n.) Something that is of short duration.
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|
transient
|
(n.) One who or that which is only of temporary existence.
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|
transition
|
(n.) Passage from one place, condition, or action to another.
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transitory
|
(adj.) Existing for a short time only.
|
|
translate
|
(v.) To give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect.
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|
translator
|
(n.) An interpreter.
|
|
translucence
|
(n.) The property or state of allowing the passage of light.
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|
translucent
|
(adj.) Allowing the passage of light.
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transmissible
|
(adj.) That may e sent through or across.
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transmission
|
(n.) The act of sending through or across.
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|
transmit
|
(v.) To send trough or across.
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|
transmute
|
(v.) To change in nature, substance, or form.
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|
transparent
|
(adj.) Easy to see through or understand.
|
|
transpire
|
(v.) To come to pass.
|
|
transplant
|
(v.) To remove and plant in another place.
|
|
transposition
|
(n.) The act of reversing the order or changing the place of.
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|
transverse
|
(adj.) Lying or being across or in a crosswise direction.
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|
travail
|
(n.) Hard or agonizing labor.
|
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travesty
|
(n.) A grotesque imitation.
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treacherous
|
(adj.) Perfidious.
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treachery
|
(n.) Violation of allegiance, confidence, or plighted faith.
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|
treasonable
|
(adj.) Of the nature of betrayal, treachery, or breech of allegiance.
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treatise
|
(n.) An elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts.
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treble
|
(adj.) Multiplied by three.
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trebly
|
(adv.) Triply.
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tremendous
|
(adj.) Awe-inspiring.
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tremor
|
(n.) An involuntary trembling or shivering.
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tremulous
|
(adj.) Characterized by quivering or unsteadiness.
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trenchant
|
(adj.) Cutting deeply and quickly.
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|
trepidation
|
(n.) Nervous uncertainty of feeling.
|
|
trestle
|
(n.) An open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge.
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triad
|
(n.) A group of three persons of things.
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|
tribune
|
(n.) Any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper.
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trickery
|
(n.) Artifice.
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|
tricolor
|
(adj.) Of three colors.
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tricycle
|
(n.) A three-wheeled vehicle.
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trident
|
(n.) The three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune.
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triennial
|
(adj.) Taking place every third year.
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trimness
|
(n.) Neatness.
|
|
trinity
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(n.) A threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance.
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trio
|
(n.) Three things grouped or associated together.
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triple
|
(adj.) Threefold.
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triplicate
|
(adj.) Composed of or pertaining to three related things or parts.
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triplicity
|
(n.) The state of being triple or threefold.
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tripod
|
(n.) A three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument.
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trisect
|
(v.) To divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts.
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trite
|
(adj.) Made commonplace by frequent repetition.
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triumvir
|
(n.) One of three men united coordinately in public office or authority.
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trivial
|
(adj.) Of little importance or value.
|
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troublesome
|
(adj.) Burdensome.
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|
truculence
|
(n.) Ferocity.
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truculent
|
(adj.) Having the character or the spirit of a savage.
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truism
|
(n.) A statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof.
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truthful
|
(adj.) Veracious.
|
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turgid
|
(adj.) Swollen.
|
|
turpitude
|
(n.) Depravity.
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|
tutelage
|
(n.) The act of training or the state of being under instruction.
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tutelar
|
(adj.) Protective.
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|
tutorship
|
(n.) The office of a guardian.
|
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twinge
|
(n.) A darting momentary local pain.
|
|
typical
|
(adj.) Characteristic.
|
|
typify
|
(v.) To serve as a characteristic example of.
|
|
typographical
|
(adj.) Pertaining to typography or printing.
|
|
typography
|
(n.) The arrangement of composed type, or the appearance of printed matter.
|
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tyrannical
|
(adj.) Despotic.
|
|
tyranny
|
(n.) Absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administrated.
|
|
tyro
|
(n.) One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession.
|
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ubiquitous
|
(adj.) Being present everywhere.
|
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ulterior
|
(adj.) Not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of.
|
|
ultimate
|
(adj.) Beyond which there is nothing else.
|
|
ultimatum
|
(n.) A final statement or proposal, as concerning terms or conditions.
|
|
ultramundane
|
(adj.) Pertaining to supernatural things or to another life.
|
|
ultramontane
|
(adj.) Beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps (that is, on their Italian side).
|
|
umbrage
|
(n.) A sense of injury.
|
|
unaccountable
|
(adj.) Inexplicable.
|
|
unaffected
|
(adj.) Sincere.
|
|
unanimous
|
(adj.) Sharing the same views or sentiments.
|
|
unanimity
|
(n.) The state or quality of being of one mind.
|
|
unavoidable
|
(adj.) Inevitable.
|
|
unbearable
|
(adj.) Unendurable.
|
|
unbecoming
|
(adj.) Unsuited to the wearer, place, or surroundings.
|
|
unbelief
|
(n.) Doubt.
|
|
unbiased
|
(adj.) Impartial, as judgment.
|
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unbridled
|
(adj.) Being without restraint.
|
|
uncommon
|
(adj.) Rare.
|
|
unconscionable
|
(adj.) Ridiculously or unjustly excessive.
|
|
unconscious
|
(adj.) Not cognizant of objects, actions, etc.
|
|
unction
|
(n.) The art of anointing as with oil.
|
|
unctuous
|
(adj.) Oily.
|
|
undeceive
|
(v.) To free from deception, as by apprising of the real state of affairs.
|
|
undercharge
|
(v.) To make an inadequate charge for.
|
|
underexposed
|
(adj.) Insufficiently exposed for proper or full development, as negatives in photography.
|
|
undergarment
|
(n.) A garment to be worn under the ordinary outer garments.
|
|
underman
|
(v.) To equip with less than the full complement of men.
|
|
undersell
|
(v.) To sell at a lower price than.
|
|
undersized
|
(adj.) Of less than the customary size.
|
|
underhanded
|
(adj.) Clandestinely carried on.
|
|
underlie
|
(v.) To be the ground or support of.
|
|
underling
|
(n.) A subordinate.
|
|
undermine
|
(v.) To subvert in an underhand way.
|
|
underrate
|
(v.) To undervalue.
|
|
understate
|
(v.) To fail to put strongly enough, as a case.
|
|
undervalue
|
(v.) To underestimate.
|
|
underworld
|
(n.) Hades.
|
|
underwrite
|
(v.) To issue or be party to the issue of a policy of insurance.
|
|
undue
|
(adj.) More than sufficient.
|
|
undulate
|
(v.) To move like a wave or in waves.
|
|
undulous
|
(adj.) Resembling waves.
|
|
unfavorable
|
(adj.) Adverse.
|
|
ungainly
|
(adj.) Clumsy.
|
|
unguent
|
(n.) Any ointment or lubricant for local application.
|
|
unicellular
|
(adj.) Consisting of a single cell.
|
|
univalence
|
(n.) Monovalency.
|
|
unify
|
(v.) To cause to be one.
|
|
unique
|
(adj.) Being the only one of its kind.
|
|
unison
|
(n.) A condition of perfect agreement and accord.
|
|
unisonant
|
(adj.) Being in a condition of perfect agreement and accord.
|
|
Unitarian
|
(adj.) Pertaining to a religious body that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity.
|
|
unlawful
|
(adj.) Illegal.
|
|
unlimited
|
(adj.) Unconstrained.
|
|
unnatural
|
(adj.) Artificial.
|
|
unnecessary
|
(adj.) Not essential under the circumstances.
|
|
unsettle
|
(v.) To put into confusion.
|
|
unsophisticated
|
(adj.) Showing inexperience.
|
|
unspeakable
|
(adj.) Abominable.
|
|
untimely
|
(adj.) Unseasonable.
|
|
untoward
|
(adj.) Causing annoyance or hindrance.
|
|
unutterable
|
(adj.) Inexpressible.
|
|
unwieldy
|
(adj.) Moved or managed with difficulty, as from great size or awkward shape.
|
|
unwise
|
(adj.) Foolish.
|
|
unyoke
|
(v.) To separate.
|
|
up-keep
|
(n.) Maintenance.
|
|
upbraid
|
(v.) To reproach as deserving blame.
|
|
upcast
|
(n.) A throwing upward.
|
|
upheaval
|
(n.) Overthrow or violent disturbance of established order or condition.
|
|
upheave
|
(v.) To raise or lift with effort.
|
|
uppermost
|
(adj.) First in order of precedence.
|
|
uproarious
|
(adj.) Noisy.
|
|
uproot
|
(v.) To eradicate.
|
|
upturn
|
(v.) To throw into confusion.
|
|
urban
|
(adj.) Of, or pertaining to, or like a city.
|
|
urbanity
|
(n.) Refined or elegant courtesy.
|
|
urchin
|
(n.) A roguish, mischievous boy.
|
|
urgency
|
(n.) The pressure of necessity.
|
|
usage
|
(n.) Treatment.
|
|
usurious
|
(adj.) Taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned.
|
|
usurp
|
(v.) To take possession of by force.
|
|
usury
|
(n.) The demanding for the use of money as a loan, a rate of interest beyond what is allowed by law.
|
|
utilitarianism
|
(n.) The ethical doctrine that actions are right because they are useful or of beneficial tendency.
|
|
utility
|
(n.) Fitness for some desirable practical purpose.
|
|
utmost
|
(n.) The greatest possible extent.
|
|
vacate
|
(v.) To leave.
|
|
vaccinate
|
(v.) To inoculate with vaccine virus or virus of cowpox.
|
|
vacillate
|
(v.) To waver.
|
|
vacuous
|
(adj.) Empty.
|
|
vacuum
|
(n.) A space entirely devoid of matter.
|
|
vagabond
|
(n.) A wanderer.
|
|
vagrant
|
(n.) An idle wanderer.
|
|
vainglory
|
(n.) Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity.
|
|
vale
|
(n.) Level or low land between hills.
|
|
valediction
|
(n.) A bidding farewell.
|
|
valedictorian
|
(n.) Student who delivers an address at graduating exercises of an educational institution.
|
|
valedictory
|
(n.) A parting address.
|
|
valid
|
(adj.) Founded on truth.
|
|
valorous
|
(adj.) Courageous.
|
|
vapid
|
(adj.) Having lost sparkling quality and flavor.
|
|
vaporizer
|
(n.) An atomizer.
|
|
variable
|
(adj.) Having a tendency to change.
|
|
variance
|
(n.) Change.
|
|
variant
|
(n.) A thing that differs from another in form only, being the same in essence or substance.
|
|
variation
|
(n.) Modification.
|
|
variegate
|
(v.) To mark with different shades or colors.
|
|
vassal
|
(n.) A slave or bondman.
|
|
vaudeville
|
(n.) A variety show.
|
|
vegetal
|
(adj.) Of or pertaining to plants.
|
|
vegetarian
|
(n.) One who believes in the theory that man's food should be exclusively vegetable.
|
|
vegetate
|
(v.) To live in a monotonous, passive way without exercise of the mental faculties.
|
|
vegetation
|
(n.) Plant-life in the aggregate.
|
|
vegetative
|
(adj.) Pertaining to the process of plant-life.
|
|
vehement
|
(adj.) Very eager or urgent.
|
|
velocity
|
(n.) Rapid motion.
|
|
velvety
|
(adj.) Marked by lightness and softness.
|
|
venal
|
(adj.) Mercenary, corrupt.
|
|
vendible
|
(adj.) Marketable.
|
|
vendition
|
(n.) The act of selling.
|
|
vendor
|
(n.) A seller.
|
|
veneer
|
(n.) Outside show or elegance.
|
|
venerable
|
(adj.) Meriting or commanding high esteem.
|
|
venerate
|
(v.) To cherish reverentially.
|
|
venereal
|
(adj.) Pertaining to or proceeding from sexual intercourse.
|
|
venial
|
(adj.) That may be pardoned or forgiven, a forgivable sin.
|
|
venison
|
(n.) The flesh of deer.
|
|
venom
|
(n.) The poisonous fluid that certain animals secrete.
|
|
venous
|
(adj.) Of, pertaining to, or contained or carried in a vein or veins.
|
|
veracious
|
(adj.) Habitually disposed to speak the truth.
|
|
veracity
|
(n.) Truthfulness.
|
|
verbatim
|
(adv.) Word for word.
|
|
verbiage
|
(n.) Use of many words without necessity.
|
|
verbose
|
(adj.) Wordy.
|
|
verdant
|
(adj.) Green with vegetation.
|
|
verification
|
(n.) The act of proving to be true, exact, or accurate.
|
|
verify
|
(v.) To prove to be true, exact, or accurate.
|
|
verily
|
(adv.) In truth.
|
|
verity
|
(n.) Truth.
|
|
vermin
|
(n.) A noxious or troublesome animal.
|
|
vernacular
|
(n.) The language of one's country.
|
|
vernal
|
(adj.) Belonging to or suggestive of the spring.
|
|
versatile
|
(adj.) Having an aptitude for applying oneself to new and varied tasks or to various subjects.
|
|
version
|
(n.) A description or report of something as modified by one's character or opinion.
|
|
vertex
|
(n.) Apex.
|
|
vertical
|
(adj.) Lying or directed perpendicularly to the horizon.
|
|
vertigo
|
(n.) Dizziness.
|
|
vestige
|
(n.) A visible trace, mark, or impression, of something absent, lost, or gone.
|
|
vestment
|
(n.) Clothing or covering.
|
|
veto
|
(n.) The constitutional right in a chief executive of refusing to approve an enactment.
|
|
vicarious
|
(adj.) Suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another.
|
|
viceroy
|
(n.) A ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or province.
|
|
vicissitude
|
(n.) A change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune.
|
|
vie
|
(v.) To contend.
|
|
vigilance
|
(n.) Alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger.
|
|
vigilant
|
(adj.) Being on the alert to discover and ward off danger or insure safety.
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vignette
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(n.) A picture having a background or that is shaded off gradually.
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vincible
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(adj.) Conquerable.
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vindicate
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(v.) To prove true, right, or real.
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vindicatory
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(adj.) Punitive.
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vindicative
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(adj.) Revengeful.
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vinery
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(n.) A greenhouse for grapes.
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viol
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(n.) A stringed instrument of the violin class.
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viola
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(n.) A musical instrument somewhat larger than a violin.
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violator
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(n.) One who transgresses.
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violation
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(n.) Infringement.
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violoncello
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(n.) A stringed instrument held between the player's knees.
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virago
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(n.) A bold, impudent, turbulent woman.
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virile
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(adj.) Masculine.
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virtu
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(n.) Rare, curious, or beautiful quality.
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virtual
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(adj.) Being in essence or effect, but not in form or appearance.
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virtuoso
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(n.) A master in the technique of some particular fine art.
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virulence
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(n.) Extreme poisonousness.
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virulent
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(adj.) Exceedingly noxious or deleterious.
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visage
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(n.) The face, countenance, or look of a person.
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viscount
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(n.) In England, a title of nobility, ranking fourth in the order of British peerage.
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vista
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(n.) A view or prospect.
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visual
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(adj.) Perceptible by sight.
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visualize
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(v.) To give pictorial vividness to a mental representation.
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vitality
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(n.) The state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance.
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vitalize
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(v.) To endow with life or energy.
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vitiate
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(v.) To contaminate.
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vituperable
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(adj.) Deserving of censure.
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vivacity
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(n.) Liveliness.
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vivify
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(v.) To endue with life.
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vivisection
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(n.) The dissection of a living animal.
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vocable
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(n.) a word, especially one regarded in relation merely to its qualities of sound.
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vocative
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(adj.) Of or pertaining to the act of calling.
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vociferance
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(n.) The quality of making a clamor.
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vociferate
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(v.) To utter with a loud and vehement voice.
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vociferous
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(adj.) Making a loud outcry.
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vogue
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(n.) The prevalent way or fashion.
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volant
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(adj.) Flying or able to fly.
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volatile
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(adj.) Changeable.
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volition
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(n.) An act or exercise of will.
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volitive
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(adj.) Exercising the will.
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voluble
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(adj.) Having great fluency in speaking.
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voluptuous
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(adj.) having fullness of beautiful form, as a woman, with or without sensuous or sensual quality.
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voracious
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(adj.) Eating with greediness or in very large quantities.
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vortex
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(n.) A mass of rotating or whirling fluid, especially when sucked spirally toward the center.
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votary
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(adj.) Consecrated by a vow or promise.
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votive
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(adj.) Dedicated by a vow.
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vulgarity
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(n.) Lack of refinement in conduct or speech.
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vulnerable
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(adj.) Capable of receiving injuries.
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waif
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(n.) A homeless, neglected wanderer.
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waistcoat
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(n.) A vest.
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waive
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(v.) To relinquish, especially temporarily, as a right or claim.
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wampum
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(n.) Beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency.
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wane
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(v.) To diminish in size and brilliancy.
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wantonness
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(n.) Recklessness.
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warlike
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(adj.) Belligerent.
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wavelet
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(n.) A ripple.
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weak-kneed
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(adj.) Without resolute purpose or energy.
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weal
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(n.) Well-being.
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wean
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(v.) To transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment.
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wearisome
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(adj.) Fatiguing.
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wee
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(adj.) Very small.
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well-bred
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(adj.) Of good ancestry.
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well-doer
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(n.) A performer of moral and social duties.
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well-to-do
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(adj.) In prosperous circumstances.
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whereabouts
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(n.) The place in or near which a person or thing is.
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whereupon
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(adv.) After which.
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wherever
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(adv.) In or at whatever place.
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wherewith
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(n.) The necessary means or resources.
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whet
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(v.) To make more keen or eager.
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whimsical
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(adj.) Capricious.
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whine
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(v.) To utter with complaining tone.
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wholly
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(adv.) Completely.
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wield
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(v.) To use, control, or manage, as a weapon, or instrument, especially with full command.
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wile
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(n.) An act or a means of cunning deception.
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winsome
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(adj.) Attractive.
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wintry
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(adj.) Lacking warmth of manner.
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wiry
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(adj.) Thin, but tough and sinewy.
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witchcraft
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(n.) Sorcery.
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witless
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(adj.) Foolish, indiscreet, or silly.
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witling
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(n.) A person who has little understanding.
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witticism
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(n.) A witty, brilliant, or original saying or sentiment.
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wittingly
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(adv.) With knowledge and by design.
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wizen
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(v.) To become or cause to become withered or dry.
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wizen-faced
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(adj.) Having a shriveled face.
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working-man
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(n.) One who earns his bread by manual labor.
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workmanlike
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(adj.) Like or befitting a skilled workman.
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workmanship
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(n.) The art or skill of a workman.
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wrangle
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(v.) To maintain by noisy argument or dispute.
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wreak
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(v.) To inflict, as a revenge or punishment.
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wrest
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(v.) To pull or force away by or as by violent twisting or wringing.
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wretchedness
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(n.) Extreme misery or unhappiness.
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