| affability | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affableness, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality |
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| affableness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality |
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| affair | (noun) a vaguely specified concern | Synonyms: matter, thing |
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| (noun) a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people | Synonyms: function, occasion, social affair, social function, social gathering, social occasion |
| (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affaire, amour, intimacy, involvement, liaison |
| affaire | (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, amour, intimacy, involvement, liaison |
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| affairs | (noun) transactions of professional or public interest | - |
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| (noun) matters of personal concern | Synonyms: personal business, personal matters |
| affect | (noun) the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion | - |
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| affectation | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectedness, mannerism, pose |
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| affectedness | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectation, mannerism, pose |
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| (noun) the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) | - |
| affection | (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
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| affectionateness | (noun) a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | Synonyms: fondness, lovingness, warmth |
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| (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
| affenpinscher | (noun) European breed of small dog resembling a terrier with dark wiry hair and a tufted muzzle | Synonyms: monkey dog, monkey pinscher |
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| afferent | (noun) a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system | Synonyms: afferent nerve, sensory nerve |
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| affiant | (noun) a person who makes an affidavit | - |
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| affidavit | (noun) written declaration made under oath; a written statement sworn to be true before someone legally authorized to administer an oath | - |
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| affiliate | (noun) a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization | - |
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| (noun) a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization | - |
| affiliation | (noun) the act of becoming formally connected or joined | - |
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| (noun) a social or business relationship | Synonyms: association, tie-up, tie |
| affine | (noun) (anthropology) kin by marriage | - |
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| affinity | (noun) inherent resemblance between persons or things | - |
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| (noun) a natural attraction or feeling of kinship | - |
| (noun) the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule | Synonyms: chemical attraction |
| (noun) (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody | - |
| (noun) (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship | - |
| (noun) (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts | Synonyms: phylogenetic relation |
| (noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character | Synonyms: kinship |
| affirmation | (noun) a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was correct and should stand | - |
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| (noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something | Synonyms: avouchment, avowal |
| (noun) (religion) a solemn declaration that serves the same purpose as an oath (if an oath is objectionable to the person on religious or ethical grounds) | - |
| (noun) the act of affirming or asserting or stating something | Synonyms: assertion, statement |
| affirmative | (noun) a reply of affirmation | - |
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| affirmativeness | (noun) the agreeable quality of one who assents | - |
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| affirmer | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: asserter, asseverator, avower, declarer |
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| affix | (noun) a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form | - |
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| affixation | (noun) formation of a word by means of an affix | - |
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| (noun) the act of attaching or affixing something | Synonyms: attachment |
| (noun) the result of adding an affix to a root word | - |
| afflatus | (noun) a strong creative impulse; divine inspiration | - |
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| affliction | (noun) a cause of great suffering and distress | - |
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| (noun) a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health | - |
| (noun) a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity | - |
| affluence | (noun) abundant wealth | Synonyms: richness |
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| affluent | (noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: confluent, feeder, tributary |
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| (noun) an affluent person; a person who is financially well off | - |
| affluenza | (noun) an inability to understand the consequences of one's actions because of financial privilege | - |
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| afforestation | (noun) the conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting) | - |
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| affray | (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: disturbance, fray, ruffle |
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| (noun) noisy quarrel | Synonyms: altercation, fracas |
| affricate | (noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') | Synonyms: affricate consonant, affricative |
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| affrication | (noun) the conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate | - |
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| affricative | (noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') | Synonyms: affricate, affricate consonant |
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| affright | (noun) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | Synonyms: panic, terror |
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| affront | (noun) a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect | Synonyms: insult |
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| affusion | (noun) the act of baptizing someone by pouring water on their head | - |
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| baffle | (noun) a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy | Synonyms: baffle board |
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| baffled | (noun) people who are frustrated and perplexed | - |
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| bafflement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| caff | (noun) informal British term for a cafe | - |
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| caffein | (noun) a bitter alkaloid found in coffee and tea that is responsible for their stimulating effects | Synonyms: caffeine |
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| caffeine | (noun) a bitter alkaloid found in coffee and tea that is responsible for their stimulating effects | Synonyms: caffein |
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| caffeinism | (noun) poisoning resulting from excessive intake of caffeine containing products | Synonyms: caffeine intoxication |
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| caffer | (noun) an offensive and insulting term for any Black African | Synonyms: caffre, kaffir, kafir |
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| caffre | (noun) an offensive and insulting term for any Black African | Synonyms: caffer, kaffir, kafir |
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| chaff | (noun) foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure | - |
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| (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble |
| chaffinch | (noun) small European finch with a cheerful song | Synonyms: Fringilla coelebs |
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| chaffweed | (noun) weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves | Synonyms: bastard pimpernel, false pimpernel |
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| daffodil | (noun) any of numerous varieties of Narcissus plants having showy often yellow flowers with a trumpet-shaped central crown | Synonyms: Narcissus pseudonarcissus |
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| disaffection | (noun) disloyalty to the government or to established authority | - |
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| (noun) the feeling of being alienated from other people | Synonyms: alienation, estrangement |
| disaffirmation | (noun) the act of asserting that something alleged is not true | Synonyms: denial |
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| distaff | (noun) the staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning | - |
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| (noun) the sphere of work by women | - |
| draff | (noun) the residue of malt and grain which remains in the mash-kettle after the mashing and lautering process. | Synonyms: brewer's grain, spent grain |
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| flagstaff | (noun) a tall staff or pole on which a flag is raised | Synonyms: flagpole |
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| gaff | (noun) an iron hook with a handle; used for landing large fish | - |
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| (noun) a spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail | - |
| (noun) a sharp metal spike or spur that is fastened to the leg of a gamecock | - |
| gaffe | (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaucherie, slip, solecism |
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| gaffer | (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: boss, chief, foreman, honcho |
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| (noun) an elderly man | Synonyms: antique, old-timer, old geezer, oldtimer |
| (noun) an electrician responsible for lighting on a movie or tv set | - |
| gaffsail | (noun) a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff | Synonyms: gaff-headed sail |
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| giraffe | (noun) tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa | Synonyms: camelopard, Giraffa camelopardalis |
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| graffiti | (noun) a rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls | Synonyms: graffito |
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| graffito | (noun) a rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls | Synonyms: graffiti |
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| kaffir | (noun) an offensive and insulting term for any Black African | Synonyms: caffer, caffre, kafir |
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| (noun) important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves | Synonyms: great millet, kaffir corn, kafir corn, Sorghum bicolor |
| kaffiyeh | (noun) an Arab headdress consisting of a square piece of cloth folded into a triangle and fastened over the crown by an agal | - |
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| maffia | (noun) any tightly knit group of trusted associates | Synonyms: mafia |
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| narcotraffic | (noun) traffic in illegal drugs | Synonyms: drug traffic, drug trafficking |
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| paraffin | (noun) from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings | Synonyms: paraffin wax |
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| (noun) (British usage) kerosine | Synonyms: paraffin oil |
| (noun) a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2) | Synonyms: alkane, alkane series, methane series, paraffin series |
| piaffe | (noun) a cadenced trot executed by the horse in one spot | - |
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| pikestaff | (noun) the staff of a pike | - |
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| pilaff | (noun) rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes | Synonyms: pilaf, pilau, pilaw |
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| quaff | (noun) a hearty draft | - |
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| quaffer | (noun) a person who drinks heartily | - |
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| quarterstaff | (noun) a long stout staff used as a weapon | - |
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| raffia | (noun) fiber of a raffia palm used as light cordage and in making hats and baskets | - |
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| (noun) leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree; used to make baskets and mats etc. | Synonyms: raphia |
| raffinose | (noun) a trisaccharide that occurs in sugar beets and cotton seeds and certain cereals | - |
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| raffle | (noun) a lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money | - |
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| reaffiliation | (noun) affiliation anew | - |
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| reaffirmation | (noun) renewed affirmation | Synonyms: reassertion |
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| riffraff | (noun) disparaging terms for the common people | Synonyms: rabble, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail |
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| rijstaffel | (noun) dish originating in Indonesia; a wide variety of foods and sauces are served with rice | Synonyms: rijstafel, rijsttaffel |
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| rijsttaffel | (noun) dish originating in Indonesia; a wide variety of foods and sauces are served with rice | Synonyms: rijstafel, rijstaffel |
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| safflower | (noun) thistlelike Eurasian plant widely grown for its red or orange flower heads and seeds that yield a valuable oil | Synonyms: Carthamus tinctorius, false saffron |
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| saffranine | (noun) any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes | Synonyms: safranin, safranine |
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| saffron | (noun) a shade of yellow tinged with orange | Synonyms: orange yellow |
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| (noun) dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffron crocus | - |
| (noun) Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food | Synonyms: Crocus sativus, saffron crocus |
| scaffold | (noun) a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers | - |
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| (noun) a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded) | - |
| scaffolding | (noun) a system of scaffolds | Synonyms: staging |
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| sclaff | (noun) a poor golf stroke in which the club head hits the ground before hitting the ball | - |
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| sgraffito | (noun) a ceramic or mural decoration made by scratching off a surface layer to reveal the ground | - |
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| shandygaff | (noun) a drink made of beer and lemonade | Synonyms: shandy |
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| snaffle | (noun) a simple jointed bit for a horse; without a curb | Synonyms: snaffle bit |
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| staff | (noun) a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose | - |
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| (noun) (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written | Synonyms: stave |
| (noun) a rod carried as a symbol | - |
| (noun) the body of teachers and administrators at a school | Synonyms: faculty |
| (noun) personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task | - |
| (noun) building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration | - |
| staffer | (noun) an employee who is a member of a staff of workers (especially a member of the staff that works for the President of the United States) | Synonyms: staff member |
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| taffeta | (noun) a crisp smooth lustrous fabric | - |
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| taffrail | (noun) the railing around the stern of a ship | - |
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| taffy | (noun) chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy | - |
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| tipstaff | (noun) staff with a metal tip carried as a sign of office by e.g. a bailiff or constable | - |
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| traffic | (noun) buying and selling; especially illicit trade | - |
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| (noun) social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') | Synonyms: dealings |
| (noun) the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time | - |
| (noun) the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time | - |
| trafficator | (noun) a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn | Synonyms: blinker, turn indicator, turn signal |
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| trafficker | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, seller, vender, vendor |
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| unaffectedness | (noun) not affected; a personal manner that is not consciously constrained | - |
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