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 | - |
chaffinch | (noun) small European finch with a cheerful song | Synonyms: Fringilla coelebs |
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disaffirmation | (noun) the act of asserting that something alleged is not true | Synonyms: denial |
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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 |
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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reaffiliation | (noun) affiliation anew | - |
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reaffirmation | (noun) renewed affirmation | Synonyms: reassertion |
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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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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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