| photocathode | (noun) a cathode that emits electrons when illuminated | - |
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| pizzicato | (noun) a note or passage that is played pizzicato | - |
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| placation | (noun) the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity | Synonyms: conciliation, propitiation |
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| plication | (noun) the act of folding in parallel folds | Synonyms: pleating |
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| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crease, crimp, flexure, fold |
| polecat | (noun) dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened | Synonyms: fitch, foulmart, foumart, Mustela putorius |
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| (noun) American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae | Synonyms: skunk, wood pussy |
| pontificate | (noun) the government of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: papacy |
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| preachification | (noun) moralization delivered tediously in a preachy manner | - |
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| predicate | (noun) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements | Synonyms: verb phrase |
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| (noun) (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula | - |
| predication | (noun) (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument | Synonyms: postulation |
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| predicator | (noun) an expression that predicates | - |
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| prefabrication | (noun) the manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site | - |
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| preindication | (noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: augury, foretoken, sign |
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| prevarication | (noun) the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | Synonyms: fabrication, lying |
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| (noun) intentionally vague or ambiguous | Synonyms: equivocation, evasiveness |
| (noun) a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth | Synonyms: lie |
| prevaricator | (noun) a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly | Synonyms: liar |
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| prognostication | (noun) knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) | Synonyms: prophecy, vaticination |
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| (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, foretelling, prediction |
| (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostic |
| prognosticator | (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, predictor, soothsayer |
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| provocateur | (noun) a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts | Synonyms: agent provocateur |
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| provocation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: aggravation, irritation |
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| (noun) needed encouragement | Synonyms: incitement |
| (noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitation, incitement |
| publication | (noun) the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution | Synonyms: publishing |
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| (noun) the act of issuing printed materials | Synonyms: issue |
| (noun) the communication of something to the public; making information generally known | - |
| (noun) a copy of a printed work offered for distribution | - |
| purification | (noun) the act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities | - |
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| (noun) the act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing | - |
| (noun) a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites | Synonyms: purgation |
| (noun) the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.) | Synonyms: refinement, refining |
| purificator | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: emunctorium, purificatorium |
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| purificatorium | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: emunctorium, purificator |
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| pussycat | (noun) informal terms referring to a domestic cat | Synonyms: kitty-cat, kitty, puss, pussy |
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| (noun) a person who is regarded as easygoing and agreeable | - |
| quadruplicate | (noun) any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one another exactly | - |
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| qualification | (noun) the act of modifying or changing the strength of some idea | - |
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| (noun) an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something | Synonyms: making |
| (noun) a statement that limits or restricts some claim | Synonyms: reservation |
| quantification | (noun) the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something | - |
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| (noun) a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no') | - |
| radiocommunication | (noun) medium for communication | Synonyms: radio, wireless |
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| radiolocation | (noun) measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects | Synonyms: microwave radar, radar, radio detection and ranging |
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| ramification | (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: branching, fork, forking |
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| (noun) an arrangement of branching parts | - |
| (noun) a development that complicates a situation | Synonyms: complication |
| (noun) a part of a forked or branching shape | Synonyms: branch, leg |
| ratification | (noun) making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it | Synonyms: confirmation |
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| reallocation | (noun) a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) | Synonyms: reallotment, reapportionment |
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| (noun) a share that has been allocated again | - |
| reciprocation | (noun) the act of making or doing something in return | - |
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| (noun) alternating back-and-forth movement | - |
| (noun) mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information) | Synonyms: give-and-take, interchange |
| reclassification | (noun) classifying something again (usually in a new category) | - |
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| rectification | (noun) the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right | Synonyms: correction |
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| (noun) determination of the length of a curve; finding a straight line equal in length to a given curve | - |
| (noun) the conversion of alternating current to direct current | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) the process of refinement or purification of a substance by distillation | - |
| rededication | (noun) a new dedication | - |
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| reduplication | (noun) the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: reiteration |
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| (noun) a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word) | - |
| (noun) the syllable added in a reduplicated word form | - |
| (noun) repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next | Synonyms: anadiplosis |
| refabrication | (noun) assembling again | Synonyms: reassembly |
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| reification | (noun) regarding something abstract as a material thing | Synonyms: hypostatisation, hypostatization |
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| (noun) representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality | Synonyms: depersonalisation, depersonalization |
| relocation | (noun) the act of changing your residence or place of business | Synonyms: move |
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| (noun) the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind) | Synonyms: resettlement |
| replication | (noun) the act of making copies | Synonyms: reproduction |
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| (noun) the repetition of an experiment in order to test the validity of its conclusion | - |
| (noun) copy that is not the original; something that has been copied | Synonyms: replica, reproduction |
| (noun) the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves | Synonyms: echo, reverberation, sound reflection |
| (noun) (law) a pleading made by a plaintiff in reply to the defendant's plea or answer | - |
| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, rejoinder, retort, return, riposte |
| (noun) (genetics) the process whereby DNA makes a copy of itself before cell division | - |
| republication | (noun) the act of publishing again | Synonyms: republishing |
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| (noun) something that has been published again; a fresh publication (as of a literary work) | - |
| requiescat | (noun) a prayer for the repose of the soul of a dead person | - |
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| reunification | (noun) the act of coming together again | Synonyms: reunion |
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| revivification | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: resurgence, revitalisation, revitalization, revival |
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| revocation | (noun) the act (by someone having the authority) of annulling something previously done | - |
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| (noun) the state of being cancelled or annulled | Synonyms: annulment |
| rigidification | (noun) the process of becoming stiff or rigid | Synonyms: rigidifying, stiffening |
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| rustication | (noun) the action of retiring to and living in the country | - |
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| (noun) banishment into the country | - |
| (noun) the construction of masonry or brickwork in a rustic manner | - |
| (noun) temporary dismissal of a student from a university | - |
| (noun) the condition naturally attaching to life in the country | - |
| sanctification | (noun) a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | - |
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| sanguification | (noun) the formation of blood cells in the living body (especially in the bone marrow) | Synonyms: haematogenesis, haematopoiesis, haemogenesis, haemopoiesis, hematogenesis, hematopoiesis, hemogenesis, hemopoiesis |
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| saponification | (noun) a chemical reaction in which an ester is heated with an alkali (especially the alkaline hydrolysis of a fat or oil to make soap) | - |
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| scat | (noun) singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument | Synonyms: scat singing |
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| scathe | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: damage, harm, hurt |
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| scatology | (noun) (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes) | - |
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| (noun) a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions) | - |
| scatophagy | (noun) the eating of excrement or other filth | - |
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| scatter | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scattering, strewing |
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| (noun) a haphazard distribution in all directions | Synonyms: spread |
| scatterbrain | (noun) a flighty and disorganized person | Synonyms: forgetful person |
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| scattergood | (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: spend-all, spender, spendthrift |
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| scattergun | (noun) firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges | Synonyms: shotgun |
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| scattering | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scatter, strewing |
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| (noun) spreading widely or driving off | Synonyms: dispersion |
| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: sprinkle, sprinkling |
| (noun) the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions | - |
| (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | Synonyms: sprinkling |
| secateurs | (noun) small pruning shears with a spring that holds the handles open and a single blade that closes against a flat surface | - |
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| siccative | (noun) a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) | Synonyms: desiccant, drier, drying agent |
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| signification | (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, significance |
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| silicate | (noun) a salt or ester derived from silicic acid | - |
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| simplification | (noun) elimination of superfluous details | - |
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| (noun) the act of reducing complexity | Synonyms: reduction |
| (noun) an explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity | - |
| sissification | (noun) Sexual act where a male is forced to act effeminately and dress like a woman | - |
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| solidification | (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, hardening, set, solidifying |
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| sophisticate | (noun) a worldly-wise person | Synonyms: man of the world |
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| sophistication | (noun) falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies | - |
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| (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness |
| (noun) uplifting enlightenment | Synonyms: edification |
| (noun) being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject | - |
| (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophism, sophistry |
| specification | (noun) a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement | Synonyms: stipulation |
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| (noun) a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work | Synonyms: spec |
| (noun) naming explicitly | - |
| (noun) (patent law) a document drawn up by the applicant for a patent of invention that provides an explicit and detailed description of the nature and use of an invention | - |
| spiccato | (noun) bowing in such a way that the bow bounces lightly off the strings | Synonyms: spiccato bowing |
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| stratification | (noun) the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata | - |
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| (noun) the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination | - |
| (noun) a layered configuration | - |
| (noun) forming or depositing in layers | - |
| (noun) the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group | Synonyms: social stratification |
| stultification | (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, deadening, impairment |
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| (noun) derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent | Synonyms: befooling |
| suffocation | (noun) killing by depriving of oxygen | Synonyms: asphyxiation |
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| (noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped) | Synonyms: asphyxiation |
| summercater | (noun) (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine | Synonyms: sport |
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| summercaters | (noun) (Maine colloquial) temporary summer residents of coastal Maine | - |
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| supplication | (noun) the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving) | Synonyms: prayer |
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| (noun) a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service | Synonyms: invocation |
| (noun) a humble request for help from someone in authority | Synonyms: plea |
| suricate | (noun) burrowing diurnal meerkat of southern Africa; often kept as a pet | Synonyms: Suricata tetradactyla |
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| syllabication | (noun) forming or dividing words into syllables | Synonyms: syllabification |
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| syllabification | (noun) forming or dividing words into syllables | Synonyms: syllabication |
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| syncategorem | (noun) a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition | Synonyms: syncategoreme |
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| syncategoreme | (noun) a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition | Synonyms: syncategorem |
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| syndicate | (noun) an association of companies for some definite purpose | Synonyms: consortium, pool |
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| (noun) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities | Synonyms: crime syndicate, family, mob |
| (noun) a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication | - |
| syndication | (noun) organizing into or administering as a syndicate | - |
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| (noun) selling (an article or cartoon) for publication in many magazines or newspapers at the same time | - |
| syndicator | (noun) a businessman who forms a syndicate | - |
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| telecommunication | (noun) (often plural) the branch of electrical engineering concerned with the technology of electronic communication at a distance | - |
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| (noun) (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically | Synonyms: telecom |
| toccata | (noun) a baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style | - |
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| tomcat | (noun) male cat | Synonyms: tom |
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| 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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| translocation | (noun) (genetics) an exchange of chromosome parts | - |
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| (noun) the transport of dissolved material within a plant | - |
| transmogrification | (noun) the act of changing into a different form or appearance (especially a fantastic or grotesque one) | - |
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| trifurcation | (noun) the act of splitting into three branches | - |
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| triplicate | (noun) one of three copies; any of three things that correspond to one another exactly | - |
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| truncation | (noun) the act of cutting short | - |
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| (noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces) | - |
| (noun) the property of being truncated or short | Synonyms: shortness |
| tunicate | (noun) primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva | Synonyms: urochord, urochordate |
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| typification | (noun) the act of representing by a type or symbol; the action of typifying | - |
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| (noun) a representational or typifying form or model | Synonyms: exemplification |
| uncommunicativeness | (noun) the trait of being uncommunicative | - |
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| unification | (noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: conjugation, jointure, union, uniting |
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| (noun) an occurrence that involves the production of a union | Synonyms: fusion, merger |
| (noun) the state of being joined or united or linked | Synonyms: union |
| unsanctification | (noun) unholiness by virtue of being profane | Synonyms: profaneness |
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| urtication | (noun) a sensation of having been stung by nettles | - |
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| (noun) an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs | Synonyms: hives, nettle rash, urticaria |
| vacation | (noun) the act of making something legally void | - |
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| (noun) leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure | Synonyms: holiday |