cyclamen | (noun) Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and nodding white or pink to reddish flowers with reflexed petals | Synonyms: Cyclamen purpurascens |
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declamation | (noun) vehement oratory | - |
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(noun) recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric | - |
declaration | (noun) a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written) | - |
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(noun) a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote | Synonyms: resolution, resolve |
(noun) (law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction | - |
(noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: announcement, annunciation, proclamation |
(noun) (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make | Synonyms: contract |
(noun) a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties | - |
declarative | (noun) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact | Synonyms: common mood, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood |
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declarer | (noun) the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps | Synonyms: contractor |
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(noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, asseverator, avower |
declassification | (noun) reduction or removal by the government of restrictions on a classified document or weapon | - |
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disclaimer | (noun) (law) a voluntary repudiation of a person's legal claim to something | - |
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(noun) denial of any connection with or knowledge of | Synonyms: disavowal |
eclair | (noun) oblong cream puff | - |
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eclampsia | (noun) a toxic condition characterized by convulsions and possibly coma during or immediately after pregnancy | - |
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eclat | (noun) brilliant or conspicuous success or effect | - |
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(noun) ceremonial elegance and splendor | Synonyms: pomp |
(noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, acclamation, plaudit, plaudits |
enclave | (noun) an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it | - |
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exclaiming | (noun) an abrupt excited utterance | Synonyms: exclamation |
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exclamation | (noun) an abrupt excited utterance | Synonyms: exclaiming |
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(noun) an exclamatory rhetorical device | Synonyms: ecphonesis |
(noun) a loud complaint or protest or reproach | - |
fireclay | (noun) a heat-resistant clay | - |
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handclap | (noun) a clap of the hands to indicate approval | - |
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handclasp | (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handshake, handshaking, shake |
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iconoclasm | (noun) the orientation of an iconoclast | - |
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iconoclast | (noun) someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions | - |
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(noun) a destroyer of images used in religious worship | Synonyms: image breaker |
ironclad | (noun) a wooden warship of the 19th century that is plated with iron or steel armor | - |
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lowerclassman | (noun) an undergraduate who is not yet a senior | Synonyms: underclassman |
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neoclassicism | (noun) revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation | - |
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neoclassicist | (noun) an advocate of neoclassicism | - |
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nomenclature | (noun) a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline | Synonyms: language, terminology |
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oligoclase | (noun) any of a series of triclinic feldspars that form rocks | Synonyms: plagioclase |
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orthoclase | (noun) a white or colored monoclinic feldspar | - |
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osteoclasis | (noun) treatment of a skeletal deformity by intentionally fracturing a bone | - |
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osteoclast | (noun) cell that functions in the breakdown and resorption of bone tissue | - |
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owlclaws | (noun) stout perennial herb of western United States having flower heads with drooping orange-yellow rays; causes spewing sickness in sheep | Synonyms: Helenium hoopesii, orange sneezeweed |
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pericementoclasia | (noun) pus pocket formation around a tooth | - |
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periclase | (noun) a white solid mineral that occurs naturally as periclase; a source of magnesium | Synonyms: magnesia, magnesium oxide |
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phylloclad | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladode, cladophyll, phylloclade |
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phylloclade | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladode, cladophyll, phylloclad |
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pipeclay | (noun) fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather | Synonyms: terra alba |
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plagioclase | (noun) any of a series of triclinic feldspars that form rocks | Synonyms: oligoclase |
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preeclampsia | (noun) abnormal state of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and fluid retention and albuminuria; can lead to eclampsia if untreated | Synonyms: pre-eclampsia |
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proclamation | (noun) the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice | Synonyms: promulgation |
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(noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: announcement, annunciation, declaration |
quitclaim | (noun) act of transferring a title or right or claim to another | - |
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(noun) document transferring title or right or claim to another | Synonyms: quitclaim deed |
reclamation | (noun) rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course | Synonyms: reformation |
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(noun) the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation | Synonyms: rehabilitation, renewal |
(noun) the recovery of useful substances from waste products | - |
reclassification | (noun) classifying something again (usually in a new category) | - |
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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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subclass | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic category below a class and above an order | - |
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superclass | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic class below a phylum and above a class | - |
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thunderclap | (noun) a single sharp crash of thunder | - |
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(noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: bombshell, thunderbolt |
underclass | (noun) the social class lowest in the social hierarchy | Synonyms: lower class |
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underclassman | (noun) an undergraduate who is not yet a senior | Synonyms: lowerclassman |
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