crackling | (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackle, crepitation |
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(noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: greaves |
cracklings | (noun) the crisp residue left after lard has been rendered | - |
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crackpot | (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crank, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball |
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cracksman | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: safebreaker, safecracker |
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cradle | (noun) a baby bed with sides and rockers | - |
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(noun) a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold | Synonyms: rocker |
(noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, place of origin, provenance, provenience |
(noun) birth of a person | - |
cradlesong | (noun) the act of singing a quiet song to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: lullaby |
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(noun) a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: berceuse, lullaby |
craft | (noun) the skilled practice of a practical occupation | Synonyms: trade |
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(noun) a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space | - |
(noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
(noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craftsmanship, workmanship |
(noun) people who perform a particular kind of skilled work | Synonyms: trade |
crafter | (noun) a creator of great skill in the manual arts | Synonyms: craftsman |
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craftiness | (noun) the quality of being crafty | Synonyms: guile |
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(noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
craftsman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, journeyman |
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(noun) a creator of great skill in the manual arts | Synonyms: crafter |
(noun) a professional whose work is consistently of high quality | - |
craftsmanship | (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craft, workmanship |
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crag | (noun) a steep rugged rock or cliff | - |
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cragsman | (noun) a climber of vertical rock faces | Synonyms: rock climber |
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crake | (noun) any of several short-billed Old World rails | - |
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crammer | (noun) a textbook designed for cramming | - |
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(noun) a special school where students are crammed | - |
(noun) a student who crams | - |
(noun) a teacher who is paid to cram students for examinations | - |
cramp | (noun) a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together | Synonyms: cramp iron |
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(noun) a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued | - |
(noun) a painful and involuntary muscular contraction | Synonyms: muscle spasm, spasm |
crampbark | (noun) deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries | Synonyms: cranberry tree, European cranberry bush, European cranberrybush, guelder rose, Viburnum opulus |
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crampfish | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: electric ray, numbfish, torpedo |
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crampon | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climber, climbing iron, crampoon |
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(noun) a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects | Synonyms: crampoon |
crampoon | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climber, climbing iron, crampon |
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(noun) a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects | Synonyms: crampon |
cran | (noun) a capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring | - |
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cranberry | (noun) very tart red berry used for sauce or juice | - |
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(noun) any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries | - |
crane | (noun) large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world | - |
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(noun) lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis | - |
cranesbill | (noun) any of numerous geraniums of the genus Geranium | Synonyms: crane's bill |
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craniate | (noun) animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium | Synonyms: vertebrate |
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craniologist | (noun) someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull | Synonyms: phrenologist |
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craniology | (noun) the scientific study of the skulls of various human races | - |
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craniometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring skull sizes | - |
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craniometry | (noun) the branch of physical anthropology dealing with the study and measurement of dry skulls after removal of its soft parts | - |
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craniotomy | (noun) a surgical opening through the skull | - |
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cranium | (noun) the part of the skull that encloses the brain | Synonyms: braincase, brainpan |
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crank | (noun) a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle | Synonyms: starter |
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(noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
(noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crosspatch, grouch, grump |
(noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crackpot, fruitcake, nut, nut case, screwball |
crankcase | (noun) housing for a crankshaft | - |
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crankiness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: contrariness, crotchetiness, grumpiness |
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crankshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft driven by (or driving) a crank | - |
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cranny | (noun) a small opening or crevice (especially in a rock face or wall) | - |
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(noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, crevice, fissure |
crap | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
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(noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: dirt, poop, shit, shite, turd |
crapaud | (noun) large toothed frog of South America and Central America resembling the bullfrog | Synonyms: Leptodactylus pentadactylus, South American bullfrog |
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crape | (noun) a soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface | Synonyms: crepe |
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(noun) small very thin pancake | Synonyms: crepe, French pancake |
crapette | (noun) solitaire with two players using separate packs | Synonyms: Russian bank |
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crapper | (noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, commode, pot, potty, stool, throne, toilet |
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crappie | (noun) small sunfishes of central United States rivers | - |
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(noun) small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers | - |
craps | (noun) a gambling game played with two dice; a first throw of 7 or 11 wins and a first throw of 2, 3, or 12 loses and a first throw of any other number must be repeated to win before a 7 is thrown, which loses the bet and the dice | - |
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(noun) expressions used when two dice are thrown and both come up showing one spot | Synonyms: snake eyes |
crapshoot | (noun) playing craps | Synonyms: crap game, crap shooting |
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(noun) a risky and uncertain venture | - |
crapshooter | (noun) a gambler who plays the game of craps | - |
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crapulence | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, drink, drinking, drunkenness |
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crash | (noun) the act of colliding with something | Synonyms: smash |
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(noun) a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles) | Synonyms: wreck |
(noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clangour, clank, clash |
(noun) a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures) | Synonyms: collapse |
(noun) (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative | - |
crasher | (noun) someone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or without paying | Synonyms: gatecrasher, unwelcome guest |
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crassitude | (noun) the quality of being crass--devoid of refinement | Synonyms: crassness |
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crassness | (noun) the quality of being crass--devoid of refinement | Synonyms: crassitude |
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crate | (noun) a rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping | - |
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(noun) the quantity contained in a crate | Synonyms: crateful |
crateful | (noun) the quantity contained in a crate | Synonyms: crate |
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crater | (noun) a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb | - |
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(noun) a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano | Synonyms: volcanic crater |
craton | (noun) the part of a continent that is stable and forms the central mass of the continent; typically Precambrian | - |
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cravat | (noun) neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front | - |
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craven | (noun) an abject coward | Synonyms: poltroon, recreant |
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cravenness | (noun) meanspirited cowardice | - |
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craving | (noun) an intense desire for some particular thing | - |
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craw | (noun) a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food | Synonyms: crop |
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crawdad | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdaddy, crawfish, crayfish |
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(noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawfish, crayfish, ecrevisse |
crawdaddy | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
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crawfish | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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(noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crayfish |
(noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crayfish, ecrevisse |
crawl | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawling, creep, creeping |
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(noun) a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick | Synonyms: Australian crawl, front crawl |
(noun) a very slow movement | - |
crawler | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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(noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | Synonyms: ass-kisser, lackey, sycophant, toady |
(noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: creeper |
crawling | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, creep, creeping |
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crawlspace | (noun) low space beneath a floor of a building; gives workers access to wiring or plumbing | Synonyms: crawl space |
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crayer | (noun) a two- or three-masted sailing vessel formerly used for transporting cargo in the Baltic Sea. | - |
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crayfish | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crawfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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(noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crawfish |
(noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, ecrevisse |
(noun) warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California | Synonyms: langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster |
crayon | (noun) writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing | Synonyms: wax crayon |
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craze | (noun) a fine crack in a glaze or other surface | - |
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(noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal | Synonyms: cult, fad, furor, furore, rage |
(noun) state of violent mental agitation | Synonyms: delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria |
craziness | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: folly, foolery, indulgence, lunacy, tomfoolery |
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(noun) the quality of being rash and foolish | Synonyms: folly, foolishness, madness |
(noun) informal terms for insanity | Synonyms: daftness, flakiness |
crazy | (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: looney, loony, nutcase, weirdo |
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crazyweed | (noun) any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock | Synonyms: crazy weed, locoweed |
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creak | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creaking |
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creaking | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creak |
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cream | (noun) toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin | Synonyms: emollient, ointment |
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(noun) the part of milk containing the butterfat | - |
(noun) the best people or things in a group | Synonyms: pick |
creamcups | (noun) California plant with small pale yellow flowers | Synonyms: Platystemon californicus |
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creamer | (noun) a small pitcher for serving cream | Synonyms: cream pitcher |
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creamery | (noun) a workplace where dairy products (butter and cheese etc.) are produced or sold | - |
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creaminess | (noun) the property of having the thickness of heavy cream | Synonyms: soupiness |
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creampie | (noun) Ejaculate inside a vagina or anus | - |
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crease | (noun) a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade | Synonyms: creese, kris |
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(noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crinkle, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle |
(noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crimp, flexure, fold, plication |
creashak | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, hog cranberry, mealberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry |
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creatin | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction | Synonyms: creatine |
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creatine | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction | Synonyms: creatin |
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creation | (noun) the human act of creating | Synonyms: creative activity |
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(noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
(noun) an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone | - |
(noun) the event that occurred at the beginning of something | Synonyms: conception |
(noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, existence, macrocosm, universe, world |
creationism | (noun) the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis | - |
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creativeness | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativity |
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creativity | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativeness |
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creator | (noun) a person who grows or makes or invents things | - |
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creature | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, beast, brute, fauna |
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(noun) a living being | Synonyms: wight |
(noun) a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else | Synonyms: puppet, tool |
creche | (noun) a hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for | Synonyms: foundling hospital |
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(noun) a representation of Christ's nativity in the stable at Bethlehem | - |
cred | (noun) credibility among young fashionable urban individuals | Synonyms: street cred, street credibility |
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credence | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credenza |
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(noun) the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true | Synonyms: acceptance |
credendum | (noun) (Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided | Synonyms: article of faith |
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credential | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credentials |
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credentials | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credential |
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credenza | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credence |
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credibility | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibleness |
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credibleness | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibility |
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