| curse | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse word, cuss, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword |
|---|
| (noun) an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group | Synonyms: condemnation, execration |
| (noun) an evil spell | Synonyms: hex, jinx, whammy |
| (noun) a severe affliction | Synonyms: torment |
| (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, nemesis, scourge |
| cursive | (noun) rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper | Synonyms: cursive script, longhand, running hand |
|---|
| cursor | (noun) (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions | Synonyms: pointer |
|---|
| discursiveness | (noun) the quality of being discursive | - |
|---|
| excursion | (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: expedition, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
|---|
| (noun) wandering from the main path of a journey | Synonyms: digression |
| excursionist | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: rubberneck, sightseer, tripper |
|---|
| excursus | (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, divagation, parenthesis |
|---|
| incursion | (noun) an attack that penetrates into enemy territory | Synonyms: penetration |
|---|
| (noun) the act of entering some territory or domain (often in large numbers) | - |
| (noun) the mistake of incurring liability or blame | - |
| precursor | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, harbinger, herald, predecessor |
|---|
| (noun) a person who goes before or announces the coming of another | Synonyms: forerunner |
| (noun) a substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction) | - |
| recursion | (noun) (mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation; also, the repeated application or execution of a pattern, function or definition; an expression that is recursive | - |
|---|