abidance | (noun) the act of abiding (enduring without yielding) | - |
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(noun) the act of dwelling in a place | Synonyms: residence, residency |
(noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: compliance, conformation, conformity |
abradant | (noun) a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing | Synonyms: abrader |
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(noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abrasive, abrasive material |
abundance | (noun) the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply | Synonyms: copiousness, teemingness |
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(noun) (chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth's crust to the total mass of the earth's crust; expressed as a percentage or in parts per million | - |
(noun) (physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present | - |
accordance | (noun) the act of granting rights | Synonyms: accordance of rights |
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(noun) concurrence of opinion | Synonyms: accord, conformity |
andante | (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed moderately slow | - |
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(noun) a moderately slow tempo (a walking pace) | - |
antioxidant | (noun) substance that inhibits oxidation or inhibits reactions promoted by oxygen or peroxides | - |
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apadana | (noun) the great hall in ancient Persian palaces | - |
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ascendance | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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ascendancy | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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ascendant | (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendent, root |
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(noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendent |
attendance | (noun) the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.) | Synonyms: attending |
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(noun) the number of people that are present | - |
(noun) the frequency with which a person is present | - |
attendant | (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: accompaniment, co-occurrence, concomitant |
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(noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attender, tender |
(noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting | Synonyms: attendee, attender, meeter |
avoidance | (noun) deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Synonyms: dodging, shunning, turning away |
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bandana | (noun) large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief | Synonyms: bandanna |
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bandanna | (noun) large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief | Synonyms: bandana |
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branchiopodan | (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean |
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codefendant | (noun) a defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action | Synonyms: co-defendant |
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commandant | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commander, commanding officer |
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concordance | (noun) an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts | - |
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(noun) agreement of opinions | Synonyms: concord, harmony |
(noun) a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole | Synonyms: concord, harmony |
confidant | (noun) someone to whom private matters are confided | Synonyms: intimate |
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confidante | (noun) a female confidant | - |
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contradance | (noun) a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance, country dancing |
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contredanse | (noun) a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance, country dancing |
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danaid | (noun) large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste | Synonyms: danaid butterfly |
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dance | (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dancing, saltation, terpsichore |
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(noun) an artistic form of nonverbal communication | - |
(noun) a party for social dancing | - |
(noun) a party of people assembled for dancing | - |
dancer | (noun) a performer who dances professionally | Synonyms: professional dancer, terpsichorean |
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(noun) a person who participates in a social gathering arranged for dancing (as a ball) | Synonyms: social dancer |
dancing | (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dance, saltation, terpsichore |
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dandelion | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers followed by fluffy seed balls | Synonyms: blowball |
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dander | (noun) a feeling of anger and animosity | Synonyms: hackles |
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(noun) small scales from animal skins or hair or bird feathers that can cause allergic reactions in some people | - |
dandruff | (noun) loose scales shed from the scalp | - |
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(noun) a condition in which white scales of dead skin are shed by the scalp | - |
dandy | (noun) a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost | Synonyms: yawl |
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(noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
dandyism | (noun) the manner and dress of a fop or dandy | Synonyms: foppishness |
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danewort | (noun) dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor | Synonyms: dwarf elder, Sambucus ebulus |
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danger | (noun) a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury | Synonyms: peril, risk |
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(noun) a dangerous place | - |
(noun) the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury | - |
(noun) a cause of pain or injury or loss | - |
dangerousness | (noun) the quality of not being safe | - |
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dangleberry | (noun) huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit | Synonyms: dangle-berry, Gaylussacia frondosa |
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dangling | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: hanging, suspension |
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danish | (noun) light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese | Synonyms: danish pastry |
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dankness | (noun) unpleasant wetness | Synonyms: clamminess |
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danseur | (noun) a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina | Synonyms: danseur noble |
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danseuse | (noun) a female ballet dancer | Synonyms: ballerina |
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defendant | (noun) a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused | Synonyms: suspect |
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dependance | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependence, dependency |
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(noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependence, dependency, habituation |
dependant | (noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependent |
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descendant | (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
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descendants | (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: posterity |
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didanosine | (noun) an antiviral drug used to combat HIV infection, a reverse transcriptase inhibitor | Synonyms: ddI, DDI, dideoxyinosine |
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diphenylhydantoin | (noun) an anticonvulsant drug (trade name Dilantin) used to treat epilepsy and that is not a sedative | Synonyms: Dilantin, phenytoin |
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discordance | (noun) strife resulting from a lack of agreement | Synonyms: discord |
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(noun) a harsh mixture of sounds | Synonyms: discord |
endangerment | (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk |
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exceedance | (noun) (geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time | - |
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fandango | (noun) a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets | - |
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fondant | (noun) candy made of a thick creamy sugar paste | - |
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forbiddance | (noun) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: inhibition, prohibition |
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(noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, banning, forbidding |
guidance | (noun) the act of setting and holding a course | Synonyms: direction, steering |
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(noun) the act of guiding or showing the way | Synonyms: steering |
(noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, counselling, direction |
harridan | (noun) a scolding (even vicious) old woman | - |
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hydantoin | (noun) any of a group of anticonvulsant drugs used in treating epilepsy | - |
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impedance | (noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms | Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, ohmic resistance, resistance, resistivity |
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jimdandy | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimhickey |
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(noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimhickey |
labdanum | (noun) a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative | Synonyms: ladanum |
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(noun) a dark brown to greenish oleoresin that has a fragrant odor and is used as a fixative in perfumes; obtained as a juice from certain rockroses | Synonyms: gum labdanum |
ladanum | (noun) a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative | Synonyms: labdanum |
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laudanum | (noun) narcotic consisting of an alcohol solution of opium or any preparation in which opium is the main ingredient | Synonyms: tincture of opium |
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lindane | (noun) a white crystalline powder used as an agricultural insecticide | - |
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mordant | (noun) a substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process | - |
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mundaneness | (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundanity, sophistication, worldliness |
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(noun) the quality of being commonplace and ordinary | Synonyms: mundanity, ordinariness |
mundanity | (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundaneness, sophistication, worldliness |
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(noun) the quality of being commonplace and ordinary | Synonyms: mundaneness, ordinariness |
nonattendance | (noun) the failure to attend | - |
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overabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance |
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(noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: excess, surfeit |
oxidant | (noun) a substance that oxidizes another substance | Synonyms: oxidiser, oxidizer, oxidizing agent |
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pandanus | (noun) any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves | Synonyms: screw pine |
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(noun) fiber from leaves of the pandanus tree; used for woven articles (such as mats) | - |
pedant | (noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: bookworm, scholastic |
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pedantry | (noun) an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning | - |
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pendant | (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: chandelier, pendent |
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(noun) an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring) | Synonyms: pendent |
quandang | (noun) red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam | Synonyms: native peach, quandong, quantong |
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(noun) Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed | Synonyms: Eucarya acuminata, Fusanus acuminatus, quandong, quandong tree |
redundance | (noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundancy |
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redundancy | (noun) repetition of an act needlessly | - |
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(noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundance |
(noun) (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails | - |
(noun) repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission | - |
retardant | (noun) any agent that retards or delays or hinders | Synonyms: retardation, retardent |
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rhizopodan | (noun) protozoa characterized by a pseudopod | Synonyms: rhizopod |
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rhodanthe | (noun) Australian annual everlasting having light pink nodding flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Helipterum | Synonyms: Helipterum manglesii, Rhodanthe manglesii, Swan River everlasting |
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riddance | (noun) the act of forcing out someone or something | Synonyms: ejection, exclusion, expulsion |
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(noun) the act of removing or getting rid of something | Synonyms: elimination |
ropedancer | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a rope stretched at some height above the ground | Synonyms: ropewalker |
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sedan | (noun) a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors | Synonyms: saloon |
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(noun) a closed litter for one passenger | Synonyms: sedan chair |
succedaneum | (noun) (medicine) something that can be used as a substitute (especially any medicine that may be taken in place of another) | - |
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superabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overabundance, overmuch, overmuchness |
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verdancy | (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: greenness, verdure |
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voidance | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: emptying, evacuation |
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