| absurdity | (noun) a ludicrous folly | Synonyms: fatuity, fatuousness, silliness |
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| (noun) a message whose content is at variance with reason | Synonyms: absurdness, ridiculousness |
| accreditation | (noun) the act of granting credit or recognition (especially with respect to an educational institution that maintains suitable standards) | - |
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| acidity | (noun) pH values below 7 | - |
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| (noun) the property of being acidic | Synonyms: sour, sourness |
| (noun) the taste experience when something acidic is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: acidulousness |
| acridity | (noun) extreme bitterness | Synonyms: acridness |
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| (noun) the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone | Synonyms: acridness |
| (noun) having an acrid smell | - |
| addition | (noun) the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers | Synonyms: plus, summation |
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| (noun) the act of adding one thing to another | - |
| (noun) a component that is added to something to improve it | Synonyms: add-on, improver |
| (noun) a suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area | - |
| (noun) something added to what you already have | Synonyms: accession |
| (noun) a quantity that is added | Synonyms: gain, increase |
| additive | (noun) something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine | - |
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| adit | (noun) a nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine | - |
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| algidity | (noun) prostration characterized by cold and clammy skin and low blood pressure | - |
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| almandite | (noun) a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate | Synonyms: almandine |
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| andradite | (noun) a garnet consisting of calcium iron silicate and having any color ranging from yellow and green to brown and black; used as gemstone | - |
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| argyrodite | (noun) a rare steel-grey mineral consisting of silver and germanium and sulfur | - |
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| aridity | (noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value | Synonyms: barrenness, fruitlessness |
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| (noun) a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall) | Synonyms: aridness, thirstiness |
| audit | (noun) a methodical examination or review of a condition or situation | - |
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| (noun) an inspection of the accounting procedures and records by a trained accountant or CPA | Synonyms: audited account |
| audition | (noun) a test of the suitability of a performer | Synonyms: tryout |
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| (noun) the ability to hear; the auditory faculty | Synonyms: auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearing |
| auditor | (noun) a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization | - |
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| (noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: attender, hearer, listener |
| (noun) a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit | - |
| auditorium | (noun) the area of a theater or concert hall where the audience sits | - |
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| avidity | (noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidness, eagerness, keenness |
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| bandit | (noun) an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band | Synonyms: brigand |
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| banditry | (noun) the practice of plundering in gangs | - |
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| carditis | (noun) inflammation of the heart | - |
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| chorditis | (noun) inflammation of the vocal cords | - |
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| (noun) inflammation of the spermatic cord or vocal cords or vocal folds | - |
| commodity | (noun) a raw material that is sold in large quantities, usually to other businesses for manufacturing or production purposes | Synonyms: good, trade good |
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| condition | (noun) information that should be kept in mind when making a decision | Synonyms: circumstance, consideration |
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| (noun) the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition | Synonyms: experimental condition |
| (noun) an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else | Synonyms: precondition, stipulation |
| (noun) (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement | Synonyms: strings, term |
| (noun) a state at a particular time | Synonyms: status |
| (noun) a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing | - |
| (noun) the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape') | Synonyms: shape |
| (noun) an illness, disease, or other medical problem | - |
| conditionality | (noun) the state of being conditional | - |
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| conditioner | (noun) exercise that conditions the body | - |
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| (noun) a substance used in washing (clothing or hair) to make things softer | - |
| (noun) a trainer of athletes | - |
| conditioning | (noun) a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment | - |
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| conditions | (noun) the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation | Synonyms: atmospheric condition, weather, weather condition |
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| (noun) the set of circumstances that affect someone's welfare | - |
| (noun) the prevailing context that influences the performance or the outcome of a process | - |
| cordite | (noun) explosive powder (nitroglycerin and guncotton and petrolatum) dissolved in acetone and dried and extruded in brown cords | - |
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| corditis | (noun) inflammation of the spermatic cord, accompanied by pain in the testis, generally caused by an infection originating in the urethra or by a tumor, hydrocele, or varicocele | - |
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| credit | (noun) recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours | Synonyms: course credit |
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| (noun) used in the phrase `to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise | - |
| (noun) an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments | Synonyms: credit rating |
| (noun) approval | Synonyms: recognition |
| (noun) an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work | - |
| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, mention, quotation, reference |
| (noun) arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services | Synonyms: deferred payment |
| (noun) an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items | Synonyms: credit entry |
| (noun) money available for a client to borrow | - |
| creditor | (noun) a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists | - |
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| credits | (noun) a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film) | - |
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| creditworthiness | (noun) trustworthiness with money as based on a person's credit history; a general qualification for borrowing | - |
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| crudites | (noun) raw vegetables cut into bite-sized strips and served with a dip | - |
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| crudity | (noun) an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement | Synonyms: crudeness, gaucheness |
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| (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness |
| cupidity | (noun) extreme greed for material wealth | Synonyms: avarice, avariciousness, covetousness |
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| discredit | (noun) the state of being held in low esteem | Synonyms: disrepute |
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| dit | (noun) the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code | Synonyms: dot |
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| (noun) a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. | Synonyms: ban, Hart, hartley |
| dita | (noun) evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes; bark formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Alstonia scholaris, devil tree, dita bark |
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| ditch | (noun) a long narrow excavation in the earth | - |
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| (noun) any small natural waterway | - |
| ditchmoss | (noun) submerged freshwater perennials | Synonyms: Elodea, genus Elodea, pondweed |
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| dither | (noun) an excited state of agitation | Synonyms: flap, fuss, pother, tizzy |
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| dithering | (noun) the process of representing intermediate colors by patterns of tiny colored dots that simulate the desired color | - |
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| dithyramb | (noun) (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus) | - |
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| (noun) a wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing | - |
| dittany | (noun) Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather | Synonyms: burning bush, Dictamnus alba, fraxinella, gas plant |
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| ditto | (noun) a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated | Synonyms: ditto mark |
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| ditty | (noun) a short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be sung) | - |
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| editing | (noun) putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form | Synonyms: redaction |
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| edition | (noun) something a little different from others of the same type | Synonyms: variant, variation, version |
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| (noun) an issue of a newspaper | - |
| (noun) the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published | - |
| (noun) all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time | - |
| editor | (noun) (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data | Synonyms: editor program |
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| (noun) a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine) | Synonyms: editor in chief |
| editorial | (noun) an article giving opinions or perspectives | Synonyms: column, newspaper column |
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| editorialist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: columnist |
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| editorship | (noun) the position of editor | - |
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| endocarditis | (noun) inflammation of the endocardium and heart valves | - |
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| eruditeness | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| erudition | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| expedition | (noun) a journey organized for a particular purpose | - |
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| (noun) a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country | Synonyms: hostile expedition, military expedition |
| (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
| (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch, expeditiousness |
| (noun) an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose | - |
| expeditiousness | (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch, expedition |
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| expenditure | (noun) the act of spending money for goods or services | Synonyms: expending |
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| (noun) the act of consuming something | Synonyms: consumption, using up |
| (noun) money paid out; an amount spent | Synonyms: outgo, outlay, spending |
| extradition | (noun) the surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty) | - |
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| fecundity | (noun) the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth | Synonyms: fruitfulness |
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| (noun) the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination | Synonyms: fruitfulness |
| (noun) the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring | Synonyms: fertility |
| flaccidity | (noun) a flabby softness | Synonyms: flabbiness, limpness |
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| floridity | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: flamboyance, floridness, showiness |
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| fluidity | (noun) the property of flowing easily | Synonyms: fluidness, liquidity, liquidness, runniness |
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| (noun) a changeable quality | Synonyms: fluidness |
| frigidity | (noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coldness, coolness, frigidness, iciness |
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| (noun) sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse | Synonyms: frigidness |
| (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: cold, coldness, frigidness, low temperature |
| gelidity | (noun) coldness due to a cold environment | Synonyms: chill, iciness |
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| gravidity | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidation, gravidness |
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| hadith | (noun) (Islam) the way of life prescribed as normative for Muslims on the basis of the teachings and practices of Muhammad and interpretations of the Koran | Synonyms: Sunna, Sunnah |
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| hereditament | (noun) any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited | - |
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| hereditarianism | (noun) the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth | - |
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| heredity | (noun) the total of inherited attributes | Synonyms: genetic endowment |
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| (noun) the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next | - |
| hermaphrodite | (noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made | Synonyms: androgyne, epicene, epicene person, gynandromorph, intersex |
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| hermaphroditism | (noun) showing characteristics of both sexes | Synonyms: androgyny, bisexuality |
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| (noun) congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics | Synonyms: hermaphrodism |
| heulandite | (noun) a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous aluminum silicate of sodium and calcium | - |
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| humidity | (noun) wetness in the atmosphere | Synonyms: humidness |
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| hyperacidity | (noun) excessive acidity | - |
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| illiquidity | (noun) the quality of being illiquid; a lack of liquidity; difficulty in selling out an asset. | - |
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| insipidity | (noun) lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property | Synonyms: blandness, insipidness |
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| (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: boringness, dreariness, insipidness |
| intrepidity | (noun) resolute courageousness | Synonyms: dauntlessness |
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| invalidity | (noun) illogicality as a consequence of having a conclusion that does not follow from the premisses | Synonyms: invalidness |
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| jocundity | (noun) a feeling of facetious merriment | Synonyms: jocularity |
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| limpidity | (noun) passing light without diffusion or distortion | Synonyms: pellucidity, pellucidness |
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| (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, clearness, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
| liquidity | (noun) the property of flowing easily | Synonyms: fluidity, fluidness, liquidness, runniness |
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| (noun) being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability | - |
| (noun) the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility | Synonyms: liquid, liquid state, liquidness |
| lividity | (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness |
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| (noun) a state of fury so great the face becomes discolored | - |
| lucidity | (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
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| (noun) a lucid state of mind; not confused | - |
| mastoiditis | (noun) inflammation of the mastoid | - |
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| meditation | (noun) continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature | Synonyms: speculation |
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| (noun) (religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects) | - |
| meditativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: contemplativeness, pensiveness |
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| morbidity | (noun) the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you | Synonyms: morbidness, unwholesomeness |
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| (noun) an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind | Synonyms: morbidness |
| (noun) the relative incidence of a particular disease | - |
| myocarditis | (noun) inflammation of the myocardium (the muscular tissue of the heart) | Synonyms: myocardial inflammation |
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| nudity | (noun) the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind | Synonyms: nakedness, nudeness |
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| oddity | (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curio, curiosity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity |
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| (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, queerness, quirk, quirkiness |
| (noun) eccentricity that is not easily explained | Synonyms: oddness |
| pallidity | (noun) being deficient in color | Synonyms: paleness |
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| pancarditis | (noun) inflammation of the entire heart (the epicardium and the myocardium and the endocardium) | - |
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| pellucidity | (noun) passing light without diffusion or distortion | Synonyms: limpidity, pellucidness |
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| (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness |
| pentlandite | (noun) a mineral (iron and nickel sulphide) that is the chief ore of nickel | - |
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| perdition | (noun) (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment | Synonyms: Hell, infernal region, Inferno, nether region, pit |
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| pericarditis | (noun) inflammation of the pericardium | - |
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| placidity | (noun) a disposition free from stress or emotion | Synonyms: quiet, repose, serenity, tranquility, tranquillity |
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| (noun) a feeling of calmness; a quiet and undisturbed feeling | Synonyms: placidness |
| plaudit | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, acclamation, eclat, plaudits |
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