| antipyretic | (noun) any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever | Synonyms: febrifuge |
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| antiquatedness | (noun) The state or quality of being outmoded or discredited by reason of age, of being out of style or fashion. | - |
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| antique | (noun) any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity | - |
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| (noun) an elderly man | Synonyms: gaffer, old-timer, old geezer, oldtimer |
| antiqueness | (noun) the quality or state of being in the style or fashion of former times. | - |
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| antiredeposition | (noun) the process of preventing redeposition | - |
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| antireligiousness | (noun) The state or condition of being opposed to religion. | - |
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| antisemitism | (noun) the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people | Synonyms: anti-Semitism |
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| antisepsis | (noun) the process of inhibiting the growth and multiplication of microorganisms | Synonyms: asepsis |
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| (noun) (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms | Synonyms: asepsis, sterileness, sterility |
| antiseptic | (noun) a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues | - |
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| antiserum | (noun) blood serum containing antibodies against specific antigens; provides immunity to a disease | - |
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| antistrophe | (noun) the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem | - |
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| antithesis | (noun) the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance | - |
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| (noun) exact opposite | - |
| antitrade | (noun) winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics | Synonyms: antitrade wind |
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| antitrades | (noun) wind in the upper atmosphere blowing above but in the opposite direction from the trade winds | - |
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| antitussive | (noun) any medicine used to suppress or relieve coughing | - |
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| antitype | (noun) a person or thing represented or foreshadowed by an earlier type or symbol; especially a figure or event in the New Testament having a counterpart in the Old Testament | - |
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| (noun) an opposite or contrasting type | - |
| antivenene | (noun) an antitoxin that counteracts the effects of venom from the bite of a snake or insect or other animal | Synonyms: antivenin |
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| antivenin | (noun) an antitoxin that counteracts the effects of venom from the bite of a snake or insect or other animal | Synonyms: antivenene |
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| antler | (noun) deciduous horn of a member of the deer family | - |
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| anuresis | (noun) inability to urinate | Synonyms: anuria |
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| anxiety | (noun) a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune | - |
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| (noun) (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic | Synonyms: anxiousness |
| anxiousness | (noun) a feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments | Synonyms: disquiet |
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| (noun) (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic | Synonyms: anxiety |
| apache | (noun) a Parisian gangster | - |
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| apanage | (noun) a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family | Synonyms: appanage |
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| (noun) any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life | Synonyms: appanage |
| apartheid | (noun) a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa | - |
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| apartment | (noun) a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house | Synonyms: flat |
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| apatite | (noun) a common complex mineral consisting of calcium fluoride phosphate or calcium chloride phosphate; a source of phosphorus | - |
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| ape | (noun) any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all | - |
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| (noun) person who resembles a nonhuman primate | Synonyms: anthropoid |
| (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: aper, copycat, emulator, imitator |
| aper | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, copycat, emulator, imitator |
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| apercu | (noun) a short synopsis | - |
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| aperea | (noun) South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig | Synonyms: Cavia porcellus, wild cavy |
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| aperient | (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: cathartic, physic, purgative |
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| aperitif | (noun) alcoholic beverage taken before a meal as an appetizer | - |
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| aperture | (noun) an man-made opening; usually small | - |
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| (noun) a device that controls amount of light admitted | - |
| (noun) a natural opening in something | - |
| apery | (noun) the act of mimicking; imitative behavior | Synonyms: mimicry |
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| apex | (noun) the highest point (of something) | Synonyms: acme, peak, vertex |
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| (noun) the point on the celestial sphere toward which the sun and solar system appear to be moving relative to the fixed stars | Synonyms: apex of the sun's way, solar apex |
| aphaeresis | (noun) (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' | Synonyms: apheresis |
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| aphanite | (noun) fine-grained homogeneous rock (such as basalt) containing minerals undetectable by the naked eye | - |
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| aphelion | (noun) apoapsis in solar orbit; the point in the orbit of a planet or comet that is at the greatest distance from the sun | - |
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| apheresis | (noun) a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion | Synonyms: pheresis |
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| (noun) (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' | Synonyms: aphaeresis |
| aphesis | (noun) the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire' | - |
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| apiculture | (noun) the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey | Synonyms: beekeeping |
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| apishamore | (noun) a saddle blanket made of buffalo hide | - |
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| aplite | (noun) light-colored and fine-grained granitic rock consisting chiefly of quartz and feldspars | - |
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| apnea | (noun) transient cessation of respiration | - |
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| apocalypse | (noun) a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil | - |
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| apocope | (noun) abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds | - |
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| apocryphalness | (noun) The property of being of doubtful authenticity, of lacking authority, or of not being regarded as canonical. | - |
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| (noun) The property of being of dubious veracity; of questionable accuracy or truthfulness. | - |
| apodeme | (noun) ridge-like ingrowth of the exoskeleton of an arthropod that supports internal organs and provides attachment points for muscles | - |
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| apoenzyme | (noun) a protein that combines with a coenzyme to form an active enzyme | - |
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| apogee | (noun) apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth | - |
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| (noun) a final climactic stage | Synonyms: culmination |
| apojove | (noun) apoapsis in orbit around Jupiter | - |
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| apolemia | (noun) large siphonophore of up to 50 ft long | - |
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| apologetics | (noun) the branch of theology that is concerned with the defense of Christian doctrines | - |
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| apologue | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: allegory, fable, parable |
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| apolune | (noun) apoapsis in orbit around the moon | Synonyms: aposelene |
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| apomorphine | (noun) a morphine derivative that is not as strong as morphine; used as an emetic and in small doses as a sedative | - |
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| aponeurosis | (noun) any of the deeper and thicker fascia that attach muscles to bones; resemble flattened tendons | - |
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| apophthegm | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: aphorism, apothegm |
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| apoplexy | (noun) a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain | Synonyms: cerebrovascular accident, CVA, stroke |
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| aposelene | (noun) apoapsis in orbit around the moon | Synonyms: apolune |
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| aposiopesis | (noun) breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations) | - |
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| apostate | (noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: deserter, ratter, recreant, renegade, turncoat |
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| apostle | (noun) an ardent early supporter of a cause or reform | - |
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| apostleship | (noun) the position of apostle | - |
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| apostrophe | (noun) address to an absent or imaginary person | - |
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| (noun) the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word | - |
| apothecary | (noun) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs | Synonyms: chemist, druggist, pharmacist, pill pusher, pill roller |
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| apothecium | (noun) a cuplike ascocarp in many lichens and ascomycetous fungi | - |
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| apothegm | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: aphorism, apophthegm |
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| apotheosis | (noun) the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) | Synonyms: deification, exaltation |
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| (noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: ideal, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon, saint |
| appanage | (noun) a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family | Synonyms: apanage |
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| (noun) any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life | Synonyms: apanage |
| apparel | (noun) clothing in general | Synonyms: clothes, dress, wearing apparel |
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| apparency | (noun) the property of being apparent | Synonyms: apparentness |
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| apparentness | (noun) the property of being apparent | Synonyms: apparency |
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| appeal | (noun) (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial | - |
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| (noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appealingness, charm |
| (noun) earnest or urgent request | Synonyms: entreaty, prayer |
| (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: collection, ingathering, solicitation |
| appealingness | (noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appeal, charm |
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| appearance | (noun) the act of appearing in public view | - |
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| (noun) formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action | Synonyms: appearing, coming into court |
| (noun) pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression | Synonyms: show |
| (noun) outward or visible aspect of a person or thing | Synonyms: visual aspect |
| (noun) a mental representation | - |
| (noun) the event of coming into sight | - |
| appearing | (noun) formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action | Synonyms: appearance, coming into court |
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| appeasement | (noun) the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of) | Synonyms: calming |
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| appeaser | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace by acceding to demands | - |
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| appellant | (noun) the party who appeals a decision of a lower court | Synonyms: plaintiff in error |
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| appellation | (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellative, denomination, designation |
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| (noun) a geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine are grown | - |
| appellative | (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, denomination, designation |
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| appendage | (noun) a part that is joined to something larger | - |
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| (noun) an external body part that projects from the body | Synonyms: extremity, member |
| (noun) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | Synonyms: outgrowth, process |
| appendectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the vermiform appendix | Synonyms: appendicectomy |
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| appendicectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the vermiform appendix | Synonyms: appendectomy |
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| appendicitis | (noun) inflammation of the vermiform appendix | - |
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| appendicle | (noun) a small appendage | - |
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| appendicularia | (noun) free-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling larvae of other tunicates | - |
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| appendix | (noun) a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch | Synonyms: cecal appendage, vermiform appendix, vermiform process |
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| (noun) supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book | - |
| apperception | (noun) the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience | - |
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| appetence | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetency, appetite |
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| appetency | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetence, appetite |
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| appetiser | (noun) food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) | Synonyms: appetizer, starter |
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| appetisingness | (noun) the property of stimulating the appetite | Synonyms: appetizingness |
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| appetite | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetence, appetency |
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| appetizer | (noun) food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) | Synonyms: appetiser, starter |
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| appetizingness | (noun) the property of stimulating the appetite | Synonyms: appetisingness |
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| applauder | (noun) someone who applauds | Synonyms: clapper |
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| applause | (noun) a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together | Synonyms: clapping, hand clapping |
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