abnegation | (noun) renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others | Synonyms: denial, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation |
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(noun) the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief | - |
abnegator | (noun) one who gives up or relinquishes or renounces something | - |
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acromegalia | (noun) enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor) | Synonyms: acromegaly |
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acromegaly | (noun) enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor) | Synonyms: acromegalia |
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adenomegaly | (noun) gland enlargement | - |
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aegir | (noun) a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) | Synonyms: bore, eager, eagre, tidal bore |
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aegis | (noun) kindly endorsement and guidance | Synonyms: auspices, protection |
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(noun) armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass | Synonyms: breastplate, egis |
aggregate | (noun) the whole amount | Synonyms: sum, total, totality |
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(noun) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | Synonyms: congeries, conglomeration |
(noun) material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster | - |
aggregation | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: assembling, collecting, collection |
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(noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, assemblage, collection |
aggregator | (noun) a person who collects things | Synonyms: collector |
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allegation | (noun) (law) a formal accusation against somebody (often in a court of law) | - |
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(noun) statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove | Synonyms: allegement |
allegement | (noun) statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove | Synonyms: allegation |
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allegiance | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: commitment, dedication, loyalty |
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(noun) the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign) | Synonyms: fealty |
allegoresis | (noun) the interpretation of written, oral, or artistic expression as allegory. | - |
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allegoricalness | (noun) The state or quality of being allegorical. | - |
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allegoriser | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegorizer |
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allegorizer | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegoriser |
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allegory | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: apologue, fable, parable |
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(noun) an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor | - |
(noun) a visible symbol representing an abstract idea | Synonyms: emblem |
allegretto | (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed at a somewhat quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro | - |
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(noun) a quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro | - |
allegro | (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed quickly in a brisk lively manner | - |
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(noun) a brisk and lively tempo | - |
apophthegm | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: aphorism, apothegm |
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apothegm | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: aphorism, apophthegm |
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aquilege | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilegia, columbine |
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aquilegia | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilege, columbine |
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arcdegree | (noun) a measure for arcs and angles | Synonyms: degree |
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archegonium | (noun) a female sex organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms | - |
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arpeggio | (noun) a chord whose notes are played in rapid succession rather than simultaneously | - |
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assegai | (noun) the slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa | Synonyms: assagai |
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autoregulation | (noun) (physiology) processes that maintain a generally constant physiological state in a cell or organism | - |
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bandyleg | (noun) a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) | Synonyms: bandy leg, bow leg, bowleg, genu varum, tibia vara |
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battleground | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battlefield, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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beaugregory | (noun) a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies | Synonyms: Pomacentrus leucostictus |
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begetter | (noun) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) | Synonyms: father, male parent |
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beggar | (noun) a pauper who lives by begging | Synonyms: mendicant |
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beggarman | (noun) a man who is a beggar | - |
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beggarweed | (noun) West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil | Synonyms: Desmodium purpureum, Desmodium tortuosum |
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beggarwoman | (noun) a woman who is a beggar | - |
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beggary | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: begging, mendicancy |
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(noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: mendicancy, mendicity |
begging | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, mendicancy |
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beginner | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: initiate, novice, tiro, tyro |
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(noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: father, founder, founding father |
beginning | (noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: commencement, start |
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(noun) the first part or section of something | - |
(noun) the event consisting of the start of something | - |
(noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: origin, root, rootage, source |
(noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
begonia | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Begonia grown for their attractive glossy asymmetrical leaves and colorful flowers in usually terminal cymes or racemes | - |
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beguilement | (noun) an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations | Synonyms: distraction |
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(noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, bewitchery |
beguiler | (noun) a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness) | Synonyms: charmer |
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(noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
beguine | (noun) a ballroom dance that originated in the French West Indies; similar to the rumba | - |
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(noun) music written in the bolero rhythm of the beguine dance | - |
begum | (noun) a Muslim woman of high rank in India or Pakistan | - |
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besieger | (noun) an enemy who lays siege to your position | - |
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(noun) an energetic petitioner | - |
besieging | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, military blockade, siege |
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blackleg | (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: rat, scab, strikebreaker |
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blitzkrieg | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitz |
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bluegill | (noun) important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States | Synonyms: Lepomis macrochirus |
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bluegrass | (noun) a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars | - |
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(noun) any of various grasses of the genus Poa | Synonyms: blue grass |
bodega | (noun) a small Hispanic shop selling wine and groceries | - |
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bootleg | (noun) the part of a boot above the instep | - |
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(noun) whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash | Synonyms: corn liquor, moonshine |
bootlegger | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: moonshiner |
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bootlegging | (noun) the act of making or transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally | - |
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(noun) the act of selling illegally or without permission | - |
bowleg | (noun) a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) | Synonyms: bandy leg, bandyleg, bow leg, genu varum, tibia vara |
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bregma | (noun) the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures at the top of the cranium | - |
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bridegroom | (noun) a man who has recently been married | Synonyms: groom |
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(noun) a man participant in his own marriage ceremony | Synonyms: groom |
bristlegrass | (noun) grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet | Synonyms: bristle grass |
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bromegrass | (noun) any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions | Synonyms: brome |
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budgereegah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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cablegram | (noun) a telegram sent abroad | Synonyms: cable, overseas telegram |
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cardiomegaly | (noun) an abnormal enlargement of the heart | Synonyms: enlarged heart, megacardia, megalocardia |
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caregiver | (noun) a person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult | - |
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(noun) a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability | Synonyms: health care provider, health professional, PCP, primary care provider |
categorem | (noun) a categorematic expression; a term capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition | Synonyms: categoreme |
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categoreme | (noun) a categorematic expression; a term capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition | Synonyms: categorem |
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categorisation | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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(noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorization, classification, sorting |
(noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorization, classification |
categorization | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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(noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, classification, sorting |
(noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorisation, classification |
category | (noun) a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme | - |
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(noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | Synonyms: class, family |
cleg | (noun) large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals | Synonyms: clegg, horse fly, horsefly |
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clegg | (noun) large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals | Synonyms: cleg, horse fly, horsefly |
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college | (noun) a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed | - |
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(noun) the body of faculty and students of a college | - |
(noun) an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university | - |
collegian | (noun) a student (or former student) at a college or university | Synonyms: college boy, college man |
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congregant | (noun) a member of a congregation (especially that of a church or synagogue) | - |
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congregating | (noun) the act of congregating | Synonyms: congregation |
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congregation | (noun) the act of congregating | Synonyms: congregating |
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(noun) a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church | Synonyms: faithful, fold |
(noun) an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together | - |
cortege | (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: entourage, retinue, suite |
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(noun) a funeral procession | - |
cystoplegia | (noun) paralysis of the urinary bladder | Synonyms: cystoparalysis |
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cytomegalovirus | (noun) any of a group of herpes viruses that enlarge epithelial cells and can cause birth defects; can affect humans with impaired immunological systems | Synonyms: CMV |
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dactylomegaly | (noun) abnormally large fingers or toes | - |
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degaussing | (noun) the process of making a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by producing an opposing magnetic field | - |
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degeneracy | (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, depravation, depravity, putrefaction |
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(noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, decadency, degeneration |
degenerate | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: deviant, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
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degeneration | (noun) passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form | Synonyms: retrogression |
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(noun) the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality | Synonyms: devolution |
(noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, decadency, degeneracy |
deglutition | (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: drink, swallow |
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degradation | (noun) changing to a lower state (a less respected state) | Synonyms: debasement |
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(noun) a low or downcast state | Synonyms: abasement, abjection |
degrader | (noun) a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) | Synonyms: debaser |
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degras | (noun) a semisolid emulsion produced by the treatment of certain skins with oxidized fish oil, which extracts their soluble albuminoids. | - |
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degreaser | (noun) a chemical substance that dissolves water-insoluble substances, such as greases and oils. | - |
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degree | (noun) a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality | Synonyms: grade, level |
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(noun) the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime) | - |
(noun) the highest power of a term or variable | - |
(noun) an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study | Synonyms: academic degree |
(noun) a measure for arcs and angles | Synonyms: arcdegree |
(noun) a unit of temperature on a specified scale | - |
(noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: level, point, stage |
degustation | (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: relishing, savoring, savouring, tasting |
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delegacy | (noun) the appointment of a delegate | - |
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(noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegation, deputation, mission |
(noun) the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent | Synonyms: agency, representation |
delegate | (noun) a person appointed or elected to represent others | - |
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delegating | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegation, deputation, relegating, relegation |
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delegation | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegating, deputation, relegating, relegation |
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(noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegacy, deputation, mission |
deregulating | (noun) the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations) | Synonyms: deregulation |
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deregulation | (noun) the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations) | Synonyms: deregulating |
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desegregation | (noun) the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community | Synonyms: integrating, integration |
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diplegia | (noun) paralysis of corresponding parts on both sides of the body | - |
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