allegement | (noun) statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove | Synonyms: allegation |
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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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begetter | (noun) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) | Synonyms: father, male parent |
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besieger | (noun) an enemy who lays siege to your position | - |
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(noun) an energetic petitioner | - |
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 | - |
cortege | (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: entourage, retinue, suite |
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(noun) a funeral procession | - |
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 |
eisegesis | (noun) personal interpretation of a text (especially of the Bible) using your own ideas | - |
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exegesis | (noun) an explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible) | - |
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exegete | (noun) a person skilled in exegesis (especially of religious texts) | - |
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fluegelhorn | (noun) a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore | Synonyms: flugelhorn |
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gegenschein | (noun) a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space | Synonyms: counterglow |
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hegemon | (noun) a leading or paramount power | - |
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hegemony | (noun) the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others | - |
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integer | (noun) any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero | Synonyms: whole number |
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jaeger | (noun) rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey | - |
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legend | (noun) brief description accompanying an illustration | Synonyms: caption |
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(noun) a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events | Synonyms: fable |
leger | (noun) a record in which commercial accounts are recorded | Synonyms: account book, book, book of account, ledger |
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legerdemain | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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legerity | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
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liege | (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudatory, liege subject, liegeman, vassal |
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(noun) a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service | Synonyms: liege lord |
liegeman | (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudatory, liege, liege subject, vassal |
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megestrol | (noun) a synthetic progestational compound used to treat endometrial carcinoma | Synonyms: megestrol acetate |
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miscegenation | (noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: crossbreeding, interbreeding |
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privilege | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, prerogative |
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(noun) (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship | - |
(noun) a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all | - |
protege | (noun) a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career | - |
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protegee | (noun) a woman protege | - |
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regency | (noun) the office of a regent | - |
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(noun) the period of time during which a regent governs | - |
regeneration | (noun) the activity of spiritual or physical renewal | - |
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(noun) forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting | Synonyms: re-formation |
(noun) (biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs | - |
(noun) feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input | Synonyms: positive feedback |
regent | (noun) someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch | - |
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(noun) members of a governing board | Synonyms: trustee |
regest | (noun) (archaic, obsolete) A register. | - |
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renege | (noun) the mistake of not following suit when able to do so | Synonyms: revoke |
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sacrilege | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, desecration, profanation |
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schmegegge | (noun) (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense | Synonyms: shmegegge |
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shegetz | (noun) an offensive term for non-Jewish young man | - |
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shmegegge | (noun) (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense | Synonyms: schmegegge |
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siege | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, besieging, military blockade |
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solfege | (noun) a voice exercise; singing scales or runs to the same syllable | Synonyms: solfeggio |
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(noun) singing using solfa syllables to denote the notes of the scale of C major | Synonyms: solfeggio, solmization |
spiegel | (noun) pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel | Synonyms: spiegel iron, spiegeleisen |
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spiegeleisen | (noun) pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel | Synonyms: spiegel, spiegel iron |
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squeegee | (noun) T-shaped cleaning implement with a rubber edge across the top; drawn across a surface to remove water (as in washing windows) | - |
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vegetable | (noun) edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant | Synonyms: veg, veggie |
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(noun) any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower | - |
vegetarian | (noun) eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products | - |
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vegetarianism | (noun) a diet excluding all meat and fish | - |
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vegetation | (noun) inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life | - |
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(noun) an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) | - |
(noun) all the plant life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: botany, flora |
(noun) the process of growth in plants | - |
vicegerent | (noun) someone appointed by a ruler as an administrative deputy | - |
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