| emoji | (noun) ideograms and smileys used in electronic messages and Web pages | - |
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| emollient | (noun) toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin | Synonyms: cream, ointment |
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| emolument | (noun) compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees) | - |
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| emoticon | (noun) a representation of a facial expression (as a smile or frown) created by typing a sequence of characters in sending email | - |
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| emotion | (noun) any strong feeling | - |
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| emotionalism | (noun) emotional nature or quality | Synonyms: emotionality |
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| emotionality | (noun) emotional nature or quality | Synonyms: emotionalism |
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| emotionlessness | (noun) absence of emotion | Synonyms: unemotionality |
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| (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: impassiveness, impassivity, indifference, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality |
| empathy | (noun) understanding and entering into another's feelings | - |
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| empennage | (noun) the rear part of an aircraft | Synonyms: tail, tail assembly |
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| emperor | (noun) large richly colored butterfly | Synonyms: emperor butterfly |
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| (noun) large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings | Synonyms: emperor moth, Saturnia pavonia |
| (noun) red table grape of California | - |
| (noun) the male ruler of an empire | - |
| emphasis | (noun) intensity or forcefulness of expression | Synonyms: vehemence |
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| (noun) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | Synonyms: accent, stress |
| (noun) special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g. | - |
| (noun) special importance or significance | Synonyms: accent |
| emphasizing | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accenting, accentuation |
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| emphysema | (noun) an abnormal condition of the lungs marked by decreased respiratory function; associated with smoking or chronic bronchitis or old age | Synonyms: pulmonary emphysema |
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| empire | (noun) a monarchy with an emperor as head of state | - |
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| (noun) a group of countries under a single authority | - |
| (noun) a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization | Synonyms: conglomerate |
| (noun) the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised | Synonyms: imperium |
| empiricism | (noun) the application of empirical methods in any art or science | - |
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| (noun) medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings | Synonyms: quackery |
| (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience | Synonyms: empiricist philosophy, sensationalism |
| empiricist | (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to empiricism | - |
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| emplacement | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: locating, location, placement, position, positioning |
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| (noun) military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon | - |
| employ | (noun) the state of being employed or having a job | Synonyms: employment |
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| employable | (noun) a person who is qualified and ready to work | - |
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| employee | (noun) a worker who is hired to perform a job | - |
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| employer | (noun) a person or firm that employs workers | - |
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| employment | (noun) the occupation for which you are paid | Synonyms: work |
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| (noun) the act of using | Synonyms: exercise, usage, use, utilisation, utilization |
| (noun) the act of giving someone a job | Synonyms: engagement |
| (noun) the state of being employed or having a job | Synonyms: employ |
| emporium | (noun) a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain | Synonyms: department store |
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| empowerment | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
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| empress | (noun) a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor | - |
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| emptiness | (noun) the quality of being valueless or futile | Synonyms: vanity |
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| (noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: vacancy, vacuum, void |
| (noun) the state of containing nothing | - |
| (noun) having an empty stomach | - |
| emptor | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: buyer, purchaser, vendee |
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| empty | (noun) a container that has been emptied | - |
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| emptying | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: evacuation, voidance |
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| empyema | (noun) a collection of pus in a body cavity (especially in the lung cavity) | - |
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| empyrean | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, firmament, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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| emu | (noun) any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism | Synonyms: electromagnetic unit |
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| (noun) large Australian flightless bird similar to the ostrich but smaller | Synonyms: Dromaius novaehollandiae, Emu novaehollandiae |
| emulation | (noun) effort to equal or surpass another | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) technique of one machine obtaining the same results as another | - |
| (noun) ambition to equal or excel | - |
| emulator | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, aper, copycat, imitator |
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| emulsifier | (noun) a surface-active agent that promotes the formation of an emulsion | - |
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| emulsion | (noun) a light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin | Synonyms: photographic emulsion |
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| (noun) (chemistry) a colloid in which both phases are liquids | - |
| emunctorium | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: purificator, purificatorium |
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| enanthem | (noun) eruption on a mucous membrane (as the inside of the mouth) occurring as a symptom of a disease | Synonyms: enanthema |
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| enanthema | (noun) eruption on a mucous membrane (as the inside of the mouth) occurring as a symptom of a disease | Synonyms: enanthem |
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| encasement | (noun) the act of enclosing something in a case | Synonyms: incasement |
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| encirclement | (noun) a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy | Synonyms: blockade |
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| encouragement | (noun) the act of giving hope or support to someone | Synonyms: boost |
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| (noun) the expression of approval and support | - |
| (noun) the feeling of being encouraged | - |
| endaemonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason | Synonyms: eudemonism |
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| endemic | (noun) a plant or animal that is native to a certain limited area | - |
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| (noun) a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location | Synonyms: endemic disease |
| endemism | (noun) nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place) | Synonyms: autochthony, indigenousness |
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| endorsement | (noun) the act of endorsing | Synonyms: indorsement |
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| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, imprimatur, indorsement, sanction, warrant |
| (noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: blurb, indorsement |
| (noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: indorsement, second, secondment |
| (noun) a signature that validates something | Synonyms: indorsement |
| enema | (noun) an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes | Synonyms: clyster |
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| enemy | (noun) an opposing military force | - |
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| (noun) any hostile group of people | - |
| (noun) an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force) | Synonyms: foe, foeman, opposition |
| (noun) a personal enemy | Synonyms: foe |
| enfeeblement | (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: debilitation, enervation, exhaustion |
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| enforcement | (noun) the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to | - |
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| enfranchisement | (noun) the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on | Synonyms: certification |
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| (noun) a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote) | Synonyms: franchise |
| (noun) freedom from political subjugation or servitude | - |
| engagement | (noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group | Synonyms: involution, involvement, participation |
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| (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, conflict, fight |
| (noun) the act of giving someone a job | Synonyms: employment |
| (noun) employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time | Synonyms: booking |
| (noun) a mutual promise to marry | Synonyms: betrothal, troth |
| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: interlocking, mesh, meshing |
| (noun) a meeting arranged in advance | Synonyms: appointment, date |
| engorgement | (noun) eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation | - |
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| (noun) congestion with blood | - |
| enhancement | (noun) an improvement that makes something more agreeable | Synonyms: sweetening |
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| enjambement | (noun) the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause | Synonyms: enjambment |
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| enlargement | (noun) the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope | Synonyms: expansion |
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| (noun) a photographic print that has been enlarged | Synonyms: blowup, magnification |
| (noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: elaboration, expansion |
| (noun) the state of being enlarged | - |
| ennoblement | (noun) the act of raising someone to the nobility | - |
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| (noun) the state of being noble | - |
| enragement | (noun) a feeling of intense anger and impatience | Synonyms: infuriation |
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| ensemble | (noun) a coordinated outfit (set of clothing) | - |
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| (noun) the chorus of a ballet company | Synonyms: corps de ballet |
| (noun) a group of musicians playing or singing together | - |
| (noun) an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole | Synonyms: tout ensemble |
| (noun) a cast other than the principals | Synonyms: supporting players |
| enslavement | (noun) the act of making slaves of your captives | - |
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| (noun) the state of being a slave | Synonyms: captivity |
| entanglement | (noun) an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim | Synonyms: web |
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| enterotoxemia | (noun) a disease of cattle and sheep that is attributed to toxins absorbed from the intestines | - |
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| enthronement | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronisation, enthronization, investiture |
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| enticement | (noun) the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire | Synonyms: temptation |
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| (noun) qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward | Synonyms: come-on, lure |
| (noun) something that seduces or has the quality to seduce | Synonyms: temptation |
| entitlement | (noun) right granted by law or contract (especially a right to benefits) | - |
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| entrancement | (noun) a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment | Synonyms: ravishment |
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| entremets | (noun) a dish that is served with, but is subordinate to, a main course | Synonyms: side dish, side order |
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| ephemera | (noun) something transitory; lasting a day | - |
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| ephemeral | (noun) anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form | Synonyms: ephemeron |
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| ephemerality | (noun) the property of lasting for a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeralness, fleetingness |
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| ephemeralness | (noun) the property of lasting for a very short time | Synonyms: ephemerality, fleetingness |
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| ephemerid | (noun) short-lived insect | Synonyms: ephemeropteran |
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| ephemeris | (noun) an annual publication containing astronomical tables that give the positions of the celestial bodies throughout the year | - |
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| ephemeron | (noun) anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form | Synonyms: ephemeral |
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| ephemeropteran | (noun) short-lived insect | Synonyms: ephemerid |
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| epicheirema | (noun) a syllogism in which some statement supporting one or both of the premises is introduced with the premises themselves. | - |
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| epidemic | (noun) a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time | - |
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| epidemiologist | (noun) a medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases | - |
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| epidemiology | (noun) the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease | - |
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| epiphonema | (noun) a sentence that is an exclamation, a general or striking comment, or a succinct summary of what has previously been said. | - |
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| episteme | (noun) the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time | - |
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| epistemologist | (noun) a specialist in epistemology | - |
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| epistemology | (noun) the philosophical theory of knowledge | - |
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| eremite | (noun) a Christian recluse | - |
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| eremitism | (noun) monasticism characterized by solitude in which the social dimension of life is sacrificed to the primacy of religious experience | - |
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| erythema | (noun) abnormal redness of the skin resulting from dilation of blood vessels (as in sunburn or inflammation) | - |
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| escapement | (noun) mechanical device that regulates movement | - |
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| esteem | (noun) an attitude of admiration or esteem | Synonyms: regard, respect |
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| (noun) a feeling of delighted approval and liking | Synonyms: admiration |
| (noun) the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded) | Synonyms: regard, respect |
| estrangement | (noun) the feeling of being alienated from other people | Synonyms: alienation, disaffection |
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| (noun) separation resulting from hostility | Synonyms: alienation |
| eudaemon | (noun) a benevolent spirit | Synonyms: eudemon, good spirit |
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| eudaemonia | (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaimonia, upbeat, welfare, well-being, wellbeing |
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| eudemon | (noun) a benevolent spirit | Synonyms: eudaemon, good spirit |
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| eudemonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason | Synonyms: endaemonism |
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| euphemism | (noun) an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh | - |
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| exanthem | (noun) eruption on the skin occurring as a symptom of a disease | Synonyms: exanthema, skin eruption |
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| exanthema | (noun) eruption on the skin occurring as a symptom of a disease | Synonyms: exanthem, skin eruption |
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| exciseman | (noun) someone who collects taxes for the government | Synonyms: collector of internal revenue, internal revenue agent, tax collector, taxman |
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| excitement | (noun) something that agitates and arouses | Synonyms: excitation |
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| (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, hullabaloo, turmoil, upheaval |
| (noun) the feeling of lively and cheerful joy | Synonyms: exhilaration |
| (noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, fervor, fervour, inflammation |
| excrement | (noun) waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body | Synonyms: body waste, excreta, excretion, excretory product |
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