attempt | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: effort, endeavor, endeavour, try |
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(noun) the act of attacking | Synonyms: attack |
attempter | (noun) one who tries | Synonyms: essayer, trier |
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contemplation | (noun) a long and thoughtful observation | - |
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(noun) a calm, lengthy, intent consideration | Synonyms: musing, reflection, reflexion, rumination, thoughtfulness |
contemplative | (noun) a person devoted to the contemplative life | - |
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contemplativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: meditativeness, pensiveness |
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contemporaneity | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity, modernness |
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(noun) the quality of belonging to the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneousness |
contemporaneousness | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, modernism, modernity, modernness |
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(noun) the quality of belonging to the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneity |
contemporaries | (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: coevals, generation |
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contemporariness | (noun) The state or quality of being contemporary, modern, of the present age. | - |
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contemporary | (noun) a person of nearly the same age as another | Synonyms: coeval |
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contempt | (noun) a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body | - |
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(noun) a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous | Synonyms: disrespect |
(noun) open disrespect for a person or thing | Synonyms: scorn |
(noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: despite, disdain, scorn |
contemptibility | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, despicability, despicableness, sordidness |
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contemptuousness | (noun) the manifestation of scorn and contempt | - |
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contretemps | (noun) an awkward clash | - |
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distemper | (noun) a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery | - |
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(noun) a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
(noun) paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
(noun) an angry and disagreeable mood | Synonyms: ill humor, ill humour |
(noun) any of various infectious viral diseases of animals | - |
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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exemplar | (noun) something to be imitated | Synonyms: example, good example, model |
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exemplariness | (noun) The state or condition of being exemplary, serving as a shining example. | - |
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exemplification | (noun) a representational or typifying form or model | Synonyms: typification |
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(noun) showing by example | Synonyms: illustration |
exemption | (noun) an act exempting someone | Synonyms: granting immunity, immunity |
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(noun) a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of his status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.) | - |
(noun) immunity from an obligation or duty | Synonyms: freedom |
extemporisation | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporization, improvisation |
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extemporization | (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporisation, improvisation |
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gempylid | (noun) snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide | - |
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hemp | (noun) a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging | Synonyms: halter, hangman's halter, hangman's rope, hempen necktie |
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(noun) any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs | Synonyms: cannabis |
(noun) a plant fiber | - |
intemperance | (noun) excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence | Synonyms: intemperateness, self-indulgence |
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(noun) consumption of alcoholic drinks | Synonyms: intemperateness |
(noun) the quality of being intemperate | - |
intemperateness | (noun) excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence | Synonyms: intemperance, self-indulgence |
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(noun) consumption of alcoholic drinks | Synonyms: intemperance |
lempira | (noun) the basic unit of money in Honduras; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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metempsychosis | (noun) after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body | Synonyms: rebirth |
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overemphasis | (noun) too much emphasis | - |
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pemphigus | (noun) a skin disease characterized by large thin-walled blisters (bullae) arising from normal skin or mucous membrane | - |
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preempt | (noun) a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding | Synonyms: pre-empt, preemptive bid |
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preemption | (noun) a prior appropriation of something | Synonyms: pre-emption |
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(noun) the right to purchase something in advance of others | Synonyms: pre-emption |
(noun) the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property) | Synonyms: pre-emption |
(noun) the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject | Synonyms: pre-emption |
preemptor | (noun) a bidder in bridge who makes a preemptive bid | Synonyms: pre-emptor |
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(noun) someone who acquires land by preemption | Synonyms: pre-emptor |
redemption | (noun) the act of purchasing back something previously sold | Synonyms: buyback, repurchase |
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(noun) (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil | Synonyms: salvation |
(noun) repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock) | - |
sempiternity | (noun) the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless) | Synonyms: perpetuity |
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sempstress | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, needlewoman, seamstress |
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temp | (noun) a worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis | Synonyms: temporary, temporary worker |
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temper | (noun) the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking | Synonyms: toughness |
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(noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness |
(noun) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | Synonyms: humor, humour, mood |
(noun) a sudden outburst of anger | Synonyms: irritation, pique |
tempera | (noun) pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk | Synonyms: poster color, poster colour, poster paint |
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temperament | (noun) an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys | - |
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(noun) your usual mood | Synonyms: disposition |
(noun) excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly) | - |
temperance | (noun) abstaining from excess | Synonyms: sobriety |
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(noun) the act of tempering | - |
(noun) the trait of avoiding excesses | Synonyms: moderation |
temperateness | (noun) exhibiting restraint imposed on the self | Synonyms: self-restraint |
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(noun) moderate weather; suitable for outdoor activities | Synonyms: fair weather, sunshine |
temperature | (noun) the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity) | - |
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(noun) the somatic sensation of cold or heat | - |
tempering | (noun) hardening something by heat treatment | Synonyms: annealing |
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tempest | (noun) (literary) a violent wind | - |
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(noun) a violent commotion or disturbance | Synonyms: storm |
tempestuousness | (noun) a state of wild storminess | - |
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(noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: agitation, ferment, fermentation, unrest |
template | (noun) a model or standard for making comparisons | Synonyms: guide, templet |
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temple | (noun) place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity | - |
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(noun) an edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes | - |
(noun) (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation | Synonyms: synagogue, tabernacle |
(noun) the flat area on either side of the forehead | - |
templet | (noun) a model or standard for making comparisons | Synonyms: guide, template |
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tempo | (noun) the rate of some repeating event | Synonyms: pace |
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(noun) (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played | Synonyms: pacing |
temporal | (noun) the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb | Synonyms: temporal role |
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temporalis | (noun) muscle extending from the temporal fossa to the coronoid process of the mandible; acts to raise the mandible and close the jaws | Synonyms: musculus temporalis, temporal muscle, temporalis muscle |
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temporality | (noun) the worldly possessions of a church | Synonyms: temporalty |
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temporalization | (noun) The act or process of placing or defining in time relations. | - |
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temporalty | (noun) in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy | Synonyms: laity |
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(noun) the worldly possessions of a church | Synonyms: temporality |
temporariness | (noun) the property of lasting only a short time | - |
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temporary | (noun) a worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis | Synonyms: temp, temporary worker |
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temporiser | (noun) someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time | Synonyms: temporizer |
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temporizer | (noun) someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time | Synonyms: temporiser |
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temptation | (noun) the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire | Synonyms: enticement |
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(noun) something that seduces or has the quality to seduce | Synonyms: enticement |
(noun) the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid | - |
tempter | (noun) a person who tempts others | - |
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temptingness | (noun) the power to entice or attract through personal charm | Synonyms: allure, allurement |
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temptress | (noun) a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive | Synonyms: Delilah, enchantress, femme fatale, siren |
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tempura | (noun) vegetables and seafood dipped in batter and deep-fried | - |
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unemployed | (noun) people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group) | Synonyms: unemployed people |
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unemployment | (noun) the state of being unemployed or not having a job | - |
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unkemptness | (noun) a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for | Synonyms: sloppiness, slovenliness |
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