| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 |
| 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) | - |
| 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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| unkemptness | (noun) a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for | Synonyms: sloppiness, slovenliness |
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