| afternoon | (noun) a conventional expression of greeting or farewell, used to wish someone a good afternoon | Synonyms: good afternoon |
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| (noun) the part of the day between noon and evening | - |
| alternate | (noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: replacement, surrogate |
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| alternation | (noun) successive change from one thing or state to another and back again | - |
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| alternative | (noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: choice, option |
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| alternator | (noun) an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles) | - |
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| bittern | (noun) relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes | - |
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| bitterness | (noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste | Synonyms: bitter |
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| (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
| (noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: bitter |
| (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: gall, rancor, rancour, resentment |
| bitternut | (noun) hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts | Synonyms: bitter hickory, bitter pignut, bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, swamp hickory |
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| bladdernose | (noun) medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Cystophora cristata, hooded seal |
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| butternut | (noun) oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family | - |
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| (noun) North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye | Synonyms: butternut tree, Juglans cinerea, white walnut |
| casern | (noun) military barracks in a garrison town | - |
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| cavern | (noun) a large cave or a large chamber in a cave | - |
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| (noun) any large dark enclosed space | - |
| cistern | (noun) an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater | - |
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| (noun) a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet | Synonyms: water tank |
| (noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cisterna |
| cisterna | (noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cistern |
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| cithern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, citole, cittern, gittern |
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| cittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, gittern |
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| cleverness | (noun) the property of being ingenious | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity |
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| (noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: brightness, smartness |
| (noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness |
| concern | (noun) something that interests you because it is important or affects you | - |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: headache, vexation, worry |
| (noun) a feeling of sympathy for someone or something | - |
| (noun) an anxious feeling | Synonyms: care, fear |
| (noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | Synonyms: business, business concern, business organisation, business organization |
| consternation | (noun) fear resulting from the awareness of danger | Synonyms: alarm, dismay |
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| cybernation | (noun) the control of processes by computer | Synonyms: computerization |
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| cybernaut | (noun) a computer user who uses the internet; someone who explores cyberspace | - |
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| cybernetics | (noun) (biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems) | - |
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| dapperness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: jauntiness, nattiness, rakishness |
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| discernability | (noun) distinctness that makes perception easy | Synonyms: legibility |
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| discernment | (noun) the trait of judging wisely and objectively | Synonyms: discretion |
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| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: judgement, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity |
| (noun) the cognitive condition of someone who understands | Synonyms: apprehension, savvy, understanding |
| (noun) perception of that which is obscure | Synonyms: perceptiveness |
| (noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: appreciation, perceptiveness, taste |
| eagerness | (noun) prompt willingness | Synonyms: forwardness, readiness, zeal |
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| (noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidity, avidness, keenness |
| easterner | (noun) an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the U.S. | - |
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| ern | (noun) bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland | Synonyms: erne, European sea eagle, gray sea eagle, grey sea eagle, Haliatus albicilla, white-tailed sea eagle |
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| erne | (noun) bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland | Synonyms: ern, European sea eagle, gray sea eagle, grey sea eagle, Haliatus albicilla, white-tailed sea eagle |
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| eternity | (noun) a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife | Synonyms: timeless existence, timelessness |
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| (noun) time without end | Synonyms: infinity |
| (noun) a seemingly endless time interval (waiting) | - |
| ethernet | (noun) a type of network technology for local area networks; coaxial cable carries radio frequency signals between computers at a rate of 10 megabits per second | - |
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| extern | (noun) a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there | Synonyms: medical extern |
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| external | (noun) outward features | - |
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| externalisation | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalization |
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| (noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalization |
| externality | (noun) the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior | Synonyms: outwardness |
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| externalization | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalisation |
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| (noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalisation |
| fern | (noun) any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | - |
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| fingernail | (noun) the nail at the end of a finger | - |
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| fraternisation | (noun) associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way; especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternization |
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| fraternity | (noun) people engaged in a particular occupation | Synonyms: brotherhood, sodality |
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| (noun) a social club for male undergraduates | Synonyms: frat |
| fraternization | (noun) associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way; especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternisation |
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| gittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, cittern |
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| governance | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governing, government, government activity |
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| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, establishment, governing body, organisation, organization |
| governed | (noun) the body of people who are citizens of a particular government | - |
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| governess | (noun) a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home) | - |
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| governing | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, government, government activity |
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| government | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, governing, government activity |
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| (noun) (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed | - |
| (noun) the study of government of states and other political units | Synonyms: political science, politics |
| (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: authorities, regime |
| governor | (noun) a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel) | Synonyms: regulator |
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| (noun) the head of a state government | - |
| governorship | (noun) the office of governor | - |
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| hernia | (noun) rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes | Synonyms: herniation |
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| herniation | (noun) rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes | Synonyms: hernia |
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| hibernation | (noun) the act of retiring into inactivity | - |
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| (noun) the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter | - |
| (noun) cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals | - |
| hypernatremia | (noun) excessive amounts of sodium in the blood; possibly indicating diabetes insipidus | - |
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| hypernym | (noun) a word that is more generic than a given word | Synonyms: superordinate, superordinate word |
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| hypernymy | (noun) the semantic relation of being superordinate or belonging to a higher rank or class | Synonyms: superordination |
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| improperness | (noun) an improper demeanor | Synonyms: impropriety |
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| indiscernibility | (noun) The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed. | - |
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| infernal | (noun) an inhabitant of Hell | - |
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| inferno | (noun) a very intense and uncontrolled fire | Synonyms: conflagration |
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| (noun) any place of pain and turmoil | Synonyms: hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits |
| intern | (noun) an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience | Synonyms: houseman, interne, medical intern |
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| internalisation | (noun) learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself | Synonyms: incorporation, internalization |
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| internality | (noun) preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values) | Synonyms: inwardness |
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| internalization | (noun) learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself | Synonyms: incorporation, internalisation |
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| internationalisation | (noun) the act of bringing something under international control | Synonyms: internationalization |
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| internationalism | (noun) quality of being international in scope | Synonyms: internationality |
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| (noun) the doctrine that nations should cooperate because their common interests are more important than their differences | - |
| internationalist | (noun) an advocate of internationalism | - |
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| (noun) a member of a socialist or communist international | - |
| internationality | (noun) quality of being international in scope | Synonyms: internationalism |
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| internationalization | (noun) the act of bringing something under international control | Synonyms: internationalisation |
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| interne | (noun) an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience | Synonyms: houseman, intern, medical intern |
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| internee | (noun) a person who is interned | - |
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| internet | (noun) a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange | Synonyms: cyberspace, net |
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| internist | (noun) a specialist in internal medicine | - |
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| internment | (noun) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) | Synonyms: imprisonment |
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| (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impounding, impoundment, poundage |
| (noun) confinement during wartime | - |
| internode | (noun) a segment of a stem between two nodes | - |
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| internship | (noun) the position of a medical intern | - |
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| internuncio | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope ranking below a nuncio | - |
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| juggernaut | (noun) a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way | Synonyms: steamroller |
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| kern | (noun) the part of a metal type that projects beyond its body | - |
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| kernel | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
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| (noun) a single whole grain of a cereal | - |
| (noun) the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone | Synonyms: meat |
| kernicterus | (noun) an abnormal accumulation of bile pigment in the brain and other nerve tissue; causes yellow staining and tissue damage | - |
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| kernite | (noun) a light soft mineral consisting of hydrated sodium borate in crystalline form; an important source of boron | - |
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| klavern | (noun) a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan | - |
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| kosherness | (noun) The property of being fit to eat under Jewish dietary laws. | - |
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| lantern | (noun) light in a transparent protective case | - |
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| lanternfish | (noun) small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night | - |
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| leatherneck | (noun) a member of the United States Marine Corps | Synonyms: devil dog, Marine, shipboard soldier |
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| lectern | (noun) desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer | Synonyms: reading desk |
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| lipfern | (noun) any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions | Synonyms: lip fern |
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| lucerne | (noun) important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop | Synonyms: alfalfa, Medicago sativa |
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| maternalism | (noun) motherly care; behavior characteristic of a mother; the practice of acting as a mother does toward her children | - |
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| (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternity, motherliness |
| maternity | (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternalism, motherliness |
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| (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother | Synonyms: motherhood |
| (noun) the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | Synonyms: gestation, pregnancy |
| meagerness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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| midafternoon | (noun) the middle part of the afternoon | - |
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| misgovernment | (noun) government that is inefficient or dishonest | Synonyms: misrule |
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| mockernut | (noun) smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut | Synonyms: big-bud hickory, black hickory, Carya tomentosa, mockernut hickory, white-heart hickory |
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| modern | (noun) a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes | Synonyms: Bodoni, Bodoni font, modern font |
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| (noun) a contemporary person | - |
| modernisation | (noun) making modern in appearance or behavior | Synonyms: modernization |
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| modernism | (noun) practices typical of contemporary life or thought | - |
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| (noun) genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres | - |
| (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness |
| modernist | (noun) an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles | - |
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| modernity | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernism, modernness |
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