| acidification | (noun) the process of becoming acid or being converted into an acid | - |
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| aficionado | (noun) a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer | - |
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| (noun) a fan of bull fighting | - |
| ammonification | (noun) impregnation with ammonia or a compound of ammonia | - |
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| amplification | (noun) (electronics) the act of increasing voltage or power or current | - |
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| (noun) addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail | Synonyms: elaboration |
| (noun) the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input | Synonyms: gain |
| artifice | (noun) a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) | Synonyms: ruse |
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| artificer | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artisan, craftsman, journeyman |
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| (noun) someone who is the first to think of or make something | Synonyms: discoverer, inventor |
| (noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armorer, armourer |
| artificialism | (noun) Czech surrealism founded in 1928 by Jindrich Styrsky and Toyen (Marie Cerminova). | - |
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| artificiality | (noun) the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally | - |
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| beatification | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization | - |
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| (noun) the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy | - |
| (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatitude, blessedness |
| beautification | (noun) the act of making something more beautiful | - |
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| benefice | (noun) an endowed church office giving income to its holder | Synonyms: ecclesiastical benefice |
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| beneficence | (noun) the quality of being kind or helpful or generous | - |
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| (noun) doing good; feeling beneficent | - |
| beneficiary | (noun) the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: benefactive role |
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| (noun) the recipient of funds or other benefits | Synonyms: donee |
| beneficiation | (noun) crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques | Synonyms: mineral dressing, mineral extraction, mineral processing, ore dressing, ore processing |
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| calcification | (noun) a process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts) | - |
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| (noun) tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts | - |
| (noun) an inflexible and unchanging state | - |
| cartilaginification | (noun) abnormal formation of cartilage from other tissues; observed in some Asians | - |
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| certificate | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certification, credential, credentials |
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| (noun) a formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends | Synonyms: security |
| certification | (noun) the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on | Synonyms: enfranchisement |
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| (noun) validating the authenticity of something or someone | Synonyms: authentication |
| (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: corroboration, documentation |
| (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, credential, credentials |
| clarification | (noun) the act of removing solid particles from a liquid | Synonyms: clearing |
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| (noun) an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding | Synonyms: elucidation, illumination |
| classification | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people | - |
| (noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, sorting |
| (noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization |
| codification | (noun) the act of codifying; arranging in a systematic order | - |
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| (noun) a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones) | Synonyms: code |
| coefficient | (noun) a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic | - |
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| conspecific | (noun) an organism belonging to the same species as another organism | - |
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| decalcification | (noun) loss of calcium from bones or teeth | - |
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| declassification | (noun) reduction or removal by the government of restrictions on a classified document or weapon | - |
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| deficiency | (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number | Synonyms: inadequacy, insufficiency |
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| (noun) the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Synonyms: lack, want |
| deficit | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: shortage, shortfall |
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| (noun) an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period) | - |
| (noun) (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing | - |
| (noun) a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning | - |
| deification | (noun) the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) | Synonyms: apotheosis, exaltation |
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| (noun) an embodiment of the qualities of a god | - |
| (noun) the condition of being treated like a god | - |
| denazification | (noun) social process of removing Nazis from official positions and giving up any allegiance to Nazism | Synonyms: de-Nazification |
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| densification | (noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compaction, compression, concretion |
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| deossification | (noun) the loss of the mineral content of bone tissue | - |
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| desertification | (noun) the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert; is usually caused by climate change or by destructive use of the land | - |
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| detoxification | (noun) treatment for poisoning by neutralizing the toxic properties (normally a function of the liver) | - |
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| (noun) a treatment for addiction to drugs or alcohol intended to remove the physiological effects of the addictive substances | - |
| difficultness | (noun) the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result | Synonyms: difficulty |
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| difficulty | (noun) an effort that is inconvenient | Synonyms: trouble |
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| (noun) the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result | Synonyms: difficultness |
| disqualification | (noun) the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified | - |
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| (noun) unfitness that bars you from participation | - |
| diversification | (noun) the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered) | Synonyms: variegation |
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| (noun) the condition of being varied | - |
| edification | (noun) uplifting enlightenment | Synonyms: sophistication |
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| edifice | (noun) a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place | Synonyms: building |
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| efficaciousness | (noun) capacity or power to produce a desired effect | Synonyms: efficacy |
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| efficacy | (noun) capacity or power to produce a desired effect | Synonyms: efficaciousness |
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| efficiency | (noun) skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort | - |
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| (noun) the ratio of the output to the input of any system | - |
| electrification | (noun) the activity of thrilling or markedly exciting some person or group | - |
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| (noun) the act of providing electricity | - |
| exemplification | (noun) a representational or typifying form or model | Synonyms: typification |
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| (noun) showing by example | Synonyms: illustration |
| falsification | (noun) the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting | Synonyms: falsehood |
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| (noun) the act of determining that something is false | Synonyms: disproof, falsifying, refutal, refutation |
| (noun) a willful perversion of facts | Synonyms: misrepresentation |
| (noun) any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something | Synonyms: disproof, refutation |
| fice | (noun) a nervous belligerent little mongrel dog | Synonyms: feist |
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| fichu | (noun) a lightweight triangular scarf worn by a woman | - |
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| fickleness | (noun) unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous | Synonyms: faithlessness, falseness, inconstancy |
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| fiction | (noun) a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact | - |
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| (noun) a deliberately false or improbable account | Synonyms: fable, fabrication |
| fictionalisation | (noun) writing in a fictional form | Synonyms: fabrication, fictionalization |
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| (noun) a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction | Synonyms: fictionalization |
| fictionalization | (noun) writing in a fictional form | Synonyms: fabrication, fictionalisation |
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| (noun) a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction | Synonyms: fictionalisation |
| fortification | (noun) the addition of an ingredient for the purpose of enrichment (as the addition of alcohol to wine or the addition of vitamins to food) | - |
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| (noun) defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it | Synonyms: munition |
| (noun) the art or science of strengthening defenses | - |
| fructification | (noun) organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses) | - |
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| (noun) the bearing of fruit | - |
| gamification | (noun) Making something more engaging by incorporating ideas and mechanics from games | - |
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| gasification | (noun) the process of changing into gas | - |
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| gentrification | (noun) the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of low-income residents) | - |
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| glorification | (noun) the act of glorifying (as in worship) | - |
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| (noun) a portrayal of something as ideal | Synonyms: idealisation, idealization |
| (noun) a state of high honor | Synonyms: glory |
| gratification | (noun) the act or an instance of satisfying | - |
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| (noun) state of being gratified or satisfied | Synonyms: satisfaction |
| honorific | (noun) an expression of respect | - |
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| humification | (noun) the process of the formation of humus from plant remains | - |
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| identification | (noun) the act of designating or identifying something | Synonyms: designation |
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| (noun) the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons) | - |
| (noun) the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering | Synonyms: recognition |
| (noun) evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing | - |
| (noun) the condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established | - |
| immunodeficiency | (noun) immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced | - |
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| indemnification | (noun) an act of compensation for actual loss or damage or for trouble and annoyance | - |
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| (noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: amends, damages, indemnity, redress, restitution |
| inefficaciousness | (noun) a lack of efficacy | Synonyms: inefficacy |
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| inefficacy | (noun) a lack of efficacy | Synonyms: inefficaciousness |
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| inefficiency | (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency | - |
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| insignificance | (noun) the quality of having little or no significance | - |
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| insufficiency | (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number | Synonyms: deficiency, inadequacy |
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| (noun) (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally | - |
| (noun) a lack of competence | Synonyms: inadequacy |
| intensification | (noun) action that makes something stronger or more extreme | - |
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| (noun) the act of increasing the contrast of (a photographic film) | - |
| jollification | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: conviviality, merrymaking |
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| justification | (noun) the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning | - |
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| (noun) something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary | - |
| (noun) a statement in explanation of some action or belief | - |
| magnification | (noun) the act of expanding something in apparent size | - |
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| (noun) a photographic print that has been enlarged | Synonyms: blowup, enlargement |
| (noun) making to seem more important than it really is | Synonyms: exaggeration, overstatement |
| (noun) the ratio of the size of an image to the size of the object | - |
| magnificence | (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandeur, grandness, splendor, splendour |
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| (noun) splendid or imposing in size or appearance | Synonyms: grandness, impressiveness, richness |
| magnifico | (noun) a person of distinguished rank or appearance | - |
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| maleficence | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: balefulness, mischief |
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| (noun) doing or causing evil | - |
| metrification | (noun) the act of changing from imperial units of measurement to metric units: meters, grams, seconds | Synonyms: metrication |
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| (noun) writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition) | - |
| microfiche | (noun) small sheet of microfilm on which many pages of material have been photographed; a magnification system is used to read the material | - |
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| modification | (noun) the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) | Synonyms: adjustment, alteration |
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| (noun) slightly modified copy; not an exact copy | - |
| (noun) an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another | Synonyms: alteration, change |
| (noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | Synonyms: limiting, qualifying |
| mollification | (noun) the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined | Synonyms: pacification |
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| (noun) a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered | - |
| mortification | (noun) (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself) | - |
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| (noun) an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect | Synonyms: humiliation |
| (noun) strong feelings of embarrassment | Synonyms: chagrin, humiliation |
| (noun) the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) | Synonyms: gangrene, necrosis, sphacelus |
| mummification | (noun) embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy | - |
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| (noun) a condition resembling that of a mummy | - |
| (noun) (pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown color | Synonyms: cold gangrene, dry gangrene, mumification necrosis |
| munificence | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, magnanimity, openhandedness |
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| mystification | (noun) the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered | Synonyms: obfuscation |
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| (noun) something designed to mystify or bewilder | - |
| (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement |
| narcotraffic | (noun) traffic in illegal drugs | Synonyms: drug traffic, drug trafficking |
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| nitrification | (noun) the oxidation of ammonium compounds in dead organic material into nitrates and nitrites by soil bacteria (making nitrogen available to plants) | - |
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| (noun) the chemical process in which a nitro group is added to an organic compound (or substituted for another group in an organic compound) | - |
| nonfiction | (noun) prose writing that is not fictional | Synonyms: nonfictional prose |
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| notification | (noun) an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative | Synonyms: presentment |
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| (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: apprisal, telling |
| (noun) a request for payment | Synonyms: notice |
| nullification | (noun) the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something | Synonyms: override |
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| (noun) the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress | - |
| objectification | (noun) the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing | - |
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| (noun) a concrete representation of an abstract idea or principle | - |
| office | (noun) a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities | - |
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| (noun) the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group | Synonyms: function, part, role |
| (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, place, position, post, situation |
| (noun) place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed | Synonyms: business office |
| (noun) professional or clerical workers in an office | Synonyms: office staff |
| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency |
| (noun) (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power | Synonyms: power |
| officeholder | (noun) the official who holds an office | Synonyms: incumbent |
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| (noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officer |
| officer | (noun) a member of a police force | Synonyms: police officer |
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| (noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officeholder |
| (noun) any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command | Synonyms: military officer |
| (noun) a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel | Synonyms: ship's officer |
| official | (noun) someone who administers the rules of a game or sport | - |
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| (noun) a worker who holds or is invested with an office | Synonyms: functionary |
| officialdom | (noun) people elected or appointed to administer a government | Synonyms: government officials |
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| officialese | (noun) the style of writing characteristic of some government officials: formal and obscure | - |
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| officiant | (noun) a clergyman who officiates at a religious ceremony or service | - |
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| officiating | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiation, refereeing, umpirage |
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| officiation | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiating, refereeing, umpirage |
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| (noun) the performance of a religious or ceremonial or public duty | - |
| officiousness | (noun) aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation | Synonyms: intrusiveness, meddlesomeness |
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| opacification | (noun) the process of becoming cloudy or opaque | - |
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