| affright | (noun) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | Synonyms: panic, terror |
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| afghan | (noun) a blanket knitted or crocheted in strips or squares; sometimes used as a shawl | - |
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| (noun) a coat made of sheepskin | Synonyms: sheepskin coat |
| afghani | (noun) the basic unit of money in Afghanistan | - |
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| afterthought | (noun) an addition that was not included in the original plan | - |
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| (noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: reconsideration, rethink, second thought |
| aught | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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| backlighting | (noun) lighting from behind | - |
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| bantamweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the flyweight division and lighter than those in the featherweight division. | - |
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| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 115-126 pounds | - |
| battlesight | (noun) an arrangement of sights that makes possible the rapid aiming of a firearm at short ranges | Synonyms: battle sight |
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| bighead | (noun) any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck | - |
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| bigheartedness | (noun) the quality of being kind and generous | - |
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| bighorn | (noun) wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns | Synonyms: bighorn sheep, cimarron, Ovis canadensis, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep |
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| bight | (noun) the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends) | - |
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| (noun) a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline | - |
| (noun) a bend or curve (especially in a coastline) | - |
| (noun) a loop in a rope | - |
| birthright | (noun) a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth | - |
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| (noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | Synonyms: patrimony |
| blight | (noun) a state or condition being blighted | - |
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| (noun) any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting | - |
| blighter | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: cuss, gadfly, pest, pesterer |
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| (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
| boardinghouse | (noun) a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests | Synonyms: boarding house |
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| bobsleigh | (noun) a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism | Synonyms: bob, bobsled |
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| (noun) formerly two short sleds coupled together | Synonyms: bobsled |
| bombsight | (noun) a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs | - |
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| borough | (noun) one of the administrative divisions of a large city | - |
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| (noun) an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament | - |
| bough | (noun) any of the larger branches of a tree | - |
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| breakthrough | (noun) a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense | - |
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| (noun) making an important discovery | - |
| (noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: discovery, find |
| brightness | (noun) the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness level, light, luminance, luminosity, luminousness |
| (noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: cleverness, smartness |
| brougham | (noun) a sedan that has no roof over the driver's seat | - |
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| (noun) light carriage; pulled by a single horse | - |
| bulghur | (noun) parched crushed wheat | Synonyms: bulgur, bulgur wheat |
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| bullfight | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: corrida |
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| bullfighter | (noun) someone who fights bulls | Synonyms: toreador |
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| bullfighting | (noun) the activity at a bullfight | Synonyms: tauromachy |
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| bunfight | (noun) (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion | Synonyms: bun-fight |
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| bunghole | (noun) a hole in a barrel or cask; used to fill or empty it | - |
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| (noun) vulgar slang for anus | Synonyms: arse, arsehole, asshole |
| burgh | (noun) a borough in Scotland | - |
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| burgher | (noun) a member of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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| (noun) a citizen of an English borough | Synonyms: burgess |
| candlelight | (noun) the light provided by a burning candle | Synonyms: candle flame |
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| carragheen | (noun) dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America | Synonyms: carageen, carrageen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss |
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| cartwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons | - |
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| chough | (noun) a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage | - |
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| cockfight | (noun) a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs | - |
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| cockfighting | (noun) participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight | - |
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| copyright | (noun) a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work | Synonyms: right of first publication |
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| cough | (noun) a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis | Synonyms: coughing |
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| coughing | (noun) a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis | Synonyms: cough |
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| counterweight | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, equaliser, equalizer |
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| countinghouse | (noun) office used by the accountants of a business | - |
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| cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
| daughter | (noun) a female human offspring | Synonyms: girl |
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| daylight | (noun) light during the daytime | - |
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| (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daytime |
| deadlight | (noun) a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather | - |
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| delight | (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: joy, pleasure |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction | Synonyms: delectation |
| dinghy | (noun) a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled | Synonyms: dory, rowboat |
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| dogfight | (noun) a violent fight between dogs (sometimes organized illegally for entertainment and gambling) | - |
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| (noun) an aerial engagement between fighter planes | - |
| (noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: hassle, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle |
| (noun) a fiercely disputed contest | - |
| dogfighter | (noun) a fighter pilot who engages in an aerial dogfights | - |
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| doghouse | (noun) outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog | Synonyms: dog house, kennel |
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| (noun) an idiomatic term for being in disfavor | - |
| dough | (noun) a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| doughboy | (noun) a rounded lump of dough that is deep-fried and served as hot bread | - |
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| (noun) an American infantryman in World War I | - |
| doughiness | (noun) The quality or state of having the characteristics of dough, especially in appearance or consistency. | - |
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| doughnut | (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: donut, sinker |
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| (noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, annulus, halo, ring |
| downrightness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: straightforwardness |
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| draught | (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draft, drawing |
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| (noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draft, gulp, swig |
| (noun) a dose of liquid medicine | Synonyms: draft |
| (noun) the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) | Synonyms: draft |
| (noun) a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg | Synonyms: draft, potation, tipple |
| (noun) a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle) | Synonyms: draft |
| draughts | (noun) a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | Synonyms: checkers |
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| draughtsman | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draftsperson |
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| dreadnaught | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnought |
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| dreadnought | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnaught |
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| drought | (noun) a shortage of rainfall | Synonyms: drouth |
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| (noun) a prolonged shortage | Synonyms: drouth |
| dunghill | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: midden, muckheap, muckhill |
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| (noun) a foul or degraded condition | - |
| egghead | (noun) an intellectual; a very studious and academic person | - |
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| eight | (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face | Synonyms: eight-spot |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
| eighteen | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one | Synonyms: 18, XVIII |
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| eighteenth | (noun) position 18 in a countable series of things | - |
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| eighter | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
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| eighth | (noun) one part in eight equal parts | Synonyms: one-eighth |
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| (noun) position eight in a countable series of things | - |
| eighties | (noun) the time of life between 80 and 90 | Synonyms: mid-eighties |
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| (noun) the decade from 1980 to 1989 | Synonyms: 1980s |
| (noun) the decade from 1880 to 1889 | Synonyms: 1880s |
| eightieth | (noun) position 80 in a countable series of things | - |
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| eightpence | (noun) a coin worth eight pennies | - |
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| eightsome | (noun) a Scottish reel for eight dancers | - |
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| (noun) eight people considered as a unit | Synonyms: octet, octette |
| eightvo | (noun) the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves | Synonyms: 8vo, octavo |
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| eighty | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight | Synonyms: 80, fourscore, LXXX |
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| enlightened | (noun) people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity | Synonyms: initiate |
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| enlightenment | (noun) education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge | - |
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| (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness | Synonyms: nirvana |
| enough | (noun) an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose | Synonyms: sufficiency |
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| eyesight | (noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: seeing, sightedness |
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| fanlight | (noun) a semicircular window over a door or window; usually has sash bars like the ribs of a fan | - |
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| (noun) a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door | Synonyms: transom, transom window |
| (noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: skylight |
| farsightedness | (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: foresight, prevision, prospicience |
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| (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness |
| (noun) a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45 | Synonyms: presbyopia |
| featherweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the bantamweight division and lighter than those in the lightweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 126-139 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds | - |
| fight | (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, conflict, engagement |
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| (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fighting, scrap |
| (noun) a boxing or wrestling match | - |
| (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: competitiveness |
| (noun) an intense verbal dispute | - |
| fighter | (noun) a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air | Synonyms: attack aircraft, fighter aircraft |
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| (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, combatant, scrapper |
| (noun) someone who fights for a cause | Synonyms: champion, hero, paladin |
| fighting | (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fight, scrap |
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| firefighter | (noun) a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires | Synonyms: fire-eater, fire fighter, fireman |
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| firelight | (noun) the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace) | - |
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| firelighter | (noun) (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire | - |
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| fistfight | (noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, slugfest |
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| flashlight | (noun) a small portable battery-powered electric lamp | Synonyms: torch |
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| flight | (noun) an instance of traveling by air | Synonyms: flying |
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| (noun) the act of escaping physically | Synonyms: escape |
| (noun) a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports | - |
| (noun) a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next | Synonyms: flight of stairs, flight of steps |
| (noun) passing above and beyond ordinary bounds | - |
| (noun) an air force unit smaller than a squadron | - |
| (noun) a formation of aircraft in flight | - |
| (noun) a flock of flying birds | - |
| (noun) the path followed by an object moving through space | Synonyms: trajectory |
| flightiness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
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| flightlessness | (noun) The condition of being unable to fly, usually used with birds such as the penguin, ostrich, and emu. | - |
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| floodlight | (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood, flood lamp, photoflood |
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| flyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the lightest. | - |
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| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 112 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs no more than 115 pounds | - |
| foghorn | (noun) a warning device consisting of a horn that generates a loud low tone | - |
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| (noun) a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships | Synonyms: fogsignal |
| footlights | (noun) theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors | - |
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| foresight | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresightedness, foresightfulness |
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| (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, prevision, prospicience |
| foresightedness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightfulness |
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| foresightfulness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightedness |
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