aggravation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: irritation, provocation |
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(noun) action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse | Synonyms: exacerbation |
(noun) an exasperated feeling of annoyance | Synonyms: exasperation |
aggravator | (noun) an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating | Synonyms: annoyance |
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burgrave | (noun) the military governor of a German town in the 12th and 13th centuries | - |
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(noun) a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right | - |
engraver | (noun) a printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate | - |
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(noun) a skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching | - |
engraving | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: etching |
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(noun) a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved | - |
(noun) a print made from an engraving | - |
grave | (noun) a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) | Synonyms: tomb |
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(noun) a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: grave accent |
(noun) death of a person | - |
gravedigger | (noun) a person who earns a living by digging graves | - |
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gravel | (noun) rock fragments and pebbles | Synonyms: crushed rock |
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gravelweed | (noun) perennial herb with yellow flowers; southern and south central United States | Synonyms: Verbesina helianthoides |
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graveness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: gravity, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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graver | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graving tool, pointel, pointrel |
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graverobber | (noun) someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection | Synonyms: body snatcher, ghoul |
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(noun) someone who steals valuables from graves or crypts | - |
gravestone | (noun) a stone that is used to mark a grave | Synonyms: headstone, tombstone |
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graveyard | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, cemetery, memorial park, necropolis |
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gravida | (noun) a pregnant woman | - |
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(noun) the number of the pregnancy that a woman is in | - |
gravidation | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidity, gravidness |
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gravidity | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidation, gravidness |
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gravidness | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidation, gravidity |
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gravimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid or solid | Synonyms: hydrometer |
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(noun) a measuring instrument for measuring variations in the gravitational field of the earth | Synonyms: gravity meter |
gravimetry | (noun) the measurement of specific gravity | Synonyms: hydrometry |
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gravitas | (noun) formality in bearing and appearance | Synonyms: dignity, lordliness |
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gravitation | (noun) a figurative movement toward some attraction | - |
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(noun) movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction | - |
(noun) (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface | Synonyms: gravitational attraction, gravitational force, gravity |
graviton | (noun) a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles | - |
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gravity | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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(noun) a solemn and dignified feeling | Synonyms: solemnity |
(noun) (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface | Synonyms: gravitation, gravitational attraction, gravitational force |
gravure | (noun) the act of intaglio printing | - |
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(noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: heliogravure, photogravure |
(noun) a printing plate used in the process of gravure | - |
(noun) a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print | Synonyms: intaglio, intaglio printing |
gravy | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, manna from heaven, windfall |
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(noun) the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added | Synonyms: pan gravy |
(noun) a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats | - |
heliogravure | (noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: gravure, photogravure |
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landgrave | (noun) a count who had jurisdiction over a large territory in medieval Germany | - |
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margrave | (noun) a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess) | - |
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(noun) the military governor of a frontier province in medieval Germany | - |
palsgrave | (noun) (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands | Synonyms: palatine |
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photoengraving | (noun) an engraving used to reproduce an illustration | Synonyms: halftone, halftone engraving |
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photogravure | (noun) using photography to produce a plate for printing | Synonyms: rotogravure |
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(noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: gravure, heliogravure |
(noun) printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods | - |
primigravida | (noun) (obstetrics) a woman who is pregnant for the first time | Synonyms: gravida I |
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rotogravure | (noun) using photography to produce a plate for printing | Synonyms: photogravure |
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(noun) printing by transferring an image from a photogravure plate to a cylinder in a rotary press | - |
(noun) printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press | - |
secundigravida | (noun) a woman who is pregnant for the second time | Synonyms: gravida II |
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tertigravida | (noun) a woman who is pregnant for the third time | Synonyms: gravida III |
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thermogravimeter | (noun) a hydrometer that includes a thermometer | Synonyms: thermohydrometer |
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thermogravimetry | (noun) the measurement of changes in weight as a function of changes in temperature used as a technique of chemically analyzing substances | - |
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