| addict | (noun) someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance or activity | - |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: freak, junkie, junky, nut |
| addiction | (noun) (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master | - |
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| (noun) an abnormally strong craving | - |
| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: dependance, dependence, dependency, habituation |
| affliction | (noun) a cause of great suffering and distress | - |
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| (noun) a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health | - |
| (noun) a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity | - |
| amphictyony | (noun) an association of neighboring states or tribes in ancient Greece; established originally to defend a common religious center | - |
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| apomict | (noun) a plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixis | - |
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| benedict | (noun) a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) | Synonyms: benedick |
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| benedictine | (noun) a French liqueur originally made by Benedictine monks | - |
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| benediction | (noun) the act of praying for divine protection | Synonyms: blessing |
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| (noun) a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection | Synonyms: blessing |
| conflict | (noun) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | Synonyms: battle, struggle |
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| (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, engagement, fight |
| (noun) an incompatibility of dates or events | - |
| (noun) a disagreement or argument about something important | Synonyms: difference, difference of opinion, dispute |
| (noun) opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings | - |
| (noun) opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot) | - |
| (noun) a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests | - |
| constriction | (noun) the action or process of compressing | - |
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| (noun) a tight feeling in some part of the body | Synonyms: tightness |
| (noun) tight or narrow compression | Synonyms: coarctation |
| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: bottleneck, chokepoint |
| constrictor | (noun) any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils | - |
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| contradiction | (noun) the speech act of contradicting someone | - |
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| (noun) (logic) a statement that is necessarily false | Synonyms: contradiction in terms |
| (noun) opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas | - |
| contradictoriness | (noun) the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist | - |
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| contradictory | (noun) two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time | - |
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| convict | (noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird |
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| (noun) a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense | - |
| convictfish | (noun) greenling with whitish body marked with black bands | Synonyms: convict fish, Oxylebius pictus, painted greenling |
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| conviction | (noun) (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed | Synonyms: condemnation, judgment of conviction, sentence |
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| (noun) an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence | Synonyms: article of faith, strong belief |
| deictic | (noun) a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs | Synonyms: deictic word |
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| depicting | (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depiction, portrayal, portraying |
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| depiction | (noun) representation by drawing or painting etc | Synonyms: delineation, portrayal |
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| (noun) a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects | Synonyms: delineation, limning, line drawing |
| (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, portrayal, portraying |
| (noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, characterization, delineation, picture, word-painting, word picture |
| derelict | (noun) a ship abandoned on the high seas | Synonyms: abandoned ship |
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| (noun) a person without a home, job, or property | - |
| dereliction | (noun) willful negligence | - |
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| (noun) a tendency to be negligent and uncaring | Synonyms: delinquency, willful neglect |
| dictate | (noun) a guiding principle | - |
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| (noun) an authoritative rule | - |
| dictation | (noun) speech intended for reproduction in writing | - |
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| (noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, bidding, command |
| (noun) matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage | - |
| dictator | (noun) a ruler who is unconstrained by law | Synonyms: potentate |
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| (noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: authoritarian |
| (noun) a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine | - |
| dictatorship | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| diction | (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, phraseology, phrasing, verbiage, wording |
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| (noun) the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience | Synonyms: enunciation |
| dictionary | (noun) a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them | Synonyms: lexicon |
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| dictostylium | (noun) any slime mold of the genus Dictostylium | - |
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| dictum | (noun) an authoritative declaration | Synonyms: pronouncement, say-so |
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| (noun) an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding | Synonyms: obiter dictum |
| dictyosome | (noun) a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions) | Synonyms: Golgi apparatus, Golgi body, Golgi complex |
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| district | (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: dominion, territorial dominion, territory |
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| edict | (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, fiat, order, rescript |
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| (noun) a formal or authoritative proclamation | - |
| eviction | (noun) the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law | Synonyms: dispossession, legal ouster |
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| (noun) action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved | Synonyms: constructive eviction |
| 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 |
| friction | (noun) effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure | Synonyms: detrition, rubbing |
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| (noun) the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another | Synonyms: rubbing |
| (noun) a state of conflict between persons | Synonyms: clash |
| icterus | (noun) yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia | Synonyms: jaundice |
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| ictodosaur | (noun) intermediate in form between the therapsids and most primitive true mammals | - |
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| ictus | (noun) a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease | Synonyms: raptus, seizure |
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| indictability | (noun) the state of being liable to impeachment | Synonyms: impeachability |
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| indiction | (noun) a 15-year cycle used as a chronological unit in ancient Rome and adopted in some medieval kingdoms | - |
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| indictment | (noun) a formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offense | Synonyms: bill of indictment |
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| (noun) an accusation of wrongdoing | - |
| infliction | (noun) the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo) | Synonyms: imposition |
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| (noun) an act causing pain or damage | - |
| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
| interdict | (noun) an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district | - |
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| (noun) a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity | Synonyms: interdiction |
| interdiction | (noun) authoritative prohibition | - |
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| (noun) a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity | Synonyms: interdict |
| jurisdiction | (noun) (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law | Synonyms: legal power |
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| (noun) in law; the territory within which power can be exercised | - |
| 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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| malediction | (noun) the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) | Synonyms: imprecation |
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| micturition | (noun) the discharge of urine | Synonyms: urination |
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| nictation | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, blinking, eye blink, nictitation, wink, winking |
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| nictitation | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, blinking, eye blink, nictation, wink, winking |
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| nonfiction | (noun) prose writing that is not fictional | Synonyms: nonfictional prose |
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| pictograph | (noun) a graphic character used in picture writing | - |
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| pictorial | (noun) a periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures | - |
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| picture | (noun) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface | Synonyms: icon, ikon, image |
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| (noun) graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface | Synonyms: painting |
| (noun) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format | Synonyms: exposure, photo, photograph, pic |
| (noun) a clear and telling mental image | Synonyms: impression, mental picture |
| (noun) a typical example of some state or quality | - |
| (noun) illustrations used to decorate or explain a text | Synonyms: pictorial matter |
| (noun) the visible part of a television transmission | Synonyms: video |
| (noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | Synonyms: film, flick, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture show |
| (noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, word-painting, word picture |
| (noun) a situation treated as an observable object | Synonyms: scene |
| picturesqueness | (noun) visually vivid and pleasing | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid | - |
| picturing | (noun) visual representation as by photography or painting | Synonyms: pictorial representation |
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| (noun) visual imagery | Synonyms: envisioning |
| predictability | (noun) the quality of being predictable | - |
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| prediction | (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: anticipation, prevision |
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| (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, foretelling, prognostication |
| predictor | (noun) a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival | - |
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| (noun) information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events | - |
| (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, prognosticator, soothsayer |
| relict | (noun) geological feature that is a remnant of a pre-existing formation after other parts have disappeared | - |
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| (noun) an organism or species surviving as a remnant of an otherwise extinct flora or fauna in an environment much changed from that in which it originated | - |
| restriction | (noun) an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) | Synonyms: limitation |
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| (noun) the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary) | Synonyms: confinement |
| (noun) a principle that limits the extent of something | Synonyms: limitation |
| restrictiveness | (noun) a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits | Synonyms: unpermissiveness |
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| (noun) a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat') | - |
| rictus | (noun) a gaping grimace | - |
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| sericterium | (noun) silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders | Synonyms: serictery, silk gland |
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| serictery | (noun) silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders | Synonyms: sericterium, silk gland |
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| strictness | (noun) uncompromising resolution | Synonyms: sternness |
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| (noun) conscientious attention to rules and details | Synonyms: stringency |
| stricture | (noun) severe criticism | - |
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| (noun) abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway | Synonyms: stenosis |
| tictac | (noun) steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock | Synonyms: ticktock, tocktact |
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| unpredictability | (noun) lacking predictability | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being unpredictably irresolute | Synonyms: volatility |
| (noun) the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses | Synonyms: capriciousness |
| valediction | (noun) the act of saying farewell | - |
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| (noun) a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) | Synonyms: valedictory, valedictory address, valedictory oration |
| valedictorian | (noun) the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement | Synonyms: valedictory speaker |
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| valedictory | (noun) a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) | Synonyms: valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration |
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| vasoconstriction | (noun) decrease in the diameter of blood vessels | - |
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| vasoconstrictive | (noun) any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure | Synonyms: pressor, vasoconstrictor |
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| vasoconstrictor | (noun) any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure | Synonyms: pressor, vasoconstrictive |
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| verdict | (noun) (law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision; can be used in formulating a judgment | Synonyms: finding of fact |
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| victim | (noun) an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance | - |
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| (noun) a person who is tricked or swindled | Synonyms: dupe |
| victimisation | (noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: exploitation, using, victimization |
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| victimiser | (noun) a person who victimizes others | Synonyms: victimizer |
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| victimization | (noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: exploitation, using, victimisation |
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| (noun) adversity resulting from being made a victim | - |
| victimizer | (noun) a person who victimizes others | Synonyms: victimiser |
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| victor | (noun) the contestant who wins the contest | Synonyms: winner |
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| (noun) a combatant who is able to defeat rivals | Synonyms: master, superior |
| victory | (noun) a successful ending of a struggle or contest | Synonyms: triumph |
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| victual | (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, edible, pabulum, victuals |
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| victualer | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: provisioner, sutler, victualler |
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| (noun) an innkeeper (especially British) | Synonyms: victualler |
| victualler | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: provisioner, sutler, victualer |
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| (noun) an innkeeper (especially British) | Synonyms: victualer |
| victuals | (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, edible, pabulum, victual |
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| (noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance |
| (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, provisions, viands |
| vindictiveness | (noun) a malevolent desire for revenge | Synonyms: vengefulness |
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