accidence | (noun) the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words | Synonyms: inflectional morphology |
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accident | (noun) anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause | Synonyms: chance event, fortuity, stroke |
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(noun) an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury | - |
accidental | (noun) a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature | - |
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chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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coincidence | (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, concurrence, conjunction |
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(noun) the quality of occupying the same position or area in space | - |
(noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: happenstance |
confidence | (noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, authority, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
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(noun) a secret that is confided or entrusted to another | - |
(noun) a feeling of trust (in someone or something) | - |
(noun) a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable | - |
(noun) a trustful relationship | Synonyms: trust |
confidentiality | (noun) discretion in keeping secret information | - |
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(noun) the state of being secret | - |
counterevidence | (noun) (philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis. | Synonyms: counter-evidence |
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diffidence | (noun) lack of self-confidence | Synonyms: self-distrust, self-doubt |
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dissidence | (noun) disagreement; especially disagreement with the government | - |
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dissident | (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissenter, objector, protester |
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dividend | (noun) that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly | - |
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(noun) a bonus; something extra (especially a share of a surplus) | - |
(noun) a number to be divided by another number | - |
epidendron | (noun) any of various orchids of the genus Epidendrum | - |
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evidence | (noun) your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief | Synonyms: grounds |
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(noun) (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved | - |
(noun) an indication that makes something evident | - |
handmaiden | (noun) a personal maid or female attendant | Synonyms: handmaid |
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(noun) in a subordinate position | Synonyms: handmaid, servant |
identicalness | (noun) exact sameness | Synonyms: identity, indistinguishability |
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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 | - |
identifier | (noun) a symbol that establishes the identity of the one bearing it | - |
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identity | (noun) the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity | Synonyms: individuality, personal identity |
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(noun) exact sameness | Synonyms: identicalness, indistinguishability |
(noun) the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known | - |
(noun) an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates | Synonyms: identity element, identity operator |
improvidence | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: shortsightedness |
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incidence | (noun) the striking of a light beam on a surface | - |
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(noun) the relative frequency of occurrence of something | Synonyms: relative incidence |
incident | (noun) a single distinct event | - |
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(noun) a public disturbance | - |
incidental | (noun) an item that is incidental | - |
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(noun) (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified | Synonyms: incidental expense, minor expense |
irridenta | (noun) a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another | Synonyms: irredenta |
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irridentism | (noun) the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related | Synonyms: irredentism |
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irridentist | (noun) an advocate of irredentism | Synonyms: irredentist |
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maiden | (noun) an unmarried girl (especially a virgin) | Synonyms: maid |
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(noun) (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored | Synonyms: maiden over |
maidenhair | (noun) any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds | Synonyms: maidenhair fern |
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maidenhead | (noun) a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin | Synonyms: hymen, virginal membrane |
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maidenhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: girlhood, maidhood |
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maidenliness | (noun) behavior befitting a young maiden | - |
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nonidentity | (noun) Difference, distinction; failure to be identical. | - |
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nonresident | (noun) someone who does not live in a particular place | - |
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occident | (noun) the hemisphere that includes North America and South America | Synonyms: western hemisphere |
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occidentalism | (noun) the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Western civilizations | - |
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overconfidence | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: certitude, cocksureness |
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presidency | (noun) the office and function of president | Synonyms: presidentship |
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(noun) the tenure of a president | Synonyms: administration, presidential term |
president | (noun) the chief executive of a republic | - |
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(noun) an executive officer of a firm or corporation | - |
(noun) the head administrative officer of a college or university | Synonyms: prexy |
(noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chair, chairperson |
presidentship | (noun) the office and function of president | Synonyms: presidency |
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providence | (noun) the guardianship and control exercised by a deity | - |
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(noun) the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources | - |
(noun) a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures | - |
residence | (noun) the act of dwelling in a place | Synonyms: abidance, residency |
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(noun) the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president) | - |
(noun) a large and imposing house | Synonyms: hall, manse, mansion, mansion house |
(noun) any address at which you dwell more than temporarily | Synonyms: abode |
residency | (noun) the act of dwelling in a place | Synonyms: abidance, residence |
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(noun) the position of physician who is receiving special training in a hospital (usually after completing an internship) | - |
resident | (noun) someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there | Synonyms: occupant, occupier |
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(noun) a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital | Synonyms: house physician, resident physician |
stridence | (noun) having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound | Synonyms: shrillness, stridency |
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stridency | (noun) having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound | Synonyms: shrillness, stridence |
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subsidence | (noun) a gradual sinking to a lower level | Synonyms: settling, subsiding |
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(noun) the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it | Synonyms: cave in |
(noun) an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease) | Synonyms: remission, remittal |
trident | (noun) a spear with three prongs | - |
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wideness | (noun) the property of being wide; having great width | Synonyms: broadness |
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(noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness |
widening | (noun) the act of making something wider | Synonyms: broadening |
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(noun) a part of a road that has been widened to allow cars to pass or park | Synonyms: turnout |
(noun) an increase in width | Synonyms: broadening |