aboriginal | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aborigine, indigen, indigene, native |
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aborigine | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, indigen, indigene, native |
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affright | (noun) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | Synonyms: panic, terror |
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aiglet | (noun) ornamental tagged cord or braid on the shoulder of a uniform | Synonyms: aglet, aiguillette |
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(noun) metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon | Synonyms: aglet |
aigret | (noun) a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume | Synonyms: aigrette |
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aigrette | (noun) a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume | Synonyms: aigret |
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aiguillette | (noun) ornamental tagged cord or braid on the shoulder of a uniform | Synonyms: aglet, aiglet |
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alignment | (noun) the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other | - |
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(noun) the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines | - |
(noun) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac | Synonyms: conjunction |
(noun) an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: alinement, alliance, coalition |
alligator | (noun) either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts | Synonyms: gator |
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(noun) leather made from alligator's hide | - |
alligatorfish | (noun) small very elongate sea poachers | Synonyms: Aspidophoroides monopterygius |
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ambiguity | (noun) unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning | Synonyms: equivocalness |
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(noun) an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context | - |
amigo | (noun) a friend or comrade | - |
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amphigory | (noun) nonsensical writing (usually verse) | Synonyms: nonsense verse |
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anastigmat | (noun) compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images | - |
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antigen | (noun) any substance (as a toxin or enzyme) that stimulates an immune response in the body (especially the production of antibodies) | - |
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antigram | (noun) an anagram that means the opposite of the original word or phrase | - |
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antireligiousness | (noun) The state or condition of being opposed to religion. | - |
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armiger | (noun) a squire carrying the armor of a knight | Synonyms: armor-bearer |
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(noun) a nobleman entitled to bear heraldic arms | - |
arraignment | (noun) a legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment | - |
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assignation | (noun) a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) | Synonyms: tryst |
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(noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, parceling, parcelling |
assignee | (noun) (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred) | - |
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assigning | (noun) the act of distributing something to designated places or persons | Synonyms: assignment |
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assignment | (noun) a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces) | Synonyms: duty assignment |
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(noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: appointment, designation, naming |
(noun) the act of distributing something to designated places or persons | Synonyms: assigning |
(noun) an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor) | - |
(noun) the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another | - |
(noun) (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance | Synonyms: grant |
assignor | (noun) (law) the party who makes an assignment | - |
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astigmatism | (noun) (optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point | Synonyms: astigmia |
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(noun) (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people | Synonyms: astigmia |
astigmia | (noun) (optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point | Synonyms: astigmatism |
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(noun) (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people | Synonyms: astigmatism |
astronavigation | (noun) navigating according to the positions of the stars | Synonyms: celestial navigation |
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backlighting | (noun) lighting from behind | - |
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bagwig | (noun) an 18th-century wig with hair pushed back into a bag. | - |
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balbriggan | (noun) a cotton knit fabric used for underwear | - |
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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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beige | (noun) a very light brown | Synonyms: ecru |
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beigel | (noun) (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust | Synonyms: bagel |
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beignet | (noun) a deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar | Synonyms: French fritter |
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belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
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(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |
belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
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(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |
belligerent | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
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benignancy | (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignity, graciousness |
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benignity | (noun) a kind act | Synonyms: kindness |
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(noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignancy, graciousness |
bigamist | (noun) someone who marries one person while already legally married to another | - |
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bigamy | (noun) the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred | - |
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(noun) the state of having two spouses at the same time | - |
bigarade | (noun) any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock | Synonyms: bitter orange, bitter orange tree, Citrus aurantium, marmalade orange, Seville orange, sour orange |
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bigeye | (noun) red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales | - |
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biggin | (noun) a child's tight-fitting cap; often ties under the chin | - |
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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 | - |
bigness | (noun) the property of having a relatively great size | Synonyms: largeness |
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bignoniad | (noun) any woody plant of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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bigos | (noun) a Polish stew of cabbage and meat | - |
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bigot | (noun) a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own | - |
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bigotry | (noun) the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot | - |
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bigram | (noun) a word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system | - |
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bigwig | (noun) the most important person in a group or undertaking | Synonyms: kingpin, top banana |
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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 |
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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bourguignon | (noun) reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter | Synonyms: bourguignon sauce, Burgundy sauce |
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brig | (noun) a penal institution (especially on board a ship) | - |
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(noun) two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts | - |
brigade | (noun) army unit smaller than a division, typically consisting of a small number of battalions | - |
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brigadier | (noun) a general officer ranking below a major general | Synonyms: brigadier general |
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brigand | (noun) an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band | Synonyms: bandit |
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brigandine | (noun) a medieval coat of chain mail consisting of metal rings sewn onto leather or cloth | - |
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brigantine | (noun) two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast | Synonyms: hermaphrodite brig |
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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 |
budgerigar | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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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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calligrapher | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligraphist |
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calligraphist | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligrapher |
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calligraphy | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: chirography, penmanship |
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campaign | (noun) several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints) | Synonyms: military campaign |
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(noun) an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa) | Synonyms: hunting expedition, safari |
(noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: cause, crusade, drive, effort, movement |
(noun) a race between candidates for elective office | Synonyms: political campaign, run |
campaigner | (noun) a politician who is running for public office | Synonyms: candidate, nominee |
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campaigning | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign |
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candlelight | (noun) the light provided by a burning candle | Synonyms: candle flame |
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caprifig | (noun) wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs | Synonyms: Ficus carica sylvestris |
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cardigan | (noun) knitted jacket that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper | - |
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cartwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons | - |
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castigation | (noun) verbal punishment | Synonyms: chastisement |
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(noun) a severe scolding | Synonyms: bawling out, chewing out, dressing down, earful, going-over, upbraiding |
champaign | (noun) extensive tract of level open land | Synonyms: field, plain |
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chigetai | (noun) Mongolian wild ass | Synonyms: dziggetai, Equus hemionus hemionus |
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chigger | (noun) larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation | Synonyms: harvest mite, jigger, redbug |
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(noun) small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans | Synonyms: chigoe, chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans |
chiggerflower | (noun) erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers | Synonyms: Asclepias tuberosa, butterfly weed, chigger flower, Indian paintbrush, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber root |
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chignon | (noun) a roll of hair worn at the nape of the neck | - |
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chigoe | (noun) small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans | Synonyms: chigger, chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans |
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cigar | (noun) a roll of tobacco for smoking | - |
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cigaret | (noun) finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking | Synonyms: butt, cigarette, coffin nail, fag |
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cigarette | (noun) finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking | Synonyms: butt, cigaret, coffin nail, fag |
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cigarfish | (noun) small fusiform fish of western Atlantic | Synonyms: Decapterus punctatus, quiaquia, round scad |
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cigarillo | (noun) small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper | - |
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circumnavigation | (noun) traveling around something (by ship or plane) | - |
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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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coign | (noun) the keystone of an arch | Synonyms: coigne, quoin |
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(noun) expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase | Synonyms: coigne, quoin |