| abscissa | (noun) the value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis | - |
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| abscission | (noun) the act of cutting something off | Synonyms: cutting off |
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| (noun) shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant | - |
| admissibility | (noun) acceptability by virtue of being admissible | - |
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| admission | (noun) the act of admitting someone to enter | Synonyms: admittance |
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| (noun) the right to enter | Synonyms: access, accession, admittance, entree |
| (noun) an acknowledgment of the truth of something | - |
| (noun) the fee charged for admission | Synonyms: admission charge, admission fee, admission price, entrance fee, entrance money, price of admission |
| bliss | (noun) a state of extreme happiness | Synonyms: blissfulness, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air |
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| blissfulness | (noun) a state of extreme happiness | Synonyms: bliss, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air |
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| bouillabaisse | (noun) highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs | - |
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| caisson | (noun) large watertight chamber used for construction under water | Synonyms: cofferdam, pneumatic caisson |
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| (noun) an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome | Synonyms: coffer, lacunar |
| (noun) a chest to hold ammunition | Synonyms: ammunition chest |
| (noun) a two-wheeled military vehicle carrying artillery ammunition | - |
| carissa | (noun) a shrub of the genus Carissa having fragrant white flowers and plumlike red to purple-black fruits | - |
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| commissar | (noun) an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit | Synonyms: political commissar |
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| commissariat | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: provender, provisions, viands, victuals |
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| commissary | (noun) a retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel) | - |
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| (noun) a snack bar in a film studio | - |
| commission | (noun) a special assignment that is given to a person or group | Synonyms: charge, mission |
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| (noun) the act of committing a crime | Synonyms: committal, perpetration |
| (noun) the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions | Synonyms: commissioning |
| (noun) an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces | Synonyms: military commission |
| (noun) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something | Synonyms: charge, direction |
| (noun) a special group delegated to consider some matter | Synonyms: committee |
| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: delegacy, delegation, deputation, mission |
| (noun) a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary) | - |
| (noun) the state of being in good working order and ready for operation | - |
| commissionaire | (noun) a uniformed doorman | - |
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| commissioner | (noun) a government administrator | - |
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| (noun) a member of a commission | - |
| commissioning | (noun) the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions | Synonyms: commission |
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| commissure | (noun) a bundle of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the brain or spinal cord | - |
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| connoisseur | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: cognoscente |
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| connoisseurship | (noun) love of or taste for fine objects of art | Synonyms: vertu, virtu |
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| coulisse | (noun) a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel | - |
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| (noun) a flat situated in the wings | Synonyms: wing flat |
| crisscross | (noun) a marking that consists of lines that cross each other | Synonyms: cross, mark |
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| croissant | (noun) very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll | Synonyms: crescent roll |
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| cuisse | (noun) armor plate that protects the thigh | - |
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| dismissal | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
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| (noun) a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial | Synonyms: judgement of dismissal, judgment of dismissal |
| (noun) official notice that you have been fired from your job | Synonyms: dismission, pink slip |
| (noun) permission to go; the sending away of someone | - |
| dismission | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
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| (noun) official notice that you have been fired from your job | Synonyms: dismissal, pink slip |
| dissatisfaction | (noun) the feeling of being displeased and discontent | - |
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| dissection | (noun) cutting so as to separate into pieces | - |
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| (noun) detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work) | - |
| (noun) a minute and critical analysis | - |
| dissembler | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender |
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| dissembling | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation |
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| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense |
| dissemination | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersal, dispersion |
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| (noun) the property of being diffused or dispersed | Synonyms: diffusion |
| (noun) the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate | Synonyms: airing, public exposure, spreading |
| disseminator | (noun) someone who spreads the news | Synonyms: propagator |
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| dissension | (noun) disagreement among those expected to cooperate | Synonyms: discord |
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| (noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: disagreement, dissonance |
| dissent | (noun) the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent | Synonyms: objection, protest |
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| (noun) (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority | - |
| (noun) a difference of opinion | - |
| dissenter | (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissident, objector, protester |
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| dissertation | (noun) a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree | Synonyms: thesis |
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| disservice | (noun) an act intended to help that turns out badly | Synonyms: ill service, ill turn |
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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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| dissilience | (noun) the emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe | - |
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| dissimilarity | (noun) the quality of being dissimilar | Synonyms: unsimilarity |
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| dissimilation | (noun) breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy | Synonyms: catabolism, destructive metabolism, katabolism |
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| (noun) a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other | - |
| dissimilitude | (noun) dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness | Synonyms: unlikeness |
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| dissimulation | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissembling |
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| dissimulator | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender |
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| dissipation | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissolution, licentiousness, looseness, profligacy |
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| (noun) useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Synonyms: waste, wastefulness |
| (noun) breaking up and scattering by dispersion | - |
| dissociation | (noun) the act of removing from association | - |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the temporary or reversible process in which a molecule or ion is broken down into smaller molecules or ions | - |
| (noun) a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently | Synonyms: disassociation |
| dissolubility | (noun) the property of being dissoluble | Synonyms: solubleness |
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| dissoluteness | (noun) indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures | Synonyms: incontinence, self-gratification |
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| dissolution | (noun) the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations) | Synonyms: breakup |
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| (noun) the termination of a meeting | Synonyms: adjournment |
| (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, licentiousness, looseness, profligacy |
| (noun) separation into component parts | Synonyms: disintegration |
| (noun) the process of going into solution | Synonyms: dissolving |
| dissolve | (noun) (film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out | - |
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| dissolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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| dissolver | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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| dissolving | (noun) the process of going into solution | Synonyms: dissolution |
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| dissonance | (noun) disagreeable sounds | - |
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| (noun) the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience | Synonyms: noise, racket |
| (noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: disagreement, dissension |
| dissuasion | (noun) persuading not to do or believe something; talking someone out of a belief or an intended course of action | - |
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| (noun) a communication that dissuades you | - |
| dissyllable | (noun) a word having two syllables | Synonyms: disyllable |
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| dissymmetry | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: disproportion, imbalance |
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| ecrevisse | (noun) small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America | Synonyms: Old World crayfish |
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| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
| edelweiss | (noun) alpine perennial plant native to Europe having leaves covered with whitish down and small flower heads held in stars of glistening whitish bracts | Synonyms: Leontopodium alpinum |
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| emissary | (noun) someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else | Synonyms: envoy |
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| emission | (noun) the act of emitting; causing to flow forth | Synonyms: emanation |
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| (noun) the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe) | - |
| (noun) the release of electrons from parent atoms | - |
| (noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: discharge, expelling |
| (noun) a substance that is emitted or released | Synonyms: discharge |
| fission | (noun) a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy | Synonyms: nuclear fission |
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| (noun) reproduction of some unicellular organisms by division of the cell into two more or less equal parts | - |
| fissiparity | (noun) the tendency to break into parts | - |
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| (noun) reproduction of some multicellular organisms by division, as in the case of some starfish | - |
| fissiped | (noun) terrestrial carnivores having toes separated to the base: dogs, cats, bears, badgers, raccoons | Synonyms: fissiped mammal |
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| fissure | (noun) (anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes | - |
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| (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, crevice, scissure |
| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, cranny, crevice |
| fortissimo | (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed very loudly | - |
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| frisson | (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, quiver, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle |
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| generalissimo | (noun) the officer who holds the supreme command | Synonyms: commander-in-chief, commander in chief |
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| glissade | (noun) (ballet) a gliding or sliding step in ballet | - |
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| glissando | (noun) a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale | - |
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| gneiss | (noun) a laminated metamorphic rock similar to granite | - |
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| grissino | (noun) a long slender crusty breadstick | - |
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| hiss | (noun) a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt | Synonyms: bird, boo, Bronx cheer, hoot, raspberry, razz, razzing, snort |
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| (noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: fizzle, hissing, hushing, sibilation |
| hisser | (noun) someone who communicates disapproval by hissing | - |
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| hissing | (noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: fizzle, hiss, hushing, sibilation |
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| impermissibility | (noun) inadmissibility as a consequence of not being permitted | - |
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| impuissance | (noun) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act | Synonyms: helplessness, weakness |
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| inadmissibility | (noun) unacceptability as a consequence of not being admissible | - |
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| inspissation | (noun) the act of thickening | Synonyms: thickening |
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| (noun) the process of thickening by dehydration | - |
| intermission | (noun) the act of suspending activity temporarily | - |
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| (noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: break, interruption, pause, suspension |
| intromission | (noun) the act of putting one thing into another | Synonyms: insertion, introduction |
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| issuance | (noun) the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity) | Synonyms: issue, issuing |
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| issue | (noun) the act of issuing printed materials | Synonyms: publication |
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| (noun) the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity) | Synonyms: issuance, issuing |
| (noun) an opening that permits escape or release | Synonyms: exit, outlet, way out |
| (noun) some situation or event that is thought about | Synonyms: matter, subject, topic |
| (noun) an important question that is in dispute and must be settled | - |
| (noun) one of a series published periodically | Synonyms: number |
| (noun) the becoming visible | Synonyms: egress, emergence |
| (noun) the immediate descendants of a person | Synonyms: offspring, progeny |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, event, outcome, result, upshot |
| (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings, yield |
| (noun) supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government | Synonyms: government issue, military issue |
| issuer | (noun) an institution that issues something (securities or publications or currency etc.) | - |
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| issuing | (noun) the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity) | Synonyms: issuance, issue |
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| janissary | (noun) a loyal supporter | - |
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| kiss | (noun) the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: buss, osculation |
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| (noun) a light glancing touch | - |
| (noun) any of several bite-sized candies | Synonyms: candy kiss |
| (noun) a cookie made of egg whites and sugar | - |
| kisser | (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler, visage |
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| (noun) someone who kisses | Synonyms: osculator |
| kissing | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| koumiss | (noun) an alcoholic beverage made from fermented mare's milk; made originally by nomads of central Asia | Synonyms: kumis |
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| lissomeness | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple | Synonyms: litheness, suppleness |
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| mantissa | (noun) the positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the mantissa is .808 | Synonyms: fixed-point part |
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| manumission | (noun) the formal act of freeing from slavery | - |
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| miss | (noun) a failure to hit (or meet or find etc) | Synonyms: misfire |
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| (noun) a young female | Synonyms: fille, girl, missy, young lady, young woman |
| missal | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a book containing all the prayers and responses needed to celebrate Mass throughout the year | - |
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| misshapenness | (noun) an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed | Synonyms: deformity, malformation |
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| missile | (noun) a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled | Synonyms: projectile |
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| (noun) a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control | - |
| mission | (noun) a special assignment that is given to a person or group | Synonyms: charge, commission |
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| (noun) an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters | Synonyms: military mission |
| (noun) the organized work of a religious missionary | Synonyms: missionary work |
| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegacy, delegation, deputation |
| (noun) an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work | Synonyms: foreign mission, missionary post, missionary station |
| missionary | (noun) someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program | - |
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| (noun) someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country | Synonyms: missioner |
| missioner | (noun) someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country | Synonyms: missionary |
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