accreditation | (noun) the act of granting credit or recognition (especially with respect to an educational institution that maintains suitable standards) | - |
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agitation | (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: excitement, hullabaloo, turmoil, upheaval |
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(noun) the act of agitating something; causing it to move around (usually vigorously) | - |
(noun) the feeling of being agitated; not calm | - |
(noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, tempestuousness, unrest |
(noun) a mental state of extreme emotional disturbance | - |
agitator | (noun) one who agitates; a political troublemaker | Synonyms: fomenter |
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amobarbital | (noun) a barbiturate with sedative and hypnotic effects; used to relieve insomnia and as an anticonvulsant | - |
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anatotitan | (noun) one of the largest and most famous duck-billed dinosaurs | - |
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annuitant | (noun) the recipient of an annuity | - |
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antitauon | (noun) an antilepton of very great mass | Synonyms: tau-plus particle |
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arborvitae | (noun) any of several Asian and North American conifers of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis | - |
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authoritarian | (noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
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authoritarianism | (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, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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avitaminosis | (noun) any of several diseases caused by deficiency of one or more vitamins | Synonyms: hypovitaminosis |
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barbital | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea, veronal |
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bitartrate | (noun) an acid tartrate; a hydrogen tartrate | - |
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blaxploitation | (noun) the exploitation of black people (especially with regard to stereotyped roles in movies) | - |
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capacitance | (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitor, condenser, electrical condenser |
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(noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored | Synonyms: capacity, electrical capacity |
capital | (noun) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | Synonyms: cap, chapiter |
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(noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | Synonyms: capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase |
(noun) a seat of government | - |
(noun) a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product | - |
(noun) wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value | - |
(noun) assets available for use in the production of further assets | Synonyms: working capital |
capitalisation | (noun) the act of capitalizing on an opportunity | Synonyms: capitalization |
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(noun) the sale of capital stock | Synonyms: capitalization |
(noun) an estimation of the value of a business | Synonyms: capitalization |
(noun) writing in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalization |
capitalism | (noun) an economic system based on private ownership of capital | Synonyms: capitalist economy |
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capitalist | (noun) a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) | - |
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(noun) a conservative advocate of capitalism | - |
capitalization | (noun) the act of capitalizing on an opportunity | Synonyms: capitalisation |
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(noun) the sale of capital stock | Synonyms: capitalisation |
(noun) an estimation of the value of a business | Synonyms: capitalisation |
(noun) writing in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalisation |
capitate | (noun) the wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the 3rd metacarpus | Synonyms: capitate bone, os capitatum |
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capitation | (noun) a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per person | - |
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charitableness | (noun) generosity as manifested by practicing charity (as for the poor or unfortunate) | - |
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citadel | (noun) a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle | Synonyms: bastion |
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citation | (noun) an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | Synonyms: commendation |
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(noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
(noun) a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding | - |
(noun) a passage or expression that is quoted or cited | Synonyms: quotation, quote |
(noun) (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.) | - |
cogitation | (noun) attentive consideration and meditation | Synonyms: study |
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(noun) a carefully considered thought about something | - |
cohabitation | (noun) the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married) | - |
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concomitance | (noun) occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another | - |
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concomitant | (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: accompaniment, attendant, co-occurrence |
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cosmopolitan | (noun) a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries | Synonyms: cosmopolite |
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cosmopolitanity | (noun) a state or quality of being cosmopolitan | - |
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counterirritant | (noun) a medicine applied locally to produce superficial inflammation in order to reduce deeper inflammation | - |
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crepitation | (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackle, crackling |
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debilitation | (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion |
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decapitation | (noun) killing by cutting off the head | Synonyms: beheading |
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(noun) execution by cutting off the victim's head | Synonyms: beheading |
decrepitation | (noun) the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated | - |
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delimitation | (noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: border, borderline, boundary line, mete |
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demitasse | (noun) small coffee cup; for serving black coffee | - |
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(noun) small cup of strong black coffee without milk or cream | Synonyms: cafe noir |
depositary | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depository, repository |
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devitalisation | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalization |
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devitalization | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalisation |
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digitalin | (noun) a powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove | Synonyms: digitalis, digitalis glycoside |
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digitalis | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Digitalis | Synonyms: foxglove |
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(noun) a powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove | Synonyms: digitalin, digitalis glycoside |
digitalisation | (noun) the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders | Synonyms: digitalization |
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digitalization | (noun) the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders | Synonyms: digitalisation |
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dignitary | (noun) an important or influential (and often overbearing) person | Synonyms: high-up, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, VIP |
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disinheritance | (noun) the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit | - |
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dita | (noun) evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes; bark formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Alstonia scholaris, devil tree, dita bark |
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egalitarian | (noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: equalitarian |
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egalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: equalitarianism |
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elicitation | (noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: evocation, induction |
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epitaph | (noun) an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there | - |
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(noun) a summary statement of commemoration for a dead person | - |
epitaxy | (noun) growing a crystal layer of one mineral on the crystal base of another mineral in such a manner that its crystalline orientation is the same as that of the substrate | - |
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equalitarian | (noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: egalitarian |
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equalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: egalitarianism |
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equitation | (noun) the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements | Synonyms: horseback riding, riding |
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excitability | (noun) being easily excited | Synonyms: excitableness, volatility |
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(noun) excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part | Synonyms: irritability |
excitableness | (noun) being easily excited | Synonyms: excitability, volatility |
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excitant | (noun) a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process | Synonyms: stimulant, stimulant drug |
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excitation | (noun) something that agitates and arouses | Synonyms: excitement |
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(noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: innervation, irritation |
(noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitement, fervor, fervour, inflammation |
excogitation | (noun) thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it | - |
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(noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, design, innovation, invention |
excogitator | (noun) a thinker who considers carefully and thoroughly | - |
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exorbitance | (noun) excessive excess | Synonyms: outrageousness |
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exploitation | (noun) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | Synonyms: development |
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(noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: using, victimisation, victimization |
facilitation | (noun) act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something | - |
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(noun) (neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron combine to trigger an action potential | - |
(noun) the condition of being made easy (or easier) | - |
facilitator | (noun) someone who makes progress easier | - |
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federita | (noun) a Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains | Synonyms: feterita, Sorghum vulgare caudatum |
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felicitation | (noun) the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration | Synonyms: congratulation |
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(noun) (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another | Synonyms: congratulation |
feterita | (noun) a Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains | Synonyms: federita, Sorghum vulgare caudatum |
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flexitarianism | (noun) The practice of eating mainly vegetarian food, but making occasional exceptions for social, pragmatic, cultural, or nutritional reasons. | Synonyms: semi-vegetarianism |
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fruitage | (noun) the yield of fruit | - |
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genitalia | (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitals, private parts, privates |
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genitals | (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitalia, private parts, privates |
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gitana | (noun) a Spanish female Gypsy | - |
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gitano | (noun) a Spanish male Gypsy | - |
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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 |
guitar | (noun) a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking | - |
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guitarfish | (noun) primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray with a guitar-shaped body | - |
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guitarist | (noun) a musician who plays the guitar | Synonyms: guitar player |
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habitability | (noun) suitability for living in or on | Synonyms: habitableness |
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habitableness | (noun) suitability for living in or on | Synonyms: habitability |
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habitant | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, dweller, indweller, inhabitant |
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habitat | (noun) the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs | Synonyms: home ground |
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habitation | (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) | Synonyms: inhabitancy, inhabitation |
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(noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, home |
(noun) the native habitat or home of an animal or plant | - |
hereditament | (noun) any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited | - |
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hereditarianism | (noun) the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth | - |
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heritage | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: inheritance |
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(noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: inheritance |
(noun) practices that are handed down from the past by tradition | - |
(noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: inheritance |
hermitage | (noun) the abode of a hermit | - |
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hesitance | (noun) a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something | Synonyms: hesitancy |
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hesitancy | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitation, indisposition, reluctance |
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(noun) a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something | Synonyms: hesitance |
hesitater | (noun) one who hesitates (usually out of fear) | Synonyms: hesitator, vacillator, waverer |
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hesitation | (noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: falter, faltering, waver |
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(noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitancy, indisposition, reluctance |
(noun) indecision in speech or action | Synonyms: vacillation, wavering |
hesitator | (noun) one who hesitates (usually out of fear) | Synonyms: hesitater, vacillator, waverer |
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hospitableness | (noun) having a disposition that welcomes guests and is fond of entertaining | - |
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hospital | (noun) a health facility where patients receive treatment | Synonyms: infirmary |
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(noun) a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care | - |
hospitalisation | (noun) placing in medical care in a hospital | Synonyms: hospital care, hospitalization |
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hospitality | (noun) kindness in welcoming guests or strangers | Synonyms: cordial reception |
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hospitalization | (noun) placing in medical care in a hospital | Synonyms: hospital care, hospitalisation |
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(noun) insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense | Synonyms: hospitalization insurance |
(noun) the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital | - |
(noun) a period of time when you are confined to a hospital | - |
hospitaller | (noun) title of the member of any of several religious orders that cared for the sick in hospitals. | - |
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