adorability | (noun) extreme attractiveness | Synonyms: adorableness |
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adorableness | (noun) extreme attractiveness | Synonyms: adorability |
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adoration | (noun) the act of admiring strongly | Synonyms: idolisation, idolization |
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(noun) the worship given to God alone | Synonyms: latria |
(noun) a feeling of profound love and admiration | Synonyms: worship |
agora | (noun) 100 agorot equal 1 shekel in Israel | - |
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(noun) a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece | Synonyms: public square |
(noun) the marketplace in ancient Greece | - |
agoraphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of open spaces (as fear of being caught alone in some public place) | - |
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amelioration | (noun) the act of relieving ills and changing for the better | Synonyms: betterment, melioration |
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amora | (noun) one of a group of rabbis (active AD 250-500) who discussed the Mishnaic law in the law schools of Palestine and Mesopotamia where they explained and applied earlier teachings and whose discussions are recorded in the Talmud; they emphasized the study of Torah and the importance of personal action and the fulfillment of the commandments | - |
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amoralism | (noun) the doctrine that moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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amoralist | (noun) someone who adheres to the doctrine that ordinary moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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amorality | (noun) the quality of being amoral | - |
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amphora | (noun) an ancient jar with two handles and a narrow neck; used to hold oil or wine | - |
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anaphora | (noun) using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier | - |
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(noun) repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | Synonyms: epanaphora |
anchorage | (noun) the act of anchoring | - |
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(noun) place for vessels to anchor | Synonyms: anchorage ground |
(noun) a fee for anchoring | - |
(noun) the condition of being secured to a base | - |
(noun) the provision of a sense of security or steadfastness | - |
anorak | (noun) a kind of heavy jacket | Synonyms: parka, windbreaker, windcheater |
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aplacophoran | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: solenogaster |
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atmoradiograph | (noun) a device which measures the frequency of occurrence of atmospherics. | - |
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aurora | (noun) an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force | - |
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(noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
autoradiograph | (noun) a radiogram produced by radiation emitted by the specimen being photographed | - |
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autoradiography | (noun) producing a radiograph by means of the radiation emitted from the specimen being photographed | - |
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balmoral | (noun) a sturdy laced walking shoe | - |
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borage | (noun) an herb whose leaves are used to flavor sauces and punches; young leaves can be eaten in salads or cooked | - |
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(noun) hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach | Synonyms: Borago officinalis, tailwort |
borate | (noun) a salt or ester of boric acid | - |
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borax | (noun) an ore of boron consisting of hydrated sodium borate; used as a flux or cleansing agent | - |
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certiorari | (noun) a common law writ issued by a superior court to one of inferior jurisdiction demanding the record of a particular case | Synonyms: writ of certiorari |
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chlorambucil | (noun) an alkylating agent (trade name Leukeran) used to treat some kinds of cancer | Synonyms: Leukeran |
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chloramine | (noun) any of several compounds containing chlorine and nitrogen; used as an antiseptic in wounds | Synonyms: chloramine-T |
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chloramphenicol | (noun) an oral antibiotic (trade name Chloromycetin) used to treat serious infections (especially typhoid fever) | Synonyms: Chloromycetin |
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chlorate | (noun) any salt of chloric acid | - |
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choragus | (noun) (ancient Greece) leader of a group or festival; leader of a chorus | - |
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choral | (noun) a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune | Synonyms: chorale |
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chorale | (noun) a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune | Synonyms: choral |
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ciliophoran | (noun) a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell | Synonyms: ciliate, ciliated protozoan |
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collaboration | (noun) act of working jointly | Synonyms: coaction |
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(noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaborationism, quislingism |
collaborationism | (noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaboration, quislingism |
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collaborationist | (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborator, quisling |
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collaborator | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: cooperator, pardner, partner |
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(noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborationist, quisling |
(noun) someone who assists in a plot | Synonyms: confederate, henchman, partner in crime |
coloradillo | (noun) handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil | Synonyms: Hamelia erecta, Hamelia patens, scarlet bush, scarlet hamelia |
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coloration | (noun) choice and use of colors (as by an artist) | Synonyms: colouration |
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(noun) appearance with regard to color | Synonyms: colouration |
(noun) the timbre of a musical sound | Synonyms: color, colour, colouration |
coloratura | (noun) singing with florid ornamentation | - |
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(noun) a lyric soprano who specializes in coloratura vocal music | Synonyms: coloratura soprano |
commemoration | (noun) a recognition of meritorious service | Synonyms: memorial, remembrance |
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(noun) a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | Synonyms: memorialisation, memorialization |
commemorative | (noun) an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person | - |
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contemporaneity | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity, modernness |
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(noun) the quality of belonging to the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneousness |
contemporaneousness | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, modernism, modernity, modernness |
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(noun) the quality of belonging to the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneity |
contemporaries | (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: coevals, generation |
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contemporariness | (noun) The state or quality of being contemporary, modern, of the present age. | - |
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contemporary | (noun) a person of nearly the same age as another | Synonyms: coeval |
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coracan | (noun) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient | Synonyms: African millet, corakan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee, ragi |
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coracle | (noun) a small rounded boat made of hides stretched over a wicker frame; still used in some parts of Great Britain | - |
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corakan | (noun) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient | Synonyms: African millet, coracan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee, ragi |
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coral | (noun) marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs | - |
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(noun) a variable color averaging a deep pink | - |
(noun) unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces | - |
(noun) the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry | Synonyms: precious coral, red coral |
coralbells | (noun) perennial plant of the western United States having bright red flowers in feathery spikes; used as an ornamental | Synonyms: Heuchera sanguinea |
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coralberry | (noun) shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India | Synonyms: Ardisia crenata, spiceberry |
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(noun) North American deciduous shrub cultivated for it abundant clusters of coral-red berrylike fruits | Synonyms: Indian currant, Symphoricarpos orbiculatus |
coralroot | (noun) European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock | Synonyms: Cardamine bulbifera, coral-root bittercress, coralwort, Dentaria bulbifera |
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coralwood | (noun) East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental | Synonyms: Adenanthera pavonina, Barbados pride, coral-wood, peacock flower fence, red sandalwood |
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coralwort | (noun) European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock | Synonyms: Cardamine bulbifera, coral-root bittercress, coralroot, Dentaria bulbifera |
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cormorant | (noun) large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish | Synonyms: Phalacrocorax carbo |
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corporal | (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines | - |
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corporality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporeality, materiality, physicalness |
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corporation | (noun) slang for a paunch | Synonyms: bay window, pot, potbelly, tummy |
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(noun) a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state | Synonyms: corp |
corporatism | (noun) control of a state or organization by large interest groups | - |
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corporatist | (noun) a supporter of corporatism | - |
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corroboration | (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: certification, documentation |
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cyclorama | (noun) a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene | Synonyms: diorama, panorama |
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decoration | (noun) the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive) | - |
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(noun) something used to beautify | Synonyms: ornament, ornamentation |
(noun) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event | Synonyms: laurel wreath, medal, medallion, palm, ribbon |
decorativeness | (noun) an appearance that serves to decorate and make something more attractive | - |
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decorator | (noun) someone who decorates | Synonyms: ornamentalist |
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(noun) a person who specializes in interior decoration | Synonyms: house decorator, interior decorator, room decorator |
defloration | (noun) the act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse) | - |
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(noun) an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something | - |
demoralisation | (noun) destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy | Synonyms: demoralization |
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(noun) depression resulting from an undermining of your morale | Synonyms: demoralization |
(noun) a state of disorder and confusion | Synonyms: demoralization |
demoralization | (noun) destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy | Synonyms: demoralisation |
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(noun) depression resulting from an undermining of your morale | Synonyms: demoralisation |
(noun) a state of disorder and confusion | Synonyms: demoralisation |
deodorant | (noun) a toiletry applied to the skin in order to mask unpleasant odors | Synonyms: deodourant |
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deterioration | (noun) process of changing to an inferior state | Synonyms: declension, decline in quality, worsening |
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(noun) a symptom of reduced quality or strength | Synonyms: impairment |
diaspora | (noun) the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture) | - |
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(noun) the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel | - |
diorama | (noun) a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene | Synonyms: cyclorama, panorama |
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directorate | (noun) a group of persons chosen to govern the affairs of a corporation or other large institution | Synonyms: board of directors |
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discoloration | (noun) the act of changing the natural color of something by making it duller or dingier or unnatural or faded | Synonyms: discolouration |
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(noun) a soiled or discolored appearance | Synonyms: discolouration, stain |
dishonorableness | (noun) the quality of not deserving honor or respect | Synonyms: dishonourableness |
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doctorate | (noun) one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university | Synonyms: doctor's degree |
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elaborateness | (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaboration, intricacy, involution |
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(noun) an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated | Synonyms: ornateness |
elaboration | (noun) developing in intricate and painstaking detail | Synonyms: working out |
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(noun) addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail | Synonyms: amplification |
(noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaborateness, intricacy, involution |
(noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: enlargement, expansion |
(noun) the result of improving something | Synonyms: refinement |
eldorado | (noun) an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers | Synonyms: El Dorado |
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electorate | (noun) the body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote | - |
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eoraptor | (noun) a theropod dinosaur of the genus Eoraptor | - |
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epanaphora | (noun) repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | Synonyms: anaphora |
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epiphora | (noun) repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc. | Synonyms: epistrophe |
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eusporangium | (noun) a sporangium that arises from a group of epidermal cells | - |
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evaporation | (noun) the process of becoming a vapor | Synonyms: vapor, vaporisation, vaporization, vapour |
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(noun) the process of extracting moisture | Synonyms: dehydration, desiccation, drying up |
expectorant | (noun) a medicine promoting expectoration | Synonyms: expectorator |
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expectoration | (noun) the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva) | Synonyms: spit, spitting |
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(noun) the process of coughing up and spitting out | - |
expectorator | (noun) a medicine promoting expectoration | Synonyms: expectorant |
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(noun) a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth) | Synonyms: spitter |
exploration | (noun) a careful systematic search | - |
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(noun) to travel for the purpose of discovery | Synonyms: geographic expedition |
(noun) a systematic consideration | - |
favorableness | (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favourableness, positiveness, positivity, profitableness |
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fedora | (noun) a hat made of felt with a creased crown | Synonyms: felt hat, homburg, Stetson, trilby |
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flora | (noun) (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion | Synonyms: plant, plant life |
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(noun) all the plant life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: botany, vegetation |
fluorapatite | (noun) a form of apatite in which fluorine predominates over chlorine | - |
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forage | (noun) the act of searching for food and provisions | Synonyms: foraging |
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(noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, grass, pasturage, pasture |
forager | (noun) someone who hunts for food and provisions | - |
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foraging | (noun) the act of searching for food and provisions | Synonyms: forage |
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foram | (noun) marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude | Synonyms: foraminifer |
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foramen | (noun) a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure | Synonyms: hiatus |
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foraminifer | (noun) marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude | Synonyms: foram |
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