ampersand | (noun) a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and) | - |
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anchorperson | (noun) a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute | Synonyms: anchor, anchorman |
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antiperspirant | (noun) an astringent substance applied to the skin to reduce perspiration | - |
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aspersion | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: calumny, defamation, denigration, slander |
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(noun) the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) | Synonyms: sprinkling |
(noun) a disparaging remark | Synonyms: slur |
aspersorium | (noun) the basin or other vessel that holds holy water in Roman Catholic Churches | - |
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(noun) a short-handled device with a globe containing a sponge; used for sprinkling holy water | Synonyms: aspergill |
bondsperson | (noun) someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
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businessperson | (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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chairperson | (noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chair, president |
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clappers | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | Synonyms: bones, castanets, finger cymbals |
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coppersmith | (noun) someone who makes articles from copper | - |
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counterperson | (noun) someone who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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depersonalisation | (noun) representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality | Synonyms: depersonalization, reification |
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(noun) emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness | Synonyms: depersonalisation disorder, depersonalisation neurosis, depersonalization, depersonalization disorder, depersonalization neurosis |
(noun) (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine | Synonyms: depersonalization |
depersonalization | (noun) representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality | Synonyms: depersonalisation, reification |
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(noun) emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness | Synonyms: depersonalisation, depersonalisation disorder, depersonalisation neurosis, depersonalization disorder, depersonalization neurosis |
(noun) (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine | Synonyms: depersonalisation |
dispersal | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersion, dissemination |
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dispersion | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersal, dissemination |
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(noun) the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume | Synonyms: distribution |
(noun) spreading widely or driving off | Synonyms: scattering |
draftsperson | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draughtsman |
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foreperson | (noun) the presiding member of the jury and the one who speaks on their behalf | - |
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freedperson | (noun) a person who has been freed from slavery | - |
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freeperson | (noun) a person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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hypersecretion | (noun) excessive secretion | - |
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hypersensitivity | (noun) extreme sensitivity | - |
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(noun) pathological sensitivity | - |
hypersomnia | (noun) an inability to stay awake | - |
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hypersplenism | (noun) enlarged spleen and a decrease in one or more types of blood cells; associated with many disorders | - |
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impersonation | (noun) imitating the mannerisms of another person | Synonyms: personation |
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(noun) pretending to be another person | Synonyms: imposture |
(noun) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | Synonyms: caricature, imitation |
impersonator | (noun) someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another | Synonyms: imitator |
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interspersal | (noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things | Synonyms: interspersion |
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interspersion | (noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things | Synonyms: interspersal |
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kinsperson | (noun) a person having kinship with another or others | Synonyms: family, kin |
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layperson | (noun) someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person | Synonyms: layman, secular |
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newsperson | (noun) a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories | Synonyms: reporter |
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nonperson | (noun) a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons) | Synonyms: unperson |
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outdoorsperson | (noun) a person who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting or fishing) | - |
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papers | (noun) writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature) | Synonyms: document, written document |
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persecution | (noun) the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion) | - |
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persecutor | (noun) someone who torments | Synonyms: tormenter, tormentor |
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perseverance | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseveration, persistence |
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(noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
perseveration | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, persistence |
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(noun) the tendency for a memory or idea to persist or recur without any apparent stimulus for it | - |
persicot | (noun) a cordial made of the kernels of apricots, nectarines, etc., with refined spirit. | - |
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persiflage | (noun) light teasing | - |
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persimmon | (noun) orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe | - |
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(noun) any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros | Synonyms: persimmon tree |
persistence | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, perseveration |
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(noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
(noun) the property of a continuous and connected period of time | Synonyms: continuity |
persistency | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
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person | (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: individual, mortal, somebody, someone, soul |
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(noun) a human body (usually including the clothing) | - |
(noun) a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party | - |
persona | (noun) (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world | Synonyms: image |
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(noun) an actor's portrayal of someone in a play | Synonyms: character, part, role, theatrical role |
personableness | (noun) the complex of attributes that make a person socially attractive | - |
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personage | (noun) another word for person; a person not meriting identification | - |
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(noun) a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events | Synonyms: important person, influential person |
personal | (noun) a short newspaper article about a particular person or group | - |
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personality | (noun) the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual | - |
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(noun) a person of considerable prominence | - |
personalty | (noun) movable property (as distinguished from real estate) | Synonyms: personal estate, personal property, private property |
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personation | (noun) imitating the mannerisms of another person | Synonyms: impersonation |
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(noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: characterization, enactment, portrayal |
personhood | (noun) being a person | - |
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personification | (noun) the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. | Synonyms: incarnation |
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(noun) representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature | Synonyms: prosopopoeia |
(noun) a person who represents an abstract quality | - |
personnel | (noun) group of people willing to obey orders | Synonyms: force |
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(noun) the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management | Synonyms: personnel department, personnel office, staff office |
perspective | (noun) the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer | Synonyms: linear perspective |
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(noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: position, view |
perspicaciousness | (noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: astuteness, perspicacity, shrewdness |
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perspicacity | (noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judgment, sound judgement, sound judgment |
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(noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: astuteness, perspicaciousness, shrewdness |
perspicuity | (noun) clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous | Synonyms: perspicuousness, plainness |
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perspicuousness | (noun) clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous | Synonyms: perspicuity, plainness |
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perspiration | (noun) salty fluid secreted by sweat glands | Synonyms: sudor, sweat |
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(noun) the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid | Synonyms: diaphoresis, hidrosis, sudation, sweating |
perspirer | (noun) a person who perspires | Synonyms: sweater |
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persuader | (noun) someone who tries to persuade or induce or lead on | Synonyms: inducer |
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persuasion | (noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: opinion, sentiment, thought, view |
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(noun) the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action | Synonyms: suasion |
persuasiveness | (noun) the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty | Synonyms: strength |
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salesperson | (noun) a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited) | Synonyms: sales rep, sales representative |
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spokesperson | (noun) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | Synonyms: interpreter, representative, voice |
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superscript | (noun) a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character | Synonyms: superior |
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superscription | (noun) the activity of superscribing | - |
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(noun) an inscription written above something else | - |
supersedure | (noun) act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be superior | Synonyms: supersession |
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supersession | (noun) act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be superior | Synonyms: supersedure |
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superslasher | (noun) large (20-ft) and swift carnivorous dinosaur having an upright slashing claw 15 inches long on each hind foot; early Cretaceous | Synonyms: utahraptor |
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superstar | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
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superstition | (noun) an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear | Synonyms: superstitious notion |
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superstrate | (noun) the language of a later invading people that is imposed on an indigenous population and contributes features to their language | Synonyms: superstratum |
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(noun) any stratum or layer superimposed on another | Synonyms: superstratum |
superstratum | (noun) the language of a later invading people that is imposed on an indigenous population and contributes features to their language | Synonyms: superstrate |
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(noun) any stratum or layer superimposed on another | Synonyms: superstrate |
superstring | (noun) a hypothetical particle that is the elementary particle in a theory of space-time | - |
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superstructure | (noun) structure consisting of the part of a ship above the main deck | - |
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supersymmetry | (noun) (physics) a theory that tries to link the four fundamental forces | - |
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unperson | (noun) a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons) | Synonyms: nonperson |
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unpersuasiveness | (noun) inability to persuade | - |
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vespers | (noun) the sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays | Synonyms: evensong |
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whippersnapper | (noun) someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous | Synonyms: jackanapes, lightweight |
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yachtsperson | (noun) a person who owns or sails a yacht | - |
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