| acataphasia | (noun) a disorder in which a lesion to the central nervous system leaves you unable to formulate a statement or to express yourself in an organized manner | - |
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| anaphase | (noun) the stage of meiosis or mitosis when chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle | - |
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| aphasia | (noun) inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion | - |
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| aphasic | (noun) someone affected by aphasia or inability to use or understand language | - |
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| apophasis | (noun) mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned | - |
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| cataphasia | (noun) a speech disorder in which the same word is repeated several times in succession | - |
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| dysphasia | (noun) an impairment of language (especially speech production) that is usually due to brain damage | - |
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| emphasis | (noun) intensity or forcefulness of expression | Synonyms: vehemence |
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| (noun) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | Synonyms: accent, stress |
| (noun) special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g. | - |
| (noun) special importance or significance | Synonyms: accent |
| emphasizing | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accenting, accentuation |
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| metaphase | (noun) the second stage of mitosis | - |
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| (noun) the second stage of meiosis | - |
| overemphasis | (noun) too much emphasis | - |
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| phase | (noun) (astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun) | - |
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| (noun) (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary | Synonyms: form |
| (noun) any distinct time period in a sequence of events | Synonyms: stage |
| (noun) a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle | Synonyms: phase angle |
| phasianid | (noun) a kind of game bird in the family Phasianidae | - |
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| phasmid | (noun) large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants; walking sticks and leaf insects | Synonyms: phasmid insect |
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| phytelephas | (noun) small genus of South American feather palms | Synonyms: genus Phytelephas |
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| prophase | (noun) the first stage of mitosis | - |
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| (noun) the first stage of meiosis | - |
| telophase | (noun) the final stage of mitosis | - |
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| (noun) the final stage of meiosis when the chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle | - |