appalling | (noun) an experience that appalls | - |
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appanage | (noun) a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family | Synonyms: apanage |
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(noun) any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life | Synonyms: apanage |
apparatchik | (noun) a communist who was a member of the administrative system of a communist party | - |
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(noun) a humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization (especially a political organization) | - |
apparatus | (noun) equipment designed to serve a specific function | Synonyms: setup |
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(noun) (anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function | - |
apparel | (noun) clothing in general | Synonyms: clothes, dress, wearing apparel |
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apparency | (noun) the property of being apparent | Synonyms: apparentness |
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apparentness | (noun) the property of being apparent | Synonyms: apparency |
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apparition | (noun) an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly | - |
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(noun) something existing in perception only | Synonyms: fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow |
(noun) the appearance of a ghostlike figure | - |
(noun) a ghostly appearing figure | Synonyms: fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter, spectre |
comeuppance | (noun) an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved and fitting | Synonyms: comeupance, just deserts, poetic justice |
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cuppa | (noun) a cup of tea | Synonyms: cupper |
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drippage | (noun) a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house) | Synonyms: dripping |
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flippancy | (noun) inappropriate levity | Synonyms: light-mindedness |
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grappa | (noun) Italian brandy made from residue of grapes after pressing | - |
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kappa | (noun) the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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oppa | (noun) a male who is older than the speaker, especially used by Korean female | - |
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pappa | (noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pop |
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slippage | (noun) failing to hold or slipping out of place | - |
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(noun) a decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping | - |
(noun) decline from a standard level of performance or achievement | - |
stepparent | (noun) the spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriage | - |
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stoppage | (noun) the act of stopping something | Synonyms: stop |
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(noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, blockage, closure, occlusion, stop |
(noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop |
strappado | (noun) a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope | Synonyms: strapado |
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tappa | (noun) a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark | Synonyms: tapa |
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(noun) the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus | Synonyms: tapa, tapa bark, tappa bark |