| apprisal | (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: notification, telling |
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| biprism | (noun) an optical device for obtaining interference fringes | - |
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| enterprise | (noun) a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) | Synonyms: endeavor, endeavour |
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| (noun) readiness to embark on bold new ventures | Synonyms: enterprisingness, go-ahead, initiative |
| (noun) an organization created for business ventures | - |
| enterpriser | (noun) someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it | Synonyms: entrepreneur |
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| enterprisingness | (noun) readiness to embark on bold new ventures | Synonyms: enterprise, go-ahead, initiative |
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| imprisonment | (noun) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) | Synonyms: internment |
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| (noun) putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment | - |
| (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: captivity, immurement, incarceration |
| mifepristone | (noun) an abortion-inducing drug (trade name RU 486) developed in France; when taken during the first five weeks of pregnancy it blocks the action of progesterone so that the uterus sloughs off the embryo | Synonyms: abortion pill, RU 486 |
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| prism | (noun) optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image | Synonyms: optical prism |
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| (noun) a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms | - |
| prismatoid | (noun) a polyhedron whose vertices all lie in one or the other of two parallel planes; the faces that lie in those planes are the bases of the prismatoid | - |
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| prismoid | (noun) a prismatoid whose bases are polygons having the same number of sides and whose other faces are trapezoids or parallelograms | - |
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| prison | (noun) a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment | Synonyms: prison house |
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| (noun) a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement | Synonyms: prison house |
| prisonbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking |
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| prisoner | (noun) a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war | Synonyms: captive |
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| reprisal | (noun) a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime | - |
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| surprisal | (noun) the act of surprising someone | Synonyms: surprise |
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| surprise | (noun) the act of surprising someone | Synonyms: surprisal |
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| (noun) a sudden unexpected event | - |
| (noun) the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you | - |
| surpriser | (noun) a captor who uses surprise to capture the victim | - |
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| surprisingness | (noun) extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected | Synonyms: unexpectedness |
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| uprising | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, revolt, rising |
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