aggravation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: irritation, provocation |
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(noun) action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse | Synonyms: exacerbation |
(noun) an exasperated feeling of annoyance | Synonyms: exasperation |
aggravator | (noun) an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating | Synonyms: annoyance |
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architrave | (noun) the lowest part of an entablature; rests immediately on the capitals of the columns | - |
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(noun) the molding around a door or window | - |
bravado | (noun) a swaggering show of courage | Synonyms: bluster |
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brave | (noun) people who are brave | - |
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(noun) a North American Indian warrior | - |
braveness | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: bravery, courage, courageousness |
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bravery | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, courage, courageousness |
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(noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: fearlessness |
bravo | (noun) a cry of approval as from an audience at the end of great performance | - |
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(noun) a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed | Synonyms: assassin, assassinator |
bravura | (noun) brilliant and showy technical skill | - |
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burgrave | (noun) the military governor of a German town in the 12th and 13th centuries | - |
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(noun) a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right | - |
caravan | (noun) a camper equipped with living quarters | Synonyms: van |
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(noun) a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file | Synonyms: train, wagon train |
caravanning | (noun) the practice of taking holidays in a caravan | - |
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caravansary | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravanserai, khan |
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caravanserai | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravansary, khan |
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contravallation | (noun) a fortification build around a sieged target by the besiegers to prevent attacks by the defenders. | - |
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contravention | (noun) coming into conflict with | Synonyms: dispute |
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cravat | (noun) neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front | - |
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craven | (noun) an abject coward | Synonyms: poltroon, recreant |
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cravenness | (noun) meanspirited cowardice | - |
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craving | (noun) an intense desire for some particular thing | - |
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depravation | (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, degeneracy, depravity, putrefaction |
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depravity | (noun) a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice | Synonyms: turpitude |
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(noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, putrefaction |
engraver | (noun) a printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate | - |
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(noun) a skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching | - |
engraving | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: etching |
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(noun) a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved | - |
(noun) a print made from an engraving | - |
extravagance | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: high life, highlife, lavishness, prodigality |
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(noun) the trait of spending extravagantly | Synonyms: prodigality, profligacy |
(noun) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth | Synonyms: extravagancy |
extravagancy | (noun) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth | Synonyms: extravagance |
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extravaganza | (noun) any lavishly staged or spectacular entertainment | - |
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extravasation | (noun) the process of exuding or passing out of a vessel into surrounding tissues; said of blood or lymph or urine | - |
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(noun) (of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed) | Synonyms: eructation, eruption |
(noun) an extravasated liquid (blood or lymph or urine); the product of extravasation | - |
extraversion | (noun) (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self | Synonyms: extroversion |
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extravert | (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extrovert |
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grave | (noun) a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) | Synonyms: tomb |
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(noun) a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: grave accent |
(noun) death of a person | - |
gravedigger | (noun) a person who earns a living by digging graves | - |
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gravel | (noun) rock fragments and pebbles | Synonyms: crushed rock |
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gravelweed | (noun) perennial herb with yellow flowers; southern and south central United States | Synonyms: Verbesina helianthoides |
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graveness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: gravity, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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graver | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graving tool, pointel, pointrel |
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graverobber | (noun) someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection | Synonyms: body snatcher, ghoul |
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(noun) someone who steals valuables from graves or crypts | - |
gravestone | (noun) a stone that is used to mark a grave | Synonyms: headstone, tombstone |
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graveyard | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, cemetery, memorial park, necropolis |
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gravida | (noun) a pregnant woman | - |
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(noun) the number of the pregnancy that a woman is in | - |
gravidation | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidity, gravidness |
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gravidity | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidation, gravidness |
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gravidness | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidation, gravidity |
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gravimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid or solid | Synonyms: hydrometer |
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(noun) a measuring instrument for measuring variations in the gravitational field of the earth | Synonyms: gravity meter |
gravimetry | (noun) the measurement of specific gravity | Synonyms: hydrometry |
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gravitas | (noun) formality in bearing and appearance | Synonyms: dignity, lordliness |
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gravitation | (noun) a figurative movement toward some attraction | - |
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(noun) movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction | - |
(noun) (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface | Synonyms: gravitational attraction, gravitational force, gravity |
graviton | (noun) a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles | - |
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gravity | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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(noun) a solemn and dignified feeling | Synonyms: solemnity |
(noun) (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface | Synonyms: gravitation, gravitational attraction, gravitational force |
gravure | (noun) the act of intaglio printing | - |
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(noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: heliogravure, photogravure |
(noun) a printing plate used in the process of gravure | - |
(noun) a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print | Synonyms: intaglio, intaglio printing |
gravy | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, manna from heaven, windfall |
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(noun) the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added | Synonyms: pan gravy |
(noun) a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats | - |
heliogravure | (noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: gravure, photogravure |
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intravasation | (noun) entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel | - |
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landgrave | (noun) a count who had jurisdiction over a large territory in medieval Germany | - |
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maravilla | (noun) leafy wildflower having fragrant slender white or pale pink trumpet-shaped flowers; southwestern United States and northern Mexico | Synonyms: Mirabilis longiflora, sweet four o'clock |
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(noun) wildflower having vibrant deep pink tubular evening-blooming flowers; found in sandy and desert areas from southern California to southern Colorado and into Mexico | Synonyms: Colorado four o'clock, desert four o'clock, Mirabilis multiflora |
margrave | (noun) a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess) | - |
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(noun) the military governor of a frontier province in medieval Germany | - |
palsgrave | (noun) (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands | Synonyms: palatine |
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photoengraving | (noun) an engraving used to reproduce an illustration | Synonyms: halftone, halftone engraving |
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photogravure | (noun) using photography to produce a plate for printing | Synonyms: rotogravure |
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(noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: gravure, heliogravure |
(noun) printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods | - |
pravastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Pravachol) administered to reduce blood cholesterol levels; recommended after nonfatal heart attacks | Synonyms: Pravachol |
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primigravida | (noun) (obstetrics) a woman who is pregnant for the first time | Synonyms: gravida I |
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ravage | (noun) (usually plural) a destructive action | Synonyms: depredation |
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ravaging | (noun) plundering with excessive damage and destruction | Synonyms: devastation |
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rave | (noun) an extravagantly enthusiastic review | - |
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(noun) a dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played | - |
ravehook | (noun) a hooked hand tool used to prepare the seams of a boat for oakum | - |
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ravel | (noun) a row of unravelled stitches | Synonyms: ladder, run |
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raveling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: ravelling |
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ravelling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: raveling |
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raven | (noun) large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail | Synonyms: Corvus corax |
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ravenala | (noun) giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap; reputedly an emergency source of water for travelers | Synonyms: Ravenala madagascariensis, traveler's tree, traveller's tree |
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ravenousness | (noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: edacity, esurience, voraciousness, voracity |
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raver | (noun) someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner | Synonyms: ranter |
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(noun) a participant in a rave dancing party | - |
ravigote | (noun) veloute sauce seasoned with chopped chervil, chives, tarragon, shallots and capers | Synonyms: ravigotte |
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ravigotte | (noun) veloute sauce seasoned with chopped chervil, chives, tarragon, shallots and capers | Synonyms: ravigote |
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ravine | (noun) a deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water) | - |
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raving | (noun) declaiming wildly | - |
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ravioli | (noun) small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings | Synonyms: cappelletti |
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ravisher | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: debaucher, violator |
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(noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
ravishment | (noun) the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will | Synonyms: assault, rape, violation |
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(noun) a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment | Synonyms: entrancement |
rotogravure | (noun) using photography to produce a plate for printing | Synonyms: photogravure |
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(noun) printing by transferring an image from a photogravure plate to a cylinder in a rotary press | - |
(noun) printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press | - |
secundigravida | (noun) a woman who is pregnant for the second time | Synonyms: gravida II |
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tertigravida | (noun) a woman who is pregnant for the third time | Synonyms: gravida III |
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thermogravimeter | (noun) a hydrometer that includes a thermometer | Synonyms: thermohydrometer |
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thermogravimetry | (noun) the measurement of changes in weight as a function of changes in temperature used as a technique of chemically analyzing substances | - |
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travail | (noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work | Synonyms: effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat |
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(noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency |
trave | (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, crosspiece, traverse |
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travel | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: traveling, travelling |
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(noun) self-propelled movement | Synonyms: locomotion |
(noun) a movement through space that changes the location of something | Synonyms: change of location |
traveler | (noun) a person who changes location | Synonyms: traveller |
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traveling | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: travel, travelling |
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traveller | (noun) a person who changes location | Synonyms: traveler |
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travelling | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: travel, traveling |
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travelog | (noun) a film or illustrated lecture on traveling | Synonyms: travelogue |
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travelogue | (noun) a film or illustrated lecture on traveling | Synonyms: travelog |
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traversal | (noun) taking a zigzag path on skis | Synonyms: traverse |
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(noun) travel across | Synonyms: traverse |
traverse | (noun) taking a zigzag path on skis | Synonyms: traversal |
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(noun) travel across | Synonyms: traversal |
(noun) a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it | Synonyms: transom |
(noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, crosspiece, trave |
traverser | (noun) someone who moves or passes across | - |
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travesty | (noun) a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations | Synonyms: farce, farce comedy |
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(noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff |
ultraviolet | (noun) radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays | Synonyms: ultraviolet illumination, ultraviolet light, ultraviolet radiation, UV |
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unraveler | (noun) a person who removes tangles; someone who takes something out of a tangled state | Synonyms: disentangler, unraveller |
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unraveller | (noun) a person who removes tangles; someone who takes something out of a tangled state | Synonyms: disentangler, unraveler |
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