approval | (noun) the formal act of approving | Synonyms: approving, blessing |
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(noun) a message expressing a favorable opinion | Synonyms: commendation |
(noun) a feeling of liking something or someone good | - |
(noun) acceptance as satisfactory | Synonyms: favorable reception, favourable reception |
approver | (noun) an authority with power to approve | - |
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approving | (noun) the formal act of approving | Synonyms: approval, blessing |
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controversialist | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: disputant, eristic |
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controversy | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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disapproval | (noun) the act of disapproving or condemning | - |
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(noun) an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group | Synonyms: disfavor, disfavour, dislike |
(noun) the expression of disapproval | - |
(noun) a feeling of disliking something or what someone is doing | - |
disprover | (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, rebutter, refuter |
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drove | (noun) a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone | Synonyms: drove chisel |
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(noun) a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together | - |
(noun) a moving crowd | Synonyms: horde, swarm |
drover | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: herder, herdsman |
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enterovirus | (noun) any of a group of picornaviruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract and can spread to other areas (especially the nervous system) | - |
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extroversion | (noun) (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self | Synonyms: extraversion |
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extrovert | (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extravert |
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flerovium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element | Synonyms: Fl |
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grove | (noun) garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth | Synonyms: orchard, plantation, woodlet |
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(noun) a small growth of trees without underbrush | - |
groveler | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveller, truckler |
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groveller | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveler, truckler |
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improvement | (noun) the act of improving something | - |
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(noun) a change for the better; progress in development | Synonyms: advance, betterment |
(noun) a condition superior to an earlier condition | Synonyms: melioration |
improver | (noun) a component that is added to something to improve it | Synonyms: add-on, addition |
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(noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, humanitarian |
improvidence | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: shortsightedness |
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improvisation | (noun) an unplanned expedient | Synonyms: temporary expedient |
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(noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporisation, extemporization |
(noun) a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation) | - |
incontrovertibility | (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibleness, positiveness, positivity |
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incontrovertibleness | (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, positiveness, positivity |
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introversion | (noun) (psychology) an introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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(noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, intussusception, invagination |
(noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: invagination |
introvert | (noun) (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts | - |
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landrover | (noun) a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain | Synonyms: jeep |
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mangrove | (noun) a tropical tree or shrub bearing fruit that germinates while still on the tree and having numerous prop roots that eventually form an impenetrable mass and are important in land building | Synonyms: Rhizophora mangle |
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microvolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one millionth of a volt | - |
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provability | (noun) capability of being demonstrated or logically proved | Synonyms: demonstrability |
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provenance | (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenience |
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provender | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provisions, viands, victuals |
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(noun) food for domestic livestock | Synonyms: feed |
provenience | (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance |
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proverb | (noun) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people | Synonyms: adage, byword, saw |
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providence | (noun) the guardianship and control exercised by a deity | - |
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(noun) the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources | - |
(noun) a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures | - |
provider | (noun) someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity | Synonyms: supplier |
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(noun) someone who provides the means for subsistence | - |
province | (noun) the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation | Synonyms: state |
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(noun) the proper sphere or extent of your activities | Synonyms: responsibility |
provincial | (noun) a country person | Synonyms: bucolic, peasant |
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(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order | - |
provincialism | (noun) a partiality for some particular place | Synonyms: localism, sectionalism |
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(noun) a lack of sophistication | - |
provirus | (noun) cDNA copy of the RNA genome of a retrovirus; the genetic material of a virus as incorporated into and able to replicate with the genome of a host cell | - |
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provision | (noun) the activity of supplying or providing something | Synonyms: supply, supplying |
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(noun) the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening | Synonyms: planning, preparation |
(noun) a stipulated condition | Synonyms: proviso |
(noun) a store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms) | - |
provisioner | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: sutler, victualer, victualler |
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provisions | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, viands, victuals |
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proviso | (noun) a stipulated condition | Synonyms: provision |
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provitamin | (noun) vitamin precursor; a substance that is converted into a vitamin in animal tissues | - |
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provocateur | (noun) a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts | Synonyms: agent provocateur |
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provocation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: aggravation, irritation |
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(noun) needed encouragement | Synonyms: incitement |
(noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitation, incitement |
provoker | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, inciter, instigant, instigator |
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provost | (noun) a high-ranking university administrator | - |
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reproval | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof |
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reprover | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reproacher, upbraider |
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retroversion | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retrogression, reversion |
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(noun) translation back into the original language | - |
(noun) a turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part | Synonyms: retroflection, retroflexion |
retrovirus | (noun) any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then incorporated into the host cell | - |
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retrovision | (noun) a vision of events in the distant past | - |
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rover | (noun) someone who leads a wandering unsettled life | Synonyms: bird of passage, roamer, wanderer |
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(noun) an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement | Synonyms: scouter |
roving | (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: vagabondage, wandering |
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trove | (noun) treasure of unknown ownership found hidden (usually in the earth) | Synonyms: treasure trove |
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