aftersensation | (noun) an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased | Synonyms: afterimage |
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arse | (noun) vulgar slang for anus | Synonyms: arsehole, asshole, bunghole |
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(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
arsehole | (noun) vulgar slang for anus | Synonyms: arse, asshole, bunghole |
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arsenal | (noun) a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
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(noun) a place where arms are manufactured | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
(noun) all the weapons and equipment that a country has | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
arsenate | (noun) a salt or ester of arsenic acid | - |
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arsenic | (noun) a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and in various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar | Synonyms: As, atomic number 33 |
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(noun) a white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer | Synonyms: arsenic trioxide, arsenous anhydride, arsenous oxide, ratsbane, white arsenic |
arsenical | (noun) a pesticide or drug containing arsenic | - |
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arsenide | (noun) a compound of arsenic with a more positive element | - |
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arsenopyrite | (noun) a silver-white or grey ore of arsenic | Synonyms: mispickel |
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berserk | (noun) one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury | Synonyms: berserker |
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berserker | (noun) one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury | Synonyms: berserk |
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carthorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, drayhorse |
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clotheshorse | (noun) a framework on which to hang clothes (as for drying) | - |
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(noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
coarseness | (noun) looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) | Synonyms: nubbiness, tweediness |
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(noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles | Synonyms: graininess, granularity |
(noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity |
(noun) language or humor that is down-to-earth | Synonyms: saltiness |
cockhorse | (noun) anything used as a toy horse (such as a rocking horse or one knee of an adult) | - |
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concourse | (noun) a coming together of people | Synonyms: confluence |
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(noun) a wide hallway in a building where people can walk | - |
(noun) a large gathering of people | Synonyms: multitude, throng |
converse | (noun) a proposition obtained by conversion | - |
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corselet | (noun) a piece of body armor for the trunk; usually consists of a breastplate and back piece | Synonyms: corslet |
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corset | (noun) a woman's close-fitting foundation garment | Synonyms: girdle, stays |
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course | (noun) a mode of action | Synonyms: course of action |
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(noun) education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings | Synonyms: class, course of instruction, course of study |
(noun) facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport | - |
(noun) (construction) a layer of masonry | Synonyms: row |
(noun) part of a meal served at one time | - |
(noun) a connected series of events or actions or developments | Synonyms: line |
(noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: class, form, grade |
(noun) general line of orientation | Synonyms: trend |
(noun) a line or route along which something travels or moves | Synonyms: path, track |
courser | (noun) swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles | - |
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(noun) formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle | Synonyms: charger |
(noun) a dog trained for coursing | - |
(noun) a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey | - |
coursework | (noun) work assigned to and done by a student during a course of study; usually it is evaluated as part of the student's grade in the course | - |
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curse | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse word, cuss, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword |
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(noun) an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group | Synonyms: condemnation, execration |
(noun) an evil spell | Synonyms: hex, jinx, whammy |
(noun) a severe affliction | Synonyms: torment |
(noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, nemesis, scourge |
cutpurse | (noun) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places | Synonyms: dip, pickpocket |
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cybersex | (noun) sexual arousal involving communication on the internet | - |
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disbursement | (noun) the act of spending or disbursing money | Synonyms: disbursal, outlay, spending |
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(noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) | Synonyms: disbursal, expense |
disburser | (noun) someone who spends money to purchase goods or services | Synonyms: expender, spender |
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discourse | (noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic | Synonyms: discussion, treatment |
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(noun) extended verbal expression in speech or writing | - |
(noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | Synonyms: preaching, sermon |
diverseness | (noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diversity, multifariousness, variety |
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drayhorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, carthorse |
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endorsement | (noun) the act of endorsing | Synonyms: indorsement |
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(noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, imprimatur, indorsement, sanction, warrant |
(noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: blurb, indorsement |
(noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: indorsement, second, secondment |
(noun) a signature that validates something | Synonyms: indorsement |
endorser | (noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: indorser, ratifier, subscriber |
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(noun) a person who transfers his ownership interest in something by signing a check or negotiable security | Synonyms: indorser |
gearset | (noun) a set of gears | - |
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gorse | (noun) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe | Synonyms: furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, whin |
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hearse | (noun) a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle | - |
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hoarseness | (noun) a throaty harshness | Synonyms: gruffness, huskiness |
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hobbyhorse | (noun) a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride | Synonyms: hobby, rocking horse |
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(noun) a topic to which one constantly reverts | - |
horse | (noun) solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times | Synonyms: Equus caballus |
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(noun) a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) | Synonyms: knight |
(noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, sawbuck, sawhorse |
(noun) a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs | Synonyms: gymnastic horse |
(noun) troops trained to fight on horseback | Synonyms: cavalry, horse cavalry |
horseback | (noun) the back of a horse | - |
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(noun) a narrow ridge of hills | Synonyms: hogback |
horsebean | (noun) large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States | Synonyms: Jerusalem thorn, Parkinsonia aculeata |
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(noun) seed of the broad-bean plant | Synonyms: broad bean, fava bean |
horsebox | (noun) a conveyance (railroad car or trailer) for transporting racehorses | - |
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horsecar | (noun) an early form of streetcar that was drawn by horses | - |
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horsecloth | (noun) a cloth for the trapping of a horse | - |
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horsefish | (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsehead, moonfish, Selene setapinnis |
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horseflesh | (noun) the flesh of horses as food | Synonyms: horsemeat |
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horsefly | (noun) large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals | Synonyms: cleg, clegg, horse fly |
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(noun) winged fly parasitic on horses | Synonyms: Hippobosca equina, horse tick |
horsehair | (noun) a fabric made from fibers taken from the mane or tail of horses; used for upholstery | - |
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(noun) hair taken from the mane or tail of a horse | - |
horsehead | (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsefish, moonfish, Selene setapinnis |
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horsehide | (noun) leather from the hide of a horse | - |
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horselaugh | (noun) a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing | Synonyms: ha-ha, haw-haw, hee-haw |
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horseleech | (noun) any of several large freshwater leeches | - |
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horseman | (noun) a person who breeds and cares for horses | Synonyms: horse fancier |
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(noun) a man skilled in equitation | - |
horsemanship | (noun) skill in handling and riding horses | - |
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horsemeat | (noun) the flesh of horses as food | Synonyms: horseflesh |
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horsemint | (noun) a coarse Old World wild water mint having long leaves and spikelike clusters of flowers; naturalized in the eastern United States | Synonyms: Mentha longifolia |
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(noun) tall erect perennial or annual having lanceolate leaves and heads of purple-spotted creamy flowers; many subspecies grown from eastern to southwestern United States and in Mexico | Synonyms: Monarda punctata |
(noun) an annual horsemint of central and western United States and northern Mexico | Synonyms: lemon mint, Monarda citriodora |
horseplay | (noun) rowdy or boisterous play | - |
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horsepond | (noun) a pond for watering horses | - |
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horsepower | (noun) a unit of power equal to 746 watts | Synonyms: H.P., HP |
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horseradish | (noun) grated horseradish root | - |
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(noun) coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root | Synonyms: Armoracia rusticana, horse radish, red cole |
(noun) the root of the horseradish plant; it is grated or ground and used for seasoning | Synonyms: horseradish root |
horseshit | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, crap, dogshit, Irish bull, shit |
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horseshoe | (noun) U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof | Synonyms: shoe |
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(noun) game equipment consisting of an open ring of iron used in playing horseshoes | - |
horseshoer | (noun) a person who shoes horses | Synonyms: farrier |
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horseshoes | (noun) a game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it | Synonyms: quoits |
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horseshow | (noun) a competitive exhibition of horses | - |
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horsetail | (noun) perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in Northern Hemisphere; some in Africa and South America | - |
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horseweed | (noun) common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron | Synonyms: Canadian fleabane, Conyza canadensis, Erigeron canadensis, fleabane |
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(noun) erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: Collinsonia canadensis, horse balm, richweed, stone-root, stone root, stoneroot |
horsewhip | (noun) a whip for controlling horses | - |
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horsewhipping | (noun) the act of whipping with a horsewhip | - |
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horsewoman | (noun) a woman horseman | - |
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hypersecretion | (noun) excessive secretion | - |
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hypersensitivity | (noun) extreme sensitivity | - |
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(noun) pathological sensitivity | - |
indorsement | (noun) the act of endorsing | Synonyms: endorsement |
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(noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, sanction, warrant |
(noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: blurb, endorsement |
(noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: endorsement, second, secondment |
(noun) a signature that validates something | Synonyms: endorsement |
indorser | (noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: endorser, ratifier, subscriber |
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(noun) a person who transfers his ownership interest in something by signing a check or negotiable security | Synonyms: endorser |
intercourse | (noun) sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur | Synonyms: carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, copulation, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation |
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(noun) communication between individuals | Synonyms: social intercourse |
intersection | (noun) the act of intersecting (as joining by causing your path to intersect your target's path) | - |
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(noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossroad, crossway |
(noun) a point where lines intersect | Synonyms: intersection point, point of intersection |
(noun) a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena | Synonyms: convergence, overlap |
(noun) the set of elements common to two or more sets | Synonyms: Cartesian product, product |
(noun) a point or set of points common to two or more geometric configurations | - |
intersex | (noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made | Synonyms: androgyne, epicene, epicene person, gynandromorph, hermaphrodite |
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inverse | (noun) something inverted in sequence or character or effect | Synonyms: opposite |
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jersey | (noun) a slightly elastic machine-knit fabric | - |
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(noun) a close-fitting pullover shirt | Synonyms: T-shirt, tee shirt |
marseille | (noun) strong cotton fabric with a raised pattern; used for bedspreads | - |
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morsel | (noun) a small amount of solid food; a mouthful | Synonyms: bit, bite |
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(noun) a small quantity of anything | - |
nurse | (noun) one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician) | - |
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(noun) a woman who is the custodian of children | Synonyms: nanny, nursemaid |
nurseling | (noun) an infant considered in relation to its nurse | Synonyms: nursling, suckling |
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nursemaid | (noun) a woman who is the custodian of children | Synonyms: nanny, nurse |
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nurser | (noun) a person who treats something carefully | - |
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nursery | (noun) a child's room for a baby | Synonyms: baby's room |
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nurseryman | (noun) someone who takes care of a garden | Synonyms: gardener |
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obverse | (noun) the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design | - |
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(noun) the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides | - |
outercourse | (noun) sexual stimulation without vaginal penetration | - |
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overseer | (noun) a person who directs and manages an organization | Synonyms: superintendent |
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oversensitiveness | (noun) sensitivity leading to easy irritation or upset | - |
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packhorse | (noun) a workhorse used as a pack animal | - |
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parsec | (noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years | Synonyms: secpar |
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parser | (noun) a computer program that divides code up into functional components | - |
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persecution | (noun) the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion) | - |
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persecutor | (noun) someone who torments | Synonyms: tormenter, tormentor |
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perseverance | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseveration, persistence |
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(noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
perseveration | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, persistence |
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(noun) the tendency for a memory or idea to persist or recur without any apparent stimulus for it | - |
perverseness | (noun) deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrariness, perversity |
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(noun) deliberately deviating from what is good | Synonyms: perversity |
purse | (noun) a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) | Synonyms: bag, handbag, pocketbook |
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(noun) a small bag for carrying money | - |
(noun) a sum of money offered as a prize | - |
(noun) a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse | - |
purser | (noun) an officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare | - |
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