aftertaste | (noun) an afterimage of a taste | - |
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aorta | (noun) the large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries | - |
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aspartame | (noun) an artificial sweetener made from aspartic acid; used as a calorie-free sweetener | - |
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cartage | (noun) the work of taking something away in a cart or truck and disposing of it | Synonyms: carting |
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certainty | (noun) something that is certain | Synonyms: foregone conclusion, sure thing |
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(noun) the state of being certain | - |
comfortableness | (noun) a feeling of being at ease in a relationship | - |
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(noun) a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain | Synonyms: comfort |
convertase | (noun) any of several enzymes that convert a compound into smaller, biologically-active compounds. | - |
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curtailment | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: suppression |
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(noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: downsizing, retrenchment |
(noun) the temporal property of being cut short | - |
curtain | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: drape, drapery, mantle, pall |
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(noun) any barrier to communication or vision | - |
deportation | (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: exile, expatriation, transportation |
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(noun) the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien | - |
dissertation | (noun) a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree | Synonyms: thesis |
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entertainer | (noun) a person who tries to please or amuse | - |
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entertainment | (noun) an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention | Synonyms: amusement |
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exhortation | (noun) the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion | Synonyms: incitement |
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(noun) a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action | - |
exportation | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exporting |
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(noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: export |
flickertail | (noun) of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada | Synonyms: Citellus richardsoni, Richardson ground squirrel |
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flirtation | (noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: coquetry, dalliance, flirt, flirting, toying |
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hairtail | (noun) long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel | Synonyms: cutlassfish, frost fish |
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heartache | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, grief, heartbreak |
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immortal | (noun) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | Synonyms: deity, divinity, god |
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(noun) a person (such as an author) of enduring fame | - |
immortality | (noun) the quality or state of being immortal | - |
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(noun) perpetual life after death | - |
impartation | (noun) the transmission of information | Synonyms: conveyance, imparting |
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importance | (noun) the quality of being important and worthy of note | - |
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(noun) a prominent status | Synonyms: grandness |
importation | (noun) the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country | Synonyms: importing |
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(noun) commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country | Synonyms: import |
invertase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose | Synonyms: saccharase, sucrase |
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kurta | (noun) a loose collarless shirt worn by many people on the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars or pyjama) | - |
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libertarian | (noun) someone who believes the doctrine of free will | - |
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(noun) an advocate of libertarianism | - |
libertarianism | (noun) an ideological belief in freedom of thought, speech and action | - |
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martagon | (noun) lily with small dull purple flowers of northwestern Europe and northwestern Asia | Synonyms: Lilium martagon, Turk's-cap |
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mortal | (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: individual, person, somebody, someone, soul |
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mortality | (noun) the quality or state of being mortal | - |
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(noun) the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year | Synonyms: death rate, deathrate, fatality rate, mortality rate |
mortar | (noun) a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range | Synonyms: howitzer, trench mortar |
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(noun) a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle | - |
(noun) used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall | - |
mortarboard | (noun) an academic cap with a flat square with a tassel on top | - |
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(noun) a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar | Synonyms: hawk |
omerta | (noun) a code of silence practiced by the Mafia; a refusal to give evidence to the police about criminal activities | - |
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overtaking | (noun) going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it | Synonyms: passing |
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partaker | (noun) someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share | Synonyms: sharer |
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pertainym | (noun) meaning relating to or pertaining to | - |
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porta | (noun) an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity | Synonyms: opening, orifice |
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portability | (noun) the quality of being light enough to be carried | - |
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portable | (noun) a small light typewriter; usually with a case in which it can be carried | - |
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portage | (noun) carrying boats and supplies overland | - |
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(noun) overland track between navigable waterways | - |
(noun) the cost of carrying or transporting | - |
portal | (noun) a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically) | - |
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(noun) a short vein that carries blood into the liver | Synonyms: hepatic portal vein, portal vein, vena portae |
(noun) a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet | Synonyms: portal site |
quartan | (noun) a malarial fever that recurs every fourth day | - |
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reportage | (noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: coverage, reporting |
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scissortail | (noun) grey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings | Synonyms: Muscivora-forficata, scissortailed flycatcher |
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shortage | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: deficit, shortfall |
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(noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: dearth, famine |
smarta | (noun) one of a group of brahmans who uphold nonsectarian orthodoxy according to the Vedanta school of Hinduism | - |
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supertanker | (noun) the largest class of oil tankers | - |
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supertax | (noun) an additional tax on certain kinds of income that has already been taxed | Synonyms: surtax |
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surtax | (noun) an additional tax on certain kinds of income that has already been taxed | Synonyms: supertax |
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tartan | (noun) a cloth having a crisscross design | Synonyms: plaid |
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tartar | (noun) an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums | Synonyms: calculus, tophus |
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(noun) a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman | Synonyms: dragon |
(noun) a salt used especially in baking powder | Synonyms: cream of tartar, potassium bitartrate, potassium hydrogen tartrate |
teleportation | (noun) a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another | - |
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tetartanopia | (noun) a form of dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to yellow light; so rare that its existence has been questioned | Synonyms: yellow-blindness |
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transportation | (noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: conveyance, transfer, transferral, transport |
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(noun) the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials | Synonyms: shipping, transport |
(noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: deportation, exile, expatriation |
(noun) a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods | Synonyms: transit, transportation system |
(noun) the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance | Synonyms: fare |
uncertainness | (noun) being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance | Synonyms: precariousness, uncertainty |
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uncertainty | (noun) being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance | Synonyms: precariousness, uncertainness |
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(noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude |
uncomfortableness | (noun) embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you | Synonyms: self-consciousness, uneasiness |
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(noun) the state of being tense and feeling pain | Synonyms: discomfort |
undertaker | (noun) one whose business is the management of funerals | Synonyms: funeral director, funeral undertaker, mortician |
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undertaking | (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, labour, project, task |
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(noun) the trade of a funeral director | - |
unimportance | (noun) the quality of not being important or worthy of note | - |
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(noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, lowliness, obscureness |
valsartan | (noun) an angiotensin II inhibitor that is used to treat high blood pressure | Synonyms: Diovan |
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