crudites | (noun) raw vegetables cut into bite-sized strips and served with a dip | - |
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crudity | (noun) an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement | Synonyms: crudeness, gaucheness |
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(noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness |
eruditeness | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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erudition | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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hirudinean | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: bloodsucker, leech |
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prudishness | (noun) excessive or affected modesty | Synonyms: Grundyism, primness, prudery |
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rudiment | (noun) the remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life | - |
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rudiments | (noun) the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural) | Synonyms: alphabet, first principles |
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(noun) a statement of fundamental facts or principles | Synonyms: basics |