| chiaroscuro | (noun) a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color | - |
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| crosscurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: countercurrent |
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| (noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
| discursiveness | (noun) the quality of being discursive | - |
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| obscurantism | (noun) a deliberate act intended to make something obscure | - |
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| (noun) a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge | - |
| obscurantist | (noun) a person who is deliberately vague | - |
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| obscureness | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: abstruseness, obscurity, reconditeness |
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| (noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, lowliness, unimportance |
| (noun) the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination | Synonyms: obscurity |
| obscurity | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: abstruseness, obscureness, reconditeness |
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| (noun) an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known | - |
| (noun) the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination | Synonyms: obscureness |
| scurf | (noun) (botany) a covering that resembles scales or bran that covers some plant parts | - |
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| (noun) a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin | Synonyms: exfoliation, scale |
| scurrility | (noun) foul-mouthed or obscene abuse | Synonyms: billingsgate |
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| scurry | (noun) rushing about hastily in an undignified way | Synonyms: scamper, scramble |
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| scurvy | (noun) a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) | Synonyms: scorbutus |
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