| aspect | (noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: expression, face, facial expression, look |
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| (noun) a characteristic to be considered | - |
| (noun) a distinct feature or element in a problem | Synonyms: facet |
| (noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: panorama, prospect, scene, view, vista |
| (noun) the beginning or duration or completion or repetition of the action of a verb | - |
| circumspection | (noun) the trait of being circumspect and prudent | Synonyms: caution |
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| (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: discreetness, discretion, prudence |
| conspecific | (noun) an organism belonging to the same species as another organism | - |
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| conspectus | (noun) an overall summary | - |
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| disrespect | (noun) a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous | Synonyms: contempt |
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| (noun) a disrespectful mental attitude | - |
| (noun) an expression of lack of respect | Synonyms: discourtesy |
| extrospection | (noun) examination or observation of what is outside oneself, as opposed to introspection. | - |
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| flyspeck | (noun) a tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly | - |
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| inspection | (noun) a formal or official examination | Synonyms: review |
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| inspector | (noun) an investigator who observes carefully | Synonyms: examiner |
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| (noun) a high ranking police officer | - |
| inspectorate | (noun) a body of inspectors | - |
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| inspectorship | (noun) the office of inspector | - |
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| introspection | (noun) the contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct | Synonyms: self-contemplation, self-examination |
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| introspectionism | (noun) a doctrine that psychology must be based essentially on data derived from introspection. | - |
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| introspectiveness | (noun) thoughtfulness about your own situation and feelings | - |
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| perspective | (noun) the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer | Synonyms: linear perspective |
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| (noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: position, view |
| prospect | (noun) a prediction of the course of a disease | Synonyms: medical prognosis, prognosis |
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| (noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: aspect, panorama, scene, view, vista |
| (noun) belief about (or mental picture of) the future | Synonyms: expectation, outlook |
| (noun) someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.) | Synonyms: candidate |
| (noun) the possibility of future success | Synonyms: chance |
| prospectiveness | (noun) The quality of relating to or furnishing a future prospect. | - |
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| prospector | (noun) someone who explores an area for mineral deposits | - |
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| prospectus | (noun) a catalog listing the courses offered by a college or university | Synonyms: course catalog, course catalogue |
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| (noun) a formal written offer to sell securities (filed with the SEC) that sets forth a plan for a (proposed) business enterprise | - |
| respect | (noun) behavior intended to please your parents | Synonyms: obedience |
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| (noun) a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard | Synonyms: deference |
| (noun) courteous regard for people's feelings | Synonyms: deference, respectfulness |
| (noun) (usually preceded by `in') a detail or point | Synonyms: regard |
| (noun) an attitude of admiration or esteem | Synonyms: esteem, regard |
| (noun) a feeling of friendship and esteem | Synonyms: regard |
| (noun) the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded) | Synonyms: esteem, regard |
| respectability | (noun) honorableness by virtue of being respectable and having a good reputation | Synonyms: reputability |
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| respecter | (noun) a person who respects someone or something; usually used in the negative | - |
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| respectfulness | (noun) courteous regard for people's feelings | Synonyms: deference, respect |
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| respects | (noun) (often used with `pay') a formal expression of esteem | - |
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| retrospect | (noun) contemplation of things past | - |
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| retrospection | (noun) memory for experiences that are past | - |
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| (noun) reference to things past | - |
| retrospective | (noun) an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work | - |
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| spec | (noun) a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work | Synonyms: specification |
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| special | (noun) a special offering (usually temporary and at a reduced price) that is featured in advertising | - |
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| (noun) a television production that features a particular person or work or topic | - |
| (noun) a dish or meal given prominence in e.g. a restaurant | - |
| specialisation | (noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career | Synonyms: specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty |
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| (noun) the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose | Synonyms: specialization |
| (noun) (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function | Synonyms: differentiation, specialization |
| specialiser | (noun) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | Synonyms: specialist, specializer |
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| specialism | (noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career | Synonyms: specialisation, speciality, specialization, specialty |
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| (noun) the concentration of your efforts on a particular field of study or occupation | - |
| specialist | (noun) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | Synonyms: specialiser, specializer |
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| (noun) practices one branch of medicine | Synonyms: medical specialist |
| speciality | (noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career | Synonyms: specialisation, specialism, specialization, specialty |
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| (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: distinctiveness, peculiarity, specialness, specialty |
| (noun) an asset of special worth or utility | Synonyms: forte, long suit, metier, specialty, strength, strong point, strong suit |
| specialization | (noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career | Synonyms: specialisation, specialism, speciality, specialty |
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| (noun) the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose | Synonyms: specialisation |
| (noun) (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function | Synonyms: differentiation, specialisation |
| specializer | (noun) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | Synonyms: specialiser, specialist |
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| specialness | (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: distinctiveness, peculiarity, speciality, specialty |
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| (noun) the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance | Synonyms: particularity |
| specialty | (noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career | Synonyms: specialisation, specialism, speciality, specialization |
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| (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: distinctiveness, peculiarity, speciality, specialness |
| (noun) an asset of special worth or utility | Synonyms: forte, long suit, metier, speciality, strength, strong point, strong suit |
| speciation | (noun) the evolution of a biological species | - |
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| specie | (noun) coins collectively | Synonyms: coinage, metal money, mintage |
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| species | (noun) a specific kind of something | - |
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| (noun) (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed | - |
| specific | (noun) a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease | - |
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| (noun) a fact about some part (as opposed to general) | Synonyms: particular |
| specification | (noun) a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement | Synonyms: stipulation |
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| (noun) a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work | Synonyms: spec |
| (noun) naming explicitly | - |
| (noun) (patent law) a document drawn up by the applicant for a patent of invention that provides an explicit and detailed description of the nature and use of an invention | - |
| specificity | (noun) the quality of being specific rather than general | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being specific to a particular organism | - |
| specifier | (noun) someone who draws up specifications giving details (as for obtaining a patent) | - |
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| specimen | (noun) a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes | - |
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| (noun) an example regarded as typical of its class | - |
| speciousness | (noun) an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility | Synonyms: meretriciousness |
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| speck | (noun) a very small spot | Synonyms: pinpoint |
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| (noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, tinge, touch |
| (noun) (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything | Synonyms: atom, corpuscle, molecule, mote, particle |
| speckle | (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: dapple, fleck, maculation, patch, spot |
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| specs | (noun) (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision | Synonyms: eyeglasses, glasses, spectacles |
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| spectacle | (noun) a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself | - |
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| (noun) an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale | - |
| (noun) something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight) | - |
| spectacles | (noun) (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision | Synonyms: eyeglasses, glasses, specs |
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| spectacular | (noun) a lavishly produced performance | - |
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| spectator | (noun) a woman's pump with medium heel; usually in contrasting colors for toe and heel | Synonyms: spectator pump |
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| (noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: looker, viewer, watcher, witness |
| specter | (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: ghost, shade, spectre, spook, wraith |
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| (noun) a ghostly appearing figure | Synonyms: apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, spectre |
| spectinomycin | (noun) an antibiotic used to treat gonorrhea | - |
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| spectrality | (noun) Quality of being spectral or ghostly. | - |
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| spectre | (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: ghost, shade, specter, spook, wraith |
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| (noun) a ghostly appearing figure | Synonyms: apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter |
| spectrogram | (noun) a photographic record of a spectrum | Synonyms: spectrograph |
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| spectrograph | (noun) a spectroscope by which spectra can be photographed | - |
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| (noun) a photographic record of a spectrum | Synonyms: spectrogram |
| spectrometer | (noun) spectroscope for obtaining a mass spectrum by deflecting ions into a thin slit and measuring the ion current with an electrometer | Synonyms: mass spectrometer |
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| spectrometry | (noun) the use of spectroscopes to analyze spectra | Synonyms: spectrographic analysis, spectroscopic analysis, spectroscopy, spectrum analysis |
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| spectrophotometer | (noun) a photometer for comparing two light radiations wavelength by wavelength | - |
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| spectroscope | (noun) an optical instrument for spectrographic analysis | Synonyms: prism spectroscope |
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| spectroscopy | (noun) the use of spectroscopes to analyze spectra | Synonyms: spectrographic analysis, spectrometry, spectroscopic analysis, spectrum analysis |
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| spectrum | (noun) a broad range of related objects or values or qualities or ideas or activities | - |
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| (noun) an ordered array of the components of an emission or wave | - |
| speculation | (noun) a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence) | Synonyms: conjecture |
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| (noun) continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature | Synonyms: meditation |
| (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, supposition, surmisal, surmise |
| (noun) an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits | Synonyms: venture |
| speculativeness | (noun) the quality of being a conclusion or opinion based on supposition and conjecture rather than on fact or investigation | - |
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| (noun) financial risk | - |
| speculator | (noun) someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Synonyms: plunger |
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| (noun) someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts | - |
| speculum | (noun) a medical instrument for dilating a bodily passage or cavity in order to examine the interior | - |
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| (noun) a mirror (especially one made of polished metal) for use in an optical instrument | - |
| subspecies | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species | Synonyms: race |
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| suspect | (noun) someone who is under suspicion | - |
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| (noun) a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused | Synonyms: defendant |
| unrespectability | (noun) dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation | Synonyms: disreputability, disreputableness |
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