| adjustor | (noun) one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement | Synonyms: adjuster, claim agent, claims adjuster, claims adjustor |
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| ancestor | (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, root |
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| attestor | (noun) (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | Synonyms: attestant, attestator, witness |
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| barnstormer | (noun) a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits of stunt flying and parachuting | Synonyms: stunt flier, stunt pilot |
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| (noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: play-actor, playactor, trouper |
| bookstore | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookshop, bookstall |
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| brainstorm | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainwave, insight |
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| brainstorming | (noun) a group problem-solving technique in which members spontaneously share ideas and solutions | - |
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| castor | (noun) a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material) | Synonyms: beaver |
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| (noun) a pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable | Synonyms: caster |
| (noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar | Synonyms: caster |
| clearstory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clerestory |
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| clerestory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clearstory |
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| consistory | (noun) a church tribunal or governing body | - |
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| distortion | (noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | Synonyms: overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting |
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| (noun) the mistake of misrepresenting the facts | - |
| (noun) a change for the worse | Synonyms: deformation |
| (noun) an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image | Synonyms: aberration, optical aberration |
| (noun) a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal) | - |
| (noun) a shape resulting from distortion | Synonyms: distorted shape |
| distortionist | (noun) a painter who introduces distortions | - |
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| drugstore | (noun) a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold | Synonyms: apothecary's shop, chemist's, chemist's shop, pharmacy |
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| firestorm | (noun) an outburst of controversy | - |
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| (noun) a storm in which violent winds are drawn into the column of hot air rising over a severely bombed area | - |
| hailstorm | (noun) a storm during which hail falls | - |
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| haustorium | (noun) a root-like attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host | - |
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| historian | (noun) a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it | Synonyms: historiographer |
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| historicalness | (noun) significance owing to its history | - |
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| (noun) the state of having in fact existed in the past | - |
| historicism | (noun) a theory that social and cultural events are determined by history | - |
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| historiographer | (noun) a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it | Synonyms: historian |
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| historiography | (noun) the writing of history | - |
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| (noun) a body of historical literature | - |
| history | (noun) the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings | - |
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| (noun) all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge | - |
| (noun) a record or narrative description of past events | Synonyms: account, chronicle, story |
| (noun) the aggregate of past events | - |
| (noun) the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future | - |
| impostor | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| investor | (noun) someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns | - |
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| pastor | (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: curate, minister, minister of religion, parson, rector |
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| pastoral | (noun) a musical composition that evokes rural life | Synonyms: idyl, idyll, pastorale |
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| (noun) a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds) | - |
| (noun) a letter from a pastor to the congregation | - |
| pastorale | (noun) a musical composition that evokes rural life | Synonyms: idyl, idyll, pastoral |
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| pastorate | (noun) the position of pastor | Synonyms: pastorship |
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| (noun) pastors collectively | - |
| pastorship | (noun) the position of pastor | Synonyms: pastorate |
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| prehistory | (noun) the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word | Synonyms: prehistoric culture |
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| protohistory | (noun) the study of humans prior to the invention of writing | Synonyms: protoanthropology |
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| quaestor | (noun) any of several public officials of ancient Rome (usually in charge of finance and administration) | - |
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| rainstorm | (noun) a storm with rain | - |
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| resistor | (noun) an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current | Synonyms: resistance |
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| restoration | (noun) the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state | - |
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| (noun) getting something back again | Synonyms: regaining, restitution, return |
| (noun) some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed | - |
| (noun) a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc. | - |
| (noun) the state of being restored to its former good condition | Synonyms: refurbishment, renovation |
| restorative | (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: corrective |
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| (noun) a medicine that strengthens and invigorates | Synonyms: tonic |
| restorer | (noun) a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture | Synonyms: preserver, refinisher, renovator |
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| sandstorm | (noun) a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand | Synonyms: dust storm, duster, sirocco |
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| schistorrhachis | (noun) a not uncommon congenital defect in which a vertebra is malformed; unless several vertebrae are affected or there is myelomeningocele there are few symptoms; can be diagnosed by amniocentesis | Synonyms: rachischisis, spina bifida |
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| shitstorm | (noun) A considerable backlash or controversy | - |
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| snowstorm | (noun) a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds | Synonyms: blizzard |
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| storage | (noun) the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials | - |
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| (noun) the act of storing something | - |
| (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: repositing, reposition, warehousing |
| (noun) a depository for goods | Synonyms: depot, entrepot, store, storehouse |
| (noun) an electronic memory device | Synonyms: computer memory, computer storage, memory, memory board, store |
| (noun) (computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk | - |
| storax | (noun) a vanilla-scented resin from various trees of the genus Styrax | - |
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| store | (noun) a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services | Synonyms: shop |
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| (noun) a depository for goods | Synonyms: depot, entrepot, storage, storehouse |
| (noun) an electronic memory device | Synonyms: computer memory, computer storage, memory, memory board, storage |
| (noun) a supply of something available for future use | Synonyms: fund, stock |
| storefront | (noun) the front side of a store facing the street; usually contains display windows | Synonyms: shopfront |
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| storehouse | (noun) a depository for goods | Synonyms: depot, entrepot, storage, store |
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| storekeeper | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, shopkeeper, tradesman |
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| storeroom | (noun) a room in which things are stored | Synonyms: storage room, stowage |
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| storey | (noun) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | Synonyms: floor, level, story |
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| stork | (noun) large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage | - |
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| storksbill | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Erodium | Synonyms: heron's bill |
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| storm | (noun) a direct and violent assault on a stronghold | - |
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| (noun) a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning | Synonyms: violent storm |
| (noun) a violent commotion or disturbance | Synonyms: tempest |
| storminess | (noun) violent passion in speech or action | - |
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| (noun) the state of being stormy | - |
| story | (noun) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | Synonyms: floor, level, storey |
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| (noun) a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events | - |
| (noun) a short account of the news | Synonyms: account, news report, report, write up |
| (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle |
| (noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narration, narrative, tale |
| (noun) a record or narrative description of past events | Synonyms: account, chronicle, history |
| storybook | (noun) a book containing a collection of stories (usually for children) | - |
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| storyline | (noun) the plot of a book or play or film | Synonyms: plot line |
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| storyteller | (noun) someone who tells a story | Synonyms: narrator, teller |
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| (noun) someone who tells lies | Synonyms: fabricator, fibber |
| thermistor | (noun) a semiconductor device made of materials whose resistance varies as a function of temperature; can be used to compensate for temperature variation in other components of a circuit | Synonyms: thermal resistor |
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| thunderstorm | (noun) a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning | Synonyms: electric storm, electrical storm |
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| transistor | (noun) a semiconductor device capable of amplification | Synonyms: electronic transistor, junction transistor |
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| trustor | (noun) (law) a person who creates a trust by giving real or personal property in trust to a trustee for the benefit of a beneficiary; a person who gives such property is said to settle it on the trustee | Synonyms: settlor |
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| windstorm | (noun) a storm consisting of violent winds | - |
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