| adjuvant | (noun) an additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment | - |
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| advance | (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress, progression |
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| (noun) increase in price or value | Synonyms: rise |
| (noun) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others | Synonyms: approach, feeler, overture |
| (noun) a movement forward | Synonyms: progress, progression |
| (noun) a change for the better; progress in development | Synonyms: betterment, improvement |
| (noun) an amount paid before it is earned | Synonyms: cash advance |
| advancement | (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress, progression |
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| (noun) gradual improvement or growth or development | Synonyms: progress |
| (noun) encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something | Synonyms: furtherance, promotion |
| advancer | (noun) someone who advances | - |
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| advantage | (noun) the quality of having a superior or more favorable position | Synonyms: vantage |
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| (noun) benefit resulting from some event or action | Synonyms: reward |
| (noun) (tennis) first point scored after deuce | - |
| advantageousness | (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, positivity, profitableness |
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| canavanine | (noun) an amino acid found in the jack bean | - |
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| caravan | (noun) a camper equipped with living quarters | Synonyms: van |
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| (noun) a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file | Synonyms: train, wagon train |
| caravanning | (noun) the practice of taking holidays in a caravan | - |
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| caravansary | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravanserai, khan |
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| caravanserai | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravansary, khan |
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| connivance | (noun) agreement on a secret plot | Synonyms: collusion |
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| (noun) (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing | Synonyms: secret approval, tacit consent |
| conservancy | (noun) the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc. | - |
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| (noun) a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river | - |
| contrivance | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: devisal |
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| (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
| (noun) any improvised arrangement for temporary use | Synonyms: lash-up |
| (noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | Synonyms: dodge, stratagem |
| (noun) the faculty of contriving; inventive skill | - |
| (noun) an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. | - |
| cordovan | (noun) a fine leather originally made in Cordoba, Spain | - |
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| disadvantage | (noun) the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position | - |
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| divan | (noun) a long backless sofa (usually with pillows against a wall) | - |
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| (noun) a Muslim council chamber or law court | Synonyms: diwan |
| (noun) a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author) | Synonyms: diwan |
| (noun) a Muslim council of state | Synonyms: diwan |
| evanescence | (noun) the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight | - |
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| evangel | (noun) the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings | Synonyms: Gospel, Gospels |
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| evangelicalism | (noun) stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation | - |
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| evangelism | (noun) zealous preaching and advocacy of the gospel | - |
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| evangelist | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: gospeler, gospeller, revivalist |
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| galvanisation | (noun) either the work of covering with metal by the use of a galvanic current or the coating of iron with zinc to protect it from rusting | Synonyms: galvanization |
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| (noun) stimulation that arouses a person to lively action | Synonyms: galvanization |
| (noun) stimulation with a galvanic current | Synonyms: galvanization |
| galvaniser | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvanizer, inspirer |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who coats iron or steel with zinc | Synonyms: galvanizer |
| galvanism | (noun) the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis) | Synonyms: electric healing, electrical healing, electrotherapy |
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| (noun) electricity produced by chemical action | - |
| galvanization | (noun) either the work of covering with metal by the use of a galvanic current or the coating of iron with zinc to protect it from rusting | Synonyms: galvanisation |
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| (noun) stimulation that arouses a person to lively action | Synonyms: galvanisation |
| (noun) stimulation with a galvanic current | Synonyms: galvanisation |
| galvanizer | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvaniser, inspirer |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who coats iron or steel with zinc | Synonyms: galvaniser |
| galvanometer | (noun) meter for detecting or comparing or measuring small electric currents | - |
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| grievance | (noun) a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action | - |
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| (noun) an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice | - |
| (noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grudge, score |
| irrelevance | (noun) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: irrelevancy |
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| irrelevancy | (noun) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: irrelevance |
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| levanter | (noun) an easterly wind in the western Mediterranean area | - |
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| maidservant | (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: amah, housemaid, maid |
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| manservant | (noun) a man servant | - |
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| minivan | (noun) a small box-shaped passenger van; usually has removable seats; used as a family car | - |
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| nirvana | (noun) any place of complete bliss and delight and peace | Synonyms: Eden, heaven, paradise, promised land, Shangri-la |
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| (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness | Synonyms: enlightenment |
| nonobservance | (noun) a lack of conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | - |
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| observance | (noun) the act of observing; taking a patient look | Synonyms: observation, watching |
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| (noun) conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | Synonyms: honoring, honouring |
| (noun) the act of noticing or paying attention | Synonyms: notice, observation |
| (noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, ceremony |
| pavan | (noun) a stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: pavane |
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| (noun) music composed for dancing the pavane | Synonyms: pavane |
| pavane | (noun) a stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: pavan |
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| (noun) music composed for dancing the pavane | Synonyms: pavan |
| relevance | (noun) the relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: relevancy |
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| relevancy | (noun) the relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: relevance |
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| savanna | (noun) a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | Synonyms: savannah |
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| savannah | (noun) a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | Synonyms: savanna |
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| savant | (noun) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field | Synonyms: initiate, learned person, pundit |
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| servant | (noun) a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | Synonyms: retainer |
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| (noun) in a subordinate position | Synonyms: handmaid, handmaiden |
| silvan | (noun) a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods | Synonyms: sylvan |
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| sylvan | (noun) a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods | Synonyms: silvan |
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| sylvanite | (noun) a silver-white mineral consisting of silver gold telluride; a source of gold in Australia and America | Synonyms: graphic tellurium |
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| televangelism | (noun) evangelism at a distance by the use of television | - |
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| televangelist | (noun) an evangelist who conducts services on television | - |
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| van | (noun) a truck with an enclosed cargo space | - |
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| (noun) a camper equipped with living quarters | Synonyms: caravan |
| (noun) (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight | - |
| (noun) the leading units moving at the head of an army | Synonyms: vanguard |
| (noun) any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts) | Synonyms: avant-garde, new wave, vanguard |
| vanadate | (noun) a salt or ester of vanadic acid; an anion containing pentavalent vanadium | - |
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| vanadinite | (noun) a mineral consisting of chloride and vanadate of lead; a source of vanadium | - |
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| vanadium | (noun) a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite | Synonyms: atomic number 23, V |
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| vancomycin | (noun) an antibiotic (trade name Vancocin) effective against some bacterial infections | Synonyms: Vancocin |
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| vanda | (noun) any of numerous showy orchids of the genus Vanda having many large flowers in loose racemes | - |
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| vandal | (noun) someone who willfully destroys or defaces property | - |
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| vandalism | (noun) willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others | Synonyms: hooliganism, malicious mischief |
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| vandyke | (noun) a short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke) | Synonyms: vandyke beard |
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| vane | (noun) the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft | Synonyms: web |
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| (noun) mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: weather vane, weathervane, wind vane |
| (noun) flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water | Synonyms: blade |
| (noun) a fin attached to the tail of an arrow, bomb or missile in order to stabilize or guide it | - |
| vanguard | (noun) the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field | Synonyms: cutting edge, forefront |
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| (noun) the leading units moving at the head of an army | Synonyms: van |
| (noun) any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts) | Synonyms: avant-garde, new wave, van |
| vanilla | (noun) a distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla beans | - |
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| (noun) a flavoring prepared from vanilla beans macerated in alcohol (or imitating vanilla beans) | Synonyms: vanilla extract |
| (noun) any of numerous climbing plants of the genus Vanilla having fleshy leaves and clusters of large waxy highly fragrant white or green or topaz flowers | - |
| vanillin | (noun) a crystalline compound found in vanilla beans and some balsam resins; used in perfumes and flavorings | - |
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| vanisher | (noun) a person who disappears | - |
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| vanishing | (noun) a sudden disappearance from sight | - |
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| (noun) a sudden or mysterious disappearance | - |
| vanity | (noun) low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup | Synonyms: dresser, dressing table, toilet table |
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| (noun) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride | Synonyms: conceit, conceitedness |
| (noun) the quality of being valueless or futile | Synonyms: emptiness |
| (noun) feelings of excessive pride | Synonyms: amour propre, conceit, self-love |
| vanquisher | (noun) someone who is victorious by force of arms | Synonyms: conqueror |
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| vantage | (noun) the quality of having a superior or more favorable position | Synonyms: advantage |
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| (noun) place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective) | - |
| weathervane | (noun) mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: vane, weather vane, wind vane |
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