| diversion | (noun) an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates | Synonyms: recreation |
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| (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, divagation |
| (noun) an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack | Synonyms: diversionary attack |
| diversionist | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: saboteur, wrecker |
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| diversity | (noun) the condition or result of being changeable | - |
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| (noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diverseness, multifariousness, variety |
| diverticulitis | (noun) inflammation of a diverticulum in the digestive tract (especially the colon); characterized by painful abdominal cramping and fever and constipation | - |
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| diverticulosis | (noun) presence of multiple diverticula in the walls of the colon | - |
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| diverticulum | (noun) a herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon) | - |
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| divertimento | (noun) a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form | Synonyms: serenade |
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| driver | (noun) a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee | Synonyms: number one wood |
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| (noun) (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device | Synonyms: device driver |
| (noun) the operator of a motor vehicle | - |
| (noun) a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver | - |
| (noun) someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle | - |
| drover | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: herder, herdsman |
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| elver | (noun) young eel | - |
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| (noun) young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried | - |
| engraver | (noun) a printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate | - |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching | - |
| evergreen | (noun) a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year | Synonyms: evergreen plant |
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| everlasting | (noun) any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | Synonyms: everlasting flower |
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| everlastingness | (noun) the property of lasting forever | - |
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| eversion | (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: everting, inversion |
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| (noun) the position of being turned outward | - |
| everting | (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: eversion, inversion |
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| everydayness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, commonplaceness |
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| everyman | (noun) the ordinary person | - |
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| everything | (noun) all things that are of importance to a person | - |
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| extraversion | (noun) (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self | Synonyms: extroversion |
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| extravert | (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extrovert |
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| extroversion | (noun) (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self | Synonyms: extraversion |
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| extrovert | (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extravert |
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| fever | (noun) a state of nervous excitement | - |
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| (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, feverishness, pyrexia |
| feverfew | (noun) bushy aromatic European perennial herb having clusters of buttonlike white-rayed flower heads; valued traditionally for medicinal uses; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum parthenium, Tanacetum parthenium |
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| feverishness | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, fever, pyrexia |
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| (noun) A state of wildly excited activity or emotion. | - |
| feverroot | (noun) coarse weedy American perennial herb with large usually perfoliate leaves and purple or dull red flowers | Synonyms: horse gentian, tinker's root, Triostium perfoliatum, wild coffee |
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| fiver | (noun) a United States bill worth 5 dollars | Synonyms: five-spot, five dollar bill |
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| flashover | (noun) an unintended electric discharge (as over or around an insulator) | - |
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| flyover | (noun) a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground | Synonyms: fly-by, flypast |
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| (noun) bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels | Synonyms: overpass |
| forgiver | (noun) a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense | Synonyms: excuser, pardoner |
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| giver | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: bestower, conferrer, donor, presenter |
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| (noun) someone who devotes himself completely | - |
| governance | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governing, government, government activity |
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| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, establishment, governing body, organisation, organization |
| governed | (noun) the body of people who are citizens of a particular government | - |
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| governess | (noun) a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home) | - |
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| governing | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, government, government activity |
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| government | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, governing, government activity |
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| (noun) (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed | - |
| (noun) the study of government of states and other political units | Synonyms: political science, politics |
| (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: authorities, regime |
| governor | (noun) a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel) | Synonyms: regulator |
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| (noun) the head of a state government | - |
| governorship | (noun) the office of governor | - |
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| graver | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graving tool, pointel, pointrel |
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| graverobber | (noun) someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection | Synonyms: body snatcher, ghoul |
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| (noun) someone who steals valuables from graves or crypts | - |
| griever | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: lamenter, mourner, sorrower |
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| groover | (noun) a device that makes grooves by cutting or punching | - |
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| groundcover | (noun) small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor | Synonyms: ground cover |
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| (noun) low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow | Synonyms: ground cover |
| handover | (noun) act of relinquishing property or authority etc | - |
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| hangover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: holdover |
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| (noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: holdover |
| (noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: katzenjammer |
| hardcover | (noun) a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers | Synonyms: hardback |
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| haversack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, knapsack, packsack, rucksack |
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| heaver | (noun) a bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope) | - |
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| (noun) a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard) | - |
| hemidemisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note | Synonyms: sixty-fourth note |
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| holdover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: hangover |
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| (noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: hangover |
| hoverboard | (noun) A device resembling a skateboard without wheels that can hover above the ground | - |
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| hovercraft | (noun) a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines | Synonyms: ground-effect machine |
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| impoverishment | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: pauperisation, pauperization |
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| (noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: poorness, poverty |
| improver | (noun) a component that is added to something to improve it | Synonyms: add-on, addition |
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| (noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, humanitarian |
| inadvertence | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities | Synonyms: heedlessness, inadvertency, unmindfulness |
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| (noun) an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something | Synonyms: oversight |
| inadvertency | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities | Synonyms: heedlessness, inadvertence, unmindfulness |
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| incontrovertibility | (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibleness, positiveness, positivity |
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| incontrovertibleness | (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, positiveness, positivity |
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| inconvertibility | (noun) the quality of not being exchangeable | - |
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| introversion | (noun) (psychology) an introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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| (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, intussusception, invagination |
| (noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: invagination |
| introvert | (noun) (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts | - |
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| inverse | (noun) something inverted in sequence or character or effect | Synonyms: opposite |
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| inversion | (noun) turning upside down; setting on end | Synonyms: upending |
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| (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: eversion, everting |
| (noun) a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: sexual inversion |
| (noun) the reversal of the normal order of words | Synonyms: anastrophe |
| (noun) (counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa | - |
| (noun) (genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed | - |
| (noun) the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer | - |
| (noun) a chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa | - |
| (noun) abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth) | - |
| invertase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose | Synonyms: saccharase, sucrase |
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| invertebrate | (noun) any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification | - |
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| inverter | (noun) an electrical converter that converts direct current into alternating current | - |
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| irreverence | (noun) a disrespectful act | Synonyms: violation |
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| (noun) an irreverent mental attitude | - |
| irreversibility | (noun) the quality of being irreversible (once done it cannot be changed) | - |
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| klavern | (noun) a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan | - |
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| knavery | (noun) lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing | Synonyms: dishonesty |
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| landrover | (noun) a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain | Synonyms: jeep |
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| laver | (noun) (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions | - |
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| (noun) seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds | Synonyms: sea lettuce |
| (noun) edible red seaweeds | Synonyms: red laver |
| lawgiver | (noun) a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws | Synonyms: lawmaker |
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| layover | (noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey | Synonyms: stop, stopover |
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| leaver | (noun) someone who leaves | Synonyms: departer, goer |
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| leftover | (noun) a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists | Synonyms: remnant |
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| leftovers | (noun) food remaining from a previous meal | - |
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| lever | (noun) a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum | - |
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| (noun) a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock | Synonyms: lever tumbler |
| (noun) a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum | - |
| leverage | (noun) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) | Synonyms: leveraging |
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| (noun) strategic advantage; power to act effectively | - |
| (noun) the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever | Synonyms: purchase |
| leveraging | (noun) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) | Synonyms: leverage |
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| leveret | (noun) a young hare especially one in its first year | - |
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| lifesaver | (noun) a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material | Synonyms: life belt, life buoy, life ring |
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| (noun) an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents | Synonyms: lifeguard |
| liver | (noun) large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes | - |
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| (noun) liver of an animal used as meat | - |
| (noun) someone who lives in a place | - |
| (noun) a person who has a special life style | - |
| liverleaf | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having three-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring; of moist and mossy subalpine woodland areas of north temperate regions | Synonyms: hepatica |
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| liverwort | (noun) any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses | Synonyms: hepatic |
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| liverwurst | (noun) sausage containing ground liver | Synonyms: liver pudding, liver sausage |
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| livery | (noun) the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another | Synonyms: delivery, legal transfer |
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| (noun) the care (feeding and stabling) of horses for pay | - |
| (noun) uniform worn by some menservants and chauffeurs | - |
| liveryman | (noun) a worker in a livery stable | - |
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| louver | (noun) one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain | Synonyms: fin, louvre |
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| lover | (noun) a person who loves someone or is loved by someone | - |
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| (noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: buff, devotee, fan |
| (noun) a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage | - |
| makeover | (noun) an overall beauty treatment (involving a person's hair style and cosmetics and clothing) intended to change or improve a person's appearance | - |
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| (noun) a complete reconstruction and renovation of something | - |
| malversation | (noun) misconduct in public office | - |
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| maneuver | (noun) a move made to gain a tactical end | Synonyms: manoeuvre, tactical maneuver, tactical manoeuvre |
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| (noun) an action aimed at evading an opponent | Synonyms: evasive action, manoeuvre |
| (noun) a military training exercise | Synonyms: manoeuvre, simulated military operation |
| (noun) a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill | Synonyms: manoeuvre, play |
| (noun) a plan for attaining a particular goal | Synonyms: manoeuvre, tactic, tactics |
| maneuverability | (noun) the quality of being maneuverable | Synonyms: manoeuvrability |
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| maneuverer | (noun) a person skilled in maneuvering | Synonyms: manoeuvrer |
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| maverick | (noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it | - |
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| (noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: rebel |
| miniver | (noun) trimming on ceremonial robes consisting of white or light grey fur | - |
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| misbeliever | (noun) a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: heretic, religious outcast |
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| misgovernment | (noun) government that is inefficient or dishonest | Synonyms: misrule |
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