| activism | (noun) a policy of taking direct action to achieve a political or social goal | - |
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| activist | (noun) a militant reformer | Synonyms: militant |
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| advisability | (noun) the quality of being advisable | - |
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| advisee | (noun) someone who receives advice | - |
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| advisement | (noun) careful consideration | Synonyms: deliberation, weighing |
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| adviser | (noun) an expert who gives advice | Synonyms: advisor, consultant |
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| advisor | (noun) an expert who gives advice | Synonyms: adviser, consultant |
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| advisory | (noun) an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threat | - |
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| archivist | (noun) a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives | - |
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| arriviste | (noun) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart |
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| atavism | (noun) a reappearance of an earlier characteristic | Synonyms: reversion, throwback |
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| atavist | (noun) an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism | Synonyms: throwback |
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| audiovisual | (noun) materials using sight or sound to present information | Synonyms: audiovisual aid |
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| bonavist | (noun) perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos | Synonyms: Dolichos lablab, Egyptian bean, hyacinth bean, Indian bean, Lablab purpureus |
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| clevis | (noun) a coupler shaped like the letter U with holes through each end so a bolt or pin can pass through the holes to complete the coupling; used to attach a drawbar to a plow or wagon or trailer etc. | - |
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| collectivisation | (noun) the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | Synonyms: collectivization |
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| collectivism | (noun) a political theory that the people should own the means of production | - |
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| (noun) Soviet communism | Synonyms: Bolshevism, sovietism |
| collectivist | (noun) a person who belongs to the political left | Synonyms: left-winger, leftist |
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| conservativism | (noun) a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes | Synonyms: conservatism |
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| conservativist | (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservative |
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| constructivism | (noun) an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects | - |
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| constructivist | (noun) an artist of the school of constructivism | - |
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| deconstructivism | (noun) a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction | - |
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| dervish | (noun) an ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements | - |
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| descriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics | - |
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| (noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements have a truth value | - |
| devisal | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: contrivance |
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| devise | (noun) (law) a gift of real property by will | - |
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| (noun) a will disposing of real property | - |
| devisee | (noun) someone to whom property (especially realty) is devised by will | - |
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| deviser | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: contriver, planner |
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| devising | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: fashioning, making |
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| devisor | (noun) someone who devises real property in a will | - |
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| divisibility | (noun) the quality of being divisible; the capacity to be divided into parts or divided among a number of persons | - |
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| division | (noun) the act or process of dividing | - |
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| (noun) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed | - |
| (noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: partition, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation |
| (noun) one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole | Synonyms: part, section |
| (noun) discord that splits a group | Synonyms: variance |
| (noun) an army unit large enough to sustain combat | - |
| (noun) a group of ships of similar type | Synonyms: naval division |
| (noun) a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings | Synonyms: air division |
| (noun) an administrative unit in government or business | - |
| (noun) (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum | - |
| (noun) (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category | - |
| (noun) a league ranked by quality | Synonyms: class |
| divisor | (noun) the number by which a dividend is divided | - |
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| (noun) one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer | Synonyms: factor |
| dovishness | (noun) any political orientation favoring compromise to avoid conflict | - |
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| ecrevisse | (noun) small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America | Synonyms: Old World crayfish |
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| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
| envisioning | (noun) visual imagery | Synonyms: picturing |
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| evisceration | (noun) surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient | - |
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| (noun) the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude | Synonyms: disembowelment |
| (noun) altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value | - |
| fauvism | (noun) an art movement launched in 1905 whose work was characterized by bright and nonnatural colors and simple forms; influenced the expressionists | - |
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| fauvist | (noun) a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism | Synonyms: Fauve |
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| favism | (noun) anemia resulting from eating fava beans; victims have an inherited blood abnormality and enzyme deficiency | - |
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| improvisation | (noun) an unplanned expedient | Synonyms: temporary expedient |
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| (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporisation, extemporization |
| (noun) a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation) | - |
| inadvisability | (noun) the quality of being ill-advised | - |
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| indivisibility | (noun) (arithmetic) The state of being impossible to divide by a specific integer without leaving a remainder. | - |
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| invisibility | (noun) the quality of not being perceivable by the eye | Synonyms: invisibleness |
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| invisibleness | (noun) the quality of not being perceivable by the eye | Synonyms: invisibility |
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| lavishness | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: extravagance, high life, highlife, prodigality |
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| (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: luxury, sumptuosity, sumptuousness |
| levis | (noun) a popular brand of jeans | Synonyms: Levi's |
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| mavis | (noun) common Old World thrush noted for its song | Synonyms: song thrush, throstle, Turdus philomelos |
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| mucoviscidosis | (noun) the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is known | Synonyms: CF, cystic fibrosis, fibrocystic disease of the pancreas, pancreatic fibrosis |
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| nativism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate | - |
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| (noun) the policy of perpetuating native cultures (in opposition to acculturation) | - |
| nativist | (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to nativism | - |
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| negativism | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativeness, negativity |
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| negativist | (noun) someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions | Synonyms: defeatist |
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| (noun) someone who refuses to do what is asked or does the opposite of what is asked | - |
| nervism | (noun) the philosophical position adopted by Pavlov that all behavioral and physiological processes are regulated by the nervous system. | - |
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| parvis | (noun) a courtyard or portico in front of a building (especially a cathedral) | - |
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| passivism | (noun) the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable | Synonyms: pacificism, pacifism |
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| pavis | (noun) (Middle Ages) a large heavy oblong shield protecting the whole body; originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position | Synonyms: pavise |
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| pavise | (noun) (Middle Ages) a large heavy oblong shield protecting the whole body; originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position | Synonyms: pavis |
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| peevishness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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| (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, petulance |
| pelvis | (noun) the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates | Synonyms: hip, pelvic arch, pelvic girdle |
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| (noun) a structure shaped like a funnel in the outlet of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter | Synonyms: renal pelvis |
| permissivism | (noun) lenience toward or indulgence of a wide variety of social behavior. | - |
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| positivism | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positiveness, positivity |
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| (noun) the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) | Synonyms: logical positivism |
| positivist | (noun) someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes | Synonyms: rationalist |
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| prescriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting prescriptive linguistics | - |
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| (noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements prescribe appropriate attitudes and behavior | - |
| prevision | (noun) the power to foresee the future | Synonyms: prescience |
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| (noun) a prophetic vision (as in a dream) | - |
| (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, foresight, prospicience |
| (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: anticipation, prediction |
| primitivism | (noun) a genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children | - |
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| (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, rudeness |
| progressivism | (noun) the political orientation of those who favor progress toward better conditions in government and society | - |
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| protoavis | (noun) most primitive avian type known; extinct bird of the Triassic having bird-like jaw and hollow limbs and breastbone with dinosaur-like tail and hind limbs | - |
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| provision | (noun) the activity of supplying or providing something | Synonyms: supply, supplying |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening | Synonyms: planning, preparation |
| (noun) a stipulated condition | Synonyms: proviso |
| (noun) a store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms) | - |
| provisioner | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: sutler, victualer, victualler |
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| provisions | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, viands, victuals |
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| proviso | (noun) a stipulated condition | Synonyms: provision |
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| ravisher | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: debaucher, violator |
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| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
| ravishment | (noun) the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will | Synonyms: assault, rape, violation |
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| (noun) a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment | Synonyms: entrancement |
| recidivism | (noun) habitual relapse into crime | - |
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| recidivist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, reversionist |
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| (noun) someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) | Synonyms: habitual criminal, repeater |
| reductivism | (noun) an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color | Synonyms: minimal art, minimalism |
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| relativisation | (noun) the act or result of making relative or regarding as relative rather than absolute. | Synonyms: relativization |
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| relativism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that all criteria of judgment are relative to the individuals and situations involved | - |
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| reservist | (noun) a member of a military reserve | - |
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| retrovision | (noun) a vision of events in the distant past | - |
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| revisal | (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: rescript, revise, revision |
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| revise | (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: rescript, revisal, revision |
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| reviser | (noun) someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication | Synonyms: redact, redactor, rewrite man, rewriter |
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| revising | (noun) editing that involves writing something again | Synonyms: rewriting |
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| revision | (noun) the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification) | Synonyms: alteration |
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| (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: rescript, rewrite |
| (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: rescript, revisal, revise |
| revisionism | (noun) a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism | - |
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| (noun) any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx | - |
| revisionist | (noun) a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position | - |
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| subdivision | (noun) the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided | - |
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| (noun) a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided | Synonyms: subsection |
| (noun) a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical) | Synonyms: section |
| (noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: arm, branch |
| (noun) an area composed of subdivided lots | - |
| subjectivism | (noun) the quality of being subjective | - |
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| (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge and value are dependent on and limited by your subjective experience | - |
| subjectivist | (noun) a person who subscribes to subjectivism | - |
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| supervising | (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: oversight, superintendence, supervision |
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| supervision | (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: oversight, superintendence, supervising |
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| supervisor | (noun) a program that controls the execution of other programs | Synonyms: executive program, supervisory program |
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| (noun) one who supervises or has charge and direction of | - |
| television | (noun) a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points | Synonyms: television system |
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| (noun) an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen | Synonyms: boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television receiver, television set, telly, tv, tv set |
| (noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: telecasting, TV, video |
| televisuality | (noun) Quality of being of, relating to, or being suitable for broadcast by television. | - |
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| thievishness | (noun) having a disposition to steal | Synonyms: larcenous |
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| visa | (noun) an endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it | - |
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| visage | (noun) the appearance conveyed by a person's face | Synonyms: countenance |
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| (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, kisser, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler |