| excruciation | (noun) the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering | Synonyms: crucifixion |
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| (noun) a state of acute pain | Synonyms: agony, suffering |
| exculpation | (noun) the act of freeing from guilt or blame | - |
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| (noun) a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Synonyms: alibi, excuse, self-justification |
| excursion | (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: expedition, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
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| (noun) wandering from the main path of a journey | Synonyms: digression |
| excursionist | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: rubberneck, sightseer, tripper |
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| excursus | (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, divagation, parenthesis |
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| excuse | (noun) a poor example | Synonyms: apology |
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| (noun) a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Synonyms: alibi, exculpation, self-justification |
| (noun) a note explaining an absence | - |
| excuser | (noun) a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense | Synonyms: forgiver, pardoner |
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| execration | (noun) the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated | - |
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| (noun) an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group | Synonyms: condemnation, curse |
| (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, loathing, odium |
| executability | (noun) capability of being executed | - |
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| executant | (noun) a performer (usually of musical works) | - |
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| executing | (noun) putting a condemned person to death | Synonyms: capital punishment, death penalty, execution |
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| execution | (noun) putting a condemned person to death | Synonyms: capital punishment, death penalty, executing |
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| (noun) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being | Synonyms: murder, slaying |
| (noun) the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it | Synonyms: carrying into action, carrying out, performance |
| (noun) the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order | Synonyms: carrying out, implementation |
| (noun) a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out | Synonyms: writ of execution |
| (noun) (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable | Synonyms: execution of instrument |
| (noun) (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer | Synonyms: instruction execution |
| executioner | (noun) an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant | Synonyms: public executioner |
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| executive | (noun) persons who administer the law | - |
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| (noun) a person responsible for the administration of a business | Synonyms: executive director |
| (noun) someone who manages a government agency or department | Synonyms: administrator |
| executor | (noun) a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will | - |
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| executrix | (noun) a woman executor | - |
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| exegesis | (noun) an explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible) | - |
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| exegete | (noun) a person skilled in exegesis (especially of religious texts) | - |
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| exemplar | (noun) something to be imitated | Synonyms: example, good example, model |
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| exemplariness | (noun) The state or condition of being exemplary, serving as a shining example. | - |
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| exemplification | (noun) a representational or typifying form or model | Synonyms: typification |
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| (noun) showing by example | Synonyms: illustration |
| exemption | (noun) an act exempting someone | Synonyms: granting immunity, immunity |
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| (noun) a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of his status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.) | - |
| (noun) immunity from an obligation or duty | Synonyms: freedom |
| exenteration | (noun) surgical removal of the organs within a body cavity (as those of the pelvis) | - |
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| exercise | (noun) the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit | Synonyms: exercising, physical exercise, physical exertion, workout |
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| (noun) a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding | Synonyms: example |
| (noun) systematic training by multiple repetitions | Synonyms: drill, practice, practice session, recitation |
| (noun) the act of using | Synonyms: employment, usage, use, utilisation, utilization |
| (noun) an action, often used negatively and without consequences | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches | - |
| exerciser | (noun) sports equipment used in gymnastic exercises | Synonyms: gymnastic apparatus |
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| exercising | (noun) the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit | Synonyms: exercise, physical exercise, physical exertion, workout |
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| exercycle | (noun) an exercise device resembling a stationary bike | Synonyms: exercise bike |
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| exertion | (noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work | Synonyms: effort, elbow grease, sweat, travail |
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| exfoliation | (noun) a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin | Synonyms: scale, scurf |
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| (noun) the peeling off in flakes or scales of bark or dead skin | - |
| exhalation | (noun) the act of expelling air from the lungs | Synonyms: breathing out, expiration |
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| (noun) exhaled breath | Synonyms: halitus |
| exhaust | (noun) system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged | Synonyms: exhaust system |
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| (noun) gases ejected from an engine as waste products | Synonyms: exhaust fumes, fumes |
| exhaustion | (noun) the act of exhausting something entirely | - |
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| (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: debilitation, enervation, enfeeblement |
| (noun) extreme fatigue | - |
| exhibit | (noun) something shown to the public | Synonyms: display, showing |
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| (noun) an object or statement produced before a court of law and referred to while giving evidence | - |
| exhibition | (noun) the act of exhibiting | - |
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| (noun) a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display | Synonyms: expo, exposition |
| exhibitioner | (noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitor, shower |
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| exhibitionism | (noun) the perverse act of exposing and attracting attention to your own genitals | Synonyms: immodesty |
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| (noun) extravagant and conspicuous behavior intended to attract attention to yourself | - |
| exhibitionist | (noun) someone who deliberately behaves in such a way as to attract attention | Synonyms: show-off |
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| (noun) someone with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals | Synonyms: flasher |
| exhibitor | (noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitioner, shower |
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| exhilaration | (noun) the feeling of lively and cheerful joy | Synonyms: excitement |
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| exhortation | (noun) the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion | Synonyms: incitement |
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| (noun) a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action | - |
| exhumation | (noun) the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried | Synonyms: digging up, disinterment |
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| exigency | (noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action | Synonyms: emergency, pinch |
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| (noun) a pressing or urgent situation | - |
| (noun) that which is required in a particular situation —usually used in plural. | - |
| exiguity | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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| exile | (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: deportation, expatriation, transportation |
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| (noun) a person who is expelled from home or country by authority | Synonyms: deportee |
| (noun) a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country | Synonyms: expat, expatriate |
| existence | (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, macrocosm, universe, world |
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| (noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, beingness, face of the earth |
| existentialism | (noun) (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves | Synonyms: existential philosophy, existentialist philosophy |
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| existentialist | (noun) a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable | Synonyms: existential philosopher, existentialist philosopher |
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| exit | (noun) the act of going out | - |
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| (noun) an opening that permits escape or release | Synonyms: issue, outlet, way out |
| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, expiration, going, loss, passing, release |
| exobiology | (noun) the branch of biology concerned with the effects of outer space on living organisms and the search for extraterrestrial life | Synonyms: astrobiology, space biology |
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| exocarp | (noun) outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape | Synonyms: epicarp |
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| exocrine | (noun) a gland that secretes externally through a duct | Synonyms: duct gland, exocrine gland |
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| exode | (noun) a farcical afterpiece in the ancient Roman theater | - |
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| exoderm | (noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue | Synonyms: ectoblast, ectoderm |
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| exodontia | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with extraction of teeth | Synonyms: exodontics |
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| exodontics | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with extraction of teeth | Synonyms: exodontia |
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| exodontist | (noun) a dentist specializing in the extraction of teeth | - |
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| exodus | (noun) a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment | Synonyms: hegira, hejira |
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| exogamy | (noun) marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law | Synonyms: intermarriage |
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| exogen | (noun) flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside | Synonyms: dicot, dicotyledon, magnoliopsid |
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| exomphalos | (noun) an umbilical hernia at birth in which some abdominal organs push into the umbilical cord | - |
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| exon | (noun) sequence of a gene's DNA that transcribes into protein structures | Synonyms: coding DNA |
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| exoneration | (noun) the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc. | Synonyms: vindication |
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| (noun) the condition of being relieved from blame or obligation | - |
| exonuclease | (noun) a nuclease that releases one nucleotide at a time (serially) beginning at one of a nucleic acid | - |
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| exophthalmos | (noun) protrusion of the eyeball from the socket | - |
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| exoplanet | (noun) A planet which exists outside Earth's solar system | - |
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| exorbitance | (noun) excessive excess | Synonyms: outrageousness |
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| exorciser | (noun) someone who practices exorcism | Synonyms: exorcist |
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| exorcism | (noun) freeing from evil spirits | Synonyms: dispossession |
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| exorcist | (noun) someone who practices exorcism | Synonyms: exorciser |
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| (noun) one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church | - |
| exordium | (noun) (rhetoric) the introductory section of an oration or discourse | - |
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| exoskeleton | (noun) the exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs | - |
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| exosphere | (noun) the outermost atmospheric layer | - |
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| exostosis | (noun) a benign outgrowth from a bone (usually covered with cartilage) | - |
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| exotherm | (noun) a compound that gives off heat during its formation and absorbs heat during its decomposition | - |
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| exoticism | (noun) the quality of being exotic | Synonyms: exoticness, exotism |
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| exoticness | (noun) the quality of being exotic | Synonyms: exoticism, exotism |
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| exotism | (noun) the quality of being exotic | Synonyms: exoticism, exoticness |
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| exotoxin | (noun) a toxin that is secreted by microorganisms into the surrounding medium | - |
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| exotropia | (noun) strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward | Synonyms: divergent strabismus, walleye |
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| expandability | (noun) A physical property of gases, denoting that they expand to fill their containers. | - |
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| expander | (noun) an electronic device that increases the dynamic range of the audio signal. | - |
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| expanse | (noun) the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary | Synonyms: area, surface area |
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| (noun) a wide scope | Synonyms: sweep |
| (noun) a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky | - |
| expansion | (noun) the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope | Synonyms: enlargement |
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| (noun) adding information or detail | Synonyms: expanding upon |
| (noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: elaboration, enlargement |
| (noun) a function expressed as a sum or product of terms | - |
| expansionism | (noun) the doctrine of expanding the territory or the economic influence of a country | - |
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| expansiveness | (noun) a friendly open trait of a talkative person | Synonyms: effusiveness, expansivity |
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| (noun) a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand | Synonyms: expansivity |
| expansivity | (noun) a friendly open trait of a talkative person | Synonyms: effusiveness, expansiveness |
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| (noun) a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand | Synonyms: expansiveness |
| (noun) the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure | Synonyms: coefficient of expansion |
| expat | (noun) a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country | Synonyms: exile, expatriate |
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| expatiation | (noun) a discussion (spoken or written) that enlarges on a topic or theme at length or in detail | - |
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| expatriate | (noun) a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country | Synonyms: exile, expat |
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| expatriation | (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: deportation, exile, transportation |
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| (noun) migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another) | Synonyms: emigration, out-migration |
| expectancy | (noun) something expected (as on the basis of a norm) | Synonyms: anticipation |
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| (noun) an expectation | Synonyms: anticipation |
| expectation | (noun) belief about (or mental picture of) the future | Synonyms: outlook, prospect |
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| (noun) the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values | Synonyms: arithmetic mean, expected value, first moment |
| (noun) the feeling that something is about to happen | - |
| (noun) anticipating with confidence of fulfillment | Synonyms: anticipation |
| expectedness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being expected and not surprising | - |
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| (noun) the state of being that is commonly observed | Synonyms: commonness |
| expectorant | (noun) a medicine promoting expectoration | Synonyms: expectorator |
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| expectoration | (noun) the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva) | Synonyms: spit, spitting |
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| (noun) the process of coughing up and spitting out | - |
| expectorator | (noun) a medicine promoting expectoration | Synonyms: expectorant |
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| (noun) a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth) | Synonyms: spitter |
| expedience | (noun) the quality of being suited to the end in view | Synonyms: expediency |
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| (noun) taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others | Synonyms: opportunism, self-interest, self-seeking |
| expediency | (noun) the quality of being suited to the end in view | Synonyms: expedience |
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| expedient | (noun) a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one | - |
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| expedition | (noun) a journey organized for a particular purpose | - |
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| (noun) a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country | Synonyms: hostile expedition, military expedition |
| (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
| (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch, expeditiousness |
| (noun) an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose | - |