| advocate | (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocator, exponent, proponent |
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| (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
| affricate | (noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') | Synonyms: affricate consonant, affricative |
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| aguacate | (noun) a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed | Synonyms: alligator pear, avocado, avocado pear |
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| borosilicate | (noun) a salt of boric and silicic acids | - |
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| certificate | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certification, credential, credentials |
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| (noun) a formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends | Synonyms: security |
| duplicate | (noun) a copy that corresponds to an original exactly | Synonyms: duplication |
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| (noun) something additional of the same kind | Synonyms: extra |
| fluosilicate | (noun) salt of fluosilicic acid | - |
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| lemniscate | (noun) any of several plane algebraic curves in the shape of a figure eight | - |
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| pontificate | (noun) the government of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: papacy |
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| predicate | (noun) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements | Synonyms: verb phrase |
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| (noun) (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula | - |
| quadruplicate | (noun) any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one another exactly | - |
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| silicate | (noun) a salt or ester derived from silicic acid | - |
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| sophisticate | (noun) a worldly-wise person | Synonyms: man of the world |
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| suricate | (noun) burrowing diurnal meerkat of southern Africa; often kept as a pet | Synonyms: Suricata tetradactyla |
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| syndicate | (noun) an association of companies for some definite purpose | Synonyms: consortium, pool |
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| (noun) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities | Synonyms: crime syndicate, family, mob |
| (noun) a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication | - |
| triplicate | (noun) one of three copies; any of three things that correspond to one another exactly | - |
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| tunicate | (noun) primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva | Synonyms: urochord, urochordate |
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