| police | (noun) the force of policemen and officers | Synonyms: constabulary, law, police force |
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| polyvalence | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, multivalency, polyvalency |
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| (noun) (toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism | Synonyms: polyvalency |
| ponce | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, procurer |
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| (noun) a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses | - |
| populace | (noun) people in general considered as a whole | Synonyms: public, world |
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| potence | (noun) the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse | Synonyms: potency |
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| poultice | (noun) a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc. | Synonyms: cataplasm, plaster |
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| pounce | (noun) the act of pouncing | - |
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| practice | (noun) a customary way of operation or behavior | Synonyms: pattern |
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| (noun) systematic training by multiple repetitions | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practice session, recitation |
| (noun) the exercise of a profession | - |
| (noun) translating an idea into action | Synonyms: praxis |
| (noun) knowledge of how something is usually done | - |
| prance | (noun) a proud stiff pompous gait | Synonyms: strut, swagger |
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| precedence | (noun) the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) | Synonyms: precedency, precession |
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| (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedency, priority |
| (noun) status established in order of importance or urgency | Synonyms: precedency, priority |
| precipice | (noun) a very steep cliff | - |
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| precipitance | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| predominance | (noun) the quality of being more noticeable than anything else | Synonyms: predomination |
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| (noun) the state of being predominant over others | Synonyms: predomination, prepotency |
| preeminence | (noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: distinction, eminence, note |
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| preexistence | (noun) existing in a former state or previous to something else | - |
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| preface | (noun) a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book | Synonyms: foreword, prolusion |
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| preference | (noun) grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties) | - |
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| (noun) the right or chance to choose | Synonyms: druthers |
| (noun) a predisposition in favor of something | Synonyms: orientation, predilection |
| (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: penchant, predilection, taste |
| prejudice | (noun) a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation | Synonyms: bias, preconception |
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| prentice | (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: apprentice, learner |
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| preponderance | (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: prevalence |
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| (noun) exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight | - |
| (noun) superiority in power or influence | - |
| prepuce | (noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis | Synonyms: foreskin |
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| (noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris | Synonyms: foreskin |
| prescience | (noun) the power to foresee the future | Synonyms: prevision |
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| presence | (noun) the act of being present | - |
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| (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: bearing, comportment, mien |
| (noun) the impression that something is present | - |
| (noun) the immediate proximity of someone or something | Synonyms: front |
| (noun) an invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby | - |
| (noun) the state of being present; current existence | - |
| pretence | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretending, pretense, simulation |
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| (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretense, pretension |
| (noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretense, pretext |
| (noun) imaginative intellectual play | Synonyms: make-believe, pretense |
| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, feigning, pretense |
| prevalence | (noun) the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread | - |
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| (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: preponderance |
| (noun) (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population | - |
| price | (noun) the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold) | Synonyms: cost, monetary value |
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| (noun) the high value or worth of something | - |
| (noun) value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something | Synonyms: cost, toll |
| (noun) a monetary reward for helping to catch a criminal | - |
| (noun) the amount of money needed to purchase something | Synonyms: damage, terms |
| (noun) cost of bribing someone | - |
| prince | (noun) a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign) | - |
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| procurance | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurement |
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| produce | (noun) fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market | Synonyms: garden truck, green goods, green groceries |
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| prominence | (noun) relative importance or fame | - |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
| (noun) the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent | - |
| prospicience | (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, foresight, prevision |
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| protuberance | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, swelling |
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| (noun) the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out | - |
| provenance | (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenience |
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| provenience | (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance |
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| providence | (noun) the guardianship and control exercised by a deity | - |
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| (noun) the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources | - |
| (noun) a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures | - |
| province | (noun) the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation | Synonyms: state |
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| (noun) the proper sphere or extent of your activities | Synonyms: responsibility |
| prudence | (noun) discretion in practical affairs | - |
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| (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: circumspection, discreetness, discretion |
| prurience | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, pruriency |
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| pseudoscience | (noun) an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions | - |
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| pubescence | (noun) the time of life when sex glands become functional | Synonyms: puberty |
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| puce | (noun) a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red | - |
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| puissance | (noun) power to influence or coerce | - |
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| pumice | (noun) a light glass formed on the surface of some lavas; used as an abrasive | Synonyms: pumice stone |
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| pursuance | (noun) the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion | Synonyms: prosecution |
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| (noun) a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria | Synonyms: pursuit, quest |
| purulence | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: festering, ichor, pus, sanies, suppuration |
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| (noun) symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus) | Synonyms: purulency |
| purveyance | (noun) the act of supplying something | - |
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| putrescence | (noun) the quality of rotting and becoming putrid | Synonyms: rottenness |
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| (noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction | Synonyms: corruption, putridness, rottenness |
| quiescence | (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: dormancy, quiescency, sleeping |
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| (noun) a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction | Synonyms: dormancy, quiescency |
| quince | (noun) aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves | - |
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| (noun) small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated | Synonyms: Cydonia oblonga, quince bush |
| quintessence | (noun) the purest and most concentrated essence of something | - |
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| (noun) the most typical example or representative of a type | - |
| (noun) the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies | Synonyms: ether |
| quittance | (noun) payment of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: repayment |
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| (noun) a document or receipt certifying release from an obligation or debt | - |
| race | (noun) a canal for a current of water | Synonyms: raceway |
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| (noun) a contest of speed | - |
| (noun) any competition | - |
| (noun) people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock | - |
| (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species | Synonyms: subspecies |
| (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, backwash, slipstream, wash |
| radiance | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine |
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| (noun) the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface | Synonyms: glow, glowing |
| (noun) an attractive combination of good health and happiness | - |
| reactance | (noun) opposition to the flow of electric current resulting from inductance and capacitance (rather than resistance) | - |
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| reappearance | (noun) the act of someone appearing again | Synonyms: return |
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| (noun) the event of something appearing again | - |
| reassurance | (noun) the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence | - |
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| recalcitrance | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrancy, refractoriness, unmanageableness |
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| recce | (noun) reconnaissance (by shortening) | Synonyms: recco, reccy |
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| recognisance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognizance |
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| recognizance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognisance |
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| reconnaissance | (noun) the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy) | Synonyms: reconnaissance mission |
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| recrudescence | (noun) a return of something after a period of abatement | - |
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| recurrence | (noun) happening again (especially at regular intervals) | Synonyms: return |
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| redolence | (noun) a pleasingly sweet olfactory property | Synonyms: bouquet, fragrance, fragrancy, sweetness |
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| redundance | (noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundancy |
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| reedmace | (noun) tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: bullrush, bulrush, cat's-tail, nailrod, reed mace, Typha latifolia |
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| reference | (noun) the act of referring or consulting | Synonyms: consultation |
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| (noun) the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to | Synonyms: denotation, extension |
| (noun) the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to | - |
| (noun) a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability | Synonyms: character, character reference |
| (noun) a remark that calls attention to something or someone | Synonyms: mention |
| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation |
| (noun) a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts | Synonyms: book of facts, reference book, reference work |
| (noun) an indicator that orients you generally | Synonyms: point of reference, reference point |
| (noun) a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to | Synonyms: source |
| (noun) (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored | Synonyms: address, computer address |
| reflectance | (noun) the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a surface | Synonyms: coefficient of reflection, reflection factor, reflectivity |
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| refulgence | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgency, shine |
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| reinsurance | (noun) sharing the risk by insurance companies; part or all of the insurer's risk is assumed by other companies in return for part of the premium paid by the insured | - |
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| rejuvenescence | (noun) A renewal of youthful characteristics or vitality. | - |
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| relevance | (noun) the relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: relevancy |
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| reliance | (noun) certainty based on past experience | Synonyms: trust |
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| (noun) the state of relying on something | - |
| reluctance | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition |
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| (noun) (physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance) | - |
| remembrance | (noun) the ability to recall past occurrences | Synonyms: anamnesis, recollection |
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| (noun) a recognition of meritorious service | Synonyms: commemoration, memorial |
| reminiscence | (noun) the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort) | Synonyms: recall, recollection |
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| (noun) a mental impression retained and recalled from the past | - |
| remittance | (noun) a payment of money sent to a person in another place | Synonyms: remission, remitment, remittal |
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| remonstrance | (noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: expostulation, objection, remonstration |
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| renascence | (noun) a second or new birth | Synonyms: rebirth, reincarnation |
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| repentance | (noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penance, penitence |
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| repugnance | (noun) intense aversion | Synonyms: horror, repulsion, revulsion |
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| (noun) the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time | Synonyms: incompatibility, inconsistency, mutual exclusiveness |
| rerebrace | (noun) cannon that provides plate armor for the upper arm | Synonyms: upper cannon |
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| resemblance | (noun) similarity in appearance or external or superficial details | - |
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| residence | (noun) the act of dwelling in a place | Synonyms: abidance, residency |
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| (noun) the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president) | - |
| (noun) a large and imposing house | Synonyms: hall, manse, mansion, mansion house |
| (noun) any address at which you dwell more than temporarily | Synonyms: abode |
| resilience | (noun) the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit | Synonyms: resiliency |
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| (noun) an occurrence of rebounding or springing back | Synonyms: resiliency |
| resistance | (noun) group action in opposition to those in power | - |
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| (noun) the military action of resisting the enemy's advance | - |
| (noun) the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with | Synonyms: opposition |
| (noun) an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current | Synonyms: resistor |
| (noun) the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria) | - |
| (noun) (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness | - |
| (noun) a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force | Synonyms: underground |
| (noun) any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion | - |
| (noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms | Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, ohmic resistance, resistivity |
| (noun) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease | Synonyms: immunity |
| (noun) the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents | - |
| resonance | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| (noun) the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities | - |
| (noun) a vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system | - |
| (noun) an excited state of a stable particle causing a sharp maximum in the probability of absorption of electromagnetic radiation | - |
| (noun) a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people | Synonyms: rapport |
| resource | (noun) a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed | - |
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| (noun) the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems | Synonyms: imagination, resourcefulness |
| (noun) available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed | - |
| resplendence | (noun) brilliant radiant beauty | Synonyms: glory, resplendency |
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| resurgence | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: revitalisation, revitalization, revival, revivification |
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| reticence | (noun) the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary | Synonyms: reserve, taciturnity |
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| reverberance | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| reverence | (noun) an act showing respect (especially a bow or curtsy) | - |
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| (noun) a reverent mental attitude | - |
| (noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: awe, fear, veneration |
| rice | (noun) grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished | - |
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| (noun) annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper | - |
| riddance | (noun) the act of forcing out someone or something | Synonyms: ejection, exclusion, expulsion |
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| (noun) the act of removing or getting rid of something | Synonyms: elimination |
| romance | (noun) an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) | Synonyms: romanticism |
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| (noun) a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life | - |
| (noun) a story dealing with love | Synonyms: love story |
| (noun) a relationship between two lovers | Synonyms: love affair |
| sacrifice | (noun) the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity | Synonyms: ritual killing |
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| (noun) the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. | Synonyms: forfeit, forfeiture |
| (noun) (baseball) an out that advances the base runners | - |
| (noun) personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective) | - |
| (noun) a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value | - |
| salience | (noun) the state of being salient | Synonyms: saliency, strikingness |
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| sapience | (noun) ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight | Synonyms: wisdom |
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| sauce | (noun) flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food | - |
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