| scapegrace | (noun) a reckless and unprincipled reprobate | Synonyms: black sheep |
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| science | (noun) a particular branch of scientific knowledge | Synonyms: scientific discipline |
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| (noun) ability to produce solutions in some problem domain | Synonyms: skill |
| sconce | (noun) a decorative wall bracket for holding candles or other sources of light | - |
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| (noun) a candle or flaming torch secured in a sconce | - |
| (noun) a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate | - |
| (noun) a shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather | - |
| seance | (noun) a meeting of spiritualists | Synonyms: session, sitting |
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| semblance | (noun) picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing | Synonyms: likeness |
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| (noun) an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading | Synonyms: color, colour, gloss |
| (noun) an erroneous mental representation | Synonyms: illusion |
| semitrance | (noun) a trancelike state in which the person can follow instructions but voluntary action is weak or absent | - |
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| senescence | (noun) the property characteristic of old age | Synonyms: agedness |
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| (noun) the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age | Synonyms: ageing, aging |
| sentence | (noun) (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed | Synonyms: condemnation, conviction, judgment of conviction |
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| (noun) a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language | - |
| (noun) the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned | Synonyms: prison term, time |
| sentience | (noun) the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | - |
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| (noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentiency |
| (noun) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | Synonyms: awareness |
| sequence | (noun) the action of following in order | Synonyms: succession |
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| (noun) film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie | Synonyms: episode |
| (noun) a following of one thing after another in time | Synonyms: chronological sequence, chronological succession, succession, successiveness |
| (noun) several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys | - |
| (noun) serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern | - |
| service | (noun) an act of help or assistance; something (such as a tool, software or system) used to render said help or assistance | - |
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| (noun) the act of public worship following prescribed rules | Synonyms: divine service, religious service |
| (noun) (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play | Synonyms: serve |
| (noun) the act of mating by male animals | Synonyms: servicing |
| (noun) the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone | Synonyms: service of process, serving |
| (noun) periodic maintenance on a car or machine | Synonyms: inspection and repair, overhaul |
| (noun) the performance of duties by a waiter or servant | - |
| (noun) employment in or work for another | - |
| (noun) work done by one person or group that benefits another | - |
| (noun) (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him | - |
| (noun) tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table | Synonyms: table service |
| (noun) a means of serving | Synonyms: avail, help |
| (noun) a force that is a branch of the armed forces | Synonyms: armed service, military service |
| (noun) a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation | - |
| severance | (noun) the act of severing | Synonyms: severing |
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| (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rift, rupture |
| shoelace | (noun) a lace used for fastening shoes | Synonyms: shoe lace, shoe string, shoestring |
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| showpiece | (noun) the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection | Synonyms: collector's item, piece de resistance |
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| showplace | (noun) a place that is frequently exhibited and visited for its historical interest or natural beauty | - |
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| significance | (noun) the quality of being significant | - |
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| (noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: implication, import |
| (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, signification |
| silence | (noun) the absence of sound | Synonyms: quiet |
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| (noun) a refusal to speak when expected | Synonyms: muteness |
| (noun) the trait of keeping things secret | Synonyms: secrecy, secretiveness |
| (noun) the state of being silent (as when no one is speaking) | - |
| sixpence | (noun) a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970 | Synonyms: tanner |
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| slice | (noun) a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: fade, slicing |
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| (noun) a spatula for spreading paint or ink | - |
| (noun) a serving that has been cut from a larger portion | Synonyms: piece |
| (noun) a thin flat piece cut off of some object | - |
| (noun) a share of something | Synonyms: piece |
| (noun) a wound made by cutting | Synonyms: cut, gash, slash |
| sluice | (noun) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate | Synonyms: penstock, sluiceway |
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| solace | (noun) the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction | Synonyms: comfort, consolation |
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| (noun) the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment | Synonyms: consolation, solacement |
| (noun) comfort in disappointment or misery | Synonyms: solacement |
| solstice | (noun) either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator | - |
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| somnolence | (noun) a very sleepy state | Synonyms: drowsiness, sleepiness |
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| source | (noun) a facility where something is available | - |
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| (noun) anything that provides inspiration for later work | Synonyms: germ, seed |
| (noun) a document (or organization) from which information is obtained | - |
| (noun) a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to | Synonyms: reference |
| (noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: beginning, origin, root, rootage |
| (noun) anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies | Synonyms: reservoir |
| (noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something | Synonyms: author, generator |
| (noun) a person who supplies information | Synonyms: informant |
| (noun) (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system | - |
| space | (noun) the unlimited expanse in which everything is located | Synonyms: infinite |
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| (noun) (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences | Synonyms: quad |
| (noun) a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing | Synonyms: blank |
| (noun) a blank area | Synonyms: blank space, place |
| (noun) one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff | - |
| (noun) an area reserved for some particular purpose | - |
| (noun) any location outside the Earth's atmosphere | Synonyms: outer space |
| (noun) an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things) | - |
| (noun) the interval between two times | Synonyms: distance |
| spice | (noun) the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored | Synonyms: spicery, spiciness |
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| (noun) any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food | - |
| (noun) aromatic substances of vegetable origin used as a preservative | - |
| splice | (noun) joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together | Synonyms: lap joint |
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| (noun) a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together | Synonyms: splicing |
| spruce | (noun) any coniferous tree of the genus Picea | - |
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| (noun) light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork | - |
| stance | (noun) standing posture | - |
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| (noun) a rationalized mental attitude | Synonyms: position, posture |
| statice | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers | Synonyms: marsh rosemary, sea lavender |
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| stoneface | (noun) any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones | Synonyms: flowering stone, lithops, living stone, stone-face, stone life face, stone plant |
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| stridence | (noun) having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound | Synonyms: shrillness, stridency |
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| submergence | (noun) sinking until covered completely with water | Synonyms: immersion, submerging, submersion |
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| subsequence | (noun) following in time | Synonyms: posteriority, subsequentness |
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| (noun) something that follows something else | Synonyms: sequel |
| subservience | (noun) abject or cringing submissiveness | Synonyms: obsequiousness, servility |
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| (noun) the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan | - |
| (noun) in a subservient state | Synonyms: subservientness |
| subsidence | (noun) a gradual sinking to a lower level | Synonyms: settling, subsiding |
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| (noun) the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it | Synonyms: cave in |
| (noun) an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease) | Synonyms: remission, remittal |
| subsistence | (noun) minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting | - |
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| (noun) the state of existing in reality; having substance | - |
| (noun) a means of surviving | - |
| subspace | (noun) a space that is contained within another space | - |
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| substance | (noun) the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists | - |
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| (noun) a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties | - |
| (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistence, consistency |
| (noun) the idea that is intended | Synonyms: meaning |
| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, sum |
| (noun) content communicating a message; what something is about | Synonyms: content, message, subject matter |
| (noun) considerable capital (wealth or income) | Synonyms: means |
| (noun) material of a particular kind or constitution | - |
| succulence | (noun) a juicy appetizingness | Synonyms: juiciness, succulency |
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| sufferance | (noun) patient endurance especially of pain or distress | - |
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| (noun) a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations | Synonyms: acceptance, toleration |
| superabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overabundance, overmuch, overmuchness |
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| superintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: hyperintelligence |
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| superintendence | (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: oversight, supervising, supervision |
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| surface | (noun) the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary | - |
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| (noun) a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight | Synonyms: aerofoil, airfoil, control surface |
| (noun) a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something | - |
| (noun) information that has become public | Synonyms: open |
| (noun) the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object | - |
| (noun) the outermost level of the land or sea | Synonyms: Earth's surface |
| surplice | (noun) a loose-fitting white ecclesiastical vestment with wide sleeves | - |
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| surveillance | (noun) close observation of a person or group (usually by the police) | - |
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| sustenance | (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: maintenance, sustainment, sustentation, upkeep |
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| (noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, victuals |
| (noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, support |
| symploce | (noun) repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses, i.e., simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe | - |
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| tailpiece | (noun) appendage added to extend the length of something | - |
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| tailrace | (noun) a watercourse that carries water away from a mill or water wheel or turbine | - |
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| tarriance | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: lingering |
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| telecommerce | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telemarketing, teleselling |
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| teleconference | (noun) a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television | Synonyms: teleconferencing |
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| temperance | (noun) abstaining from excess | Synonyms: sobriety |
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| (noun) the act of tempering | - |
| (noun) the trait of avoiding excesses | Synonyms: moderation |
| tenpence | (noun) a decimal coin worth ten pennies | - |
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| terce | (noun) the third canonical hour; about 9 a.m. | Synonyms: tierce |
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| terrace | (noun) usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence | Synonyms: patio |
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| (noun) a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face) | - |
| (noun) a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below) | Synonyms: bench |
| threepence | (noun) former cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom equal to three pennies | - |
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| tierce | (noun) one of three equal parts of a divisible whole | Synonyms: one-third, third |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| (noun) the third canonical hour; about 9 a.m. | Synonyms: terce |
| timepiece | (noun) a measuring instrument or device for keeping time | Synonyms: horologe, timekeeper |
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| tolerance | (noun) the act of tolerating something | - |
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| (noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: allowance, leeway, margin |
| (noun) the power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions | - |
| (noun) a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior | Synonyms: permissiveness |
| (noun) willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others | - |
| totipotence | (noun) the ability of a cell to give rise to unlike cells and so to develop a new organism or part | Synonyms: totipotency |
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| trace | (noun) a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image | Synonyms: tracing |
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| (noun) either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree | - |
| (noun) an indication that something has been present | Synonyms: shadow, tincture, vestige |
| (noun) a suggestion of some quality | Synonyms: ghost, touch |
| (noun) a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle | - |
| (noun) a just detectable amount | Synonyms: hint, suggestion, tint |
| tragifarce | (noun) an extreme form of tragicomedy. | - |
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| trance | (noun) a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep | - |
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| (noun) A genre of electronic dance music with a fast tempo, repetitive phrasing, and often a hypnotic effect. | - |
| (noun) a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation | Synonyms: enchantment, spell |
| transcendence | (noun) a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience | Synonyms: transcendency |
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| (noun) the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits | Synonyms: superiority, transcendency |
| transference | (noun) transferring ownership | Synonyms: transfer |
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| (noun) the act of transferring something from one form to another | Synonyms: transfer |
| (noun) (psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst | - |
| transience | (noun) an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying | Synonyms: transiency, transitoriness |
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| (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: brevity, briefness |
| translucence | (noun) the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely | Synonyms: semitransparency, translucency |
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| transmittance | (noun) the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance | Synonyms: transmission |
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| transparence | (noun) the quality of being clear and transparent | Synonyms: transparency, transparentness |
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| (noun) permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: transparency |
| trice | (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, twinkling, wink |
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| truce | (noun) a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms | Synonyms: armistice, cease-fire |
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| truculence | (noun) obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness | Synonyms: truculency |
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| tumescence | (noun) tumidity resulting from the presence of blood or other fluid in the tissues | - |
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| tuppence | (noun) a former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies | Synonyms: twopence |
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| turbulence | (noun) unstable flow of a liquid or gas | Synonyms: turbulency |
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| (noun) a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally) | Synonyms: Sturm und Drang, upheaval |
| (noun) instability in the atmosphere | - |
| twopence | (noun) a former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies | Synonyms: tuppence |
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| typeface | (noun) a specific size and style of type within a type family | Synonyms: case, face, font, fount |
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| unbalance | (noun) a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium | Synonyms: imbalance, instability |
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| (noun) a state of mental disturbance and disorientation | Synonyms: derangement, mental unsoundness |
| underbodice | (noun) a short sleeveless undergarment for women | Synonyms: camisole |
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| undersurface | (noun) the lower side of anything | Synonyms: bottom, underside |
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| unimportance | (noun) the quality of not being important or worthy of note | - |
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| (noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, lowliness, obscureness |
| usance | (noun) accepted or habitual practice | Synonyms: custom, usage |
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| (noun) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing | Synonyms: consumption, economic consumption, use, use of goods and services |
| (noun) the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange) | - |
| utterance | (noun) the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication | Synonyms: vocalization |
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| valance | (noun) a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing | Synonyms: cornice, pelmet, valance board |
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| valence | (noun) (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent) | Synonyms: valency |
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| (noun) (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate | Synonyms: valency |
| valiance | (noun) the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle) | Synonyms: gallantry, heroism, valiancy, valor, valorousness, valour |
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| vambrace | (noun) cannon of plate armor protecting the forearm | Synonyms: lower cannon |
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| variance | (noun) an activity that varies from a norm or standard | Synonyms: variation |
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| (noun) an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation) | - |
| (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, discrepancy, divergence |
| (noun) the quality of being subject to variation | Synonyms: variability, variableness |
| (noun) the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value | - |
| (noun) discord that splits a group | Synonyms: division |
| (noun) an event that departs from expectations | Synonyms: discrepancy, variant |
| vehemence | (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, violence, wildness |
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| (noun) intensity or forcefulness of expression | Synonyms: emphasis |
| vengeance | (noun) the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life | Synonyms: payback, retribution |
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| vice | (noun) a specific form of evildoing | - |
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| (noun) a holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place | Synonyms: bench vise, vise |
| (noun) moral weakness | Synonyms: frailty |
| vigilance | (noun) vigilant attentiveness | Synonyms: watchfulness, weather eye |
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| (noun) the process of paying close and continuous attention | Synonyms: alertness, wakefulness, watchfulness |
| violence | (noun) an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists) | Synonyms: force |
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| (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, wildness |
| (noun) a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc. | - |
| virulence | (noun) extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease) | Synonyms: virulency |
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| (noun) extreme hostility | Synonyms: virulency |
| voice | (noun) a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated | - |
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| (noun) the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech | - |
| (noun) the ability to speak | - |
| (noun) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | Synonyms: phonation, vocalisation, vocalism, vocalization, vox |
| (noun) expressing in coherent verbal form | Synonyms: articulation |
| (noun) the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music | Synonyms: part |
| (noun) something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression | - |
| (noun) A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced. | - |
| (noun) a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance | - |
| (noun) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | Synonyms: interpreter, representative, spokesperson |
| (noun) (metonymy) a singer | - |
| (noun) (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes | - |
| voidance | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: emptying, evacuation |
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| whiteface | (noun) hardy English breed of cattle raised extensively in United States | Synonyms: Hereford |
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| (noun) a clown whose face is covered with white make-up | - |