| recipient | (noun) the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: recipient role |
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| (noun) a person who receives something | Synonyms: receiver |
| recommencement | (noun) beginning again | Synonyms: resumption |
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| recruitment | (noun) the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.) | Synonyms: enlisting |
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| redeployment | (noun) the withdrawal and redistribution of forces in an attempt to use them more effectively | Synonyms: redisposition |
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| redevelopment | (noun) the act of improving by renewing and restoring | Synonyms: overhaul, renovation |
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| reenactment | (noun) performing a role in an event that occurred at an earlier time | - |
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| reenforcement | (noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reinforcement, support |
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| (noun) information that makes more forcible or convincing | Synonyms: reinforcement |
| reenlistment | (noun) a renewed enlistment | - |
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| referent | (noun) something referred to; the object of a reference | - |
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| (noun) the first term in a proposition; the term to which other terms relate | - |
| (noun) something that refers; a term that refers to another term | - |
| refinement | (noun) the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste | Synonyms: civilisation, civilization |
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| (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, nuance, shade, subtlety |
| (noun) the result of improving something | Synonyms: elaboration |
| (noun) the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.) | Synonyms: purification, refining |
| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: cultivation, culture, finish, polish |
| refreshment | (noun) activity that refreshes and recreates; activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation | Synonyms: recreation |
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| (noun) snacks and drinks served as a light meal | - |
| refurbishment | (noun) the state of being restored to its former good condition | Synonyms: renovation, restoration |
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| regent | (noun) someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch | - |
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| (noun) members of a governing board | Synonyms: trustee |
| regiment | (noun) army unit smaller than a division, which can be divided into several companies, squadrons, or batteries and often into two battalions. | - |
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| reimbursement | (noun) compensation paid (to someone) for damages or losses or money already spent etc. | - |
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| reinforcement | (noun) an act performed to strengthen approved behavior | Synonyms: reward |
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| (noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reenforcement, support |
| (noun) a device designed to provide additional strength | Synonyms: strengthener |
| (noun) (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it | Synonyms: reinforcer, reinforcing stimulus |
| (noun) information that makes more forcible or convincing | Synonyms: reenforcement |
| reinstatement | (noun) the act of restoring someone to a previous position | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being reinstated | - |
| reinvestment | (noun) a second or subsequent investment in the same thing. | - |
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| relinquishment | (noun) the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc. | Synonyms: relinquishing |
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| (noun) a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc. | Synonyms: relinquishing |
| remitment | (noun) (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) | Synonyms: remission, remit |
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| (noun) a payment of money sent to a person in another place | Synonyms: remission, remittal, remittance |
| renouncement | (noun) an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned | Synonyms: renunciation |
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| rent | (noun) the act of rending or ripping or splitting something | Synonyms: rip, split |
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| (noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | Synonyms: rip, snag, split, tear |
| (noun) a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service | - |
| (noun) the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions | Synonyms: economic rent |
| repayment | (noun) the act of returning money received previously | Synonyms: refund |
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| (noun) payment of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: quittance |
| repellent | (noun) the power to repel | Synonyms: repellant |
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| (noun) a chemical substance that repels animals | Synonyms: repellant |
| (noun) a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water | Synonyms: repellant |
| replacement | (noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another | Synonyms: replacing |
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| (noun) a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another | Synonyms: substitute |
| (noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, substitution, switch, transposition |
| (noun) a person who follows next in order | Synonyms: successor |
| (noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: alternate, surrogate |
| (noun) filling again by supplying what has been used up | Synonyms: refilling, renewal, replenishment |
| replenishment | (noun) filling again by supplying what has been used up | Synonyms: refilling, renewal, replacement |
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| requirement | (noun) something that is required in advance | Synonyms: prerequisite |
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| (noun) required activity | Synonyms: demand |
| (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessary, necessity, requisite |
| resentment | (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour |
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| resettlement | (noun) the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind) | Synonyms: relocation |
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| reshipment | (noun) the act of shipping again (especially by transferring to another ship) | - |
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| resident | (noun) someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there | Synonyms: occupant, occupier |
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| (noun) a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital | Synonyms: house physician, resident physician |
| resolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, solvent |
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| respondent | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: answerer, responder |
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| (noun) the codefendant (especially in a divorce proceeding) who is accused of adultery with the corespondent | - |
| restatement | (noun) a revised statement | - |
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| retardent | (noun) any agent that retards or delays or hinders | Synonyms: retardant, retardation |
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| retirement | (noun) withdrawal from your position or occupation | - |
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| (noun) withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation | Synonyms: retreat |
| (noun) the state of being retired from one's business or occupation | - |
| retrenchment | (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: curtailment, downsizing |
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| (noun) entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense | - |
| revetement | (noun) a facing (usually masonry) that supports an embankment | Synonyms: revetment, stone facing |
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| revetment | (noun) a facing (usually masonry) that supports an embankment | Synonyms: revetement, stone facing |
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| (noun) a barrier against explosives | - |
| revilement | (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: abuse, contumely, insult, vilification |
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| rodent | (noun) relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing | Synonyms: gnawer |
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| rubefacient | (noun) a medicine for external application that produces redness of the skin | - |
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| rudiment | (noun) the remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life | - |
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| sacrament | (noun) a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction | - |
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| salient | (noun) (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy | - |
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| scent | (noun) any property detected by the olfactory system | Synonyms: aroma, odor, odour, olfactory property, smell |
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| (noun) an odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced | - |
| (noun) a distinctive odor that is pleasant | Synonyms: aroma, fragrance, perfume |
| secernment | (noun) the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished | Synonyms: discrimination |
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| (noun) the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance | Synonyms: secretion |
| secondment | (noun) the detachment of a person from their regular organization for temporary assignment elsewhere | - |
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| (noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: endorsement, indorsement, second |
| sediment | (noun) matter that has been deposited by some natural process | Synonyms: deposit |
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| segment | (noun) one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object | Synonyms: section |
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| (noun) one of the parts into which something naturally divides | - |
| sent | (noun) 100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia | - |
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| sentiment | (noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: opinion, persuasion, thought, view |
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| (noun) tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion | - |
| serpent | (noun) limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous | Synonyms: ophidian, snake |
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| (noun) an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake | - |
| (noun) a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited | - |
| settlement | (noun) termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities | Synonyms: liquidation |
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| (noun) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | Synonyms: colonisation, colonization |
| (noun) something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making | Synonyms: closure, resolution |
| (noun) a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it | - |
| (noun) a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government | Synonyms: colony |
| (noun) a community of people smaller than a town | Synonyms: small town, village |
| (noun) an area where a group of families live together | - |
| shipment | (noun) the act of sending off something | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch |
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| (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, load, loading, payload |
| solacement | (noun) the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment | Synonyms: consolation, solace |
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| (noun) comfort in disappointment or misery | Synonyms: solace |
| solvent | (noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: answer, resolution, result, solution |
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| (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent |
| sorbent | (noun) a material that sorbs another substance; i.e. that has the capacity or tendency to take it up by either absorption or adsorption | Synonyms: sorbent material |
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| statement | (noun) a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc | - |
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| (noun) a document showing credits and debits | Synonyms: financial statement |
| (noun) a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true | Synonyms: argument |
| (noun) (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program | Synonyms: command, instruction, program line |
| (noun) (music) the presentation of a musical theme | - |
| (noun) a nonverbal message | - |
| (noun) the act of affirming or asserting or stating something | Synonyms: affirmation, assertion |
| stent | (noun) a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis | - |
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| stepparent | (noun) the spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriage | - |
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| student | (noun) a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution | Synonyms: educatee, pupil |
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| (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: assimilator, learner, scholar |
| subcontinent | (noun) a large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent | - |
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| succulent | (noun) a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs | - |
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| superintendent | (noun) a person who directs and manages an organization | Synonyms: overseer |
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| (noun) a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector | Synonyms: super |
| supplement | (noun) a supplementary component that improves capability | Synonyms: accessory, add-on, appurtenance |
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| (noun) a quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency) | Synonyms: supplementation |
| (noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end | Synonyms: addendum, postscript |
| sustainment | (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: maintenance, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep |
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| talent | (noun) natural abilities or qualities | Synonyms: endowment, gift, natural endowment |
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| (noun) a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity | - |
| tangent | (noun) ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: tan |
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| (noun) a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point | - |
| tapotement | (noun) massage in which the body is tapped rhythmically with the fingers or with short rapid movements of the sides of the hand; used to loosen mucus on the chest walls of patients with bronchitis | - |
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| tegument | (noun) a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch | Synonyms: cutis, skin |
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| temperament | (noun) an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys | - |
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| (noun) your usual mood | Synonyms: disposition |
| (noun) excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly) | - |
| tenement | (noun) a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards | Synonyms: tenement house |
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| tent | (noun) a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs) | Synonyms: collapsible shelter |
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| (noun) a web that resembles a tent or carpet | - |
| testament | (noun) a profession of belief | - |
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| (noun) a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die | Synonyms: will |
| (noun) strong evidence for something | - |
| torment | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: badgering, bedevilment, worrying |
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| (noun) a severe affliction | Synonyms: curse |
| (noun) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain | Synonyms: agony, torture |
| (noun) extreme mental distress | Synonyms: anguish, torture |
| (noun) a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented | Synonyms: harassment |
| (noun) unbearable physical pain | Synonyms: torture |
| torrent | (noun) a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: violent stream |
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| (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, waterspout |
| (noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundation |
| tournament | (noun) a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner | Synonyms: tourney |
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| (noun) a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize | - |
| traducement | (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, calumny, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy |
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| transient | (noun) (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load | - |
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| (noun) one who stays for only a short time | - |
| transshipment | (noun) the transfer from one conveyance to another for shipment | - |
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| treatment | (noun) care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) | Synonyms: intervention |
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| (noun) the management of someone or something | Synonyms: handling |
| (noun) (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.) | Synonyms: therapy |
| (noun) a manner of dealing with something artistically | - |
| (noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic | Synonyms: discourse, discussion |
| trident | (noun) a spear with three prongs | - |
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| underachievement | (noun) poorer than expected performance (poorer than might have been predicted from intelligence tests) | - |
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| undercurrent | (noun) a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning | Synonyms: undertone |
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| (noun) a current below the surface of a fluid | Synonyms: undertide |
| underdevelopment | (noun) (photography) inadequate processing of film resulting in inadequate contrast | - |
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| (noun) state of inadequate development | - |
| undergarment | (noun) a garment worn under other garments | Synonyms: unmentionable |
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| underlayment | (noun) a pad placed under a carpet | Synonyms: carpet pad, rug pad, underlay |
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| undernourishment | (noun) not having enough food to develop or function normally | Synonyms: malnourishment |
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| underpayment | (noun) the act of paying less than required | - |
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| (noun) a payment smaller than needed or expected | - |
| understatement | (noun) a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said | - |
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| unemployment | (noun) the state of being unemployed or not having a job | - |
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| unenlightenment | (noun) a lack of understanding | - |
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| unguent | (noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: balm, ointment, salve, unction |
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| varment | (noun) any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable; e.g., coyote | Synonyms: varmint |
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| vent | (noun) activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion | Synonyms: outlet, release |
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| (noun) external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate | - |
| (noun) a hole for the escape of gas or air | Synonyms: blowhole, vent-hole, venthole |
| (noun) a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket) | - |
| (noun) a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt | Synonyms: volcano |
| vestment | (noun) gown (especially ceremonial garments) worn by the clergy | - |
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| vicegerent | (noun) someone appointed by a ruler as an administrative deputy | - |
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| weldment | (noun) an assembly of parts welded together | - |
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| wisent | (noun) European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison | Synonyms: aurochs, Bison bonasus |
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