addict | (noun) someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance or activity | - |
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(noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: freak, junkie, junky, nut |
apomict | (noun) a plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixis | - |
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benedict | (noun) a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) | Synonyms: benedick |
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conflict | (noun) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | Synonyms: battle, struggle |
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(noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, engagement, fight |
(noun) an incompatibility of dates or events | - |
(noun) a disagreement or argument about something important | Synonyms: difference, difference of opinion, dispute |
(noun) opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings | - |
(noun) opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot) | - |
(noun) a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests | - |
convict | (noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird |
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(noun) a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense | - |
derelict | (noun) a ship abandoned on the high seas | Synonyms: abandoned ship |
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(noun) a person without a home, job, or property | - |
district | (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: dominion, territorial dominion, territory |
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edict | (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, fiat, order, rescript |
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(noun) a formal or authoritative proclamation | - |
interdict | (noun) an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district | - |
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(noun) a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity | Synonyms: interdiction |
relict | (noun) geological feature that is a remnant of a pre-existing formation after other parts have disappeared | - |
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(noun) an organism or species surviving as a remnant of an otherwise extinct flora or fauna in an environment much changed from that in which it originated | - |
verdict | (noun) (law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision; can be used in formulating a judgment | Synonyms: finding of fact |
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