dethronement | (noun) the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office | Synonyms: deposition |
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detriment | (noun) a damage or loss | Synonyms: hurt |
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development | (noun) act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining | - |
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(noun) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | Synonyms: exploitation |
(noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated | - |
(noun) a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation | - |
(noun) a district that has been developed to serve some purpose | - |
(noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: developing |
(noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
(noun) a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | Synonyms: evolution |
(noun) a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess) | - |
deviant | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
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devilment | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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devolvement | (noun) the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | Synonyms: devolution |
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dicynodont | (noun) a kind of therapsid | - |
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diluent | (noun) a diluting agent | Synonyms: dilutant, thinner |
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dilutant | (noun) a diluting agent | Synonyms: diluent, thinner |
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dint | (noun) interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by means of' | - |
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disablement | (noun) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness | Synonyms: disability, handicap, impairment |
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disagreement | (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: discrepancy, divergence, variance |
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(noun) the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing | - |
(noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: dissension, dissonance |
disappointment | (noun) an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone | Synonyms: dashing hopes |
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(noun) a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized | Synonyms: letdown |
disarmament | (noun) act of reducing or depriving of arms | Synonyms: disarming |
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disarrangement | (noun) a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted | Synonyms: disorganisation, disorganization |
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disbandment | (noun) the act of disbanding | - |
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disbarment | (noun) the act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law | - |
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disbursement | (noun) the act of spending or disbursing money | Synonyms: disbursal, outlay, spending |
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(noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) | Synonyms: disbursal, expense |
discant | (noun) a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody | Synonyms: descant |
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discernment | (noun) the trait of judging wisely and objectively | Synonyms: discretion |
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(noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: judgement, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity |
(noun) the cognitive condition of someone who understands | Synonyms: apprehension, savvy, understanding |
(noun) perception of that which is obscure | Synonyms: perceptiveness |
(noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: appreciation, perceptiveness, taste |
disconcertment | (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion |
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discontent | (noun) a longing for something better than the present situation | Synonyms: discontentedness, discontentment |
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discontentment | (noun) a longing for something better than the present situation | Synonyms: discontent, discontentedness |
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discount | (noun) the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise | Synonyms: deduction, price reduction |
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(noun) an amount or percentage deducted | Synonyms: deduction |
(noun) interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan | Synonyms: bank discount, discount rate |
(noun) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid | Synonyms: rebate |
discouragement | (noun) the act of discouraging | - |
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(noun) the expression of opposition and disapproval | - |
(noun) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | Synonyms: disheartenment, dismay |
discussant | (noun) a participant in a formal discussion | - |
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disembarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: debarkation, disembarkation |
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disembarrassment | (noun) something that extricates you from embarrassment | - |
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disembowelment | (noun) the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude | Synonyms: evisceration |
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disenchantment | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disillusion, disillusionment |
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disenfranchisement | (noun) the act of withdrawing certification or terminating a franchise | - |
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disengagement | (noun) to break off a military action with an enemy | Synonyms: fallback, pullout |
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(noun) the act of releasing from an attachment or connection | Synonyms: detachment |
disentanglement | (noun) the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition | Synonyms: extrication, unsnarling, untangling |
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disestablishment | (noun) the act terminating an established state of affairs; especially ending a connection with the Church of England | - |
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disfigurement | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfiguration, mutilation |
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(noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: deformity, disfiguration |
disfranchisement | (noun) the discontinuation of a franchise; especially the discontinuation of the right to vote | - |
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disgorgement | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: emesis, puking, regurgitation, vomit, vomiting |
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disgruntlement | (noun) a feeling of sulky discontent | - |
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disheartenment | (noun) a communication that leaves you disheartened or daunted | - |
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(noun) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | Synonyms: discouragement, dismay |
disillusionment | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disenchantment, disillusion |
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disinfectant | (noun) an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease | Synonyms: antimicrobial, antimicrobic, germicide |
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disinterment | (noun) the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried | Synonyms: digging up, exhumation |
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disinvestment | (noun) the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation | - |
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dislodgement | (noun) forced removal from a position of advantage | Synonyms: dislodgment |
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dislodgment | (noun) forced removal from a position of advantage | Synonyms: dislodgement |
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dismantlement | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: disassembly, dismantling |
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dismemberment | (noun) the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces | Synonyms: taking apart |
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dismount | (noun) the act of dismounting (a horse or bike etc.) | - |
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disownment | (noun) refusal to acknowledge as one's own | Synonyms: disowning |
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disparagement | (noun) the act of speaking contemptuously of | Synonyms: dispraise |
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(noun) a communication that belittles somebody or something | Synonyms: depreciation, derogation |
displacement | (noun) act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics | Synonyms: supplanting |
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(noun) act of removing from office or employment | - |
(noun) the act of uniform movement | Synonyms: translation |
(noun) to move something from its natural environment | Synonyms: deracination |
(noun) an event in which something is displaced without rotation | Synonyms: shift |
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one | - |
(noun) (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound | Synonyms: displacement reaction |
disputant | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: controversialist, eristic |
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dissent | (noun) the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent | Synonyms: objection, protest |
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(noun) (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority | - |
(noun) a difference of opinion | - |
dissident | (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissenter, objector, protester |
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dissolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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distillment | (noun) the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors | Synonyms: distillation |
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distraint | (noun) the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim | Synonyms: distress |
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divorcement | (noun) the legal dissolution of a marriage | Synonyms: divorce |
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divulgement | (noun) the act of disclosing something that was secret or private | Synonyms: divulgence |
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docent | (noun) a teacher at some universities | - |
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document | (noun) anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks | - |
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(noun) writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature) | Synonyms: papers, written document |
(noun) (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters | Synonyms: text file |
(noun) a written account of ownership or obligation | - |
dominant | (noun) an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different | Synonyms: dominant allele |
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(noun) (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale | - |
easement | (noun) the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Synonyms: alleviation, easing, relief |
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(noun) (law) the privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land) | - |
edutainment | (noun) entertainment that is intended to be educational | - |
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effacement | (noun) withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous | Synonyms: self-effacement |
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(noun) shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor | - |
efferent | (noun) a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands | Synonyms: efferent nerve, motor nerve |
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effluent | (noun) water mixed with waste matter | Synonyms: sewer water, wastewater |
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eggplant | (noun) egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow | Synonyms: aubergine, mad apple |
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(noun) hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable | Synonyms: aubergine, brinjal, eggplant bush, garden egg, mad apple, Solanum melongena |
element | (noun) an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system | Synonyms: component, constituent |
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(noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, constituent, factor, ingredient |
(noun) the most favorable environment for a plant or animal | - |
(noun) a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone | - |
(noun) the situation in which you are happiest and most effective | - |
(noun) any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter | Synonyms: chemical element |
(noun) one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe | - |
elephant | (noun) five-toed pachyderm | - |
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(noun) the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874 | - |
elopement | (noun) the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married) | - |
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embalmment | (noun) preservation (of a dead body) by treating with balsams and drugs and other chemicals | - |
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embankment | (noun) a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | - |
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embarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkation |
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embarrassment | (noun) extreme excess | Synonyms: overplus, plethora, superfluity |
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(noun) some event that causes someone to be embarrassed | - |
(noun) the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public | - |
(noun) the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy) | - |
embayment | (noun) an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf | Synonyms: bay |
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embellishment | (noun) the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | Synonyms: ornamentation |
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(noun) a superfluous ornament | - |
(noun) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail | Synonyms: embroidery |
embezzlement | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation |
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embitterment | (noun) the state of being embittered | - |
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embodiment | (noun) giving concrete form to an abstract concept | - |
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(noun) a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept | Synonyms: shape |
(noun) a new personification of a familiar idea | Synonyms: avatar, incarnation |
embonpoint | (noun) the bodily property of being well rounded | Synonyms: plumpness, roundness |
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embossment | (noun) sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background | Synonyms: relief, relievo, rilievo, sculptural relief |
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(noun) an impression produced by pressure or printing | Synonyms: imprint |
embracement | (noun) the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection) | Synonyms: embrace, embracing |
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embroilment | (noun) an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation | Synonyms: imbroglio |
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emigrant | (noun) someone who leaves one country to settle in another | Synonyms: emigre, emigree, outgoer |
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emollient | (noun) toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin | Synonyms: cream, ointment |
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emolument | (noun) compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees) | - |
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emplacement | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: locating, location, placement, position, positioning |
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(noun) military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon | - |
employment | (noun) the occupation for which you are paid | Synonyms: work |
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(noun) the act of using | Synonyms: exercise, usage, use, utilisation, utilization |
(noun) the act of giving someone a job | Synonyms: engagement |
(noun) the state of being employed or having a job | Synonyms: employ |
empowerment | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
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enactment | (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: characterization, personation, portrayal |
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(noun) the passing of a law by a legislative body | Synonyms: passage |
(noun) a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body | Synonyms: act |
encampment | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: bivouacking, camping, tenting |
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(noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, cantonment |
(noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite |
encasement | (noun) the act of enclosing something in a case | Synonyms: incasement |
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enchantment | (noun) a magical spell | Synonyms: bewitchment |
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(noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enthrallment, fascination |
(noun) a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation | Synonyms: spell, trance |
encirclement | (noun) a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy | Synonyms: blockade |
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encompassment | (noun) including entirely | - |
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encouragement | (noun) the act of giving hope or support to someone | Synonyms: boost |
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(noun) the expression of approval and support | - |
(noun) the feeling of being encouraged | - |
encroachment | (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: intrusion, trespass, usurpation, violation |
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(noun) influencing strongly | Synonyms: impact, impingement |
(noun) any entry into an area not previously occupied | Synonyms: intrusion, invasion |
endangerment | (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk |
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endearment | (noun) the act of showing affection | - |
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