adherent | (noun) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another | Synonyms: disciple |
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afferent | (noun) a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system | Synonyms: afferent nerve, sensory nerve |
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belligerent | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
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brent | (noun) small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward | Synonyms: brant, brant goose, brent goose |
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countercurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: crosscurrent |
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(noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: crosscurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
crosscurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: countercurrent |
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(noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
current | (noun) a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) | Synonyms: stream |
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(noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas | Synonyms: flow, stream |
(noun) a flow of electricity through a conductor | Synonyms: electric current |
deterrent | (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
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efferent | (noun) a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands | Synonyms: efferent nerve, motor nerve |
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godparent | (noun) a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism | - |
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grandparent | (noun) a parent of your father or mother | - |
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occurrent | (noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: happening, natural event, occurrence |
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parent | (noun) an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained | - |
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(noun) a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian | - |
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 | - |
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 |
stepparent | (noun) the spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriage | - |
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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 |
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 |
vicegerent | (noun) someone appointed by a ruler as an administrative deputy | - |
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