| apostasy | (noun) the act of abandoning a party for cause | Synonyms: tergiversation |
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| (noun) the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) | Synonyms: defection, renunciation |
| argosy | (noun) one or more large merchant ships | - |
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| autopsy | (noun) an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease | Synonyms: necropsy, PM, post-mortem, post-mortem examination, postmortem, postmortem examination |
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| biopsy | (noun) examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease | - |
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| catalepsy | (noun) a trancelike state with loss of voluntary motion and failure to react to stimuli | - |
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| clerisy | (noun) an educated and intellectual elite | Synonyms: intelligentsia |
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| controversy | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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| cosy | (noun) a padded cloth covering to keep a teapot warm | Synonyms: cozy, tea cosy, tea cozy |
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| courtesy | (noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate act | - |
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| (noun) a courteous manner | Synonyms: good manners |
| (noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate remark | - |
| curtsy | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsey |
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| daisy | (noun) any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl | - |
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| dichromasy | (noun) a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision) | Synonyms: dichromacy, dichromatism, dichromatopsia, dichromia |
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| discourtesy | (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: offence, offense, offensive activity |
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| (noun) a manner that is rude and insulting | Synonyms: rudeness |
| (noun) an expression of lack of respect | Synonyms: disrespect |
| dropsy | (noun) swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities | Synonyms: edema, hydrops, oedema |
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| ecstasy | (noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine | Synonyms: Adam, cristal, disco biscuit, go, hug drug, X, XTC |
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| (noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: exaltation, rapture, raptus, transport |
| (noun) a state of elated bliss | Synonyms: rapture |
| embassy | (noun) a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work | - |
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| (noun) an ambassador and his entourage collectively | - |
| epilepsy | (noun) a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions | - |
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| fantasy | (noun) imagination unrestricted by reality | Synonyms: phantasy |
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| (noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fancy, illusion, phantasy |
| (noun) fiction with a large amount of imagination in it | Synonyms: phantasy |
| flimsy | (noun) a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies | Synonyms: onionskin |
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| flindosy | (noun) tall Australian timber tree yielding tough hard wood used for staves etc | Synonyms: Flindersia australis, flindosa, native beech |
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| geodesy | (noun) the branch of geology that studies the shape of the earth and the determination of the exact position of geographical points | - |
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| gipsy | (noun) a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment | Synonyms: gypsy, itinerant |
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| (noun) a person who resembles a Romani in leading an unconventional, nomadic way of life | Synonyms: gypsy |
| glossy | (noun) a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper | - |
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| (noun) a magazine printed on good quality paper | Synonyms: slick, slick magazine |
| gypsy | (noun) a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment | Synonyms: gipsy, itinerant |
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| (noun) a person who resembles a Romani in leading an unconventional, nomadic way of life | Synonyms: gipsy |
| heresy | (noun) a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion | Synonyms: unorthodoxy |
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| (noun) any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position | Synonyms: heterodoxy, unorthodoxy |
| hussy | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop |
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| (noun) A sexually loose woman | Synonyms: ho, hoe, slut, trollop |
| hypocrisy | (noun) insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have | - |
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| (noun) an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction | Synonyms: lip service |
| hysterocatalepsy | (noun) hysteria with cataleptic symptoms | - |
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| idiosyncrasy | (noun) a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual | Synonyms: foible, mannerism |
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| isostasy | (noun) (geology) a general equilibrium of the forces tending to elevate or depress the earth's crust | - |
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| jealousy | (noun) zealous vigilance | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival) | Synonyms: green-eyed monster |
| leprosy | (noun) chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions; characterized by inflamed nodules beneath the skin and wasting of body parts; caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae | Synonyms: Hansen's disease |
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| minstrelsy | (noun) the art of a minstrel | - |
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| (noun) ballads sung by minstrels | - |
| (noun) a troupe of minstrels | - |
| missy | (noun) a young female | Synonyms: fille, girl, miss, young lady, young woman |
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| monochromasy | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromacy, monochromatic vision, monochromatism, monochromia |
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| narcolepsy | (noun) a sleep disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable episodes of deep sleep | - |
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| necropsy | (noun) an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease | Synonyms: autopsy, PM, post-mortem, post-mortem examination, postmortem, postmortem examination |
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| nympholepsy | (noun) a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable | - |
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| palsy | (noun) loss of the ability to move a body part | Synonyms: paralysis |
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| (noun) a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor | - |
| pansy | (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
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| (noun) a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive | Synonyms: milksop, Milquetoast, pantywaist, sissy |
| (noun) large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors | Synonyms: Viola tricolor hortensis |
| patsy | (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, soft touch, sucker |
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| phantasy | (noun) imagination unrestricted by reality | Synonyms: fantasy |
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| (noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fancy, fantasy, illusion |
| (noun) fiction with a large amount of imagination in it | Synonyms: fantasy |
| pleurisy | (noun) inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer) | - |
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| poesy | (noun) literature in metrical form | Synonyms: poetry, verse |
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| posy | (noun) an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present | Synonyms: bouquet, corsage, nosegay |
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| pussy | (noun) informal terms referring to a domestic cat | Synonyms: kitty-cat, kitty, puss, pussycat |
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| (noun) obscene terms for female genitals | Synonyms: cunt, puss, slit, snatch, twat |
| quinsy | (noun) a painful pus filled inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues; usually a complication of tonsillitis | Synonyms: peritonsillar abscess |
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| sissy | (noun) a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive | Synonyms: milksop, Milquetoast, pansy, pantywaist |
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| speakeasy | (noun) (during prohibition) an illegal barroom | - |
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| tansy | (noun) common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally | Synonyms: golden buttons, scented fern, Tanacetum vulgare |
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| whimsy | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality |
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| (noun) an odd or fanciful or capricious idea | Synonyms: notion, whim, whimsey |