avadavat | (noun) red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds | Synonyms: amadavat |
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avail | (noun) a means of serving | Synonyms: help, service |
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availability | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: accessibility, availableness, handiness |
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availableness | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: accessibility, availability, handiness |
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avalanche | (noun) a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain | - |
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(noun) a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things | - |
avaram | (noun) evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning; sometimes placed in genus Cassia | Synonyms: Cassia auriculata, Senna auriculata, tanner's cassia |
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avarice | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avaritia, covetousness, greed, rapacity |
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(noun) extreme greed for material wealth | Synonyms: avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity |
avariciousness | (noun) extreme greed for material wealth | Synonyms: avarice, covetousness, cupidity |
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avaritia | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avarice, covetousness, greed, rapacity |
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avatar | (noun) the manifestation of a Hindu deity (especially Vishnu) in human or superhuman or animal form | - |
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(noun) a new personification of a familiar idea | Synonyms: embodiment, incarnation |
avenger | (noun) someone who takes vengeance | Synonyms: retaliator |
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avens | (noun) any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers | - |
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aventail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: camail, ventail |
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aventurine | (noun) a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals | Synonyms: sunstone |
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avenue | (noun) a line of approach | - |
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(noun) a wide street or thoroughfare | Synonyms: boulevard |
average | (noun) a statistic describing the location of a distribution | Synonyms: norm |
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(noun) an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual | - |
(noun) (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities | - |
averageness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding | Synonyms: mediocrity |
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(noun) the state of being that is average; indicates normality but with connotations of mediocrity | - |
averment | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: assertion, asseveration |
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aversion | (noun) the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away | Synonyms: averting |
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(noun) a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: antipathy, distaste |
averting | (noun) the act of preventing something from occurring | - |
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(noun) the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away | Synonyms: aversion |
aviary | (noun) a building where birds are kept | Synonyms: bird sanctuary, volary |
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aviation | (noun) travel via aircraft | Synonyms: air, air travel |
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(noun) the art of operating aircraft | Synonyms: airmanship |
(noun) the aggregation of a country's military aircraft | Synonyms: air power |
(noun) the operation of aircraft to provide transportation | - |
aviator | (noun) someone who operates an aircraft | Synonyms: aeronaut, flier, flyer |
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aviatress | (noun) a woman aviator | Synonyms: airwoman, aviatrix |
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aviatrix | (noun) a woman aviator | Synonyms: airwoman, aviatress |
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avidity | (noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidness, eagerness, keenness |
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avidness | (noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidity, eagerness, keenness |
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avifauna | (noun) the birds of a particular region or period | - |
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avionics | (noun) science and technology of electronic systems and devices for aeronautics and astronautics | - |
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avitaminosis | (noun) any of several diseases caused by deficiency of one or more vitamins | Synonyms: hypovitaminosis |
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avo | (noun) 100 avos equal 1 pataca in Macao | - |
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avocado | (noun) a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed | Synonyms: aguacate, alligator pear, avocado pear |
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(noun) tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits | Synonyms: avocado tree, Persea Americana |
avocation | (noun) an auxiliary activity | Synonyms: by-line, hobby, pursuit, sideline, spare-time activity |
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avocet | (noun) long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill | - |
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avoidance | (noun) deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Synonyms: dodging, shunning, turning away |
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avoirdupois | (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: blubber, fat, fatness |
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(noun) a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains) | Synonyms: avoirdupois weight |
avouchment | (noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something | Synonyms: affirmation, avowal |
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avowal | (noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something | Synonyms: affirmation, avouchment |
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avower | (noun) someone who admits or acknowledges openly and boldly | - |
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(noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, asseverator, declarer |
avulsion | (noun) a forcible tearing or surgical separation of one body part from another | - |
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(noun) an abrupt change in the course of a stream that forms the boundary between two parcels of land resulting in the loss of part of the land of one landowner and a consequent increase in the land of another | - |