gean | (noun) wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting | Synonyms: mazzard, mazzard cherry |
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gear | (noun) a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion | Synonyms: cogwheel, gear wheel, geared wheel |
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(noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | Synonyms: appurtenance, paraphernalia |
(noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gearing, geartrain, power train, train |
(noun) a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) | Synonyms: gear mechanism |
gearbox | (noun) the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed | Synonyms: gear box, gear case |
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gearing | (noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gear, geartrain, power train, train |
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gearmotor | (noun) a motor combined with a set of speed-reducing gears. | - |
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gearset | (noun) a set of gears | - |
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gearshift | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearstick, shifter |
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gearstick | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearshift, shifter |
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geartrain | (noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gear, gearing, power train, train |
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gecko | (noun) any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless | - |
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gee | (noun) a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated | Synonyms: g-force, g |
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geebung | (noun) any of numerous shrubs and small trees having hard narrow leaves and long-lasting yellow or white flowers followed by small edible but insipid fruits | - |
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geek | (noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, flake, oddball |
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(noun) a carnival performer who does disgusting acts | - |
geezer | (noun) a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric | - |
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geezerhood | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, eld, old age, years |
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gegenschein | (noun) a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space | Synonyms: counterglow |
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geisha | (noun) a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing | Synonyms: geisha girl |
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gel | (noun) a thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects | Synonyms: gelatin |
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(noun) jellylike substance used in hair styling | Synonyms: hair gel |
(noun) a colloid in a more solid form than a sol | Synonyms: colloidal gel |
gelatin | (noun) a thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects | Synonyms: gel |
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(noun) an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods | Synonyms: jelly |
(noun) a colorless water-soluble glutinous protein obtained from animal tissues such as bone and skin | Synonyms: gelatine |
gelatine | (noun) a colorless water-soluble glutinous protein obtained from animal tissues such as bone and skin | Synonyms: gelatin |
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gelatinousness | (noun) the property of having a viscosity like jelly | Synonyms: glutinosity, glutinousness |
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gelding | (noun) castrated male horse | - |
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gelechiid | (noun) small slender-winged moths whose larvae are agricultural pests | Synonyms: gelechiid moth |
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gelidity | (noun) coldness due to a cold environment | Synonyms: chill, iciness |
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gelignite | (noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate | Synonyms: gelly |
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gelly | (noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate | Synonyms: gelignite |
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gelt | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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gem | (noun) a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry | Synonyms: jewel, precious stone |
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(noun) art highly prized for its beauty or perfection | Synonyms: treasure |
(noun) a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan | Synonyms: muffin |
(noun) a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry | Synonyms: jewel |
(noun) a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry | Synonyms: gemstone, stone |
gemfibrozil | (noun) medication (trade name Lopid) used to lower the levels of triglyceride in the blood | Synonyms: Lopid |
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geminate | (noun) a doubled or long consonant | - |
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gemination | (noun) the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something | Synonyms: duplication |
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(noun) the doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect) | - |
gemma | (noun) small asexual reproductive structure in e.g. liverworts and mosses that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual | - |
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gemmation | (noun) asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual | Synonyms: pullulation |
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gemmule | (noun) the physically discrete element that Darwin proposed as responsible for heredity | - |
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gempylid | (noun) snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide | - |
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gemsbok | (noun) large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks | Synonyms: gemsbuck, Oryx gazella |
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gemsbuck | (noun) large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks | Synonyms: gemsbok, Oryx gazella |
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gemstone | (noun) a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry | Synonyms: gem, stone |
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gen | (noun) informal term for information | - |
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gendarme | (noun) a French policeman | - |
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gendarmerie | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmery |
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gendarmery | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmerie |
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gender | (noun) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles | Synonyms: sex, sexuality |
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(noun) a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness | Synonyms: grammatical gender |
gene | (noun) (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity | Synonyms: cistron, factor |
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genealogist | (noun) an expert in genealogy | - |
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genealogy | (noun) the study or investigation of ancestry and family history | - |
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(noun) successive generations of kin | Synonyms: family tree |
general | (noun) a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular) | - |
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(noun) a general officer of the highest rank | Synonyms: full general |
(noun) the head of a religious order or congregation | Synonyms: superior general |
generalcy | (noun) the office and authority of a general | Synonyms: generalship |
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generalisation | (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generality, generalization |
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(noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalization, induction, inductive reasoning |
(noun) (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus | Synonyms: generalization, stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization |
(noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: abstraction, generalization |
generalissimo | (noun) the officer who holds the supreme command | Synonyms: commander-in-chief, commander in chief |
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generalist | (noun) a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests | Synonyms: Renaissance man |
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generality | (noun) the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability | - |
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(noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generalisation, generalization |
generalization | (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generalisation, generality |
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(noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalisation, induction, inductive reasoning |
(noun) (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus | Synonyms: generalisation, stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization |
(noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: abstraction, generalisation |
generalship | (noun) the office and authority of a general | Synonyms: generalcy |
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(noun) the leadership ability of a military general | - |
generation | (noun) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production | Synonyms: multiplication, propagation |
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(noun) the production of heat or electricity | - |
(noun) a coming into being | Synonyms: genesis |
(noun) group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent | - |
(noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: coevals, contemporaries |
(noun) the normal time between successive generations | - |
(noun) a stage of technological development or innovation | - |
generator | (noun) engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction | - |
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(noun) an apparatus that produces a vapor or gas | - |
(noun) an electronic device for producing a signal voltage | - |
(noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something | Synonyms: author, source |
generic | (noun) any product that can be sold without a brand name | - |
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(noun) wine that does not meet the minimum qualifications and standards for use of a designation by appellation of origin (where the grapes are grown) or by varietal content; may only be labeled by proprietary (made-up) name, by general color (such as `vin rouge', `vino rosso', `rotwein', `red wine', etc.), or by general class (as `vin ordinaire', `vin de table', `vino da tavola', `tafelwein', `table wine', etc.) | Synonyms: generic wine |
generosity | (noun) acting generously | Synonyms: unselfishness |
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(noun) the trait of being willing to give your money or time | Synonyms: generousness |
generousness | (noun) the trait of being willing to give your money or time | Synonyms: generosity |
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genesis | (noun) a coming into being | Synonyms: generation |
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genet | (noun) agile Old World viverrine having a spotted coat and long ringed tail | Synonyms: Genetta genetta |
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geneticism | (noun) the belief that all human characteristics are determined genetically | - |
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geneticist | (noun) a biologist who specializes in genetics | - |
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genetics | (noun) the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms | Synonyms: genetic science |
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geneva | (noun) gin made in the Netherlands | Synonyms: Holland gin, Hollands |
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geniality | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, affableness, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie |
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genie | (noun) (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals | Synonyms: djinn, djinni, djinny, jinnee, jinni |
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genip | (noun) round one-inch Caribbean fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp; eaten like grapes | Synonyms: Spanish lime |
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(noun) tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp | Synonyms: ginep, honey berry, mamoncillo, Melicocca bijuga, Melicocca bijugatus, Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree |
genipa | (noun) any tree of the genus Genipa bearing yellow flowers and edible fruit with a thick rind | - |
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genipap | (noun) a succulent orange-sized tropical fruit with a thick rind | Synonyms: genipap fruit |
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genitalia | (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitals, private parts, privates |
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genitals | (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitalia, private parts, privates |
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genitive | (noun) the case expressing ownership | Synonyms: genitive case, possessive, possessive case |
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genitor | (noun) a natural father or mother | - |
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genius | (noun) exceptional creative ability | Synonyms: wizardry |
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(noun) a natural talent | Synonyms: flair |
(noun) unusual mental ability | Synonyms: brilliance |
(noun) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | Synonyms: brain, brainiac, Einstein, mastermind |
(noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
genlisea | (noun) rootless carnivorous swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle to form traps; each tube passes into two long spirally twisted arms with stiff hairs | - |
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genocide | (noun) systematic killing of a racial or cultural group | Synonyms: race murder, racial extermination |
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genoise | (noun) rich and delicate Italian sponge cake | - |
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genome | (noun) the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism | - |
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genomics | (noun) the branch of genetics that studies organisms in terms of their genomes (their full DNA sequences) | - |
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genotype | (noun) the particular alleles at specified loci present in an organism | Synonyms: genetic constitution |
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(noun) a group of organisms sharing a specific genetic constitution | - |
genre | (noun) a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique | - |
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(noun) a kind of literary or artistic work | - |
(noun) a style of expressing yourself in writing | Synonyms: literary genre, writing style |
gens | (noun) family based on male descent | Synonyms: name |
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gent | (noun) informal abbreviation of `gentleman' | - |
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(noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, lad |
gentamicin | (noun) an antibiotic (trade name Garamycin) that is derived from an actinomycete; used in treating infections of the urinary tract | Synonyms: Garamycin |
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genteelness | (noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression | Synonyms: breeding, gentility |
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gentian | (noun) any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis | - |
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gentianella | (noun) low-growing alpine plant cultivated for its dark glossy green leaves in basal rosettes and showy solitary bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: Gentiana acaulis |
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gentile | (noun) a Christian as contrasted with a Jew | Synonyms: goy, non-Jew |
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(noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: heathen, infidel, pagan |
(noun) a person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus | - |
(noun) a Christian | - |
gentility | (noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression | Synonyms: breeding, genteelness |
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gentlefolk | (noun) people of good family and breeding and high social status | - |
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gentleman | (noun) a man of refinement | - |
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(noun) a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer | Synonyms: gentleman's gentleman, man, valet, valet de chambre |
gentlemanliness | (noun) Gentlemanly behaviour, characteristics of or pertaining to being a gentleman. | - |
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gentleness | (noun) acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered | Synonyms: mildness, softness |
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(noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual | Synonyms: gradualness |
gentlewoman | (noun) a woman of refinement | Synonyms: dame, lady, ma'am, madam |
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gentrification | (noun) the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of low-income residents) | - |
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gentry | (noun) the most powerful members of a society | Synonyms: aristocracy |
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genu | (noun) hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella | Synonyms: articulatio genus, human knee, knee, knee joint |
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genuflection | (noun) the act of bending the knees in worship or reverence | Synonyms: genuflexion |
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genuflexion | (noun) the act of bending the knees in worship or reverence | Synonyms: genuflection |
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