| prelim | (noun) an examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue | Synonyms: preliminary exam, preliminary examination |
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| (noun) a minor match preceding the main event | Synonyms: preliminary |
| preliminary | (noun) a minor match preceding the main event | Synonyms: prelim |
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| (noun) something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows | Synonyms: overture, prelude |
| prelims | (noun) written matter preceding the main text of a book | Synonyms: front matter |
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| prelude | (noun) music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in an opera | - |
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| (noun) something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows | Synonyms: overture, preliminary |
| prematureness | (noun) the state of being premature | Synonyms: prematurity |
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| prematurity | (noun) the state of being premature | Synonyms: prematureness |
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| premeditation | (noun) planning or plotting in advance of acting | Synonyms: forethought |
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| (noun) (law) thought and intention to commit a crime well in advance of the crime; goes to show criminal intent | - |
| premie | (noun) an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation | Synonyms: preemie, premature baby, premature infant, preterm baby, preterm infant |
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| premier | (noun) the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom | Synonyms: PM, Prime Minister |
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| (noun) the person who is head of government (in several countries) | Synonyms: chancellor, prime minister |
| premiere | (noun) the first public performance of a play or movie | - |
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| premiership | (noun) the office of premier | - |
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| premise | (noun) a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn | Synonyms: assumption, premiss |
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| premises | (noun) land and the buildings on it | - |
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| premiss | (noun) a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn | Synonyms: assumption, premise |
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| premium | (noun) the amount that something in scarce supply is valued above its nominal value | - |
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| (noun) payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military | Synonyms: bounty |
| (noun) payment for insurance | Synonyms: insurance premium |
| (noun) a fee charged for exchanging currencies | Synonyms: agio, agiotage, exchange premium |
| (noun) a prize, bonus, or award given as an inducement to purchase products, enter competitions initiated by business interests, etc. | - |
| premix | (noun) a commercially prepared mixture of dry ingredients | Synonyms: mix |
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| premolar | (noun) a tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars | Synonyms: bicuspid |
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| premonition | (noun) an early warning about a future event | Synonyms: forewarning |
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| (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: boding, foreboding, presentiment |
| prentice | (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: apprentice, learner |
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| preoccupancy | (noun) the act of taking occupancy before someone else does | Synonyms: preoccupation |
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| (noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, preoccupation |
| preoccupation | (noun) the act of taking occupancy before someone else does | Synonyms: preoccupancy |
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| (noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, preoccupancy |
| (noun) an idea that preoccupies the mind and holds the attention | - |
| preordination | (noun) (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind) | Synonyms: foreordination, predestination, predetermination |
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| prep | (noun) preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home) | Synonyms: preparation |
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| preparation | (noun) activity leading to skilled behavior | Synonyms: grooming, training |
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| (noun) preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home) | Synonyms: prep |
| (noun) the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose | Synonyms: readying |
| (noun) the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat | Synonyms: cookery, cooking |
| (noun) the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening | Synonyms: planning, provision |
| (noun) (music) a note that produces a dissonant chord is first heard in a consonant chord | - |
| (noun) the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action) | Synonyms: preparedness, readiness |
| (noun) a substance prepared according to a formula | Synonyms: formulation |
| preparedness | (noun) the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action) | Synonyms: preparation, readiness |
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| prepayment | (noun) payment in advance | - |
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| preponderance | (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: prevalence |
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| (noun) exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight | - |
| (noun) superiority in power or influence | - |
| preposition | (noun) a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word | - |
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| (noun) (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached) | - |
| prepossession | (noun) an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence | Synonyms: parti pris, preconceived idea, preconceived notion, preconceived opinion, preconception |
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| (noun) the condition of being prepossessed | - |
| prepotency | (noun) the state of being predominant over others | Synonyms: predominance, predomination |
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| prepper | (noun) someone who prepares for a disaster | - |
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| prepuberty | (noun) a period of two years immediately prior to the onset of puberty when growth and changes leading to sexual maturity occur | - |
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| prepuce | (noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis | Synonyms: foreskin |
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| (noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris | Synonyms: foreskin |
| prerequisite | (noun) something that is required in advance | Synonyms: requirement |
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| prerogative | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, privilege |
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| presage | (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication |
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| (noun) a foreboding about what is about to happen | - |
| presbyope | (noun) a person with presbyopia; someone who is farsighted resulting from the progressive loss with aging of the elasticity of the crystalline lens | - |
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| presbyopia | (noun) a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45 | Synonyms: farsightedness |
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| presbyter | (noun) an elder in the Presbyterian Church | - |
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| presbytery | (noun) building reserved for the officiating clergy | - |
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| preschool | (noun) an educational institution for children too young for elementary school | - |
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| preschooler | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartener, kindergartner |
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| prescience | (noun) the power to foresee the future | Synonyms: prevision |
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| prescript | (noun) prescribed guide for conduct or action | Synonyms: rule |
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| prescription | (noun) a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist | Synonyms: ethical drug, prescription drug, prescription medicine |
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| (noun) directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions | - |
| (noun) written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient | - |
| (noun) written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person | - |
| prescriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting prescriptive linguistics | - |
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| (noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements prescribe appropriate attitudes and behavior | - |
| preseason | (noun) a period prior to the beginning of the regular season which is devoted to training and preparation | - |
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| presence | (noun) the act of being present | - |
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| (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: bearing, comportment, mien |
| (noun) the impression that something is present | - |
| (noun) the immediate proximity of someone or something | Synonyms: front |
| (noun) an invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby | - |
| (noun) the state of being present; current existence | - |
| present | (noun) a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking | Synonyms: present tense |
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| (noun) something presented as a gift | - |
| (noun) the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech | Synonyms: nowadays |
| presentation | (noun) a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view | Synonyms: demonstration, presentment |
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| (noun) the activity of formally presenting something (as a prize or reward) | - |
| (noun) a visual representation of something | Synonyms: display |
| (noun) (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal | - |
| (noun) the act of making something publicly available; presenting news or other information by broadcasting or printing it | - |
| (noun) the act of presenting a proposal | - |
| (noun) formally making a person known to another or to the public | Synonyms: intro, introduction |
| presenter | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: bestower, conferrer, donor, giver |
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| (noun) an advocate who presents a person (as for an award or a degree or an introduction etc.) | Synonyms: sponsor |
| (noun) someone who presents a message of some sort (as a petition or an address or a check or a memorial etc.) | - |
| presentiment | (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: boding, foreboding, premonition |
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| presentism | (noun) the doctrine that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (as in the Book of Revelations) are presently in the course of being fulfilled | - |
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| presentist | (noun) a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) are being fulfilled at the present time | - |
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| presentment | (noun) an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative | Synonyms: notification |
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| (noun) a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view | Synonyms: demonstration, presentation |
| (noun) a document that must be accepted and paid by another person | - |
| presentness | (noun) the quality of being the present | Synonyms: nowness |
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| preservation | (noun) the activity of protecting something from loss or danger | Synonyms: saving |
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| (noun) an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change | Synonyms: conservation |
| (noun) a process that saves organic substances from decay | - |
| (noun) the condition of being (well or ill) preserved | - |
| preservationist | (noun) someone who advocates the preservation of historical sites or endangered species or natural areas | - |
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| preservative | (noun) a chemical compound that is added to protect against decay or decomposition | - |
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| preserve | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserve, conserves, preserves |
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| (noun) a reservation where animals are protected | - |
| (noun) a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone | - |
| preserver | (noun) rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning | Synonyms: flotation device, life preserver |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture | Synonyms: refinisher, renovator, restorer |
| (noun) someone who keeps safe from harm or danger | - |
| (noun) a cook who preserves fruits or meat | - |
| preserves | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserve, conserves, preserve |
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| presidency | (noun) the office and function of president | Synonyms: presidentship |
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| (noun) the tenure of a president | Synonyms: administration, presidential term |
| president | (noun) the chief executive of a republic | - |
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| (noun) an executive officer of a firm or corporation | - |
| (noun) the head administrative officer of a college or university | Synonyms: prexy |
| (noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chair, chairperson |
| presidentship | (noun) the office and function of president | Synonyms: presidency |
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| presidio | (noun) a fortress established in the southwestern United States by the Spanish in order to protect their missions and other holdings | - |
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| presidium | (noun) a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session | Synonyms: praesidium |
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| press | (noun) the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure | Synonyms: pressing, pressure |
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| (noun) a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead | Synonyms: military press |
| (noun) any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids | Synonyms: mechanical press |
| (noun) a machine used for printing | Synonyms: printing press |
| (noun) a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes | Synonyms: closet, wardrobe |
| (noun) clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping when not in use | - |
| (noun) the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines | Synonyms: public press |
| (noun) a dense crowd of people | Synonyms: crush, jam |
| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, insistency, pressure |
| pressing | (noun) the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure | Synonyms: press, pressure |
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| (noun) a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press | - |
| pressman | (noun) someone whose occupation is printing | Synonyms: printer |
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| (noun) a male journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: newspaperman |
| pressmark | (noun) a mark consisting of characters written on a book; used to indicate shelf location | Synonyms: call mark, call number |
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| pressor | (noun) any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure | Synonyms: vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor |
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| pressure | (noun) the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure | Synonyms: press, pressing |
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| (noun) a force that compels | - |
| (noun) the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin | Synonyms: pressure sensation |
| (noun) the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit) | Synonyms: force per unit area, pressure level |
| (noun) the pressure exerted by the atmosphere | Synonyms: air pressure, atmospheric pressure |
| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, insistency, press |
| (noun) an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress | - |
| prestidigitation | (noun) manual dexterity in the execution of tricks | Synonyms: sleight of hand |
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| prestidigitator | (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, conjuror, illusionist, magician |
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| prestige | (noun) a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc. | Synonyms: prestigiousness |
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| prestigiousness | (noun) a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc. | Synonyms: prestige |
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| presumption | (noun) a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming | - |
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| (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, effrontery, presumptuousness |
| (noun) an assumption that is taken for granted | Synonyms: given, precondition |
| (noun) (law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed | - |
| presumptuousness | (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, effrontery, presumption |
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| presupposition | (noun) the act of presupposing; a supposition made prior to having knowledge (as for the purpose of argument) | - |
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| preteen | (noun) a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age) | Synonyms: preteenager |
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| preteenager | (noun) a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age) | Synonyms: preteen |
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| pretence | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretending, pretense, simulation |
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| (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretense, pretension |
| (noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretense, pretext |
| (noun) imaginative intellectual play | Synonyms: make-believe, pretense |
| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, feigning, pretense |
| pretend | (noun) the enactment of a pretense | Synonyms: make-believe |
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| pretender | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony |
| pretending | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense, simulation |
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| pretense | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, simulation |
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| (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretence, pretension |
| (noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretence, pretext |
| (noun) imaginative intellectual play | Synonyms: make-believe, pretence |
| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, feigning, pretence |
| pretension | (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretence, pretense |
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| (noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: largeness, pretentiousness |
| (noun) the advancing of a claim | - |
| pretentiousness | (noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: largeness, pretension |
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| (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, puffiness, splashiness |
| preterist | (noun) a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) have already been fulfilled | - |
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| preterit | (noun) a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense | Synonyms: preterite |
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| preterite | (noun) a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense | Synonyms: preterit |
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| preterition | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paraleipsis, paralepsis, paralipsis |
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| pretermission | (noun) letting pass without notice | - |
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| pretext | (noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretence, pretense |
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| (noun) something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason | Synonyms: stalking-horse |
| pretor | (noun) an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic | Synonyms: praetor |
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| pretorium | (noun) the tent of an ancient Roman general | Synonyms: praetorium |
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| pretrial | (noun) (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases | Synonyms: pretrial conference |
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| prettiness | (noun) the quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman) | Synonyms: cuteness |
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| pretzel | (noun) glazed and salted cracker typically in the shape of a loose knot | - |
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