| scab | (noun) the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion | - |
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| (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, strikebreaker |
| scabbard | (noun) a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet | - |
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| scabicide | (noun) a drug that destroys the itch mite that causes scabies | - |
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| scabies | (noun) a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation | Synonyms: itch |
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| scabiosa | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa | Synonyms: scabious |
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| scabious | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa | Synonyms: scabiosa |
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| scablands | (noun) (geology) flat elevated land with poor soil and little vegetation that is scarred by dry channels of glacial origin (especially in eastern Washington) | - |
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| scad | (noun) any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae | - |
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| scads | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| scaffold | (noun) a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers | - |
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| (noun) a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded) | - |
| scaffolding | (noun) a system of scaffolds | Synonyms: staging |
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| scag | (noun) street names for heroin | Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, skag, smack, thunder |
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| scalability | (noun) the quality of being scalable | - |
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| scalage | (noun) the act of scaling in weight or quantity or dimension | - |
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| (noun) estimation of the amount of lumber in a log | - |
| scalar | (noun) a variable quantity that cannot be resolved into components | - |
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| scalawag | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scallywag, scamp |
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| (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scallywag, varlet |
| (noun) a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest) | Synonyms: scallywag |
| scald | (noun) the act of burning with steam or hot water | - |
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| (noun) a burn cause by hot liquid or steam | - |
| scale | (noun) a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals | - |
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| (noun) an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks | - |
| (noun) a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass | Synonyms: weighing machine |
| (noun) a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) | Synonyms: plate, shell |
| (noun) (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) | Synonyms: musical scale |
| (noun) a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin | Synonyms: exfoliation, scurf |
| (noun) a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin | Synonyms: scale leaf |
| (noun) relative magnitude | - |
| (noun) the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it | - |
| (noun) an ordered reference standard | Synonyms: graduated table, ordered series, scale of measurement |
| scalenus | (noun) any of four pairs of muscles extending from the cervical vertebrae to the second rib; involved in moving the neck and in breathing | Synonyms: musculus scalenus, scalene muscle |
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| scaler | (noun) an electronic pulse counter used to count pulses that occur too rapidly to be recorded individually | - |
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| scaliness | (noun) the property of being scaly | - |
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| scaling | (noun) act of measuring or arranging or adjusting according to a scale | - |
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| (noun) the act of arranging in a graduated series | Synonyms: grading |
| (noun) ascent by or as if by a ladder | - |
| scallion | (noun) a young onion before the bulb has enlarged; eaten in salads | Synonyms: green onion, spring onion |
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| (noun) plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum | Synonyms: Allium porrum, leek |
| scallop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: escallop, scollop |
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| (noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: escallop, scollop |
| (noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, escallop, scollop |
| (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenel, crenelle |
| scallopine | (noun) sauteed cutlets (usually veal or poultry) that have been pounded thin and coated with flour | Synonyms: scallopini |
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| scallopini | (noun) sauteed cutlets (usually veal or poultry) that have been pounded thin and coated with flour | Synonyms: scallopine |
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| scallywag | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scamp |
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| (noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scalawag, varlet |
| (noun) a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest) | Synonyms: scalawag |
| scalp | (noun) the skin that covers the top of the head | - |
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| scalpel | (noun) a thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery | - |
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| scalper | (noun) someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost | - |
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| scam | (noun) a fraudulent business scheme | Synonyms: cozenage |
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| scammer | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, swindler |
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| scammony | (noun) twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin | Synonyms: Convolvulus scammonia |
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| (noun) resin from the root of Convolvulus scammonia | - |
| (noun) tropical American morning glory | Synonyms: Ipomoea orizabensis |
| scammonyroot | (noun) tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato | Synonyms: Ipomoea fastigiata, Ipomoea panurata, man-of-the-earth, manroot, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine |
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| scamp | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag |
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| scamper | (noun) rushing about hastily in an undignified way | Synonyms: scramble, scurry |
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| scampi | (noun) large shrimp sauteed in oil or butter and garlic | - |
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| scampo | (noun) caught in European waters; slenderer than American lobster | Synonyms: langoustine, Norwegian lobster |
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| scan | (noun) the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region | - |
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| (noun) an image produced by scanning | Synonyms: CAT scan |
| scandal | (noun) disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people | Synonyms: dirt, malicious gossip |
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| (noun) a disgraceful event | Synonyms: outrage |
| scandalisation | (noun) the act of scandalizing | Synonyms: outrage, scandalization |
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| (noun) the condition of being shocked (as by improper behavior) | Synonyms: scandalization |
| scandalization | (noun) the act of scandalizing | Synonyms: outrage, scandalisation |
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| (noun) the condition of being shocked (as by improper behavior) | Synonyms: scandalisation |
| scandalmonger | (noun) a person who spreads malicious gossip | - |
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| scandalmongering | (noun) spreading malicious gossip | - |
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| scandalousness | (noun) disgracefulness that offends public morality | - |
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| scandium | (noun) a white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite | Synonyms: atomic number 21, Sc |
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| scanner | (noun) a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition | Synonyms: electronic scanner |
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| (noun) a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area | - |
| (noun) an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer | Synonyms: digital scanner, image scanner |
| (noun) someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables | - |
| scanning | (noun) the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission | - |
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| (noun) the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer | - |
| scansion | (noun) analysis of verse into metrical patterns | - |
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| scantiness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantness |
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| (noun) Of a garment, the property of being very small, light, or revealing. | Synonyms: skimpiness |
| scantling | (noun) an upright in house framing | Synonyms: stud |
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| scantness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness |
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| scanty | (noun) short underpants for women or children | Synonyms: pantie, panty, step-in |
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| scape | (noun) (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column | Synonyms: shaft |
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| (noun) erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip | Synonyms: flower stalk |
| scapegoat | (noun) someone who is punished for the errors of others | Synonyms: whipping boy |
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| scapegrace | (noun) a reckless and unprincipled reprobate | Synonyms: black sheep |
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| scaphocephaly | (noun) congenital malformation of the skull which is long and narrow; frequently accompanied by mental retardation | - |
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| scaphopod | (noun) burrowing marine mollusk | - |
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| scapula | (noun) either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings | Synonyms: shoulder blade, shoulder bone |
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| scapular | (noun) a feather covering the shoulder of a bird | - |
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| (noun) garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit | Synonyms: scapulary |
| scapulary | (noun) garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit | Synonyms: scapular |
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| scar | (noun) an indication of damage | Synonyms: mark, scrape, scratch |
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| (noun) a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue | Synonyms: cicatrice, cicatrix |
| scarab | (noun) scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians | Synonyms: scarabaeus, Scarabaeus sacer |
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| scarabaean | (noun) any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes | Synonyms: scarabaeid, scarabaeid beetle |
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| scarabaeid | (noun) any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes | Synonyms: scarabaean, scarabaeid beetle |
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| scarabaeus | (noun) scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians | Synonyms: scarab, Scarabaeus sacer |
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| scarceness | (noun) a small and inadequate amount | Synonyms: scarcity |
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| scarcity | (noun) a small and inadequate amount | Synonyms: scarceness |
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| scare | (noun) a sudden attack of fear | Synonyms: panic attack |
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| (noun) sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events | Synonyms: panic |
| scarecrow | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarer, straw man, strawman |
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| scaremonger | (noun) a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble | Synonyms: stirrer |
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| scarer | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarecrow, straw man, strawman |
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| scarf | (noun) a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration | - |
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| (noun) a joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end | Synonyms: scarf joint |
| scarfpin | (noun) a pin used to hold the tie in place | Synonyms: tie tack, tiepin |
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| scarlatina | (noun) an acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash | Synonyms: scarlet fever |
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| scarlet | (noun) a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge | Synonyms: orange red, vermilion |
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| scarp | (noun) a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification | Synonyms: escarp, escarpment, protective embankment |
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| (noun) a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion | Synonyms: escarpment |
| scat | (noun) singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument | Synonyms: scat singing |
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| scathe | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: damage, harm, hurt |
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| scatology | (noun) (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes) | - |
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| (noun) a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions) | - |
| scatophagy | (noun) the eating of excrement or other filth | - |
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| scatter | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scattering, strewing |
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| (noun) a haphazard distribution in all directions | Synonyms: spread |
| scatterbrain | (noun) a flighty and disorganized person | Synonyms: forgetful person |
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| scattergood | (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: spend-all, spender, spendthrift |
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| scattergun | (noun) firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges | Synonyms: shotgun |
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| scattering | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scatter, strewing |
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| (noun) spreading widely or driving off | Synonyms: dispersion |
| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: sprinkle, sprinkling |
| (noun) the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions | - |
| (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | Synonyms: sprinkling |
| scaup | (noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: bluebill, broadbill, scaup duck |
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| scauper | (noun) a graver used to scoop out broad areas when engraving wood or metal | Synonyms: scorper |
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| scavenger | (noun) any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter | - |
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| (noun) someone who collects things that have been discarded by others | Synonyms: magpie, pack rat |
| (noun) a chemical agent that is added to a chemical mixture to counteract the effects of impurities | - |
| scenario | (noun) an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work) | - |
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| (noun) a postulated sequence of possible events | - |
| (noun) a setting for a work of art or literature | - |
| scenarist | (noun) a writer of screenplays | - |
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| scene | (noun) the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale | Synonyms: scenery |
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| (noun) graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept | Synonyms: view |
| (noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: aspect, panorama, prospect, view, vista |
| (noun) a subdivision of an act of a play or performance | - |
| (noun) a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film | Synonyms: shot |
| (noun) an incident (real or imaginary) | - |
| (noun) the place where some action occurs | - |
| (noun) the context and environment in which something is set | Synonyms: setting |
| (noun) a situation treated as an observable object | Synonyms: picture |
| (noun) a display of bad temper | Synonyms: conniption, fit, tantrum |
| scenery | (noun) the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale | Synonyms: scene |
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| (noun) the appearance of a place | - |
| sceneshifter | (noun) a stagehand responsible for moving scenery | Synonyms: shifter |
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| scent | (noun) any property detected by the olfactory system | Synonyms: aroma, odor, odour, olfactory property, smell |
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| (noun) an odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced | - |
| (noun) a distinctive odor that is pleasant | Synonyms: aroma, fragrance, perfume |
| scepter | (noun) a ceremonial or emblematic staff | Synonyms: sceptre, verge, wand |
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| (noun) the imperial authority symbolized by a scepter | Synonyms: sceptre |
| sceptic | (noun) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | Synonyms: doubter, skeptic |
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| scepticism | (noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge | Synonyms: agnosticism, skepticism |
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| (noun) doubt about the truth of something | Synonyms: disbelief, incredulity, mental rejection, skepticism |
| sceptre | (noun) a ceremonial or emblematic staff | Synonyms: scepter, verge, wand |
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| (noun) the imperial authority symbolized by a scepter | Synonyms: scepter |
| schedule | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: agenda, docket |
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| (noun) an ordered list of times at which things are planned to occur | - |