| aging | (adjective) growing old | Synonyms: ageing, senescent |
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| (noun) the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age | Synonyms: ageing, senescence |
| (noun) acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time | Synonyms: ageing, ripening |
| asparaginase | (noun) antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia | Synonyms: Elspar |
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| asparagine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid found in proteins and in many plants (e.g., asparagus) | - |
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| bandaging | (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: binding, dressing |
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| cartilaginification | (noun) abnormal formation of cartilage from other tissues; observed in some Asians | - |
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| cartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to cartilage | - |
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| (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: gristly, rubbery |
| damaging | (adjective) designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | Synonyms: negative |
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| (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious |
| discouraging | (adjective) depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action | - |
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| (adjective) expressing disapproval in order to dissuade | - |
| discouragingly | (adverb) in a discouraging manner | - |
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| disparaging | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, derogatory |
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| disparagingly | (adverb) in a disparaging manner | Synonyms: slightingly |
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| encouraging | (adjective) giving courage or confidence or hope | - |
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| (adjective) furnishing support and encouragement | Synonyms: supporting |
| encouragingly | (adverb) in an encouraging manner | - |
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| engaging | (adjective) attracting or delighting | Synonyms: piquant |
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| engagingly | (adverb) in an engaging manner | Synonyms: winsomely |
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| fibrocartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to fibrocartilage | - |
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| foraging | (noun) the act of searching for food and provisions | Synonyms: forage |
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| imaginable | (adjective) capable of being imagined | Synonyms: conceivable |
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| imaginary | (adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination | Synonyms: fanciful, notional |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 | Synonyms: complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number |
| imagination | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imaginativeness, vision |
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| (noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagery, imaging, mental imagery |
| (noun) the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems | Synonyms: resource, resourcefulness |
| imaginative | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: inventive |
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| imaginatively | (adverb) with imagination | - |
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| imaginativeness | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imagination, vision |
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| imagine | (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, opine, reckon, suppose, think |
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| (verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, envisage, ideate |
| imaging | (noun) (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body | Synonyms: tomography |
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| (noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagery, imagination, mental imagery |
| invaginate | (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: introvert |
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| (verb) sheathe | - |
| invagination | (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, introversion, intussusception |
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| (noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: introversion |
| leveraging | (noun) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) | Synonyms: leverage |
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| messaging | (noun) the sending and processing of e-mail by computer | Synonyms: electronic messaging |
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| mucilaginous | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| oleaginous | (adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: greasy, oily, sebaceous |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: buttery, fulsome, oily, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
| oleaginousness | (noun) consisting of or covered with oil | Synonyms: greasiness, oiliness |
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| (noun) smug self-serving earnestness | Synonyms: fulsomeness, oiliness, smarminess, unction, unctuousness |
| packaging | (noun) the business of packing | - |
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| (noun) material used to make packages | - |
| (noun) a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | Synonyms: promo, promotion, promotional material, publicity |
| paginate | (verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript | Synonyms: foliate, page |
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| pagination | (noun) the system of numbering pages | Synonyms: folio, page number, paging |
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| paging | (noun) calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system) | - |
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| (noun) the system of numbering pages | Synonyms: folio, page number, pagination |
| pillaging | (noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place | Synonyms: pillage, plundering |
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| plumbaginaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Plumbaginaceae | - |
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| raging | (adjective) very severe | - |
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| (adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: angry, furious, tempestuous, wild |
| (adjective) characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense | Synonyms: hot |
| ravaging | (adjective) ruinously destructive and wasting | - |
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| (noun) plundering with excessive damage and destruction | Synonyms: devastation |
| reagin | (noun) an immunoglobulin E that is formed as an antibody against allergens (such as pollen); attaches to cell membranes causing the release of histamine and other substances responsible for the local inflammation characteristic of an allergy | - |
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| staginess | (noun) an artificial and mannered quality | Synonyms: theatricality |
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| staging | (noun) travel by stagecoach | - |
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| (noun) getting rid of a stage of a multistage rocket | - |
| (noun) a system of scaffolds | Synonyms: scaffolding |
| (noun) the production of a drama on the stage | Synonyms: theatrical production |
| unencouraging | (adjective) not encouraging | - |
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| unimaginable | (adjective) totally unlikely | Synonyms: impossible, inconceivable, out of the question |
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| unimaginably | (adverb) to an unimaginable extent | Synonyms: unthinkably |
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| unimaginative | (adjective) lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality | Synonyms: stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical |
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| (adjective) dealing only with concrete facts | - |
| (adjective) deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention | Synonyms: sterile, uninspired, uninventive |
| unimaginatively | (adverb) without imagination | - |
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| (adverb) in a matter-of-fact manner | Synonyms: prosaically |
| unimagined | (adjective) not imagined even in a dream | Synonyms: undreamed, undreamed of, undreamt, undreamt of |
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| vagina | (noun) the lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to the uterus | - |
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| vaginal | (adjective) of or relating to the vagina | - |
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| vaginismus | (noun) muscular contraction that causes the vagina to close; usually an anxiety reaction before coitus or pelvic examination | - |
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| vaginitis | (noun) inflammation of the vagina (usually associated with candidiasis) | - |
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| vaginocele | (noun) hernia projecting into the vagina | Synonyms: colpocele |
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| vaginoscope | (noun) An endoscopic instrument that magnifies the epithelia of the vagina and cervix in vivo to allow direct observation and study of these tissues. | Synonyms: colposcope |
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| vulvovaginitis | (noun) inflammation of the vulva and the vagina | - |
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