| admiralty | (noun) the office of admiral | - |
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| (noun) the department in charge of the navy (as in Great Britain) | - |
| altar | (noun) a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made | - |
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| (noun) the table in Christian churches where communion is given | Synonyms: communion table, Lord's table |
| altarpiece | (noun) a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table | Synonyms: reredos |
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| altazimuth | (noun) an instrument that measures the altitude and azimuth of celestial bodies; used in navigation | - |
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| altcoin | (noun) an alternative cryptocurrency | - |
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| alter | (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: castrate, neuter, spay |
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| (verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: change, vary |
| (verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: change, modify |
| (verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: falsify, interpolate |
| (verb) make an alteration to | - |
| alterability | (noun) the quality of being alterable | - |
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| alterable | (adjective) capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic | - |
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| (adjective) (of the punishment ordered by a court) capable of being changed to one less severe | - |
| alteration | (noun) the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification) | Synonyms: revision |
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| (noun) the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) | Synonyms: adjustment, modification |
| (noun) an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another | Synonyms: change, modification |
| alterative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: curative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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| altercate | (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: argufy, dispute, quarrel, scrap |
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| altercation | (noun) noisy quarrel | Synonyms: affray, fracas |
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| altered | (adjective) changed in form or character without becoming something else | - |
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| (adjective) having testicles or ovaries removed | Synonyms: neutered |
| (adjective) changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose | Synonyms: adapted |
| altering | (noun) the sterilization of an animal | Synonyms: fixing, neutering |
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| alternate | (adjective) of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternative, substitute |
| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternating |
| (adjective) every second one of a series | - |
| (noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: replacement, surrogate |
| (verb) do something in turns | Synonyms: take turns |
| (verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: jump |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch, tack |
| (verb) be an understudy or alternate for a role | Synonyms: understudy |
| (verb) exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions | - |
| alternately | (adverb) in an alternating sequence or position | - |
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| alternating | (adjective) (of a current) reversing direction | - |
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| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternate |
| alternation | (noun) successive change from one thing or state to another and back again | - |
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| alternative | (adjective) necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, substitute |
| (adjective) pertaining to unconventional choices | - |
| (noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: choice, option |
| alternatively | (adverb) in place of, or as an alternative to | Synonyms: instead, or else |
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| alternator | (noun) an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles) | - |
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| althaea | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea | Synonyms: althea, hollyhock |
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| althea | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea | Synonyms: althaea, hollyhock |
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| altimeter | (noun) an instrument that measures the height above ground; used in navigation | - |
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| altissimo | (adjective) very high | - |
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| altitude | (noun) elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface | Synonyms: height |
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| (noun) angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object) | Synonyms: ALT, EL, elevation |
| (noun) the perpendicular distance from the base of a geometric figure to the opposite vertex (or side if parallel) | - |
| altitudinal | (adjective) pertaining to altitude | - |
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| altitudinous | (adjective) indefinitely high; lofty | - |
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| alto | (adjective) (of a musical instrument) second highest member of a group | - |
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| (adjective) of or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor | Synonyms: countertenor |
| (adjective) of or being the lowest female voice | Synonyms: contralto |
| (noun) the pitch range of the lowest female voice | - |
| (noun) (of a musical instrument) the second highest instrument in a family of musical instruments | - |
| (noun) the lowest female singing voice | Synonyms: contralto |
| (noun) the highest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: countertenor |
| (noun) a singer whose voice lies in the alto clef | - |
| altocumulus | (noun) a cumulus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles | Synonyms: altocumulus cloud |
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| altogether | (noun) informal terms for nakedness | Synonyms: birthday suit, raw |
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| (adverb) with everything included or counted | Synonyms: all told, in all |
| (adverb) with everything considered (and neglecting details) | Synonyms: all in all, on the whole, tout ensemble |
| (adverb) to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely | Synonyms: all, completely, entirely, right, totally, whole, wholly |
| altoist | (noun) a musician who plays the alto saxophone | Synonyms: alto saxophonist |
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| altostratus | (noun) a stratus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles | Synonyms: altostratus cloud |
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| altricial | (adjective) (of hatchlings) naked and blind and dependent on parents for food | - |
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| altruism | (noun) the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: selflessness |
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| altruist | (noun) someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being | Synonyms: philanthropist |
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| altruistic | (adjective) showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: selfless |
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| altruistically | (adverb) in an altruistic manner | Synonyms: selflessly |
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| asphalt | (noun) a dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation; consists mainly of hydrocarbons | Synonyms: mineral pitch |
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| (noun) mixed asphalt and crushed gravel or sand; used especially for paving but also for roofing | - |
| (verb) cover with tar or asphalt | - |
| asphaltic | (adjective) containing asphalt | - |
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| basalt | (noun) the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene | - |
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| basaltic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing basalt | - |
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| caltrop | (noun) tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed | Synonyms: devil's weed, Tribulus terestris |
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| (noun) Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America | Synonyms: Centauria calcitrapa, star-thistle |
| (noun) a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits | Synonyms: water chestnut, water chestnut plant |
| casualty | (noun) a decrease of military personnel or equipment | - |
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| (noun) an accident that causes someone to die | Synonyms: fatal accident |
| (noun) someone injured or killed in an accident | Synonyms: injured party |
| (noun) someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement | - |
| cobalt | (noun) a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition | Synonyms: atomic number 27, Co |
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| cobaltite | (noun) a rare silvery-white mineral; important ore of cobalt | - |
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| commonalty | (noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonality, commons |
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| commonwealth | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, country, land, nation, res publica, state |
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| (noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: democracy, republic |
| (noun) a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another | - |
| (noun) the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) | - |
| contralto | (adjective) of or being the lowest female voice | Synonyms: alto |
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| (noun) the lowest female singing voice | Synonyms: alto |
| (noun) a woman singer having a contralto voice | - |
| desalt | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinate, desalinise, desalinize |
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| disloyalty | (noun) the quality of being disloyal | - |
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| exalt | (verb) raise in rank, character, or status | - |
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| (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: extol, glorify, laud, proclaim |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, enliven, inspire, invigorate |
| (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
| exaltation | (noun) the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) | Synonyms: apotheosis, deification |
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| (noun) a flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight overhead) | - |
| (noun) the location of a planet in the zodiac at which it is believed to exert its maximum influence | - |
| (noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: ecstasy, rapture, raptus, transport |
| exalted | (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
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| exalting | (adjective) tending to exalt | Synonyms: ennobling |
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| exaltolide | (noun) the macrocyclic lactone having fifteen carbon atoms; it has a musky scent, similar to exaltone. | - |
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| falter | (noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: faltering, hesitation, waver |
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| (verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: bumble, stammer, stutter |
| (verb) walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly | Synonyms: bumble, stumble |
| (verb) move hesitatingly, as if about to give way | Synonyms: waver |
| (verb) be unsure or weak | Synonyms: waver |
| faltering | (adjective) unsteady in speech or action | - |
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| (noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: falter, hesitation, waver |
| falteringly | (adverb) in an unsteady manner | Synonyms: uncertainly, unsteadily |
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| fealty | (noun) the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign) | Synonyms: allegiance |
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| gestalt | (noun) a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts | - |
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| goaltender | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, netkeeper |
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| (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, netkeeper, netminder |
| halt | (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: crippled, game, gimpy, halting, lame |
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| (noun) an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement | Synonyms: freeze |
| (noun) the event of something ending | Synonyms: stop |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage |
| (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: stanch, staunch, stem |
| (verb) come to a halt, stop moving | Synonyms: stop |
| (verb) cause to come to an abrupt stop | Synonyms: arrest, hold |
| (verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: block, kibosh, stop |
| halter | (noun) either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight | Synonyms: balancer, haltere |
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| (noun) a woman's top that fastens behind the back and neck leaving the back and arms uncovered | - |
| (noun) rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading | Synonyms: hackamore |
| (noun) a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging | Synonyms: hangman's halter, hangman's rope, hemp, hempen necktie |
| (verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, hamper, strangle |
| (verb) hang with a halter | - |
| haltere | (noun) either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight | Synonyms: balancer, halter |
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| halting | (adjective) fragmentary or halting from emotional strain | - |
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| (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: crippled, game, gimpy, halt, lame |
| haltingly | (adverb) in a halting manner | - |
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| health | (noun) a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease | Synonyms: wellness |
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| (noun) the general condition of body and mind | - |
| healthcare | (noun) the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession | Synonyms: health care |
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| healthful | (adjective) conducive to good health of body or mind | - |
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| (adjective) free from filth and pathogens | Synonyms: sanitary |
| healthfulness | (noun) the quality of promoting good health | - |
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| healthier | (adjective) improved in health or physical condition | Synonyms: fitter |
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| healthily | (adverb) in a levelheaded manner | - |
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| healthiness | (noun) the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease | Synonyms: good health |
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| healthy | (adjective) having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease | - |
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| (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodish, goodly, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy |
| (adjective) exercising or showing good judgment | Synonyms: intelligent, level-headed, levelheaded, sound |
| (adjective) financially secure and functioning well | - |
| (adjective) promoting health; healthful | Synonyms: good for you, salubrious |
| inalterable | (adjective) not capable of being changed or altered | Synonyms: unalterable |
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| loyalty | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: allegiance, commitment, dedication |
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| (noun) the quality of being loyal | Synonyms: trueness |
| (noun) feelings of allegiance | - |
| malt | (noun) a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling | - |
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| (noun) a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer | Synonyms: malt liquor |
| (noun) a milkshake made with malt powder | Synonyms: malted, malted milk |
| (verb) convert into malt | - |
| (verb) turn into malt, become malt | - |
| (verb) convert grain into malt | - |
| (verb) treat with malt or malt extract | - |
| malted | (adjective) of grain that has been converted into malt | - |
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| (noun) a milkshake made with malt powder | Synonyms: malt, malted milk |
| maltha | (noun) a thick black tar intermediate between petroleum and asphalt | Synonyms: mineral tar |
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| maltman | (noun) a maker of malt | Synonyms: maltster |
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| maltose | (noun) a white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches | Synonyms: malt sugar |
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| maltreat | (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, mistreat, step |
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| maltreated | (adjective) subjected to cruel treatment | Synonyms: abused, ill-treated, mistreated |
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| maltreater | (noun) someone who abuses | Synonyms: abuser |
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| maltreatment | (noun) cruel or inhumane treatment | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treatment, ill-usage |
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| maltster | (noun) a maker of malt | Synonyms: maltman |
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| mayoralty | (noun) the position of mayor | - |
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| mealtime | (noun) the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten | - |
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| naltrexone | (noun) an oral antagonist against the action of opiates | - |
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| palter | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, prevaricate, tergiversate |
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| paltering | (noun) a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear | Synonyms: fibbing |
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| paltriness | (noun) worthlessness due to insignificance | Synonyms: sorriness |
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| paltry | (adjective) contemptibly small in amount | Synonyms: measly, miserable |
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| (adjective) not worth considering | Synonyms: negligible, trifling |
| penalty | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalization, punishment |
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| (noun) the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition | - |
| (noun) (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game | - |
| (noun) a payment required for not fulfilling a contract | - |
| personalty | (noun) movable property (as distinguished from real estate) | Synonyms: personal estate, personal property, private property |
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| psalterium | (noun) the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant | Synonyms: omasum, third stomach |
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| psaltery | (noun) an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings | - |
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| realty | (noun) property consisting of houses and land | Synonyms: immovable, real estate, real property |
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| royalty | (noun) royal persons collectively | Synonyms: royal family, royal house, royal line |
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| (noun) payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property | - |