| ambage | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: circumlocution, periphrasis |
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| ambages | (noun) (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action | - |
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| ambagious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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| ambassador | (noun) a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another | Synonyms: embassador |
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| (noun) an informal representative | - |
| ambassadorial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of ambassadors | - |
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| ambassadorship | (noun) the post of ambassador | - |
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| ambassadress | (noun) a woman ambassador | - |
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| amber | (adjective) of a medium to dark brownish yellow color | Synonyms: brownish-yellow, yellow-brown |
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| (noun) a deep yellow color | Synonyms: gold |
| (noun) a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry | - |
| amberbell | (noun) eastern North American dogtooth having solitary yellow flowers marked with brown or purple and spotted interiors | Synonyms: Erythronium americanum, trout lily, yellow adder's tongue |
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| amberfish | (noun) any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes | Synonyms: amberjack |
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| ambergris | (noun) waxy substance secreted by the sperm whale and found floating at sea or washed ashore; used in perfume | - |
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| amberjack | (noun) any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes | Synonyms: amberfish |
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| ambiance | (noun) the atmosphere of an environment | Synonyms: ambience |
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| (noun) a particular environment or surrounding influence | Synonyms: ambience, atmosphere |
| ambidexterity | (noun) the property of being equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: ambidextrousness |
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| ambidextrous | (adjective) equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: two-handed |
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| (adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced |
| ambidextrousness | (noun) the property of being equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: ambidexterity |
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| ambience | (noun) the atmosphere of an environment | Synonyms: ambiance |
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| (noun) a particular environment or surrounding influence | Synonyms: ambiance, atmosphere |
| ambient | (adjective) completely enveloping | - |
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| ambiguity | (noun) unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning | Synonyms: equivocalness |
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| (noun) an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context | - |
| ambiguous | (adjective) having more than one possible meaning | - |
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| (adjective) open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead | Synonyms: equivocal |
| (adjective) having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns | - |
| ambiguously | (adverb) in an ambiguous manner | Synonyms: equivocally |
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| ambit | (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: compass, orbit, range, reach, scope |
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| ambition | (noun) a strong drive for success | Synonyms: ambitiousness |
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| (noun) a cherished desire | Synonyms: aspiration, dream |
| (verb) have as one's ambition | - |
| ambitionless | (adjective) having little desire for success or achievement | Synonyms: unambitious |
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| ambitious | (adjective) having a strong desire for success or achievement | - |
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| (adjective) requiring full use of your abilities or resources | Synonyms: challenging |
| ambitiously | (adverb) with ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner | Synonyms: determinedly |
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| ambitiousness | (noun) a strong drive for success | Synonyms: ambition |
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| ambivalence | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalency |
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| ambivalency | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalence |
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| ambivalent | (adjective) uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow | - |
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| ambiversion | (noun) (psychology) a balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion | - |
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| ambiversive | (adjective) intermediate between introversive and extroversive | - |
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| amble | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: perambulation, promenade, saunter, stroll |
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| (verb) walk leisurely | Synonyms: mosey |
| ambler | (noun) someone who walks at a leisurely pace | Synonyms: saunterer, stroller |
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| amblygonite | (noun) a white or grey mineral consisting of lithium aluminum phosphate; a source of lithium | - |
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| amblyopia | (noun) visual impairment without apparent organic pathology | - |
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| amblyopic | (adjective) pertaining to a kind of visual impairment without apparent organic pathology | - |
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| ambo | (noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | Synonyms: dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, soapbox, stump |
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| amboceptor | (noun) an immune body formed in the blood during infection or immunization that serves to link the complement to the antigen. | - |
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| amboyna | (noun) tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain | Synonyms: padauk, padouk, Pterocarpus indicus |
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| (noun) mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus | Synonyms: Andaman redwood |
| ambrosia | (noun) (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal | Synonyms: nectar |
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| (noun) fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut | - |
| (noun) any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma | Synonyms: bitterweed, ragweed |
| (noun) a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae | Synonyms: beebread |
| ambrosial | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosian |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosian, nectarous |
| ambrosian | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosial |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosial, nectarous |
| ambulacral | (adjective) pertaining to the ambulacra of radial echinoderms | - |
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| ambulacrum | (noun) one of the five areas on the undersurface of an echinoderm on which the tube feet are located | - |
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| ambulance | (noun) a vehicle that takes people to and from hospitals | - |
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| ambulant | (adjective) able to walk about | Synonyms: ambulatory |
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| ambulate | (verb) walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking | - |
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| ambulation | (noun) walking about | - |
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| ambulatory | (adjective) relating to or adapted for walking | - |
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| (adjective) able to walk about | Synonyms: ambulant |
| (noun) a covered walkway (as in a cloister) | - |
| ambuscade | (noun) the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise | Synonyms: ambush, lying in wait, trap |
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| (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
| ambush | (noun) the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise | Synonyms: ambuscade, lying in wait, trap |
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| (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
| (verb) hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing | Synonyms: still-hunt |
| ambusher | (noun) an attacker who waits in a concealed position to launch a surprise attack | - |
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| ambystomid | (noun) small to moderate-sized terrestrial or semiaquatic New World salamander | Synonyms: ambystomid salamander |
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| antechamber | (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, hall, lobby, vestibule |
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| bambino | (noun) a young child who is just beginning to walk | Synonyms: toddler, tot, yearling |
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| bamboo | (noun) woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture | - |
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| (noun) the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles | - |
| bamboozle | (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow |
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| bedchamber | (noun) a room used primarily for sleeping | Synonyms: bedroom, chamber, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room |
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| bramble | (noun) any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines | - |
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| brambling | (noun) Eurasian finch | Synonyms: Fringilla montifringilla |
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| brambly | (adjective) covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth | Synonyms: braky |
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| camber | (noun) the alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the bottom than at the top | - |
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| (noun) a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force | Synonyms: bank, cant |
| (noun) a slight convexity (as of the surface of a road) | - |
| (verb) curve upward in the middle | - |
| cambial | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as a cambium | - |
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| cambium | (noun) the inner layer of the periosteum | - |
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| (noun) a formative one-cell layer of tissue between xylem and phloem in most vascular plants that is responsible for secondary growth | - |
| cambric | (noun) a finely woven white linen | - |
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| carambola | (noun) deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert | Synonyms: star fruit |
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| (noun) East Indian tree bearing deeply ridged yellow-brown fruit | Synonyms: Averrhoa carambola, carambola tree |
| chamber | (noun) a natural or artificial enclosed space | - |
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| (noun) a room used primarily for sleeping | Synonyms: bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room |
| (noun) a room where a judge transacts business | - |
| (noun) an enclosed volume in the body | - |
| (noun) a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly | - |
| (verb) place in a chamber | - |
| chambered | (adjective) having compartmental chambers | - |
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| chamberlain | (noun) the treasurer of a municipal corporation | - |
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| (noun) an officer who manages the household of a king or nobleman | - |
| chambermaid | (noun) a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels) | Synonyms: fille de chambre |
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| chamberpot | (noun) a receptacle for urination or defecation in the bedroom | Synonyms: potty, thunder mug |
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| chambray | (noun) a lightweight fabric woven with white threads across a colored warp | - |
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| chlorambucil | (noun) an alkylating agent (trade name Leukeran) used to treat some kinds of cancer | Synonyms: Leukeran |
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| circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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| clambake | (noun) a cookout at the seashore where clams and fish and other foods are cooked--usually on heated stones covered with seaweed | - |
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| clamber | (noun) an awkward climb | - |
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| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
| disambiguate | (verb) state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from | - |
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| disambiguation | (noun) clarification that follows from the removal of ambiguity | - |
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| disambiguator | (noun) (computer science) a natural language processing application that tries to determine the intended meaning of a word or phrase by examining the linguistic context in which it is used | - |
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| dithyramb | (noun) (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus) | - |
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| (noun) a wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing | - |
| dithyrambic | (adjective) of or in the manner of a dithyramb | - |
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| doorjamb | (noun) a jamb for a door | Synonyms: doorpost |
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| enjambement | (noun) the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause | Synonyms: enjambment |
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| enjambment | (noun) the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause | Synonyms: enjambement |
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| flambe | (verb) pour liquor over and ignite (a dish) | - |
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| flambeau | (noun) a flaming torch (such as are used in processions at night) | - |
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| flamboyance | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: floridity, floridness, showiness |
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| flamboyant | (adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: aureate, florid |
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| (adjective) marked by ostentation but often tasteless | Synonyms: showy, splashy |
| (noun) showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana | Synonyms: Delonix regia, flame tree, peacock flower, Poinciana regia, royal poinciana |
| flamboyantly | (adverb) in a fancy colorful manner | Synonyms: flashily, showily |
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| frambesia | (noun) an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions | Synonyms: framboesia, yaws |
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| framboesia | (noun) an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions | Synonyms: frambesia, yaws |
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| framboise | (noun) the common European raspberry; fruit red or orange | Synonyms: European raspberry, Rubus idaeus, wild raspberry |
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| funambulism | (noun) walking on a tightrope or slack rope | Synonyms: tightrope walking |
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| funambulist | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a tightrope or slack rope | Synonyms: tightrope walker |
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| gamba | (noun) viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello | Synonyms: bass viol, viola da gamba |
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| gambist | (noun) a musician who performs upon the viola da gamba | - |
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| gambit | (noun) a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position | - |
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| (noun) a maneuver in a game or conversation | Synonyms: ploy, stratagem |
| (noun) an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker | Synonyms: ploy |
| gamble | (noun) a risky act or venture | - |
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| (noun) money that is risked for possible monetary gain | - |
| (verb) play games for money | - |
| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| gambler | (noun) a person who wagers money on the outcome of games or sporting events | - |
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| (noun) someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement | Synonyms: risk taker |