| pursuance | (noun) the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion | Synonyms: prosecution |
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| (noun) a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria | Synonyms: pursuit, quest |
| purveyance | (noun) the act of supplying something | - |
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| pyromancer | (noun) one who practices pyromancy | - |
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| pyromancy | (noun) divination by fire or flames | - |
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| quittance | (noun) payment of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: repayment |
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| (noun) a document or receipt certifying release from an obligation or debt | - |
| radiance | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine |
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| (noun) the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface | Synonyms: glow, glowing |
| (noun) an attractive combination of good health and happiness | - |
| radiancy | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiance, refulgence, refulgency, shine |
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| ranch | (noun) farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle) | Synonyms: cattle farm, cattle ranch, spread |
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| (verb) manage or run a ranch | - |
| rancher | (noun) a person who owns or operates a ranch | - |
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| ranching | (noun) farming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle) | - |
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| rancid | (adjective) smelling of fermentation or staleness | Synonyms: sour |
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| (adjective) (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition | - |
| rancidity | (noun) the state of being rancid; having a rancid scent or flavor (as of old cooking oil) | - |
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| rancidness | (noun) the property of being rancid | - |
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| rancor | (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: bitterness, gall, rancour, resentment |
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| rancorous | (adjective) showing deep-seated resentment | - |
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| rancour | (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: bitterness, gall, rancor, resentment |
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| reactance | (noun) opposition to the flow of electric current resulting from inductance and capacitance (rather than resistance) | - |
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| reappearance | (noun) the act of someone appearing again | Synonyms: return |
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| (noun) the event of something appearing again | - |
| reassurance | (noun) the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence | - |
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| recalcitrance | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrancy, refractoriness, unmanageableness |
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| recalcitrancy | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrance, refractoriness, unmanageableness |
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| recognisance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognizance |
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| recognizance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognisance |
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| reconnaissance | (noun) the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy) | Synonyms: reconnaissance mission |
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| recusancy | (noun) refusal to submit to established authority; originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England | - |
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| redundance | (noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundancy |
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| redundancy | (noun) repetition of an act needlessly | - |
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| (noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundance |
| (noun) (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails | - |
| (noun) repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission | - |
| refinance | (verb) renew the financing of | - |
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| reflectance | (noun) the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a surface | Synonyms: coefficient of reflection, reflection factor, reflectivity |
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| reinsurance | (noun) sharing the risk by insurance companies; part or all of the insurer's risk is assumed by other companies in return for part of the premium paid by the insured | - |
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| relevance | (noun) the relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: relevancy |
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| relevancy | (noun) the relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: relevance |
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| reliance | (noun) certainty based on past experience | Synonyms: trust |
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| (noun) the state of relying on something | - |
| reluctance | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition |
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| (noun) (physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance) | - |
| remembrance | (noun) the ability to recall past occurrences | Synonyms: anamnesis, recollection |
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| (noun) a recognition of meritorious service | Synonyms: commemoration, memorial |
| remittance | (noun) a payment of money sent to a person in another place | Synonyms: remission, remitment, remittal |
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| remonstrance | (noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: expostulation, objection, remonstration |
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| repentance | (noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penance, penitence |
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| repugnance | (noun) intense aversion | Synonyms: horror, repulsion, revulsion |
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| (noun) the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time | Synonyms: incompatibility, inconsistency, mutual exclusiveness |
| resemblance | (noun) similarity in appearance or external or superficial details | - |
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| resistance | (noun) group action in opposition to those in power | - |
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| (noun) the military action of resisting the enemy's advance | - |
| (noun) the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with | Synonyms: opposition |
| (noun) an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current | Synonyms: resistor |
| (noun) the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria) | - |
| (noun) (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness | - |
| (noun) a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force | Synonyms: underground |
| (noun) any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion | - |
| (noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms | Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, ohmic resistance, resistivity |
| (noun) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease | Synonyms: immunity |
| (noun) the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents | - |
| resonance | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| (noun) the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities | - |
| (noun) a vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system | - |
| (noun) an excited state of a stable particle causing a sharp maximum in the probability of absorption of electromagnetic radiation | - |
| (noun) a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people | Synonyms: rapport |
| reverberance | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| rhabdomancer | (noun) someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water | Synonyms: dowser, water witch |
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| rhabdomancy | (noun) searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod | Synonyms: dowse, dowsing |
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| riddance | (noun) the act of forcing out someone or something | Synonyms: ejection, exclusion, expulsion |
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| (noun) the act of removing or getting rid of something | Synonyms: elimination |
| romance | (noun) an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) | Synonyms: romanticism |
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| (noun) a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life | - |
| (noun) a story dealing with love | Synonyms: love story |
| (noun) a relationship between two lovers | Synonyms: love affair |
| (verb) tell romantic or exaggerated lies | - |
| (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander |
| (verb) have a love affair with | - |
| (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: court, solicit, woo |
| ropedancer | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a rope stretched at some height above the ground | Synonyms: ropewalker |
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| sacrosanct | (adjective) must be kept sacred | Synonyms: inviolable, inviolate |
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| sanctification | (noun) a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | - |
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| sanctified | (adjective) made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use | Synonyms: consecrated, sacred |
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| sanctify | (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, purify |
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| (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, consecrate, hallow |
| (verb) give religious sanction to, such as through an oath | Synonyms: sanction |
| sanctimonious | (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistic, pietistical, self-righteous |
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| sanctimoniously | (adverb) in a sanctimonious manner | Synonyms: self-righteously |
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| sanctimoniousness | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimony |
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| sanctimony | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimoniousness |
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| sanction | (noun) the act of final authorization | - |
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| (noun) a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards | - |
| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, authorization |
| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, indorsement, warrant |
| (verb) give sanction to | Synonyms: approve, O.K., okay |
| (verb) give religious sanction to, such as through an oath | Synonyms: sanctify |
| (verb) give authority or permission to | - |
| sanctionative | (adjective) implying sanction or serving to sanction | Synonyms: sanctioning |
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| sanctioned | (adjective) established by authority; given authoritative approval | Synonyms: approved |
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| (adjective) formally approved and invested with legal authority | Synonyms: ratified |
| (adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonic, canonical |
| sanctioning | (adjective) implying sanction or serving to sanction | Synonyms: sanctionative |
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| sanctitude | (noun) the quality of being holy | Synonyms: holiness, sanctity |
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| sanctity | (noun) the quality of being holy | Synonyms: holiness, sanctitude |
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| sanctuary | (noun) area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing | Synonyms: bema, chancel |
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| (noun) a shelter from danger or hardship | Synonyms: asylum, refuge |
| (noun) a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept | - |
| sanctum | (noun) a place of inviolable privacy | Synonyms: sanctum sanctorum |
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| (noun) a sacred place of pilgrimage | Synonyms: holy, holy place |
| scranch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scraunch |
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| seance | (noun) a meeting of spiritualists | Synonyms: session, sitting |
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| semblance | (noun) picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing | Synonyms: likeness |
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| (noun) an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading | Synonyms: color, colour, gloss |
| (noun) an erroneous mental representation | Synonyms: illusion |
| semitrance | (noun) a trancelike state in which the person can follow instructions but voluntary action is weak or absent | - |
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| severance | (noun) the act of severing | Synonyms: severing |
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| (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rift, rupture |
| significance | (noun) the quality of being significant | - |
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| (noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: implication, import |
| (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, signification |
| splanchnic | (adjective) relating to or affecting the viscera | Synonyms: visceral |
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| stagnancy | (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: doldrums, stagnation |
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| (noun) inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation | Synonyms: stagnation |
| stance | (noun) standing posture | - |
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| (noun) a rationalized mental attitude | Synonyms: position, posture |
| stanch | (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: halt, staunch, stem |
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| stanchion | (noun) any vertical post or rod used as a support | - |
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| stanchly | (adverb) in a staunch manner | Synonyms: staunchly |
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| substance | (noun) the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists | - |
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| (noun) a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties | - |
| (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistence, consistency |
| (noun) the idea that is intended | Synonyms: meaning |
| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, sum |
| (noun) content communicating a message; what something is about | Synonyms: content, message, subject matter |
| (noun) considerable capital (wealth or income) | Synonyms: means |
| (noun) material of a particular kind or constitution | - |
| sufferance | (noun) patient endurance especially of pain or distress | - |
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| (noun) a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations | Synonyms: acceptance, toleration |
| superabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overabundance, overmuch, overmuchness |
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| surveillance | (noun) close observation of a person or group (usually by the police) | - |
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| sustenance | (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: maintenance, sustainment, sustentation, upkeep |
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| (noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, victuals |
| (noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, support |
| sycophancy | (noun) fawning obsequiousness | - |
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| tapdance | (verb) dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes | Synonyms: tap |
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| tarriance | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: lingering |
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| temperance | (noun) abstaining from excess | Synonyms: sobriety |
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| (noun) the act of tempering | - |
| (noun) the trait of avoiding excesses | Synonyms: moderation |
| tenancy | (noun) an act of being a tenant or occupant | Synonyms: occupancy |
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| tolerance | (noun) the act of tolerating something | - |
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| (noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: allowance, leeway, margin |
| (noun) the power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions | - |
| (noun) a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior | Synonyms: permissiveness |
| (noun) willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others | - |
| trance | (noun) a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep | - |
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| (noun) A genre of electronic dance music with a fast tempo, repetitive phrasing, and often a hypnotic effect. | - |
| (noun) a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation | Synonyms: enchantment, spell |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate |
| trancelike | (adjective) as if in a trance | - |
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| tranche | (noun) a portion of something (especially money) | - |
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| transmittance | (noun) the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance | Synonyms: transmission |
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| trenchancy | (noun) keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect | Synonyms: incisiveness |
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| truancy | (noun) failure to attend (especially school) | Synonyms: hooky |
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| unbalance | (noun) a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium | Synonyms: imbalance, instability |
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| (noun) a state of mental disturbance and disorientation | Synonyms: derangement, mental unsoundness |
| (verb) derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane | Synonyms: derange |
| (verb) throw out of balance or equilibrium | - |
| unbalanced | (adjective) being or thrown out of equilibrium | Synonyms: imbalanced |
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| (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unhinged |
| (adjective) debits and credits are not equal | - |
| unbranched | (adjective) without branches | Synonyms: unbranching |
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| unbranching | (adjective) without branches | Synonyms: unbranched |
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| unimportance | (noun) the quality of not being important or worthy of note | - |
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| (noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, lowliness, obscureness |
| unsanctification | (noun) unholiness by virtue of being profane | Synonyms: profaneness |
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| unsanctified | (adjective) not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled | Synonyms: profane, unconsecrated |
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