| deviance | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviation |
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| (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration |
| disappearance | (noun) the act of leaving secretly or without explanation | Synonyms: disappearing |
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| (noun) gradually ceasing to be visible | Synonyms: fade |
| (noun) the event of passing out of sight | - |
| (noun) ceasing to exist | - |
| discontinuance | (noun) the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) | Synonyms: discontinuation |
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| discordance | (noun) strife resulting from a lack of agreement | Synonyms: discord |
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| (noun) a harsh mixture of sounds | Synonyms: discord |
| discountenance | (verb) show disapproval by discouraging | - |
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| (verb) look with disfavor on | - |
| disinheritance | (noun) the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit | - |
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| dissonance | (noun) disagreeable sounds | - |
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| (noun) the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience | Synonyms: noise, racket |
| (noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: disagreement, dissension |
| distance | (noun) the property created by the space between two objects or points | - |
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| (noun) size of the gap between two places | Synonyms: length |
| (noun) indifference by personal withdrawal | Synonyms: aloofness |
| (noun) a distant region | - |
| (noun) the interval between two times | Synonyms: space |
| (noun) a remote point in time | - |
| (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: outdistance, outstrip |
| (verb) keep at a distance | - |
| disturbance | (noun) the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion | - |
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| (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: affray, fray, ruffle |
| (noun) activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption | Synonyms: perturbation |
| (noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | Synonyms: interference, noise |
| (noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disruption, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness | Synonyms: folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder |
| (noun) an unhappy and worried mental state | Synonyms: perturbation, upset |
| dominance | (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, authorization, potency, say-so |
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| (noun) superior development of one side of the body | Synonyms: laterality |
| (noun) the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not | - |
| (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control |
| durance | (noun) imprisonment (especially for a long time) | - |
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| elastance | (noun) The capacity of a dielectric for opposing an electric charge | Synonyms: electrical elastance |
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| elegance | (noun) a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste | - |
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| (noun) a quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem (especially in science or mathematics) | - |
| encumbrance | (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
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| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, incumbrance, load, onus |
| (noun) a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage) | Synonyms: incumbrance |
| endurance | (noun) the power to withstand hardship or stress | - |
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| (noun) a state of surviving; remaining alive | Synonyms: survival |
| enhance | (verb) increase the level of | Synonyms: heighten, raise |
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| (verb) make better or more attractive | - |
| enhanced | (adjective) increased or intensified in value or beauty or quality | - |
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| enhancement | (noun) an improvement that makes something more agreeable | Synonyms: sweetening |
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| enhancer | (noun) anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities | Synonyms: foil |
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| entrance | (noun) the act of entering | Synonyms: entering, entry, incoming, ingress |
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| (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entranceway, entree, entry, entryway |
| (noun) a movement into or inward | Synonyms: entering |
| (verb) put into a trance | Synonyms: spellbind |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, fascinate, trance |
| entranced | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled |
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| entrancement | (noun) a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment | Synonyms: ravishment |
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| entranceway | (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entree, entry, entryway |
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| exceedance | (noun) (geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time | - |
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| exorbitance | (noun) excessive excess | Synonyms: outrageousness |
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| extravagance | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: high life, highlife, lavishness, prodigality |
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| (noun) the trait of spending extravagantly | Synonyms: prodigality, profligacy |
| (noun) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth | Synonyms: extravagancy |
| exuberance | (noun) overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval | Synonyms: ebullience, enthusiasm |
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| (noun) joyful enthusiasm | - |
| faineance | (noun) the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work | Synonyms: idleness |
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| fiance | (noun) a man who is engaged to be married | Synonyms: groom-to-be |
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| fiancee | (noun) a woman who is engaged to be married | Synonyms: bride-to-be |
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| finance | (noun) the commercial activity of providing funds and capital | - |
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| (noun) the management of money and credit and banking and investments | - |
| (noun) the branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets | - |
| (verb) obtain or provide money for | - |
| (verb) sell or provide on credit | - |
| finances | (noun) assets in the form of money | Synonyms: cash in hand, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource |
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| flamboyance | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: floridity, floridness, showiness |
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| forbearance | (noun) a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting | - |
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| (noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: longanimity, patience |
| forbiddance | (noun) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: inhibition, prohibition |
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| (noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, banning, forbidding |
| fragrance | (noun) a pleasingly sweet olfactory property | Synonyms: bouquet, fragrancy, redolence, sweetness |
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| (noun) a distinctive odor that is pleasant | Synonyms: aroma, perfume, scent |
| freelance | (adjective) working for yourself | Synonyms: free-lance, self-employed |
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| (adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, mercenary |
| (noun) a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them | Synonyms: free-lance, free lance, freelancer, independent, self-employed person |
| (verb) work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer | - |
| freelancer | (noun) a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them | Synonyms: free-lance, free lance, freelance, independent, self-employed person |
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| furtherance | (noun) the advancement of some enterprise | Synonyms: forwarding, promotion |
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| (noun) encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something | Synonyms: advancement, promotion |
| geomancer | (noun) one who practices geomancy | - |
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| glance | (noun) a quick look | Synonyms: coup d'oeil, glimpse |
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| (verb) hit at an angle | - |
| (verb) throw a glance at; take a brief look at | Synonyms: glint, peek |
| governance | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governing, government, government activity |
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| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, establishment, governing body, organisation, organization |
| grievance | (noun) a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action | - |
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| (noun) an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice | - |
| (noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grudge, score |
| guidance | (noun) the act of setting and holding a course | Synonyms: direction, steering |
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| (noun) the act of guiding or showing the way | Synonyms: steering |
| (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, counselling, direction |
| happenstance | (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: coincidence |
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| hesitance | (noun) a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something | Synonyms: hesitancy |
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| hinderance | (noun) the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding | Synonyms: hindrance, interference |
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| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hindrance, impediment |
| hindrance | (noun) the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding | Synonyms: hinderance, interference |
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| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, impediment |
| hydromancer | (noun) one who practices hydromancy | - |
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| ignorance | (noun) the lack of knowledge or education | - |
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| illuminance | (noun) the luminous flux incident on a unit area | Synonyms: illumination |
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| imbalance | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: disproportion, dissymmetry |
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| (noun) a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium | Synonyms: instability, unbalance |
| imbalanced | (adjective) being or thrown out of equilibrium | Synonyms: unbalanced |
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| impedance | (noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms | Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, ohmic resistance, resistance, resistivity |
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| importance | (noun) the quality of being important and worthy of note | - |
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| (noun) a prominent status | Synonyms: grandness |
| impuissance | (noun) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act | Synonyms: helplessness, weakness |
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| incognizance | (noun) a lack of knowledge or recognition | - |
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| incumbrance | (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, interference, preventative, preventive |
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| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, encumbrance, load, onus |
| (noun) a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage) | Synonyms: encumbrance |
| inductance | (noun) an electrical device (typically a conducting coil) that introduces inductance into a circuit | Synonyms: inductor |
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| (noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current | Synonyms: induction |
| inelegance | (noun) the quality of lacking refinement and good taste | - |
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| inheritance | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: heritage |
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| (noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: heritage |
| (noun) (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents | Synonyms: hereditary pattern |
| (noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: heritage |
| insignificance | (noun) the quality of having little or no significance | - |
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| insouciance | (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, lightheartedness, lightsomeness |
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| instance | (noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: example, illustration, representative |
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| (noun) an occurrence of something | Synonyms: case, example |
| (verb) clarify by giving an example of | Synonyms: exemplify, illustrate |
| insurance | (noun) written contract or certificate of insurance | Synonyms: insurance policy, policy |
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| (noun) promise of reimbursement in the case of loss; paid to people or companies so concerned about hazards that they have made prepayments to an insurance company | - |
| (noun) protection against future loss | Synonyms: indemnity |
| intemperance | (noun) excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence | Synonyms: intemperateness, self-indulgence |
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| (noun) consumption of alcoholic drinks | Synonyms: intemperateness |
| (noun) the quality of being intemperate | - |
| intolerance | (noun) impatience with annoyances | - |
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| (noun) unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs | - |
| invariance | (noun) the quality of being resistant to variation | Synonyms: invariability, invariableness |
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| (noun) the nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it | - |
| irrelevance | (noun) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: irrelevancy |
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| issuance | (noun) the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity) | Synonyms: issue, issuing |
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| jubilance | (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilancy, jubilation |
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| lance | (noun) a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon | Synonyms: shaft, spear |
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| (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fishgig, fizgig, gig, spear |
| (noun) a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions | Synonyms: lancet |
| (verb) open by piercing with a lancet | - |
| (verb) pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight | - |
| (verb) move quickly, as if by cutting one's way | - |
| lancelet | (noun) small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates | Synonyms: amphioxus |
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| lancelike | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex | Synonyms: lanceolate |
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| lanceolate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex | Synonyms: lancelike |
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| lancer | (noun) (formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance | - |
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| lancers | (noun) a quadrille for 8 or 16 couples | - |
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| lancet | (noun) a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions | Synonyms: lance |
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| (noun) an acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance | Synonyms: lancet arch |
| lancetfish | (noun) large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | Synonyms: lancet fish, wolffish |
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| lancewood | (noun) source of most of the lancewood of commerce | Synonyms: lancewood tree, Oxandra lanceolata |
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| (noun) durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools | - |
| lithomancer | (noun) one who practices lithomancy | - |
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| luminance | (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness, brightness level, light, luminosity, luminousness |
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| luxuriance | (noun) the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses | Synonyms: lushness, voluptuousness |
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| maintenance | (noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order | Synonyms: care, upkeep |
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| (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep |
| (noun) the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community | Synonyms: criminal maintenance |
| (noun) means of maintenance of a family or group | - |
| (noun) court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated | Synonyms: alimony |
| malfeasance | (noun) wrongful conduct by a public official | - |
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| malignance | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignancy, malignity |
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| (noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignancy |
| mesalliance | (noun) a marriage with a person of inferior social status | - |
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| microbalance | (noun) balance for weighing very small objects | - |
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| militance | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: combativeness, militancy |
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| misalliance | (noun) an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage) | - |
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| mischance | (noun) an instance of misfortune | Synonyms: misadventure, mishap |
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| (noun) an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate | Synonyms: bad luck, mishap |
| misfeasance | (noun) doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner | - |
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| monstrance | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a vessel (usually of gold or silver) in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration | Synonyms: ostensorium |
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| (noun) proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion | Synonyms: demonstration |
| nance | (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
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| necromancer | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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| (noun) one who practices divination by conjuring up the dead | - |
| nonacceptance | (noun) the act of refusing an offer | Synonyms: turndown |
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| nonappearance | (noun) failure to appear (especially as at court) | - |
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| nonattendance | (noun) the failure to attend | - |
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| nonchalance | (noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: indifference, unconcern |
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| noncompliance | (noun) the failure to obey | Synonyms: disobedience |
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