| assortment | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| assuage | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: alleviate, palliate, relieve |
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| (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: allay, quench, slake |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| assuagement | (noun) the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced | Synonyms: alleviation, relief |
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| assuasive | (adjective) freeing from fear and anxiety | Synonyms: soothing |
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| assume | (verb) put clothing on one's body | Synonyms: don, get into, put on, wear |
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| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: acquire, adopt, take, take on |
| (verb) take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof | Synonyms: presume, take for granted |
| (verb) take up someone's soul into heaven | - |
| (verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: feign, sham, simulate |
| (verb) occupy or take on | Synonyms: strike, take, take up |
| (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: arrogate, seize, take over, usurp |
| (verb) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person | Synonyms: accept, bear, take over |
| (verb) take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities | Synonyms: adopt, take on, take over |
| assumed | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham |
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| assuming | (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assumptive, presumptuous |
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| assumption | (noun) the act of taking possession of or power over something | Synonyms: laying claim |
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| (noun) the act of assuming or taking for granted | - |
| (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: effrontery, presumption, presumptuousness |
| (noun) a hypothesis that is taken for granted | Synonyms: supposal, supposition |
| (noun) a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn | Synonyms: premise, premiss |
| assumptive | (adjective) accepted as real or true without proof | - |
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| (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, presumptuous |
| assurance | (noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: authority, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
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| (noun) a statement intended to inspire confidence | - |
| (noun) a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something | Synonyms: pledge |
| (noun) a British term for some kinds of insurance | - |
| assure | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, check, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
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| (verb) inform positively and with certainty and confidence | Synonyms: tell |
| (verb) assure somebody of the truth of something with the intention of giving the listener confidence | - |
| (verb) make a promise or commitment | Synonyms: promise |
| (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: ensure, guarantee, insure, secure |
| assured | (adjective) marked by assurance; exhibiting confidence | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by certainty or security | - |
| assuredly | (adverb) without a doubt | - |
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| assuredness | (noun) great coolness and composure under strain | Synonyms: aplomb, cool, poise, sang-froid |
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| assurgent | (adjective) growing or extending upward | - |
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| (adjective) rising from the sea | - |
| assuring | (adjective) giving confidence | - |
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| audiocassette | (noun) a cassette for audiotape | - |
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| babassu | (noun) tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory | Synonyms: babassu palm, coco de macao, Orbignya martiana, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa |
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| badass | (adjective) being impressive due to extreme attitude or style | - |
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| (noun) A mean or belligerent person | - |
| (noun) A person considered impressive due to extreme attitudes, behavior or appearance | - |
| bagasse | (noun) the dry dusty pulp that remains after juice is extracted from sugar cane or similar plants | - |
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| bagassosis | (noun) alveolitis caused by inhaling bagasse (sugarcane dust) | Synonyms: bagascosis |
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| bass | (adjective) having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range | Synonyms: deep |
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| (noun) the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments | - |
| (noun) the lowest part of the musical range | - |
| (noun) the lowest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: bass voice, basso |
| (noun) the lowest part in polyphonic music | Synonyms: bass part |
| (noun) an adult male singer with the lowest voice | Synonyms: basso |
| (noun) nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes | - |
| (noun) any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus) | Synonyms: freshwater bass |
| (noun) the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae | Synonyms: sea bass |
| bassarisk | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, cacomistle, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
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| basset | (noun) smooth-haired breed of hound with short legs and long ears | Synonyms: basset hound |
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| (verb) appear at the surface | Synonyms: crop out |
| bassine | (noun) coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms | - |
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| bassinet | (noun) a basket (usually hooded) used as a baby's bed | - |
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| (noun) a perambulator that resembles a bassinet | - |
| bassist | (noun) a musician who play the bass viol | - |
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| basso | (noun) the lowest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: bass, bass voice |
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| (noun) an adult male singer with the lowest voice | Synonyms: bass |
| bassoon | (noun) a double-reed instrument; the tenor of the oboe family | - |
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| bassoonist | (noun) a musician who plays the bassoon | - |
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| basswood | (noun) any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber | Synonyms: lime, lime tree, linden, linden tree |
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| (noun) soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork | Synonyms: linden |
| bioassay | (noun) appraisal of the biological activity of a substance by testing its effect on an organism and comparing the result with some agreed standard | Synonyms: bio-assay |
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| (verb) subject to a bio-assay | - |
| biomass | (noun) the total mass of living matter in a given unit area | - |
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| (noun) plant materials and animal waste used as fuel | - |
| bluegrass | (noun) a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars | - |
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| (noun) any of various grasses of the genus Poa | Synonyms: blue grass |
| brass | (noun) a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece | Synonyms: brass instrument |
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| (noun) a memorial made of brass | Synonyms: memorial tablet, plaque |
| (noun) an ornament or utensil made of brass | - |
| (noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: boldness, cheek, face, nerve |
| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
| (noun) the section of a band or orchestra that plays brass instruments | Synonyms: brass section |
| (noun) an alloy of copper and zinc | - |
| brassard | (noun) armor plate that protects the arm | - |
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| brassavola | (noun) any of various tropical American orchids with usually solitary fleshy leaves and showy white to green nocturnally fragrant blossoms solitary or in racemes of up to 7 | - |
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| brassbound | (adjective) having trim or fittings of brass | - |
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| (adjective) inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable | Synonyms: ironclad |
| brasserie | (noun) a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap | - |
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| brassie | (noun) (formerly) a golfing wood with a face more elevated than a driver but less than a spoon | - |
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| brassiere | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bandeau, bra |
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| brasslike | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brassy |
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| brassy | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brasslike |
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| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
| bristlegrass | (noun) grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet | Synonyms: bristle grass |
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| bromegrass | (noun) any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions | Synonyms: brome |
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| bunchgrass | (noun) any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States | Synonyms: bunch grass |
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| burgrass | (noun) a grass of the genus Cenchrus | Synonyms: bur grass |
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| bypass | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: beltway, ring road, ringway |
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| (noun) a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current | Synonyms: electrical shunt, shunt |
| (noun) a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part) | - |
| (verb) avoid something unpleasant or laborious | Synonyms: get around, go around, short-circuit |
| cabasset | (noun) a metal helmet worn by common soldiers in the 16th century | Synonyms: morion |
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| cabassous | (noun) naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America | Synonyms: Cabassous unicinctus, tatouay |
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| camass | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camas, camash, camosh, quamash |
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| canvass | (noun) a heavy, closely woven fabric | Synonyms: canvas |
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| (noun) the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete | Synonyms: canvas |
| (noun) a tent made of canvas fabric | Synonyms: canvas, canvas tent |
| (noun) a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel | Synonyms: canvas, sail, sheet |
| (noun) an oil painting on canvas fabric | Synonyms: canvas |
| (noun) an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people | Synonyms: opinion poll, poll, public opinion poll |
| (noun) the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account | Synonyms: canvas |
| (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, examine, study |
| (verb) solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign | - |
| (verb) get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions | Synonyms: poll |
| canvasser | (noun) someone who conducts surveys of public opinion | Synonyms: headcounter, poll taker, pollster |
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| (noun) someone who examines votes at an election | Synonyms: scrutineer |
| (noun) a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes | Synonyms: solicitor |
| (noun) a person who takes or counts votes | - |
| canvassing | (noun) persuasion of voters in a political campaign | Synonyms: bell ringing, electioneering |
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| carcass | (noun) the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food | Synonyms: carcase |
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| carnassial | (adjective) (of a tooth) adapted for shearing flesh | - |
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| cassareep | (noun) a flavoring made by boiling down the juice of the bitter cassava; used in West Indian cooking | - |
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| cassava | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch | Synonyms: casava |
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| (noun) cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca | Synonyms: manioc |
| (noun) a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics | Synonyms: cassava starch, manioc, manioca |
| casserole | (noun) large deep dish in which food can be cooked and served | - |
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| (noun) food cooked and served in a casserole | - |
| cassette | (noun) a container that holds a magnetic tape used for recording or playing sound or video | - |
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| cassia | (noun) any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cassia having pinnately compound leaves and usually yellow flowers followed by long seedpods | - |
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| (noun) Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon | Synonyms: cassia-bark tree, Cinnamomum cassia |
| cassie | (noun) tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery | Synonyms: Acacia farnesiana, flame tree, huisache, mimosa bush, scented wattle, sweet acacia, sweet wattle |
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| cassino | (noun) a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand | Synonyms: casino |
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| cassiri | (noun) a drink resembling beer; made from fermented cassava juice | - |
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| cassiterite | (noun) a hard heavy dark mineral that is the chief source of tin | - |
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| cassock | (noun) a black garment reaching down to the ankles; worn by priests or choristers | - |
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| cassocked | (adjective) dressed in a cassock | - |
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| cassowary | (noun) large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest | - |
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| chasse | (noun) (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading | Synonyms: sashay |
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| (verb) perform a chasse step, in ballet | Synonyms: sashay |
| chassis | (noun) the skeleton of a motor vehicle consisting of a steel frame supported on springs that holds the body and motor | - |
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| (noun) a metal mounting for the circuit components of an electronic device | - |
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| cheatgrass | (noun) annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean | Synonyms: Bromus tectorum, downy brome, downy bromegrass, downy cheat, downy chess, drooping brome |
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| class | (noun) education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings | Synonyms: course, course of instruction, course of study |
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| (noun) elegance in dress or behavior | - |
| (noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | Synonyms: category, family |
| (noun) people having the same social, economic, or educational status | Synonyms: social class, socio-economic class, stratum |
| (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders | - |
| (noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: course, form, grade |
| (noun) a body of students who graduate together | Synonyms: year |
| (noun) a league ranked by quality | Synonyms: division |
| (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, classify, separate, sort, sort out |
| classic | (adjective) of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc. | Synonyms: classical |
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| (adjective) considered of the highest quality and lasting significance or worth | - |
| (adjective) well-known and long-established in form or style | Synonyms: classical |
| (adjective) of a well-known type; remarkably typical | - |
| (noun) a creation of the highest excellence | - |
| (noun) an artist who has created classic works | - |
| classical | (adjective) of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc. | Synonyms: classic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the languages used by ancient standard authors | - |
| (adjective) well-known and long-established in form or style | Synonyms: classic |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture | Synonyms: Graeco-Roman, Greco-Roman |
| (adjective) of or relating to music in the European tradition, such as symphonies and operas | - |
| (adjective) (physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics | - |
| (noun) traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste | Synonyms: classical music, serious music |
| classicalism | (noun) a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms | Synonyms: classicism |
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| classically | (adverb) in the manner of Greek and Roman culture | - |
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| classicise | (verb) make classic or classical | Synonyms: classicize |
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| classicism | (noun) a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms | Synonyms: classicalism |
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| classicist | (noun) an artistic person who adheres to classicism | - |
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| (noun) a student of ancient Greek and Latin | Synonyms: classical scholar |
| classicistic | (adjective) of or relating to classicism | - |
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| classicize | (verb) make classic or classical | Synonyms: classicise |
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| classics | (noun) study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome | - |
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| classifiable | (adjective) capable of being classified | Synonyms: distinctive |
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| classification | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people | - |
| (noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, sorting |
| (noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization |
| classificatory | (adjective) relating to or involving classification | - |
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| classified | (adjective) arranged into classes | - |
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| (adjective) official classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulation | - |
| (noun) a short ad in a newspaper or magazine (usually in small print) and appearing along with other ads of the same type | Synonyms: classified ad, classified advertisement |
| classifier | (noun) an algorithm that implements classification. | - |
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| (noun) a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs | - |
| (noun) a person who creates classifications | - |
| classify | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, class, separate, sort, sort out |
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| (verb) assign to a class or kind | Synonyms: relegate |
| (verb) declare unavailable, as for security reasons | - |
| classless | (adjective) favoring social equality | Synonyms: egalitarian |
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| classmate | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, schoolfellow, schoolmate |
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| classroom | (noun) a room in a school where lessons take place | Synonyms: schoolroom |
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| classwork | (noun) the part of a student's work that is done in the classroom | - |
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| classy | (adjective) elegant and fashionable | Synonyms: posh, swish |
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| compass | (noun) navigational instrument for finding directions | - |
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| (noun) drafting instrument used for drawing circles | - |
| (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, orbit, range, reach, scope |
| (noun) the limit of capability | Synonyms: grasp, range, reach |
| (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
| (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: circumnavigate |
| (verb) bring about; accomplish | - |
| compassion | (noun) the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it | Synonyms: pity |
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| (noun) a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | Synonyms: compassionateness |
| compassionate | (adjective) showing or having compassion | - |
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| (verb) share the suffering of | Synonyms: condole with, feel for, pity, sympathize with |
| compassionately | (adverb) in a sympathetic manner | Synonyms: pityingly |
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| compassionateness | (noun) a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | Synonyms: compassion |
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| contrabass | (adjective) pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range | Synonyms: double-bass |
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| (noun) largest and lowest member of the violin family | Synonyms: bass fiddle, bass viol, bull fiddle, double bass, string bass |
| contrabassoon | (noun) the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family | Synonyms: contrafagotto, double bassoon |
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