| ascend | (verb) slope upwards | - |
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| (verb) travel up | Synonyms: go up |
| (verb) come up, of celestial bodies | Synonyms: come up, rise, uprise |
| (verb) go along towards (a river's) source | - |
| (verb) move to a better position in life or to a better job | Synonyms: move up, rise |
| (verb) appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils | Synonyms: climb up |
| (verb) become king or queen | - |
| (verb) go back in order of genealogical succession | - |
| ascendable | (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendible, climbable |
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| ascendance | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendancy | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendant | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendent, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendent, dominating |
| (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendent, root |
| (noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendent |
| ascendence | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendency, control, dominance |
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| ascendency | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, control, dominance |
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| ascendent | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, dominating |
| (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, root |
| (noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendant |
| ascender | (noun) (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters | - |
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| (noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters | - |
| (noun) someone who ascends | - |
| ascendible | (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendable, climbable |
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| ascending | (adjective) moving or going or growing upward | - |
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| (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rise |
| condescend | (verb) treat condescendingly | Synonyms: patronise, patronize |
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| (verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: deign, descend |
| (verb) behave in a patronizing and condescending manner | - |
| (verb) debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way | Synonyms: lower oneself, stoop |
| condescending | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, patronising, patronizing |
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| condescendingly | (adverb) with condescension; in a patronizing manner | Synonyms: patronisingly, patronizingly |
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| condescendingness | (noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescension |
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| crescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in volume | - |
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| (noun) (music) a gradual increase in loudness | - |
| (verb) grow louder | - |
| decrescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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| (noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: diminuendo |
| (verb) grow quieter | - |
| descend | (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: fall, settle |
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| (verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | Synonyms: come down, fall, go down |
| (verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: condescend, deign |
| (verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: come, derive |
| descendant | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendent |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
| (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
| descendants | (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: posterity |
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| descendent | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendant |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
| (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
| descender | (noun) (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters | - |
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| (noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters | - |
| (noun) someone who descends | - |
| descending | (adjective) coming down or downward | - |
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| incendiarism | (noun) malicious burning to destroy property | Synonyms: arson, fire-raising |
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| incendiary | (adjective) involving deliberate burning of property | - |
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| (adjective) capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily | - |
| (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
| (noun) a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) | Synonyms: firebomb, incendiary bomb |
| (noun) a criminal who illegally sets fire to property | Synonyms: arsonist, firebug |
| scend | (verb) rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave | Synonyms: surge |
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| transcend | (verb) be greater in scope or size than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, surpass |
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| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, pass, top |
| transcendence | (noun) a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience | Synonyms: transcendency |
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| (noun) the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits | Synonyms: superiority, transcendency |
| transcendency | (noun) a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience | Synonyms: transcendence |
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| (noun) the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits | Synonyms: superiority, transcendence |
| transcendent | (adjective) exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence | Synonyms: surpassing |
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| (adjective) beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding | - |
| transcendental | (adjective) of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material | - |
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| (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, otherworldly, preternatural |
| transcendentalism | (noun) any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material | Synonyms: transcendental philosophy |
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| transcendentalist | (noun) advocate of transcendentalism | - |
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| transcendentally | (adverb) in a transcendental way or to a transcendental extent | - |
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| undescended | (adjective) (of the testis) remaining in the abdomen instead of descending into the scrotum | - |
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