| abscess | (noun) symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue | - |
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| abscessed | (adjective) infected and filled with pus | - |
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| access | (noun) the act of approaching or entering | - |
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| (noun) a way of entering or leaving | Synonyms: approach |
| (noun) (computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information | Synonyms: memory access |
| (noun) the right to enter | Synonyms: accession, admission, admittance, entree |
| (noun) the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership) | - |
| (noun) a code (a series of characters or digits) that must be entered in some way (typed or dialed or spoken) to get the use of something (a telephone line or a computer or a local area network etc.) | Synonyms: access code |
| (verb) reach or gain access to | Synonyms: get at |
| (verb) obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer | - |
| accessary | (adjective) aiding and abetting in a crime | Synonyms: accessory |
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| (noun) someone who helps another person commit a crime | Synonyms: accessory |
| accessibility | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: availability, availableness, handiness |
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| (noun) the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with | Synonyms: approachability |
| accessible | (adjective) capable of being reached | - |
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| (adjective) easy to get along with or talk to; friendly | - |
| (adjective) easily obtained | - |
| (adjective) capable of being read with comprehension | Synonyms: approachable |
| accession | (noun) the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne) | Synonyms: rise to power |
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| (noun) the right to enter | Synonyms: access, admission, admittance, entree |
| (noun) agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly) | Synonyms: assenting |
| (noun) something added to what you already have | Synonyms: addition |
| (noun) (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement | - |
| (noun) a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group) | - |
| (verb) make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library | - |
| accessional | (adjective) of or constituting an accession | - |
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| accessorial | (adjective) nonessential but helpful | - |
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| accessory | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
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| (adjective) aiding and abetting in a crime | Synonyms: accessary |
| (noun) a supplementary component that improves capability | Synonyms: add-on, appurtenance, supplement |
| (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accouterment, accoutrement |
| (noun) someone who helps another person commit a crime | Synonyms: accessary |
| acquaintanceship | (noun) a relationship less intimate than friendship | Synonyms: acquaintance |
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| actinomyces | (noun) soil-inhabiting saprophytes and disease-producing plant and animal parasites | - |
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| ancestor | (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, root |
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| ancestral | (adjective) of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor | - |
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| (adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible |
| ancestress | (noun) a woman ancestor | - |
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| ancestry | (noun) inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | Synonyms: derivation, filiation, lineage |
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| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| apprenticeship | (noun) the position of apprentice | - |
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| archdiocesan | (adjective) of or relating to an archdiocese | - |
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| archdiocese | (noun) the diocese of an archbishop | - |
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| ascesis | (noun) rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint | Synonyms: asceticism |
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| auspices | (noun) kindly endorsement and guidance | Synonyms: aegis, protection |
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| braces | (noun) an appliance that corrects dental irregularities | Synonyms: brace, orthodontic braces |
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| cesarean | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, caesarian, cesarian |
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| (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
| cesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, caesarian, cesarean |
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| (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian section |
| cesium | (noun) a soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures); the most electropositive and alkaline metal | Synonyms: atomic number 55, caesium, Cs |
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| cespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: caespitose, tufted |
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| cessation | (noun) a stopping | Synonyms: surcease |
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| cession | (noun) the act of ceding | Synonyms: ceding |
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| cesspit | (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspool, sink, sump |
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| cesspool | (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspit, sink, sump |
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| cestode | (noun) ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates | Synonyms: tapeworm |
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| circumstances | (noun) a person's financial situation (good or bad) | - |
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| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
| concession | (noun) a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business | Synonyms: grant |
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| (noun) a point conceded or yielded | - |
| (noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: conceding, yielding |
| concessionaire | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessioner |
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| concessioner | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessionaire |
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| concessive | (adjective) of or pertaining to concession | - |
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| conveniences | (noun) things that make you comfortable and at ease | Synonyms: amenities, comforts, creature comforts |
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| deaccession | (verb) sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works | - |
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| devices | (noun) an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices' | - |
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| diocesan | (adjective) belonging to or governing a diocese | - |
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| (noun) a bishop having jurisdiction over a diocese | - |
| diocese | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop | Synonyms: bishopric, episcopate |
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| ecesis | (noun) (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat | Synonyms: establishment |
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| excess | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus |
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| (noun) excessive indulgence | Synonyms: overindulgence |
| (noun) immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits | Synonyms: excessiveness, inordinateness |
| (noun) a quantity much larger than is needed | Synonyms: nimiety, surplus, surplusage |
| (noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: overabundance, surfeit |
| excessive | (adjective) beyond normal limits | Synonyms: inordinate, undue, unreasonable |
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| (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: extravagant, exuberant, overweening |
| excessively | (adverb) to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits | Synonyms: overly, to a fault, too |
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| excessiveness | (noun) immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits | Synonyms: excess, inordinateness |
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| faeces | (noun) solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | Synonyms: BM, dejection, faecal matter, fecal matter, feces, ordure, stool |
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| fasces | (noun) bundle of rods containing an ax with the blade protruding; in ancient Rome it was a symbol of a magistrate's power; in modern Italy it is a symbol of fascism | - |
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| fauces | (noun) the passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx | - |
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| feces | (noun) solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | Synonyms: BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, ordure, stool |
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| fencesitter | (noun) a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) | Synonyms: independent, mugwump |
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| finances | (noun) assets in the form of money | Synonyms: cash in hand, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource |
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| inaccessibility | (noun) the quality of not being accessible | - |
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| inaccessible | (adjective) capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all | Synonyms: unaccessible |
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| (adjective) not capable of being obtained | Synonyms: unobtainable, unprocurable, untouchable |
| inaccessibly | (adverb) in an inaccessible manner | - |
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| incessancy | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessantness |
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| incessant | (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: ceaseless, constant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting |
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| incessantly | (adverb) invariably | Synonyms: always, constantly, forever, perpetually |
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| (adverb) with unflagging resolve | Synonyms: ceaselessly, continuously, endlessly, unceasingly, unendingly |
| incessantness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessancy |
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| incest | (noun) sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry (as between a parent and a child) | - |
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| incestuous | (adjective) relating to or involving incest | - |
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| (adjective) resembling incest as by excessive intimacy | - |
| incestuously | (adverb) by incest | - |
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| intercessio | (noun) the right of veto possessed by Roman magistrates. | - |
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| intercession | (noun) the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.) | Synonyms: intervention |
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| (noun) a prayer to God on behalf of another person | - |
| intercessor | (noun) a negotiator who acts as a link between parties | Synonyms: go-between, intermediary, intermediator, mediator |
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| microprocessor | (noun) integrated circuit semiconductor chip that performs the bulk of the processing and controls the parts of a system | - |
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| multiprocessing | (noun) simultaneous processing by two or more processing units | Synonyms: parallel processing |
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| multiprocessor | (noun) a computer that uses two or more processing units under integrated control | - |
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| necessarily | (adverb) in an essential manner | Synonyms: needfully |
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| (adverb) as a highly likely consequence | - |
| (adverb) in such a manner as could not be otherwise | Synonyms: inevitably, needs, of necessity |
| necessary | (adjective) absolutely essential | - |
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| (adjective) unavoidably determined by prior circumstances | - |
| (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessity, requirement, requisite |
| necessitarian | (noun) someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will | - |
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| necessitate | (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, need, postulate, require, take |
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| (verb) cause to be a concomitant | - |
| necessitous | (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, indigent, needy, poverty-stricken |
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| necessity | (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessary, requirement, requisite |
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| (noun) the condition of being essential or indispensable | - |
| pacesetter | (noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing | Synonyms: pacemaker, pacer |
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| (noun) a leading instance in its field | Synonyms: pacemaker |
| placeseeker | (noun) a disparaging term for an appointee | Synonyms: placeman |
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| precess | (verb) move in a gyrating fashion | - |
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| precession | (noun) the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) | Synonyms: precedence, precedency |
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| (noun) the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone | - |
| predecessor | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, harbinger, herald, precursor |
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| (noun) one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office) | - |
| princess | (noun) a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign) | - |
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| process | (noun) a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states | Synonyms: physical process |
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| (noun) a particular course of action intended to achieve a result | Synonyms: procedure |
| (noun) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | Synonyms: appendage, outgrowth |
| (noun) (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents | Synonyms: cognitive operation, cognitive process, mental process, operation |
| (noun) a mental process that you are not directly aware of | Synonyms: unconscious process |
| (noun) a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant | Synonyms: summons |
| (verb) subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition | Synonyms: treat |
| (verb) perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information | - |
| (verb) deliver a warrant or summons to someone | Synonyms: serve, swear out |
| (verb) shape, form, or improve a material | Synonyms: work, work on |
| (verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: action, litigate, sue |
| (verb) deal with in a routine way | - |
| (verb) march in a procession | Synonyms: march |
| processed | (adjective) prepared or converted from a natural state by subjecting to a special process | - |
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| (adjective) freed from impurities by processing | Synonyms: refined |
| (adjective) subjected to a special process or treatment | - |
| processing | (noun) preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure | - |
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| procession | (noun) the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation | - |
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| (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, progress, progression |
| (noun) (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost | Synonyms: emanation, rise |
| processional | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a procession | - |
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| (adjective) intended for use in a procession | - |
| (noun) religious music used in a procession | Synonyms: prosodion |
| processor | (noun) (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing | Synonyms: C.P.U., central processing unit, central processor, CPU, mainframe |
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| (noun) a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market | - |
| (noun) someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.) | - |
| recess | (noun) a pause from doing something (as work) | Synonyms: break, respite, time out |
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| (noun) an enclosure that is set back or indented | Synonyms: niche |
| (noun) an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) | Synonyms: inlet |
| (noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: corner, niche, recession |
| (noun) a state of abeyance or suspended business | Synonyms: deferral |
| (verb) close at the end of a session | Synonyms: adjourn, break up |
| (verb) make a recess in | - |
| (verb) put into a recess | - |
| recessed | (adjective) resembling an alcove | - |
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| (adjective) having a sunken area | Synonyms: deep-set, sunken |
| recession | (noun) the act of becoming more distant | Synonyms: receding |
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| (noun) the act of ceding back | Synonyms: ceding back |
| (noun) the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service | Synonyms: recessional |
| (noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: corner, niche, recess |
| (noun) the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year | - |
| recessional | (adjective) of or relating to receding | - |
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| (noun) a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw | - |
| (noun) the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service | Synonyms: recession |
| recessionary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a recession | Synonyms: recessive |
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| recessive | (adjective) (of genes) producing its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to a recession | Synonyms: recessionary |
| (noun) an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical | Synonyms: recessive allele |
| reprocess | (verb) use again after processing | Synonyms: recycle, reuse |
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| secession | (noun) formal separation from an alliance or federation | Synonyms: withdrawal |
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| (noun) an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s | Synonyms: sezession |
| secessionism | (noun) a doctrine that maintains the right of secession | - |
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| secessionist | (noun) an advocate of secessionism | - |
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| services | (noun) performance of duties or provision of space and equipment helpful to others | - |
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| spaceship | (noun) a spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space (especially in science fiction) | Synonyms: starship |
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| spacesuit | (noun) a pressure suit worn by astronauts while in outer space | - |
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| streptomyces | (noun) aerobic bacteria (some of which produce the antibiotic streptomycin) | - |
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