aeciospore | (noun) spore of a rust fungus formed in an aecium | - |
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aficionado | (noun) a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer | - |
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(noun) a fan of bull fighting | - |
atrocious | (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: frightful, horrible, horrifying, ugly |
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(adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
(adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: flagitious, grievous, monstrous |
atrociously | (adverb) in a terrible manner | Synonyms: abominably, abysmally, awfully, rottenly, terribly |
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(adverb) to an extravagant or immoderate degree | Synonyms: outrageously |
atrociousness | (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness |
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audacious | (adjective) disposed to venture or take risks | Synonyms: daring, venturesome, venturous |
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(adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
(adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
audaciously | (adverb) in an audacious manner | - |
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audaciousness | (noun) fearless daring | Synonyms: audacity, temerity |
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(noun) aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery | Synonyms: audacity |
auspicious | (adjective) auguring favorable circumstances and good luck | - |
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auspiciously | (adverb) in an auspicious manner | Synonyms: propitiously |
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auspiciousness | (noun) the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result | Synonyms: propitiousness |
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autoecious | (adjective) of parasites especially rust fungi; completing the entire life cycle on a single host | Synonyms: homoecious |
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avaricious | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile |
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avariciously | (adverb) in a greedy manner | Synonyms: covetously, greedily |
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avariciousness | (noun) extreme greed for material wealth | Synonyms: avarice, covetousness, cupidity |
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bodacious | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
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(adjective) incorrigible | - |
braggadocio | (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: bluster, rhodomontade, rodomontade |
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capacious | (adjective) large in capacity | - |
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capaciousness | (noun) spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building) | Synonyms: commodiousness, roominess, spaciousness |
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(noun) intellectual breadth | Synonyms: roominess |
capriccio | (noun) an instrumental composition that doesn't adhere to rules for any specific musical form and is played with improvisation | - |
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capricious | (adjective) determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason | Synonyms: impulsive, whimsical |
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(adjective) changeable | Synonyms: freakish |
capriciously | (adverb) in a capricious manner | - |
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(adverb) unpredictably | Synonyms: freakishly |
capriciousness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
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(noun) the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses | Synonyms: unpredictability |
chiocciole | (noun) a type of pasta that is elbow-shaped. | - |
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coercion | (noun) using force to cause something to occur | Synonyms: compulsion |
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(noun) the act of compelling by force of authority | - |
conscionable | (adjective) acceptable to your conscience | - |
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conscious | (adjective) knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts | - |
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(adjective) (followed by `of') showing realization or recognition of something | - |
(adjective) intentionally conceived | Synonyms: witting |
consciously | (adverb) with awareness | - |
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consciousness | (noun) an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation | - |
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(noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, cognizance, knowingness |
contumacious | (adjective) wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient | - |
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contumaciously | (adverb) in a rebellious manner | Synonyms: defiantly, rebelliously |
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delicious | (adjective) greatly pleasing or entertaining | Synonyms: delightful |
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(adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy |
deliciously | (adverb) in a very pleasurable manner | Synonyms: pleasurably |
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(adverb) so as to produce a delightful taste | Synonyms: lusciously, scrumptiously |
deliciousness | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: delectability, lusciousness, toothsomeness |
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dioecious | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in separate plants or animals | Synonyms: dioecian |
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edacious | (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
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efficacious | (adjective) marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect | - |
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(adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effective, effectual |
efficaciously | (adverb) in an effective manner | Synonyms: effectively |
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efficaciousness | (noun) capacity or power to produce a desired effect | Synonyms: efficacy |
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fallacious | (adjective) involving deception | Synonyms: deceitful, fraudulent |
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(adjective) based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information | - |
(adjective) containing or based on a fallacy | Synonyms: unsound |
fallaciousness | (noun) result of a fallacy or error in reasoning | - |
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fascioliasis | (noun) infestation with the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica; liver damage sometimes occurs; related to liver rot | Synonyms: fasciolosis |
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fasciolopsiasis | (noun) infestation with the large intestinal fluke Fasciolopsis buski; common in eastern Asia | - |
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fasciolosis | (noun) infestation with the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica; liver damage sometimes occurs; related to liver rot | Synonyms: fascioliasis |
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ferocious | (adjective) marked by extreme and violent energy | Synonyms: fierce, furious, savage |
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ferociously | (adverb) in a physically fierce manner | Synonyms: fiercely |
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ferociousness | (noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: brutality, savagery, viciousness |
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fugacious | (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory |
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fugaciousness | (noun) the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts) | Synonyms: fugacity |
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gracious | (adjective) characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit | - |
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(adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: benignant |
(adjective) exhibiting courtesy and politeness | Synonyms: courteous, nice |
(adjective) disposed to bestow favors | - |
graciously | (adverb) in a gracious or graceful manner | Synonyms: gracefully |
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graciousness | (noun) excellence of manners or social conduct | - |
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(noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignancy, benignity |
heteroecious | (adjective) of parasites; passing through different stages of the life cycle on different host species | - |
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homoecious | (adjective) of parasites especially rust fungi; completing the entire life cycle on a single host | Synonyms: autoecious |
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inauspicious | (adjective) not auspicious; boding ill | Synonyms: unfortunate |
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(adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: adverse, untoward |
(adjective) presaging ill fortune | Synonyms: ill, ominous |
inauspiciously | (adverb) in an inauspicious manner | Synonyms: unpropitiously |
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inauspiciousness | (noun) the quality of suggesting an unsuccessful result | Synonyms: unpropitiousness |
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inefficacious | (adjective) lacking the power to produce a desired effect | - |
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inefficaciously | (adverb) in an ineffective manner | Synonyms: ineffectively |
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inefficaciousness | (noun) a lack of efficacy | Synonyms: inefficacy |
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injudicious | (adjective) lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise | - |
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injudiciously | (adverb) in an injudicious manner | - |
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injudiciousness | (noun) the trait of being injudicious | Synonyms: indiscretion |
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(noun) lacking good judgment | Synonyms: indiscreetness |
internuncio | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope ranking below a nuncio | - |
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judicious | (adjective) marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters | Synonyms: heady, wise |
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judiciously | (adverb) in a judicious manner | - |
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judiciousness | (noun) the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating | Synonyms: sagaciousness, sagacity |
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(noun) good judgment | - |
loquacious | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, garrulous, talkative, talky |
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loquaciously | (adverb) in a chatty loquacious manner | Synonyms: garrulously, talkatively, talkily |
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loquaciousness | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulity, garrulousness, loquacity, talkativeness |
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lubricious | (adjective) characterized by lust | Synonyms: lustful, prurient, salacious |
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(adjective) having a smooth or slippery quality | - |
luscious | (adjective) having strong sexual appeal | Synonyms: juicy, lush, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous |
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(adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, delicious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy |
lusciously | (adverb) so as to produce a delightful taste | Synonyms: deliciously, scrumptiously |
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lusciousness | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: delectability, deliciousness, toothsomeness |
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malicious | (adjective) having the nature of or resulting from malice | - |
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maliciously | (adverb) with malice; in a malicious manner | - |
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maliciousness | (noun) feeling a need to see others suffer | Synonyms: malice, spite, spitefulness, venom |
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mendacious | (adjective) intentionally untrue | - |
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(adjective) given to lying | - |
mendaciously | (adverb) in a mendacious and untruthful manner | Synonyms: untruthfully |
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meretricious | (adjective) like or relating to a prostitute | - |
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(adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: gilded, glossy, specious |
(adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
meretriciously | (adverb) in a meretricious manner | Synonyms: flashily |
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meretriciousness | (noun) an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility | Synonyms: speciousness |
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(noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, tawdriness |
minacious | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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monecious | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal | Synonyms: monoecious, monoicous |
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monoecious | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal | Synonyms: monecious, monoicous |
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mordacious | (adjective) biting or given to biting | - |
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(adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, biting, nipping, pungent |
mordaciously | (adverb) in a mordacious manner | - |
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mostaccioli | (noun) pasta somewhat resembling little moustaches | - |
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nonconscious | (adjective) relating to the lack of consciousness of inanimate things | - |
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(adjective) concerning mental functioning that is not represented in consciousness | - |
nuncio | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope having ambassadorial status | Synonyms: papal nuncio |
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officious | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling |
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officiously | (adverb) in an officious manner | - |
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officiousness | (noun) aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation | Synonyms: intrusiveness, meddlesomeness |
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oversuspicious | (adjective) unduly suspicious | - |
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pernicious | (adjective) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way | Synonyms: insidious, subtle |
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(adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, deadly, pestilent |
perniciously | (adverb) in a noxiously baneful way | Synonyms: banefully |
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(adverb) in a harmfully insidious manner | Synonyms: insidiously |
perniciousness | (noun) grave harmfulness or deadliness | Synonyms: toxicity |
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perspicacious | (adjective) mentally acute or penetratingly discerning | Synonyms: clear-eyed, clear-sighted |
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(adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: sagacious, sapient |
perspicaciousness | (noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: astuteness, perspicacity, shrewdness |
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pertinacious | (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, persistent, tenacious, unyielding |
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