| antiredeposition | (noun) the process of preventing redeposition | - |
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| bluepoint | (noun) small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island | Synonyms: blue point |
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| (noun) oysters originally from Long Island Sound but now from anywhere along the northeastern seacoast; usually eaten raw | Synonyms: blue point |
| candlepower | (noun) luminous intensity measured in candelas | Synonyms: light intensity |
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| chlordiazepoxide | (noun) a tranquilizer (trade names Librium and Libritabs) used in the treatment of alcoholism | Synonyms: Libritabs, Librium |
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| chokepoint | (noun) a point of congestion or blockage | - |
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| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: bottleneck, constriction |
| coffeepot | (noun) tall pot in which coffee is brewed | - |
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| copepod | (noun) minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish | Synonyms: copepod crustacean |
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| depolarisation | (noun) a loss of polarity or polarization | Synonyms: depolarization |
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| depolarise | (verb) eliminate the polarization of | Synonyms: depolarize |
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| depolarization | (noun) a loss of polarity or polarization | Synonyms: depolarisation |
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| depolarize | (verb) eliminate the polarization of | Synonyms: depolarise |
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| depone | (verb) make a deposition; declare under oath | Synonyms: depose, swear |
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| deponent | (noun) a person who testifies or gives a deposition | Synonyms: deposer, testifier |
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| depopulate | (verb) reduce in population | Synonyms: desolate |
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| depopulated | (adjective) having lost inhabitants as by war or disease | - |
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| depopulation | (noun) the condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all) | - |
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| deport | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, do |
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| (verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: exile, expatriate |
| (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deliver, extradite |
| deportation | (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: exile, expatriation, transportation |
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| (noun) the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien | - |
| deportee | (noun) a person who is expelled from home or country by authority | Synonyms: exile |
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| deportment | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, demeanour |
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| depose | (verb) make a deposition; declare under oath | Synonyms: depone, swear |
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| (verb) force to leave (an office) | Synonyms: force out |
| deposer | (noun) a person who testifies or gives a deposition | Synonyms: deponent, testifier |
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| deposit | (noun) the act of putting something somewhere | Synonyms: deposition |
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| (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: depositary, depository, repository |
| (noun) a payment given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met | - |
| (noun) matter that has been deposited by some natural process | Synonyms: sediment |
| (noun) the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating | Synonyms: alluviation, sedimentation |
| (noun) a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later | Synonyms: down payment |
| (noun) money deposited in a bank or some similar institution | Synonyms: bank deposit |
| (noun) money given as security for an article acquired for temporary use | - |
| (noun) the natural process of laying down a deposit of something | Synonyms: deposition |
| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: lodge, stick, wedge |
| (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: fix, posit, situate |
| (verb) put into a bank account | Synonyms: bank |
| depositary | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depository, repository |
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| deposition | (noun) the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office | Synonyms: dethronement |
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| (noun) the act of putting something somewhere | Synonyms: deposit |
| (noun) (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office | - |
| (noun) the natural process of laying down a deposit of something | Synonyms: deposit |
| depositor | (noun) a person who has deposited money in a bank or similar institution | - |
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| depository | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depositary, repository |
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| depot | (noun) station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods | Synonyms: terminal, terminus |
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| (noun) a depository for goods | Synonyms: entrepot, storage, store, storehouse |
| electrodeposition | (noun) the deposition of a substance on an electrode by the action of electricity (especially by electrolysis) | - |
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| entrepot | (noun) a depository for goods | Synonyms: depot, storage, store, storehouse |
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| (noun) a port where merchandise can be imported and then exported without paying import duties | Synonyms: transshipment center |
| epoch | (noun) a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event | Synonyms: era |
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| (noun) a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages | - |
| (noun) (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded | Synonyms: date of reference |
| epochal | (adjective) highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era | Synonyms: epoch-making |
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| eponym | (noun) the name derived from a person (real or imaginary) | - |
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| (noun) the person for whom something is named | - |
| eponymic | (adjective) being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym | Synonyms: eponymous |
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| eponymous | (adjective) being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym | Synonyms: eponymic |
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| eponymy | (noun) the derivation of a general name from that of a famous person | - |
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| epos | (noun) a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | Synonyms: epic, epic poem, heroic poem |
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| (noun) a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme | - |
| epoxy | (noun) a thermosetting resin; used chiefly in strong adhesives and coatings and laminates | Synonyms: epoxy glue, epoxy resin |
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| (verb) glue with epoxy | - |
| firepower | (noun) (military) the relative capacity for delivering fire on a target | - |
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| fringepod | (noun) annual herb having pinnatifid basal leaves and slender racemes of small white flowers followed by one-seeded winged silicles | Synonyms: lacepod |
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| gatepost | (noun) either of two posts that bound a gate | - |
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| guidepost | (noun) a rule or principle that provides guidance to appropriate behavior | Synonyms: guideline, rule of thumb |
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| (noun) a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way | Synonyms: signpost |
| hodgepodge | (noun) a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas | Synonyms: jumble, patchwork |
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| (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
| horsepond | (noun) a pond for watering horses | - |
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| horsepower | (noun) a unit of power equal to 746 watts | Synonyms: H.P., HP |
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| lacepod | (noun) annual herb having pinnatifid basal leaves and slender racemes of small white flowers followed by one-seeded winged silicles | Synonyms: fringepod |
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| leporid | (noun) rabbits and hares | Synonyms: leporid mammal |
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| leporide | (noun) red breed of domestic rabbits; hybrid between Old World rabbit and hare | Synonyms: Belgian hare |
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| lodgepole | (noun) shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares | Synonyms: lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta, shore pine, spruce pine |
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| madrepore | (noun) corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands | Synonyms: madriporian coral, stony coral |
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| milepost | (noun) stone post at side of a road to show distances | Synonyms: milestone |
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| needlepoint | (noun) embroidery consisting of allover embroidered canvas resembling tapestry | Synonyms: needlepoint embroidery |
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| (noun) lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern | Synonyms: point lace |
| nepotism | (noun) favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs) | - |
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| nepotist | (noun) a powerful person who shows favoritism to relatives or close friends | - |
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| preponderance | (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: prevalence |
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| (noun) exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight | - |
| (noun) superiority in power or influence | - |
| preponderant | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderating |
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| preponderantly | (adverb) much greater in number or influence | Synonyms: predominantly |
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| preponderate | (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, outweigh, overbalance |
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| preponderating | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant |
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| prepose | (verb) place before another constituent in the sentence | - |
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| preposition | (noun) a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word | - |
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| (noun) (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached) | - |
| prepositional | (adjective) of or relating to or formed with a preposition | - |
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| prepositionally | (adverb) as a preposition | - |
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| prepossess | (verb) influence (somebody's) opinion in advance | Synonyms: prejudice |
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| (verb) cause to be preoccupied | - |
| (verb) make a positive impression (on someone) beforehand | - |
| (verb) possess beforehand | - |
| prepossessing | (adjective) creating a favorable impression | - |
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| prepossession | (noun) an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence | Synonyms: parti pris, preconceived idea, preconceived notion, preconceived opinion, preconception |
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| (noun) the condition of being prepossessed | - |
| preposterous | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, ridiculous |
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| preposterously | (adverb) so as to arouse or deserve laughter | Synonyms: laughably, ludicrously, ridiculously |
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| prepotency | (noun) the state of being predominant over others | Synonyms: predominance, predomination |
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| redeposit | (verb) deposit anew | - |
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| (verb) deposit once again | - |
| redeposition | (noun) deposition from one deposit to another | - |
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| repoint | (verb) repair the joints of bricks | Synonyms: point |
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| report | (noun) the general estimation that the public has for a person | Synonyms: reputation |
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| (noun) a short account of the news | Synonyms: account, news report, story, write up |
| (noun) the act of informing by verbal report | Synonyms: account |
| (noun) an essay (especially one written as an assignment) | Synonyms: composition, paper, theme |
| (noun) a written document describing the findings of some individual or group | Synonyms: study, written report |
| (noun) a written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment | Synonyms: report card |
| (noun) a sharp explosive sound (especially the sound of a gun firing) | - |
| (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: account, describe |
| (verb) make known to the authorities | - |
| (verb) complain about; make a charge against | - |
| (verb) announce one's presence | - |
| (verb) announce as the result of an investigation or experience or finding | - |
| (verb) be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism | Synonyms: cover |
| reportable | (adjective) (of income) required by law to be reported | - |
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| (adjective) meriting report | - |
| reportage | (noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: coverage, reporting |
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| reported | (adjective) made known or told about; especially presented in a formal account | - |
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| reportedly | (adverb) according to reports or other information | - |
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| reporter | (noun) a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories | Synonyms: newsperson |
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| reporting | (noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: coverage, reportage |
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| repose | (noun) freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility) | Synonyms: ease, relaxation, rest |
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| (noun) a disposition free from stress or emotion | Synonyms: placidity, quiet, serenity, tranquility, tranquillity |
| (noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: ataraxis, heartsease, peace, peace of mind, peacefulness, serenity |
| (verb) put or confide something in a person or thing | - |
| (verb) lie when dead | - |
| (verb) put in a horizontal position | Synonyms: lay, put down |
| (verb) lean in a comfortable resting position | Synonyms: recline, recumb |
| (verb) to put something (eg trust) in something | - |
| (verb) be inherent or innate in | Synonyms: reside, rest |
| reposeful | (adjective) affording physical or mental rest | Synonyms: relaxing, restful |
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| reposit | (verb) put (something) in a place for storage | - |
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| repositing | (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: reposition, storage, warehousing |
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| reposition | (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: repositing, storage, warehousing |
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| (verb) place into another position | - |
| (verb) change place or direction | Synonyms: dislodge, shift |
| repositioning | (noun) the act of placing in a new position | - |
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| repository | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depositary, depository |
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| (noun) a burial vault (usually for some famous person) | Synonyms: monument |
| (noun) a person to whom a secret is entrusted | Synonyms: secretary |
| repossess | (verb) claim back | Synonyms: reclaim |
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| (verb) regain possession of something | Synonyms: take back |
| repossession | (noun) the action of regaining possession (especially the seizure of collateral securing a loan that is in default) | - |
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| repost | (noun) A post on social media that has already been posted | - |
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| repot | (verb) put in a new, usually larger, pot | - |
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| ridgepole | (noun) a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters | Synonyms: ridge, rooftree |
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| saucepot | (noun) a cooking pot that has handles on either side and tight fitting lid; used for stewing or boiling | - |
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| sicklepod | (noun) North American rock cress having very long curved pods | Synonyms: Arabis Canadensis |
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| (noun) cosmopolitan tropical herb or subshrub with yellow flowers and slender curved pods; a weed; sometimes placed in genus Cassia | Synonyms: Cassia tora, Senna obtusifolia |
| sleepover | (noun) an occasion of spending a night away from home or having a guest spend the night in your home (especially as a party for children) | - |
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| teleport | (verb) transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another | - |
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| teleportation | (noun) a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another | - |
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| treponema | (noun) spirochete that causes disease in humans (e.g. syphilis and yaws) | - |
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| unprepossessing | (adjective) creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression | Synonyms: unpresentable |
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| unreportable | (adjective) (of income) not reportable; not required by law to be reported | - |
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| unreported | (adjective) not reported | - |
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