| afternoon | (noun) a conventional expression of greeting or farewell, used to wish someone a good afternoon | Synonyms: good afternoon |
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| (noun) the part of the day between noon and evening | - |
| alternate | (adjective) of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternative, substitute |
| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternating |
| (adjective) every second one of a series | - |
| (noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: replacement, surrogate |
| (verb) do something in turns | Synonyms: take turns |
| (verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: jump |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch, tack |
| (verb) be an understudy or alternate for a role | Synonyms: understudy |
| (verb) exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions | - |
| alternately | (adverb) in an alternating sequence or position | - |
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| alternating | (adjective) (of a current) reversing direction | - |
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| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternate |
| alternation | (noun) successive change from one thing or state to another and back again | - |
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| alternative | (adjective) necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, substitute |
| (adjective) pertaining to unconventional choices | - |
| (noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: choice, option |
| alternatively | (adverb) in place of, or as an alternative to | Synonyms: instead, or else |
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| alternator | (noun) an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles) | - |
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| astern | (adverb) (of a ship or an airplane) behind | - |
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| (adverb) at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane | Synonyms: abaft, aft |
| (adverb) stern foremost or backward | - |
| asternal | (adjective) not connected to the sternum or breastbone | - |
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| bittern | (noun) relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes | - |
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| bitterness | (noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste | Synonyms: bitter |
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| (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
| (noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: bitter |
| (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: gall, rancor, rancour, resentment |
| bitternut | (noun) hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts | Synonyms: bitter hickory, bitter pignut, bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, swamp hickory |
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| bladdernose | (noun) medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Cystophora cristata, hooded seal |
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| butternut | (noun) oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family | - |
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| (noun) North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye | Synonyms: butternut tree, Juglans cinerea, white walnut |
| casern | (noun) military barracks in a garrison town | - |
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| cavern | (noun) a large cave or a large chamber in a cave | - |
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| (noun) any large dark enclosed space | - |
| (verb) hollow out as if making a cavern | Synonyms: cavern out |
| cavernous | (adjective) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood | Synonyms: erectile |
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| (adjective) being or suggesting a cavern | - |
| cernuous | (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping |
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| cistern | (noun) an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater | - |
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| (noun) a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet | Synonyms: water tank |
| (noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cisterna |
| cisterna | (noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cistern |
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| cithern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, citole, cittern, gittern |
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| cittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, gittern |
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| cleverness | (noun) the property of being ingenious | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity |
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| (noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: brightness, smartness |
| (noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness |
| concern | (noun) something that interests you because it is important or affects you | - |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: headache, vexation, worry |
| (noun) a feeling of sympathy for someone or something | - |
| (noun) an anxious feeling | Synonyms: care, fear |
| (noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | Synonyms: business, business concern, business organisation, business organization |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, have to do with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on |
| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: interest, occupy, worry |
| concerned | (adjective) feeling or showing worry or solicitude | - |
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| (adjective) involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in | Synonyms: interested |
| (adjective) culpably involved | Synonyms: implicated |
| concernedly | (adverb) in a manner showing concern | - |
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| consternate | (verb) fill with anxiety, dread, dismay, or confusion | - |
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| consternation | (noun) fear resulting from the awareness of danger | Synonyms: alarm, dismay |
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| cybernate | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerise, computerize |
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| cybernation | (noun) the control of processes by computer | Synonyms: computerization |
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| cybernaut | (noun) a computer user who uses the internet; someone who explores cyberspace | - |
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| cybernetic | (adjective) of or relating the principles of cybernetics | - |
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| cybernetics | (noun) (biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems) | - |
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| dapperness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: jauntiness, nattiness, rakishness |
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| discern | (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
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| discernability | (noun) distinctness that makes perception easy | Synonyms: legibility |
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| discernable | (adjective) perceptible by the senses or intellect | Synonyms: discernible |
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| discernible | (adjective) perceptible by the senses or intellect | Synonyms: discernable |
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| (adjective) capable of being seen or noticed | Synonyms: evident, observable |
| (adjective) capable of being perceived clearly | - |
| discerning | (adjective) having or revealing keen insight and good judgment | - |
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| (adjective) able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive | - |
| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: apprehensive |
| (adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic | Synonyms: discreet |
| discernment | (noun) the trait of judging wisely and objectively | Synonyms: discretion |
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| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: judgement, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity |
| (noun) the cognitive condition of someone who understands | Synonyms: apprehension, savvy, understanding |
| (noun) perception of that which is obscure | Synonyms: perceptiveness |
| (noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: appreciation, perceptiveness, taste |
| eagerness | (noun) prompt willingness | Synonyms: forwardness, readiness, zeal |
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| (noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidity, avidness, keenness |
| eastern | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world | - |
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| (adjective) of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States | - |
| (adjective) lying toward or situated in the east | - |
| (adjective) from the east; used especially of winds | Synonyms: easterly |
| (adjective) lying in or toward the east | Synonyms: easterly |
| easterner | (noun) an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the U.S. | - |
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| easternmost | (adjective) farthest to the east | Synonyms: eastmost |
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| ern | (noun) bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland | Synonyms: erne, European sea eagle, gray sea eagle, grey sea eagle, Haliatus albicilla, white-tailed sea eagle |
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| erne | (noun) bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland | Synonyms: ern, European sea eagle, gray sea eagle, grey sea eagle, Haliatus albicilla, white-tailed sea eagle |
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| eternal | (adjective) tiresomely long; seemingly without end | Synonyms: endless, interminable |
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| (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
| eternalise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eternalize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eternally | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: everlastingly, evermore, forever |
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| eternise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eternity | (noun) a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife | Synonyms: timeless existence, timelessness |
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| (noun) time without end | Synonyms: infinity |
| (noun) a seemingly endless time interval (waiting) | - |
| eternize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, immortalise, immortalize |
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| (verb) cause to continue indefinitely | - |
| ethernet | (noun) a type of network technology for local area networks; coaxial cable carries radio frequency signals between computers at a rate of 10 megabits per second | - |
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| extern | (noun) a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there | Synonyms: medical extern |
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| external | (adjective) happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface | - |
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| (adjective) coming from the outside | Synonyms: extraneous, outside |
| (adjective) from or between other countries | Synonyms: international, outside |
| (adjective) purely outward or superficial | - |
| (noun) outward features | - |
| externalisation | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalization |
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| (noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalization |
| externalise | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalize, objectify |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalize, project |
| externality | (noun) the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior | Synonyms: outwardness |
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| externalization | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalisation |
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| (noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalisation |
| externalize | (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, objectify |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalise, project |
| externally | (adverb) with respect to the outside | Synonyms: outwardly |
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| (adverb) on or from the outside | - |
| fern | (noun) any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | - |
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| ferned | (adjective) abounding in or covered with ferns | Synonyms: ferny |
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| fernless | (adjective) devoid of ferns | - |
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| fernlike | (adjective) resembling ferns especially in leaf shape | Synonyms: ferny |
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| ferny | (adjective) abounding in or covered with ferns | Synonyms: ferned |
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| (adjective) resembling ferns especially in leaf shape | Synonyms: fernlike |
| fingernail | (noun) the nail at the end of a finger | - |
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| fraternal | (adjective) (of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova | Synonyms: biovular |
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| (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherlike, brotherly |
| (adjective) of or relating to a fraternity or society of usually men | - |
| fraternally | (adverb) in a brotherly manner | - |
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| fraternisation | (noun) associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way; especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternization |
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| fraternise | (verb) be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternize |
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| fraternity | (noun) people engaged in a particular occupation | Synonyms: brotherhood, sodality |
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| (noun) a social club for male undergraduates | Synonyms: frat |
| fraternization | (noun) associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way; especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternisation |
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| fraternize | (verb) be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternise |
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| gittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, cittern |
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| govern | (verb) exercise authority over; as of nations | Synonyms: rule |
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| (verb) direct or strongly influence the behavior of | - |
| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: order, regularise, regularize, regulate |
| (verb) require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood | - |
| governable | (adjective) capable of being controlled | Synonyms: controllable |
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| governance | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governing, government, government activity |
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| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, establishment, governing body, organisation, organization |
| governed | (noun) the body of people who are citizens of a particular government | - |
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| governess | (noun) a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home) | - |
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| governing | (adjective) responsible for making and enforcing rules and laws | - |
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| (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, government, government activity |
| government | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, governing, government activity |
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| (noun) (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed | - |
| (noun) the study of government of states and other political units | Synonyms: political science, politics |
| (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: authorities, regime |
| governmental | (adjective) relating to or dealing with the affairs or structure of government or politics or the state | - |
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| governmentally | (adverb) by government | - |
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| governor | (noun) a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel) | Synonyms: regulator |
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| (noun) the head of a state government | - |
| governorship | (noun) the office of governor | - |
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| gubernatorial | (adjective) relating to a governor | - |
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| hernia | (noun) rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes | Synonyms: herniation |
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| herniation | (noun) rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes | Synonyms: hernia |
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| hibernal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to winter | Synonyms: brumal, hiemal |
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| hibernate | (verb) sleep during winter | Synonyms: hole up |
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| (verb) be in an inactive or dormant state | - |
| hibernating | (adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation | Synonyms: dormant, torpid |
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| hibernation | (noun) the act of retiring into inactivity | - |
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| (noun) the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter | - |
| (noun) cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals | - |
| hypernatremia | (noun) excessive amounts of sodium in the blood; possibly indicating diabetes insipidus | - |
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| hypernym | (noun) a word that is more generic than a given word | Synonyms: superordinate, superordinate word |
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| hypernymy | (noun) the semantic relation of being superordinate or belonging to a higher rank or class | Synonyms: superordination |
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| improperness | (noun) an improper demeanor | Synonyms: impropriety |
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| indiscernibility | (noun) The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed. | - |
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