| adversary | (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister |
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| adversative | (adjective) expressing antithesis or opposition | Synonyms: oppositive |
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| ampersand | (noun) a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and) | - |
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| anniversary | (noun) the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: day of remembrance |
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| conversance | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversancy, familiarity |
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| conversancy | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversance, familiarity |
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| conversant | (adjective) (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly | Synonyms: familiar |
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| conversation | (noun) the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc. | - |
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| conversational | (adjective) characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | Synonyms: colloquial |
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| conversationalist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationist, schmoozer |
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| conversationally | (adverb) with the use of colloquial expressions | Synonyms: colloquially, informally |
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| conversationist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationalist, schmoozer |
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| dispersal | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersion, dissemination |
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| ersatz | (adjective) artificial and inferior | Synonyms: substitute |
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| (noun) an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation | - |
| haversack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, knapsack, packsack, rucksack |
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| interspersal | (noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things | Synonyms: interspersion |
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| malversate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, misappropriate, peculate |
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| malversation | (noun) misconduct in public office | - |
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| reversal | (noun) a change from one state to the opposite state | - |
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| (noun) the act of reversing the order or place of | Synonyms: transposition |
| (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reverse, reversion, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) a major change in attitude or principle or point of view | Synonyms: about-face, policy change, volte-face |
| (noun) a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside | - |
| (noun) a decision to reverse an earlier decision | Synonyms: change of mind, flip-flop, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) turning in an opposite direction or position | Synonyms: turn around |
| (noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reverse, setback |
| somersault | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersaulting, somerset, summersault, summerset |
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| (verb) do a somersault | - |
| somersaulting | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somerset, summersault, summerset |
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| summersault | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somersaulting, somerset, summerset |
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| supersaturated | (adjective) being more concentrated than normally possible and therefore not in equilibrium | - |
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| tergiversate | (verb) abandon one's beliefs or allegiances | Synonyms: apostatise, apostatize |
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| (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, palter, prevaricate |
| tergiversation | (noun) falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language | Synonyms: equivocation |
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| (noun) the act of abandoning a party for cause | Synonyms: apostasy |
| tergiversator | (noun) a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer | Synonyms: equivocator, hedger |
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| transversal | (adjective) extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis | Synonyms: cross, thwartwise, transverse |
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| transversally | (adverb) in a transverse manner | Synonyms: transversely |
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| traversable | (adjective) capable of being traversed | Synonyms: travelable |
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| traversal | (noun) taking a zigzag path on skis | Synonyms: traverse |
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| (noun) travel across | Synonyms: traverse |
| universal | (adjective) adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations | - |
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| (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, oecumenical, world-wide, worldwide |
| (adjective) applicable to or common to all members of a group or set | - |
| (noun) coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions | Synonyms: universal joint |
| (noun) a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings | - |
| (noun) (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class | Synonyms: universal proposition |
| (noun) (linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages | Synonyms: linguistic universal |
| universalise | (verb) make universal | Synonyms: universalize |
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| universalism | (noun) the theological doctrine that all people will eventually be saved | - |
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| universalist | (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward universalism | Synonyms: universalistic |
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| universalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward universalism | Synonyms: universalist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the whole | - |
| universality | (noun) the quality of being universal; existing everywhere | Synonyms: catholicity |
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| universalize | (verb) make universal | Synonyms: universalise |
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| universally | (adverb) in every case | - |
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| untraversable | (adjective) incapable of being traversed | - |
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| versant | (noun) the side or slope of a mountain | Synonyms: mountainside |
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| versatile | (adjective) able to move freely in all directions | - |
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| (adjective) competent in many areas and able to turn with ease from one thing to another | - |
| (adjective) changeable or inconstant | - |
| (adjective) having great diversity or variety | Synonyms: various |
| versatility | (noun) having a wide variety of skills | - |
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