| advert | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advertisement, advertising, advertizement, advertizing |
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| (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: allude, touch |
| (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: bring up, cite, mention, name, refer |
| (verb) give heed (to) | Synonyms: attend, give ear, hang, pay heed |
| advertence | (noun) the process of being heedful | Synonyms: advertency |
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| advertency | (noun) the process of being heedful | Synonyms: advertence |
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| advertent | (adjective) giving attention | Synonyms: heedful |
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| advertently | (adverb) in a careful deliberate manner | Synonyms: heedfully, mindfully |
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| advertise | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertize, promote, push |
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| (verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertize, publicise, publicize |
| advertised | (adjective) called to public attention | - |
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| advertisement | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertising, advertizement, advertizing |
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| advertiser | (noun) someone whose business is advertising | Synonyms: adman, advertizer |
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| advertising | (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: merchandising, publicizing |
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| (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertisement, advertizement, advertizing |
| advertize | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertise, promote, push |
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| (verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertise, publicise, publicize |
| advertizement | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertisement, advertising, advertizing |
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| advertizer | (noun) someone whose business is advertising | Synonyms: adman, advertiser |
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| advertizing | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertisement, advertising, advertizement |
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| advertorial | (noun) an advertisement that is written and presented in the style of an editorial or journalistic report | - |
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| aftertaste | (noun) an afterimage of a taste | - |
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| afterthought | (noun) an addition that was not included in the original plan | - |
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| (noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: reconsideration, rethink, second thought |
| alert | (adjective) engaged in or accustomed to close observation | Synonyms: watchful |
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| (adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alive, awake |
| (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
| (noun) a warning serves to make you more alert to danger | Synonyms: alerting |
| (noun) an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger | Synonyms: alarm, alarum, warning signal |
| (noun) condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action | Synonyms: qui vive |
| (verb) warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | Synonyms: alarm |
| alerting | (noun) a warning serves to make you more alert to danger | Synonyms: alert |
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| (noun) a state of readiness to respond | Synonyms: alertness |
| alertly | (adverb) in mentally perceptive and responsive way | - |
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| alertness | (noun) lively attentiveness | Synonyms: on the qui vive, sharp-sightedness |
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| (noun) the process of paying close and continuous attention | Synonyms: vigilance, wakefulness, watchfulness |
| (noun) a state of readiness to respond | Synonyms: alerting |
| animadvert | (verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: opine, sound off, speak out, speak up |
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| (verb) express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark | - |
| antifertility | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: contraceptive, prophylactic |
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| antifertilizin | (noun) An immunologically specific substance produced by animal sperm to implement attraction by the egg before fertilization. | - |
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| antihypertensive | (noun) a drug that reduces high blood pressure | Synonyms: antihypertensive drug |
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| aperture | (noun) an man-made opening; usually small | - |
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| (noun) a device that controls amount of light admitted | - |
| (noun) a natural opening in something | - |
| appertain | (verb) be a part or attribute of | Synonyms: pertain |
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| ascertain | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: assure, check, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
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| (verb) learn or discover with certainty | - |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: check, determine, find out, learn, see, watch |
| (verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study | Synonyms: determine, find, find out |
| ascertainable | (adjective) capable of being ascertained or found out | Synonyms: discoverable |
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| ascertained | (adjective) discovered or determined by scientific observation | Synonyms: discovered, observed |
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| assert | (verb) postulate positively and assertively | Synonyms: insist |
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| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, aver, avow, swan, swear, verify |
| (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: asseverate, maintain |
| (verb) insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized | Synonyms: put forward |
| assertable | (adjective) capable of being affirmed or asserted | Synonyms: affirmable |
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| asserted | (adjective) confidently declared to be so | - |
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| asserter | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asseverator, avower, declarer |
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| asserting | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: declarative, declaratory |
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| assertion | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: asseveration, averment |
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| (noun) the act of affirming or asserting or stating something | Synonyms: affirmation, statement |
| assertive | (adjective) aggressively self-assured | Synonyms: self-asserting, self-assertive |
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| assertively | (adverb) in an assertive manner | - |
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| assertiveness | (noun) aggressive self-assurance; given to making bold assertions | Synonyms: self-assertiveness |
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| avert | (verb) turn away or aside | Synonyms: turn away |
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| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| avertable | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertible, avoidable, evitable |
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| avertible | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avoidable, evitable |
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| averting | (noun) the act of preventing something from occurring | - |
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| (noun) the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away | Synonyms: aversion |
| berth | (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: office, place, position, post, situation |
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| (noun) a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers | Synonyms: built in bed, bunk |
| (noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: moorage, mooring, slip |
| (verb) secure in or as if in a berth or dock | Synonyms: moor, tie up |
| (verb) come into or dock at a wharf | Synonyms: moor, wharf |
| (verb) provide with a berth | - |
| cert | (noun) an absolute certainty | - |
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| certain | (adjective) established beyond doubt or question; definitely known | - |
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| (adjective) having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured | Synonyms: sure |
| (adjective) certain to occur; destined or inevitable | Synonyms: sure |
| (adjective) established irrevocably | Synonyms: sealed |
| (adjective) exercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance | Synonyms: sure |
| (adjective) definite but not specified or identified | - |
| (adjective) reliable in operation or effect | Synonyms: sure |
| certainly | (adverb) definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely') | Synonyms: for certain, for sure, sure, sure as shooting, sure enough, surely |
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| certainty | (noun) something that is certain | Synonyms: foregone conclusion, sure thing |
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| (noun) the state of being certain | - |
| certifiable | (adjective) capable of being guaranteed or certified | - |
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| (adjective) fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly) | Synonyms: certified |
| certificate | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certification, credential, credentials |
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| (noun) a formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends | Synonyms: security |
| (verb) authorize by certificate | - |
| (verb) present someone with a certificate | - |
| certificated | (adjective) furnished with or authorized by a certificate: | - |
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| certification | (noun) the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on | Synonyms: enfranchisement |
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| (noun) validating the authenticity of something or someone | Synonyms: authentication |
| (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: corroboration, documentation |
| (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, credential, credentials |
| certificatory | (adjective) serving to certify or endorse authoritatively | - |
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| certified | (adjective) endorsed authoritatively as having met certain requirements | - |
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| (adjective) fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly) | Synonyms: certifiable |
| (adjective) holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill | Synonyms: qualified |
| certify | (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, demonstrate, evidence, manifest |
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| (verb) declare legally insane | - |
| (verb) guarantee payment on; of checks | - |
| (verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: endorse, indorse |
| (verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: licence, license |
| certiorari | (noun) a common law writ issued by a superior court to one of inferior jurisdiction demanding the record of a particular case | Synonyms: writ of certiorari |
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| certitude | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: cocksureness, overconfidence |
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| champerty | (noun) an unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded | - |
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| chert | (noun) variety of silica containing microcrystalline quartz | - |
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| cherty | (adjective) resembling or containing chert | - |
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| concert | (noun) a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging | - |
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| (verb) settle by agreement | - |
| (verb) contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement | - |
| concerted | (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: conjunct, conjunctive, cooperative, united |
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| concertina | (noun) free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds | - |
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| (noun) coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle | - |
| (verb) collapse like a concertina | - |
| concertinist | (noun) a person who plays the concertina | - |
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| concertise | (verb) give concerts; perform in concerts | Synonyms: concertize |
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| concertize | (verb) give concerts; perform in concerts | Synonyms: concertise |
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| concerto | (noun) a composition for orchestra and a soloist | - |
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| controvert | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: rebut, refute |
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| (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: contradict, oppose |
| convert | (noun) a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief | - |
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| (verb) change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy | Synonyms: change over |
| (verb) change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief | - |
| (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: change, commute, exchange |
| (verb) change the nature, purpose, or function of something | - |
| (verb) change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change | - |
| (verb) cause to adopt a new or different faith | - |
| (verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one | Synonyms: commute, exchange |
| (verb) make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: convince, win over |
| (verb) score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone | - |
| convertase | (noun) any of several enzymes that convert a compound into smaller, biologically-active compounds. | - |
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| converter | (noun) a device for changing one substance or form or state into another | Synonyms: convertor |
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| convertibility | (noun) the quality of being exchangeable (especially the ability to convert a currency into gold or other currencies without restriction) | - |
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| convertible | (adjective) capable of being exchanged for or replaced by something of equal value | Synonyms: exchangeable |
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| (adjective) designed to be changed from one use or form to another | - |
| (adjective) capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy | Synonyms: transformable, translatable, transmutable |
| (noun) a car that has top that can be folded or removed | - |
| (noun) a sofa that can be converted into a bed | Synonyms: sofa bed |
| (noun) a corporate security (usually bonds or preferred stock) that can be exchanged for another form of security (usually common stock) | Synonyms: convertible security |
| convertor | (noun) a device for changing one substance or form or state into another | Synonyms: converter |
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| countertenor | (adjective) of or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor | Synonyms: alto |
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| (noun) the highest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: alto |
| (noun) a male singer with a voice above that of a tenor | - |
| counterterror | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterrorist |
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| counterterrorism | (noun) a strategy intended to prevent or counter terrorism | - |
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| counterterrorist | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterror |
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| (noun) someone who attempts to prevent terrorism | - |
| countertop | (noun) the top side of a counter | - |
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| countertransference | (noun) the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction | - |
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| couverture | (noun) chocolate that contains at least 32 percent cocoa butter | - |
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| covert | (adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed | - |
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| (adjective) (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband | - |
| (noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: concealment, cover, screen |
| (noun) a flock of coots | - |
| covertly | (adverb) in a covert manner | - |
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| covertness | (noun) the state of being covert and hidden | Synonyms: hiddenness |
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| culvert | (noun) a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway | - |
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| decertify | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: derecognise, derecognize |
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| desert | (noun) arid land with little or no vegetation | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment | - |
| (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desolate, forsake |
| (verb) leave behind | - |
| (verb) desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army | Synonyms: defect |
| deserted | (adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: abandoned, derelict |
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| deserter | (noun) a person who abandons their duty (as on a military post) | Synonyms: defector |
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| (noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: apostate, ratter, recreant, renegade, turncoat |
| desertification | (noun) the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert; is usually caused by climate change or by destructive use of the land | - |
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| desertion | (noun) withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility | Synonyms: abandonment, defection |
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| (noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: abandonment, forsaking |
| dessert | (noun) a dish served as the last course of a meal | Synonyms: afters, sweet |
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| dessertspoon | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoonful |
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| dessertspoonful | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoon |
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| dinnertime | (noun) the customary or habitual hour for the evening meal | Synonyms: suppertime |
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| disconcert | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, discompose, untune, upset |
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| (verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: confuse, flurry, put off |
| disconcerted | (adjective) having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion | Synonyms: discombobulated |
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| disconcerting | (adjective) causing an emotional disturbance | Synonyms: upsetting |
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| disconcertingly | (adverb) in a disturbing or embarrassing manner | - |
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| disconcertion | (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertment |
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