| ago | (adjective) gone by; or in the past | Synonyms: agone |
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| (adverb) in the past | - |
| agog | (adjective) highly excited by eagerness, curiosity, etc. | - |
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| agon | (noun) a festivity in ancient Greece at which competitors contended for prizes | - |
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| agonadal | (adjective) lacking gonads | - |
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| agonal | (adjective) pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies) | - |
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| agone | (adjective) gone by; or in the past | Synonyms: ago |
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| agonise | (verb) suffer agony or anguish | Synonyms: agonize |
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| (verb) cause to agonize | Synonyms: agonize |
| agonised | (adjective) expressing pain or agony | Synonyms: agonized |
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| agonising | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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| agonist | (noun) (biochemistry) a drug that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction | - |
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| (noun) a muscle that contracts while another relaxes | - |
| (noun) someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon) | - |
| (noun) the principal character in a work of fiction | Synonyms: protagonist |
| agonistic | (adjective) of or relating to the athletic contests held in ancient Greece | - |
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| (adjective) struggling for effect | Synonyms: strained |
| (adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistical, combative |
| agonistical | (adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistic, combative |
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| agonize | (verb) suffer agony or anguish | Synonyms: agonise |
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| (verb) cause to agonize | Synonyms: agonise |
| agonized | (adjective) expressing pain or agony | Synonyms: agonised |
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| agonizing | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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| agonizingly | (adverb) in a very painful manner | Synonyms: excruciatingly, torturously |
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| agony | (noun) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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| (noun) a state of acute pain | Synonyms: excruciation, suffering |
| agora | (noun) 100 agorot equal 1 shekel in Israel | - |
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| (noun) a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece | Synonyms: public square |
| (noun) the marketplace in ancient Greece | - |
| agoraphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of open spaces (as fear of being caught alone in some public place) | - |
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| agoraphobic | (adjective) suffering from agoraphobia; abnormally afraid of open or public places | - |
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| agouti | (noun) agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food | Synonyms: Dasyprocta aguti |
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| algoid | (adjective) of or resembling algae | - |
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| algolagnia | (noun) sexual pleasure derived from inflicting or experiencing pain | Synonyms: algophilia |
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| algolagnic | (adjective) of or relating to algolagnia | - |
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| algology | (noun) the branch of botany that studies algae | Synonyms: phycology |
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| algometer | (noun) device for measuring pain caused by pressure | - |
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| algometric | (adjective) of or related to algometry | Synonyms: algometrical |
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| algometrical | (adjective) of or related to algometry | Synonyms: algometric |
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| algometry | (noun) measuring sensitivity to pain or pressure | - |
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| algophilia | (noun) sexual pleasure derived from inflicting or experiencing pain | Synonyms: algolagnia |
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| algophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of pain | - |
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| algophobic | (adjective) suffering from algophobia; abnormally afraid of pain | - |
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| algorism | (noun) computation with Arabic figures | - |
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| (noun) the Arabic (or decimal) system of numeration | - |
| algorithm | (noun) a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem | Synonyms: algorithmic program, algorithmic rule |
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| algorithmic | (adjective) of or relating to or having the characteristics of an algorithm | - |
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| allegoresis | (noun) the interpretation of written, oral, or artistic expression as allegory. | - |
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| allegoric | (adjective) used in or characteristic of or containing allegory | Synonyms: allegorical |
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| allegorical | (adjective) used in or characteristic of or containing allegory | Synonyms: allegoric |
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| allegorically | (adverb) in an allegorical manner | - |
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| allegoricalness | (noun) The state or quality of being allegorical. | - |
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| allegorise | (verb) make into an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
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| (verb) interpret as an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
| allegoriser | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegorizer |
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| allegorize | (verb) make into an allegory | Synonyms: allegorise |
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| (verb) interpret as an allegory | Synonyms: allegorise |
| allegorizer | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegoriser |
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| allegory | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: apologue, fable, parable |
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| (noun) an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor | - |
| (noun) a visible symbol representing an abstract idea | Synonyms: emblem |
| allergology | (noun) the branch of medical science that studies the causes and treatment of allergies | - |
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| allgood | (noun) European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb | Synonyms: Chenopodium bonus-henricus, fat hen, good-king-henry, wild spinach |
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| amblygonite | (noun) a white or grey mineral consisting of lithium aluminum phosphate; a source of lithium | - |
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| amigo | (noun) a friend or comrade | - |
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| amphigory | (noun) nonsensical writing (usually verse) | Synonyms: nonsense verse |
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| anagoge | (noun) a mystical or allegorical interpretation (especially of Scripture) | - |
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| anagogic | (adjective) based on or exemplifying anagoge | Synonyms: anagogical |
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| anagogical | (adjective) based on or exemplifying anagoge | Synonyms: anagogic |
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| analogous | (adjective) corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin | - |
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| (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: correspondent |
| analogously | (adverb) in an analogous manner | - |
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| angostura | (noun) the bitter bark of a South American tree; used in medicines and liqueurs and bitters | Synonyms: angostura bark |
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| antagonise | (verb) provoke the hostility of | Synonyms: antagonize |
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| (verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonize, counteract |
| antagonism | (noun) (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure | - |
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| (noun) an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility | - |
| (noun) the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors | - |
| (noun) a state of deep-seated ill-will | Synonyms: enmity, hostility |
| antagonist | (noun) a drug that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of another drug | - |
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| (noun) a muscle that relaxes while another contracts | - |
| (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, opponent, opposer, resister |
| antagonistic | (adjective) arousing animosity or hostility | - |
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| (adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect | Synonyms: incompatible |
| (adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical |
| (adjective) incapable of harmonious association | - |
| (adjective) indicating opposition or resistance | Synonyms: counter |
| antagonistically | (adverb) in an antagonistic manner | - |
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| antagonize | (verb) provoke the hostility of | Synonyms: antagonise |
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| (verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonise, counteract |
| anthophagous | (adjective) feeding on flowers | Synonyms: anthophilous |
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| anthropophagous | (adjective) of or relating to eaters of human flesh | - |
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| aragonite | (noun) a mineral form of crystalline calcium carbonate; dimorphic with calcite | - |
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| archegonial | (adjective) of or relating to an archegonium | Synonyms: archegoniate |
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| archegoniate | (adjective) of or relating to an archegonium | Synonyms: archegonial |
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| archegonium | (noun) a female sex organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms | - |
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| archipelago | (noun) a group of many islands in a large body of water | - |
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| argon | (noun) a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere | Synonyms: Ar, atomic number 18 |
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| argonaut | (noun) someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure | - |
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| argonon | (noun) any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group in the periodic table | Synonyms: inert gas, noble gas |
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| argosy | (noun) one or more large merchant ships | - |
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| argot | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular |
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| autologous | (adjective) derived from organisms of the selfsame individual | - |
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| azygos | (adjective) occurring singly; not one of a pair | Synonyms: azygous |
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| azygous | (adjective) occurring singly; not one of a pair | Synonyms: azygos |
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| bacteriophagous | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagic |
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| balibago | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, majagua, purau |
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| bandwagon | (noun) a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band | - |
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| (noun) a popular trend that attracts growing support | - |
| battlewagon | (noun) large and heavily armoured warship | Synonyms: battleship |
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| beaugregory | (noun) a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies | Synonyms: Pomacentrus leucostictus |
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| begonia | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Begonia grown for their attractive glossy asymmetrical leaves and colorful flowers in usually terminal cymes or racemes | - |
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| begotten | (adjective) (of offspring) generated by procreation | - |
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| bigos | (noun) a Polish stew of cabbage and meat | - |
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| bigot | (noun) a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own | - |
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| bigoted | (adjective) blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others | - |
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| bigotry | (noun) the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot | - |
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| bingo | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: beano, keno, lotto |
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| bongo | (noun) large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns | Synonyms: Boocercus eurycerus, Tragelaphus eurycerus |
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| (noun) a small drum; played with the hands | Synonyms: bongo drum |
| bugologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies insects | Synonyms: bug-hunter, entomologist |
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| bugology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies insects | Synonyms: entomology |
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| burgomaster | (noun) a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria | - |
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| burgoo | (noun) porridge made of rolled oats | Synonyms: oatmeal |
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| (noun) thick spicy stew of whatever meat and whatever vegetables are available; southern United States | - |
| (noun) a gathering at which burgoo stew is served | - |
| bygone | (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bypast, departed, foregone, gone |
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| (noun) past events to be put aside | Synonyms: water under the bridge |
| cagoule | (noun) lightweight parka; waterproof | - |
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| cairngorm | (noun) a smoky yellow or brown quartz | Synonyms: smoky quartz |
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| calcifugous | (adjective) growing or living in acid soil | - |
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| callipygous | (adjective) pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks | Synonyms: callipygian |
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| cargo | (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: consignment, freight, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
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