| abecedarian | (adjective) alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) | - |
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| (noun) a novice learning the rudiments of some subject | - |
| academician | (noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academic, faculty member |
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| (noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: schoolman |
| (noun) someone elected to honorary membership in an academy | - |
| academicianship | (noun) the position of member of an honorary academy | - |
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| acanthopterygian | (noun) a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays | Synonyms: spiny-finned fish |
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| acoustician | (noun) a physicist who specializes in acoustics | - |
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| actinian | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinia, actiniarian |
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| actiniarian | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinia, actinian |
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| actinomyxidian | (noun) of or relating to parasites of worms | - |
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| aeonian | (adjective) of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era) | Synonyms: eonian |
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| (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: ageless, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
| aesculapian | (adjective) of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art | Synonyms: medical |
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| aesthetician | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in the nature of beauty | Synonyms: esthetician |
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| (noun) a worker skilled in giving beauty treatments (manicures and facials etc.) | Synonyms: esthetician |
| affiance | (verb) give to in marriage | Synonyms: betroth, engage, plight |
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| affiant | (noun) a person who makes an affidavit | - |
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| agrarian | (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agricultural, farming |
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| allegiance | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: commitment, dedication, loyalty |
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| (noun) the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign) | Synonyms: fealty |
| allegiant | (adjective) steadfast in devotion (especially to your lawful monarch or government) | - |
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| alleviant | (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviator, palliative |
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| alliance | (noun) the act of forming an alliance or confederation | Synonyms: confederation |
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| (noun) a formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim | - |
| (noun) an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: alignment, alinement, coalition |
| (noun) a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest | Synonyms: bond |
| (noun) the state of being allied or confederated | Synonyms: confederation |
| alsatian | (noun) breed of large shepherd dogs used in police work and as a guide for the blind | Synonyms: German police dog, German shepherd, German shepherd dog |
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| ambiance | (noun) the atmosphere of an environment | Synonyms: ambience |
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| (noun) a particular environment or surrounding influence | Synonyms: ambience, atmosphere |
| ambrosian | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosial |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosial, nectarous |
| amphibian | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia | Synonyms: amphibious |
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| (noun) cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form | - |
| (noun) an airplane designed to take off and land on water | Synonyms: amphibious aircraft |
| (noun) a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water | Synonyms: amphibious vehicle |
| antediluvian | (adjective) of or relating to the period before the biblical flood | Synonyms: antediluvial |
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| (adjective) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | Synonyms: antiquated, archaic |
| (noun) a very old person | Synonyms: ancient |
| (noun) any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge | Synonyms: antediluvian patriarch |
| antemeridian | (adjective) before noon | - |
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| antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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| antiestablishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentism |
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| antinomian | (adjective) relating to or influenced by antinomianism | - |
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| (noun) a follower of the doctrine of antinomianism | - |
| antinomianism | (noun) the theological doctrine that by faith and God's grace a Christian is freed from all laws (including the moral standards of the culture) | - |
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| antiquarian | (adjective) of or relating to antiques or antiquities | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities | - |
| (noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquary, archaist |
| apian | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of bees | - |
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| apiarian | (adjective) relating to bees or beekeeping | - |
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| appliance | (noun) durable goods for home or office use | - |
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| (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
| arachnidian | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnoid, spiderlike, spiderly, spidery |
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| arcadian | (adjective) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic | Synonyms: bucolic, pastoral |
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| archiannelid | (noun) small primitive marine worm lacking external segmentation and resembling polychaete larvae | - |
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| archosaurian | (adjective) of or relating to reptiles of the subclass Archosauria | - |
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| (noun) extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, thecodonts | Synonyms: archosaur, archosaurian reptile |
| arianist | (noun) an adherent of Arianism (the belief that Jesus Christ was not truly God) | - |
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| arithmetician | (noun) someone who specializes in arithmetic | - |
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| artesian | (adjective) (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure | - |
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| ascidian | (noun) minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves | - |
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| authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| (noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
| authoritarianism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| avian | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of birds | - |
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| avianise | (verb) to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo | Synonyms: avianize |
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| avianize | (verb) to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo | Synonyms: avianise |
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| bacchanalian | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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| banian | (noun) a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India | Synonyms: banyan |
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| (noun) East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks | Synonyms: banian tree, banyan, banyan tree, East Indian fig tree, Ficus bengalensis, Indian banyan |
| barbarian | (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
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| (noun) a member of an uncivilized people | Synonyms: savage |
| (noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: boor, churl, Goth, peasant, tike, tyke |
| batrachian | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: anuran, salientian |
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| (noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: anuran, frog, salientian, toad, toad frog |
| beautician | (noun) someone who works in a beauty parlor | Synonyms: cosmetician |
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| biannual | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biyearly, half-yearly, semiannual |
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| biannually | (adverb) twice a year | - |
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| biriani | (noun) an Indian dish made with highly seasoned rice and meat or fish or vegetables | Synonyms: biryani |
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| bohemian | (adjective) unconventional in especially appearance and behavior | - |
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| (noun) a nonconformist writer or artist who lives an unconventional life | - |
| bohemianism | (noun) conduct characteristic of a bohemian | - |
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| boliviano | (noun) the basic unit of money in Bolivia; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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| brilliance | (noun) a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted | Synonyms: blaze, glare |
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| (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: grandeur, grandness, magnificence, splendor, splendour |
| (noun) unusual mental ability | Synonyms: genius |
| brilliancy | (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: luster, lustre, splendor, splendour |
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| brilliant | (adjective) full of light; shining intensely | - |
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| (adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: bright, vivid |
| (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: glorious, magnificent, splendid |
| (adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brainy, smart as a whip |
| (adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: bright |
| (adjective) of surpassing excellence | Synonyms: superb |
| brilliantine | (noun) a pomade to make the hair manageable and lustrous | - |
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| brilliantly | (adverb) in an extremely intelligent way | - |
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| (adverb) with brightness | Synonyms: bright, brightly |
| caecilian | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the family Caeciliidae | - |
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| (noun) any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions | Synonyms: blindworm |
| caesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, cesarean, cesarian |
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| (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
| calliandra | (noun) any of various shrubs and small trees valued for their fine foliage and attractive spreading habit and clustered white to deep pink or red flowers | - |
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| callipygian | (adjective) pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks | Synonyms: callipygous |
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| callithumpian | (adjective) of or relating to a callithump | - |
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| carnelian | (noun) a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: cornelian |
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| catapultian | (adjective) of or like a catapult | Synonyms: catapultic |
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| catarrhinian | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhine |
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| centenarian | (adjective) being at least 100 years old | - |
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| (noun) someone who is at least 100 years old | - |
| ceratopsian | (noun) any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia | Synonyms: horned dinosaur |
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| cesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, caesarian, cesarean |
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| (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian section |
| chelonian | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or being a turtle or tortoise | - |
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| (noun) a reptile of the order Chelonia | Synonyms: chelonian reptile |
| chondrichthian | (noun) fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified | Synonyms: cartilaginous fish |
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| christian | (adjective) following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ | - |
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| christianly | (adjective) becoming to or like a Christian | - |
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| chthonian | (adjective) dwelling beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: chthonic, nether |
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| circadian | (adjective) of or relating to biological processes occurring at 24-hour intervals | - |
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| civilian | (adjective) associated with civil life or performed by persons who are not active members of the military | - |
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| (noun) a nonmilitary citizen | - |
| clianthus | (noun) any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Clianthus having compound leaves and pea-like red flowers in drooping racemes | Synonyms: glory pea |
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| clinician | (noun) a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments | - |
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| cnidarian | (noun) radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms | Synonyms: coelenterate |
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| collegian | (noun) a student (or former student) at a college or university | Synonyms: college boy, college man |
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| comedian | (noun) a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts | Synonyms: comic |
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| (noun) an actor in a comedy | - |
| compliance | (noun) the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another | Synonyms: submission |
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| (noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: abidance, conformation, conformity |
| (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
| compliancy | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliance, deference, obligingness |
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| compliant | (adjective) inclined to comply | - |
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| contrarian | (noun) an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors | - |
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| coriander | (noun) parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro |
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| (noun) dried coriander seeds used whole or ground | Synonyms: coriander seed |
| (noun) Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, cilantro, coriander plant, Coriandrum sativum |
| corinthian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Corinth or its inhabitants | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to the Corinthian style of architecture | - |
| cornelian | (noun) a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: carnelian |
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| cosmetician | (noun) someone who sells or applies cosmetics | - |
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| (noun) someone who works in a beauty parlor | Synonyms: beautician |
| covariance | (noun) (statistics) the mean value of the product of the deviations of two variates from their respective means | - |
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| covariant | (adjective) changing so that interrelations with another variable quantity or set of quantities remain unchanged | - |
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| crocodilian | (noun) extant archosaurian reptile | Synonyms: crocodilian reptile |
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| crossopterygian | (noun) any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form | Synonyms: lobe-finned fish, lobefin |
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| custodian | (noun) one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | Synonyms: keeper, steward |
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| custodianship | (noun) the position of custodian | - |
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| cyprian | (adjective) resembling the ancient orgiastic worship of Aphrodite on Cyprus | - |
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| (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
| dalliance | (noun) the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working | Synonyms: dawdling, trifling |
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| (noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: coquetry, flirt, flirtation, flirting, toying |