| ascribe | (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: assign, attribute, impute |
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| beriberi | (noun) avitaminosis caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1) | - |
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| bribe | (noun) payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment | Synonyms: payoff |
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| (verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence | Synonyms: buy, corrupt, grease one's palms |
| briber | (noun) someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act | Synonyms: suborner |
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| bribery | (noun) the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage | Synonyms: graft |
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| caliber | (noun) a degree or grade of excellence or worth | Synonyms: calibre, quality |
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| (noun) diameter of a tube or gun barrel | Synonyms: bore, calibre, gauge |
| caribe | (noun) small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals | Synonyms: pirana, piranha |
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| circumscribe | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: confine to, limit |
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| (verb) draw a line around | - |
| (verb) to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect | - |
| circumscribed | (adjective) subject to limits or subjected to limits | Synonyms: limited |
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| decibel | (noun) a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity | Synonyms: dB |
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| deliberate | (adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: calculated, measured |
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| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: careful, measured |
| (adjective) characterized by conscious design or purpose | Synonyms: intentional, knowing |
| (verb) discuss the pros and cons of an issue | Synonyms: debate |
| (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, debate, moot, turn over |
| deliberately | (adverb) with intention; in an intentional manner | Synonyms: advisedly, by choice, by design, designedly, intentionally, on purpose, purposely |
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| (adverb) in a deliberate unhurried manner | Synonyms: measuredly |
| deliberateness | (noun) the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision | Synonyms: deliberation |
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| (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberation, slowness, unhurriedness |
| deliberation | (noun) the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision | Synonyms: deliberateness |
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| (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberateness, slowness, unhurriedness |
| (noun) planning something carefully and intentionally | Synonyms: calculation |
| (noun) careful consideration | Synonyms: advisement, weighing |
| (noun) (usually plural) discussion of all sides of a question | - |
| deliberative | (adjective) involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination | - |
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| describe | (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
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| (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: depict, draw |
| (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: account, report |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, draw, line, trace |
| described | (adjective) represented in words especially with sharpness and detail | - |
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| diatribe | (noun) thunderous verbal attack | Synonyms: fulmination |
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| fiber | (noun) a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth | Synonyms: fibre, vulcanized fiber |
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| (noun) the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions | Synonyms: character, fibre |
| (noun) any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber) | Synonyms: fibre |
| (noun) coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis | Synonyms: fibre, roughage |
| (noun) a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn | Synonyms: fibre |
| fiberboard | (noun) wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets | Synonyms: fibreboard, particle board |
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| fiberglass | (noun) a covering material made of glass fibers in resins | Synonyms: fibreglass |
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| fiberoptic | (adjective) of or relating to fiber optics | Synonyms: fiber-optic, fibre-optic, fibreoptic |
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| fiberoptics | (noun) the transmission of light signals via glass fibers | Synonyms: fiber optics, fibre optics, fibreoptics |
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| fiberscope | (noun) a flexible medical instrument involving fiber optics that is used to examine internal organs | - |
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| gibe | (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, jibe, shaft, shot, slam |
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| (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, flout, jeer, scoff |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, jibe, match, tally |
| gibelike | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, jeering, mocking, taunting |
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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 | - |
| ibex | (noun) wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia and northern Africa having large recurved horns | Synonyms: Capra ibex |
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| illiberal | (adjective) narrow-minded about cherished opinions | Synonyms: intolerant |
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| illiberality | (noun) a disposition not to be liberal (generous) with money | - |
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| illiberally | (adverb) in a manner that isn't broad-minded | Synonyms: intolerantly |
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| imbibe | (verb) receive into the mind and retain | - |
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| (verb) take in liquids | Synonyms: drink |
| (verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilate |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: absorb, draw, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up |
| imbiber | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: drinker, juicer, toper |
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| inscribe | (verb) mark with one's signature | Synonyms: autograph |
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| (verb) address, (a work of literature) in a style less formal than a dedication | - |
| (verb) write, engrave, or print as a lasting record | - |
| (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, write in code |
| (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, grave, scratch |
| (verb) draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible | - |
| (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enroll, enter, raise, recruit |
| inscribed | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: engraved, etched, graven, incised |
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| (adjective) written (by handwriting, printing, engraving, or carving) on or in a surface | - |
| jibe | (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, shaft, shot, slam |
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| (verb) shift from one side of the ship to the other | Synonyms: change course, gybe, jib |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, match, tally |
| kibe | (noun) ulcerated chilblain on the heel | - |
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| libel | (noun) a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person | - |
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| (noun) the written statement of a plaintiff explaining the cause of action (the defamation) and any relief he seeks | - |
| (verb) print slanderous statements against | - |
| libeler | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, maligner, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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| libellous | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libelous, slanderous |
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| libelous | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, slanderous |
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| liberal | (adjective) tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition | - |
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| (adjective) showing or characterized by broad-mindedness | Synonyms: broad, large-minded, tolerant |
| (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, openhanded |
| (adjective) not literal | Synonyms: free, loose |
| (adjective) having political or social views favoring reform and progress | - |
| (noun) a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties | Synonyms: liberalist, progressive |
| (noun) a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets | - |
| liberalisation | (noun) the act of making less strict | Synonyms: liberalization, relaxation |
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| liberalise | (verb) make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules | Synonyms: liberalize |
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| (verb) become more liberal | Synonyms: liberalize |
| liberalism | (noun) a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution | - |
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| (noun) an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market | - |
| liberalist | (noun) a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties | Synonyms: liberal, progressive |
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| liberalistic | (adjective) having or demonstrating belief in the essential goodness of man and the autonomy of the individual; favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority | - |
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| liberality | (noun) the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament | Synonyms: liberalness |
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| (noun) an inclination to favor progress and individual freedom | Synonyms: liberalness |
| liberalization | (noun) the act of making less strict | Synonyms: liberalisation, relaxation |
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| liberalize | (verb) make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules | Synonyms: liberalise |
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| (verb) become more liberal | Synonyms: liberalise |
| liberally | (adverb) freely in a nonliteral manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a generous manner | Synonyms: generously, munificently |
| liberalness | (noun) the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament | Synonyms: liberality |
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| (noun) an inclination to favor progress and individual freedom | Synonyms: liberality |
| liberate | (verb) release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition | Synonyms: free, release |
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| (verb) grant freedom to | Synonyms: set free |
| (verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: emancipate |
| (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, loose, release, unloose, unloosen |
| liberated | (adjective) free from traditional social restraints | Synonyms: emancipated |
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| (adjective) (of a gas e.g.) released from chemical combination | - |
| liberation | (noun) the attempt to achieve equal rights or status | - |
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| (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, release, sack, sacking |
| (noun) the act of liberating someone or something | Synonyms: freeing, release |
| liberator | (noun) someone who releases people from captivity or bondage | - |
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| libertarian | (noun) someone who believes the doctrine of free will | - |
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| (noun) an advocate of libertarianism | - |
| libertarianism | (noun) an ideological belief in freedom of thought, speech and action | - |
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| libertine | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, profligate, riotous |
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| (noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: debauchee, rounder |
| libertinism | (noun) A lifestyle or pattern of behavior characterized by self-indulgence and lack of restraint, especially one involving sexual promiscuity and rejection of religious or other moral authority. | - |
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| liberty | (noun) an act of undue intimacy | Synonyms: familiarity, impropriety, indecorum |
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| (noun) immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence | Synonyms: autonomy |
| (noun) freedom of choice | - |
| (noun) personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression | - |
| (noun) leave granted to a sailor or naval officer | Synonyms: shore leave |
| neoliberal | (adjective) having or showing belief in the need for economic growth in addition to traditional liberalistic values | - |
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| (noun) a liberal who subscribes to neoliberalism | - |
| neoliberalism | (noun) a political orientation originating in the 1960s; blends liberal political views with an emphasis on economic growth | - |
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| oversubscribed | (adjective) sold in excess of available supply especially season tickets | - |
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| prescribe | (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: dictate, order |
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| (verb) (medicine) order the use of (a treatment, medicine, etc.), usually by written prescription | - |
| (verb) recommend as beneficial | - |
| prescribed | (adjective) formally laid down or imposed | Synonyms: positive |
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| (adjective) set down as a rule or guide | - |
| (adjective) conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline | Synonyms: official |
| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, decreed, ordained |
| proscribe | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, veto |
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| proscribed | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, prohibited, taboo, tabu, verboten |
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| quodlibet | (noun) an issue that is presented for formal disputation | - |
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| scribe | (noun) a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut | Synonyms: scratch awl, scriber |
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| (noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: penman, scribbler |
| (noun) someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts | Synonyms: copyist, scrivener |
| (verb) score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking | - |
| scriber | (noun) a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut | Synonyms: scratch awl, scribe |
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| subscribe | (verb) mark with one's signature; write one's name (on) | Synonyms: sign |
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| (verb) adopt as a belief | Synonyms: support |
| (verb) receive or obtain regularly | Synonyms: subscribe to, take |
| (verb) offer to buy, as of stocks and shares | - |
| (verb) pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals | Synonyms: pledge |
| subscribed | (adjective) (of a contract or will or other document) having a signature written at the end | - |
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| subscriber | (noun) someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money | Synonyms: contributor |
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| (noun) someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication | Synonyms: reader |
| (noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: endorser, indorser, ratifier |
| superscribe | (verb) write on the outside or upper part of | - |
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| (verb) write on the top or outside | - |
| transcribe | (verb) convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA | - |
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| (verb) rewrite in a different script | Synonyms: transliterate |
| (verb) write out from speech, notes, etc. | - |
| (verb) make a phonetic transcription of | - |
| (verb) rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended | - |
| transcribed | (adjective) recorded for broadcast | Synonyms: canned |
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| transcriber | (noun) someone who makes a written version of spoken material | - |
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| (noun) someone who represents the sounds of speech in phonetic notation | - |
| (noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance | Synonyms: adapter, arranger |
| (noun) a person who translates written messages from one language to another | Synonyms: translator |
| (noun) someone who rewrites in a different script | - |
| tribe | (noun) a social division of (usually preliterate) people | Synonyms: folk |
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| (noun) a federation (as of American Indians) | Synonyms: federation of tribes |
| (noun) group of people related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group |
| (noun) (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily | - |
| tribesman | (noun) someone who lives in a tribe | - |
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| vibe | (noun) a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively | Synonyms: vibration |
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| (verb) to feel emotionally | - |
| vibes | (noun) a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound | Synonyms: vibraharp, vibraphone |
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