| beriberi | (noun) avitaminosis caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1) | - |
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| 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 |
| 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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| 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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| 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 | - |
| 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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| imbiber | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: drinker, juicer, toper |
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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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| scriber | (noun) a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut | Synonyms: scratch awl, scribe |
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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 |
| 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 | - |