| accomplice | (noun) a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) | Synonyms: confederate |
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| advice | (noun) a proposal for an appropriate course of action | - |
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| allice | (noun) European shad | Synonyms: allice shad, allis, allis shad, Alosa alosa |
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| allspice | (noun) ground dried berrylike fruit of a West Indian allspice tree; suggesting combined flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves | - |
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| (noun) aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries | Synonyms: allspice tree, Pimenta dioica, pimento tree |
| (noun) deciduous shrubs having aromatic bark; eastern China; southwestern and eastern United States | - |
| appendicectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the vermiform appendix | Synonyms: appendectomy |
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| apprentice | (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: learner, prentice |
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| (verb) be or work as an apprentice | - |
| apprenticed | (adjective) bound by contract | Synonyms: articled, bound, indentured |
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| apprenticeship | (noun) the position of apprentice | - |
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| armistice | (noun) a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms | Synonyms: cease-fire, truce |
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| artifice | (noun) a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) | Synonyms: ruse |
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| artificer | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artisan, craftsman, journeyman |
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| (noun) someone who is the first to think of or make something | Synonyms: discoverer, inventor |
| (noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armorer, armourer |
| auspice | (noun) a favorable omen | - |
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| auspices | (noun) kindly endorsement and guidance | Synonyms: aegis, protection |
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| avarice | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avaritia, covetousness, greed, rapacity |
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| (noun) extreme greed for material wealth | Synonyms: avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity |
| benefice | (noun) an endowed church office giving income to its holder | Synonyms: ecclesiastical benefice |
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| (verb) endow with a benefice | - |
| beneficed | (adjective) having a benefice | - |
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| beneficence | (noun) the quality of being kind or helpful or generous | - |
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| (noun) doing good; feeling beneficent | - |
| beneficent | (adjective) doing or producing good | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
| bicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentennial |
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| (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentennial |
| bicentennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentenary |
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| (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentenary |
| bicentric | (adjective) having two centers | - |
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| bicephalous | (adjective) having two heads | - |
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| biceps | (noun) any skeletal muscle having two origins (but especially the muscle that flexes the forearm) | - |
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| bodice | (noun) part of a dress above the waist | - |
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| brattice | (noun) a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine | - |
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| (verb) supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines | - |
| caprice | (noun) a sudden desire | Synonyms: impulse, whim |
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| chalice | (noun) a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup | Synonyms: goblet |
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| chelicera | (noun) either of the first pair of fang-like appendages near the mouth of an arachnid; often modified for grasping and piercing | - |
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| cheliceral | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling chelicerae | Synonyms: chelicerate |
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| chelicerate | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling chelicerae | Synonyms: cheliceral |
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| chelicerous | (adjective) having chelicerae | - |
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| choice | (adjective) of superior grade | Synonyms: prime, prize, quality, select |
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| (adjective) appealing to refined taste | - |
| (noun) the act of choosing or selecting | Synonyms: option, pick, selection |
| (noun) the person or thing chosen or selected | Synonyms: pick, selection |
| (noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: alternative, option |
| choiceness | (noun) the quality of being very good indeed | Synonyms: fineness |
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| cicatrice | (noun) a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue | Synonyms: cicatrix, scar |
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| cicero | (noun) a linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em | - |
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| cicerone | (noun) a guide who conducts and informs sightseers | - |
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| cockatrice | (noun) monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance | - |
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| coppice | (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brush, brushwood, copse, thicket |
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| cornice | (noun) the topmost projecting part of an entablature | - |
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| (noun) a molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall | - |
| (noun) a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing | Synonyms: pelmet, valance, valance board |
| (verb) furnish with a cornice | - |
| cowardice | (noun) the trait of lacking courage | Synonyms: cowardliness |
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| crevice | (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, fissure, scissure |
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| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, cranny, fissure |
| deice | (verb) make or become free of frost or ice | Synonyms: de-ice, defrost |
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| deicer | (noun) heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane) | Synonyms: defroster |
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| dentifrice | (noun) a substance for cleaning the teeth; applied with a toothbrush | - |
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| device | (noun) any clever maneuver | Synonyms: gimmick, twist |
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| (noun) an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | - |
| (noun) an emblematic design (especially in heraldry) | - |
| (noun) any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery) | - |
| (noun) something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect | - |
| devices | (noun) an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices' | - |
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| devoice | (verb) utter with tense vocal chords | - |
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| dice | (noun) a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers | Synonyms: die |
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| (verb) play dice | - |
| (verb) cut into cubes | Synonyms: cube |
| dicer | (noun) a mechanical device used for dicing food | - |
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| dicey | (adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk | Synonyms: chanceful, chancy, dodgy |
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| disservice | (noun) an act intended to help that turns out badly | Synonyms: ill service, ill turn |
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| edifice | (noun) a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place | Synonyms: building |
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| entice | (verb) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion | Synonyms: lure, tempt |
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| enticement | (noun) the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire | Synonyms: temptation |
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| (noun) qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward | Synonyms: come-on, lure |
| (noun) something that seduces or has the quality to seduce | Synonyms: temptation |
| epicene | (adjective) having an ambiguous sexual identity | Synonyms: bisexual |
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| (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, emasculate, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
| (noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made | Synonyms: androgyne, epicene person, gynandromorph, hermaphrodite, intersex |
| epicenter | (noun) the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake | Synonyms: epicentre |
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| epicentre | (noun) the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake | Synonyms: epicenter |
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| fice | (noun) a nervous belligerent little mongrel dog | Synonyms: feist |
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| hospice | (noun) a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill | - |
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| (noun) a lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order) | - |
| ice | (noun) a rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating | Synonyms: ice-skating rink, ice rink |
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| (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, glass, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
| (noun) a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk) | Synonyms: frappe |
| (noun) a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes | Synonyms: frosting, icing |
| (noun) the frozen part of a body of water | - |
| (noun) diamonds | Synonyms: sparkler |
| (noun) water frozen in the solid state | Synonyms: water ice |
| (verb) put ice on or put on ice | - |
| (verb) cause to become ice or icy | - |
| (verb) decorate with frosting | Synonyms: frost |
| iceberg | (noun) lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head | Synonyms: crisphead lettuce, iceberg lettuce |
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| (noun) a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier | Synonyms: berg |
| iceboat | (noun) a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation | Synonyms: icebreaker |
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| (noun) a sailing vessel with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for traveling over ice | Synonyms: ice yacht, scooter |
| icebound | (adjective) locked in by ice | - |
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| icebox | (noun) white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures | Synonyms: refrigerator |
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| icebreaker | (noun) a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere | - |
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| (noun) a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation | Synonyms: iceboat |
| icecap | (noun) a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak) | Synonyms: ice cap |
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| icecream | (noun) frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring | Synonyms: ice cream |
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| icefall | (noun) a steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall | - |
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| icehouse | (noun) a house for storing ice | - |
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| iceman | (noun) someone who cuts and delivers ice | - |
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| (noun) a professional killer | Synonyms: hatchet man |
| icepick | (noun) pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point; used for breaking up blocks of ice | Synonyms: ice pick |
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| icetray | (noun) a tray for making cubes of ice in a refrigerator | - |
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| injustice | (noun) an unjust act | Synonyms: iniquity, shabbiness, unfairness |
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| (noun) the practice of being unjust or unfair | Synonyms: unjustness |
| interstice | (noun) small opening between things | - |
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| (noun) a small structural space between tissues or parts of an organ | - |
| invoice | (noun) an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered | Synonyms: account, bill |
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| (verb) send a bill to | - |
| jaundice | (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, tartness, thorniness |
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| (noun) yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia | Synonyms: icterus |
| (verb) affect with, or as if with, jaundice | - |
| (verb) distort adversely | - |
| jaundiced | (adjective) showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste | - |
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| (adjective) affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc | Synonyms: icteric, yellow |
| juice | (noun) any of several liquids of the body | Synonyms: succus |
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| (noun) the liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or cooking | - |
| (noun) electric current | - |
| (noun) energetic vitality | - |
| juiceless | (adjective) lacking juice | - |
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| (adjective) lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless | Synonyms: dry |
| juicer | (noun) a squeezer with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit | Synonyms: juice reamer, reamer |
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| (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: drinker, imbiber, toper |
| justice | (noun) judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being just or fair | Synonyms: justness |
| (noun) a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice | Synonyms: judge, jurist |
| lattice | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: fretwork, latticework |
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| (noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: grille, wicket |
| (noun) an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions | - |
| latticed | (adjective) having a pattern of fretwork or latticework | Synonyms: fretted, interlaced, latticelike |
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| latticelike | (adjective) having a pattern of fretwork or latticework | Synonyms: fretted, interlaced, latticed |
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| latticework | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: fretwork, lattice |
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| lenticel | (noun) one of many raised pores on the stems of woody plants that allow the interchange of gas between the atmosphere and the interior tissue | - |
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| licence | (noun) a legal document giving official permission to do something | Synonyms: license, permit |
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| (noun) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) | Synonyms: license |
| (noun) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint | Synonyms: license |
| (verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: certify, license |
| licenced | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: accredited, commissioned, licensed |
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| license | (noun) the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Synonyms: permission, permit |
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| (noun) a legal document giving official permission to do something | Synonyms: licence, permit |
| (noun) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) | Synonyms: licence |
| (noun) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint | Synonyms: licence |
| (verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: certify, licence |
| licensed | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: accredited, commissioned, licenced |
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| licensee | (noun) someone to whom a license is granted | - |
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| licenser | (noun) an official who can issue a license or give authoritative permission (especially one who licenses publications) | - |
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| licentiate | (noun) holds a license (degree) from a (European) university | - |
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| licentious | (adjective) lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained | - |
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| licentiously | (adverb) in a licentious and promiscuous manner | Synonyms: promiscuously, wantonly |
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| licentiousness | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, dissolution, looseness, profligacy |
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| (noun) the quality of being lewd and lascivious | Synonyms: wantonness |
| licorice | (noun) a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant | Synonyms: liquorice |
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| (noun) deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots | Synonyms: Glycyrrhiza glabra, liquorice |
| liquorice | (noun) a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant | Synonyms: licorice |
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| (noun) deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots | Synonyms: Glycyrrhiza glabra, licorice |
| magnificence | (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandeur, grandness, splendor, splendour |
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| (noun) splendid or imposing in size or appearance | Synonyms: grandness, impressiveness, richness |
| magnificent | (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, glorious, splendid |
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