| abience | (noun) (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object | - |
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| abient | (adjective) characterized by avoidance or withdrawal | - |
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| abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
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| (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: aborticide, abortion-inducing drug |
| absorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: sorbefacient |
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| accompanied | (adjective) having companions or an escort | - |
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| (adjective) playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment | Synonyms: attended |
| achievability | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: attainability, attainableness |
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| achievable | (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: accomplishable, doable, manageable, realizable |
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| achieve | (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: accomplish, attain, reach |
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| achievement | (noun) the action of accomplishing something | Synonyms: accomplishment |
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| achiever | (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: succeeder, success, winner |
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| acquiesce | (verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: accede, assent |
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| acquiescence | (noun) agreement with a statement or proposal to do something | Synonyms: assent |
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| (noun) acceptance without protest | - |
| acquiescent | (adjective) willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest | Synonyms: biddable |
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| adience | (noun) (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object | - |
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| adient | (adjective) characterized by acceptance or approach | - |
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| adieu | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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| aerie | (noun) any habitation at a high altitude | Synonyms: aery, eyrie, eyry |
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| (noun) the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) | Synonyms: aery, eyrie, eyry |
| afield | (adverb) off the subject; beyond the point at issue | - |
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| (adverb) in or into a field (especially a field of battle) | - |
| (adverb) far away from home or one's usual surroundings | Synonyms: abroad |
| afterpiece | (noun) a brief dramatic piece (usually comic) presented after a play | - |
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| aggrieve | (verb) cause to feel sorrow | Synonyms: grieve |
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| (verb) infringe on the rights of | - |
| airfield | (noun) a place where planes take off and land | Synonyms: field, flying field, landing field |
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| alien | (adjective) not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something | Synonyms: foreign |
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| (adjective) being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world | Synonyms: exotic |
| (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: foreigner, noncitizen, outlander |
| (noun) anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found | Synonyms: stranger, unknown |
| (noun) a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere | Synonyms: extraterrestrial, extraterrestrial being |
| (verb) transfer property or ownership | Synonyms: alienate |
| alienable | (adjective) transferable to another owner | - |
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| alienage | (noun) the quality of being alien | Synonyms: alienism |
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| alienate | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: disaffect, estrange |
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| (verb) make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated | - |
| (verb) transfer property or ownership | Synonyms: alien |
| alienated | (adjective) caused to be unloved | Synonyms: estranged |
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| (adjective) socially disoriented | Synonyms: anomic, disoriented |
| alienating | (adjective) causing hostility or loss of friendliness | - |
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| alienation | (noun) the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly | - |
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| (noun) (law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another | - |
| (noun) the feeling of being alienated from other people | Synonyms: disaffection, estrangement |
| (noun) separation resulting from hostility | Synonyms: estrangement |
| alienator | (noun) an unpleasant person who causes friendly people to become indifferent or unfriendly or hostile | - |
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| alienee | (noun) someone to whom the title of property is transferred | Synonyms: grantee |
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| alienism | (noun) the quality of being alien | Synonyms: alienage |
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| (noun) an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness | - |
| alienist | (noun) a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness | - |
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| alienor | (noun) someone from whom the title of property is transferred | - |
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| allied | (adjective) joined by treaty or agreement | - |
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| (adjective) related by common characteristics or ancestry | - |
| (adjective) united in a confederacy or league | Synonyms: confederate, confederative |
| allies | (noun) an alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy | - |
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| altarpiece | (noun) a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table | Synonyms: reredos |
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| ambience | (noun) the atmosphere of an environment | Synonyms: ambiance |
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| (noun) a particular environment or surrounding influence | Synonyms: ambiance, atmosphere |
| ambient | (adjective) completely enveloping | - |
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| amenities | (noun) things that make you comfortable and at ease | Synonyms: comforts, conveniences, creature comforts |
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| amplifier | (noun) electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it | - |
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| ancient | (adjective) very old | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire | - |
| (noun) a person who lived in ancient times | - |
| (noun) a very old person | Synonyms: antediluvian |
| anciently | (adverb) in ancient times; long ago | - |
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| ancientness | (noun) extreme oldness | Synonyms: antiquity |
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| ancients | (noun) people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe) | - |
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| anomie | (noun) lack of moral standards in a society | Synonyms: anomy |
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| (noun) personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation | Synonyms: anomy |
| antielectron | (noun) an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation | Synonyms: positron |
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| antiemetic | (noun) a drug that prevents or alleviates nausea and vomiting | Synonyms: antiemetic drug |
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| antiepileptic | (noun) a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy) | Synonyms: anticonvulsant, anticonvulsant drug, antiepileptic drug |
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| antiestablishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentism |
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| antiestablishmentism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentarianism |
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| anxiety | (noun) a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune | - |
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| (noun) (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic | Synonyms: anxiousness |
| aperient | (adjective) mildly laxative | - |
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| (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: cathartic, physic, purgative |
| apiece | (adverb) to or from every one of two or more (considered individually) | Synonyms: each, for each one, from each one, to each one |
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| applied | (adjective) concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with fundamental principles | - |
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| applier | (noun) a device for applying a substance | Synonyms: applicator |
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| (noun) a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission | Synonyms: applicant |
| archiepiscopal | (adjective) of or associated with an archbishop | Synonyms: archepiscopal |
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| archpriest | (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: hierarch, high priest, prelate, primate |
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| arietta | (noun) a short aria | Synonyms: short aria |
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| arteriectasia | (noun) an abnormal distension of an artery | Synonyms: arteriectasis |
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| arteriectasis | (noun) an abnormal distension of an artery | Synonyms: arteriectasia |
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| assentient | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assenting |
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| astonied | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonished, astounded, stunned |
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| atelier | (noun) a studio especially for an artist or designer | Synonyms: artist's workroom |
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| atrophied | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use | Synonyms: diminished, wasted |
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| audience | (noun) a conference (usually with someone important) | Synonyms: consultation, interview |
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| (noun) a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance | - |
| (noun) the part of the general public interested in a source of information, entertainment, or a product/service | - |
| (noun) an opportunity to state your case and be heard | Synonyms: hearing |
| auntie | (noun) the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle | Synonyms: aunt, aunty |
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| authorities | (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: government, regime |
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| backfield | (noun) the offensive football players who line up behind the linemen | - |
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| bacteriemia | (noun) transient presence of bacteria (or other microorganisms) in the blood | Synonyms: bacteremia, bacteriaemia |
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| baddie | (noun) the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction | Synonyms: villain |
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| balconied | (adjective) having balconies or a balcony | - |
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| bandolier | (noun) a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers | Synonyms: bandoleer |
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| banshie | (noun) (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death | Synonyms: banshee |
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| barrier | (noun) a structure or object that impedes free movement | - |
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| (noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: roadblock |
| (noun) anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access | - |
| battlefield | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battleground, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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| beanie | (noun) a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen | Synonyms: beany |
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| beatified | (adjective) Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration | Synonyms: blessed |
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| befriend | (verb) become friends with | - |
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| belie | (verb) represent falsely | Synonyms: misrepresent |
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| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
| belieber | (noun) A fan of Justin Bieber | - |
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| belief | (noun) any cognitive content held as true | - |
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| (noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: feeling, impression, notion, opinion |
| believability | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: credibility, credibleness |
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| believable | (adjective) capable of being believed | Synonyms: credible |
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| believably | (adverb) in a believable manner | - |
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| (adverb) easy to believe on the basis of available evidence | Synonyms: credibly, plausibly, probably |
| believe | (verb) accept as true; take to be true | - |
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| (verb) follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer | - |
| (verb) credit with veracity | - |
| (verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: trust |
| (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: conceive, consider, think |
| believer | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: worshiper, worshipper |
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| (noun) a supporter who accepts something as true | Synonyms: truster |
| believing | (noun) the cognitive process that leads to convictions | - |
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| believingly | (adverb) in a credulous manner | Synonyms: credulously |
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| bellied | (adjective) having a belly | - |
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| (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
| bennie | (noun) a form of amphetamine | Synonyms: Benzedrine |
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| berried | (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: baccate, bacciferous |
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| besiege | (verb) harass, as with questions or requests | - |
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| (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, circumvent, hem in, surround |
| (verb) cause to feel distressed or worried | - |
| besieged | (adjective) surrounded by hostile forces | - |
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| besieger | (noun) an enemy who lays siege to your position | - |
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| (noun) an energetic petitioner | - |
| besieging | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, military blockade, siege |
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| biennial | (adjective) having a life cycle lasting two seasons | Synonyms: two-year |
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| (adjective) occurring every second year | Synonyms: biyearly |
| (noun) (botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season | - |
| biennially | (adverb) every two years | Synonyms: biyearly |
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| bier | (noun) a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial | - |
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| (noun) a coffin along with its stand | - |
| bioscience | (noun) any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms | Synonyms: life science |
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| birdie | (noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: bird, shuttle, shuttlecock |
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| (noun) (golf) a score of one stroke under par on a hole | - |
| (verb) shoot in one stroke under par | - |