| abatis | (noun) a line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) pointed toward the enemy | Synonyms: abattis |
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| abattis | (noun) a line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) pointed toward the enemy | Synonyms: abatis |
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| abdominocentesis | (noun) centesis of the belly to remove fluid for diagnosis | Synonyms: paracentesis |
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| abiogenesis | (noun) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter | Synonyms: autogenesis, autogeny, spontaneous generation |
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| abiogenist | (noun) a believer in abiogenesis | - |
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| ableism | (noun) discrimination in favor of the able-bodied | Synonyms: able-bodiedism, able-bodism, ablism |
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| ablism | (noun) discrimination in favor of the able-bodied | Synonyms: able-bodiedism, able-bodism, ableism |
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| abolish | (verb) do away with | Synonyms: get rid of |
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| abolishable | (adjective) capable of being abolished | - |
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| abolishment | (noun) the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery) | Synonyms: abolition |
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| abolitionism | (noun) the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery | - |
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| abolitionist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: emancipationist |
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| abortionist | (noun) a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies | - |
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| abscise | (verb) remove or separate by abscission | - |
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| (verb) shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue | - |
| abscissa | (noun) the value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis | - |
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| abscission | (noun) the act of cutting something off | Synonyms: cutting off |
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| (noun) shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant | - |
| absenteeism | (noun) habitual absence from work | - |
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| absolutisation | (noun) the process of rendering something absolute or converting it into an absolute. | Synonyms: absolutization |
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| absolutism | (noun) the doctrine of an absolute being, often related to idealism in philosophy. | - |
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| (noun) an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government. | Synonyms: totalism, totalitarianism |
| (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
| (noun) dominance through threat of punishment and violence | Synonyms: despotism, tyranny |
| absolutist | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutistic |
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| (noun) one who advocates absolutism | - |
| absolutistic | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutist |
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| abstractionism | (noun) an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation | Synonyms: abstract art |
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| (noun) a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples | Synonyms: unrealism |
| abstractionist | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
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| (noun) a painter of abstract pictures | Synonyms: abstract artist |
| academicism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academism, scholasticism |
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| (noun) Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes. | - |
| (noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academism |
| academism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academicism, scholasticism |
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| (noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academicism |
| acanthocytosis | (noun) the presence of acanthocytes in the blood stream (as in abetalipoproteinemia) | - |
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| acantholysis | (noun) a breakdown of a cell layer in the epidermis (as in pemphigus) | - |
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| acanthosis | (noun) an abnormal but benign thickening of the prickle-cell layer of the skin (as in psoriasis) | - |
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| acariasis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acaridiasis, acariosis |
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| acaridiasis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acariasis, acariosis |
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| acariosis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acariasis, acaridiasis |
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| acathexis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual | - |
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| acclimatisation | (noun) adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment) | Synonyms: acclimation, acclimatization |
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| acclimatise | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatize |
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| accompanist | (noun) a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) | Synonyms: accompanyist |
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| accompanyist | (noun) a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) | Synonyms: accompanist |
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| accomplish | (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill |
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| (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: achieve, attain, reach |
| accomplishable | (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: achievable, doable, manageable, realizable |
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| accomplished | (adjective) successfully completed or brought to an end | Synonyms: completed, realised, realized |
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| (adjective) settled securely and unconditionally | Synonyms: effected, established |
| (adjective) highly skilled | Synonyms: complete |
| accomplishment | (noun) the action of accomplishing something | Synonyms: achievement |
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| (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: acquirement, acquisition, attainment, skill |
| accordionist | (noun) a musician who plays the accordion | - |
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| acephalism | (noun) absence of the head (as in the development of some monsters) | Synonyms: acephalia, acephaly |
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| acetylise | (verb) receive substitution of an acetyl group | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylize |
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| (verb) introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound) | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylize |
| achromatise | (verb) remove color from | Synonyms: achromatize |
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| achromatism | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromaticity, colorlessness, colourlessness |
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| acidosis | (noun) abnormally high acidity (excess hydrogen-ion concentration) of the blood and other body tissues | - |
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| acmeism | (noun) An early 20th-century Russian school of poetry that rejected the vagueness and emotionality of Symbolism in favor of Imagist clarity and texture. | - |
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| acquisition | (noun) the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something | - |
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| (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquirement, attainment, skill |
| (noun) the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge | Synonyms: learning |
| (noun) something acquired | - |
| acquisitive | (adjective) eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas | - |
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| acquisitiveness | (noun) strong desire to acquire and possess | - |
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| acrocyanosis | (noun) cyanosis of the extremities; can occur when a spasm of the blood vessels is caused by exposure to cold or by strong emotion | Synonyms: Raynaud's sign |
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| acropolis | (noun) the citadel in ancient Greek towns | - |
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| actinism | (noun) the property of radiation that enables it to produce photochemical effects | - |
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| actinomycosis | (noun) disease of cattle that can be transmitted to humans; results from infection with actinomycetes; characterized by hard swellings that exude pus through long sinuses | - |
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| activism | (noun) a policy of taking direct action to achieve a political or social goal | - |
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| activist | (adjective) advocating or engaged in activism | Synonyms: activistic |
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| (noun) a militant reformer | Synonyms: militant |
| activistic | (adjective) advocating or engaged in activism | Synonyms: activist |
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| actualisation | (noun) making real or giving the appearance of reality | Synonyms: actualization, realisation, realization |
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| actualise | (verb) represent or describe realistically | Synonyms: actualize |
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| (verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualize, realise, realize, substantiate |
| adactylism | (noun) congenital absence of fingers and/or toes | Synonyms: adactylia, adactyly |
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| adenitis | (noun) inflammation of a gland or lymph node | - |
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| adenohypophysis | (noun) the anterior lobe of the pituitary body; primarily glandular in nature | Synonyms: anterior pituitary, anterior pituitary gland |
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| adenomyosis | (noun) the presence of endometrium elsewhere than in the lining of the uterus; causes premenstrual pain and dysmenorrhea | Synonyms: endometriosis |
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| adenosis | (noun) a disorder of the glands of the body | Synonyms: gland disease, glandular disease, glandular disorder |
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| adiposis | (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: corpulence, overweight, stoutness |
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| administer | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: dispense |
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| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) perform (a church sacrament) ritually | - |
| (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administrate |
| (verb) direct the taking of | - |
| administrable | (adjective) capable of being administered or managed | - |
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| administrate | (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administer |
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| administration | (noun) a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs) | Synonyms: disposal |
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| (noun) the act of administering medication | Synonyms: giving medication |
| (noun) the act of meting out justice according to the law | Synonyms: judicature |
| (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: governance, governing, government, government activity |
| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: brass, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
| (noun) the tenure of a president | Synonyms: presidency, presidential term |
| administrative | (adjective) of or relating to or responsible for administration | - |
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| administratively | (adverb) by or for an administrator | - |
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| administrator | (noun) someone who administers a business | Synonyms: decision maker |
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| (noun) the party appointed by a probate court to distribute the estate of someone who dies without a will or without naming an executor | - |
| (noun) someone who manages a government agency or department | Synonyms: executive |
| administrivia | (noun) the tiresome but essential details that must be taken care of and tasks that must be performed in running an organization | - |
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| admissibility | (noun) acceptability by virtue of being admissible | - |
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| admissible | (adjective) deserving to be admitted | - |
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| admission | (noun) the act of admitting someone to enter | Synonyms: admittance |
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| (noun) the right to enter | Synonyms: access, accession, admittance, entree |
| (noun) an acknowledgment of the truth of something | - |
| (noun) the fee charged for admission | Synonyms: admission charge, admission fee, admission price, entrance fee, entrance money, price of admission |
| admissive | (adjective) characterized by or allowing admission | - |
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| admonish | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: reproof, reprove |
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| (verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: caution, monish |
| (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: discourage, monish, warn |
| admonisher | (noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: monitor, reminder |
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| admonishing | (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonitory, reproachful, reproving |
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| admonishment | (noun) a firm rebuke | Synonyms: admonition, monition |
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| adonis | (noun) any handsome young man | - |
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| adventurism | (noun) recklessness in politics or foreign affairs | - |
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| adventuristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to adventurism | - |
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| advertise | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertize, promote, push |
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| (verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertize, publicise, publicize |
| advertised | (adjective) called to public attention | - |
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| advertisement | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertising, advertizement, advertizing |
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| advertiser | (noun) someone whose business is advertising | Synonyms: adman, advertizer |
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| advertising | (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: merchandising, publicizing |
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| (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertisement, advertizement, advertizing |
| advisability | (noun) the quality of being advisable | - |
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| advisable | (adjective) worthy of being recommended or suggested; prudent or wise | - |
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| advise | (verb) give advice to | Synonyms: counsel, rede |
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| (verb) inform (somebody) of something | Synonyms: apprise, apprize, give notice, notify, send word |
| (verb) make a proposal, declare a plan for something | Synonyms: propose, suggest |
| advised | (adjective) having the benefit of careful prior consideration or counsel | Synonyms: well-advised |
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| (adjective) having received information | - |
| advisedly | (adverb) with intention; in an intentional manner | Synonyms: by choice, by design, deliberately, designedly, intentionally, on purpose, purposely |
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| advisee | (noun) someone who receives advice | - |
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| advisement | (noun) careful consideration | Synonyms: deliberation, weighing |
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| adviser | (noun) an expert who gives advice | Synonyms: advisor, consultant |
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| advisor | (noun) an expert who gives advice | Synonyms: adviser, consultant |
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| advisory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: consultative, consultatory, consultive |
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| (noun) an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threat | - |
| aegis | (noun) kindly endorsement and guidance | Synonyms: auspices, protection |
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| (noun) armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass | Synonyms: breastplate, egis |