bouillabaisse | (noun) highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs | - |
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connoisseur | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: cognoscente |
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connoisseurship | (noun) love of or taste for fine objects of art | Synonyms: vertu, virtu |
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coulisse | (noun) a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel | - |
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(noun) a flat situated in the wings | Synonyms: wing flat |
cuisse | (noun) armor plate that protects the thigh | - |
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dismissed | (adjective) having lost your job | Synonyms: discharged, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped |
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dissect | (verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, break down, take apart |
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(verb) cut open or cut apart | - |
dissected | (adjective) having one or more indentations reaching nearly to the midrib | Synonyms: cleft |
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dissection | (noun) cutting so as to separate into pieces | - |
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(noun) detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work) | - |
(noun) a minute and critical analysis | - |
dissemble | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, feign, pretend, sham |
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(verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: act, pretend |
(verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: cloak, mask |
dissembler | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender |
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dissembling | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation |
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(noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense |
disseminate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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dissemination | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersal, dispersion |
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(noun) the property of being diffused or dispersed | Synonyms: diffusion |
(noun) the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate | Synonyms: airing, public exposure, spreading |
disseminative | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, dispersive |
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disseminator | (noun) someone who spreads the news | Synonyms: propagator |
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dissension | (noun) disagreement among those expected to cooperate | Synonyms: discord |
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(noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: disagreement, dissonance |
dissent | (noun) the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent | Synonyms: objection, protest |
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(noun) (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority | - |
(noun) a difference of opinion | - |
(verb) withhold assent | - |
(verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: differ, disagree, take issue |
(verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: protest, resist |
dissenter | (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissident, objector, protester |
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dissentient | (adjective) disagreeing, especially with a majority | Synonyms: dissenting, dissident |
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(adjective) (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England | Synonyms: recusant |
dissenting | (adjective) disagreeing, especially with a majority | Synonyms: dissentient, dissident |
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dissentious | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: divisive, factious |
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dissertate | (verb) talk at length and formally about a topic | Synonyms: discourse, hold forth |
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dissertation | (noun) a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree | Synonyms: thesis |
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disservice | (noun) an act intended to help that turns out badly | Synonyms: ill service, ill turn |
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dissever | (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, divide, separate, split, split up |
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ecrevisse | (noun) small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America | Synonyms: Old World crayfish |
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(noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
hisser | (noun) someone who communicates disapproval by hissing | - |
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kisser | (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler, visage |
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(noun) someone who kisses | Synonyms: osculator |
missed | (adjective) not caught with the senses or the mind | Synonyms: lost |
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patisserie | (noun) a bakery specializing in French pastry | - |
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pelisse | (noun) a sleeveless cape that is lined or trimmed with fur | - |
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pipsissewa | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Chimaphila | Synonyms: prince's pine |
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pissed | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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(adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
pisser | (noun) a very disagreeable difficulty | - |
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(noun) a person who urinates | Synonyms: urinator |
rotisserie | (noun) a restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meats | - |
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(noun) an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns | - |