| accreditation | (noun) the act of granting credit or recognition (especially with respect to an educational institution that maintains suitable standards) | - |
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| agitate | (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: commove, disturb, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
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| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: budge, shift, stir |
| (verb) move or cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: shake |
| (verb) try to stir up public opinion | Synonyms: foment, stir up |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: campaign, crusade, fight, press, push |
| agitated | (adjective) troubled emotionally and usually deeply | - |
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| (adjective) physically disturbed or set in motion | - |
| agitating | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitative, provoking |
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| agitation | (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: excitement, hullabaloo, turmoil, upheaval |
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| (noun) the act of agitating something; causing it to move around (usually vigorously) | - |
| (noun) the feeling of being agitated; not calm | - |
| (noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, tempestuousness, unrest |
| (noun) a mental state of extreme emotional disturbance | - |
| agitative | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitating, provoking |
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| agitator | (noun) one who agitates; a political troublemaker | Synonyms: fomenter |
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| authoritative | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authorized |
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| (adjective) having authority or ascendancy or influence | Synonyms: important |
| (adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: definitive |
| authoritatively | (adverb) in an authoritative and magisterial manner | Synonyms: magisterially |
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| blaxploitation | (noun) the exploitation of black people (especially with regard to stereotyped roles in movies) | - |
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| capacitate | (verb) make capable | - |
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| (verb) cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg | - |
| (verb) make legally capable or qualify in law | - |
| capitate | (adjective) being abruptly enlarged and globose at the tip | - |
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| (noun) the wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the 3rd metacarpus | Synonyms: capitate bone, os capitatum |
| capitation | (noun) a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per person | - |
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| citation | (noun) an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | Synonyms: commendation |
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| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
| (noun) a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding | - |
| (noun) a passage or expression that is quoted or cited | Synonyms: quotation, quote |
| (noun) (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.) | - |
| cogitate | (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cerebrate, think |
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| (verb) consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind | - |
| cogitation | (noun) attentive consideration and meditation | Synonyms: study |
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| (noun) a carefully considered thought about something | - |
| cogitative | (adjective) of or relating to having capacities for cogitation | - |
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| (adjective) given to cogitation | - |
| cohabitation | (noun) the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married) | - |
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| crepitate | (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crackle |
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| crepitation | (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackle, crackling |
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| debilitate | (verb) make weak | Synonyms: drain, enfeeble |
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| debilitated | (adjective) lacking energy or vitality | Synonyms: adynamic, asthenic, enervated |
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| debilitating | (adjective) impairing the strength and vitality | - |
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| debilitation | (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion |
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| debilitative | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: enervating, enfeebling, weakening |
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| decapitate | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: behead, decollate |
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| decapitated | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: beheaded |
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| decapitation | (noun) killing by cutting off the head | Synonyms: beheading |
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| (noun) execution by cutting off the victim's head | Synonyms: beheading |
| decrepitate | (verb) to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops | - |
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| (verb) undergo decrepitation and crackle | - |
| decrepitation | (noun) the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated | - |
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| delimitate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, demarcate |
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| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delineate, specify |
| delimitation | (noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: border, borderline, boundary line, mete |
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| digitate | (adjective) resembling a finger | Synonyms: fingerlike |
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| digitately | (adverb) in a digitate manner | - |
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| elicitation | (noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: evocation, induction |
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| equitation | (noun) the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements | Synonyms: horseback riding, riding |
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| excitation | (noun) something that agitates and arouses | Synonyms: excitement |
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| (noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: innervation, irritation |
| (noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitement, fervor, fervour, inflammation |
| excitative | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitatory |
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| excitatory | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitative |
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| excogitate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, forge, formulate, invent |
| excogitation | (noun) thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it | - |
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| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, design, innovation, invention |
| excogitative | (adjective) concerned with excogitating or having the power of excogitation | - |
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| excogitator | (noun) a thinker who considers carefully and thoroughly | - |
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| exploitation | (noun) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | Synonyms: development |
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| (noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: using, victimisation, victimization |
| exploitative | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitatory, exploitive |
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| exploitatory | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitive |
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| facilitate | (verb) make easier | Synonyms: alleviate, ease |
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| (verb) increase the likelihood of (a response) | - |
| (verb) be of use | Synonyms: help |
| facilitation | (noun) act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something | - |
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| (noun) (neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron combine to trigger an action potential | - |
| (noun) the condition of being made easy (or easier) | - |
| facilitative | (adjective) freeing from difficulty or impediment | - |
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| facilitator | (noun) someone who makes progress easier | - |
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| facilitatory | (adjective) inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity | - |
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| felicitate | (verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: congratulate |
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| felicitation | (noun) the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration | Synonyms: congratulation |
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| (noun) (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another | Synonyms: congratulation |
| gravitate | (verb) move due to the pull of gravitation | - |
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| (verb) be attracted to | - |
| (verb) move toward | - |
| gravitation | (noun) a figurative movement toward some attraction | - |
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| (noun) movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction | - |
| (noun) (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface | Synonyms: gravitational attraction, gravitational force, gravity |
| gravitational | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitative |
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| gravitationally | (adverb) with respect to gravitation | - |
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| gravitative | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitational |
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| habilitate | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, raiment, tog |
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| (verb) qualify for teaching at a university in Europe | - |
| habitat | (noun) the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs | Synonyms: home ground |
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| habitation | (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) | Synonyms: inhabitancy, inhabitation |
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| (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, home |
| (noun) the native habitat or home of an animal or plant | - |
| hesitate | (verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: waffle, waver |
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| (verb) interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing | Synonyms: pause |
| hesitater | (noun) one who hesitates (usually out of fear) | Synonyms: hesitator, vacillator, waverer |
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| hesitating | (adjective) lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly | Synonyms: hesitant |
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| hesitatingly | (adverb) with hesitation; in a hesitant manner | Synonyms: hesitantly |
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| hesitation | (noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: falter, faltering, waver |
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| (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitancy, indisposition, reluctance |
| (noun) indecision in speech or action | Synonyms: vacillation, wavering |
| hesitator | (noun) one who hesitates (usually out of fear) | Synonyms: hesitater, vacillator, waverer |
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| imitate | (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: copy, simulate |
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| (verb) make a reproduction or copy of | - |
| (verb) appear like, as in behavior or appearance | - |
| imitation | (adjective) not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article | Synonyms: fake, false, faux, simulated |
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| (noun) copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else | - |
| (noun) something copied or derived from an original | - |
| (noun) the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations | - |
| (noun) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | Synonyms: caricature, impersonation |
| imitative | (adjective) marked by or given to imitation | - |
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| (adjective) (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound | Synonyms: echoic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic |
| (adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: counterfeit |
| imitativeness | (noun) the state of being imitating, copying, or unoriginal. | - |
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| imitator | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, aper, copycat, emulator |
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| (noun) someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another | Synonyms: impersonator |
| incapacitate | (verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, invalid |
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| (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, disenable |
| incapacitated | (adjective) lacking in or deprived of strength or power | Synonyms: helpless |
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| incapacitating | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, disabling |
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| incitation | (noun) an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating | Synonyms: incitement |
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| (noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitement, provocation |
| ingurgitate | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| inhabitation | (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) | Synonyms: habitation, inhabitancy |
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| invitation | (noun) a tempting allurement | - |
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| (noun) a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something | - |
| invitational | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of an invitation | - |
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| invitatory | (adjective) conveying an invitation | - |
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| irritate | (verb) excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame | - |
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| (verb) excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| irritated | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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| irritating | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritative |
| (adjective) causing physical discomfort | Synonyms: painful |
| irritatingly | (adverb) in an irritating manner | - |
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| irritation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: aggravation, provocation |
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| (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoyance, annoying, vexation |
| (noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: discomfort, soreness |
| (noun) a sudden outburst of anger | Synonyms: pique, temper |
| (noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, vexation |
| (noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: excitation, innervation |
| (noun) (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation | - |
| irritative | (adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritating |
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| jactitate | (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
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| jactitation | (noun) (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness | Synonyms: jactation |
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| (noun) speaking of yourself in superlatives | Synonyms: boast, boasting, self-praise |
| (noun) (law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law) | - |
| levitate | (verb) be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity | Synonyms: hover |
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| (verb) cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity | - |
| levitation | (noun) the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means | - |
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| (noun) movement upward in virtue of lightness | - |
| (noun) the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means | - |
| limitation | (noun) an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) | Synonyms: restriction |
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| (noun) the quality of being limited or restricted | - |
| (noun) a principle that limits the extent of something | Synonyms: restriction |
| (noun) the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed | Synonyms: limit |
| (noun) (law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought | - |
| meditate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: contemplate, study |
| meditation | (noun) continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature | Synonyms: speculation |
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| (noun) (religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects) | - |
| meditative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| meditatively | (adverb) in a meditative manner | - |
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| meditativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: contemplativeness, pensiveness |
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| mellitate | (noun) a salt of mellitic acid. | - |
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| militate | (verb) have force or influence; bring about an effect or change | - |
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| mussitate | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mumble, mutter |
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