| elective | (adjective) subject to popular election | Synonyms: elected |
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| (adjective) optional | Synonyms: facultative |
| (noun) a course that the student can select from among alternatives | Synonyms: elective course |
| electiveness | (noun) Quality or state in which choice or discretion is allowed. | Synonyms: optionality |
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| electromotive | (adjective) concerned with or producing electric current | - |
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| electronegative | (adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: negative, negatively charged |
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| electropositive | (adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: positive, positively charged |
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| elucidative | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: clarifying |
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| elusive | (adjective) skillful at eluding capture | - |
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| (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
| (adjective) difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze | Synonyms: subtle |
| (adjective) difficult to describe | - |
| elusiveness | (noun) the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down | - |
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| emancipative | (adjective) tending to set free | - |
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| emotive | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affectional, affective |
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| endive | (noun) variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges | Synonyms: chicory escarole, escarole |
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| (noun) widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched | Synonyms: Cichorium endivia, witloof |
| enhancive | (adjective) serving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the body | Synonyms: cosmetic |
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| (adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: augmentative |
| enliven | (verb) make lively | Synonyms: animate, invigorate, liven, liven up |
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| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, exalt, inspire, invigorate |
| enlivened | (adjective) made sprightly or cheerful | - |
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| (adjective) made lively or spirited | Synonyms: spirited |
| enlivener | (noun) an agent that gives or restores life or vigor | Synonyms: invigorator, quickener |
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| enlivening | (adjective) giving spirit and vivacity | Synonyms: animating |
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| erosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) wearing away by friction | - |
| erosiveness | (noun) The state or quality of causing or tending to wear away or erode. | - |
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| eruptive | (adjective) produced by the action of fire or intense heat | Synonyms: igneous |
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| (adjective) producing or characterized by eruptions | - |
| (adjective) actively spewing out lava | - |
| evaluative | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: appraising |
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| evaporative | (adjective) relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation | - |
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| evasive | (adjective) deliberately vague or ambiguous | - |
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| (adjective) avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire | - |
| evasively | (adverb) with evasion; in an evasive manner | - |
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| evasiveness | (noun) intentionally vague or ambiguous | Synonyms: equivocation, prevarication |
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| evocative | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant |
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| excessive | (adjective) beyond normal limits | Synonyms: inordinate, undue, unreasonable |
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| (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: extravagant, exuberant, overweening |
| excessively | (adverb) to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits | Synonyms: overly, to a fault, too |
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| excessiveness | (noun) immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits | Synonyms: excess, inordinateness |
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| excitative | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitatory |
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| exclusive | (adjective) excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority | - |
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| (adjective) not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective | Synonyms: single, undivided |
| (adjective) not divided or shared with others | Synonyms: sole |
| (noun) a news report that is reported first by one news organization | Synonyms: scoop |
| exclusively | (adverb) without any others being included or involved | Synonyms: alone, entirely, only, solely |
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| exclusiveness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: clannishness, cliquishness |
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| excogitative | (adjective) concerned with excogitating or having the power of excogitation | - |
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| excursive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, discursive, rambling |
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| executive | (adjective) having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc. | - |
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| (noun) persons who administer the law | - |
| (noun) a person responsible for the administration of a business | Synonyms: executive director |
| (noun) someone who manages a government agency or department | Synonyms: administrator |
| exhaustive | (adjective) performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial | Synonyms: thorough, thoroughgoing |
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| exhaustively | (adverb) in an exhaustive manner | Synonyms: thoroughly |
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| exhortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortatory, hortative, hortatory |
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| exonerative | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: absolvitory, forgiving |
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| expansive | (adjective) able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion | - |
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| (adjective) friendly and open and willing to talk | Synonyms: talkative |
| (adjective) marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur | - |
| (adjective) of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope | Synonyms: grand, heroic |
| expansively | (adverb) in an ebullient manner | Synonyms: ebulliently, exuberantly |
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| (adverb) in an impressively expansive manner | - |
| expansiveness | (noun) a friendly open trait of a talkative person | Synonyms: effusiveness, expansivity |
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| (noun) a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand | Synonyms: expansivity |
| expensive | (adjective) high in price or charging high prices | - |
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| expensively | (adverb) in an expensive manner | - |
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| expensiveness | (noun) the quality of being high-priced | - |
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| expiative | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiatory, propitiatory |
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| expletive | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, oath, swearing, swearword |
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| (noun) a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line | - |
| exploitative | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitatory, exploitive |
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| exploitive | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitatory |
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| explorative | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: exploratory |
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| explosive | (adjective) serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst | - |
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| (adjective) sudden and loud | - |
| (adjective) liable to lead to sudden change or violence | Synonyms: volatile |
| (noun) a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck | - |
| explosively | (adverb) suddenly and rapidly | - |
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| (adverb) in an explosive manner | - |
| expositive | (adjective) serving to expound or set forth | Synonyms: expository |
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| expressive | (adjective) performing gestures or possessing qualities or features that suggest a certain state of being or emotion | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by expression | - |
| expressively | (adverb) with expression; in an expressive manner | - |
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| expressiveness | (noun) the quality of being expressive | - |
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| extensive | (adjective) of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor | - |
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| (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, panoptic, wide |
| (adjective) large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity | Synonyms: extended |
| extensively | (adverb) in a widespread way | - |
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| extensiveness | (noun) large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness | Synonyms: largeness |
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| exteroceptive | (adjective) of or relating to exteroception | - |
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| extraversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extroversive |
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| extravertive | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| extrospective | (adjective) not introspective; examining what is outside yourself | Synonyms: extroverted |
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| extroversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extraversive |
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| extrovertive | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted |
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| extrusive | (adjective) of rock material; forced out while molten through cracks in the earth's surface | - |
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| facilitative | (adjective) freeing from difficulty or impediment | - |
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| facultative | (adjective) able to exist under more than one set of conditions | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the mental faculties | - |
| (adjective) granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something | - |
| (adjective) optional | Synonyms: elective |
| festive | (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, gay, merry |
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| fictive | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, pretended, put on, sham |
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| (adjective) capable of imaginative creation | - |
| figurative | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: nonliteral |
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| (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figural |
| figuratively | (adverb) in a figurative sense | - |
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| figurativeness | (noun) The property of being metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures of speech. | - |
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| (noun) The representation of form or figure in art. | - |
| five | (adjective) being one more than four | Synonyms: 5, v |
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| (noun) a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips | Synonyms: five-spot |
| (noun) a team that plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball team |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
| fivefold | (adjective) having five units or components | Synonyms: five-fold, quintuple |
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| fivepence | (noun) a coin worth five cents | - |
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| fiver | (noun) a United States bill worth 5 dollars | Synonyms: five-spot, five dollar bill |
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| fives | (noun) a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls | - |
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| fivesome | (noun) five people considered as a unit | Synonyms: quintet, quintette |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, five, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
| fixative | (noun) a varnish dissolved in alcohol and sprayed over pictures to prevent smudging | - |
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| (noun) a compound (such as ethanol or formaldehyde) that fixes tissues and cells for microscopic study | - |
| forgive | (verb) stop blaming or grant forgiveness | - |
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| (verb) absolve from payment | - |
| forgiveness | (noun) the act of excusing a mistake or offense | Synonyms: pardon |
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| (noun) compassionate feelings that support a willingness to forgive | - |
| forgiver | (noun) a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense | Synonyms: excuser, pardoner |
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| formative | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: plastic, shaping |
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| (adjective) capable of forming new cells and tissues | - |
| (noun) minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function | - |
| frequentative | (noun) a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action | - |
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| fricative | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident |
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| (noun) a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract | Synonyms: fricative consonant, spirant |
| fricativeness | (noun) (phonetics) The quality of being produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality, as the English /f/ and /s/. | - |
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| frustrative | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, thwarting |
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| fugitive | (adjective) lasting for a markedly brief time | Synonyms: fleeting, momentaneous, momentary |
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| (noun) someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice | Synonyms: fugitive from justice |
| (noun) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation | Synonyms: fleer, runaway |
| furtive | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: sneak, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious |
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| (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstair, backstairs |
| furtively | (adverb) in a furtive manner | Synonyms: on the sly |
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| furtiveness | (noun) a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously | Synonyms: sneakiness, stealthiness |
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| generative | (adjective) having the ability to produce or originate | Synonyms: productive |
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| (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: procreative, reproductive |
| genitive | (adjective) serving to express or indicate possession | Synonyms: possessive |
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| (noun) the case expressing ownership | Synonyms: genitive case, possessive, possessive case |
| give | (noun) the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length | Synonyms: spring, springiness |
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| (verb) proffer (a body part) | - |
| (verb) consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man | - |
| (verb) occur | - |
| (verb) estimate the duration or outcome of something | - |
| (verb) dedicate | Synonyms: devote, pay |
| (verb) convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture | Synonyms: throw |
| (verb) convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow | Synonyms: pay |
| (verb) bestow | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, dedicate, devote |
| (verb) allow to have or take | - |
| (verb) manifest or show | - |
| (verb) guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion | - |
| (verb) inflict as a punishment | - |
| (verb) accord by verdict | - |
| (verb) submit for consideration, judgment, or use | - |
| (verb) offer in good faith | - |
| (verb) give food to | Synonyms: feed |
| (verb) propose | - |
| (verb) be flexible under stress of physical force | Synonyms: yield |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, render, return, yield |
| (verb) bring about | Synonyms: establish |
| (verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: have, hold, make, throw |
| (verb) cause to happen or be responsible for | Synonyms: yield |
| (verb) perform for an audience | - |
| (verb) present to view | - |
| (verb) move in order to make room for someone for something | Synonyms: ease up, give way, move over, yield |
| (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give way |
| (verb) transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody | - |
| (verb) give as a present; make a gift of | Synonyms: gift, present |
| (verb) leave with; give temporarily | - |
| (verb) cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense | - |
| (verb) be the cause or source of | Synonyms: afford, yield |
| (verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: hand, pass, pass on, reach, turn over |
| (verb) convey or reveal information | - |
| (verb) contribute to some cause | Synonyms: chip in, contribute, kick in |
| (verb) transmit (knowledge or skills) | Synonyms: impart, leave, pass on |
| (verb) endure the loss of | Synonyms: sacrifice |
| (verb) bestow, especially officially | Synonyms: grant |
| (verb) deliver in exchange or recompense | - |
| (verb) give (as medicine) | - |
| (verb) give or convey physically | Synonyms: apply |
| (verb) afford access to | Synonyms: afford, open |
| (verb) emit or utter | - |
| (verb) execute and deliver | - |
| giveaway | (noun) an unintentional disclosure | - |
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| (noun) a television or radio program in which contestants compete for awards | Synonyms: game show |
| (noun) a gift of public land or resources for the private gain of a limited group | - |
| given | (adjective) acknowledged as a supposition | Synonyms: granted |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward | Synonyms: apt, disposed, minded, tending |
| (noun) an assumption that is taken for granted | Synonyms: precondition, presumption |
| givenness | (noun) the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed | - |
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| giver | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: bestower, conferrer, donor, presenter |
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| (noun) someone who devotes himself completely | - |
| gravitative | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitational |
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