abocclusion | (noun) the condition in which the upper teeth do not touch the lower teeth when biting | - |
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acervulus | (noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi | - |
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acidophilus | (noun) a bacterium that is used to make yogurt and to supplement probiotics | Synonyms: Lactobacillus acidophilus |
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acromphalus | (noun) abnormal protrusion of the navel; sometimes the start of umbilical hernia | - |
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allusion | (noun) passing reference or indirect mention | - |
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allusive | (adjective) characterized by indirect references | - |
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allusiveness | (noun) a quality characterized by indirect reference | - |
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altocumulus | (noun) a cumulus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles | Synonyms: altocumulus cloud |
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alveolus | (noun) a tiny sac for holding air in the lungs; formed by the terminal dilation of tiny air passageways | Synonyms: air cell, air sac |
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(noun) a bony socket in the alveolar ridge that holds a tooth | Synonyms: tooth socket |
amorphophallus | (noun) any plant of the genus Amorphophallus | - |
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angelus | (noun) the sound of a bell rung in Roman Catholic churches to announce the time when the Angelus should be recited | Synonyms: angelus bell |
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annulus | (noun) (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar | Synonyms: skirt |
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(noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, doughnut, halo, ring |
astragalus | (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: anklebone, astragal, talus |
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bacillus | (noun) aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil | Synonyms: B |
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baluster | (noun) one of a number of closely spaced supports for a railing | - |
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balusters | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balustrade, banister, bannister, handrail |
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balustrade | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, banister, bannister, handrail |
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bloodlust | (noun) a desire for bloodshed | - |
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blush | (noun) sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) | Synonyms: flush |
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(noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blusher, paint, rouge |
(noun) a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health | Synonyms: bloom, flush, rosiness |
(verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: crimson, flush, redden |
(verb) become rosy or reddish | - |
blusher | (noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blush, paint, rouge |
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(noun) yellowish edible agaric that usually turns red when touched | Synonyms: Amanita rubescens, blushing mushroom |
blushful | (adjective) of blush color | Synonyms: rosy |
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(adjective) having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset | Synonyms: blushing, red-faced |
blushing | (adjective) having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset | Synonyms: blushful, red-faced |
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bluster | (noun) a swaggering show of courage | Synonyms: bravado |
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(noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: braggadocio, rhodomontade, rodomontade |
(noun) a violent gusty wind | - |
(noun) noisy confusion and turbulence | - |
(verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: swagger, swash |
(verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
(verb) blow hard; be gusty, as of wind | - |
blusterer | (noun) a person who causes trouble by speaking indiscreetly | Synonyms: loudmouth |
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blustering | (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blusterous, blustery |
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blusterous | (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blustering, blustery |
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blustery | (adjective) noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others | Synonyms: bullying |
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(adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blustering, blusterous |
bolus | (noun) a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine | - |
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(noun) a small round soft mass (as of chewed food) | - |
calculus | (noun) the branch of mathematics that is concerned with limits and with the differentiation and integration of functions | Synonyms: infinitesimal calculus |
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(noun) a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body | Synonyms: concretion |
(noun) an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums | Synonyms: tartar, tophus |
caliculus | (noun) a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp) | Synonyms: calycle, calyculus |
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callus | (noun) (botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid | - |
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(noun) bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone | - |
(noun) an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot) | Synonyms: callosity |
(verb) form a callus or calluses | - |
(verb) cause a callus to form on | - |
calyculus | (noun) a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp) | Synonyms: caliculus, calycle |
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(noun) a group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus | Synonyms: calycle, epicalyx, false calyx |
canaliculus | (noun) a small canal or duct as in some bones and parts of plants | - |
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cirrocumulus | (noun) a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples | Synonyms: cirrocumulus cloud |
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clusia | (noun) an aromatic tree of the genus Clusia having large white or yellow or pink flowers | - |
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cluster | (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: bunch, clump, clustering |
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(verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, bundle, clump |
(verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, constellate, flock |
clustered | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomerative |
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(adjective) growing close together but not in dense mats | - |
clusterfuck | (noun) A chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong | - |
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clustering | (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: bunch, clump, cluster |
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coccobacillus | (noun) a bacterial cell intermediate in morphology between a coccus and a bacillus; a very short bacillus | - |
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collusion | (noun) secret agreement | - |
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(noun) agreement on a secret plot | Synonyms: connivance |
collusive | (adjective) acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end | Synonyms: conniving |
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conclusion | (noun) the act of ending something | Synonyms: ending, termination |
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(noun) the act of making up your mind about something | Synonyms: decision, determination |
(noun) a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration | Synonyms: decision, determination |
(noun) an intuitive assumption | - |
(noun) the last section of a communication | Synonyms: close, closing, end, ending |
(noun) the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism) | Synonyms: ratiocination |
(noun) a final settlement | - |
(noun) event whose occurrence ends something | Synonyms: ending, finish |
(noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, finale, finis, finish, last, stopping point |
conclusive | (adjective) forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question | - |
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conclusively | (adverb) in a conclusive way | Synonyms: once and for all |
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conclusiveness | (noun) the quality of being final or definitely settled | Synonyms: decisiveness, finality |
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convolvulus | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Convolvulus | - |
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cumulus | (adjective) of or related to cumulous clouds | Synonyms: cumulous |
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(noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, heap, mound, pile |
(noun) a globular cloud | Synonyms: cumulus cloud |
delusion | (noun) the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas | Synonyms: head game, illusion |
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(noun) a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea | Synonyms: hallucination |
(noun) (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary | Synonyms: psychotic belief |
delusional | (adjective) suffering from or characterized by delusions | - |
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delusive | (adjective) inappropriate to reality or facts | Synonyms: false |
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delusively | (adverb) in a deceptive and unrealistic manner | - |
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delusory | (adjective) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true | Synonyms: deceptive |
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disillusion | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disenchantment, disillusionment |
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(verb) free from enchantment | Synonyms: disenchant |
disillusioned | (adjective) freed from illusion | - |
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disillusioning | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disenchanting |
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disillusionment | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disenchantment, disillusion |
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ductulus | (noun) a very small duct | Synonyms: ductule |
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elusion | (noun) the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) | Synonyms: eluding, slip |
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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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embolus | (noun) an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood | - |
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entellus | (noun) langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India | Synonyms: hanuman, Presbytes entellus, Semnopithecus entellus |
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exclusion | (noun) the act of forcing out someone or something | Synonyms: ejection, expulsion, riddance |
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(noun) a deliberate act of omission | Synonyms: elision, exception |
(noun) the state of being excluded | - |
(noun) the state of being excommunicated | Synonyms: censure, excommunication |
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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famulus | (noun) a close attendant (as to a scholar) | - |
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fasciculus | (noun) a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) | Synonyms: fascicle, fiber bundle, fibre bundle |
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flush | (adjective) of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane | - |
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(adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: affluent, loaded, moneyed, substantial, wealthy |
(noun) sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) | Synonyms: blush |
(noun) a sudden rapid flow (as of water) | Synonyms: gush, outpouring |
(noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, kick, rush, thrill |
(noun) a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit | - |
(noun) a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health | Synonyms: bloom, blush, rosiness |
(noun) sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders) | Synonyms: hot flash |
(noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, heyday, peak, prime |
(adverb) squarely or solidly | - |
(adverb) in the same plane | - |
(verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, crimson, redden |
(verb) cause to flow through something | - |
(verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: purge, scour |
(verb) irrigate with water from a sluice | Synonyms: sluice |
(verb) cause to flow or flood with or as if with water | - |
(verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even, even out, level |
(verb) glow or cause to glow with warm color or light | - |
flushed | (adjective) (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion | Synonyms: crimson, red-faced, red, reddened |
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(adjective) having the pinkish flush of health | Synonyms: rose-cheeked, rosy-cheeked, rosy |
fluster | (noun) a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset | Synonyms: perturbation |
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(verb) cause to be nervous or upset | - |
(verb) be flustered; behave in a confused manner | - |
flustered | (adjective) thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) | Synonyms: hot and bothered, perturbed, rattled |
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funiculus | (noun) any of several body structure resembling a cord | - |
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(noun) the stalk of a plant ovule or seed | Synonyms: funicle |
galbulus | (noun) the seed-producing cone of a cypress tree | - |
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gallus | (noun) elastic straps that hold trousers up | Synonyms: brace, suspender |
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gladiolus | (noun) the large central part of the breastbone | Synonyms: corpus sternum |
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(noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers; widely cultivated | Synonyms: glad, gladiola, sword lily |
glomerulus | (noun) a small intertwined group of capillaries in the malpighian body; it filters the blood during urine formation | - |
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hilus | (noun) (anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ | Synonyms: hilum |
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homunculus | (noun) a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal | Synonyms: manikin, mannikin |
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(noun) a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell | - |
hydrocephalus | (noun) an abnormal condition in which cerebrospinal fluid collects in the ventricles of the brain; in infants it can cause abnormally rapid growth of the head and bulging fontanelles and a small face; in adults the symptoms are primarily neurological | Synonyms: hydrocephaly |
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illusion | (noun) the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas | Synonyms: delusion, head game |
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(noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
(noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fancy, fantasy, phantasy |
(noun) an erroneous mental representation | Synonyms: semblance |
illusional | (adjective) marked by or producing illusion | Synonyms: illusionary |
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illusionary | (adjective) marked by or producing illusion | Synonyms: illusional |
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illusionist | (noun) a person with unusual powers of foresight | Synonyms: seer, visionary |
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(noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, conjuror, magician, prestidigitator |
illusive | (adjective) based on or having the nature of an illusion | Synonyms: illusory |
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illusoriness | (noun) The quality of resulting from an illusion; of being deceptive, imaginary, unreal. | - |
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illusory | (adjective) based on or having the nature of an illusion | Synonyms: illusive |
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illustrate | (verb) clarify by giving an example of | Synonyms: exemplify, instance |
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(verb) depict with an illustration | - |
(verb) supply with illustrations | - |
illustration | (noun) a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used to make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand | - |
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(noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: example, instance, representative |
(noun) artwork that helps make something clear or attractive | - |
(noun) showing by example | Synonyms: exemplification |
illustrative | (adjective) clarifying by use of examples | Synonyms: exemplifying |
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(adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: demonstrative |
illustrator | (noun) an artist who makes illustrations (for books or magazines or advertisements etc.) | - |
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illustrious | (adjective) having or conferring glory | - |
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(adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: celebrated, famed, famous, far-famed, notable, noted, renowned |
illustriously | (adverb) in an illustrious manner | - |
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illustriousness | (noun) the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence | Synonyms: greatness |
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inclusion | (noun) the act of including | - |
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(noun) any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases) | Synonyms: cellular inclusion, inclusion body |
(noun) the relation of comprising something | Synonyms: comprehension |
(noun) the state of being included | - |
inclusive | (adjective) including much or everything; and especially including stated limits | - |
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inconclusive | (adjective) not conclusive; not putting an end to doubt or question | - |
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inconclusively | (adverb) not conclusively | - |
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inconclusiveness | (noun) the quality of being inconclusive | - |
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