| armet | (noun) a medieval helmet with a visor and a neck guard | - |
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| arraignment | (noun) a legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment | - |
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| arrangement | (noun) the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music | Synonyms: arranging, transcription |
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| (noun) the spatial property of the way in which something is placed | Synonyms: placement |
| (noun) an organized structure for arranging or classifying | Synonyms: organisation, organization, system |
| (noun) the thing arranged or agreed to | Synonyms: agreement |
| (noun) a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments | Synonyms: musical arrangement |
| (noun) an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging | - |
| arthromere | (noun) any of the segments in the body of a jointed animal like an arthropod | - |
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| arthromeric | (adjective) of or relating to one of the body segments of jointed animals | - |
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| ashamed | (adjective) feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse | - |
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| ashamedly | (adverb) with a feeling of shame | - |
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| aspartame | (noun) an artificial sweetener made from aspartic acid; used as a calorie-free sweetener | - |
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| assessment | (noun) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | Synonyms: judgement, judgment |
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| (noun) the market value set on assets | - |
| (noun) the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth | Synonyms: appraisal |
| (noun) an amount determined as payable | - |
| assignment | (noun) a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces) | Synonyms: duty assignment |
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| (noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: appointment, designation, naming |
| (noun) the act of distributing something to designated places or persons | Synonyms: assigning |
| (noun) an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor) | - |
| (noun) the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another | - |
| (noun) (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance | Synonyms: grant |
| assortment | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| assuagement | (noun) the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced | Synonyms: alleviation, relief |
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| assume | (verb) put clothing on one's body | Synonyms: don, get into, put on, wear |
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| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: acquire, adopt, take, take on |
| (verb) take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof | Synonyms: presume, take for granted |
| (verb) take up someone's soul into heaven | - |
| (verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: feign, sham, simulate |
| (verb) occupy or take on | Synonyms: strike, take, take up |
| (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: arrogate, seize, take over, usurp |
| (verb) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person | Synonyms: accept, bear, take over |
| (verb) take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities | Synonyms: adopt, take on, take over |
| assumed | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham |
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| astonishment | (noun) the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising | Synonyms: amazement |
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| astrodome | (noun) a transparent dome on top of an airplane where the navigator can make celestial observations | - |
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| astrometry | (noun) the branch of astronomy that deals with the measurement of the position and motion of celestial bodies | - |
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| astronomer | (noun) a physicist who studies astronomy | Synonyms: stargazer, uranologist |
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| asymmetric | (adjective) characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components | Synonyms: asymmetrical |
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| asymmetrical | (adjective) characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components | Synonyms: asymmetric |
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| (adjective) irregular in shape or outline | Synonyms: crooked |
| asymmetrically | (adverb) in an asymmetrical manner | Synonyms: unsymmetrically |
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| asymmetry | (noun) (mathematics) a lack of symmetry | - |
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| atmometer | (noun) an instrument that measures rate of evaporation of water | Synonyms: evaporometer |
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| atonement | (noun) the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity) | Synonyms: expiation, propitiation |
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| (noun) compensation for a wrong | Synonyms: expiation, satisfaction |
| attachment | (noun) the act of fastening things together | Synonyms: fastening |
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| (noun) the act of attaching or affixing something | Synonyms: affixation |
| (noun) faithful support for a cause or political party or religion | Synonyms: adherence, adhesion |
| (noun) a supplementary part or accessory | - |
| (noun) a connection that fastens things together | Synonyms: bond |
| (noun) a writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding | - |
| (noun) a feeling of affection for a person or an institution | Synonyms: fond regard |
| attainment | (noun) the act of achieving an aim | - |
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| (noun) arrival at a new stage | - |
| (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, skill |
| audiometer | (noun) an instrument used to measure the sensitivity of hearing | Synonyms: sonometer |
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| audiometric | (adjective) of or relating to audiometry | - |
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| audiometry | (noun) measuring sensitivity of hearing | - |
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| (noun) the measurement of hearing | Synonyms: audiology |
| augment | (verb) grow or intensify | - |
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| (verb) enlarge or increase | - |
| augmentation | (noun) the act of augmenting | - |
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| (noun) the statement of a theme in notes of greater duration (usually twice the length of the original) | - |
| (noun) the amount by which something becomes greater | - |
| augmentative | (adjective) increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree | - |
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| (adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: enhancive |
| augmented | (adjective) added to or made greater in amount or number or strength | - |
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| autosome | (noun) any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; appear in pairs in body cells but as single chromosomes in spermatozoa | Synonyms: somatic chromosome |
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| averment | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: assertion, asseveration |
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| avouchment | (noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something | Synonyms: affirmation, avowal |
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| awesome | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing |
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| backswimmer | (noun) predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites | Synonyms: Notonecta undulata |
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| bafflement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| bailment | (noun) the delivery of personal property in trust by the bailor to the bailee | - |
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| ballgame | (noun) a field game played with a ball (especially baseball) | Synonyms: ball game |
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| (noun) a particular situation that is radically different from the preceding situation | Synonyms: new ballgame |
| ballottement | (noun) a palpatory technique for feeling a floating object in the body (especially for determining the position of a fetus by feeling the rebound of the fetus after a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus) | - |
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| banishment | (noun) rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone | Synonyms: proscription |
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| (noun) the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) | Synonyms: Coventry, ostracism |
| barnstormer | (noun) a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits of stunt flying and parachuting | Synonyms: stunt flier, stunt pilot |
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| (noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: play-actor, playactor, trouper |
| barometer | (noun) an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure | - |
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| barometric | (adjective) relating to atmospheric pressure or indicated by a barometer | Synonyms: barometrical |
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| barometrical | (adjective) relating to atmospheric pressure or indicated by a barometer | Synonyms: barometric |
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| basement | (noun) the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage | Synonyms: cellar |
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| (noun) the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture | - |
| bathometer | (noun) an instrument that measures the depth of water | Synonyms: bathymeter |
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| bathymeter | (noun) an instrument that measures the depth of water | Synonyms: bathometer |
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| bathymetric | (adjective) of or relating to measurements of the depths of oceans or lakes | Synonyms: bathymetrical |
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| bathymetrical | (adjective) of or relating to measurements of the depths of oceans or lakes | Synonyms: bathymetric |
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| bathymetry | (noun) measuring the depths of the oceans | Synonyms: plumbing |
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| battlement | (noun) a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns | Synonyms: crenelation, crenellation |
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| battlemented | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: castellated, castled, crenelated, embattled |
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| (adjective) protected with battlements or parapets with indentations or embrasures for shooting through | - |
| becalmed | (adjective) rendered motionless for lack of wind | - |
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| bechamel | (noun) milk thickened with a butter and flour roux | Synonyms: bechamel sauce, white sauce |
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| become | (verb) enter or assume a certain state or condition | Synonyms: get, go |
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| (verb) come into existence | - |
| (verb) undergo a change or development | Synonyms: turn |
| (verb) enhance the appearance of | Synonyms: suit |
| bedevilment | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: badgering, torment, worrying |
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| bedframe | (noun) the framework of a bed | Synonyms: bedstead |
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| bedimmed | (adjective) made dim or indistinct | - |
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| bedtime | (noun) the time you go to bed | - |
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| befoulment | (noun) the state of being polluted | Synonyms: defilement, pollution |
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| befuddlement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| begrime | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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| begrimed | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy |
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| beguilement | (noun) an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations | Synonyms: distraction |
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| (noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, bewitchery |
| beldame | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldam |
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| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, crone, hag, witch |
| belittlement | (noun) the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant. | - |
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| bemusement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| bereavement | (noun) state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one | Synonyms: mourning |
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| besmear | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: bedaub |
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| bestowment | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, conferment, conferral |
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| (noun) a gift that is bestowed or conferred | Synonyms: bestowal |
| betimes | (adverb) in good time | Synonyms: early |
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| betterment | (noun) the act of relieving ills and changing for the better | Synonyms: amelioration, melioration |
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| (noun) a change for the better; progress in development | Synonyms: advance, improvement |
| (noun) an improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility | - |
| bewilderment | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| bewitchment | (noun) a magical spell | Synonyms: enchantment |
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| bicameral | (adjective) composed of two legislative bodies | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of two chambers | Synonyms: two-chambered |
| bichrome | (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bicolor, bicolored, bicolour, bicoloured, dichromatic |
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| bimester | (noun) a period of 2 months | - |
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| bimestrial | (adjective) two months long; lasting two months | - |
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| (adjective) occurring every two months | Synonyms: bimonthly |
| bimetal | (adjective) formed of two different metals or alloys; especially in sheets bonded together | Synonyms: bimetallic |
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| (noun) material made by bonding together sheets of two different metals | - |
| bimetallic | (adjective) pertaining to a monetary system based on two metals | Synonyms: bimetallistic |
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| (adjective) formed of two different metals or alloys; especially in sheets bonded together | Synonyms: bimetal |
| bimetallism | (noun) a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by stated amounts of two metals (usually gold and silver) with values set at a predetermined ratio | - |
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| bimetallist | (noun) an advocate of bimetallism | - |
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| bimetallistic | (adjective) pertaining to a monetary system based on two metals | Synonyms: bimetallic |
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| biome | (noun) a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate | - |
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| biomedical | (adjective) relating to the activities and applications of science to clinical medicine | - |
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| biomedicine | (noun) the branch of medical science that studies the ability of organisms to withstand environmental stress (as in space travel) | - |
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| (noun) the branch of medical science that applies biological and physiological principles to clinical practice | - |
| biometrics | (noun) a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis | Synonyms: biometry, biostatistics |
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| biometry | (noun) a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis | Synonyms: biometrics, biostatistics |
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| bioremediation | (noun) the act of treating waste or pollutants by the use of microorganisms (as bacteria) that can break down the undesirable substances | - |
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| (noun) the branch of biotechnology that uses biological process to overcome environmental problems | - |
| birdlime | (noun) a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds | Synonyms: lime |
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| (verb) spread birdlime on branches to catch birds | Synonyms: lime |
| bitumen | (noun) any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons | - |
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| bitumenoid | (adjective) like bitumen | Synonyms: bituminoid |
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| blame | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| (noun) a reproach for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: rap |
| (noun) an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: incrimination, inculpation |
| (verb) attribute responsibility to | Synonyms: charge |
| (verb) put or pin the blame on | Synonyms: fault |
| (verb) harass with constant criticism | Synonyms: find fault, pick |
| blameable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, culpable |
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| blamed | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| blameful | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameworthy, censurable, culpable |
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| blameless | (adjective) free of guilt; not subject to blame | Synonyms: inculpable, irreproachable, unimpeachable |
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