| aerogramme | (noun) a letter sent by air mail | Synonyms: aerogram, air letter, airmail letter |
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| ammeter | (noun) a meter that measures the flow of electrical current in amperes | - |
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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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| backswimmer | (noun) predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites | Synonyms: Notonecta undulata |
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| bedimmed | (adjective) made dim or indistinct | - |
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| bummer | (noun) an experience that is irritating or frustrating or disappointing | - |
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| (noun) a bad reaction to a hallucinogenic drug | - |
| centrosymmetric | (adjective) having a symmetrical arrangement of radiating parts about a central point | Synonyms: radially symmetrical |
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| clawhammer | (noun) a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails | Synonyms: carpenter's hammer, claw hammer |
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| commelina | (noun) any plant of the genus Commelina | - |
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| commemorate | (verb) call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony | Synonyms: remember |
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| (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize |
| (verb) celebrate by some ceremony or observation | Synonyms: mark |
| commemorating | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorative |
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| commemoration | (noun) a recognition of meritorious service | Synonyms: memorial, remembrance |
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| (noun) a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | Synonyms: memorialisation, memorialization |
| commemorative | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorating |
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| (noun) an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person | - |
| commence | (verb) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action | Synonyms: begin, get, get down, set about, set out, start, start out |
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| (verb) set in motion, cause to start | Synonyms: begin, lead off, start |
| (verb) get off the ground | Synonyms: embark on, start, start up |
| commencement | (noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: beginning, start |
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| (noun) an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred | Synonyms: commencement ceremony, commencement exercise, graduation, graduation exercise |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| commend | (verb) express approbation of | - |
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| (verb) mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship | Synonyms: remember |
| (verb) express a good opinion of | Synonyms: recommend |
| (verb) give to in charge | - |
| (verb) present as worthy of regard, kindness, or confidence | - |
| commendable | (adjective) worthy of high praise | Synonyms: applaudable, laudable, praiseworthy |
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| (adverb) in an admirable manner | Synonyms: admirably, laudably, praiseworthily |
| commendation | (noun) an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | Synonyms: citation |
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| (noun) a message expressing a favorable opinion | Synonyms: approval |
| commensal | (adjective) living in a state of commensalism | - |
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| (noun) either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent | - |
| commensalism | (noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms when one receives benefits from the other without damaging it | - |
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| commensally | (adverb) in a commensal manner | - |
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| commensurable | (adjective) capable of being measured by a common standard | - |
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| commensurate | (adjective) corresponding in size or degree or extent | - |
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| commensurateness | (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: correspondence, proportionateness |
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| comment | (noun) a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information | Synonyms: input, remark |
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| (noun) a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material | Synonyms: commentary |
| (noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: gossip, scuttlebutt |
| (verb) make or write a comment on | Synonyms: notice, point out, remark |
| (verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | Synonyms: annotate, gloss |
| (verb) explain or interpret something | - |
| commentary | (noun) a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material | Synonyms: comment |
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| commentate | (verb) serve as a commentator, as in sportscasting | - |
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| (verb) make a commentary on | - |
| commentator | (noun) a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day | Synonyms: reviewer |
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| (noun) an expert who observes and comments on something | Synonyms: observer |
| commerce | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commercialism, mercantilism |
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| (noun) social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc. | - |
| commercial | (adjective) connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to commercialism | - |
| (adjective) of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior | Synonyms: commercial-grade |
| (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: mercantile, mercenary, moneymaking |
| (noun) a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television | Synonyms: commercial message |
| commercialisation | (noun) the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce | Synonyms: commercialization |
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| commercialise | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialize, market |
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| commercialised | (adjective) organized principally for financial gain | Synonyms: commercialized |
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| commercialism | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commerce, mercantilism |
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| commercialization | (noun) the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce | Synonyms: commercialisation |
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| commercialize | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialise, market |
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| (verb) exploit for maximal profit, usually by sacrificing quality | - |
| commercialized | (adjective) organized principally for financial gain | Synonyms: commercialised |
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| commercially | (adverb) in a commercial manner | - |
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| consomme | (noun) clear soup usually of beef or veal or chicken | - |
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| crammer | (noun) a textbook designed for cramming | - |
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| (noun) a special school where students are crammed | - |
| (noun) a student who crams | - |
| (noun) a teacher who is paid to cram students for examinations | - |
| cummerbund | (noun) a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo | - |
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| dimmed | (adjective) made dim or less bright | Synonyms: dim |
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| dimmer | (noun) a rheostat that varies the current through an electric light in order to control the level of illumination | - |
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| dissymmetry | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: disproportion, imbalance |
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| drummer | (noun) someone who plays a drum | - |
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| embalmment | (noun) preservation (of a dead body) by treating with balsams and drugs and other chemicals | - |
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| emmenagogue | (noun) any agent that promotes menstrual discharge | - |
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| emmer | (noun) hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany; in United States as stock feed | Synonyms: starch wheat, Triticum dicoccum, two-grain spelt |
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| emmet | (noun) social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers | Synonyms: ant, pismire |
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| emmetropia | (noun) (ophthalmology) the normal refractive condition of the eye in which there is clear focus of light on the retina | - |
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| emmetropic | (adjective) of or relating to the normal condition of the eye in which visual images are in clear focus on the retina | - |
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| flummery | (noun) meaningless ceremonies and flattery | Synonyms: mummery |
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| (noun) a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal | - |
| gemmed | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly |
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| glimmer | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmering, inkling, intimation |
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| (noun) a flash of light (especially reflected light) | Synonyms: gleam, gleaming |
| (verb) shine brightly, like a star or a light | Synonyms: gleam |
| glimmering | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, inkling, intimation |
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| glimmery | (adjective) shining softly and intermittently | - |
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| gramme | (noun) a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram | Synonyms: g, gm, gram |
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| grommet | (noun) fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines | Synonyms: cringle, eyelet, grummet, loop |
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| grummet | (noun) fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines | Synonyms: cringle, eyelet, grommet, loop |
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| gummed | (adjective) covered with adhesive gum | Synonyms: gummy |
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| hammer | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammering, pound, pounding |
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| (noun) a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking | - |
| (noun) a power tool for drilling rocks | Synonyms: power hammer |
| (noun) a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate | - |
| (noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. | Synonyms: mallet |
| (noun) the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled | Synonyms: cock |
| (noun) a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw | - |
| (noun) the ossicle attached to the eardrum | Synonyms: malleus |
| (verb) beat with or as if with a hammer | - |
| (verb) create by hammering | Synonyms: forge |
| hammered | (adjective) shaped or worked with a hammer and often showing hammer marks | - |
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| hammerhead | (noun) medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous | Synonyms: hammerhead shark |
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| (noun) the striking part of a hammer | - |
| (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
| hammering | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, pound, pounding |
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| hammerlock | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back | - |
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| hammertoe | (noun) a deformed toe which is bent in a clawlike arch | - |
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| hummer | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: bullet, fastball, heater, smoke |
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| (noun) a singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming words | - |
| immeasurability | (noun) the quality of being immeasurable. | - |
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| immeasurable | (adjective) impossible to measure | Synonyms: immensurable, unmeasurable |
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| (adjective) beyond calculation or measure | Synonyms: incomputable, inestimable |
| immeasurably | (adverb) to an immeasurable degree; beyond measurement | - |
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| (adverb) without bounds | Synonyms: boundlessly, infinitely |
| immediacy | (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediateness, instancy, instantaneousness |
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| (noun) lack of an intervening or mediating agency | Synonyms: immediateness |
| (noun) immediate intuitive awareness | Synonyms: immediate apprehension |
| immediate | (adjective) having no intervening medium | - |
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| (adjective) very close or connected in space or time | Synonyms: contiguous |
| (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: prompt, quick, straightaway |
| (adjective) of the present time and place | - |
| (adjective) immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect | - |
| immediately | (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, directly, forthwith, instantly, like a shot, now, right away, straight off, straightaway |
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| (adverb) near or close by | - |
| (adverb) bearing an immediate relation | - |
| immediateness | (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediacy, instancy, instantaneousness |
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| (noun) lack of an intervening or mediating agency | Synonyms: immediacy |
| immemorial | (adjective) long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history | - |
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| immense | (adjective) unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope | Synonyms: Brobdingnagian, huge, vast |
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| immensely | (adverb) to an exceedingly great extent or degree | Synonyms: vastly |
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| immenseness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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| immensity | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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| immensurable | (adjective) impossible to measure | Synonyms: immeasurable, unmeasurable |
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| immerse | (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, plunge, soak up, steep |
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| (verb) cause to be immersed | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) thrust or throw into | Synonyms: plunge |
| (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: bury, eat up, swallow, swallow up |
| immersion | (noun) a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged | - |
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| (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, ducking, submersion |
| (noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, concentration, engrossment |
| (noun) sinking until covered completely with water | Synonyms: submergence, submerging, submersion |
| (noun) (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse | Synonyms: ingress |
| incommensurable | (adjective) not having a common factor | - |
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| (adjective) impossible to measure or compare in value or size or excellence | - |
| incommensurate | (adjective) not corresponding in size or degree or extent | - |
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| jackhammer | (noun) a hammer driven by compressed air | Synonyms: air hammer, pneumatic hammer |
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| jammed | (adjective) extremely crowed or filled to capacity | Synonyms: jam-packed, packed |
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| jammer | (noun) a transmitter used to broadcast electronic jamming | - |
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| katzenjammer | (noun) loud confused noise from many sources | Synonyms: brouhaha, hubbub, uproar |
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| (noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: hangover |
| kummel | (noun) liqueur flavored with caraway seed or cumin | - |
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| lammergeier | (noun) the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill | Synonyms: bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, lammergeyer |
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| lammergeyer | (noun) the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill | Synonyms: bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, lammergeier |
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| mammee | (noun) globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh | Synonyms: mamey, mammee apple |
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| (noun) brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet | Synonyms: marmalade plum, sapote |
| (noun) tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind | Synonyms: mamey, Mammea americana, mammee apple, mammee tree |
| (noun) tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum | Synonyms: Calocarpum zapota, marmalade tree, Pouteria zapota, sapote |
| midsummer | (noun) June 21, when the sun is at its northernmost point | Synonyms: June 21, summer solstice |
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| milliammeter | (noun) a sensitive ammeter graduated in milliamperes | - |
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| mummer | (noun) an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression | Synonyms: mime, mimer, pantomimer, pantomimist |
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| mummery | (noun) meaningless ceremonies and flattery | Synonyms: flummery |
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| noncommercial | (adjective) not connected with or engaged in commercial enterprises | - |
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