| acrimonious | (adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism | Synonyms: bitter |
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| acrimony | (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, bitterness, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
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| admonish | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: reproof, reprove |
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| (verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: caution, monish |
| (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: discourage, monish, warn |
| admonisher | (noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: monitor, reminder |
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| admonishing | (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonitory, reproachful, reproving |
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| admonishment | (noun) a firm rebuke | Synonyms: admonition, monition |
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| admonition | (noun) a firm rebuke | Synonyms: admonishment, monition |
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| (noun) cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness) | Synonyms: monition, warning, word of advice |
| admonitory | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonishing, reproachful, reproving |
| agrimonia | (noun) a plant of the genus Agrimonia having spikelike clusters of small yellow flowers | Synonyms: agrimony |
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| agrimony | (noun) a plant of the genus Agrimonia having spikelike clusters of small yellow flowers | Synonyms: agrimonia |
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| alimony | (noun) court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated | Synonyms: maintenance |
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| almond | (noun) oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree | - |
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| (noun) small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly prized edible nuts enclosed in a hard green hull; cultivated in southern Australia and California | Synonyms: Amygdalus communis, Prunus amygdalus, Prunus dulcis, sweet almond |
| almoner | (noun) an official in a British hospital who looks after the social and material needs of the patients | Synonyms: medical social worker |
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| ammonal | (noun) Ammonal is an explosive made up of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder. | - |
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| ammonia | (noun) a pungent gas compounded of nitrogen and hydrogen (NH3) | - |
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| (noun) a water solution of ammonia | Synonyms: ammonia water, ammonium hydroxide |
| ammoniac | (adjective) pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia | Synonyms: ammoniacal |
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| (noun) the aromatic gum of the ammoniac plant | Synonyms: gum ammoniac |
| ammoniacal | (adjective) pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia | Synonyms: ammoniac |
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| ammoniate | (verb) treat with ammonia | - |
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| ammoniated | (adjective) combined or treated with ammonia | - |
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| ammonification | (noun) impregnation with ammonia or a compound of ammonia | - |
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| ammonify | (verb) treat with ammonia; cause to undergo ammonification | - |
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| ammonite | (noun) one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks | Synonyms: ammonoid |
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| ammonitic | (adjective) of or related to an order of fossil cephalopods | - |
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| ammonium | (noun) the ion NH4 derived from ammonia; behaves in many respects like an alkali metal ion | Synonyms: ammonium ion |
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| ammoniuria | (noun) excessive ammonia in the urine | - |
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| ammonoid | (noun) one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks | Synonyms: ammonite |
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| anemone | (noun) marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton | Synonyms: sea anemone |
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| (noun) any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves | Synonyms: windflower |
| antimonial | (adjective) containing antimony | - |
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| antimonic | (adjective) relating to or derived from antimony | Synonyms: antimonious |
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| antimonious | (adjective) relating to or derived from antimony | Synonyms: antimonic |
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| antimonopoly | (adjective) of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices | Synonyms: antitrust |
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| antimony | (noun) a metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a wide variety of alloys; found in stibnite | Synonyms: atomic number 51, Sb |
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| argemone | (noun) any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods; chiefly of tropical America | Synonyms: devil's fig, prickly poppy, white thistle |
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| backgammon | (noun) a board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice | - |
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| bimonthly | (adjective) occurring every two months | Synonyms: bimestrial |
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| (adjective) occurring twice a month | Synonyms: semimonthly |
| (noun) a periodical that is published twice a month or every two months (either 24 or 6 issues per year) | - |
| (adverb) every two months | - |
| (adverb) twice a month | Synonyms: semimonthly |
| bronchopneumonia | (noun) pneumonia characterized by acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles | Synonyms: bronchial pneumonia |
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| cacodaemon | (noun) an evil spirit | Synonyms: cacodemon |
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| cacodaemonic | (adjective) of or relating to evil spirits | Synonyms: cacodemonic |
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| cacodemon | (noun) an evil spirit | Synonyms: cacodaemon |
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| cacodemonic | (adjective) of or relating to evil spirits | Synonyms: cacodaemonic |
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| calamondin | (noun) a fruit of the calamondin tree. | - |
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| cardamon | (noun) aromatic seeds used as seasoning like cinnamon and cloves especially in pickles and barbecue sauces | Synonyms: cardamom, cardamum |
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| (noun) rhizomatous herb of India having aromatic seeds used as seasoning | Synonyms: cardamom, Elettaria cardamomum |
| cardiopulmonary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiorespiratory |
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| ceremonial | (adjective) marked by pomp or ceremony or formality | - |
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| (noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial occasion, ceremony, observance |
| ceremonially | (adverb) in a ceremonial manner | Synonyms: ritually |
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| (adverb) in a ceremonious manner | Synonyms: ceremoniously |
| ceremonious | (adjective) characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display | Synonyms: pompous |
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| (adjective) rigidly formal or bound by convention | Synonyms: conventional |
| ceremoniously | (adverb) in a ceremonious manner | Synonyms: ceremonially |
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| ceremoniousness | (noun) a ceremonial manner | - |
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| ceremony | (noun) the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion | - |
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| (noun) any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way | - |
| (noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observance |
| cheesemonger | (noun) someone who sells cheese | - |
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| cinnamon | (noun) spice from the dried aromatic bark of the Ceylon cinnamon tree; used as rolled strips or ground | - |
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| (noun) tropical Asian tree with aromatic yellowish-brown bark; source of the spice cinnamon | Synonyms: Ceylon cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon tree, Cinnamomum zeylanicum |
| (noun) aromatic bark used as a spice | Synonyms: cinnamon bark |
| cismontane | (adjective) on this (the speaker's) side of the mountains | - |
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| common | (adjective) having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public | - |
| (adjective) commonly encountered | Synonyms: usual |
| (adjective) of low or inferior quality or value | Synonyms: coarse |
| (adjective) being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language | Synonyms: vernacular, vulgar |
| (adjective) of or associated with the great masses of people | Synonyms: plebeian, unwashed, vulgar |
| (adjective) to be expected; standard | - |
| (adjective) common to or shared by two or more parties | Synonyms: mutual |
| (adjective) lacking refinement or cultivation or taste | Synonyms: coarse, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar |
| (noun) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | Synonyms: commons, green, park |
| commonage | (noun) property held in common | - |
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| commonality | (noun) sharing of common attributes | Synonyms: commonness |
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| (noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonalty, commons |
| commonalty | (noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonality, commons |
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| commoner | (noun) a person who holds no title | Synonyms: common man, common person |
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| commonly | (adverb) under normal conditions | Synonyms: normally, ordinarily, unremarkably, usually |
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| commonness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonplaceness, everydayness |
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| (noun) sharing of common attributes | Synonyms: commonality |
| (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity |
| (noun) the state of being that is commonly observed | Synonyms: expectedness |
| commonplace | (adjective) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement | Synonyms: humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous |
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| (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
| (adjective) completely ordinary and unremarkable | - |
| (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: banality, bromide, cliche, platitude |
| commonplaceness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, everydayness |
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| commons | (noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonality, commonalty |
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| (noun) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | Synonyms: common, green, park |
| (noun) a pasture subject to common use | Synonyms: common land |
| commonsense | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsensible, commonsensical |
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| commonsensible | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsense, commonsensical |
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| commonsensical | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsense, commonsensible |
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| commonweal | (noun) the good of a community | Synonyms: common good |
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| commonwealth | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, country, land, nation, res publica, state |
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| (noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: democracy, republic |
| (noun) a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another | - |
| (noun) the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) | - |
| cosmonaut | (noun) a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | Synonyms: astronaut, spaceman |
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| costermonger | (noun) a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow | Synonyms: barrow-boy, barrow-man |
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| counterdemonstration | (noun) a demonstration held in opposition to another demonstration | - |
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| counterdemonstrator | (noun) someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration | - |
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| cryptomonad | (noun) common in fresh and salt water appearing along the shore as algal blooms | Synonyms: cryptophyte |
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| daemon | (noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daimon, demon, devil, fiend |
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| (noun) a person who is part mortal and part god | Synonyms: demigod |
| daimon | (noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daemon, demon, devil, fiend |
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| demimondaine | (noun) a female prostitute | - |
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| demimonde | (noun) a class of woman not considered respectable because of indiscreet or promiscuous behavior | - |
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| demon | (noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daemon, daimon, devil, fiend |
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| (noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: devil, fiend, monster, ogre |
| (noun) someone extremely diligent or skillful | - |
| demonetisation | (noun) ending something (e.g. gold or silver) as no longer the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: demonetization |
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| demonetise | (verb) deprive of value for payment | Synonyms: demonetize |
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| demonetization | (noun) ending something (e.g. gold or silver) as no longer the legal tender of a country | Synonyms: demonetisation |
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| demonetize | (verb) deprive of value for payment | Synonyms: demonetise |
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| demoniac | (adjective) of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon | Synonyms: demoniacal, possessed |
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| (noun) someone who acts as if possessed by a demon | - |
| demoniacal | (adjective) of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon | Synonyms: demoniac, possessed |
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| demoniacally | (adverb) in a very agitated manner; as if possessed by an evil spirit | Synonyms: frenetically |
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| demonic | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| demonisation | (noun) to represent as diabolically evil | Synonyms: demonization |
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| demonise | (verb) make into a demon | Synonyms: demonize |
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| demonism | (noun) a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan) | Synonyms: diabolism, Satanism |
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| demonization | (noun) to represent as diabolically evil | Synonyms: demonisation |
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| demonize | (verb) make into a demon | Synonyms: demonise |
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| demonolatry | (noun) the acts or rites of worshiping devils | Synonyms: devil-worship, diabolatry |
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| demonstrability | (noun) capability of being demonstrated or logically proved | Synonyms: provability |
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| demonstrable | (adjective) necessarily or demonstrably true | Synonyms: incontrovertible |
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| (adjective) capable of being demonstrated or proved | Synonyms: provable |
| demonstrably | (adverb) in an obvious and provable manner | Synonyms: incontrovertibly, provably |
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| demonstrate | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: establish, prove, shew, show |
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| (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, evidence, manifest |
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, exhibit, present, show |
| (verb) march in protest; take part in a demonstration | Synonyms: march |
| demonstrated | (adjective) having been demonstrated or verified beyond doubt | - |
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| demonstration | (noun) a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view | Synonyms: presentation, presentment |
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| (noun) a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature) | Synonyms: manifestation |
| (noun) a show of military force or preparedness | - |
| (noun) a visual presentation showing how something works | Synonyms: demo |
| (noun) proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion | Synonyms: monstrance |
| demonstrative | (adjective) given to or marked by the open expression of emotion | - |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: illustrative |
| (noun) a pronoun that points out an intended referent | Synonyms: demonstrative pronoun |
| demonstratively | (adverb) in a demonstrative manner | - |
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| demonstrativeness | (noun) tending to express your feelings freely | - |
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