| campaign | (noun) several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints) | Synonyms: military campaign |
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| (noun) an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa) | Synonyms: hunting expedition, safari |
| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: cause, crusade, drive, effort, movement |
| (noun) a race between candidates for elective office | Synonyms: political campaign, run |
| (verb) go on a campaign; go off to war | Synonyms: take the field |
| (verb) run, stand, or compete for an office or a position | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, crusade, fight, press, push |
| campaigner | (noun) a politician who is running for public office | Synonyms: candidate, nominee |
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| campaigning | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign |
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| campana | (noun) the shape of a bell | Synonyms: bell, bell shape |
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| campanile | (noun) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | Synonyms: belfry |
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| campanula | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: bellflower |
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| campanular | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanulate, campanulated |
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| campanulate | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanular, campanulated |
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| campanulated | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanular, campanulate |
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| campeachy | (noun) spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye | Synonyms: bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood, logwood tree |
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| camper | (noun) a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling | Synonyms: camping bus, motor home |
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| (noun) someone living temporarily in a tent or lodge for recreation | - |
| campestral | (adjective) of fields or open country | - |
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| campfire | (noun) a small outdoor fire for warmth or cooking (as at a camp) | - |
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| campground | (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment |
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| camphor | (noun) a resin obtained from the camphor tree; used in making celluloid and liniment | - |
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| camphoraceous | (adjective) being or having the properties of camphor | - |
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| camphorate | (verb) treat with camphor | - |
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| camphorated | (adjective) impregnated with camphor | - |
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| camphoric | (adjective) relating to or derived from or containing camphor | - |
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| camphorweed | (noun) aromatic plant of western United States | Synonyms: Trichostema lanceolatum, turpentine camphor weed, vinegarweed |
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| camping | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: bivouacking, encampment, tenting |
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| campion | (noun) any plant of the genus Silene | Synonyms: catchfly, silene |
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| campmate | (noun) someone who lives in the same camp you do | - |
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| campong | (noun) a native malay village | Synonyms: kampong |
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| campsite | (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, encampment |
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| campstool | (noun) a folding stool | - |
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| campus | (noun) a field on which the buildings of a university are situated | - |
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| campy | (adjective) providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities | Synonyms: camp |
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| campylotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk | - |
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| champ | (noun) someone who has won first place in a competition | Synonyms: champion, title-holder |
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| (verb) chew noisily or vigorously | Synonyms: chomp |
| (verb) chafe at the bit, like horses | - |
| champagne | (noun) a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there | Synonyms: bubbly |
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| champaign | (noun) extensive tract of level open land | Synonyms: field, plain |
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| champerty | (noun) an unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded | - |
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| champion | (adjective) holding first place in a contest | Synonyms: prizewinning |
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| (noun) someone who fights for a cause | Synonyms: fighter, hero, paladin |
| (noun) someone who has won first place in a competition | Synonyms: champ, title-holder |
| (noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, booster, friend, protagonist, supporter |
| (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
| (verb) protect or fight for as a champion | Synonyms: defend |
| championship | (noun) the act of providing approval and support | Synonyms: backing, backup, patronage |
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| (noun) a competition at which a champion is chosen | - |
| (noun) the status of being a champion | Synonyms: title |
| champleve | (adjective) (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired | Synonyms: cloisonne |
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| chimp | (noun) intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests | Synonyms: chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes |
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| chimpanzee | (noun) intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests | Synonyms: chimp, Pan troglodytes |
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| chloramphenicol | (noun) an oral antibiotic (trade name Chloromycetin) used to treat serious infections (especially typhoid fever) | Synonyms: Chloromycetin |
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| chokedamp | (noun) the atmosphere in a mine following an explosion; high in carbon dioxide and incapable of supporting life | Synonyms: blackdamp |
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| chomp | (noun) the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws | Synonyms: bite |
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| (verb) chew noisily or vigorously | Synonyms: champ |
| chomping | (noun) the act of chewing noisily | - |
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| chump | (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
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| circumpolar | (adjective) located or found throughout a polar region | - |
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| (adjective) (of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel | - |
| clamp | (noun) a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together | Synonyms: clinch |
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| (verb) impose or inflict forcefully | - |
| (verb) fasten or fix with a clamp | - |
| clampdown | (noun) sudden restriction on an activity | - |
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| clomp | (verb) walk clumsily | Synonyms: clump |
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| clump | (noun) a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) | Synonyms: clunk, thud, thump, thumping |
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| (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: bunch, cluster, clustering |
| (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, chunk, clod, glob, lump |
| (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, bundle, cluster |
| (verb) walk clumsily | Synonyms: clomp |
| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: cluster, constellate, flock |
| (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clunk, plunk |
| clumping | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clopping, clunking |
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| comp | (noun) an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | Synonyms: comprehensive, comprehensive examination |
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| compact | (adjective) closely and firmly united or packed together | - |
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| (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compendious, succinct, summary |
| (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset |
| (noun) a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse | Synonyms: powder compact |
| (noun) a small and economical car | Synonyms: compact car |
| (noun) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action | Synonyms: concordat, covenant |
| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze |
| (verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: bundle, pack, wad |
| (verb) make more compact by or as if by pressing | Synonyms: compress, pack together |
| (verb) have the property of being packable or of compacting easily | Synonyms: pack |
| compaction | (noun) the act of crushing | Synonyms: crunch, crush |
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| (noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compression, concretion, densification |
| compactly | (adverb) taking up no more space than necessary | - |
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| (adverb) with concise and precise brevity; to the point | Synonyms: succinctly |
| (adverb) in a compact manner or state | - |
| compactness | (noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: concentration, denseness, density, tightness |
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| (noun) the consistency of a compact solid | - |
| compander | (noun) a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus. | - |
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| companion | (noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, comrade, familiar, fellow |
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| (noun) one paid to accompany or assist or live with another | - |
| (noun) a traveler who accompanies you | Synonyms: fellow traveler, fellow traveller |
| (verb) be a companion to somebody | Synonyms: accompany, company, keep company |
| companionability | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionableness |
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| companionable | (adjective) suggestive of companionship | - |
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| companionableness | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionability |
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| companionate | (adjective) like a companion | - |
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| companionship | (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: company, fellowship, society |
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| companionway | (noun) a stairway or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship | - |
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| company | (noun) a social gathering of guests or companions | - |
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| (noun) an institution created to conduct business | - |
| (noun) organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical) | Synonyms: troupe |
| (noun) small military unit; usually two or three platoons | - |
| (noun) crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship | Synonyms: ship's company |
| (noun) a unit of firefighters including their equipment | - |
| (noun) a band of people associated temporarily in some activity | Synonyms: party |
| (noun) a social or business visitor | Synonyms: caller |
| (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: companionship, fellowship, society |
| (verb) be a companion to somebody | Synonyms: accompany, companion, keep company |
| comparability | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: compare, comparison, equivalence |
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| comparable | (adjective) able to be compared or worthy of comparison | - |
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| (adjective) conforming in every respect | Synonyms: corresponding, like |
| comparably | (adverb) in a comparable manner or to a comparable degree | - |
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| comparative | (adjective) estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete | Synonyms: relative |
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| (adjective) relating to or based on or involving comparison | - |
| (noun) the comparative form of an adjective or adverb | Synonyms: comparative degree |
| comparatively | (adverb) in a relative manner; by comparison to something else | Synonyms: relatively |
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| compare | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, comparison, equivalence |
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| (verb) examine and note the similarities or differences of | - |
| (verb) consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous | Synonyms: equate, liken |
| (verb) to form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb | - |
| (verb) be comparable | - |
| comparing | (noun) the act of examining resemblances | Synonyms: comparison |
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| comparison | (noun) the act of examining resemblances | Synonyms: comparing |
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| (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, equivalence |
| (noun) relation based on similarities and differences | - |
| compart | (verb) lay out in parts according to a plan | - |
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| compartment | (noun) a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area | - |
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| (noun) a space into which an area is subdivided | - |
| compartmental | (adjective) divided up into compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalised, compartmentalized |
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| compartmentalisation | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalization |
| compartmentalise | (verb) separate into isolated compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalize, cut up |
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| compartmentalised | (adjective) divided up into compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmental, compartmentalized |
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| compartmentalization | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation |
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| (noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalisation |
| compartmentalize | (verb) separate into isolated compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalise, cut up |
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| compartmentalized | (adjective) divided up into compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmental, compartmentalised |
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| compartmented | (adjective) divided up or separated into compartments or isolated units | - |
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| compass | (noun) navigational instrument for finding directions | - |
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| (noun) drafting instrument used for drawing circles | - |
| (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, orbit, range, reach, scope |
| (noun) the limit of capability | Synonyms: grasp, range, reach |
| (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
| (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: circumnavigate |
| (verb) bring about; accomplish | - |
| compassion | (noun) the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it | Synonyms: pity |
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| (noun) a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | Synonyms: compassionateness |
| compassionate | (adjective) showing or having compassion | - |
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| (verb) share the suffering of | Synonyms: condole with, feel for, pity, sympathize with |
| compassionately | (adverb) in a sympathetic manner | Synonyms: pityingly |
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| compassionateness | (noun) a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | Synonyms: compassion |
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| compatibility | (noun) capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of sympathetic understanding | - |
| compatible | (adjective) able to exist and perform in harmonious or agreeable combination | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification | - |
| (adjective) capable of forming a homogeneous mixture that neither separates nor is altered by chemical interaction | - |
| compatibly | (adverb) with compatibility | - |
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| compatriot | (noun) a person from your own country | - |
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| compeer | (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: equal, match, peer |
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| compel | (verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: obligate, oblige |
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| (verb) necessitate or exact | - |
| compelling | (adjective) tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument | - |
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| (adjective) driving or forcing | - |
| compendious | (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compact, succinct, summary |
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| compendium | (noun) a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work | - |
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| (noun) a publication containing a variety of works | Synonyms: collection |
| compensable | (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: paying, remunerative, salaried, stipendiary |
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| compensate | (verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: recompense, remunerate |
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| (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: indemnify, recompense, repair |
| (verb) do or give something to somebody in return | Synonyms: make up, pay, pay off |
| (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: correct, redress, right |
| (verb) adjust for | Synonyms: correct, counterbalance, even off, even out, even up, make up |
| (verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: cover, overcompensate |
| compensated | (adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: remunerated, salaried, stipendiary |
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| compensation | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: recompense |
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| (noun) something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury) | - |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors | - |
| compere | (noun) British term for someone who introduces television acts or cabarets etc | - |
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| (verb) act as a master of ceremonies | Synonyms: emcee |