| apopemptic | (adjective) addressed to one who is departing | - |
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| assumption | (noun) the act of taking possession of or power over something | Synonyms: laying claim |
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| (noun) the act of assuming or taking for granted | - |
| (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: effrontery, presumption, presumptuousness |
| (noun) a hypothesis that is taken for granted | Synonyms: supposal, supposition |
| (noun) a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn | Synonyms: premise, premiss |
| assumptive | (adjective) accepted as real or true without proof | - |
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| (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, presumptuous |
| asymptomatic | (adjective) having no symptoms of illness or disease | Synonyms: symptomless |
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| asymptote | (noun) a straight line that is the limiting value of a curve; can be considered as tangent at infinity | - |
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| asymptotic | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of an asymptote | - |
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| asymptotically | (adverb) toward an asymptote | - |
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| attempt | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: effort, endeavor, endeavour, try |
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| (noun) the act of attacking | Synonyms: attack |
| (verb) enter upon an activity or enterprise | Synonyms: set about, undertake |
| (verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, essay, seek, try |
| attempted | (adjective) tried unsuccessfully | - |
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| attempter | (noun) one who tries | Synonyms: essayer, trier |
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| bumptious | (adjective) offensively self-assertive | Synonyms: self-assertive |
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| bumptiously | (adverb) in a bumptious manner | - |
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| bumptiousness | (noun) offensive boldness and assertiveness | Synonyms: cockiness, forwardness, pushiness |
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| comptroller | (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: accountant, controller |
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| comptrollership | (noun) the position of comptroller | - |
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| consumption | (noun) the act of consuming something | Synonyms: expenditure, using up |
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| (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: ingestion, intake, uptake |
| (noun) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing | Synonyms: economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services |
| (noun) involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body | Synonyms: phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, white plague |
| consumptive | (adjective) tending to consume or use often wastefully | - |
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| (adjective) afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis | - |
| (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: lunger, tubercular |
| contempt | (noun) a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body | - |
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| (noun) a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous | Synonyms: disrespect |
| (noun) open disrespect for a person or thing | Synonyms: scorn |
| (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: despite, disdain, scorn |
| contemptibility | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, despicability, despicableness, sordidness |
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| contemptible | (adjective) deserving of contempt or scorn | - |
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| contemptibly | (adverb) in a manner deserving contempt | - |
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| contemptuous | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: disdainful, insulting, scornful |
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| contemptuously | (adverb) without respect; in a disdainful manner | Synonyms: contumeliously, disdainfully, scornfully |
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| contemptuousness | (noun) the manifestation of scorn and contempt | - |
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| dicamptodon | (noun) salamanders found near cold streams throughout the year | Synonyms: dicamptodontid |
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| dicamptodontid | (noun) salamanders found near cold streams throughout the year | Synonyms: dicamptodon |
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| emptiness | (noun) the quality of being valueless or futile | Synonyms: vanity |
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| (noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: vacancy, vacuum, void |
| (noun) the state of containing nothing | - |
| (noun) having an empty stomach | - |
| emptor | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: buyer, purchaser, vendee |
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| empty | (adjective) holding or containing nothing | - |
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| (adjective) emptied of emotion | - |
| (adjective) needing nourishment | Synonyms: empty-bellied |
| (adjective) devoid of significance or force | Synonyms: hollow, vacuous |
| (noun) a container that has been emptied | - |
| (verb) excrete or discharge from the body | Synonyms: evacuate, void |
| (verb) become empty or void of its content | Synonyms: discharge |
| (verb) make void or empty of contents | - |
| (verb) remove the contents of a container | - |
| (verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: abandon, vacate |
| emptying | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: evacuation, voidance |
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| exempt | (adjective) (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject | - |
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| (adjective) (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation | Synonyms: nontaxable |
| (verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: excuse, let off, relieve |
| (verb) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to | Synonyms: free, relieve |
| exemption | (noun) an act exempting someone | Synonyms: granting immunity, immunity |
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| (noun) a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of his status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.) | - |
| (noun) immunity from an obligation or duty | Synonyms: freedom |
| gumption | (noun) fortitude and determination | Synonyms: backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand |
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| (noun) sound practical judgment | Synonyms: common sense, good sense, horse sense, mother wit, sense |
| gumptious | (adjective) working hard to promote an enterprise | Synonyms: energetic, industrious, up-and-coming |
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| impromptu | (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded, unrehearsed |
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| (noun) an extemporaneous speech or remark | - |
| (noun) a short musical passage that seems to have been made spontaneously without advance preparation | - |
| (adverb) without advance preparation | Synonyms: ad lib, ad libitum, spontaneously |
| kempt | (adjective) (of hair) neat and tidy | Synonyms: tidy |
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| nonexempt | (adjective) (of persons) not exempt from an obligation or liability | - |
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| (adjective) (of goods or funds) subject to taxation | Synonyms: taxable |
| peremptorily | (adverb) in an imperative and commanding manner | Synonyms: imperatively |
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| peremptory | (adjective) putting an end to all debate or action | - |
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| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial |
| (adjective) not allowing contradiction or refusal | - |
| preempt | (noun) a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding | Synonyms: pre-empt, preemptive bid |
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| (verb) acquire for oneself before others can do so | - |
| (verb) make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge | - |
| (verb) gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land) | - |
| (verb) take the place of or have precedence over | Synonyms: displace |
| preemption | (noun) a prior appropriation of something | Synonyms: pre-emption |
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| (noun) the right to purchase something in advance of others | Synonyms: pre-emption |
| (noun) the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property) | Synonyms: pre-emption |
| (noun) the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject | Synonyms: pre-emption |
| preemptive | (adjective) designed or having the power to deter or prevent an anticipated situation or occurrence | Synonyms: pre-emptive |
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| preemptor | (noun) a bidder in bridge who makes a preemptive bid | Synonyms: pre-emptor |
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| (noun) someone who acquires land by preemption | Synonyms: pre-emptor |
| presumption | (noun) a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming | - |
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| (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, effrontery, presumptuousness |
| (noun) an assumption that is taken for granted | Synonyms: given, precondition |
| (noun) (law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed | - |
| presumptive | (adjective) affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance | - |
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| (adjective) having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance | - |
| presumptively | (adverb) by reasonable assumption | Synonyms: presumably |
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| presumptuous | (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, assumptive |
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| presumptuously | (adverb) in a presumptuous manner | - |
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| presumptuousness | (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, effrontery, presumption |
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| presymptomatic | (adjective) of or relating to the early phases of a disease when accurate diagnosis is not possible because symptoms of the disease have not yet appeared | Synonyms: preclinical |
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| prompt | (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, quick, straightaway |
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| (adjective) according to schedule or without delay; on time | - |
| (adjective) ready and willing or quick to act | - |
| (noun) a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken) | Synonyms: prompting |
| (noun) (computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command | Synonyms: command prompt |
| (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: inspire, instigate |
| (verb) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned | Synonyms: cue, remind |
| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, move, propel |
| promptbook | (noun) the copy of the playscript used by the prompter | Synonyms: prompt copy |
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| prompter | (noun) a device that displays words for people to read | Synonyms: autocue |
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| (noun) someone who assists a performer by providing the next words of a forgotten speech | Synonyms: theater prompter |
| prompting | (noun) persuasion formulated as a suggestion | Synonyms: suggestion |
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| (noun) a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken) | Synonyms: prompt |
| promptitude | (noun) the characteristic of doing things without delay | Synonyms: promptness |
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| promptly | (adverb) in a punctual manner | Synonyms: pronto, readily |
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| (adverb) at once (usually modifies an undesirable occurrence) | Synonyms: right away |
| (adverb) with little or no delay | Synonyms: quick, quickly |
| promptness | (noun) the characteristic of doing things without delay | Synonyms: promptitude |
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| (noun) the quality or habit of adhering to an appointed time | Synonyms: punctuality |
| redemption | (noun) the act of purchasing back something previously sold | Synonyms: buyback, repurchase |
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| (noun) (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil | Synonyms: salvation |
| (noun) repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock) | - |
| redemptional | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting in redemption | Synonyms: redemptive, redemptory |
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| redemptive | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting in redemption | Synonyms: redemptional, redemptory |
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| (adjective) bringing about salvation or redemption from sin | Synonyms: redeeming, saving |
| redemptory | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting in redemption | Synonyms: redemptional, redemptive |
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| resumption | (noun) beginning again | Synonyms: recommencement |
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| scrumptious | (adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, toothsome, yummy |
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| scrumptiously | (adverb) so as to produce a delightful taste | Synonyms: deliciously, lusciously |
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| subsumption | (noun) incorporating something under a more general category | - |
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| (noun) the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion) | Synonyms: minor premise, minor premiss |
| sumpter | (noun) an animal (such as a mule or burro or horse) used to carry loads | Synonyms: pack animal |
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| sumptuary | (adjective) regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior | - |
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| sumptuosity | (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: lavishness, luxury, sumptuousness |
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| sumptuous | (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, grand, lush, luxurious, opulent, princely |
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| sumptuously | (adverb) in a sumptuous and opulent manner | Synonyms: opulently |
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| sumptuousness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: lavishness, luxury, sumptuosity |
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| (noun) wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living | Synonyms: luxuriousness, luxury, opulence |
| symptom | (noun) anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence | - |
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| (noun) (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease | - |
| symptomatic | (adjective) relating to or according to or affecting a symptom or symptoms | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic or indicative of a disease | Synonyms: diagnostic |
| symptomatically | (adverb) by symptoms | - |
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| symptomless | (adjective) having no symptoms of illness or disease | Synonyms: asymptomatic |
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| tempt | (verb) induce into action by using one's charm | Synonyms: charm, influence |
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| (verb) dispose or incline or entice to | Synonyms: allure |
| (verb) try presumptuously | - |
| (verb) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion | Synonyms: entice, lure |
| (verb) give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting | Synonyms: invite |
| (verb) try to seduce | - |
| temptable | (adjective) susceptible to temptation | - |
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| temptation | (noun) the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire | Synonyms: enticement |
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| (noun) something that seduces or has the quality to seduce | Synonyms: enticement |
| (noun) the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid | - |
| tempter | (noun) a person who tempts others | - |
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| tempting | (adjective) very pleasantly inviting | Synonyms: tantalising, tantalizing |
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| (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: alluring, beguiling, enticing |
| temptingly | (adverb) in a tempting seductive manner | Synonyms: seductively |
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| temptingness | (noun) the power to entice or attract through personal charm | Synonyms: allure, allurement |
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| temptress | (noun) a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive | Synonyms: Delilah, enchantress, femme fatale, siren |
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| umpteen | (adjective) innumerable but many | Synonyms: umteen |
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| umpteenth | (adjective) last in an indefinitely numerous series | Synonyms: umptieth, umteenth |
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| umptieth | (adjective) last in an indefinitely numerous series | Synonyms: umpteenth, umteenth |
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| unkempt | (adjective) not neatly combed | - |
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| (adjective) not properly maintained or cared for | - |
| unkemptness | (noun) a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for | Synonyms: sloppiness, slovenliness |
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| unprompted | (adjective) proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus | Synonyms: impulsive |
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| untempting | (adjective) not appealing to the senses | Synonyms: unattractive |
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| (adjective) not tempting | Synonyms: uninviting |