| anastalsis | (noun) muscular action of the alimentary tract in a direction opposite to peristalsis | - |
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| anastigmat | (noun) compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images | - |
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| anastigmatic | (adjective) not astigmatic | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
| anastomose | (verb) cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis | Synonyms: inosculate |
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| (verb) come together or open into each other | Synonyms: inosculate |
| anastomosis | (noun) a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous | Synonyms: inosculation |
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| anastomotic | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting anastomosis | - |
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| anastrophe | (noun) the reversal of the normal order of words | Synonyms: inversion |
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| anastylosis | (noun) the archeological reassembly of ruined monuments from fallen or decayed fragments (incorporating new materials when necessary) | - |
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| canasta | (noun) a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank | Synonyms: basket rummy, meld |
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| dynast | (noun) a hereditary ruler | - |
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| dynastic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a dynasty | - |
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| dynasty | (noun) a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family | - |
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| gymnast | (noun) an athlete who is skilled in gymnastics | - |
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| gymnastic | (adjective) of or relating to or used in exercises intended to develop strength and agility | - |
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| (adjective) vigorously active | Synonyms: acrobatic, athletic |
| gymnastics | (noun) a sport that involves exercises intended to display strength and balance and agility | Synonyms: gymnastic exercise |
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| monastery | (noun) the residence of a religious community | - |
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| monastic | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastical |
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| (noun) a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work | Synonyms: monk |
| monastical | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic |
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| monasticism | (noun) asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience | - |
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| nastika | (noun) Technical term in Hinduism used to classify philosophical schools and persons that do not accept the authority of the Vedas as supreme revealed scriptures. | - |
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| nastily | (adverb) in a nasty ill-tempered manner | Synonyms: meanly |
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| nastiness | (noun) the quality of being highly unpleasant | - |
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| (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: bitchiness, cattiness, spite, spitefulness |
| (noun) a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse | Synonyms: filth, filthiness, foulness |
| nasturtium | (noun) flowers and seeds and leaves all used as flavorings | - |
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| (noun) any tropical American plant of the genus Tropaeolum having pungent juice and long-spurred yellow to red flowers | - |
| nasty | (adjective) offensive or even (of persons) malicious | Synonyms: awful |
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| (adjective) exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent | Synonyms: tight |
| (adjective) disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter | Synonyms: filthy, foul |
| (adjective) characterized by obscenity | Synonyms: cruddy, filthy, foul, smutty |
| nonastringent | (adjective) not astringent | - |
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| pleonaste | (noun) a dark-colored spinel containing iron | Synonyms: ceylonite |
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| pleonastic | (adjective) repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical words | Synonyms: redundant, tautologic, tautological |
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| unasterisked | (adjective) not marked with an asterisk | Synonyms: unstarred |
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