| impersonator | (noun) someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another | Synonyms: imitator |
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| importunate | (adjective) persistent to the point of annoying | - |
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| (adjective) expressing persistant and earnest entreaty | - |
| importunately | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: beseechingly, entreatingly, imploringly, pleadingly |
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| importunateness | (noun) Quality of a person who is given to making importunate demands, being greedily or thoughtlessly demanding. | Synonyms: importunity |
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| impregnate | (verb) make pregnant | Synonyms: bang up, knock up, prang up |
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| (verb) fertilize and cause to grow | - |
| (verb) infuse or fill completely | Synonyms: saturate |
| (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: infuse, instill, tincture |
| impregnation | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization |
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| (noun) the process of totally saturating something with a substance | Synonyms: saturation |
| (noun) material with which something is impregnated | - |
| inattention | (noun) lack of attention | - |
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| inattentive | (adjective) showing a lack of attention or care | - |
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| (adjective) not showing due care or attention | Synonyms: neglectful |
| inattentively | (adverb) in an absentminded or preoccupied manner | Synonyms: absently, absentmindedly, abstractedly |
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| inattentiveness | (noun) the trait of not being considerate and thoughtful of others | - |
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| (noun) a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: heedlessness |
| incarnate | (adjective) invested with a bodily form especially of a human body | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied |
| (verb) make concrete and real | - |
| (verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, embody, substantiate |
| incarnation | (noun) the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. | Synonyms: personification |
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| (noun) a new personification of a familiar idea | Synonyms: avatar, embodiment |
| (noun) time passed in a particular bodily form | - |
| inclination | (noun) the act of inclining; bending forward | Synonyms: inclining |
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| (noun) a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect | Synonyms: tendency |
| (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: lean, leaning, list, tilt |
| (noun) an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others | Synonyms: disposition, tendency |
| (noun) that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking | - |
| (noun) (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon | Synonyms: angle of dip, dip, magnetic dip, magnetic inclination |
| (noun) (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis) | Synonyms: angle of inclination |
| (noun) (astronomy) the angle between the plane of the orbit and the plane of the ecliptic stated in degrees | Synonyms: inclination of an orbit |
| incoordination | (noun) a lack of coordination of movements | - |
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| incriminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, impeach |
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| (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: imply, inculpate |
| incriminating | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminatory |
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| incriminatingly | (adverb) in an incriminating manner | - |
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| incrimination | (noun) an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: blame, inculpation |
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| incriminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminating |
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| indeterminate | (adjective) not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance | Synonyms: undetermined |
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| (adjective) having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex | - |
| (adjective) of uncertain or ambiguous nature | - |
| (adjective) not leading to a definite ending or result | - |
| (adjective) (of a quantity) having no definite value, as an equation that cannot be solved | - |
| indeterminateness | (noun) the quality of being vague and poorly defined | Synonyms: indefiniteness, indefinity, indeterminacy, indetermination |
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| indetermination | (noun) the quality of being vague and poorly defined | Synonyms: indefiniteness, indefinity, indeterminacy, indeterminateness |
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| indignation | (noun) a feeling of righteous anger | Synonyms: outrage |
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| indiscriminate | (adjective) not marked by fine distinctions | - |
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| (adjective) failing to make or recognize distinctions | - |
| indiscriminately | (adverb) in a random manner | Synonyms: arbitrarily, at random, every which way, haphazardly, randomly, willy-nilly |
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| (adverb) in an indiscriminate manner | Synonyms: promiscuously |
| indiscriminating | (adjective) not discriminating | Synonyms: undiscriminating |
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| indoctrinate | (verb) teach doctrines to; teach uncritically | - |
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| indoctrination | (noun) teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically | - |
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| ingeminate | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell |
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| innate | (adjective) not established by conditioning or learning | Synonyms: unconditioned, unlearned |
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| (adjective) being talented through inherited qualities | Synonyms: born, natural |
| (adjective) present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development | Synonyms: congenital, inborn |
| innately | (adverb) in an innate manner | - |
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| innateness | (noun) the quality of being innate | - |
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| inordinate | (adjective) beyond normal limits | Synonyms: excessive, undue, unreasonable |
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| inordinately | (adverb) to a surprising degree | Synonyms: extraordinarily |
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| inordinateness | (noun) immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits | Synonyms: excess, excessiveness |
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| inseminate | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fecundate, fertilise, fertilize |
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| (verb) place seeds in or on (the ground) | Synonyms: sow, sow in |
| insemination | (noun) the introduction of semen into the genital tract of a female | - |
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| (noun) the act of sowing (of seeds in the ground or, figuratively, of germs in the body or ideas in the mind, etc.) | - |
| insubordinate | (adjective) not submissive to authority | - |
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| (adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: resistant, resistive |
| insubordination | (noun) an insubordinate act | Synonyms: rebelliousness |
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| (noun) defiance of authority | - |
| interdenominational | (adjective) occurring between or among or common to different churches or denominations | Synonyms: interchurch |
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| international | (adjective) concerning or belonging to all or at least two or more nations | - |
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| (adjective) from or between other countries | Synonyms: external, outside |
| internationalisation | (noun) the act of bringing something under international control | Synonyms: internationalization |
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| internationalise | (verb) make international in character | Synonyms: internationalize |
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| (verb) put under international control | Synonyms: internationalize |
| internationalism | (noun) quality of being international in scope | Synonyms: internationality |
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| (noun) the doctrine that nations should cooperate because their common interests are more important than their differences | - |
| internationalist | (adjective) influenced by or advocating internationalism | Synonyms: internationalistic |
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| (noun) an advocate of internationalism | - |
| (noun) a member of a socialist or communist international | - |
| internationalistic | (adjective) influenced by or advocating internationalism | Synonyms: internationalist |
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| internationality | (noun) quality of being international in scope | Synonyms: internationalism |
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| internationalization | (noun) the act of bringing something under international control | Synonyms: internationalisation |
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| internationalize | (verb) make international in character | Synonyms: internationalise |
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| (verb) put under international control | Synonyms: internationalise |
| internationally | (adverb) worldwide | Synonyms: globally |
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| intonate | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: cantillate, chant, intone |
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| (verb) speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone | Synonyms: intone |
| intonation | (noun) the act of singing in a monotonous tone | Synonyms: chanting |
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| (noun) singing by a soloist of the opening piece of plainsong | - |
| (noun) the production of musical tones (by voice or instrument); especially the exactitude of the pitch relations | - |
| (noun) rise and fall of the voice pitch | Synonyms: modulation, pitch contour |
| invaginate | (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: introvert |
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| (verb) sheathe | - |
| invagination | (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, introversion, intussusception |
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| (noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: introversion |
| iodinate | (verb) cause to combine with iodine | - |
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| iodinated | (adjective) treated with iodine | Synonyms: iodised, iodized |
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| iodinating | (adjective) combining or causing to combine with iodine | - |
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| iodination | (noun) the substitution or addition of iodine atoms in organic compounds | - |
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| ionate | (verb) add ions to | - |
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| isoagglutination | (noun) agglutination of an agglutinogen of one individual by a serum from another individual of the same species | - |
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| isocyanate | (noun) a salt or ester of isocyanic acid | - |
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| isothiocyanate | (noun) a family of compounds derived from horseradish and radishes and onions and mustards; source of the hotness of those plants and preparations | - |
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| khanate | (noun) the position of a khan | - |
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| (noun) the realm of a khan | - |
| laminate | (noun) a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers | - |
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| (verb) cover with a thin sheet of non-fabric material | - |
| (verb) press or beat (metals) into thin sheets | - |
| (verb) split (wood) into thin sheets | - |
| (verb) create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material | - |
| lamination | (noun) bonding thin sheets together | - |
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| (noun) a layered structure | - |
| laminator | (noun) Any of a range of machines used for lamination. | Synonyms: laminating machine |
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| (noun) a person who makes laminates (especially plastic laminates) | - |
| lanate | (adjective) covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments | Synonyms: woolly |
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| lancinate | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
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| lancinating | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, piercing, stabbing |
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| latinate | (adjective) derived from or imitative of Latin | - |
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| lunate | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, crescent, semilunar |
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| lunatic | (adjective) insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon | Synonyms: moonstruck |
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| (noun) an insane person | Synonyms: maniac |
| (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: daredevil, harum-scarum, hothead, madcap, swashbuckler |
| lunation | (noun) the period between successive new moons (29.531 days) | Synonyms: lunar month, moon, synodic month |
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| machinate | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, conspire |
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| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: devise, get up, organise, organize, prepare |
| machination | (noun) a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends | Synonyms: intrigue |
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| machinator | (noun) a member of a conspiracy | Synonyms: coconspirator, conspirator, plotter |
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| magnate | (noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman | Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon |
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| manat | (noun) the basic unit of money in Azerbaijan | - |
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| (noun) the basic unit of money in Turkmenistan | - |
| manatee | (noun) sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America; the flat tail is rounded | Synonyms: Trichechus manatus |
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| manganate | (noun) a salt of manganic acid containing manganese as its anion | - |
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| marinate | (verb) soak in marinade | Synonyms: marinade |
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| minatory | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| miscegenate | (verb) marry or cohabit with a person of another race | - |
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| miscegenation | (noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: crossbreeding, interbreeding |
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| misfortunate | (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
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| monatomic | (adjective) of or relating to an element consisting of a single atom | Synonyms: monoatomic |
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| morganatic | (adjective) (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior | Synonyms: left-handed |
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| multinational | (adjective) involving or operating in several nations or nationalities | Synonyms: transnational |
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| myelinated | (adjective) (of neurons) covered with a layer of myelin | Synonyms: medullated |
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| natal | (adjective) relating to or accompanying birth | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the buttocks | - |
| natality | (noun) the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year | Synonyms: birth rate, birthrate, fertility, fertility rate |
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| natation | (noun) the act of someone who floats on the water | Synonyms: floating |
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| natator | (noun) a person who travels through the water by swimming | Synonyms: bather, swimmer |
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| natatorium | (noun) pool that provides a facility for swimming | Synonyms: swimming bath, swimming pool |
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| nates | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| nation | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, country, land, res publica, state |
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| (noun) the people who live in a nation or country | Synonyms: country, land |
| (noun) a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes) | - |
| national | (adjective) limited to or in the interests of a particular nation | - |
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| (adjective) concerned with or applicable to or belonging to an entire nation or country | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to nationality | - |
| (adjective) characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation | - |
| (adjective) inside the country | Synonyms: home, interior, internal |
| (adjective) owned or maintained for the public by the national government | - |
| (noun) a person who owes allegiance to that nation | Synonyms: subject |
| nationalisation | (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, communization, nationalization |
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| (noun) the action of rendering national in character | Synonyms: nationalization |
| (noun) the action of forming or becoming a nation | Synonyms: nationalization |
| nationalise | (verb) put under state control or ownership | Synonyms: nationalize |
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| (verb) make national in character or scope | Synonyms: nationalize |
| nationalism | (noun) love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | Synonyms: patriotism |
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| (noun) the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other | - |
| (noun) the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals | - |
| (noun) the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination | - |