| anserine | (adjective) of or resembling a goose | - |
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| (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
| caravanserai | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravansary, khan |
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| censer | (noun) a container for burning incense (especially one that is swung on a chain in a religious ritual) | Synonyms: thurible |
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| cleanser | (noun) a preparation used in cleaning something | Synonyms: cleaner, cleansing agent |
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| condenser | (noun) lens used to concentrate light on an object | Synonyms: optical condenser |
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| (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitance, capacitor, electrical condenser |
| (noun) a hollow coil that condenses by abstracting heat | - |
| (noun) an apparatus that converts vapor into liquid | - |
| conservancy | (noun) the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc. | - |
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| (noun) a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river | - |
| conservation | (noun) the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources | - |
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| (noun) (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations | - |
| (noun) an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change | Synonyms: preservation |
| conservationist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: environmentalist |
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| conservatism | (noun) a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes | Synonyms: conservativism |
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| conservative | (adjective) resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion | - |
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| (adjective) unimaginatively conventional | Synonyms: button-down, buttoned-down |
| (adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois, materialistic |
| (adjective) avoiding excess | Synonyms: cautious |
| (adjective) having social or political views favoring conservatism | - |
| (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservativist |
| conservatively | (adverb) in a conservative manner | Synonyms: cautiously, guardedly |
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| conservativism | (noun) a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes | Synonyms: conservatism |
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| conservativist | (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservative |
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| conservatoire | (noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatory |
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| conservator | (noun) the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) | Synonyms: curator |
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| (noun) someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person | - |
| conservatory | (noun) a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner | Synonyms: hothouse, indoor garden |
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| (noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatoire |
| (noun) the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts | - |
| conserve | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserves, preserve, preserves |
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| (verb) preserve with sugar | - |
| (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: economise, economize, husband |
| (verb) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | Synonyms: keep up, maintain, preserve |
| (verb) keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change | - |
| conserved | (adjective) protected from harm or loss | - |
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| conserves | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserve, preserve, preserves |
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| dispenser | (noun) a container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts | - |
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| (noun) a person who dispenses | - |
| insert | (noun) (film) a still picture that is introduced and that interrupts the action of a film | Synonyms: cut-in |
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| (noun) (broadcasting) a local announcement inserted into a network program | Synonyms: cut-in |
| (noun) an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted | Synonyms: inset |
| (noun) a folded section placed between the leaves of another publication | - |
| (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: enclose, inclose, introduce, put in, stick in |
| (verb) insert casually | Synonyms: slip in, sneak in, stick in |
| (verb) put or introduce into something | Synonyms: enter, infix, introduce |
| (verb) fit snugly into | Synonyms: tuck |
| insertion | (noun) the act of putting one thing into another | Synonyms: introduction, intromission |
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| (noun) a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted | Synonyms: interpolation |
| licenser | (noun) an official who can issue a license or give authoritative permission (especially one who licenses publications) | - |
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| manservant | (noun) a man servant | - |
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| merganser | (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, sawbill, sheldrake |
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| neoconservatism | (noun) an approach to politics or theology that represents a return to a traditional point of view (in contrast to more liberal or radical schools of thought of the 1960s) | - |
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| neoconservative | (noun) a conservative who subscribes to neoconservatism | Synonyms: neocon |
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| ultraconservative | (adjective) extremely conservative | - |
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| (noun) an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism | Synonyms: extreme right-winger, reactionary |
| unserviceable | (adjective) not ready for service | - |
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| (adjective) not capable of being used | Synonyms: unusable, unuseable |
| unservile | (adjective) not servile or submissive | Synonyms: unsubmissive |
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