| anthelmintic | (adjective) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, helminthic, parasiticidal |
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| (noun) a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, helminthic, vermifuge |
| antic | (adjective) ludicrously odd | Synonyms: fantastic, fantastical, grotesque |
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| (noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: caper, joke, prank, put-on, trick |
| (verb) act as or like a clown | Synonyms: clown, clown around |
| anticancer | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: antineoplastic, antitumor, antitumour |
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| anticatalyst | (noun) (chemistry) a substance that retards a chemical reaction or diminishes the activity of a catalyst | - |
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| anticholinergic | (adjective) inhibiting or blocking the action of acetylcholine at a receptor site | - |
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| (noun) a substance that opposes or blocks the action of acetylcholine | Synonyms: anticholinergic drug |
| anticholinesterase | (noun) a medicine that inhibits cholinesterase by combining with it and so has a cholinergic effect | - |
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| anticipant | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipative, expectant |
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| (noun) one who anticipates | Synonyms: anticipator |
| anticipate | (verb) be a forerunner of or occur earlier than | - |
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| (verb) regard something as probable or likely | Synonyms: expect |
| (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: foreknow, foresee, previse |
| (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
| (verb) be excited or anxious about | Synonyms: look for, look to |
| (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: counter, foresee, forestall |
| anticipated | (adjective) expected hopefully | Synonyms: awaited, hoped-for |
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| anticipation | (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: prediction, prevision |
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| (noun) something expected (as on the basis of a norm) | Synonyms: expectancy |
| (noun) an expectation | Synonyms: expectancy |
| (noun) anticipating with confidence of fulfillment | Synonyms: expectation |
| anticipative | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipant, expectant |
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| anticipator | (noun) one who anticipates | Synonyms: anticipant |
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| anticipatory | (adjective) in anticipation | Synonyms: prevenient |
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| anticlimactic | (adjective) coming after the climax especially of a dramatic or narrative plot | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a sudden change from an impressive to a ludicrous style | Synonyms: anticlimactical |
| anticlimactical | (adjective) of or relating to a sudden change from an impressive to a ludicrous style | Synonyms: anticlimactic |
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| anticlimax | (noun) a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one | Synonyms: bathos |
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| (noun) a disappointing decline after a previous rise | - |
| anticlinal | (adjective) sloping downward away from a common crest | - |
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| anticlockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: contraclockwise, counterclockwise |
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| (adverb) in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move | Synonyms: counterclockwise |
| anticoagulant | (noun) medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood | Synonyms: anticoagulant medication, decoagulant |
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| anticoagulation | (noun) the administration of an anticoagulant drug to retard coagulation of the blood | - |
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| anticoagulative | (adjective) of or relating to an anticoagulant | - |
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| anticonvulsant | (noun) a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy) | Synonyms: anticonvulsant drug, antiepileptic, antiepileptic drug |
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| anticyclone | (noun) (meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern | - |
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| anticyclonic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a high pressure center | - |
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| apprentice | (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: learner, prentice |
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| (verb) be or work as an apprentice | - |
| apprenticed | (adjective) bound by contract | Synonyms: articled, bound, indentured |
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| apprenticeship | (noun) the position of apprentice | - |
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| argentic | (adjective) relating to compounds in which silver is bivalent | - |
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| authentic | (adjective) not counterfeit or copied | Synonyms: bona fide, unquestionable, veritable |
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| (adjective) conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief | Synonyms: reliable |
| authentically | (adverb) genuinely; with authority | Synonyms: genuinely |
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| authenticate | (verb) establish the authenticity of something | - |
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| authenticated | (adjective) established as genuine | Synonyms: attested, documented |
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| authentication | (noun) validating the authenticity of something or someone | Synonyms: certification |
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| (noun) a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity | Synonyms: assay-mark, hallmark |
| authenticator | (noun) one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity | Synonyms: appraiser |
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| authenticity | (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: genuineness, legitimacy |
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| autosemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful in isolation, independent of context | - |
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| bacchantic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler | - |
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| canticle | (noun) a hymn derived from the Bible | - |
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| chiromantic | (adjective) of or relating to palmistry | - |
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| conventicle | (noun) a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers) | Synonyms: meetinghouse |
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| (noun) a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship | - |
| denticle | (noun) small pointed ridge on the exoskeleton of an arthropod | - |
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| denticulate | (adjective) having a very finely toothed margin | - |
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| downtick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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| endodontic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving or practicing endodontics | - |
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| endodontics | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with diseases of the dental pulp | Synonyms: endodontia |
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| entice | (verb) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion | Synonyms: lure, tempt |
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| enticement | (noun) the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire | Synonyms: temptation |
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| (noun) qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward | Synonyms: come-on, lure |
| (noun) something that seduces or has the quality to seduce | Synonyms: temptation |
| enticing | (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: alluring, beguiling, tempting |
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| exodontic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving exodontics | - |
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| exodontics | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with extraction of teeth | Synonyms: exodontia |
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| frantic | (adjective) excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion | Synonyms: frenetic, frenzied, phrenetic |
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| (adjective) marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion | Synonyms: delirious, excited, mad, unrestrained |
| frantically | (adverb) in an ungovernable manner | Synonyms: madly |
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| gigantic | (adjective) so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth | Synonyms: mammoth |
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| identical | (adjective) (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum | Synonyms: monovular |
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| (adjective) coinciding exactly when superimposed | Synonyms: superposable |
| (adjective) having properties with uniform values along all axes | - |
| (adjective) exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different | Synonyms: indistinguishable |
| (adjective) being the exact same one; not any other: | Synonyms: selfsame, very |
| identically | (adverb) with complete identity; in an identical manner | - |
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| identicalness | (noun) exact sameness | Synonyms: identity, indistinguishability |
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| inauthentic | (adjective) false or fake; not what it appears to be | Synonyms: spurious, unauthentic |
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| infanticide | (noun) murdering an infant | - |
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| (noun) a person who murders an infant | - |
| lentic | (adjective) of or relating to or living in still waters (as lakes or ponds) | - |
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| lenticel | (noun) one of many raised pores on the stems of woody plants that allow the interchange of gas between the atmosphere and the interior tissue | - |
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| lenticular | (adjective) convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil | Synonyms: biconvex, convexo-convex, lentiform |
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| lithomantic | (adjective) of or relating to lithomancy | - |
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| mantic | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: divinatory, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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| mantichora | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: manticora, manticore, mantiger |
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| manticora | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: mantichora, manticore, mantiger |
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| manticore | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: mantichora, manticora, mantiger |
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| necromantic | (adjective) relating to or associated with necromancy | Synonyms: necromantical |
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| (adjective) given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead | - |
| necromantical | (adjective) relating to or associated with necromancy | Synonyms: necromantic |
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| neoromanticism | (noun) an art movement based on a revival of Romanticism in art and literature | - |
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| orthodontic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving or practicing orthodontics | - |
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| orthodontics | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention or correction of irregularities of the teeth | Synonyms: dental orthopaedics, dental orthopedics, orthodontia, orthodonture |
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| pedantic | (adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: academic, donnish |
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| pedantically | (adverb) in a pedantic manner | - |
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| periodontic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving or practicing periodontics | Synonyms: periodontal |
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| periodontics | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with diseases of the gums and other structures around the teeth | Synonyms: periodontia |
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| polysemantic | (adjective) of words; having many meanings | Synonyms: polysemous |
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| prentice | (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: apprentice, learner |
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| prosthodontic | (adjective) of or relating to prosthodontics | - |
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| prosthodontics | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with the replacement of teeth and related mouth or jaw structures by artificial devices | Synonyms: prosthodontia |
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| quantic | (noun) a homogeneous polynomial having at least two variables | - |
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| romantic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romanticist, romanticistic |
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| (adjective) not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic | Synonyms: quixotic, wild-eyed |
| (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amatory, amorous |
| (noun) a soulful or amorous idealist | - |
| (noun) an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism | Synonyms: romanticist |
| romantically | (adverb) in a manner expressive of love or romance | - |
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| (adverb) in an idealistic and unrealistic manner | - |
| romanticisation | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticization, sentimentalisation, sentimentalization |
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| romanticise | (verb) make romantic in style | Synonyms: romanticize |
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| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, romanticize |
| romanticism | (noun) impractical romantic ideals and attitudes | - |
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| (noun) an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) | Synonyms: romance |
| romanticist | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romantic, romanticistic |
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| (noun) an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism | Synonyms: romantic |
| (noun) someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality | Synonyms: sentimentalist |
| romanticistic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romantic, romanticist |
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| romanticization | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticisation, sentimentalisation, sentimentalization |
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| romanticize | (verb) act in a romantic way | - |
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| (verb) make romantic in style | Synonyms: romanticise |
| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, romanticise |
| semantic | (adjective) of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning | - |
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| semantically | (adverb) with regard to meaning | - |
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| semanticist | (noun) a specialist in the study of meaning | Synonyms: semiotician |
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| semantics | (noun) the study of language meaning | - |
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| (noun) the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text | - |
| sycophantic | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, obsequious, toadyish |
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| (adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, toadyish |
| synsemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful only when it occurs in the company of other words | - |
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| transatlantic | (adjective) crossing the Atlantic Ocean | - |
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| unanticipated | (adjective) not anticipated | Synonyms: out of the blue, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unseen |
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| unauthentic | (adjective) false or fake; not what it appears to be | Synonyms: inauthentic, spurious |
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| unromantic | (adjective) neither expressive of nor exciting sexual love or romance | - |
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| unromantically | (adverb) without romance; in an unromantic manner | - |
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