| annual | (adjective) completing its life cycle within a year | Synonyms: one-year |
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| (adjective) occurring or payable every year | Synonyms: yearly |
| (noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | Synonyms: yearbook, yearly |
| (noun) (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year | - |
| annually | (adverb) without missing a year | Synonyms: each year, every year, yearly |
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| (adverb) by the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received) | Synonyms: each year, p.a., per annum, per year |
| annualry | (noun) the third finger (especially of the left hand) | Synonyms: ring finger |
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| attenuate | (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuated, faded, weakened |
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| (verb) become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude | - |
| (verb) weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) | Synonyms: rarefy |
| attenuated | (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuate, faded, weakened |
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| (adjective) of an electrical signal; reduced in amplitude with little or no distortion | - |
| attenuation | (noun) the property of something that has been weakened or reduced in thickness or density | - |
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| (noun) weakening in force or intensity | Synonyms: fading |
| attenuator | (noun) an electrical device for attenuating the strength of an electrical signal | - |
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| biannual | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biyearly, half-yearly, semiannual |
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| biannually | (adverb) twice a year | - |
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| bicornuate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicorned, bicornuous |
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| bimanual | (adjective) requiring two hands or designed for two people | Synonyms: two-handed |
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| continual | (adjective) recurring regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series | - |
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| (adjective) having no interruptions | - |
| continually | (adverb) seemingly without interruption | - |
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| continuance | (noun) the act of continuing an activity without interruption | Synonyms: continuation |
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| (noun) the property of enduring or continuing in time | Synonyms: duration |
| (noun) the period of time during which something continues | Synonyms: duration |
| continuant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: fricative, sibilant, spirant, strident |
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| (noun) consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract | Synonyms: continuant consonant |
| continuation | (noun) the act of continuing an activity without interruption | Synonyms: continuance |
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| (noun) the consequence of being lengthened in duration | Synonyms: lengthiness, prolongation, protraction |
| (noun) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction | Synonyms: good continuation, law of continuation |
| (noun) a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it | Synonyms: sequel |
| continuative | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, connective |
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| discontinuance | (noun) the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) | Synonyms: discontinuation |
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| discontinuation | (noun) the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) | Synonyms: discontinuance |
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| extenuate | (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: mitigate, palliate |
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| extenuating | (adjective) partially excusing or justifying | - |
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| extenuation | (noun) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious | Synonyms: mitigation, palliation |
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| (noun) a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances | Synonyms: mitigation |
| insinuate | (verb) give to understand | Synonyms: adumbrate, intimate |
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| (verb) introduce or insert (oneself) in a subtle manner | - |
| insinuating | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiating, ingratiatory |
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| insinuatingly | (adverb) in an insinuating manner | - |
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| insinuation | (noun) the act of gaining acceptance or affection for yourself by persuasive and subtle blandishments | Synonyms: ingratiation |
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| (noun) an indirect (and usually malicious) implication | Synonyms: innuendo |
| manual | (adjective) requiring human effort | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the hands | - |
| (adjective) doing or requiring physical work | - |
| (noun) (military) a prescribed drill in handling a rifle | Synonyms: manual of arms |
| (noun) a small handbook | - |
| manually | (adverb) by hand | - |
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| nuance | (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, refinement, shade, subtlety |
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| semiannual | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biannual, biyearly, half-yearly |
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| semiannually | (adverb) twice a year | Synonyms: biyearly |
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| sinuate | (adjective) curved or curving in and out | Synonyms: sinuous, wiggly |
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| (adjective) having a strongly waved margin alternately concave and convex | - |
| superannuate | (verb) retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity | - |
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| (verb) become obsolete | - |
| (verb) declare to be obsolete | - |
| (verb) retire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability | - |
| superannuated | (adjective) old; no longer valid or fashionable | Synonyms: obsolete, out-of-date, outdated |
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| (adjective) too old to be useful | Synonyms: over-the-hill, overage, overaged |
| superannuation | (noun) the act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension) | - |
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| (noun) the property of being out of date and not current | Synonyms: obsoleteness |
| (noun) a monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work | Synonyms: old-age pension, retirement benefit, retirement check, retirement fund, retirement pension |