| memorial | (noun) a structure erected to commemorate persons or events | Synonyms: monument |
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| (noun) a recognition of meritorious service | Synonyms: commemoration, remembrance |
| (noun) a written statement of facts submitted in conjunction with a petition to an authority | - |
| memorialisation | (noun) a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | Synonyms: commemoration, memorialization |
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| memorialise | (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialize |
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| (verb) address in a memorial | Synonyms: memorialize |
| memorialization | (noun) a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | Synonyms: commemoration, memorialisation |
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| memorialize | (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: commemorate, immortalise, immortalize, memorialise |
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| (verb) address in a memorial | Synonyms: memorialise |
| memorisation | (noun) learning so as to be able to remember verbatim | Synonyms: committal to memory, memorization |
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| memorise | (verb) commit to memory; learn by heart | Synonyms: con, learn, memorize |
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| memoriser | (noun) a person who learns by rote | Synonyms: memorizer |
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| memorization | (noun) learning so as to be able to remember verbatim | Synonyms: committal to memory, memorisation |
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| memorize | (verb) commit to memory; learn by heart | Synonyms: con, learn, memorise |
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| memorizer | (noun) a person who learns by rote | Synonyms: memoriser |
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| meritorious | (adjective) deserving reward or praise | Synonyms: meritable |
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| meritoriously | (adverb) in a meritorious manner | - |
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| meritoriousness | (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: deservingness, merit |
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| metaphoric | (adjective) expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another | Synonyms: metaphorical |
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| metaphorical | (adjective) expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another | Synonyms: metaphoric |
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| metaphorically | (adverb) in a metaphorical manner | - |
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| meteoric | (adjective) pertaining to or consisting of meteors or meteoroids | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to atmospheric phenomena, especially weather and weather conditions | Synonyms: meteorologic, meteorological |
| (adjective) like a meteor in speed or brilliance or transience | - |
| meteorite | (noun) stony or metallic object that is the remains of a meteoroid that has reached the earth's surface | - |
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| meteoritic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by meteorites | Synonyms: meteoritical |
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| meteoritical | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by meteorites | Synonyms: meteoritic |
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| micrometeoric | (adjective) of or relating to micrometeoroids | Synonyms: micrometeoritic |
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| micrometeorite | (noun) a meteorite or meteoroid so small that it drifts down to earth without becoming intensely heated in the atmosphere | Synonyms: micrometeor, micrometeoroid |
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| micrometeoritic | (adjective) of or relating to micrometeoroids | Synonyms: micrometeoric |
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| microsporidian | (noun) parasite of arthropods and fishes that invade and destroy host cells | - |
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| minority | (noun) being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts | - |
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| (noun) a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part | - |
| (noun) any age prior to the legal age | Synonyms: nonage |
| monitoring | (noun) the act of observing something (and sometimes keeping a record of it) | - |
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| mooring | (noun) (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place | Synonyms: mooring line |
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| (noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: berth, moorage, slip |
| moratorium | (noun) suspension of an ongoing activity | - |
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| (noun) a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged | - |
| moribund | (adjective) being on the point of death; breathing your last | - |
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| (adjective) not growing or changing; without force or vitality | Synonyms: stagnant |
| morion | (noun) a metal helmet worn by common soldiers in the 16th century | Synonyms: cabasset |
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| motorial | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS | Synonyms: efferent |
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| motoring | (noun) the act of driving an automobile | - |
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| motorisation | (noun) the act of motorizing (equipping with motors or with motor vehicles) | Synonyms: motorization |
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| motorise | (verb) equip with armed and armored motor vehicles | Synonyms: mechanise, mechanize, motorize |
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| motorised | (adjective) equipped with a motor or motors | Synonyms: motored, motorized |
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| motorist | (noun) someone who drives (or travels in) an automobile | Synonyms: automobilist |
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| motorization | (noun) the act of motorizing (equipping with motors or with motor vehicles) | Synonyms: motorisation |
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| motorize | (verb) equip with armed and armored motor vehicles | Synonyms: mechanise, mechanize, motorise |
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| (verb) equip with a motor | - |
| (verb) equip with a motor vehicle | - |
| motorized | (adjective) equipped with a motor or motors | Synonyms: motored, motorised |
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| (adjective) using vehicles | Synonyms: mechanised, mechanized |
| multifactorial | (adjective) involving or depending on several factors or causes (especially pertaining to a condition or disease resulting from the interaction of many genes) | - |
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| multistoried | (adjective) having more than one story | Synonyms: multistorey, multistory |
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| myxosporidian | (noun) mostly parasitic in fishes and including various serious pathogens | - |
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| narcoterrorism | (noun) the financing of terrorist activities by participation in the drug trade | - |
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| natatorium | (noun) pool that provides a facility for swimming | Synonyms: swimming bath, swimming pool |
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| neighboring | (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighbouring |
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| neobehaviorism | (noun) a school of psychology based on the general principles of behaviorism but broader and more flexible in concept. It stresses experimental research and laboratory analyses in the study of overt behavior and in various subjective phenomena that cannot be directly observed and measured, such as fantasies, love, stress, empathy, trust, and personality. | - |
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| noncaloric | (adjective) of food have no (or few) calories | - |
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| nonterritorial | (adjective) not displaying territoriality | - |
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| noria | (noun) a water wheel with buckets attached to the rim; used to raise water for transfer to an irrigation channel | - |
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| notoriety | (noun) the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality | Synonyms: ill fame |
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| notorious | (adjective) known widely and usually unfavorably | Synonyms: ill-famed, infamous |
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| notoriously | (adverb) to a notorious degree | - |
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| obligatorily | (adverb) in a manner that cannot be evaded | Synonyms: compulsorily, mandatorily |
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| (adverb) in an obligatory manner | - |
| odoriferous | (adjective) having a natural fragrance | Synonyms: odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, sweet |
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| (adjective) emitting an odor | Synonyms: odorous |
| odorize | (verb) cause to smell or be smelly | Synonyms: odourise, scent |
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| oophoritis | (noun) inflammation of one or both ovaries | - |
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| oratorical | (adjective) characteristic of an orator or oratory | - |
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| oratorio | (noun) a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text | Synonyms: cantata |
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| oriel | (noun) a projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall | Synonyms: oriel window |
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| orient | (noun) the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia | Synonyms: eastern hemisphere |
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| (verb) adjust to a specific need or market | Synonyms: tailor |
| (verb) familiarize (someone) with new surroundings or circumstances | - |
| (verb) determine one's position with reference to another point | Synonyms: orientate |
| (verb) be oriented | Synonyms: point |
| (verb) cause to point | - |
| oriental | (adjective) denoting or characteristic of countries of the Far East | - |
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| (adjective) denoting or characteristic of countries of Asia; 'oriental civilization' | - |
| orientalise | (verb) make oriental in character | Synonyms: orientalize |
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| orientalism | (noun) the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Asian civilizations | - |
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| orientalist | (noun) a specialist in oriental subjects | - |
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| orientalize | (verb) make oriental in character | Synonyms: orientalise |
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| orientate | (verb) determine one's position with reference to another point | Synonyms: orient |
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| orientated | (adjective) adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: oriented |
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| orientating | (adjective) positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually | Synonyms: orienting |
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| orientation | (noun) the act of orienting | - |
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| (noun) a course introducing a new situation or environment | Synonyms: orientation course |
| (noun) an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
| (noun) a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships | - |
| (noun) a predisposition in favor of something | Synonyms: predilection, preference |
| (noun) position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions | - |
| oriented | (adjective) adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: orientated |
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| orienting | (adjective) positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually | Synonyms: orientating |
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| orifice | (noun) an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity | Synonyms: opening, porta |
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| oriflamme | (noun) a red or orange-red flag used as a standard by early French kings | - |
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| (noun) an inspiring symbol or ideal that serves as a rallying point in a struggle | - |
| origami | (noun) the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds) | - |
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| origanum | (noun) any of various fragrant aromatic herbs of the genus Origanum used as seasonings | - |
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| origin | (noun) properties attributable to your ancestry | Synonyms: descent, extraction |
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| (noun) the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero | - |
| (noun) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events | Synonyms: inception, origination |
| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| (noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: beginning, root, rootage, source |
| (noun) the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived | - |
| original | (adjective) being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of | - |
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| (adjective) (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary | - |
| (adjective) not derived or copied or translated from something else | - |
| (adjective) preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed | - |
| (noun) an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made | Synonyms: master, master copy |
| (noun) something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies | Synonyms: archetype, pilot |
| originalism | (noun) the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it | - |
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| originality | (noun) the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else) | - |
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| (noun) the ability to think and act independently | - |
| originally | (adverb) in an manner suggesting originality | - |
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| (adverb) with reference to the origin or beginning | Synonyms: in the beginning, primitively |
| (adverb) before now | Synonyms: earlier, in the beginning, in the first place, to begin with |
| originate | (verb) bring into being | Synonyms: initiate, start |
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| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, rise, spring up, uprise |
| (verb) begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc. | - |
| origination | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction |
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| (noun) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events | Synonyms: inception, origin |
| originative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: creative |
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| (adjective) containing seeds of later development | Synonyms: germinal, seminal |
| originator | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: conceiver, mastermind |
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| orinasal | (noun) a speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels) | Synonyms: orinasal phone |
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| oriole | (noun) American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow | Synonyms: American oriole, New World oriole |
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| (noun) mostly tropical songbird; the male is usually bright orange and black | Synonyms: Old World oriole |
| orison | (noun) reverent petition to a deity | Synonyms: petition, prayer |
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| ostensorium | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a vessel (usually of gold or silver) in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration | Synonyms: monstrance |
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| oviraptorid | (noun) advanced carnivorous theropods, characterized by their toothless, parrot-like beaks and, in several cases, elaborate crests | - |
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| paregoric | (noun) medicine used to treat diarrhea | Synonyms: camphorated tincture of opium |
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| perchloride | (noun) a chloride containing an unusually high proportion of chlorine | - |
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| peremptorily | (adverb) in an imperative and commanding manner | Synonyms: imperatively |
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| perfunctorily | (adverb) in a set manner without serious attention; as a formality | Synonyms: pro forma |
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| phantasmagoria | (noun) a constantly changing medley of real or imagined images (as in a dream) | - |
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| phantasmagoric | (adjective) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions | Synonyms: phantasmagorical, surreal, surrealistic |
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| phantasmagorical | (adjective) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions | Synonyms: phantasmagoric, surreal, surrealistic |
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| phoenicophorium | (noun) latanier palm | Synonyms: genus Phoenicophorium |
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| phosphoric | (adjective) containing or characteristic of phosphorus | Synonyms: phosphorous |
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| pictorial | (adjective) pertaining to or consisting of pictures | Synonyms: pictural |
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| (adjective) evoking lifelike images within the mind | Synonyms: graphic, lifelike, vivid |
| (noun) a periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures | - |