| appeal | (noun) (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial | - |
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| (noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appealingness, charm |
| (noun) earnest or urgent request | Synonyms: entreaty, prayer |
| (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: collection, ingathering, solicitation |
| (verb) request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection | Synonyms: invoke |
| (verb) cite as an authority; resort to | Synonyms: invoke |
| (verb) be attractive to | Synonyms: attract |
| (verb) take a court case to a higher court for review | - |
| (verb) challenge (a decision) | - |
| appealable | (adjective) capable of being appealed especially to a higher tribunal | - |
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| appealing | (adjective) able to attract interest or draw favorable attention | - |
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| (adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | Synonyms: likable, likeable, sympathetic |
| appealingly | (adverb) in an appealing manner | - |
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| appealingness | (noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appeal, charm |
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| appear | (verb) come into sight or view | - |
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| (verb) be issued or published | Synonyms: come out |
| (verb) come into being or existence, or appear on the scene | Synonyms: come along |
| (verb) appear as a character on stage or appear in a play, etc. | - |
| (verb) give a certain impression of being something or having a certain aspect | Synonyms: look, seem |
| (verb) (of a proposition) seem to be true, probable, or apparent | Synonyms: seem |
| (verb) present oneself formally, as before a (judicial) authority | - |
| appearance | (noun) the act of appearing in public view | - |
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| (noun) formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action | Synonyms: appearing, coming into court |
| (noun) pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression | Synonyms: show |
| (noun) outward or visible aspect of a person or thing | Synonyms: visual aspect |
| (noun) a mental representation | - |
| (noun) the event of coming into sight | - |
| appearing | (noun) formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action | Synonyms: appearance, coming into court |
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| appeasable | (adjective) capable of being pacified | Synonyms: conciliable |
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| appease | (verb) make peace with | Synonyms: propitiate |
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| (verb) overcome or allay | Synonyms: quell, stay |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| appeasement | (noun) the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of) | Synonyms: calming |
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| appeaser | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace by acceding to demands | - |
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| appeasing | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: placating, placative, placatory |
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| bespeak | (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, call for, quest, request |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: betoken, indicate, point, signal |
| campeachy | (noun) spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye | Synonyms: bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood, logwood tree |
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| chapeau | (noun) headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim | Synonyms: hat, lid |
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| chickpea | (noun) large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried | Synonyms: garbanzo |
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| (noun) Asiatic herb cultivated for its short pods with one or two edible seeds | Synonyms: chickpea plant, Cicer arietinum, Egyptian pea |
| (noun) the seed of the chickpea plant | Synonyms: garbanzo |
| cowpea | (noun) eaten fresh as shell beans or dried | Synonyms: black-eyed pea |
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| (noun) sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure | Synonyms: black-eyed pea, cowpea plant, Vigna sinensis, Vigna unguiculata |
| (noun) fruit or seed of the cowpea plant | Synonyms: black-eyed pea |
| cyclopean | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops | - |
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| disappear | (verb) get lost, as without warning or explanation | Synonyms: go away, vanish |
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| (verb) cease to exist | Synonyms: vanish |
| (verb) become less intense and fade away gradually | Synonyms: evaporate, melt |
| (verb) become invisible or unnoticeable | Synonyms: go away, vanish |
| disappearance | (noun) the act of leaving secretly or without explanation | Synonyms: disappearing |
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| (noun) gradually ceasing to be visible | Synonyms: fade |
| (noun) the event of passing out of sight | - |
| (noun) ceasing to exist | - |
| disappearing | (noun) the act of leaving secretly or without explanation | Synonyms: disappearance |
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| doctorspeak | (noun) medical jargon | - |
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| doublespeak | (noun) any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not | - |
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| hippeastrum | (noun) amaryllis of tropical America often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers | Synonyms: Hippeastrum puniceum |
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| impeach | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, incriminate |
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| (verb) charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office | - |
| (verb) challenge the honesty or veracity of | - |
| impeachability | (noun) the state of being liable to impeachment | Synonyms: indictability |
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| impeachment | (noun) a formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office | - |
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| loudspeaker | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance | Synonyms: loudspeaker system, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit |
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| misspeak | (verb) pronounce a word incorrectly | Synonyms: mispronounce |
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| newspeak | (noun) deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public | - |
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| nonappearance | (noun) failure to appear (especially as at court) | - |
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| nonspeaking | (adjective) not capable of or especially not involving speech or spoken lines | Synonyms: walk-on |
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| pea | (noun) seed of a pea plant used for food | - |
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| (noun) a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds | Synonyms: pea plant |
| (noun) the fruit or seed of a pea plant | - |
| peace | (noun) a treaty to cease hostilities | Synonyms: pacification, peace treaty |
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| (noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: ataraxis, heartsease, peace of mind, peacefulness, repose, serenity |
| (noun) the state prevailing during the absence of war | - |
| (noun) harmonious relations; freedom from disputes | - |
| (noun) the general security of public places | Synonyms: public security |
| peaceable | (adjective) not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war | Synonyms: peaceful |
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| (adjective) disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature | Synonyms: pacific |
| (adjective) inclined or disposed to peace | Synonyms: peace-loving |
| peaceableness | (noun) a state that is calm and tranquil | Synonyms: peacefulness |
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| peaceably | (adverb) in a peaceable manner | Synonyms: pacifically |
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| peaceful | (adjective) not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war | Synonyms: peaceable |
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| (adjective) peacefully resistant in response to injustice | Synonyms: passive |
| peacefully | (adverb) in a peaceful manner | - |
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| peacefulness | (noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: ataraxis, heartsease, peace, peace of mind, repose, serenity |
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| (noun) a state that is calm and tranquil | Synonyms: peaceableness |
| peacekeeper | (noun) the pistol of a law officer in the old West | - |
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| (noun) someone who keeps peace | - |
| (noun) a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area | - |
| peacekeeping | (adjective) of or relating to the preservation of peace between hostile groups by international military forces | - |
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| (noun) the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations) | Synonyms: peacekeeping mission, peacekeeping operation |
| peacemaker | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, reconciler |
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| peacenik | (noun) someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations | Synonyms: dove |
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| peacetime | (noun) a period of time during which there is no war | - |
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| peach | (noun) a shade of pink tinged with yellow | Synonyms: apricot, salmon pink, yellowish pink |
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| (noun) downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh | - |
| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
| (noun) cultivated in temperate regions | Synonyms: peach tree, Prunus persica |
| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
| peachick | (noun) a young peafowl | Synonyms: pea-chick |
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| peachwood | (noun) tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry | Synonyms: brazilwood, Caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, pernambuco wood |
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| peachy | (adjective) of something resembling a peach in color | Synonyms: peachy-colored, peachy-coloured |
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| (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, slap-up, smashing, swell |
| peacoat | (noun) a sailor's heavy woolen double-breasted jacket | Synonyms: pea jacket |
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| peacock | (noun) male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots | - |
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| (noun) European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot | Synonyms: Inachis io, peacock butterfly |
| peafowl | (noun) very large terrestrial southeast Asian pheasant often raised as an ornamental bird | Synonyms: bird of Juno |
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| peag | (noun) small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency | Synonyms: wampum, wampumpeag |
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| peahen | (noun) female peafowl | - |
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| peak | (noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes | Synonyms: bill, eyeshade, visor, vizor |
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| (noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crest, crown, summit, tip, top |
| (noun) the highest point (of something) | Synonyms: acme, apex, vertex |
| (noun) the most extreme possible amount or value | Synonyms: extremum |
| (noun) a V shape | Synonyms: point, tip |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, prime |
| (verb) to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity | Synonyms: top out |
| peaked | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
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| (adjective) having or rising to a peak | - |
| peaky | (adjective) having or as if having especially high-pitched spots | Synonyms: spiky |
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| peal | (noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) | Synonyms: pealing, roll, rolling |
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| (verb) ring recurrently | - |
| (verb) sound loudly and sonorously | Synonyms: ring |
| pealing | (noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) | Synonyms: peal, roll, rolling |
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| pean | (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, eulogy, paean, panegyric |
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| (noun) (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) | Synonyms: paean |
| peanut | (adjective) of little importance or influence or power; of minor status | Synonyms: insignificant |
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| (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut |
| (noun) a young child who is small for his age | - |
| (noun) widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground | Synonyms: Arachis hypogaea, peanut vine |
| (noun) underground pod of the peanut vine | - |
| peanuts | (noun) an insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount | - |
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| pear | (noun) sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties | - |
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| (noun) Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties | Synonyms: pear tree, Pyrus communis |
| pearl | (noun) a shade of white the color of bleached bones | Synonyms: bone, ivory, off-white |
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| (noun) a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel | - |
| (noun) a shape that is spherical and small | Synonyms: bead, drop |
| (verb) gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean | - |
| pearler | (noun) a diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls | Synonyms: pearl diver |
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| pearlescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline |
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| pearlfish | (noun) found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds | Synonyms: pearl-fish |
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| pearlite | (noun) a lamellar mixture of cementite and ferrite formed during the cooling of austenite; a constituent of steel and cast iron | - |
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| pearlweed | (noun) any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls | Synonyms: pearl-weed, pearlwort |
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| pearlwort | (noun) any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls | Synonyms: pearl-weed, pearlweed |
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| pearly | (adjective) of a white the color of pearls | Synonyms: pearly-white |
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| (noun) informal terms for a human `tooth' | Synonyms: chopper |
| peasant | (noun) a country person | Synonyms: bucolic, provincial |
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| (noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tike, tyke |
| (noun) one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers | - |
| peasanthood | (noun) the state of being a peasant | - |
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| peasantry | (noun) the class of peasants | - |
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| peasecod | (noun) husk of a pea; edible in some garden peas | Synonyms: pea pod |
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| peat | (noun) partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried | - |
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| peaty | (adjective) of or pertaining to or of the nature of peat | - |
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| peavey | (noun) a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs | Synonyms: cant dog, dog hook, peavy |
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| peavy | (noun) a stout lever with a sharp spike; used for handling logs | Synonyms: cant dog, dog hook, peavey |
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| reappear | (verb) appear again | Synonyms: re-emerge |
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| reappearance | (noun) the act of someone appearing again | Synonyms: return |
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| (noun) the event of something appearing again | - |
| repeal | (noun) the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation | Synonyms: abrogation, annulment |
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| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
| repeat | (noun) an event that repeats | Synonyms: repetition |
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| (verb) happen or occur again | Synonyms: recur |
| (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, restate, retell |
| (verb) to say again or imitate | Synonyms: echo |
| (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, duplicate, reduplicate, replicate |
| (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: recapitulate, reprise, reprize |
| (verb) do over | Synonyms: take over |
| repeatable | (adjective) able or fit to be repeated or quoted | Synonyms: quotable |
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| repeated | (adjective) recurring again and again | Synonyms: perennial, recurrent |
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| repeatedly | (adverb) repeatedly | Synonyms: again and again, over and over, over and over again, time and again, time and time again |
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| repeater | (noun) a firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading | Synonyms: repeating firearm |
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| (noun) (electronics) electronic device that amplifies a signal before transmitting it again | - |
| (noun) a person who repeats | - |
| (noun) someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) | Synonyms: habitual criminal, recidivist |
| repeating | (noun) the act of doing or performing again | Synonyms: repetition |
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| speak | (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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| (verb) exchange thoughts; talk with | Synonyms: talk |
| (verb) use language | Synonyms: talk |
| (verb) give a speech to | Synonyms: address |
| (verb) make a characteristic or natural sound | - |
| speakable | (adjective) capable of being uttered in words or sentences | Synonyms: utterable |
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| speakeasy | (noun) (during prohibition) an illegal barroom | - |
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| speaker | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance | Synonyms: loudspeaker, loudspeaker system, speaker system, speaker unit |
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| (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer |
| speakerphone | (noun) a telephone with a microphone and loudspeaker; can be used without picking up a handset; several people can participate in a call at the same time | - |
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| speakership | (noun) the position of Speaker | - |
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| speaking | (adjective) capable of or involving speech or speaking | - |
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| (adjective) capable of speech | Synonyms: speech-endowed |
| (noun) delivering an address to a public audience | Synonyms: oral presentation, public speaking, speechmaking |
| (noun) the utterance of intelligible speech | Synonyms: speech production |
| spear | (noun) a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon | Synonyms: lance, shaft |
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| (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fishgig, fizgig, gig, lance |
| (verb) pierce with a spear | - |
| (verb) thrust up like a spear | Synonyms: spear up |
| spearfish | (noun) any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare | - |
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| spearhead | (noun) the head and sharpened point of a spear | Synonyms: spear-point, spearpoint |
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| (noun) the leading military unit in an attack | - |
| (noun) someone who leads or initiates an activity (attack or campaign etc.) | - |
| (verb) be the leader of | - |
| spearmint | (noun) common garden herb having clusters of small purplish flowers and yielding an oil used as a flavoring | Synonyms: Mentha spicata |
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