| imprecation | (noun) the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) | Synonyms: malediction |
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| (noun) a slanderous accusation | - |
| imprecise | (adjective) not precise | - |
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| imprecisely | (adverb) in an imprecise manner | Synonyms: inexactly |
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| impreciseness | (noun) the quality of lacking precision | Synonyms: imprecision |
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| imprecision | (noun) the quality of lacking precision | Synonyms: impreciseness |
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| impregnability | (noun) having the strength to withstand attack | Synonyms: invulnerability |
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| impregnable | (adjective) capable of conceiving | Synonyms: conceptive |
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| (adjective) immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with | Synonyms: inviolable, secure, strong, unassailable, unattackable |
| (adjective) incapable of being overcome, challenged or refuted | Synonyms: inexpugnable |
| impregnably | (adverb) in an impregnable manner | - |
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| impregnate | (verb) make pregnant | Synonyms: bang up, knock up, prang up |
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| (verb) fertilize and cause to grow | - |
| (verb) infuse or fill completely | Synonyms: saturate |
| (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: infuse, instill, tincture |
| impregnation | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization |
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| (noun) the process of totally saturating something with a substance | Synonyms: saturation |
| (noun) material with which something is impregnated | - |
| impresario | (noun) a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments | Synonyms: promoter, showman |
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| impress | (noun) the act of coercing someone into government service | Synonyms: impressment |
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| (verb) dye (fabric) before it is spun | Synonyms: yarn-dye |
| (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: ingrain, instill |
| (verb) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure | Synonyms: imprint |
| (verb) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship | Synonyms: shanghai |
| (verb) reproduce by printing | Synonyms: print |
| (verb) impress positively | - |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: affect, move, strike |
| impressed | (adjective) deeply or markedly affected or influenced | - |
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| impressible | (adjective) easily impressed or influenced | Synonyms: impressionable, waxy |
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| impression | (noun) an impressionistic portrayal of a person | - |
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| (noun) the act of pressing one thing on or into the surface of another | - |
| (noun) (dentistry) an imprint of the teeth and gums in wax or plaster | - |
| (noun) an outward appearance | Synonyms: effect |
| (noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: belief, feeling, notion, opinion |
| (noun) a clear and telling mental image | Synonyms: mental picture, picture |
| (noun) a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving | Synonyms: stamp |
| (noun) all the copies of a work printed at one time | Synonyms: printing |
| (noun) a concavity in a surface produced by pressing | Synonyms: depression, imprint |
| impressionable | (adjective) easily impressed or influenced | Synonyms: impressible, waxy |
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| impressionist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of Impressionism | Synonyms: impressionistic |
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| (noun) an artist who follows the theories of Impressionism | - |
| impressionistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of Impressionism | Synonyms: impressionist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or based on an impression rather than on facts or reasoning | - |
| impressive | (adjective) making a strong or vivid impression | - |
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| (adjective) producing a strong effect | Synonyms: telling |
| impressively | (adverb) in an impressive manner | Synonyms: imposingly |
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| impressiveness | (noun) splendid or imposing in size or appearance | Synonyms: grandness, magnificence, richness |
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| (noun) the quality of making a strong or vivid impression on the mind | - |
| impressment | (noun) the act of coercing someone into government service | Synonyms: impress |
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| inappreciable | (adjective) too small to make a significant difference | - |
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| incomprehensibility | (noun) the quality of being incomprehensible | - |
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| incomprehensible | (adjective) difficult to understand | Synonyms: uncomprehensible |
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| (adjective) incapable of being explained or accounted for | Synonyms: inexplicable |
| incomprehension | (noun) an inability to understand | - |
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| incomprehensive | (adjective) not comprehensive | Synonyms: noncomprehensive |
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| incompressibility | (noun) the property of being incompressible | - |
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| incompressible | (adjective) incapable of being compressed; resisting compression | - |
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| inexpressible | (adjective) defying expression | Synonyms: unexpressible |
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| inexpressibly | (adverb) to an inexpressible degree | Synonyms: indescribably, ineffably, unspeakably, unutterably |
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| inexpressive | (adjective) not expressive | - |
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| inexpressively | (adverb) without expression; in an inexpressive manner | - |
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| interpret | (verb) make sense of; assign a meaning to | Synonyms: construe, see |
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| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: read, translate, understand |
| (verb) give an interpretation or explanation to | Synonyms: rede |
| (verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: render, translate |
| (verb) give an interpretation or rendition of | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) create an image or likeness of | Synonyms: represent |
| interpretable | (adjective) capable of being understood | Synonyms: explainable |
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| interpretation | (noun) the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance | Synonyms: rendering, rendition |
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| (noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpreting, rendering, rendition |
| (noun) a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something | Synonyms: reading, version |
| (noun) an explanation that results from interpreting something | - |
| interpretative | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretive |
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| interpreted | (adjective) understood in a certain way; made sense of | Synonyms: taken |
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| interpreter | (noun) (computer science) a program that translates and executes source language statements one line at a time | Synonyms: interpretive program |
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| (noun) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | Synonyms: representative, spokesperson, voice |
| (noun) someone who mediates between speakers of different languages | Synonyms: translator |
| (noun) someone who uses art to represent something | - |
| interpreting | (noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpretation, rendering, rendition |
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| interpretive | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretative |
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| irrepressibility | (noun) irrepressible liveliness and good spirit | Synonyms: buoyancy |
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| irrepressible | (adjective) impossible to repress or control | Synonyms: uncontrollable |
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| lamprey | (noun) primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue | Synonyms: lamper eel, lamprey eel |
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| leprechaun | (noun) a mischievous elf in Irish folklore | - |
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| letterpress | (noun) printing from a plate with raised characters | Synonyms: relief printing |
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| lipread | (verb) interpret by lipreading; of deaf people | Synonyms: lip-read, speech-read |
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| lipreading | (noun) perceiving what a person is saying by observing the movements of the lips | - |
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| lypressin | (noun) an antidiuretic and vasoconstrictor used to treat diabetes insipidus | - |
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| midspread | (noun) a measure of statistical dispersion, being equal to the difference between the upper and lower quartiles. | Synonyms: interquartile range, middle fifty |
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| misapprehend | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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| misapprehension | (noun) an understanding of something that is not correct | Synonyms: mistake, misunderstanding |
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| misinterpret | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misread |
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| (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misunderstand |
| (verb) interpret falsely | - |
| misinterpretation | (noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: mistaking, misunderstanding |
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| misrepresent | (verb) represent falsely | Synonyms: belie |
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| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, wangle |
| misrepresentation | (noun) a willful perversion of facts | Synonyms: falsification |
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| (noun) a misleading falsehood | Synonyms: deceit, deception |
| misrepresented | (adjective) having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented | Synonyms: distorted, perverted, twisted |
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| mompreneur | (noun) an entrepreneur and a mother | - |
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| neoexpressionism | (noun) an art movement based on expressionism; developed in 1980s in Europe and United States; crudely drawn garish paintings | - |
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| neoprene | (noun) a synthetic rubber that is resistant to oils and aging; used in waterproof products | - |
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| noncomprehensive | (adjective) not comprehensive | Synonyms: incomprehensive |
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| noncomprehensively | (adverb) in a limited way | - |
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| nonpregnant | (adjective) not pregnant | - |
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| nonprehensile | (adjective) not prehensile | - |
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| nonprescription | (adjective) purchasable without a doctor's prescription | Synonyms: over-the-counter |
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| nonrepresentational | (adjective) of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature | - |
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| nonrepresentative | (adjective) not standing for something else | Synonyms: unsymbolic |
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| omnipresence | (noun) the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) | Synonyms: ubiquitousness, ubiquity |
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| omnipresent | (adjective) being present everywhere at once | Synonyms: ubiquitous |
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| oppress | (verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | Synonyms: crush, suppress |
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| (verb) cause to suffer | Synonyms: persecute |
| oppressed | (adjective) burdened psychologically or mentally | Synonyms: laden |
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| oppression | (noun) the act of subjugating by cruelty | Synonyms: subjugation |
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| (noun) a feeling of being oppressed | Synonyms: oppressiveness |
| (noun) the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority: | - |
| oppressive | (adjective) marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior | Synonyms: tyrannical, tyrannous |
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| (adjective) weighing heavily on the senses or spirit | - |
| oppressively | (adverb) in a heavy and oppressive way | - |
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| oppressiveness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness |
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| (noun) a feeling of being oppressed | Synonyms: oppression |
| oppressor | (noun) a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures | - |
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| osprey | (noun) large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years | Synonyms: fish eagle, fish hawk, Pandion haliaetus, sea eagle |
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| outspread | (adjective) fully extended in width | Synonyms: spread |
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| overinterpretation | (noun) Excessive interpretation. | - |
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| overpressure | (noun) a transient air pressure greater than the surrounding atmospheric pressure | - |
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| overspread | (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: spread |
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| preach | (verb) speak, plead, or argue in favor of | Synonyms: advocate |
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| (verb) deliver a sermon | Synonyms: prophesy |
| preacher | (noun) someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel | Synonyms: preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer |
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| preachification | (noun) moralization delivered tediously in a preachy manner | - |
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| preachify | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, sermonise, sermonize |
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| preaching | (noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | Synonyms: discourse, sermon |
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| (noun) a moralistic rebuke | Synonyms: sermon |
| preachment | (noun) a sermon on a moral or religious topic | Synonyms: homily |
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| preachy | (adjective) inclined to or marked by tedious moralization | - |
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| preadolescent | (adjective) of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12 | Synonyms: preteen |
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| preamble | (noun) a preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution (usually explaining its purpose) | - |
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| (verb) make a preliminary introduction, usually to a formal document | - |
| preanal | (adjective) situated in front of the anus | - |
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| prearrange | (verb) arrange beforehand | - |
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| prearrangement | (noun) something arranged in advance | - |
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| preassemble | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: prefabricate |
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| prebend | (noun) the stipend assigned by a cathedral to a canon | - |
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| prebendary | (noun) a canon who receives a prebend for serving the church | - |
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| precalc | (noun) a college-level algebra and trigonometry course that is designed to prepare students for the study of calculus | Synonyms: precalculus |
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| precalculus | (noun) a college-level algebra and trigonometry course that is designed to prepare students for the study of calculus | Synonyms: precalc |
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| precancerous | (adjective) of or relating to a growth that is not malignant but is likely to become so if not treated | - |
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| precarious | (adjective) fraught with danger | Synonyms: parlous, perilous, touch-and-go |
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| (adjective) not secure; beset with difficulties | Synonyms: shaky |
| (adjective) affording no ease or reassurance | Synonyms: unstable |