| approval | (noun) the formal act of approving | Synonyms: approving, blessing |
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| (noun) a message expressing a favorable opinion | Synonyms: commendation |
| (noun) a feeling of liking something or someone good | - |
| (noun) acceptance as satisfactory | Synonyms: favorable reception, favourable reception |
| approve | (verb) judge to be right or commendable; think well of | - |
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| (verb) give sanction to | Synonyms: O.K., okay, sanction |
| approved | (adjective) established by authority; given authoritative approval | Synonyms: sanctioned |
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| approver | (noun) an authority with power to approve | - |
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| approving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approbatory, plausive |
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| (noun) the formal act of approving | Synonyms: approval, blessing |
| approvingly | (adverb) in an approving manner | - |
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| disapproval | (noun) the act of disapproving or condemning | - |
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| (noun) an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group | Synonyms: disfavor, disfavour, dislike |
| (noun) the expression of disapproval | - |
| (noun) a feeling of disliking something or what someone is doing | - |
| disapprove | (verb) consider bad or wrong | - |
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| (verb) deem wrong or inappropriate | Synonyms: reject |
| disapproving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting disapproval | - |
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| disapprovingly | (adverb) showing disapproval | - |
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| disprove | (verb) prove to be false | Synonyms: confute |
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| disprover | (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, rebutter, refuter |
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| improvable | (adjective) susceptible of improvement | - |
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| improve | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, better, meliorate |
| improved | (adjective) made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially made ready for use or marketing | - |
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| (adjective) become or made better in quality | - |
| (adjective) (of land) made ready for development or agriculture by clearing of trees and brush | - |
| improvement | (noun) the act of improving something | - |
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| (noun) a change for the better; progress in development | Synonyms: advance, betterment |
| (noun) a condition superior to an earlier condition | Synonyms: melioration |
| improver | (noun) a component that is added to something to improve it | Synonyms: add-on, addition |
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| (noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, humanitarian |
| improvidence | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: shortsightedness |
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| improvident | (adjective) not provident; not providing for the future | - |
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| (adjective) not given careful consideration | Synonyms: ill-considered, ill-judged, shortsighted |
| improvidently | (adverb) in an improvident manner | - |
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| improving | (adjective) getting higher or more vigorous | Synonyms: up |
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| improvisation | (noun) an unplanned expedient | Synonyms: temporary expedient |
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| (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporisation, extemporization |
| (noun) a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation) | - |
| improvise | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, extemporize, improvize |
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| (verb) manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand | Synonyms: extemporize |
| improvised | (adjective) done or made using whatever is available | Synonyms: jury-rigged, makeshift |
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| improvize | (verb) perform without preparation | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, extemporize, improvise |
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| provability | (noun) capability of being demonstrated or logically proved | Synonyms: demonstrability |
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| provable | (adjective) capable of being demonstrated or proved | Synonyms: demonstrable |
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| provably | (adverb) in an obvious and provable manner | Synonyms: demonstrably, incontrovertibly |
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| prove | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, shew, show |
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| (verb) obtain probate of | - |
| (verb) prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof | - |
| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, show, testify |
| (verb) take a trial impression of | - |
| (verb) cause to puff up with a leaven | Synonyms: leaven, raise |
| (verb) increase in volume | Synonyms: rise |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, examine, test, try, try out |
| (verb) be shown or be found to be | Synonyms: turn out, turn up |
| proved | (adjective) established beyond doubt | Synonyms: proven |
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| proven | (adjective) established beyond doubt | Synonyms: proved |
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| provenance | (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenience |
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| provencal | (adjective) of or relating to Provence or its people or their culture | - |
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| provender | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provisions, viands, victuals |
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| (noun) food for domestic livestock | Synonyms: feed |
| provenience | (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance |
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| proverb | (noun) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people | Synonyms: adage, byword, saw |
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| proverbial | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or expressed in a proverb | - |
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| (adjective) widely known and spoken of | - |
| proverbially | (adverb) in the manner of something that has become a byword | - |
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| provide | (verb) take measures in preparation for | - |
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| (verb) determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation | - |
| (verb) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance | Synonyms: cater, ply, supply |
| (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, offer, render, supply |
| (verb) supply means of subsistence; earn a living | Synonyms: bring home the bacon |
| (verb) mount or put up | Synonyms: offer, put up |
| (verb) make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain | Synonyms: allow, allow for, leave |
| providence | (noun) the guardianship and control exercised by a deity | - |
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| (noun) the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources | - |
| (noun) a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures | - |
| provident | (adjective) providing carefully for the future | - |
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| (adjective) careful in regard to your own interests | - |
| providential | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of providence | - |
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| (adjective) peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention | Synonyms: heaven-sent, miraculous |
| (adjective) resulting from divine providence | Synonyms: divine |
| providentially | (adverb) in a providential manner; as determined by providence | - |
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| (adverb) in a fortunately providential manner | - |
| (adverb) in a prudent manner | Synonyms: prudently |
| providently | (adverb) in a provident manner | - |
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| provider | (noun) someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity | Synonyms: supplier |
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| (noun) someone who provides the means for subsistence | - |
| province | (noun) the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation | Synonyms: state |
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| (noun) the proper sphere or extent of your activities | Synonyms: responsibility |
| provincial | (adjective) characteristic of the provinces or their people | - |
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| (adjective) of or associated with a province | - |
| (noun) a country person | Synonyms: bucolic, peasant |
| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order | - |
| provincialism | (noun) a partiality for some particular place | Synonyms: localism, sectionalism |
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| (noun) a lack of sophistication | - |
| provincially | (adverb) by the province; through the province | - |
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| provirus | (noun) cDNA copy of the RNA genome of a retrovirus; the genetic material of a virus as incorporated into and able to replicate with the genome of a host cell | - |
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| provision | (noun) the activity of supplying or providing something | Synonyms: supply, supplying |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening | Synonyms: planning, preparation |
| (noun) a stipulated condition | Synonyms: proviso |
| (noun) a store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms) | - |
| (verb) supply with provisions | Synonyms: purvey |
| provisional | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: probationary, provisionary, tentative |
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| provisionally | (adverb) temporarily and conditionally | - |
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| provisionary | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: probationary, provisional, tentative |
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| provisioner | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: sutler, victualer, victualler |
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| provisions | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, viands, victuals |
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| proviso | (noun) a stipulated condition | Synonyms: provision |
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| provisory | (adjective) subject to a proviso | - |
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| provitamin | (noun) vitamin precursor; a substance that is converted into a vitamin in animal tissues | - |
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| provocateur | (noun) a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts | Synonyms: agent provocateur |
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| provocation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: aggravation, irritation |
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| (noun) needed encouragement | Synonyms: incitement |
| (noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitation, incitement |
| provocative | (adjective) serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy | - |
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| (adjective) intentionally arousing sexual desire | - |
| provocatively | (adverb) in a provocative manner | Synonyms: provokingly |
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| provoke | (verb) provide the needed stimulus for | Synonyms: stimulate |
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| (verb) evoke or provoke to appear or occur | Synonyms: call forth, evoke, kick up |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, raise |
| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague |
| provoked | (adjective) incited, especially deliberately, to anger | Synonyms: aggravated |
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| provoker | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, inciter, instigant, instigator |
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| provoking | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitating, agitative |
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| provokingly | (adverb) in a provocative manner | Synonyms: provocatively |
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| provost | (noun) a high-ranking university administrator | - |
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| reproval | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof |
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| reprove | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: admonish, reproof |
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| reprover | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reproacher, upbraider |
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| reproving | (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonishing, admonitory, reproachful |
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| reprovingly | (adverb) in a reproving or reproachful manner | Synonyms: reproachfully |
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| unimproved | (adjective) not made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially not made ready for use or marketing | - |
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| (adjective) (of land) not cleared of trees and brush; in the wild or natural state | - |
| unprovable | (adjective) not provable | - |
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| unproved | (adjective) not proved | Synonyms: unproven |
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| unproven | (adjective) not proved | Synonyms: unproved |
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| unprovocative | (adjective) not provocative | Synonyms: unprovoking |
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| unprovoked | (adjective) occurring without motivation or provocation | Synonyms: motiveless, wanton |
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| unprovoking | (adjective) not provocative | Synonyms: unprovocative |
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