| asparaginase | (noun) antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia | Synonyms: Elspar |
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| asparagine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid found in proteins and in many plants (e.g., asparagus) | - |
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| choragic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a choragus | - |
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| discouraging | (adjective) depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action | - |
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| (adjective) expressing disapproval in order to dissuade | - |
| discouragingly | (adverb) in a discouraging manner | - |
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| disparaging | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, derogatory |
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| disparagingly | (adverb) in a disparaging manner | Synonyms: slightingly |
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| encouraging | (adjective) giving courage or confidence or hope | - |
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| (adjective) furnishing support and encouragement | Synonyms: supporting |
| encouragingly | (adverb) in an encouraging manner | - |
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| foraging | (noun) the act of searching for food and provisions | Synonyms: forage |
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| fragile | (adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: delicate, frail |
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| (adjective) vulnerably delicate | - |
| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, slight, tenuous, thin |
| fragility | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: breakability, frangibility, frangibleness |
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| (noun) lack of physical strength | Synonyms: delicacy |
| leveraging | (noun) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) | Synonyms: leverage |
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| ragi | (noun) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient | Synonyms: African millet, coracan, corakan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee |
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| raging | (adjective) very severe | - |
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| (adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: angry, furious, tempestuous, wild |
| (adjective) characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense | Synonyms: hot |
| suffragism | (noun) the belief that the right to vote should be extended (as to women) | - |
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| suffragist | (noun) an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women) | - |
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| tragic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy | - |
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| (adjective) very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction | Synonyms: tragical |
| tragical | (adjective) very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction | Synonyms: tragic |
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| tragically | (adverb) in a tragic manner; with tragic consequences | - |
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| tragicomedy | (noun) a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating | - |
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| (noun) a comedy with serious elements or overtones | Synonyms: seriocomedy |
| tragicomic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of tragicomedy | - |
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| (adjective) having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics | Synonyms: tragicomical |
| (adjective) manifesting both tragic and comic aspects | Synonyms: tragicomical |
| tragicomical | (adjective) having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics | Synonyms: tragicomic |
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| (adjective) manifesting both tragic and comic aspects | Synonyms: tragicomic |
| tragifarce | (noun) an extreme form of tragicomedy. | - |
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| unencouraging | (adjective) not encouraging | - |
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