| dehydration | (noun) the process of extracting moisture | Synonyms: desiccation, drying up, evaporation |
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| (noun) dryness resulting from the removal of water | Synonyms: desiccation |
| (noun) depletion of bodily fluids | - |
| deliberation | (noun) the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision | Synonyms: deliberateness |
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| (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberateness, slowness, unhurriedness |
| (noun) planning something carefully and intentionally | Synonyms: calculation |
| (noun) careful consideration | Synonyms: advisement, weighing |
| (noun) (usually plural) discussion of all sides of a question | - |
| deliberative | (adjective) involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination | - |
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| democratic | (adjective) characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality | - |
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| (adjective) representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large | Synonyms: popular |
| democratically | (adverb) in a democratic manner; based on democratic principles | - |
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| democratisation | (noun) the action of making something democratic | Synonyms: democratization |
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| democratise | (verb) become (more) democratic; of nations | Synonyms: democratize |
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| (verb) introduce democratic reforms; of nations | Synonyms: democratize |
| democratism | (noun) the theory, system, or principles of democracy. | - |
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| democratization | (noun) the action of making something democratic | Synonyms: democratisation |
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| democratize | (verb) become (more) democratic; of nations | Synonyms: democratise |
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| (verb) introduce democratic reforms; of nations | Synonyms: democratise |
| demonstration | (noun) a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view | Synonyms: presentation, presentment |
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| (noun) a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature) | Synonyms: manifestation |
| (noun) a show of military force or preparedness | - |
| (noun) a visual presentation showing how something works | Synonyms: demo |
| (noun) proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion | Synonyms: monstrance |
| demonstrative | (adjective) given to or marked by the open expression of emotion | - |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: illustrative |
| (noun) a pronoun that points out an intended referent | Synonyms: demonstrative pronoun |
| demonstratively | (adverb) in a demonstrative manner | - |
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| demonstrativeness | (noun) tending to express your feelings freely | - |
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| denigrating | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| denigration | (noun) the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself) | Synonyms: deprecation |
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| (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, defamation, slander |
| (noun) a belittling comment | Synonyms: belittling |
| denigrative | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| desecration | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, profanation, sacrilege |
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| desperation | (noun) desperate recklessness | - |
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| (noun) a state in which all hope is lost or absent | Synonyms: despair |
| deterioration | (noun) process of changing to an inferior state | Synonyms: declension, decline in quality, worsening |
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| (noun) a symptom of reduced quality or strength | Synonyms: impairment |
| discoloration | (noun) the act of changing the natural color of something by making it duller or dingier or unnatural or faded | Synonyms: discolouration |
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| (noun) a soiled or discolored appearance | Synonyms: discolouration, stain |
| discolouration | (noun) the act of changing the natural color of something by making it duller or dingier or unnatural or faded | Synonyms: discoloration |
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| (noun) a soiled or discolored appearance | Synonyms: discoloration, stain |
| disfiguration | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfigurement, mutilation |
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| (noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: deformity, disfigurement |
| disintegration | (noun) total destruction | Synonyms: annihilation |
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| (noun) separation into component parts | Synonyms: dissolution |
| (noun) the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation | Synonyms: decay, radioactive decay |
| (noun) in a decomposed state | Synonyms: decomposition |
| (noun) a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system | - |
| disintegrative | (adjective) tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts | - |
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| duration | (noun) continuance in time | Synonyms: length |
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| (noun) the property of enduring or continuing in time | Synonyms: continuance |
| (noun) the period of time during which something continues | Synonyms: continuance |
| durative | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration | Synonyms: durative aspect |
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| elaboration | (noun) developing in intricate and painstaking detail | Synonyms: working out |
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| (noun) addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail | Synonyms: amplification |
| (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaborateness, intricacy, involution |
| (noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: enlargement, expansion |
| (noun) the result of improving something | Synonyms: refinement |
| elucubration | (noun) a written work produced by elucubrating. | - |
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| emigration | (noun) migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another) | Synonyms: expatriation, out-migration |
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| enculturation | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: acculturation, socialisation, socialization |
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| enumeration | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, numeration, reckoning, tally |
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| (noun) a numbered list | Synonyms: numbering |
| equilibration | (noun) stabilization by bringing into equilibrium | - |
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| erratic | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: fickle, mercurial, quicksilver |
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| (adjective) likely to perform unpredictably | Synonyms: temperamental |
| (adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: planetary, wandering |
| erratically | (adverb) in an erratic unpredictable manner | Synonyms: unpredictably |
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| evaporation | (noun) the process of becoming a vapor | Synonyms: vapor, vaporisation, vaporization, vapour |
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| (noun) the process of extracting moisture | Synonyms: dehydration, desiccation, drying up |
| evaporative | (adjective) relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation | - |
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| eventration | (noun) protrusion of the intestine through the abdominal wall | - |
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| evisceration | (noun) surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient | - |
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| (noun) the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude | Synonyms: disembowelment |
| (noun) altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value | - |
| exaggeration | (noun) the act of making something more noticeable than usual | - |
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| (noun) making to seem more important than it really is | Synonyms: magnification, overstatement |
| (noun) extravagant exaggeration | Synonyms: hyperbole |
| exasperating | (adjective) extremely annoying or displeasing | Synonyms: infuriating, maddening, vexing |
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| (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: aggravating, exacerbating |
| exasperatingly | (adverb) in an exasperating manner | - |
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| exasperation | (noun) actions that cause great irritation (or even anger) | - |
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| (noun) an exasperated feeling of annoyance | Synonyms: aggravation |
| execration | (noun) the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated | - |
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| (noun) an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group | Synonyms: condemnation, curse |
| (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, loathing, odium |
| exenteration | (noun) surgical removal of the organs within a body cavity (as those of the pelvis) | - |
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| exhilarating | (adjective) making lively and joyful | Synonyms: elating |
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| (adjective) making lively and cheerful | Synonyms: stimulating |
| exhilaration | (noun) the feeling of lively and cheerful joy | Synonyms: excitement |
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| exoneration | (noun) the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc. | Synonyms: vindication |
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| (noun) the condition of being relieved from blame or obligation | - |
| exonerative | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: absolvitory, forgiving |
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| expectoration | (noun) the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva) | Synonyms: spit, spitting |
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| (noun) the process of coughing up and spitting out | - |
| expiration | (noun) the act of expelling air from the lungs | Synonyms: breathing out, exhalation |
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| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, going, loss, passing, release |
| (noun) a coming to an end of a contract period | Synonyms: expiry, termination |
| exploration | (noun) a careful systematic search | - |
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| (noun) to travel for the purpose of discovery | Synonyms: geographic expedition |
| (noun) a systematic consideration | - |
| explorative | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: exploratory |
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| federation | (noun) the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs | - |
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| (noun) a union of political organizations | Synonyms: confederacy, confederation |
| (noun) an organization formed by merging several groups or parties | - |
| fenestration | (noun) surgical procedure that creates a new fenestra to the cochlea in order to restore hearing lost because of osteosclerosis | - |
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| (noun) the arrangement of windows in a building | - |
| figuration | (noun) decorating with a design | - |
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| (noun) representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory | - |
| figurative | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: nonliteral |
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| (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figural |
| figuratively | (adverb) in a figurative sense | - |
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| figurativeness | (noun) The property of being metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures of speech. | - |
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| (noun) The representation of form or figure in art. | - |
| filtration | (noun) the act of changing a fluid by passing it through a filter | - |
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| (noun) the process whereby fluids pass through a filter or a filtering medium | - |
| fitspiration | (noun) something that inspires you to exercise | - |
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| frustrating | (adjective) discouraging by hindering | - |
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| (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrative, thwarting |
| frustration | (noun) an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts | Synonyms: foiling, thwarting |
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| (noun) the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals | Synonyms: defeat |
| (noun) a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized | - |
| frustrative | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, thwarting |
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| fulgurating | (adjective) sharp and piercing | - |
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| generation | (noun) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production | Synonyms: multiplication, propagation |
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| (noun) the production of heat or electricity | - |
| (noun) a coming into being | Synonyms: genesis |
| (noun) group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent | - |
| (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: coevals, contemporaries |
| (noun) the normal time between successive generations | - |
| (noun) a stage of technological development or innovation | - |
| generational | (adjective) of or relating to a generation | - |
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| generative | (adjective) having the ability to produce or originate | Synonyms: productive |
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| (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: procreative, reproductive |
| graticule | (noun) a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument | Synonyms: reticle, reticule |
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| gratification | (noun) the act or an instance of satisfying | - |
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| (noun) state of being gratified or satisfied | Synonyms: satisfaction |
| gratified | (adjective) having received what was desired | - |
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| gratify | (verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: indulge, pander |
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| (verb) make happy or satisfied | Synonyms: satisfy |
| gratifying | (adjective) affording satisfaction or pleasure | Synonyms: enjoyable, pleasurable |
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| (adjective) pleasing to the mind or feeling | Synonyms: sweet |
| gratifyingly | (adverb) in a gratifying manner | Synonyms: satisfyingly |
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| grating | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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| (noun) a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air | Synonyms: grate |
| (noun) a frame of iron bars to hold a fire | Synonyms: grate |
| (noun) optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum | Synonyms: diffraction grating |
| gratingly | (adverb) in a harsh and grating manner | Synonyms: harshly, raspingly |
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| gratis | (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: complimentary, costless, free, gratuitous |
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| (adverb) without charge | Synonyms: for free, free of charge |
| gratitude | (noun) a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation | - |
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| gyration | (noun) the act of rotating in a circle or spiral | Synonyms: whirling |
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| (noun) a single complete turn (axial or orbital) | Synonyms: revolution, rotation |
| hieratic | (adjective) written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing | - |
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| (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratical, priestly, sacerdotal |
| (adjective) adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal | - |
| (noun) a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests | Synonyms: hieratic script |
| hieratical | (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratic, priestly, sacerdotal |
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| hydration | (noun) the process of combining with water; usually reversible | - |
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| idiosyncratic | (adjective) peculiar to the individual | - |
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| illustration | (noun) a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used to make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand | - |
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| (noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: example, instance, representative |
| (noun) artwork that helps make something clear or attractive | - |
| (noun) showing by example | Synonyms: exemplification |
| illustrative | (adjective) clarifying by use of examples | Synonyms: exemplifying |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: demonstrative |
| immigration | (noun) migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) | Synonyms: in-migration |
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| (noun) the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval | - |
| immoderation | (noun) the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation | Synonyms: immoderateness |
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| imperative | (adjective) requiring attention or action | - |
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| (adjective) relating to verbs in the imperative mood | - |
| (noun) some duty that is essential and urgent | - |
| (noun) a verb in the imperative mood. | Synonyms: imperative verb |
| (noun) a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior | Synonyms: imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mood |
| imperatively | (adverb) in an imperative and commanding manner | Synonyms: peremptorily |
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| imperativeness | (noun) the quality of being insistent | Synonyms: instancy |
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| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: insistence, insistency, press, pressure |
| inauguration | (noun) the ceremonial induction into a position | Synonyms: inaugural |
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| (noun) the act of starting a new operation or practice | Synonyms: startup |
| incarceration | (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: captivity, immurement, imprisonment |
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| incineration | (noun) the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes | - |
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| inconsideration | (noun) the quality of failing to be considerate of others | Synonyms: inconsiderateness, thoughtlessness |
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| incorporation | (noun) including by incorporating | - |
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| (noun) consolidating two or more things; union in (or into) one body | - |
| (noun) learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself | Synonyms: internalisation, internalization |
| incorporative | (adjective) growing by taking over and incorporating adjacent territories | - |
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| induration | (noun) any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue | Synonyms: sclerosis |
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| infiltration | (noun) a process in which individuals (or small groups) penetrate an area (especially the military penetration of enemy positions without detection) | - |
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| (noun) the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium | Synonyms: percolation |
| ingratiate | (verb) gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts | - |
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| ingratiating | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiatory, insinuating |
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| (adjective) capable of winning favor | - |