| ingratiatingly | (adverb) in a flattering and ingratiating manner | - |
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| ingratiation | (noun) the act of gaining acceptance or affection for yourself by persuasive and subtle blandishments | Synonyms: insinuation |
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| ingratiatory | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiating, insinuating |
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| (adjective) pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade | Synonyms: coaxing |
| ingratitude | (noun) a lack of gratitude | Synonyms: ungratefulness |
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| inoperative | (adjective) not working or taking effect | - |
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| inspiration | (noun) the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing | Synonyms: aspiration, breathing in, inhalation, intake |
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| (noun) arousing to a particular emotion or action | Synonyms: stirring |
| (noun) a product of your creative thinking and work | Synonyms: brainchild |
| (noun) (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings | Synonyms: divine guidance |
| (noun) a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem | - |
| (noun) arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity | - |
| inspirational | (adjective) imparting a divine influence on the mind and soul | - |
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| inspirationally | (adverb) with inspiration; in an inspiring manner | - |
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| instauration | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, institution, introduction, origination |
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| integrating | (noun) the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community | Synonyms: desegregation, integration |
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| integration | (noun) the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community | Synonyms: desegregation, integrating |
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| (noun) the act of combining into an integral whole | Synonyms: consolidation |
| (noun) an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined | - |
| integrative | (adjective) combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole | - |
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| (adjective) tending to consolidate | Synonyms: consolidative |
| interpenetration | (noun) mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other | Synonyms: permeation |
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| (noun) the action of penetrating between or among | - |
| interstratify | (verb) arrange rocks in alternating strata | - |
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| invigorating | (adjective) imparting strength and vitality | - |
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| invigoration | (noun) the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something | Synonyms: animation, vivification |
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| (noun) quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous | Synonyms: animation, brio, spiritedness, vivification |
| iridokeratitis | (noun) inflammation of the iris and cornea of the eye | - |
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| irrational | (adjective) not consistent with or using reason | - |
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| (adjective) real but not expressible as the quotient of two integers | - |
| (noun) a real number that cannot be expressed as a rational number | Synonyms: irrational number |
| irrationality | (noun) the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding | Synonyms: unreason |
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| irrationally | (adverb) in an irrational manner | - |
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| iteration | (noun) doing or saying again; a repeated performance | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained | Synonyms: looping |
| (noun) (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated | Synonyms: loop |
| iterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: reiterative |
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| (noun) the aspect of the verb that expresses the repetition of an action | Synonyms: iterative aspect |
| itineration | (noun) journeying from place to place preaching or lecturing; a preaching tour or lecturing tour | - |
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| keratin | (noun) a fibrous scleroprotein that occurs in the outer layer of the skin and in horny tissues such as hair, feathers, nails, and hooves | Synonyms: ceratin |
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| keratinisation | (noun) organic process by which keratin is deposited in cells and the cells become horny (as in nails and hair) | Synonyms: keratinization |
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| keratinise | (verb) become horny and impregnated with keratin | Synonyms: keratinize |
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| (verb) convert into keratin | Synonyms: keratinize |
| keratinization | (noun) organic process by which keratin is deposited in cells and the cells become horny (as in nails and hair) | Synonyms: keratinisation |
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| keratinize | (verb) become horny and impregnated with keratin | Synonyms: keratinise |
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| (verb) convert into keratin | Synonyms: keratinise |
| keratitis | (noun) inflammation of the cornea causing watery painful eyes and blurred vision | - |
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| laceration | (noun) the act of lacerating | - |
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| (noun) a torn ragged wound | - |
| liberation | (noun) the attempt to achieve equal rights or status | - |
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| (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, release, sack, sacking |
| (noun) the act of liberating someone or something | Synonyms: freeing, release |
| libration | (noun) (astronomy) a real or apparent slow oscillation of a moon or satellite | - |
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| literati | (noun) the literary intelligentsia | - |
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| literatim | (adverb) letter for letter | - |
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| lucrative | (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: moneymaking, remunerative |
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| lucrativeness | (noun) the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit | Synonyms: gainfulness, profitability, profitableness |
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| lucubration | (noun) laborious cogitation | - |
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| (noun) a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation | - |
| maceration | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: boniness, bonyness, emaciation, gauntness |
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| (noun) softening due to soaking or steeping | - |
| macerative | (adjective) accompanied by or characterized by maceration | - |
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| maturation | (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
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| (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturement, ripening |
| (noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: festering, suppuration |
| maturational | (adjective) relating to or involved in maturation | - |
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| melioration | (noun) the act of relieving ills and changing for the better | Synonyms: amelioration, betterment |
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| (noun) the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning | - |
| (noun) a condition superior to an earlier condition | Synonyms: improvement |
| meliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, ameliorative, amelioratory |
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| mensuration | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measurement, measuring |
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| meritocratic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a meritocracy | - |
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| migration | (noun) the movement of persons from one country or locality to another | - |
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| (noun) the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule | - |
| (noun) a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period) | - |
| migrational | (adjective) of or related to migration | - |
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| ministration | (noun) assistance in time of difficulty | Synonyms: relief, succor, succour |
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| moderating | (adjective) lessening in intensity or strength | - |
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| moderation | (noun) the action of lessening in severity or intensity | Synonyms: mitigation |
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| (noun) quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes | Synonyms: moderateness |
| (noun) the trait of avoiding excesses | Synonyms: temperance |
| (noun) a change for the better | Synonyms: easing, relief |
| moderationism | (noun) the policy of being moderate or acting with moderation | - |
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| moderationist | (noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: centrist, middle of the roader, moderate |
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| (noun) a moderate drinker (as opposed to a total abstainer) | - |
| moderatism | (noun) a political philosophy of avoiding the extremes of left and right by taking a moderate position or course of action | Synonyms: centrism |
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| murmuration | (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuring, mussitation, mutter, muttering |
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| narration | (noun) the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events | Synonyms: recital, yarn |
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| (noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narrative, story, tale |
| (noun) (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth | - |
| narrative | (adjective) consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story | - |
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| (noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narration, story, tale |
| nonexplorative | (adjective) not exploratory | Synonyms: nonexploratory, unexplorative, unexploratory |
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| nonfigurative | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, abstractionist, nonobjective |
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| nonoperational | (adjective) (military) not involved in military operations | Synonyms: inactive |
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| nonproliferation | (noun) the prevention of something increasing or spreading (especially the prevention of an increase in the number of countries possessing nuclear weapons) | Synonyms: non-proliferation |
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| nonrational | (adjective) obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation | Synonyms: intuitive, visceral |
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| (adjective) not based on reason | - |
| nonsuppurative | (adjective) not suppurative | - |
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| numeration | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, enumeration, reckoning, tally |
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| (noun) naming numbers | - |
| obliteration | (noun) destruction by annihilating something | Synonyms: annihilation |
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| (noun) the complete destruction of every trace of something | Synonyms: eradication |
| operatic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of opera | - |
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| operating | (adjective) involved in a kind of operation | - |
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| (adjective) being in effect or operation | Synonyms: in operation, operational |
| operation | (noun) a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Synonyms: surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process |
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| (noun) (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods | Synonyms: mathematical operation, mathematical process |
| (noun) activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign) | Synonyms: military operation |
| (noun) a planned activity involving many people performing various actions | - |
| (noun) a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work | Synonyms: procedure |
| (noun) a business especially one run on a large scale | - |
| (noun) the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.) | - |
| (noun) (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents | Synonyms: cognitive operation, cognitive process, mental process, process |
| (noun) (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction) | - |
| (noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: functioning, performance |
| (noun) the state of being in effect or being operative | - |
| operational | (adjective) (military) of or intended for or involved in military operations | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to a process or series of actions for achieving a result | - |
| (adjective) being in effect or operation | Synonyms: in operation, operating |
| (adjective) fit or ready for use or service | Synonyms: functional, operable, usable, useable |
| operationalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that the meaning of a proposition consists of the operations involved in proving or applying it | - |
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| operationalist | (adjective) of or relating to or espousing operationalism | - |
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| operationally | (adverb) in respect to operation | - |
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| operations | (noun) financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records | Synonyms: trading operations |
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| operative | (adjective) being in force or having or exerting force | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine | Synonyms: surgical |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing | Synonyms: functional, running, working |
| (adjective) effective; producing a desired effect | - |
| (noun) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | Synonyms: PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus, sherlock |
| (noun) a person secretly employed in espionage for a government | Synonyms: intelligence agent, intelligence officer, secret agent |
| operatively | (adverb) in a manner to produce an effect | - |
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| oration | (noun) an instance of oratory | - |
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| orchestration | (noun) the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments | Synonyms: instrumentation |
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| (noun) an arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effect | - |
| (noun) an arrangement of a piece of music for performance by an orchestra or band | - |
| overrating | (noun) a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high | Synonyms: overestimate, overestimation, overreckoning |
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| palpebration | (noun) repeated blinking or winking (especially if uncontrolled and persistent) | - |
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| pejorative | (adjective) expressing disapproval | Synonyms: dislogistic, dyslogistic |
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| pejoratively | (adverb) in a pejorative manner | - |
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| penetrating | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing | Synonyms: penetrative |
| penetratingly | (adverb) with ability to see into deeply | Synonyms: penetratively |
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| penetration | (noun) an attack that penetrates into enemy territory | Synonyms: incursion |
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| (noun) the act of entering into or through something | - |
| (noun) the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman | - |
| (noun) the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target) | - |
| (noun) the ability to make way into or through something | - |
| (noun) clear or deep perception of a situation | Synonyms: insight |
| penetrative | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing | Synonyms: penetrating |
| penetratively | (adverb) with ability to see into deeply | Synonyms: penetratingly |
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| perforation | (noun) the act of punching a hole (especially a row of holes as for ease of separation) | - |
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| (noun) a line of small holes for tearing at a particular place | - |
| (noun) a hole made in something | - |
| peroration | (noun) (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration | - |
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| (noun) a flowery and highly rhetorical oration | - |
| perpetration | (noun) the act of committing a crime | Synonyms: commission, committal |
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| perseveration | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, persistence |
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| (noun) the tendency for a memory or idea to persist or recur without any apparent stimulus for it | - |
| perspiration | (noun) salty fluid secreted by sweat glands | Synonyms: sudor, sweat |
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| (noun) the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid | Synonyms: diaphoresis, hidrosis, sudation, sweating |
| pervaporation | (noun) the concentration of a colloidal solution whose colloid will not pass through a semipermeable membrane; solution is placed in a bag of the membrane and the solvent is evaporated off | - |
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| piratical | (adjective) characteristic of pirates | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of piracy | - |
| piratically | (adverb) in a piratical manner | - |
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| plutocratic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a plutocrat | Synonyms: plutocratical |
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| plutocratical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a plutocrat | Synonyms: plutocratic |
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| postoperative | (adjective) happening or done after a surgical operation | - |
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| postoperatively | (adverb) after the operation | - |
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| pratincole | (noun) Old World shorebird with long pointed wings and short legs; closely related to the coursers | Synonyms: glareole |
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| prefiguration | (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, foreshadowing |
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| (noun) an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come | - |
| prefigurative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, foreshadowing |
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