impropriety | (noun) an act of undue intimacy | Synonyms: familiarity, indecorum, liberty |
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(noun) an indecent or improper act | Synonyms: indecency |
(noun) an improper demeanor | Synonyms: improperness |
(noun) the condition of being improper | - |
inebriety | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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inexperience | (noun) lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience | Synonyms: rawness |
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inexperienced | (adjective) lacking practical experience or training | Synonyms: inexperient |
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inexperient | (adjective) lacking practical experience or training | Synonyms: inexperienced |
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insobriety | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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irretrievable | (adjective) impossible to recover or recoup or overcome | Synonyms: unretrievable |
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irretrievably | (adverb) in an irretrievable manner | - |
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kilocalorie | (noun) a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food | Synonyms: Calorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie, nutritionist's calorie |
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knobkerrie | (noun) a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa | Synonyms: knobkerry |
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lingerie | (noun) women's underwear and nightclothes | Synonyms: intimate apparel |
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liveried | (adjective) wearing livery | - |
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marqueterie | (noun) inlaid veneers are fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furniture | Synonyms: marquetry |
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married | (adjective) joined in matrimony | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the state of marriage | Synonyms: marital, matrimonial |
(noun) a person who is married | - |
materiel | (noun) equipment and supplies of a military force | Synonyms: equipage |
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menagerie | (noun) the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition | Synonyms: zoo, zoological garden |
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(noun) a collection of live animals for study or display | - |
micronutrient | (noun) a substance needed only in small amounts for normal body function (e.g., vitamins or minerals) | - |
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millicurie | (noun) a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie | - |
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multistoried | (adjective) having more than one story | Synonyms: multistorey, multistory |
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nonproprietary | (adjective) not protected by trademark or patent or copyright | - |
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notoriety | (noun) the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality | Synonyms: ill fame |
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nutrient | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive |
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(noun) any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue | Synonyms: food |
(noun) any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis | - |
oriel | (noun) a projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall | Synonyms: oriel window |
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orient | (noun) the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia | Synonyms: eastern hemisphere |
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(verb) adjust to a specific need or market | Synonyms: tailor |
(verb) familiarize (someone) with new surroundings or circumstances | - |
(verb) determine one's position with reference to another point | Synonyms: orientate |
(verb) be oriented | Synonyms: point |
(verb) cause to point | - |
oriental | (adjective) denoting or characteristic of countries of the Far East | - |
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(adjective) denoting or characteristic of countries of Asia; 'oriental civilization' | - |
orientalise | (verb) make oriental in character | Synonyms: orientalize |
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orientalism | (noun) the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Asian civilizations | - |
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orientalist | (noun) a specialist in oriental subjects | - |
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orientalize | (verb) make oriental in character | Synonyms: orientalise |
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orientate | (verb) determine one's position with reference to another point | Synonyms: orient |
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orientated | (adjective) adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: oriented |
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orientating | (adjective) positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually | Synonyms: orienting |
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orientation | (noun) the act of orienting | - |
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(noun) a course introducing a new situation or environment | Synonyms: orientation course |
(noun) an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
(noun) a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships | - |
(noun) a predisposition in favor of something | Synonyms: predilection, preference |
(noun) position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions | - |
oriented | (adjective) adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: orientated |
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orienting | (adjective) positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually | Synonyms: orientating |
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ovariectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both ovaries | Synonyms: oophorectomy |
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paries | (noun) (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure | Synonyms: wall |
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parietal | (adjective) of or relating to or associated with the parietal bones in the cranium | - |
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parqueterie | (noun) a patterned wood inlay used to cover a floor | Synonyms: parquetry |
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parturiency | (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, travail |
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parturient | (adjective) of or relating to or giving birth | - |
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(adjective) giving birth | - |
passementerie | (noun) a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment | Synonyms: trim, trimming |
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patisserie | (noun) a bakery specializing in French pastry | - |
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prairie | (noun) a treeless grassy plain | - |
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priest | (noun) a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders | - |
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(noun) a person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion | Synonyms: non-Christian priest |
priestcraft | (noun) the skills involved in the work of a priest | - |
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(noun) a derogatory reference to priests who use their influence to control secular or political affairs | - |
priestess | (noun) a woman priest | - |
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priesthood | (noun) the body of ordained religious practitioners | - |
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priestlike | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood | Synonyms: priestly |
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priestly | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood | Synonyms: priestlike |
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(adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratic, hieratical, sacerdotal |
proprietary | (adjective) protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights | - |
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(noun) an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits | Synonyms: proprietorship |
proprietor | (noun) (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business | Synonyms: owner |
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proprietorship | (noun) an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits | Synonyms: proprietary |
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proprietress | (noun) a woman proprietor | - |
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propriety | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: correctitude, properness |
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prurience | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, pruriency |
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pruriency | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, prurience |
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prurient | (adjective) characterized by lust | Synonyms: lubricious, lustful, salacious |
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pruriently | (adverb) in a prurient manner | - |
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quarrier | (noun) a man who works in a quarry | Synonyms: quarryman |
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querier | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, enquirer, inquirer, questioner |
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reorient | (verb) set or arrange in a new or different determinate position | - |
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(verb) cause to turn | - |
(verb) orient once again, after a disorientation | Synonyms: reorientate |
reorientate | (verb) orient once again, after a disorientation | Synonyms: reorient |
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reorientation | (noun) the act of changing the direction in which something is oriented | Synonyms: change of direction |
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(noun) a fresh orientation; a changed set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
reprieve | (noun) the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment | Synonyms: respite |
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(noun) a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence) | - |
(noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, respite, suspension |
(noun) a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort | Synonyms: respite |
(verb) relieve temporarily | - |
(verb) postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution | Synonyms: respite |
retrievable | (adjective) capable of being regained especially with effort | - |
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retrieval | (noun) the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost) | Synonyms: recovery |
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(noun) the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory | - |
(noun) (computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory | - |
retrieve | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, remember, think |
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(verb) run after, pick up, and bring to the master | - |
(verb) go for and bring back | - |
(verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: find, recover, regain |
retriever | (noun) a dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game | - |
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reverie | (noun) an abstracted state of absorption | Synonyms: revery |
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(noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, revery |
riel | (noun) the basic unit of money in Cambodia; equal to 100 sen | - |
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rotisserie | (noun) a restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meats | - |
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(noun) an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns | - |
roughdried | (adjective) (of laundry) dried but not ironed | - |
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salaried | (adjective) receiving a salary | - |
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(adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: compensable, paying, remunerative, stipendiary |
(adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: compensated, remunerated, stipendiary |
schoolfriend | (noun) a friend who attends the same school | - |
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seriema | (noun) Brazilian Cariama; sole representative of the genus Cariama | Synonyms: Cariama cristata, crested cariama |
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(noun) Argentinian Cariama | Synonyms: chunga, Chunga burmeisteri |
series | (noun) (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions | - |
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(noun) a periodical that appears at scheduled times | Synonyms: serial, serial publication |
(noun) a serialized set of programs | Synonyms: serial |
(noun) (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams | - |
(noun) similar things placed in order or happening one after another | - |
(noun) a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection | - |
(noun) (electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other | - |
serried | (adjective) (especially of rows as of troops or mountains) pressed together | - |
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shriek | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shrieking |
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(noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shrieking |
(verb) utter a shrill cry | Synonyms: pipe, pipe up, shrill |
shrieked | (adjective) uttered in a shrill scream as of pain or terror | - |
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shrieking | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
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(noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
sobriety | (noun) abstaining from excess | Synonyms: temperance |
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(noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, gravity, soberness, somberness, sombreness |
(noun) moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs | Synonyms: dryness |
(noun) the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol | Synonyms: soberness |
storied | (adjective) having an illustrious past | Synonyms: celebrated, historied |
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(adjective) having stories as indicated | Synonyms: storeyed |
sundried | (adjective) dried naturally by the sun | Synonyms: sun-dried |
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sundries | (noun) miscellaneous objects too numerous or too small to be specified | - |
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sweetbrier | (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar |
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tapestried | (adjective) hung or decorated with tapestry | - |
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terrier | (noun) any of several usually small short-bodied breeds originally trained to hunt animals living underground | - |
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tried | (adjective) tested and proved useful or correct | Synonyms: tested, well-tried |
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(adjective) tested and proved to be reliable | Synonyms: tested, time-tested, tried and true |
triennial | (adjective) occurring every third year or lasting 3 years | - |
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(noun) the 300th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: tercentenary, tercentennial |
trier | (noun) one who tries | Synonyms: attempter, essayer |
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(noun) one (as a judge) who examines and settles a case | - |
unburied | (adjective) not buried | - |
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undried | (adjective) still wet or moist | - |
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unflurried | (adjective) free from emotional agitation or nervous tension | Synonyms: unflustered, unperturbed, unruffled |
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unfriend | (verb) To remove someone from your list of friends on a social network | - |
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unfriendliness | (noun) an unfriendly disposition | - |
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(noun) dislike experienced as an absence of friendliness | - |
unfriendly | (adjective) not disposed to friendship or friendliness | - |
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(adjective) not easy to understand or use | - |
(adjective) very unfavorable to life or growth | Synonyms: hostile, uncongenial |
(adjective) not friendly | Synonyms: inimical |
unhurried | (adjective) relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste | - |
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(adjective) capable of accepting delay with equanimity | - |
unhurriedly | (adverb) without haste | - |
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unhurriedness | (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberateness, deliberation, slowness |
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