| 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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| disapproving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting disapproval | - |
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| disapprovingly | (adverb) showing disapproval | - |
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| enterovirus | (noun) any of a group of picornaviruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract and can spread to other areas (especially the nervous system) | - |
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| flerovium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element | Synonyms: Fl |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| retrovirus | (noun) any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then incorporated into the host cell | - |
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| retrovision | (noun) a vision of events in the distant past | - |
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| roving | (adjective) migratory | Synonyms: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, wandering |
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| (noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: vagabondage, wandering |