| aftersensation | (noun) an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased | Synonyms: afterimage |
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| arsenal | (noun) a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
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| (noun) a place where arms are manufactured | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
| (noun) all the weapons and equipment that a country has | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
| arsenate | (noun) a salt or ester of arsenic acid | - |
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| arsenic | (noun) a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and in various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar | Synonyms: As, atomic number 33 |
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| (noun) a white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer | Synonyms: arsenic trioxide, arsenous anhydride, arsenous oxide, ratsbane, white arsenic |
| arsenical | (adjective) relating to or containing arsenic | - |
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| (noun) a pesticide or drug containing arsenic | - |
| arsenide | (noun) a compound of arsenic with a more positive element | - |
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| arsenious | (adjective) relating to compounds in which arsenic is trivalent | - |
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| arsenopyrite | (noun) a silver-white or grey ore of arsenic | Synonyms: mispickel |
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| coarsen | (verb) make less subtle or refined | - |
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| (verb) make or become coarse or coarser | - |
| coarsened | (adjective) made coarse or crude by lack of skill | - |
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| coarseness | (noun) looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) | Synonyms: nubbiness, tweediness |
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| (noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles | Synonyms: graininess, granularity |
| (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity |
| (noun) language or humor that is down-to-earth | Synonyms: saltiness |
| diverseness | (noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diversity, multifariousness, variety |
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| hoarseness | (noun) a throaty harshness | Synonyms: gruffness, huskiness |
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| hypersensitised | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| hypersensitive | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| hypersensitivity | (noun) extreme sensitivity | - |
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| (noun) pathological sensitivity | - |
| hypersensitized | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| oversensitive | (adjective) unduly sensitive or thin-skinned | - |
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| oversensitiveness | (noun) sensitivity leading to easy irritation or upset | - |
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| perverseness | (noun) deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrariness, perversity |
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| (noun) deliberately deviating from what is good | Synonyms: perversity |
| sarsenet | (noun) a fine soft silk fabric often used for linings | Synonyms: sarcenet |
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| sparseness | (noun) the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness | Synonyms: spareness, sparsity, thinness |
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| supersensitised | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| supersensitive | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitized |
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| supersensitized | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive |
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| terseness | (noun) a neatly short and concise expressive style | - |
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| worsen | (verb) grow worse | Synonyms: decline |
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| (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate |
| worsened | (adjective) changed for the worse in health or fitness | Synonyms: worse |
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| (adjective) made or become worse; impaired | - |
| worsening | (adjective) changing for the worse | - |
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| (noun) changing something with the result that it becomes worse | - |
| (noun) process of changing to an inferior state | Synonyms: declension, decline in quality, deterioration |