alerting | (noun) a warning serves to make you more alert to danger | Synonyms: alert |
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(noun) a state of readiness to respond | Synonyms: alertness |
asserting | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: declarative, declaratory |
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averting | (noun) the act of preventing something from occurring | - |
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(noun) the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away | Synonyms: aversion |
carting | (noun) the work of taking something away in a cart or truck and disposing of it | Synonyms: cartage |
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comforting | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: consolatory, consoling |
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(adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: cheering, satisfying |
comfortingly | (adverb) in a comforting or consoling manner | Synonyms: consolingly |
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concertina | (noun) free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds | - |
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(noun) coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle | - |
(verb) collapse like a concertina | - |
concertinist | (noun) a person who plays the concertina | - |
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cortina | (noun) a cobwebby partial veil consisting of silky fibrils | - |
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courting | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courtship, suit, wooing |
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departing | (adjective) that is going out or leaving | Synonyms: outbound, outward-bound, outward |
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dirtiness | (noun) obscenity in speech or writing | Synonyms: smuttiness |
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(noun) the state of being unsanitary | Synonyms: uncleanness |
(noun) the state of containing dirty impurities | - |
disconcerting | (adjective) causing an emotional disturbance | Synonyms: upsetting |
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disconcertingly | (adverb) in a disturbing or embarrassing manner | - |
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diverting | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, amusive |
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divertingly | (adverb) in an entertaining and amusing manner | Synonyms: amusingly |
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everting | (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: eversion, inversion |
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exporting | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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farting | (noun) a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus | Synonyms: breaking wind, fart, flatus, wind |
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flirting | (noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: coquetry, dalliance, flirt, flirtation, toying |
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heartiness | (noun) the quality of hearty sincerity | Synonyms: wholeheartedness |
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(noun) active strength of body or mind | Synonyms: dynamism, vigor, vigour |
hurting | (noun) a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder | Synonyms: pain |
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imparting | (noun) the transmission of information | Synonyms: conveyance, impartation |
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impertinence | (noun) inappropriate playfulness | Synonyms: archness, perkiness, pertness, sauciness |
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(noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impudence, insolence |
(noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: cheek, impudence |
impertinent | (adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart, wise |
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(adjective) not pertinent to the matter under consideration | Synonyms: extraneous, immaterial, orthogonal |
(adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: irreverent, pert, saucy |
impertinently | (adverb) in an impudent or impertinent manner | Synonyms: freshly, impudently, pertly, saucily |
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importing | (noun) the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country | Synonyms: importation |
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libertine | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, profligate, riotous |
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(noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: debauchee, rounder |
libertinism | (noun) A lifestyle or pattern of behavior characterized by self-indulgence and lack of restraint, especially one involving sexual promiscuity and rejection of religious or other moral authority. | - |
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martin | (noun) any of various swallows with squarish or slightly forked tail and long pointed wings; migrate around Martinmas | - |
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martinet | (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: disciplinarian, moralist |
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martingale | (noun) a harness strap that connects the nose piece to the girth; prevents the horse from throwing back its head | - |
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(noun) spar under the bowsprit of a sailboat | Synonyms: dolphin striker |
martini | (noun) a cocktail made of gin (or vodka) with dry vermouth | - |
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nemertine | (noun) soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract | Synonyms: nemertean, proboscis worm, ribbon worm |
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parting | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: farewell, leave-taking, leave |
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(noun) a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions | Synonyms: part |
pertinacious | (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, persistent, tenacious, unyielding |
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pertinaciously | (adverb) in a dogged and pertinacious manner | - |
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pertinacity | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenaciousness, tenacity |
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pertinence | (noun) relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | Synonyms: applicability, pertinency |
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pertinency | (noun) relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | Synonyms: applicability, pertinence |
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pertinent | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apposite, apt |
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(adjective) having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand | Synonyms: to the point |
pertinently | (adverb) in a pertinent way | - |
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proconvertin | (noun) a coagulation factor formed in the kidney under the influence of vitamin K | Synonyms: cothromboplastin, factor VII, stable factor |
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reporting | (noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: coverage, reportage |
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reverting | (adjective) tending to return to an earlier state | Synonyms: returning |
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(noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion |
sertindole | (noun) an antipsychotic medication used in the treatment of schizophrenia. | - |
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shirting | (noun) any of various fabrics used to make men's shirts | - |
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skirting | (adjective) being all around the edges; enclosing | Synonyms: encircling |
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smarting | (noun) a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore | Synonyms: smart, smartness |
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snorting | (noun) an act of forcible exhalation | Synonyms: huffing, puffing |
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sorting | (noun) grouping by class or kind or size | - |
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(noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, classification |
(noun) an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion | Synonyms: sort |
sportiness | (noun) The characteristic appearance and behavior of people who partake in sports. | - |
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sporting | (adjective) relating to or used in sports | - |
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(adjective) involving risk or willingness to take a risk | - |
(adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: clean, sportsmanlike, sporty |
(adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: betting, card-playing, dissipated, gambling |
sportingly | (adverb) so as to be sporting; in a sporting manner | - |
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spurting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: jetting, spouting, squirting |
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squirting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: jetting, spouting, spurting |
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starting | (adjective) appropriate to the beginning or start of an event | - |
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(adjective) (especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear | - |
(noun) a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning) | Synonyms: start |
supporting | (adjective) capable of bearing a structural load | Synonyms: load-bearing |
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(adjective) furnishing support and encouragement | Synonyms: encouraging |
(noun) the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening | Synonyms: support |
thwarting | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, frustrative |
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(noun) an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts | Synonyms: foiling, frustration |
unsporting | (adjective) violating accepted standards or rules | Synonyms: cheating, dirty, foul, unsportsmanlike |
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unsportingly | (adverb) in an unsportsmanlike manner | - |
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