| ampersand | (noun) a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and) | - |
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| analysand | (noun) a person undergoing psychoanalysis | - |
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| anticonvulsant | (noun) a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy) | Synonyms: anticonvulsant drug, antiepileptic, antiepileptic drug |
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| antidepressant | (noun) any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects | Synonyms: antidepressant drug |
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| archdiocesan | (adjective) of or relating to an archdiocese | - |
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| artisan | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, craftsman, journeyman |
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| asana | (noun) (Hinduism) a posture or manner of sitting (as in the practice of yoga) | - |
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| bipartisan | (adjective) supported by both sides | Synonyms: bipartizan, two-party, two-way |
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| brisance | (noun) the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion | - |
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| brisant | (adjective) of or relating to the power (the shattering effect) of an explosive | - |
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| chrysanthemum | (noun) any of numerous perennial Old World herbs having showy brightly colored flower heads of the genera Chrysanthemum, Argyranthemum, Dendranthema, Tanacetum; widely cultivated | - |
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| (noun) the flower of a chrysanthemum plant | - |
| cognisance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| cognisant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognizant |
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| complaisance | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: compliance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
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| complaisant | (adjective) showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others | Synonyms: obliging |
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| consanguine | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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| consanguineal | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, kin |
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| consanguineous | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, kin |
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| consanguinity | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, cognation |
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| conversance | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversancy, familiarity |
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| conversancy | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversance, familiarity |
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| conversant | (adjective) (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly | Synonyms: familiar |
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| corposant | (noun) an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere | Synonyms: corona, corona discharge, electric glow, Saint Elmo's fire, Saint Elmo's light, Saint Ulmo's fire, Saint Ulmo's light, St. Elmo's fire |
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| courtesan | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: concubine, doxy, paramour |
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| croissant | (noun) very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll | Synonyms: crescent roll |
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| depressant | (adjective) capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent | - |
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| (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: downer, sedative, sedative drug |
| diocesan | (adjective) belonging to or governing a diocese | - |
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| (noun) a bishop having jurisdiction over a diocese | - |
| discussant | (noun) a participant in a formal discussion | - |
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| exsanguine | (adjective) destitute of blood or apparently so | Synonyms: bloodless, exsanguinous |
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| exsanguinous | (adjective) destitute of blood or apparently so | Synonyms: bloodless, exsanguine |
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| glissando | (noun) a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale | - |
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| (adverb) (musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a rapidly executed series of notes) | - |
| goosander | (noun) common merganser of Europe and North America | Synonyms: Mergus merganser |
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| greensand | (noun) an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite | - |
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| hosanna | (noun) a cry of praise or adoration (to God) | - |
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| immunosuppressant | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
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| impuissance | (noun) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act | Synonyms: helplessness, weakness |
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| impuissant | (adjective) lacking physical strength or vigor | - |
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| incessancy | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessantness |
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| incessant | (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: ceaseless, constant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting |
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| incessantly | (adverb) invariably | Synonyms: always, constantly, forever, perpetually |
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| (adverb) with unflagging resolve | Synonyms: ceaselessly, continuously, endlessly, unceasingly, unendingly |
| incessantness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessancy |
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| insane | (adjective) afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement | - |
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| (adjective) very foolish | Synonyms: harebrained, mad |
| insanely | (adverb) in an insane manner | Synonyms: crazily, dementedly, madly |
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| (adverb) (used as intensives) excessively | Synonyms: deadly, deucedly, devilishly, madly |
| insaneness | (noun) obsolete terms for legal insanity | Synonyms: lunacy, madness |
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| insanitary | (adjective) not sanitary or healthful | Synonyms: unhealthful, unsanitary |
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| insanity | (noun) relatively permanent disorder of the mind | - |
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| isanemone | (noun) an isogram connecting points having equal wind speed. | - |
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| malfeasance | (noun) wrongful conduct by a public official | - |
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| malfeasant | (noun) one guilty of malfeasance | - |
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| medusan | (noun) one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles | Synonyms: medusa, medusoid |
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| misanthrope | (noun) someone who dislikes people in general | Synonyms: misanthropist |
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| misanthropic | (adjective) believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others | Synonyms: cynical, misanthropical |
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| (adjective) hating mankind in general | Synonyms: misanthropical |
| misanthropical | (adjective) believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others | Synonyms: cynical, misanthropic |
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| (adjective) hating mankind in general | Synonyms: misanthropic |
| misanthropist | (noun) someone who dislikes people in general | Synonyms: misanthrope |
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| misanthropy | (noun) a disposition to dislike and mistrust other people | - |
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| (noun) hatred of mankind | - |
| misfeasance | (noun) doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner | - |
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| nonfeasance | (noun) a failure to act when under an obligation to do so; a refusal (without sufficient excuse) to do that which it is your legal duty to do | - |
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| nonpartisan | (adjective) free from party affiliation or bias | Synonyms: nonpartizan |
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| (noun) a person who is nonpartisan | Synonyms: nonpartizan |
| nonpartisanship | (noun) an inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally | Synonyms: impartiality |
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| nuisance | (noun) (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive | - |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
| obeisance | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obedience |
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| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, bowing |
| pachysandra | (noun) any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover | - |
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| partisan | (adjective) devoted to a cause or party | Synonyms: partizan |
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| (noun) a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: partizan |
| (noun) a fervent and even militant proponent of something | Synonyms: drumbeater, zealot |
| (noun) an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity | Synonyms: enthusiast, partizan |
| partisanship | (noun) an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives | Synonyms: partiality |
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| pasang | (noun) wild goat of Iran and adjacent regions | Synonyms: bezoar goat, Capra aegagrus |
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| (noun) large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns | Synonyms: oryx |
| passant | (adjective) in walking position with right foreleg raised | - |
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| peasant | (noun) a country person | Synonyms: bucolic, provincial |
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| (noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tike, tyke |
| (noun) one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers | - |
| peasanthood | (noun) the state of being a peasant | - |
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| peasantry | (noun) the class of peasants | - |
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| pesantran | (noun) a Muslim school in Indonesia operated by religious leaders | Synonyms: pesantren |
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| pesantren | (noun) a Muslim school in Indonesia operated by religious leaders | Synonyms: pesantran |
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| pheasant | (noun) large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a pheasant; usually braised | - |
| pisanosaur | (noun) primitive dinosaur found in Argentina | Synonyms: pisanosaurus |
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| pisanosaurus | (noun) primitive dinosaur found in Argentina | Synonyms: pisanosaur |
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| pleasance | (noun) a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience | Synonyms: pleasure |
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| (noun) a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion | - |
| pleasant | (adjective) affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings | - |
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| (adjective) (of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior | - |
| pleasantly | (adverb) in an enjoyable manner | Synonyms: agreeably, enjoyably |
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| (adverb) in a good-humoured manner | Synonyms: cheerily, sunnily |
| pleasantness | (noun) the quality of giving pleasure | Synonyms: sweetness |
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| (noun) the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling | - |
| pleasantry | (noun) an agreeable or amusing remark | - |
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| puissance | (noun) power to influence or coerce | - |
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| puissant | (adjective) powerful or influential | - |
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| pulasan | (noun) fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter | Synonyms: pulassan |
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| (noun) East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan | Synonyms: Nephelium mutabile, pulasan tree, pulassan |
| pulassan | (noun) fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter | Synonyms: pulasan |
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| (noun) East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan | Synonyms: Nephelium mutabile, pulasan, pulasan tree |
| quicksand | (noun) a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down | - |
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| (noun) a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy | - |
| recognisance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognizance |
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| reconnaissance | (noun) the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy) | Synonyms: reconnaissance mission |
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| recusancy | (noun) refusal to submit to established authority; originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England | - |
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| recusant | (adjective) refusing to submit to authority | - |
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| (adjective) (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England | Synonyms: dissentient |
| (noun) someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct | Synonyms: nonconformist |
| sacrosanct | (adjective) must be kept sacred | Synonyms: inviolable, inviolate |
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| sanatarium | (noun) a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases | Synonyms: sanatorium, sanitarium |
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| sanative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, curative, healing, remedial, therapeutic |
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| sanatorium | (noun) a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases | Synonyms: sanatarium, sanitarium |
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| (noun) pejorative terms for an insane asylum | Synonyms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, snake pit |
| sanctification | (noun) a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | - |
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| sanctified | (adjective) made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use | Synonyms: consecrated, sacred |
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| sanctify | (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, purify |
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| (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, consecrate, hallow |
| (verb) give religious sanction to, such as through an oath | Synonyms: sanction |
| sanctimonious | (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistic, pietistical, self-righteous |
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| sanctimoniously | (adverb) in a sanctimonious manner | Synonyms: self-righteously |
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| sanctimoniousness | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimony |
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| sanctimony | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimoniousness |
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| sanction | (noun) the act of final authorization | - |
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| (noun) a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards | - |
| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, authorization |
| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, indorsement, warrant |
| (verb) give sanction to | Synonyms: approve, O.K., okay |
| (verb) give religious sanction to, such as through an oath | Synonyms: sanctify |
| (verb) give authority or permission to | - |