| backscatter | (verb) scatter (radiation) by the atoms of the medium through which it passes | - |
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| confiscate | (adjective) surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: forfeit, forfeited |
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| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, impound, seize, sequester |
| confiscation | (noun) seizure by the government | Synonyms: arrogation |
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| coruscate | (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: scintillate, sparkle |
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| (verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: scintillate, sparkle |
| coruscation | (noun) a sudden or striking display of brilliance | - |
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| (noun) the occurrence of a small flash or spark | Synonyms: glitter, sparkle |
| infuscate | (verb) darken with a brownish tinge, as of insect wings | - |
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| lemniscate | (noun) any of several plane algebraic curves in the shape of a figure eight | - |
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| muscat | (noun) sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine | Synonyms: muscat grape, muscatel |
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| (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscadelle, muscatel |
| (noun) any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes | Synonyms: muskat |
| muscatel | (noun) sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine | Synonyms: muscat, muscat grape |
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| (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscadelle, muscat |
| obfuscate | (verb) make obscure or unclear | - |
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| obfuscation | (noun) the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered | Synonyms: mystification |
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| (noun) darkening or obscuring the sight of something | - |
| (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, puzzlement |
| piscatorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing | Synonyms: piscatory |
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| piscatory | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing | Synonyms: piscatorial |
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| requiescat | (noun) a prayer for the repose of the soul of a dead person | - |
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| scat | (noun) singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument | Synonyms: scat singing |
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| (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, take to the woods, turn tail |
| scathe | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: damage, harm, hurt |
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| scathing | (adjective) marked by harshly abusive criticism | Synonyms: vituperative |
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| scathingly | (adverb) in a scathing and unsparing manner | Synonyms: unsparingly |
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| scatological | (adjective) dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions | - |
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| scatology | (noun) (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes) | - |
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| (noun) a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions) | - |
| scatophagy | (noun) the eating of excrement or other filth | - |
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| scatter | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scattering, strewing |
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| (noun) a haphazard distribution in all directions | Synonyms: spread |
| (verb) cause to separate | Synonyms: break up, disperse |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, sprinkle |
| (verb) sow by scattering | - |
| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, dissipate, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, dissipate |
| (verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: spread, spread out |
| scatterbrain | (noun) a flighty and disorganized person | Synonyms: forgetful person |
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| scatterbrained | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatty |
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| (adjective) guided by whim and fancy | Synonyms: flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds |
| scattered | (adjective) occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space | - |
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| (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, unconnected |
| scattergood | (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: spend-all, spender, spendthrift |
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| scattergun | (noun) firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges | Synonyms: shotgun |
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| scattering | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scatter, strewing |
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| (noun) spreading widely or driving off | Synonyms: dispersion |
| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: sprinkle, sprinkling |
| (noun) the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions | - |
| (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | Synonyms: sprinkling |
| scattershot | (adjective) covering a wide range in a haphazard way | - |
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| scatty | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained |
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| (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, absentminded, abstracted |
| unscathed | (adjective) not injured or harmed | Synonyms: unharmed, unhurt, whole |
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