| assess | (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, evaluate, measure, valuate, value |
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| (verb) estimate the value of (property) for taxation | - |
| (verb) set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine) | Synonyms: tax |
| (verb) charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine | - |
| assessable | (adjective) capable of being considered carefully | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being assessed especially for the purpose of taxation | - |
| assessee | (noun) a person (or property) that is assessed | - |
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| assessment | (noun) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | Synonyms: judgement, judgment |
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| (noun) the market value set on assets | - |
| (noun) the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth | Synonyms: appraisal |
| (noun) an amount determined as payable | - |
| assessor | (noun) an official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it | Synonyms: tax assessor |
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| closest | (adverb) (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance | Synonyms: nearest, nighest |
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| disestablish | (verb) deprive (an established church) of its status | - |
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| disestablishment | (noun) the act terminating an established state of affairs; especially ending a connection with the Church of England | - |
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| disesteem | (noun) the state in which esteem has been lost | - |
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| (verb) have little or no respect for; hold in contempt | Synonyms: disrespect |
| dispossess | (verb) deprive of the possession of real estate | - |
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| dispossessed | (adjective) physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security | Synonyms: homeless, roofless |
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| dispossession | (noun) the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law | Synonyms: eviction, legal ouster |
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| (noun) freeing from evil spirits | Synonyms: exorcism |
| eyeglasses | (noun) (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision | Synonyms: glasses, specs, spectacles |
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| glasses | (noun) (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision | Synonyms: eyeglasses, specs, spectacles |
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| horseshit | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, crap, dogshit, Irish bull, shit |
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| horseshoe | (noun) U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof | Synonyms: shoe |
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| (noun) game equipment consisting of an open ring of iron used in playing horseshoes | - |
| (verb) equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes | - |
| horseshoer | (noun) a person who shoes horses | Synonyms: farrier |
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| horseshoes | (noun) a game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it | Synonyms: quoits |
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| horseshow | (noun) a competitive exhibition of horses | - |
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| loosestrife | (noun) any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum | - |
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| (noun) any of various herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lysimachia | - |
| losses | (noun) something lost (especially money lost at gambling) | Synonyms: losings |
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| masses | (noun) the common people generally | Synonyms: hoi polloi, mass, multitude, people, the great unwashed |
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| menses | (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menstruation, menstruum, period |
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| misestimate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
| misestimation | (noun) a mistake in calculating | Synonyms: miscalculation, misreckoning |
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| molasses | (noun) thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining | - |
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| obsess | (verb) haunt like a ghost; pursue | Synonyms: ghost, haunt |
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| (verb) be preoccupied with something | - |
| obsessed | (adjective) having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something | Synonyms: haunted, preoccupied, taken up |
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| (adjective) influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion | Synonyms: possessed |
| obsession | (noun) an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone | Synonyms: fixation |
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| (noun) an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will | Synonyms: compulsion |
| obsessional | (adjective) characterized by or constituting an obsession | Synonyms: obsessive |
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| obsessionally | (adverb) in a compulsive manner | Synonyms: compulsively, obsessively |
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| obsessive | (adjective) characterized by or constituting an obsession | Synonyms: obsessional |
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| (noun) a person who has obsessions | - |
| obsessively | (adverb) in a compulsive manner | Synonyms: compulsively, obsessionally |
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| obsessiveness | (noun) extreme compulsiveness | Synonyms: obsessivity |
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| obsessivity | (noun) extreme compulsiveness | Synonyms: obsessiveness |
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| palimpsest | (noun) a manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible | - |
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| possess | (verb) have ownership or possession of | Synonyms: have, own |
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| (verb) have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill | - |
| (verb) enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas | - |
| possessed | (adjective) of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon | Synonyms: demoniac, demoniacal |
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| (adjective) influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion | Synonyms: obsessed |
| possession | (noun) anything owned or possessed | - |
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| (noun) the act of having and controlling property | Synonyms: ownership |
| (noun) (sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck) | - |
| (noun) the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior | Synonyms: self-command, self-control, self-possession, self-will, will power, willpower |
| (noun) a territory that is controlled by a ruling state | - |
| (noun) a mania restricted to one thing or idea | Synonyms: monomania |
| (noun) being controlled by passion or the supernatural | - |
| possessive | (adjective) serving to express or indicate possession | Synonyms: genitive |
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| (adjective) desirous of owning | - |
| (adjective) having or showing a desire to control or dominate | - |
| (noun) the case expressing ownership | Synonyms: genitive, genitive case, possessive case |
| possessively | (adverb) in a possessive manner | - |
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| possessiveness | (noun) excessive desire to possess or dominate | - |
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| possessor | (noun) a person who owns something | Synonyms: owner |
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| premises | (noun) land and the buildings on it | - |
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| prepossess | (verb) influence (somebody's) opinion in advance | Synonyms: prejudice |
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| (verb) cause to be preoccupied | - |
| (verb) make a positive impression (on someone) beforehand | - |
| (verb) possess beforehand | - |
| prepossessing | (adjective) creating a favorable impression | - |
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| prepossession | (noun) an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence | Synonyms: parti pris, preconceived idea, preconceived notion, preconceived opinion, preconception |
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| (noun) the condition of being prepossessed | - |
| reassess | (verb) revise or renew one's assessment | Synonyms: reevaluate |
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| reassessment | (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reappraisal, revaluation, review |
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| repossess | (verb) claim back | Synonyms: reclaim |
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| (verb) regain possession of something | Synonyms: take back |
| repossession | (noun) the action of regaining possession (especially the seizure of collateral securing a loan that is in default) | - |
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| sesame | (noun) East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil | Synonyms: benne, benni, benny, Sesamum indicum |
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| sesamoid | (noun) any of several small round bones formed in a tendon where it passes over a joint | Synonyms: os sesamoideum, sesamoid bone |
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| sesbania | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Sesbania having pinnate leaves and large showy pea-like flowers | - |
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| sesquicentennial | (noun) the 150th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | - |
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| sesquipedalia | (noun) a very long word (a foot and a half long) | Synonyms: sesquipedalian |
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| sesquipedalian | (adjective) (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables | Synonyms: polysyllabic |
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| (adjective) given to the overuse of long words | - |
| (noun) a very long word (a foot and a half long) | Synonyms: sesquipedalia |
| sesquipedality | (noun) using long words | - |
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| sess | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, skunk, smoke, weed |
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| sessile | (adjective) attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk | Synonyms: stalkless |
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| (adjective) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about | - |
| session | (noun) a meeting devoted to a particular activity | - |
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| (noun) a meeting for execution of a group's functions | - |
| (noun) a meeting of spiritualists | Synonyms: seance, sitting |
| (noun) the time during which a school holds classes | Synonyms: academic session, academic term, school term |
| sestet | (noun) a musical composition written for six performers | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
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| (noun) a rhythmic group of six lines of verse | - |
| (noun) a set of six similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
| (noun) six performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: sextet, sextette |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sextet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer, VI |
| sunglasses | (noun) (plural) spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun | Synonyms: dark glasses, shades |
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| supersession | (noun) act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be superior | Synonyms: supersedure |
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| tortoiseshell | (noun) a cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings | Synonyms: calico cat, tortoiseshell-cat |
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| (noun) brilliantly colored; larvae feed on nettles | Synonyms: tortoiseshell butterfly |
| (noun) the mottled horny substance of the shell of some turtles | - |
| unprepossessing | (adjective) creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression | Synonyms: unpresentable |
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