| disillusion | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disenchantment, disillusionment |
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| (verb) free from enchantment | Synonyms: disenchant |
| disillusioned | (adjective) freed from illusion | - |
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| disillusioning | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disenchanting |
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| disillusionment | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disenchantment, disillusion |
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| doorsill | (noun) the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway | Synonyms: doorstep, threshold |
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| fusillade | (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: burst, salvo, volley |
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| (verb) attack with fusillade | - |
| pusillanimity | (noun) contemptible fearfulness | Synonyms: pusillanimousness |
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| pusillanimous | (adjective) lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful | Synonyms: poor-spirited, unmanly |
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| pusillanimously | (adverb) with a lack of courage and determination | Synonyms: simperingly |
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| pusillanimousness | (noun) contemptible fearfulness | Synonyms: pusillanimity |
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| rosilla | (noun) a sneezeweed of southwestern United States especially southern California | Synonyms: Helenium puberulum |
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| salsilla | (noun) tropical vine having pink-and-yellow flowers spotted purple and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; West Indies to northern South America | Synonyms: Bomarea edulis |
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| (noun) tropical vine having umbels of small purple flowers and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; Colombia | Synonyms: Bomarea salsilla |
| sill | (noun) structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure | - |
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| (noun) (geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock | - |
| sillabub | (noun) sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor | Synonyms: syllabub |
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| (noun) spiced hot milk with rum or wine | Synonyms: syllabub |
| silliness | (noun) a ludicrous folly | Synonyms: absurdity, fatuity, fatuousness |
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| (noun) an impulsive scatterbrained manner | Synonyms: giddiness |
| silly | (adjective) dazed from or as if from repeated blows | Synonyms: punch-drunk, slaphappy |
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| (adjective) ludicrous, foolish | Synonyms: goofy, wacky, whacky, zany |
| (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded |
| (adjective) inspiring scornful pity | Synonyms: pathetic, ridiculous |
| (noun) a word used for misbehaving children | - |
| tonsilla | (noun) either of two masses of lymphatic tissue one on each side of the oral pharynx | Synonyms: faucial tonsil, palatine tonsil, tonsil |
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| tonsillectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the palatine tonsils; commonly performed along with adenoidectomy | - |
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| tonsillitis | (noun) inflammation of the tonsils (especially the palatine tonsils) | - |
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| windowsill | (noun) the sill of a window; the horizontal member at the bottom of the window frame | - |
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