| evasion | (noun) the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver | - |
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| (noun) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do | Synonyms: dodging, escape |
| (noun) the deliberate act of failing to pay money | Synonyms: nonpayment |
| (noun) a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth | Synonyms: equivocation |
| eversion | (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: everting, inversion |
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| (noun) the position of being turned outward | - |
| excision | (noun) surgical removal of a body part or tissue | Synonyms: ablation, cutting out, extirpation |
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| (noun) the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence | Synonyms: deracination, extirpation |
| (noun) the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society | Synonyms: excommunication |
| (noun) the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage | Synonyms: cut, deletion |
| exclusion | (noun) the act of forcing out someone or something | Synonyms: ejection, expulsion, riddance |
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| (noun) a deliberate act of omission | Synonyms: elision, exception |
| (noun) the state of being excluded | - |
| (noun) the state of being excommunicated | Synonyms: censure, excommunication |
| excursion | (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: expedition, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
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| (noun) wandering from the main path of a journey | Synonyms: digression |
| excursionist | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: rubberneck, sightseer, tripper |
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| expansion | (noun) the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope | Synonyms: enlargement |
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| (noun) adding information or detail | Synonyms: expanding upon |
| (noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: elaboration, enlargement |
| (noun) a function expressed as a sum or product of terms | - |
| expansionism | (noun) the doctrine of expanding the territory or the economic influence of a country | - |
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| expansionist | (adjective) of or involving or guided by expansionism | - |
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| explosion | (noun) the act of exploding or bursting | Synonyms: burst |
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| (noun) a golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball | - |
| (noun) the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant | Synonyms: plosion |
| (noun) a sudden outburst | - |
| (noun) a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction | Synonyms: blowup, detonation |
| (noun) a sudden great increase | - |
| (noun) the noise caused by an explosion | - |
| expression | (noun) the act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing | - |
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| (noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: aspect, face, facial expression, look |
| (noun) a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations | Synonyms: locution, saying |
| (noun) the style of expressing yourself | Synonyms: formulation |
| (noun) expression without words | Synonyms: manifestation, reflection, reflexion |
| (noun) a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement | Synonyms: formula |
| (noun) the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions | Synonyms: verbal expression, verbalism |
| (noun) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | Synonyms: construction, grammatical construction |
| (noun) (genetics) the process of expressing a gene | - |
| expressionism | (noun) an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality | - |
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| expressionist | (adjective) of or relating to expressionism | Synonyms: expressionistic |
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| (noun) an artist who is an adherent of expressionism | - |
| expressionistic | (adjective) of or relating to expressionism | Synonyms: expressionist |
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| expressionless | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: deadpan, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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| expulsion | (noun) the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting | Synonyms: ejection, forcing out, projection |
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| (noun) the act of forcing out someone or something | Synonyms: ejection, exclusion, riddance |
| (noun) squeezing out by applying pressure | Synonyms: extrusion |
| extension | (noun) an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students | Synonyms: extension service, university extension |
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| (noun) act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb | - |
| (noun) act of expanding in scope; making more widely available | - |
| (noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annex, annexe, wing |
| (noun) an addition to the length of something | Synonyms: elongation |
| (noun) an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line | Synonyms: extension phone, telephone extension |
| (noun) amount or degree or range to which something extends | Synonyms: lengthiness, prolongation |
| (noun) the ability to raise the working leg high in the air | - |
| (noun) the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to | Synonyms: denotation, reference |
| (noun) a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename | Synonyms: file name extension, filename extension |
| (noun) the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions | Synonyms: propagation |
| (noun) a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt | - |
| extensional | (adjective) defining a word by listing the class of entities to which the word correctly applies | - |
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| extraversion | (noun) (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self | Synonyms: extroversion |
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| extroversion | (noun) (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self | Synonyms: extraversion |
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| extrusion | (noun) squeezing out by applying pressure | Synonyms: expulsion |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
| fission | (noun) a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy | Synonyms: nuclear fission |
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| (noun) reproduction of some unicellular organisms by division of the cell into two more or less equal parts | - |
| fissionable | (adjective) capable of undergoing nuclear fission | Synonyms: fissile |
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| fusion | (noun) the act of fusing (or melting) together | - |
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| (noun) correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization | Synonyms: spinal fusion |
| (noun) the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept | Synonyms: optical fusion |
| (noun) an occurrence that involves the production of a union | Synonyms: merger, unification |
| (noun) a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy | Synonyms: nuclear fusion, nuclear fusion reaction |
| (noun) the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words | - |
| (noun) the state of being combined into one body | Synonyms: coalition |
| hyperextension | (noun) greater than normal extension | - |
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| hypertension | (noun) a common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater) | Synonyms: high blood pressure |
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| hypotension | (noun) abnormally low blood pressure | - |
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| illusion | (noun) the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas | Synonyms: delusion, head game |
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| (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
| (noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fancy, fantasy, phantasy |
| (noun) an erroneous mental representation | Synonyms: semblance |
| illusional | (adjective) marked by or producing illusion | Synonyms: illusionary |
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| illusionary | (adjective) marked by or producing illusion | Synonyms: illusional |
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| illusionist | (noun) a person with unusual powers of foresight | Synonyms: seer, visionary |
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| (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, conjuror, magician, prestidigitator |
| immersion | (noun) a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged | - |
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| (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, ducking, submersion |
| (noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, concentration, engrossment |
| (noun) sinking until covered completely with water | Synonyms: submergence, submerging, submersion |
| (noun) (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse | Synonyms: ingress |
| immunosuppression | (noun) lowering the body's normal immune response to invasion by foreign substances; can be deliberate (as in lowering the immune response to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ) or incidental (as a side effect of radiotherapy or chemotherapy for cancer) | - |
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| impassioned | (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, perfervid, torrid |
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| implosion | (noun) the initial occluded phase of a stop consonant | - |
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| (noun) a sudden inward collapse | - |
| imprecision | (noun) the quality of lacking precision | Synonyms: impreciseness |
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| impression | (noun) an impressionistic portrayal of a person | - |
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| (noun) the act of pressing one thing on or into the surface of another | - |
| (noun) (dentistry) an imprint of the teeth and gums in wax or plaster | - |
| (noun) an outward appearance | Synonyms: effect |
| (noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: belief, feeling, notion, opinion |
| (noun) a clear and telling mental image | Synonyms: mental picture, picture |
| (noun) a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving | Synonyms: stamp |
| (noun) all the copies of a work printed at one time | Synonyms: printing |
| (noun) a concavity in a surface produced by pressing | Synonyms: depression, imprint |
| impressionable | (adjective) easily impressed or influenced | Synonyms: impressible, waxy |
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| impressionist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of Impressionism | Synonyms: impressionistic |
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| (noun) an artist who follows the theories of Impressionism | - |
| impressionistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of Impressionism | Synonyms: impressionist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or based on an impression rather than on facts or reasoning | - |
| impulsion | (noun) the act of applying force suddenly | Synonyms: impetus, impulse |
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| (noun) a force that moves something along | Synonyms: drift, impetus |
| incision | (noun) the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation) | Synonyms: section, surgical incision |
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| (noun) a depression scratched or carved into a surface | Synonyms: dent, prick, scratch, slit |
| inclusion | (noun) the act of including | - |
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| (noun) any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases) | Synonyms: cellular inclusion, inclusion body |
| (noun) the relation of comprising something | Synonyms: comprehension |
| (noun) the state of being included | - |
| incomprehension | (noun) an inability to understand | - |
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| incursion | (noun) an attack that penetrates into enemy territory | Synonyms: penetration |
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| (noun) the act of entering some territory or domain (often in large numbers) | - |
| (noun) the mistake of incurring liability or blame | - |
| indecision | (noun) the trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character or purpose | Synonyms: indecisiveness |
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| (noun) doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action | Synonyms: indecisiveness, irresolution |
| infusion | (noun) (medicine) the passive introduction of a substance (a fluid or drug or electrolyte) into a vein or between tissues (as by gravitational force) | - |
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| (noun) the act of infusing or introducing a certain modifying element or quality | - |
| (noun) the process of extracting certain active properties (as a drug from a plant) by steeping or soaking (usually in water) | - |
| (noun) a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water) | Synonyms: extract |
| intension | (noun) what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression | Synonyms: connotation |
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| intensional | (adjective) used of the set of attributes that distinguish the referents of a given word | - |
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| intercession | (noun) the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.) | Synonyms: intervention |
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| (noun) a prayer to God on behalf of another person | - |
| intermission | (noun) the act of suspending activity temporarily | - |
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| (noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: break, interruption, pause, suspension |
| interspersion | (noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things | Synonyms: interspersal |
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| intromission | (noun) the act of putting one thing into another | Synonyms: insertion, introduction |
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| introversion | (noun) (psychology) an introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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| (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, intussusception, invagination |
| (noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: invagination |
| intrusion | (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: encroachment, trespass, usurpation, violation |
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| (noun) entrance by force or without permission or welcome | - |
| (noun) any entry into an area not previously occupied | Synonyms: encroachment, invasion |
| (noun) rock produced by an intrusive process | - |
| (noun) the forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formation | - |
| invasion | (noun) the act of invading; the act of an army that invades for conquest or plunder | - |
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| (noun) any entry into an area not previously occupied | Synonyms: encroachment, intrusion |
| (noun) (pathology) the spread of pathogenic microorganisms or malignant cells to new sites in the body | - |
| inversion | (noun) turning upside down; setting on end | Synonyms: upending |
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| (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: eversion, everting |
| (noun) a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: sexual inversion |
| (noun) the reversal of the normal order of words | Synonyms: anastrophe |
| (noun) (counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa | - |
| (noun) (genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed | - |
| (noun) the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer | - |
| (noun) a chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa | - |
| (noun) abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth) | - |
| lesion | (noun) any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part | - |
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| (noun) an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin) | Synonyms: wound |
| malocclusion | (noun) (dentistry) a condition in which the opposing teeth do not mesh normally | - |
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| mansion | (noun) a large and imposing house | Synonyms: hall, manse, mansion house, residence |
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| (noun) (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided | Synonyms: house, planetary house, sign, sign of the zodiac, star sign |
| manumission | (noun) the formal act of freeing from slavery | - |
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| mcmansion | (noun) a generic, mass-produced luxury home | - |
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| misapprehension | (noun) an understanding of something that is not correct | Synonyms: mistake, misunderstanding |
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| mission | (noun) a special assignment that is given to a person or group | Synonyms: charge, commission |
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| (noun) an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters | Synonyms: military mission |
| (noun) the organized work of a religious missionary | Synonyms: missionary work |
| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegacy, delegation, deputation |
| (noun) an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work | Synonyms: foreign mission, missionary post, missionary station |
| missional | (adjective) relating to or connected to a religious mission | Synonyms: missionary |
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| missionary | (adjective) relating to or connected to a religious mission | Synonyms: missional |
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| (noun) someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program | - |
| (noun) someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country | Synonyms: missioner |
| missioner | (noun) someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country | Synonyms: missionary |
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| multidimensional | (adjective) having or involving or marked by several dimensions or aspects | - |
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| multidimensionality | (noun) The property of having many aspects or facets. | - |
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| nasion | (noun) the craniometric point at the bridge of the nose where the frontal and nasal bones of the skull meet | - |
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| neoexpressionism | (noun) an art movement based on expressionism; developed in 1980s in Europe and United States; crudely drawn garish paintings | - |
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| nonaggression | (noun) a policy of not initiating hostilities | - |
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| noncommissioned | (adjective) (of military officers) appointed from enlisted personnel | - |
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| nonfissionable | (adjective) not capable of undergoing fission | - |
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| nonprofessional | (adjective) not professional; not engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or for gain | - |
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| 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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| occasion | (noun) an event that occurs at a critical time | Synonyms: juncture |
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| (noun) a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people | Synonyms: affair, function, social affair, social function, social gathering, social occasion |
| (noun) a rational motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: ground, reason |
| (noun) an opportunity to do something | - |
| (noun) the time of a particular event | - |
| (verb) give occasion to | - |
| occasional | (adjective) occurring from time to time | - |
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| (adjective) occurring on a temporary or irregular basis | Synonyms: casual |
| (adjective) recurring or reappearing from time to time | Synonyms: periodic |
| (adjective) occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals | Synonyms: episodic |
| occasionally | (adverb) sporadically and infrequently | Synonyms: at times, from time to time, now and again, now and then, on occasion, once in a while |
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| occasions | (noun) something you have to do | - |
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| occlusion | (noun) the act of blocking | Synonyms: blockage, closure |
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| (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, blockage, closure, stop, stoppage |
| (noun) (dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed | - |
| (noun) (meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft | Synonyms: occluded front |
| (noun) closure or blockage (as of a blood vessel) | - |
| omission | (noun) a mistake resulting from neglect | Synonyms: skip |
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| (noun) neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something | - |
| (noun) any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases | Synonyms: deletion |
| (noun) something that has been omitted | - |
| oppression | (noun) the act of subjugating by cruelty | Synonyms: subjugation |
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| (noun) a feeling of being oppressed | Synonyms: oppressiveness |
| (noun) the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority: | - |
| paraprofessional | (noun) a trained worker who is not a member of a profession but who assists a professional | - |
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| passion | (noun) the trait of being intensely emotional | Synonyms: heat, warmth |
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| (noun) any object of warm affection or devotion | Synonyms: love |
| (noun) a strong feeling or emotion | Synonyms: passionateness |
| (noun) a feeling of strong sexual desire | - |
| (noun) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: cacoethes, mania |
| (noun) something that is desired intensely | Synonyms: rage |
| passionate | (adjective) having or expressing strong emotions | - |
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| passionately | (adverb) with passion | - |
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| (adverb) in a stormy or violent manner | Synonyms: stormily, turbulently |
| passionateness | (noun) a strong feeling or emotion | Synonyms: passion |
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| passionflower | (noun) any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit | Synonyms: passionflower vine |
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| passionless | (adjective) not passionate | - |
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| (adjective) unmoved by feeling | Synonyms: emotionless |
| pension | (noun) a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working | - |
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| (verb) grant a pension to | Synonyms: pension off |
| pensionable | (adjective) entitled to receive a pension | - |
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| pensionary | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: hireling |
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| (noun) the beneficiary of a pension fund | Synonyms: pensioner |
| pensioner | (noun) the beneficiary of a pension fund | Synonyms: pensionary |
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| percussion | (noun) the act of exploding a percussion cap | - |
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| (noun) the act of playing a percussion instrument | - |
| (noun) tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes | Synonyms: pleximetry |
| (noun) the section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments | Synonyms: percussion section, rhythm section |
| percussionist | (noun) a musician who plays percussion instruments | - |
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| perfusion | (noun) pumping a liquid into an organ or tissue (especially by way of blood vessels) | - |
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| permission | (noun) the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Synonyms: license, permit |
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| (noun) approval to do something | - |