| airspeed | (noun) the speed of an aircraft relative to the air in which it is flying | - |
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| angiosperm | (noun) plants having seeds in a closed ovary | Synonyms: flowering plant |
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| angiospermous | (adjective) of or related to or characteristic of plants that are angiosperms | - |
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| aspect | (noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: expression, face, facial expression, look |
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| (noun) a characteristic to be considered | - |
| (noun) a distinct feature or element in a problem | Synonyms: facet |
| (noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: panorama, prospect, scene, view, vista |
| (noun) the beginning or duration or completion or repetition of the action of a verb | - |
| aspectual | (adjective) of or belonging to an aspect (as an aspect of the verb) | - |
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| aspen | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Populus having leaves on flattened stalks so that they flutter in the lightest wind | - |
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| asper | (noun) 20 aspers equal 1 kurus in Turkey | - |
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| aspergill | (noun) a short-handled device with a globe containing a sponge; used for sprinkling holy water | Synonyms: aspersorium |
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| aspergillosis | (noun) an opportunistic infection by a fungus of the genus Aspergillus; characterized by inflammation and lesions of the ear and other organs | - |
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| (noun) disease especially in agricultural workers caused by inhalation of Aspergillus spores causing lumps in skin and ears and respiratory organs | - |
| (noun) severe respiratory disease of birds that takes the form of an acute rapidly fatal pneumonia in young chickens and turkeys | Synonyms: brooder pneumonia |
| asperity | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) harshness of manner | Synonyms: sharpness |
| asperse | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| aspersion | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: calumny, defamation, denigration, slander |
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| (noun) the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) | Synonyms: sprinkling |
| (noun) a disparaging remark | Synonyms: slur |
| aspersorium | (noun) the basin or other vessel that holds holy water in Roman Catholic Churches | - |
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| (noun) a short-handled device with a globe containing a sponge; used for sprinkling holy water | Synonyms: aspergill |
| auspex | (noun) (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy | Synonyms: augur |
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| bespeak | (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, call for, quest, request |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: betoken, indicate, point, signal |
| bespeckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: speckle |
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| bespectacled | (adjective) wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass | Synonyms: monocled, spectacled |
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| bondsperson | (noun) someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
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| businesspeople | (noun) people who transact business (especially business executives) | Synonyms: business people |
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| businessperson | (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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| circumspect | (adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: discreet |
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| circumspection | (noun) the trait of being circumspect and prudent | Synonyms: caution |
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| (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: discreetness, discretion, prudence |
| circumspectly | (adverb) in a cagey manner | Synonyms: cagily |
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| conspecific | (adjective) belonging to the same species | - |
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| (noun) an organism belonging to the same species as another organism | - |
| conspectus | (noun) an overall summary | - |
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| crispen | (verb) make brown and crisp by heating | Synonyms: crisp, toast |
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| cusped | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| desperado | (noun) a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier) | Synonyms: desperate criminal |
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| desperate | (adjective) showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort | Synonyms: heroic |
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| (adjective) fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless | Synonyms: dire |
| (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: despairing |
| (adjective) showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire | - |
| (adjective) desperately determined | Synonyms: do-or-die |
| (adjective) (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair | - |
| (noun) a person who is frightened and in need of help | - |
| desperately | (adverb) with great urgency | Synonyms: urgently |
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| (adverb) in intense despair | - |
| desperation | (noun) desperate recklessness | - |
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| (noun) a state in which all hope is lost or absent | Synonyms: despair |
| dispel | (verb) force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings | Synonyms: chase away, drive away, drive off, drive out, run off, turn back |
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| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, disperse, dissipate, scatter |
| dispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensableness |
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| dispensable | (adjective) capable of being dispensed with or done without | - |
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| dispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensability |
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| dispensary | (noun) clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed | - |
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| dispensation | (noun) the act of dispensing (giving out in portions) | - |
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| (noun) an exemption from some rule or obligation | - |
| (noun) a share that has been dispensed or distributed | - |
| dispense | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: administer |
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| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) grant a dispensation; grant an exemption | - |
| dispensed | (adjective) distributed or weighted out in carefully determined portions | - |
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| dispenser | (noun) a container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts | - |
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| (noun) a person who dispenses | - |
| dispersal | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersion, dissemination |
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| disperse | (verb) cause to separate | Synonyms: break up, scatter |
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| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: dot, dust, scatter, sprinkle |
| (verb) separate (light) into spectral rays | - |
| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: dissipate, scatter, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, dissipate, scatter |
| dispersed | (adjective) distributed or spread over a considerable extent | Synonyms: spread |
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| dispersion | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersal, dissemination |
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| (noun) the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume | Synonyms: distribution |
| (noun) spreading widely or driving off | Synonyms: scattering |
| dispersive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, disseminative |
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| disrespect | (noun) a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous | Synonyms: contempt |
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| (noun) a disrespectful mental attitude | - |
| (noun) an expression of lack of respect | Synonyms: discourtesy |
| (verb) have little or no respect for; hold in contempt | Synonyms: disesteem |
| (verb) show a lack of respect for | - |
| disrespectful | (adjective) exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous | - |
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| (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: aweless, awless |
| disrespectfully | (adverb) in a disrespectful manner | - |
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| doctorspeak | (noun) medical jargon | - |
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| doublespeak | (noun) any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not | - |
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| draftsperson | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draughtsman |
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| dyspepsia | (noun) a disorder of digestive function characterized by discomfort or heartburn or nausea | Synonyms: indigestion, stomach upset, upset stomach |
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| dyspeptic | (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: atrabilious, bilious, liverish |
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| (adjective) suffering from dyspepsia | - |
| (noun) a person suffering from indigestion | - |
| endosperm | (noun) nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants | - |
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| episperm | (noun) protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants | Synonyms: seed coat, testa |
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| especial | (adjective) surpassing what is common or usual or expected | Synonyms: exceptional, particular, special |
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| especially | (adverb) to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common | Synonyms: particularly, peculiarly, specially |
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| (adverb) in a special manner | Synonyms: specially |
| exasperate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate |
| (verb) make furious | Synonyms: incense, infuriate |
| exasperated | (adjective) greatly annoyed; out of patience | Synonyms: browned off, cheesed off |
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| exasperating | (adjective) extremely annoying or displeasing | Synonyms: infuriating, maddening, vexing |
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| (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: aggravating, exacerbating |
| exasperatingly | (adverb) in an exasperating manner | - |
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| exasperation | (noun) actions that cause great irritation (or even anger) | - |
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| (noun) an exasperated feeling of annoyance | Synonyms: aggravation |
| extrospection | (noun) examination or observation of what is outside oneself, as opposed to introspection. | - |
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| extrospective | (adjective) not introspective; examining what is outside yourself | Synonyms: extroverted |
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| fingerspell | (verb) communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign language | Synonyms: finger-spell |
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| fingerspelling | (noun) an alphabet of manual signs | Synonyms: finger spelling |
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| flyspeck | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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| (noun) a tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly | - |
| gospel | (noun) a doctrine that is believed to be of great importance | - |
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| (noun) the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group | Synonyms: church doctrine, creed, religious doctrine |
| (noun) an unquestionable truth | Synonyms: gospel truth |
| (noun) folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul) | Synonyms: gospel singing |
| gospeler | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeller, revivalist |
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| gospeller | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeler, revivalist |
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| groundspeed | (noun) the speed of an aircraft relative to the ground | - |
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| gymnosperm | (noun) plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary | - |
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| gymnospermous | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of plants of the class Gymnospermae | - |
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| indispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensableness, vitalness |
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| indispensable | (adjective) not to be dispensed with; essential | - |
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| (adjective) absolutely necessary; vitally necessary | Synonyms: essential |
| (adjective) unavoidable | - |
| indispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensability, vitalness |
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| inspect | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, scrutinise, scrutinize |
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| (verb) come to see in an official or professional capacity | Synonyms: visit |
| (verb) look over carefully | - |
| inspection | (noun) a formal or official examination | Synonyms: review |
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| inspector | (noun) an investigator who observes carefully | Synonyms: examiner |
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| (noun) a high ranking police officer | - |
| inspectorate | (noun) a body of inspectors | - |
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| inspectorship | (noun) the office of inspector | - |
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| interspecies | (adjective) arising or occurring between species | Synonyms: interspecific |
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| interspecific | (adjective) arising or occurring between species | Synonyms: interspecies |
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| interspersal | (noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things | Synonyms: interspersion |
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| intersperse | (verb) introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions | Synonyms: interlard |
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| (verb) place at intervals in or among | - |
| interspersion | (noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things | Synonyms: interspersal |
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| intraspecies | (adjective) arising or occurring within a species; involving the members of one species | Synonyms: intraspecific |
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| intraspecific | (adjective) arising or occurring within a species; involving the members of one species | Synonyms: intraspecies |
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| introspect | (verb) reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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| introspection | (noun) the contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct | Synonyms: self-contemplation, self-examination |
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| introspectionism | (noun) a doctrine that psychology must be based essentially on data derived from introspection. | - |
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| introspective | (adjective) given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences | Synonyms: introverted, self-examining |
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| introspectiveness | (noun) thoughtfulness about your own situation and feelings | - |
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| irrespective | (adverb) in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks | Synonyms: disregarding, disregardless, no matter, regardless |
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| jasper | (noun) an opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone | - |
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| kinsperson | (noun) a person having kinship with another or others | Synonyms: family, kin |
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| lespedeza | (noun) shrubby or herbaceous plants widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in southern United States | Synonyms: bush clover |
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| lisper | (noun) a speaker who lisps | - |
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| loudspeaker | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance | Synonyms: loudspeaker system, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit |
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| misperceive | (verb) perceive incorrectly | - |
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