| abscessed | (adjective) infected and filled with pus | - |
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| addressed | (adjective) (of mail) marked with a destination | - |
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| addressee | (noun) one to whom something is addressed | - |
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| adpressed | (adjective) pressed close to or lying flat against something | Synonyms: appressed |
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| appressed | (adjective) pressed close to or lying flat against something | Synonyms: adpressed |
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| assegai | (noun) the slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa | Synonyms: assagai |
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| assemblage | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assembly, gathering |
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| (noun) a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose | Synonyms: hookup |
| (noun) a group of persons together in one place | Synonyms: gathering |
| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, aggregation, collection |
| assemble | (verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together |
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| (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: foregather, forgather, gather, meet |
| (verb) get people together | Synonyms: gather, get together |
| assembler | (noun) a program to convert assembly language into machine language | Synonyms: assembly program |
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| assembling | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, collecting, collection |
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| assembly | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assemblage, gathering |
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| (noun) the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: fabrication |
| (noun) a group of machine parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit | - |
| (noun) a public facility to meet for open discussion | Synonyms: forum, meeting place |
| (noun) a unit consisting of components that have been fitted together | - |
| (noun) a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose | - |
| assemblyman | (noun) someone who is a member of a legislative assembly | - |
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| assemblywoman | (noun) a woman assemblyman | - |
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| assent | (noun) agreement with a statement or proposal to do something | Synonyms: acquiescence |
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| (verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: accede, acquiesce |
| assenter | (noun) a person who assents | - |
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| assentient | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assenting |
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| assenting | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assentient |
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| (noun) agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly) | Synonyms: accession |
| assert | (verb) postulate positively and assertively | Synonyms: insist |
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| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, aver, avow, swan, swear, verify |
| (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: asseverate, maintain |
| (verb) insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized | Synonyms: put forward |
| assertable | (adjective) capable of being affirmed or asserted | Synonyms: affirmable |
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| asserted | (adjective) confidently declared to be so | - |
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| asserter | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asseverator, avower, declarer |
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| asserting | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: declarative, declaratory |
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| assertion | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: asseveration, averment |
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| (noun) the act of affirming or asserting or stating something | Synonyms: affirmation, statement |
| assertive | (adjective) aggressively self-assured | Synonyms: self-asserting, self-assertive |
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| assertively | (adverb) in an assertive manner | - |
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| assertiveness | (noun) aggressive self-assurance; given to making bold assertions | Synonyms: self-assertiveness |
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| 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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| asset | (noun) a useful or valuable quality | Synonyms: plus |
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| assets | (noun) anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company | - |
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| asseverate | (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, maintain |
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| asseveration | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: assertion, averment |
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| asseverator | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, avower, declarer |
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| audiocassette | (noun) a cassette for audiotape | - |
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| bagasse | (noun) the dry dusty pulp that remains after juice is extracted from sugar cane or similar plants | - |
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| basset | (noun) smooth-haired breed of hound with short legs and long ears | Synonyms: basset hound |
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| (verb) appear at the surface | Synonyms: crop out |
| blessed | (adjective) highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace) | Synonyms: blest |
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| (adjective) characterized by happiness and good fortune | - |
| (adjective) enjoying the bliss of heaven | - |
| (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
| (adjective) Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration | Synonyms: beatified |
| blessedly | (adverb) in a blessed manner | - |
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| blessedness | (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatification, beatitude |
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| bouillabaisse | (noun) highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs | - |
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| brasserie | (noun) a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap | - |
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| buttressed | (adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: braced |
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| cabasset | (noun) a metal helmet worn by common soldiers in the 16th century | Synonyms: morion |
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| canvasser | (noun) someone who conducts surveys of public opinion | Synonyms: headcounter, poll taker, pollster |
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| (noun) someone who examines votes at an election | Synonyms: scrutineer |
| (noun) a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes | Synonyms: solicitor |
| (noun) a person who takes or counts votes | - |
| casserole | (noun) large deep dish in which food can be cooked and served | - |
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| (noun) food cooked and served in a casserole | - |
| cassette | (noun) a container that holds a magnetic tape used for recording or playing sound or video | - |
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| chasse | (noun) (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading | Synonyms: sashay |
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| (verb) perform a chasse step, in ballet | Synonyms: sashay |
| compressed | (adjective) pressed tightly together | Synonyms: tight |
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| (adjective) reduced in volume by pressure | - |
| (adjective) flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) | Synonyms: flat |
| confessedly | (adverb) as acknowledged | Synonyms: admittedly, avowedly, true |
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| connoisseur | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: cognoscente |
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| connoisseurship | (noun) love of or taste for fine objects of art | Synonyms: vertu, virtu |
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| cosset | (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
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| coulisse | (noun) a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel | - |
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| (noun) a flat situated in the wings | Synonyms: wing flat |
| crevasse | (noun) a deep fissure | - |
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| crisscrossed | (adjective) marked with crossing lines | Synonyms: crisscross |
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| crosse | (noun) a long racket with a triangular frame; used in playing lacrosse | - |
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| crossed | (adjective) placed crosswise | - |
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| (adjective) (of a check) marked for deposit only as indicated by having two lines drawn across it | - |
| cuisse | (noun) armor plate that protects the thigh | - |
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| cussed | (adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: obdurate, obstinate, unrepentant |
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| cussedly | (adverb) in a stubborn unregenerate manner | Synonyms: mulishly, obdurately, obstinately, pig-headedly, stubbornly |
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| cussedness | (noun) meanspirited disagreeable contrariness | Synonyms: orneriness |
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| delicatessen | (noun) a shop selling ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: deli, food shop |
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| (noun) ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: delicatessen food |
| demitasse | (noun) small coffee cup; for serving black coffee | - |
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| (noun) small cup of strong black coffee without milk or cream | Synonyms: cafe noir |
| depressed | (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
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| (adjective) lower than previously | Synonyms: down |
| (adjective) flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces | - |
| dessert | (noun) a dish served as the last course of a meal | Synonyms: afters, sweet |
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| dessertspoon | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoonful |
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| dessertspoonful | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoon |
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| disassemble | (verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, dismantle, take apart |
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| disassembly | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: dismantlement, dismantling |
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| dismissed | (adjective) having lost your job | Synonyms: discharged, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped |
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| 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 |
| dissect | (verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, break down, take apart |
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| (verb) cut open or cut apart | - |
| dissected | (adjective) having one or more indentations reaching nearly to the midrib | Synonyms: cleft |
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| dissection | (noun) cutting so as to separate into pieces | - |
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| (noun) detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work) | - |
| (noun) a minute and critical analysis | - |
| dissemble | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, feign, pretend, sham |
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| (verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: act, pretend |
| (verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: cloak, mask |
| dissembler | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender |
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| dissembling | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation |
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| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense |
| disseminate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| dissemination | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersal, dispersion |
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| (noun) the property of being diffused or dispersed | Synonyms: diffusion |
| (noun) the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate | Synonyms: airing, public exposure, spreading |
| disseminative | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, dispersive |
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| disseminator | (noun) someone who spreads the news | Synonyms: propagator |
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| dissension | (noun) disagreement among those expected to cooperate | Synonyms: discord |
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| (noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: disagreement, dissonance |
| dissent | (noun) the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent | Synonyms: objection, protest |
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| (noun) (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority | - |
| (noun) a difference of opinion | - |
| (verb) withhold assent | - |
| (verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: differ, disagree, take issue |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: protest, resist |
| dissenter | (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissident, objector, protester |
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| dissentient | (adjective) disagreeing, especially with a majority | Synonyms: dissenting, dissident |
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| (adjective) (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England | Synonyms: recusant |
| dissenting | (adjective) disagreeing, especially with a majority | Synonyms: dissentient, dissident |
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| dissentious | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: divisive, factious |
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| dissertate | (verb) talk at length and formally about a topic | Synonyms: discourse, hold forth |
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| dissertation | (noun) a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree | Synonyms: thesis |
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| disservice | (noun) an act intended to help that turns out badly | Synonyms: ill service, ill turn |
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| dissever | (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, divide, separate, split, split up |
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| distressed | (adjective) generalized feeling of distress | Synonyms: dysphoric, unhappy |
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| (adjective) facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty | Synonyms: hard-pressed, hard put, in a bad way |
| (adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: disquieted, disturbed, upset, worried |
| (adjective) suffering severe physical strain or distress | Synonyms: stressed |
| dossel | (noun) an ornamental hanging of rich fabric hung behind the altar of a church or at the sides of a chancel | Synonyms: dossal |
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| dosser | (noun) someone who sleeps in any convenient place | Synonyms: street person |
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| dressed | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: appareled, attired, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed |
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| (adjective) (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth | Synonyms: polished |
| (adjective) treated with medications and protective covering | - |
| (adjective) dressed in fancy or formal clothing | Synonyms: dolled up, dressed-up, dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, spiffed up, spruced up, togged up |