| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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| essence | (noun) a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor | Synonyms: perfume |
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| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: burden, core, effect, gist |
| (noun) any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted | - |
| essential | (adjective) basic and fundamental | - |
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| (adjective) defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established | Synonyms: substantive |
| (adjective) being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc | - |
| (adjective) of the greatest importance | Synonyms: all-important, all important, crucial, of the essence |
| (adjective) absolutely necessary; vitally necessary | Synonyms: indispensable |
| (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: necessary, necessity, requirement, requisite |
| essentiality | (noun) basic importance | Synonyms: essentialness |
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| essentially | (adverb) in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature | Synonyms: basically, fundamentally |
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| essentialness | (noun) basic importance | Synonyms: essentiality |
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| inessential | (adjective) not basic or fundamental | Synonyms: unessential |
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| (adjective) not absolutely necessary | - |
| (noun) anything that is not essential | Synonyms: nonessential |
| inessentiality | (noun) not of basic importance | - |
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| lessen | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, diminish, fall |
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| (verb) wear off or die down | Synonyms: subside |
| (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: decrease, minify |
| lessened | (adjective) impaired by diminution | Synonyms: diminished, vitiated, weakened |
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| (adjective) decreased in severity; made less harsh | - |
| lessening | (noun) a change downward | Synonyms: decrease, drop-off |
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| messenger | (noun) a person who carries a message | Synonyms: courier |
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| nonessential | (adjective) not of prime or central importance | Synonyms: accidental, incidental |
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| (noun) anything that is not essential | Synonyms: inessential |
| passenger | (noun) a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it | Synonyms: rider |
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| quintessence | (noun) the purest and most concentrated essence of something | - |
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| (noun) the most typical example or representative of a type | - |
| (noun) the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies | Synonyms: ether |
| quintessential | (adjective) representing the perfect example of a class or quality | - |
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| unessential | (adjective) not basic or fundamental | Synonyms: inessential |
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