| persuasiveness | (noun) the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty | Synonyms: strength |
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| phensuximide | (noun) anticonvulsant (trade name Milontin) used to treat petit mal | Synonyms: Milontin |
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| playsuit | (noun) a sports outfit for women or children; usually consists of shorts and a blouse | - |
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| pleasurable | (adjective) affording satisfaction or pleasure | Synonyms: enjoyable, gratifying |
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| pleasurably | (adverb) in a very pleasurable manner | Synonyms: deliciously |
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| pleasure | (noun) sexual gratification | - |
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| (noun) an activity that affords enjoyment | - |
| (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: delight, joy |
| (noun) a formal expression | - |
| (noun) a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience | Synonyms: pleasance |
| possum | (noun) nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America | Synonyms: opossum |
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| (noun) small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: opossum, phalanger |
| possumwood | (noun) medium-sized tree of dry woodlands in the southern and eastern United States bearing yellow or orange very astringent fruit that is edible when fully ripe | Synonyms: American persimmon, Diospyros virginiana |
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| pressure | (noun) the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure | Synonyms: press, pressing |
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| (noun) a force that compels | - |
| (noun) the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin | Synonyms: pressure sensation |
| (noun) the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit) | Synonyms: force per unit area, pressure level |
| (noun) the pressure exerted by the atmosphere | Synonyms: air pressure, atmospheric pressure |
| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, insistency, press |
| (noun) an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress | - |
| (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, force, hale, squeeze |
| (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, blackmail |
| pressurise | (verb) increase the pressure in or of | Synonyms: pressurize |
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| (verb) maintain a certain pressure | Synonyms: pressurize |
| (verb) increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | Synonyms: pressurize, supercharge |
| pressurize | (verb) increase the pressure in or of | Synonyms: pressurise |
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| (verb) maintain a certain pressure | Synonyms: pressurise |
| (verb) increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | Synonyms: pressurise, supercharge |
| presumable | (adjective) capable of being inferred on slight grounds | Synonyms: supposable, surmisable |
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| presumably | (adverb) by reasonable assumption | Synonyms: presumptively |
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| presume | (verb) take liberties or act with too much confidence | - |
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| (verb) take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof | Synonyms: assume, take for granted |
| (verb) constitute reasonable evidence for | - |
| (verb) take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission | Synonyms: dare, make bold |
| presumption | (noun) a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming | - |
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| (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, effrontery, presumptuousness |
| (noun) an assumption that is taken for granted | Synonyms: given, precondition |
| (noun) (law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed | - |
| presumptive | (adjective) affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance | - |
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| (adjective) having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance | - |
| presumptively | (adverb) by reasonable assumption | Synonyms: presumably |
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| presumptuous | (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, assumptive |
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| presumptuously | (adverb) in a presumptuous manner | - |
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| presumptuousness | (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, effrontery, presumption |
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| presuppose | (verb) require as a necessary antecedent or precondition | Synonyms: suppose |
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| (verb) take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand | Synonyms: suppose |
| presupposition | (noun) the act of presupposing; a supposition made prior to having knowledge (as for the purpose of argument) | - |
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| proconsul | (noun) an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul | - |
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| (noun) a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire | - |
| (noun) an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power | - |
| proconsular | (adjective) of or relating to or typical of a proconsul | - |
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| proconsulate | (noun) the position of proconsul | Synonyms: proconsulship |
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| proconsulship | (noun) the position of proconsul | Synonyms: proconsulate |
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| prolapsus | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: descensus, prolapse |
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| psychosurgery | (noun) brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems | - |
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| pursual | (noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chase, following, pursuit |
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| pursuance | (noun) the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion | Synonyms: prosecution |
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| (noun) a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria | Synonyms: pursuit, quest |
| pursuant | (adjective) (followed by `to') in conformance to or agreement with | - |
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| pursue | (verb) go in search of or hunt for | Synonyms: go after, quest after, quest for |
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| (verb) follow in or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: follow |
| (verb) carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | Synonyms: engage, prosecute |
| (verb) carry further or advance | Synonyms: act on, follow up on |
| pursued | (adjective) followed with enmity as if to harm | - |
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| (noun) a person who is being chased | Synonyms: chased |
| pursuer | (noun) a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chaser |
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| (noun) a person who pursues some plan or goal | - |
| pursuing | (adjective) following in order to overtake or capture or as accompaniment to such pursuit | - |
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| pursuit | (noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chase, following, pursual |
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| (noun) a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly) | Synonyms: interest, pastime |
| (noun) an auxiliary activity | Synonyms: avocation, by-line, hobby, sideline, spare-time activity |
| (noun) a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria | Synonyms: pursuance, quest |
| reassurance | (noun) the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence | - |
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| reassure | (verb) give reassurance to; give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certain | - |
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| reassured | (adjective) having confidence restored; freed from anxiety | - |
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| reassuring | (adjective) restoring confidence and relieving anxiety | - |
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| reassuringly | (adverb) in a reassuring manner | - |
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| reinsurance | (noun) sharing the risk by insurance companies; part or all of the insurer's risk is assumed by other companies in return for part of the premium paid by the insured | - |
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| reinsure | (verb) insure again by transferring to another insurance company all or a part of a liability assumed | - |
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| (verb) insure again by assuming all or a part of the liability of an insurance company already covering a risk | - |
| (verb) provide additional insurance for | - |
| reissue | (noun) a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale | Synonyms: reprint, reprinting |
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| (verb) print anew | Synonyms: reprint |
| (verb) issue (a new version of) | - |
| resublime | (verb) sublime (a compound) once again | - |
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| resubmit | (verb) submit (information) again to a program or automatic system | Synonyms: feed back |
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| result | (noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: answer, resolution, solution, solvent |
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| (noun) the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: resultant role |
| (noun) something that results | Synonyms: final result, outcome, resultant, termination |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, upshot |
| (verb) come about or follow as a consequence | - |
| (verb) issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end | Synonyms: ensue |
| (verb) produce as a result or residue | Synonyms: lead, leave |
| resultant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, sequent |
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| (noun) a vector that is the sum of two or more other vectors | Synonyms: vector sum |
| (noun) something that results | Synonyms: final result, outcome, result, termination |
| (noun) the final point in a process | Synonyms: end point |
| resume | (noun) short descriptive summary (of events) | Synonyms: sketch, survey |
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| (noun) a summary of your academic and work history | Synonyms: curriculum vitae, CV |
| (verb) take up or begin anew | Synonyms: re-start, restart |
| (verb) return to a previous location or condition | Synonyms: take up |
| (verb) give a summary (of) | Synonyms: sum up, summarise, summarize |
| (verb) assume anew | - |
| resumption | (noun) beginning again | Synonyms: recommencement |
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| resupine | (adjective) lying face upward | Synonyms: supine |
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| resurface | (verb) to come out of obscurity or hiding | - |
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| (verb) cover with a new surface | - |
| (verb) reappear on the surface | - |
| resurge | (verb) rise again | - |
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| resurgence | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: revitalisation, revitalization, revival, revivification |
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| resurgent | (adjective) rising again as to new life and vigor | Synonyms: renascent |
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| resurrect | (verb) cause to become alive again | Synonyms: raise, upraise |
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| (verb) return from the dead | Synonyms: rise, uprise |
| (verb) restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state | Synonyms: revive |
| resurrection | (noun) a revival from inactivity and disuse | - |
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| resurvey | (noun) a new survey or study | - |
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| resuscitate | (verb) cause to regain consciousness | Synonyms: revive |
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| (verb) return to consciousness | Synonyms: come to, revive |
| resuscitated | (adjective) restored to life or consciousness | - |
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| resuscitation | (noun) the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness | - |
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| resuscitator | (noun) a breathing apparatus used for resuscitation by forcing oxygen into the lungs of a person who has undergone asphyxia or arrest of respiration | - |
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| resuspend | (verb) put back into suspension | - |
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| resuspension | (noun) a renewed suspension of insoluble particles after they have been precipitated | - |
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| rhesus | (noun) of southern Asia; used in medical research | Synonyms: Macaca mulatta, rhesus monkey |
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| sapsucker | (noun) small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees | - |
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| sargassum | (noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | Synonyms: gulfweed, sargasso, Sargassum bacciferum |
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| satsuma | (noun) medium-sized largely seedless mandarin orange with thin smooth skin | - |
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| (noun) a variety of mandarin orange, known commonly as cold hardy mandarin, Christmas orange, or tangerine | Synonyms: satsuma tree |
| scissure | (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, crevice, fissure |
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| seersucker | (noun) a light puckered fabric (usually striped) | - |
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| sensual | (adjective) sexually exciting or gratifying | Synonyms: sultry |
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| (adjective) marked by the appetites and passions of the body | Synonyms: animal, carnal, fleshly |
| sensualise | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, carnalize, sensualize |
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| sensualism | (noun) (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good | Synonyms: sensationalism |
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| (noun) desire for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: sensuality, sensualness |
| sensualist | (noun) a person who enjoys sensuality | - |
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| sensuality | (noun) desire for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: sensualism, sensualness |
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| sensualize | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, carnalize, sensualise |
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| (verb) ascribe to an origin in sensation | Synonyms: carnalize |
| (verb) represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture | Synonyms: carnalize |
| sensually | (adverb) in a sultry and sensual manner | Synonyms: sultrily |
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| sensualness | (noun) desire for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: sensualism, sensuality |
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| sensuous | (adjective) taking delight in beauty | - |
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| sensuously | (adverb) with aesthetic gratification or delight | - |
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| sensuousness | (noun) a sensuous feeling | - |
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| sharksucker | (noun) remoras found attached to sharks | Synonyms: Echeneis naucrates |
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| shiatsu | (noun) treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body | Synonyms: acupressure, G-Jo |
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| sissu | (noun) East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder; yields a compact dark brown durable timber used in shipbuilding and making railroad ties | Synonyms: Dalbergia sissoo, sisham, sissoo |
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| snowsuit | (noun) a child's overgarment for cold weather | - |
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| soapsuds | (noun) the froth produced by soaps or detergents | Synonyms: lather, suds |
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| spacesuit | (noun) a pressure suit worn by astronauts while in outer space | - |
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| suability | (noun) (law) liability to be sued. | - |
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| suasible | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: convincible, persuadable, persuasible |
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| suasion | (noun) the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action | Synonyms: persuasion |
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| suave | (adjective) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication | Synonyms: bland, politic, smooth |
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| (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonair, debonaire, debonnaire |
| suavely | (adverb) with suavity; in a suave manner | - |
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| suaveness | (noun) the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner | Synonyms: blandness, smoothness, suavity |
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| suavity | (noun) the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner | Synonyms: blandness, smoothness, suaveness |
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| sub | (noun) a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes | Synonyms: pigboat, submarine |
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| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
| (verb) be a substitute | Synonyms: fill in, stand in, substitute |
| subacid | (adjective) slightly sour to the taste | - |
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| subacute | (adjective) less than acute; relating to a disease present in a person with no symptoms of it | - |
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| subalpine | (adjective) growing at high altitudes | Synonyms: alpestrine |
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| subaltern | (adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, secondary |
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| (noun) a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain | - |
| subaquatic | (adjective) partially aquatic; living or growing partly on land and partly in water | Synonyms: semiaquatic |
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| (adjective) growing or remaining under water | Synonyms: subaqueous, submerged, submersed, underwater |