agitator | (noun) one who agitates; a political troublemaker | Synonyms: fomenter |
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amputator | (noun) a surgeon who removes part or all of a limb | - |
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annotator | (noun) a commentator who writes notes to a text | - |
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attestator | (noun) (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | Synonyms: attestant, attestor, witness |
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auscultatory | (adjective) of or relating to auscultation | - |
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catatonia | (noun) a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitement | Synonyms: catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia |
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(noun) extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia | - |
catatonic | (adjective) characterized by catatonia especially either rigidity or extreme laxness of limbs | - |
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commentator | (noun) a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day | Synonyms: reviewer |
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(noun) an expert who observes and comments on something | Synonyms: observer |
commutator | (noun) switch for reversing the direction of an electric current | - |
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consultatory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultative, consultive |
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cunctator | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: postponer, procrastinator |
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dextrorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the right | Synonyms: dextrorotary, right-handed |
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dictator | (noun) a ruler who is unconstrained by law | Synonyms: potentate |
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(noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: authoritarian |
(noun) a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine | - |
dictatorial | (adjective) of or characteristic of a dictator | - |
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(adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: authoritarian, overbearing |
(adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical |
dictatorially | (adverb) in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator | Synonyms: autocratically, magisterially |
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dictatorship | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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excitatory | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitative |
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excogitator | (noun) a thinker who considers carefully and thoroughly | - |
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exhortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, hortative, hortatory |
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exploitatory | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitive |
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facilitator | (noun) someone who makes progress easier | - |
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facilitatory | (adjective) inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity | - |
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gustatorial | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatory |
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gustatory | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatorial |
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hesitator | (noun) one who hesitates (usually out of fear) | Synonyms: hesitater, vacillator, waverer |
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hortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative |
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imitator | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, aper, copycat, emulator |
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(noun) someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another | Synonyms: impersonator |
invitatory | (adjective) conveying an invitation | - |
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levorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotary |
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natator | (noun) a person who travels through the water by swimming | Synonyms: bather, swimmer |
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natatorium | (noun) pool that provides a facility for swimming | Synonyms: swimming bath, swimming pool |
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pentatone | (noun) a gapped scale with five notes; usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted | Synonyms: pentatonic scale |
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pentatonic | (adjective) relating to a pentatonic scale | - |
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potato | (noun) an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland | Synonyms: Irish potato, murphy, spud, tater, white potato |
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(noun) annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous | Synonyms: Solanum tuberosum, white potato, white potato vine |
precipitator | (noun) removes dust particles from gases by electrostatic precipitation | Synonyms: Cottrell precipitator, electrostatic precipitator |
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prestidigitator | (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, conjuror, illusionist, magician |
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ratatouille | (noun) a vegetable stew; usually made with tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, peppers, onion, and seasonings | - |
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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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rotatory | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn | Synonyms: revolutionary |
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salutatorian | (noun) a graduating student with the second highest academic rank; may deliver the opening address at graduation exercises | Synonyms: salutatory speaker |
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salutatory | (noun) an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises) | Synonyms: salutatory address, salutatory oration |
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spectator | (noun) a woman's pump with medium heel; usually in contrasting colors for toe and heel | Synonyms: spectator pump |
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(noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: looker, viewer, watcher, witness |
stator | (noun) mechanical device consisting of the stationary part of a motor or generator in or around which the rotor revolves | Synonyms: stator coil |
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statoscope | (noun) An instrument that indicates small changes in an aircraft's altitude by recording small variations in atmospheric pressure. | - |
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sternutator | (noun) a chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying | Synonyms: sternutatory |
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sternutatory | (adjective) tending to cause sneezing | - |
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(adjective) causing sneezing | Synonyms: sternutative |
(noun) a chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying | Synonyms: sternutator |
tatou | (noun) about three feet long exclusive of tail | Synonyms: giant armadillo, Priodontes giganteus, tatu |
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tatouay | (noun) naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America | Synonyms: cabassous, Cabassous unicinctus |
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testator | (noun) a person who makes a will | Synonyms: testate |
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