bequest | (noun) (law) a gift of personal property by will | Synonyms: legacy |
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blues | (noun) a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes | - |
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(noun) a state of depression | Synonyms: blue devils, megrims, vapors, vapours |
bluestem | (noun) tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States | Synonyms: Andropogon furcatus, Andropogon gerardii, blue stem |
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bluestocking | (noun) a woman having literary or intellectual interests | Synonyms: bas bleu |
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bluestone | (noun) bluish-grey sandstone used for paving and building | - |
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conquest | (noun) success in mastering something difficult | - |
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(noun) the act of conquering | Synonyms: conquering, subjection, subjugation |
(noun) an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone | Synonyms: seduction |
deliquesce | (verb) melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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(verb) melt away in the process of decay | - |
deliquescent | (adjective) (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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equestrian | (adjective) of or relating to or featuring horseback riding | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to or composed of knights | - |
(noun) a person skilled in equitation | Synonyms: horseback rider |
fatigues | (noun) military uniform worn by military personnel when doing menial labor | - |
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gruesome | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grim, grisly, macabre, sick |
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gruesomely | (adverb) in a gruesome manner | - |
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gruesomeness | (noun) the quality of being ghastly | Synonyms: ghastliness, grimness, luridness |
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guess | (noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guessing, guesswork, shot |
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(noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, surmise |
(verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: imagine, opine, reckon, suppose, think |
(verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, estimate, gauge, judge |
(verb) guess correctly; solve by guessing | Synonyms: infer |
(verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: hazard, pretend, venture |
guesser | (noun) a person who guesses | - |
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guessing | (noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guesswork, shot |
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guesstimate | (noun) an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing | Synonyms: guestimate |
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(verb) estimate based on a calculation | - |
guesswork | (noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guessing, shot |
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guest | (noun) (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network | Synonyms: client, node |
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(noun) a visitor to whom hospitality is extended | Synonyms: invitee |
(noun) a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc. | - |
guesthouse | (noun) a house separate from the main house; for housing guests | - |
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guestimate | (noun) an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing | Synonyms: guesstimate |
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guestroom | (noun) a bedroom that is kept for the use of guests | - |
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guestworker | (noun) a person with temporary permission to work in another country | Synonyms: guest worker |
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houseguest | (noun) a guest entertained in your house | Synonyms: house guest |
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inquest | (noun) an inquiry into the cause of an unexpected death | - |
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liquescent | (adjective) becoming liquid | Synonyms: melting |
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lues | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) | Synonyms: lues venerea, pox, syph, syphilis |
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mapquest | (verb) search for a location and directions by means of the MapQuest program | - |
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marquess | (noun) a British peer ranking below a duke and above an earl | - |
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(noun) nobleman (in various countries) ranking above a count | Synonyms: marquis |
muesli | (noun) mixture of untoasted dry cereals and fruits | - |
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outguess | (verb) attempt to anticipate or predict | Synonyms: second-guess |
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quesadilla | (noun) a tortilla that is filled with cheese and heated | - |
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quest | (noun) the act of searching for something | Synonyms: seeking |
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(noun) a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria | Synonyms: pursuance, pursuit |
(verb) seek alms, as for religious purposes | - |
(verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, bespeak, call for, request |
(verb) bark with prolonged noises, of dogs | Synonyms: bay |
(verb) search the trail of (game) | - |
(verb) make a search (for) | - |
quester | (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: searcher, seeker |
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question | (noun) uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness |
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(noun) an instance of questioning | Synonyms: enquiry, inquiry, interrogation, query |
(noun) the subject matter at issue | Synonyms: head |
(noun) a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote | Synonyms: motion |
(noun) a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply | Synonyms: interrogation, interrogative, interrogative sentence |
(noun) an informal reference to a marriage proposal | - |
(verb) pose a question | Synonyms: query |
(verb) challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of | Synonyms: call into question, oppugn |
(verb) place in doubt or express doubtful speculation | Synonyms: wonder |
(verb) pose a series of questions to | Synonyms: interrogate |
(verb) conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting | Synonyms: interview |
questionable | (adjective) subject to question | - |
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(adjective) able to be refuted | Synonyms: confutable, confutative, refutable |
questionably | (adverb) in a questionable and dubious manner | Synonyms: dubiously |
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questioner | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, enquirer, inquirer, querier |
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questioning | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: inquisitive, speculative, wondering |
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(adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: doubting, sceptical, skeptical |
(adjective) perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know) | Synonyms: quizzical |
(noun) a request for information | Synonyms: inquiring |
questioningly | (adverb) in a curious and questioning manner | Synonyms: wonderingly |
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(adverb) in a quizzical and questioning manner | Synonyms: quizzically |
questionnaire | (noun) a form containing a set of questions; submitted to people to gain statistical information | - |
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request | (noun) the verbal act of requesting | Synonyms: asking |
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(noun) a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority | Synonyms: petition, postulation |
(verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, bespeak, call for, quest |
(verb) ask (a person) to do something | - |
(verb) inquire for (information) | - |
requested | (adjective) asked for | - |
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requester | (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: petitioner, suppliant, supplicant |
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sequester | (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequestrate, withdraw |
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(verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequestrate, set apart |
(verb) undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion | - |
(verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, impound, seize |
(verb) requisition forcibly, as of enemy property | - |
sequestered | (adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: cloistered, reclusive, secluded |
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(adjective) kept separate and secluded | - |
sequestrate | (verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequester, set apart |
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(verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequester, withdraw |
sequestration | (noun) the act of segregating or sequestering | Synonyms: segregation |
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(noun) seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized | Synonyms: requisition |
(noun) a writ that authorizes the seizure of property | - |
(noun) the action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions | - |
statuesque | (adjective) suggestive of a statue | Synonyms: Junoesque |
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(adjective) of size and dignity suggestive of a statue | Synonyms: stately |
unquestionability | (noun) the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt | Synonyms: indisputability, indubitability, unquestionableness |
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unquestionable | (adjective) incapable of being questioned | - |
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(adjective) not counterfeit or copied | Synonyms: authentic, bona fide, veritable |
(adjective) not open to question | - |
unquestionableness | (noun) the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt | Synonyms: indisputability, indubitability, unquestionability |
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unquestionably | (adverb) without question | Synonyms: unimpeachably |
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(adverb) without question and beyond doubt | Synonyms: by all odds, decidedly, definitely, emphatically, in spades |
unquestioned | (adjective) generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute | Synonyms: unchallenged, undisputed |
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unquestioning | (adjective) being without doubt or reserve | Synonyms: implicit |
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(adjective) not inclined to ask questions | - |
unquestioningly | (adverb) in an unquestioning manner | - |
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unrequested | (adjective) not requested | - |
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values | (noun) beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something) | - |
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