| acquiesce | (verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: accede, assent |
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| acquiescence | (noun) agreement with a statement or proposal to do something | Synonyms: assent |
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| (noun) acceptance without protest | - |
| acquiescent | (adjective) willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest | Synonyms: biddable |
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| acquirable | (adjective) capable of being acquired | - |
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| acquire | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: develop, get, grow, produce |
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| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: adopt, assume, take, take on |
| (verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: develop, evolve |
| (verb) gain knowledge or skills | Synonyms: larn, learn |
| (verb) come into the possession of something concrete or abstract | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) win something through one's efforts | Synonyms: gain, win |
| (verb) locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar | - |
| acquired | (adjective) gotten through environmental forces | - |
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| acquirement | (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquisition, attainment, skill |
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| acquirer | (noun) a corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock | - |
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| (noun) the financial institution that dispenses cash in automated teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that issued the credit card | - |
| (noun) a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee | Synonyms: merchant bank |
| (noun) a person who acquires something (usually permanently) | - |
| acquiring | (noun) the act of acquiring something | Synonyms: getting |
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| acquisition | (noun) the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something | - |
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| (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquirement, attainment, skill |
| (noun) the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge | Synonyms: learning |
| (noun) something acquired | - |
| acquisitive | (adjective) eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas | - |
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| acquisitiveness | (noun) strong desire to acquire and possess | - |
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| acquit | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
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| (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: assoil, clear, discharge, exculpate, exonerate |
| acquittal | (noun) a judgment of not guilty | - |
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| acquittance | (noun) a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: release |
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| acquitted | (adjective) declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless | Synonyms: not guilty |
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| acuity | (noun) a quick and penetrating intelligence | Synonyms: acuteness, keenness, sharpness |
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| (noun) sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart) | Synonyms: sharp-sightedness, visual acuity |
| aguish | (adjective) affected by ague | - |
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| aiguillette | (noun) ornamental tagged cord or braid on the shoulder of a uniform | Synonyms: aglet, aiglet |
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| altruism | (noun) the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: selflessness |
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| altruist | (noun) someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being | Synonyms: philanthropist |
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| altruistic | (adjective) showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: selfless |
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| altruistically | (adverb) in an altruistic manner | Synonyms: selflessly |
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| ambiguity | (noun) unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning | Synonyms: equivocalness |
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| (noun) an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context | - |
| anguine | (adjective) of or related to or resembling a snake | - |
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| anguish | (noun) extreme mental distress | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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| (noun) extreme distress of body or mind | - |
| (verb) cause emotional anguish or make miserable | Synonyms: hurt, pain |
| (verb) suffer great pains or distress | - |
| anguished | (adjective) experiencing intense pain especially mental pain | Synonyms: tormented, tortured |
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| annuitant | (noun) the recipient of an annuity | - |
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| annuity | (noun) income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments | Synonyms: rente |
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| antiquity | (noun) an artifact surviving from the past | - |
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| (noun) extreme oldness | Synonyms: ancientness |
| (noun) the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe | - |
| aquicultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquacultural, hydroponic |
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| aquiculture | (noun) a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients | Synonyms: hydroponics, tank farming |
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| aquifer | (noun) underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc | - |
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| aquiferous | (adjective) of or relating to an aquifer | - |
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| aquilege | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilegia, columbine |
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| aquilegia | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilege, columbine |
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| aquiline | (adjective) curved down like an eagle's beak | Synonyms: hooked |
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| arguing | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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| arui | (noun) wild sheep of northern Africa | Synonyms: Ammotragus lervia, aoudad, audad, Barbary sheep, maned sheep |
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| asquint | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, askant, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| assiduity | (noun) great and constant diligence and attention | Synonyms: assiduousness, concentration |
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| barbecuing | (noun) roasting a large piece of meat on a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire | - |
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| beguile | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: hoodwink, juggle |
| beguiled | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled, entranced |
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| beguilement | (noun) an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations | Synonyms: distraction |
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| (noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, bewitchery |
| beguiler | (noun) a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness) | Synonyms: charmer |
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| (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
| beguiling | (adjective) misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods | - |
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| (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: alluring, enticing, tempting |
| beguine | (noun) a ballroom dance that originated in the French West Indies; similar to the rumba | - |
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| (noun) music written in the bolero rhythm of the beguine dance | - |
| benzoquinone | (noun) any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins; used in making dyes | Synonyms: quinone |
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| biscuit | (noun) small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda | - |
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| (noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes | Synonyms: cookie, cooky |
| blanquillo | (noun) important marine food fishes | Synonyms: tilefish |
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| bloodguilt | (noun) the state of being guilty of bloodshed and murder | - |
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| bloodguilty | (adjective) guilty of murder or bloodshed | - |
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| bluing | (noun) a process that makes something blue (or bluish) | Synonyms: blueing |
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| (noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | Synonyms: blue, blueing |
| bluish | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | Synonyms: blue, blueish |
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| bluishness | (noun) The quality of being somewhat blue or having a tinge of blue. | - |
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| boatbuilder | (noun) a person who builds boats | - |
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| bodybuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman |
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| bodybuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, muscle building, musclebuilding |
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| boilersuit | (noun) a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work | Synonyms: boilers suit, overall |
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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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| bouillon | (noun) a clear seasoned broth | - |
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| bourguignon | (noun) reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter | Synonyms: bourguignon sauce, Burgundy sauce |
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| breadfruit | (noun) a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts | - |
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| (noun) native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread | Synonyms: Artocarpus altilis, Artocarpus communis, breadfruit tree |
| bruin | (noun) large ferocious bear of Eurasia | Synonyms: brown bear, Ursus arctos |
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| (noun) a conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox' | - |
| bruise | (noun) an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration | Synonyms: contusion |
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| (verb) damage (plant tissue) by abrasion or pressure | - |
| (verb) break up into small pieces for food preparation | - |
| (verb) injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of | Synonyms: contuse |
| (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: hurt, injure, offend, spite, wound |
| bruiser | (noun) a large and strong and heavyset man | Synonyms: bull, Samson, strapper |
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| bruising | (adjective) brutally forceful and compelling | - |
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| (adjective) causing mental or emotional injury | - |
| bruit | (verb) tell or spread rumors | Synonyms: rumor, rumour |
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| bruitism | (noun) The use in music of sounds taken from an extra-musical source or context. The term is used most often of percussion or of electronic music that suggests the sounds of machinery. | - |
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| build | (noun) constitution of the human body | Synonyms: body-build, habitus, physique |
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| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (verb) form or accumulate steadily | Synonyms: build up, progress, work up |
| (verb) improve the cleansing action of | - |
| (verb) bolster or strengthen | Synonyms: build up, ramp up, work up |
| (verb) develop and grow | - |
| (verb) found or ground | - |
| (verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: construct, make |
| (verb) give form to, according to a plan | - |
| (verb) build or establish something abstract | Synonyms: establish |
| (verb) be engaged in building | - |
| (verb) order, supervise, or finance the construction of | - |
| builder | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: constructor |
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| (noun) a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country | - |
| (noun) a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action | Synonyms: detergent builder |
| building | (noun) the act of constructing something | Synonyms: construction |
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| (noun) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | Synonyms: construction |
| (noun) a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place | Synonyms: edifice |
| (noun) the occupants of a building | - |
| buildup | (noun) the act of building up an accumulation | - |
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| (noun) highly favorable publicity and praise | - |
| (noun) the result of the process of accumulation | - |
| built | (adjective) (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness | Synonyms: reinforced |
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| buirdly | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, burly, husky, strapping |
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| casuist | (noun) someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious | Synonyms: sophist |
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| casuistic | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistical |
| casuistical | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistic |
| casuistry | (noun) moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas | - |
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| (noun) argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading | - |
| chloroquine | (noun) an antimalarial drug used to treat malaria and amebic dysentery and systemic lupus erythematosus | - |
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| circuit | (noun) a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area | Synonyms: tour |
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| (noun) movement once around a course | Synonyms: circle, lap |
| (noun) an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow | Synonyms: electric circuit, electrical circuit |
| (noun) a racetrack for automobile races | Synonyms: racing circuit |
| (noun) (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals | - |
| (noun) an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to | - |
| (noun) the boundary line encompassing an area or object | Synonyms: circumference |
| (verb) make a circuit | - |
| circuitous | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: devious, roundabout |
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| (adjective) marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct | Synonyms: roundabout |
| circuitousness | (noun) The state of being roundabout, indirect or not to the point. | - |
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| circuitry | (noun) electronic equipment consisting of a system of circuits | - |
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| cliquish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: clannish, clubby, snobbish, snobby |
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| cliquishly | (adverb) in a clannish manner | Synonyms: clannishly |
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| cliquishness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: clannishness, exclusiveness |
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| coachbuilder | (noun) a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles | - |
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| colloquial | (adjective) characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | Synonyms: conversational |
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| colloquialism | (noun) a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | - |
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| colloquially | (adverb) with the use of colloquial expressions | Synonyms: conversationally, informally |
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| colloquium | (noun) an address to an academic meeting or seminar | - |
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| (noun) an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting | - |
| conduit | (noun) a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass | - |
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| congruity | (noun) the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate | Synonyms: congruence, congruousness |
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| conquistador | (noun) an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century) | - |
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| consanguine | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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| consanguineal | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, kin |
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| consanguineous | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, kin |
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| consanguinity | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, cognation |
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