| 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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| aguish | (adjective) affected by ague | - |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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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| conquistador | (noun) an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century) | - |
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| contradistinguish | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities | - |
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| cruise | (noun) an ocean trip taken for pleasure | Synonyms: sail |
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| (verb) sail or travel about for pleasure, relaxation, or sightseeing | - |
| (verb) travel at a moderate speed | - |
| (verb) drive around aimlessly but ostentatiously and at leisure | - |
| (verb) look for a sexual partner in a public place | - |
| cruiser | (noun) a large fast warship; smaller than a battleship and larger than a destroyer | - |
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| (noun) a large motorboat that has a cabin and plumbing and other conveniences necessary for living on board | Synonyms: cabin cruiser, pleasure boat, pleasure craft |
| (noun) a car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters | Synonyms: patrol car, police car, police cruiser, prowl car, squad car |
| cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
| cuisine | (noun) the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared | Synonyms: culinary art |
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| cuisse | (noun) armor plate that protects the thigh | - |
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| derequisition | (verb) release from government control | - |
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| disguise | (noun) the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance | Synonyms: camouflage |
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| (noun) any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's identity | - |
| (noun) an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something | Synonyms: camouflage |
| (verb) make unrecognizable | Synonyms: mask |
| disguised | (adjective) having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading | Synonyms: cloaked, masked |
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| disquisition | (noun) an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion | - |
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| distinguish | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, identify, key, key out, name |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: differentiate, mark |
| (verb) make conspicuous or noteworthy | Synonyms: signalise, signalize |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
| distinguishability | (noun) Capability of being perceived as different or distinct. | - |
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| distinguishable | (adjective) capable of being perceived as different or distinct | - |
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| (adjective) (often followed by `from') not alike; different in nature or quality | Synonyms: distinct |
| distinguished | (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: grand, imposing, magisterial |
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| (adjective) (used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation | - |
| euphuism | (noun) an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology | - |
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| (noun) any artificially elegant style of language | - |
| exquisite | (adjective) of extreme beauty | - |
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| (adjective) delicately beautiful | Synonyms: dainty |
| (adjective) lavishly elegant and refined | Synonyms: recherche |
| (adjective) intense or sharp | Synonyms: keen |
| exquisitely | (adverb) in a delicate manner | Synonyms: delicately, fine, finely |
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| exquisiteness | (noun) extreme beauty of a delicate sort | - |
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| extinguish | (verb) put an end to; kill | Synonyms: snuff out |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, eliminate, get rid of |
| (verb) extinguish by crushing | Synonyms: crush out, press out, stub, stub out |
| (verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights | Synonyms: blow out, quench, snuff out |
| extinguishable | (adjective) capable of being extinguished or killed | - |
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| extinguished | (adjective) of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement | - |
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| extinguisher | (noun) a manually operated device for extinguishing small fires | Synonyms: asphyxiator, fire extinguisher |
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| extinguishing | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinction, quenching |
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| extralinguistic | (adjective) not included within the realm of language | - |
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| guise | (noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: pretence, pretense, pretext |
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| huisache | (noun) tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery | Synonyms: Acacia farnesiana, cassie, flame tree, mimosa bush, scented wattle, sweet acacia, sweet wattle |
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| impuissance | (noun) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act | Synonyms: helplessness, weakness |
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| impuissant | (adjective) lacking physical strength or vigor | - |
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| indistinguishability | (noun) exact sameness | Synonyms: identicalness, identity |
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| indistinguishable | (adjective) not capable of being distinguished or differentiated | Synonyms: undistinguishable |
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| (adjective) exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different | Synonyms: identical |
| inextinguishable | (adjective) difficult or impossible to extinguish | - |
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| inquisition | (noun) a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals) | - |
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| inquisitive | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: questioning, speculative, wondering |
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| (adjective) inquiring or appearing to inquire | - |
| inquisitively | (adverb) with curiosity | Synonyms: curiously, interrogatively |
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| inquisitiveness | (noun) The quality of being curious and interested. | - |
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| (noun) a state of active curiosity | Synonyms: curiousness |
| inquisitor | (noun) a questioner who is excessively harsh | Synonyms: interrogator |
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| inquisitorial | (adjective) especially indicating a form of prosecution in which proceedings are secret and the accused is questioned by a prosecutor who acts also as the judge | - |
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| (adjective) having the authority to conduct official investigations | - |
| (adjective) marked by inquisitive interest; especially suggestive of an ecclesiastical inquisitor | - |
| inquisitory | (adjective) diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation | Synonyms: probing, searching |
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| intralinguistic | (adjective) within a particular language | - |
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| languish | (verb) become feeble | Synonyms: fade |
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| (verb) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief | Synonyms: pine away, waste |
| (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, pine, yearn, yen |
| languisher | (noun) a person who languishes | - |
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| linguist | (noun) a person who speaks more than one language | Synonyms: polyglot |
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| (noun) a specialist in linguistics | Synonyms: linguistic scientist |
| linguistic | (adjective) consisting of or related to language | Synonyms: lingual |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the scientific study of language | - |
| linguistically | (adverb) with respect to language | Synonyms: lingually |
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| (adverb) with respect to the science of linguistics | - |
| linguistics | (noun) the scientific study of language | - |
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| (noun) the humanistic study of language and literature | Synonyms: philology |
| marquis | (noun) nobleman (in various countries) ranking above a count | Synonyms: marquess |
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| marquise | (noun) permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc. | Synonyms: marquee |
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| (noun) a noblewoman ranking below a duchess and above a countess | Synonyms: marchioness |
| monologuise | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuize, soliloquise, soliloquize |
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| muishond | (noun) southern African weasel | - |
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| neurolinguist | (noun) someone trained in neuroscience and linguistics who studies brain processes during language production and reception | - |
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| neurolinguistics | (noun) the branch of linguistics that studies the relation between language and the structure and function of the nervous system | - |
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| nonlinguistic | (adjective) not consisting of or related to language | - |
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| nuisance | (noun) (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive | - |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
| perquisite | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, prerogative, privilege |
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| (noun) an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right) | Synonyms: fringe benefit, perk |
| prerequisite | (adjective) required as a prior condition or course of study | - |
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| (noun) something that is required in advance | Synonyms: requirement |
| psycholinguist | (noun) a person (usually a psychologist but sometimes a linguist) who studies the psychological basis of human language | - |
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| psycholinguistic | (adjective) of or relating to the psychology of language | - |
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| psycholinguistics | (noun) the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance | - |
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| puissance | (noun) power to influence or coerce | - |
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| puissant | (adjective) powerful or influential | - |
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| quisling | (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborationist, collaborator |
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| quislingism | (noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaboration, collaborationism |
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| relinquish | (verb) release, as from one's grip | Synonyms: let go, let go of, release |
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| (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, quit, renounce |
| (verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: free, give up, release, resign |
| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, forgo, waive |
| relinquished | (adjective) that has been withdrawn or retreated from | - |
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| relinquishing | (noun) the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc. | Synonyms: relinquishment |
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| (noun) a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc. | Synonyms: relinquishment |
| relinquishment | (noun) the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc. | Synonyms: relinquishing |
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| (noun) a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc. | Synonyms: relinquishing |
| requisite | (adjective) necessary for relief or supply | Synonyms: needed, needful, required |
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| (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessary, necessity, requirement |
| requisiteness | (noun) the state of being absolutely required | - |
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| requisition | (noun) seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized | Synonyms: sequestration |
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| (noun) the act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use | - |
| (noun) an official form on which a request is made | Synonyms: requisition form |
| (verb) make a formal request for official services | - |
| (verb) demand and take for use or service, especially by military or public authority for public service | - |
| roguish | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: blackguardly, rascally, scoundrelly |
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| (adjective) playful in an appealingly bold way | Synonyms: devilish, rascally |
| roguishly | (adverb) in a playfully roguish manner | - |
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| (adverb) like a dishonest rogue | - |
| roguishness | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, shenanigan |
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| (noun) the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks | Synonyms: prankishness, rascality |
| sociolinguist | (noun) a linguist who studies the social and cultural factors that influence linguistic communication | - |
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| sociolinguistic | (adjective) of or relating to sociolinguistics | - |
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| sociolinguistically | (adverb) with respect to sociolinguistics | - |
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| sociolinguistics | (noun) the study of language in relation to its sociocultural context | - |
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| soliloquise | (verb) talk to oneself | Synonyms: monologuise, monologuize, soliloquize |
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