| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| assiduity | (noun) great and constant diligence and attention | Synonyms: assiduousness, concentration |
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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 |
| boilersuit | (noun) a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work | Synonyms: boilers suit, overall |
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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 |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| contiguity | (noun) the attribute of being so near as to be touching | Synonyms: adjacency, contiguousness |
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| continuity | (noun) the property of a continuous and connected period of time | Synonyms: persistence |
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| (noun) a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot | - |
| (noun) uninterrupted connection or union | - |
| counterintuitive | (adjective) contrary to what common sense would suggest | - |
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| counterintuitively | (adverb) in a counterintuitive manner | - |
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| countersuit | (noun) a suit brought against someone who has sued you | - |
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| discontinuity | (noun) lack of connection or continuity | - |
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| eggfruit | (noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies | Synonyms: canistel |
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| equitable | (adjective) fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience | Synonyms: just |
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| equitably | (adverb) in an equitable manner | - |
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| equitation | (noun) the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements | Synonyms: horseback riding, riding |
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| equity | (noun) conformity with rules or standards | Synonyms: fairness |
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| (noun) the ownership interest of shareholders in a corporation | - |
| (noun) the difference between the market value of a property and the claims held against it | - |
| exiguity | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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| fatuity | (noun) a ludicrous folly | Synonyms: absurdity, fatuousness, silliness |
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| fortuitous | (adjective) occurring by happy chance | - |
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| (adjective) having no cause or apparent cause | Synonyms: causeless, uncaused |
| fortuitously | (adverb) by good fortune | Synonyms: as luck would have it, fortunately, luckily |
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| fortuitousness | (noun) the quality of happening accidentally and by lucky chance | - |
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| fortuity | (noun) anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause | Synonyms: accident, chance event, stroke |
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| fruit | (noun) an amount of a product | Synonyms: yield |
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| (noun) the consequence of some effort or action | - |
| (noun) the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant | - |
| (verb) bear fruit | - |
| (verb) cause to bear fruit | - |
| fruitage | (noun) the yield of fruit | - |
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| fruitcake | (noun) a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on | - |
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| (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, screwball |
| fruiterer | (noun) a person who sells fruit | - |
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| fruitful | (adjective) productive or conducive to producing in abundance | - |
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| fruitfully | (adverb) in a productive way | Synonyms: productively, profitably |
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| fruitfulness | (noun) the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth | Synonyms: fecundity |
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| (noun) the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination | Synonyms: fecundity |
| fruiting | (adjective) capable of bearing fruit | - |
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| fruition | (noun) something that is made real or concrete | Synonyms: realisation, realization |
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| (noun) enjoyment derived from use or possession | - |
| (noun) the condition of bearing fruit | - |
| fruitless | (adjective) unproductive of success | Synonyms: bootless, futile, sleeveless, vain |
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| fruitlessly | (adverb) in an unproductive manner | Synonyms: unproductively, unprofitably |
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| fruitlessness | (noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value | Synonyms: aridity, barrenness |
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| (noun) a lack of creative imagination | - |
| fruitlet | (noun) a diminutive fruit, especially one that is part of a multiple fruit | - |
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| fruitwood | (noun) wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork | - |
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| fruity | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) tasting or smelling richly of or as of fruit | - |
| fursuit | (noun) A full body animal suit | - |
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| grapefruit | (noun) large yellow fruit with somewhat acid juicy pulp; usual serving consists of a half | - |
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| (noun) citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp | Synonyms: Citrus paradisi |
| gratuitous | (adjective) without cause | - |
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| (adjective) unnecessary and unwarranted | Synonyms: needless, uncalled-for |
| (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: complimentary, costless, free, gratis |
| gratuitously | (adverb) in an uncalled-for manner | - |
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| gratuity | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, bakshish, pourboire, tip |
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| (noun) an award (as for meritorious service) given without claim or obligation | - |
| guitar | (noun) a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking | - |
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| guitarfish | (noun) primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray with a guitar-shaped body | - |
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| guitarist | (noun) a musician who plays the guitar | Synonyms: guitar player |
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| huitre | (noun) edible body of any of numerous oysters | Synonyms: oyster |
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| hyperpituitarism | (noun) excessive activity of the pituitary gland (especially overactivity of the anterior lobe which leads to excess secretion of growth hormone) | - |
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| incongruity | (noun) the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate | Synonyms: incongruousness |
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| inequitable | (adjective) not equitable or fair | Synonyms: unjust |
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| inequitably | (adverb) in an inequitable manner | - |
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| inequity | (noun) injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards | Synonyms: unfairness |
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| ingenuity | (noun) the property of being ingenious | Synonyms: cleverness, ingeniousness |
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| (noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: cleverness, ingeniousness, inventiveness |
| iniquitous | (adjective) characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin | Synonyms: sinful, ungodly |
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| iniquitously | (adverb) in an iniquitous manner | - |
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| iniquity | (noun) morally objectionable behavior | Synonyms: evil, immorality, wickedness |
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| (noun) an unjust act | Synonyms: injustice, shabbiness, unfairness |
| intuit | (verb) know or grasp by intuition or feeling | - |
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| intuition | (noun) instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes) | - |
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| (noun) an impression that something might be the case | Synonyms: hunch, suspicion |
| intuitionism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired primarily by intuition | - |
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| intuitionist | (adjective) of or relating to intuitionism | - |
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| intuitive | (adjective) obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation | Synonyms: nonrational, visceral |
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| (adjective) spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency | - |
| intuitively | (adverb) in an intuitive manner | - |
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| jackfruit | (noun) immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted | Synonyms: jack, jak |
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| (noun) East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds | Synonyms: Artocarpus heterophyllus, jackfruit tree |
| jumpsuit | (noun) one-piece garment fashioned after a parachutist's uniform | Synonyms: jump suit |
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| lawsuit | (noun) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy | Synonyms: case, causa, cause, suit |
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| mesquit | (noun) any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar | Synonyms: mesquite |
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| mesquite | (noun) any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar | Synonyms: mesquit |
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| microcircuit | (noun) a microelectronic computer circuit incorporated into a chip or semiconductor; a whole system rather than a single component | Synonyms: integrated circuit |
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| mosquito | (noun) two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals | - |
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| mosquitofish | (noun) silvery topminnow with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies; important in mosquito control | Synonyms: Gambusia affinis |
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| obliquity | (noun) the quality of being deceptive | Synonyms: deceptiveness |
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| (noun) the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle | Synonyms: asynclitism |
| pantsuit | (noun) a pair of pants and a matching jacket worn by women | Synonyms: pants suit |
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| perpetuity | (noun) the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless) | Synonyms: sempiternity |
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| perspicuity | (noun) clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous | Synonyms: perspicuousness, plainness |
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| pituitary | (adjective) of or relating to the pituitary gland | - |
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| (noun) the master gland of the endocrine system; located at the base of the brain | Synonyms: hypophysis, pituitary body, pituitary gland |
| playsuit | (noun) a sports outfit for women or children; usually consists of shorts and a blouse | - |
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| promiscuity | (noun) indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations | Synonyms: promiscuousness, sleeping around |
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| propinquity | (noun) the property of being close together | Synonyms: proximity |
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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 |
| quit | (verb) give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat | Synonyms: chuck up the sponge, drop by the wayside, drop out, fall by the wayside, give up, throw in, throw in the towel |
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| (verb) go away or leave | Synonyms: depart, take leave |
| (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, relinquish, renounce |
| (verb) give up or retire from a position | Synonyms: leave office, resign, step down |
| (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, stop |
| quitclaim | (noun) act of transferring a title or right or claim to another | - |
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| (noun) document transferring title or right or claim to another | Synonyms: quitclaim deed |
| quite | (adverb) to the greatest extent; completely | - |
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| (adverb) to a degree (not used with a negative) | Synonyms: rather |
| (adverb) of an unusually noticeable or exceptional or remarkable kind (not used with a negative) | Synonyms: quite a, quite an |
| (adverb) actually or truly or to an extreme | - |
| quits | (adjective) on equal terms by payment or requital | - |
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| quittance | (noun) payment of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: repayment |
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| (noun) a document or receipt certifying release from an obligation or debt | - |
| quitter | (noun) a person who gives up too easily | - |
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