| ambuscade | (noun) the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise | Synonyms: ambush, lying in wait, trap |
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| (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
| auscultate | (verb) examine by auscultation | - |
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| auscultation | (noun) listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope) | - |
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| auscultatory | (adjective) of or relating to auscultation | - |
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| corpuscle | (noun) either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets | Synonyms: blood cell, blood corpuscle |
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| (noun) (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything | Synonyms: atom, molecule, mote, particle, speck |
| corpuscular | (adjective) of or relating to corpuscles | - |
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| coruscant | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| coruscate | (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: scintillate, sparkle |
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| (verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: scintillate, sparkle |
| coruscation | (noun) a sudden or striking display of brilliance | - |
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| (noun) the occurrence of a small flash or spark | Synonyms: glitter, sparkle |
| couscous | (noun) a pasta made in northern Africa of crushed and steamed semolina | - |
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| (noun) a spicy dish that originated in northern Africa; consists of pasta steamed with a meat and vegetable stew | - |
| crepuscle | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| crepuscular | (adjective) like twilight; dim | - |
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| crepuscule | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| cuscus | (noun) woolly-haired monkey-like arboreal marsupial of New Guinea and northern Australia | - |
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| fuscous | (adjective) of something having a dusky brownish grey color | Synonyms: taupe |
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| infuscate | (verb) darken with a brownish tinge, as of insect wings | - |
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| insusceptible | (adjective) not susceptible to | Synonyms: unsusceptible |
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| intramuscular | (adjective) within a muscle | - |
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| intramuscularly | (adverb) in an intramuscular way | - |
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| intussuscept | (verb) introvert or invaginate | - |
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| intussusception | (noun) (biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall | - |
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| (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, introversion, invagination |
| luscious | (adjective) having strong sexual appeal | Synonyms: juicy, lush, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, delicious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy |
| lusciously | (adverb) so as to produce a delightful taste | Synonyms: deliciously, scrumptiously |
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| lusciousness | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: delectability, deliciousness, toothsomeness |
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| majuscular | (adjective) of the nature of a majuscule or written in majuscules | - |
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| majuscule | (adjective) of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries | - |
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| (adjective) uppercase | Synonyms: capital, great |
| (noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | Synonyms: capital, capital letter, upper-case letter, uppercase |
| manuscript | (noun) the form of a literary work submitted for publication | Synonyms: ms |
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| (noun) handwritten book or document | Synonyms: holograph |
| minuscular | (adjective) of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries | Synonyms: minuscule |
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| minuscule | (adjective) of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries | Synonyms: minuscular |
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| (adjective) lowercase | Synonyms: little, small |
| (adjective) extremely small | Synonyms: miniscule |
| (noun) a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts | - |
| (noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case | Synonyms: lower-case letter, lowercase, small letter |
| mollusc | (noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | Synonyms: mollusk, shellfish |
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| molluscum | (noun) any skin disease characterized by soft pulpy nodules | - |
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| muscadel | (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadelle, muscat, muscatel |
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| muscadelle | (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscat, muscatel |
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| muscadine | (noun) dull-purple grape of southern United States | Synonyms: bullace grape |
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| (noun) native grape of southeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties | Synonyms: Vitis rotundifolia |
| muscat | (noun) sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine | Synonyms: muscat grape, muscatel |
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| (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscadelle, muscatel |
| (noun) any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes | Synonyms: muskat |
| muscatel | (noun) sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine | Synonyms: muscat, muscat grape |
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| (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscadelle, muscat |
| muscle | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscularity, sinew |
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| (noun) authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way) | - |
| (noun) one of the contractile organs of the body | Synonyms: musculus |
| (noun) animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells | Synonyms: muscular tissue |
| (noun) a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard | Synonyms: muscleman |
| (verb) make one's way by force | - |
| musclebuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, muscleman |
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| musclebuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, bodybuilding, muscle building |
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| muscleman | (noun) a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard | Synonyms: muscle |
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| (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder |
| muscovite | (noun) a colorless or pale brown mica with potassium | - |
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| muscular | (adjective) having a robust muscular body-build characterized by predominance of structures (bone and muscle and connective tissue) developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer | Synonyms: mesomorphic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of muscle | - |
| (adjective) having or suggesting great physical power or force | - |
| (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: brawny, hefty, powerful, sinewy |
| muscularity | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscle, sinew |
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| (noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, vigor, vigour, vim |
| (noun) the physiological state of having or consisting of muscle | - |
| musculature | (noun) the muscular system of an organism | Synonyms: muscle system, muscular structure |
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| musculoskeletal | (adjective) relating to muscles and skeleton | - |
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| musculus | (noun) one of the contractile organs of the body | Synonyms: muscle |
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| neuromuscular | (adjective) affecting or characteristic of both neural and muscular tissue | - |
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| obfuscate | (verb) make obscure or unclear | - |
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| obfuscation | (noun) the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered | Synonyms: mystification |
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| (noun) darkening or obscuring the sight of something | - |
| (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, puzzlement |
| resuscitate | (verb) cause to regain consciousness | Synonyms: revive |
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| (verb) return to consciousness | Synonyms: come to, revive |
| resuscitated | (adjective) restored to life or consciousness | - |
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| resuscitation | (noun) the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness | - |
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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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| subfusc | (adjective) devoid of brightness or appeal | - |
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| susceptibility | (noun) the state of being susceptible; easily affected | Synonyms: susceptibleness |
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| susceptible | (adjective) (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of | - |
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| (adjective) easily impressed emotionally | - |
| susceptibleness | (noun) the state of being susceptible; easily affected | Synonyms: susceptibility |
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| unsusceptibility | (noun) the state of not being susceptible | Synonyms: immunity |
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| unsusceptible | (adjective) not susceptible to | Synonyms: insusceptible |
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