| adventuress | (noun) a woman adventurer | - |
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| adventurism | (noun) recklessness in politics or foreign affairs | - |
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| adventuristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to adventurism | - |
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| adventurous | (adjective) willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises | Synonyms: adventuresome |
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| adventurousness | (noun) the trait of being adventurous | Synonyms: venturesomeness |
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| adverb | (noun) a word that modifies something other than a noun | - |
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| (noun) the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses | - |
| adverbial | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adverb | - |
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| (noun) a word or group of words function as an adverb | - |
| adverbially | (adverb) as an adverb | - |
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| adversary | (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister |
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| adversative | (adjective) expressing antithesis or opposition | Synonyms: oppositive |
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| adverse | (adjective) in an opposing direction | Synonyms: contrary |
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| (adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: inauspicious, untoward |
| adversely | (adverb) in an adverse manner | - |
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| adversity | (noun) a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event | - |
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| (noun) a state of misfortune or affliction | Synonyms: hard knocks, hardship |
| advert | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advertisement, advertising, advertizement, advertizing |
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| (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: allude, touch |
| (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: bring up, cite, mention, name, refer |
| (verb) give heed (to) | Synonyms: attend, give ear, hang, pay heed |
| advertence | (noun) the process of being heedful | Synonyms: advertency |
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| advertency | (noun) the process of being heedful | Synonyms: advertence |
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| advertent | (adjective) giving attention | Synonyms: heedful |
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| advertently | (adverb) in a careful deliberate manner | Synonyms: heedfully, mindfully |
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| advertise | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertize, promote, push |
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| (verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertize, publicise, publicize |
| advertised | (adjective) called to public attention | - |
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| advertisement | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertising, advertizement, advertizing |
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| advertiser | (noun) someone whose business is advertising | Synonyms: adman, advertizer |
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| advertising | (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: merchandising, publicizing |
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| (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertisement, advertizement, advertizing |
| advertize | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertise, promote, push |
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| (verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertise, publicise, publicize |
| advertizement | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertisement, advertising, advertizing |
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| advertizer | (noun) someone whose business is advertising | Synonyms: adman, advertiser |
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| advertizing | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertisement, advertising, advertizement |
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| advertorial | (noun) an advertisement that is written and presented in the style of an editorial or journalistic report | - |
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| advice | (noun) a proposal for an appropriate course of action | - |
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| advisability | (noun) the quality of being advisable | - |
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| advisable | (adjective) worthy of being recommended or suggested; prudent or wise | - |
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| advise | (verb) give advice to | Synonyms: counsel, rede |
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| (verb) inform (somebody) of something | Synonyms: apprise, apprize, give notice, notify, send word |
| (verb) make a proposal, declare a plan for something | Synonyms: propose, suggest |
| advised | (adjective) having the benefit of careful prior consideration or counsel | Synonyms: well-advised |
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| (adjective) having received information | - |
| advisedly | (adverb) with intention; in an intentional manner | Synonyms: by choice, by design, deliberately, designedly, intentionally, on purpose, purposely |
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| advisee | (noun) someone who receives advice | - |
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| advisement | (noun) careful consideration | Synonyms: deliberation, weighing |
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| adviser | (noun) an expert who gives advice | Synonyms: advisor, consultant |
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| advisor | (noun) an expert who gives advice | Synonyms: adviser, consultant |
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| advisory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: consultative, consultatory, consultive |
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| (noun) an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threat | - |
| advocacy | (noun) active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something | Synonyms: protagonism |
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| advocate | (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocator, exponent, proponent |
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| (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
| (verb) push for something | Synonyms: recommend, urge |
| (verb) speak, plead, or argue in favor of | Synonyms: preach |
| advocator | (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocate, exponent, proponent |
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| advowson | (noun) the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice | - |
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| aestival | (adjective) (rare) of or occurring in summer | Synonyms: estival |
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| aestivate | (verb) sleep during summer | Synonyms: estivate |
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| aestivation | (noun) (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens | Synonyms: estivation |
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| (noun) (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period | Synonyms: estivation |
| affective | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affectional, emotive |
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| affidavit | (noun) written declaration made under oath; a written statement sworn to be true before someone legally authorized to administer an oath | - |
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| affirmative | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmatory |
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| (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: approbative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
| (adjective) expecting the best | Synonyms: optimistic |
| (noun) a reply of affirmation | - |
| affirmatively | (adverb) in an affirmative manner | - |
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| affirmativeness | (noun) the agreeable quality of one who assents | - |
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| afflictive | (adjective) causing misery or pain or distress | Synonyms: painful, sore |
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| affricative | (noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') | Synonyms: affricate, affricate consonant |
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| afropavo | (noun) both sexes are brightly colored | Synonyms: Afropavo congensis, Congo peafowl |
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| agave | (noun) tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber | Synonyms: American aloe, century plant |
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| agglomerative | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerated, clustered |
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| agglutinative | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinate |
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| (adjective) forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning | Synonyms: polysynthetic |
| aggravate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate |
| aggravated | (adjective) incited, especially deliberately, to anger | Synonyms: provoked |
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| (adjective) made more severe or intense especially in law | - |
| aggravating | (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: exacerbating, exasperating |
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| aggravatingly | (adverb) in an aggravating fashion | - |
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| aggravation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: irritation, provocation |
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| (noun) action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse | Synonyms: exacerbation |
| (noun) an exasperated feeling of annoyance | Synonyms: exasperation |
| aggravator | (noun) an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating | Synonyms: annoyance |
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| aggregative | (adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregate, aggregated, mass |
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| aggressive | (adjective) having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: belligerent |
| (adjective) tending to spread quickly | Synonyms: fast-growing, strong-growing |
| aggressively | (adverb) in an aggressive manner | Synonyms: sharply |
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| aggressiveness | (noun) the quality of being bold and enterprising | - |
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| (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: belligerence, pugnacity |
| (noun) a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack | Synonyms: aggression |
| aggrieve | (verb) cause to feel sorrow | Synonyms: grieve |
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| (verb) infringe on the rights of | - |
| agitative | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitating, provoking |
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| airwave | (noun) medium for radio and television broadcasting | Synonyms: air |
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| akvavit | (noun) Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds | Synonyms: aquavit |
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| alcove | (noun) a small recess opening off a larger room | Synonyms: bay |
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| alimentative | (adjective) related to the supply of aliment | - |
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| alive | (adjective) possessing life | Synonyms: live |
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| (adjective) having life or vigor or spirit | Synonyms: animated |
| (adjective) capable of erupting | Synonyms: live |
| (adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alert, awake |
| (adjective) in operation | Synonyms: active |
| (adjective) (often followed by `with') full of life and spirit | - |
| (adjective) (followed by `to' or `of') aware of | - |
| aliveness | (noun) the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life | Synonyms: animateness, liveness |
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| (noun) the condition of living or the state of being alive | Synonyms: animation, life, living |
| alleviant | (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviator, palliative |
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| alleviate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: assuage, palliate, relieve |
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| (verb) make easier | Synonyms: ease, facilitate |
| alleviated | (adjective) (of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear | Synonyms: eased, relieved |
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| alleviation | (noun) the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Synonyms: easement, easing, relief |
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| (noun) the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced | Synonyms: assuagement, relief |
| alleviative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| alleviator | (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviant, palliative |
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| (noun) a therapist who makes suffering more endurable | - |
| alleviatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| alliterative | (adjective) having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable | - |
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| alliteratively | (adverb) in an alliterative manner | - |
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| allover | (adjective) covering the entire surface | - |
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| allusive | (adjective) characterized by indirect references | - |
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| allusiveness | (noun) a quality characterized by indirect reference | - |
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| alluvial | (adjective) of or relating to alluvium | - |
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| alluviation | (noun) the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating | Synonyms: deposit, sedimentation |
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| alluvion | (noun) clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down | Synonyms: alluvial deposit, alluvial sediment, alluvium |
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| (noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundation |
| (noun) gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment | - |
| alluvium | (noun) clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down | Synonyms: alluvial deposit, alluvial sediment, alluvion |
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| almsgiver | (noun) a person who gives alms | - |
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| almsgiving | (noun) making voluntary contributions to aid the poor | Synonyms: alms-giving |
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| alphavirus | (noun) an arbovirus of the family Togaviridae that can cause a variety of encephalitis in horses | - |
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| alterative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: curative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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| alternative | (adjective) necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, substitute |
| (adjective) pertaining to unconventional choices | - |
| (noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: choice, option |
| alternatively | (adverb) in place of, or as an alternative to | Synonyms: instead, or else |
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| alveolar | (adjective) pertaining to the tiny air sacs of the lungs | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to the sockets of the teeth or that part of the upper jaw | - |
| (noun) a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge | Synonyms: alveolar consonant, dental, dental consonant |
| alveolate | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: cavitied, faveolate, honeycombed, pitted |
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| alveolitis | (noun) inflammation of the alveoli in the lungs caused by inhaling dust; with repeated exposure the condition may become chronic | - |
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| (noun) inflammation in the socket of a tooth; sometimes occurs after a tooth is extracted and a blood clot fails to form | Synonyms: dry socket |