adjuvant | (adjective) enhancing the action of a medical treatment | - |
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(adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
(noun) an additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment | - |
advance | (adjective) being ahead of time or need | Synonyms: beforehand |
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(adjective) situated ahead or going before | Synonyms: advanced, in advance |
(noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress, progression |
(noun) increase in price or value | Synonyms: rise |
(noun) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others | Synonyms: approach, feeler, overture |
(noun) a movement forward | Synonyms: progress, progression |
(noun) a change for the better; progress in development | Synonyms: betterment, improvement |
(noun) an amount paid before it is earned | Synonyms: cash advance |
(verb) develop in a positive way | Synonyms: come along, come on, get along, get on, progress, shape up |
(verb) rise in rate or price | Synonyms: gain |
(verb) increase or raise | Synonyms: boost, supercharge |
(verb) develop further | - |
(verb) bring forward for consideration or acceptance | Synonyms: throw out |
(verb) obtain advantages, such as points, etc. | Synonyms: gain, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win |
(verb) move forward, also in the metaphorical sense | Synonyms: go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress |
(verb) cause to move forward | Synonyms: bring forward |
(verb) move forward | Synonyms: set ahead |
(verb) pay in advance | - |
(verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade |
(verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: boost, encourage, further, promote |
advanced | (adjective) (of societies) highly developed especially in technology or industry | - |
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(adjective) situated ahead or going before | Synonyms: advance, in advance |
(adjective) ahead in development; complex or intricate | Synonyms: sophisticated |
(adjective) far along in time | Synonyms: ripe |
(adjective) comparatively late in a course of development | - |
(adjective) farther along in physical or mental development | - |
(adjective) ahead of the times | Synonyms: forward-looking, innovative, modern |
(adjective) at a higher level in training or knowledge or skill | - |
advancement | (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress, progression |
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(noun) gradual improvement or growth or development | Synonyms: progress |
(noun) encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something | Synonyms: furtherance, promotion |
advancer | (noun) someone who advances | - |
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advancing | (adjective) moving forward | Synonyms: forward-moving, forward |
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advantage | (noun) the quality of having a superior or more favorable position | Synonyms: vantage |
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(noun) benefit resulting from some event or action | Synonyms: reward |
(noun) (tennis) first point scored after deuce | - |
(verb) give an advantage to | - |
advantageous | (adjective) giving an advantage | Synonyms: favorable, favourable |
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(adjective) appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness | - |
advantageously | (adverb) in a manner affording benefit or advantage | Synonyms: well |
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advantageousness | (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, positivity, profitableness |
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canavanine | (noun) an amino acid found in the jack bean | - |
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caravan | (noun) a camper equipped with living quarters | Synonyms: van |
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(noun) a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file | Synonyms: train, wagon train |
(verb) travel in a caravan | - |
caravanning | (noun) the practice of taking holidays in a caravan | - |
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caravansary | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravanserai, khan |
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caravanserai | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravansary, khan |
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connivance | (noun) agreement on a secret plot | Synonyms: collusion |
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(noun) (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing | Synonyms: secret approval, tacit consent |
conservancy | (noun) the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc. | - |
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(noun) a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river | - |
contrivance | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: devisal |
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(noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
(noun) any improvised arrangement for temporary use | Synonyms: lash-up |
(noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | Synonyms: dodge, stratagem |
(noun) the faculty of contriving; inventive skill | - |
(noun) an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. | - |
cordovan | (noun) a fine leather originally made in Cordoba, Spain | - |
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disadvantage | (noun) the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position | - |
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(verb) put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm | Synonyms: disfavor, disfavour |
disadvantaged | (adjective) marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences | Synonyms: deprived |
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disadvantageous | (adjective) involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness | Synonyms: unfavorable, unfavourable |
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disadvantageously | (adverb) in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage | Synonyms: badly |
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divan | (noun) a long backless sofa (usually with pillows against a wall) | - |
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(noun) a Muslim council chamber or law court | Synonyms: diwan |
(noun) a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author) | Synonyms: diwan |
(noun) a Muslim council of state | Synonyms: diwan |
evanesce | (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, fade, fleet, pass, pass off |
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evanescence | (noun) the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight | - |
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evanescent | (adjective) tending to vanish like vapor | - |
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evangel | (noun) the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings | Synonyms: Gospel, Gospels |
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evangelical | (adjective) of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament | - |
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(adjective) relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels | - |
(adjective) marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause | Synonyms: evangelistic |
evangelicalism | (noun) stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation | - |
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evangelise | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelize |
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(verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelize |
evangelism | (noun) zealous preaching and advocacy of the gospel | - |
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evangelist | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: gospeler, gospeller, revivalist |
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evangelistic | (adjective) relating to or promoting the preaching and dissemination of the Christian gospel | - |
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(adjective) marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause | Synonyms: evangelical |
evangelize | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelise |
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(verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelise |
gallivant | (verb) wander aimlessly in search of pleasure | Synonyms: gad, jazz around |
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galvanic | (adjective) pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action | Synonyms: voltaic |
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(adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanising, galvanizing |
galvanisation | (noun) either the work of covering with metal by the use of a galvanic current or the coating of iron with zinc to protect it from rusting | Synonyms: galvanization |
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(noun) stimulation that arouses a person to lively action | Synonyms: galvanization |
(noun) stimulation with a galvanic current | Synonyms: galvanization |
galvanise | (verb) stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock | Synonyms: galvanize |
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(verb) cover with zinc | Synonyms: galvanize |
(verb) to stimulate to action | Synonyms: galvanize, startle |
galvaniser | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvanizer, inspirer |
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(noun) a skilled worker who coats iron or steel with zinc | Synonyms: galvanizer |
galvanising | (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanic, galvanizing |
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galvanism | (noun) the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis) | Synonyms: electric healing, electrical healing, electrotherapy |
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(noun) electricity produced by chemical action | - |
galvanization | (noun) either the work of covering with metal by the use of a galvanic current or the coating of iron with zinc to protect it from rusting | Synonyms: galvanisation |
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(noun) stimulation that arouses a person to lively action | Synonyms: galvanisation |
(noun) stimulation with a galvanic current | Synonyms: galvanisation |
galvanize | (verb) stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock | Synonyms: galvanise |
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(verb) cover with zinc | Synonyms: galvanise |
(verb) to stimulate to action | Synonyms: galvanise, startle |
galvanizer | (noun) a leader who stimulates and excites people to action | Synonyms: galvaniser, inspirer |
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(noun) a skilled worker who coats iron or steel with zinc | Synonyms: galvaniser |
galvanizing | (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanic, galvanising |
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galvanometer | (noun) meter for detecting or comparing or measuring small electric currents | - |
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grievance | (noun) a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action | - |
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(noun) an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice | - |
(noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grudge, score |
irrelevance | (noun) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: irrelevancy |
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irrelevancy | (noun) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: irrelevance |
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irrelevant | (adjective) having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue | - |
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irrelevantly | (adverb) in an irrelevant manner | - |
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levant | (verb) run off without paying a debt | - |
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levanter | (noun) an easterly wind in the western Mediterranean area | - |
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maidservant | (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: amah, housemaid, maid |
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manservant | (noun) a man servant | - |
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minivan | (noun) a small box-shaped passenger van; usually has removable seats; used as a family car | - |
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nirvana | (noun) any place of complete bliss and delight and peace | Synonyms: Eden, heaven, paradise, promised land, Shangri-la |
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(noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness | Synonyms: enlightenment |
nonobservance | (noun) a lack of conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | - |
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nonobservant | (adjective) failing or refusing to observe religious customs | - |
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observance | (noun) the act of observing; taking a patient look | Synonyms: observation, watching |
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(noun) conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | Synonyms: honoring, honouring |
(noun) the act of noticing or paying attention | Synonyms: notice, observation |
(noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, ceremony |
observant | (adjective) paying close attention especially to details | - |
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(adjective) (of individuals) adhering strictly to laws and rules and customs | Synonyms: law-abiding |
(adjective) quick to notice; showing quick and keen perception | Synonyms: observing |
observantly | (adverb) in an observant manner | Synonyms: observingly |
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pavan | (noun) a stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: pavane |
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(noun) music composed for dancing the pavane | Synonyms: pavane |
pavane | (noun) a stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: pavan |
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(noun) music composed for dancing the pavane | Synonyms: pavan |
relevance | (noun) the relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: relevancy |
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relevancy | (noun) the relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: relevance |
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relevant | (adjective) having a bearing on or connection with the subject at issue | - |
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relevantly | (adverb) with relevance | - |
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savanna | (noun) a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | Synonyms: savannah |
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savannah | (noun) a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | Synonyms: savanna |
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savant | (noun) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field | Synonyms: initiate, learned person, pundit |
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servant | (noun) a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | Synonyms: retainer |
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(noun) in a subordinate position | Synonyms: handmaid, handmaiden |
silvan | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of wooded regions | Synonyms: sylvan |
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(noun) a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods | Synonyms: sylvan |
sylvan | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of wooded regions | Synonyms: silvan |
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(noun) a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods | Synonyms: silvan |
sylvanite | (noun) a silver-white mineral consisting of silver gold telluride; a source of gold in Australia and America | Synonyms: graphic tellurium |
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televangelism | (noun) evangelism at a distance by the use of television | - |
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televangelist | (noun) an evangelist who conducts services on television | - |
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unobservant | (adjective) not consciously observing | Synonyms: unseeing |
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unvaned | (adjective) (of an arrow) not equipped with feathers | Synonyms: fledgeless, unfledged |
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unvanquishable | (adjective) incapable of being overcome or subdued | Synonyms: invincible, unbeatable |
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unvanquished | (adjective) not conquered | Synonyms: unbeaten, unconquered |
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van | (noun) a truck with an enclosed cargo space | - |
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(noun) a camper equipped with living quarters | Synonyms: caravan |
(noun) (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight | - |
(noun) the leading units moving at the head of an army | Synonyms: vanguard |
(noun) any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts) | Synonyms: avant-garde, new wave, vanguard |
vanadate | (noun) a salt or ester of vanadic acid; an anion containing pentavalent vanadium | - |
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vanadinite | (noun) a mineral consisting of chloride and vanadate of lead; a source of vanadium | - |
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vanadium | (noun) a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite | Synonyms: atomic number 23, V |
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vancomycin | (noun) an antibiotic (trade name Vancocin) effective against some bacterial infections | Synonyms: Vancocin |
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vanda | (noun) any of numerous showy orchids of the genus Vanda having many large flowers in loose racemes | - |
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vandal | (noun) someone who willfully destroys or defaces property | - |
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vandalise | (verb) destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism | Synonyms: vandalize |
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vandalism | (noun) willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others | Synonyms: hooliganism, malicious mischief |
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vandalize | (verb) destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism | Synonyms: vandalise |
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vandyke | (noun) a short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke) | Synonyms: vandyke beard |
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vane | (noun) the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft | Synonyms: web |
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(noun) mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: weather vane, weathervane, wind vane |
(noun) flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water | Synonyms: blade |
(noun) a fin attached to the tail of an arrow, bomb or missile in order to stabilize or guide it | - |
vaned | (adjective) (of an arrow) equipped with feathers | Synonyms: fledged |
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vanguard | (noun) the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field | Synonyms: cutting edge, forefront |
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(noun) the leading units moving at the head of an army | Synonyms: van |
(noun) any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts) | Synonyms: avant-garde, new wave, van |
vanilla | (adjective) flavored with vanilla extract | - |
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(adjective) plain and without any extras or adornments | - |
(noun) a distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla beans | - |
(noun) a flavoring prepared from vanilla beans macerated in alcohol (or imitating vanilla beans) | Synonyms: vanilla extract |
(noun) any of numerous climbing plants of the genus Vanilla having fleshy leaves and clusters of large waxy highly fragrant white or green or topaz flowers | - |
vanillin | (noun) a crystalline compound found in vanilla beans and some balsam resins; used in perfumes and flavorings | - |
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vanish | (verb) get lost, as without warning or explanation | Synonyms: disappear, go away |
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(verb) decrease rapidly and disappear | Synonyms: fly, vaporize |
(verb) cease to exist | Synonyms: disappear |
(verb) pass away rapidly | Synonyms: fell, fly |
(verb) become invisible or unnoticeable | Synonyms: disappear, go away |
vanished | (adjective) having passed out of existence | - |
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