| absolver | (noun) someone who grants absolution | - |
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| achiever | (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: succeeder, success, winner |
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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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| allover | (adjective) covering the entire surface | - |
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| almsgiver | (noun) a person who gives alms | - |
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| ambiversion | (noun) (psychology) a balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion | - |
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| ambiversive | (adjective) intermediate between introversive and extroversive | - |
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| animadversion | (noun) harsh criticism or disapproval | Synonyms: censure |
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| animadvert | (verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: opine, sound off, speak out, speak up |
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| (verb) express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark | - |
| anniversary | (noun) the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: day of remembrance |
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| approver | (noun) an authority with power to approve | - |
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| arriver | (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arrival, comer |
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| asseverate | (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, maintain |
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| asseveration | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: assertion, averment |
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| asseverator | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, avower, declarer |
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| aver | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, avow, swan, swear, verify |
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| (verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, say |
| average | (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: ordinary |
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| (adjective) around the middle of a scale of evaluation | Synonyms: intermediate, medium |
| (adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: fair, mediocre, middling |
| (adjective) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values) | Synonyms: median |
| (adjective) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value | Synonyms: mean |
| (adjective) relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution | Synonyms: modal |
| (noun) a statistic describing the location of a distribution | Synonyms: norm |
| (noun) an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual | - |
| (noun) (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities | - |
| (verb) compute the average of | Synonyms: average out |
| (verb) achieve or reach on average | - |
| (verb) amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain | Synonyms: average out |
| averageness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding | Synonyms: mediocrity |
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| (noun) the state of being that is average; indicates normality but with connotations of mediocrity | - |
| averment | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: assertion, asseveration |
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| averse | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| aversion | (noun) the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away | Synonyms: averting |
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| (noun) a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: antipathy, distaste |
| aversive | (adjective) tending to repel or dissuade | - |
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| avert | (verb) turn away or aside | Synonyms: turn away |
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| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| avertable | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertible, avoidable, evitable |
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| avertible | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avoidable, evitable |
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| averting | (noun) the act of preventing something from occurring | - |
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| (noun) the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away | Synonyms: aversion |
| basketweaver | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketmaker |
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| beaver | (noun) large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges | - |
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| (noun) a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material) | Synonyms: castor |
| (noun) a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face | - |
| (noun) a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur | Synonyms: dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat, topper |
| (noun) a full beard | - |
| (noun) the soft brown fur of the beaver | Synonyms: beaver fur |
| (verb) work hard on something | Synonyms: beaver away |
| bedcover | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedspread, counterpane, spread |
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| believer | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: worshiper, worshipper |
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| (noun) a supporter who accepts something as true | Synonyms: truster |
| beverage | (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: drink, drinkable, potable |
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| biodiversity | (noun) the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole) | - |
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| booklover | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: bibliophile, book lover |
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| bravery | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, courage, courageousness |
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| (noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: fearlessness |
| cabdriver | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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| cadaver | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: clay, corpse, remains, stiff |
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| cadaveric | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaverous |
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| cadaverine | (noun) a colorless toxic ptomaine with an unpleasant odor formed during the putrefaction of animal tissue | - |
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| cadaverous | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaveric |
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| (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
| cantilever | (noun) projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only | - |
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| (verb) construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed | - |
| (verb) project as a cantilever | - |
| caregiver | (noun) a person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult | - |
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| (noun) a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability | Synonyms: health care provider, health professional, PCP, primary care provider |
| carver | (noun) an artist who creates sculptures | Synonyms: sculptor, sculpturer, statue maker |
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| (noun) someone who carves the meat | Synonyms: cutter |
| (noun) makes decorative wooden panels | Synonyms: woodcarver |
| cavern | (noun) a large cave or a large chamber in a cave | - |
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| (noun) any large dark enclosed space | - |
| (verb) hollow out as if making a cavern | Synonyms: cavern out |
| cavernous | (adjective) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood | Synonyms: erectile |
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| (adjective) being or suggesting a cavern | - |
| changeover | (noun) an event that results in a transformation | Synonyms: conversion, transition |
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| claver | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| cleaver | (noun) a butcher's knife having a large square blade | Synonyms: chopper, meat cleaver |
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| cleavers | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: catchweed, clivers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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| clever | (adjective) showing inventiveness and skill | Synonyms: cunning, ingenious |
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| (adjective) mentally quick and resourceful | Synonyms: apt |
| (adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagey, cagy, canny |
| cleverly | (adverb) in a clever manner | Synonyms: smartly |
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| cleverness | (noun) the property of being ingenious | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity |
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| (noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: brightness, smartness |
| (noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness |
| clivers | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: catchweed, cleavers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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| clover | (noun) a plant of the genus Trifolium | Synonyms: trefoil |
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| cloverleaf | (noun) an interchange that does not require left-hand turns | - |
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| cloveroot | (noun) hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: clover-root, Geum urbanum, herb bennet, wood avens |
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| conceiver | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: mastermind, originator |
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| contriver | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: deviser, planner |
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| controversial | (adjective) marked by or capable of arousing controversy | - |
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| controversialist | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: disputant, eristic |
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| controversially | (adverb) involving controversy | Synonyms: polemically |
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| controversy | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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| controvert | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: rebut, refute |
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| (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: contradict, oppose |
| converge | (verb) come together so as to form a single product | - |
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| (verb) move or draw together at a certain location | - |
| (verb) be adjacent or come together | Synonyms: meet |
| (verb) approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit | - |
| convergence | (noun) the act of converging (coming closer) | Synonyms: convergency, converging |
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| (noun) the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit | Synonyms: convergency |
| (noun) a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena | Synonyms: intersection, overlap |
| (noun) the occurrence of two or more things coming together | - |
| convergency | (noun) the act of converging (coming closer) | Synonyms: convergence, converging |
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| (noun) the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit | Synonyms: convergence |
| convergent | (adjective) tending to come together from different directions | - |
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| converging | (noun) the act of converging (coming closer) | Synonyms: convergence, convergency |
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| conversance | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversancy, familiarity |
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| conversancy | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversance, familiarity |
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| conversant | (adjective) (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly | Synonyms: familiar |
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| conversation | (noun) the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc. | - |
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| conversational | (adjective) characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | Synonyms: colloquial |
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| conversationalist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationist, schmoozer |
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| conversationally | (adverb) with the use of colloquial expressions | Synonyms: colloquially, informally |
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| conversationist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationalist, schmoozer |
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| converse | (adjective) of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other | - |
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| (adjective) turned about in order or relation | Synonyms: reversed, transposed |
| (noun) a proposition obtained by conversion | - |
| (verb) carry on a conversation | Synonyms: discourse |
| conversely | (adverb) with the terms of the relation reversed | - |
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| conversion | (noun) the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another | - |
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| (noun) a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life | Synonyms: rebirth, spiritual rebirth |
| (noun) a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown | - |
| (noun) act of exchanging one type of money or security for another | - |
| (noun) a change in the units or form of an expression: | - |
| (noun) interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition | - |
| (noun) an event that results in a transformation | Synonyms: changeover, transition |
| (noun) a change of religion | - |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis | - |