| bolshevize | (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevise, communise, communize |
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| bonavist | (noun) perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos | Synonyms: Dolichos lablab, Egyptian bean, hyacinth bean, Indian bean, Lablab purpureus |
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| bougainvillea | (noun) any of several South American ornamental woody vines of the genus Bougainvillea having brilliant red or purple flower bracts; widely grown in warm regions | - |
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| bovid | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle) | Synonyms: bovine |
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| (noun) hollow-horned ruminants | - |
| bovine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle) | Synonyms: bovid |
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| (adjective) dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox | - |
| (noun) any of various members of the genus Bos | - |
| breviary | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a book of prayers to be recited daily by certain priests and members of religious orders | - |
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| brevity | (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: briefness, transience |
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| (noun) the use of brief expressions | - |
| bunyavirus | (noun) an animal virus belonging to the family Bunyaviridae; can be used as a bioweapon | - |
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| calving | (noun) giving birth to a calf | - |
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| captivity | (noun) the state of being a slave | Synonyms: enslavement |
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| (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: immurement, imprisonment, incarceration |
| carving | (noun) creating figures or designs in three dimensions | Synonyms: sculpture |
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| (noun) removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape | Synonyms: cutting |
| (noun) a sculpture created by removing material (as wood or ivory or stone) in order to create a desired shape | - |
| caviar | (noun) salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish; usually served as an hors d'oeuvre | Synonyms: caviare |
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| caviare | (noun) salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish; usually served as an hors d'oeuvre | Synonyms: caviar |
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| cavil | (noun) an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections | Synonyms: quibble, quiddity |
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| (verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: carp, chicane |
| caviler | (noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviller, pettifogger, quibbler |
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| caviller | (noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviler, pettifogger, quibbler |
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| cavitied | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: alveolate, faveolate, honeycombed, pitted |
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| cavity | (noun) (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body | Synonyms: bodily cavity, cavum |
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| (noun) a sizeable hole (usually in the ground) | Synonyms: pit |
| (noun) soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth | Synonyms: caries, dental caries, tooth decay |
| (noun) space that is surrounded by something | Synonyms: enclosed space |
| cervical | (adjective) relating to or associated with the neck | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the cervix of the uterus | - |
| cervicitis | (noun) inflammation of the uterine cervix | - |
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| cervid | (noun) distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers | Synonyms: deer |
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| cervine | (adjective) relating to or resembling deer | - |
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| cervix | (noun) the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body | Synonyms: neck |
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| (noun) necklike opening to the uterus | Synonyms: cervix uteri, uterine cervix |
| chauvinism | (noun) activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women | Synonyms: antifeminism, male chauvinism |
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| (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: jingoism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism |
| chauvinist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist, patrioteer |
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| (noun) a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind | - |
| chauvinistic | (adjective) of or relating to persons convinced of the superiority of their own gender or kind | - |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| chervil | (noun) fresh ferny parsley-like leaves used as a garnish with chicken and veal and omelets and green salads and spinach | - |
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| (noun) aromatic annual Old World herb cultivated for its finely divided and often curly leaves for use especially in soups and salads | Synonyms: Anthriscus cereifolium, beaked parsley |
| circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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| circumnavigation | (noun) traveling around something (by ship or plane) | - |
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| civic | (adjective) of or relating or belonging to a city | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals | Synonyms: civil |
| civics | (noun) the social science of civic affairs | - |
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| civies | (noun) civilian garb as opposed to a military uniform | Synonyms: civvies |
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| civil | (adjective) not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others | Synonyms: polite |
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| (adjective) (of divisions of time) legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals | Synonyms: civic |
| (adjective) of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state | - |
| (adjective) applying to ordinary citizens as contrasted with the military | - |
| (adjective) of or in a condition of social order | - |
| civilian | (adjective) associated with civil life or performed by persons who are not active members of the military | - |
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| (noun) a nonmilitary citizen | - |
| civilisation | (noun) the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste | Synonyms: civilization, refinement |
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| (noun) a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) | Synonyms: civilization |
| (noun) a particular society at a particular time and place | Synonyms: civilization, culture |
| (noun) the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization | Synonyms: civilization |
| civilise | (verb) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state | Synonyms: civilize |
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| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilize, cultivate, educate, school, train |
| civilised | (adjective) having a high state of culture and development both social and technological | Synonyms: civilized |
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| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite |
| civility | (noun) the act of showing regard for others | Synonyms: politeness |
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| (noun) formal or perfunctory politeness | - |
| civilization | (noun) the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste | Synonyms: civilisation, refinement |
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| (noun) a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) | Synonyms: civilisation |
| (noun) a particular society at a particular time and place | Synonyms: civilisation, culture |
| (noun) the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization | Synonyms: civilisation |
| civilize | (verb) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state | Synonyms: civilise |
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| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, cultivate, educate, school, train |
| civilized | (adjective) having a high state of culture and development both social and technological | Synonyms: civilised |
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| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite |
| civilly | (adverb) in a civil manner | - |
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| civvies | (noun) civilian garb as opposed to a military uniform | Synonyms: civies |
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| clavichord | (noun) an early stringed instrument like a piano but with more delicate sound | - |
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| clavicle | (noun) bone linking the scapula and sternum | Synonyms: collarbone |
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| clavier | (noun) a bank of keys on a musical instrument | Synonyms: fingerboard, piano keyboard |
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| (noun) a stringed instrument that has a keyboard | Synonyms: Klavier |
| clevis | (noun) a coupler shaped like the letter U with holes through each end so a bolt or pin can pass through the holes to complete the coupling; used to attach a drawbar to a plow or wagon or trailer etc. | - |
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| collectivisation | (noun) the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | Synonyms: collectivization |
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| collectivise | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivize |
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| collectivised | (adjective) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production | Synonyms: collectivized |
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| (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivist, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
| collectivism | (noun) a political theory that the people should own the means of production | - |
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| (noun) Soviet communism | Synonyms: Bolshevism, sovietism |
| collectivist | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| (noun) a person who belongs to the political left | Synonyms: left-winger, leftist |
| collectivistic | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| collectivization | (noun) the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | Synonyms: collectivisation |
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| collectivize | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivise |
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| collectivized | (adjective) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production | Synonyms: collectivised |
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| (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivistic, state-controlled |
| compulsivity | (noun) the trait of acting compulsively | Synonyms: compulsiveness |
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| concavity | (noun) the property possessed by a concave shape | Synonyms: concaveness |
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| (noun) a shape that curves or bends inward | Synonyms: concave shape, incurvation, incurvature |
| conductivity | (noun) the transmission of heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: conduction |
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| conjunctivitis | (noun) inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye | Synonyms: pinkeye |
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| connectivity | (noun) the property of being connected or the degree to which something has connections | - |
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| conniving | (adjective) acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end | Synonyms: collusive |
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| (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, calculative, scheming, shrewd |
| conservativism | (noun) a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes | Synonyms: conservatism |
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| conservativist | (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservative |
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| constructivism | (noun) an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects | - |
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| constructivist | (noun) an artist of the school of constructivism | - |
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| convict | (noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird |
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| (noun) a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense | - |
| (verb) find or declare guilty | - |
| convictfish | (noun) greenling with whitish body marked with black bands | Synonyms: convict fish, Oxylebius pictus, painted greenling |
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| conviction | (noun) (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed | Synonyms: condemnation, judgment of conviction, sentence |
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| (noun) an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence | Synonyms: article of faith, strong belief |
| convince | (verb) make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: convert, win over |
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| convinced | (adjective) having a strong belief or conviction | - |
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| (adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: confident, positive |
| convincible | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: persuadable, persuasible, suasible |
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| convincing | (adjective) causing one to believe the truth of something | - |
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| convincingly | (adverb) in a convincing manner | - |
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| convincingness | (noun) the power of argument or evidence to cause belief | - |
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| convivial | (adjective) occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company | Synonyms: good-time |
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| conviviality | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: jollification, merrymaking |
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| (noun) a jovial nature | Synonyms: joviality |
| convivially | (adverb) in a convivial manner | - |
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| coronavirus | (noun) a viral disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that caused a global pandemic in 2020 | Synonyms: 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease, corona, coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19, novel coronavirus pneumonia, Wuhan coronavirus, Wuhan flu, Wuhan pneumonia, Wuhan virus |
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| correlativity | (noun) a reciprocal relation between two or more things | Synonyms: correlation |
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| corvine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a crow | - |
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| counterevidence | (noun) (philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis. | Synonyms: counter-evidence |
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| coville | (noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and New Mexico having persistent resinous aromatic foliage and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: creosote bush, hediondilla, Larrea tridentata |
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| coxsackievirus | (noun) enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis | Synonyms: Coxsackie virus |
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| craving | (noun) an intense desire for some particular thing | - |
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| creativity | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativeness |
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| crevice | (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, fissure, scissure |
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| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, cranny, fissure |
| curvilineal | (adjective) characterized by or following a curved line | Synonyms: curvilinear |
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| curvilinear | (adjective) characterized by or following a curved line | Synonyms: curvilineal |
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| curving | (adjective) having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend | Synonyms: curved |
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| cytomegalovirus | (noun) any of a group of herpes viruses that enlarge epithelial cells and can cause birth defects; can affect humans with impaired immunological systems | Synonyms: CMV |
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| daredevil | (adjective) presumptuously daring | Synonyms: temerarious |
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| (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, madcap, swashbuckler |
| daredevilry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredeviltry |
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| daredeviltry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredevilry |
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| davit | (noun) a crane-like device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat) | - |
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| deceivingly | (adverb) in a misleading way | Synonyms: deceptively, misleadingly |
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| declivitous | (adjective) sloping down rather steeply | Synonyms: downhill, downward-sloping |
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| declivity | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, descent, downslope, fall |
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| deconstructivism | (noun) a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction | - |
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| delavirdine | (noun) a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (trade name Rescriptor) used to treat AIDS and HIV | Synonyms: Rescriptor |
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