almsgiving | (noun) making voluntary contributions to aid the poor | Synonyms: alms-giving |
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alvine | (adjective) of or relating to the intestines | - |
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approving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approbatory, plausive |
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(noun) the formal act of approving | Synonyms: approval, blessing |
approvingly | (adverb) in an approving manner | - |
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believing | (noun) the cognitive process that leads to convictions | - |
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believingly | (adverb) in a credulous manner | Synonyms: credulously |
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bioflavinoid | (noun) a vitamin that maintains the resistance of cell and capillary walls to permeation | Synonyms: citrin, vitamin P |
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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 | - |
calving | (noun) giving birth to a calf | - |
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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 | - |
cervine | (adjective) relating to or resembling deer | - |
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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 |
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 |
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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corvine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a crow | - |
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craving | (noun) an intense desire for some particular thing | - |
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curving | (adjective) having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend | Synonyms: curved |
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deceivingly | (adverb) in a misleading way | Synonyms: deceptively, misleadingly |
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deriving | (noun) (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase | Synonyms: derivation, etymologizing |
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deserving | (adjective) (often used ironically) worthy of being treated in a particular way | Synonyms: worth |
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deservingness | (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: merit, meritoriousness |
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disapproving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting disapproval | - |
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disapprovingly | (adverb) showing disapproval | - |
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disbelieving | (adjective) denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion | Synonyms: sceptical, skeptical, unbelieving |
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disbelievingly | (adverb) in an incredulous manner | Synonyms: incredulously, unbelievingly |
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dissolving | (noun) the process of going into solution | Synonyms: dissolution |
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divination | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: foretelling, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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(noun) a prediction uttered under divine inspiration | Synonyms: prophecy |
(noun) successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck | - |
divinatory | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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(adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
divine | (adjective) being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods | Synonyms: elysian, inspired |
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(adjective) emanating from God | Synonyms: godly |
(adjective) devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity | - |
(adjective) appropriate to or befitting a god | Synonyms: godlike |
(adjective) being or having the nature of a god | Synonyms: godlike |
(adjective) resulting from divine providence | Synonyms: providential |
(noun) a clergyman or other person in religious orders | Synonyms: churchman, cleric, ecclesiastic |
(verb) search by divining, as if with a rod | - |
(verb) perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers | - |
divinely | (adverb) by divine means | - |
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diviner | (noun) someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers | - |
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diving | (noun) a headlong plunge into water | Synonyms: dive |
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(noun) an athletic competition that involves diving into water | Synonyms: diving event |
divinity | (noun) the quality of being divine | - |
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(noun) the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth | Synonyms: theology |
(noun) white creamy fudge made with egg whites | Synonyms: divinity fudge |
(noun) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | Synonyms: deity, god, immortal |
driving | (adjective) having the power of driving or impelling | Synonyms: impulsive |
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(adjective) acting with vigor | - |
(noun) the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal | - |
(noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | Synonyms: drive |
engraving | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: etching |
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(noun) a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved | - |
(noun) a print made from an engraving | - |
ergonovine | (noun) an alkaloid derived from ergot (trade name Ergotrate Maleate) that is less toxic than ergot; induces muscular contraction of the uterus and is administered after childbirth or abortion | Synonyms: Ergotrate Maleate |
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evince | (verb) give expression to | Synonyms: express, show |
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flavin | (noun) a ketone that forms the nucleus of certain natural yellow pigments like riboflavin | - |
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forgiving | (adjective) inclined or able to forgive and show mercy | - |
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(adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: absolvitory, exonerative |
forgivingly | (adverb) with forgiveness; in a forgiving manner | - |
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forgivingness | (noun) tendency to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: kindness |
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giving | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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(noun) the act of giving | Synonyms: gift |
(noun) disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return | - |
(noun) the imparting of news or promises etc. | - |
grapevine | (noun) gossip spread by spoken communication | Synonyms: pipeline, word of mouth |
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(noun) any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries | Synonyms: grape, grape vine |
grieving | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, mourning, sorrowing |
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griseofulvin | (noun) a kind of penicillin (a fungicidal antibiotic with the trade name Fulvicin) produced by molds of the genus Penicillium | Synonyms: Fulvicin |
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grooving | (noun) the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm | Synonyms: rifling |
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hairweaving | (noun) the act of interweaving a hairpiece with your own hair | - |
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heaviness | (noun) the property of being comparatively great in weight | Synonyms: weightiness |
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(noun) used of a line or mark | Synonyms: thickness |
(noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: burdensomeness, onerousness, oppressiveness |
(noun) an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency | Synonyms: ponderousness |
(noun) persisting sadness | - |
heaving | (noun) throwing something heavy (with great effort) | Synonyms: heave |
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(noun) breathing heavily (as after exertion) | Synonyms: panting |
(noun) the act of lifting something with great effort | Synonyms: heave |
(noun) an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) | Synonyms: heave |
hepatoflavin | (noun) a B vitamin that prevents skin lesions and weight loss | Synonyms: lactoflavin, ovoflavin, riboflavin, vitamin B2, vitamin G |
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improving | (adjective) getting higher or more vigorous | Synonyms: up |
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invincibility | (noun) the property being difficult or impossible to defeat | Synonyms: indomitability |
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invincible | (adjective) incapable of being overcome or subdued | Synonyms: unbeatable, unvanquishable |
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invincibly | (adverb) in an invincible manner | - |
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kelvin | (noun) the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: K |
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laborsaving | (adjective) designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor | Synonyms: laboursaving |
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laboursaving | (adjective) designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor | Synonyms: laborsaving |
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lactoflavin | (noun) a B vitamin that prevents skin lesions and weight loss | Synonyms: hepatoflavin, ovoflavin, riboflavin, vitamin B2, vitamin G |
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leaving | (noun) the act of departing | Synonyms: departure, going, going away |
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lifesaving | (noun) saving the lives of drowning persons | - |
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living | (adjective) pertaining to living persons | - |
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(adjective) (informal) absolute | - |
(adjective) still in existence | Synonyms: surviving |
(adjective) (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried | - |
(adjective) true to life; lifelike | - |
(adjective) still in active use | - |
(noun) the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities | Synonyms: life |
(noun) people who are still living | - |
(noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, support, sustenance |
(noun) the condition of living or the state of being alive | Synonyms: aliveness, animation, life |
loving | (adjective) feeling or showing love and affection | - |
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lovingly | (adverb) with fondness; with love | Synonyms: fondly |
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lovingness | (noun) a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | Synonyms: affectionateness, fondness, warmth |
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(noun) a loving feeling | Synonyms: caring |
mavin | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
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misgiving | (noun) doubt about someone's honesty | Synonyms: distrust, mistrust, suspicion |
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(noun) painful expectation | Synonyms: apprehension |
(noun) uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety) | Synonyms: qualm, scruple |
moving | (adjective) arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion | - |
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(adjective) in motion | - |
(adjective) used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion | - |
movingly | (adverb) in a moving manner | - |
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nonliving | (adjective) not endowed with life | Synonyms: inanimate, non-living |
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nonmoving | (adjective) not in motion | Synonyms: unmoving |
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observing | (adjective) quick to notice; showing quick and keen perception | Synonyms: observant |
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observingly | (adverb) in an observant manner | Synonyms: observantly |
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olivine | (noun) a mineral consisting of magnesium iron silicate; a source of magnesium | - |
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ovine | (adjective) of or pertaining to or of the nature of or characteristic of a sheep or sheep | - |
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ovoflavin | (noun) a B vitamin that prevents skin lesions and weight loss | Synonyms: hepatoflavin, lactoflavin, riboflavin, vitamin B2, vitamin G |
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paving | (noun) the act of applying paving materials to an area | Synonyms: pavage |
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(noun) the paved surface of a thoroughfare | Synonyms: pavement |
(noun) material used to pave an area | Synonyms: pavement, paving material |
photoengraving | (noun) an engraving used to reproduce an illustration | Synonyms: halftone, halftone engraving |
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province | (noun) the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation | Synonyms: state |
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(noun) the proper sphere or extent of your activities | Synonyms: responsibility |
provincial | (adjective) characteristic of the provinces or their people | - |
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(adjective) of or associated with a province | - |
(noun) a country person | Synonyms: bucolic, peasant |
(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order | - |
provincialism | (noun) a partiality for some particular place | Synonyms: localism, sectionalism |
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(noun) a lack of sophistication | - |
provincially | (adverb) by the province; through the province | - |
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quartervine | (noun) woody flowering vine of southern United States; stems show a cross in transverse section | Synonyms: Bignonia capreolata, cross vine, quarter-vine, trumpet flower |
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ravine | (noun) a deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water) | - |
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raving | (adjective) talking or behaving irrationally | Synonyms: raving mad, wild |
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(noun) declaiming wildly | - |
(adverb) in a raving manner | Synonyms: ravingly |
ravingly | (adverb) in a raving manner | Synonyms: raving |
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reliving | (noun) a recurrence of a prior experience | Synonyms: re-experiencing |
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reproving | (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonishing, admonitory, reproachful |
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reprovingly | (adverb) in a reproving or reproachful manner | Synonyms: reproachfully |
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resolving | (noun) analysis into clear-cut components | Synonyms: resolution |
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reviving | (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: renewing, restorative, revitalising, revitalizing |
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riboflavin | (noun) a B vitamin that prevents skin lesions and weight loss | Synonyms: hepatoflavin, lactoflavin, ovoflavin, vitamin B2, vitamin G |
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roving | (adjective) migratory | Synonyms: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, wandering |
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(noun) travelling about without any clear destination | Synonyms: vagabondage, wandering |
salving | (adjective) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin | Synonyms: demulcent, emollient, softening |
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