| 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 | - |
| avionic | (adjective) of or relating to avionics | - |
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| avionics | (noun) science and technology of electronic systems and devices for aeronautics and astronautics | - |
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| behavior | (noun) manner of acting or controlling yourself | Synonyms: behaviour, conduct, doings |
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| (noun) (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation | Synonyms: behaviour |
| (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behaviour, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, deportment |
| (noun) the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances | Synonyms: behaviour |
| behavioral | (adjective) of or relating to behavior | Synonyms: behavioural |
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| behaviorism | (noun) an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior | Synonyms: behavioristic psychology, behaviourism, behaviouristic psychology |
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| behaviorist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behavioristic, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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| (noun) a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviourist |
| behavioristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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| behaviour | (noun) manner of acting or controlling yourself | Synonyms: behavior, conduct, doings |
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| (noun) (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation | Synonyms: behavior |
| (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, deportment |
| (noun) the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances | Synonyms: behavior |
| behavioural | (adjective) of or relating to behavior | Synonyms: behavioral |
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| behaviourism | (noun) an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior | Synonyms: behaviorism, behavioristic psychology, behaviouristic psychology |
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| behaviourist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviouristic |
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| (noun) a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist |
| behaviouristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviourist |
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| devious | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: circuitous, roundabout |
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| (adjective) indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading | Synonyms: oblique |
| (adjective) characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive | Synonyms: shifty |
| deviously | (adverb) in a devious manner | - |
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| deviousness | (noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: crookedness |
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| (noun) the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly | Synonyms: obliqueness |
| envious | (adjective) showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages | Synonyms: covetous, jealous |
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| enviously | (adverb) with jealousy; in an envious manner | Synonyms: covetously, jealously |
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| enviousness | (noun) a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another | Synonyms: envy |
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| impervious | (adjective) not admitting of passage or capable of being affected | Synonyms: imperviable |
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| imperviousness | (noun) the quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.) | Synonyms: impenetrability |
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| inviolable | (adjective) incapable of being transgressed or dishonored | - |
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| (adjective) not capable of being violated or infringed | Synonyms: absolute, infrangible |
| (adjective) immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with | Synonyms: impregnable, secure, strong, unassailable, unattackable |
| (adjective) must be kept sacred | Synonyms: inviolate, sacrosanct |
| inviolate | (adjective) must be kept sacred | Synonyms: inviolable, sacrosanct |
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| (adjective) (of a woman) having the hymen unbroken | Synonyms: intact |
| lascivious | (adjective) driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires | Synonyms: lewd, libidinous, lustful |
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| lasciviously | (adverb) in a lascivious manner | Synonyms: salaciously |
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| lasciviousness | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lubricity, prurience, pruriency |
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| misbehavior | (noun) improper or wicked or immoral behavior | Synonyms: misbehaviour, misdeed |
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| misbehaviour | (noun) improper or wicked or immoral behavior | Synonyms: misbehavior, misdeed |
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| neobehaviorism | (noun) a school of psychology based on the general principles of behaviorism but broader and more flexible in concept. It stresses experimental research and laboratory analyses in the study of overt behavior and in various subjective phenomena that cannot be directly observed and measured, such as fantasies, love, stress, empathy, trust, and personality. | - |
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| nonviolence | (noun) peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate | Synonyms: nonviolent resistance, passive resistance |
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| nonviolent | (adjective) abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence | - |
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| (adjective) achieved without bloodshed | Synonyms: unbloody |
| nonviolently | (adverb) without violence | - |
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| oblivion | (noun) total forgetfulness | Synonyms: obliviousness |
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| (noun) the state of being disregarded or forgotten | Synonyms: limbo |
| oblivious | (adjective) failing to keep in mind | Synonyms: forgetful |
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| (adjective) (followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of | Synonyms: unmindful |
| obliviousness | (noun) total forgetfulness | Synonyms: oblivion |
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| obvious | (adjective) easily perceived and understood | - |
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| obviously | (adverb) unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') | Synonyms: apparently, evidently, manifestly, patently, plain, plainly |
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| obviousness | (noun) the property of being easy to see and understand | Synonyms: noticeability, noticeableness, patency |
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| pavior | (noun) a machine for laying pavement | Synonyms: paving machine, paviour |
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| paviour | (noun) a machine for laying pavement | Synonyms: paving machine, pavior |
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| pervious | (adjective) admitting of passage or entrance | - |
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| perviousness | (noun) the quality of being penetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.) | Synonyms: penetrability |
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| pluviometer | (noun) gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation | Synonyms: rain gage, rain gauge, udometer |
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| previous | (adjective) too soon or too hasty | Synonyms: premature |
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| (adjective) (used especially of persons) of the immediate past | Synonyms: former, late |
| (adjective) just preceding something else in time or order | Synonyms: old |
| previously | (adverb) at an earlier time or formerly | Synonyms: antecedently |
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| ravioli | (noun) small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings | Synonyms: cappelletti |
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| savior | (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: deliverer, rescuer, saviour |
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| saviour | (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: deliverer, rescuer, savior |
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| ultraviolet | (adjective) having or employing wavelengths shorter than light but longer than X-rays; lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end | - |
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| (noun) radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays | Synonyms: ultraviolet illumination, ultraviolet light, ultraviolet radiation, UV |
| unobvious | (adjective) not immediately apparent | - |
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| viol | (noun) any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family | - |
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| viola | (noun) any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola | - |
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| (noun) a bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower | - |
| violable | (adjective) capable of being violated | - |
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| violate | (verb) destroy | - |
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| (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, plunder, rape, spoil |
| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, offend, transgress |
| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, ravish |
| (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, outrage, profane |
| (verb) fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns | Synonyms: break, go against |
| violated | (adjective) treated irreverently or sacrilegiously | Synonyms: profaned |
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| violation | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, infringement, misdemeanor, misdemeanour |
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| (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: encroachment, intrusion, trespass, usurpation |
| (noun) the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will | Synonyms: assault, rape, ravishment |
| (noun) a disrespectful act | Synonyms: irreverence |
| (noun) an act that disregards an agreement or a right | Synonyms: infringement |
| violative | (adjective) violating or tending to violate or offend against | Synonyms: offensive |
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| violator | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: debaucher, ravisher |
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| (noun) someone who violates the law | Synonyms: law offender, lawbreaker |
| violence | (noun) an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists) | Synonyms: force |
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| (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, wildness |
| (noun) a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc. | - |
| violent | (adjective) acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by violence or bloodshed | Synonyms: crimson, red |
| (adjective) effected by force or injury rather than natural causes | - |
| (adjective) marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid | Synonyms: fierce, tearing, trigger-happy, vehement |
| (adjective) (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud | Synonyms: wild |
| violently | (adverb) in a violent manner | - |
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| violet | (adjective) of a color intermediate between red and blue | Synonyms: purple, purplish |
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| (noun) a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum | Synonyms: reddish blue |
| (noun) any of numerous low-growing violas with small flowers | - |
| violin | (noun) bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow | Synonyms: fiddle |
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| violinist | (noun) a musician who plays the violin | Synonyms: fiddler |
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| violist | (noun) a musician who plays the viola | - |
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| violoncellist | (noun) someone who plays a violoncello | Synonyms: cellist |
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| violoncello | (noun) a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing | Synonyms: cello |
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| viomycin | (noun) a basic polypeptide antibiotic (trade name Viocin) administered intramuscularly (along with other drugs) in the treatment of tuberculosis | Synonyms: Viocin |
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| viosterol | (noun) a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets | Synonyms: calciferol, cholecalciferol, D, ergocalciferol, vitamin D |
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