| ovenware | (noun) heat-resistant dishware in which food can be cooked as well as served | - |
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| postwar | (adjective) belonging to the period after a war | - |
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| prewar | (adjective) existing or belonging to a time before a war | - |
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| ransomware | (noun) malicious software that makes a computer unusable unless a payment is made to the attacker | - |
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| rearward | (adjective) located in or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: rear |
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| (adjective) directed or moving toward the rear | Synonyms: reverse |
| (noun) direction toward the rear | - |
| (adverb) at or to or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: back, backward, backwards, rearwards |
| rearwards | (adverb) at or to or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: back, backward, backwards, rearward |
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| reward | (noun) an act performed to strengthen approved behavior | Synonyms: reinforcement |
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| (noun) benefit resulting from some event or action | Synonyms: advantage |
| (noun) the offer of money for helping to find a criminal or for returning lost property | - |
| (noun) a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing | Synonyms: payoff, wages |
| (noun) payment made in return for a service rendered | - |
| (verb) strengthen and support with rewards | Synonyms: reinforce |
| (verb) act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions | Synonyms: pay back, repay |
| (verb) bestow honor or rewards upon | Synonyms: honor, honour |
| rewardful | (adjective) offering or productive of reward | - |
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| rewarding | (adjective) providing personal satisfaction | - |
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| rewardingly | (adverb) in a rewarding manner | - |
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| salwar | (noun) a pair of light loose trousers with a tight fit around the ankles; worn by women from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a kameez) | Synonyms: shalwar |
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| seaward | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the land | Synonyms: offshore |
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| (adjective) directed or situated away from inland regions and toward the sea or coast | - |
| (noun) the direction toward the sea | - |
| (adverb) in the direction of the sea | Synonyms: asea, seawards |
| seawards | (adverb) in the direction of the sea | Synonyms: asea, seaward |
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| shalwar | (noun) a pair of light loose trousers with a tight fit around the ankles; worn by women from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a kameez) | Synonyms: salwar |
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| shareware | (noun) software that is available free of charge; may be distributed for evaluation with a fee requested for additional features or a manual etc. | - |
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| shoreward | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land | Synonyms: inshore, onshore |
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| sideward | (adverb) toward one side | Synonyms: sidewards |
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| sidewards | (adverb) toward one side | Synonyms: sideward |
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| silverware | (noun) tableware made of silver or silver plate or pewter or stainless steel | - |
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| skyward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: heavenward |
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| (adverb) toward the sky | Synonyms: skywards |
| skywards | (adverb) toward the sky | Synonyms: skyward |
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| software | (noun) (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory | Synonyms: computer software, package, software package, software program, software system |
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| southeastward | (adjective) toward the southeast | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeast |
| (adverb) in a southeastward direction | Synonyms: southeastwardly |
| southeastwardly | (adverb) in a southeastward direction | Synonyms: southeastward |
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| southward | (adjective) moving toward the south | Synonyms: southbound |
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| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees | Synonyms: due south, S, south |
| (adverb) toward the south | Synonyms: southerly, southwards |
| southwards | (adverb) toward the south | Synonyms: southerly, southward |
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| southwestward | (adjective) toward the southwest | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwest, SW |
| (adverb) in a southwestward direction | Synonyms: southwestwardly |
| southwestwardly | (adverb) in a southwestward direction | Synonyms: southwestward |
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| spaceward | (adverb) towards outer space | Synonyms: spacewards |
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| spacewards | (adverb) towards outer space | Synonyms: spaceward |
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| spyware | (noun) computer software that obtains information from a user's computer without the user's knowledge or consent | - |
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| stalwart | (adjective) used especially of persons | Synonyms: stouthearted |
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| (adjective) dependable | Synonyms: stout |
| (adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: hardy, stout, sturdy |
| (noun) a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt) | Synonyms: loyalist |
| stalwartness | (noun) the property of being strong and resolute | Synonyms: stoutness |
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| steward | (noun) someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else | - |
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| (noun) a union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management | Synonyms: shop steward |
| (noun) one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | Synonyms: custodian, keeper |
| (noun) an attendant on an airplane | Synonyms: flight attendant |
| (noun) the ship's officer who is in charge of provisions and dining arrangements | - |
| stewardess | (noun) a woman steward on an airplane | Synonyms: air hostess, hostess |
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| stewardship | (noun) the position of steward | - |
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| stoneware | (noun) ceramic ware that is fired in high heat and vitrified and nonporous | - |
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| straightforward | (adjective) pointed directly ahead | - |
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| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: square, straight |
| (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: aboveboard |
| (adjective) free from ambiguity | - |
| straightforwardly | (adverb) with firmness and conviction; without compromise | Synonyms: foursquare, squarely |
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| straightforwardness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: downrightness |
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| (noun) without hypocrisy | Synonyms: singleness |
| sward | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: greensward, sod, turf |
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| swarm | (noun) a group of many things in the air or on the ground | Synonyms: cloud |
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| (noun) a moving crowd | Synonyms: drove, horde |
| (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, pullulate, stream, teem |
| (verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: pullulate, teem |
| swart | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, dusky, swarthy |
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| swarthiness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: darkness, duskiness |
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| swarthy | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, dusky, swart |
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| tableware | (noun) articles for use at the table (dishes and silverware and glassware) | - |
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| thwart | (noun) a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat | Synonyms: cross thwart |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil |
| thwarted | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated |
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| thwarter | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, obstructor, resister |
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| thwarting | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, frustrative |
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| (noun) an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts | Synonyms: foiling, frustration |
| thwartwise | (adjective) extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis | Synonyms: cross, transversal, transverse |
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| tinware | (noun) articles of commerce made of tin plate | - |
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| unaware | (adjective) (often followed by `of') not aware | Synonyms: incognizant |
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| unawareness | (noun) unconsciousness resulting from lack of knowledge or attention | Synonyms: unknowingness |
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| unawares | (adverb) suddenly and unexpectedly | - |
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| (adverb) without forethought or plan; inadvertently | - |
| (adverb) at a disadvantage | Synonyms: short |
| unrewarded | (adjective) having acquired or gained nothing | Synonyms: empty-handed |
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| unrewarding | (adjective) not rewarding; not providing personal satisfaction | - |
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| untoward | (adjective) not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society | Synonyms: indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly |
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| (adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: adverse, inauspicious |
| unwarily | (adverb) without heed or caution | - |
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| unwariness | (noun) the trait of not being cautious and watchful | - |
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| unwarmed | (adjective) not having been heated or warmed | Synonyms: unheated |
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| unwarrantable | (adjective) incapable of being justified or explained | Synonyms: indefensible, insupportable, unjustifiable, unwarranted |
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| unwarrantably | (adverb) in an unwarrantable manner or to an unwarranted degree | - |
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| unwarranted | (adjective) incapable of being justified or explained | Synonyms: indefensible, insupportable, unjustifiable, unwarrantable |
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| (adjective) lacking justification or authorization | Synonyms: undue, unjustified |
| (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, wild |
| unwary | (adjective) not alert to danger or deception | - |
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| upward | (adjective) extending or moving toward a higher place | Synonyms: up |
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| (adjective) directed up | - |
| (adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: up, upwardly, upwards |
| (adverb) to a later time | Synonyms: up, upwards |
| upwardly | (adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: up, upward, upwards |
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| upwards | (adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: up, upward, upwardly |
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| (adverb) to a later time | Synonyms: up, upward |
| war | (noun) the waging of armed conflict against an enemy | Synonyms: warfare |
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| (noun) a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious | - |
| (noun) an active struggle between competing entities | Synonyms: warfare |
| (noun) a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply | Synonyms: state of war |
| (verb) make or wage war | - |
| waratah | (noun) tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes | Synonyms: Telopea Oreades |
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| (noun) straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes | Synonyms: Telopea speciosissima |
| warble | (noun) a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly | - |
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| (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: quaver, trill |
| (verb) sing by changing register; sing by yodeling | Synonyms: descant, yodel |
| warbler | (noun) a small active songbird | - |
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| (noun) a singer; usually a singer who adds embellishments to the song | - |
| ward | (noun) block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care | Synonyms: hospital ward |
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| (noun) a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) | Synonyms: cellblock |
| (noun) a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections | - |
| (noun) a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another | - |
| (verb) watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect | Synonyms: guard |
| warden | (noun) the chief official in charge of a prison | - |
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| wardenship | (noun) the position of warden | - |
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| warder | (noun) a person who works in a prison and is in charge of prisoners | - |
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| wardership | (noun) the position of warder | - |
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| wardress | (noun) a woman warder | - |
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| wardrobe | (noun) a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes | Synonyms: closet, press |
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| (noun) collection of clothing belonging to one person | - |
| (noun) collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company | - |
| wardroom | (noun) military quarters for dining and recreation for officers of a warship (except the captain) | - |
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| ware | (noun) articles of the same kind or material; usually used in combination: `silverware', `software' | - |
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| (noun) items for sale to the individual consumer | Synonyms: merchandise, product |
| (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, squander, waste |
| warehouse | (noun) a storehouse for goods and merchandise | Synonyms: storage warehouse |
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| (verb) store in a warehouse | - |
| warehouseman | (noun) a workman who manages or works in a warehouse | Synonyms: warehouser |
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| warehouser | (noun) a workman who manages or works in a warehouse | Synonyms: warehouseman |
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| warehousing | (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: repositing, reposition, storage |
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| warfare | (noun) the waging of armed conflict against an enemy | Synonyms: war |
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| (noun) an active struggle between competing entities | Synonyms: war |
| warfarin | (noun) an anticoagulant (trade name Coumadin) use to prevent and treat a thrombus or embolus | Synonyms: Coumadin |
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| warhead | (noun) the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents | Synonyms: load, payload |
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| warhorse | (noun) horse used in war | - |
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| (noun) a work of art (composition or drama) that is part of the standard repertory but has become hackneyed from much repetition | - |
| (noun) an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service | Synonyms: old-timer, old hand, old stager, oldtimer, stager, veteran |
| warily | (adverb) in a wary manner | - |
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| wariness | (noun) the trait of being cautious and watchful | Synonyms: chariness |
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| warlike | (adjective) suggesting war or military life | Synonyms: martial |
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| (adjective) disposed to warfare or hard-line policies | Synonyms: hawkish, militant |
| warlock | (noun) a male witch or demon | - |
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| warlord | (noun) supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak | - |
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| warm | (adjective) having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat | - |
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| (adjective) psychologically warm; friendly and responsive | - |
| (adjective) inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows when referring to color | - |
| (adjective) characterized by strong enthusiasm | Synonyms: ardent |
| (adjective) easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: quick |
| (adjective) freshly made or left | Synonyms: strong |
| (adjective) characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement | - |
| (adjective) of a seeker; near to the object sought | - |
| (adjective) uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble | - |
| (adverb) in a warm manner | Synonyms: warmly |
| (verb) get warm or warmer | Synonyms: warm up |
| (verb) make warm or warmer | - |
| warmed | (adjective) having been warmed up | - |
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| warmer | (noun) device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room | Synonyms: heater |
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| warmhearted | (adjective) marked by warmth of feeling like kindness and sympathy and generosity | - |
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| warmheartedness | (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmness |
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| (noun) a warmhearted feeling | Synonyms: warmth |
| warming | (adjective) producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body | Synonyms: calefacient |
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| (adjective) imparting heat | - |
| (noun) warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt | Synonyms: thaw, thawing |
| (noun) the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature | Synonyms: heating |