bauxite | (noun) a clay-like mineral; the chief ore of aluminum; composed of aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides; used as an abrasive and catalyst | - |
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bauxitic | (adjective) resembling or containing bauxite | - |
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complexity | (noun) the quality of being intricate and compounded | Synonyms: complexness |
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convexity | (noun) the property possessed by a convex shape | Synonyms: convexness |
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(noun) a shape that curves or bulges outward | Synonyms: convex shape |
exit | (noun) the act of going out | - |
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(noun) an opening that permits escape or release | Synonyms: issue, outlet, way out |
(noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, expiration, going, loss, passing, release |
(verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
(verb) lose the lead | - |
(verb) move out of or depart from | Synonyms: get out, go out, leave |
fixity | (noun) the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment | Synonyms: fastness, fixedness, fixture, secureness |
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(noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: immutability, immutableness |
flexitarianism | (noun) The practice of eating mainly vegetarian food, but making occasional exceptions for social, pragmatic, cultural, or nutritional reasons. | Synonyms: semi-vegetarianism |
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ipsedixitism | (noun) an unsupported dogmatic assertion | Synonyms: ipse dixit |
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laxity | (noun) the quality of being lax and neglectful | Synonyms: laxness, remissness, slackness |
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(noun) the condition of being physiologically lax | Synonyms: laxness |
perplexity | (noun) trouble or confusion resulting from complexity | - |
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prolixity | (noun) boring verbosity | Synonyms: long-windedness, prolixness, windiness, wordiness |
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saxitoxin | (noun) a powerful neurotoxin produced by certain dinoflagellates found in red tides; it can accumulate in mollusks that feed on the dinoflagellates and cause food poisoning to humans | - |
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