| manganate | (noun) a salt of manganic acid containing manganese as its anion | - |
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| manipulate | (verb) treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed | - |
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| (verb) hold something in one's hands and move it | - |
| (verb) maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage | Synonyms: control, keep in line |
| (verb) manipulate in a fraudulent manner | Synonyms: rig |
| (verb) influence or control shrewdly or deviously | Synonyms: pull strings, pull wires |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, misrepresent, wangle |
| margate | (noun) a grunt with a red mouth that is found from Florida to Brazil | Synonyms: Haemulon album |
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| marinate | (verb) soak in marinade | Synonyms: marinade |
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| masticate | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, jaw, manducate |
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| (verb) grind and knead | - |
| masturbate | (verb) get sexual gratification through self-stimulation | Synonyms: fuck off, jack off, jerk off, she-bop, wank |
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| (verb) stimulate sexually | - |
| mate | (noun) a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king | Synonyms: checkmate |
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| (noun) an exact duplicate | Synonyms: match |
| (noun) South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate | - |
| (noun) a person's partner in marriage | Synonyms: better half, married person, partner, spouse |
| (noun) the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner) | - |
| (noun) the officer below the master on a commercial ship | Synonyms: first mate |
| (noun) informal term for a friend of the same sex | - |
| (noun) a fellow member of a team | Synonyms: teammate |
| (noun) South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea | Synonyms: Ilex paraguariensis, Paraguay tea |
| (noun) one of a pair | Synonyms: fellow |
| (verb) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | Synonyms: checkmate |
| (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: copulate, couple, pair |
| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: couple, match, pair, twin |
| matriarchate | (noun) a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line | Synonyms: matriarchy |
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| matriculate | (noun) someone who has been admitted to a college or university | - |
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| (verb) enroll as a student | - |
| maturate | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: fester, suppurate |
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| (verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: grow, mature |
| (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, mature, senesce |
| meclofenamate | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Meclomen) used to treat arthritis | Synonyms: meclofenamate sodium, Meclomen |
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| mediate | (adjective) acting through or dependent on an intervening agency | - |
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| (adjective) being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series | Synonyms: in-between, middle |
| (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intercede, intermediate, liaise |
| (verb) occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others | - |
| medicate | (verb) treat medicinally, treat with medicine | Synonyms: medicine |
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| (verb) impregnate with a medicinal substance | - |
| meditate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: contemplate, study |
| meliorate | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, improve |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, better, improve |
| mellitate | (noun) a salt of mellitic acid. | - |
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| menstruate | (verb) undergo menstruation | Synonyms: flow |
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| mensurate | (verb) determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of | Synonyms: measure, measure out |
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| meprobamate | (noun) a sedative and tranquilizer (trade name Miltown and Equanil and Meprin) used to treat muscle tension and anxiety | Synonyms: Equanil, Meprin, Miltown |
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| messmate | (noun) (nautical) an associate with whom you share meals in the same mess (as on a ship) | - |
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| methotrexate | (noun) toxic antimetabolite that limits cellular reproduction by acting as an antagonist to folic acid; used to treat certain cancers and psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis | Synonyms: amethopterin, methotrexate sodium |
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| methylphenidate | (noun) central nervous system stimulant (trade name Ritalin) used in the treatment of narcolepsy in adults and attention deficit disorder in children | Synonyms: Ritalin |
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| metricate | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricise, metricize, metrify |
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| micturate | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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| migrate | (verb) move from one country or region to another and settle there | Synonyms: transmigrate |
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| (verb) move periodically or seasonally | - |
| militate | (verb) have force or influence; bring about an effect or change | - |
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| miltomate | (noun) Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes | Synonyms: jamberry, Physalis philadelphica, purple ground cherry, tomatillo |
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| miniate | (verb) paint with red lead or vermilion | - |
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| (verb) decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red | Synonyms: rubricate |
| misappropriate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, malversate, peculate |
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| miscalculate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: misestimate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: misestimate |
| miscegenate | (verb) marry or cohabit with a person of another race | - |
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| miscreate | (verb) shape or form or make badly | - |
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| misdate | (verb) assign the wrong date to | - |
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| misestimate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
| misfortunate | (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
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| mismate | (verb) provide with an unsuitable mate | - |
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| misstate | (verb) state something incorrectly | - |
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| mistranslate | (verb) translate incorrectly | - |
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| mitigate | (verb) to temper | - |
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| (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: extenuate, palliate |
| moderate | (adjective) being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme | - |
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| (adjective) not extreme | Synonyms: temperate |
| (adjective) marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes | Synonyms: restrained |
| (noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: centrist, middle of the roader, moderationist |
| (verb) make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else | Synonyms: mollify, season, temper |
| (verb) make less fast or intense | - |
| (verb) preside over | Synonyms: chair, lead |
| (verb) make less strong or intense; soften | Synonyms: tame, tone down |
| (verb) make less severe or harsh | Synonyms: mince, soften |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, contain, control, curb, hold, hold in |
| modulate | (verb) adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of | - |
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| (verb) fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of | Synonyms: regulate |
| (verb) vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves) | - |
| (verb) vary the pitch of one's speech | Synonyms: inflect, tone |
| (verb) change the key of, in music | - |
| monohydrate | (noun) a hydrate that contains one molecule of water per molecule of the compound | - |
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| mononucleate | (adjective) having only one nucleus | Synonyms: mononuclear |
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| motivate | (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, move, prompt, propel |
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| multinucleate | (adjective) having two or more nuclei | - |
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| multivariate | (adjective) pertaining to any procedure involving two or more variables | - |
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| mussitate | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mumble, mutter |
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| mutate | (verb) undergo mutation | - |
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| mutilate | (verb) destroy or injure severely | Synonyms: mar |
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| (verb) damage or injure severely | Synonyms: cut up, mangle |
| (verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: mangle, murder |
| nameplate | (noun) a plate bearing a name | - |
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| narrate | (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: recite, recount, tell |
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| (verb) provide commentary for a film, for example | - |
| nauseate | (verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, disgust, revolt, sicken |
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| (verb) upset and make nauseated | Synonyms: sicken, turn one's stomach |
| navigate | (verb) act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance | Synonyms: pilot |
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| (verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: sail, voyage |
| (verb) direct carefully and safely | - |
| necessitate | (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, need, postulate, require, take |
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| (verb) cause to be a concomitant | - |
| negate | (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: neutralise, neutralize, nullify |
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| (verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: contradict |
| (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, contravene |
| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, contradict |
| negociate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negotiate, talk terms |
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| (verb) confer with another in order to come to terms or reach an agreement | - |
| (verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negotiate |
| (verb) transfer by endorsement to another in return for value received | - |
| (verb) sell or discount | - |
| (verb) be successful; achieve a goal | Synonyms: bring off, carry off, manage, pull off |
| negotiate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negociate, talk terms |
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| (verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negociate |
| neonate | (noun) a baby from birth to four weeks | Synonyms: newborn |
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| nictate | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: blink, nictitate, wink |
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| nictitate | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: blink, nictate, wink |
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| nitrate | (noun) any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid) | - |
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| (verb) treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate | - |
| nominate | (verb) propose as a candidate for some honor | Synonyms: put forward, put up |
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| (verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, constitute, name |
| (verb) charge with a function; charge to be | Synonyms: make, name |
| (verb) put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position | Synonyms: propose |
| noncandidate | (noun) someone who has announced they are not a candidate; especially a politician who has announced that he or she is not a candidate for some political office | - |
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| nonliterate | (adjective) used of a society that has not developed writing | Synonyms: preliterate |
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| nonparticulate | (adjective) not composed of distinct particles | - |
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| nonreticulate | (adjective) not resembling or forming a network | - |
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| notate | (verb) put into notation, as of music or choreography | - |
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| novate | (verb) replace with something new, especially an old obligation by a new one | - |
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| noviciate | (noun) the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order) | Synonyms: novitiate |
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| novitiate | (noun) someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows | Synonyms: novice |
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| (noun) the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order) | Synonyms: noviciate |
| nucleate | (adjective) having a nucleus or occurring in the nucleus | Synonyms: nucleated |
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| (verb) form into a nucleus | - |
| numberplate | (noun) a plate mounted on the front and back of car and bearing the car's registration number | Synonyms: license plate |
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| numerate | (adjective) able to understand and use numbers | - |
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| (verb) read out loud as words written numbers | - |
| (verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: count, enumerate, number |
| nutate | (verb) rock, sway, or nod; usually involuntarily | - |
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| obdurate | (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, flinty, granitic, stony |
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| (adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: cussed, obstinate, unrepentant |
| obfuscate | (verb) make obscure or unclear | - |
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| objurgate | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, decry, excoriate, reprobate |
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| (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, chastise, correct |
| oblanceolate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a tapering base | - |
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| oblate | (adjective) having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles | Synonyms: pumpkin-shaped |
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| (noun) a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life | - |
| obligate | (adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life | - |
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| (verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: bind, hold, oblige |
| (verb) commit in order to fulfill an obligation | - |
| (verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: compel, oblige |
| obliterate | (adjective) reduced to nothingness | Synonyms: blotted out, obliterated |
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| (verb) remove completely from recognition or memory | Synonyms: efface |
| (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, hide, obscure, veil |
| (verb) mark for deletion, rub off, or erase | Synonyms: kill, wipe out |
| (verb) do away with completely, without leaving a trace | - |
| obnubilate | (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: blur, confuse, obscure |
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| (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obscure |
| obovate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) egg-shaped with the narrower end at the base | - |
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| obstinate | (adjective) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | Synonyms: stubborn, unregenerate |
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| (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, perverse, wayward |
| (adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: cussed, obdurate, unrepentant |
| (verb) persist stubbornly | - |
| obstipate | (verb) constipate severely | - |
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| obturate | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, occlude |
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| obviate | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, stave off, ward off |
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| (verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: eliminate, rid of |
| odonate | (noun) large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings | - |
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| officiate | (verb) perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function | Synonyms: function |
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| (verb) act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding | - |
| operate | (verb) perform surgery on | Synonyms: operate on |
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| (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre |
| (verb) handle and cause to function | Synonyms: control |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, lock, mesh |
| (verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: function, go, run, work |
| (verb) direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. | Synonyms: run |
| operculate | (adjective) having an operculum | Synonyms: operculated |
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| opiate | (noun) a narcotic drug that contains opium or an opium derivative | - |
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| orate | (verb) talk pompously | - |
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| orbiculate | (adjective) circular or nearly circular | Synonyms: orbicular |
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| orchestrate | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, mastermind, organise, organize |
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| (verb) write an orchestra score for | - |
| ordinate | (noun) the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis | - |
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| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: align, coordinate |
| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, ordain, order |
| organophosphate | (noun) an insecticide that interferes with an insect's nervous system | - |
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| orientate | (verb) determine one's position with reference to another point | Synonyms: orient |
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| originate | (verb) bring into being | Synonyms: initiate, start |
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| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, rise, spring up, uprise |
| (verb) begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc. | - |
| ornate | (adjective) marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details | Synonyms: flowery |
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