| noninterference | (noun) a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes | Synonyms: nonintervention |
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| nonobservance | (noun) a lack of conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | - |
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| nonoccurrence | (noun) absence by virtue of not occurring | - |
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| nonperformance | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, negligence |
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| nonresistance | (noun) group refusal to resort to violence even in defense against violence | - |
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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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| nosepiece | (noun) the link between two lenses; rests on the nose | Synonyms: bridge |
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| (noun) armor plate that protects the nose | - |
| (noun) a strap that is the part of a bridle that goes over the animal's nose | Synonyms: noseband |
| notice | (noun) the act of noticing or paying attention | Synonyms: observance, observation |
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| (noun) polite or favorable attention | - |
| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, placard, poster, posting |
| (noun) an announcement containing information about an event | - |
| (noun) a request for payment | Synonyms: notification |
| (noun) advance notification (usually written) of the intention to withdraw from an arrangement of contract | - |
| (noun) a short critical review | - |
| (verb) make or write a comment on | Synonyms: comment, point out, remark |
| (verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: acknowledge |
| (verb) notice or perceive | Synonyms: mark, note |
| (verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: detect, discover, find, observe |
| novice | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: beginner, initiate, tiro, tyro |
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| (noun) someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows | Synonyms: novitiate |
| nuance | (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, refinement, shade, subtlety |
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| nuisance | (noun) (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive | - |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
| nurturance | (noun) physical and emotional care and nourishment | - |
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| obedience | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obeisance |
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| (noun) behavior intended to please your parents | Synonyms: respect |
| (noun) the trait of being willing to obey | - |
| obeisance | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obedience |
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| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, bowing |
| observance | (noun) the act of observing; taking a patient look | Synonyms: observation, watching |
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| (noun) conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | Synonyms: honoring, honouring |
| (noun) the act of noticing or paying attention | Synonyms: notice, observation |
| (noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, ceremony |
| obsolesce | (verb) become obsolete, fall into disuse | - |
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| obsolescence | (noun) the process of becoming obsolete; falling into disuse or becoming out of date | - |
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| obstinance | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinacy, stubbornness |
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| (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
| occurrence | (noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: happening, natural event, occurrent |
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| (noun) an instance of something occurring | - |
| offence | (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offense, offensive |
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| (noun) a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right | Synonyms: offense |
| (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: discourtesy, offense, offensive activity |
| (noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offense, umbrage |
| (noun) the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score | Synonyms: offense |
| office | (noun) a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities | - |
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| (noun) the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group | Synonyms: function, part, role |
| (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, place, position, post, situation |
| (noun) place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed | Synonyms: business office |
| (noun) professional or clerical workers in an office | Synonyms: office staff |
| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency |
| (noun) (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power | Synonyms: power |
| omnipotence | (noun) the state of being omnipotent; having unlimited power | - |
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| omnipresence | (noun) the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) | Synonyms: ubiquitousness, ubiquity |
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| omniscience | (noun) the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge | - |
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| once | (adverb) on one occasion | Synonyms: in one case, one time |
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| (adverb) at a previous time | Synonyms: at one time, erst, erstwhile, formerly |
| (adverb) as soon as | - |
| opalesce | (verb) exhibit a play of colors like that of an opal | - |
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| (verb) reflect light or colors like an opal | - |
| opalescence | (noun) the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface | Synonyms: iridescence |
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| opulence | (noun) wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living | Synonyms: luxuriousness, luxury, sumptuousness |
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| ordinance | (noun) the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders | Synonyms: ordination |
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| (noun) an authoritative command | Synonyms: regulation |
| (noun) a statute enacted by a city government | - |
| ordnance | (noun) military supplies | Synonyms: munition, ordnance store |
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| (noun) large but transportable armament | Synonyms: artillery, gun, heavy weapon |
| orifice | (noun) an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity | Synonyms: opening, porta |
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| oscitance | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitancy, yawn, yawning |
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| (noun) drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning | Synonyms: oscitancy |
| ounce | (noun) large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur | Synonyms: Panthera uncia, snow leopard |
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| (noun) a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams | Synonyms: oz. |
| (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound | Synonyms: apothecaries' ounce, troy ounce |
| outbalance | (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outweigh, overbalance, preponderate |
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| outdistance | (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: distance, outstrip |
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| outface | (verb) overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring | Synonyms: outstare, stare down |
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| outpace | (verb) surpass in speed | - |
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| outsource | (verb) obtain goods or services from an outside supplier; to contract work out | - |
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| overabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance |
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| (noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: excess, surfeit |
| overbalance | (verb) cause to be off balance | - |
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| (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, outweigh, preponderate |
| overconfidence | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: certitude, cocksureness |
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| overindulgence | (noun) excessive indulgence | Synonyms: excess |
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| overnice | (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: dainty, nice, prissy, squeamish |
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| overprice | (verb) price excessively high | - |
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| overproduce | (verb) produce in excess; produce more than needed or wanted | - |
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| (verb) produce in excess | - |
| overtolerance | (noun) too much permissiveness | - |
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| pace | (noun) a step in walking or running | Synonyms: stride, tread |
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| (noun) the relative speed of progress or change | Synonyms: rate |
| (noun) a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride | Synonyms: yard |
| (noun) the distance covered by a step | Synonyms: footstep, step, stride |
| (noun) the rate of moving (especially walking or running) | Synonyms: gait |
| (noun) the rate of some repeating event | Synonyms: tempo |
| (verb) measure (distances) by pacing | Synonyms: step |
| (verb) regulate or set the pace of | - |
| (verb) walk with slow or fast paces | - |
| (verb) go at a pace | - |
| palace | (noun) official residence of an exalted person (as a sovereign) | - |
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| (noun) a large and stately mansion | Synonyms: castle |
| (noun) a large ornate exhibition hall | - |
| (noun) the governing group of a kingdom | - |
| paleface | (noun) (slang) a derogatory term for a white person (supposedly used by North American Indians) | - |
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| parlance | (noun) a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language | Synonyms: idiom |
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| patience | (noun) a card game played by one person | Synonyms: solitaire |
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| (noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: forbearance, longanimity |
| peace | (noun) a treaty to cease hostilities | Synonyms: pacification, peace treaty |
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| (noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: ataraxis, heartsease, peace of mind, peacefulness, repose, serenity |
| (noun) the state prevailing during the absence of war | - |
| (noun) harmonious relations; freedom from disputes | - |
| (noun) the general security of public places | Synonyms: public security |
| penance | (noun) voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing | Synonyms: self-abasement, self-mortification |
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| (noun) a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution | - |
| (noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penitence, repentance |
| penitence | (noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penance, repentance |
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| perchance | (adverb) through chance | Synonyms: by chance |
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| (adverb) by chance | Synonyms: maybe, mayhap, peradventure, perhaps, possibly |
| perforce | (adverb) by necessity; by force of circumstance | - |
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| performance | (noun) the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it | Synonyms: carrying into action, carrying out, execution |
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| (noun) the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment | - |
| (noun) any recognized accomplishment | - |
| (noun) a dramatic or musical entertainment | Synonyms: public presentation |
| (noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: functioning, operation |
| permanence | (noun) the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration | Synonyms: permanency |
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| perseverance | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseveration, persistence |
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| (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
| persistence | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, perseveration |
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| (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
| (noun) the property of a continuous and connected period of time | Synonyms: continuity |
| pertinence | (noun) relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | Synonyms: applicability, pertinency |
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| pestilence | (noun) a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of | Synonyms: canker |
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| (noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate | Synonyms: pest, plague |
| (noun) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal | Synonyms: pest, pestis, plague |
| petulance | (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness |
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| phosphoresce | (verb) to exhibit phosphorescence | - |
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| phosphorescence | (noun) a fluorescence that persists after the bombarding radiation has ceased | - |
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| piece | (noun) a separate part of a whole | - |
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| (noun) game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games | Synonyms: man |
| (noun) a portable gun | Synonyms: firearm, small-arm |
| (noun) a work of art of some artistic value | Synonyms: art object, objet d'art |
| (noun) an item that is an instance of some type | Synonyms: part |
| (noun) a distance | - |
| (noun) a musical work that has been created | Synonyms: composition, musical composition, opus, piece of music |
| (noun) an artistic or literary composition | - |
| (noun) an instance of some kind | Synonyms: bit |
| (noun) a serving that has been cut from a larger portion | Synonyms: slice |
| (noun) a portion of a natural object | Synonyms: part |
| (noun) a share of something | Synonyms: slice |
| (noun) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition | Synonyms: patch, spell, while |
| (verb) repair by adding pieces | Synonyms: patch |
| (verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: nibble, pick |
| (verb) join during spinning | - |
| (verb) to join or unite the pieces of | Synonyms: patch |
| (verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: assemble, put together, set up, tack, tack together |
| pierce | (verb) make a hole into | - |
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| (verb) penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: thrust |
| (verb) cut or make a way through | - |
| (verb) move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply | - |
| (verb) sound sharply or shrilly | - |
| pinnace | (noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore | Synonyms: cutter, ship's boat, tender |
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| piquance | (noun) a tart spicy quality | Synonyms: nip, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest |
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| (noun) the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting | Synonyms: piquancy, piquantness |
| pittance | (noun) an inadequate payment | - |
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| place | (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, office, position, post, situation |
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| (noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | Synonyms: lieu, position, stead |
| (noun) an abstract mental location | - |
| (noun) the passage that is being read | - |
| (noun) a blank area | Synonyms: blank space, space |
| (noun) an item on a list or in a sequence | Synonyms: position |
| (noun) a point located with respect to surface features of some region | Synonyms: spot, topographic point |
| (noun) a general vicinity | - |
| (noun) a public square with room for pedestrians | Synonyms: piazza, plaza |
| (noun) a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane) | Synonyms: seat |
| (noun) any area set aside for a particular purpose | Synonyms: property |
| (noun) the particular portion of space occupied by something | Synonyms: position |
| (noun) where you live at a particular time | Synonyms: home |
| (noun) proper or designated social situation | Synonyms: station |
| (noun) a particular situation | Synonyms: shoes |
| (noun) proper or appropriate position or location | - |
| (verb) recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something | Synonyms: identify |
| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, order, range, rank, rate |
| (verb) take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal | Synonyms: come in, come out |
| (verb) estimate | Synonyms: put, set |
| (verb) sing a note with the correct pitch | - |
| (verb) to arrange for | - |
| (verb) assign to a station | Synonyms: post, send, station |
| (verb) finish second or better in a horse or dog race | - |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, point, target |
| (verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, pose, position, put, set |
| (verb) locate | Synonyms: localise, localize, set |
| (verb) assign a location to | Synonyms: locate, site |
| (verb) make an investment | Synonyms: commit, invest, put |
| (verb) assign to (a job or a home) | - |
| (verb) place somebody in a particular situation or location | - |
| (verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localise, localize |
| plaice | (noun) large European food fish | Synonyms: Pleuronectes platessa |
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| (noun) flesh of large European flatfish | - |
| pleasance | (noun) a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience | Synonyms: pleasure |
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| (noun) a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion | - |
| ploce | (noun) (rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning | - |
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| poignance | (noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignancy |
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| police | (noun) the force of policemen and officers | Synonyms: constabulary, law, police force |
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| (verb) maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol | Synonyms: patrol |
| polyvalence | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, multivalency, polyvalency |
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| (noun) (toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism | Synonyms: polyvalency |
| ponce | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, procurer |
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| (noun) a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses | - |
| populace | (noun) people in general considered as a whole | Synonyms: public, world |
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| potence | (noun) the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse | Synonyms: potency |
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| poultice | (noun) a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc. | Synonyms: cataplasm, plaster |
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| (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: plaster |
| pounce | (noun) the act of pouncing | - |
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| (verb) move down on as if in an attack | Synonyms: swoop |
| practice | (noun) a customary way of operation or behavior | Synonyms: pattern |
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| (noun) systematic training by multiple repetitions | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practice session, recitation |
| (noun) the exercise of a profession | - |
| (noun) translating an idea into action | Synonyms: praxis |
| (noun) knowledge of how something is usually done | - |
| (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practise |
| (verb) engage in a rehearsal (of) | Synonyms: practise, rehearse |
| (verb) carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions | Synonyms: do, exercise, practise |
| (verb) avail oneself to | Synonyms: apply, use |
| (verb) engage in or perform | Synonyms: commit |
| prance | (noun) a proud stiff pompous gait | Synonyms: strut, swagger |
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| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, ruffle, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
| (verb) ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward | - |
| (verb) cause (a horse) to bound spring forward | - |
| (verb) spring forward on the hind legs | - |
| precedence | (noun) the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) | Synonyms: precedency, precession |
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| (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedency, priority |
| (noun) status established in order of importance or urgency | Synonyms: precedency, priority |
| precipice | (noun) a very steep cliff | - |
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| precipitance | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| predominance | (noun) the quality of being more noticeable than anything else | Synonyms: predomination |
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| (noun) the state of being predominant over others | Synonyms: predomination, prepotency |
| preeminence | (noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: distinction, eminence, note |
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| preexistence | (noun) existing in a former state or previous to something else | - |
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| preface | (noun) a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book | Synonyms: foreword, prolusion |
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| (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: introduce, precede, premise |
| preference | (noun) grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties) | - |
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| (noun) the right or chance to choose | Synonyms: druthers |
| (noun) a predisposition in favor of something | Synonyms: orientation, predilection |
| (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: penchant, predilection, taste |
| prejudice | (noun) a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation | Synonyms: bias, preconception |
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| (verb) influence (somebody's) opinion in advance | Synonyms: prepossess |
| (verb) disadvantage by prejudice | - |
| prentice | (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: apprentice, learner |
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| preponderance | (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: prevalence |
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| (noun) exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight | - |
| (noun) superiority in power or influence | - |
| prepuce | (noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis | Synonyms: foreskin |
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| (noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris | Synonyms: foreskin |
| prescience | (noun) the power to foresee the future | Synonyms: prevision |
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| presence | (noun) the act of being present | - |
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| (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: bearing, comportment, mien |
| (noun) the impression that something is present | - |
| (noun) the immediate proximity of someone or something | Synonyms: front |
| (noun) an invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby | - |
| (noun) the state of being present; current existence | - |
| pretence | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretending, pretense, simulation |
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| (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretense, pretension |
| (noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretense, pretext |
| (noun) imaginative intellectual play | Synonyms: make-believe, pretense |
| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, feigning, pretense |
| prevalence | (noun) the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread | - |
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| (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: preponderance |
| (noun) (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population | - |