| achy | (adjective) causing a dull and steady pain | Synonyms: aching |
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| anarchy | (noun) a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) | Synonyms: lawlessness |
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| archduchy | (noun) the domain controlled by an archduke or archduchess | - |
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| autarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autocracy |
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| (noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarky |
| bitchy | (adjective) marked by or arising from malice | Synonyms: cattish, catty |
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| blotchy | (adjective) marred by discolored spots or blotches | - |
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| (adjective) marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots | Synonyms: blotched, splotched |
| botchy | (adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: butcherly, unskillful |
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| branchy | (adjective) having many branches | - |
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| bunchy | (adjective) occurring close together in bunches or clusters | - |
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| campeachy | (noun) spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye | Synonyms: bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood, logwood tree |
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| catchy | (adjective) likely to attract attention | Synonyms: attention-getting |
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| (adjective) having concealed difficulty | Synonyms: tricky |
| chinchy | (adjective) embarrassingly stingy | Synonyms: cheap, chintzy |
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| diarchy | (noun) a form of government having two joint rulers | Synonyms: dyarchy |
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| duchy | (noun) the domain controlled by a duke or duchess | Synonyms: dukedom |
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| dyarchy | (noun) a form of government having two joint rulers | Synonyms: diarchy |
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| entelechy | (noun) (Aristotle) the state of something that is fully realized; actuality as opposed to potentiality | - |
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| eparchy | (noun) a diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church | Synonyms: exarchate |
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| (noun) a province in ancient Greece | - |
| grouchy | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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| gynarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a woman | Synonyms: gynecocracy |
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| hierarchy | (noun) a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system | - |
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| (noun) the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body | Synonyms: pecking order, power structure |
| itchy | (adjective) causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch | - |
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| (adjective) nervous and unable to relax | Synonyms: antsy, fidgety, fretful, restless |
| kitschy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| logomachy | (noun) argument about words or the meaning of words | - |
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| matriarchy | (noun) a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line | Synonyms: matriarchate |
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| monarchy | (noun) an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority | - |
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| naumachy | (noun) a naval spectacle; a mock sea battle put on by the ancient Romans | Synonyms: naumachia |
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| oligarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a few people | - |
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| patchy | (adjective) irregular or uneven in quality, texture, etc. | - |
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| patriarchy | (noun) a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | Synonyms: patriarchate |
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| paunchy | (adjective) having a large belly | Synonyms: abdominous, potbellied |
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| peachy | (adjective) of something resembling a peach in color | Synonyms: peachy-colored, peachy-coloured |
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| (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, slap-up, smashing, swell |
| pitchy | (adjective) of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal | Synonyms: coal-black, jet-black, jet, sooty |
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| (adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar | Synonyms: resinous, resiny, tarry |
| preachy | (adjective) inclined to or marked by tedious moralization | - |
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| psychomachy | (noun) a conflict of the soul (as with the body or between good and evil). | - |
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| raunchy | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy |
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| (adjective) suggestive of or tending to moral looseness | Synonyms: lewd, obscene, salacious |
| (adjective) earthy and sexually explicit | - |
| scratchy | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough |
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| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, techy, testy, tetchy |
| (adjective) lacking consistency | Synonyms: spotty, uneven |
| (adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: abrasive |
| screechy | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screaky, squeaking, squeaky, squealing |
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| sketchy | (adjective) giving only major points; lacking completeness | Synonyms: unelaborated |
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| slouchy | (adjective) lacking stiffness in form or posture | - |
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| squirearchy | (noun) the gentry who own land (considered as a class) | Synonyms: landed gentry |
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| starchy | (adjective) consisting of or containing starch | - |
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| (adjective) rigidly formal | Synonyms: buckram, stiff |
| stretchy | (adjective) capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape | Synonyms: stretchable |
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| symmachy | (noun) Fighting together or in an alliance with an ally (or allies) | - |
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| tauromachy | (noun) the activity at a bullfight | Synonyms: bullfighting |
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| techy | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy |
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| tetchy | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy |
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| touchy | (adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact | Synonyms: delicate, ticklish |
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| (adjective) quick to take offense | Synonyms: feisty, huffy, thin-skinned |