| abject | (adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: low-down, low, miserable, scummy, scurvy |
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| (adjective) showing utter resignation or hopelessness | Synonyms: unhopeful |
| (adjective) showing humiliation or submissiveness | - |
| (adjective) most unfortunate or miserable | - |
| advect | (verb) convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid | - |
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| affect | (noun) the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion | - |
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| (verb) act physically on; have an effect upon | - |
| (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on |
| (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: dissemble, feign, pretend, sham |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: impress, move, strike |
| (verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly | Synonyms: involve, regard |
| aftereffect | (noun) any result that follows its cause after an interval | - |
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| (noun) a delayed effect of a drug or therapy | - |
| architect | (noun) someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) | Synonyms: designer |
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| aspect | (noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: expression, face, facial expression, look |
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| (noun) a characteristic to be considered | - |
| (noun) a distinct feature or element in a problem | Synonyms: facet |
| (noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: panorama, prospect, scene, view, vista |
| (noun) the beginning or duration or completion or repetition of the action of a verb | - |
| autocorrect | (noun) a system for automatically correcting text | - |
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| bisect | (verb) cut in half or cut in two | - |
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| cathect | (verb) inject with libidinal energy | - |
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| circumspect | (adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: discreet |
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| collect | (adjective) payable by the recipient on delivery | Synonyms: cod |
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| (noun) a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England | - |
| (adverb) make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays | - |
| (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: garner, gather, pull together |
| (verb) get or bring together | Synonyms: pull in |
| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| (verb) call for and obtain payment of | Synonyms: take in |
| (verb) gather or collect | Synonyms: call for, gather up, pick up |
| complect | (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: interconnect, interlink |
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| confect | (noun) a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts | Synonyms: candy |
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| (verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: comfit, confection |
| (verb) make or construct | - |
| connect | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, link, link up, relate, tie in |
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| (verb) join for the purpose of communication | - |
| (verb) join by means of communication equipment | - |
| (verb) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces | Synonyms: link, link up, tie |
| (verb) land on or hit solidly | - |
| (verb) plug into an outlet | Synonyms: plug in, plug into |
| (verb) hit or play a ball successfully | - |
| (verb) establish communication with someone | Synonyms: get in touch, touch base |
| (verb) establish a rapport or relationship | - |
| (verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: join, link, link up, unite |
| (verb) be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation | - |
| convect | (verb) circulate hot air by convection | - |
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| correct | (adjective) free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth | Synonyms: right |
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| (adjective) correct in opinion or judgment | Synonyms: right |
| (adjective) socially right or correct | Synonyms: right |
| (adjective) in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure | Synonyms: right |
| (verb) treat a defect | - |
| (verb) make right or correct | Synonyms: rectify, right |
| (verb) alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard | Synonyms: adjust, set |
| (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, chastise, objurgate |
| (verb) fall in value | Synonyms: decline, slump |
| (verb) punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience | Synonyms: discipline, sort out |
| (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: compensate, redress, right |
| (verb) adjust for | Synonyms: compensate, counterbalance, even off, even out, even up, make up |
| counterproject | (noun) a project, scheme, or proposal brought forward in opposition to another, as in the negotiation of a treaty. | - |
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| defect | (noun) a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: blemish, mar |
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| (noun) a failing or deficiency | Synonyms: shortcoming |
| (noun) an imperfection in an object or machine | Synonyms: fault, flaw |
| (noun) an imperfection in a bodily system | - |
| (verb) desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army | Synonyms: desert |
| deflect | (verb) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) | Synonyms: block, parry |
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| (verb) draw someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: distract |
| (verb) turn aside and away from an initial or intended course | - |
| (verb) turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest | Synonyms: bend, turn away |
| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| deject | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down |
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| detect | (verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: discover, find, notice, observe |
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| dialect | (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | Synonyms: accent, idiom |
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| direct | (adjective) direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short | - |
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| (adjective) (of a current) flowing in one direction only | - |
| (adjective) straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action | - |
| (adjective) similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity | - |
| (adjective) in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child | Synonyms: lineal |
| (adjective) moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth | - |
| (adjective) lacking compromising or mitigating elements | Synonyms: exact |
| (adjective) in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker | Synonyms: verbatim |
| (adjective) having no intervening persons, agents, conditions | Synonyms: unmediated |
| (adjective) being an immediate result or consequence | - |
| (adverb) without deviation | Synonyms: directly, straight |
| (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize |
| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, calculate |
| (verb) command with authority | - |
| (verb) give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction | - |
| (verb) put an address on (an envelope) | Synonyms: address |
| (verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: aim, take, take aim, train |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, place, point, target |
| (verb) guide the actors in (plays and films) | - |
| (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: conduct, lead |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, guide, lead, take |
| (verb) cause to go somewhere | Synonyms: send |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) govern or manage | - |
| disaffect | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: alienate, estrange |
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| disconnect | (noun) an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding) | Synonyms: disconnection, gulf |
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| (verb) make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten | - |
| (verb) pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable | Synonyms: unplug |
| disinfect | (verb) destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing | - |
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| disrespect | (noun) a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous | Synonyms: contempt |
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| (noun) a disrespectful mental attitude | - |
| (noun) an expression of lack of respect | Synonyms: discourtesy |
| (verb) have little or no respect for; hold in contempt | Synonyms: disesteem |
| (verb) show a lack of respect for | - |
| dissect | (verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, break down, take apart |
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| (verb) cut open or cut apart | - |
| effect | (noun) an outward appearance | Synonyms: impression |
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| (noun) (of a law) having legal validity | Synonyms: force |
| (noun) an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived) | - |
| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: burden, core, essence, gist |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
| (noun) a symptom caused by an illness or a drug | - |
| (verb) produce | Synonyms: effectuate, set up |
| (verb) act so as to bring into existence | - |
| eject | (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, exhaust, expel, release |
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| (verb) cause to come out in a squirt | Synonyms: force out, squeeze out, squirt |
| (verb) put out or expel from a place | Synonyms: boot out, chuck out, exclude, turf out, turn out |
| (verb) leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule | - |
| elect | (adjective) elected but not yet installed in office | - |
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| (adjective) selected as the best | Synonyms: elite |
| (noun) an exclusive group of people | Synonyms: chosen |
| (verb) choose | - |
| (verb) select by a vote for an office or membership | - |
| erect | (adjective) upright in position or posture | Synonyms: upright, vertical |
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| (adjective) of sexual organs; stiff and rigid | Synonyms: tumid |
| (verb) construct, build, or erect | Synonyms: put up, raise, rear, set up |
| (verb) cause to rise up | Synonyms: rear |
| expect | (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: bear, carry, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
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| (verb) look forward to the birth of a child | - |
| (verb) regard something as probable or likely | Synonyms: anticipate |
| (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: await, look, wait |
| (verb) consider reasonable or due | - |
| (verb) consider obligatory; request and expect | Synonyms: ask, require |
| genuflect | (verb) bend the knees and bow in church or before a religious superior or image | - |
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| (verb) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | Synonyms: kowtow, scrape |
| idiolect | (noun) the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life | - |
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| imperfect | (adjective) not perfect; defective or inadequate | - |
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| (adjective) wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings | Synonyms: fallible, frail, weak |
| (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going | Synonyms: continuous tense, imperfect tense, progressive, progressive tense |
| incorrect | (adjective) not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth | Synonyms: wrong |
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| (adjective) not in accord with established usage or procedure | Synonyms: wrong |
| (adjective) characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules | Synonyms: faulty, wrong |
| (adjective) (of a word or expression) not agreeing with grammatical principles | - |
| indirect | (adjective) not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination | - |
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| (adjective) extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action | - |
| (adjective) descended from a common ancestor but through different lines | Synonyms: collateral |
| (adjective) having intervening factors or persons or influences | - |
| (adjective) not as a direct effect or consequence | - |
| infect | (verb) contaminate with a disease or microorganism | Synonyms: taint |
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| (verb) communicate a disease to | - |
| (verb) affect in a contagious way | - |
| (verb) corrupt with ideas or an ideology | - |
| inflect | (verb) vary the pitch of one's speech | Synonyms: modulate, tone |
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| (verb) change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language | - |
| inject | (verb) give an injection to | Synonyms: shoot |
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| (verb) to introduce (a new aspect or element) | - |
| (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, interject, interpose, put in, throw in |
| (verb) feed intravenously | - |
| (verb) take by injection | - |
| (verb) force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing | Synonyms: shoot |
| insect | (noun) small air-breathing arthropod | - |
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| (noun) a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect | Synonyms: dirt ball, louse, worm |
| inspect | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, scrutinise, scrutinize |
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| (verb) come to see in an official or professional capacity | Synonyms: visit |
| (verb) look over carefully | - |
| intellect | (noun) the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination | Synonyms: reason, understanding |
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| (noun) knowledge and intellectual ability | Synonyms: mind |
| (noun) a person who uses the mind creatively | Synonyms: intellectual |
| interconnect | (verb) cause to be interconnected or interwoven | Synonyms: interlink |
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| (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: complect, interlink |
| interject | (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, inject, interpose, put in, throw in |
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| intersect | (verb) meet at a point | Synonyms: cross |
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| introject | (noun) (psychoanalysis) parental figures (and their values) that you introjected as a child; the voice of conscience is usually a parent's voice internalized | - |
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| (verb) incorporate (attitudes or ideas) into one's personality unconsciously | - |
| introspect | (verb) reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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| misdirect | (verb) put a wrong address on | Synonyms: misaddress |
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| (verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misguide, mislead |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| neglect | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, negligence, nonperformance |
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| (noun) willful lack of care and attention | Synonyms: disregard |
| (noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglectfulness, negligence |
| (noun) lack of attention and due care | Synonyms: disregard |
| (noun) the state of something that has been unused and neglected | Synonyms: disuse |
| (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
| (verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: disregard, ignore |
| (verb) fail to attend to | - |
| (verb) fail to do something; leave something undone | Synonyms: fail |
| object | (noun) a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow | Synonyms: physical object |
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| (noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: aim, objective, target |
| (noun) the focus of cognitions or feelings | - |
| (noun) (computing) a discrete item that provides a description of virtually anything known to a computer | - |
| (noun) (grammar) a constituent that is acted upon | - |
| (verb) express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent | - |
| (verb) be averse to or express disapproval of | - |
| overprotect | (verb) protect excessively | - |
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| (verb) care for like a mother | Synonyms: fuss, mother |
| perfect | (adjective) being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish | - |
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| (adjective) precisely accurate or exact | - |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) | Synonyms: perfect tense, perfective, perfective tense |
| (verb) make perfect or complete | Synonyms: hone |
| pinnatisect | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) cleft nearly to the midrib in narrow divisions not separated into distinct leaflets | - |
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| pluperfect | (adjective) more than perfect | - |
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| (noun) a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past | Synonyms: past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect tense |
| prefect | (noun) a chief officer or chief magistrate | - |
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| project | (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, labour, task, undertaking |
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| (noun) a planned undertaking | Synonyms: projection |
| (verb) present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc. | Synonyms: propose |
| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalise, externalize |
| (verb) communicate vividly | - |
| (verb) throw, send, or cast forward | Synonyms: send off |
| (verb) transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another | - |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, see, visualise, visualize |
| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, design, plan |
| (verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, contrive, throw |
| (verb) draw a projection of | - |
| (verb) cause to be heard | - |
| (verb) project on a screen | - |
| (verb) extend out or project in space | Synonyms: jut, jut out, protrude, stick out |
| prospect | (noun) a prediction of the course of a disease | Synonyms: medical prognosis, prognosis |
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| (noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: aspect, panorama, scene, view, vista |
| (noun) belief about (or mental picture of) the future | Synonyms: expectation, outlook |
| (noun) someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.) | Synonyms: candidate |
| (noun) the possibility of future success | Synonyms: chance |
| (verb) explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals | - |
| (verb) search for something desirable | - |
| protect | (verb) shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage | - |
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| (verb) use tariffs to favor domestic industry | - |
| recollect | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, remember, retrieve, think |
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| redirect | (verb) channel into a new direction | Synonyms: airt |
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| reelect | (verb) elect again | Synonyms: return |
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| reflect | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) give evidence of the quality of | - |
| (verb) give evidence of a certain behavior | - |
| (verb) to throw or bend back (from a surface) | Synonyms: reverberate |
| (verb) manifest or bring back | - |
| (verb) show an image of | - |
| (verb) be bright by reflecting or casting light | Synonyms: shine |
| reject | (noun) the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality | Synonyms: cull |
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| (verb) not accept something given or offered | - |
| (verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: eliminate, rule out, winnow out |
| (verb) deem wrong or inappropriate | Synonyms: disapprove |
| (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, scorn, spurn, turn down |
| (verb) not accept as true | Synonyms: decline, pass up, refuse, turn down |
| (verb) refuse entrance or membership | Synonyms: refuse, turn away, turn down |
| (verb) resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ | Synonyms: refuse, resist |
| resect | (verb) surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ | Synonyms: eviscerate |
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| respect | (noun) behavior intended to please your parents | Synonyms: obedience |
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| (noun) a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard | Synonyms: deference |
| (noun) courteous regard for people's feelings | Synonyms: deference, respectfulness |
| (noun) (usually preceded by `in') a detail or point | Synonyms: regard |
| (noun) an attitude of admiration or esteem | Synonyms: esteem, regard |
| (noun) a feeling of friendship and esteem | Synonyms: regard |
| (noun) the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded) | Synonyms: esteem, regard |
| (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: esteem, prise, prize, value |
| (verb) show respect towards | Synonyms: abide by, honor, honour, observe |
| resurrect | (verb) cause to become alive again | Synonyms: raise, upraise |
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| (verb) return from the dead | Synonyms: rise, uprise |
| (verb) restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state | Synonyms: revive |
| retrospect | (noun) contemplation of things past | - |
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| (verb) look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember | Synonyms: look back, review |
| sect | (noun) a dissenting clique | Synonyms: faction |
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| (noun) a subdivision of a larger religious group | Synonyms: religious order, religious sect |
| select | (adjective) selected or chosen for special qualifications | Synonyms: blue-ribbon |
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| (adjective) of superior grade | Synonyms: choice, prime, prize, quality |
| (verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | Synonyms: choose, pick out, take |
| subject | (adjective) likely to be affected by something | - |
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| (adjective) being under the power or sovereignty of another or others | Synonyms: dependent |
| (adjective) possibly accepting or permitting | Synonyms: capable, open |
| (noun) something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation | Synonyms: content, depicted object |
| (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, study, subject area, subject field |
| (noun) some situation or event that is thought about | Synonyms: issue, matter, topic |
| (noun) the subject matter of a conversation or discussion | Synonyms: theme, topic |
| (noun) (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated | - |
| (noun) (logic) the first term of a proposition | - |
| (noun) a person who owes allegiance to that nation | Synonyms: national |
| (noun) a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation | Synonyms: case, guinea pig |
| (verb) make accountable for | - |
| (verb) cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to | - |
| (verb) make subservient; force to submit or subdue | Synonyms: subjugate |
| superinfect | (verb) infect (an infected cell) further or infect a cell already containing similar organisms | - |
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| suspect | (adjective) not as expected | Synonyms: fishy, funny, shady, suspicious |
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| (noun) someone who is under suspicion | - |
| (noun) a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused | Synonyms: defendant |
| (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: distrust, mistrust |
| (verb) imagine to be the case or true or probable | Synonyms: surmise |
| (verb) hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty | - |
| transect | (verb) cut across or divide transversely | - |
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| trisect | (verb) cut in three | - |
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| unerect | (adjective) not upright in position or posture | - |
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| venesect | (verb) practice venesection | - |
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| vivisect | (verb) cut (a body) open while still alive | - |
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