| deign | (verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: condescend, descend |
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| feign | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, pretend, sham |
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| (verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: assume, sham, simulate |
| foreign | (adjective) relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world | Synonyms: strange |
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| (adjective) of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own) | - |
| (adjective) not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source | Synonyms: extraneous |
| (adjective) not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something | Synonyms: alien |
| nonsovereign | (adjective) (of peoples and political bodies) controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: nonautonomous |
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| reign | (noun) royal authority; the dominion of a monarch | Synonyms: sovereignty |
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| (noun) the period during which a monarch is sovereign | - |
| (noun) a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful | - |
| (verb) have sovereign power | - |
| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, predominate, prevail, rule |
| sovereign | (adjective) greatest in status or authority or power | Synonyms: supreme |
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| (adjective) (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: autonomous, independent, self-governing |
| (noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, monarch |