| entitlement | (noun) right granted by law or contract (especially a right to benefits) | - |
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| entombment | (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: burial, inhumation, interment, sepulture |
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| entrancement | (noun) a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment | Synonyms: ravishment |
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| entrapment | (noun) a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials | - |
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| entrenchment | (noun) an entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches | Synonyms: intrenchment |
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| envelopment | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, enclosure, inclosure |
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| environment | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environs, surround, surroundings |
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| (noun) the totality of surrounding conditions | - |
| equipment | (noun) an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service | - |
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| equipotent | (adjective) having equal strength or efficacy | - |
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| equivalent | (adjective) being essentially equal to something | Synonyms: tantamount |
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| (noun) the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen | Synonyms: combining weight, eq, equivalent weight |
| (noun) a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc | - |
| escapement | (noun) mechanical device that regulates movement | - |
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| escarpment | (noun) a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification | Synonyms: escarp, protective embankment, scarp |
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| (noun) a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion | Synonyms: scarp |
| establishment | (noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: constitution, formation, organisation, organization |
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| (noun) a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence | - |
| (noun) the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof | Synonyms: validation |
| (noun) an organization founded and united for a specific purpose | Synonyms: institution |
| (noun) any large organization | - |
| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
| (noun) (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat | Synonyms: ecesis |
| estrangement | (noun) the feeling of being alienated from other people | Synonyms: alienation, disaffection |
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| (noun) separation resulting from hostility | Synonyms: alienation |
| esurient | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, devouring, greedy |
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| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
| (adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved |
| evanescent | (adjective) tending to vanish like vapor | - |
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| event | (noun) something that happens at a given place and time | - |
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| (noun) a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory | - |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
| (noun) a special set of circumstances | Synonyms: case |
| evident | (adjective) capable of being seen or noticed | Synonyms: discernible, observable |
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| (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: apparent, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
| excellent | (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: fantabulous, first-class, mean, ripping, splendid |
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| excitement | (noun) something that agitates and arouses | Synonyms: excitation |
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| (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, hullabaloo, turmoil, upheaval |
| (noun) the feeling of lively and cheerful joy | Synonyms: exhilaration |
| (noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, fervor, fervour, inflammation |
| excrement | (noun) waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body | Synonyms: body waste, excreta, excretion, excretory product |
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| excrescent | (adjective) forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth) | - |
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| exigent | (adjective) requiring precise accuracy | Synonyms: exacting |
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| (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, crying, insistent, instant |
| existent | (adjective) having existence or being or actuality | Synonyms: existing |
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| (adjective) being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory | Synonyms: real |
| (adjective) presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible | Synonyms: actual |
| expedient | (adjective) serving to promote your interest | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate to a purpose; practical | - |
| (noun) a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one | - |
| experient | (adjective) having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation | Synonyms: experienced |
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| experiment | (noun) the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation | Synonyms: experimentation |
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| (noun) a venture at something new or different | - |
| (noun) the testing of an idea | Synonyms: experimentation |
| (verb) to conduct a test or investigation | - |
| (verb) try something new, as in order to gain experience | Synonyms: try out |
| exponent | (noun) a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself | Synonyms: index, power |
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| (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocate, advocator, proponent |
| (noun) someone who expounds and interprets or explains | - |
| extent | (noun) the distance or area or volume over which something extends | - |
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| (noun) the point or degree to which something extends | - |
| extolment | (noun) an expression of approval and commendation | Synonyms: congratulations, kudos, praise |
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| famishment | (noun) a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period | Synonyms: starvation |
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| feculent | (adjective) foul with waste matter | - |
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| ferment | (noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: fermentation, fermenting, zymolysis, zymosis |
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| (noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: agitation, fermentation, tempestuousness, unrest |
| (noun) a substance capable of bringing about fermentation | - |
| (verb) go sour or spoil | Synonyms: sour, turn, work |
| (verb) cause to undergo fermentation | Synonyms: work |
| (verb) work up into agitation or excitement | - |
| (verb) be in an agitated or excited state | - |
| fervent | (adjective) (archaic) extremely hot, burning, or glowing | Synonyms: fervid |
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| (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
| figment | (noun) a contrived or fantastic idea | - |
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| filament | (noun) a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current | - |
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| (noun) a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) | Synonyms: filum |
| (noun) the stalk of a stamen | - |
| (noun) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: fibril, strand |
| firmament | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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| fitment | (noun) any of the items furnishing or equipping a room (especially built-in furniture) | - |
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| flatulent | (adjective) generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal | - |
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| (adjective) suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: colicky, gassy |
| flocculent | (adjective) having a fluffy character or appearance | Synonyms: woolly, wooly |
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| fluent | (adjective) expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively | Synonyms: eloquent, facile, silver-tongued, silver, smooth-spoken |
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| (adjective) smooth and unconstrained in movement | Synonyms: fluid, liquid, smooth |
| fluorescent | (adjective) brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light | - |
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| (adjective) emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source | - |
| (noun) a lighting fixture that uses a fluorescent lamp | Synonyms: fluorescent fixture |
| foment | (verb) bathe with warm water or medicated lotions | - |
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| (verb) try to stir up public opinion | Synonyms: agitate, stir up |
| fragment | (noun) a broken piece of a brittle artifact | Synonyms: shard, sherd |
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| (noun) an incomplete piece | - |
| (noun) a piece broken off or cut off of something else | - |
| (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragmentise, fragmentize |
| fraudulent | (adjective) involving deception | Synonyms: deceitful, fallacious |
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| frequent | (adjective) coming at short intervals or habitually | - |
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| (adjective) frequently encountered | - |
| (verb) be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place | Synonyms: haunt |
| (verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, patronise, patronize, shop, shop at, sponsor |
| fulfillment | (noun) the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc) | Synonyms: fulfilment |
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| (noun) a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires | Synonyms: fulfilment |
| fulfilment | (noun) the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc) | Synonyms: fulfillment |
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| (noun) a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires | Synonyms: fulfillment |
| fulgent | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, glaring, glary |
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| fundament | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
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| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, groundwork |
| garment | (noun) an article of clothing | - |
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| (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, habilitate, raiment, tog |
| garnishment | (noun) a court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to the person who won a lawsuit against the employee | - |
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| gent | (noun) informal abbreviation of `gentleman' | - |
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| (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, lad |
| glabrescent | (adjective) lacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless | - |
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| godparent | (noun) a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism | - |
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| government | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, governing, government activity |
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| (noun) (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed | - |
| (noun) the study of government of states and other political units | Synonyms: political science, politics |
| (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: authorities, regime |
| gradient | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal | Synonyms: slope |
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| (noun) a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension | - |
| grandiloquent | (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous |
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| (adjective) lofty in style | Synonyms: magniloquent, tall |
| grandparent | (noun) a parent of your father or mother | - |
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| habiliment | (noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | Synonyms: article of clothing, clothing, vesture, wear, wearable |
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| harassment | (noun) the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism | Synonyms: molestation |
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| (noun) a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented | Synonyms: torment |
| hereditament | (noun) any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited | - |
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| hutment | (noun) an encampment of huts (chiefly military) | - |
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| idempotent | (adjective) unchanged in value following multiplication by itself | - |
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| ignescent | (adjective) can emit sparks or burst into flame | - |
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| immanent | (adjective) of a mental act performed entirely within the mind | Synonyms: subjective |
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| (adjective) of qualities that are spread throughout something | - |
| imminent | (adjective) close in time; about to occur | Synonyms: at hand, close at hand, impendent, impending |
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| immunocompetent | (adjective) capable of developing an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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| immunodeficient | (adjective) incapable of developing an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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| immurement | (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: captivity, imprisonment, incarceration |
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| impairment | (noun) damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality | - |
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| (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, deadening, stultification |
| (noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse | Synonyms: damage, harm |
| (noun) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness | Synonyms: disability, disablement, handicap |
| (noun) a symptom of reduced quality or strength | Synonyms: deterioration |
| impalement | (noun) the act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture | - |
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| impatient | (adjective) restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition | - |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') full of eagerness | Synonyms: raring |
| impeachment | (noun) a formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office | - |
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| impediment | (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impedimenta, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor |
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| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance |
| impellent | (adjective) forcing forward or onward; impelling | - |
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| impendent | (adjective) close in time; about to occur | Synonyms: at hand, close at hand, imminent, impending |
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| impenitent | (adjective) not penitent or remorseful | Synonyms: unremorseful, unrepentant |
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| (adjective) impervious to moral persuasion | - |
| impermanent | (adjective) not permanent; not lasting | Synonyms: temporary |
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| (adjective) existing or enduring for a limited time only | - |
| impertinent | (adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart, wise |
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| (adjective) not pertinent to the matter under consideration | Synonyms: extraneous, immaterial, orthogonal |
| (adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: irreverent, pert, saucy |
| impingement | (noun) influencing strongly | Synonyms: encroachment, impact |
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| (noun) a sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something | Synonyms: impaction |
| implement | (noun) instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end | - |
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| (verb) pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue | Synonyms: carry out, follow out, follow through, follow up, go through with, put through |
| (verb) ensure observance of laws and rules | Synonyms: apply, enforce |
| (verb) apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design | - |
| impotent | (adjective) lacking power or ability | - |
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| (adjective) (of a male) unable to copulate | - |
| impoundment | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impounding, internment, poundage |
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| impoverishment | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: pauperisation, pauperization |
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| (noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: poorness, poverty |
| impressment | (noun) the act of coercing someone into government service | Synonyms: impress |
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| imprisonment | (noun) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) | Synonyms: internment |
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| (noun) putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment | - |
| (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: captivity, immurement, incarceration |
| improvement | (noun) the act of improving something | - |
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| (noun) a change for the better; progress in development | Synonyms: advance, betterment |
| (noun) a condition superior to an earlier condition | Synonyms: melioration |
| improvident | (adjective) not provident; not providing for the future | - |
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| (adjective) not given careful consideration | Synonyms: ill-considered, ill-judged, shortsighted |
| imprudent | (adjective) not prudent or wise | - |
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| (adjective) lacking wise self-restraint | - |
| impudent | (adjective) marked by casual disrespect | Synonyms: flip, insolent, snotty-nosed |
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| (adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impertinent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart, wise |
| inadvertent | (adjective) happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally | Synonyms: accidental |
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| incandescent | (adjective) characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance | - |
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| (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: candent |
| incasement | (noun) the act of enclosing something in a case | Synonyms: encasement |
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| incident | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence | Synonyms: incidental |
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| (adjective) falling or striking of light rays on something | - |
| (noun) a single distinct event | - |
| (noun) a public disturbance | - |
| incipient | (adjective) only partly in existence; imperfectly formed | Synonyms: inchoate |
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| incitement | (noun) an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating | Synonyms: incitation |
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| (noun) the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion | Synonyms: exhortation |
| (noun) needed encouragement | Synonyms: provocation |
| (noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitation, provocation |
| inclement | (adjective) used of persons or behavior; showing no clemency or mercy | - |
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| (adjective) (of weather or climate) severe | - |
| incoherent | (adjective) without logical or meaningful connection | - |
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| (adjective) (physics) of waves having no stable definite or stable phase relation | - |
| (adjective) unable to express yourself clearly or fluently | Synonyms: tongue-tied |
| incompetent | (adjective) not qualified or suited for a purpose | - |
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| (adjective) legally not qualified or sufficient | Synonyms: unqualified |
| (adjective) not doing a good job | Synonyms: unskilled |
| (adjective) not meeting requirements | Synonyms: incapable, unequal to |
| (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: bungling, clumsy, fumbling |
| (noun) someone who is not competent to take effective action | Synonyms: incompetent person |