| denunciative | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciatory |
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| depictive | (adjective) depicted in a recognizable manner | Synonyms: delineative |
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| deprecative | (adjective) given to expressing disapproval | - |
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| (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
| depreciative | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciating, depreciatory |
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| (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciatory, slighting |
| depressive | (noun) someone suffering psychological depression | - |
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| deprive | (verb) take away | Synonyms: impoverish |
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| (verb) keep from having, keeping, or obtaining | - |
| (verb) take away possessions from someone | Synonyms: divest, strip |
| derisive | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: gibelike, jeering, mocking, taunting |
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| derivative | (adjective) resulting from or employing derivation | - |
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| (noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derived function, differential, differential coefficient, first derivative |
| (noun) (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word | - |
| (noun) a financial instrument whose value is based on another security | Synonyms: derivative instrument |
| (noun) a compound obtained from, or regarded as derived from, another compound | - |
| derive | (verb) develop or evolve from a latent or potential state | Synonyms: educe |
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| (verb) obtain from a particular source | - |
| (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduce, deduct, infer |
| (verb) obtain | Synonyms: gain |
| (verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: come, descend |
| derogative | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogatory, disparaging |
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| descriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage | - |
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| (adjective) serving to describe or inform or characterized by description | - |
| designative | (adjective) serving to designate | - |
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| destructive | (adjective) causing destruction or much damage | - |
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| detective | (noun) a police officer who investigates crimes | Synonyms: investigator, police detective, tec |
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| (noun) an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public | - |
| determinative | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determining |
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| (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determiner, determining factor |
| (noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determiner |
| detersive | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergent |
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| detonative | (adjective) exploding almost instantaneously | - |
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| detractive | (adjective) causing to decrease in importance or value | - |
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| diffusive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, dispersive, disseminative |
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| digestive | (adjective) relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion | - |
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| (noun) any substance that promotes digestion | - |
| digressive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: discursive, excursive, rambling |
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| (adjective) of superficial relevance if any | Synonyms: tangential |
| diminutive | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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| (noun) a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness | - |
| directive | (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directional, guiding |
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| (noun) a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity | - |
| discriminative | (adjective) expressing careful judgment | Synonyms: judicial |
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| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminatory |
| discursive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, excursive, rambling |
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| (adjective) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition | Synonyms: dianoetic |
| disincentive | (noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: deterrence |
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| disintegrative | (adjective) tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts | - |
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| disjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to divide or separate | - |
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| dismissive | (adjective) stopping to associate with | - |
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| (adjective) showing indifference or disregard | - |
| dispersive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, disseminative |
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| disputative | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputatious, litigious |
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| disruptive | (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent |
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| disseminative | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, dispersive |
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| dissimulative | (adjective) concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive | - |
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| dissociative | (adjective) tending to produce dissociation | - |
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| dissuasive | (adjective) deterring from action | - |
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| distinctive | (adjective) of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing | Synonyms: typical |
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| (adjective) capable of being classified | Synonyms: classifiable |
| distributive | (adjective) serving to distribute or allot or disperse | - |
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| dive | (noun) a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft | Synonyms: nose dive, nosedive |
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| (noun) a headlong plunge into water | Synonyms: diving |
| (noun) a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall | Synonyms: honkytonk |
| (verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: plunge, plunk |
| (verb) swim under water | - |
| (verb) plunge into water | - |
| divisive | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: dissentious, factious |
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| drive | (noun) a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile) | Synonyms: ride |
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| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, effort, movement |
| (noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | Synonyms: driving |
| (noun) the act of applying force to propel something | Synonyms: driving force, thrust |
| (noun) (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash) | - |
| (noun) the act of driving a herd of animals overland | - |
| (noun) a wide scenic road planted with trees | Synonyms: parkway |
| (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: driveway, private road |
| (noun) a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium | - |
| (noun) the trait of being highly motivated | - |
| (noun) a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire | - |
| (verb) move into a desired direction of discourse | Synonyms: aim, get |
| (verb) (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground | - |
| (verb) (hunting) search for game | - |
| (verb) cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling | - |
| (verb) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically | Synonyms: force, ram |
| (verb) cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force | - |
| (verb) hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally | - |
| (verb) strike with a driver, as in teeing off | - |
| (verb) excavate horizontally | - |
| (verb) push, propel, or press with force | - |
| (verb) cause to move back by force or influence | Synonyms: beat back, force back, push back, repel, repulse |
| (verb) compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment | - |
| (verb) travel or be transported in a vehicle | Synonyms: motor |
| (verb) operate or control a vehicle | - |
| (verb) cause someone or something to move by driving | - |
| (verb) move by being propelled by a force | - |
| (verb) urge forward | - |
| (verb) proceed along in a vehicle | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: labor, labour, push, tug |
| (verb) to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly | - |
| (verb) work as a driver | - |
| (verb) have certain properties when driven | Synonyms: ride |
| durative | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration | Synonyms: durative aspect |
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| educative | (adjective) resulting in education | - |
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| effective | (adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effectual, efficacious |
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| (adjective) existing in fact; not theoretical; real | - |
| (adjective) able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively | Synonyms: efficient |
| (adjective) works well as a means or remedy | - |
| (adjective) ready for service | - |
| (adjective) exerting force or influence | Synonyms: good, in effect, in force |
| effusive | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: gushing, gushy |
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| (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, burbly, gushing |
| ejective | (noun) a type of consonant in some languages, e.g., Hausa, produced by sudden release of pressure from the glottis. | Synonyms: ejective consonant |
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| elective | (adjective) subject to popular election | Synonyms: elected |
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| (adjective) optional | Synonyms: facultative |
| (noun) a course that the student can select from among alternatives | Synonyms: elective course |
| electromotive | (adjective) concerned with or producing electric current | - |
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| electronegative | (adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: negative, negatively charged |
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| electropositive | (adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: positive, positively charged |
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| elucidative | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: clarifying |
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| elusive | (adjective) skillful at eluding capture | - |
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| (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
| (adjective) difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze | Synonyms: subtle |
| (adjective) difficult to describe | - |
| emancipative | (adjective) tending to set free | - |
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| emotive | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affectional, affective |
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| endive | (noun) variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges | Synonyms: chicory escarole, escarole |
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| (noun) widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched | Synonyms: Cichorium endivia, witloof |
| enhancive | (adjective) serving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the body | Synonyms: cosmetic |
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| (adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: augmentative |
| erosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) wearing away by friction | - |
| eruptive | (adjective) produced by the action of fire or intense heat | Synonyms: igneous |
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| (adjective) producing or characterized by eruptions | - |
| (adjective) actively spewing out lava | - |
| evaluative | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: appraising |
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| evaporative | (adjective) relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation | - |
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| evasive | (adjective) deliberately vague or ambiguous | - |
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| (adjective) avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire | - |
| evocative | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant |
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| excessive | (adjective) beyond normal limits | Synonyms: inordinate, undue, unreasonable |
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| (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: extravagant, exuberant, overweening |
| excitative | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitatory |
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| exclusive | (adjective) excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority | - |
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| (adjective) not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective | Synonyms: single, undivided |
| (adjective) not divided or shared with others | Synonyms: sole |
| (noun) a news report that is reported first by one news organization | Synonyms: scoop |
| excogitative | (adjective) concerned with excogitating or having the power of excogitation | - |
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| excursive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, discursive, rambling |
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| executive | (adjective) having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc. | - |
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| (noun) persons who administer the law | - |
| (noun) a person responsible for the administration of a business | Synonyms: executive director |
| (noun) someone who manages a government agency or department | Synonyms: administrator |
| exhaustive | (adjective) performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial | Synonyms: thorough, thoroughgoing |
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| exhortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortatory, hortative, hortatory |
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| exonerative | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: absolvitory, forgiving |
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| expansive | (adjective) able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion | - |
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| (adjective) friendly and open and willing to talk | Synonyms: talkative |
| (adjective) marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur | - |
| (adjective) of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope | Synonyms: grand, heroic |
| expensive | (adjective) high in price or charging high prices | - |
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| expiative | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiatory, propitiatory |
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| expletive | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, oath, swearing, swearword |
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| (noun) a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line | - |
| exploitative | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitatory, exploitive |
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| exploitive | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitatory |
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| explorative | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: exploratory |
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| explosive | (adjective) serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst | - |
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| (adjective) sudden and loud | - |
| (adjective) liable to lead to sudden change or violence | Synonyms: volatile |
| (noun) a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck | - |
| expositive | (adjective) serving to expound or set forth | Synonyms: expository |
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| expressive | (adjective) performing gestures or possessing qualities or features that suggest a certain state of being or emotion | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by expression | - |
| extensive | (adjective) of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor | - |
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| (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, panoptic, wide |
| (adjective) large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity | Synonyms: extended |
| exteroceptive | (adjective) of or relating to exteroception | - |
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| extraversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extroversive |
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| extravertive | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| extrospective | (adjective) not introspective; examining what is outside yourself | Synonyms: extroverted |
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| extroversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extraversive |
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| extrovertive | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted |
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| extrusive | (adjective) of rock material; forced out while molten through cracks in the earth's surface | - |
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| facilitative | (adjective) freeing from difficulty or impediment | - |
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| facultative | (adjective) able to exist under more than one set of conditions | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the mental faculties | - |
| (adjective) granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something | - |
| (adjective) optional | Synonyms: elective |
| festive | (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, gay, merry |
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| fictive | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, pretended, put on, sham |
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| (adjective) capable of imaginative creation | - |
| figurative | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: nonliteral |
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| (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figural |
| five | (adjective) being one more than four | Synonyms: 5, v |
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| (noun) a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips | Synonyms: five-spot |
| (noun) a team that plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball team |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
| fixative | (noun) a varnish dissolved in alcohol and sprayed over pictures to prevent smudging | - |
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| (noun) a compound (such as ethanol or formaldehyde) that fixes tissues and cells for microscopic study | - |
| forgive | (verb) stop blaming or grant forgiveness | - |
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| (verb) absolve from payment | - |
| formative | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: plastic, shaping |
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| (adjective) capable of forming new cells and tissues | - |
| (noun) minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function | - |
| frequentative | (noun) a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action | - |
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| fricative | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident |
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| (noun) a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract | Synonyms: fricative consonant, spirant |