| enactment | (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: characterization, personation, portrayal |
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| (noun) the passing of a law by a legislative body | Synonyms: passage |
| (noun) a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body | Synonyms: act |
| encampment | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: bivouacking, camping, tenting |
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| (noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, cantonment |
| (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite |
| encasement | (noun) the act of enclosing something in a case | Synonyms: incasement |
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| enchantment | (noun) a magical spell | Synonyms: bewitchment |
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| (noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enthrallment, fascination |
| (noun) a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation | Synonyms: spell, trance |
| encirclement | (noun) a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy | Synonyms: blockade |
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| encompassment | (noun) including entirely | - |
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| encouragement | (noun) the act of giving hope or support to someone | Synonyms: boost |
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| (noun) the expression of approval and support | - |
| (noun) the feeling of being encouraged | - |
| encroachment | (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: intrusion, trespass, usurpation, violation |
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| (noun) influencing strongly | Synonyms: impact, impingement |
| (noun) any entry into an area not previously occupied | Synonyms: intrusion, invasion |
| endangerment | (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk |
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| endearment | (noun) the act of showing affection | - |
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| endorsement | (noun) the act of endorsing | Synonyms: indorsement |
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| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, imprimatur, indorsement, sanction, warrant |
| (noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: blurb, indorsement |
| (noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: indorsement, second, secondment |
| (noun) a signature that validates something | Synonyms: indorsement |
| endowment | (noun) the act of endowing with a permanent source of income | - |
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| (noun) natural abilities or qualities | Synonyms: gift, natural endowment, talent |
| (noun) the capital that provides income for an institution | Synonyms: endowment fund |
| enfeeblement | (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: debilitation, enervation, exhaustion |
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| enfeoffment | (noun) under the feudal system, the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service | - |
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| enforcement | (noun) the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to | - |
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| enfranchisement | (noun) the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on | Synonyms: certification |
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| (noun) a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote) | Synonyms: franchise |
| (noun) freedom from political subjugation or servitude | - |
| engagement | (noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group | Synonyms: involution, involvement, participation |
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| (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, conflict, fight |
| (noun) the act of giving someone a job | Synonyms: employment |
| (noun) employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time | Synonyms: booking |
| (noun) a mutual promise to marry | Synonyms: betrothal, troth |
| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: interlocking, mesh, meshing |
| (noun) a meeting arranged in advance | Synonyms: appointment, date |
| engorgement | (noun) eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation | - |
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| (noun) congestion with blood | - |
| engrossment | (noun) the quality of being intent and concentrated | Synonyms: intentness |
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| (noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: absorption, preoccupancy, preoccupation |
| (noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, concentration, immersion |
| enhancement | (noun) an improvement that makes something more agreeable | Synonyms: sweetening |
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| enjambement | (noun) the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause | Synonyms: enjambment |
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| enjambment | (noun) the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause | Synonyms: enjambement |
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| enjoinment | (noun) (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity | Synonyms: cease and desist order, enjoining, injunction |
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| enjoyment | (noun) act of receiving pleasure from something | Synonyms: delectation |
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| (noun) (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property | Synonyms: use |
| (noun) the pleasure felt when having a good time | - |
| enlargement | (noun) the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope | Synonyms: expansion |
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| (noun) a photographic print that has been enlarged | Synonyms: blowup, magnification |
| (noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: elaboration, expansion |
| (noun) the state of being enlarged | - |
| enlightenment | (noun) education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge | - |
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| (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness | Synonyms: nirvana |
| enlistment | (noun) the act of enlisting (as in a military service) | - |
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| (noun) a period of time spent in military service | Synonyms: duty tour, hitch, term of enlistment, tour, tour of duty |
| ennoblement | (noun) the act of raising someone to the nobility | - |
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| (noun) the state of being noble | - |
| enragement | (noun) a feeling of intense anger and impatience | Synonyms: infuriation |
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| enrichment | (noun) act of making fuller or more meaningful or rewarding | - |
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| (noun) a gift that significantly increases the recipient's wealth | - |
| enrollment | (noun) the act of enrolling | Synonyms: enrolment, registration |
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| (noun) the body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time | Synonyms: registration |
| enrolment | (noun) the act of enrolling | Synonyms: enrollment, registration |
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| enslavement | (noun) the act of making slaves of your captives | - |
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| (noun) the state of being a slave | Synonyms: captivity |
| entailment | (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: deduction, implication |
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| entanglement | (noun) an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim | Synonyms: web |
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| entertainment | (noun) an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention | Synonyms: amusement |
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| enthrallment | (noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enchantment, fascination |
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| enthronement | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronisation, enthronization, investiture |
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| enticement | (noun) the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire | Synonyms: temptation |
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| (noun) qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward | Synonyms: come-on, lure |
| (noun) something that seduces or has the quality to seduce | Synonyms: temptation |
| 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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| 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 |
| 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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| 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 |
| 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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| 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 | - |
| 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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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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| 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 |
| 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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| 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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| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| incasement | (noun) the act of enclosing something in a case | Synonyms: encasement |
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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 | - |
| increment | (noun) the amount by which something increases | Synonyms: increase |
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| (noun) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important | Synonyms: growth, increase |
| indictment | (noun) a formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offense | Synonyms: bill of indictment |
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| (noun) an accusation of wrongdoing | - |
| indorsement | (noun) the act of endorsing | Synonyms: endorsement |
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| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, sanction, warrant |
| (noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: blurb, endorsement |
| (noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: endorsement, second, secondment |
| (noun) a signature that validates something | Synonyms: endorsement |
| inducement | (noun) act of bringing about a desired result | Synonyms: inducing |
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| (noun) a positive motivational influence | Synonyms: incentive, motivator |
| indument | (noun) a covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect | Synonyms: indumentum |
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| infotainment | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary, documentary film |
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| infringement | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, violation |
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| (noun) an act that disregards an agreement or a right | Synonyms: violation |
| installment | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installing, instalment |
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| (noun) a part of a broadcast serial | Synonyms: episode, instalment |
| (noun) a part of a published serial | Synonyms: instalment |
| (noun) a payment of part of a debt; usually paid at regular intervals | - |
| instalment | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installing, installment |
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| (noun) a part of a broadcast serial | Synonyms: episode, installment |
| (noun) a part of a published serial | Synonyms: installment |
| instillment | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillation, instilment |
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| instilment | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillation, instillment |
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| instrument | (noun) the means whereby some act is accomplished | Synonyms: tool |
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| (noun) a device that requires skill for proper use | - |
| (noun) any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds | Synonyms: musical instrument |
| (noun) (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right | Synonyms: legal document, legal instrument, official document |
| (noun) the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process | Synonyms: instrumental role |
| (noun) a person used by another to gain an end | Synonyms: cat's-paw, pawn |
| (verb) address a legal document to | - |
| (verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrumentate |
| (verb) equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling | - |