| abacinate | (verb) blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes | - |
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| abominate | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, execrate, loathe |
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| acuminate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) narrowing to a slender point | - |
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| (verb) make sharp or acute; taper; make (something) come to a point | - |
| adnate | (adjective) of unlike parts or organs; growing closely attached | - |
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| affectionate | (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: fond, lovesome, tender |
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| agglutinate | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinative |
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| (verb) clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc. | - |
| (verb) string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language) | - |
| agnate | (adjective) related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnatic, paternal |
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| (noun) one related on the father's side | Synonyms: patrikin, patrilineal kin, patrilineal sib, patrisib |
| alendronate | (noun) a tablet (trade name Fosamax) prescribed to prevent or treat osteoporosis in women after menopause | Synonyms: Fosamax |
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| alienate | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: disaffect, estrange |
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| (verb) make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated | - |
| (verb) transfer property or ownership | Synonyms: alien |
| alkylbenzenesulfonate | (noun) sulfonate of alkyl benzene | - |
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| alternate | (adjective) of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternative, substitute |
| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternating |
| (adjective) every second one of a series | - |
| (noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: replacement, surrogate |
| (verb) do something in turns | Synonyms: take turns |
| (verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: jump |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch, tack |
| (verb) be an understudy or alternate for a role | Synonyms: understudy |
| (verb) exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions | - |
| aluminate | (noun) a compound of alumina and a metallic oxide | - |
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| archidiaconate | (noun) office or position of an archdeacon | - |
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| arsenate | (noun) a salt or ester of arsenic acid | - |
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| assassinate | (verb) destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation | - |
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| (verb) murder; especially of socially prominent persons | - |
| assonate | (verb) correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance | - |
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| bicarbonate | (noun) a salt of carbonic acid (containing the anion HCO3) in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced; an acid carbonate | Synonyms: hydrogen carbonate |
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| bicornate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicorned, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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| binate | (adjective) growing in two parts or in pairs | - |
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| bipinnate | (adjective) of a leaf shape; having doubly pinnate leaflets (as ferns) | - |
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| bombinate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombilate, buzz |
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| brominate | (verb) treat with bromine | Synonyms: bromate |
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| (verb) react with bromine | Synonyms: bromate |
| cachinnate | (verb) laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way | - |
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| carbonate | (noun) a salt or ester of carbonic acid (containing the anion CO3) | - |
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| (verb) treat with carbon dioxide | - |
| (verb) turn into a carbonate | - |
| carinate | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinated, keeled, ridged |
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| (noun) birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles | Synonyms: carinate bird, flying bird |
| catenate | (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenulate |
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| catkinate | (adjective) resembling a catkin | - |
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| chlorinate | (verb) disinfect with chlorine | - |
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| (verb) treat or combine with chlorine | - |
| chloroplatinate | (noun) any salt of chloroplatinic acid. | - |
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| circinate | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulate, annulated, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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| cognate | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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| (adjective) having the same ancestral language | - |
| (adjective) related in nature | Synonyms: connate |
| (noun) a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language | Synonyms: cognate word |
| (noun) one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another | Synonyms: blood relation, blood relative, sib |
| comminate | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, execrate |
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| companionate | (adjective) like a companion | - |
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| compassionate | (adjective) showing or having compassion | - |
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| (verb) share the suffering of | Synonyms: condole with, feel for, pity, sympathize with |
| concatenate | (verb) add by linking or joining so as to form a chain or series | - |
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| (verb) combine two strings to form a single one | - |
| conglutinate | (verb) stick together | - |
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| (verb) cause to adhere | Synonyms: coapt |
| connate | (adjective) of similar parts or organs; closely joined or united | - |
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| (adjective) related in nature | Synonyms: cognate |
| consonate | (verb) sound in sympathy | - |
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| consternate | (verb) fill with anxiety, dread, dismay, or confusion | - |
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| contaminate | (verb) make impure | Synonyms: foul, pollute |
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| (verb) make radioactive by adding radioactive material | - |
| coordinate | (adjective) of equal importance, rank, or degree | - |
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| (noun) a number that identifies a position relative to an axis | Synonyms: co-ordinate |
| (verb) bring order and organization to | Synonyms: organise, organize |
| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: align, ordinate |
| (verb) bring into common action, movement, or condition | - |
| (verb) be co-ordinated | - |
| coronate | (verb) invest with regal power; enthrone | Synonyms: crown |
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| crenate | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenated, scalloped |
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| criminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, impeach, incriminate |
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| (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, reprimand |
| culminate | (verb) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage | Synonyms: climax |
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| (verb) rise to, or form, a summit | - |
| (verb) bring to a head or to the highest point | - |
| (verb) reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body | - |
| (verb) reach the highest or most decisive point | - |
| cybernate | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerise, computerize |
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| deaminate | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminize |
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| decaffeinate | (verb) remove caffeine from (coffee) | - |
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| decarbonate | (verb) remove carbon dioxide from | - |
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| dechlorinate | (verb) remove chlorine from (water) | - |
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| decontaminate | (verb) rid of contamination | - |
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| defibrinate | (verb) remove fibrin from (blood) | - |
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| dehydrogenate | (verb) remove hydrogen from | - |
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| demyelinate | (verb) destroy the myelin sheath of | - |
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| denominate | (verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: designate |
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| deoxygenate | (verb) remove oxygen from (water) | - |
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| deracinate | (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: extirpate, root out, uproot |
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| (verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment | Synonyms: uproot |
| desalinate | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinise, desalinize, desalt |
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| designate | (adjective) appointed but not yet installed in office | - |
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| (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: destine, intend, specify |
| (verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: denominate |
| (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: destine, doom, fate |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: indicate, point, show |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, delegate, depute |
| determinate | (adjective) precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause | - |
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| (adjective) not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex | - |
| (adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: definitive |
| detonate | (verb) cause to burst with a violent release of energy | Synonyms: blow up, explode, set off |
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| (verb) burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction | Synonyms: blow up, explode |
| dimenhydrinate | (noun) antihistamine and antiemetic (trade name Dramamine) used to treat motion sickness | Synonyms: Dramamine |
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| discriminate | (adjective) marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions | - |
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| (verb) recognize or perceive the difference | Synonyms: know apart |
| (verb) distinguish | - |
| (verb) treat differently on the basis of sex or race | Synonyms: separate, single out |
| disincarnate | (verb) make immaterial; remove the real essence of | - |
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| dispassionate | (adjective) unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice | Synonyms: cold-eyed |
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| disproportionate | (adjective) out of proportion | Synonyms: disproportional |
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| (adjective) not proportionate | - |
| disseminate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| dissonate | (verb) cause to sound harsh and unpleasant | Synonyms: disharmonize |
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| (verb) be dissonant or harsh | - |
| dominate | (verb) have dominance or the power to defeat over | Synonyms: master |
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| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: predominate, prevail, reign, rule |
| (verb) be in control | - |
| (verb) look down on | Synonyms: command, overlook, overtop |
| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: eclipse, overshadow |
| donate | (verb) give to a charity or good cause | - |
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| effeminate | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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| eliminate | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, excrete, pass |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, extinguish, get rid of |
| (verb) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations | - |
| (verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: reject, rule out, winnow out |
| (verb) remove from a contest or race | - |
| (verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: obviate, rid of |
| emanate | (verb) give out (breath or an odor) | Synonyms: exhale, give forth |
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| (verb) proceed or issue forth, as from a source | - |
| emarginate | (adjective) having a notched tip | - |
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| enate | (adjective) related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enatic, maternal |
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| (noun) one related on the mother's side | Synonyms: matrikin, matrilineal kin, matrilineal sib, matrisib |
| exterminate | (verb) kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many | Synonyms: kill off |
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| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: eradicate, extirpate, root out, uproot |
| extortionate | (adjective) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: exorbitant, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious |
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| fascinate | (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: grip, spellbind, transfix |
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| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, trance |
| (verb) cause to be interested or curious | Synonyms: intrigue |
| festinate | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: hasten, hurry, look sharp, rush |
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| fortunate | (adjective) having unexpected good fortune | - |
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| (adjective) presaging good fortune | Synonyms: rosy |
| (adjective) supremely favored | Synonyms: golden |
| fractionate | (verb) obtain by a fractional process | - |
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| (verb) separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents | - |
| fulminate | (noun) a salt or ester of fulminic acid | - |
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| (verb) cause to explode violently and with loud noise | - |
| (verb) come on suddenly and intensely | - |
| (verb) criticize severely | Synonyms: rail |
| geminate | (noun) a doubled or long consonant | - |
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| (verb) arrange or combine in pairs | - |
| (verb) arrange in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
| (verb) occur in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
| (verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: reduplicate |
| germinate | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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| (verb) cause to grow or sprout | - |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: develop, evolve |
| haemagglutinate | (verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) | Synonyms: hemagglutinate |
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| hallucinate | (verb) perceive what is not there; have illusions | - |
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| hemagglutinate | (verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) | Synonyms: haemagglutinate |
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| hibernate | (verb) sleep during winter | Synonyms: hole up |
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| (verb) be in an inactive or dormant state | - |
| homogenate | (noun) material that has been homogenized (especially tissue that has been ground and mixed) | - |
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| hydrogenate | (verb) combine or treat with or expose to hydrogen; add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound) | - |
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| hyphenate | (verb) divide or connect with a hyphen | Synonyms: hyphen |
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| illuminate | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illumine, light, light up |
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| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| (verb) add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts) | - |
| imparipinnate | (adjective) (a leaf shape) pinnate with a single leaflet at the apex | Synonyms: odd-pinnate |
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| impersonate | (verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: personate, pose |
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| (verb) represent another person with comic intentions | - |
| (verb) assume or act the character of | Synonyms: portray |
| importunate | (adjective) persistent to the point of annoying | - |
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| (adjective) expressing persistant and earnest entreaty | - |
| impregnate | (verb) make pregnant | Synonyms: bang up, knock up, prang up |
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| (verb) fertilize and cause to grow | - |
| (verb) infuse or fill completely | Synonyms: saturate |
| (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: infuse, instill, tincture |
| incarnate | (adjective) invested with a bodily form especially of a human body | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied |
| (verb) make concrete and real | - |
| (verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, embody, substantiate |
| incriminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, impeach |
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| (verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: imply, inculpate |
| indeterminate | (adjective) not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance | Synonyms: undetermined |
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| (adjective) having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex | - |
| (adjective) of uncertain or ambiguous nature | - |
| (adjective) not leading to a definite ending or result | - |
| (adjective) (of a quantity) having no definite value, as an equation that cannot be solved | - |
| indiscriminate | (adjective) not marked by fine distinctions | - |
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| (adjective) failing to make or recognize distinctions | - |