| acrimony | (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, bitterness, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
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| acrophony | (noun) naming a letter of the alphabet by using a word whose initial sound is the sound represented by that letter | - |
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| agony | (noun) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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| (noun) a state of acute pain | Synonyms: excruciation, suffering |
| agrimony | (noun) a plant of the genus Agrimonia having spikelike clusters of small yellow flowers | Synonyms: agrimonia |
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| alimony | (noun) court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated | Synonyms: maintenance |
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| amphictyony | (noun) an association of neighboring states or tribes in ancient Greece; established originally to defend a common religious center | - |
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| antimony | (noun) a metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a wide variety of alloys; found in stibnite | Synonyms: atomic number 51, Sb |
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| antiphony | (noun) alternate (responsive) singing by a choir in two parts | - |
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| (noun) a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response | Synonyms: antiphon |
| asynchrony | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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| atony | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonia, atonicity |
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| autochthony | (noun) nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place) | Synonyms: endemism, indigenousness |
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| balcony | (noun) a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet | - |
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| (noun) an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium | - |
| barony | (noun) the domain of a baron | - |
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| (noun) the estate of a baron | - |
| (noun) the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness | Synonyms: baronetcy |
| bony | (adjective) having bones especially many or prominent bones | Synonyms: boney |
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| (adjective) composed of or containing bone | Synonyms: osseous, osteal |
| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
| briony | (noun) a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties | Synonyms: bryony |
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| brony | (noun) an adult, male fan of the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic | - |
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| bryony | (noun) a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties | Synonyms: briony |
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| buttony | (adjective) ornamented with many buttons | - |
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| (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, beady, buttonlike |
| cacophony | (noun) loud confusing disagreeable sounds | - |
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| (noun) a loud harsh or strident noise | Synonyms: blare, blaring, clamor, din |
| calcedony | (noun) a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz | Synonyms: chalcedony |
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| ceremony | (noun) the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion | - |
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| (noun) any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way | - |
| (noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observance |
| chalcedony | (noun) a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz | Synonyms: calcedony |
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| colony | (noun) a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government | Synonyms: settlement |
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| (noun) a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together | - |
| (noun) (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell | - |
| (noun) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country | Synonyms: dependency |
| (noun) a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated | - |
| colophony | (noun) translucent brittle substance produced from pine oleoresin; used especially in varnishes and inks and on the bows of stringed instruments | - |
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| cony | (noun) any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food | Synonyms: coney, rabbit |
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| (noun) small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America | Synonyms: coney, mouse hare, pika, rock rabbit |
| (noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | Synonyms: coney, das, dassie, hyrax |
| cosmogony | (noun) the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogeny, cosmology |
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| cottony | (adjective) resembling cotton; as soft as cotton | - |
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| crony | (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: brother, buddy, chum, pal, sidekick |
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| cushiony | (adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding | Synonyms: cushioned, padded |
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| diachrony | (noun) the study of linguistic change | Synonyms: diachronic linguistics, historical linguistics |
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| disharmony | (noun) a lack of harmony | Synonyms: inharmoniousness |
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| ebony | (adjective) of a very dark black | Synonyms: ebon |
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| (noun) a very dark black | Synonyms: coal black, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black |
| (noun) tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork | Synonyms: Diospyros ebenum, ebony tree |
| (noun) hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys | - |
| euphony | (noun) any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds | Synonyms: music |
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| felony | (noun) a serious crime (such as murder or arson) | - |
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| gluttony | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gula, overeating |
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| (noun) habitual eating to excess | - |
| goony | (noun) a variety of albatross with black feet | Synonyms: black-footed albatross, Diomedea nigripes, gooney, gooney bird, goonie |
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| harmony | (noun) an agreeable sound property | - |
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| (noun) compatibility in opinion and action | Synonyms: harmoniousness |
| (noun) agreement of opinions | Synonyms: concord, concordance |
| (noun) the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords | Synonyms: musical harmony |
| (noun) a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole | Synonyms: concord, concordance |
| hegemony | (noun) the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others | - |
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| homophony | (noun) part music with one dominant voice (in a homophonic style) | - |
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| (noun) the same pronunciation for words of different origins | - |
| irony | (noun) incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs | - |
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| (noun) a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs | - |
| (noun) witty language used to convey insults or scorn | Synonyms: caustic remark, sarcasm, satire |
| lemony | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemonlike, sourish, tangy, tart |
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| loony | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, looney, nutcase, weirdo |
| matrimony | (noun) the ceremony or sacrament of marriage | - |
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| (noun) the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) | Synonyms: marriage, spousal relationship, union, wedlock |
| monophony | (noun) music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment) | Synonyms: monody, monophonic music |
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| monopsony | (noun) (economics) a market in which goods or services are offered by several sellers but there is only one buyer | - |
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| monotony | (noun) the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety | Synonyms: humdrum, sameness |
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| (noun) constancy of tone or pitch or inflection | - |
| moony | (adjective) lighted by moonlight | Synonyms: moonlit |
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| (adjective) dreamy in mood or nature | Synonyms: dreamy, woolgathering |
| neotony | (noun) the state resulting when juvenile characteristics are retained by the adults of a species | - |
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| paeony | (noun) any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: peony |
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| palimony | (noun) support paid by one half of an unmarried partnership after the relationship ends | - |
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| parsimony | (noun) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily | Synonyms: parsimoniousness, penny-pinching, thrift |
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| (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness, tightness |
| patrimony | (noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | Synonyms: birthright |
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| (noun) a church endowment | - |
| peony | (noun) any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: paeony |
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| phony | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, bogus, fake, phoney |
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| (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, pretender |
| polony | (noun) another name for Bologna sausage | - |
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| polyphony | (noun) music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments | Synonyms: concerted music, polyphonic music |
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| pony | (noun) any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder | - |
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| (noun) a range horse of the western United States | - |
| (noun) an informal term for a racehorse | - |
| (noun) a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey | Synonyms: jigger, shot glass |
| (noun) a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) | Synonyms: crib, trot |
| quadraphony | (noun) a stereophonic sound recording or reproducing system using four separate channels | Synonyms: quadraphonic system, quadriphonic system |
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| radiotelephony | (noun) telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire | Synonyms: radiotelephone, wireless telephone |
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| ribbony | (adjective) long and thin; resembling a ribbon | Synonyms: ribbonlike |
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| sanctimony | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimoniousness |
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| scammony | (noun) twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin | Synonyms: Convolvulus scammonia |
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| (noun) resin from the root of Convolvulus scammonia | - |
| (noun) tropical American morning glory | Synonyms: Ipomoea orizabensis |
| schizogony | (noun) asexual reproduction by multiple fission; characteristic of many sporozoan protozoans | - |
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| simony | (noun) traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments | Synonyms: barratry |
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| stereophony | (noun) reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound | Synonyms: stereo, stereo system, stereophonic system |
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| stony | (adjective) hard as granite | Synonyms: granitelike, granitic, rocklike |
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| (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, flinty, granitic, obdurate |
| (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldered, bouldery, rocky |
| symphony | (noun) a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra | Synonyms: symphonic music |
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| (noun) a large orchestra; can perform symphonies | Synonyms: philharmonic, symphony orchestra |
| synchrony | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity, synchronisation, synchronism, synchronization, synchronizing |
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| syntony | (noun) the state of being normally responsive to and in harmony with the environment. | - |
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| telephony | (noun) transmitting speech at a distance | Synonyms: telephone |
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| testimony | (noun) a solemn statement made under oath | - |
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| (noun) an assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact | - |
| (noun) something that serves as evidence | Synonyms: testimonial |
| theogony | (noun) the study of the origins and genealogy of the gods | - |
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