| chokecherry | (noun) a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds | Synonyms: chokecherry tree, Prunus virginiana |
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| (noun) the fruit of the chokecherry tree | - |
| chylifactory | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactive, chylific |
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| ciliary | (adjective) relating to the ciliary body and associated structures of the eye | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell | Synonyms: cilial, ciliate |
| (adjective) of or relating to the human eyelash | Synonyms: ciliate |
| cinerary | (adjective) containing or used for ashes of the cremated dead | - |
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| circuitry | (noun) electronic equipment consisting of a system of circuits | - |
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| circulatory | (adjective) relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulative |
| circumlocutory | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic |
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| citizenry | (noun) the body of citizens of a state or country | Synonyms: people |
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| clary | (noun) aromatic herb of southern Europe; cultivated in Great Britain as a potherb and widely as an ornamental | Synonyms: Salvia sclarea |
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| classificatory | (adjective) relating to or involving classification | - |
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| clattery | (adjective) a rattling sound as of hard things striking together | - |
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| clearstory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clerestory |
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| clerestory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clearstory |
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| cloudberry | (noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: bakeapple, baked-apple berry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus, salmonberry |
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| coffeeberry | (noun) evergreen shrub of western United States bearing small red or black fruits | Synonyms: California buckthorn, California coffee, Rhamnus californicus |
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| colliery | (noun) a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it | Synonyms: pit |
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| colorimetry | (noun) quantitative chemical analysis by color using a colorimeter | Synonyms: colorimetric analysis |
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| columbary | (noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbarium, dovecote |
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| combinatory | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinative |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatorial |
| (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinational |
| cometary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a comet | Synonyms: cometic |
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| commandery | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandership |
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| commentary | (noun) a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material | Synonyms: comment |
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| comminatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: denunciative, denunciatory |
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| commissary | (noun) a retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel) | - |
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| (noun) a snack bar in a film studio | - |
| communicatory | (adjective) able or tending to communicate | Synonyms: communicative |
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| competitory | (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness | Synonyms: competitive |
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| complementary | (adjective) acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) | Synonyms: complemental, completing |
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| (adjective) of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other | - |
| (noun) either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments) | Synonyms: complementary color |
| complimentary | (adjective) conveying or resembling a compliment | - |
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| (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: costless, free, gratis, gratuitous |
| compulsory | (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: mandatory, required |
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| comradery | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, chumminess, comradeliness, comradeship |
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| conciliatory | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliative |
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| (adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: compromising, flexible |
| condemnatory | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemning |
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| confectionary | (noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionery |
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| confectionery | (noun) the occupation and skills of a confectioner | - |
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| (noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionary |
| (noun) candy and other sweets considered collectively | - |
| confirmatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| congratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: gratulatory |
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| conjury | (noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring, invocation |
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| conservatory | (noun) a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner | Synonyms: hothouse, indoor garden |
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| (noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatoire |
| (noun) the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts | - |
| consistory | (noun) a church tribunal or governing body | - |
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| consolatory | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consoling |
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| constabulary | (noun) the force of policemen and officers | Synonyms: law, police, police force |
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| consuetudinary | (noun) a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order) | Synonyms: consuetudinal |
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| consultatory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultative, consultive |
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| contemporary | (adjective) belonging to the present time | Synonyms: present-day |
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| (adjective) characteristic of the present | Synonyms: modern-day |
| (adjective) occurring in the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneous |
| (noun) a person of nearly the same age as another | Synonyms: coeval |
| contradictory | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false | - |
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| (adjective) unable for both to exist or be true at the same time | Synonyms: mutually exclusive |
| (adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory |
| (adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: confounding |
| (noun) two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time | - |
| contrary | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false | - |
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| (adjective) very opposed in nature or character or purpose | - |
| (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: obstinate, perverse, wayward |
| (adjective) in an opposing direction | Synonyms: adverse |
| (noun) exact opposition | - |
| (noun) a relation of direct opposition | Synonyms: opposite, reverse |
| (noun) a logical relation such that two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false | - |
| contributory | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, tributary |
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| cookery | (noun) the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat | Synonyms: cooking, preparation |
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| coppery | (adjective) of something having the color of copper | Synonyms: copper colored |
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| copulatory | (adjective) of or relating to coitus or copulation | Synonyms: coital |
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| coquetry | (noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: dalliance, flirt, flirtation, flirting, toying |
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| coralberry | (noun) shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India | Synonyms: Ardisia crenata, spiceberry |
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| (noun) North American deciduous shrub cultivated for it abundant clusters of coral-red berrylike fruits | Synonyms: Indian currant, Symphoricarpos orbiculatus |
| corollary | (noun) (logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition | - |
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| (noun) a practical consequence that follows naturally | - |
| coronary | (adjective) surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart) | - |
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| (noun) obstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery by a blood clot (thrombus) | Synonyms: coronary thrombosis |
| corroboratory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| cosignatory | (adjective) signing jointly with others | - |
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| (noun) one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration) | Synonyms: cosigner |
| cosmolatry | (noun) the worship of the cosmos | - |
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| costmary | (noun) leaves used sparingly (because of bitter overtones) in sauces and soups and stuffings | - |
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| (noun) tansy-scented Eurasian perennial herb with buttonlike yellow flowers; used as potherb or salad green and sometimes for potpourri or tea or flavoring; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: alecost, balsam herb, bible leaf, Chrysanthemum balsamita, mint geranium, Tanacetum balsamita |
| counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
| (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionist |
| country | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, land, nation, res publica, state |
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| (noun) the people who live in a nation or country | Synonyms: land, nation |
| (noun) the territory occupied by a nation | Synonyms: land, state |
| (noun) an area outside of cities and towns | Synonyms: rural area |
| (noun) a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography) | Synonyms: area |
| cowberry | (noun) tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller | Synonyms: lingonberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry |
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| (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
| cowry | (noun) any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells | Synonyms: cowrie |
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| crackerberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: bunchberry, Cornus canadensis, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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| cranberry | (noun) very tart red berry used for sauce or juice | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries | - |
| craniometry | (noun) the branch of physical anthropology dealing with the study and measurement of dry skulls after removal of its soft parts | - |
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| creamery | (noun) a workplace where dairy products (butter and cheese etc.) are produced or sold | - |
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| crematory | (noun) a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes | Synonyms: cremation chamber, crematorium |
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| (noun) a mortuary where corpses are cremated | Synonyms: crematorium |
| criminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, incriminating, incriminatory |
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| crockery | (noun) tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively | Synonyms: dishware |
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| crowberry | (noun) a low evergreen shrub with small purple flowers and black berrylike fruit | - |
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| cry | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, outcry, shout, vociferation, yell |
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| (noun) a fit of weeping | - |
| (noun) a slogan used to rally support for a cause | Synonyms: battle cry, rallying cry, war cry, watchword |
| (noun) a loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate) | Synonyms: yell |
| (noun) the characteristic utterance of an animal | - |
| (verb) shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain | Synonyms: weep |
| (verb) bring into a particular state by crying | - |
| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
| (verb) proclaim or announce in public | Synonyms: blazon out |
| (verb) utter a characteristic sound | - |
| (verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry out, exclaim, outcry, shout |
| (verb) demand immediate action | - |
| cryocautery | (noun) application of a substance that destroys tissue by freezing it | - |
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| (noun) an instrument for destroying tissue by freezing it | - |
| cryosurgery | (noun) the use of extreme cold (usually liquid nitrogen) to destroy unwanted tissue (warts or cataracts or skin cancers) | - |
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| cuckoldry | (noun) the practice of making cuckolds; sexual conquests of married women | - |
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| culinary | (adjective) of or relating to or used in cooking | - |
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| curry | (noun) (East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice | - |
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| (verb) give a neat appearance to | Synonyms: dress, groom |
| (verb) treat by incorporating fat | - |
| (verb) season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking | - |
| cursory | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, passing, perfunctory, superficial |
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| customary | (adjective) in accordance with convention or custom | - |
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| (adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: accustomed, habitual, wonted |
| cutlery | (noun) tableware implements for cutting and eating food | Synonyms: eating utensil |
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| (noun) a cutting implement; a tool for cutting | Synonyms: cutter, cutting tool |
| cytophotometry | (noun) the study of chemical compounds inside a cell by means of a cytophotometer | - |
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| dairy | (noun) a farm where dairy products are produced | Synonyms: dairy farm |
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| damnatory | (adjective) threatening with damnation | Synonyms: damning |
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| dangleberry | (noun) huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit | Synonyms: dangle-berry, Gaylussacia frondosa |
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| daredevilry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredeviltry |
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| daredeviltry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredevilry |
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| deanery | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanship |
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| (noun) the official residence of a dean | - |
| deary | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| debauchery | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| decennary | (noun) a period of 10 years | Synonyms: decade, decennium |
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| declamatory | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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| declaratory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declarative |
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| decry | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, excoriate, objurgate, reprobate |
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| decumary | (noun) woody climber of southeastern United States having white flowers in compound terminal clusters | Synonyms: Decumaria barbara, Decumaria barbata |
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| deerberry | (noun) small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer | Synonyms: squaw huckleberry, Vaccinium stamineum |
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| defamatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| deflationary | (adjective) associated with or tending to cause decreases in consumer prices or increases in the purchasing power of money | - |
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| delivery | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: deliverance, rescue, saving |
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| (noun) the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another | Synonyms: legal transfer, livery |
| (noun) the act of delivering a child | Synonyms: obstetrical delivery |
| (noun) the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it | Synonyms: pitch |
| (noun) the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) | Synonyms: bringing |
| (noun) your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally | Synonyms: manner of speaking, speech |
| (noun) the event of giving birth | - |
| delusory | (adjective) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true | Synonyms: deceptive |
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| demagoguery | (noun) impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace | Synonyms: demagogy |
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| demonolatry | (noun) the acts or rites of worshiping devils | Synonyms: devil-worship, diabolatry |
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