| abiogenist
|
(noun) a believer in abiogenesis |
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| abolitionist
|
(noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery |
Synonyms:
emancipationist |
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| abortionist
|
(noun) a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies |
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| abreast
|
(adverb) alongside each other, facing in the same direction |
- |
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| (adjective) being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge |
Synonyms:
up on,
au courant,
au fait |
| absolutist
|
(adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism |
Synonyms:
absolutistic |
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| (noun) one who advocates absolutism |
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| abstractionist
|
(adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature |
Synonyms:
nonfigurative,
nonobjective,
abstract |
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| (noun) a painter of abstract pictures |
Synonyms:
abstract artist |
| accompanist
|
(noun) a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) |
Synonyms:
accompanyist |
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| accompanyist
|
(noun) a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) |
Synonyms:
accompanist |
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| accordionist
|
(noun) a musician who plays the accordion |
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| accost
|
(verb) speak to someone |
Synonyms:
address,
come up to |
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| (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors |
Synonyms:
hook,
solicit |
| accurst
|
(adjective) under a curse |
Synonyms:
maledict,
accursed |
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| activist
|
(adjective) advocating or engaged in activism |
Synonyms:
activistic |
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| (noun) a militant reformer |
Synonyms:
militant |
| adjust
|
(verb) alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard |
Synonyms:
set,
correct |
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| (verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight |
Synonyms:
align,
line up,
aline |
| (verb) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions |
Synonyms:
conform,
adapt |
| (verb) make correspondent or conformable |
- |
| (verb) decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim |
- |
| adust
|
(adjective) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight |
Synonyms:
parched,
scorched,
sunbaked,
baked |
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| (adjective) burned brown by the sun |
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| aerialist
|
(noun) an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze) |
- |
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| aetiologist
|
(noun) a specialist in the etiology of diseases |
Synonyms:
etiologist |
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| afforest
|
(verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land |
Synonyms:
forest |
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| aftermost
|
(adjective) located closest to the stern or tail |
- |
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| aghast
|
(adjective) struck with fear, dread, or consternation |
Synonyms:
dismayed,
shocked,
appalled |
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| agonist
|
(noun) the principal character in a work of fiction |
Synonyms:
protagonist |
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| (noun) someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon) |
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| (noun) a muscle that contracts while another relaxes |
- |
| (noun) (biochemistry) a drug that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction |
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| agriculturalist
|
(noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil |
Synonyms:
cultivator,
raiser,
grower,
agriculturist |
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| agriculturist
|
(noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil |
Synonyms:
cultivator,
raiser,
grower,
agriculturalist |
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| agronomist
|
(noun) an expert in soil management and field-crop production |
- |
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| airburst
|
(noun) an explosion in the atmosphere |
- |
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| airpost
|
(noun) a system of conveying mail by aircraft |
Synonyms:
airmail |
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| alarmist
|
(noun) a person who alarms others needlessly |
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| alcahest
|
(noun) hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists |
Synonyms:
universal solvent,
alkahest |
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| alchemist
|
(noun) one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone |
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| alecost
|
(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:
costmary,
mint geranium,
Chrysanthemum balsamita,
balsam herb,
bible leaf,
Tanacetum balsamita |
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| algebraist
|
(noun) a mathematician whose specialty is algebra |
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| alienist
|
(noun) a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness |
- |
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| alkahest
|
(noun) hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists |
Synonyms:
universal solvent,
alcahest |
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| allergist
|
(noun) a physician skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies |
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| almost
|
(adverb) (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but |
Synonyms:
near,
nearly,
nigh,
most,
well-nigh,
virtually,
about |
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| alpinist
|
(noun) a mountain climber who specializes in difficult climbs |
- |
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| altoist
|
(noun) a musician who plays the alto saxophone |
Synonyms:
alto saxophonist |
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| altruist
|
(noun) someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being |
Synonyms:
philanthropist |
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| ameloblast
|
(noun) a cell from which tooth enamel develops |
- |
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| amethyst
|
(noun) a transparent purple variety of quartz; used as a gemstone |
- |
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| (adjective) of a moderate purple color |
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| aminoplast
|
(noun) a plastic (synthetic resin) made from amino compounds; used as an adhesive and as a coating for paper and textiles |
Synonyms:
amino plastic,
amino resin |
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| amoralist
|
(noun) someone who adheres to the doctrine that ordinary moral distinctions are invalid |
- |
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| amorist
|
(noun) one dedicated to love and lovemaking especially one who writes about love |
- |
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| anaesthetist
|
(noun) a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated |
Synonyms:
anesthesiologist,
anesthetist |
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| anagnost
|
(noun) a cleric in the minor orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church who reads the lessons aloud in the liturgy (analogous to the lector in the Roman Catholic Church) |
- |
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| analogist
|
(noun) someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy |
- |
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| analyst
|
(noun) someone who is skilled at analyzing data |
- |
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| (noun) an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions |
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| (noun) a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis |
Synonyms:
psychoanalyst |
| anapaest
|
(noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables |
Synonyms:
anapest |
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| anapest
|
(noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables |
Synonyms:
anapaest |
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| anarchist
|
(noun) an advocate of anarchism |
Synonyms:
nihilist,
syndicalist |
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| anatomist
|
(noun) an expert in anatomy |
- |
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| anecdotist
|
(noun) a person skilled in telling anecdotes |
Synonyms:
raconteur |
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| anesthesiologist
|
(noun) a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated |
Synonyms:
anaesthetist,
anesthetist |
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| anesthetist
|
(noun) a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated |
Synonyms:
anaesthetist,
anesthesiologist |
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| angiologist
|
(noun) a physician who specializes in angiology |
- |
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| angst
|
(noun) an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom |
- |
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| animist
|
(adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism |
Synonyms:
animistic |
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| (noun) one who accepts the doctrine of animism |
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| annalist
|
(noun) a historian who writes annals |
- |
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| anomalist
|
(noun) someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases |
- |
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| antagonist
|
(noun) someone who offers opposition |
Synonyms:
resister,
opponent,
opposer,
adversary |
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| (noun) a muscle that relaxes while another contracts |
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| (noun) a drug that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of another drug |
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| anthologist
|
(noun) an editor who makes selections for an anthology |
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| anthropologist
|
(noun) a social scientist who specializes in anthropology |
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| anticatalyst
|
(noun) (chemistry) a substance that retards a chemical reaction or diminishes the activity of a catalyst |
- |
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| antifeminist
|
(noun) someone who does not believe in the social or economic or political equality of men and women |
- |
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| antitrust
|
(adjective) of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices |
Synonyms:
antimonopoly |
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| aorist
|
(noun) a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation |
- |
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| aphorist
|
(noun) someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms |
- |
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| apiarist
|
(noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey |
Synonyms:
apiculturist,
beekeeper |
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| apiculturist
|
(noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey |
Synonyms:
apiarist,
beekeeper |
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| apologist
|
(noun) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution |
Synonyms:
justifier,
vindicator |
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| arbalest
|
(noun) late version of the crossbow with a steel bow |
Synonyms:
arbalist |
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| arbalist
|
(noun) archer who uses an arbalest |
- |
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| (noun) late version of the crossbow with a steel bow |
Synonyms:
arbalest |
| arboriculturist
|
(noun) someone trained in forestry |
Synonyms:
forester,
tree farmer |
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| arborist
|
(noun) a specialist in treating damaged trees |
Synonyms:
tree surgeon |
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| archaeologist
|
(noun) an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture |
Synonyms:
archeologist |
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| archaist
|
(noun) a person who archaizes |
- |
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| (noun) an expert or collector of antiquities |
Synonyms:
antiquarian,
antiquary |
| archeologist
|
(noun) an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture |
Synonyms:
archaeologist |
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| archivist
|
(noun) a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives |
- |
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| archpriest
|
(noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary |
Synonyms:
primate,
hierarch,
high priest,
prelate |
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| arianist
|
(noun) an adherent of Arianism (the belief that Jesus Christ was not truly God) |
- |
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| armrest
|
(noun) a support for the arm |
- |
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| arrest
|
(verb) take into custody |
Synonyms:
pick up,
apprehend,
nail,
cop,
nab,
collar |
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| (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of |
Synonyms:
check,
stop,
turn back,
hold back,
contain |
| (verb) attract and fix |
Synonyms:
get,
catch |
| (verb) cause to come to an abrupt stop |
Synonyms:
hold,
halt |
| (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) |
Synonyms:
pinch,
catch,
collar,
apprehension,
taking into custody |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption |
Synonyms:
stop,
halt,
hitch,
stay,
stoppage,
check |
| arsonist
|
(noun) a criminal who illegally sets fire to property |
Synonyms:
incendiary,
firebug |
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| artist
|
(noun) a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination |
Synonyms:
creative person |
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| assist
|
(noun) the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose |
Synonyms:
help,
aid,
assistance |
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| (noun) (sports) the act of enabling another player to make a good play |
- |
| (verb) give help or assistance; be of service |
Synonyms:
help,
aid |
| (verb) act as an assistant in a subordinate or supportive function |
- |
| (verb) work for, or be a servant to |
Synonyms:
attend to,
serve,
wait on,
attend |
| astrologist
|
(noun) someone who predicts the future by the positions of the planets and sun and Moon |
Synonyms:
astrologer |
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| astrophysicist
|
(noun) an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies |
- |
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| atavist
|
(noun) an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism |
Synonyms:
throwback |
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| atheist
|
(adjective) related to or characterized by or given to atheism |
Synonyms:
atheistic,
atheistical |
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| (noun) someone who does not believe in the existence of a god |
- |
| athirst
|
(adjective) (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous |
Synonyms:
hungry,
thirsty |
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| attest
|
(verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes |
Synonyms:
demonstrate,
certify,
manifest,
evidence |
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| (verb) authenticate, affirm to be true, genuine, or correct, as in an official capacity |
- |
| (verb) give testimony in a court of law |
Synonyms:
bear witness,
take the stand,
testify |
| (verb) establish or verify the usage of |
- |
| august
|
(adjective) of or befitting a lord |
Synonyms:
grand,
lordly |
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| (adjective) profoundly honored |
Synonyms:
revered,
venerable |
| automobilist
|
(noun) someone who drives (or travels in) an automobile |
Synonyms:
motorist |
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| backblast
|
(noun) backfire from a recoilless weapon |
Synonyms:
back-blast |
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| backmost
|
(adjective) located farthest to the rear |
Synonyms:
rearmost,
hindermost,
hindmost |
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| backrest
|
(noun) a support that you can lean against while sitting |
Synonyms:
back |
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| bacteriologist
|
(noun) a biologist who studies bacteria |
- |
|---|
| ballast
|
(noun) any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship |
- |
|---|
| (noun) coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads |
- |
| (noun) an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings |
- |
| (noun) a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations) |
Synonyms:
ballast resistor,
barretter |
| (noun) an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps |
Synonyms:
light ballast |
| (verb) make steady with a ballast |
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| balloonist
|
(noun) someone who flies a balloon |
- |
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| bassist
|
(noun) a musician who play the bass viol |
- |
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| bassoonist
|
(noun) a musician who plays the bassoon |
- |
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