| abaft | (adverb) at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane | Synonyms: aft, astern |
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| abandonment | (noun) withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility | Synonyms: defection, desertion |
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| (noun) the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away | - |
| (noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: desertion, forsaking |
| abasement | (noun) depriving one of self-esteem | Synonyms: humiliation |
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| (noun) a low or downcast state | Synonyms: abjection, degradation |
| abashment | (noun) feeling embarrassed due to modesty | Synonyms: bashfulness |
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| abatement | (noun) the act of abating | - |
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| (noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: hiatus, reprieve, respite, suspension |
| abbot | (noun) the superior of an abbey of monks | Synonyms: archimandrite |
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| abducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part | Synonyms: abducting |
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| (noun) a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye | Synonyms: abducens, abducens nerve, abducent nerve, nervus abducens, sixth cranial nerve |
| abduct | (verb) pull away from the body | - |
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| (verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: kidnap, nobble, snatch |
| aberrant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: deviant, deviate |
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| (noun) one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group | - |
| abet | (verb) assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing | - |
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| abetment | (noun) the verbal act of urging on | Synonyms: abettal, instigation |
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| abeyant | (adjective) inactive but capable of becoming active | Synonyms: dormant |
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| abhorrent | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
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| abient | (adjective) characterized by avoidance or withdrawal | - |
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| abiogenist | (noun) a believer in abiogenesis | - |
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| abject | (adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: low-down, low, miserable, scummy, scurvy |
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| (adjective) showing utter resignation or hopelessness | Synonyms: unhopeful |
| (adjective) showing humiliation or submissiveness | - |
| (adjective) most unfortunate or miserable | - |
| ablaut | (noun) a vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song) | - |
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| abolishment | (noun) the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery) | Synonyms: abolition |
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| abolitionist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: emancipationist |
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| abort | (noun) the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed | - |
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| (verb) terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion | - |
| (verb) cease development, die, and be aborted | - |
| (verb) terminate before completion | - |
| abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
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| (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: aborticide, abortion-inducing drug |
| abortionist | (noun) a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies | - |
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| about | (adjective) on the move | Synonyms: astir |
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| (adverb) (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | Synonyms: approximately, around, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly, some |
| (adverb) in the area or vicinity | Synonyms: around |
| (adverb) in or to a reversed position or direction | Synonyms: around |
| (adverb) in rotation or succession | - |
| (adverb) used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction | Synonyms: around |
| (adverb) (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but | Synonyms: almost, most, near, nearly, nigh, virtually, well-nigh |
| (adverb) all around or on all sides | Synonyms: around |
| abradant | (noun) a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing | Synonyms: abrader |
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| (noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abrasive, abrasive material |
| abreact | (verb) discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization | - |
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| abreast | (adjective) being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge | Synonyms: au courant, au fait, up on |
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| (adverb) alongside each other, facing in the same direction | - |
| abridgement | (noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgment, capsule, condensation |
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| abridgment | (noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgement, capsule, condensation |
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| abrupt | (adjective) surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner | - |
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| (adjective) marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions | Synonyms: disconnected |
| (adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: precipitous, sharp |
| (adjective) exceedingly sudden and unexpected | - |
| abscondment | (noun) the act of running away secretly (as to avoid arrest) | Synonyms: decampment |
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| absent | (adjective) not being in a specified place | - |
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| (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absentminded, abstracted, scatty |
| (adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: lacking, missing, wanting |
| (verb) stay away or leave | Synonyms: remove |
| absolutist | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutistic |
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| (noun) one who advocates absolutism | - |
| absorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: sorbefacient |
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| absorbent | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorptive |
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| (noun) a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance | Synonyms: absorbent material |
| abstinent | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstentious |
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| (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstainer, nondrinker |
| abstract | (adjective) existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment | - |
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| (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
| (adjective) dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention | - |
| (noun) a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance | Synonyms: abstraction |
| (noun) a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory | Synonyms: outline, precis, synopsis |
| (verb) consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically | - |
| (verb) consider apart from a particular case or instance | - |
| (verb) give an abstract (of) | - |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| abstractionist | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
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| (noun) a painter of abstract pictures | Synonyms: abstract artist |
| abundant | (adjective) present in great quantity | - |
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| abut | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
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| abutment | (noun) a masonry support that touches and directly receives thrust or pressure of an arch or bridge | - |
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| (noun) point of contact between two objects or parts | - |
| abvolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one-hundred-millionth of a volt | - |
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| abwatt | (noun) a power unit equal to the power dissipated when 1 abampere flows across a potential difference of 1 abvolt (one ten-thousandth of a milliwatt) | - |
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| acaulescent | (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: stemless |
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| accent | (noun) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | Synonyms: emphasis, stress |
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| (noun) distinctive manner of oral expression | Synonyms: speech pattern |
| (noun) a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation | Synonyms: accent mark |
| (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | Synonyms: dialect, idiom |
| (noun) special importance or significance | Synonyms: emphasis |
| (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accentuate, stress |
| (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
| accept | (verb) consider or hold as true | - |
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| (verb) react favorably to; consider right and proper | - |
| (verb) tolerate or accommodate oneself to | Synonyms: live with, swallow |
| (verb) be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal | - |
| (verb) give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to | Synonyms: consent, go for |
| (verb) receive willingly something given or offered | Synonyms: have, take |
| (verb) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person | Synonyms: assume, bear, take over |
| (verb) admit into a group or community | Synonyms: admit, take, take on |
| (verb) receive (a report) officially, as from a committee | - |
| (verb) make use of or accept for some purpose | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) be designed to hold or take | Synonyms: take |
| acceptant | (adjective) accepting willingly | Synonyms: acceptive |
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| accident | (noun) anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause | Synonyms: chance event, fortuity, stroke |
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| (noun) an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury | - |
| accompaniment | (noun) the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them | Synonyms: escort |
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| (noun) something added to complete or embellish or make perfect | Synonyms: complement |
| (noun) a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Synonyms: backup, musical accompaniment, support |
| (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: attendant, co-occurrence, concomitant |
| 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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| accomplishment | (noun) the action of accomplishing something | Synonyms: achievement |
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| (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: acquirement, acquisition, attainment, skill |
| accordant | (adjective) being in agreement or harmony; often followed by `with' | - |
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| (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: agreeable, concordant, conformable, consonant |
| accordionist | (noun) a musician who plays the accordion | - |
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| accost | (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors | Synonyms: hook, solicit |
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| (verb) speak to someone | Synonyms: address, come up to |
| accouchement | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: childbearing, childbirth, vaginal birth |
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| account | (noun) the quality of taking advantage | - |
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| (noun) importance or value | - |
| (noun) a record or narrative description of past events | Synonyms: chronicle, history, story |
| (noun) an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered | Synonyms: bill, invoice |
| (noun) a short account of the news | Synonyms: news report, report, story, write up |
| (noun) a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc. | Synonyms: explanation |
| (noun) the act of informing by verbal report | Synonyms: report |
| (noun) grounds | Synonyms: score |
| (noun) a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance | Synonyms: account statement, accounting |
| (noun) a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services | Synonyms: business relationship |
| (verb) furnish a justifying analysis or explanation | Synonyms: answer for |
| (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: describe, report |
| (verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: calculate |
| (verb) be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something | - |
| accountant | (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: comptroller, controller |
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| accouterment | (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accessory, accoutrement |
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| accoutrement | (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accessory, accouterment |
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| accredit | (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: credit |
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| (verb) grant credentials to | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) provide or send (envoys or ambassadors) with official credentials | - |
| accruement | (noun) the act of accumulating | Synonyms: accrual, accumulation |
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| accumbent | (adjective) lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | Synonyms: decumbent, recumbent |
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| accurst | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accursed, maledict |
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| achievement | (noun) the action of accomplishing something | Synonyms: accomplishment |
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| acidulent | (adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acid, acidic, acidulous |
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| acknowledgement | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgment |
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| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgment, recognition |
| acknowledgment | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgement |
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| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgement, recognition |
| acquaint | (verb) cause to come to know personally | Synonyms: introduce, present |
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| (verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: familiarise, familiarize |
| (verb) inform | - |
| acquiescent | (adjective) willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest | Synonyms: biddable |
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| acquirement | (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquisition, attainment, skill |
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| acquit | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
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| (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: assoil, clear, discharge, exculpate, exonerate |
| acrobat | (noun) an athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination | - |
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| acrodont | (noun) an animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without sockets | - |
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| act | (noun) something that people do or cause to happen | Synonyms: deed, human action, human activity |
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| (noun) a subdivision of a play or opera or ballet | - |
| (noun) a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body | Synonyms: enactment |
| (noun) a short performance that is part of a longer program | Synonyms: bit, number, routine, turn |
| (noun) a manifestation of insincerity | - |
| (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
| (verb) pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind | Synonyms: act as, play |
| (verb) discharge one's duties | - |
| (verb) play a role or part | Synonyms: play, represent |
| (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: play, playact, roleplay |
| (verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: dissemble, pretend |
| (verb) perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) | Synonyms: move |
| (verb) have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected | Synonyms: work |
| (verb) be suitable for theatrical performance | - |
| activist | (adjective) advocating or engaged in activism | Synonyms: activistic |
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| (noun) a militant reformer | Synonyms: militant |
| adamant | (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamantine, inexorable, intransigent |
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| (noun) very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem | Synonyms: diamond |
| adapt | (verb) make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose | Synonyms: accommodate |
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| (verb) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions | Synonyms: adjust, conform |
| addict | (noun) someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance or activity | - |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: freak, junkie, junky, nut |
| (verb) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) | Synonyms: hook |
| adducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducting, adductive |
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| adduct | (noun) a compound formed by an addition reaction | - |
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| (verb) draw a limb towards the body | - |
| adept | (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: expert, good, practiced, proficient, skilful, skillful |
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| (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
| adherent | (adjective) sticking fast | - |
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| (noun) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another | Synonyms: disciple |
| adient | (adjective) characterized by acceptance or approach | - |
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| adit | (noun) a nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine | - |
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| adjacent | (adjective) nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space | Synonyms: next, side by side |
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| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: conterminous, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring |
| (adjective) near or close to but not necessarily touching | - |
| adjournment | (noun) the termination of a meeting | Synonyms: dissolution |
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| (noun) the act of postponing to another time or place | - |
| adjunct | (adjective) of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another | Synonyms: assistant |
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| (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
| (noun) a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence | - |
| (noun) something added to another thing but not an essential part of it | - |
| (noun) a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another | - |
| adjust | (verb) alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard | Synonyms: correct, set |
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| (verb) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions | Synonyms: adapt, conform |
| (verb) make correspondent or conformable | - |
| (verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight | Synonyms: align, aline, line up |
| (verb) decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim | - |
| adjustment | (noun) the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) | Synonyms: alteration, modification |
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| (noun) the act of adjusting something to match a standard | Synonyms: readjustment, registration |
| (noun) making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances | Synonyms: accommodation, fitting |
| (noun) an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances | Synonyms: allowance |
| (noun) the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions) | Synonyms: adaptation, adaption |
| adjutant | (noun) large Indian stork with a military gait | Synonyms: adjutant bird, adjutant stork, Leptoptilus dubius |
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| (noun) an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer | Synonyms: aide-de-camp, aide |
| adjuvant | (adjective) enhancing the action of a medical treatment | - |
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| (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
| (noun) an additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment | - |
| admit | (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: acknowledge |
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| (verb) admit into a group or community | Synonyms: accept, take, take on |
| (verb) allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of | Synonyms: include, let in |
| (verb) allow to enter; grant entry to | Synonyms: allow in, intromit, let in |
| (verb) give access or entrance to | - |
| (verb) serve as a means of entrance | - |
| (verb) have room for; hold without crowding | Synonyms: accommodate, hold |
| (verb) afford possibility | Synonyms: allow |
| admonishment | (noun) a firm rebuke | Synonyms: admonition, monition |
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| adolescent | (adjective) relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent | - |
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| (adjective) in the state of development between puberty and maturity | - |
| (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: jejune, juvenile, puerile |
| (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: teen, teenage, teenaged |
| (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: stripling, teen, teenager |
| adopt | (verb) take into one's family | Synonyms: take in |
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| (verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: acquire, assume, take, take on |
| (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: embrace, espouse, sweep up |
| (verb) put into dramatic form | Synonyms: dramatise, dramatize |
| (verb) take up and practice as one's own | Synonyms: borrow, take over, take up |
| (verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: espouse, follow |
| (verb) take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities | Synonyms: assume, take on, take over |
| adornment | (noun) the action of decorating yourself with something colorful and interesting | - |
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| (noun) a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness | - |
| adrift | (adjective) afloat on the surface of a body of water | - |
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| (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: afloat, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
| (adverb) off course, wandering aimlessly | - |
| (adverb) floating freely; not anchored | - |
| adroit | (adjective) quick or skillful or adept in action or thought | - |
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| adscript | (adjective) written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it | - |
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| (adjective) (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner | Synonyms: adscripted |
| adsorbent | (adjective) having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: adsorptive, surface-assimilative |
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| (noun) a material having capacity or tendency to adsorb another substance | Synonyms: adsorbent material |