advent | (noun) arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous) | Synonyms: coming |
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circumvent | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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(verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
(verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, hem in, surround |
convent | (noun) a religious residence especially for nuns | - |
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(noun) a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together | - |
dissolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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event | (noun) something that happens at a given place and time | - |
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(noun) a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory | - |
(noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
(noun) a special set of circumstances | Synonyms: case |
fervent | (adjective) (archaic) extremely hot, burning, or glowing | Synonyms: fervid |
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(adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
insolvent | (adjective) unable to meet or discharge financial obligations | - |
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(noun) someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts | Synonyms: bankrupt |
invent | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, formulate |
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(verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, fabricate, make up, manufacture |
nonevent | (noun) an anticipated event that turns out to be far less significant than was expected | - |
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prevent | (verb) stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state | Synonyms: keep |
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(verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude |
reinvent | (verb) create anew and make over | - |
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(verb) bring back into existence | - |
resolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, solvent |
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solvent | (adjective) capable of meeting financial obligations | - |
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(noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: answer, resolution, result, solution |
(noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent |
subvent | (verb) guarantee financial support of | Synonyms: subvention, underwrite |
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vent | (noun) activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion | Synonyms: outlet, release |
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(noun) external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate | - |
(noun) a hole for the escape of gas or air | Synonyms: blowhole, vent-hole, venthole |
(noun) a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket) | - |
(noun) a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt | Synonyms: volcano |
(verb) expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen | Synonyms: air, air out, ventilate |
(verb) give expression or utterance to | Synonyms: give vent, ventilate |