| absolver | (noun) someone who grants absolution | - |
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| achiever | (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: succeeder, success, winner |
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| allover | (adjective) covering the entire surface | - |
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| almsgiver | (noun) a person who gives alms | - |
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| approver | (noun) an authority with power to approve | - |
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| arriver | (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arrival, comer |
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| aver | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, avow, swan, swear, verify |
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| (verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, say |
| basketweaver | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketmaker |
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| beaver | (noun) large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges | - |
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| (noun) a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material) | Synonyms: castor |
| (noun) a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face | - |
| (noun) a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur | Synonyms: dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat, topper |
| (noun) a full beard | - |
| (noun) the soft brown fur of the beaver | Synonyms: beaver fur |
| (verb) work hard on something | Synonyms: beaver away |
| bedcover | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedspread, counterpane, spread |
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| believer | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: worshiper, worshipper |
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| (noun) a supporter who accepts something as true | Synonyms: truster |
| booklover | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: bibliophile, book lover |
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| cabdriver | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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| cadaver | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: clay, corpse, remains, stiff |
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| cantilever | (noun) projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only | - |
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| (verb) construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed | - |
| (verb) project as a cantilever | - |
| caregiver | (noun) a person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult | - |
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| (noun) a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability | Synonyms: health care provider, health professional, PCP, primary care provider |
| carver | (noun) an artist who creates sculptures | Synonyms: sculptor, sculpturer, statue maker |
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| (noun) someone who carves the meat | Synonyms: cutter |
| (noun) makes decorative wooden panels | Synonyms: woodcarver |
| changeover | (noun) an event that results in a transformation | Synonyms: conversion, transition |
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| claver | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| cleaver | (noun) a butcher's knife having a large square blade | Synonyms: chopper, meat cleaver |
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| clever | (adjective) showing inventiveness and skill | Synonyms: cunning, ingenious |
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| (adjective) mentally quick and resourceful | Synonyms: apt |
| (adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagey, cagy, canny |
| clover | (noun) a plant of the genus Trifolium | Synonyms: trefoil |
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| conceiver | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: mastermind, originator |
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| contriver | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: deviser, planner |
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| cover | (noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it | Synonyms: covering, masking, screening |
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| (noun) fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations | Synonyms: covering fire |
| (noun) a false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent) | - |
| (noun) a recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else | Synonyms: cover song, cover version |
| (noun) bedding that keeps a person warm in bed | Synonyms: blanket |
| (noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: concealment, covert, screen |
| (noun) covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container) | Synonyms: top |
| (noun) the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book | Synonyms: back, binding, book binding |
| (noun) a natural object that covers or envelops | Synonyms: covering, natural covering |
| (noun) a fixed charge by a restaurant or nightclub over and above the charge for food and drink | Synonyms: cover charge |
| (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: brood, hatch, incubate |
| (verb) clothe, as if for protection from the elements | Synonyms: wrap up |
| (verb) protect by insurance | Synonyms: insure, underwrite |
| (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, deal, handle, plow, treat |
| (verb) be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism | Synonyms: report |
| (verb) maintain a check on; especially by patrolling | - |
| (verb) protect or defend (a position in a game) | - |
| (verb) hold within range of an aimed firearm | - |
| (verb) play a higher card than the one previously played | - |
| (verb) be responsible for guarding an opponent in a game | - |
| (verb) provide with a covering or cause to be covered | - |
| (verb) form a cover over | Synonyms: spread over |
| (verb) copulate with a female, used especially of horses | Synonyms: breed |
| (verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: enshroud, hide, shroud |
| (verb) put something on top of something else | Synonyms: overlay |
| (verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse |
| (verb) hide from view or knowledge | Synonyms: cover up |
| (verb) spread over a surface to conceal or protect | - |
| (verb) be sufficient to meet, defray, or offset the charge or cost of | - |
| (verb) to take an action to protect against future problems | - |
| (verb) invest with a large or excessive amount of something | - |
| (verb) help out by taking someone's place and temporarily assuming his responsibilities | - |
| (verb) provide for | - |
| (verb) span an interval of distance, space or time | Synonyms: continue, extend |
| (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, embrace, encompass |
| (verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: compensate, overcompensate |
| crossover | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crosswalk |
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| (noun) the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience | - |
| (noun) a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party | Synonyms: crossover voter |
| (noun) the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis | Synonyms: crossing over |
| deceiver | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, slicker, trickster |
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| deliver | (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: bear, birth, give birth, have |
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| (verb) deliver (a speech, oration, or idea) | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) pass down | Synonyms: render, return |
| (verb) utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.) | - |
| (verb) bring to a destination, make a delivery | - |
| (verb) throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball | Synonyms: pitch |
| (verb) to surrender someone or something to another | Synonyms: fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, render, turn in |
| (verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: cede, give up, surrender |
| (verb) carry out or perform | Synonyms: drive home |
| (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deport, extradite |
| (verb) free from harm or evil | Synonyms: rescue |
| (verb) save from sins | Synonyms: redeem, save |
| demisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note | Synonyms: thirty-second note |
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| discover | (verb) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally | Synonyms: find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, learn, pick up, see |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
| (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| (verb) make a discovery, make a new finding | Synonyms: find |
| (verb) see for the first time; make a discovery | - |
| (verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: detect, find, notice, observe |
| (verb) find unexpectedly | Synonyms: attain, chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, fall upon, happen upon, light upon, strike |
| disprover | (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, rebutter, refuter |
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| dissever | (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, divide, separate, split, split up |
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| dissolver | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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| diver | (noun) large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes | Synonyms: loon |
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| (noun) someone who dives (into water) | Synonyms: plunger |
| (noun) someone who works underwater | Synonyms: frogman, underwater diver |
| downriver | (adverb) away from the source or with the current | Synonyms: downstream |
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| driver | (noun) a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee | Synonyms: number one wood |
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| (noun) (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device | Synonyms: device driver |
| (noun) the operator of a motor vehicle | - |
| (noun) a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver | - |
| (noun) someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle | - |
| drover | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: herder, herdsman |
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| elver | (noun) young eel | - |
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| (noun) young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried | - |
| engraver | (noun) a printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate | - |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching | - |
| ever | (adverb) at all times; all the time and on every occasion | Synonyms: always, e'er |
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| (adverb) at any time | Synonyms: of all time |
| (adverb) (intensifier for adjectives) very | Synonyms: ever so |
| fever | (noun) a state of nervous excitement | - |
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| (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, feverishness, pyrexia |
| fiver | (noun) a United States bill worth 5 dollars | Synonyms: five-spot, five dollar bill |
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| flashover | (noun) an unintended electric discharge (as over or around an insulator) | - |
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| flyover | (noun) a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground | Synonyms: fly-by, flypast |
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| (noun) bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels | Synonyms: overpass |
| forever | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: eternally, everlastingly, evermore |
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| (adverb) for a very long or seemingly endless time | Synonyms: forever and a day |
| (adverb) invariably | Synonyms: always, constantly, incessantly, perpetually |
| forgiver | (noun) a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense | Synonyms: excuser, pardoner |
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| giver | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: bestower, conferrer, donor, presenter |
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| (noun) someone who devotes himself completely | - |
| graver | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graving tool, pointel, pointrel |
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| griever | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: lamenter, mourner, sorrower |
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| groover | (noun) a device that makes grooves by cutting or punching | - |
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| groundcover | (noun) small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor | Synonyms: ground cover |
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| (noun) low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow | Synonyms: ground cover |
| handover | (noun) act of relinquishing property or authority etc | - |
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| hangover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: holdover |
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| (noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: holdover |
| (noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: katzenjammer |
| hardcover | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbacked, hardbound |
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| (noun) a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers | Synonyms: hardback |
| heaver | (noun) a bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope) | - |
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| (noun) a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard) | - |
| hemidemisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note | Synonyms: sixty-fourth note |
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| holdover | (noun) something that has survived from the past | Synonyms: hangover |
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| (noun) an official who remains in office after his term | Synonyms: hangover |
| hoover | (verb) clean with a vacuum cleaner | Synonyms: vacuum-clean, vacuum |
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| hover | (verb) hang in the air; fly or be suspended above | - |
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| (verb) be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity | Synonyms: levitate |
| (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: oscillate, vacillate, vibrate |
| (verb) to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time | Synonyms: linger |
| (verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing | Synonyms: brood, bulk large, loom |
| however | (adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, still, withal, yet |
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| (adverb) in whatever way or manner | - |
| (adverb) to whatever degree or extent | - |
| (adverb) by contrast; on the other hand | - |
| hungover | (adjective) Suffering the aftereffects of the consumption of alcohol | - |
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| improver | (noun) a component that is added to something to improve it | Synonyms: add-on, addition |
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| (noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, humanitarian |
| landrover | (noun) a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain | Synonyms: jeep |
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| laver | (noun) (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions | - |
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| (noun) seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds | Synonyms: sea lettuce |
| (noun) edible red seaweeds | Synonyms: red laver |
| lawgiver | (noun) a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws | Synonyms: lawmaker |
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| layover | (noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey | Synonyms: stop, stopover |
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| leaver | (noun) someone who leaves | Synonyms: departer, goer |
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| leftover | (adjective) not used up | Synonyms: left, left over, odd, remaining, unexpended |
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| (noun) a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists | Synonyms: remnant |
| lever | (noun) a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum | - |
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| (noun) a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock | Synonyms: lever tumbler |
| (noun) a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum | - |
| (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, prise, prize, pry |
| lifesaver | (noun) a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material | Synonyms: life belt, life buoy, life ring |
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| (noun) an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents | Synonyms: lifeguard |
| liver | (adjective) having a reddish-brown color | Synonyms: liver-colored |
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| (noun) large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes | - |
| (noun) liver of an animal used as meat | - |
| (noun) someone who lives in a place | - |
| (noun) a person who has a special life style | - |
| louver | (noun) one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain | Synonyms: fin, louvre |
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| lover | (noun) a person who loves someone or is loved by someone | - |
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| (noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: buff, devotee, fan |
| (noun) a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage | - |
| makeover | (noun) an overall beauty treatment (involving a person's hair style and cosmetics and clothing) intended to change or improve a person's appearance | - |
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| (noun) a complete reconstruction and renovation of something | - |
| maneuver | (noun) a move made to gain a tactical end | Synonyms: manoeuvre, tactical maneuver, tactical manoeuvre |
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| (noun) an action aimed at evading an opponent | Synonyms: evasive action, manoeuvre |
| (noun) a military training exercise | Synonyms: manoeuvre, simulated military operation |
| (noun) a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill | Synonyms: manoeuvre, play |
| (noun) a plan for attaining a particular goal | Synonyms: manoeuvre, tactic, tactics |
| (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: manoeuver, manoeuvre, operate |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) act in order to achieve a certain goal | Synonyms: manoeuver, manoeuvre |
| manoeuver | (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre, operate |
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| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) act in order to achieve a certain goal | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre |
| miniver | (noun) trimming on ceremonial robes consisting of white or light grey fur | - |
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| misbeliever | (noun) a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: heretic, religious outcast |
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| misdeliver | (verb) deliver to the wrong address | - |
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| moreover | (adverb) denoting additional information | Synonyms: furthermore, in addition, what is more |
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| mover | (noun) a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another | Synonyms: moving company, public mover, removal company, removal firm |
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| (noun) someone who moves | - |
| (noun) (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion | Synonyms: proposer |
| (noun) workman employed by a moving company | - |
| never | (adverb) not at all; certainly not; not in any circumstances; not ever; at no time in the past or future | Synonyms: ne'er |
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| nonachiever | (noun) a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates | Synonyms: underachiever, underperformer |
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| nonbeliever | (noun) someone who refuses to believe (as in a divinity) | - |
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| nondriver | (noun) a person who is not a driver | - |
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| observer | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, perceiver, percipient |
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| (noun) an expert who observes and comments on something | Synonyms: commentator |
| outmaneuver | (verb) defeat by more skillful maneuvering | Synonyms: outmanoeuvre, outsmart |
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| over | (adjective) having come or been brought to a conclusion | Synonyms: all over, complete, concluded, ended, terminated |
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| (noun) (cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch | - |
| (adverb) throughout a period of time | Synonyms: o'er |
| (adverb) at or to a point across intervening space etc. | - |
| (adverb) throughout an area | - |
| (adverb) beyond the top or upper surface or edge; forward from an upright position | - |
| (adverb) over the entire area | Synonyms: all over |
| overachiever | (noun) a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated | - |
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| palaver | (noun) loud and confused and empty talk | Synonyms: empty talk, empty words, hot air, rhetoric |
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| (noun) flattery intended to persuade | Synonyms: blandishment, cajolery |
| (verb) have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds | - |
| (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, sweet-talk, wheedle |
| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| perceiver | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, percipient |
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| plover | (noun) any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers | - |
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| popover | (noun) light hollow muffin made of a puff batter (individual Yorkshire pudding) baked in a deep muffin cup | - |
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| preserver | (noun) rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning | Synonyms: flotation device, life preserver |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture | Synonyms: refinisher, renovator, restorer |
| (noun) someone who keeps safe from harm or danger | - |
| (noun) a cook who preserves fruits or meat | - |
| pullover | (noun) a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head | Synonyms: slipover |
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| pushover | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, snap, walkover |
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| (noun) someone who is easily taken advantage of | - |
| quaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note | Synonyms: eighth note |
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| (noun) a tremulous sound | - |
| (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: trill, warble |
| (verb) give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency | Synonyms: waver |
| quicksilver | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, fickle, mercurial |
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| (noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, mercury |
| quiver | (noun) the act of vibrating | Synonyms: quivering, vibration |
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| (noun) case for holding arrows | - |
| (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle |
| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quivering, shakiness, shaking, trembling, vibration |
| (verb) shake with fast, tremulous movements | Synonyms: palpitate, quake |
| (verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: beat, pulsate |
| (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, flutter, waver |
| raver | (noun) someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner | Synonyms: ranter |
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| (noun) a participant in a rave dancing party | - |