| allotted | (adjective) given as a task | - |
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| allover | (adjective) covering the entire surface | - |
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| allow | (verb) allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: take into account |
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| (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: appropriate, earmark, reserve, set aside |
| (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: countenance, let, permit |
| (verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting | Synonyms: permit, tolerate |
| (verb) let have | Synonyms: grant |
| (verb) grant as a discount or in exchange | - |
| (verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: let, permit |
| (verb) allow the other (baseball) team to score | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain | Synonyms: allow for, leave, provide |
| (verb) afford possibility | Synonyms: admit |
| allowable | (adjective) that may be permitted especially as according to rule | Synonyms: permissible |
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| (adjective) deserving to be allowed or considered | - |
| (adjective) deductible according to the tax laws | - |
| allowably | (adverb) in a permissible manner | Synonyms: permissibly |
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| allowance | (noun) the act of allowing | - |
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| (noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: leeway, margin, tolerance |
| (noun) an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period) | - |
| (noun) an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances | Synonyms: adjustment |
| (noun) a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses | - |
| (noun) a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets | Synonyms: allowance account, valuation account, valuation reserve |
| (verb) put on a fixed allowance, as of food | - |
| alloy | (noun) the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something | Synonyms: admixture |
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| (noun) a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten | Synonyms: metal |
| (verb) lower in value by increasing the base-metal content | Synonyms: debase |
| (verb) make an alloy of | - |
| alloyed | (adjective) (used of metals) blended to obtain a desired property | - |
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| (adjective) (used of metals) debased by mixture with an inferior element | - |
| allspice | (noun) ground dried berrylike fruit of a West Indian allspice tree; suggesting combined flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves | - |
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| (noun) aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries | Synonyms: allspice tree, Pimenta dioica, pimento tree |
| (noun) deciduous shrubs having aromatic bark; eastern China; southwestern and eastern United States | - |
| allude | (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: advert, touch |
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| allure | (noun) the power to entice or attract through personal charm | Synonyms: allurement, temptingness |
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| (verb) dispose or incline or entice to | Synonyms: tempt |
| allurement | (noun) the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money) | Synonyms: solicitation |
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| (noun) the power to entice or attract through personal charm | Synonyms: allure, temptingness |
| (noun) attractiveness | - |
| alluring | (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: beguiling, enticing, tempting |
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| allusion | (noun) passing reference or indirect mention | - |
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| allusive | (adjective) characterized by indirect references | - |
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| allusiveness | (noun) a quality characterized by indirect reference | - |
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| alluvial | (adjective) of or relating to alluvium | - |
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| alluviation | (noun) the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating | Synonyms: deposit, sedimentation |
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| alluvion | (noun) clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down | Synonyms: alluvial deposit, alluvial sediment, alluvium |
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| (noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundation |
| (noun) gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment | - |
| alluvium | (noun) clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down | Synonyms: alluvial deposit, alluvial sediment, alluvion |
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| ally | (noun) a friendly nation | - |
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| (noun) an associate who provides cooperation or assistance | Synonyms: friend |
| (verb) become an ally or associate, as by a treaty or marriage | - |
| allyl | (noun) the univalent unsaturated organic radical C3H5; derived from propylene | Synonyms: allyl group, allyl radical |
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| allylic | (adjective) of or pertaining to the allyl radical | - |
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