| negate | (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: neutralise, neutralize, nullify |
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| (verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: contradict |
| (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, contravene |
| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, contradict |
| negation | (noun) the speech act of negating | - |
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| (noun) a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement | - |
| (noun) (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false | - |
| negative | (adjective) expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features | - |
| (adjective) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | Synonyms: disconfirming |
| (adjective) reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive | - |
| (adjective) having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant | - |
| (adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: electronegative, negatively charged |
| (adjective) designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | Synonyms: damaging |
| (adjective) involving disadvantage or harm | Synonyms: minus |
| (adjective) less than zero | - |
| (noun) a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed | - |
| (noun) a reply of denial | - |
| (verb) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | Synonyms: blackball, veto |
| negatively | (adverb) in a negative way | - |
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| (adverb) in a harmful manner | - |
| negativeness | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativism, negativity |
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| (noun) an amount less than zero | Synonyms: negativity |
| (noun) the character of the negative electric pole | Synonyms: negativity |
| negativism | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativeness, negativity |
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| negativist | (noun) someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions | Synonyms: defeatist |
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| (noun) someone who refuses to do what is asked or does the opposite of what is asked | - |
| negativity | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativeness, negativism |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond | Synonyms: electronegativity |
| (noun) an amount less than zero | Synonyms: negativeness |
| (noun) the character of the negative electric pole | Synonyms: negativeness |
| negatron | (noun) an elementary particle with negative charge | Synonyms: electron |
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| neglect | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, negligence, nonperformance |
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| (noun) willful lack of care and attention | Synonyms: disregard |
| (noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglectfulness, negligence |
| (noun) lack of attention and due care | Synonyms: disregard |
| (noun) the state of something that has been unused and neglected | Synonyms: disuse |
| (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
| (verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: disregard, ignore |
| (verb) fail to attend to | - |
| (verb) fail to do something; leave something undone | Synonyms: fail |
| neglected | (adjective) lacking a caretaker | Synonyms: unattended |
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| (adjective) disregarded | Synonyms: ignored, unheeded |
| neglecter | (noun) a person who is neglectful and gives little attention or respect to people or responsibilities | - |
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| neglectful | (adjective) failing in what duty requires | Synonyms: delinquent, derelict, remiss |
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| (adjective) not showing due care or attention | Synonyms: inattentive |
| neglectfully | (adverb) in a neglectful manner | - |
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| neglectfulness | (noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglect, negligence |
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| neglige | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, negligee, peignoir, wrapper |
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| negligee | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, peignoir, wrapper |
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| negligence | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, nonperformance |
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| (noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglect, neglectfulness |
| negligent | (adjective) characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern | - |
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| negligently | (adverb) in a negligent manner | - |
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| negligible | (adjective) so small as to be meaningless; insignificant | - |
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| (adjective) not worth considering | Synonyms: paltry, trifling |
| negociate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negotiate, talk terms |
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| (verb) confer with another in order to come to terms or reach an agreement | - |
| (verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negotiate |
| (verb) transfer by endorsement to another in return for value received | - |
| (verb) sell or discount | - |
| (verb) be successful; achieve a goal | Synonyms: bring off, carry off, manage, pull off |
| negotiable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: assignable, conveyable, transferable, transferrable |
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| (adjective) able to be negotiated or arranged by compromise | Synonyms: on the table |
| (adjective) capable of being passed or negotiated | - |
| negotiant | (noun) someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) | Synonyms: negotiator, treater |
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| negotiate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negociate, talk terms |
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| (verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negociate |
| negotiation | (noun) the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms | - |
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| (noun) a discussion intended to produce an agreement | Synonyms: dialogue, talks |
| negotiator | (noun) someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) | Synonyms: negotiant, treater |
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| negotiatress | (noun) a woman negotiator | Synonyms: negotiatrix |
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| negotiatrix | (noun) a woman negotiator | Synonyms: negotiatress |
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| negro | (adjective) having skin rich in melanin pigments; | Synonyms: colored, coloured |
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| negus | (noun) wine and hot water with sugar and lemon juice and nutmeg | - |
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| neigh | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: nicker, whicker, whinny |
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| (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: nicker, whicker, whinny |
| neighbor | (noun) a nearby object of the same kind | Synonyms: neighbour |
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| (noun) a person who lives (or is located) near another | Synonyms: neighbour |
| (verb) be located near or adjacent to | Synonyms: neighbour |
| (verb) live or be located as a neighbor | Synonyms: neighbour |
| neighborhood | (noun) people living near one another | Synonyms: neighbourhood |
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| (noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighbourhood, vicinity |
| (noun) an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community) | - |
| (noun) the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of') | Synonyms: region |
| neighboring | (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighbouring |
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| neighborliness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors | Synonyms: good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness, neighbourliness |
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| neighborly | (adjective) exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor | Synonyms: neighbourly |
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| neighbour | (noun) a nearby object of the same kind | Synonyms: neighbor |
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| (noun) a person who lives (or is located) near another | Synonyms: neighbor |
| (verb) be located near or adjacent to | Synonyms: neighbor |
| (verb) live or be located as a neighbor | Synonyms: neighbor |
| neighbourhood | (noun) people living near one another | Synonyms: neighborhood |
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| (noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, vicinity |
| neighbouring | (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring |
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| neighbourliness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors | Synonyms: good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness, neighborliness |
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| neighbourly | (adjective) exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor | Synonyms: neighborly |
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| neither | (adjective) not either; not one or the other; entity, dual, negative pronoun; quantifier, dual, negative | - |
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| nekton | (noun) the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales | - |
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| nelfinavir | (noun) a protease inhibitor (trade name Viracept) used in treating HIV usually in combination with other drugs | Synonyms: Viracept |
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| nelson | (noun) any of several wrestling holds in which an arm is passed under the opponent's arm from behind and the hand exerts pressure on the back of the neck | - |
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| nematode | (noun) unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic | Synonyms: nematode worm, roundworm |
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| nemertean | (noun) soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract | Synonyms: nemertine, proboscis worm, ribbon worm |
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| nemertine | (noun) soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract | Synonyms: nemertean, proboscis worm, ribbon worm |
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| nemesis | (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, curse, scourge |
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| nemophila | (noun) any plant of the genus Nemophila | - |
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| neo | (adjective) (used as a combining form) recent or new | - |
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| neobaroque | (noun) art or architecture based on study of 17th century baroque. | Synonyms: neo-baroque |
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| neobehaviorism | (noun) a school of psychology based on the general principles of behaviorism but broader and more flexible in concept. It stresses experimental research and laboratory analyses in the study of overt behavior and in various subjective phenomena that cannot be directly observed and measured, such as fantasies, love, stress, empathy, trust, and personality. | - |
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| neoclassic | (adjective) characteristic of a revival of an earlier classical style | Synonyms: neoclassical |
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| neoclassical | (adjective) characteristic of a revival of an earlier classical style | Synonyms: neoclassic |
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| neoclassicism | (noun) revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation | - |
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| neoclassicist | (adjective) relating to or advocating neoclassicism | Synonyms: neoclassicistic |
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| (noun) an advocate of neoclassicism | - |
| neoclassicistic | (adjective) relating to or advocating neoclassicism | Synonyms: neoclassicist |
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| neocolonialism | (noun) control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures | - |
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| neocon | (noun) a conservative who subscribes to neoconservatism | Synonyms: neoconservative |
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| neoconservatism | (noun) an approach to politics or theology that represents a return to a traditional point of view (in contrast to more liberal or radical schools of thought of the 1960s) | - |
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| neoconservative | (noun) a conservative who subscribes to neoconservatism | Synonyms: neocon |
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| neocortex | (noun) the cortical part of the neencephalon | Synonyms: neopallium |
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| neocortical | (adjective) of or relating to the neocortex of the cerebrum | - |
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| neocriticism | (noun) a form of neo-Kantianism developed principally by C. B. Renouvier and his followers rejecting the noumena of Kant and restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories. | - |
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| neodymium | (noun) a yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs in monazite and bastnasite in association with cerium and lanthanum and praseodymium | Synonyms: atomic number 60, Nd |
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| neoencephalon | (noun) the part of the brain having the most recent phylogenetic origin; the cerebral cortex and related parts | Synonyms: neencephalon |
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| neoevolutionism | (noun) school of anthropology concerned with long-term culture change and with the similar patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, widely separated cultures. | Synonyms: neo-evolutionism |
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| neoexpressionism | (noun) an art movement based on expressionism; developed in 1980s in Europe and United States; crudely drawn garish paintings | - |
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| neoliberal | (adjective) having or showing belief in the need for economic growth in addition to traditional liberalistic values | - |
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| (noun) a liberal who subscribes to neoliberalism | - |
| neoliberalism | (noun) a political orientation originating in the 1960s; blends liberal political views with an emphasis on economic growth | - |
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| neolith | (noun) a stone tool from the Neolithic Age | - |
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| neolithic | (adjective) of or relating to the most recent period of the Stone Age (following the mesolithic) | - |
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| neologism | (noun) the act of inventing a word or phrase | Synonyms: coinage, neology |
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| (noun) a newly invented word or phrase | Synonyms: coinage, neology |
| neologist | (noun) a lexicographer of new words and expressions | - |
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| neology | (noun) the act of inventing a word or phrase | Synonyms: coinage, neologism |
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| (noun) a newly invented word or phrase | Synonyms: coinage, neologism |
| neomycin | (noun) an antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used (as a sulphate under the trade name Neobiotic) as an intestinal antiseptic in surgery | Synonyms: fradicin, Neobiotic |
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| neon | (noun) a colorless odorless gaseous element that gives a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts | Synonyms: atomic number 10, Ne |
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| neonatal | (adjective) relating to or affecting the infant during the first month after birth | - |
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| neonate | (noun) a baby from birth to four weeks | Synonyms: newborn |
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| neonatology | (noun) that branch of pediatric medicine concerned with the newborn; the diagnosis and treatment of neonates | - |
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| neopallium | (noun) the cortical part of the neencephalon | Synonyms: neocortex |
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| neophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of novelty | - |
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| neophyte | (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgeling, fledgling, freshman, newbie, newcomer, starter |
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| (noun) a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist | Synonyms: catechumen |
| (noun) a plant that is found in an area where it had not been recorded previously | - |
| neoplasia | (noun) the pathological process that results in the formation and growth of a tumor | - |
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| neoplasm | (noun) an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose | Synonyms: tumor, tumour |
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| neoplastic | (adjective) of or related to or having the properties of a neoplasm | - |
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| neoprene | (noun) a synthetic rubber that is resistant to oils and aging; used in waterproof products | - |
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| neoromanticism | (noun) an art movement based on a revival of Romanticism in art and literature | - |
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| neostigmine | (noun) a cholinergic drug (trade name Prostigmin) used to treat some ophthalmic conditions and to treat myasthenia gravis | Synonyms: Prostigmin |
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| neotenic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by neoteny | Synonyms: neotenous |
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| neotenous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by neoteny | Synonyms: neotenic |
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| neoteny | (noun) an evolutionary trend to be born earlier so that development is cut off at an earlier stage and juvenile characteristics are retained in adults of the species | - |
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| neotony | (noun) the state resulting when juvenile characteristics are retained by the adults of a species | - |
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| nepheline | (noun) a whitish mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate or potassium aluminum silicate in crystalline form; used in the manufacture of ceramics and enamels | Synonyms: nephelite |
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| nephelinite | (noun) an igneous rock consisting of nepheline and pyroxene | - |
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| nephelite | (noun) a whitish mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate or potassium aluminum silicate in crystalline form; used in the manufacture of ceramics and enamels | Synonyms: nepheline |
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| nephew | (noun) a son of your brother or sister | - |
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| nephology | (noun) the branch of meteorology that studies clouds and cloud formation | - |
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