| prig | (noun) a person regarded as arrogant and annoying | Synonyms: snob, snoot, snot |
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| priggish | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| priggishly | (adverb) in a priggish manner | - |
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| priggishness | (noun) exaggerated and arrogant properness | Synonyms: primness |
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| prim | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| (adjective) affectedly dainty or refined | Synonyms: mincing, niminy-piminy, twee |
| (verb) dress primly | Synonyms: prim out, prim up |
| (verb) contract one's lips | - |
| (verb) assume a prim appearance | - |
| prima | (adjective) indicating the most important performer or role | Synonyms: leading, star, starring, stellar |
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| primacy | (noun) the state of being first in importance | - |
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| primaeval | (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: aboriginal, primal, primeval, primordial |
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| primal | (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: aboriginal, primaeval, primeval, primordial |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, central, fundamental, key |
| primality | (noun) the property of being a prime number | - |
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| primaquine | (noun) synthetic antimalarial drug | - |
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| primarily | (adverb) of primary import | Synonyms: in the first place |
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| (adverb) for the most part | Synonyms: chiefly, in the main, mainly, principally |
| primary | (adjective) of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary | - |
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| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elemental, elementary |
| (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, main, master, principal |
| (adjective) not derived from or reducible to something else; basic | - |
| (noun) a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen | Synonyms: primary election |
| (noun) one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing | Synonyms: primary feather, primary quill |
| (noun) coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit | Synonyms: primary coil, primary winding |
| (noun) (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it | - |
| primate | (noun) any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet | - |
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| (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: archpriest, hierarch, high priest, prelate |
| primateship | (noun) the office of primate | - |
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| primatology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies primates | - |
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| prime | (adjective) of or relating to or being an integer that cannot be factored into other integers | - |
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| (adjective) being at the best stage of development | Synonyms: meridian |
| (adjective) of superior grade | Synonyms: choice, prize, quality, select |
| (adjective) used of the first or originating agent | - |
| (adjective) first in rank or degree | Synonyms: premier |
| (noun) a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself | Synonyms: prime quantity |
| (noun) the time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest | Synonyms: prime of life |
| (noun) the second canonical hour; about 6 a.m. | - |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak |
| (verb) insert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing | - |
| (verb) fill with priming liquid | - |
| (verb) cover with a primer; apply a primer to | Synonyms: ground, undercoat |
| primed | (adjective) (usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed | Synonyms: fit, set |
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| primer | (noun) any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant | Synonyms: fuse, fusee, fuze, fuzee, priming |
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| (noun) the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface | Synonyms: flat coat, ground, primer coat, priming, priming coat, undercoat |
| (noun) an introductory textbook | - |
| primeval | (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: aboriginal, primaeval, primal, primordial |
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| primidone | (noun) an anticonvulsant (trade name Mysoline) used to treat grand mal seizures and essential tremor | Synonyms: Mysoline |
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| primigravida | (noun) (obstetrics) a woman who is pregnant for the first time | Synonyms: gravida I |
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| priming | (noun) the act of making something ready | - |
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| (noun) any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant | Synonyms: fuse, fusee, fuze, fuzee, primer |
| (noun) the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface | Synonyms: flat coat, ground, primer, primer coat, priming coat, undercoat |
| primipara | (noun) (obstetrics) woman who has been delivered of a child for the first time | Synonyms: para I |
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| primiparous | (adjective) of or relating to a woman who has given birth only once | - |
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| primitive | (adjective) used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies | - |
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| (adjective) of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style | Synonyms: naive |
| (adjective) little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type | Synonyms: archaic |
| (adjective) belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness | Synonyms: crude, rude |
| (noun) a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms | - |
| (noun) a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived | - |
| (noun) a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization | Synonyms: primitive person |
| primitively | (adverb) in a primitive style or manner | - |
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| (adverb) with reference to the origin or beginning | Synonyms: in the beginning, originally |
| primitiveness | (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity, primitivism, rudeness |
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| primitivism | (noun) a genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children | - |
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| (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, rudeness |
| primly | (adverb) in a prissy manner | Synonyms: prissily |
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| primness | (noun) exaggerated and arrogant properness | Synonyms: priggishness |
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| (noun) excessive or affected modesty | Synonyms: Grundyism, prudery, prudishness |
| primo | (adjective) the best of its kind | - |
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| (noun) the principal part of a duet (especially a piano duet) | - |
| primogenitor | (noun) an ancestor in the direct line | Synonyms: progenitor |
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| primogeniture | (noun) right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son | - |
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| primordial | (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: aboriginal, primaeval, primal, primeval |
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| primordiality | (noun) The quality of being first, earliest or original. | - |
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| primordium | (noun) an organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development | Synonyms: anlage |
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| primp | (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: dress, plume, preen |
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| primping | (noun) careful or finicky grooming | - |
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| primrose | (noun) any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads | Synonyms: primula |
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| primula | (noun) any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads | Synonyms: primrose |
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| primus | (noun) the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of Scotland | - |
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| prince | (noun) a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign) | - |
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| princedom | (noun) territory ruled by a prince | Synonyms: principality |
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| (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a prince | - |
| princeling | (noun) a young prince | - |
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| (noun) a petty or insignificant prince who rules some unimportant principality | - |
| princely | (adjective) having the rank of or befitting a prince | - |
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| (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, grand, lush, luxurious, opulent, sumptuous |
| princess | (noun) a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign) | - |
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| princewood | (noun) tropical American timber tree | Synonyms: Cordia gerascanthus, Spanish elm |
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| (noun) large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood | Synonyms: Cordia alliodora, cypre, Equador laurel, salmwood, Spanish elm |
| principal | (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, main, master, primary |
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| (noun) the educator who has executive authority for a school | Synonyms: head, head teacher, school principal |
| (noun) an actor who plays a principal role | Synonyms: lead, star |
| (noun) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account | Synonyms: dealer |
| (noun) (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement | - |
| (noun) the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated | - |
| (noun) capital as contrasted with the income derived from it | Synonyms: corpus, principal sum |
| principality | (noun) territory ruled by a prince | Synonyms: princedom |
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| principally | (adverb) for the most part | Synonyms: chiefly, in the main, mainly, primarily |
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| principalship | (noun) the post of principal | - |
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| principle | (noun) a basic truth or law or assumption | - |
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| (noun) a rule or standard especially of good behavior | - |
| (noun) (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature) | Synonyms: rationale |
| (noun) a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) rule of personal conduct | Synonyms: precept |
| principled | (adjective) based on or manifesting objectively defined standards of rightness or morality | - |
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| prink | (verb) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive | Synonyms: attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up |
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| (verb) dress very carefully and in a finicky manner | - |
| print | (noun) a picture or design printed from an engraving | - |
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| (noun) a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers) | - |
| (noun) a printed picture produced from a photographic negative | Synonyms: photographic print |
| (noun) a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it) | - |
| (noun) the text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication | - |
| (noun) a visible indication made on a surface | Synonyms: mark |
| (noun) availability in printed form | - |
| (verb) reproduce by printing | Synonyms: impress |
| (verb) make into a print | - |
| (verb) put into print | Synonyms: publish |
| (verb) write as if with print; not cursive | - |
| printable | (adjective) fit for publication because free of material that is morally or legally objectionable | - |
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| printer | (noun) a machine that prints | Synonyms: printing machine |
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| (noun) (computer science) an output device that prints the results of data processing | - |
| (noun) someone whose occupation is printing | Synonyms: pressman |
| printing | (noun) the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution | - |
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| (noun) reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication | Synonyms: printing process |
| (noun) text handwritten in the style of printed matter | - |
| (noun) all the copies of a work printed at one time | Synonyms: impression |
| printmaker | (noun) an artist who designs and makes prints | Synonyms: graphic artist |
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| printmaking | (noun) artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens | - |
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| printout | (noun) the output of a computer in printed form | - |
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| prion | (noun) (microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system | - |
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| prior | (adjective) earlier in time | Synonyms: anterior |
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| (noun) the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot | - |
| prioress | (noun) the superior of a group of nuns | Synonyms: abbess, mother superior |
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| prioritise | (verb) assign a priority to | Synonyms: prioritize |
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| prioritize | (verb) assign a priority to | Synonyms: prioritise |
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| priority | (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency |
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| (noun) status established in order of importance or urgency | Synonyms: precedence, precedency |
| priorship | (noun) the office of prior | - |
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| priory | (noun) religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress | - |
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| prise | (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: esteem, prize, respect, value |
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| (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, lever, prize, pry |
| (verb) make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry | Synonyms: pry |
| prism | (noun) optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image | Synonyms: optical prism |
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| (noun) a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms | - |
| prismatic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or constituting a prism | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting spectral colors formed by refraction of light through a prism | - |
| prismatoid | (noun) a polyhedron whose vertices all lie in one or the other of two parallel planes; the faces that lie in those planes are the bases of the prismatoid | - |
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| prismoid | (noun) a prismatoid whose bases are polygons having the same number of sides and whose other faces are trapezoids or parallelograms | - |
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| prison | (noun) a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment | Synonyms: prison house |
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| (noun) a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement | Synonyms: prison house |
| prisonbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking |
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| prisoner | (noun) a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war | Synonyms: captive |
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| prisonlike | (adjective) resembling a prison | - |
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| prissily | (adverb) in a prissy manner | Synonyms: primly |
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| prissy | (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: dainty, nice, overnice, squeamish |
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| (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
| pristine | (adjective) immaculately clean and unused | - |
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| (adjective) completely free from dirt or contamination | - |
| privacy | (noun) the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others | Synonyms: privateness, seclusion |
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| (noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: concealment, privateness, secrecy |
| private | (adjective) confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy | - |
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| (adjective) not expressed | Synonyms: secret |
| (adjective) concerning one person exclusively | Synonyms: individual |
| (adjective) concerning things deeply private and personal | Synonyms: intimate |
| (noun) an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines | Synonyms: buck private, common soldier |
| privateer | (noun) a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation | - |
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| (noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateersman |
| privateersman | (noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateer |
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| privately | (adverb) kept private or confined to those intimately concerned | Synonyms: in camera, in private |
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| (adverb) by a private person or interest | - |
| privateness | (noun) the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others | Synonyms: privacy, seclusion |
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| (noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: concealment, privacy, secrecy |
| privates | (noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: crotch, genital organ, genitalia, genitals, private parts |
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| privation | (noun) act of depriving someone of food or money or rights | Synonyms: deprivation |
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| (noun) a state of extreme poverty | Synonyms: deprivation, neediness, want |
| privatisation | (noun) changing something from state to private ownership or control | Synonyms: denationalisation, denationalization, privatization |
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| privatise | (verb) change from governmental to private control or ownership | Synonyms: privatize |
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| privatization | (noun) changing something from state to private ownership or control | Synonyms: denationalisation, denationalization, privatisation |
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| privatize | (verb) change from governmental to private control or ownership | Synonyms: privatise |
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| privet | (noun) any of various Old World shrubs having smooth entire leaves and terminal panicles of small white flowers followed by small black berries; many used for hedges | - |
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| privilege | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, prerogative |
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| (noun) (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship | - |
| (noun) a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all | - |
| (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, favour |
| privileged | (adjective) blessed with privileges | - |
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| (adjective) confined to an exclusive group | Synonyms: inner, inside |
| (adjective) not subject to usual rules or penalties | - |
| privily | (adverb) confidentially or in secret | - |
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| privy | (adjective) (followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known | - |
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| (adjective) hidden from general view or use | Synonyms: secluded, secret |
| (noun) a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate | Synonyms: earth-closet, jakes, outhouse |
| (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lav, lavatory, toilet |
| prize | (adjective) of superior grade | Synonyms: choice, prime, quality, select |
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| (noun) something given as a token of victory | Synonyms: trophy |
| (noun) something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery | Synonyms: award |
| (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, pillage, plunder, swag |
| (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: esteem, prise, respect, value |
| (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, lever, prise, pry |
| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: appreciate, treasure, value |