leukas/Wiktionary huggingface dataset:
promiscuous (adj): Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
Synonyms: licentious; lascivious; abandoned; libidinous; lewd
Hypernyms: immoral; self-indulgent; debauched; dissolute; dissipated
Example: A sail caught by a promiscuous wind.
promiscuous (adj): Having many sexual partners, especially if indiscriminate in choosing said sexual partners.
Synonyms: licentious; lascivious; abandoned; libidinous; lewd
Hypernyms: immoral; self-indulgent; debauched; dissolute; dissipated
diatonic (adj): Relating to or characteristic of a musical scale which contains seven pitches and a pattern of five whole tones and two semitones; particularly, of the major or natural minor scales.
Antonyms: chromatic
specter (noun): A ghostly apparition, a phantom. [from :Template:SAFESUBST: c.] A ghostly apparition, a phantom.
Synonyms: spectre
specter (noun): A threatening mental image. [from :Template:SAFESUBST: c.] A threatening mental image.
Synonyms: spectre
specter (noun): Any of certain species of dragonfly of the genus Boyeria, family Aeshnidae. [from :Template:SAFESUBST: c.] Any of certain species of dragonfly of the genus Boyeria, family Aeshnidae.
Synonyms: spectre
postcolonial (adj): Following the end of colonial rule.
Synonyms: post-colonial
postcolonial (adj): Of or pertaining to postcolonialism.
Synonyms: post-colonial
Example: a postcolonial theory of esthetics
postcolonial (noun): A person living in a postcolonial society.
Synonyms: post-colonial
statuette (noun): A small statue, usually a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta etc.
backlog (noun): An accumulation or buildup, especially of unfilled orders, unconsumed products or unfinished work.
halal (adj): Permissible, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do.
Synonyms: qingzhen; nonharam
Antonyms: haram
halal (adj): Fit to eat according to Muslim religious customs.
Synonyms: qingzhen; nonharam
Antonyms: haram
halal (adj): In accordance with standards or usual practice; acceptable.
Synonyms: qingzhen; nonharam
Antonyms: haram
impartiality (noun): The quality of being impartial; fairness.
Synonyms: impartialness; disinterested § Synonyms
Antonyms: bias; partiality
antiquary (noun): A person who is knowledgeable of, or who collects antiques (especially one holding an official position); an antiquarian.
Synonyms: antiquitary
antiquary (noun): An aficionado or student of antiquities, ancient artifacts, historic sites, ancient writings, or things of the past.
Synonyms: antiquitary
wearable (noun): Something that can be worn; an item of clothing.
Hypernyms: gadget; device
wearable (noun): Ellipsis of wearable computer (“small computer which can be worn on the body”).
Hypernyms: gadget; device
heterogeneity (noun): A composition of diverse parts.
Antonyms: homogeneity
heterogeneity (noun): The quality of a substance which is not uniform.
Antonyms: homogeneity
inquisitor (noun): A person who inquires, especially searchingly or ruthlessly.
Synonyms: inquisitour
inquisitor (noun): An official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition.
Synonyms: inquisitour
comp (adj): Clipping of compensatory or compensating.
Example: comp time comp pay
comp (noun): Clipping of comprehensive layout, a graphic design showing final proposed layout of text and images.
comp (verb): To provide (someone) with a complimentary item, such as a ticket; to provide (someone) with something for free.
Example: to comp him his meals
cursive (adj): Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that occurs in a straight line (in space or time).
cursive (noun): A cursive character, letter or font.
Antonyms: print
honky (noun): A white (Caucasian) person.
Synonyms: honkie; honkey
honky (noun): A factory hand or general unskilled worker.
Synonyms: honkie; honkey
crustal (adj): Of, pertaining to, or forming a crust, especially the crust of the Earth or other planet.
bento (noun): A Japanese takeaway lunch served in a box, often with the food arranged into an elaborate design.
Synonyms: bentō
bento (noun): A menu icon of nine squares in a grid.
Synonyms: bentō
adipose (adj): Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat; fatty.
Synonyms: chubby; tubby; plump; overweight; podgy
adipose (adj): Slightly overweight; chubby.
Synonyms: chubby; tubby; plump; overweight; podgy
daycare (noun): Daytime supervision, usually of children.
Synonyms: day care
acne (noun): A skin condition, usually of the face, that is common in adolescents. It is characterised by red pimples, and is caused by the inflammation of sebaceous glands through bacterial infection.
acne (noun): A pattern of blemishes in an area of skin resulting from the skin condition.
suffusion (noun): The act of pouring a liquid over or soaking something.
Synonyms: diffusion
suffusion (noun): A coat, coating, film, or plating.
Synonyms: diffusion
woodcut (noun): An engraved block of wood, especially one used as a printing form.
defer (verb): After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
defer (verb): To submit to the opinion or desire of others in respect to their judgment or authority.
croton (noun): Any of various plants, of the genus Croton, that yield croton oil.
croton (noun): A tropical evergreen shrub, Codiaeum variegatum, having glossy foliage, cultivated as a houseplant.
stenosis (noun): An abnormal narrowing or stricture in a blood vessel or other tubular organ.
tirelessly (adv): In a tireless manner; without tiring, flagging, or ceasing.
marchioness (noun): A woman holding the rank of marquess in her own right.
Synonyms: marquise
marchioness (noun): An old-fashioned maid-of-all-work; female servant.
Synonyms: marquise
irreverent (adj): Lacking respect; not having or not showing respect for or seriousness towards something that is usually treated with respect; going against conventional precepts.
Synonyms: flippant; pert; impertinent; insolent
Example: an irreverent new work
separable (adj): Able to be separated.
Synonyms: disunitable; separatable
Antonyms: combinable; annexable; inseparable
separable (adj): Able to be brought to a form where all occurrences of the dependent and the independent variable are on opposite sides of the equal sign.
Synonyms: disunitable; separatable
Antonyms: combinable; annexable; inseparable
separable (adj): Having a countable dense subset.
Synonyms: disunitable; separatable
Antonyms: combinable; annexable; inseparable
objectionable (adj): Arousing disapproval; worthy of objection; offensive.
Antonyms: objectionable language; objectionable material; objectionable content; unobjectionable
brooch (noun): A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
dervish (noun): An itinerant Sufi mystic practicing voluntary poverty in devotion to God, and often engaging in ecstatic rituals. A citizen or inhabitant of Darawiish (circa 1895–1920 C.E.), an anti-colonial polity in modern Somalia headed by Sufis.
Synonyms: darwesh; darwaysh; dervice; dervis; dervise
dervish (noun): An itinerant Sufi mystic practicing voluntary poverty in devotion to God, and often engaging in ecstatic rituals. One of the followers of Muhammad Ahmad, the Mahdi of the Sudan, in the 1880s.
Synonyms: darwesh; darwaysh; dervice; dervis; dervise
dervish (noun): An itinerant Sufi mystic practicing voluntary poverty in devotion to God, and often engaging in ecstatic rituals. Any irregular guerrilla fighter resembling the Sudanese Mahdi in equipment, uniform, tactics, etc.
Synonyms: darwesh; darwaysh; dervice; dervis; dervise
endocrinology (noun): The study of the endocrine glands of the human body, the hormones produced by them, and their related disorders.
duress (noun): Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.
duress (verb): To put under duress; to pressure.
Example: Someone was duressing her.
trigonometric (adj): of, relating to, or constructed using trigonometry
Synonyms: trigonometrical
warlike (adj): Hostile and belligerent.
Antonyms: nonwarlike; peaceful
warlike (adj): Martial, bellicose or militaristic.
Antonyms: nonwarlike; peaceful
gaby (noun): A stupid, foolish person; a simpleton; a dunce.
Synonyms: gabey
condenser (noun): A device designed to condense a gas into a liquid, either as part of a still, steam engine, refrigerator or similar machine.
condenser (noun): A lens (or combination of lenses) designed to gather light and focus it onto a specimen or part of a mechanism.
eyalet (noun): A former administrative division or province of the Ottoman Empire.
Synonyms: vilayet
snowball (noun): A ball of snow, usually one made in the hand and thrown for amusement in a snowball fight; also a larger ball of snow made by rolling a snowball around in snow that sticks to it and increases its diameter.
snowball (adj): Of something with rapid growth, often uncontrolled. Compare snowball effect.
lithosphere (noun): The rigid, mechanically strong, outer layer of the Earth; divided into twelve major plates.
taker (noun): One who takes something.
Synonyms: appropriator; taker
Antonyms: giver; returner
Hypernyms: recipient
Example: She is known as quite a risk taker.
taker (noun): A person or thing that takes or receives, often more than he or she gives.
Synonyms: appropriator; taker
Antonyms: giver; returner
Hypernyms: recipient
taker (noun): One who is willing to participate in, or buy, something.
Synonyms: appropriator; taker
Antonyms: giver; returner
Hypernyms: recipient
subterminal (adj): Positioned near an end
Antonyms: supraterminal
gamelan (noun): A genre of music of Indonesian origin typically featuring metallophones, xylophones, drums, gongs and a bamboo flute (called a siuling).
scrivener (noun): A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.
Synonyms: amanuensis; tabellion; scribe
scrivener (noun): One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker.
Synonyms: amanuensis; tabellion; scribe
dredge (noun): Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds.
dredge (noun): Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: A dredging machine.
dredge (noun): Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
dredge (verb): To unearth.
Example: to dredge up someone's unsavoury past
dredge (noun): A large shaker for sprinkling spices or seasonings during food preparation.
dredge (verb): To sprinkle (food) with spices or seasonings, using a dredge.
gravelly (adj): Full of, covered with, or similar to gravel or pebbles.
Synonyms: gravely
gravelly (adj): Of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping.
Synonyms: gravely
gravelly (adj): Caused by or involving gravel (“kidney stones”).
Synonyms: gravely
pulsar (noun): A rotating neutron star that emits radio pulses periodically.
Synonyms: PSR
Hypernyms: neutron star; star; variable star
armoury (noun): A place where arms are kept, an arsenal.
Synonyms: armory
armoury (noun): A collection of weapons and materiel.
Synonyms: armory
bicarbonate (noun): the univalent anion HCO₃⁻; any salt of carbonic acid in which only one of the hydrogen atoms has been replaced.
Synonyms: bi-carbonate
bicarbonate (noun): sodium bicarbonate used as a mild antacid; bicarbonate of soda
Synonyms: bi-carbonate
gander (noun): A male goose.
Synonyms: butcher's hook; butcher's
gander (noun): A fool, simpleton.
Synonyms: butcher's hook; butcher's
gander (noun): A glance, look.
Synonyms: butcher's hook; butcher's
Example: Have a gander at what he’s written.
pierrot (noun): Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Tarucus and Castalia, notable for white contrasting with brown or black on the underwings.
pierrot (noun): An 18th-century women's low-cut basque with sleeves.
synthpop (noun): A style of pop music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument.
Synonyms: synth-pop
Example: Coordinate term: electropop
highlander (noun): A person who inhabits the Scottish Highlands.
Antonyms: lowlander
highlander (noun): Any person who lives in mountainous or hilly terrain.
Antonyms: lowlander
highlander (noun): A game format in which players are allowed no more than one of any card (except basic resource cards) in their decks.
decipher (verb): To convert a code or cipher to plain text.
Synonyms: decypher
decipher (verb): To read text that is almost illegible or obscure
Synonyms: decypher
decipher (verb): To make sense of a complex situation.
Synonyms: decypher
decipher (noun): A decipherment; a decoding.
Synonyms: decypher
sweetwater (noun): Water that still contains sucrose after filtration by a sugar cane refinery, usually one of the main by-products of a sugar cane refining process.
dens (noun): A toothlike process projecting from the anterior end of the centrum of the axis vertebra on which the atlas vertebra rotates.
cayenne (noun): Ellipsis of cayenne pepper.
Example: Coordinate term: jalapeño
impure (adj): Not pure Containing undesired intermixtures
Synonyms: imperfect; impure; tainted
Antonyms: pure; raw
impure (adj): Not pure Unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin
Synonyms: imperfect; impure; tainted
Antonyms: pure; raw
impure (adj): Not pure Unchaste; obscene (not according to or not abiding by some system of sexual morality)
Synonyms: imperfect; impure; tainted
Antonyms: pure; raw
emporium (noun): A city or region which is a major trading centre; also, a place within a city for commerce and trading; a marketplace.
emporium (noun): A shop that offers a wide variety of goods for sale; a department store; (with a descriptive word) a shop specializing in particular goods.
emporium (noun): A business set up to enable foreign traders to engage in commerce in a country; a factory (now the more common term).
firsthand (adj): Direct, without intermediate stages.
Synonyms: first hand; first-hand
Example: firsthand knowledge
firsthand (adj): Not previously owned or used; contrasted with secondhand.
Synonyms: first hand; first-hand
Example: a firsthand copy
firsthand (adv): Directly or from personal experience.
Synonyms: first hand; first-hand
splendour (noun): British, Canadian, Ireland, South Africa, Australian, and New Zealand standard spelling of splendor.
masala (noun): Any of many blends of spices used in Indian cuisine, most often containing cardamom, coriander, mace together with pepper, nutmeg, fennel seeds, jeera etc.
Synonyms: mussalla
masala (noun): Any dish prepared with such spices.
Synonyms: mussalla
masala (noun): Any powder of ground ingredients, not necessarily used in cuisine.
Synonyms: mussalla
individualist (noun): Someone who believes in individualism as a sociopolitical system.
Synonyms: free spirit; heteroclite; nonconformist; maverick
individualist (noun): Someone who believes in the philosophy of individualism; a solipsist.
Synonyms: free spirit; heteroclite; nonconformist; maverick
individualist (noun): Someone who does as they wish, unconstrained by external influences.
Synonyms: free spirit; heteroclite; nonconformist; maverick
hoof (noun): The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.
aq (adj): as quoted (used on a menu to indicate that the price is not listed because it varies depending on the composition of a dish (as in a charcuterie or cheese platter) or because it is particularly high)
Synonyms: mp; price available upon request
vai (noun): Initialism of verb animate intransitive: an intransitive verb that agrees with an animate subject.
Synonyms: VAI
hindsight (noun): Realization or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred.
Antonyms: foresight
Hypernyms: sight
hindsight (noun): The rear sight of a firearm.
Antonyms: foresight
Hypernyms: sight
intricately (adv): In an intricate manner; with involution or infoldings; with perplexity or intricacy.
allude (verb): to refer to something indirectly or by suggestion
Synonyms: allude; hint; inkle; refer; imply
mesquite (noun): Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Prosopis found in America, and used as forage, which have long, beige seed/bean pods which may be dried and ground into a sweet, nutty flour.
mesquite (noun): The wood of these trees, used for smoking food, or charcoal made from this wood.
ner (intj): An interjection generally used when gloating about a perceived cause of humiliation or inferiority for the person being addressed, often when disagreeing with a statement considered incorrect or irrelevant.
Example: You're wrong, so ner!
yearling (noun): An animal that is between one and two years old; one that is in its second year (but not yet two full years old).
Example: a yearling lamb
yearling (noun): A racehorse that is considered to be one year old until a subsequent January 1st.
corrosive (adj): Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
corrosive (noun): Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.
goon (noun): A fool; someone who is silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish.
goon (verb): To act like a goon; to act in an intimidating or aggressive way towards opponents.
goon (verb): To legally kidnap a child and forcibly transport them to a boot camp, boarding school, wilderness therapy, or a similar rehabilitation facility.
goon (noun): A wine flagon or cask.
Synonyms: cask wine; box wine
Example: We drank goons of cheap wine.
goon (noun): Cheap or inferior cask wine.
Synonyms: cask wine; box wine
goon (noun): A Sino-Japanese kanji pronunciation layer, considered the first Sino-Japanese kanji reading type imported into Japan.
Synonyms: go'on
goon (verb): To masturbate for long periods of time without reaching a climax, thus reaching a hypnotic, trance-like state.
tester (noun): Something that overhangs something else; especially a canopy or soundboard over a pulpit.
tester (noun): A person who administers a test.
Synonyms: Botany Bay dozen
tester (noun): A device used for testing.
Synonyms: Botany Bay dozen
tester (noun): A punishment of 25 lashes (strokes of a whip) across a person′s back.
Synonyms: Botany Bay dozen
serfdom (noun): The state of being a serf.
Synonyms: serfhood; serfage
serfdom (noun): The feudal system that includes serfs.
Synonyms: serfhood; serfage
polytope (noun): A finite region of n-dimensional space bounded by hyperplanes (a geometric shape with flat sides, existing in any number of dimensions); the geometrical entity represented by the general term of the infinite sequence "point, line, polygon, polyhedron, ...".
vixen (noun): A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
Synonyms: vixon; fixen
vixen (noun): A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive.
Synonyms: vixon; fixen
syllabic (adj): Of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
syllabic (adj): Designating a sound that is or can be the most sonorant segment of a syllable, as a vowel or a resonant. In the word riddle ([ɹɪdl̩]), the two syllabic sounds are [ɪ] and [l̩].
finesse (verb): To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or stratagem. To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way.
finesse (verb): To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or stratagem. To obtain something from someone through trickery or manipulation.
finesse (verb): To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or stratagem.
spinach (noun): A particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea, or its leaves.
Synonyms: spinnach; spinage
spinach (noun): Any of numerous plants, or their leaves, which are used for greens in the same way Spinacia oleraceae is or resemble it in some way.
Synonyms: spinnach; spinage
gelatin (noun): A protein derived through partial hydrolysis of the collagen extracted from animal skin, bones, cartilage, ligaments, etc.
Synonyms: gelatine; E441 when used as a gelling agent
gelatin (noun): An edible jelly made from this material.
Synonyms: gelatine; E441 when used as a gelling agent
gelatin (noun): A thin, translucent membrane used as a filter for photography or for theatrical lighting effects.
Synonyms: gelatine; E441 when used as a gelling agent
haircut (noun): The act of cutting of the hair, often done professionally by a barber, hair stylist, or beautician.
Synonyms: hair cut
haircut (noun): The style into which the hair is cut.
Synonyms: hair cut
haircut (noun): A partial loss, financially: thus, in a bankruptcy proceeding, the proportional reduction in the debt that will be paid to each creditor (based on an evaluation of the total debt owed and the total assets of the debtor); among investors, the negative return on investment from a losing proposition.
Synonyms: hair cut
Example: to take a haircut
haircut (verb): To reduce the value assigned to an asset.
Synonyms: hair cut
sandalwood (noun): Any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum, native or long naturalized in India, Australia, Hawaii, and many south Pacific islands.
Synonyms: sandal-wood
sandalwood (noun): The aromatic heartwood of these trees used in ornamental carving, in the construction of insect-repellent boxes and chests, and as a source of certain perfumes.
Synonyms: sandal-wood
inconvenience (noun): The quality of being inconvenient.
Synonyms: nuisance; annoyance; trouble
inconvenience (noun): Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.
Synonyms: nuisance; annoyance; trouble
inconvenience (verb): to bother; to discomfort
Synonyms: discommode; discommodate; incommode
instar (noun): Any one of the several stages of postembryonic development which an arthropod undergoes, between molts, before it reaches sexual maturity.
instar (verb): To stud or adorn with stars or other brilliants; to star.
sieve (noun): A device with a mesh or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
Example: Near-synonyms: sifter, strainer, temse
sieve (noun): A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
peppermint (noun): A hybrid herb of the mint family (Mentha × piperita), formed by crossing watermint and spearmint, which has a high menthol content and a sharp flavor and is used in cooking, especially in herb teas and in confections.
peppermint (noun): Any of various eucalypts of southeastern Australia whose leaves yield peppermint-like essential oils.
peppermint (noun): Any of various sweets containing extract of the peppermint herb; peppermint confectionery.
epidermal (adj): Of or pertaining to the epidermis.
Synonyms: epidermical
pastoralist (adj): Having features common to pastoralism.
Example: a pastoralist society
pastoralist (noun): A person involved in pastoralism, whose primary occupation is the raising of livestock
slur (noun): An insult or slight. An extremely offensive and socially unacceptable term targeted at a group of people (such as an ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.).
slur (noun): A mark of dishonour; a blight or stain.
Example: a slur on one's reputation
slur (verb): To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
slur (noun): In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
firestorm (noun): A fire whose intensity is greatly increased by inrushing winds.
Synonyms: fire storm; conflagration; fire-storm
firestorm (noun): An intense or violent altercation.
Synonyms: fire storm; conflagration; fire-storm
epistemic (adj): Of or relating to cognition or knowledge, its scope, or how it is acquired.
epistemic (adj): Of or relating to epistemology (“the branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge”); epistemologic or epistemological.
smog (noun): A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution.
smog (verb): To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions.
livestream (verb): To broadcast as a live stream.
Synonyms: live stream; live-stream
livestream (verb): To receive and watch as a live stream.
Synonyms: live stream; live-stream
dysplasia (noun): Abnormal development of cells or tissue, often a precancerous stage of growth.
scavenger (noun): Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.
Synonyms: skavenger
scavenger (noun): An animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion.
Synonyms: skavenger
scavenger (verb): To clean the rubbish from a street, etc.
Synonyms: skavenger
tuner (noun): A device, electronic or mechanical, that helps a person tune a musical instrument by showing the deviation of the played pitch from the desired pitch.
tuner (noun): On a musical instrument, a peg or mechanical device that changes the tension, and hence pitch, of a string.
fibula (noun): An ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin.
xenophobia (noun): A hatred of strangers or foreigners.
Synonyms: xenophoby; xenofobia
Antonyms: allophilia; xenomania; xenophily; xenophilia
xenophobia (noun): A fear of strangers or foreigners.
Synonyms: xenophoby; xenofobia
Antonyms: allophilia; xenomania; xenophily; xenophilia
xenophobia (noun): A strong antipathy or aversion to strangers or foreigners.
Synonyms: xenophoby; xenofobia
Antonyms: allophilia; xenomania; xenophily; xenophilia
cirrhosis (noun): A chronic disease of the liver caused by damage from toxins (including alcohol), metabolic problems, hepatitis, or nutritional deprivation, characterised by an increase in fibrous tissue and the destruction of liver cells.
cirrhosis (noun): Interstitial inflammation of kidneys, lungs, and other organs.
excretion (noun): The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting.
excretion (noun): Something excreted in that manner, especially urine or feces.
devaluation (noun): The intentional or deliberate lowering of a currency's value compared to another country's currency or a standard value (e.g. the price of gold).
torchwood (noun): A tree yielding wood suitable for making torches, especially a tree of the genus Amyris. Amyris balsamifera (balsam torchwood)
tyrannosaurus (noun): A large carnivorous dinosaur, of the genus Tyrannosaurus, found in North America during the late Cretaceous period.
isotropic (adj): Having properties that are identical in all directions; exhibiting isotropy
Antonyms: anisotropic
isotropic (adj): Having the same components in all rotated coordinate systems
Antonyms: anisotropic
amygdala (noun): Each one of the two regions of the brain, located as a pair in the medial temporal lobe, believed to play a key role in processing emotions, such as fear and pleasure, in both animals and humans.
appel (noun): An act of striking the ground with the leading foot to frighten, distract, or mislead one's opponent.
Hypernyms: feint
tart (adj): Sharp to the taste; acid; sour.
Synonyms: green
Example: I ate a very tart apple.
tart (adj): Sharp; keen; severe.
Synonyms: green
Example: He gave me a very tart reply.
tart (noun): A type of small open pie, or piece of pastry, now typically containing jelly (US) / jam (UK) or conserve, or sometimes other fillings (chocolate, custard, egg, butter, historically even meat or other savory fillings).
tart (noun): A melt (block of wax for use in a tart burner).
tart (verb): To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorishly, or sluttily.
polemical (adj): Related to argument or controversy; containing polemic, being polemic. Being an attempt to evaluate the arguments comprehensively.
Synonyms: polemicall
polemical (adj): Related to argument or controversy; containing polemic, being polemic. Prone to causing disputes; inclined to causing the expression of opposing opinions, disputatious, contentious, edgy.
Synonyms: polemicall
polemical (noun): A diatribe or polemic.
Synonyms: polemicall
prog (verb): To feed and care for oneself, as opposed to being fed and cared for by someone (like a domesticated animal).
prog (verb): To seek food, goods, or money by low arts, such as begging, trickery, or abuse of power.
hyacinth (noun): Any bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, native to the Mediterranean and South Africa.
hyacinth (noun): A variety of zircon, ranging in color from brown, orange, reddish-brown and yellow; a jacinth.
rimmer (noun): An implement for cutting, trimming, or ornamenting the rim of anything, as the edges of pies, etc.
rimmer (noun): A mixture of confections, spices, and/or salt applied to the rim of a beverage glass or mug.
codification (noun): The process of precisely formulating a statement, such as a code of laws.
codification (noun): The act or result of arranging something into a code; the act of setting down a body of knowledge in a systematic way.
paratrooper (noun): A type of soldier who is trained to enter combat zones by parachuting from aircraft.
synchrotron (noun): A form of cyclotron in which charged particles are accelerated by an electric field that is synchronized with a magnetic field that keeps them in a circular path.
flashy (adj): Showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing.
Synonyms: blinking; fulgorous
flashy (adj): Flashing; producing flashes.
Synonyms: blinking; fulgorous
Example: a flashy light
flashy (adj): Drunk; tipsy.
Synonyms: blinking; fulgorous
handkerchief (noun): A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands.
Synonyms: hanky; handkercher; pocket handkerchief
handkerchief (noun): A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief or neckcloth.
Synonyms: hanky; handkercher; pocket handkerchief
buckwheat (noun): An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. [from :Template:SAFESUBST: c.] An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum.
buckwheat (noun): Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
artisanal (adj): Of or pertaining to artisans or the work of artisans.
Synonyms: preindustrial; handmade; small-scale; nonindustrial; boutique
artisanal (adj): Involving skilled work, with comparatively little reliance on machinery.
Synonyms: preindustrial; handmade; small-scale; nonindustrial; boutique
artisanal (adj): Made by an artisan (skilled worker).
Synonyms: preindustrial; handmade; small-scale; nonindustrial; boutique
fedora (noun): A felt hat with a fairly low, creased crown with a brim that can be turned up or down.
federative (adj): Uniting in a league; forming a confederacy, a federation; federal.
Synonyms: fœderative
emulsion (noun): A stable suspension of small droplets of one liquid in another with which it is immiscible.
emulsion (noun): The coating of photosensitive silver halide grains in a thin gelatine layer on a photographic film.
bureaucrat (noun): An official who is part of a bureaucracy.
Synonyms: bureaucrat; paper-pusher; administrator; clerk; pencil pusher
Hypernyms: official; person
bureaucrat (noun): A wiki user with the right to change user access levels.
Synonyms: bureaucrat; paper-pusher; administrator; clerk; pencil pusher
Hypernyms: official; person
termite (noun): A white-bodied, wood-consuming insect of the infraorder Isoptera, in the order Blattodea.
Synonyms: termes; wood ant; white ant
termite (noun): A contemptible person.
Synonyms: termes; wood ant; white ant
termite (verb): Of a chimpanzee: to catch termites by inserting a stick or vine into their nest and waiting for them to climb up it.
showy (adj): Calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye.
Synonyms: shewy; gaudy; shewey
showy (adj): Making a striking or aesthetically pleasing display.
Synonyms: shewy; gaudy; shewey
Example: showy flowers
acumen (noun): Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.
acumen (noun): A bony, often sharp, protuberance, especially that of the ischium.
wane (noun): A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
Synonyms: decrease; decline
wane (noun): The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
Synonyms: decrease; decline
wane (noun): The end of a period.
Synonyms: decrease; decline
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wane (verb): To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
Antonyms: wax
wane (verb): Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
Antonyms: wax
wane (verb): Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
Antonyms: wax
wane (noun): A child.
Synonyms: wain; waine; wean
waxy (noun): A cobbler (shoe repairer).
Synonyms: waxie
hospitaller (noun): A member of any of several religious orders that cared for the sick in hospitals.
ret (verb): To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem.
lyre (noun): An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.
Synonyms: yoke lute
lyre (noun): An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke. Any instrument of the same musicological classification; any yoke lute.
Synonyms: yoke lute
lyre (noun): A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical.
Synonyms: yoke lute
pediatrician (noun): A physician that specializes in pediatrics; the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
Synonyms: paediatrist; pædiatrician; paediatrician
impasse (noun): A deadlock or stalemate situation in which no progress can be made.
ouster (noun): Action by a cotenant that prevents another cotenant from enjoying the use of jointly owned property.
ouster (noun): Specifically, the forceful removal of a politician or regime from power; coup.
geisha (noun): A Japanese female entertainer skilled in various arts such as tea ceremony, dancing, singing and calligraphy.
Synonyms: geiko; geisya; geisha girl; maiko
bismuth (noun): A chemical element (symbol Bi) with an atomic number of 83: a brittle silvery-white metal.
conservator (noun): One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
Synonyms: conservatour
conservator (noun): A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.
Synonyms: conservatour
conservator (noun): An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, such as a justice or sheriff.
Synonyms: conservatour
azimuth (noun): An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object.
Example: the azimuth of a star
modulate (verb): To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument
modulate (verb): to vary the amplitude, frequency or phase of a carrier wave in proportion to the amplitude etc of a source wave (such as speech or music)
bigfoot (verb): To control or manage forcefully; to exercise authority over.
Synonyms: pull the strings; push around; swagger
bigfoot (verb): To behave in an authoritative, commanding manner.
Synonyms: pull the strings; push around; swagger
bigfoot (noun): Alternative letter-case form of Bigfoot, a hairy hominid.
bigfoot (noun): A person with a big footprint; a prominent person, especially a journalist.
downer (noun): A negative drug trip.
Synonyms: spoilsport; killjoy; buzzkill
downer (noun): A drug that has depressant qualities.
Synonyms: spoilsport; killjoy; buzzkill
downer (noun): Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy.
Synonyms: spoilsport; killjoy; buzzkill
resonate (verb): To have an effect or impact; to influence; to engender support.
Example: His words resonated with the crowd.
ischemic (adj): Characteristic of, or accompanied by, ischemia — localised anaemia due to mechanical obstruction of the blood supply, creating a local disturbance in blood circulation.
Synonyms: ischaemic; ischæmic
depreciation (noun): The measurement of the decline in value of assets. Not to be confused with impairment, which is the measurement of the unplanned, extraordinary decline in value of assets.
haro (intj): A call for help, a demand for protection against harm, or for assistance to arrest an adversary.
womanhood (noun): The state or condition of being a woman.
Synonyms: womonhood; wommonhood; womanhead; womynhood
womanhood (noun): All of the women of a given place, area, or subgroup regarded collectively.
Synonyms: womonhood; wommonhood; womanhead; womynhood
womanhood (noun): The idealized nature of a woman: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness regarded collectively.
Synonyms: womonhood; wommonhood; womanhead; womynhood
laver (noun): A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable.
laver (noun): Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially: Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially
laver (noun): Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially: Porphyra vulgaris
laver (noun): One who laves: a washer.
Synonyms: washbasin
laver (noun): Where one laves, a washroom, particularly a lavatorium, the washing area in a monastery.
Synonyms: washbasin
laver (noun): That which laves, particularly a washbasin.
Synonyms: washbasin
durbar (noun): A ceremonial gathering held by a ruler in India.
Synonyms: darbar
durbar (noun): The body of officials at a royal or princely court in India.
Synonyms: darbar
sagebrush (noun): Any of several North American aromatic shrubs of the genus Artemisia, having silvery-grey, green leaves.
Synonyms: sage brush
arbiter (noun): A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.
arbiter (noun): A person or object having the power of judging, determining, or ordaining; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.
bushfire (noun): An uncontrolled fire in a wooded or grassy area; a wildfire.
Synonyms: wildfire; bush fire; forest fire
deviant (noun): A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
Synonyms: irregularity; abnormality; heteroclite; nonconformist; maverick
deviant (noun): A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.
Synonyms: irregularity; abnormality; heteroclite; nonconformist; maverick
deviant (noun): A member of the online art community DeviantArt.
Synonyms: irregularity; abnormality; heteroclite; nonconformist; maverick
Example: Alternative form: Deviant
mnemonic (adj): Especially of a series of ideas, letters, words, etc.: intended to help in remembering.
Synonyms: mnemonick
mnemonic (adj): Of or relating to mnemonics (“the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily”).
Synonyms: mnemonick
mnemonic (noun): Something (especially a series of ideas, letters, words, etc.) used to help in remembering a thing; a memory aid.
mnemonic (noun): The human-readable, textual form of an assembly language instruction, not including operands.
mnemonic (noun): Synonym of mnemonics (“the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily”)
professorial (adj): Of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or of a professorship or professorships.
disillusionment (noun): A feeling of disappointment, akin to depression, arising from the realization that something is not what it was expected or believed to be, possibly accompanied by philosophical angst from having one's beliefs challenged.
disillusionment (noun): The act of freeing from an illusion; the state of being freed therefrom.
reforestation (noun): The act or process of replanting a forest, especially after clear-cutting.
Synonyms: afforestation
Antonyms: deforestation
mayday (noun): An international distress signal used by shipping and aircraft.
Synonyms: Mayday
niu (noun): A tall pole with yardarms from which hung ropes, circled by worshippers in the Pai Mārire religious movement.
collaboratively (adv): In a collaborative manner.
Synonyms: jointly; collectively; together
antidepressant (noun): An agent that prevents or counteracts depression.
Synonyms: antidepressant
Antonyms: depressogenic
Hypernyms: pharmaceutical
nepotism (noun): The favoring of relatives (most strictly) or also personal friends (more broadly) because of their relationship rather than because of their abilities.
Antonyms: meritocracy
croquet (noun): A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets).
croquet (noun): A shot in this game in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
croquet (verb): To play a shot in the game of croquet in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
conspicuously (adv): In a conspicuous manner; noticeably.
Antonyms: inconspicuously
scapegoat (noun): In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
Synonyms: folk devil; escapegoat; Joe Soap; whipping boy; scapegoat
Hypernyms: outcast
scapegoat (noun): Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.
Synonyms: folk devil; escapegoat; Joe Soap; whipping boy; scapegoat
Hypernyms: outcast
scapegoat (verb): To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.
swordsman (noun): A person skilled at using swords in sport or combat; a fencer.
Synonyms: swordsperson; swordfighter; womanizer; swordman; swordster
Example: He is a remarkable swordsman.
swordsman (noun): A person who fights with a sword.
Synonyms: swordsperson; swordfighter; womanizer; swordman; swordster
swordsman (noun): A man who is a skillful or enthusiastic practitioner of sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: swordsperson; swordfighter; womanizer; swordman; swordster
geyser (noun): A boiling natural spring which throws forth jets of water, mud, etc., at frequent intervals, driven upwards by the expansive power of steam.
geyser (noun): A momentary vertical jet or fountain of fluid driven upwards by a violent force.
geyser (verb): To (cause to) rush or burst upward like water from a geyser.
oily (adj): Excessively friendly or polite but insincere.
Synonyms: oyly
oily (noun): A marble with an oily lustre.
Synonyms: oyly
oily (noun): Oilskins. (waterproof garment)
Synonyms: oyly
starve (verb): To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.
culminate (verb): Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.
culminate (verb): To reach the (physical or figurative) summit, highest point, peak etc.
culminate (verb): To reach a climax; to come to a decisive point, especially an end or conclusion.
staphylococcus (noun): A spherical gram-positive parasitic bacterium of the genus Staphylococcus, causing blisters, septicemia, and other infections.
loo (intj): A cry to urge on hunting dogs.
Synonyms: lo; loo; lowe
loo (verb): To urge on with cries of loo or (figuratively) by other shouting or outcry.
loo (noun): Alternative form of lanterloo: the card game.
Synonyms: lue; liew; lu
loo (noun): The penalty paid to the pool in lanterloo for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick.
Synonyms: lue; liew; lu
loo (noun): An act that prompts such a penalty.
Synonyms: lue; liew; lu
loo (verb): To pay a penalty to the pool for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick in lanterloo.
loo (noun): A half-mask, particularly (historical) those velvet half-masks fashionable in the 17th century as a means of protecting women's complexion from the sun.
Example: Loo Mask. An half Mask.
cram (verb): To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
cram (verb): To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
Example: The boy crammed himself with cake
cram (verb): To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
Example: A pupil is crammed by his tutor.
cram (noun): A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
balmoral (noun): A Scottish cap with a flat top and a plume but no brim; a blue bonnet.
pellet (noun): A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
Example: a pellet of wood, paper, or ore
pellet (noun): Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
axillary (adj): Situated in, or rising from, an axil; relating to an axil.
reprieve (verb): To cancel or postpone the punishment of someone, especially an execution.
Synonyms: reprive; repryve
reprieve (verb): To bring relief to someone.
Synonyms: reprive; repryve
reprieve (verb): To take back to prison (in lieu of execution).
Synonyms: reprive; repryve
reprieve (noun): The cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
Synonyms: reprive; repryve
reprieve (noun): A document authorizing such an action.
Synonyms: reprive; repryve
reprieve (noun): Relief from pain etc., especially temporary.
Synonyms: reprive; repryve
cichlid (noun): Any of many tropical fish, of the family Cichlidae, popular as aquarium fish.
schematic (adj): Represented too simply or in an overly formulaic way, reflecting a shallow or incomplete understanding of complex subject matter.
schematic (noun): A simplified line drawing used by scientists, engineers, technologists and others to illustrate a system at an abstract level. Schematic drawings often use standard symbols for clarity.
Synonyms: diagram
sherpa (noun): A local mountain guide or porter, particularly a male of the Nepalese Sherpa people so employed.
sherpa (noun): A synthetic fabric with a long, thick pile, similar to faux fur, imitation lamb wool, or fleece.
placental (adj): Pertaining to the Placentalia, comprising those mammals not marsupials or monotremes.
verity (noun): Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth; veracity.
salmonella (noun): Any of the serotypes of the two species of rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, especially Salmonella enterica, that cause typhoid fever and salmonellosis, manifest as food poisoning and other diseases.
tuft (noun): A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
tuft (noun): A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
tuft (verb): To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. This hinders the stuffing from moving.
phosphatase (noun): Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze phosphate esters, and are important in the metabolism of carbohydrates, nucleotides and phospholipids, and in the formation of bone.
interrogate (verb): to query; to request information from.
Example: to interrogate a database
moonshine (noun): High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.
Example: They watered down the moonshine.
moonshine (verb): To make homemade (especially, illicit) alcohol, especially distilled spirits.
conurbation (noun): A continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl.
primeval (adj): Belonging to the first ages.
Synonyms: primaeval; primæval
primeval (adj): Primary; original.
Synonyms: primaeval; primæval
creationism (noun): The Abrahamic doctrine that each individual human soul is created by God, as opposed to traducianism.
creationism (noun): Any creationary belief, especially a belief that the origin of things is due to an event or process of creation brought about by the deliberate act of any divine agency, such as a Creator God.