Words that rhyme with affliction

• addiction 0
  n 1: being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) [syn: addiction, dependence, dependance, dependency, habituation] 2: an abnormally strong craving 3: (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master; "under Roman law addiction was the justification for slavery"
• an 0
  n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in Nursing, AN]
• ascription 0
  n 1: assigning some quality or character to a person or thing; "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription to me of honors I had not earned" [syn: attribution, ascription] 2: assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso" [syn: attribution, ascription]
• attention 0
  n 1: the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others [syn: attention, attending] [ant: inattention] 2: the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something; "no medical care was required"; "the old car needs constant attention" [syn: care, attention, aid, tending] 3: a general interest that leads people to want to know more; "She was the center of attention" 4: a courteous act indicating affection; "she tried to win his heart with her many attentions" 5: the faculty or power of mental concentration; "keeping track of all the details requires your complete attention" 6: a motionless erect stance with arms at the sides and feet together; assumed by military personnel during drill or review; "the troops stood at attention"
• benediction 0
  n 1: the act of praying for divine protection [syn: blessing, benediction] 2: a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection [syn: benediction, blessing]
• circumscription 0
  n 1: the act of circumscribing
• commission 0
  n 1: a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle [syn: committee, commission] 2: a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary); "he works on commission" 3: the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions [syn: commission, commissioning] 4: the state of being in good working order and ready for operation; "put the ships into commission"; "the motor was out of commission" 5: a group of representatives or delegates [syn: deputation, commission, delegation, delegacy, mission] 6: a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury" [syn: commission, charge, direction] 7: an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces [syn: commission, military commission] 8: the act of committing a crime [syn: perpetration, commission, committal] 9: a special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message" [syn: mission, charge, commission] v 1: put into commission; equip for service; of ships 2: place an order for 3: charge with a task
• conniption 0
  n 1: a display of bad temper; "he had a fit"; "she threw a tantrum"; "he made a scene" [syn: fit, tantrum, scene, conniption]
• conscription 0
  n 1: compulsory military service [syn: conscription, muster, draft, selective service]
• constriction 0
  n 1: a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel [syn: constriction, bottleneck, chokepoint] 2: tight or narrow compression [syn: constriction, coarctation] 3: a tight feeling in some part of the body; "he felt a constriction in her chest"; "she felt an alarming tightness in her chest"; "emotion caused a constriction of his throat" [syn: constriction, tightness] 4: the action or process of compressing
• contradiction 0
  n 1: opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas 2: (logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction" [syn: contradiction, contradiction in terms] 3: the speech act of contradicting someone; "he spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction"
• conviction 0
  n 1: an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence [syn: conviction, strong belief, article of faith] 2: (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise" [syn: conviction, judgment of conviction, condemnation, sentence] [ant: acquittal]
• crucifixion 0
  n 1: the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross 2: the death of Jesus by crucifixion 3: the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering [syn: crucifixion, excruciation]
• depiction 0
  n 1: a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters" [syn: word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, picture, characterization, characterisation] 2: a representation by picture or portraiture [syn: depicting, depiction, portraying, portrayal] 3: a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects [syn: delineation, depiction, limning, line drawing] 4: representation by drawing or painting etc [syn: depiction, delineation, portrayal]
• dereliction 0
  n 1: a tendency to be negligent and uncaring; "he inherited his delinquency from his father"; "his derelictions were not really intended as crimes"; "his adolescent protest consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities" [syn: delinquency, dereliction, willful neglect] 2: willful negligence
• description 0
  n 1: a statement that represents something in words [syn: description, verbal description] 2: the act of describing something 3: sort or variety; "every description of book was there"
• destruction 0
  n 1: the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists [syn: destruction, devastation] 2: an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something [syn: destruction, demolition, wipeout] 3: a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end" [syn: end, destruction, death]
• diction 0
  n 1: the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience [syn: enunciation, diction] 2: the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton [syn: wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words, verbiage]
• distortion 0
  n 1: a change for the worse [syn: distortion, deformation] 2: a shape resulting from distortion [syn: distorted shape, distortion] 3: an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image [syn: aberration, distortion, optical aberration] 4: a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal); "heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extreme distortion" 5: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean [syn: distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting] 6: the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
• eviction 0
  n 1: action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved [syn: eviction, constructive eviction] 2: the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law [syn: eviction, dispossession, legal ouster]
• fiction 0
  n 1: a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact 2: a deliberately false or improbable account [syn: fabrication, fiction, fable]
• friction 0
  n 1: a state of conflict between persons [syn: clash, friction] 2: the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another [syn: friction, rubbing] 3: effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure [syn: friction, detrition, rubbing]
• infliction 0
  n 1: the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo) [syn: imposition, infliction] 2: an act causing pain or damage 3: something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction" [syn: annoyance, bother, botheration, pain, infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the ass]
• interdiction 0
  n 1: authoritative prohibition 2: a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity [syn: interdict, interdiction]
• jurisdiction 0
  n 1: (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law; "courts having jurisdiction in this district" [syn: legal power, jurisdiction] 2: in law; the territory within which power can be exercised
• malediction 0
  n 1: the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult); "he suffered the imprecations of the mob" [syn: imprecation, malediction]
• mission 0
  n 1: an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work [syn: mission, missionary post, missionary station, foreign mission] 2: an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters; "the planes were on a bombing mission" [syn: mission, military mission] 3: a special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message" [syn: mission, charge, commission] 4: the organized work of a religious missionary [syn: mission, missionary work] 5: a group of representatives or delegates [syn: deputation, commission, delegation, delegacy, mission]
• position 0
  n 1: the particular portion of space occupied by something; "he put the lamp back in its place" [syn: position, place] 2: a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons [syn: military position, position] 3: a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view" [syn: position, view, perspective] 4: the arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender" [syn: position, posture, attitude] 5: the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life" [syn: status, position] 6: a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation] 7: the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated; "the position of the hands on the clock"; "he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage" [syn: position, spatial relation] 8: the appropriate or customary location; "the cars were in position" 9: (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player; "what position does he play?" 10: the act of putting something in a certain place [syn: placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement] 11: a condition or position in which you find yourself; "the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils"; "found herself in a very fortunate situation" [syn: situation, position] 12: a rationalized mental attitude [syn: position, stance, posture] 13: an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute; "there are two sides to every question" [syn: side, position] 14: an item on a list or in a sequence; "in the second place"; "moved from third to fifth position" [syn: place, position] 15: the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of" [syn: stead, position, place, lieu] 16: the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom v 1: cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation 2: put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" [syn: put, set, place, pose, position, lay]
• prediction 0
  n 1: the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) [syn: prediction, anticipation, prevision] 2: a statement made about the future [syn: prediction, foretelling, forecasting, prognostication]
• restriction 0
  n 1: a principle that limits the extent of something; "I am willing to accept certain restrictions on my movements" [syn: restriction, limitation] 2: an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) [syn: limitation, restriction] 3: the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary); "the restriction of the infection to a focal area" [syn: restriction, confinement]
• valediction 0
  n 1: a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) [syn: valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration, valedictory] 2: the act of saying farewell
• nonfiction 0
  n 1: prose writing that is not fictional [syn: nonfiction, nonfictional prose]
• indiction 0
  n 1: a 15-year cycle used as a chronological unit in ancient Rome and adopted in some medieval kingdoms
• confliction 0
• transfixion 0
• prefixion 0

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