Words that rhyme with extenuation

• menstruation 2
  n 1: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped" --Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle [syn: menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow]
• abbreviation 0
  n 1: a shortened form of a word or phrase 2: shortening something by omitting parts of it
• accentuation 0
  n 1: the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance 2: the act of giving special importance or significance to something [syn: emphasizing, accenting, accentuation]
• actuation 0
  n 1: the act of propelling [syn: propulsion, actuation]
• affiliation 0
  n 1: a social or business relationship; "a valuable financial affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team"; "many close associations with England" [syn: affiliation, association, tie, tie- up] 2: the act of becoming formally connected or joined; "welcomed the affiliation of the research center with the university"
• alleviation 0
  n 1: the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced; "as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief" [syn: relief, alleviation, assuagement] 2: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance); "he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain" [syn: easing, easement, alleviation, relief]
• annunciation 0
  n 1: a festival commemorating the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland [syn: Annunciation, Lady Day, Annunciation Day, March 25] 2: (Christianity) the announcement to the Virgin Mary by the angel Gabriel of the incarnation of Christ 3: a formal public statement; "the government made an announcement about changes in the drug war"; "a declaration of independence" [syn: announcement, proclamation, annunciation, declaration]
• appreciation 0
  n 1: understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something; "he has a good grasp of accounting practices" [syn: appreciation, grasp, hold] 2: delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste" [syn: taste, appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness] 3: an expression of gratitude; "he expressed his appreciation in a short note" 4: a favorable judgment; "a small token in admiration of your works" [syn: admiration, appreciation] 5: an increase in price or value; "an appreciation of 30% in the value of real estate" [ant: depreciation]
• appropriation 0
  n 1: money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose 2: incorporation by joining or uniting [syn: annexation, appropriation] 3: a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner; "the necessary funds were obtained by the government's appropriation of the company's operating unit"; "a person's appropriation of property belonging to another is dishonest"
• asphyxiation 0
  n 1: the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); "asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture" [syn: suffocation, asphyxiation] 2: killing by depriving of oxygen [syn: suffocation, asphyxiation]
• association 0
  n 1: a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he joined the Modern Language Association" 2: the act of consorting with or joining with others; "you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association" 3: the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination; "his association of his father with being beaten was too strong to break" [ant: disassociation] 4: the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by association" [syn: association, connection, connexion] 5: a social or business relationship; "a valuable financial affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team"; "many close associations with England" [syn: affiliation, association, tie, tie-up] 6: a relation resulting from interaction or dependence; "flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear"; "the host is not always injured by association with a parasite" 7: (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding 8: (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species
• attenuation 0
  n 1: weakening in force or intensity; "attenuation in the volume of the sound" [syn: attenuation, fading] 2: the property of something that has been weakened or reduced in thickness or density
• aviation 0
  n 1: the aggregation of a country's military aircraft [syn: aviation, air power] 2: the operation of aircraft to provide transportation 3: the art of operating aircraft [syn: aviation, airmanship] 4: travel via aircraft; "air travel involves too much waiting in airports"; "if you've time to spare go by air" [syn: air travel, aviation, air]
• calumniation 0
  n 1: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions [syn: defamation, calumny, calumniation, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job]
• conciliation 0
  n 1: the state of manifesting goodwill and cooperation after being reconciled; "there was a brief period of conciliation but the fighting soon resumed" 2: any of various forms of mediation whereby disputes may be settled short of arbitration 3: the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity [syn: placation, conciliation, propitiation]
• consubstantiation 0
  n 1: the doctrine of the High Anglican Church that after the consecration of the Eucharist the substance of the body and blood of Christ coexists with the substance of the consecrated bread and wine
• continuation 0
  n 1: the act of continuing an activity without interruption [syn: continuance, continuation] [ant: discontinuance, discontinuation] 2: a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it [syn: sequel, continuation] 3: a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction [syn: good continuation, continuation, law of continuation] 4: the consequence of being lengthened in duration [syn: lengthiness, prolongation, continuation, protraction]
• creation 0
  n 1: the human act of creating [syn: creation, creative activity] 2: an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone 3: the event that occurred at the beginning of something; "from its creation the plan was doomed to failure" [syn: creation, conception] 4: the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society" [syn: initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration] 5: (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence 6: everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence" [syn: universe, existence, creation, world, cosmos, macrocosm]
• defoliation 0
  n 1: the loss of foliage 2: causing the leaves of trees and other plants to fall off (as by the use of chemicals)
• delineation 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 drawing of the outlines of forms or objects [syn: delineation, depiction, limning, line drawing] 3: representation by drawing or painting etc [syn: depiction, delineation, portrayal]
• denunciation 0
  n 1: a public act of denouncing [syn: denunciation, denouncement]
• depreciation 0
  n 1: a decrease in price or value; "depreciation of the dollar against the yen" [ant: appreciation] 2: decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use [syn: depreciation, wear and tear] 3: a communication that belittles somebody or something [syn: disparagement, depreciation, derogation]
• despoliation 0
  n 1: the act of stripping and taking by force [syn: spoil, spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation]
• detonation 0
  n 1: a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction [syn: explosion, detonation, blowup] 2: the act of detonating an explosive
• devaluation 0
  n 1: an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries 2: the reduction of something's value or worth
• deviation 0
  n 1: a variation that deviates from the standard or norm; "the deviation from the mean" [syn: deviation, divergence, departure, difference] 2: the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function 3: the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances 4: deviate behavior [syn: deviation, deviance] 5: a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from his goal" [syn: diversion, deviation, digression, deflection, deflexion, divagation]
• differentiation 0
  n 1: a discrimination between things as different and distinct; "it is necessary to make a distinction between love and infatuation" [syn: differentiation, distinction] 2: the mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function 3: (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function; "cell differentiation in the developing embryo" [syn: specialization, specialisation, differentiation]
• disambiguation 0
  n 1: clarification that follows from the removal of ambiguity
• disassociation 0
  n 1: the state of being unconnected in memory or imagination; "I could not think of him in disassociation from his wife" [ant: association] 2: a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently [syn: dissociation, disassociation]
• discontinuation 0
  n 1: the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) [syn: discontinuance, discontinuation] [ant: continuance, continuation]
• dissociation 0
  n 1: the act of removing from association 2: a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently [syn: dissociation, disassociation] 3: (chemistry) the temporary or reversible process in which a molecule or ion is broken down into smaller molecules or ions
• effectuation 0
  n 1: the act of implementing (providing a practical means for accomplishing something); carrying into effect [syn: implementation, effectuation]
• emaciation 0
  n 1: extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) [syn: bonyness, boniness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration]
• enunciation 0
  n 1: the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience [syn: enunciation, diction]
• evacuation 0
  n 1: the act of removing the contents of something [syn: emptying, voidance, evacuation] 2: the act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection 3: the bodily process of discharging waste matter [syn: elimination, evacuation, excretion, excreting, voiding]
• evaluation 0
  n 1: act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of [syn: evaluation, rating] 2: an appraisal of the value of something; "he set a high valuation on friendship" [syn: evaluation, valuation, rating]
• excoriation 0
  n 1: an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off [syn: abrasion, scratch, scrape, excoriation] 2: severe censure
• excruciation 0
  n 1: a state of acute pain [syn: agony, suffering, excruciation] 2: the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering [syn: crucifixion, excruciation]
• exfoliation 0
  n 1: the peeling off in flakes or scales of bark or dead skin; "exfoliation is increased by sunburn" 2: a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin [syn: scale, scurf, exfoliation]
• expatiation 0
  n 1: a discussion (spoken or written) that enlarges on a topic or theme at length or in detail
• expatriation 0
  n 1: the act of expelling a person from their native land; "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life" [syn: exile, deportation, expatriation, transportation] 2: migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another) [syn: emigration, out-migration, expatriation]
• expiation 0
  n 1: compensation for a wrong; "we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store" [syn: atonement, expiation, satisfaction] 2: the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity) [syn: expiation, atonement, propitiation]
• expropriation 0
  n 1: taking out of an owner's hands (especially taking property by public authority)
• fluctuation 0
  n 1: a wave motion; "the fluctuations of the sea" 2: an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change [syn: variation, fluctuation] 3: the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes; "he kept a record of price fluctuations" [syn: fluctuation, wavering]
• foliation 0
  n 1: (botany) the process of forming leaves [syn: foliation, leafing] 2: (geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock 3: (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament [syn: foliation, foliage] 4: the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves 5: the work of coating glass with metal foil
• graduation 0
  n 1: the successful completion of a program of study 2: an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred [syn: commencement, commencement exercise, commencement ceremony, graduation, graduation exercise] 3: a line (as on a vessel or ruler) that marks a measurement; "the ruler had 16 graduations per inch" 4: the act of arranging in grades [syn: gradation, graduation]
• habituation 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: a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions
• humiliation 0
  n 1: state of disgrace or loss of self-respect 2: strong feelings of embarrassment [syn: chagrin, humiliation, mortification] 3: an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect; "he had to undergo one humiliation after another" [syn: humiliation, mortification] 4: depriving one of self-esteem [syn: humiliation, abasement]
• ideation 0
  n 1: the process of forming and relating ideas
• impersonation 0
  n 1: a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect [syn: caricature, imitation, impersonation] 2: pretending to be another person [syn: imposture, impersonation] 3: imitating the mannerisms of another person [syn: impersonation, personation]
• individuation 0
  n 1: discriminating the individual from the generic group or species [syn: individualization, individualisation, individuation] 2: the quality of being individual; "so absorbed by the movement that she lost all sense of individuality" [syn: individuality, individualism, individuation] [ant: commonality, commonness]
• inebriation 0
  n 1: habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms [syn: alcoholism, alcohol addiction, inebriation, drunkenness] 2: a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol [syn: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness, insobriety] [ant: soberness, sobriety]
• infatuation 0
  n 1: a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration 2: temporary love of an adolescent [syn: puppy love, calf love, crush, infatuation] 3: an object of extravagant short-lived passion
• infuriation 0
  n 1: a feeling of intense anger [syn: infuriation, enragement]
• ingratiation 0
  n 1: the act of gaining acceptance or affection for yourself by persuasive and subtle blandishments; "she refused to use insinuation in order to gain favor" [syn: ingratiation, insinuation]
• initiation 0
  n 1: a formal entry into an organization or position or office; "his initiation into the club"; "he was ordered to report for induction into the army"; "he gave a speech as part of his installation into the hall of fame" [syn: initiation, induction, installation] 2: the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society" [syn: initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration] 3: wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge; "his knowledgeability impressed me"; "his dullness was due to lack of initiation" [syn: knowledgeability, knowledgeableness, initiation] 4: an act that sets in motion some course of events [syn: trigger, induction, initiation]
• insinuation 0
  n 1: an indirect (and usually malicious) implication [syn: insinuation, innuendo] 2: the act of gaining acceptance or affection for yourself by persuasive and subtle blandishments; "she refused to use insinuation in order to gain favor" [syn: ingratiation, insinuation]
• instantiation 0
  n 1: a representation of an idea in the form of an instance of it; "how many instantiations were found?"
• intermediation 0
  n 1: the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement [syn: mediation, intermediation]
• irradiation 0
  n 1: the condition of being exposed to radiation 2: a column of light (as from a beacon) [syn: beam, beam of light, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, irradiation] 3: (physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex 4: the apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark background 5: (Pavolvian conditioning) the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus 6: (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance [syn: radiotherapy, radiation therapy, radiation, actinotherapy, irradiation]
• lineation 0
  n 1: the line that appears to bound an object [syn: outline, lineation] 2: the act of marking or outlining with lines
• mediation 0
  n 1: a negotiation to resolve differences that is conducted by some impartial party 2: the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement [syn: mediation, intermediation]
• misappropriation 0
  n 1: the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else [syn: embezzlement, peculation, defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation] 2: wrongful borrowing; "his explanation was a misappropriation of sociological theory"
• mispronunciation 0
  n 1: incorrect pronunciation
• mutilation 0
  n 1: an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part
• nation 0
  n 1: a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" [syn: state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic] 2: the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him" [syn: nation, land, country] 3: United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911) [syn: Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation] 4: a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes); "the Shawnee nation"
• negotiation 0
  n 1: a discussion intended to produce an agreement; "the buyout negotiation lasted several days"; "they disagreed but kept an open dialogue"; "talks between Israelis and Palestinians" [syn: negotiation, dialogue, talks] 2: the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms
• obviation 0
  n 1: the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively [syn: obviation, forestalling, preclusion]
• palliation 0
  n 1: easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause 2: to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious [syn: extenuation, mitigation, palliation]
• permeation 0
  n 1: the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance [syn: permeation, pervasion, suffusion] 2: mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other [syn: interpenetration, permeation]
• perpetuation 0
  n 1: the act of prolonging something; "there was an indefinite prolongation of the peace talks" [syn: prolongation, protraction, perpetuation, lengthening]
• procreation 0
  n 1: the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring [syn: reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life]
• pronunciation 0
  n 1: the manner in which someone utters a word; "they are always correcting my pronunciation" 2: the way a word or a language is customarily spoken; "the pronunciation of Chinese is difficult for foreigners"; "that is the correct pronunciation" [syn: pronunciation, orthoepy]
• propitiation 0
  n 1: the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity [syn: placation, conciliation, propitiation] 2: the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity) [syn: expiation, atonement, propitiation]
• punctuation 0
  n 1: something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions 2: the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases [syn: punctuation, punctuation mark] 3: the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases
• radiation 0
  n 1: energy that is radiated or transmitted in the form of rays or waves or particles 2: the act of spreading outward from a central source 3: syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions); low doses cause diarrhea and nausea and vomiting and sometimes loss of hair; greater exposure can cause sterility and cataracts and some forms of cancer and other diseases; severe exposure can cause death within hours; "he was suffering from radiation" [syn: radiation sickness, radiation syndrome, radiation] 4: the spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay [syn: radiation, radioactivity] 5: the spread of a group of organisms into new habitats 6: a radial arrangement of nerve fibers connecting different parts of the brain 7: (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance [syn: radiotherapy, radiation therapy, radiation, actinotherapy, irradiation]
• ration 0
  n 1: the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel); "the rations should be nutritionally balanced" 2: a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity) v 1: restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war; "Bread was rationed during the siege of the city" 2: distribute in rations, as in the army; "Cigarettes are rationed" [syn: ration, ration out]
• reconciliation 0
  n 1: the reestablishing of cordial relations [syn: reconciliation, rapprochement] 2: getting two things to correspond; "the reconciliation of his checkbook and the bank statement" [syn: reconciliation, balancing]
• recreation 0
  n 1: an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates; "scuba diving is provided as a diversion for tourists"; "for recreation he wrote poetry and solved crossword puzzles"; "drug abuse is often regarded as a form of recreation" [syn: diversion, recreation] 2: activity that refreshes and recreates; activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation; "time for rest and refreshment by the pool"; "days of joyous recreation with his friends" [syn: refreshment, recreation]
• renunciation 0
  n 1: rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid; "Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated" [syn: repudiation, renunciation] 2: the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) [syn: apostasy, renunciation, defection] 3: an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned [syn: renunciation, renouncement] 4: the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) [syn: renunciation, forgoing, forswearing]
• repatriation 0
  n 1: the act of returning to the country of origin
• repudiation 0
  n 1: rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid; "Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated" [syn: repudiation, renunciation] 2: refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities); "the repudiation of the debt by the city" 3: the exposure of falseness or pretensions; "the debunking of religion has been too successful" [syn: repudiation, debunking]
• retaliation 0
  n 1: action taken in return for an injury or offense [syn: retaliation, revenge]
• revaluation 0
  n 1: a new appraisal or evaluation [syn: reappraisal, revaluation, review, reassessment]
• satiation 0
  n 1: the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more [syn: repletion, satiety, satiation] 2: the act of achieving full gratification
• situation 0
  n 1: the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time; "the present international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"- Franklin D.Roosevelt [syn: situation, state of affairs] 2: 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] 3: a complex or critical or unusual difficulty; "the dangerous situation developed suddenly"; "that's quite a situation"; "no human situation is simple" 4: physical position in relation to the surroundings; "the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides" [syn: site, situation] 5: a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation]
• speciation 0
  n 1: the evolution of a biological species
• spoliation 0
  n 1: (law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence 2: the act of stripping and taking by force [syn: spoil, spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation]
• station 0
  n 1: a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose; "he started looking for a gas station"; "the train pulled into the station" 2: proper or designated social situation; "he overstepped his place"; "the responsibilities of a man in his station"; "married above her station" [syn: place, station] 3: (nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty 4: the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand; "a soldier manned the entrance post"; "a sentry station" [syn: post, station] 5: the frequency assigned to a broadcasting station v 1: assign to a station [syn: station, post, send, place]
• striation 0
  n 1: any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue [syn: stria, striation] 2: a stripe or stripes of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands"; "the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps" [syn: band, banding, stria, striation]
• substantiation 0
  n 1: additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct; "fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory" [syn: confirmation, verification, check, substantiation] 2: the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something [syn: validation, proof, substantiation]
• transubstantiation 0
  n 1: the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist 2: an act that changes the form or character or substance of something [syn: transmutation, transubstantiation]
• valuation 0
  n 1: an appraisal of the value of something; "he set a high valuation on friendship" [syn: evaluation, valuation, rating] 2: assessed price; "the valuation of this property is much too high"
• variation 0
  n 1: an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change [syn: variation, fluctuation] 2: an activity that varies from a norm or standard; "any variation in his routine was immediately reported" [syn: variation, variance] 3: a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished 4: something a little different from others of the same type; "an experimental version of the night fighter"; "a variant of the same word"; "an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone"; "the boy is a younger edition of his father" [syn: version, variant, variation, edition] 5: an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard; "he patented a variation on the sandal" 6: the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north [syn: magnetic declination, magnetic variation, variation] 7: the process of varying or being varied 8: (astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon) 9: (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration [syn: mutant, mutation, variation, sport] 10: (ballet) a solo dance or dance figure [syn: pas seul, variation] 11: the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard; "who is responsible for these variations in taxation?"
• vitiation 0
  n 1: nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null; "the vitiation of the contract"
• haitian 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the republic of Haiti or its people; "Haitian shantytowns" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Haiti
• thracian 0
  adj 1: of or relating to Thrace or its people or culture n 1: an inhabitant of ancient Thrace 2: a Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient people of Thrace but extinct by the early Middle Ages
• croatian 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Croatia or its people or language; "Croatian villages" n 1: a member of the Slavic people living in Croatia [syn: Croatian, Croat]
• cantillation 0
  n 1: liturgical chanting
• brachiation 0
  n 1: swinging by the arms from branch to branch

See also extenuation definition and extenuation synonyms