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ab
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n 1: a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Bachelor of
Arts, BA, Artium Baccalaurens, AB]
2: the eleventh month of the civil year; the fifth month of the
ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in July and
August) [syn: Ab, Av]
3: the muscles of the abdomen [syn: abdominal, abdominal
muscle, ab]
4: the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B
antigens [syn: AB, type AB, group AB]
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absorbency
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n 1: the property of being absorbent [ant: nonabsorbency]
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accountancy
0
n 1: the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and
preparing financial reports for a business [syn:
accountancy, accounting]
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adoptee
0
n 1: someone (such as a child) who has been adopted
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advertency
0
n 1: the process of being heedful [syn: advertence,
advertency]
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agree
0
v 1: be in accord; be in agreement; "We agreed on the terms of
the settlement"; "I can't agree with you!"; "I hold with
those who say life is sacred"; "Both philosophers concord
on this point" [syn: agree, hold, concur, concord]
[ant: differ, disagree, dissent, take issue]
2: consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something;
"She agreed to all my conditions"; "He agreed to leave her
alone"
3: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their
characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many
details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the
check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the
gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check, jibe,
gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disaccord, disagree,
discord]
4: go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas
concorded" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, consort,
accord, concord, fit in, agree]
5: show grammatical agreement; "Subjects and verbs must always
agree in English"
6: be agreeable or suitable; "White wine doesn't agree with me"
7: achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose; "No two of
my colleagues would agree on whom to elect chairman"
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appetency
0
n 1: a feeling of craving something; "an appetite for life";
"the object of life is to satisfy as many appetencies as
possible"- Granville Hicks [syn: appetite, appetency,
appetence]
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appointee
0
n 1: an official who is appointed
2: a person who is appointed to a job or position [syn:
appointee, appointment]
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ascendancy
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n 1: the state that exists when one person or group has power
over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was
really her attempt to make him pay attention to her" [syn:
dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy,
ascendency, control]
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banshee
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n 1: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of
impending death [syn: banshee, banshie]
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be
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n 1: a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
[syn: beryllium, Be, glucinium, atomic number 4]
v 1: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective
or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good
answer"
2: be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of
the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"
3: occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my
umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind
this behavior?"
4: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn:
exist, be]
5: happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during
the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred
people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the
kitchen"
6: be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000
rubles these days!" [syn: equal, be] [ant: differ]
7: form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone
wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute
my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus";
"This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few
men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute,
represent, make up, comprise, be]
8: work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a
specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our
resident philosopher" [syn: be, follow]
9: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was
Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify]
10: spend or use time; "I may be an hour"
11: have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My
grandfather lived until the end of war" [syn: be, live]
12: to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used
only in infinitive form; "let her be"
13: be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" [syn: cost, be]
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bee
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n 1: any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and
solitary species
2: a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold
competitions
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blatancy
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n 1: the property of being both obvious and offensive; "the
blatancy of his attempt to whitewash the crime was
unforgivable"
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brie
0
n 1: soft creamy white cheese; milder than Camembert
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captaincy
0
n 1: the post of captain [syn: captainship, captaincy]
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cc
0
adj 1: being ten more than one hundred ninety [syn: two
hundred, 200, cc]
n 1: a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter
[syn: milliliter, millilitre, mil, ml, cubic
centimeter, cubic centimetre, cc]
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chieftaincy
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n 1: the position of chieftain [syn: chieftaincy,
chieftainship]
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cod
0
adv 1: collecting the charges upon delivery; "mail a package
C.O.D." [syn: C.O.D., COD, cash on delivery]
adj 1: payable by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call";
"the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel" [syn:
collect, cod]
n 1: the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the
seeds themselves) [syn: pod, cod, seedcase]
2: lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish;
usually baked or poached [syn: cod, codfish]
3: major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters [syn:
cod, codfish]
v 1: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted
everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe,
slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put
one over, put one across]
2: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children
teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my
failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a
jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod,
tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally,
ride]
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competency
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n 1: the quality of being adequately or well qualified
physically and intellectually [syn: competence,
competency] [ant: incompetence, incompetency]
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conferee
0
n 1: a person on whom something is bestowed; "six honorary were
conferred; the conferees were..."
2: a member of a conference
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consistency
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n 1: the property of holding together and retaining its shape;
"wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough
consistency it is ready to bake" [syn: consistency,
consistence, eubstance, body]
2: a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts
[syn: consistency, consistence] [ant: inconsistency]
3: logical coherence and accordance with the facts; "a rambling
argument that lacked any consistency"
4: (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so
constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the
axioms contradict one another
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constancy
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n 1: the quality of being enduring and free from change or
variation; "early mariners relied on the constancy of the
trade winds" [syn: constancy, stability] [ant:
changefulness, inconstancy]
2: (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise
to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide
variations in the conditions of observation [syn:
constancy, perceptual constancy]
3: faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments
(especially sexual fidelity)
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consultancy
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n 1: the practice of giving expert advice within a particular
field; "a business management consultancy"
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curie
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n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a
radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of
37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie,
Ci]
2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn:
Curie, Pierre Curie]
3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one
(with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on
radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and
polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame
Curie, Marya Sklodowska]
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debris
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n 1: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken
up [syn: debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus]
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decree
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n 1: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court
record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New
Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
[syn: decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript]
v 1: issue a decree; "The King only can decree"
2: decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn
males should be killed" [syn: rule, decree]
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degree
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n 1: a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; "a
moderate grade of intelligence"; "a high level of care is
required"; "it is all a matter of degree" [syn: degree,
grade, level]
2: a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or
especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness";
"at what stage are the social sciences?" [syn: degree,
level, stage, point]
3: an award conferred by a college or university signifying that
the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study;
"he earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude" [syn:
academic degree, degree]
4: a measure for arcs and angles; "there are 360 degrees in a
circle" [syn: degree, arcdegree]
5: the highest power of a term or variable
6: a unit of temperature on a specified scale; "the game was
played in spite of the 40-degree temperature"
7: the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); "murder
in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"
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dependency
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n 1: the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or
something else [syn: dependence, dependance,
dependency]
2: 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]
3: a geographical area politically controlled by a distant
country [syn: colony, dependency]
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despondency
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n 1: feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless [syn:
despondency, despondence, heartsickness,
disconsolateness]
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discrepancy
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n 1: a difference between conflicting facts or claims or
opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion" [syn:
discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance]
2: an event that departs from expectations [syn: discrepancy,
variance, variant]
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emcee
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n 1: a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an
introductory speech and introduces other speakers) [syn:
master of ceremonies, emcee, host]
v 1: act as a master of ceremonies [syn: emcee, compere]
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expectancy
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n 1: an expectation [syn: anticipation, expectancy]
2: something expected (as on the basis of a norm); "each of them
had their own anticipations"; "an indicator of expectancy in
development" [syn: anticipation, expectancy]
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extravagancy
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n 1: the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum
or probability or truth; "we were surprised by the
extravagance of his description" [syn: extravagance,
extravagancy]
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foresee
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v 1: realize beforehand [syn: anticipate, previse,
foreknow, foresee]
2: picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him
as President" [syn: envision, foresee]
3: act in advance of; deal with ahead of time [syn:
anticipate, foresee, forestall, counter]
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gutsy
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adj 1: marked by courage and determination in the face of
difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited; "you have
to admire her; it was a gutsy thing to do"; "the
gutsy...intensity of her musical involvement"-Judith
Crist; "a gutsy red wine" [syn: gutsy, plucky] [ant:
gutless]
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hesitancy
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n 1: a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing
something [syn: hesitance, hesitancy]
2: a certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit
himself"; "his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition";
"after some hesitation he agreed" [syn: reluctance,
hesitancy, hesitation, disinclination, indisposition]
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impotency
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n 1: the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and
feeble [syn: powerlessness, impotence, impotency]
[ant: power, powerfulness]
2: an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate [syn:
impotence, impotency] [ant: potence, potency]
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inadvertency
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n 1: the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities
[syn: unmindfulness, heedlessness, inadvertence,
inadvertency] [ant: heedfulness, mindfulness]
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inconsistency
0
n 1: the relation between propositions that cannot both be true
at the same time [syn: incompatibility, mutual
exclusiveness, inconsistency, repugnance]
2: the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious
uniformity among things or parts [ant: consistence,
consistency]
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inconstancy
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n 1: unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous
[syn: faithlessness, falseness, fickleness,
inconstancy]
2: the quality of being changeable and variable [syn:
inconstancy, changefulness] [ant: constancy,
stability]
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incumbency
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n 1: the term during which some position is held [syn: tenure,
term of office, incumbency]
2: a duty that is incumbent upon you
3: the office of an incumbent
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independency
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n 1: freedom from control or influence of another or others
[syn: independence, independency]
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inhabitancy
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n 1: the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place
(said of both animals and men); "he studied the creation
and inhabitation and demise of the colony" [syn:
inhabitancy, inhabitation, habitation]
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insistency
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n 1: the state of demanding notice or attention; "the insistence
of their hunger"; "the press of business matters" [syn:
imperativeness, insistence, insistency, press,
pressure]
2: the act of insisting on something; "insistence on grammatical
correctness is a conservative position" [syn: insistence,
insistency]
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interdependency
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n 1: a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities
(objects or individuals or groups) [syn: mutuality,
interdependence, interdependency]
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intermittency
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n 1: the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption
or periodic stopping [syn: intermittence,
intermittency]
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lambency
0
n 1: an appearance of reflected light [syn: gleam, gleaming,
glow, lambency]
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latency
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n 1: (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block
of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write
head [syn: rotational latency, latency]
2: the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to
it [syn: reaction time, response time, latency, latent
period]
3: the state of being not yet evident or active
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lessee
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n 1: a tenant who holds a lease [syn: leaseholder, lessee]
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licensee
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n 1: someone to whom a license is granted
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mendicancy
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n 1: the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were
reduced to mendicancy" [syn: beggary, mendicancy,
mendicity]
2: a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by
an apparently penniless person) [syn: beggary, begging,
mendicancy]
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militancy
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n 1: a militant aggressiveness [syn: combativeness,
militance, militancy]
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occupancy
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n 1: an act of being a tenant or occupant [syn: occupancy,
tenancy]
2: the act of occupying or taking possession of a building;
"occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy
is illegal" [syn: occupation, occupancy, moving in]
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persistency
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n 1: persistent determination [syn: doggedness,
perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenacity,
tenaciousness, pertinacity]
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piquancy
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n 1: a tart spicy quality [syn: nip, piquance, piquancy,
piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest]
2: the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally
exciting [syn: piquancy, piquance, piquantness]
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potency
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n 1: the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he
has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given
authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the
state" [syn: authority, authorization, authorisation,
potency, dominance, say-so]
2: capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects;
"the toxin's potency"; "the strength of the drinks" [syn:
potency, effectiveness, strength]
3: the inherent capacity for coming into being [syn:
potential, potentiality, potency]
4: the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual
intercourse [syn: potency, potence] [ant: impotence,
impotency]
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precipitancy
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n 1: the quality of happening with headlong haste or without
warning [syn: abruptness, precipitateness,
precipitousness, precipitance, precipitancy,
suddenness]
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presidency
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n 1: the tenure of a president; "things were quiet during the
Eisenhower administration" [syn: presidency,
presidential term, administration]
2: the office and function of president; "Andrew Jackson
expanded the power of the presidency beyond what was
customary before his time" [syn: presidency,
presidentship]
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redundancy
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n 1: repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors
in transmission
2: the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; "the use of
industrial robots created redundancy among workers" [syn:
redundancy, redundance]
3: (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to
provide alternatives in case one component fails
4: repetition of an act needlessly
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residency
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n 1: the act of dwelling in a place [syn: residency,
residence, abidance]
2: the position of physician who is receiving special training
in a hospital (usually after completing an internship)
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sightsee
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v 1: visit famous or interesting sights
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stridency
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n 1: having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound [syn:
shrillness, stridence, stridency]
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tendency
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n 1: an attitude of mind especially one that favors one
alternative over others; "he had an inclination to give up
too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict" [syn:
inclination, disposition, tendency]
2: an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward
frivolity" [syn: leaning, propensity, tendency]
3: a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward
a certain condition or character or effect; "the alkaline
inclination of the local waters"; "fabric with a tendency to
shrink" [syn: tendency, inclination]
4: a general direction in which something tends to move; "the
shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock
market" [syn: tendency, trend]
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undersea
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adj 1: beneath the surface of the sea [syn: submarine,
undersea]
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vacancy
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n 1: being unoccupied
2: an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the
emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be
ruling in a vacuum" [syn: void, vacancy, emptiness,
vacuum]
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mc
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n 1: one million periods per second [syn: megahertz, MHz,
megacycle per second, megacycle, Mc]
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yangtze
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n 1: the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into
the East China Sea near Shanghai [syn: Chang Jiang,
Changjiang, Chang, Yangtze, Yangtze River, Yangtze
Kiang]
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c
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adj 1: being ten more than ninety [syn: hundred, one
hundred, 100, c]
n 1: a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature [syn:
degree centigrade, degree Celsius, C]
2: the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy
and universality of the speed of light is recognized by
defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second [syn:
speed of light, light speed, c]
3: a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits)
and vegetables; prevents scurvy [syn: vitamin C, C,
ascorbic acid]
4: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four
nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar
(ribose) [syn: deoxycytidine monophosphate, C]
5: a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine;
pairs with guanine [syn: cytosine, C]
6: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in
three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and
diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, C,
atomic number 6]
7: ten 10s [syn: hundred, 100, C, century, one C]
8: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge
transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn:
coulomb, C, ampere-second]
9: a general-purpose programing language closely associated with
the UNIX operating system
10: (music) the keynote of the scale of C major
11: the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: C, c]
12: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy,
snow, C]
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ac
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n 1: a radioactive element of the actinide series; found in
uranium ores [syn: actinium, Ac, atomic number 89]
2: an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally; "In
the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second"
[syn: alternating current, AC, alternating electric
current] [ant: DC, direct current, direct electric
current]
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se
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n 1: a toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and
tellurium; occurs in several allotropic forms; a stable
grey metallike allotrope conducts electricity better in the
light than in the dark and is used in photocells; occurs in
sulfide ores (as pyrite) [syn: selenium, Se, atomic
number 34]
2: the compass point midway between south and east; at 135
degrees [syn: southeast, sou'-east, southeastward,
SE]
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apc
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n 1: (military) an armored vehicle (usually equipped with
caterpillar treads) that is used to transport infantry
[syn: armored personnel carrier, armoured personnel
carrier, APC]
2: a drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache
remedies (aspirin and phenacetin and caffeine)
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oversea
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adv 1: beyond or across the sea; "He lived overseas for many
years" [syn: oversea, overseas]
adj 1: being or passing over or across the sea; "some overseas
trade in grain arose" [syn: oversea, overseas]
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tennessee
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n 1: a state in east central United States [syn: Tennessee,
Volunteer State, TN]
2: a river formed by the confluence of two other rivers near
Knoxville; it follows a U-shaped course to become a tributary
of the Ohio River in western Kentucky [syn: Tennessee,
Tennessee River]
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incompetency
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n 1: lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications
[syn: incompetence, incompetency] [ant: competence,
competency]
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patency
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n 1: the openness (lack of obstruction) of a bodily passage or
duct
2: the property of being easy to see and understand [syn:
obviousness, noticeability, noticeableness, patency]
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cadency
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n 1: a recurrent rhythmical series [syn: cadence, cadency]
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instancy
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n 1: the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of
their response"; "the instancy of modern communication"
[syn: immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness,
instancy]
2: the quality of being insistent; "he pressed his demand with
considerable instancy" [syn: imperativeness, instancy]
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prepotency
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n 1: the state of being predominant over others [syn:
predominance, predomination, prepotency]
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precedency
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n 1: status established in order of importance or urgency;
"...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of
pharmaceuticals"; "national independence takes priority
over class struggle" [syn: precedence, precedency,
priority]
2: preceding in time [syn: priority, antecedence,
antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency]
[ant: posteriority, subsequence, subsequentness]
3: the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a
ceremony) [syn: precession, precedence, precedency]
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adjutancy
0
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ardency
0
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insignificancy
0
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intendancy
0
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mordancy
0
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cie
0
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amc
0
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pudency
0
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discordancy
0
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significancy
0