Words that rhyme with gershon

n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in Nursing, AN]

n 1: harsh criticism or disapproval [syn: censure, animadversion]

n 1: a disparaging remark; "in the 19th century any reference to female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion"; "it is difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to any slur on his virility" [syn: aspersion, slur] 2: an abusive attack on a person's character or good name [syn: aspersion, calumny, slander, defamation, denigration] 3: the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) [syn: aspersion, sprinkling]

n 1: a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) [syn: assertion, averment, asseveration] 2: the act of affirming or asserting or stating something [syn: affirmation, assertion, statement]

n 1: a feeling of intense dislike [syn: antipathy, aversion, distaste] 2: the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away; "averting her gaze meant that she was angry" [syn: aversion, averting]

n 1: the act of compelling by force of authority 2: using force to cause something to occur; "though pressed into rugby under compulsion I began to enjoy the game"; "they didn't have to use coercion" [syn: compulsion, coercion]

n 1: an event that results in a transformation [syn: conversion, transition, changeover] 2: a change in the units or form of an expression: "conversion from Fahrenheit to Centigrade" 3: a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown 4: a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life [syn: conversion, rebirth, spiritual rebirth] 5: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis 6: a change of religion; "his conversion to the Catholic faith" 7: interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition 8: act of exchanging one type of money or security for another 9: the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another

n 1: withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless" [syn: desertion, abandonment, defection] 2: the act of giving something up [syn: abandonment, forsaking, desertion]

n 1: use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion" [syn: effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat]

n 1: a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted; "with the help of his friend's interpolations his story was eventually told"; "with many insertions in the margins" [syn: interpolation, insertion] 2: the act of putting one thing into another [syn: insertion, introduction, intromission]

n 1: renewed affirmation [syn: reassertion, reaffirmation]

n 1: emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species [syn: palingenesis, recapitulation] [ant: caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis] 2: (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated 3: a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion [syn: recapitulation, recap, review] 4: (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)

n 1: the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year 2: a small concavity [syn: recess, recession, niche, corner] 3: the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service [syn: recession, recessional] 4: the act of ceding back [syn: recession, ceding back] 5: the act of becoming more distant [syn: receding, recession]

n 1: (mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation

n 1: distributing again; "the revolution resulted in a redistribution of wealth"

v 1: make new; "She is remaking her image" [syn: remake, refashion, redo, make over]

n 1: inflation of currency after a period of deflation; restore the system to a previous state

n 1: an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely [syn: arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation, regression] 2: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state 3: the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x) [syn: regression, simple regression, regression toward the mean, statistical regression] 4: returning to a former state [syn: regression, regress, reversion, retrogression, retroversion]

n 1: a remote or indirect consequence of some action; "his declaration had unforeseen repercussions"; "reverberations of the market crash were felt years later" [syn: repercussion, reverberation] 2: a movement back from an impact [syn: recoil, repercussion, rebound, backlash]

n 1: the action of regaining possession (especially the seizure of collateral securing a loan that is in default)

n 1: a state of forcible subjugation; "the long repression of Christian sects" 2: (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious 3: the act of repressing; control by holding down; "his goal was the repression of insolence"

n 1: a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote [syn: resolution, declaration, resolve] 2: the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together [syn: resolving power, resolution] 3: the trait of being resolute; "his resoluteness carried him through the battle"; "it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work" [syn: resoluteness, firmness, firmness of purpose, resolve, resolution] [ant: irresoluteness, irresolution] 4: finding a solution to a problem [syn: resolution, solving] 5: something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making; "they finally reached a settlement with the union"; "they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences"; "he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure" [syn: settlement, resolution, closure] 6: analysis into clear-cut components [syn: resolution, resolving] 7: (computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture 8: the subsidence of swelling or other signs of inflammation (especially in a lung) 9: (music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord [ant: preparation] 10: a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem; "they were trying to find a peaceful solution"; "the answers were in the back of the book"; "he computed the result to four decimal places" [syn: solution, answer, result, resolution, solvent] 11: a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner; "he always wrote down his New Year's resolutions"

n 1: a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury [syn: damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress] 2: the act of restoring something to its original state 3: getting something back again; "upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing" [syn: restitution, return, restoration, regaining]

n 1: a justly deserved penalty [syn: retribution, requital] 2: the act of correcting for your wrongdoing 3: the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"-- Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution" [syn: vengeance, retribution, payback]

n 1: passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form [syn: degeneration, retrogression] 2: returning to a former state [syn: regression, regress, reversion, retrogression, retroversion]

n 1: (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee) 2: (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation) 3: a reappearance of an earlier characteristic [syn: atavism, reversion, throwback] 4: turning in the opposite direction [syn: reversion, reverse, reversal, turnabout, turnaround] 5: returning to a former state [syn: regression, regress, reversion, retrogression, retroversion] 6: a failure to maintain a higher state [syn: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting]

adj 1: relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day; "tertian fever" 2: of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds; "a tertian tonal system"

n 1: member of an order of monks noted for austerity and a vow of silence [syn: Trappist, Cistercian]