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ambivalence
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n 1: mixed feelings or emotions [syn: ambivalence,
ambivalency]
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antithesis
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n 1: exact opposite; "his theory is the antithesis of mine"
2: the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a
feeling of balance
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asynchronous
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adj 1: (digital communication) pertaining to a transmission
technique that does not require a common clock between
the communicating devices; timing signals are derived
from special characters in the data stream itself [ant:
synchronous]
2: not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time
or having the same period or phase [ant: synchronal,
synchronic, synchronous]
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diligence
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n 1: conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task;
giving the degree of care required in a given situation
2: persevering determination to perform a task; "his diligence
won him quick promotions"; "frugality and industry are still
regarded as virtues" [syn: diligence, industriousness,
industry]
3: a diligent effort; "it is a job requiring serious
application" [syn: application, diligence]
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dissonance
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n 1: a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
[syn: disagreement, dissension, dissonance] [ant:
accord, agreement]
2: the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality;
sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern
music is just noise to me" [syn: noise, dissonance,
racket]
3: disagreeable sounds [ant: harmony]
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equivalence
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n 1: a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally
balanced; "on a par with the best" [syn: equality,
equivalence, equation, par]
2: essential equality and interchangeability [ant:
nonequivalence]
3: qualities that are comparable; "no comparison between the two
books"; "beyond compare" [syn: comparison, compare,
equivalence, comparability]
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felicitous
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adj 1: exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style; "a
felicitous speaker" [ant: infelicitous]
2: marked by good fortune; "a felicitous life"; "a happy
outcome" [syn: felicitous, happy]
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fickleness
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n 1: unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous
[syn: faithlessness, falseness, fickleness,
inconstancy]
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frivolous
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adj 1: not serious in content or attitude or behavior; "a
frivolous novel"; "a frivolous remark"; "a frivolous
young woman" [ant: serious]
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immanence
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n 1: the state of being within or not going beyond a given
domain [syn: immanence, immanency]
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immigrate
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v 1: migrate to a new environment; "only few plants can
immigrate to the island"
2: introduce or send as immigrants; "Britain immigrated many
colonists to America"
3: come into a new country and change residency; "Many people
immigrated at the beginning of the 20th century" [ant:
emigrate]
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imminence
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n 1: the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon [syn:
imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence,
impendency, forthcomingness]
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impetus
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n 1: a force that moves something along [syn: drift,
impetus, impulsion]
2: the act of applying force suddenly; "the impulse knocked him
over" [syn: impulse, impulsion, impetus]
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impotence
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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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incidence
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n 1: the relative frequency of occurrence of something [syn:
incidence, relative incidence]
2: the striking of a light beam on a surface; "he measured the
angle of incidence of the reflected light"
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indigenous
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adj 1: originating where it is found; "the autochthonal fauna of
Australia includes the kangaroo"; "autochthonous rocks
and people and folktales"; "endemic folkways"; "the Ainu
are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan"
[syn: autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous,
endemic, indigenous]
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infamous
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adj 1: known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious
gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for
vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold"; [syn: ill-famed,
infamous, notorious]
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innocence
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n 1: the quality of innocent naivete [syn: artlessness,
innocence, ingenuousness, naturalness]
2: the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a
knowledge of evil [syn: purity, pureness, sinlessness,
innocence, whiteness]
3: a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or
offense; "the trial established his innocence" [ant: guilt,
guiltiness]
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innocent
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adj 1: free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the
principle that one is innocent until proved guilty" [syn:
innocent, guiltless, clean-handed] [ant: guilty]
2: lacking intent or capacity to injure; "an innocent prank"
[syn: innocent, innocuous]
3: free from sin [syn: impeccant, innocent, sinless]
4: lacking in sophistication or worldliness; "a child's innocent
stare"; "his ingenuous explanation that he would not have
burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it"
[syn: innocent, ingenuous]
5: not knowledgeable about something specified; "American
tourists wholly innocent of French"; "a person unacquainted
with our customs" [syn: innocent(p), unacquainted(p)]
6: completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight";
"young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of
literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" [syn:
barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent]
7: (used of things) lacking sense or awareness; "fine innocent
weather"
n 1: a person who lacks knowledge of evil [syn: innocent,
inexperienced person]
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insolence
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n 1: the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take
liberties [syn: crust, gall, impertinence,
impudence, insolence, cheekiness, freshness]
2: an offensive disrespectful impudent act
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limitless
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adj 1: without limits in extent or size or quantity; "limitless
vastness of our solar system" [syn: illimitable,
limitless, measureless]
2: having no limits in range or scope; "to start with a theory
of unlimited freedom is to end up with unlimited despotism"-
Philip Rahv; "the limitless reaches of outer space" [syn:
unlimited, limitless] [ant: limited]
3: seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially
extent; "unbounded enthusiasm"; "children with boundless
energy"; "a limitless supply of money" [syn: boundless,
unbounded, limitless]
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meticulous
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adj 1: marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous
research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of
etiquette" [syn: meticulous, punctilious]
2: marked by extreme care in treatment of details; "a meticulous
craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous in his business
formalities"
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militant
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adj 1: disposed to warfare or hard-line policies; "militant
nations"; "hawkish congressman"; "warlike policies" [syn:
militant, hawkish, warlike]
2: showing a fighting disposition; "highly competitive sales
representative"; "militant in fighting for better wages for
workers"; "his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy" [syn:
competitive, militant]
3: engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations" [syn:
belligerent, militant, war-ridden, warring]
n 1: a militant reformer [syn: militant, activist]
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mischievous
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adj 1: naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying
with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank" [syn: arch,
impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated,
prankish, puckish, wicked]
2: deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and
falsehoods"
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omnipotence
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n 1: the state of being omnipotent; having unlimited power
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polygamous
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adj 1: having more than one mate at a time; used of
relationships and individuals [ant: monogamous]
2: having several forms of gametoecia on the same plant [syn:
heteroicous, polyoicous, polygamous]
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ridiculous
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adj 1: inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and
unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on
in years"- Dashiell Hammett [syn: pathetic,
ridiculous, silly]
2: incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the
dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a
nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a
contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous
to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn
back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of
universal interest in her rather dull children was
ridiculous" [syn: absurd, cockeyed, derisory,
idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical,
preposterous, ridiculous]
3: broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the
wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair"
[syn: farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous]
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stimulus
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n 1: any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action
[syn: stimulation, stimulus, stimulant, input]
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syllabus
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n 1: an integrated course of academic studies; "he was admitted
to a new program at the university" [syn: course of
study, program, programme, curriculum, syllabus]
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synthesis
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n 1: the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by
the union of simpler chemical compounds)
2: the combination of ideas into a complex whole [syn:
synthesis, synthetic thinking] [ant: analysis,
analytic thinking]
3: reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause
to effect) [syn: deduction, deductive reasoning,
synthesis]
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unambiguous
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adj 1: having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning;
"As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous"-
Mario Vargas Llosa [ant: ambiguous]
2: admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; having only one
meaning or interpretation and leading to only one conclusion;
"unequivocal evidence"; "took an unequivocal position"; "an
unequivocal success"; "an unequivocal promise"; "an
unequivocal (or univocal) statement" [syn: unequivocal,
univocal, unambiguous] [ant: ambiguous, equivocal]
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vigilance
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n 1: the process of paying close and continuous attention;
"wakefulness, watchfulness, and bellicosity make a good
hunter"; "vigilance is especially susceptible to fatigue"
[syn: watchfulness, wakefulness, vigilance,
alertness]
2: vigilant attentiveness; "he keeps a weather eye open for
trouble" [syn: watchfulness, vigilance, weather eye]
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villainous
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adj 1: extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous
plot"; "a villainous band of thieves" [syn: nefarious,
villainous]
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vividness
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n 1: interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was
lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with
exceptional vividness" [syn: color, colour,
vividness]
2: chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence
vivid in hue [syn: saturation, chroma, intensity,
vividness]
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wickedness
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n 1: morally objectionable behavior [syn: evil, immorality,
wickedness, iniquity]
2: absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of
darkness" [syn: iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark]
3: the quality of being wicked [syn: nefariousness,
wickedness, vileness, ugliness]
4: estrangement from god [syn: sin, sinfulness,
wickedness]
5: the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions;
"the vileness of his language surprised us" [syn:
loathsomeness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness,
lousiness, wickedness]
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wistfulness
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n 1: a sadly pensive longing
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nicholas
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n 1: a bishop in Asia Minor who is associated with Santa Claus
(4th century) [syn: Nicholas, Saint Nicholas, St.
Nicholas]
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leviticus
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n 1: the third book of the Old Testament; contains Levitical law
and ritual precedents [syn: Leviticus, Book of
Leviticus]
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emigrants
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instruments
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ligaments
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migrants
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stimulants
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