Words that rhyme with mershon

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: the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger; "a man of caution" [syn: caution, cautiousness, carefulness] [ant: incaution, incautiousness] 2: a warning against certain acts; "a caveat against unfair practices" [syn: caution, caveat] 3: judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with care" [syn: caution, precaution, care, forethought] 4: the trait of being circumspect and prudent [syn: circumspection, caution] v 1: warn strongly; put on guard [syn: caution, admonish, monish]

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: 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: a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" [syn: excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay] 2: wandering from the main path of a journey [syn: digression, excursion]

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: how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion" [syn: manner, mode, style, way, fashion] 2: characteristic or habitual practice 3: the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior 4: consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode v 1: make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks" [syn: fashion, forge]

n 1: sinking until covered completely with water [syn: submergence, submerging, submersion, immersion] 2: (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse [syn: ingress, immersion] [ant: egress, emersion] 3: complete attention; intense mental effort [syn: concentration, engrossment, absorption, immersion] 4: a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged 5: the act of wetting something by submerging it [syn: submersion, immersion, ducking, dousing]

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: any of various cosmetic preparations that are applied to the skin 2: liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin; "a lotion for dry skin" [syn: lotion, application]

n 1: the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals [syn: gesture, motion] 2: a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something [syn: movement, motion] 3: a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility" [syn: motion, movement, move, motility] 4: a state of change; "they were in a state of steady motion" [ant: lifelessness, motionlessness, stillness] 5: a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote; "he made a motion to adjourn"; "she called for the question" [syn: motion, question] 6: the act of changing location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path" [syn: motion, movement, move] 7: an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object; "the cinema relies on apparent motion"; "the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement" [syn: apparent motion, motion, apparent movement, movement] v 1: show, express or direct through movement; "He gestured his desire to leave" [syn: gesticulate, gesture, motion]

n 1: a vague idea in which some confidence is placed; "his impression of her was favorable"; "what are your feelings about the crisis?"; "it strengthened my belief in his sincerity"; "I had a feeling that she was lying" [syn: impression, feeling, belief, notion, opinion] 2: a general inclusive concept 3: an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it" [syn: notion, whim, whimsy, whimsey] 4: (usually plural) small personal articles or clothing or sewing items; "buttons and needles are notions"

n 1: a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere 2: anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume [syn: ocean, sea]

n 1: something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton" [syn: part, portion, component part, component, constituent] 2: something less than the whole of a human artifact; "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together" [syn: part, portion] 3: the allotment of some amount by dividing something; "death gets more than its share of attention from theologians" [syn: parcel, portion, share] 4: assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group; "he wanted his share in cash" [syn: share, portion, part, percentage] 5: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion] 6: money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage [syn: dowry, dowery, dower, portion] 7: an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal; "the helpings were all small"; "his portion was larger than hers"; "there's enough for two servings each" [syn: helping, portion, serving] v 1: give out; "We were assigned new uniforms" [syn: assign, allot, portion]

n 1: a medicinal or magical or poisonous beverage

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]

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

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

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: a tortuous and twisted shape or position; "they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat performed incredible contortions" [syn: tortuosity, tortuousness, torsion, contortion, crookedness] 2: a twisting force [syn: torsion, torque]

n 1: an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint; "his version of the fight was different from mine" 2: 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] 3: a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form; "the play is an adaptation of a short novel" [syn: adaptation, version] 4: a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language [syn: translation, interlingual rendition, rendering, version] 5: a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something [syn: interpretation, reading, version] 6: manual turning of a fetus in the uterus (usually to aid delivery)

v 1: make harsh or harsher; "Winter harshened the look of the city"

adj 1: of or relating to the planet Mars (or its fictional inhabitants) n 1: imaginary people who live on the planet Mars

adj 1: of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture; "Iranian mountains"; "Iranian security police" [syn: Iranian, Persian] n 1: a native or inhabitant of Iran; "the majority of Irani are Persian Shiite Muslims" [syn: Irani, Iranian, Persian] 2: the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms [syn: Persian, Farsi]

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Prussia or its inhabitants; "Prussian officers"; "Prussian aristocracy" n 1: a German inhabitant of Prussia

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