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awakening
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n 1: the act of waking; "it was an early awakening"; "it was the
waking up he hated most" [syn: awakening, wakening,
waking up]
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awning
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n 1: a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from
rain or sun [syn: awning, sunshade, sunblind]
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beginning
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adj 1: serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the
first verse" [syn: beginning(a), first]
n 1: the event consisting of the start of something; "the
beginning of the war" [ant: conclusion, ending,
finish]
2: the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got
an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the
man for her" [syn: beginning, commencement, first,
outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time,
showtime, offset] [ant: end, ending, middle]
3: the first part or section of something; "`It was a dark and
stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story" [ant:
end, middle]
4: the place where something begins, where it springs into
being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter
was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source
of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn:
beginning, origin, root, rootage, source]
5: the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the
beginning of negotiations" [syn: beginning, start,
commencement] [ant: finish, finishing]
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christening
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n 1: giving a Christian name at baptism
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consenting
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adj 1: having given consent; "consenting adults"
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cunning
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adj 1: attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness
or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little
apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby" [syn:
cunning, cute]
2: marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for
wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a
slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily
old attorney" [syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy,
guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky,
wily]
3: showing inventiveness and skill; "a clever gadget"; "the
cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; "an ingenious
solution to the problem" [syn: clever, cunning,
ingenious]
n 1: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
[syn: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness,
guile, slyness, wiliness]
2: crafty artfulness (especially in deception)
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dawning
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n 1: the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they
talked until morning" [syn: dawn, dawning, morning,
aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break
of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow]
[ant: sundown, sunset]
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designing
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adj 1: concealing crafty designs for advancing your own
interest; "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with
the dark schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill; "a
scheming wife"; "a scheming gold digger" [syn:
designing, scheming]
n 1: the act of working out the form of something (as by making
a sketch or outline or plan); "he contributed to the design
of a new instrument" [syn: design, designing]
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discerning
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adj 1: having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a
discerning critic"; "a discerning reader" [ant:
undiscerning]
2: unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning
editor"; "a discreet silence" [syn: discerning, discreet]
3: quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"-
Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: apprehensive, discerning]
4: able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive;
"discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color"
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dissenting
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adj 1: disagreeing, especially with a majority [syn:
dissentient, dissenting(a), dissident]
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fermenting
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n 1: a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to
break down into simpler substances; especially, the
anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol [syn: zymosis,
zymolysis, fermentation, fermenting, ferment]
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lamenting
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adj 1: vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such
expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners"; "the
wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her desires
with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare [syn: lamenting,
wailing, wailful]
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penning
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n 1: the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of
therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"
[syn: writing, authorship, composition, penning]
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renting
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n 1: the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment
or house or car) [syn: rental, renting]
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stiffening
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n 1: the act of becoming stiff; "stiffening his shoulders, he
prepared to advance"
2: the process of becoming stiff or rigid [syn: stiffening,
rigidifying, rigidification]
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tenting
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n 1: the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp [syn:
camping, encampment, bivouacking, tenting]
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thinning
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n 1: the act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with
water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine" [syn:
cutting, thinning]
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tuning
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n 1: (music) calibrating something (an instrument or electronic
circuit) to a standard frequency
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turning
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n 1: the act of changing or reversing the direction of the
course; "he took a turn to the right" [syn: turn,
turning]
2: act of changing in practice or custom; "the law took many
turnings over the years"
3: a shaving created when something is produced by turning it on
a lathe
4: a movement in a new direction; "the turning of the wind"
[syn: turning, turn]
5: the end-product created by shaping something on a lathe
6: the activity of shaping something on a lathe
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twinning
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adj 1: producing two offspring at a time [syn: biparous,
twinning]
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uncomplaining
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adj 1: not complaining; "uncomplaining courage" [ant:
complaining(a), complaintive]
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unrelenting
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adj 1: not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty;
"grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final
hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty";
"relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of
parenthood" [syn: grim, inexorable, relentless,
stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting]
2: harsh; "the brutal summer sun"; "a brutal winter" [syn:
brutal, unrelenting]
3: never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums" [syn:
persistent, relentless, unrelenting]
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venting
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n 1: the act of venting [syn: discharge, venting]
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kenning
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n 1: conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially
in Old English and Old Norse poetry
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canning
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corning
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drowning
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inventing
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presenting
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preventing
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representing
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twining
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behning
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bening
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benning
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brenning
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buening
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denning
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drenning
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