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a. To position (troops) in readiness for combat, as along a front or line.
b. To bring (forces or material) into action.
c. To base (a weapons system) in the field.
2. To distribute (persons or forces) systematically or strategically.
3. To put into use or action |
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| To lessen the price or value of. |
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| Causing damage or harm; injurious. |
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| The art or practice of conducting international relations, as in negotiating alliances, treaties, and agreements. |
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| Absence of contentment; dissatisfaction |
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| Divergence or disagreement, as between facts or claims; difference. |
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1. To regard or treat with haughty contempt; despise.
2. To consider or reject as beneath oneself. |
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1. to deprive (a person) of the right to vote or other rights of citizenship
2. to deprive (a place) of the right to send representatives to an elected body |
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| The act of being freed from illusion or false belief; undeceive |
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| To perceive as being different or distinct. |
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| Creating a difference of opinion; disagreement |
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| A statement of official government policy, especially in foreign affairs and military strategy. |
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| also known as public policy, presents decisions, laws, and programs made by the government which are directly related to issues in the country. |
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The act or condition of:
1. To free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberate.
2. [Law] To release (a child) from the control of parents or a guardian. |
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1. A government order prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
2. A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation.
3. A prohibition; a ban |
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| The act or process of being newly formed or just coming into importance |
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1. the act of entangling.
2. the state of being entangled.
3. something that entangles; snare; involvement; complication |
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| A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture. |
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1. To ascertain or fix the value or worth of.
2. To examine and judge carefully |
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1. Of or according to the teaching of the gospel or the Christian religion.
2. A member of the evangelical tradition in the Christian Church. |
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| A philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe, regards human existence as unexplainable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's acts. |
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| A departure of a large number of people. |
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| something expended, such as time or money |
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| The act of expelling or the state of being expelled; to force or drive out |
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| A particular aspect or feature of something |
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| A program to regulate the number and spacing of children in a family through the practice of contraception or other methods of birth control. |
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| A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and constituent political units. |
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1. Great warmth and intensity of emotion.
2. Intense heat |
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| A young or inexperienced person. |
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| The diplomatic policy of a nation in its interactions with other nations. |
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| To prevent or hinder normal sales in (a market) by buying up merchandise, discouraging persons from bringing their goods to market, or encouraging an increase in prices in goods already on sale. |
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A privilege or right officially granted a person or a group by a government, especially:
a. The constitutional or statutory right to vote.
b. The establishment of a corporation's existence.
c. The granting of certain rights and powers to a corporation.
d. Legal immunity from servitude, certain burdens, or other restrictions. |
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| A usually religious movement or point of view characterized by a return to fundamental principles, by rigid adherence to those principles, and often by intolerance of other views and opposition to secularism.(the belief that every word of the Bible is divinely inspired and therefore true) |
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1. People of gentle birth, good breeding, or high social position.
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a. An upper or ruling class.
b. The class of English landowners ranking just below the nobility.
3. People of a particular class or group |
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| the act of glorifying or state of being glorified (to give glory, honor, or high praise to) |
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A past participle of:
1. To sculpt or carve; engrave.
2. To stamp or impress deeply; fix permanently. |
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1. One of a variety of writs that may be issued to bring a party before a court or judge, having as its function the release of the party from unlawful restraint.
2. The right of a citizen to obtain such a writ. |
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a. Descending from an ancestor to a legal heir; passing down by inheritance.
b. Having title or possession through inheritance. |
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1. The body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture.
2. A set of doctrines or beliefs that form the basis of a political, economic, or other system.
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2. Of or concerned with ideas. |
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| Implementing/Implementation |
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To put into practical effect; carry out
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| hinted at or suggested; not directly expressed |
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1. The act of imposing or the condition of being imposed.
2. Something imposed, such as a tax, an undue burden, or a fraud.
3. A burdensome or unfair demand, as upon someone's time |
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| Not adequate to fulfill a need or meet a requirement; insufficient. |
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1. To put into jail.
2. To shut in; confine. |
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| Security against damage, loss, or injury. |
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| Incapable of being overcome, subdued, or vanquished; unconquerable. |
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1. A violation, as of a law, regulation, or agreement; a breach.
2. An encroachment, as of a right or privilege |
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1. To set going by taking the first step; begin
2. To introduce to a new field, interest, skill, or activity.
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| The bringing of people of different racial or ethnic groups into unrestricted and equal association, as in society or an organization; desegregation. |
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| Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. |
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| The act of interning or confining, especially in wartime. |
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1. To come, appear, or lie between two things
2. To come or occur between two periods or points of time
3. To occur as an extraneous or unplanned circumstance
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a. To involve oneself in a situation so as to alter or hinder an action or development
b. To interfere, usually through force or threat of force, in the affairs of another nation. |
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| To impart vigor, strength, or vitality to; animate |
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Traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty
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working for a short time in various places, esp as a casual laborer |
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1. To impose or collect (a tax, for example).
2. To draft into military service.
3. To declare and wage (a war). |
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| A dock worker who loads and unloads ships. |
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A civil officer with power to administer and enforce law, as:
a. A local member of the judiciary having limited jurisdiction, especially in criminal cases.
b. A minor official, such as a justice of the peace, having administrative and limited judicial authority. |
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| the act of setting free or being set free from slavery; emancipation. |
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| An economy that operates by voluntary exchange in a free market and is not planned or controlled by a central authority; a capitalistic economy. |
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1. To equip with machinery
2. To equip (a military unit) with motor vehicles, such as tanks and trucks.
3. To make automatic or unspontaneous; render routine or monotonous.
4. To produce by or as if by machines. |
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| Of or relating to merchants or trade. |
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1. Of or relating to money.
2. Of or relating to a nation's currency or coinage. |
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| Having a great deal of money |
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1. To acquire or maintain a monopoly of.
2. To dominate by excluding others |
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a. Of, relating to, or typical of a municipality.
b. Having local self-government.
c. Issued on the authority of a local or state government.
2. Of or relating to the internal affairs of a nation. |
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| the act or process of the taking over of private industry by government. |
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| A population increase due to more births and less mortality. |
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1. To make null; invalidate.
2. To counteract the force or effectiveness of.
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a. The act of nullifying.
b. The state of being nullified.
2. Refusal or failure of a U.S. state to recognize or enforce a federal law within its boundaries. |
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| A formal speech, especially one given on a ceremonial occasion. |
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| To send out (work, for example) to an outside provider or manufacturer in order to cut costs. |
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1. Of, relating to, or resembling a parliament.
2. Enacted or decreed by a parliament.
3. Being in accord with the rules and customs of a parliament.
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a. Having a parliament.
b. Characterized by an executive branch consisting of cabinet ministers selected from and responsible to the parliament |
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1. Lasting for eternity.
2. Continuing or lasting for an indefinitely long time.
3. Instituted to be in effect or have tenure for an unlimited duration.
4. Continuing without interruption. |
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| A document stating the aims and principles of a political party. |
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| Bringing on suddenly or abruptly |
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1. The act of predestining or the condition of being predestined.
2. Theology
a. The doctrine that God has foreordained all things, especially that God has elected certain souls to eternal salvation.
b. The divine decree foreordaining all souls to either salvation or damnation.
c. The act of God foreordaining all things gone before and to come.
3. Destiny; fate. |
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| Existing or occurring before birth |
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1. The state of being first or foremost.
2. [Church Related] The office, rank, or province of primate. |
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1. Promoting or favoring progress toward better conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.
2. Progressive Of or relating to a Progressive Party.
3. Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases. |
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1. A law, order, or decree that forbids something.
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a. The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transportation, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages.
b. Prohibition The period (1920-1933) during which the 18th Amendment forbidding the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was in force in the United States. |
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1. Projecting outward or upward from a line or surface; protuberant.
2. Immediately noticeable; conspicuous. See Synonyms at noticeable.
3. Widely known; eminent.1. Projecting outward or upward from a line or surface; protuberant.
2. Immediately noticeable; conspicuous.
3. Widely known; eminent. |
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| Being in due proportion; proportional. |
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1. One who has legal title to something; an owner.
2. One who owns or owns and manages a business or other such establishment. |
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a. To initiate civil or criminal court action against.
b. To seek to obtain or enforce by legal action. |
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a. A relationship of protection and partial control assumed by a superior power over a dependent country or region.
b. The protected country or region.
2. Protectorate
a. The government, office, or term of a protector.
b. The government of England under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ruling as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth. |
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1. The act of supplying or fitting out.
2. Something provided.
3. A preparatory action or measure.
4. A stock of necessary supplies, especially food.
5. A stipulation or qualification, especially a clause in a document or agreement. |
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| Entities, both public and private, that are used by the public. |
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1. A proportional share, as of goods, assigned to a group or to each member of a group; an allotment.
2. A production assignment.
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a. A number or percentage, especially of people, constituting or designated as an upper limit.
b. A number or percentage, especially of people, constituting a required or targeted minimum. |
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| The holding or following of principles advocating drastic political, economy, or social reforms. |
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| To approve and give formal sanction to; confirm. |
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1. Fundamental reasons; the basis.
2. An exposition of principles or reasons. |
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1. The act of redeeming or the condition of having been redeemed.
2. Recovery of something pawned or mortgaged.
3. The payment of an obligation, as a government's payment of the value of its bonds.
4. Deliverance upon payment of ransom; rescue.
5. Christianity Salvation from sin through Jesus's sacrifice. |
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1. To retire from; give up or abandon.
2. To put aside or desist from (something practiced, professed, or intended).
3. To let go; surrender. |
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1. An appetite for something; a strong appreciation or liking.
2. To take keen or zestful pleasure in. |
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| Of, relating to, or characteristic of a republic. |
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| Of, relating to, characteristic of, or belonging to the Republican Party of the United States. |
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| Of, relating to, or characteristic of the country or farming/agriculture. |
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1. Of or relating to health or the protection of health.
2. Free from elements, such as filth or pathogens, that endanger health; hygienic. |
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| The study and use of practical measures for the preservation of public health. |
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1. The range of one's perceptions, thoughts, or actions.
2. Breadth or opportunity to function.
3. The area covered by a given activity or subject. |
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1. A provisional certificate entitling the holder to a fractional share of stock or of other jointly owned property.
2. Paper money issued for temporary emergency use.
3. A small scrap of paper, especially with a short list or schedule written on it. |
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| A union of interests, purposes, or sympathies among members of a group; fellowship of responsibilities and interests. |
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1. Supremacy of authority or rule as exercised by a sovereign or sovereign state.
2. Royal rank, authority, or power.
3. Complete independence and self-government.
4. A territory existing as an independent state. |
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a. Contemplation or consideration of a subject; meditation.
b. A conclusion, opinion, or theory reached by conjecture.
c. Reasoning based on inconclusive evidence; conjecture or supposition.
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a. Engagement in risky business transactions on the chance of quick or considerable profit.
b. A commercial or financial transaction involving speculation. |
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1. To settle on unoccupied land without legal claim.
2. To occupy a given piece of public land in order to acquire title to it. |
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1. Very hot or stuffy almost to the point of being suffocating.
2. Being of such a character or nature as to engender a feeling of stultification, repression, or suffocation |
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| A mark burned into the skin of a criminal or slave; a brand. |
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1. Imposing rigorous standards of performance
2. Constricted; tight
3. Characterized by scarcity of money, credit restrictions, or other financial strain |
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1. Belonging to a lower or inferior class or rank; secondary.
2. Subject to the authority or control of another |
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1. To pledge or contribute (a sum of money).
2. To sign (one's name) at the end of a document.
3. To sign one's name to in attestation, testimony, or consent. |
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1. Monetary assistance granted by a government to a person or group in support of an enterprise regarded as being in the public interest.
2. Financial assistance given by one person or government to another.
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1. To assist or support with a subsidy.
2. To secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy. |
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The act or an instance of subverting or overthrowing a legally constituted government, institution, etc.
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Intended or serving to subvert, especially intended to overthrow or undermine an established government. |
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1. Being as much as is needed.
2. [Archaic] Competent; qualified. |
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a. The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
b. The exercise of such a right. |
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1. To rise and move in a billowing or swelling manner.
2. A period of intense effort that improves a competitor's standing, as in a race. |
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a. Discernible by the touch; palpable.
b. Possible to touch.
c. Possible to be treated as fact; real or concrete.
2. Possible to understand or realize.
3. [Law] That can be valued monetarily |
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a. A list or system of duties imposed by a government on imported or exported goods.
b. A duty or duties so imposed.
2. A schedule of prices or fees. |
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1. A building for human habitation, especially one that is rented to tenants.
2. A rundown, low-rental apartment building whose facilities and maintenance barely meet minimum standards.
3. [Law] Property, such as land, rents, or franchises, held by one person leasing it from another. |
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| An opinion, doctrine, or principle held as being true by a person or especially by an organization. |
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| Any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting. |
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| The study of the nature of God and religious truth; rational inquiry into religious questions. |
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1. Tolerance with respect to the actions and beliefs of others.
2. Official recognition of the rights of individuals and groups to hold dissenting opinions, especially on religion. |
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| A literary and philosophical movement, associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition. |
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1. Passing with time.
2. Remaining in a place only a brief time. |
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1. A final statement of terms made by one party to another.
2. A statement, especially in diplomatic negotiations, that expresses or implies the threat of serious penalties if the terms are not accepted. |
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1. To weaken by wearing away a base or foundation.
2. To weaken, injure, or impair, often by degrees or imperceptibly.
3. To dig a mine or tunnel beneath. |
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| Having or consisting of a single legislative chamber. |
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1. Of, on, relating to, involving, or affecting only one side.
2. Performed or undertaken by only one side.
3. Obligating only one of two or more parties, nations, or persons, as a contract or an agreement. |
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| Not established as valid or genuine. |
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1. Of, relating to, or located in a city.
2. Characteristic of the city or city life. |
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a. Excellent or ideal but impracticable; visionary.
b. Proposing impracticably ideal schemes.
2. A zealous but impractical reformer of human society. |
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| Courage and boldness, as in battle; bravery. |
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| To honor in recognition of qualities of holiness, excellence, wisdom, etc. |
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| Capable of being done in a practical and useful way. |
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| Capable of success or continuing effectiveness; practicable. |
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| One who takes or advocates the taking of law enforcement into one's own hands. |
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1. Having or showing virtue, especially moral excellence.
2. Possessing or characterized by chastity; pure |
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1. In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.
2. Characterized by or attended with misery or woe.
3. Of a poor or mean character.
4. Contemptible; despicable.
5. Of very inferior quality. |
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| A persistent, often wistful or melancholy desire; a longing. |
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1. An attendant, servant, or lesser official in a royal or noble household.
2. A petty officer performing chiefly clerical duties in the U.S. Navy.
3. An assistant or other subordinate, as of a sheriff.
4. A diligent, dependable worker.
5. A farmer who cultivates his own land, especially a member of a former class of small freeholders in England. |
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| Enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal and tireless diligence in its furtherance. |
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1. To do away with; annul.
2. To destroy completely. |
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1. something greatly disliked or abhorred.
2. intense aversion or loathing; detestation.
3. a vile or shameful action, condition, or habit. |
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1. The act of acquiring.
2. Something acquired or gained. |
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| Steady devotion, allegiance, or attachment. |
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| Of or pertaining to the activity of a government or state in the exercise of its powers and duties. |
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| Worthy of being recommended or suggested. |
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The act of pleading or arguing in favor of something, such as a cause, idea, or policy; active support.
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1. Relating to or concerning the land and its ownership, cultivation, and tenure.
2. A person who favors equitable distribution of land. |
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| To make or become better; improve. |
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| To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations. |
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1. A member of one of the Germanic peoples, the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, who settled in Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries.
2. Any of the descendants of the Anglo-Saxons, who were dominant in England until the Norman Conquest of 1066.
3. A person of English Ancestry. |
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1. To append or attach, especially to a larger or more significant thing.
2. To incorporate (territory) into an existing political unit such as a country, state, county, or city. |
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| Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War. |
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| To take for one's own use, esp illegally or without permission. |
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1. To judge or decide in or as in the manner of an arbitrator.
2. To submit to settlement or judgment by arbitration |
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| Relating to or characteristic of aristocracy or an aristocrat: A member of a ruling class or of the nobility. |
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| To pronounce distinctly and carefully; enunciate. |
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| A skilled manual worker; a craftsperson. |
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| To judge the quality of being valid |
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| The merging of cultural traits from distinct cultural groups. |
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| To inform positively, as to remove doubt. |
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1. Appalling or atrocious condition, quality, or behavior; monstrousness.
2. An appalling or atrocious act, situation, or object, especially an act of unusual or illegal cruelty inflicted by an armed force on civilians or prisoners. |
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1. To gain as an objective; achieve.
2. To arrive at, as by virtue of persistence or the passage of time. |
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| The act of preventing something from occurring. |
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| An antagonistic reaction to a trend, development, or event. |
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| To force to leave a country or place by official decree; exile. |
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1. Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive.
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| To measure (a rival's product) according to specified standards in order to compare it with and improve one's own product. |
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1. Receive an advantage; profit; gain.
2. Bring advantage to
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1. An improvement over what has been the case.
2. [Law] An improvement beyond normal upkeep and repair that adds to the value of real property. |
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| Composed of or based on two legislative chambers or branches. |
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| An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market. |
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1. To surrender possession of, especially by treaty.
2. To yield. |
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1. An alliance, especially a temporary one, of people, factions, parties, or nations.
2. A combination into one body; a union. |
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1. To force into military service.
2. To seize for military use; confiscate.
3. To take arbitrarily or by force. |
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a. Of, belonging to, or shared by the people of a community; public.
b. Marked by collective ownership and control of goods and property. |
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1. The act or process of making amends for something
2. Something, such as money, given or received as payment or reparation, as for a service or loss. |
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| Intended to placate or reconcile. |
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| To overlook, forgive, or disregard (an offense) without protest or censure. |
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1. Similarity in form or character; agreement.
2. Action or behavior in correspondence with socially accepted standards, conventions, rules, or laws.
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1. A body of assembled people or things; a gathering.
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a. A group of people gathered for religious worship.
b. The members of a specific religious group who regularly worship at a church or synagogue. |
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| An opinion or position reached by a group as a whole. |
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1. The state or process of uniting into one system or whole.
2. The merger of two or more commercial interests or corporations. |
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a. To bring to completion or fruition; conclude.
b. To realize or achieve; fulfill. |
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1. [Law]
a. The judgment of a jury or judge that a person is guilty of a crime as charged.
b. The state of being found or proved guilty. |
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1. Not openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown.
2. Covered or covered over; sheltered.
3. Law Being married and therefore protected by one's husband. |
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| A prevailing value system among the upper and middle classes during the nineteenth century in the United States[1] and Great Britain. This value system emphasized new ideas of femininity, the woman's role within the home and the dynamics of work and family. "True women" were supposed to possess four cardinal virtues: piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness |
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1. [Agriculture]
a. The planting, tending, improving, or harvesting of crops or plants.
b. The preparation of ground to promote their growth.
2. Refinement; culture. |
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1. Increasing or enlarging by successive addition.
2. Acquired by or resulting from accumulation.
3. Of or relating to interest or a dividend that is added to the next payment if not paid when due.
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a. Supporting the same point as earlier evidence.
b. Imposed with greater severity upon a repeat offender.
c. Following successively; consecutive. |
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a. Inadequacy or insufficiency.
b. A deficiency or impairment in mental or physical functioning.
c. An unfavorable condition or position; a disadvantage: rallied from a three-game deficit to win the playoffs.
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a. The amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required or expected amount; a shortage.
b. A business loss. |
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1. The act of reducing the amount or availability of (currency or credit), effecting a decline in prices.
2. A persistent decrease in the level of consumer prices or a persistent increase in the purchasing power of money because of a reduction in available currency and credit. |
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The act or process of:
1. To reduce in grade, rank, or status; demote.
2. To lower in dignity; dishonor or disgrace.
3. To lower in moral or intellectual character; debase.
4. To reduce in worth or value.
5. To impair in physical structure or function. |
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a. An advocate of democracy.
b. One who believes in social equality or discounts distinctions in rank. |
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1. A member of the Democratic Party.
2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Democratic Party. |
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| The action of making something democratic. |
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1. Of, or relating to the study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics.
2. A portion of a population, especially considered as consumers. |
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1. A large group of religious congregations united under a common faith and name and organized under a single administrative and legal hierarchy.
2. One of a series of kinds, values, or sizes, as in a system of currency or weights.
3. A name or designation, especially for a class or group. |
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1. To condemn openly as being evil or reprehensible.
2. To accuse formally.
3. To give formal announcement of the ending of (a treaty). |
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1. The act or an instance of denouncing, especially a public condemnation or censure.
2. The act of accusing another of a crime before a public prosecutor. |
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Worthy of severe condemnation or reproach.
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2. To express sorrow or grief over.
3. To regret; bemoan. |
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