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an agreeable way or manner; courtesy; civility: the graceful amenities of society.
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any feature that provides comfort, convenience, or pleasure: The house has a swimming pool, two fireplaces, and other amenities.
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the quality of being pleasing or agreeable in situation, prospect, disposition, etc.; pleasantness: the amenity of the Caribbean climate. |
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1. to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
2. to fix the place of; locate. |
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a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form.
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someone or something anomalous: With his quiet nature, he was an anomaly in his exuberant family.
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an odd, peculiar, or strange condition, situation, quality, etc.
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an incongruity or inconsistency.
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Astronomy . a quantity measured in degrees, defining the position of an orbiting body with respect to the point at which it is nearest to or farthest from its primary. |
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having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent: an ardent vow; ardent love.
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intensely devoted, eager, or enthusiastic; zealous: an ardent theatergoer. an ardent student of French history.
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vehement; fierce: They were frightened by his ardent, burning eyes.
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burning, fiery, or hot: the ardent core of a star. |
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boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions.
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effrontery or insolence; shameless boldness: His questioner's audacity shocked the lecturer. |
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warlike; given to waging war.
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of warlike character; aggressively hostile; bellicose: a belligerent tone.
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waging war; engaged in war: a peace treaty between belligerent powers.
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pertaining to war or to those engaged in war: belligerent rights. |
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harsh discordance of sound; dissonance: a cacophony of hoots, cackles, and wails.
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a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds: the cacophony produced by city traffic at midday.
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Music . frequent use of discords of a harshness and relationship difficult to understand. |
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the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, especially through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music. |
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the quality of being clement; disposition to show forbearance, compassion, or forgiveness in judging or punishing; leniency; mercy.
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an act or deed showing mercy or leniency.
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(of the weather) mildness or temperateness. |
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dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain; conditional (often followed by on or upon ): Our plans are contingent on the weather.
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liable to happen or not; uncertain; possible: They had to plan for contingent expenses.
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happening by chance or without known cause; fortuitous; accidental: contingent occurrences.
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Logic . (of a proposition) neither logically necessary nor logically impossible, so that its truth or falsity can be established only by sensory observation. |
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an inhabitant; resident.
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a person who regularly frequents a place; habitué: the denizens of a local bar.
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British . an alien admitted to residence and to certain rights of citizenship in a country.
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anything adapted to a new place, condition, etc., as an animal or plant not indigenous to a place but successfully naturalized. |
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to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass: to emulate one's father as a concert violinist.
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to rival with some degree of success: Some smaller cities now emulate the major capitals in their cultural offerings. |
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fond of the company of others; sociable.
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living in flocks or herds, as animals.
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Botany . growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together.
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pertaining to a flock or crowd. |
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lacking sense, significance, or ideas; silly: inane questions.
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empty; void. |
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generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness: to be magnanimous toward one's enemies.
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high-minded; noble: a just and magnanimous ruler.
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proceeding from or revealing generosity or nobility of mind, character, etc.: a magnanimous gesture of forgiveness. |
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