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anti-Semitism |
Noun
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the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people |
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antisemitism |
Noun
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the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people |
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angle |
Noun
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a biased way of looking at or presenting something |
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angle |
Noun
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the space between two lines or planes that intersect |
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angle |
Verb
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to present with a bias |
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angle |
Verb
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to fish with a hook |
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angle |
Verb
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to seek indirectly |
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angle |
Verb
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to incline or bend from a vertical position |
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angle |
Verb
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to move or proceed at an angle |
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anti-Catholicism |
Noun
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a religious orientation opposed to Catholicism |
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anarchism |
Noun
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a political theory favoring the abolition of governments |
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autocracy |
Noun
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a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual |
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autocracy |
Noun
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a political system governed by a single individual |
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anthropocentrism |
Noun
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an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values |
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anthropocentricity |
Noun
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an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values |
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amateurism |
Noun
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the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money |
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anagram |
Noun
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a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase |
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anagram |
Verb
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to read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning |
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anaphor |
Noun
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a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition |
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antonym |
Noun
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a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other |
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airmail |
Noun
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a system of conveying mail by aircraft |
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airmail |
Noun
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letters and packages that are transported by aircraft |
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airmail |
Verb
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to send or transport by airmail |
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airpost |
Noun
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a system of conveying mail by aircraft |
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asynchronous transfer mode |
Noun
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a means of digital communications that is capable of very high speeds |
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aether |
Noun
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a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves |
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airwave |
Noun
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medium for radio and television broadcasting |
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amplitude modulation |
Noun
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modulation of the amplitude of the (radio) carrier wave |
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antigram |
Noun
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an anagram that means the opposite of the original word or phrase |
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agony column |
Noun
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a newspaper column devoted to personal problems |
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Aga |
Noun
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title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey) |
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Agha |
Noun
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title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey) |
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affected role |
Noun
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the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause |
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agentive role |
Noun
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the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause |
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agent |
Noun
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the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause |
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agent |
Noun
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an active and efficient cause |
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agent |
Noun
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a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission |
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agent |
Noun
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a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations |
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agent |
Noun
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any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau |
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agent |
Noun
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a substance that exerts some force or effect |
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antepenult |
Noun
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the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end |
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antepenultima |
Noun
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the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end |
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auxiliary verb |
Noun
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a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with |
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allomorph |
Noun
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a variant phonological representation of a morpheme |
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allomorph |
Noun
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any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound |
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agnomen |
Noun
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an additional name or an epithet appended to a name |
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adverb |
Noun
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the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses |
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adverb |
Noun
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a word that modifies something other than a noun |
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assumed name |
Noun
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(law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of incorporation |
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assumed name |
Noun
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a name that has been assumed temporarily |