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temptation
temptation
/tɛmpˈteɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of tempting
- The condition of being tempted.
- Something attractive, tempting or seductive; an inducement or enticement.
- Pressure applied to your thinking designed to create wrong emotions which will eventually lead to wrong actions.
Synonyms: fitna.
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fierce
fierce
/fɪɹs/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious, cruel or savage.
- Resolute or strenuously active.
- Threatening in appearance or demeanor.
- (rural) Excellent, very good.
- Of exceptional quality, exhibiting boldness or chutzpah.
Synonyms: incessive, incessive.
2. Adverb
- (rural) Extremely; very.
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compulsory
compulsory
/kəmˈpʌlsəri/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Something that is compulsory or required.
2. Adjective
- Required; obligatory; mandatory.
- Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
Synonyms: mandatory.
Antonyms: optional.
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strain
strain
/stɹeɪ̯n/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Treasure.
- The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
- Race; lineage, pedigree.
- Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
- A tendency or disposition.
- Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style
- A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
- A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
- A kind or sort (of person etc.).
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
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attain
attain
/əˈteɪn/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To gain (an object or desired result).
- To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).
- To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.
- To get at the knowledge of.
- To reach in excellence or degree.
- To reach a person after being behind them.
Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, get, ascertain, catch up with, overtake, equal, get, reach.
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criteria
criteria
/kɹaɪˈtɪəɹ.i.ə/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A single criterion.
2. Noun
- A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.
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synthetic
synthetic
/sɪnˈθɛtɪk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A synthetic compound.
2. Adjective
- Of, or relating to synthesis.
- Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
- Artificial, not genuine,
- (grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic).
- Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships (compare analytic).
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productive
productive
/pɹəˈdʌktɪv/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
- Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
- Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.
- (of an affix or word construction rule) Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
- Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.
- Of inflammation, producing new tissue.
- A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
Antonyms: baneful, counter-productive, counterproductive, destructive, nonproductive, ruinous, unproductive.
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manufacturer
manufacturer
/ˌmænjuˈfæktʃɚ(ɹ)ɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One that manufactures
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equipment
equipment
/ɪˈkwɪpmənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
- Whatever is used in equipping something or someone, for example things needed for an expedition or voyage.
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universe
universe
/ˈjuːnəˌvɝs/
Meaning:
1. Proper noun
- Our universe, the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself.
2. Noun
- The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself.
- An entity similar to our universe; one component of a larger entity known as the multiverse.
- Everything under consideration.
- A sample taken from the population.
- An imaginary collection of worlds.
- (films) A collection of stories with characters and settings that are less interrelated than those of sequels or prequels.
- A whole world, in the sense of perspective or social setting.
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exclude
exclude
/ɪksˈkluːd/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
- To expel; to put out.
- To omit from consideration.
- To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.
- To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.
Synonyms: debar, forbar, turn away, eject, throw out, turf out, omit.
Antonyms: include.
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defence
defence
/dɪˈfɛns/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The action of defending, of protecting from attack, danger or injury.
- Something used to oppose attacks.
- An argument in support or justification of something.
- A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.
- The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.
- Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
- Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
Antonyms: offence, offense.
2. Verb
- To furnish with defences; to fortify.
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unbearable
unbearable
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- So unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable
Synonyms: insufferable, unsupportable.
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amongst
amongst
/əˈmʌŋst/
Meaning:
1. Preposition
- Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. See usage note at amidst.
Synonyms: amid, amidst, among.
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protein
protein
/ˈpɹoʊtiːn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any of numerous large, complex naturally-produced molecules composed of one or more long chains of amino acids, in which the amino acid groups are held together by peptide bonds.
- (nutrition) One of three major classes of food or source of food energy (4 kcal/gram) abundant in animal-derived foods (i.e. meat) and some vegetables, such as legumes.
- (nutrition) A food rich in protein, often a meat or meat substitute.
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marine
marine
/məˈɹiːn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A soldier, normally a member of a marine corps, trained to serve on board or from a ship
- Capitalised in the plural A marine corps.
- A painting representing some marine subject.
Synonyms: devil dog, jarhead, leatherneck.
2. Adjective
- Belonging to or characteristic of the sea; existing or found in the sea; formed or produced by the sea.
- Relating to or connected with the sea (in operation, scope, etc.), especially as pertains to shipping, a navy, or naval forces.
- Used or adapted for use at sea.
- Inhabiting the high seas; oceanic; pelagic. (distinguished from maritime or littoral)
- Belonging to or situated at the seaside; maritime.
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literature
literature
/ˈlɪ.tɚ.tʃɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The body of all written works.
- The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture.
- (usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
- Written fiction of a high standard.
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psychology
psychology
/saɪˈkɑlədʒi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The study of the human mind.
- The study of human behavior.
- The study of animal behavior.
- The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.
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propose
propose
/pɹəˈpoʊz/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An objective or aim.
2. Verb
- To suggest a plan, course of action, etc.
- (sometimes followed by to) To ask for a person’s hand in marriage.
- To intend.
- To talk; to converse.
- To set forth.
Synonyms: forthput, put forth, suggest.
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electron
electron
/ɪˈlɛktɹɑn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The subatomic particle having a negative charge and orbiting the nucleus; the flow of electrons in a conductor constitutes electricity.
- Alloys of magnesium and other metals, like aluminum or zinc, that were manufactured by the German company Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron.
Synonyms: negatron.
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investment
investment
/ɪnˈvɛsmənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of investing, or state of being invested.
- A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation.
- A vestment.
- The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
- A mixture of silica sand and plaster which, by surrounding a wax pattern, creates a negative mold of the form used for casting, among other metals, bronze.
Antonyms: divestment.
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portrait
portrait
/ˈpɔɹtɹeɪt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
- An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
- A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.
Antonyms: landscape, profile.
2. Verb
- To portray; to draw.
3. Adjective
- Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.
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property
property
/ˈpɹɑp.ɚt.i/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Something that is owned.
- A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
- Real estate; the business of selling houses.
- The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
- An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
- An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
- An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class, or the value of such a parameter.
- (usually in the plural) A prop, an object used in a dramatic production.
- Propriety; correctness.
Synonyms: land, parcel, prop.
2. Verb
- To invest with properties, or qualities.
- To make a property of; to appropriate.
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