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Main Entry: manhood

Part of Speech: noun


Definition: maturity . the state or time of being a man or adult male person; male maturity.
Synonyms: adulthood, boldness, bravery, chivalry, courage, daring, determination, firmness, forcefulness,
fortitude, gallantry, hardihood, honor, machismo, manfulness, manliness, masculinity, mettle, nobility, potency,
resoluteness, resolution, self-reliance, spirit, sturdiness, tenacity, valor, virility
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defect
noun
blemish, imperfection
birthmark, blot, blotch, break, bug, catch, check, crack, deficiency, deformity, discoloration,
drawback, error, failing, fault, flaw, foible, frailty, gap, glitch, gremlin, hole, infirmity, injury,
irregularity, kink, knot, lack, mark, marring, mistake, patch, rift, rough spot, scar, scarcity, scratch,
seam, second, shortage, shortcoming, sin, speck, spot, stain, taint, unsoundness, vice, want,
weakness, weak point
advantage, improvement, perfection, strength

Main Entry: blank


Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: the uterus of the human female and certain higher mammals.
Synonyms: bare, barren, clean, empty, fresh, new, pale, plain, spotless, uncompleted, unfilled, unmarked,
untouched, unused, vacant, vacuous, virgin, virginal, void, white Antonyms: filled, full, habited, occupied
Main Entry: apparent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: seeming, not proven real
Synonyms: credible, illusive, illusory, likely, ostensible, outward, plausible, possible, probable, semblant,
specious, superficial, supposed, suppositious Antonyms: doubtful, dubious, equivocal, hidden, improbable,
obscure, questionable, real, uncertain, unclear, unlikely
Main Entry: tempt
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lure, entice
Synonyms: allure, appeal to, attract, bait, butter up*, captivate, charm, coax, court, dare, decoy, draw, draw out,
entrap, fascinate, honey*, hook*, incite, induce, influence, instigate, intrigue, inveigle, invite, lead on, make mouth
water, motivate, mousetrap, move, oil, persuade, play up to, promote, provoke, risk, rouse, seduce, solicit,
stimulate, tantalize, test, train, try, turn ones head, wheedle, whet, woo* Antonyms: discourage, repulse, turn off
Main Entry: tummy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: stomach
Synonyms: abdomen, belly, below the belt*, breadbasket, gut, insides, paunch, pot*, solar plexus, spare tire*
Main Entry: poverty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: want; extreme need, often financial
Synonyms: abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion,
destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniousness, impoverishment,
inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessitousness, necessity, pass, paucity,
pauperism, pennilessness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits,
underdevelopment, vacancy
Antonyms: abundance, affluence, luxury, richness, wealth

Main Entry: quest


Part of Speech: noun
Definition: search, exploration
Synonyms: adventure, chase, crusade, delving, enterprise, examination, expedition, hunt, inquest, inquiry,
inquisition, investigation, journey, mission, pilgrimmage, prey, probe, probing, pursual, pursuit, quarry, research,
seeking, voyage
Main Entry: determine
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: conclude, decide
Synonyms: actuate, arbitrate, call the shots*, cinch, clinch, complete, dispose, drive, end, figure, finish, fix upon,
halt, impel, incline, induce, move, nail down*, opt, ordain, persuade, pin down, predispose, regulate, resolve, rule,
settle, take a decision, tap, terminate, ultimate, wind up*, wrap up*
Antonyms: begin, start
Main Entry: culprit Part of Speech: noun Definition: person responsible for wrongdoing Synonyms: con,
convict, criminal, delinquent, evildoer, ex-con, felon, fugitive, guilty party, jailbird, malefactor, miscreant,
offender, rascal, sinner, transgressor, wrongdoer, yardbird
Main Entry: bulge Part of Speech: noun Definition: swollen object Synonyms: appendage, bagginess, blob,
bump, bunch, bunching, convexity, dilation, distention, excess, excrescence, gibbosity, growth, hump,
intumescence, jut, lump, nodulation, nodule, outgrowth, outthrust, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion,
protuberance, sac, sagging, salience, salient, superfluity, swelling, tuberosity, tumefaction, tumor, wart Antonyms:
depression
Kidney :
Anatomy. either of a pair of bean-shaped organs in the back part of the abdominal cavity that form and excrete
urine, regulate fluid and electrolyte balance, and act as endocrine glands.
Metabolism :
Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material
substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available
Main Entry: disease
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ailment, affliction
Synonyms: ache, affection, attack, blight, breakdown, bug*, cancer, canker, collapse, complaint, condition,
contagion, contamination, convulsions, debility, decrepitude, defect, disorder, distemper, endemic, epidemic,
feebleness, fever, fit, flu, hemorrhage, ill health, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, inflammation, malady,
misery, pathosis, plague, seizure, sickliness, sickness, spell, stroke, syndrome, temperature, unhealthiness,
unsoundness, upset, virus, visitation
Antonyms: health
Main Entry: chance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: possibility, probability
Synonyms: break, contingency, fair shake*, fighting chance*, indications, liability, likelihood, long shot*, look-in,
occasion, odds, opening, opportunity, outlook, prospect, scope, shot*, show, squeak, time, wager
Antonyms: assurance, certainty, design, law, plan, scheme
Main Entry: breast
Part of Speech: noun

Definition: front of upper body


Synonyms: bosom, bust, chest, front, mammary glands, mammilla, nipple, teat, udder
Main Entry: vein
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: blood vessel
Synonyms: capillary, course, current, duct, follicle, hair, lode, nerve, seam, stratum, streak, stripe, thread, venation
Main Entry: predict
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: express an outcome in advance
Synonyms: adumbrate, anticipate, augur, be afraid, call, call it, conclude, conjecture, croak, crystal-ball* divine,
envision, figure, figure out, forebode, forecast, foresee, forespeak, foretell, gather, guess, have a hunch, hazard a
guess, infer, judge, make book, omen, portend, presage, presume, prognosticate, prophesy, psych out, read, see
coming, see handwriting on wall, size up*, soothsay, suppose, surmise, telegraph, think, vaticinate
Enzyme :
any of various proteins, as pepsin, originating from living cells and capable of producing certain chemical changes
in organic substances by catalytic action, as in digestion.
Hip :
noun
the projecting part of each side of the body formed by the side of the pelvis and the upper part of the femur and
1.
the flesh covering them; haunch.
Main Entry: prenatal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: before birth
Synonyms: during pregnancy, fetal
Main Entry: perceptible
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: Capable of being noticed or apprehended mentally. Synonyms: appreciable, discernible,
distinguishable, noticeable, observable, palpable, perceivable, ponderable, sensible
Main Entry: stew
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mixture, miscellany
Synonyms: brew, goulash*, hash, jumble, medley, mlange, mishmash, mulligan, olio*, pasticcio, pie*, potpourri,
salmagundi*, soup
Antonyms: element
Main Entry: apparent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: seeming, not proven real
Synonyms: credible, illusive, illusory, likely, ostensible, outward, plausible, possible, probable, semblant,
specious, superficial, supposed, suppositious
Antonyms: doubtful, dubious, equivocal, hidden, improbable, obscure, questionable, real, uncertain, unclear,
unlikely
Main Entry: paragon
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: outstanding example

Synonyms: apotheosis, archetype, beau ideal*, beauty, best, champ, champion, crackerjack*, cream*, criterion,
cynosure, epitome, essence, exemplar, gem, ideal, jewel*, love, lovely, model, nonesuch, nonpareil, original,
paradigm, pattern, peach, perfection, pick, prototype, quintessence, standard, sublimation, tops, trump*, ultimate
Main Entry: scrutinize
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: examine closely
Synonyms: analyze, burn up, candle, canvass, case, check, check out, check over, comb*, consider, contemplate,
dig, dissect, explore, eyeball, get a load of, go over with a fine-tooth comb, inquire into, inspect, investigate, look
over, overlook, peg*, penetrate, perlustrate, peruse, pierce, pore over, probe, put under a microscope, scan, scope,
scrutinate, search, sift, smoke*, stare, study, survey, take the measure of, view, watch, weigh
Main Entry: infant
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: baby
Synonyms: babe, bairn, bambino, bantling, bundle, child, kid, little one, neonate, newborn, small child, suckling,
toddler, tot
Antonyms: adult
Main Entry: evidence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: proof
Synonyms: affirmation, attestation, averment, cincher, clincher*, clue, confirmation, corroboration, cue, data,
declaration, demonstration, deposition, documentation, dope*, goods*, gospel, grabber, grounds, index, indication,
indicia, info, information, manifestation, mark, sign, significant, smoking gun*, substantiation, symptom,
testament, testimonial, testimony, token, witness
Notes: evidence (from Latin e- 'out' + videre 'to see') is information that helps form a conclusion; proof is factual
information that verifies a conclusion
Antonyms: contradiction, disproof, heresay, refutation
Main Entry: malignant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: diseased
Synonyms: cancerous, deadly, destructive, fatal, internecine, lethal, mortal, pestilential, poisonous
Antonyms: benign, harmless, uncancerous
Main Entry: pudgy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: slightly fat
Synonyms: chubby*, hefty, plump, plumpish, rotund, round, stout, thick-bodied, tubby* Antonyms: skinny,
slight, thin
Tissue :noun
Biology. an aggregate of similar cells and cell products forming a definite kind of structural material with a
specific function, in a multicellular organism.
Gene : noun
A hereditary unit consisting of a sequence of DNA that occupies a specific location on a chromosome and
determines a particular characteristic in an organism. Genes undergo mutation when their DNA sequence changes.

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