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Ashy

Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.

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Achromatic 84% connected

Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors.

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Achromatic 84% connected

Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors.

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Neutral 84% connected

Not engaged on either side; not taking part with or assisting either of two or more contending parties; neuter; indifferent.

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Neutral 84% connected

Not engaged on either side; not taking part with or assisting either of two or more contending parties; neuter; indifferent.

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Ash 74% connected

A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus e…

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Ash 74% connected

A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus e…

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Blunt adjective · 78% connection

characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting"; "a blunt New Engl…

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Candid adjective · 78% connection

characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting"; "a blunt New Engl…

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Civilised adjective · 78% connection

marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polit…

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Civilized adjective · 78% connection

marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polit…

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Colloquial adjective · 78% connection

characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual e…

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Conversational adjective · 78% connection

characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual e…

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Courteous adjective · 78% connection

characterized by courtesy and gracious good manners; "if a man be gracious and courteous to strangers it shows he is a citizen of the…

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Cultivated adjective · 78% connection

marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polit…

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Cultured adjective · 78% connection

marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polit…

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Diplomatic adjective · 78% connection

using or marked by tact in dealing with sensitive matters or people; "the hostess averted a confrontation with a diplomatic change of…

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Diplomatical adjective · 78% connection

using or marked by tact in dealing with sensitive matters or people; "the hostess averted a confrontation with a diplomatic change of…

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Direct verb · 78% connection

plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery"

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Ash Wednesday unknown · 78% connection

The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of pe…

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Ash-colored adjective · 78% connection

Of the color of ashes; a whitish gray or brownish gray.

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Ashen adjective · 78% connection

Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.

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Ashery noun · 78% connection

A depository for ashes.

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Ashes n. pl. · 78% connection

The color of ashes; deathlike paleness.

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Aspersed adjective · 78% connection

Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface.

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Barilla noun · 78% connection

A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.

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Bath noun · 78% connection

A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.

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Bed noun · 78% connection

A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.

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Besprent p. p. · 78% connection

Sprinkled over; strewed.

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Blastosphere noun · 78% connection

early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; du…

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Blastula noun · 78% connection

early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; du…

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Breeze noun · 78% connection

Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.

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Burn verb · 78% connection

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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Bury verb · 78% connection

To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hi…

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Cinefaction noun · 78% connection

Cineration; reduction to ashes.

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Cineraceous adjective · 78% connection

Like ashes; ash-colored; cinereous.

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Cinerary adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.

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