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Assibilation

Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to -shun, duke to ditch.

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Development 76% connected

The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an ima…

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Evolution 76% connected

The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.

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Pronunciation 76% connected

The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinc…

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Assibilate 74% connected

To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant.

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Assibilate 74% connected

To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant.

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Sibilate 74% connected

To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.

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Sibilate 74% connected

To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.

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Sibilation 92% connected

Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss.

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A unknown · 78% connection

The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the…

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Astert verb · 78% connection

To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun.

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Avoid adjective · 78% connection

To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.

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Azymous adjective · 78% connection

Unleavened; unfermented. B () is the second letter of the English alphabet. (See Guide to Pronunciation, // 196, 220.) It is etymologi…

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Balk verb · 78% connection

To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk.

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Batardeau noun · 78% connection

A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the…

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Byzantine noun · 78% connection

A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople. C (…

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Catchdrain noun · 78% connection

A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.

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Change verb · 78% connection

To alter by substituting something else for, or by giving up for something else; as, to change the clothes; to change one's occupation…

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Cherry noun · 78% connection

The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the beg…

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Conversion noun · 78% connection

A spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of the world t…

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Counterscarf noun · 78% connection

The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the e…

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Decline verb · 78% connection

To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.

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Dig verb · 78% connection

To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.

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Ditch verb · 78% connection

To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.

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Ducal adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a duke.

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Ducally adverb · 78% connection

In the manner of a duke, or in a manner becoming the rank of a duke.

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Ducat noun · 78% connection

A coin, either of gold or silver, of several countries in Europe; originally, one struck in the dominions of a duke.

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