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Inferior 84% connected

Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Inferior 84% connected

Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.

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Little 66% connected

Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill…

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Little 66% connected

Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill…

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Appoggiatura noun · 78% connection

A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree a…

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But adv. & conj. · 78% connection

Except with; unless with; without.

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Catamenia noun · 78% connection

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to e…

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Coercion noun · 78% connection

The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produce…

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Corpus luteum noun · 78% connection

yellow endocrine tissue that forms in a ruptured Graafian follicle following the release of an ovum; it degenerates after a few days u…

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Default noun · 78% connection

an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified

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Depreciate verb · 78% connection

To fall in value; to become of less worth; to sink in estimation; as, a paper currency will depreciate, unless it is convertible into…

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Except conj. · 78% connection

Unless; if it be not so that.

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Flow noun · 78% connection

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to e…

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Garb noun · 78% connection

A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).

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Gila monster noun · 78% connection

large orange and black lizard of southwestern United States; not dangerous unless molested

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Hydra noun · 78% connection

A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off,…

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Inertia noun · 78% connection

That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straigh…

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Judicial admission noun · 78% connection

(law) an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the…

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Mean noun · 78% connection

A quantity having an intermediate value between several others, from which it is derived, and of which it expresses the resultant valu…

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Menses noun · 78% connection

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to e…

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Menstruation noun · 78% connection

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to e…

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Menstruum noun · 78% connection

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to e…

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