The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill o…
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Precariousness
being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance; "the uncertainty of the outcome"; "the precariousness of his income"
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The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule o…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supp…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressi…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.Any article or separable part of one's assets.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.The whole mass of aeriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; a…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate part…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.Any subtile, invisible emanation, effluvium, or exhalation from a substance, as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a suppose…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.Bade.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.The state of being bad.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.the quality of being believable or trustworthy
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.
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Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.The quality of being credible; credibleness; as, the credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.The quality or state of being credible; worthiness of belief; credibility.
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That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unsettled, doubt, dependent, chance, uncertainty.Doubt; uncertainty.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unsettled, doubt, dependent, chance, uncertainty.Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions concerning.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unsettled, doubt, dependent, chance, uncertainty.A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unsettled, doubt, dependent, chance, uncertainty.Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unsettled, doubt, dependent, chance, uncertainty.The result that a study measures.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unsettled, doubt, dependent, chance, uncertainty.To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unsettled, doubt, dependent, chance, uncertainty.State of being in doubt; uncertainty; doubt.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unsettled, doubt, dependent, chance, uncertainty.Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affect…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unsettled, doubt, dependent, chance, uncertainty.Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unsettled, doubt, dependent, chance, uncertainty.Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unsettled, doubt, dependent, chance, uncertainty.Doubt; uncertainty.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unsettled, doubt, dependent, chance, uncertainty.An argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with one premise omitted; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unsettled, doubt, dependent, chance, uncertainty.
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