Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contribu…
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Conjoined; attending; consequent.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Tense, aspect and mood.A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Tense, aspect and mood.Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Tense, aspect and mood.Annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Tense, aspect and mood.The act of looking; vision; gaze; glance.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Tense, aspect and mood.Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Tense, aspect and mood.Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Tense, aspect and mood.One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided,…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Tense, aspect and mood.a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future; "‘I will have finished’ is an example of the future p…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Tense, aspect and mood.a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future; "‘I will have finished’ is an example of the future p…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Tense, aspect and mood.a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Tense, aspect and mood.a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Tense, aspect and mood.a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Tense, aspect and mood.a verb in the imperative mood.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Tense, aspect and mood.a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Tense, aspect and mood.an auxiliary verb (such as ‘can’ or ‘will’) that is used to express modality
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Tense, aspect and mood.an auxiliary verb (such as ‘can’ or ‘will’) that is used to express modality
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Producing accusations; accusatory.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aspect, verb, expresses, on-going.Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aspect, verb, expresses, on-going.the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the v…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aspect, verb, expresses, on-going.a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aspect, verb, expresses, on-going.In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aspect, verb, expresses, on-going.a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aspect, verb, expresses, on-going.Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aspect, verb, expresses, on-going.Continuing; not completed; implying duration.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aspect, verb, expresses, on-going.That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aspect, verb, expresses, on-going.A kind of verbal noun, having only the four oblique cases of the singular number, and governing cases like a participle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aspect, verb, expresses, on-going.To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aspect, verb, expresses, on-going.Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of actio…
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