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Asseveration
- noun - a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
Asseverative
- - Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.
Asseverators
- noun - someone who claims to speak the truth; "a bold asserter"; "a declarer of his intentions"; "affirmers of traditional doctrine"; "an asseverator of strong convictions"; "an avower of his own great intelligence"
Assibilating
- verb - change into a sibilant; "In the syllable /si/, the /s/ sibilates in Japanese"
- insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound)
Assibilation
- noun - pronunciation with a sibilant (hissing or whistling) sound
- the development of a consonant phoneme into a sibilant
Assignations
- noun - a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)
- the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan; "the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state"
Assimilating
- verb - become similar in sound; "The nasal assimilates to the following consonant"
- become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly"
- capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution; "an assimilative substance
- make similar; "This country assimilates immigrants very quickly"
- take (gas, light or heat) into a solution
- take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"
Assimilation
- noun - a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
- in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance
- the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion
- the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
- the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
- the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family
Assimilative
- adjective - capable of mentally absorbing ; "assimilative processes", "assimilative capacity of the human mind"
- capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution; "an assimilative substance