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Ambagious
- adjective - roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)
Amberbell
- noun - eastern North American dogtooth having solitary yellow flowers marked with brown or purple and spotted interiors
Amberfish
- noun - any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes
Ambergris
- noun - waxy substance secreted by the sperm whale and found floating at sea or washed ashore; used in perfume
Amberjack
- noun - any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes
Ambiances
- noun - a particular environment or surrounding influence; "there was an atmosphere of excitement"
- the atmosphere of an environment
Ambiences
- noun - a particular environment or surrounding influence; "there was an atmosphere of excitement"
- the atmosphere of an environment
Ambiguity
- noun - an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context
- unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
Ambiguous
- adjective - having more than one possible meaning; "ambiguous words"; "frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy"
- having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns; "an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference"; "ambiguous inkblots"
- open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead; "an equivocal statement"; "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"; "the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness"; "popularity is an equivocal crown"; "an equivocal response to an embarrassing question"