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Obversion
- - The act of turning toward or downward.
Obviating
- verb - do away with
- made impossible
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike"
Obviation
- noun - the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively
Obviously
- adverb - Clearly
- unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn"
Obvoluted
- - Overlapping; contorted; convolute; -- applied primarily, in botany, to two opposite leaves, each of which has one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other, and secondarily to a circle of several leaves or petals which thus overlap.
Occasions
- noun - a vaguely specified social event; "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions"
- an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions"
- an opportunity to do something; "there was never an occasion for her to demonstrate her skill"
- give occasion to
- Notable event
- reason; "there was no occasion for complaint"
- something you have to do; "he minded his own specialized occasions"
- the time of a particular event; "on the occasion of his 60th birthday"
Occidents
- noun - the countries of (originally) Europe and (now including) North America and South America
- the hemisphere that includes North America and South America