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Alteration
- noun - Amended
- an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another; "the change was intended to increase sales"; "this storm is certainly a change for the worse"; "the neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit years ago"
- the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
- the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification); "it would require a drastic revision of his opinion"
Alternator
- noun - an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles)
Amber Room
- - A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans.
Apparition
- noun - a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
- an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly; "natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stranger"
- Ghost like image.
- something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight"
- Spectre
- the appearance of a ghostlike figure; "I was recalled to the present by the apparition of a frightening specter"
Asperation
- - The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough.
Aspiration
- noun - a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business"
- a manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath
- a will to succeed
- hope
- the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
Auguration
- - The practice of augury.
Brier-Wood
- noun - wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes
Cameration
- - A vaulting or arching over.
Castration
- noun - neutering a male animal by removing the testicles
- surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men); "bilateral castration results in sterilization"
- the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work