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Abbesses
- noun - the superior of a group of nuns
Abiences
- noun - (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object
Abseiled
- verb - lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside; "The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing"
Abseiler
- noun - a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point
Absences
- noun - failure to be present
- the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy
- the state of being absent; "he was surprised by the absence of any explanation"
- the time interval during which something or somebody is away; "he visited during my absence"
Absented
- verb - go away or leave; "He absented himself"
Absentee
- noun - one that is absent or not in residence
Absenter
- - One who absents one's self.
Accented
- verb - bearing a stress or accent; "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'"
- put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
- to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
- used of syllables; "a tonic syllables carries the main stress in a word"
Accepted
- verb - admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"
- be designed to hold or take; "This surface will not take the dye"
- be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal; "The cow accepted the bull"
- consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument"
- generally approved or compelling recognition; "several accepted techniques for treating the condition"; "his recognized superiority in this kind of work"
- give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution"
- make use of or accept for some purpose; "take a risk"; "take an opportunity"
- react favorably to; consider right and proper; "People did not accept atonal music at that time"; "We accept the idea of universal health care"
- receive (a report) officially, as from a committe