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Prisons
- noun - a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
- a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
Prosing
- - Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.
Pulsing
- verb - (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"
- drive by or as if by pulsation; "A soft breeze pulsed the air"
- expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it"
- produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses; "pulse waves"; "a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube"
Pursing
- verb - contract one's lips into a rounded shape
- gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones's lips"
Raising
- verb - activate or stir up; "raise a mutiny"
- bet more than the previous player
- bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
- bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project; "raised edges"
- bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children"
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
- cause to assemble or enlist in the military; "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers"
- cause to be heard or known; express or utter; "raise a shout"; "raise a protest"; "raise a sad cry"
- cause to become alive again; "raise from the dead"; "Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected"; "Upraising ghosts"
- cause to puff up with a leaven; "unleavened bread"
- collect funds for a specific purpose; "The President raised several million dollars for his college"
- construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"
- create a disturbance, especially b
Ramsons
- noun - pungent Old World weedy plant
Reasons
- noun - a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion; "there is reason to believe he is lying"
- a justification for something existing or happening;
- a rational motive for a belief or action; "the reason that war was declared"; "the grounds for their declaration"
- an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon; "the reason a steady state was never reached was that the back pressure built up too slowly"
- decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house"
- present reasons and arguments
- the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"
- the state of having good sense and sound judgment; "his rationality may have been impaired"; "he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions"
- think logically; "The children must learn to reason"
Retsina
- noun - Greek wine flavored with resin
Reusing
- verb - use again after processing; "We must recycle the cardboard boxes"