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-Escent
- - A suffix signifying beginning, beginning to be; as, adolescent, effervescent, etc.
Absalom
- unknown - Third son of Biblical David
Abscess
- noun - symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue
Abscise
- verb - remove or separate by abscission
- shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue
Abscond
- verb - run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; "The thief made off with our silver"; "the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe"
Abseils
- noun - (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body
- 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"
Absence
- 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"
Absents
- verb - go away or leave; "He absented himself"