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Accenting
- verb - put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
- the act of giving special importance or significance to something
- to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
Accepting
- 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"
- 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 committee
- receive willingly something given or offered; "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house!"; "Pleas
Acception
- - Acceptation; the received meaning.
Acceptive
- adjective - accepting willingly; "acceptive of every new idea"; "an acceptant type of mind"
- inclined to accept rather than reject; "she was seldom acceptive of my suggestions"
Accessing
- verb - obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer
- reach or gain access to; "How does one access the attic in this house?"; "I cannot get to the T.V. antenna, even if I climb on the roof"
Accession
- noun - (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement
- a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group); "the art collection grew through accession"
- agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly); "accession to such demands would set a dangerous precedent"; "assenting to the Congressional determination"
- make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library
- something added to what you already have; "the librarian shelved the new accessions"; "he was a new addition to the staff"
- the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne); "Elizabeth's accession in 1558"
- the right to enter
Acclivity
- noun - an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise"
According
- verb - (followed by `to') as reported or stated by; "according to historians"
- (followed by `to') in agreement with or accordant with; "according to instructions"
- allow to have; "grant a privilege"
- go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas concorded"
- In the opinion of
Accordion
- noun - a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player