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• Nefarious
  ==Adjective==
  596 bytes (82 words) - 20:00, 19 January 2010
• Extended
  ==Adjective==
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• Static
  ==Adjective==
  684 bytes (84 words) - 20:09, 23 July 2009
• Guilty
  ==Adjective==
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• Unknown
  ==Adjective==
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• Comparable
  *3 : to inflect or [[modify]] (an adjective or adverb) according to the [[degrees]] of comparison ...alue]] of one [[thing]] with something in another clause of a sentence. An adjective may simply describe a [[quality]], (the positive); it may compare the [[qua
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• Unique
  ==Adjective==
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• Professional
  ==Adjective==
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• Profound
  ==Adjective==
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• Emeritus
  ...is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-positive_adjective post-positive adjective] that is used to designate a [[retired]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro ...postpositional adjective (e.g., "professor emeritus") or as a preposition adjective (e.g., "emeritus professor"). There is a third, somewhat less common usage,
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• Authoritative
  *adjective
  463 bytes (60 words) - 17:06, 7 November 2009
• Mortal
  ==Adjective==
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• Public
  ==Adjective==
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• Dubitable
  '''dubitable'''- adjective
  562 bytes (73 words) - 00:22, 13 December 2020
• Chastity
  ...ry that the two words came to have the same basic [[meaning]] as a related adjective and noun.
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• Embryo
  ===Adjective===
  2 KB (378 words) - 20:50, 24 March 2015
• Subordinate
  :''Adjective'' *3 : of, relating to, or constituting a clause that [[functions]] as a noun, adjective, or adverb
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• Intent
  ===Adjective===
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• Trivia
  ...ace where three ways meet". The pertaining adjective is ''triviālis''. The adjective ''trivial'' was adopted in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_Engl The [[Latin]] adjective ''triviālis'' in Classical Latin besides its [[literal]] [[meaning]] could
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• Peers
  ...ier as adjective as pare (late 12th cent.)), Portuguese par (13th cent. as adjective and noun). ...the person in question; an equal before the [[law]]. Freq. with possessive adjective and in pl.
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• Necessity
  :b. As a mass noun (freq. with possessive adjective): what is necessarily required; necessaries, needs. Now rare. :b. With possessive adjective or with the and modifying of-clause. Now rare.
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• Possessed
  *A. adjective.
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• Ignorance
  ...ation or general awareness are not the same. The [[word]] "Ignorant" is an adjective describing a person in the state of being unaware. The term may be used spe
  816 bytes (125 words) - 23:56, 12 December 2020
• Expression
  ex⋅pres⋅sion⋅al, adjective ex⋅pres⋅sion⋅less, adjective
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• Weird
  ...odern English adjective "weird" around 1400, and was originally used as an adjective for Weird Sisters. The meaning of "odd" is first attested in 1815. The term
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• Potential
  ==Adjective==
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• Foe
  ...100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] fāh, from fāh, adjective, [[hostile]]; akin to Old High German gifēh hostile
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• Finite
  Adjective - '''finite''' (comparative more finite, superlative most finite)
  1 KB (181 words) - 23:56, 12 December 2020
• Principle
  ...incipal, many people still do. Principle is only a noun; principal is both adjective and noun.
  1 KB (177 words) - 01:56, 13 December 2020
• Vernacular
  *Function: adjective
  1,013 bytes (149 words) - 20:31, 18 October 2009
• License
  synonyms see [[freedom]]— licensed adjective
  1 KB (167 words) - 01:28, 13 December 2020
• Wonder
  ===Adjective===
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• Adjacent
  Adjacent is an adjective meaning contiguous, adjoining or abutting.
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• Military
  ...ending its country by combating [[actual]] or [[perceived]] threats. As an adjective the term "military" is also used to refer to any [[property]] or aspect of As an adjective military [[originally]] applied only to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sold
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• Open-ended
  adjective
  1 KB (151 words) - 22:06, 3 August 2011
• Deja vu
  French, adjective, [[literally]], already seen
  2 KB (229 words) - 23:47, 12 December 2020
• Fraud
  ...ade for [[personal]] gain or to damage another [[individual]]; the related adjective is fraudulent.
  1 KB (217 words) - 01:05, 13 December 2020
• Primitive
  Adjective - '''primitive'''
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• Phrase
  ...ger prepositional phrase. At the end of the street could be replaced by an adjective such as nearby: the nearby house or even the house nearby. The end of the s ...ss. For example, the rich is a noun phrase composed of a determiner and an adjective without a noun.
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• China
  late [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 16th century] (as an adjective): from Persian chīnī ‘relating to China’, where it was originally mad
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• Superficial
  '''Superficial''' is an adjective generally [[meaning]] "regarding the surface", often [[metaphorically]]. Bo
  2 KB (220 words) - 15:48, 30 December 2009
• Celestial
  Adjective - '''celestial''' (not comparable)
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• Proteus
  ...ne who is capable of capturing him. From this feature of Proteus comes the adjective protean, with the general meaning of "[[versatile]]", "mutable", "capable ...m Proteus' [[transforming]] [[nature]], and multifarious aspects comes our adjective "protean". A "protean [[career]]" would [[embrace]] many human concerns. Fo
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• Condemn
  ...overtones. From it in [[English]] came "condemn"; "damnified" (an obsolete adjective [[meaning]] "damaged"); "damage" (via French from Latin damnaticum). It beg
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• Classic
  ...ething of lasting worth or with a timeless [[quality]]. The word can be an adjective (a classic car) or a noun (a classic of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engl
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• Abyss
  ...from Late Latin ''abyssus'', from [[Greek]] ''ἄβυσσο'', from ''abyssos'', adjective, bottomless, from a- + ''byssos'' depth; perhaps akin to [[Greek]] ''bathys
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• Vaccine
  ...variolae'' ''vaccinae'' cowpox), from ''Latin'', feminine of ''vaccinus'', adjective, of or from cows, from ''vacca'' cow; akin to [[Sanskrit]] ''vaśa'' cow
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• Grotesque
  ...ENGLISH_PERIOD modern English], grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, fantastic, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or bizarre, and
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• Internship
  as an adjective in the sense ‘internal’: from French ''interne'' (adjective), ''interner'' (verb), from [[Latin]] ''internus'' ‘inward, internal.’
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• Atrophy
  ...art are referred to as trophic [noun] in medical practice ('trophic" is an adjective that can be paired with various nouns). ''Trophic'' [[describes]] the troph
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