anxiousness
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~ (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic
anxiousness
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~ a feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments
anzac
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~ a soldier in the Australian and New Zealand army corps during World War I
anzio
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~ a town of central Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea; the Allies established a beachhead at Anzio in World War II
aorist
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~ a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation
aorta
— Noun
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~ the large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries
abdominal aorta
— Noun
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~ a branch of the descending aorta
aoudad
— Noun
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~ wild sheep of northern Africa
Apache
— Noun
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~ the language of the Apache
Apache
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~ any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico); fought a losing battle from 1861 to 1886 with the United States and were resettled in Oklahoma
apadana
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~ the great hall in ancient Persian palaces
apalachicola
— Noun
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~ a river in northwestern Florida formed by the confluence of the Chattahoochee River and the Flint River at the Florida border
apanage
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~ any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life; "for thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use"
apanage
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~ a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family; "bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families"
apar
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~ South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates