ascent
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～ a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
ascent
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～ the act of changing location in an upward direction
ascent
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～ an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise"
ascesis
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～ rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint
ascetic
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～ someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
asceticism
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～ the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
asceticism
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～ rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint
asceticism
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～ the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state
asch
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～ United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957)
Ascidiaceae
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～ sometimes classified as an order: sea squirts
ascidian
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～ minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves
ascii
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～ (computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies; a string of 7 binary digits represents each character; used in most microcomputers
ascites
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～ accumulation of serous fluid in peritoneal cavity
asclepiad
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～ any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae
Asclepiadaceae
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～ widely distributed family of herbs and shrubs of the order Gentianales; most with milky juice
Asclepias albicans
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～ tall herb with leafless white waxy stems and whitish starlike flowers; southwestern United States
Asclepias
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～ genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs: silkweed; milkweed
Asclepius
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～ son of Apollo; a hero and the Roman god of medicine and healing; his daughters were Hygeia and Panacea
ascocarp
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～ mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus