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ostentation
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noun |
A display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery.
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praal |
| 🔊 2 |
ostracism
|
noun |
Exclusion from intercourse or favor, as in society or politics.
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uitbanning |
| 🔊 3 |
ostracize
|
verb |
To exclude from public or private favor.
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dood verklaar |
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ought
|
verb |
To be under moral obligation to be or do.
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behoort |
| 🔊 5 |
oust
|
verb |
To eject.
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verdryf |
| 🔊 6 |
out-and-out
|
adverb |
Genuinely.
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out-of-the-way
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adjective |
Remotely situated.
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outbreak
|
noun |
A sudden and violent breaking forth, as of something that has been pent up or restrained.
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uitbreek |
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outburst
|
noun |
A violent issue, especially of passion in an individual.
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uitbarsting |
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outcast
|
noun |
One rejected and despised, especially socially.
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uitgeworpene |
| 🔊 11 |
outcry
|
noun |
A vehement or loud cry or clamor.
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verontwaardiging |
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outdo
|
verb |
To surpass.
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oortref |
| 🔊 13 |
outlandish
|
adjective |
Of barbarous, uncouth, and unfamiliar aspect or action.
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vreemd |
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outlast
|
verb |
To last longer than.
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langer duur |
| 🔊 15 |
outlaw
|
noun |
A habitual lawbreaker.
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verbied |
| 🔊 16 |
outlive
|
verb |
To continue to exist after.
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oorleef |
| 🔊 17 |
outpost
|
noun |
A detachment of troops stationed at a distance from the main body to guard against surprise.
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buitepos |
| 🔊 18 |
outrage
|
noun |
A gross infringement of morality or decency.
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verontwaardiging |
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outrageous
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adjective |
Shocking in conduct.
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verregaande |
| 🔊 20 |
outreach
|
verb |
To reach or go beyond.
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uitreik |
| 🔊 21 |
outride
|
verb |
To ride faster than.
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deur staan |
| 🔊 22 |
outright
|
adverb |
Entirely.
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blatante |
| 🔊 23 |
outskirt
|
noun |
A border region.
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outskirt |
| 🔊 24 |
outstretch
|
verb |
To extend.
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uitstrek |
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outstrip
|
verb |
To go beyond.
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oorskry |
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outweigh
|
verb |
To surpass in importance or excellence.
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swaarder |
| 🔊 27 |
overdo
|
verb |
To overtax the strength of.
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oordoen |
| 🔊 28 |
overdose
|
noun |
An excessive dose, usually so large a dose of a medicine that its effect is toxic.
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oordosis |
| 🔊 29 |
overeat
|
verb |
To eat to excess.
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ooreet |
| 🔊 30 |
overhang
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noun |
A portion of a structure which projects or hangs over.
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oorhang |
| 🔊 31 |
overleap
|
verb |
To leap beyond.
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spring oor |
| 🔊 32 |
overlord
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noun |
One who holds supremacy over another.
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Overlord |
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overpass
|
verb |
To pass across or over, as a river.
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bowe |
| 🔊 34 |
overpay
|
verb |
To pay or reward in excess.
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veel betaal |
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overpower
|
verb |
To gain supremacy or victory over by superior power.
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oorweldig |
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overproduction
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noun |
Excessive production.
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oorproduksie |
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overreach
|
verb |
To stretch out too far.
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te ver |
| 🔊 38 |
overrun
|
verb |
To infest or ravage.
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oorrompel |
| 🔊 39 |
oversee
|
verb |
To superintend.
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toesig te hou oor |
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overseer
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noun |
A supervisor.
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opsigter |
| 🔊 41 |
overshadow
|
verb |
To cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison.
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oorskadu |
| 🔊 42 |
overstride
|
verb |
To step beyond.
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overstride |
| 🔊 43 |
overthrow
|
verb |
To vanquish an established ruler or government.
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omverwerping |
| 🔊 44 |
overtone
|
noun |
A harmonic.
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ondertoon |
| 🔊 45 |
overture
|
noun |
An instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio, or ballet.
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ouverture |
| 🔊 46 |
overweight
|
noun |
Preponderance.
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oorgewig |
| 🔊 47 |
pacify
|
verb |
To bring into a peaceful state.
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paai |
| 🔊 48 |
packet
|
noun |
A bundle, as of letters.
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pakket |
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pact
|
noun |
A covenant.
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pact |
| 🔊 50 |
pagan
|
noun |
A worshiper of false gods.
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heidense |
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pageant
|
noun |
A dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one.
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skoonheidskompetisie |
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palate
|
noun |
The roof of the mouth.
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verhemelte |
| 🔊 53 |
palatial
|
adjective |
Magnificent.
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palatial |
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paleontology
|
noun |
The branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms.
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paleontologie |
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palette
|
noun |
A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting.
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palet |
| 🔊 56 |
palinode
|
noun |
A retraction.
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palinode |
| 🔊 57 |
pall
|
verb |
To make dull by satiety.
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sluier |
| 🔊 58 |
palliate
|
verb |
To cause to appear less guilty.
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vergoelijken |
| 🔊 59 |
pallid
|
adjective |
Of a pale or wan appearance.
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bleek |
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palpable
|
noun |
perceptible by feeling or touch.
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tasbaar |
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palsy
|
noun |
Paralysis.
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gestremdheid |
| 🔊 62 |
paly
|
adjective |
Lacking color or brilliancy.
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bleek |
| 🔊 63 |
pamphlet
|
noun |
A brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest.
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pamflet |
| 🔊 64 |
pamphleteer
|
verb |
To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones.
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brochures |
| 🔊 65 |
Pan-American
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adjective |
Including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South.
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panacea
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noun |
A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases.
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wondermiddel |
| 🔊 67 |
pandemic
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adjective |
Affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease.
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pandemie |
| 🔊 68 |
pandemonium
|
noun |
A fiendish or riotous uproar.
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pandemonium |
| 🔊 69 |
panegyric
|
noun |
A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act.
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lofrede |
| 🔊 70 |
panel
|
noun |
A rectangular piece set in or as in a frame.
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paneel |
| 🔊 71 |
panic
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noun |
A sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear.
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paniek |
| 🔊 72 |
panoply
|
noun |
A full set of armor.
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arsenaal |
| 🔊 73 |
panorama
|
noun |
A series of large pictures representing a continuous scene.
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panorama |
| 🔊 74 |
pantheism
|
noun |
The worship of nature for itself or its beauty.
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panteïsme |
| 🔊 75 |
Pantheon
|
noun |
A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof.
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Pantheon |
| 🔊 76 |
pantomime
|
noun |
Sign-language.
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pantomime |
| 🔊 77 |
papacy
|
noun |
The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
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pous |
| 🔊 78 |
papyrus
|
noun |
The writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians, and later of the Romans.
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papirus |
| 🔊 79 |
parable
|
noun |
A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral.
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gelykenis |
| 🔊 80 |
paradox
|
noun |
A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief.
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paradoks |
| 🔊 81 |
paragon
|
noun |
A model of excellence.
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toonbeeld |
| 🔊 82 |
parallel
|
verb |
To cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts.
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parallel |
| 🔊 83 |
parallelism
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noun |
Essential likeness.
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parallelisme |
| 🔊 84 |
paralysis
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noun |
Loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles.
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verlamming |
| 🔊 85 |
paralyze
|
verb |
To deprive of the power to act.
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verlam |
| 🔊 86 |
paramount
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adjective |
Supreme in authority.
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kardinale |
| 🔊 87 |
paramour
|
noun |
One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress.
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minnares |
| 🔊 88 |
paraphernalia
|
noun |
Miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment.
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parafernalia |
| 🔊 89 |
paraphrase
|
verb |
Translate freely.
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parafraseer |
| 🔊 90 |
pare
|
verb |
To cut, shave, or remove (the outside) from anything.
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knip |
| 🔊 91 |
parentage
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noun |
The relation of parent to child, of the producer to the produced, or of cause to effect.
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ouerskap |
| 🔊 92 |
Pariah
|
noun |
A member of a degraded class; a social outcast.
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paria |
| 🔊 93 |
parish
|
noun |
The ecclesiastical district in charge of a pastor.
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gemeente |
| 🔊 94 |
Parisian
|
adjective |
Of or pertaining to the city of Paris.
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Paryse |
| 🔊 95 |
parity
|
noun |
Equality, as of condition or rank.
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gelykheid |
| 🔊 96 |
parlance
|
noun |
Mode of speech.
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omgangstaal |
| 🔊 97 |
parley
|
verb |
To converse in.
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onderhandeling |
| 🔊 98 |
parliament
|
noun |
A legislative body.
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parlement |
| 🔊 99 |
parlor
|
noun |
A room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests.
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salon |
| 🔊 100 |
parody
|
verb |
To render ludicrous by imitating the language of.
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parodie |
| 🔊 101 |
paronymous
|
adjective |
Derived from the same root or primitive word.
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paronymous |
| 🔊 102 |
paroxysm
|
noun |
A sudden outburst of any kind of activity.
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hevige aanval |
| 🔊 103 |
parricide
|
noun |
The murder of a parent.
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vadermoordenaar |
| 🔊 104 |
parse
|
verb |
To describe, as a sentence, by separating it into its elements and describing each word.
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ontleed |
| 🔊 105 |
parsimonious
|
adjective |
Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money.
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karig |
| 🔊 106 |
partible
|
adjective |
Separable.
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deelbaar |
| 🔊 107 |
participant
|
noun |
One having a share or part.
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deelnemer |
| 🔊 108 |
participate
|
verb |
To receive or have a part or share of.
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deel te neem |
| 🔊 109 |
partisan
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adjective |
Characterized by or exhibiting undue or unreasoning devotion to a party.
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partydige |
| 🔊 110 |
partition
|
noun |
That which separates anything into distinct parts.
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verdeling |
| 🔊 111 |
passible
|
adjective |
Capable of feeling of suffering.
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passible |
| 🔊 112 |
passive
|
adjective |
Unresponsive.
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passiewe |
| 🔊 113 |
pastoral
|
adjective |
Having the spirit or sentiment of rural life.
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pastorale |
| 🔊 114 |
paternal
|
adjective |
Fatherly.
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vaderlike |
| 🔊 115 |
paternity
|
noun |
Fatherhood.
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vaderskap |
| 🔊 116 |
pathos
|
noun |
The quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy.
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patos |
| 🔊 117 |
patriarch
|
noun |
The chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right.
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patriarg |
| 🔊 118 |
patrician
|
adjective |
Of senatorial or noble rank.
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patriciërswoning |
| 🔊 119 |
patrimony
|
noun |
An inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father.
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erfenis |
| 🔊 120 |
patriotism
|
noun |
Love and devotion to one's country.
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patriotisme |
| 🔊 121 |
patronize
|
verb |
To exercise an arrogant condescension toward.
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begunstigen |
| 🔊 122 |
patronymic
|
adjective |
Formed after one's father's name.
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patronymicum |
| 🔊 123 |
patter
|
verb |
To mumble something over and over.
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getrippel |
| 🔊 124 |
paucity
|
noun |
Fewness.
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gebrek |
| 🔊 125 |
pauper
|
noun |
One without means of support.
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armlastige |
| 🔊 126 |
pauperism
|
noun |
Dependence on charity.
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armlastigen |
| 🔊 127 |
pavilion
|
noun |
An open structure for temporary shelter.
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pawiljoen |
| 🔊 128 |
payee
|
noun |
A person to whom money has been or is to be paid.
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nemer |
| 🔊 129 |
peaceable
|
adjective |
Tranquil.
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vredevolle |
| 🔊 130 |
peaceful
|
adjective |
Tranquil.
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vreedsame |
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peccable
|
adjective |
Capable of sinning.
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peccable |
| 🔊 132 |
peccant
|
adjective |
Guilty.
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peccant |
| 🔊 133 |
pectoral
|
adjective |
Pertaining to the breast or thorax.
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pektorale |
| 🔊 134 |
pecuniary
|
adjective |
Consisting of money.
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geldelike |
| 🔊 135 |
pedagogics
|
noun |
The science and art of teaching.
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pedagogiek |
| 🔊 136 |
pedagogue
|
noun |
A schoolmaster.
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pedagoog |
| 🔊 137 |
pedagogy
|
noun |
The science and art of teaching
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pedagogie |
| 🔊 138 |
pedal
|
noun |
A lever for the foot usually applied only to musical instruments, cycles, and other machines.
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pedaal |
| 🔊 139 |
pedant
|
noun |
A scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning.
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pedant |
| 🔊 140 |
peddle
|
verb |
To go about with a small stock of goods to sell.
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colporteren |
| 🔊 141 |
peddler
|
noun |
One who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail.
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smous |
| 🔊 142 |
pedestal
|
noun |
A base or support as for a column, statue, or vase.
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voetstuk |
| 🔊 143 |
pedestrian
|
noun |
One who journeys on foot.
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voetganger |
| 🔊 144 |
pediatrics
|
noun |
The department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood.
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kindergeneeskunde |
| 🔊 145 |
pedigree
|
noun |
One's line of ancestors.
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stamboom |
| 🔊 146 |
peerage
|
noun |
The nobility.
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adel |
| 🔊 147 |
peerless
|
adjective |
Of unequaled excellence or worth.
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Peerless |
| 🔊 148 |
peevish
|
adjective |
Petulant. (irritable)
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nors |
| 🔊 149 |
pellucid
|
adjective |
Translucent.
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deurskynende |
| 🔊 150 |
penalty
|
noun |
The consequences that follow the transgression of natural or divine law.
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straf |
| 🔊 151 |
penance
|
noun |
Punishment to which one voluntarily submits or subjects himself as an expression of penitence.
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boetedoening |
| 🔊 152 |
penchant
|
noun |
A bias in favor of something.
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voorliefde |
| 🔊 153 |
pendant
|
noun |
Anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use.
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pendant |
| 🔊 154 |
pendulous
|
adjective |
Hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part.
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hangend |
| 🔊 155 |
pendulum
|
noun |
A weight hung on a rod, serving by its oscillation to regulate the rate of a clock.
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pendulum |
| 🔊 156 |
penetrable
|
adjective |
That may be pierced by physical, moral, or intellectual force.
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penetreerbare |
| 🔊 157 |
penetrate
|
verb |
To enter or force a way into the interior parts of.
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penetreer |
| 🔊 158 |
penetration
|
noun |
Discernment.
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penetrasie |
| 🔊 159 |
peninsular
|
adjective |
Pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water.
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skiereiland |
| 🔊 160 |
penitence
|
noun |
Sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
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berou |
| 🔊 161 |
penitential
|
adjective |
Pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
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boetedoening |
| 🔊 162 |
pennant
|
noun |
A small flag.
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wimpel |
| 🔊 163 |
pension
|
noun |
A periodical allowance to an individual on account of past service done by him/her.
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pensioen |
| 🔊 164 |
pentad
|
noun |
The number five.
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pentad |
| 🔊 165 |
pentagon
|
noun |
A figure, especially, with five angles and five sides.
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vyfhoek |
| 🔊 166 |
pentahedron
|
noun |
A solid bounded by five plane faces.
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pentaëder |
| 🔊 167 |
pentathlon
|
noun |
The contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants.
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vyfkamp |
| 🔊 168 |
pentavalent
|
adjective |
Quinqeuvalent.
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pentavalent |
| 🔊 169 |
penultimate
|
adjective |
A syllable or member of a series that is last but one.
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voorlaaste |
| 🔊 170 |
penurious
|
adjective |
Excessively sparing in the use of money.
|
behoeftig |
| 🔊 171 |
penury
|
noun |
Indigence.
|
behoeftig |
| 🔊 172 |
perambulate
|
verb |
To walk about.
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afreizen |
| 🔊 173 |
perceive
|
verb |
To have knowledge of, or receive impressions concerning, through the medium of the body senses.
|
sien |
| 🔊 174 |
perceptible
|
adjective |
Cognizable.
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waarneembaar |
| 🔊 175 |
perception
|
noun |
Knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world.
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persepsie |
| 🔊 176 |
percipience
|
noun |
The act of perceiving.
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percipience |
| 🔊 177 |
percipient
|
noun |
One who or that which perceives.
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siener |
| 🔊 178 |
percolate
|
verb |
To filter.
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perkoleer |
| 🔊 179 |
percolator
|
noun |
A filter.
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koffiemaker |
| 🔊 180 |
percussion
|
noun |
The sharp striking of one body against another.
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perkussie |
| 🔊 181 |
peremptory
|
adjective |
Precluding question or appeal.
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gebiedend |
| 🔊 182 |
perennial
|
adjective |
Continuing though the year or through many years.
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meerjarige |
| 🔊 183 |
perfectible
|
adjective |
Capable of being made perfect.
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perfectible |
| 🔊 184 |
perfidy
|
noun |
Treachery.
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verraad |
| 🔊 185 |
perforate
|
verb |
To make a hole or holes through.
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perforeer |
| 🔊 186 |
perform
|
verb |
To accomplish.
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uit te voer |
| 🔊 187 |
perfumery
|
noun |
The preparation of perfumes.
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parfumerie |
| 🔊 188 |
perfunctory
|
adjective |
Half-hearted.
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oppervlakkig |
| 🔊 189 |
perhaps
|
adverb |
Possibly.
|
miskien |
| 🔊 190 |
periodicity
|
noun |
The habit or characteristic of recurrence at regular intervals.
|
periodisiteit |
| 🔊 191 |
peripatetic
|
adjective |
Walking about.
|
marskramer |
| 🔊 192 |
perjure
|
verb |
To swear falsely to.
|
meineed |
| 🔊 193 |
perjury
|
noun |
A solemn assertion of a falsity.
|
meineed |
| 🔊 194 |
permanence
|
noun |
A continuance in the same state, or without any change that destroys the essential form or nature.
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permanensie |
| 🔊 195 |
permanent
|
adjective |
Durable.
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permanente |
| 🔊 196 |
permeate
|
verb |
To pervade.
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deurdring |
| 🔊 197 |
permissible
|
adjective |
That may be allowed.
|
toelaatbaar |
| 🔊 198 |
permutation
|
noun |
Reciprocal change, different ordering of same items.
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permutasie |
| 🔊 199 |
pernicious
|
adjective |
Tending to kill or hurt.
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verderflike |
| 🔊 200 |
perpendicular
|
adjective |
Straight up and down.
|
loodreg |