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desideratum collapse: something desired as a necessity; "the desiderata for a vacation are time and money"

embezzlement collapse: the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else

plagiarism collapse: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own; a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work

attract collapse: exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away; "the gravitational pull of a planet attracts other bodies"; direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes; "Her good looks attract the stares of many men"; "The ad pulled in many potential customers"; "This pianist pulls huge crowds"; "The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers"; be attractive to; "The idea of a vacation appeals to me"; "The beautiful garden attracted many people"

temptation collapse: something that seduces or has the quality to seduce; the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid; "he felt the temptation and his will power weakened"

scrounging collapse

appropriation collapse: a deliberate act of acquisition; money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose

cynosure collapse: something that strongly attracts attention and admiration; "if he was the cynosure of all eyes he didn't notice"; something that provides guidance (as Polaris guides mariners); "let faith be your cynosure to walk by"

liberation collapse: the act of liberating someone or something; the attempt to achieve equal rights or status; "she worked for women's liberation"

extortion collapse: the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence); unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority); "the extortion by dishonest officials of fees for performing their sworn duty"; an exorbitant charge

mugging collapse: assault with intent to rob

beatification collapse: (Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization; the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy

robbery collapse: larceny by threat of violence

heist collapse: the act of stealing

electrical parts and devices collapse

deification collapse: the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god); an embodiment of the qualities of a god; "the capitalists' deification of capital"; the condition of being treated like a god

focus collapse: maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system; "in focus"; "out of focus"; maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea; "the controversy brought clearly into focus an important difference of opinion"; the concentration of attention or energy on something; "the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology"; "he had no direction in his life"; a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section; a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges; a central point or locus of an infection in an organism; "the focus of infection"; put (an image) into focus; "Please focus the image; we cannot enjoy the movie"; become focussed or come into focus; "The light focused"; cause to converge on or toward a central point; "Focus the light on this image"

forbidden fruit collapse: originally an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden; it is now used to refer to anything that is tempting but dangerous (as sexuality)

stealing collapse

ambition collapse: a strong drive for success; a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business"; have as one's ambition

rearing collapse

trough collapse: a long narrow shallow receptacle; a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)

amplitude collapse: greatness of magnitude; the property of copious abundance; (physics) the maximum displacement of a periodic wave

crest collapse: a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal; (heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet; the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave; reach a high point; "The river crested last night"

pinching collapse

annexation collapse: the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation; "the French annexation of Madagascar as a colony in 1896"; "a protectorate has frequently been a first step to annexation"; incorporation by joining or uniting

conveyance collapse: act of transferring property title from one person to another; something that serves as a means of transportation; the transmission of information; document effecting a property transfer

reinforcement collapse: information that makes more forcible or convincing; "his gestures provided eloquent reinforcement for his complaints"

apotheosis collapse

erection collapse: a structure that has been erected; an erect penis

trophy collapse: something given as a token of victory; an award for success in war or hunting

tug collapse: a sudden abrupt pull; struggle in opposition; "She tugged and wrestled with her conflicts"; pull hard; "The prisoner tugged at the chains"; "This movie tugs at the heart strings"; pull or strain hard at; "Each oar was tugged by several men"; move by pulling hard; "The horse finally tugged the cart out of the mud"; tow (a vessel) with a tug; "The tugboat tugged the freighter into the harbor"; strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"

plum collapse: a highly desirable position or assignment; "a political plum"; any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit; any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone

raising collapse: the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child; increasing in quantity or value; "a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate"

holdup collapse

induction collapse: the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time); "the induction of an anesthetic state"; an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current

wave collapse: a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon; "a wave of settlers"; "troops advancing in waves"; a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair; the act of signaling by a movement of the hand; (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth; one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water); something that rises rapidly; "a wave of emotion swept over him"; "there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed"; "a wave of conservatism in the country led by the hard right"; a member of the women's reserve of the United States Navy; originally organized during World War II but now no longer a separate branch; a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures); "a heat wave"; an undulating curve; set waves in; "she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair"

upheaval collapse: (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)

lure collapse: qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward

graft collapse: the act of grafting something onto something else; (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient; cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree"

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