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11K+ Rhyming Words For APPREHENSION

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comprehension13
4 nounn
noun

• an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result)

• the relation of comprising something

prevention10
3 nounn
noun

• the act of preventing

misapprehension15
5 nounn
noun

• an understanding of something that is not correct

pretension10
3 nounn
noun

• a false or unsupportable quality

• the advancing of a claim

• the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

retention9
3 nounn
noun

• the act of retaining something

• the power of retaining and recalling past experience

• the power of retaining liquid

dissension10
3 nounn
noun

• disagreement among those expected to cooperate

• a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

extension9
3 nounn
noun

• a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt

• act of expanding in scope; making more widely available

• the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions

• an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students

• act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb

• a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename

• the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to

• the ability to raise the working leg high in the air

• amount or degree or range to which something extends

• an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line

• an addition to the length of something

• an addition that extends a main building

suspension10
3 nounn
noun

• a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy

• a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

• temporary cessation or suspension

• an interruption in the intensity or amount of something

• a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle

• the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)

• a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc)

attention9
3 nounn
noun

• the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others

• the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something

• a general interest that leads people to want to know more

• a courteous act indicating affection

• the faculty or power of mental concentration

• a motionless erect stance with arms at the sides and feet together; assumed by military personnel during drill or review

contention10
3 nounn
noun

• a point asserted as part of an argument

• a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement

• the act of competing as for profit or a prize

convention10
3 verb, nounv, n
noun

• a large formal assembly

• something regarded as a normative example

• (diplomacy) an international agreement

• orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

• the act of convening

invention9
3 nounn
noun

• the creation of something in the mind

• a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation

• the act of inventing

dimension9
3 nounn
noun

• the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height)

• a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished

• one of three Cartesian coordinates that determine a position in space

• magnitude or extent

verb

• indicate the dimensions on

• shape or form to required dimensions

pension7
2 nounn
noun

• a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working

verb

• grant a pension to

tension7
2 nounn
noun

• (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense

• the physical condition of being stretched or strained

• a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature)

• (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body

• feelings of hostility that are not manifest

• the action of stretching something tight

gentian7
2 nounn
noun

• any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis

mention7
2 verbv
noun

• a remark that calls attention to something or someone

• a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

• an official recognition of merit

verb

• make reference to

• make mention of

• commend

detention9
3 nounn
noun

• a state of being confined (usually for a short time)

• a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home

ascension9
3 verb, nounv, n
noun

• a movement upward; rise above the ground

• (Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven; observed on the 40th day after Easter

• (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon

• (New Testament) the rising of the body of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection

• the act of changing location in an upward direction

hypertension12
4 nounn
noun

• a common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater)

progression11
3 nounn
noun

• a series with a definite pattern of advance

• a movement forward

• the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

proportion10
3 nounn
noun

• the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole

• magnitude or extent

• balance among the parts of something

• the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree

• harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)

verb

• give pleasant proportions to

• adjust in size relative to other things

propulsion10
3 nounn
noun

• a propelling force

• the act of propelling

reproduction12
4 nounn
noun

• the process of generating offspring

• recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall

• copy that is not the original; something that has been copied

• the act of making copies

• the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring

intervention12
4 nounn
noun

• the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)

• a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries

• the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others

• (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings

• care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

protection10
3 nounn
noun

• the activity of protecting someone or something

• a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury

• defense against financial failure; financial independence

• the condition of being protected

• kindly endorsement and guidance

• the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition

• payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence

preparation11
4 nounn
noun

• the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose

• a substance prepared according to a formula

• the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening

• the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action)

• (music) a note that produces a dissonant chord is first heard in a consonant chord

• activity leading to skilled behavior

• preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home)

• the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat

production10
3 verb, nounv, n
noun

• the act or process of producing something

• a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television

• an artifact that has been created by someone or some process

• (law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law

• the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)

• a display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated

• (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale

• the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services

abbreviation12
5 noun, adjectiven, adj
noun

• a shortened form of a word or phrase

• shortening something by omitting parts of it

appreciation12
5 nounn
noun

• understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something

• delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)

• an expression of gratitude

• a favorable judgment

• an increase in price or value

condescension13
4 nounn
noun

• the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior

• a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient

• affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank

declension10
3 nounn
noun

• the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages

• process of changing to an inferior state

• a downward slope or bend

• a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms

hypotension11
4 nounn
noun

• abnormally low blood pressure

birth prevention15
4 nounn
noun

• limiting the number of children born

contravention13
4 nounn
noun

• coming into conflict with

projection10
3 verb, nounv, n
noun

• a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations

• the projection of an image from a film onto a screen

• a planned undertaking

• any structure that branches out from a central support

• any solid convex shape that juts out from something

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else

• the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality

• the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction

• the act of projecting out from something

• the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

overproduction14
5 nounn
noun

• too much production or more than expected

profusion9
3 nounn
noun

• the property of being extremely abundant

robinson8
3 verb, nounv, n
noun

• English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975)

• United States prizefighter who won the world middleweight championship five times and the world welterweight championship once (1921-1989)

• Irish playwright and theater manager in Dublin (1886-1958)

• United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936)

• United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972)

• United States poet; author of narrative verse (1869-1935)

• United States film actor noted for playing gangster roles (1893-1973)

prediction10
3 nounn
noun

• the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)

• a statement made about the future

prohibition11
4 nounn
noun

• a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

• a decree that prohibits something

• the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

• refusal to approve or assent to

• the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)

preclusion10
3 nounn
noun

• the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively

reinvention11
4 nounn
noun

• A reinventing of something.

• The condition of being reinvented.

intention9
3 nounn
noun

• an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions

• (usually plural) the goal with respect to a marriage proposal

• an act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry out

impregnation12
4 nounn
noun

• material with which something is impregnated

• the process of totally saturating something with a substance

• creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant

nonintervention15
5 nounn
noun

• a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes

preemption10
3 nounn
noun

• the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject

• the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)

• the right to purchase something in advance of others

• a prior appropriation of something

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