depression 10 3 noun n noun • a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
• a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment
• a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
• a sunken or depressed geological formation
• sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
• an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
• a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
• a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
• angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
• pushing down
session 7 2 noun n noun • a meeting for execution of a group's functions
• the time during which a school holds classes
• a meeting devoted to a particular activity
• a meeting of spiritualists
compression 11 3 verb, noun v, n noun • an increase in the density of something
• the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together
• encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required
• applying pressure
concession 10 3 noun n noun • a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business
• the act of conceding or yielding
• a point conceded or yielded
progression 11 3 noun n noun • a series with a definite pattern of advance
• a movement forward
• the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
regression 10 3 noun n noun • an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
• the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)
• returning to a former state
repression 10 3 noun n noun • a state of forcible subjugation
• (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
• the act of repressing; control by holding down
succession 10 3 noun n noun • a following of one thing after another in time
• a group of people or things arranged or following in order
• the action of following in order
• (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established
• acquisition of property by descent or by will
suppression 11 3 noun n noun • the failure to develop some part or organ
• the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
• forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
• (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
transgression 13 3 noun n noun • the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle
• the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata
• the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit
accession 9 3 verb, noun v, n noun • a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group)
• (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement
• something added to what you already have
• agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)
• the right to enter
• the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne)
verb • make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library
decompression 13 4 noun n noun • restoring compressed information to its normal form for use or display
• relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure)
digression 10 3 noun n noun • a message that departs from the main subject
• a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
• wandering from the main path of a journey
dispossession 13 4 noun n noun • the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law
• freeing from evil spirits
intercession 12 4 noun n noun • a prayer to God on behalf of another person
• the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)
nonaggression 13 4 noun n noun • a policy of not initiating hostilities
precession 10 3 noun n noun • the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone
• the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)
repossession 12 4 noun n noun • the action of regaining possession (especially the seizure of collateral securing a loan that is in default)
retrogression 13 4 noun n noun • passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
• returning to a former state
secession 9 3 noun n noun • the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War
• an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s
• formal separation from an alliance or federation
supersession 12 4 noun n noun • act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be superior
intersession 12 5 noun, adjective n, adj noun • A break between semesters.
adjective • Between sessions.
cession 7 2 noun n egression 9 3 noun • the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent
prepossession 13 4 noun n noun • the condition of being prepossessed
• an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence
ingression 10 4 noun n
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introgression 13 4 noun n noun • The movement of a gene from one species to another.
nonpossession 13 4 noun, adjective n, adj
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reaccession 11 4 verb, noun v, n
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reimpression 12 4 noun n
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antiaggression 14 5 noun, adjective n, adj
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antidepression 14 6 adjective adj
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antirecession 13 6 noun n
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derepression 12 5 noun n
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misimpression 13 5 verb, noun v, n
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postdepression 14 5 noun, adjective n, adj
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postrecession 13 5 adjective adj
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prerecession 12 5 adjective adj
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retrocession 12 5 noun n noun • The transfer of risk from one reinsurer to another.
• The return of land, rights, etc. previously ceded.
• Metastasis of an eruption or tumour from the surface to the interior of the body.
• The act of retroceding; a going back.
degression 10 4 noun n
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circumincession 15 5 noun n
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circuminsession 15 5 noun n
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pression 8 3 noun n
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recompression 13 5 verb, noun v, n
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deaccession 11 4 verb, noun v, n verb • sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works
self-expression 14 3 noun n noun • the expression of one's individuality (usually through creative activities)
self-possession 14 3 noun n noun • the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior
sezession 9 3 noun n noun • an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s
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