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500+ Rhyming Words For FALSE-PRETENSE

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pretense8
2 nounn
noun

• the act of giving a false appearance

• pretending with intention to deceive

• imaginative intellectual play

• a false or unsupportable quality

• an artful or simulated semblance

defense7
2 verb, nounv, n
noun

• (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies

• the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947

• protection from harm

• (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring

• the justification for some act or belief

• (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

• the defendant and his legal advisors collectively

• the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions

• an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack

• a structure used to defend against attack

• a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him

• the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury

intense7
2 adjectiveadj
adjective

• possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree

adjective satellite

• extremely sharp or severe

• (of color) having the highest saturation

expense7
2 nounn
noun

• amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)

• a detriment or sacrifice

• money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer

verb

• reduce the estimated value of something

immense7
2 adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope

offense7
2 nounn
noun

• a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others

• a feeling of anger caused by being offended

• a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right

• the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score

• the action of attacking an enemy

dispense8
2 verbv
verb

• administer or bestow, as in small portions

• grant a dispensation; grant an exemption

• give or apply (medications)

sense5
1 verb, nounv, n
noun

• a general conscious awareness

• the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted

• the faculty through which the external world is apprehended

• sound practical judgment

• a natural appreciation or ability

verb

• perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles

• detect some circumstance or entity automatically

• become aware of not through the senses but instinctively

• discern

suspense8
2 nounn
noun

• apprehension about what is going to happen

• an uncertain cognitive state

• excited anticipation of an approaching climax

commence8
2 verbv
verb

• take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

• set in motion, cause to start

• get off the ground

tense5
1 noun, adjectiven, adj
adjective

• in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

• pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')

• taut or rigid; stretched tight

noun

• a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

verb

• become stretched or tense or taut

• increase the tension on

• become tense, nervous, or uneasy

• cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious

condense8
2 verbv
verb

• undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops

• make more concise

• remove water from

• cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid

• become more compact or concentrated

• develop due to condensation

• compress or concentrate

dense5
1 adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter

• hard to pass through because of dense growth

• having high relative density or specific gravity

• slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

• having component parts closely crowded together

defence7
2 nounn
noun

• (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

• (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring

• the defendant and his legal advisors collectively

• an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack

• the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions

• the justification for some act or belief

• a structure used to defend against attack

• a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him

• (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies

• protection from harm

• the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury

fence5
1 nounn
noun

• a barrier that serves to enclose an area

• a dealer in stolen property

verb

• enclose with a fence

• receive stolen goods

• fight with fencing swords

• surround with a wall in order to fortify

• have an argument about something

hence5
1 adverbadv
adverb

• (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result

• from this place

• from this time

incense7
2 verbv
noun

• a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned

• the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned

verb

• perfume especially with a censer

• make furious

pretence8
2 nounn
noun

• a false or unsupportable quality

• an artful or simulated semblance

• pretending with intention to deceive

• imaginative intellectual play

• the act of giving a false appearance

whence6
1 adverbadv
adverb

• from what place, source, or cause

pence5
1 nounn
noun

• a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound

• a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit

spence6
1 nounn
noun

• A buttery or pantry

commonsense11
3 nounn
adjective satellite

• exhibiting native good judgment

penitence9
3 nounn
noun

• remorse for your past conduct

thence6
1 adverbadv
adverb

• from that place or from there

• from that circumstance or source

• (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result

omnicompetence14
5 nounn
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renitence9
3 nounn
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frankincense12
3 nounn
noun

• an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation

recompense10
3 verb, nounv, n
noun

• payment or reward (as for service rendered)

• the act of compensating for service or loss or injury

verb

• make amends for; pay compensation for

• make payment to; compensate

antisense9
4 noun, adjectiven, adj
noun

• A molecule which interacts with a complementary strand of nucleic acids, so as to suppress its transcription.

nondefense10
3 adjectiveadj
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nonsense8
2 nounn
noun

• a message that seems to convey no meaning

• ornamental objects of no great value

adjective satellite

• having no intelligible meaning

self-defense11
2 nounn
noun

• the act of defending yourself

evidence8
3 nounn
noun

• your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief

• an indication that makes something evident

• (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved

verb

• provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes

• provide evidence for

• give evidence

self-defence11
2 nounn
noun

• the act of defending yourself

cents5
1 nounn
noun

• a fractional monetary unit of several countries

• a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit

misrepresents13
4 verbv
verb

• represent falsely

• tamper, with the purpose of deception

absence7
2 nounn
noun

• the state of being absent

• failure to be present

• the time interval during which something or somebody is away

• the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy

independence12
4 nounn
noun

• a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail

• freedom from control or influence of another or others

• the successful ending of the American Revolution

intelligence12
4 nounn
noun

• the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

• a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy

• secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy)

• information about recent and important events

• the operation of gathering information about an enemy

interference12
4 nounn
noun

• a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries

• the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding

• electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication

• (American football) blocking a player's path with your body

• any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

offence7
2 nounn
noun

• the action of attacking an enemy

• the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score

• a feeling of anger caused by being offended

• a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others

• a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right

residence9
3 nounn
noun

• any address at which you dwell more than temporarily

• the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president)

• the act of dwelling in a place

• a large and imposing house

vengeance9
2 nounn
noun

• the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life

continuous tense15
6 noun, adjectiven, adj
noun

• a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going

future perfect tense18
7 nounn
noun

• a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future

future tense11
5 noun, adjectiven, adj
noun

• a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future

imperfect tense14
5 nounn
noun

• a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going

past perfect tense16
5 adjectiveadj
noun

• a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past

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