9K+ Rhyming Words For PRETENSES

• (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

• administer or bestow, as in small portions

• grant a dispensation; grant an exemption

• give or apply (medications)

• a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images

• genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils

• (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood

• biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina

• electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons

• 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

• 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

• 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

• a barrier that serves to enclose an area

• a dealer in stolen property

• enclose with a fence

• receive stolen goods

• fight with fencing swords

• surround with a wall in order to fortify

• have an argument about something

• military supplies

• large but transportable armament

• the state of being present; current existence

• the immediate proximity of someone or something

• an invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby

• the impression that something is present

• dignified manner or conduct

• the act of being present

• speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way

• pronounce judgment on

• give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations

• leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily

• turn away from; give up

• cast off

• relating to languages derived from Latin

• the group of languages derived from Latin

• a relationship between two lovers

• an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)

• a story dealing with love

• a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life

• make amorous advances towards

• have a love affair with

• talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

• tell romantic or exaggerated lies

• a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation

• an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice

• a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action

• a device or control that is very useful for a particular job

• the faculty of contriving; inventive skill

• an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade

• an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.

• any improvised arrangement for temporary use

• the act of devising something

• pronounce a word incorrectly

• a city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries

• a town in northeast South Carolina; transportation center

• the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action

• the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign)

• the act of moving away in different direction from a common point

• a variation that deviates from the standard or norm

• an infinite series that has no limit

• a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions

• high status importance owing to marked superiority

• a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament

• an inconvenient discomfort

• a difficulty that causes anxiety

• the quality of not being useful or convenient

• to cause inconvenience or discomfort to

• a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc

• causing something without any direct or apparent effort

• a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do

• the effect of one thing (or person) on another

• one having power to influence another

• have and exert influence or effect

• shape or influence; give direction to

• induce into action by using one's charm

• a remark that calls attention to something or someone

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

• an indicator that orients you generally

• a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts

• a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability

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

• the act of referring or consulting

• a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to

• (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored

• the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to

• refer to

• assets in the form of money

• a movement forward

• a change for the better; progress in development

• a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others

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

• an amount paid before it is earned

• increase in price or value

• being ahead of time or need

• situated ahead or going before

• move forward, also in the metaphorical sense

• bring forward for consideration or acceptance

• increase or raise

• contribute to the progress or growth of

• cause to move forward

• obtain advantages, such as points, etc.

• develop in a positive way

• develop further

• give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

• pay in advance

• move forward

• rise in rate or price

• a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude

• a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth

• a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

• any long ditch cut in the ground

• impinge or infringe upon

• fortify by surrounding with trenches

• cut or carve deeply into

• set, plant, or bury in a trench

• cut a trench in, as for drainage

• dig a trench or trenches

• your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

• a person's financial situation (good or bad)

• a legal document giving official permission to do something

• freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)

• excessive freedom; lack of due restraint

• the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization

• authorize officially

• works for an expert to learn a trade

• be or work as an apprentice

• things that make you comfortable and at ease

• a request to be present

• an order to appear in person at a given place and time

• a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant

• call in an official matter, such as to attend court

• a storehouse for goods and merchandise

• store in a warehouse

• standing posture

• a rationalized mental attitude

• 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

• the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true

• the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception

• the state of being acceptable and accepted

• (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract)

• a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank

• a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations

• the act of taking something that is offered

• personal knowledge or information about someone or something

• a relationship less intimate than friendship

• a person with whom you are acquainted

• make known; make an announcement

• announce publicly or officially

• give the names of

• foreshadow or presage

• (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra

• a state of equilibrium

• the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22

• equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account

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

• equality of distribution

• something left after other parts have been taken away

• the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account

• (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane

• a weight that balances another weight

• a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat

• a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity

• bring into balance or equilibrium

• compute credits and debits of an account

• hold or carry in equilibrium

• be in equilibrium

• a long seat for more than one person

• the magistrate or judge or judges sitting in court in judicial capacity to compose the court collectively

• a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)

• persons who administer justice

• a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic

• the reserve players on a team

• (law) the seat for judges in a courtroom

• take out of a game; of players

• exhibit on a bench

• To lift a weight using a bench press

• To exercise using a bench press

• the quality of a substance that is able to rebound

• a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards

• rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)

• spring back; spring away from an impact

• hit something so that it bounces

• move up and down repeatedly

• come back after being refused

• leap suddenly

• refuse to accept and send back

• eject from the premises

• speak out against

• to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful

• announce the termination of, as of treaties

• give away information about somebody

• the property created by the space between two objects or points

• a distant region

• size of the gap between two places

• indifference by personal withdrawal

• the interval between two times

• a remote point in time

• keep at a distance

• go far ahead of

• increase the level of

• make better or more attractive

• fix firmly or securely

• impinge or infringe upon

• occupy a trench or secured area

• a wide scope

• the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary

• a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky

• a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim

• the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions

• walk emphatically

• a distinctive odor that is pleasant

• a pleasingly sweet olfactory property

• a quick look

• throw a glance at; take a brief look at

• hit at an angle

• something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

• any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

• the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding