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accepting
     1. v. present participle of accept
     2. adj. Characterized by acceptance.
     accept
          1. v. To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
          2. v. To admit to a place or a group.
                The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.
          3. v. To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
                I accept the notion that Christ lived.
          4. v. To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
          5. v. To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
                I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
          6. v. To endure patiently.
                I accept my punishment.
          7. v. (transitive, legal, business) To agree to pay.
          8. v. To receive officially.
                to accept the report of a committee
          9. v. (intransitive) To receive something willingly.
                I accept.
          10. adj. (obsolete) Accepted.
No
     1. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No.
     2. n. Alternative form of No.
     3. n. Alternative form of Noh: a form of classical Japanese drama.
     4. det. Not any.
           no one
           There is no water left.
           No hot dogs were sold yesterday.
           No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous.
           There was no score at the end of the first period. (The score was 0-0.)
     5. det. Hardly any.
           We'll be finished in no time at all.
     6. det. Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something).
           No smoking
           There's no stopping her once she gets going.
     7. det. Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
           My mother's no fool.
           Working nine to five every day is no life.
     8. adv. (now only used with comparatives, except in Scotland) Not, not at all.
           It is a different kind of torture, but no less gruesome.
           I just want to find out whether she's coming or no.
     9. part. Used to show disagreement or negation.
           No, you are mistaken.
           No, you may not watch television now.
     10. part. Used to show agreement with a negative question.
           "Don’t you like milk?" "No" (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.")
     11. part. (colloquial) As if to say, "No, don’t doubt this!", or to deny an imagined contradictory statement, used to show intense agreement
           No, totally.
           No, yeah, that's exactly right.
           "Wow!" "Yeah, no, it was really awful!".
           No, yeah
     12. n. A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement or disapproval.
     13. n. A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition.
           The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no".
     14. adv. (archaic) Alternative form of No.
     15. n. Alternative form of No.
refusal
     1. n. The act of refusing.
     2. n. (civil engineering) Depth or point at which well or borehole drilling cannot continue.
or
     1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
           In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
           He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
     2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
     3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
     4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
           It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
     5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
           The country Myanmar, or Burma
     6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
     7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
     8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
     9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
     10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
     11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
disagreement
     1. n. An argument or debate.
           They had a bit of a disagreement about what color to paint the bedroom, but they have reached a compromise.
     2. n. A condition of not agreeing or concurring.
           The theory shows considerable disagreement with the data.
imperious
     1. adj. Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.
     2. adj. Urgent.
     3. adj. (obsolete) Imperial or regal.
dictatorial
     1. adj. of or pertaining to a dictator
     2. adj. in the manner of a dictator, usually with callous disregard for others
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