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ICON
A conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church

RISE
Rise in rank or status; "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list"

RAMA
Avatar of Vishnu whose name is synonymous with God; any of three incarnations: Ramachandra or Parashurama or Balarama; "in Hindu folklore Rama is the epitome of chivalry and courage and obedience to sacred law"

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KURMA

PROOF
The act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something

SPORT
Someone who engages in sports

VAMAN

VARAH

IMAGE
A representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"

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AVATAR
A new personification of a familiar idea; "the embodiment of hope"; "the incarnation of evil"; "the very avatar of cunning"

BUDDHA
One who has achieved a state of perfect enlightenment

CHANGE
The action of changing something; "the change of government had no impact on the economy"; "his change on abortion cost him the election"

COMING
Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous); "the advent of the computer"

MATSYA

MUTANT
An animal that has undergone mutation

RISING
Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

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ARISING

NARSINH

OPENING
A ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise

SHOWING
Something shown to the public; "the museum had many exhibits of oriental art"

PICTURE
A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material

PERSONA
(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"

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EPIPHANY
Twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus

EVIDENCE
An indication that makes something evident; "his trembling was evidence of his fear"

EXPOSURE
The act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience; "she denounced the exposure of children to pornography"

ISSUANCE
The act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity); "a new issue of stamps"; "the last issue of penicillin was over a month ago"

MUTATION
A change or alteration in form or qualities

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ANABOLISM
The synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of energy

APPEARING
Formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action

CATALYSIS
Acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction; "of the top 50 commodity chemicals, 30 are created directly by catalysis and another 6 are made from raw materials that are catalytically produced"

EMERGENCE
The act of emerging

JAGANNATH
An avatar of Vishnu

PARSHURAM

THEOPHANY
A visible (but not necessarily material) manifestation of a deity to a human person

UNFOLDING
A developmental process; "the flowering of antebellum culture"

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APPARITION
An act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly; "natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stranger"

APPEARANCE
The act of appearing in public view; "the rookie made a brief appearance in the first period"; "it was Bernhardt's last appearance in America"

CATABOLISM
Breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy

DISCLOSURE
The speech act of making something evident

EVINCEMENT

EXPRESSION
The act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing; "the expression of milk from her breast"

INDICATION
A datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument; "he could not believe the meter reading"; "the barometer gave clear indications of an approaching storm"

JUGGERNAUT
A crude idol of Krishna

METABOLISM
The marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals

METASTASIS
The spreading of a disease (especially cancer) to another part of the body

METATHESIS
A linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence

OCCURRENCE
An event that happens

REVELATION
An enlightening or astonishing disclosure

UNFOLDMENT

EMBODIMENT
Giving concrete form to an abstract concept

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INCARNATION
The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.

ANGELOPHANY

COMINGFORTH

FORTHCOMING
Available when required or as promised; "federal funds were not forthcoming"

HETEROTOPIA

METAGENESIS
Alternation of sexual and asexual generations

MUTATEDFORM

PERMUTATION
Act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group

PUBLICATION
The business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution

REALIZATION
Something that is made real or concrete; "the victory was the realization of a whole year's work"

SATANOPHANY

TRANSLATION
The act of uniform movement

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CHRISTOPHANY

DISPLACEMENT
Act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics

METAMORPHISM
Change in the structure of rock by natural agencies such as pressure or heat or introduction of new chemical substances

PRESENTATION
The act of presenting a proposal

SHOWINGFORTH

TRANSFORMISM

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DISSEMINATION
The act of dispersing or diffusing something; "the dispersion of the troops"; "the diffusion of knowledge"

MANIFESTATION
A public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature); "there were violent demonstrations against the war"

MATERIALIZING

METAMORPHOSIS
A complete change of physical form or substance especially as by magic or witchcraft

PNEUMATOPHANY

REINCARNATION
A second or new birth

TRANSLOCATION
(genetics) an exchange of chromosome parts; "translocations can result in serious congenital disorders"

TRANSMUTATION
An act that changes the form or character or substance of something

TRANSPOSITION
An event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"

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METEMPSYCHOSIS
After death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body

TRANSANIMATION

TRANSFORMATION
The act of changing in form or shape or appearance; "a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface"

TRANSMIGRATION
The passing of a soul into another body after death

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COMINGINTOBEING

MATERIALIZATION
Something that comes into existence as a result; "industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring"; "this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts"

PERSONIFICATION
The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.

TRANSFIGURATION
The act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify

TRANSFIGUREMENT

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CONSUBSTANTIATION
The doctrine of the High Anglican Church that after the consecration of the Eucharist the substance of the body and blood of Christ coexists with the substance of the consecrated bread and wine

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TRANSMOGRIFICATION
The act of changing into a different form or appearance (especially a fantastic or grotesque one); "the transmogrification of the prince into a porcupine"

TRANSUBSTANTIATION
An act that changes the form or character or substance of something