essential

/ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl/adj

Middle School

1

Necessary.

2

Very important; of high importance.

3

Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.

4

Being in the basic form; showing its essence.

5

Really existing; existent.

6

Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.

7

Idiopathic.

8

Having the nature of essence; not physical.

Thesaurus

Sound Patterns & Rhymes

Rhymes

Words that share the same ending sound pattern

henschel presidential potential credential sequential tangential torrential existential exponential influential

Alliteration

Words starting with the same consonant sound — used in poetry and prose to create rhythm, emphasis, and memorable phrasing (e.g. “Peter Piper picked”)

ear eat eba eby eck eco eda ede edi edo

Assonance

Words sharing similar vowel sounds regardless of starting letter — creates internal melody in writing

acm aer afl air aix any ary bec bed beg

Consonance

Words sharing similar consonant sound patterns — adds texture and cohesion to writing

blush flush leash shall shell slosh bushel flashy shelve shield