Assimilation

Noun

 * 1) The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
 * 2) The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
 * 3)  The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
 * 4)  A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
 * 5)   The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

Adjectives for Assimilation
ready; spiritual; difficult.

Thesaurus
ablation; about-face; absorbency; absorbent; absorption; accommodation; accordance; acculturation; adaptation; addition; adjustment; admissibility; admission; adoption; adsorbent; adsorption; affiliation; agglomeration; aggregation; agreement; alchemy; alikeness; alliance; allophone; alveolar; amalgamation; analogy; apico-alveolar; apico-dental; aping; apperception; approach; approximation; articulation; aspiration; assimilation; association; assumption; attrition; attunement; awareness; basal metabolism; becoming; bilabial; bile; blend; blending; blotter; blotting; blotting paper; burning up; cabal; cacuminal; cartel; catabolism; centralization; cerebral; change; change-over; check; chemisorption; chemosorption; citizenship by naturalization; citizenship papers; closeness; coalescence; coalition; coaptation; combination; combine; combo; community; comparability; comparison; completeness; composition; comprehension; comprehensiveness; comprisal; confederacy; confederation; conformity; congeries; conglomeration; conjugation; conjunction; consciousness; consolidation; consonant; conspiracy; consumption; continuant; conversion; coordination; copying; correspondence; coverage; culture shock; dental; depletion; digestion; digestive system; diphthong; dissimilation; drain; eating up; ecumenism; eligibility; embodiment; embracement; encompassment; endosmosis; engrossment; enosis; envisagement; epenthetic vowel; erosion; exhaustion; exhaustiveness; exosmosis; expending; expenditure; explosive; federalization; federation; finishing; flip-flop; fusion; gastric juice; gastrointestinal tract; glide; glottal; glottalization; growth; guttural; harmonization; hookup; identification; identity; imbibing; imitation; impoverishment; inclusion; inclusiveness; incorporation; infiltration; ingestion; integration; intestinal juice; junction; junta; labial; labialization; labiodental; labiovelar; lapse; laryngeal; lateral; league; likeness; likening; lingual; liquid; liver; manner of articulation; marriage; meld; melding; membership; merger; metabolism; metaphor; mimicking; mindfulness; modification; monophthong; morphophoneme; mute; nasal; nationalization; naturalization; naturalized citizenship; nearness; occlusive; openness; osmosis; package; package deal; palatal; pancreas; pancreatic digestion; pancreatic juice; papers; parallelism; parasitic vowel; parity; participation; passage; peak; percolation; pharyngeal; pharyngealization; phone; phoneme; plosive; predigestion; progress; prothetic vowel; re-formation; reception; reconcilement; reconciliation; reconversion; reduction; regulation; resemblance; resolution; retroflex; reversal; saliva; salivary digestion; salivary glands; sameness; secondary digestion; seepage; segmental phoneme; semblance; semivowel; shift; similarity; simile; similitude; simulation; soaking-up; solidification; sonant; sonority; sorption; speech sound; spending; sponge; sponging; squandering; squaring; stop; surd; switch; switch-over; syllabic nucleus; syllabic peak; syllable; synchronization; syncretism; syndication; syneresis; synthesis; taking-in; tie-up; timing; tolerance; toleration; transformation; transit; transition; transition sound; triphthong; turning into; unification; union; using up; velar; vocable; vocalic; vocoid; voice; voiced sound; voiceless sound; voicing; volte-face; vowel; wastage; waste; wastefulness; wasting away; wearing away; wearing down; wedding; whole