abduct(v) - pull away from the body;
  #2 (v) - kidnap; nobble; snatch;take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom;
accentuate(v) - accent; stress;put stress on; utter with an accent;
  #2 (v) - accent; emphasise; emphasize; punctuate; stress;to stress, single out as important;
adage(n) - byword; proverb; saw;a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people;
afloat(adj) - borne on the water; floating;
  #2 (adj sat) - awash; flooded; inundated; overflowing;covered with water;
  #3 (adj sat) - adrift; aimless; directionless; planless; rudderless; undirected;aimlessly drifting;
aghast(adj sat) - appalled; dismayed; shocked;struck with fear, dread, or consternation;

agility(n) - legerity; lightness; lightsomeness; nimbleness;the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble;
allay(v) - assuage; quench; slake;satisfy (thirst);
  #2 (v) - ease; relieve; still;lessen the intensity of or calm;
allotment(n) - allocation; apportioning; apportionment; assignation; parceling; parcelling;the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan;
  #2 (n) - allocation;a share set aside for a specific purpose;
allude(v) - advert; touch;make a more or less disguised reference to;
altruistic(adj) - selfless;showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others;

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amble(n) - perambulation; promenade; saunter; stroll;a leisurely walk (usually in some public place);
  #2 (v) - mosey;walk leisurely;
amity(n) - cordiality;a cordial disposition;
  #2 (n) - a state of friendship and cordiality;
amphibian(n) - cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form;
  #2 (n) - amphibious aircraft;an airplane designed to take off and land on water;
  #3 (n) - amphibious vehicle;a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water;
  #4 (adj) - amphibious;relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia;
anathema(n) - a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication;
  #2 (n) - bete noire;a detested person;
anthology(n) - a collection of selected literary passages;

antidote(n) - counterpoison;a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison;
antiquate(v) - antique;give an antique appearance to;
  #2 (v) - make obsolete or old-fashioned;
apartheid(n) - a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa;
aphorism(n) - apophthegm; apothegm;a short pithy instructive saying;
aquatic(n) - a plant that lives in or on water;
  #2 (adj) - operating or living or growing in water;
  #3 (adj) - relating to or consisting of or being in water;

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arbitrate(v) - intercede; intermediate; liaise; mediate;act between parties with a view to reconciling differences;
aridity(n) - barrenness; fruitlessness;the quality of yielding nothing of value;
  #2 (n) - aridness; thirstiness;a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall);
armada(n) - a large fleet;
artisan(n) - artificer; craftsman; journeyman;a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft;
askance(adj sat) - askant; asquint; sidelong; squint; squint-eyed; squinty;directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy;
  #2 (adv) - with a side or oblique glance;
  #3 (adv) - with suspicion or disapproval;

atmosphere(n) - air; aura;a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing;
  #2 (n) - air;the mass of air surrounding the Earth;
  #3 (n) - the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body;
  #4 (n) - atm; standard atmosphere; standard pressure;a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade;
  #5 (n) - atmospheric state;the weather or climate at some place;
  #6 (n) - ambiance; ambience;a particular environment or surrounding influence;
atrophy(n) - withering;any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use);
  #2 (n) - wasting; wasting away;a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse;
  #3 (v) - undergo atrophy;
attribute(n) - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity;
  #2 (n) - dimension; property;a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished;
  #3 (v) - ascribe; assign; impute;attribute or credit to;
  #4 (v) - assign;decide as to where something belongs in a scheme;
attrition(n) - the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction;
  #2 (n) - a wearing down to weaken or destroy;
  #3 (n) - contriteness; contrition;sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation;
  #4 (n) - abrasion; detrition; grinding;the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice;
  #5 (n) - abrasion; corrasion; detrition;erosion by friction;
auditor(n) - a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization;
  #2 (n) - a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit;
  #3 (n) - attender; hearer; listener;someone who listens attentively;

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auger(n) - gimlet; screw auger; wimble;hand tool for boring holes;
  #2 (n) - plumber's snake;a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes;
avert(v) - turn away;turn away or aside;
  #2 (v) - avoid; debar; deflect; fend off; forefend; forfend; head off; obviate; stave off; ward off;prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening;
awry(adj sat) - amiss; haywire; wrong;not functioning properly;
  #2 (adj sat) - askew; cockeyed; lopsided; skew-whiff; wonky;turned or twisted toward one side;
  #3 (adv) - amiss;away from the correct or expected course;
  #4 (adv) - askew; skew-whiff;turned or twisted to one side;
bacillus(n) - b;aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil;
bacteria(n) - bacterium;single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants;

balderdash(n) - fiddle-faddle; piffle;trivial nonsense;
baleen(n) - whalebone;a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets;
banister(n) - balusters; balustrade; bannister; handrail;a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling;
bantam(n) - any of various small breeds of fowl;
  #2 (adj sat) - diminutive; flyspeck; lilliputian; midget; petite; tiny;very small;
barbecue(n) - barbeque;a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors;
  #2 (n) - barbeque;a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit;
  #3 (n) - barbeque;meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce;
  #4 (v) - barbeque; cook out;cook outdoors on a barbecue grill;

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barnacle(n) - barnacle goose; branta leucopsis;European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north;
  #2 (n) - cirriped; cirripede;marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces;
behoove(v) - behove;be appropriate or necessary;
bilk(v) - elude; evade;escape, either physically or mentally;
  #2 (v) - evade payment to;
  #3 (v) - baffle; cross; foil; frustrate; queer; scotch; spoil; thwart;hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of;
  #4 (v) - cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money;
biology(n) - biological science;the science that studies living organisms;
  #2 (n) - biota;all the plant and animal life of a particular region;
  #3 (n) - characteristic life processes and phenomena of living organisms;
bliss(n) - blissfulness; cloud nine; seventh heaven; walking on air;a state of extreme happiness;

buffoon(n) - clown; goof; goofball; merry andrew;a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior;
  #2 (n) - clown;a rude or vulgar fool;
cacophony(n) - loud confusing disagreeable sounds;
  #2 (n) - blare; blaring; clamor; din;a loud harsh or strident noise;
capitalism(n) - capitalist economy;an economic system based on private ownership of capital;
cappuccino(n) - cappuccino coffee; coffee cappuccino;equal parts of espresso and hot milk topped with cinnamon and nutmeg and usually whipped cream;
capsize(v) - turn turtle; turtle;overturn accidentally;

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carcinogen(n) - any substance that produces cancer;
cardigan(n) - cardigan welsh corgi;slightly bowlegged variety of corgi having rounded ears and a long tail;
  #2 (n) - knitted jacket that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper;
carousel(n) - carrousel; merry-go-round; roundabout; whirligig;a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement;
  #2 (n) - carrousel; luggage carousel; luggage carrousel;a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers;
carp(n) - any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae;
  #2 (n) - the lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed; can be baked or braised;
  #3 (v) - cavil; chicane;raise trivial objections;
cartography(n) - mapmaking;the making of maps and charts;

catamaran(n) - a sailboat with two parallel hulls held together by single deck;
cayenne(n) - cayenne pepper;a long and often twisted hot red pepper;
  #2 (n) - cayenne pepper; red pepper;ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus Capsicum;
  #3 (n) - capsicum annuum longum; cayenne pepper; chili pepper; chilli pepper; jalapeno; long pepper;plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red;
celestial(adj sat) - ethereal; supernal;of heaven or the spirit;
  #2 (adj) - heavenly;relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven;
  #3 (adj) - heavenly;of or relating to the sky;
cellulose(n) - a polysaccharide that is the chief constituent of all plant tissues and fibers;
centigrade(adj) - of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees;

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centrifuge(n) - extractor; separator;an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension;
  #2 (v) - centrifugate;rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids;
cerebrum(n) - anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres; dominant part of the brain in humans;
ceremonious(adj sat) - conventional;rigidly formal or bound by convention;
  #2 (adj) - pompous;characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display;
chasm(n) - a deep opening in the earth's surface;
climate(n) - clime;the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time;
  #2 (n) - mood;the prevailing psychological state;

coagulate(v) - clot;change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state;
  #2 (v) - clot;cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state;
  #3 (adj sat) - coagulated; curdled; grumose; grumous;transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass;
collapse(n) - flop;the act of throwing yourself down;
  #2 (n) - a natural event caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in;
  #3 (n) - crash;a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures);
  #4 (n) - prostration;an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion;
  #5 (v) - break down;collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack;
  #6 (v) - lose significance, effectiveness, or value;
  #7 (v) - break up; crack; crack up; crock up;suffer a nervous breakdown;
  #8 (v) - break; cave in; fall in; founder; give; give way;break down, literally or metaphorically;
  #9 (v) - burst;cause to burst;
  #10 (v) - break down; crumble; crumple; tumble;fall apart;
  #11 (v) - fold or close up;
commemorate(v) - remember;call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony;
  #2 (v) - immortalise; immortalize; memorialise; memorialize; record;be or provide a memorial to a person or an event;
  #3 (v) - mark;mark by some ceremony or observation;
commensurate(adj) - corresponding in size or degree or extent;
commission(n) - charge; mission;a special assignment that is given to a person or group;
  #2 (n) - committal; perpetration;the act of committing a crime;
  #3 (n) - commissioning;the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions;
  #4 (n) - military commission;an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces;
  #5 (n) - charge; direction;a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something;
  #6 (n) - committee;a special group delegated to consider some matter;
  #7 (n) - delegacy; delegation; deputation; mission;a group of representatives or delegates;
  #8 (n) - a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary);
  #9 (n) - the state of being in good working order and ready for operation;
  #10 (v) - charge with a task;
  #11 (v) - put into commission; equip for service; of ships;
  #12 (v) - place an order for;

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concur(v) - coincide;happen simultaneously;
  #2 (v) - agree; concord; hold;be in accord; be in agreement;
condense(v) - concentrate; digest;make more concise;
  #2 (v) - distil; distill;undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops;
  #3 (v) - concentrate; contract;compress or concentrate;
  #4 (v) - develop due to condensation;
  #5 (v) - become more compact or concentrated;
  #6 (v) - cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid;
  #7 (v) - remove water from;
condone(v) - excuse;excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with;
confluence(n) - concourse;a coming together of people;
  #2 (n) - conflux; merging;a flowing together;
  #3 (n) - meeting;a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers);
corona(n) - a long cigar with blunt ends;
  #2 (n) - any structure that resembles a crown in shape;
  #3 (n) - aureole;the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse;
  #4 (n) - one or more circles of light seen around a luminous object;
  #5 (n) - corona discharge; corposant; electric glow; saint elmo's fire; saint elmo's light; saint ulmo's fire; saint ulmo's light; st. elmo's fire;an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere;
  #6 (n) - the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower;

corpuscle(n) - blood cell; blood corpuscle;either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets;
  #2 (n) - atom; molecule; mote; particle; speck;a tiny piece of anything;
crevice(n) - cleft; crack; fissure; scissure;a long narrow opening;
  #2 (n) - chap; crack; cranny; fissure;a long narrow depression in a surface;
cryptic(adj sat) - having a puzzling terseness;
  #2 (adj sat) - cabalistic; cryptical; kabbalistic; qabalistic; sibylline;having a secret or hidden meaning;
  #3 (adj sat) - cryptical; deep; inscrutable; mysterious; mystifying;of an obscure nature;
culpable(adj sat) - blamable; blameable; blameful; blameworthy; censurable;deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious;
culprit(n) - perpetrator;someone who perpetrates wrongdoing;

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culture(n) - the raising of plants or animals;
  #2 (n) - the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar);
  #3 (n) - the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group;
  #4 (n) - acculturation;all the knowledge and values shared by a society;
  #5 (n) - the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization;
  #6 (n) - civilisation; civilization;a particular society at a particular time and place;
  #7 (n) - cultivation; finish; polish; refinement;a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality;
  #8 (v) - grow in a special preparation;
delectable(adj sat) - sexually attractive;capable of arousing desire;
  #2 (adj sat) - delicious; luscious; pleasant-tasting; scrumptious; toothsome; yummy;extremely pleasing to the sense of taste;
despite(n) - contemptuous disregard;
  #2 (n) - contempt; disdain; scorn;lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike;
detest(v) - hate;dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards;
diffident(adj) - shy; timid; unsure;lacking self-confidence;
  #2 (adj sat) - showing modest reserve;

disparage(v) - belittle; pick at;express a negative opinion of;
dissemble(v) - affect; feign; pretend; sham;make believe with the intent to deceive;
  #2 (v) - act; pretend;behave unnaturally or affectedly;
  #3 (v) - cloak; mask;hide under a false appearance;
dissonance(n) - disagreeable sounds;
  #2 (n) - noise; racket;the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience;
  #3 (n) - disagreement; dissension;a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters;
douse(v) - dowse; drench; soak; sop; souse;cover with liquid; pour liquid onto;
  #2 (v) - dowse;slacken;
  #3 (v) - lower quickly;
  #4 (v) - dip; dunk; plunge; souse;immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate;
  #5 (v) - dip; duck;dip into a liquid;
  #6 (v) - dowse;wet thoroughly;
  #7 (v) - put out;put out, as of a candle or a light;
dovetail(n) - dovetail joint;a mortise joint formed by interlocking tenons and mortises;
  #2 (v) - fit together tightly, as if by means of a dovetail;

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drench(v) - douse; dowse; soak; sop; souse;cover with liquid; pour liquid onto;
  #2 (v) - imbrue;permeate or impregnate;
  #3 (v) - force to drink;
  #4 (v) - swamp;drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged;
duplicity(n) - double-dealing;acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another;
  #2 (n) - fraudulence;a fraudulent or duplicitous representation;
ebullient(adj sat) - exuberant; high-spirited;joyously unrestrained;
edict(n) - decree; fiat; order; rescript;a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge);
  #2 (n) - a formal or authoritative proclamation;
efficacious(adj) - effective; effectual;producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect;
  #2 (adj) - marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect;

effigy(n) - image; simulacrum;a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture);
elicit(v) - derive by reason;
  #2 (v) - draw out; educe; evoke; extract;deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning);
  #3 (v) - arouse; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; provoke; raise;call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses);
elucidation(n) - clarification; illumination;an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding;
  #2 (n) - an act of explaining that serves to clear up and cast light on;
encroach(v) - impinge; infringe;advance beyond the usual limit;
  #2 (v) - entrench; impinge; trench;impinge or infringe upon;
encumber(v) - constrain; cumber; restrain;hold back;

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endorse(v) - indorse;sign as evidence of legal transfer;
  #2 (v) - certify; indorse;guarantee as meeting a certain standard;
  #3 (v) - back; indorse; plump for; plunk for; support;be behind; approve of;
  #4 (v) - back; indorse; second;give support or one's approval to;
entrap(v) - ensnare; snare; trammel; trap;catch in or as if in a trap;
  #2 (v) - ensnare; frame; set up;take or catch as if in a snare or trap;
erode(v) - eat away; fret;remove soil or rock;
  #2 (v) - eat at; gnaw; gnaw at; wear away;become ground down or deteriorate;
etymology(n) - the study of the sources and development of words;
  #2 (n) - a history of a word;
exigency(n) - emergency; pinch;a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action;
  #2 (n) - a pressing or urgent situation;

extremity(n) - appendage; member;an external body part that projects from the body;
  #2 (n) - that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso;
  #3 (n) - the outermost or farthest region or point;
  #4 (n) - the greatest or utmost degree;
  #5 (n) - an extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease);
falter(n) - faltering; hesitation; waver;the act of pausing uncertainly;
  #2 (v) - bumble; stammer; stutter;speak haltingly;
  #3 (v) - bumble; stumble;walk unsteadily;
  #4 (v) - waver;move hesitatingly, as if about to give way;
  #5 (v) - waver;be unsure or weak;
famine(n) - a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death;
  #2 (n) - dearth; shortage;an acute insufficiency;
fervor(n) - ardor; ardour; fervency; fervidness; fervour; fire;feelings of great warmth and intensity;
  #2 (n) - excitation; excitement; fervour; inflammation;the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up;
fetch(n) - the action of fetching;
  #2 (v) - bring; convey; get;go or come after and bring or take back;
  #3 (v) - take away or remove;
  #4 (v) - bring; bring in;be sold for a certain price;

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fleet(n) - a group of warships organized as a tactical unit;
  #2 (n) - a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership;
  #3 (n) - group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership;
  #4 (n) - group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership;
  #5 (v) - blow over; evanesce; fade; pass; pass off;disappear gradually;
  #6 (v) - dart; flit; flutter;move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart;
  #7 (adj sat) - swift;moving very fast;
flounder(n) - any of various European and non-European marine flatfish;
  #2 (n) - flesh of any of various American and European flatfish;
  #3 (v) - stagger;walk with great difficulty;
  #4 (v) - behave awkwardly; have difficulties;
foment(v) - bathe with warm water or medicated lotions;
  #2 (v) - agitate; stir up;try to stir up public opinion;
fraught(adj sat) - pregnant;filled with or attended with;
  #2 (adj sat) - marked by distress;
frugal(adj sat) - economical; scotch; sparing; stinting;avoiding waste;

fruitful(adj) - productive or conducive to producing in abundance;
fumble(n) - muff;dropping the ball;
  #2 (v) - drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder;
  #3 (v) - handle clumsily;
  #4 (v) - grope;feel about uncertainly or blindly;
  #5 (v) - blunder;make one's way clumsily or blindly;
  #6 (v) - ball up; blow; bobble; bodge; bollix; bollix up; bollocks; bollocks up; botch; botch up; bumble; bungle; flub; fluff; foul up; fuck up; louse up; mess up; mishandle; muck up; muff; screw up; spoil;make a mess of, destroy or ruin;
furtive(adj sat) - backstair; backstairs;secret and sly or sordid;
  #2 (adj sat) - sneak; sneaky; stealthy; surreptitious;marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed;
futile(adj sat) - bootless; fruitless; sleeveless; vain;unproductive of success;
  #2 (adj sat) - ineffectual; otiose; unavailing;producing no result or effect;
gape(n) - a stare of amazement (usually with the mouth open);
  #2 (n) - an expression of openmouthed astonishment;
  #3 (v) - gawk; gawp; goggle;look with amazement; look stupidly;
  #4 (v) - yaw; yawn;be wide open;

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garble(v) - distort; falsify; warp;make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story;
genteel(adj sat) - civilised; civilized; cultivated; cultured; polite;marked by refinement in taste and manners;
glower(n) - glare;an angry stare;
  #2 (v) - frown; lour; lower;look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval;
  #3 (v) - glare;look at with a fixed gaze;
goad(n) - prod;a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion;
  #2 (n) - goading; prod; prodding; spur; spurring; urging;a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something;
  #3 (v) - needle;goad or provoke,as by constant criticism;
  #4 (v) - prick;stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick;
  #5 (v) - urge with or as if with a goad;
  #6 (v) - spur;give heart or courage to;
graph(n) - graphical record;a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes;
  #2 (v) - chart;represent by means of a graph;
  #3 (v) - plot upon a graph;

gratification(n) - the act or an instance of satisfying;
  #2 (n) - satisfaction;state of being gratified or satisfied;
gregarious(adj sat) - instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others;
  #2 (adj) - tending to form a group with others of the same species;
  #3 (adj) - growing in groups that are close together;
harsh(adj sat) - abrasive;sharply disagreeable; rigorous;
  #2 (adj sat) - severe;
  #3 (adj sat) - rough;unkind or cruel or uncivil;
  #4 (adj sat) - rough;unpleasantly stern;
  #5 (adj sat) - disagreeable to the senses;
  #6 (adj) - coarse;of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles;
hemorrhage(n) - bleeding; haemorrhage;the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel;
  #2 (v) - bleed; shed blood;lose blood from one's body;
heterozygous(adj) - having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci;

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hipster(n) - flower child; hippie; hippy;someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle;
hoax(n) - dupery; fraud; fraudulence; humbug; put-on;something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage;
  #2 (v) - play a joke on; pull someone's leg;subject to a playful hoax or joke;
homozygous(adj) - having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci;
hydroponics(n) - aquiculture; tank farming;a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients;
ideal(n) - the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain;
  #2 (n) - apotheosis; nonesuch; nonpareil; nonsuch; paragon; saint;model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal;
  #3 (adj sat) - constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception;
  #4 (adj sat) - conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal;
  #5 (adj) - idealistic;of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas;

immutable(adj) - changeless;not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature;
impale(v) - empale; spike; transfix;pierce with a sharp stake or point;
  #2 (v) - stake;kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole;
impasse(n) - blind alley; cul de sac; dead-end street;a street with only one way in or out;
  #2 (n) - dead end; deadlock; stalemate; standstill;a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible;
impeccable(adj sat) - faultless; immaculate;without fault or error;
  #2 (adj sat) - not capable of sin;
importune(v) - insist;beg persistently and urgently;

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impunity(n) - exemption from punishment or loss;
income(n) - the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time;
inept(adj sat) - tactless;revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse;
  #2 (adj sat) - feckless;generally incompetent and ineffectual;
  #3 (adj sat) - awkward; clumsy; cumbersome; ill-chosen; inapt;not elegant or graceful in expression;
inert(adj sat) - sluggish; soggy; torpid;slow and apathetic;
  #2 (adj sat) - unable to move or resist motion;
  #3 (adj sat) - indifferent; neutral;having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive;
inextricably(adv) - in an inextricable manner;

inimical(adj sat) - unfriendly;not friendly;
inimitable(adj sat) - defying imitation; matchless;
innocuous(adj sat) - innocent;lacking intent or capacity to injure;
  #2 (adj) - not injurious to physical or mental health;
  #3 (adj sat) - unobjectionable;not causing disapproval;
insidious(adj sat) - pernicious; subtle;working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way;
  #2 (adj sat) - intended to entrap;
  #3 (adj sat) - beguiling but harmful;
interim(n) - lag; meantime; meanwhile;the time between one event, process, or period and another;
  #2 (adj sat) - serving during an intermediate interval of time;

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jocular(adj sat) - jesting; jocose; joking;characterized by jokes and good humor;
  #2 (adv) - jocosely;with humor;
kipper(n) - kippered herring;salted and smoked herring;
licentious(adj sat) - lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained;
limber(n) - a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson;
  #2 (v) - cause to become limber;
  #3 (v) - limber up;attach the limber;
  #4 (adj sat) - supple;capable of moving or bending freely;
  #5 (adj sat) - easily bent;
  #6 (adj sat) - supple;readily adaptable;
literate(n) - literate person;a person who can read and write;
  #2 (adj sat) - knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields;
  #3 (adj) - versed in literature; dealing with literature;
  #4 (adj) - able to read and write;

litmus(n) - litmus test;a coloring material (obtained from lichens) that turns red in acid solutions and blue in alkaline solutions; used as a very rough acid-base indicator;
lobotomy(n) - frontal lobotomy; leucotomy; leukotomy; prefrontal leucotomy; prefrontal leukotomy; prefrontal lobotomy;surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes;
lucerne(n) - alfalfa; medicago sativa;important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop;
luscious(adj sat) - juicy; red-hot; toothsome; voluptuous;having strong sexual appeal;
  #2 (adj sat) - delectable; delicious; pleasant-tasting; scrumptious; toothsome; yummy;extremely pleasing to the sense of taste;
madrigal(n) - an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form;
  #2 (v) - sing madrigals;

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magenta(n) - battle of magenta;a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I;
  #2 (n) - a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta;
  #3 (adj sat) - of deep purplish red;
magma(n) - molten rock in the earth's crust;
magnate(n) - baron; big businessman; business leader; king; mogul; power; top executive; tycoon;a very wealthy or powerful businessman;
malign(v) - badmouth; drag through the mud; traduce;speak unfavorably about;
  #2 (adj sat) - evil; malefic; malevolent;having or exerting a malignant influence;
  #3 (adj) - evil or harmful in nature or influence;
mandible(n) - jawbone; jowl; lower jaw; lower jawbone; mandibula; mandibular bone; submaxilla;the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth;

mentor(n) - wise man;a wise and trusted guide and advisor;
  #2 (v) - serve as a teacher or trusted counselor;
mettle(n) - heart; nerve; spunk;the courage to carry on;
miniscule(adj sat) - minuscule;very small;
nefarious(adj sat) - villainous;extremely wicked;
neophyte(n) - catechumen;a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist;
  #2 (n) - entrant; fledgeling; fledgling; freshman; newbie; newcomer; starter;any new participant in some activity;
  #3 (n) - a plant that is found in an area where it had not been recorded previously;

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nonplussed(adj sat) - at a loss; nonplused; puzzled;filled with bewilderment;
observation(n) - observance; watching;the act of observing; taking a patient look;
  #2 (n) - the act of making and recording a measurement;
  #3 (n) - notice; observance;the act of noticing or paying attention;
  #4 (n) - facts learned by observing;
  #5 (n) - reflection; reflexion;a remark expressing careful consideration;
obsolete(adj sat) - disused;no longer in use;
obtain(v) - find; get; incur; receive;receive a specified treatment (abstract);
  #2 (v) - come into possession of;
  #3 (v) - hold; prevail;be valid, applicable, or true;
officious(adj sat) - busy; busybodied; interfering; meddlesome; meddling;intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner;

outfox(v) - beat; circumvent; outsmart; outwit; overreach;beat through cleverness and wit;
  #2 (v) - outdo someone in trickery;
paltry(adj sat) - measly; miserable;contemptibly small in amount;
  #2 (adj sat) - negligible; trifling;not worth considering;
parallel(n) - analog; analogue;something having the property of being analogous to something else;
  #2 (n) - latitude; line of latitude; parallel of latitude;an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator;
  #3 (n) - one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes);
  #4 (v) - collimate;make or place parallel to something;
  #5 (v) - be parallel to;
  #6 (v) - duplicate; twin;duplicate or match;
  #7 (adj) - being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting;
  #8 (adj sat) - of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations;
parapet(n) - breastwork;fortification consisting of a low wall;
  #2 (n) - a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony;
passive(n) - passive voice;the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb;
  #2 (adj) - inactive;lacking in energy or will;
  #3 (adj) - expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb;
  #4 (adj sat) - peaceful;peacefully resistant in response to injustice;

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placard(n) - bill; card; notice; poster; posting;a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement;
  #2 (v) - bill;publicize or announce by placards;
  #3 (v) - post in a public place;
plagiarism(n) - piracy; plagiarisation; plagiarization;the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own;
  #2 (n) - a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work;
plundering(n) - pillage; pillaging;the act of stealing valuable things from a place;
  #2 (adj sat) - given to taking by force what is desired;
prance(n) - strut; swagger;a proud stiff pompous gait;
  #2 (v) - cock; ruffle; sashay; strut; swagger; tittup;to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others;
  #3 (v) - ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward;
  #4 (v) - cause (a horse) to bound spring forward;
  #5 (v) - spring forward on the hind legs;
preamble(n) - a preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution (usually explaining its purpose);
  #2 (v) - make a preliminary introduction, usually to a formal document;

precursor(n) - forerunner; harbinger; herald; predecessor;something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone;
  #2 (n) - forerunner;a person who goes before or announces the coming of another;
  #3 (n) - a substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction);
prerequisite(n) - requirement;something that is required in advance;
  #2 (adj sat) - required as a prior condition or course of study;
prevail(v) - use persuasion successfully;
  #2 (v) - triumph;prove superior;
  #3 (v) - dominate; predominate; reign; rule;be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance;
  #4 (v) - die hard; endure; persist; run;continue to exist;
  #5 (v) - hold; obtain;be valid, applicable, or true;
quack(n) - the harsh sound of a duck;
  #2 (n) - an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice;
  #3 (v) - act as a medical quack or a charlatan;
  #4 (v) - utter quacking noises;
  #5 (adj sat) - medically unqualified;
qualm(n) - misgiving; scruple;uneasiness about the fitness of an action;
  #2 (n) - queasiness; squeamishness;a mild state of nausea;

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quiche(n) - the Mayan language spoken by the Quiche;
  #2 (n) - a tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables);
  #3 (n) - a member of the Mayan people of south central Guatemala;
quint(n) - quin; quintuplet;one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy;
  #2 (n) - 5; cinque; fin; five; fivesome; little phoebe; pentad; phoebe; quintet; quintuplet; v;the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one;
quintet(n) - quintette;a musical composition for five performers;
  #2 (n) - fivesome; quintette;five people considered as a unit;
  #3 (n) - quintette; quintuple; quintuplet;a set of five similar things considered as a unit;
  #4 (n) - quintette;five performers or singers who perform together;
  #5 (n) - 5; cinque; fin; five; fivesome; little phoebe; pentad; phoebe; quint; quintuplet; v;the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one;
quorum(n) - a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business;
quotient(n) - the number obtained by division;
  #2 (n) - the ratio of two quantities to be divided;

rakish(adj sat) - devil-may-care; raffish;marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness;
  #2 (adj sat) - dapper; dashing; jaunty; natty; raffish; snappy; spiffy; spruce;marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners;
raze(v) - dismantle; level; pull down; rase; take down; tear down;tear down so as to make flat with the ground;
recitation(n) - drill; exercise; practice; practice session;systematic training by multiple repetitions;
  #2 (n) - class period; course session;a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study;
  #3 (n) - reading; recital;a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance;
  #4 (n) - written matter that is recited from memory;
reconnaissance(n) - reconnaissance mission;the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy);
recoup(v) - deduct; withhold;retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments;
  #2 (v) - recover; recuperate;regain or make up for;
  #3 (v) - reimburse;reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss;

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reformatory(n) - reform school; training school;correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders;
  #2 (adj sat) - reformative;tending to reform;
refract(v) - determine the refracting power of (a lens);
  #2 (v) - subject to refraction;
refurbish(v) - freshen up; renovate;make brighter and prettier;
regatta(n) - a meeting for boat races;
regiment(n) - army unit smaller than a division;
  #2 (v) - assign to a regiment;
  #3 (v) - subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization;
  #4 (v) - form (military personnel) into a regiment;

regurgitate(v) - barf; be sick; cast; cat; chuck; disgorge; honk; puke; purge; regorge; retch; sick; spew; spue; throw up; upchuck; vomit; vomit up;eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth;
  #2 (v) - reproduce;repeat after memorization;
  #3 (v) - feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food;
  #4 (v) - pour or rush back;
relativity(n) - the quality of being relative and having significance only in relation to something else;
  #2 (n) - einstein's theory of relativity; relativity theory; theory of relativity;the theory that space and time are relative concepts rather than absolute concepts;
relinquish(v) - let go; let go of; release;release, as from one's grip;
  #2 (v) - foreswear; quit; renounce;turn away from; give up;
  #3 (v) - free; give up; release; resign;part with a possession or right;
  #4 (v) - dispense with; forego; foreswear; forgo; waive;do without or cease to hold or adhere to;
reluctant(adj sat) - not eager;
  #2 (adj sat) - disinclined to become involved;
  #3 (adj sat) - loath; loth;unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom;
reminisce(v) - recall the past;

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renaissance(n) - rebirth; renascence;the revival of learning and culture;
  #2 (n) - renascence;the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries;
rendezvous(n) - a meeting planned at a certain time and place;
  #2 (n) - tryst;a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex;
  #3 (n) - a place where people meet;
  #4 (v) - meet at a rendezvous;
resident(n) - house physician; resident physician;a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital;
  #2 (n) - occupant; occupier;someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there;
  #3 (adj) - living in a particular place;
  #4 (adj) - nonmigratory;used of animals that do not migrate;
reticent(adj sat) - retiring; self-effacing;reluctant to draw attention to yourself;
  #2 (adj sat) - restrained; unemotional;cool and formal in manner;
  #3 (adj sat) - untalkative;temperamentally disinclined to talk;
reverie(n) - revery;an abstracted state of absorption;
  #2 (n) - air castle; castle in spain; castle in the air; daydream; daydreaming; oneirism; revery;absentminded dreaming while awake;

robust(adj sat) - rough and crude;
  #2 (adj) - sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction;
  #3 (adj sat) - strong enough to withstand or overcome intellectual challenges or adversity;
  #4 (adj sat) - full-bodied; racy; rich;marked by richness and fullness of flavor;
rosin(n) - resin;any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules;
  #2 (v) - rub rosin onto;
rotunda(n) - a large circular room;
  #2 (n) - a building having a circular plan and a dome;
rouse(v) - arouse; awaken; wake; wake up; waken;cause to become awake or conscious;
  #2 (v) - agitate; charge; charge up; commove; excite; turn on;cause to be agitated, excited, or roused;
  #3 (v) - drive out; force out; rout out;force or drive out;
  #4 (v) - bestir;become active;
rubella(n) - epidemic roseola; german measles; three-day measles;a contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days; can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester;

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rumen(n) - first stomach;the first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing;
ruminant(n) - any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments;
  #2 (adj) - related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud;
runt(n) - half-pint; peewee; shrimp;disparaging terms for small people;
sabbatical(n) - sabbatical leave;a leave usually taken every seventh year;
  #2 (adj) - of or relating to sabbatical leave;
  #3 (adj) - sabbatic;of or relating to the Sabbath;
sabotage(n) - a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged;
  #2 (v) - counteract; countermine; subvert; undermine; weaken;destroy property or hinder normal operations;

saboteur(n) - fifth columnist;a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader;
  #2 (n) - diversionist; wrecker;someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks;
saga(n) - a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account;
salamander(n) - any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed;
  #2 (n) - fire hook; poker; stove poker;fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire;
  #3 (n) - reptilian creature supposed to live in fire;
salient(n) - the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy;
  #2 (adj sat) - outstanding; prominent; spectacular; striking;having a quality that thrusts itself into attention;
  #3 (adj sat) - represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward);
  #4 (adj) - pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees;
saliva(n) - spit; spittle;a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches;

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salutation(n) - word of greeting used to begin a letter;
  #2 (n) - greeting;an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting);
  #3 (n) - salute;an act of honor or courteous recognition;
sanctum(n) - holy; holy place;a sacred place of pilgrimage;
  #2 (n) - sanctum sanctorum;a place of inviolable privacy;
sanguine(n) - a blood-red color;
  #2 (adj sat) - florid; rubicund; ruddy;inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life;
  #3 (adj sat) - confidently optimistic and cheerful;
satchel(n) - luggage consisting of a small case with a flat bottom and (usually) a shoulder strap;
saunter(n) - amble; perambulation; promenade; stroll;a leisurely walk (usually in some public place);
  #2 (n) - a careless leisurely gait;
  #3 (v) - stroll;walk leisurely and with no apparent aim;

scenario(n) - a postulated sequence of possible events;
  #2 (n) - an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work);
  #3 (n) - a setting for a work of art or literature;
scepter(n) - sceptre; verge; wand;a ceremonial or emblematic staff;
  #2 (n) - sceptre;the imperial authority symbolized by a scepter;
scowl(n) - frown;a facial expression of dislike or displeasure;
  #2 (v) - frown with displeasure;
scribble(n) - doodle; scrabble;an aimless drawing;
  #2 (n) - cacography; scratch; scrawl;poor handwriting;
  #3 (v) - scrabble;write down quickly without much attention to detail;
  #4 (v) - scrawl;write carelessly;
scurry(n) - scamper; scramble;rushing about hastily in an undignified way;
  #2 (v) - scamper; scuttle; skitter;to move about or proceed hurriedly;

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sedimentary(adj) - aqueous;produced by the action of water;
  #2 (adj) - resembling or containing or formed by the accumulation of sediment;
selectivity(n) - the property of being selective;
senile(adj sat) - doddering; doddery; gaga;mentally or physically infirm with age;
sepal(n) - one of the green parts that form the calyx of a flower;
septum(n) - a dividing partition between two tissues or cavities;
  #2 (n) - a partition or wall especially in an ovary;

serene(adj sat) - completely clear and fine;
  #2 (adj sat) - calm; tranquil; unagitated;not agitated; without losing self-possession;
serpentine(adj sat) - snakelike; snaky;resembling a serpent in form;
sexism(n) - discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of the opposite sex;
shackle(n) - bond; hamper; trammel;a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner);
  #2 (n) - a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar;
  #3 (v) - fetter;restrain with fetters;
  #4 (v) - pinion;bind the arms of;
shrew(n) - shrewmouse;small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles;
  #2 (n) - termagant;a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman;

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sidle(v) - sashay;move sideways;
  #2 (v) - move unobtrusively or furtively;
silage(n) - ensilage;fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo;
silo(n) - a cylindrical tower used for storing silage;
  #2 (n) - military installation consisting of an underground structure where ballistic missiles can be stored and fired;
sincerity(n) - earnestness; serious-mindedness; seriousness;the trait of being serious;
  #2 (n) - unassumingness;a quality of naturalness and simplicity;
  #3 (n) - the quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocritical;
  #4 (n) - earnestness; seriousness;an earnest and sincere feeling;
skimp(v) - scant; stint;supply sparingly and with restricted quantities;
  #2 (v) - scrimp; stint;subsist on a meager allowance;
  #3 (v) - scant;limit in quality or quantity;
  #4 (v) - scant;work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially;

sleazy(adj sat) - seamy; seedy; sordid; squalid;morally degraded;
  #2 (adj sat) - bum; cheap; cheesy; chintzy; crummy; punk; tinny;of very poor quality; flimsy;
  #3 (adj sat) - of cloth; thin and loosely woven;
smitten(adj sat) - stricken; struck;affected by something overwhelming;
  #2 (adj sat) - enamored; in love; infatuated; potty; soft on; taken with;marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness;
solubility(n) - the quality of being soluble and easily dissolved in liquid;
  #2 (n) - solvability;the property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it possible to solve;
  #3 (n) - the quantity of a particular substance that can dissolve in a particular solvent (yielding a saturated solution);
solute(n) - the dissolved matter in a solution; the component of a solution that changes its state;
solvency(n) - the ability to meet maturing obligations as they come due;

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somnambulist(n) - noctambulist; sleepwalker;someone who walks about in their sleep;
sonata(n) - a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms;
sonnet(n) - a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme;
  #2 (v) - compose a sonnet;
  #3 (v) - praise in a sonnet;
soporific(n) - hypnotic;a drug that induces sleep;
  #2 (adj sat) - narcotic; soporiferous;inducing mental lethargy;
  #3 (adj sat) - hypnagogic; hypnogogic; somniferous; somnific; soporiferous;sleep inducing;
spastic(n) - a person suffering from spastic paralysis;
  #2 (adj sat) - convulsive; spasmodic;affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm;
  #3 (adj sat) - suffering from spastic paralysis;
  #4 (adj) - relating to or characterized by spasm;

splice(n) - lap joint;joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together;
  #2 (n) - splicing;a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together;
  #3 (v) - join by interweaving strands;
  #4 (v) - join together so as to form new genetic combinations;
  #5 (v) - join the ends of;
  #6 (v) - marry; tie; wed;perform a marriage ceremony;
stringent(adj sat) - rigorous; tight;demanding strict attention to rules and procedures;
strut(n) - prance; swagger;a proud stiff pompous gait;
  #2 (n) - brace consisting of a bar or rod used to resist longitudinal compression;
  #3 (v) - cock; prance; ruffle; sashay; swagger; tittup;to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others;
subservient(adj sat) - slavish; submissive;abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant;
  #2 (adj sat) - implemental; instrumental;serving or acting as a means or aid;
  #3 (adj sat) - compliant and obedient to authority;
substantiate(v) - solidify, firm, or strengthen;
  #2 (v) - affirm; confirm; corroborate; support; sustain;establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts;
  #3 (v) - actualise; actualize; realise; realize;make real or concrete; give reality or substance to;
  #4 (v) - body forth; embody; incarnate;represent in bodily form;

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succor(n) - ministration; relief; succour;assistance in time of difficulty;
  #2 (v) - succour;help in a difficult situation;
survive(v) - exist; live; subsist;support oneself;
  #2 (v) - endure; go; hold out; hold up; last; live; live on;continue to live through hardship or adversity;
  #3 (v) - outlast; outlive;live longer than;
  #4 (v) - come through; make it; pull round; pull through;continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.);
tacit(adj sat) - silent; understood;implied by or inferred from actions or statements;
throttle(n) - accelerator; throttle valve;a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine;
  #2 (n) - accelerator; accelerator pedal; gas; gas pedal; gun;a pedal that controls the throttle valve;
  #3 (v) - choke;reduce the air supply;
  #4 (v) - bound; confine; limit; restrain; restrict; trammel;place limits on (extent or access);
  #5 (v) - strangle; strangulate;kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air;
tirade(n) - broadside; philippic;a speech of violent denunciation;

topic(n) - issue; matter; subject;some situation or event that is thought about;
  #2 (n) - subject; theme;the subject matter of a conversation or discussion;
transpire(v) - give off (water) through the skin;
  #2 (v) - come about, happen, or occur;
  #3 (v) - come to light; become known;
  #4 (v) - exude water vapor;
  #5 (v) - transpirate;pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas;
travesty(n) - burlesque; charade; lampoon; mockery; parody; pasquinade; put-on; sendup; spoof; takeoff;a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way;
  #2 (n) - farce; farce comedy;a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations;
  #3 (v) - make a travesty of;
trek(n) - any long and difficult trip;
  #2 (n) - a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers);
  #3 (v) - make a long and difficult journey;
  #4 (v) - journey on foot, especially in the mountains;
trenchant(adj sat) - clear-cut; distinct;clearly or sharply defined to the mind;
  #2 (adj sat) - hard-hitting;characterized by or full of force and vigor;
  #3 (adj sat) - searching;having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect;

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truculent(adj sat) - defiantly aggressive;
truncated(adj sat) - truncate;terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off;
  #2 (adj sat) - abbreviated; shortened;cut short in duration;
turk(n) - a native or inhabitant of Turkey;
turkey(n) - meleagris gallopavo;large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food;
  #2 (n) - bomb; dud;an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual;
  #3 (n) - flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted;
  #4 (n) - republic of turkey;a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923;
  #5 (n) - joker;a person who does something thoughtless or annoying;
turnip(n) - root of any of several members of the mustard family;
  #2 (n) - brassica rapa; white turnip;widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root;

tusk(n) - a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog;
  #2 (n) - ivory;a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses;
  #3 (v) - detusk;remove the tusks of animals;
  #4 (v) - horn;stab or pierce with a horn or tusk;
tutor(n) - coach; private instructor;a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.);
  #2 (v) - be a tutor to someone; give individual instruction;
  #3 (v) - act as a guardian to someone;
twilight(n) - the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth;
  #2 (n) - a condition of decline following successes;
  #3 (n) - crepuscle; crepuscule; dusk; evenfall; fall; gloam; gloaming; nightfall;the time of day immediately following sunset;
  #4 (adj sat) - dusky; twilit;lighted by or as if by twilight;
twine(n) - string;a lightweight cord;
  #2 (v) - distort; twist;form into a spiral shape;
  #3 (v) - enlace; entwine; interlace; intertwine; lace;spin,wind, or twist together;
  #4 (v) - make by twisting together or intertwining;
  #5 (v) - roll; wind; wrap;arrange or or coil around;
twinkle(n) - light; spark; sparkle;merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance;
  #2 (n) - scintillation; sparkling;a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash;
  #3 (v) - blink; flash; wink; winkle;gleam or glow intermittently;
  #4 (v) - scintillate; winkle;emit or reflect light in a flickering manner;

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typhoid(n) - enteric fever; typhoid fever;serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water;
typhoon(n) - a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans;
tyranny(n) - absolutism; authoritarianism; caesarism; despotism; dictatorship; monocracy; one-man rule; shogunate; stalinism; totalitarianism;a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.);
  #2 (n) - absolutism; despotism;dominance through threat of punishment and violence;
ultrasonic(adj sat) - supersonic;having frequencies above those of audible sound;
ultrasound(n) - echography; sonography; ultrasonography;using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs;
  #2 (n) - very high frequency sound; used in ultrasonography;

ultraviolet(n) - ultraviolet illumination; ultraviolet light; ultraviolet radiation; uv;radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays;
  #2 (adj sat) - having or employing wavelengths shorter than light but longer than X-rays; lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end;
unaided(adj sat) - carried out without aid or assistance;
unanimous(adj sat) - consentaneous; consentient;in complete agreement;
  #2 (adj sat) - solid; whole;acting together as a single undiversified whole;
unanswered(adj sat) - unreciprocated; unrequited;not returned in kind;
unaware(adj) - incognizant;not aware;

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uncertainty(n) - precariousness; uncertainness;being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance;
  #2 (n) - doubt; doubtfulness; dubiety; dubiousness; incertitude;the state of being unsure of something;
underdog(n) - one at a disadvantage and expected to lose;
underestimate(n) - underestimation; underrating; underreckoning;an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value;
  #2 (v) - underrate;make too low an estimate of;
  #3 (v) - lowball;make a deliberately low estimate;
  #4 (v) - undervalue;assign too low a value to;
undesirable(n) - one whose presence is undesirable;
  #2 (adj) - unwanted;not wanted;
  #3 (adj sat) - unsuitable;not worthy of being chosen (especially as a spouse);
unemployment(n) - the state of being unemployed or not having a job;

unfamiliar(adj) - not known or well known;
unfold(v) - blossom; blossom forth; blossom out;develop or come to a promising stage;
  #2 (v) - open; spread; spread out;spread out or open from a closed or folded state;
  #3 (v) - extend; stretch; stretch out;extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length;
  #4 (v) - open to the view;
unfounded(adj sat) - baseless; groundless; idle; unwarranted; wild;without a basis in reason or fact;
unidentified(adj sat) - nameless; unknown; unnamed;being or having an unknown or unnamed source;
  #2 (adj sat) - not yet identified;
uniformity(n) - uniformness;the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom);
  #2 (n) - a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying;

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unprecedented(adj) - having no precedent; novel;
unpredictable(adj sat) - irregular;not occurring at expected times;
  #2 (adj sat) - unknown in advance;
  #3 (adj) - not capable of being foretold;
unruly(adj sat) - indocile; uncontrollable; ungovernable;of persons;
  #2 (adj sat) - boisterous; rambunctious; robustious; rumbustious;noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline;
  #3 (adj sat) - disobedient;unwilling to submit to authority;
unstrap(v) - remove the strap or straps from;
unwieldy(adj sat) - clumsy; clunky; gawky; ungainly;lacking grace in movement or posture;
  #2 (adj sat) - difficult to work or manipulate;
  #3 (adj) - unmanageable;difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape;

unwilling(adj sat) - in spite of contrary volition;
  #2 (adj) - not disposed or inclined toward;
uphold(v) - stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals;
  #2 (v) - maintain;support against an opponent;
  #3 (v) - bear on; carry on; continue; preserve;keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last;
uproar(n) - brouhaha; hubbub; katzenjammer;loud confused noise from many sources;
  #2 (n) - garboil; tumult; tumultuousness;a state of commotion and noise and confusion;
uproot(v) - deracinate; extirpate; root out;pull up by or as if by the roots;
  #2 (v) - eradicate; exterminate; extirpate; root out;destroy completely, as if down to the roots;
  #3 (v) - deracinate;move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment;
uranium(n) - atomic number 92; u;a heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons;

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urgency(n) - pressing importance requiring speedy action;
  #2 (n) - importunity; urging;insistent solicitation and entreaty;
  #3 (n) - an urgent situation calling for prompt action;
  #4 (n) - the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity;
utensil(n) - an implement for practical use (especially in a household);
utterly(adv) - absolutely; dead; perfectly;completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers;
vacancy(n) - emptiness; vacuum; void;an empty area or space;
  #2 (n) - being unoccupied;
vaccinate(v) - immunise; immunize; inoculate;perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation;

vaccine(n) - vaccinum;immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies;
validate(v) - make valid or confirm the validity of;
  #2 (v) - prove valid; show or confirm the validity of something;
  #3 (v) - corroborate;give evidence for;
  #4 (v) - formalise; formalize;declare or make legally valid;
validity(n) - cogency; rigor; rigour;the quality of being valid and rigorous;
  #2 (n) - validness;the quality of having legal force or effectiveness;
  #3 (n) - hardiness; lustiness; robustness;the property of being strong and healthy in constitution;
valve(n) - one of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods;
  #2 (n) - the entire one-piece shell of a snail and certain other molluscs;
  #3 (n) - control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid;
  #4 (n) - device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone;
  #5 (n) - a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it;
vanity(n) - dresser; dressing table; toilet table;low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup;
  #2 (n) - conceit; conceitedness;the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride;
  #3 (n) - emptiness;the quality of being valueless or futile;
  #4 (n) - amour propre; conceit; self-love;feelings of excessive pride;

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variable(n) - variable quantity;a quantity that can assume any of a set of values;
  #2 (n) - a symbol (like x or y) that is used in mathematical or logical expressions to represent a variable quantity;
  #3 (n) - something that is likely to vary; something that is subject to variation;
  #4 (n) - variable star;a star that varies noticeably in brightness;
  #5 (adj sat) - designed so that a property (as e.g. light) can be varied;
  #6 (adj) - liable to or capable of change;
  #7 (adj sat) - varying;marked by diversity or difference;
vase(n) - an open jar of glass or porcelain used as an ornament or to hold flowers;
vast(adj sat) - brobdingnagian; huge; immense;unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope;
vault(n) - hurdle;the act of jumping over an obstacle;
  #2 (n) - an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof;
  #3 (n) - burial vault;a burial chamber (usually underground);
  #4 (n) - bank vault;a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables;
  #5 (v) - bound vigorously;
  #6 (v) - overleap;jump across or leap over (an obstacle);
vector(n) - a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell;
  #2 (n) - a variable quantity that can be resolved into components;
  #3 (n) - transmitter;any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease;
  #4 (n) - a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction;

vegetarian(n) - eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products;
vegetate(v) - vege out;engage in passive relaxation;
  #2 (v) - propagate asexually;
  #3 (v) - grow or spread abnormally;
  #4 (v) - grow like a plant;
  #5 (v) - produce vegetation;
  #6 (v) - establish vegetation on;
  #7 (v) - lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind;
vein(n) - nervure;one of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect;
  #2 (n) - vena; venous blood vessel;a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart;
  #3 (n) - a distinctive style or manner;
  #4 (n) - mineral vein;a layer of ore between layers of rock;
  #5 (n) - nervure;any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ;
  #6 (v) - make a veinlike pattern;
velvet(n) - a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back;
  #2 (adj sat) - velvety;resembling velvet in having a smooth soft surface;
  #3 (adj sat) - velvet-textured; velvety;smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste;
vengeance(n) - payback; retribution;the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life;

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ventilate(v) - air; air out; vent;expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen;
  #2 (v) - furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape;
  #3 (v) - give vent; vent;give expression or utterance to;
  #4 (v) - circulate through and freshen;
  #5 (v) - expose to the circulation of fresh air so as to retard spoilage;
venus(n) - genus venus;type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells;
  #2 (n) - the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early `morning star' or an `evening star';
  #3 (n) - urania;goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite;
verbal(adj sat) - communicated in the form of words;
  #2 (adj sat) - prolix;
  #3 (adj) - relating to or having facility in the use of words;
  #4 (adj sat) - expressed in spoken words;
  #5 (adj) - of or relating to or formed from a verb;
  #6 (adj) - of or relating to or formed from words in general;
verdant(adj sat) - characterized by abundance of verdure;
verge(n) - a grass border along a road;
  #2 (n) - brink;the limit beyond which something happens or changes;
  #3 (n) - scepter; sceptre; wand;a ceremonial or emblematic staff;
  #4 (n) - brink; threshold;a region marking a boundary;
  #5 (v) - border on; come close to;

versatile(adj sat) - able to move freely in all directions;
  #2 (adj sat) - competent in many areas and able to turn with ease from one thing to another;
  #3 (adj sat) - changeable or inconstant;
  #4 (adj sat) - various;having great diversity or variety;
vertical(n) - upright;a vertical structural member as a post or stake;
  #2 (n) - something that is oriented vertically;
  #3 (adj sat) - of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group);
  #4 (adj) - perpendicular;at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line;
  #5 (adj) - erect; upright;upright in position or posture;
  #6 (adj) - relating to or involving all stages of a business from production to distribution;
vest(n) - singlet; undershirt;a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body;
  #2 (n) - waistcoat;a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat;
  #3 (v) - robe;clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes;
  #4 (v) - clothe oneself in ecclesiastical garments;
  #5 (v) - become legally vested;
  #6 (v) - place (authority, property, or rights) in the control of a person or group of persons;
  #7 (v) - enthrone; invest;provide with power and authority;
vicinity(n) - locality; neck of the woods; neighborhood; neighbourhood;a surrounding or nearby region;
videotape(n) - a relatively wide magnetic tape for use in recording visual images and associated sound;
  #2 (n) - a video recording made on magnetic tape;
  #3 (v) - tape;record on videotape;

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vigilant(adj sat) - argus-eyed; open-eyed; wakeful;carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger;
villa(n) - pretentious and luxurious country residence with extensive grounds;
  #2 (n) - country house in ancient Rome consisting of residential quarters and farm buildings around a courtyard;
  #3 (n) - detached or semidetached suburban house;
  #4 (n) - doroteo arango; francisco villa; pancho villa;Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923);
vineyard(n) - vinery;a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced;
violate(v) - destroy;
  #2 (v) - despoil; plunder; rape; spoil;destroy and strip of its possession;
  #3 (v) - breach; break; go against; infract; offend; transgress;act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises;
  #4 (v) - assault; dishonor; dishonour; outrage; rape; ravish;force (someone) to have sex against their will;
  #5 (v) - desecrate; outrage; profane;violate the sacred character of a place or language;
  #6 (v) - break; go against;fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns;
viral(adj) - relating to or caused by a virus;

virgin(n) - virgo; virgo the virgin;the sixth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about August 23 to September 22;
  #2 (n) - virgo;a person who is born while the sun is in Virgo;
  #3 (n) - a person who has never had sex;
  #4 (adj sat) - pure; vestal; virginal; virtuous;in a state of sexual virginity;
  #5 (adj sat) - being used or worked for the first time;
virus(n) - ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein;
  #2 (n) - computer virus;a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer;
  #3 (n) - a harmful or corrupting agency;
visa(n) - an endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it;
  #2 (v) - approve officially;
  #3 (v) - provide (a passport) with a visa;
viscous(adj sat) - gluey; glutinous; gummy; mucilaginous; pasty; sticky; viscid;having the sticky properties of an adhesive;
  #2 (adj sat) - syrupy;having a relatively high resistance to flow;
visualize(v) - visualise;make visible;
  #2 (v) - envision; fancy; figure; image; picture; project; see; visualise;imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind;
  #3 (v) - visualise;form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract;
  #4 (v) - visualise;view the outline of by means of an X-ray;

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vocal(n) - song;a short musical composition with words;
  #2 (n) - vocal music;music intended to be performed by one or more singers, usually with instrumental accompaniment;
  #3 (adj sat) - outspoken;given to expressing yourself freely or insistently;
  #4 (adj sat) - full of the sound of voices;
  #5 (adj) - having or using the power to produce speech or sound;
  #6 (adj) - relating to or designed for or using the singing voice;
void(n) - emptiness; vacancy; vacuum;an empty area or space;
  #2 (n) - nihility; nothingness; nullity;the state of nonexistence;
  #3 (v) - empty; evacuate;excrete or discharge from the body;
  #4 (v) - invalidate; vitiate;take away the legal force of or render ineffective;
  #5 (v) - clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something;
  #6 (v) - annul; avoid; invalidate; nullify; quash;declare invalid;
  #7 (adj sat) - containing nothing;
  #8 (adj sat) - null;lacking any legal or binding force;
volcano(n) - vent;a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt;
  #2 (n) - a mountain formed by volcanic material;
waddle(n) - walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other;
  #2 (v) - coggle; dodder; paddle; toddle; totter;walk unsteadily;
wade(n) - virginia wade;English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945);
  #2 (v) - walk (through relatively shallow water);

wafer(n) - thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist);
  #2 (n) - a small thin crisp cake or cookie;
  #3 (n) - a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters;
waft(n) - pennant; pennon; streamer;a long flag; often tapering;
  #2 (v) - be driven or carried along, as by the air;
  #3 (v) - blow gently;
wail(n) - lament; lamentation; plaint;a cry of sorrow and grief;
  #2 (v) - mewl; pule; whimper;cry weakly or softly;
  #3 (v) - howl; roar; ululate; yaup; yawl;emit long loud cries;
wallet(n) - billfold; notecase; pocketbook;a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money;
walnut(n) - nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell;
  #2 (n) - walnut tree;any of various trees of the genus Juglans;
  #3 (n) - hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling;

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warble(n) - a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly;
  #2 (v) - descant; yodel;sing by changing register; sing by yodeling;
  #3 (v) - quaver; trill;sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below;
ward(n) - cellblock;a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells);
  #2 (n) - hospital ward;block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care;
  #3 (n) - a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections;
  #4 (n) - a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another;
  #5 (n) - aaron montgomery ward; montgomery ward;United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913);
  #6 (n) - mary augusta arnold ward; mrs. humphrey ward;English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920);
  #7 (n) - barbara ward; baroness jackson of lodsworth;English economist and conservationist (1914-1981);
  #8 (v) - guard;watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect;
wardrobe(n) - closet; press;a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes;
  #2 (n) - collection of clothing belonging to one person;
  #3 (n) - collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company;
ware(n) - merchandise; product;commodities offered for sale;
  #2 (n) - articles of the same kind or material; usually used in combination: `silverware', `software';
  #3 (v) - consume; squander; waste;spend extravagantly;
warehouse(n) - storage warehouse;a storehouse for goods and merchandise;
  #2 (v) - store in a warehouse;

warfare(n) - war;the waging of armed conflict against an enemy;
  #2 (n) - war;an active struggle between competing entities;
warlord(n) - supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak;
warranty(n) - guarantee; warrant; warrantee;a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications;
wartime(n) - a period of time during which there is armed conflict;
wary(adj) - marked by keen caution and watchful prudence;
  #2 (adj sat) - leery; mistrustful; suspicious; untrusting;openly distrustful and unwilling to confide;

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wasp(n) - social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting;
  #2 (n) - white anglo-saxon protestant;a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination;
waterfall(n) - falls;a steep descent of the water of a river;
watertight(adj sat) - bulletproof; unassailable; unshakable;without flaws or loopholes;
  #2 (adj sat) - not allowing water to pass in or out;
watt(n) - james watt;Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819);
  #2 (n) - w;a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm;
wavelength(n) - the distance (measured in the direction of propagation) between two points in the same phase in consecutive cycles of a wave;
  #2 (n) - a shared orientation leading to mutual understanding;

wean(v) - ablactate;gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk;
  #2 (v) - detach the affections of;
weary(v) - fag; fag out; fatigue; jade; outwear; tire; tire out; wear; wear down; wear out; wear upon;exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress;
  #2 (v) - fatigue; jade; pall; tire;lose interest or become bored with something or somebody;
  #3 (adj sat) - aweary;physically and mentally fatigued;
weaver(n) - weaver finch; weaverbird;finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests;
  #2 (n) - a craftsman who weaves cloth;
wedge(n) - chock;a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object;
  #2 (n) - something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them;
  #3 (n) - an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole;
  #4 (n) - wedge heel;a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe;
  #5 (n) - hacek;a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation;
  #6 (n) - bomber; cuban sandwich; grinder; hero; hero sandwich; hoagie; hoagy; italian sandwich; poor boy; sub; submarine; submarine sandwich; torpedo; zep;a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States;
  #7 (n) - cuneus; wedge shape;any shape that is triangular in cross section;
  #8 (v) - force; squeeze;squeeze like a wedge into a tight space;
  #9 (v) - deposit; lodge; stick;put, fix, force, or implant;
weird(n) - wyrd;fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters;
  #2 (adj sat) - strikingly odd or unusual;
  #3 (adj sat) - eldritch; uncanny; unearthly;suggesting the operation of supernatural influences;

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whale(n) - any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head;
  #2 (n) - giant; heavyweight; hulk;a very large person; impressive in size or qualities;
  #3 (v) - hunt for whales;
wharf(n) - dock; pier; wharfage;a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats;
  #2 (v) - moor at a wharf;
  #3 (v) - berth; moor;come into or dock at a wharf;
  #4 (v) - discharge at a wharf;
  #5 (v) - store on a wharf;
  #6 (v) - provide with a wharf;
whatsoever(adj sat) - any; whatever;one or some or every or all without specification;
whence(adv) - from what place, source, or cause;
whereabouts(n) - the general location where something is;

whet(v) - sharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone;
  #2 (v) - quicken;make keen or more acute;
whirl(n) - spin; twirl; twist; twisting;the act of rotating rapidly;
  #2 (n) - crack; fling; go; offer; pass;a usually brief attempt;
  #3 (n) - commotion;confused movement;
  #4 (n) - convolution; swirl; vortex;the shape of something rotating rapidly;
  #5 (v) - gyrate; reel; spin; spin around;revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis;
  #6 (v) - eddy; purl; swirl; whirlpool;flow in a circular current, of liquids;
  #7 (v) - tumble; whirl around;fly around;
  #8 (v) - birl; spin; twirl;cause to spin;
  #9 (v) - swirl; twiddle; twirl;turn in a twisting or spinning motion;
whirlwind(n) - a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth;
whisker(n) - sensory hair; vibrissa;a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat;
  #2 (n) - hair; hairsbreadth; hair's-breadth;a very small distance or space;
  #3 (v) - bewhisker;furnish with whiskers;
whisky(n) - whiskey;a liquor made from fermented mash of grain;

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wholesale(n) - the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers;
  #2 (v) - sell in large quantities;
  #3 (adj sat) - sweeping;ignoring distinctions;
  #4 (adv) - in large quantities;on a large scale without careful discrimination;
  #5 (adv) - at a wholesale price;
wholesome(adj sat) - sound or exhibiting soundness in body or mind;
  #2 (adj) - conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being;
whoop(n) - a loud hooting cry of exultation or excitement;
  #2 (v) - hack;cough spasmodically;
  #3 (v) - shout, as if with joy or enthusiasm;
wield(v) - handle; manage;handle effectively;
  #2 (v) - exert; maintain;have and exercise;
wilderness(n) - a bewildering profusion;
  #2 (n) - wild;a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition;
  #3 (n) - a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War;
  #4 (n) - a state of disfavor;

wildlife(n) - all living things (except people) that are undomesticated;
willow(n) - a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers;
  #2 (n) - willow tree;any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix;
wilt(n) - wilting;causing to become limp or drooping;
  #2 (n) - wilt disease;any plant disease characterized by drooping and shriveling; usually caused by parasites attacking the roots;
  #3 (v) - droop;become limp;
  #4 (v) - lose strength;
windfall(n) - bonanza; boom; bunce; godsend; gold rush; gravy; manna from heaven;a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money);
  #2 (n) - fruit that has fallen from the tree;
wingspan(n) - wingspread;linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil;

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wink(n) - blink; blinking; eye blink; nictation; nictitation; winking;a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly;
  #2 (n) - closing one eye quickly as a signal;
  #3 (n) - blink of an eye; flash; heartbeat; instant; jiffy; new york minute; split second; trice; twinkling;a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat);
  #4 (v) - blink; nictate; nictitate;briefly shut the eyes;
  #5 (v) - signal by winking;
  #6 (v) - blink; blink away;force to go away by blinking;
  #7 (v) - blink; flash; twinkle; winkle;gleam or glow intermittently;
wireless(n) - radio;a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves;
  #2 (n) - radio; radio receiver; radio set; receiving set; tuner;an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals;
  #3 (n) - transmission by radio waves;
  #4 (n) - radio; radiocommunication;medium for communication;
  #5 (adj) - having no wires;
withdrawal(n) - the act of withdrawing;
  #2 (n) - drug withdrawal;the termination of drug taking;
  #3 (n) - secession;formal separation from an alliance or federation;
  #4 (n) - coitus interruptus; onanism; pulling out; withdrawal method;a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation;
  #5 (n) - the act of ceasing to participate in an activity;
  #6 (n) - the act of taking out money or other capital;
  #7 (n) - the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.;
  #8 (n) - backdown; climb-down;a retraction of a previously held position;
  #9 (n) - detachment;avoiding emotional involvement;
wither(v) - shrink; shrivel; shrivel up;wither, as with a loss of moisture;
  #2 (v) - fade;lose freshness, vigor, or vitality;
withhold(v) - keep back;hold back; refuse to hand over or share;
  #2 (v) - deduct; recoup;retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments;

wondrous(adj sat) - fantastic; grand; howling; marvellous; marvelous; rattling; terrific; tremendous; wonderful;extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers;
  #2 (adv) - marvellously; marvelously; superbly; terrifically; toppingly; wonderfully; wondrously;extremely well;
woodpecker(n) - pecker; peckerwood;bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects;
woollen(n) - wool; woolen;a fabric made from the hair of sheep;
  #2 (adj) - woolen;of or related to or made of wool;
wrath(n) - anger; ira; ire;belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins);
  #2 (n) - intense anger (usually on an epic scale);
wreath(n) - chaplet; coronal; garland; lei;flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes;

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wreckage(n) - the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked;
wrestle(n) - grapple; grappling; hand-to-hand struggle; wrestling;the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat;
  #2 (v) - engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate;
  #3 (v) - combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force;
  #4 (v) - engage in a wrestling match;
  #5 (v) - squirm; twist; worm; wriggle; writhe;to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling);
wretch(n) - poor devil;someone you feel sorry for;
  #2 (n) - performs some wicked deed;
wring(n) - squeeze;a twisting squeeze;
  #2 (v) - wrench;twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish;
  #3 (v) - contort; deform; distort;twist and press out of shape;
  #4 (v) - twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid;
  #5 (v) - extort; gouge; rack; squeeze;obtain by coercion or intimidation;
wrinkle(n) - a clever method of doing something (especially something new and different);
  #2 (n) - a minor difficulty;
  #3 (n) - crease; crinkle; furrow; line; seam;a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface;
  #4 (v) - crease; crinkle; crumple; rumple;become wrinkled or crumpled or creased;
  #5 (v) - crease; furrow;make wrinkled or creased;
  #6 (v) - crease; crinkle; crisp; ruckle; scrunch; scrunch up;make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in;
  #7 (v) - purse;gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker;

xerography(n) - forming an image by the action of light on a specially coated charged plate; the latent image is developed with powders that adhere only to electrically charged areas;
xerox(n) - xerographic copier; xerox machine;a duplicator (trade mark Xerox) that copies graphic matter by the action of light on an electrically charged photoconductive insulating surface in which the latent image is developed with a resinous powder;
  #2 (n) - xerox copy;a copy made by a xerographic printer;
  #3 (v) - photocopy; run off;reproduce by xerography;
yankee(n) - yank; yankee-doodle;an American (especially to non-Americans);
  #2 (n) - new englander;an American who lives in New England;
  #3 (n) - northerner; yank;an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War);
  #4 (adj sat) - used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier);
yeah(adv) - yea;not only so, but;
yearn(v) - have affection for; feel tenderness for;
  #2 (v) - ache; languish; pine; yen;have a desire for something or someone who is not present;
  #3 (v) - hanker; long;desire strongly or persistently;

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yeast(n) - any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division;
  #2 (n) - barm;a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey;
yell(n) - call; cry; outcry; shout; vociferation;a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition;
  #2 (n) - cry;a loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate);
  #3 (v) - scream;utter or declare in a very loud voice;
  #4 (v) - call; cry; holler; hollo; scream; shout; shout out; squall;utter a sudden loud cry;
yoke(n) - stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team;
  #2 (n) - fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment;
  #3 (n) - coupling;a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together;
  #4 (n) - support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end;
  #5 (n) - a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke;
  #6 (n) - brace; couple; couplet; distich; duad; duet; duo; dyad; pair; span; twain; twosome;two items of the same kind;
  #7 (n) - an oppressive power;
  #8 (v) - put a yoke on or join with a yoke;
  #9 (v) - link;link with or as with a yoke;
  #10 (v) - become joined or linked together;
yolk(n) - vitellus;nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg);
  #2 (n) - egg yolk;the yellow spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the albumen;
youngster(n) - child; fry; kid; minor; nestling; nipper; shaver; small fry; tiddler; tike; tyke;a young person of either sex;

zany(n) - bozo; cuckoo; fathead; goof; goofball; goose; jackass; twat;a man who is a stupid incompetent fool;
  #2 (n) - a buffoon in one of the old comedies; imitates others for ludicrous effect;
  #3 (adj sat) - buffoonish; clownish; clownlike;like a clown;
  #4 (adj sat) - cockamamie; cockamamy; goofy; sappy; silly; wacky; whacky;ludicrous, foolish;
zebra(n) - any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines;
zest(n) - nip; piquance; piquancy; piquantness; tang; tanginess;a tart spicy quality;
  #2 (n) - gusto; relish; zestfulness;vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment;
  #3 (v) - spice; spice up;add herbs or spices to;
zinc(n) - atomic number 30; zn;a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende;
  #2 (v) - coat or cover with zinc;
zipper(n) - slide fastener; zip; zip fastener;a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab;
  #2 (v) - zip; zip up;close with a zipper;

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zoology(n) - zoological science;the branch of biology that studies animals;
  #2 (n) - fauna;all the animal life in a particular region or period;