napkin(n) - diaper; nappy;garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement;
  #2 (n) - serviette; table napkin;a small piece of table linen that is used to wipe the mouth and to cover the lap in order to protect clothing;
narrate(v) - recite; recount; tell;narrate or give a detailed account of;
  #2 (v) - provide commentary for a film, for example;
narration(n) - the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth;
  #2 (n) - recital; yarn;the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events;
  #3 (n) - narrative; story; tale;a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program;
narrative(n) - narration; story; tale;a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program;
  #2 (adj sat) - consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story;
nasty(adj sat) - filthy; foul;disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter;
  #2 (adj sat) - cruddy; filthy; foul; smutty;characterized by obscenity;
  #3 (adj sat) - tight;exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent;
  #4 (adj) - awful;offensive or even (of persons) malicious;

nationwide(adj sat) - countrywide;occurring or extending throughout a country or nation;
  #2 (adv) - across the country; across the nation; nationally;extending throughout an entire nation;
naturalist(n) - natural scientist;a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology);
  #2 (n) - an advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms;
naught(n) - complete failure;
  #2 (n) - aught; cipher; cypher; goose egg; nada; nil; nix; nothing; null; zero; zilch; zip; zippo;a quantity of no importance;
naughty(adj sat) - badly behaved;
  #2 (adj sat) - blue; gamey; gamy; juicy; racy; risque; spicy;suggestive of sexual impropriety;
necessitate(v) - ask; call for; demand; involve; need; postulate; require; take;require as useful, just, or proper;
  #2 (v) - cause to be a concomitant;

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necklace(n) - jewelry consisting of a cord or chain (often bearing gems) worn about the neck as an ornament (especially by women);
negligence(n) - carelessness; neglect; nonperformance;failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances;
  #2 (n) - neglect; neglectfulness;the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern;
negligent(adj) - characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern;
negligible(adj sat) - so small as to be meaningless; insignificant;
  #2 (adj sat) - paltry; trifling;not worth considering;
negotiate(v) - negociate; talk terms;discuss the terms of an arrangement;
  #2 (v) - negociate;succeed in passing through, around, or over;

negotiation(n) - the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms;
  #2 (n) - dialogue; talks;a discussion intended to produce an agreement;
negotiator(n) - negotiant; treater;someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement);
nestle(n) - cuddle; snuggle;a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace;
  #2 (v) - cuddle; draw close; nest; nuzzle; snuggle;move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position;
  #3 (v) - snuggle;position comfortably;
  #4 (v) - lie in a sheltered position;
neutron(n) - an elementary particle with 0 charge and mass about equal to a proton; enters into the structure of the atomic nucleus;
newfoundland(n) - newfoundland dog;a breed of very large heavy dogs with a thick coarse usually black coat; highly intelligent dogs and vigorous swimmers; developed in Newfoundland;
  #2 (n) - an island in the north Atlantic;

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nickel(n) - a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar;
  #2 (n) - nickel note;five dollars worth of a drug;
  #3 (n) - atomic number 28; ni;a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite;
  #4 (v) - plate with nickel;
nightmare(n) - a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream;
  #2 (n) - incubus;a situation resembling a terrifying dream;
nominal(n) - nominal phrase; noun phrase;a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb;
  #2 (adj sat) - titular;existing in name only;
  #3 (adj sat) - nominative;named; bearing the name of a specific person;
  #4 (adj sat) - token; tokenish;insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal);
  #5 (adj) - of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation;
  #6 (adj) - pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun;
  #7 (adj) - relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name;
nominate(v) - put forward; put up;propose as a candidate for some honor;
  #2 (v) - appoint; constitute; name;create and charge with a task or function;
  #3 (v) - make; name;charge with a function; charge to be;
  #4 (v) - propose;put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position;
nomination(n) - the act of officially naming a candidate;
  #2 (n) - nominating address; nominating speech;an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election;
  #3 (n) - the condition of having been proposed as a suitable candidate for appointment or election;

norm(n) - average;a statistic describing the location of a distribution;
  #2 (n) - a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical;
norman(n) - an inhabitant of Normandy;
  #2 (n) - greg norman; gregory john norman;Australian golfer (born in 1955);
  #3 (n) - jessye norman;United States operatic soprano (born in 1945);
  #4 (adj) - of or relating to or characteristic of the Normans;
  #5 (adj) - of or relating to or characteristic of Normandy;
northwards(adv) - north; northerly; northward;in a northern direction;
nostril(n) - anterior naris;either one of the two external openings to the nasal cavity in the nose;
notarize(v) - notarise;authenticate as a notary;

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notary(n) - notary public;someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions;
noted(adj sat) - worthy of notice or attention;
  #2 (adj sat) - celebrated; famed; famous; far-famed; illustrious; notable; renowned;widely known and esteemed;
notion(n) - small personal articles or clothing or sewing items;
  #2 (n) - a general inclusive concept;
  #3 (n) - belief; feeling; impression; opinion;a vague idea in which some confidence is placed;
  #4 (n) - whim; whimsey; whimsy;an odd or fanciful or capricious idea;
notorious(adj sat) - ill-famed; infamous;known widely and usually unfavorably;
notwithstanding(adv) - all the same; even so; however; nevertheless; nonetheless; still; withal; yet;despite anything to the contrary (usually following a concession);

nought(n) - 0; cipher; cypher; zero;a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number;
numeral(n) - number;a symbol used to represent a number;
  #2 (adj) - numeric; numerical;of or relating to or denoting numbers;
numerical(adj sat) - numeric;measured or expressed in numbers;
  #2 (adj) - mathematical;relating to or having ability to think in or work with numbers;
  #3 (adj) - numeral; numeric;of or relating to or denoting numbers;
nutrition(n) - the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans);
  #2 (n) - aliment; alimentation; nourishment; nutriment; sustenance; victuals;a source of materials to nourish the body;
  #3 (n) - the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance;
nutritionist(n) - dietician; dietitian;a specialist in the study of nutrition;

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nutritious(adj sat) - alimental; alimentary; nourishing; nutrient; nutritive;of or providing nourishment;
oaken(adj sat) - consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree;
oath(n) - swearing;a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury;
  #2 (n) - curse; curse word; cuss; expletive; swearing; swearword;profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger;
  #3 (n) - a solemn promise, usually invoking a divine witness, regarding your future acts or behavior;
obligation(n) - duty; responsibility;the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force;
  #2 (n) - a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply;
  #3 (n) - certificate of indebtedness; debt instrument;a written promise to repay a debt;
  #4 (n) - indebtedness;a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor;
  #5 (n) - the state of being obligated to do or pay something;
oblique(n) - abdominal external oblique muscle; external oblique muscle; musculus obliquus externus abdominis;a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso;
  #2 (n) - oblique case;any grammatical case other than the nominative;
  #3 (adj sat) - devious;indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading;
  #4 (adj) - slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled;

obliterate(v) - efface;remove completely from recognition or memory;
  #2 (v) - blot out; hide; obscure; veil;make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing;
  #3 (v) - do away with completely, without leaving a trace;
  #4 (v) - kill; wipe out;mark for deletion, rub off, or erase;
  #5 (adj sat) - blotted out; obliterated;reduced to nothingness;
obstinate(v) - persist stubbornly;
  #2 (adj sat) - contrary; perverse; wayward;resistant to guidance or discipline;
  #3 (adj sat) - cussed; obdurate; unrepentant;stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing;
  #4 (adj) - stubborn; unregenerate;tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield;
obstruction(n) - getting in someone's way;
  #2 (n) - the act of obstructing;
  #3 (n) - impediment; impedimenta; obstructer; obstructor;any structure that makes progress difficult;
  #4 (n) - obstacle;something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted;
  #5 (n) - blockage;the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction;
oceania(n) - oceanica;a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago);
oceanic(n) - eastern malayo-polynesian;an eastern subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages;
  #2 (adj sat) - constituting or living in the open sea;
  #3 (adj sat) - resembling the ocean in apparent limitlessness in extent or degree;
  #4 (adj) - pelagic;relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean;

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odour(n) - aroma; odor; olfactory property; scent; smell;any property detected by the olfactory system;
  #2 (n) - odor; olfactory perception; olfactory sensation; smell;the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form;
offensive(n) - offence; offense;the action of attacking an enemy;
  #2 (adj) - dysphemistic;substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one;
  #3 (adj) - unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses;
  #4 (adj) - unsavory; unsavoury;morally offensive;
  #5 (adj) - causing anger or annoyance;
  #6 (adj) - for the purpose of attack rather than defense;
  #7 (adj sat) - violative;violating or tending to violate or offend against;
  #8 (adj sat) - loathsome; nauseating; nauseous; noisome; queasy; sickening; vile;causing or able to cause nausea;
offshoot(n) - branch; offset; outgrowth;a natural consequence of development;
olive(n) - a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation;
  #2 (n) - one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish;
  #3 (n) - hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork;
  #4 (n) - european olive tree; olea europaea;evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits;
  #5 (n) - small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil;
  #6 (adj sat) - of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive;
onset(n) - attack; onrush; onslaught;an offensive against an enemy (using weapons);
  #2 (n) - oncoming;the beginning or early stages;

onwards(adv) - ahead; forrader; forward; forwards; onward;in a forward direction;
ooze(n) - oozing; seepage;the process of seeping;
  #2 (n) - goo; gook; goop; guck; gunk; muck; slime; sludge;any thick, viscous matter;
  #3 (v) - exudate; exude; ooze out; transude;release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities;
  #4 (v) - seep;pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings;
opium(n) - an addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy;
oppression(n) - subjugation;the act of subjugating by cruelty;
  #2 (n) - oppressiveness;a feeling of being oppressed;
  #3 (n) - the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority:;
optic(n) - eye; oculus;the organ of sight;
  #2 (adj) - ocular; optical; visual;relating to or using sight;
  #3 (adj) - ocular; opthalmic; optical;of or relating to or resembling the eye;

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optician(n) - lens maker;a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision;
optics(n) - optical properties;
  #2 (n) - the branch of physics that studies the physical properties of light;
optimism(n) - a general disposition to expect the best in all things;
  #2 (n) - the optimistic feeling that all is going to turn out well;
optimize(v) - optimise;act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world;
  #2 (v) - optimise;modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost;
  #3 (v) - optimise;make optimal; get the most out of; use best;
optimum(n) - most favorable conditions or greatest degree or amount possible under given circumstances;
  #2 (adj sat) - optimal;most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied;

option(n) - choice; pick; selection;the act of choosing or selecting;
  #2 (n) - alternative; choice;one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen;
  #3 (n) - the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited;
orator(n) - public speaker; rhetorician; speechifier; speechmaker;a person who delivers a speech or oration;
orbital(adj) - of or relating to the eye socket;
  #2 (adj) - of or relating to an orbit;
orbiter(n) - artificial satellite; satellite;man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon;
orchard(n) - grove; plantation; woodlet;garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth;

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organizational(adj) - organisational;of or relating to an organization;
orient(n) - eastern hemisphere;the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia;
  #2 (n) - east;the countries of Asia;
  #3 (v) - tailor;adjust to a specific need or market;
  #4 (v) - familiarize (someone) with new surroundings or circumstances;
  #5 (v) - orientate;determine one's position with reference to another point;
  #6 (v) - cause to point;
  #7 (v) - point;be oriented;
oriental(n) - oriental person;a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans);
  #2 (adj sat) - denoting or characteristic of countries of Asia;
orientation(n) - orientation course;a course introducing a new situation or environment;
  #2 (n) - the act of orienting;
  #3 (n) - a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships;
  #4 (n) - predilection; preference;a predisposition in favor of something;
  #5 (n) - an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs;
  #6 (n) - position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions;
originality(n) - the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else);
  #2 (n) - the ability to think and act independently;

originate(v) - initiate; start;bring into being;
  #2 (v) - arise; develop; grow; rise; spring up; uprise;come into existence; take on form or shape;
  #3 (v) - begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc.;
ornamental(n) - any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental value;
  #2 (adj sat) - cosmetic; decorative;serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose;
orphan(n) - a young animal without a mother;
  #2 (n) - the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column;
  #3 (n) - a child who has lost both parents;
  #4 (n) - someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision;
  #5 (v) - deprive of parents;
oscillation(n) - cycle;a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon;
  #2 (n) - vibration;a regular periodic variation in value about a mean;
  #3 (n) - the process of oscillating between states;
outbreak(n) - eruption; irruption;a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition);

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outcry(n) - call; cry; shout; vociferation; yell;a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition;
  #2 (v) - call out; cry; cry out; exclaim; shout;utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy;
  #3 (v) - outshout;shout louder than;
outfit(n) - kit;gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose;
  #2 (n) - getup; rig; turnout;a set of clothing (with accessories);
  #3 (n) - any cohesive unit such as a military company;
  #4 (v) - equip; fit; fit out;provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose;
outgrow(v) - grow too large or too mature for;
  #2 (v) - grow faster than;
outrage(n) - a wantonly cruel act;
  #2 (n) - scandalisation; scandalization;the act of scandalizing;
  #3 (n) - scandal;a disgraceful event;
  #4 (n) - indignation;a feeling of righteous anger;
  #5 (v) - appal; appall; offend; scandalise; scandalize; shock;strike with disgust or revulsion;
  #6 (v) - assault; dishonor; dishonour; rape; ravish; violate;force (someone) to have sex against their will;
  #7 (v) - desecrate; profane; violate;violate the sacred character of a place or language;
outrageous(adj sat) - exorbitant; extortionate; steep; unconscionable; usurious;greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation;
  #2 (adj sat) - hideous; horrid; horrific;grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror;

outskirts(n) - outlying areas (as of a city or town);
outstretch(v) - to strech out ; to extend;
outstretched(adj sat) - fully extended especially in length;
oval(n) - ellipse;a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it;
  #2 (adj sat) - egg-shaped; elliptic; elliptical; oval-shaped; ovate; oviform; ovoid; prolate;rounded like an egg;
overcast(n) - a cast that falls beyond the intended spot;
  #2 (n) - overcasting;a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling;
  #3 (n) - cloudiness;gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover;
  #4 (n) - cloud cover; cloudiness;the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds;
  #5 (v) - sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next;
  #6 (v) - sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches;
  #7 (v) - cloud;make overcast or cloudy;
  #8 (adj sat) - cloud-covered; clouded; sunless;filled or abounding with clouds;

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overcharge(n) - a price that is too high;
  #2 (v) - overload; surcharge;place too much a load on;
  #3 (v) - fleece; gazump; hook; pluck; plume; rob; soak; surcharge;rip off; ask an unreasonable price;
overdraft(n) - a draft in excess of the credit balance;
overestimate(n) - overestimation; overrating; overreckoning;a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high;
  #2 (n) - overappraisal; overestimation; overvaluation;an appraisal that is too high;
  #3 (v) - overrate;make too high an estimate of;
  #4 (v) - overvalue;assign too high a value to;
overhang(n) - projection that extends beyond or hangs over something else;
  #2 (v) - beetle;be suspended over or hang over;
  #3 (v) - project over;
overhear(v) - catch; take in;hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers;

overlap(n) - lap;a flap that lies over another part;
  #2 (n) - the property of partial coincidence in time;
  #3 (n) - convergence; intersection;a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena;
  #4 (v) - coincide partially or wholly;
  #5 (v) - extend over and cover a part of;
overload(n) - overburden;an excessive burden;
  #2 (n) - an electrical load that exceeds the available electrical power;
  #3 (v) - clog;fill to excess so that function is impaired;
  #4 (v) - overcharge; surcharge;place too much a load on;
  #5 (v) - become overloaded;
overpass(n) - flyover;bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels;
overthrow(n) - the termination of a ruler or institution (especially by force);
  #2 (n) - derangement; upset;the act of disturbing the mind or body;
  #3 (v) - override; overrule; overturn; reverse;rule against;
  #4 (v) - bring down; overturn; subvert;cause the downfall of; of rulers;
overwhelm(v) - deluge; flood out;charge someone with too many tasks;
  #2 (v) - overmaster; overpower;overcome by superior force;
  #3 (v) - drown; submerge;cover completely or make imperceptible;
  #4 (v) - overcome; overpower; overtake; sweep over; whelm;overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli;

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overwhelming(adj sat) - consuming;very intense;
  #2 (adj sat) - overpowering;so strong as to be irresistible;
overwork(n) - overworking;the act of working too much or too long;
  #2 (v) - use too much;
  #3 (v) - exploit;work excessively hard;
oxide(n) - any compound of oxygen with another element or a radical;
ozone(n) - a colorless gas (O3) soluble in alkalis and cold water; a strong oxidizing agent; can be produced by electric discharge in oxygen or by the action of ultraviolet radiation on oxygen in the stratosphere (where it acts as a screen for ultraviolet radiation);
paddle(n) - boat paddle;a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat;
  #2 (n) - an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board;
  #3 (n) - a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel;
  #4 (n) - small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games;
  #5 (v) - stir with a paddle;
  #6 (v) - larrup; spank;give a spanking to; subject to a spanking;
  #7 (v) - coggle; dodder; toddle; totter; waddle;walk unsteadily;
  #8 (v) - propel with a paddle;
  #9 (v) - swim like a dog in shallow water;
  #10 (v) - dabble; splash around;play in or as if in water, as of small children;

pail(n) - bucket;a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top;
  #2 (n) - pailful;the quantity contained in a pail;
pamphlet(n) - tract;a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet;
  #2 (n) - booklet; brochure; folder; leaflet;a small book usually having a paper cover;
panda(n) - ailurus fulgens; bear cat; cat bear; lesser panda; red panda;reddish-brown Old World raccoon-like carnivore; in some classifications considered unrelated to the giant pandas;
  #2 (n) - ailuropoda melanoleuca; coon bear; giant panda; panda bear;large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet; in some classifications considered a member of the bear family or of a separate family Ailuropodidae;
pane(n) - acid; back breaker; battery-acid; dose; dot; elvis; loony toons; lucy in the sky with diamonds; superman; window pane; zen;street name for lysergic acid diethylamide;
  #2 (n) - pane of glass; window glass;sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors;
  #3 (n) - paneling; panelling;a panel or section of panels in a wall or door;
panic(n) - affright; terror;an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety;
  #2 (n) - scare;sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events;
  #3 (v) - cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic;
  #4 (v) - be overcome by a sudden fear;

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pant(n) - gasp;a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open;
  #2 (n) - trouser;a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately;
  #3 (n) - the noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine);
  #4 (v) - gasp; heave; puff;breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted;
  #5 (v) - utter while panting, as if out of breath;
pantry(n) - buttery; larder;a small storeroom for storing foods or wines;
pants(n) - bloomers; drawers; knickers;underpants worn by women;
papa(n) - dad; dada; daddy; pa; pappa; pop;an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk;
parachute(n) - chute;rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall;
  #2 (v) - chute; jump;jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute;

paradise(n) - the abode of righteous souls after death;
  #2 (n) - eden; heaven; nirvana; promised land; shangri-la;any place of complete bliss and delight and peace;
paralyze(v) - paralyse;cause to be paralyzed and immobile;
  #2 (v) - paralyse;make powerless and unable to function;
parameter(n) - parametric quantity;a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves;
  #2 (n) - a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data;
  #3 (n) - argument;a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program;
  #4 (n) - any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance;
paraphrase(n) - paraphrasis;rewording for the purpose of clarification;
  #2 (v) - rephrase; reword;express the same message in different words;
parasite(n) - an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host;
  #2 (n) - leech; sponge; sponger;a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage;

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parish(n) - a local church community;
  #2 (n) - the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor;
parliamentary(adj sat) - having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament;
  #2 (adj sat) - in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly;
  #3 (adj) - relating to or having the nature of a parliament;
parlour(n) - front room; living room; living-room; parlor; sitting room;a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax;
  #2 (n) - parlor;reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received;
parrot(n) - usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds;
  #2 (n) - a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated;
  #3 (v) - repeat mindlessly;
partake(v) - touch;consume;
  #2 (v) - partake in; share;have, give, or receive a share of;
  #3 (v) - have some of the qualities or attributes of something;

participant(n) - someone who takes part in an activity;
  #2 (n) - player;a person who participates in or is skilled at some game;
participation(n) - engagement; involution; involvement;the act of sharing in the activities of a group;
  #2 (n) - involvement;the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.);
parting(n) - farewell; leave; leave-taking;the act of departing politely;
  #2 (n) - part;a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions;
partition(n) - division; partitioning; sectionalisation; sectionalization; segmentation;the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart;
  #2 (n) - divider;a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another);
  #3 (n) - a structure that separates areas in an organism;
  #4 (n) - the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit;
  #5 (v) - zone;separate or apportion into sections;
  #6 (v) - partition off;divide into parts, pieces, or sections;
passionate(adj) - having or expressing strong emotions;

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pastor(n) - subgenus pastor;only the rose-colored starlings; in some classifications considered a separate genus;
  #2 (n) - curate; minister; minister of religion; parson; rector;a person authorized to conduct religious worship;
pastoral(n) - a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds);
  #2 (n) - a letter from a pastor to the congregation;
  #3 (n) - idyl; idyll; pastorale;a musical composition that evokes rural life;
  #4 (adj sat) - arcadian; bucolic;idyllically rustic;
  #5 (adj) - of or relating to a pastor;
  #6 (adj) - bucolic;relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle;
pasture(n) - eatage; forage; grass; pasturage;bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle;
  #2 (n) - grazing land; lea; ley; pastureland;a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock;
  #3 (v) - browse; crop; graze; range;feed as in a meadow or pasture;
  #4 (v) - crop; graze;let feed in a field or pasture or meadow;
patent(n) - patent of invention;a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention;
  #2 (n) - letters patent;an official document granting a right or privilege;
  #3 (v) - make open to sight or notice;
  #4 (v) - obtain a patent for;
  #5 (v) - grant rights to; grant a patent for;
  #6 (adj sat) - apparent; evident; manifest; plain; unmistakable;clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment;
  #7 (adj sat) - open; affording free passage;
patriot(n) - nationalist;one who loves and defends his or her country;

patriotism(n) - nationalism;love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it;
patrol(n) - the activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes;
  #2 (n) - a detachment used for security or reconnaissance;
  #3 (n) - a group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security;
  #4 (v) - police;maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol;
patron(n) - frequenter;a regular customer;
  #2 (n) - sponsor; supporter;someone who supports or champions something;
  #3 (n) - the proprietor of an inn;
pave(n) - a setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows;
  #2 (v) - cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic;
pavement(n) - paving;the paved surface of a thoroughfare;
  #2 (n) - sidewalk;walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway;
  #3 (n) - paving; paving material;material used to pave an area;

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pavilion(n) - marquee;large and often sumptuous tent;
peacock(n) - male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots;
  #2 (n) - inachis io; peacock butterfly;European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot;
peanut(n) - earthnut; goober; goober pea; groundnut; monkey nut;pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms;
  #2 (n) - a young child who is small for his age;
  #3 (n) - arachis hypogaea; peanut vine;widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground;
  #4 (n) - underground pod of the peanut vine;
  #5 (adj sat) - insignificant;of little importance or influence or power; of minor status;
pebble(n) - a small smooth rounded rock;
peck(n) - a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches;
  #2 (n) - a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons;
  #3 (n) - batch; deal; flock; good deal; great deal; hatful; heap; lot; mass; mess; mickle; mint; mountain; muckle; passel; pile; plenty; pot; quite a little; raft; sight; slew; spate; stack; tidy sum; wad;a large number or amount or extent;
  #4 (v) - hen-peck; nag;bother persistently with trivial complaints;
  #5 (v) - peck at; pick at;eat like a bird;
  #6 (v) - pick up;eat by pecking at, like a bird;
  #7 (v) - beak; pick;hit lightly with a picking motion;
  #8 (v) - smack;kiss lightly;

peculiarity(n) - curio; curiosity; oddity; oddment; rarity;something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting;
  #2 (n) - distinctiveness; speciality; specialness; specialty;a distinguishing trait;
  #3 (n) - distinctive feature; distinguishing characteristic;an odd or unusual characteristic;
pedal(n) - foot lever; foot pedal; treadle;a lever that is operated with the foot;
  #2 (n) - pedal point;a sustained bass note;
  #3 (v) - operate the pedals on a keyboard instrument;
  #4 (v) - bicycle; bike; cycle; wheel;ride a bicycle;
  #5 (adj) - of or relating to the feet;
pedestrian(n) - footer; walker;a person who travels by foot;
  #2 (adj sat) - earthbound; prosaic; prosy;lacking wit or imagination;
pedlar(n) - hawker; packman; peddler; pitchman;someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals);
peel(n) - skin;the rind of a fruit or vegetable;
  #2 (n) - robert peel; sir robert peel;British politician (1788-1850);
  #3 (v) - discase; disrobe; strip; strip down; uncase; unclothe; undress;get undressed;
  #4 (v) - flake; flake off; peel off;come off in flakes or thin small pieces;
  #5 (v) - pare; skin;strip the skin off;

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peep(n) - peek;a secret look;
  #2 (n) - cheep;the short weak cry of a young bird;
  #3 (v) - appear as though from hiding;
  #4 (v) - speak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice;
  #5 (v) - cheep; chirp; chirrup;make high-pitched sounds;
  #6 (v) - cause to appear;
  #7 (v) - look furtively;
peer(n) - compeer; equal; match;a person who is of equal standing with another in a group;
  #2 (n) - a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage;
  #3 (v) - look searchingly;
penalty(n) - penalisation; penalization; punishment;the act of punishing;
  #2 (n) - a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game;
  #3 (n) - the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition;
  #4 (n) - a payment required for not fulfilling a contract;
pendulum(n) - an apparatus consisting of an object mounted so that it swings freely under the influence of gravity;
penetration(n) - the act of entering into or through something;
  #2 (n) - the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman;
  #3 (n) - incursion;an attack that penetrates into enemy territory;
  #4 (n) - the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target);
  #5 (n) - the ability to make way into or through something;
  #6 (n) - insight;clear or deep perception of a situation;

penicillin(n) - any of various antibiotics obtained from Penicillium molds (or produced synthetically) and used in the treatment of various infections and diseases;
peninsula(n) - a large mass of land projecting into a body of water;
peninsular(adj) - of or forming or resembling a peninsula;
pension(n) - a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working;
  #2 (v) - pension off;grant a pension to;
pentagon(n) - a government building with five sides that serves as the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense;
  #2 (n) - the United States military establishment;
  #3 (n) - a five-sided polygon;

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pepper(n) - sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum;
  #2 (n) - peppercorn;pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground;
  #3 (n) - capsicum; capsicum pepper plant;any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers;
  #4 (n) - black pepper; common pepper; madagascar pepper; piper nigrum; white pepper;climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam;
  #5 (v) - pelt;attack and bombard with or as if with missiles;
  #6 (v) - add pepper to;
perceptible(adj sat) - detectable;easily seen or detected;
  #2 (adj sat) - easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind;
  #3 (adj) - capable of being perceived by the mind or senses;
perception(n) - sensing;becoming aware of something via the senses;
  #2 (n) - the process of perceiving;
  #3 (n) - knowledge gained by perceiving;
  #4 (n) - a way of conceiving something;
  #5 (n) - percept; perceptual experience;the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept;
perceptive(adj) - having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment;
  #2 (adj) - of or relating to perception;
perch(n) - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes;
  #2 (n) - spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes;
  #3 (n) - support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird);
  #4 (n) - any of numerous fishes of America and Europe;
  #5 (n) - an elevated place serving as a seat;
  #6 (n) - pole; rod;a square rod of land;
  #7 (n) - pole; rod;a linear measure of 16.5 feet;
  #8 (v) - rest; roost;sit, as on a branch;
  #9 (v) - cause to perch or sit;
  #10 (v) - alight; light;to come to rest, settle;

perfume(n) - essence;a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor;
  #2 (n) - aroma; fragrance; scent;a distinctive odor that is pleasant;
  #3 (v) - scent;apply perfume to;
  #4 (v) - aromatise; aromatize;fill or impregnate with an odor;
perimeter(n) - circumference;the size of something as given by the distance around it;
  #2 (n) - a line enclosing a plane areas;
  #3 (n) - border; margin;the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary;
periodic(adj sat) - occasional;recurring or reappearing from time to time;
  #2 (adj) - periodical;happening or recurring at regular intervals;
periodical(n) - a publication that appears at fixed intervals;
  #2 (adj) - periodic;happening or recurring at regular intervals;
periodicity(n) - cyclicity;the quality of recurring at regular intervals;

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perish(v) - buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; pop off; snuff it;pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life;
permanence(n) - permanency;the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration;
perpendicular(n) - an extremely steep face;
  #2 (n) - plumb line;a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point;
  #3 (n) - english-gothic; english-gothic architecture; perpendicular style;a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting;
  #4 (n) - a straight line at right angles to another line;
  #5 (adj sat) - extremely steep;
  #6 (adj) - vertical;at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line;
  #7 (adj) - intersecting at or forming right angles;
perplex(v) - complicate;make more complicated;
  #2 (v) - amaze; baffle; beat; bewilder; dumbfound; flummox; get; gravel; mystify; nonplus; pose; puzzle; stick; stupefy; vex;be a mystery or bewildering to;
persecute(v) - oppress;cause to suffer;

persecution(n) - the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion);
persian(n) - farsi;the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms;
  #2 (n) - irani; iranian;a native or inhabitant of Iran;
  #3 (adj) - iranian;of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture;
personality(n) - the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual;
  #2 (n) - a person of considerable prominence;
personify(v) - personate;attribute human qualities to something;
  #2 (v) - be; embody;represent, as of a character on stage;
  #3 (v) - body;invest with or as with a body; give body to;
perspiration(n) - sudor; sweat;salty fluid secreted by sweat glands;
  #2 (n) - diaphoresis; hidrosis; sudation; sweating;the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid;

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perspire(v) - sudate; sweat;excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin;
persuasive(adj) - intended or having the power to induce action or belief;
perturbation(n) - disruption;the act of causing disorder;
  #2 (n) - fluster;a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset;
  #3 (n) - disturbance;activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption;
  #4 (n) - a secondary influence on a system that causes it to deviate slightly;
  #5 (n) - disturbance; upset;an unhappy and worried mental state;
pessimism(n) - a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things;
  #2 (n) - the feeling that things will turn out badly;
pessimist(n) - a person who expects the worst;

pest(n) - any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.;
  #2 (n) - blighter; cuss; gadfly; pesterer;a persistently annoying person;
  #3 (n) - pestilence; plague;any epidemic disease with a high death rate;
  #4 (n) - pestilence; pestis; plague;a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal;
pesticide(n) - a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects);
petal(n) - flower petal;part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored;
petition(n) - postulation; request;a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority;
  #2 (n) - orison; prayer;reverent petition to a deity;
  #3 (v) - write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing;
petty(n) - petit larceny; petty larceny;larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale);
  #2 (adj sat) - small-minded;contemptibly narrow in outlook;
  #3 (adj sat) - fiddling; footling; lilliputian; little; niggling; picayune; piddling; piffling; trivial;small and of little importance;
  #4 (adj sat) - junior-grade; lower-ranking; lowly; secondary; subaltern;inferior in rank or status;

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pharmaceutical(n) - pharmaceutic;drug or medicine that is prepared or dispensed in pharmacies and used in medical treatment;
  #2 (adj) - pharmaceutic;of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists;
  #3 (adj) - of or relating to drugs used in medical treatment;
phenomenal(adj sat) - exceedingly or unbelievably great;
  #2 (adj) - of or relating to a phenomenon;
philosophical(adj sat) - philosophic;characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment;
  #2 (adj) - philosophic;of or relating to philosophy or philosophers;
phonetics(n) - the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis;
photocopy(n) - a photographic copy of written or printed or graphic work;
  #2 (v) - run off; xerox;reproduce by xerography;

physiological(adj sat) - physiologic;of or consistent with an organism's normal functioning;
  #2 (adj) - of or relating to the biological study of physiology;
physiology(n) - processes and functions of an organism;
  #2 (n) - the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms;
pickle(n) - vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar;
  #2 (n) - fix; hole; jam; kettle of fish; mess; muddle;informal terms for a difficult situation;
  #3 (v) - preserve in a pickling liquid;
pictorial(n) - a periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures;
  #2 (adj sat) - graphic; lifelike; vivid;evoking lifelike images within the mind;
  #3 (adj) - pictural;pertaining to or consisting of pictures;
picturesque(adj sat) - suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture;
  #2 (adj sat) - strikingly expressive;

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piecework(n) - work paid for according to the quantity produced;
pier(n) - dock; wharf; wharfage;a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats;
  #2 (n) - a support for two adjacent bridge spans;
  #3 (n) - a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows);
pigment(n) - paint;a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating;
  #2 (n) - dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.);
  #3 (n) - any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color;
  #4 (v) - color or dye with a pigment;
  #5 (v) - acquire pigment; become colored or imbued;
pilgrim(n) - someone who journeys in foreign lands;
  #2 (n) - someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion;
  #3 (n) - pilgrim father;one of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620;
pilgrimage(n) - pilgrim's journey;a journey to a sacred place;

pineapple(n) - ananas;large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated;
  #2 (n) - ananas comosus; pineapple plant;a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics;
pinpoint(n) - the sharp point of a pin;
  #2 (n) - speck;a very small spot;
  #3 (n) - a very brief moment;
  #4 (v) - nail;locate exactly;
pious(adj) - having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity;
pirate(n) - pirate ship;a ship that is manned by pirates;
  #2 (n) - buccaneer; sea robber; sea rover;someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation;
  #3 (n) - literary pirate; plagiariser; plagiarist; plagiarizer;someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own;
  #4 (v) - commandeer; highjack; hijack;take arbitrarily or by force;
  #5 (v) - copy illegally; of published material;
pistol(n) - handgun; shooting iron; side arm;a firearm that is held and fired with one hand;

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piston(n) - plunger;mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion;
  #2 (n) - walter piston;United States neoclassical composer (1894-1976);
planar(adj) - two-dimensional;involving two dimensions;
planetary(adj sat) - global; world; worldwide; world-wide;involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope;
  #2 (adj sat) - erratic; wandering;having no fixed course;
  #3 (adj) - planetal;of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets;
  #4 (adj) - terrestrial;of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants;
plank(n) - an endorsed policy in the platform of a political party;
  #2 (n) - board;a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes;
  #3 (v) - cook and serve on a plank;
  #4 (v) - plank over;cover with planks;
  #5 (v) - flump; plonk; plop; plump; plump down; plunk; plunk down;set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise;
plateau(n) - tableland;a relatively flat highland;

platinum(n) - atomic number 78; pt;a heavy precious metallic element; grey-white and resistant to corroding; occurs in some nickel and copper ores and is also found native in some deposits;
plausible(adj) - apparently reasonable and valid, and truthful;
  #2 (adj sat) - given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments;
plea(n) - an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed;
  #2 (n) - a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer);
  #3 (n) - supplication;a humble request for help from someone in authority;
plead(v) - appeal or request earnestly;
  #2 (v) - enter a plea, as in courts of law;
  #3 (v) - offer as an excuse or plea;
  #4 (v) - make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts;
pleasurable(adj sat) - enjoyable; gratifying;affording satisfaction or pleasure;

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pledge(n) - assurance;a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something;
  #2 (n) - toast;a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event;
  #3 (n) - someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group;
  #4 (n) - a deposit of personal property as security for a debt;
  #5 (v) - plight;promise solemnly and formally;
  #6 (v) - bind or secure by a pledge;
  #7 (v) - give as a guarantee;
  #8 (v) - drink; salute; toast; wassail;propose a toast to;
  #9 (v) - subscribe;pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals;
pluck(n) - the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord;
  #2 (n) - gutsiness; pluckiness;the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury;
  #3 (v) - cull; pick;look for and gather;
  #4 (v) - deplumate; deplume; displume; pull; tear;strip of feathers;
  #5 (v) - pick; plunk;pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion;
  #6 (v) - pick off; pull off; tweak;pull or pull out sharply;
  #7 (v) - fleece; gazump; hook; overcharge; plume; rob; soak; surcharge;rip off; ask an unreasonable price;
  #8 (v) - hustle; roll;sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity;
plum(n) - a highly desirable position or assignment;
  #2 (n) - any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit;
  #3 (n) - plum tree;any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone;
  #4 (adv) - clean; plumb;completely; used as intensifiers;
  #5 (adv) - plumb;exactly;
plumber(n) - pipe fitter;a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances;
plump(n) - the sound of a sudden heavy fall;
  #2 (v) - go;give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number;
  #3 (v) - fat; fatten; fatten out; fatten up; fill out; flesh out; plump out;make fat or plump;
  #4 (v) - flump; plank; plonk; plop; plump down; plunk; plunk down;set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise;
  #5 (v) - plummet;drop sharply;
  #6 (adj sat) - chubby; embonpoint;sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure;
  #7 (adv) - straight down especially heavily or abruptly;

plunder(n) - booty; dirty money; loot; pillage; prize; swag;goods or money obtained illegally;
  #2 (v) - despoil; rape; spoil; violate;destroy and strip of its possession;
  #3 (v) - despoil; foray; loot; pillage; ransack; reave; rifle; strip;steal goods; take as spoils;
  #4 (v) - sack;plunder (a town) after capture;
  #5 (v) - loot;take illegally; of intellectual property;
pneumatic(adj) - of or relating to or using air (or a similar gas);
polarity(n) - mutual opposition;a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies;
  #2 (n) - sign;having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges);
polarization(n) - polarisation;the phenomenon in which waves of light or other radiation are restricted in direction of vibration;
  #2 (n) - polarisation;the condition of having or giving polarity;
polarize(v) - polarise;become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation;
  #2 (v) - polarise;cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions;
  #3 (v) - polarise;cause to vibrate in a definite pattern;

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poll(n) - the counting of votes (as in an election);
  #2 (n) - poll parrot;a tame parrot;
  #3 (n) - the part of the head between the ears;
  #4 (n) - crown; pate;the top of the head;
  #5 (n) - canvass; opinion poll; public opinion poll;an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people;
  #6 (v) - pollard;convert into a pollard;
  #7 (v) - canvas; canvass;get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions;
  #8 (v) - get the votes of;
  #9 (v) - vote in an election at a polling station;
polymer(n) - a naturally occurring or synthetic compound consisting of large molecules made up of a linked series of repeated simple monomers;
pony(n) - a range horse of the western United States;
  #2 (n) - any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder;
  #3 (n) - an informal term for a racehorse;
  #4 (n) - jigger; shot glass;a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey;
  #5 (n) - crib; trot;a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly);
pope(n) - bishop of rome; catholic pope; holy father; pontiff; roman catholic pope; vicar of christ;the head of the Roman Catholic Church;
  #2 (n) - alexander pope;English poet and satirist (1688-1744);
popularity(n) - the quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after;

popularize(v) - popularise;make understandable to the general public;
  #2 (v) - generalise; generalize; popularise; vulgarise; vulgarize;cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use;
porcelain(n) - ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic;
porch(n) - a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance;
pore(n) - any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal;
  #2 (n) - stoma; stomate;a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass;
  #3 (n) - any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas);
  #4 (v) - center; centre; concentrate; focus; rivet;direct one's attention on something;
porridge(n) - soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick;

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pose(n) - affectation; affectedness; mannerism;a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display;
  #2 (n) - airs;affected manners intended to impress others;
  #3 (n) - a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes;
  #4 (v) - amaze; baffle; beat; bewilder; dumbfound; flummox; get; gravel; mystify; nonplus; perplex; puzzle; stick; stupefy; vex;be a mystery or bewildering to;
  #5 (v) - impersonate; personate;pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions;
  #6 (v) - lay; place; position; put; set;put into a certain place or abstract location;
  #7 (v) - model; posture; sit;assume a posture as for artistic purposes;
  #8 (v) - posture;behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others;
  #9 (v) - present;introduce;
possessive(n) - genitive; genitive case; possessive case;the case expressing ownership;
  #2 (adj sat) - desirous of owning;
  #3 (adj sat) - having or showing a desire to control or dominate;
  #4 (adj) - genitive;serving to express or indicate possession;
postal(adj) - of or relating to the system for delivering mail;
poster(n) - post horse; post-horse;a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers;
  #2 (n) - bill; card; notice; placard; posting;a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement;
  #3 (n) - bill poster; bill sticker;someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards;
postgraduate(n) - grad student; graduate student;a student who continues studies after graduation;
  #2 (adj sat) - graduate;of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree;

postulate(n) - posit;a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning;
  #2 (v) - posit;take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom;
  #3 (v) - contend;maintain or assert;
  #4 (v) - ask; call for; demand; involve; necessitate; need; require; take;require as useful, just, or proper;
potent(adj) - stiff; strong;having a strong physiological or chemical effect;
  #2 (adj) - virile;capable of copulation;
  #3 (adj sat) - strong;having or wielding force or authority;
  #4 (adj sat) - powerful;having great influence;
potentiality(n) - capability; capableness;an aptitude that may be developed;
  #2 (n) - potency; potential;the inherent capacity for coming into being;
pottery(n) - the craft of making earthenware;
  #2 (n) - clayware;ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln;
  #3 (n) - a workshop where clayware is made;
poultry(n) - domestic fowl; fowl;a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl;
  #2 (n) - flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food;

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practitioner(n) - practician;someone who practices a learned profession;
prairie(n) - a treeless grassy plain;
precede(v) - introduce; preface; premise;furnish with a preface or introduction;
  #2 (v) - lead;move ahead (of others) in time or space;
  #3 (v) - come before;be the predecessor of;
  #4 (v) - predate;come before;
  #5 (v) - antecede; antedate; forego; forgo; predate;be earlier in time; go back further;
precedent(n) - case in point;an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time;
  #2 (n) - case law; common law;a law established by following earlier judicial decisions;
  #3 (n) - a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time);
  #4 (n) - case law; common law;a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws;
  #5 (adj sat) - preceding in time, order, or significance;
precipitate(n) - a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering;
  #2 (v) - separate as a fine suspension of solid particles;
  #3 (v) - hurl or throw violently;
  #4 (v) - bring about abruptly;
  #5 (v) - fall vertically, sharply, or headlong;
  #6 (v) - come down; fall;fall from clouds;
  #7 (adj sat) - hasty; overhasty; precipitant; precipitous;done with very great haste and without due deliberation;

predictability(n) - the quality of being predictable;
predictable(adj) - capable of being foretold;
prediction(n) - anticipation; prevision;the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future);
  #2 (n) - forecasting; foretelling; prognostication;a statement made about the future;
predominantly(adv) - preponderantly;much greater in number or influence;
preferably(adv) - rather; sooner;more readily or willingly;

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prefix(n) - an affix that is added in front of the word;
  #2 (v) - attach a prefix to;
pregnancy(n) - gestation; maternity;the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus;
pregnant(adj) - carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life;
  #2 (adj sat) - fraught;filled with or attended with;
  #3 (adj sat) - meaning; significant;rich in significance or implication;
prehistoric(adj sat) - no longer fashionable;
  #2 (adj sat) - prehistorical;belonging to or existing in times before recorded history;
  #3 (adj) - of or relating to times before written history;
prejudge(v) - judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence;

prelude(n) - music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in an opera;
  #2 (n) - overture; preliminary;something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows;
  #3 (v) - play as a prelude;
  #4 (v) - serve as a prelude or opening to;
premier(n) - chancellor; prime minister;the person who is head of state (in several countries);
  #2 (n) - pm; prime minister;the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom;
  #3 (v) - premiere;perform a work for the first time;
  #4 (v) - premiere;be performed for the first time;
  #5 (adj sat) - premiere;preceding all others in time;
  #6 (adj sat) - prime;first in rank or degree;
premise(n) - assumption; premiss;a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn;
  #2 (v) - premiss;take something as preexisting and given;
  #3 (v) - introduce; precede; preface;furnish with a preface or introduction;
  #4 (v) - set forth beforehand, often as an explanation;
preoccupation(n) - preoccupancy;the act of taking occupancy before someone else does;
  #2 (n) - absorption; engrossment; preoccupancy;the mental state of being preoccupied by something;
  #3 (n) - an idea that preoccupies the mind and holds the attention;
preoccupied(adj sat) - haunted; obsessed; taken up;having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something;
  #2 (adj sat) - bemused; deep in thought; lost;deeply absorbed in thought;

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preoccupy(v) - engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively;
  #2 (v) - occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance;
prescription(n) - ethical drug; prescription drug; prescription medicine;a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist;
  #2 (n) - written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient;
  #3 (n) - written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person;
  #4 (n) - directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions;
  #5 (adj) - available only with a doctor's written prescription;
prescriptive(adj) - normative;pertaining to giving directives or rules;
presentation(n) - demonstration; presentment;a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view;
  #2 (n) - the activity of formally presenting something (as a prize or reward);
  #3 (n) - display;a visual representation of something;
  #4 (n) - position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal;
  #5 (n) - the act of making something publicly available; presenting news or other information by broadcasting or printing it;
  #6 (n) - the act of presenting a proposal;
  #7 (n) - intro; introduction;formally making a person known to another or to the public;
preset(adj sat) - predetermined;set in advance;

preside(v) - act as president;
presidency(n) - presidentship;the office and function of president;
  #2 (n) - administration; presidential term;the tenure of a president;
presidential(adj) - befitting a president;
  #2 (adj) - relating to a president or presidency;
prestige(n) - prestigiousness;a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.;
presumably(adv) - presumptively;by reasonable assumption;

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presume(v) - take liberties or act with too much confidence;
  #2 (v) - assume; take for granted;take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof;
  #3 (v) - constitute reasonable evidence for;
  #4 (v) - dare; make bold;take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission;
prevalence(n) - the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread;
  #2 (n) - preponderance;a superiority in numbers or amount;
  #3 (n) - the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population;
preventable(adj) - capable of being prevented;
prey(n) - quarry;animal hunted or caught for food;
  #2 (n) - fair game; quarry; target;a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence;
  #3 (v) - predate; raven;prey on or hunt for;
  #4 (v) - feed;profit from in an exploitatory manner;
prick(n) - pricking;the act of puncturing with a small point;
  #2 (n) - cock; dick; pecker; peter; putz; shaft; tool;obscene terms for penis;
  #3 (n) - asshole; bastard; cocksucker; dickhead; mother fucker; motherfucker; shit; sob; son of a bitch; whoreson;insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous;
  #4 (n) - dent; incision; scratch; slit;a depression scratched or carved into a surface;
  #5 (v) - goad;stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick;
  #6 (v) - prickle;make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn;
  #7 (v) - bite; sting;deliver a sting to;
  #8 (v) - to cause a sharp emotional pain;
  #9 (v) - cock up; prick up;raise;
  #10 (v) - prickle;cause a prickling sensation;
  #11 (v) - sting; twinge;cause a stinging pain;

priority(n) - antecedence; antecedency; anteriority; precedence; precedency;preceding in time;
  #2 (n) - precedence; precedency;status established in order of importance or urgency;
prism(n) - optical prism;optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image;
  #2 (n) - a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms;
privacy(n) - privateness; seclusion;the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others;
  #2 (n) - concealment; privateness; secrecy;the condition of being concealed or hidden;
proceeding(n) - legal proceeding; proceedings;the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked;
processor(n) - c.p.u.; central processing unit; central processor; cpu; mainframe;the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing;
  #2 (n) - a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market;
  #3 (n) - someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.);

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proclamation(n) - promulgation;the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice;
  #2 (n) - announcement; annunciation; declaration;a formal public statement;
productive(adj sat) - fat; fertile; rich;marked by great fruitfulness;
  #2 (adj) - producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly);
  #3 (adj) - generative;having the ability to produce or originate;
  #4 (adj sat) - yielding positive results;
productivity(n) - productiveness;the quality of being productive or having the power to produce;
  #2 (n) - the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time;
proficiency(n) - the quality of having great facility and competence;
  #2 (n) - technique;skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity;
proficient(adj sat) - adept; expert; good; practiced; skilful; skillful;having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude;
  #2 (adj) - technical;of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill;

profile(n) - biographical sketch;
  #2 (n) - an analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics;
  #3 (n) - a vertical section of the Earth's crust showing the different horizons or layers;
  #4 (n) - an outline of something (especially a human face as seen from one side);
  #5 (n) - visibility;degree of exposure to public notice;
  #6 (v) - represent in profile, by drawing or painting;
  #7 (v) - write about;
profound(adj sat) - unfathomed; unplumbed; unsounded;situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed;
  #2 (adj sat) - heavy; sound; wakeless;deep and complete;
  #3 (adj sat) - coming from deep within one;
  #4 (adj sat) - of the greatest intensity; complete;
  #5 (adj) - showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth;
  #6 (adj sat) - fundamental;far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something;
progression(n) - advance; advancement; forward motion; onward motion; procession; progress;the act of moving forward (as toward a goal);
  #2 (n) - advance; progress;a movement forward;
  #3 (n) - patterned advance;a series with a definite pattern of advance;
prohibition(n) - forbiddance; inhibition;the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof);
  #2 (n) - a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages;
  #3 (n) - ban; proscription;a decree that prohibits something;
  #4 (n) - refusal to approve or assent to;
  #5 (n) - prohibition era;the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment;
projection(n) - ejection; expulsion; forcing out;the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting;
  #2 (n) - jut; jutting; protrusion;the act of projecting out from something;
  #3 (n) - any structure that branches out from a central support;
  #4 (n) - the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction;
  #5 (n) - a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations;
  #6 (n) - project;a planned undertaking;
  #7 (n) - the projection of an image from a film onto a screen;
  #8 (n) - acoustic projection; sound projection;the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality;
  #9 (n) - a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else;
  #10 (n) - any solid convex shape that juts out from something;

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projector(n) - an optical instrument that projects an enlarged image onto a screen;
  #2 (n) - an optical device for projecting a beam of light;
propaganda(n) - information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause;
propagation(n) - generation; multiplication;the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production;
  #2 (n) - extension;the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions;
  #3 (n) - the movement of a wave through a medium;
propel(v) - impel;cause to move forward with force;
  #2 (v) - actuate; incite; motivate; move; prompt;give an incentive for action;
propeller(n) - propellor;a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water;

prophecy(n) - prognostication; vaticination;knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source);
  #2 (n) - divination;a prediction uttered under divine inspiration;
prophesy(v) - preach;deliver a sermon;
  #2 (v) - vaticinate;predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration;
prophet(n) - oracle; prophesier; seer; vaticinator;an authoritative person who divines the future;
  #2 (n) - someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God;
proponent(n) - advocate; advocator; exponent;a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea;
proportionate(adj sat) - agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree;
  #2 (adj) - being in due proportion;
  #3 (adj sat) - harmonious; symmetrical;exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities;

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proposition(n) - a task to be dealt with;
  #2 (n) - a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false;
  #3 (n) - proposal;the act of making a proposal;
  #4 (n) - an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors);
  #5 (n) - proffer; suggestion;a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection;
  #6 (v) - suggest sex to;
proprietor(n) - owner;someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business;
propulsion(n) - actuation;the act of propelling;
  #2 (n) - a propelling force;
prose(n) - ordinary writing as distinguished from verse;
  #2 (n) - matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression;
prosecute(v) - engage; pursue;carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in;
  #2 (v) - bring a criminal action against (in a trial);
  #3 (v) - conduct a prosecution in a court of law;

prosecution(n) - pursuance;the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion;
  #2 (n) - criminal prosecution;the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior;
  #3 (n) - the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant;
prospective(adj) - of or concerned with or related to the future;
prosper(v) - flourish; fly high; thrive;make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance;
protagonist(n) - agonist;the principal character in a work of fiction;
  #2 (n) - admirer; booster; champion; friend; supporter;a person who backs a politician or a team etc.;
proton(n) - a stable particle with positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron;

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protrude(v) - bulge; pouch;swell or protrude outwards;
  #2 (v) - bug out; bulge; bulge out; come out; pop; pop out; start;bulge outward;
  #3 (v) - jut; jut out; project; stick out;extend out or project in space;
provincial(n) - bucolic; peasant;a country person;
  #2 (n) - an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order;
  #3 (adj) - characteristic of the provinces or their people;
  #4 (adj) - of or associated with a province;
provoke(v) - stimulate;provide the needed stimulus for;
  #2 (v) - call forth; evoke; kick up;evoke or provoke to appear or occur;
  #3 (v) - arouse; elicit; enkindle; evoke; fire; kindle; raise;call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses);
  #4 (v) - beset; chevvy; chevy; chivvy; chivy; harass; harry; hassle; molest; plague;annoy continually or chronically;
proximate(adj sat) - very close in space or time;
  #2 (adj) - closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects;
prudence(n) - discretion in practical affairs;
  #2 (n) - circumspection; discreetness; discretion;knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress;

prudent(adj) - careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment;
prune(n) - dried plum;
  #2 (v) - cut; rationalise; rationalize;weed out unwanted or unnecessary things;
  #3 (v) - clip; crop; cut back; dress; lop; snip; trim;cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;
psychiatric(adj) - psychiatrical;relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry;
psychiatry(n) - psychological medicine; psychopathology;the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders;
psychologist(n) - a scientist trained in psychology;

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psychology(n) - psychological science;the science of mental life;
publicity(n) - the quality of being open to public view;
  #2 (n) - packaging; promotion; promotional material;a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution;
pudding(n) - any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed;
  #2 (n) - pud;the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally);
  #3 (n) - any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes;
puff(n) - blow;forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth;
  #2 (n) - drag; pull;a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke);
  #3 (n) - hassock; ottoman; pouf; pouffe;thick cushion used as a seat;
  #4 (n) - powderpuff;a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin;
  #5 (n) - comfort; comforter; quilt;bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together;
  #6 (n) - exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes);
  #7 (n) - a light inflated pastry or puff shell;
  #8 (n) - puff of air; whiff;a short light gust of air;
  #9 (v) - gasp; heave; pant;breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted;
  #10 (v) - chuff; huff;blow hard and loudly;
  #11 (v) - blow up; puff out; puff up;to swell or cause to enlarge,;
  #12 (v) - speak in a blustering or scornful manner;
  #13 (v) - puff up;praise extravagantly;
  #14 (v) - whiff;smoke and exhale strongly;
  #15 (v) - drag; draw;suck in or take (air);
  #16 (v) - make proud or conceited;
  #17 (adj sat) - puffed;gathered for protruding fullness;
pulley(n) - block; pulley block; pulley-block;a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope;

pumpkin(n) - usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn;
  #2 (n) - autumn pumpkin; cucurbita pepo; pumpkin vine;a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes;
punctuate(v) - mark;insert punctuation marks into;
  #2 (v) - interrupt periodically;
  #3 (v) - accent; accentuate; emphasise; emphasize; stress;to stress, single out as important;
puppet(n) - a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers;
  #2 (n) - marionette;a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer;
  #3 (n) - creature; tool;a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else;
puppy(n) - a young dog;
  #2 (n) - pup;an inexperienced young person;
purification(n) - the act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing;
  #2 (n) - purgation;a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites;
  #3 (n) - the act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities;
  #4 (n) - refinement; refining;the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.);

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purify(v) - distill; make pure; sublimate;remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation;
  #2 (v) - purge; sanctify;make pure or free from sin or guilt;
  #3 (v) - become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin;
puritan(n) - prude;a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum;
  #2 (n) - someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures;
  #3 (n) - a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship;
purity(n) - honor; honour; pureness;a woman's virtue or chastity;
  #2 (n) - innocence; pureness; sinlessness; whiteness;the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil;
  #3 (n) - pureness;being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material;
pyramid(n) - great pyramid; pyramids of egypt;a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt;
  #2 (n) - a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases;
  #3 (n) - a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex;
  #4 (v) - increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base;
  #5 (v) - arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid;
  #6 (v) - use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal;
  #7 (v) - enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts;
quaint(adj sat) - strange in an interesting or pleasing way;
  #2 (adj sat) - very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance;
  #3 (adj sat) - olde worlde; old-time;attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic);

qualitative(adj) - involving distinctions based on qualities;
  #2 (adj) - relating to or involving comparisons based on qualities;
quantify(v) - measure;express as a number or measure or quantity;
  #2 (v) - use as a quantifier;
quarterly(n) - a periodical that is published every quarter (or four issues per year);
  #2 (adj) - of or relating to or consisting of a quarter;
  #3 (adv) - every quarter;in three month intervals;
  #4 (adv) - in diagonally opposed quarters of an escutcheon;
quartz(n) - a hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities;
  #2 (n) - crystal; lechatelierite; quartz glass; vitreous silica;colorless glass made of almost pure silica;
queer(n) - fag; faggot; fagot; fairy; nance; pansy; poof; poove; pouf; queen;offensive term for an openly homosexual man;
  #2 (v) - endanger; expose; peril; scupper;put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position;
  #3 (v) - baffle; bilk; cross; foil; frustrate; scotch; spoil; thwart;hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of;
  #4 (adj sat) - curious; funny; odd; peculiar; rum; rummy; singular;beyond or deviating from the usual or expected;
  #5 (adj sat) - gay; homophile;homosexual or arousing homosexual desires;

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quench(v) - cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid;
  #2 (v) - reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance;
  #3 (v) - quell; squelch;suppress or crush completely;
  #4 (v) - allay; assuage; slake;satisfy (thirst);
  #5 (v) - electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device;
  #6 (v) - blow out; extinguish; snuff out;put out, as of fires, flames, or lights;
quest(n) - seeking;the act of searching for something;
  #2 (n) - pursuance; pursuit;a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria;
  #3 (v) - bespeak; call for; request;express the need or desire for; ask for;
  #4 (v) - seek alms, as for religious purposes;
  #5 (v) - bay;bark with prolonged noises, of dogs;
  #6 (v) - search the trail of (game);
  #7 (v) - make a search (for);
questionable(adj sat) - confutable; confutative; refutable;able to be refuted;
  #2 (adj) - subject to question;
quilt(n) - comfort; comforter; puff;bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together;
  #2 (v) - create by stitching together;
  #3 (v) - stitch or sew together;
quiver(n) - quivering; vibration;the act of vibrating;
  #2 (n) - case for holding arrows;
  #3 (n) - chill; frisson; shiver; shudder; thrill; tingle;an almost pleasurable sensation of fright;
  #4 (n) - palpitation; quivering; shakiness; shaking; trembling; vibration;a shaky motion;
  #5 (v) - flicker; flitter; flutter; waver;move back and forth very rapidly;
  #6 (v) - beat; pulsate;move with or as if with a regular alternating motion;
  #7 (v) - palpitate; quake;shake with fast, tremulous movements;

quiz(n) - an examination consisting of a few short questions;
  #2 (v) - test;examine someone's knowledge of something;
quota(n) - a limitation on imports;
  #2 (n) - a proportional share assigned to each participant;
  #3 (n) - a prescribed number;
racist(n) - racialist;a person with a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others;
  #2 (adj sat) - antiblack; anti-semite;discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion;
  #3 (adj sat) - based on racial intolerance;
racket(n) - fraudulent scheme; illegitimate enterprise;an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit;
  #2 (n) - racquet;a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games;
  #3 (n) - dissonance; noise;the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience;
  #4 (n) - a loud and disturbing noise;
  #5 (v) - hit (a ball) with a racket;
  #6 (v) - make loud and annoying noises;
  #7 (v) - jollify; make happy; make merry; make whoopie; revel; wassail; whoop it up;celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities;
radial(n) - radial tire; radial-ply tire;pneumatic tire that has radial-ply casing;
  #2 (adj sat) - radiate; stellate;arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center;
  #3 (adj) - issuing in rays from a common center; relating to rays of light;
  #4 (adj) - relating to or moving along or having the direction of a radius;
  #5 (adj) - relating to or near the radius;

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radiance(n) - effulgence; radiancy; refulgence; refulgency; shine;the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light;
  #2 (n) - glow; glowing;the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface;
  #3 (n) - an attractive combination of good health and happiness;
radiate(v) - send out real or metaphoric rays;
  #2 (v) - diversify;spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate;
  #3 (v) - issue or emerge in rays or waves;
  #4 (v) - beam; glow; shine;experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion;
  #5 (v) - cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays;
  #6 (v) - beam; glow; shine;have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink;
  #7 (v) - ray;extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center;
  #8 (v) - send out rays or waves;
  #9 (adj sat) - having rays or ray-like parts as in the flower heads of daisies;
  #10 (adj sat) - radial; stellate;arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center;
radiator(n) - a mechanism consisting of a metal honeycomb through which hot fluids circulate; heat is transferred from the fluid through the honeycomb to the airstream that is created either by the motion of the vehicle or by a fan;
  #2 (n) - heater consisting of a series of pipes for circulating steam or hot water to heat rooms or buildings;
  #3 (n) - any object that radiates energy;
radical(n) - base; root; root word; stem; theme;the form of a word after all affixes are removed;
  #2 (n) - a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram;
  #3 (n) - a person who has radical ideas or opinions;
  #4 (n) - a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity;
  #5 (n) - chemical group; group;two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule;
  #6 (n) - free radical;an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule;
  #7 (adj) - basal;especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem;
  #8 (adj sat) - extremist; ultra;far beyond the norm;
  #9 (adj sat) - revolutionary;markedly new or introducing radical change;
  #10 (adj sat) - arising from or going to the root or source;
  #11 (adj) - of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root;
radically(adv) - in a radical manner;

radioactivity(n) - radiation;the spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay;
radish(n) - pungent fleshy edible root;
  #2 (n) - radish plant;a cruciferous plant of the genus Raphanus having a pungent edible root;
  #3 (n) - raphanus sativus;Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its edible pungent root usually eaten raw;
  #4 (n) - pungent edible root of any of various cultivated radish plants;
  #5 (n) - daikon; japanese radish; raphanus sativus longipinnatus;radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked;
radium(n) - atomic number 88; ra;an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores;
raid(n) - an attempt by speculators to defraud investors;
  #2 (n) - foray; maraud;a sudden short attack;
  #3 (v) - search for something needed or desired;
  #4 (v) - foray into;enter someone else's territory and take spoils;
  #5 (v) - take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock;
  #6 (v) - bust;search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on;
raindrop(n) - a drop of rain;

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rainfall(n) - rain;water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere;
raisin(n) - dried grape;
ranch(n) - cattle farm; cattle ranch; spread;farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle);
  #2 (v) - manage or run a ranch;
random(adj) - lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance;
rarity(n) - curio; curiosity; oddity; oddment; peculiarity;something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting;
  #2 (n) - low density; tenuity;a rarified quality;
  #3 (n) - infrequency; rareness;noteworthy scarcity;

rash(n) - blizzard;a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences;
  #2 (n) - efflorescence; roseola; skin rash;any red eruption of the skin;
  #3 (adj sat) - foolhardy; heady; reckless;marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences;
  #4 (adj sat) - imprudently incurring risk;
rating(n) - evaluation;act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of;
  #2 (n) - evaluation; valuation;an appraisal of the value of something;
  #3 (n) - standing or position on a scale;
  #4 (n) - military rank; military rating; paygrade;rank in a military organization;
rationalization(n) - rationalisation; systematisation; systematization;systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale;
  #2 (n) - rationalisation;the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency;
  #3 (n) - rationalisation;the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation;
  #4 (n) - rationalisation;the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason;
  #5 (n) - rationalisation;a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening;
reactivate(v) - activate (an old file) anew;
reactor(n) - nuclear reactor;any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements;
  #2 (n) - an electrical device used to introduce reactance into a circuit;

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realism(n) - pragmatism;the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth;
  #2 (n) - platonism;the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names;
  #3 (n) - naive realism;the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived;
  #4 (n) - naturalism;an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description;
  #5 (n) - reality; realness;the state of being actual or real;
realistic(adj) - aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are;
  #2 (adj sat) - naturalistic;representing what is real; not abstract or ideal;
  #3 (adj) - of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of realism;
reaper(n) - harvester;farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields;
  #2 (n) - grim reaper;Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe;
  #3 (n) - harvester;someone who helps to gather the harvest;
reassure(v) - give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certain;
  #2 (v) - assure;cause to feel sure; give reassurance to;
receptacle(n) - a container that is used to put or keep things in;
  #2 (n) - an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert;
  #3 (n) - enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts;

recess(n) - break; respite; time out;a pause from doing something (as work);
  #2 (n) - niche;an enclosure that is set back or indented;
  #3 (n) - inlet;an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands);
  #4 (n) - corner; niche; recession;a small concavity;
  #5 (n) - deferral;a state of abeyance or suspended business;
  #6 (v) - adjourn; break up;close at the end of a session;
  #7 (v) - make a recess in;
  #8 (v) - put into a recess;
recipe(n) - formula;directions for making something;
recipient(n) - recipient role;the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause;
  #2 (n) - receiver;a person who receives something;
reciprocal(n) - reciprocal cross;hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype;
  #2 (n) - multiplicative inverse;one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2; the multiplicative inverse of 7 is 1/7;
  #3 (n) - something (a term or expression or concept) that has a reciprocal relation to something else;
  #4 (adj sat) - of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function;
  #5 (adj) - mutual;concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return;
reckless(adj sat) - foolhardy; heady; rash;marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences;
  #2 (adj sat) - heedless;characterized by careless unconcern;

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recklessly(adv) - in a reckless manner;
reckon(v) - guess; imagine; opine; suppose; think;expect, believe, or suppose;
  #2 (v) - calculate; cipher; compute; cypher; figure; work out;make a mathematical calculation or computation;
  #3 (v) - consider; regard; see; view;deem to be;
  #4 (v) - calculate; count on; estimate; figure; forecast;judge to be probable;
  #5 (v) - count;take account of;
  #6 (v) - bet; calculate; count; depend; look;have faith or confidence in;
reclaim(v) - domesticate; domesticise; domesticize; tame;overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable;
  #2 (v) - make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state;
  #3 (v) - rectify; reform; regenerate;bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one;
  #4 (v) - recover;reuse (materials from waste products);
  #5 (v) - repossess;claim back;
recollect(v) - call back; call up; recall; remember; retrieve; think;recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection;
recollection(n) - recall; reminiscence;the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort);
  #2 (n) - anamnesis; remembrance;the ability to recall past occurrences;
  #3 (n) - something recalled to the mind;

reconciliation(n) - balancing;getting two things to correspond;
  #2 (n) - rapprochement;the reestablishing of cordial relations;
recondition(v) - bring into an improved condition;
reconstruct(v) - cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically;
  #2 (v) - redo; remodel;do over, as of (part of) a house;
  #3 (v) - construct; retrace;reassemble mentally;
  #4 (v) - rebuild;build again;
  #5 (v) - restore;return to its original or usable and functioning condition;
reconstruction(n) - the activity of constructing something again;
  #2 (n) - reconstructive memory;recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall;
  #3 (n) - an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence;
  #4 (n) - reconstruction period;the period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union; 1865-1877;
recreation(n) - refreshment;activity that refreshes and recreates; activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation;
  #2 (n) - diversion;an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates;

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rectangle(n) - a parallelogram with four right angles;
rectangular(adj sat) - orthogonal;having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles;
  #2 (adj sat) - having four right angles;
rectify(v) - convert into direct current;
  #2 (v) - correct; right;make right or correct;
  #3 (v) - amend; remediate; remedy; repair;set straight or right;
  #4 (v) - reclaim; reform; regenerate;bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one;
  #5 (v) - refine;reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities;
  #6 (v) - math: determine the length of;
recur(v) - repeat;happen or occur again;
  #2 (v) - go back;return in thought or speech to something;
  #3 (v) - fall back; resort;have recourse to;
reed(n) - beating-reed instrument; reed instrument;a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed;
  #2 (n) - vibrating reed;a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it;
  #3 (n) - walter reed;United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902);
  #4 (n) - john reed;United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920);
  #5 (n) - tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites;

reef(n) - one of several strips across a sail that can be taken in or rolled up to lessen the area of the sail that is exposed to the wind;
  #2 (n) - rand; witwatersrand;a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese;
  #3 (n) - a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water;
  #4 (v) - reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef;
  #5 (v) - roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area;
  #6 (v) - lower and bring partially inboard;
reel(n) - virginia reel;an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines;
  #2 (n) - scottish reel;a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps;
  #3 (n) - bobbin; spool;a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound;
  #4 (n) - winder consisting of a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod;
  #5 (n) - a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector;
  #6 (n) - music composed for dancing a reel;
  #7 (v) - wind onto or off a reel;
  #8 (v) - careen; keel; lurch; stagger; swag;walk as if unable to control one's movements;
  #9 (v) - gyrate; spin; spin around; whirl;revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis;
refinery(n) - an industrial plant for purifying a crude substance;
reflective(adj sat) - devoted to matters of the mind;
  #2 (adj) - capable of physically reflecting light or sound;
  #3 (adj sat) - brooding; broody; contemplative; meditative; musing; pensive; pondering; ruminative;deeply or seriously thoughtful;
reformation(n) - reclamation;rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course;
  #2 (n) - protestant reformation;a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches;
  #3 (n) - improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs;

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refreshment(n) - recreation;activity that refreshes and recreates; activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation;
  #2 (n) - snacks and drinks served as a light meal;
refrigeration(n) - deliberately lowering the body's temperature for therapeutic purposes;
  #2 (n) - infrigidation;the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes;
refuge(n) - recourse; resort;act of turning to for assistance;
  #2 (n) - asylum; sanctuary;a shelter from danger or hardship;
  #3 (n) - recourse; resort;something or someone turned to for assistance or security;
  #4 (n) - safety;a safe place;
refugee(n) - an exile who flees for safety;
refund(n) - repayment;the act of returning money received previously;
  #2 (n) - money returned to a payer;
  #3 (v) - give back; repay; return;pay back;

refuse(n) - food waste; garbage; scraps;food that is discarded (as from a kitchen);
  #2 (v) - decline;show unwillingness towards;
  #3 (v) - deny;refuse to let have;
  #4 (v) - decline; pass up; reject; turn down;refuse to accept;
  #5 (v) - reject; turn away; turn down;refuse entrance or membership;
  #6 (v) - defy; resist;elude, especially in a baffling way;
  #7 (v) - reject; resist;resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ;
regain(v) - find; recover; retrieve;get or find back; recover the use of;
  #2 (v) - find;come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost;
regime(n) - regimen;a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet);
  #2 (n) - authorities; government;the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit;
regional(adj sat) - related or limited to a particular region;
  #2 (adj) - characteristic of a region;
registration(n) - enrollment; enrolment;the act of enrolling;
  #2 (n) - adjustment; readjustment;the act of adjusting something to match a standard;
  #3 (n) - the sound property resulting from a combination of organ stops used to perform a particular piece of music; the technique of selecting and adjusting organ stops;
  #4 (n) - a document certifying an act of registering;
  #5 (n) - enrollment;the body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time;

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regress(n) - regression; retrogression; retroversion; reversion;returning to a former state;
  #2 (n) - reasoning backward;the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence;
  #3 (v) - fall back; lapse; recidivate; relapse; retrogress;go back to bad behavior;
  #4 (v) - retrograde; retrogress;get worse or fall back to a previous condition;
  #5 (v) - retrovert; return; revert; turn back;go back to a previous state;
  #6 (v) - go back to a statistical means;
regularity(n) - the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate;
  #2 (n) - geometrical regularity;a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles;
rehearsal(n) - a form of practice; repetition of information (silently or aloud) in order to keep it in short-term memory;
  #2 (n) - dry run;a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert);
rehearse(v) - practice; practise;engage in a rehearsal (of);
reign(n) - sovereignty;royal authority; the dominion of a monarch;
  #2 (n) - the period during which a monarch is sovereign;
  #3 (n) - a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful;
  #4 (v) - have sovereign power;
  #5 (v) - dominate; predominate; prevail; rule;be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance;

rein(n) - one of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse;
  #2 (n) - any means of control;
  #3 (v) - harness; rule;keep in check;
  #4 (v) - rein in;stop or check by or as if by a pull at the reins;
  #5 (v) - rein in;stop or slow up one's horse or oneself by or as if by pulling the reins;
  #6 (v) - draw rein; harness; rein in;control and direct with or as if by reins;
reinforce(v) - reenforce;make stronger;
  #2 (v) - reward;strengthen and support with rewards;
rejection(n) - the act of rejecting something;
  #2 (n) - the speech act of rejecting;
  #3 (n) - an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign;
  #4 (n) - the state of being rejected;
relaxation(n) - liberalisation; liberalization;the act of making less strict;
  #2 (n) - relaxation method;a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount;
  #3 (n) - ease; repose; rest;freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility);
  #4 (n) - loosening; slackening;an occurrence of control or strength weakening;
  #5 (n) - easiness;a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry;
  #6 (n) - relaxation behavior;the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance;
  #7 (n) - the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers;
relay(n) - the act of passing something along from one person or group to another;
  #2 (n) - electrical relay;electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit;
  #3 (n) - relay race;a race between teams; each member runs or swims part of the distance;
  #4 (n) - a fresh team to relieve weary draft animals;
  #5 (n) - a crew of workers who relieve another crew;
  #6 (v) - pass along;
  #7 (v) - control or operate by relay;

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relevance(n) - relevancy;the relation of something to the matter at hand;
reluctance(n) - disinclination; hesitancy; hesitation; indisposition;a certain degree of unwillingness;
  #2 (n) - opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance);
remembrance(n) - anamnesis; recollection;the ability to recall past occurrences;
  #2 (n) - commemoration; memorial;a recognition of meritorious service;
remit(n) - remission; remitment;the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court);
  #2 (n) - the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with;
  #3 (v) - diminish or abate;
  #4 (v) - slacken;make slack as by lessening tension or firmness;
  #5 (v) - forgive;
  #6 (v) - remand; send back;refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision;
  #7 (v) - release from (claims, debts, or taxes);
  #8 (v) - send (money) in payment;
  #9 (v) - defer; hold over; postpone; prorogue; put off; put over; set back; shelve; table;hold back to a later time;
remnant(n) - end; oddment; remainder;a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold;
  #2 (n) - leftover;a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists;

renewal(n) - reclamation; rehabilitation;the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation;
  #2 (n) - the act of renewing;
  #3 (n) - refilling; replacement; replenishment;filling again by supplying what has been used up;
renovation(n) - overhaul; redevelopment;the act of improving by renewing and restoring;
  #2 (n) - refurbishment; restoration;the state of being restored to its former good condition;
renown(n) - celebrity; fame;the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed;
repel(v) - rebuff; snub;reject outright and bluntly;
  #2 (v) - drive back; fight off; rebuff; repulse;force or drive back;
  #3 (v) - beat back; drive; force back; push back; repulse;cause to move back by force or influence;
  #4 (v) - repulse;be repellent to; cause aversion in;
  #5 (v) - disgust; gross out; revolt;fill with distaste;
repent(v) - regret; rue;feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about;
  #2 (v) - atone;turn away from sin or do penitence;

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representation(n) - an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent;
  #2 (n) - the act of representing; standing in for someone or some group and speaking with authority in their behalf;
  #3 (n) - a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something;
  #4 (n) - the right of being represented by delegates who have a voice in some legislative body;
  #5 (n) - internal representation; mental representation;a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image;
  #6 (n) - a statement of facts and reasons made in appealing or protesting;
  #7 (n) - histrionics; theatrical; theatrical performance;a performance of a play;
  #8 (n) - a factual statement made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract;
  #9 (n) - a body of legislators that serve in behalf of some constituency;
  #10 (n) - agency; delegacy;the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent;
repression(n) - the act of repressing; control by holding down;
  #2 (n) - the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious;
  #3 (n) - a state of forcible subjugation;
reptile(n) - reptilian;any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms;
republican(n) - republican river;a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas;
  #2 (n) - an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy);
  #3 (n) - a member of the Republican Party;
  #4 (adj sat) - having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government;
  #5 (adj) - relating to or belonging to the Republican Party;