abase(v) - chagrin; humble; humiliate; mortify;cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of;
abhor(v) - abominate; execrate; loathe;find repugnant;
abhorrent(adj sat) - detestable; obscene; repugnant; repulsive;offensive to the mind;
abide(v) - bear; brook; digest; endure; put up; stand; stick out; stomach; suffer; support; tolerate;put up with something or somebody unpleasant;
#2 (v) - bide; stay;dwell;
abjure(v) - forswear; recant; resile; retract;formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure;
abominable(adj sat) - atrocious; awful; dreadful; painful; terrible; unspeakable;exceptionally bad or displeasing;
#2 (adj sat) - detestable; execrable; odious;unequivocally detestable;
abstruse(adj sat) - deep; recondite;difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge;
absurd(n) - the absurd;a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless;
#2 (adj sat) - inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense;
#3 (adj sat) - cockeyed; derisory; idiotic; laughable; ludicrous; nonsensical; preposterous; ridiculous;incongruous;inviting ridicule;
acclaim(n) - acclamation; eclat; plaudit; plaudits;enthusiastic approval;
#2 (v) - hail; herald;praise vociferously;
#3 (v) - applaud; clap; spat;clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval;
acquiesce(v) - accede; assent;to agree or express agreement;
acquit(v) - assoil; clear; discharge; exculpate; exonerate;pronounce not guilty of criminal charges;
#2 (v) - bear; behave; carry; comport; conduct; deport;behave in a certain manner;
acrimony(n) - acerbity; bitterness; jaundice; tartness; thorniness;a rough and bitter manner;
adjoin(v) - attach or add;
#2 (v) - contact; meet; touch;be in direct physical contact with; make contact;
#3 (v) - abut; border; butt; butt against; butt on; edge; march;lie adjacent to another or share a boundary;
admission(n) - admittance;the act of admitting someone to enter;
#2 (n) - access; accession; admittance; entree;the right to enter;
#3 (n) - an acknowledgment of the truth of something;
#4 (n) - admission charge; admission fee; admission price; entrance fee; entrance money; price of admission;the fee charged for admission;
admonish(v) - reprove;take to task;
#2 (v) - discourage; monish; warn;admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior;
#3 (v) - caution; monish;warn strongly; put on guard;
adversary(n) - antagonist; opponent; opposer; resister;someone who offers opposition;
advise(v) - counsel; rede;give advice to;
#2 (v) - apprise; apprize; give notice; notify; send word;inform (somebody) of something;
#3 (v) - propose; suggest;make a proposal, declare a plan for something;
advocate(n) - advocator; exponent; proponent;a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea;
#2 (n) - counsel; counsellor; counselor; counselor-at-law; pleader;a lawyer who pleads cases in court;
#3 (v) - preach;speak, plead, or argue in favor of;
#4 (v) - recommend; urge;push for something;
affable(adj sat) - amiable; cordial; genial;diffusing warmth and friendliness;
aggravate(v) - exacerbate; exasperate; worsen;make worse;
#2 (v) - exacerbate; exasperate;exasperate or irritate;
allege(v) - aver; say;report or maintain;
allocation(n) - storage allocation;the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions;
#2 (n) - allotment; apportioning; apportionment; assignation; parceling; parcelling;the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan;
#3 (n) - allotment;a share set aside for a specific purpose;
almighty(n) - creator; divine; god almighty; godhead; jehovah; lord; maker;terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God;
#2 (adj sat) - all-powerful; omnipotent;having unlimited power;
amaze(v) - baffle; beat; bewilder; dumbfound; flummox; get; gravel; mystify; nonplus; perplex; pose; puzzle; stick; stupefy; vex;be a mystery or bewildering to;
#2 (v) - astonish; astound;affect with wonder;
annoy(v) - bother; chafe; devil; get at; get to; gravel; irritate; nark; nettle; rag; rile; vex;cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations;
antediluvian(n) - ancient;a very old person;
#2 (n) - antediluvian patriarch;any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge;
#3 (adj sat) - antiquated; archaic;so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period;
#4 (adj) - antediluvial;of or relating to the period before the biblical flood;
anyhow(adv) - anyway; anyways; at any rate; in any case; in any event;used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement;
#2 (adv) - anyway;in any way whatsoever;
aplomb(n) - assuredness; cool; poise; sang-froid;great coolness and composure under strain;
archaic(adj sat) - primitive;little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type;
#2 (adj sat) - antediluvian; antiquated;so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period;
architect(n) - designer;someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings);
arena(n) - scene of action;a playing field where sports events take place;
#2 (n) - bowl; sports stadium; stadium;a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments;
#3 (n) - the central area of an ancient Roman amphitheater where contests and spectacles were held; especially an area that was strewn with sand;
#4 (n) - area; domain; field; orbit; sphere;a particular environment or walk of life;
argument(n) - argumentation; line; line of reasoning; logical argument;a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning;
#2 (n) - a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable; if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable;
#3 (n) - parameter;a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program;
#4 (n) - literary argument;a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie;
#5 (n) - statement;a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true;
#6 (n) - argumentation; debate;a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal;
#7 (n) - arguing; contention; contestation; controversy; disceptation; disputation; tilt;a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement;
aristocrat(n) - blue blood; patrician;a member of the aristocracy;
aristocratic(adj sat) - aristocratical; blue; blue-blooded; gentle; patrician;belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy;
articulate(v) - enunciate; vocalise; vocalize;express or state clearly;
#2 (v) - enounce; enunciate; pronounce; say; sound out;speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way;
#3 (v) - formulate; give voice; phrase; word;put into words or an expression;
#4 (v) - joint;provide with a joint;
#5 (v) - unite by forming a joint or joints;
#6 (adj) - expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language;
#7 (adj) - articulated;consisting of segments held together by joints;
artificial(adj sat) - contrived; hokey; stilted;artificially formal;
#2 (adj) - unreal;contrived by art rather than nature;
#3 (adj sat) - not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes;
ascribe(v) - assign; attribute; impute;attribute or credit to;
assent(n) - acquiescence;agreement with a statement or proposal to do something;
#2 (v) - accede; acquiesce;to agree or express agreement;
assiduous(adj sat) - sedulous;marked by care and persistent effort;
astonish(v) - amaze; astound;affect with wonder;
atone(v) - repent;turn away from sin or do penitence;
#2 (v) - aby; abye; expiate;make amends for;
attendant(n) - accompaniment; concomitant; co-occurrence;an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another;
#2 (n) - attendee; attender; meeter;a person who is present and participates in a meeting;
#3 (n) - attender; tender;someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another;
#4 (adj sat) - accompanying; concomitant; consequent; ensuant; incidental; resultant; sequent;following or accompanying as a consequence;
#5 (adj sat) - being present (at meeting or event etc.);
aught(n) - cipher; cypher; goose egg; nada; naught; nil; nix; nothing; null; zero; zilch; zip; zippo;a quantity of no importance;
avarice(n) - avaritia; covetousness; greed; rapacity;reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins);
#2 (n) - avariciousness; covetousness; cupidity;extreme greed for material wealth;
avenue(n) - a line of approach;
#2 (n) - boulevard;a wide street or thoroughfare;
averse(adj sat) - antipathetic; antipathetical; indisposed; loath; loth;strongly opposed;
bait(n) - decoy; lure;something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed;
#2 (n) - come-on; hook; lure; sweetener;anything that serves as an enticement;
#3 (v) - cod; rag; rally; razz; ride; tantalise; tantalize; taunt; tease; twit;harass with persistent criticism or carping;
#4 (v) - attack with dogs or set dogs upon;
#5 (v) - lure, entice, or entrap with bait;
baleful(adj sat) - forbidding; menacing; minacious; minatory; ominous; sinister; threatening;threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;
#2 (adj sat) - baneful;deadly or sinister;
bane(n) - curse; nemesis; scourge;something causing misery or death;
barbarism(n) - barbarity; brutality; savagery;a brutal barbarous savage act;
bastion(n) - projecting part of a rampart or other fortification;
#2 (n) - citadel;a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle;
#3 (n) - a group that defends a principle;
beast(n) - animal; animate being; brute; creature; fauna;a living organism characterized by voluntary movement;
#2 (n) - brute; savage; wildcat; wolf;a cruelly rapacious person;
belittle(v) - diminish;lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of;
#2 (v) - disparage; pick at;express a negative opinion of;
#3 (v) - denigrate; derogate; minimize;cause to seem less serious; play down;
berate(v) - bawl out; call down; call on the carpet; chew out; chew up; chide; dress down; have words; jaw; lambast; lambaste; lecture; rag; rebuke; remonstrate; reprimand; reproof; scold; take to task; trounce;censure severely or angrily;
beseech(v) - adjure; bid; conjure; entreat; press;ask for or request earnestly;
beverage(n) - drink; drinkable; potable;any liquid suitable for drinking;
bicycle(n) - bike; cycle; wheel;a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals;
#2 (v) - bike; cycle; pedal; wheel;ride a bicycle;
bite(n) - a portion removed from the whole;
#2 (n) - chomp;the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws;
#3 (n) - pungency; raciness; sharpness;a strong odor or taste property;
#4 (n) - pungency;wit having a sharp and caustic quality;
#5 (n) - an instance of a fish taking the bait;
#6 (n) - collation; snack;a light informal meal;
#7 (n) - bit; morsel;a small amount of solid food; a mouthful;
#8 (n) - a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person;
#9 (n) - insect bite; sting;a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin;
#10 (v) - penetrate or cut, as with a knife;
#11 (v) - prick; sting;deliver a sting to;
#12 (v) - seize with teeth;to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws;
#13 (v) - burn; sting;cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort;
bitter(n) - bitterness;the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste;
#2 (n) - bitterness;the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth;
#3 (n) - English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft);
#4 (v) - make bitter;
#5 (adj sat) - acrimonious;marked by strong resentment or cynicism;
#6 (adj sat) - proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity;
#7 (adj sat) - expressive of severe grief or regret;
#8 (adj sat) - biting;causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold;
#9 (adj sat) - acerb; acerbic; acid; acrid; blistering; caustic; sulfurous; sulphurous; virulent; vitriolic;harsh or corrosive in tone;
#10 (adj sat) - causing a sharp and acrid taste experience;
#11 (adj sat) - very difficult to accept or bear;
#12 (adv) - bitingly; bitterly; piercingly;extremely and sharply;
blade(n) - the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge;
#2 (n) - vane;flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water;
#3 (n) - the part of the skate that slides on the ice;
#4 (n) - brand; steel; sword;a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard;
#5 (n) - a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue);
#6 (n) - a cut of beef from the shoulder blade;
#7 (n) - something long and thin resembling a blade of grass;
#8 (n) - a dashing young man;
#9 (n) - leaf blade;especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole;
blemish(n) - defect; mar;a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body);
#2 (v) - flaw;add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective;
#3 (v) - spot;mar or impair with a flaw;
#4 (v) - deface; disfigure;mar or spoil the appearance of;
bless(v) - give a benediction to;
#2 (v) - consecrate; hallow; sanctify;render holy by means of religious rites;
#3 (v) - sign;make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate;
#4 (v) - confer prosperity or happiness on;
blessing(n) - benediction;the act of praying for divine protection;
#2 (n) - approval; approving;the formal act of approving;
#3 (n) - benediction;a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection;
#4 (n) - grace; thanksgiving;a short prayer of thanks before a meal;
#5 (n) - boon;a desirable state;
blind(n) - screen;a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight;
#2 (n) - a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters);
#3 (n) - subterfuge;something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity;
#4 (n) - people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group;
#5 (v) - dim;make dim by comparison or conceal;
#6 (v) - make blind by putting the eyes out;
#7 (v) - render unable to see;
#8 (adj sat) - unable or unwilling to perceive or understand;
#9 (adj sat) - unreasoning;not based on reason or evidence;
#10 (adj) - unsighted;unable to see;
blink(n) - blinking; eye blink; nictation; nictitation; wink; winking;a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly;
#2 (v) - nictate; nictitate; wink;briefly shut the eyes;
#3 (v) - blink away; wink;force to go away by blinking;
#4 (v) - flash; twinkle; wink; winkle;gleam or glow intermittently;
blow(n) - puff;forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth;
#2 (n) - a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon;
#3 (n) - c; coke; nose candy; snow;street names for cocaine;
#4 (n) - shock;an unpleasant or disappointing surprise;
#5 (n) - bump;an impact (as from a collision);
#6 (n) - black eye; reversal; reverse; setback;an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating;
#7 (n) - blast; gust;a strong current of air;
#8 (v) - exhale hard;
#9 (v) - free of obstruction by blowing air through;
#10 (v) - burst suddenly;
#11 (v) - blow out; burn out;melt, break, or become otherwise unusable;
#12 (v) - shape by blowing;
#13 (v) - allow to regain its breath;
#14 (v) - bluster; boast; brag; gas; gasconade; shoot a line; swash; tout; vaunt;show off;
#15 (v) - cause to be revealed and jeopardized;
#16 (v) - lay eggs;
#17 (v) - shove along; shove off;leave; informal or rude;
#18 (v) - be adrift; drift; float;be in motion due to some air or water current;
#19 (v) - spout moist air from the blowhole;
#20 (v) - cause to move by means of an air current;
#21 (v) - cause air to go in, on, or through;
#22 (v) - fellate; go down on; suck;provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation;
#23 (v) - play or sound a wind instrument;
#24 (v) - make a sound as if blown;
#25 (v) - sound by having air expelled through a tube;
#26 (v) - spend lavishly or wastefully on;
#27 (v) - squander; waste;spend thoughtlessly; throw away;
#28 (v) - ball up; bobble; bodge; bollix; bollix up; bollocks; bollocks up; botch; botch up; bumble; bungle; flub; fluff; foul up; fuck up; fumble; louse up; mess up; mishandle; muck up; muff; screw up; spoil;make a mess of, destroy or ruin;
#29 (v) - be blowing or storming;
bombast(n) - blah; claptrap; fustian; rant;pompous or pretentious talk or writing;
booklet(n) - brochure; folder; leaflet; pamphlet;a small book usually having a paper cover;
border(n) - a strip forming the outer edge of something;
#2 (n) - molding; moulding;a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge;
#3 (n) - borderline; boundary line; delimitation; mete;a line that indicates a boundary;
#4 (n) - edge;the boundary of a surface;
#5 (n) - margin; perimeter;the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary;
#6 (v) - abut; adjoin; butt; butt against; butt on; edge; march;lie adjacent to another or share a boundary;
#7 (v) - environ; ring; skirt; surround;extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle;
#8 (v) - frame; frame in;enclose in or as if in a frame;
#9 (v) - edge;provide with a border or edge;
#10 (v) - bound;form the boundary of; be contiguous to;
boredom(n) - ennui; tedium;the feeling of being bored by something tedious;
boundary(n) - bound; limit;the greatest possible degree of something;
#2 (n) - bound; bounds;the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something;
#3 (n) - bound; edge;a line determining the limits of an area;
bowl(n) - roll;the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling);
#2 (n) - a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods;
#3 (n) - a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids;
#4 (n) - pipe bowl;a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco;
#5 (n) - a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling;
#6 (n) - bowling ball;a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling;
#7 (n) - arena; sports stadium; stadium;a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments;
#8 (n) - bowlful;the quantity contained in a bowl;
#9 (n) - trough;a concave shape with an open top;
#10 (v) - engage in the sport of bowling;
#11 (v) - hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end;
#12 (v) - roll (a ball);
branch(n) - arm; limb;any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm;
#2 (n) - arm; subdivision;a division of some larger or more complex organization;
#3 (n) - a stream or river connected to a larger one;
#4 (n) - offset; offshoot; outgrowth;a natural consequence of development;
#5 (n) - a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant;
#6 (n) - leg; ramification;a part of a forked or branching shape;
#7 (v) - fork; furcate; ramify; separate;divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork;
#8 (v) - ramify;grow and send out branches or branch-like structures;
brave(n) - people who are brave;
#2 (n) - a North American Indian warrior;
#3 (v) - brave out; endure; weather;face and withstand with courage;
#4 (adj sat) - audacious; dauntless; fearless; hardy; intrepid; unfearing;invulnerable to fear or intimidation;
#5 (adj) - courageous;possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching;
#6 (adj sat) - braw; gay;brightly colored and showy;
bridegroom(n) - groom;a man who has recently been married;
#2 (n) - groom;a man participant in his own marriage ceremony;
broadcast(n) - message that is transmitted by radio or television;
#2 (n) - program; programme;a radio or television show;
#3 (v) - circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread;cause to become widely known;
#4 (v) - air; beam; send; transmit;broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television;
#5 (v) - sow over a wide area, especially by hand;
brutal(adj sat) - disagreeably direct and precise;
#2 (adj sat) - barbarous; cruel; fell; roughshod; savage; vicious;able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering;
#3 (adj sat) - beastly; bestial; brute; brutish;resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
#4 (adj sat) - unrelenting;harsh;
brute(n) - animal; animate being; beast; creature; fauna;a living organism characterized by voluntary movement;
#2 (n) - beast; savage; wildcat; wolf;a cruelly rapacious person;
#3 (adj sat) - beastly; bestial; brutal; brutish;resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
burden(n) - load; loading;weight to be borne or conveyed;
#2 (n) - encumbrance; incumbrance; load; onus;an onerous or difficult concern;
#3 (n) - the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse;
#4 (n) - core; effect; essence; gist;the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work;
#5 (v) - charge; saddle;impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to;
#6 (v) - burthen; weight; weight down;weight down with a load;
bush(n) - crotch hair; pubic hair;hair growing in the pubic area;
#2 (n) - chaparral; scrub;dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes;
#3 (n) - a large wilderness area;
#4 (n) - george bush; george h.w. bush; george herbert walker bush; president bush;vice president under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924);
#5 (n) - vannevar bush;United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974);
#6 (n) - dubya; dubyuh; george bush; george w. bush; george walker bush; president bush; president george w. bush;43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946);
#7 (n) - shrub;a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems;
#8 (v) - provide with a bushing;
#9 (adj sat) - bush-league;not of the highest quality or sophistication;
busy(v) - occupy;keep busy with;
#2 (adj sat) - crowded with or characterized by much activity;
#3 (adj) - actively or fully engaged or occupied;
#4 (adj sat) - busybodied; interfering; meddlesome; meddling; officious;intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner;
#5 (adj sat) - engaged; in use;unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line);
#6 (adj sat) - fussy;overcrowded or cluttered with detail;
butt(n) - butt end;thick end of the handle;
#2 (n) - stub;the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking);
#3 (n) - a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons);
#4 (n) - butt joint;a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping;
#5 (n) - cigaret; cigarette; coffin nail; fag;finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking;
#6 (n) - target;sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at;
#7 (n) - arse; ass; backside; behind; bottom; bum; buns; buttocks; can; derriere; fanny; fundament; hind end; hindquarters; keister; nates; posterior; prat; rear; rear end; rump; seat; stern; tail; tail end; tooshie; tush;the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on;
#8 (n) - goat; laughingstock; stooge;a victim of ridicule or pranks;
#9 (n) - the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots;
#10 (v) - bunt;to strike, thrust or shove against;
#11 (v) - abut; adjoin; border; butt against; butt on; edge; march;lie adjacent to another or share a boundary;
#12 (v) - place end to end without overlapping;
cajole(v) - blarney; coax; inveigle; palaver; sweet-talk; wheedle;influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering;
calamity(n) - cataclysm; catastrophe; disaster; tragedy;an event resulting in great loss and misfortune;
calm(n) - calmness; composure; equanimity;steadiness of mind under stress;
#2 (n) - calm air;wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale;
#3 (v) - sedate; tranquilize; tranquillise; tranquillize;cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to;
#4 (v) - becalm; steady;make steady;
#5 (v) - calm down; chill out; cool it; cool off; settle down; simmer down;become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation;
#6 (v) - calm down; lull; quiet; quieten; still; tranquilize; tranquillise; tranquillize;make calm or still;
#7 (adj) - free from storm or wind;
#8 (adj sat) - serene; tranquil; unagitated;not agitated; without losing self-possession;
cant(n) - bevel; chamfer;two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees;
#2 (n) - buzzword;stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition;
#3 (n) - pious platitude;insincere talk about religion or morals;
#4 (n) - argot; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular;a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves);
#5 (n) - bank; camber;a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force;
#6 (v) - cant over; pitch; slant; tilt;heel over;
capacitance(n) - capacitor; condenser; electrical condenser;an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge;
#2 (n) - capacity; electrical capacity;an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored;
capacitor(n) - capacitance; condenser; electrical condenser;an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge;
captivate(v) - becharm; beguile; bewitch; capture; catch; charm; enamor; enamour; enchant; entrance; fascinate; trance;attract; cause to be enamored;
castigate(v) - chasten; chastise; correct; objurgate;censure severely;
#2 (v) - inflict severe punishment on;
catastrophe(n) - calamity; cataclysm; disaster; tragedy;an event resulting in great loss and misfortune;
#2 (n) - cataclysm;a sudden violent change in the earth's surface;
#3 (n) - disaster;a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune;
caustic(n) - any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue;
#2 (adj sat) - corrosive; erosive; mordant; vitriolic;of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action;
#3 (adj sat) - acerb; acerbic; acid; acrid; bitter; blistering; sulfurous; sulphurous; virulent; vitriolic;harsh or corrosive in tone;
certification(n) - authentication;validating the authenticity of something or someone;
#2 (n) - enfranchisement;the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on;
#3 (n) - certificate; credential; credentials;a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts;
#4 (n) - corroboration; documentation;confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence;
chair(n) - professorship;the position of professor;
#2 (n) - a seat for one person, with a support for the back;
#3 (n) - a particular seat in an orchestra;
#4 (n) - death chair; electric chair; hot seat;an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person;
#5 (n) - chairman; chairperson; chairwoman; president;the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization;
#6 (v) - lead; moderate;preside over;
#7 (v) - chairman;act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university;
charm(n) - good luck charm;something believed to bring good luck;
#2 (n) - appeal; appealingness;attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates;
#3 (n) - one of the six flavors of quark;
#4 (n) - magic spell; magical spell; spell;a verbal formula believed to have magical force;
#5 (v) - influence; tempt;induce into action by using one's charm;
#6 (v) - protect through supernatural powers or charms;
#7 (v) - becharm; beguile; bewitch; captivate; capture; catch; enamor; enamour; enchant; entrance; fascinate; trance;attract; cause to be enamored;
#8 (v) - becharm;control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft;
cheap(adj) - inexpensive;relatively low in price or charging low prices;
#2 (adj sat) - chinchy; chintzy;embarrassingly stingy;
#3 (adj sat) - bum; cheesy; chintzy; crummy; punk; sleazy; tinny;of very poor quality; flimsy;
#4 (adj sat) - brassy; flash; flashy; garish; gaudy; gimcrack; loud; meretricious; tacky; tatty; tawdry; trashy;tastelessly showy;
chicanery(n) - chicane; guile; shenanigan; trickery; wile;the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them);
child(n) - fry; kid; minor; nestling; nipper; shaver; small fry; tiddler; tike; tyke; youngster;a young person of either sex;
#2 (n) - kid;a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age;
#3 (n) - baby;an immature childish person;
#4 (n) - a member of a clan or tribe;
chimp(n) - chimpanzee; pan troglodytes;intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests;
christ(n) - messiah;any expected deliverer;
#2 (n) - deliverer; good shepherd; jesus; jesus christ; jesus of nazareth; redeemer; savior; saviour; the nazarene;a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29);
circumspect(adj sat) - discreet;heedful of potential consequences;
clamour(n) - clamor; clamoring; clamouring; hue and cry;loud and persistent outcry from many people;
#2 (v) - clamor;make loud demands;
#3 (v) - clamor;utter or proclaim insistently and noisily;
clay(n) - cadaver; corpse; remains; stiff;the dead body of a human being;
#2 (n) - henry clay; the great compromiser;United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852);
#3 (n) - lucius clay; lucius dubignon clay;United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978);
#4 (n) - a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired;
#5 (n) - mud;water soaked soil; soft wet earth;
clergyman(n) - man of the cloth; reverend;a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church;
clever(adj sat) - cunning; ingenious;showing inventiveness and skill;
#2 (adj sat) - cagey; cagy; canny;showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others;
#3 (adj sat) - apt;mentally quick and resourceful;
clown(n) - buffoon; goof; goofball; merry andrew;a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior;
#2 (n) - buffoon;a rude or vulgar fool;
#3 (v) - antic; clown around;act as or like a clown;
coarse(adj sat) - common; rough-cut; uncouth; vulgar;lacking refinement or cultivation or taste;
#2 (adj) - harsh;of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles;
#3 (adj sat) - common;of low or inferior quality or value;
coinage(n) - neologism; neology;the act of inventing a word or phrase;
#2 (n) - neologism; neology;a newly invented word or phrase;
#3 (n) - metal money; mintage; specie;coins collectively;
colossal(adj sat) - prodigious; stupendous;so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe;
commit(v) - consecrate; dedicate; devote; give;give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause;
#2 (v) - invest; place; put;make an investment;
#3 (v) - charge; institutionalise; institutionalize; send;cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution;
#4 (v) - confide; entrust; intrust; trust;confer a trust upon;
#5 (v) - practice;engage in or perform;
#6 (v) - perpetrate; pull;perform an act, usually with a negative connotation;
commonplace(n) - banality; bromide; cliche; platitude;a trite or obvious remark;
#2 (adj sat) - humdrum; prosaic; unglamorous; unglamourous;not challenging; dull and lacking excitement;
#3 (adj sat) - completely ordinary and unremarkable;
#4 (adj sat) - banal; hackneyed; old-hat; shopworn; stock; threadbare; timeworn; tired; trite; well-worn;repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
compact(n) - powder compact;a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse;
#2 (n) - compact car;a small and economical car;
#3 (n) - concordat; covenant;a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action;
#4 (v) - compress; constrict; contract; press; squeeze;squeeze or press together;
#5 (v) - compress; pack together;make more compact by or as if by pressing;
#6 (v) - bundle; pack; wad;compress into a wad;
#7 (v) - pack;have the property of being packable or of compacting easily;
#8 (adj) - closely and firmly united or packed together;
#9 (adj sat) - compendious; succinct; summary;briefly giving the gist of something;
#10 (adj sat) - heavyset; stocky; thick; thickset;having a short and solid form or stature;
company(n) - an institution created to conduct business;
#2 (n) - a unit of firefighters including their equipment;
#3 (n) - a social gathering of guests or companions;
#4 (n) - troupe;organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical);
#5 (n) - small military unit; usually two or three platoons;
#6 (n) - ship's company;crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship;
#7 (n) - party;a band of people associated temporarily in some activity;
#8 (n) - caller;a social or business visitor;
#9 (n) - companionship; fellowship; society;the state of being with someone;
#10 (v) - accompany; companion; keep company;be a companion to somebody;
compete(v) - contend; vie;compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others;
competitor(n) - challenger; competition; contender; rival;the contestant you hope to defeat;
comprehend(v) - apprehend; compass; dig; get the picture; grasp; grok; savvy;get the meaning of something;
#2 (v) - perceive;to become aware of through the senses;
#3 (v) - cover; embrace; encompass;include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory;
compulsory(adj sat) - mandatory; required;required by rule;
concurrent(adj sat) - coincident; coincidental; coinciding; co-occurrent; cooccurring; simultaneous;occurring or operating at the same time;
condescend(v) - patronise; patronize;treat condescendingly;
#2 (v) - lower oneself; stoop;debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way;
#3 (v) - deign; descend;do something that one considers to be below one's dignity;
#4 (v) - behave in a patronizing and condescending manner;
confederate(n) - accomplice;a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan);
#2 (n) - collaborator; henchman; partner in crime;someone who assists in a plot;
#3 (n) - a supporter of the Confederate States of America;
#4 (v) - form a confederation with; of nations;
#5 (v) - band together;form a group or unite;
#6 (adj sat) - of or having to do with the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War;
#7 (adj sat) - allied; confederative;united in a confederacy or league;
confuse(v) - confound;mistake one thing for another;
#2 (v) - blur; obnubilate; obscure;make unclear, indistinct, or blurred;
#3 (v) - bedevil; befuddle; confound; discombobulate; fox; fuddle; throw;be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly;
#4 (v) - jumble; mix up;assemble without order or sense;
#5 (v) - disconcert; flurry; put off;cause to feel embarrassment;
congest(v) - back up; choke; choke off; clog; clog up; foul;become or cause to become obstructed;
conscientious(adj sat) - painstaking; scrupulous;characterized by extreme care and great effort;
#2 (adj) - guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong;
consecrate(v) - bless; hallow; sanctify;render holy by means of religious rites;
#2 (v) - vow;dedicate to a deity by a vow;
#3 (v) - commit; dedicate; devote; give;give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause;
#4 (v) - ordain; order; ordinate;appoint to a clerical posts;
#5 (adj) - consecrated; dedicated;solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high purpose;
consequent(adj sat) - accompanying; attendant; concomitant; ensuant; incidental; resultant; sequent;following or accompanying as a consequence;
constrain(v) - stiffen; tighten; tighten up;restrict;
#2 (v) - cumber; encumber; restrain;hold back;
consummate(v) - make perfect; bring to perfection;
#2 (v) - fulfill sexually;
#3 (adj sat) - arrant; complete; double-dyed; everlasting; gross; perfect; pure; sodding; staring; stark; thoroughgoing; unadulterated; utter;without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;
#4 (adj sat) - complete;perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities;
#5 (adj sat) - masterful; masterly; virtuoso;having or revealing supreme mastery or skill;
contemplate(v) - chew over; excogitate; meditate; mull; mull over; muse; ponder; reflect; ruminate; speculate; think over;reflect deeply on a subject;
#2 (v) - consider as a possibility;
#3 (v) - meditate; study;think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes;
#4 (v) - look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought;
controversy(n) - arguing; argument; contention; contestation; disceptation; disputation; tilt;a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement;
convene(v) - convoke;call together;
#2 (v) - meet formally;
convenient(adj) - commodious;large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense);
#2 (adj) - suited to your comfort or purpose or needs;
cordial(n) - liqueur;strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal;
#2 (adj sat) - affable; amiable; genial;diffusing warmth and friendliness;
#3 (adj sat) - sincerely or intensely felt;
#4 (adj sat) - politely warm and friendly;
correct(v) - treat a defect;
#2 (v) - rectify; right;make right or correct;
#3 (v) - adjust; set;alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard;
#4 (v) - castigate; chasten; chastise; objurgate;censure severely;
#5 (v) - decline; slump;go down in value;
#6 (v) - compensate; redress; right;make reparations or amends for;
#7 (v) - discipline; sort out;punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;
#8 (v) - compensate; counterbalance; even off; even out; even up; make up;adjust for;
#9 (adj) - right;free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth;
#10 (adj) - right;correct in opinion or judgment;
#11 (adj sat) - right;socially right or correct;
#12 (adj sat) - right;in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure;
corrupt(v) - spoil;alter from the original;
#2 (v) - cloud; defile; sully; taint;place under suspicion or cast doubt upon;
#3 (v) - bribe; buy; grease one's palms;make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence;
#4 (v) - debase; debauch; demoralise; demoralize; deprave; misdirect; pervert; profane; subvert; vitiate;corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality;
#5 (adj) - lacking in integrity;
#6 (adj sat) - tainted;touched by rot or decay;
#7 (adj sat) - corrupted;containing errors or alterations;
#8 (adj) - crooked;not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive;
cosmetic(n) - a toiletry designed to beautify the body;
#2 (adj sat) - enhancive;serving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the body;
#3 (adj sat) - decorative; ornamental;serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose;
couch(n) - a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment;
#2 (n) - a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer;
#3 (n) - lounge; sofa;an upholstered seat for more than one person;
#4 (v) - cast; frame; put; redact;formulate in a particular style or language;
countenance(n) - visage;the appearance conveyed by a person's face;
#2 (n) - kisser; mug; phiz; physiognomy; smiler; visage;the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British);
#3 (n) - endorsement; imprimatur; indorsement; sanction; warrant;formal and explicit approval;
#4 (v) - allow; let; permit;consent to, give permission;
countless(adj sat) - infinite; innumerable; innumerous; multitudinous; myriad; numberless; uncounted; unnumberable; unnumbered; unnumerable;too numerous to be counted;
courage(n) - braveness; bravery; courageousness;a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear;
cower(v) - crawl; creep; cringe; fawn; grovel;show submission or fear;
#2 (v) - huddle;crouch or curl up;
crack(n) - cracking; fracture;the act of cracking something;
#2 (n) - fling; go; offer; pass; whirl;a usually brief attempt;
#3 (n) - crack cocaine; tornado;a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive;
#4 (n) - gap;a narrow opening;
#5 (n) - a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts;
#6 (n) - quip; sally; wisecrack;witty remark;
#7 (n) - cracking; snap;a sudden sharp noise;
#8 (n) - cleft; crevice; fissure; scissure;a long narrow opening;
#9 (n) - chap; cranny; crevice; fissure;a long narrow depression in a surface;
#10 (n) - shot;a chance to do something;
#11 (v) - break into simpler molecules by means of heat;
#12 (v) - reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking;
#13 (v) - break; check;become fractured; break or crack on the surface only;
#14 (v) - cause to become cracked;
#15 (v) - snap;break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension;
#16 (v) - break partially but keep its integrity;
#17 (v) - break through;pass through (a barrier);
#18 (v) - tell spontaneously;
#19 (v) - hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise;
#20 (v) - break up; collapse; crack up; crock up;suffer a nervous breakdown;
#21 (v) - snap;make a sharp sound;
#22 (v) - make a very sharp explosive sound;
#23 (v) - gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions;
#24 (adj sat) - ace; a-one; first-rate; super; tiptop; topnotch; top-notch; tops;of the highest quality;
creep(n) - crawl; crawling; creeping;a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body;
#2 (n) - a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot;
#3 (n) - a slow longitudinal movement or deformation;
#4 (n) - spook; weirdie; weirdo; weirdy;someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric;
#5 (v) - crawl;move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground;
#6 (v) - mouse; pussyfoot; sneak;to go stealthily or furtively;
#7 (v) - grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface);
#8 (v) - cower; crawl; cringe; fawn; grovel;show submission or fear;
criminal(n) - crook; felon; malefactor; outlaw;someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime;
#2 (adj sat) - guilty of crime or serious offense;
#3 (adj sat) - felonious;involving or being or having the nature of a crime;
#4 (adj sat) - condemnable; deplorable; reprehensible; vicious;bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure;
crisp(n) - chip; potato chip; saratoga chip;a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat;
#2 (v) - crispen; toast;make brown and crisp by heating;
#3 (v) - crease; crinkle; ruckle; scrunch; scrunch up; wrinkle;make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in;
#4 (adj sat) - curt; laconic; terse;brief and to the point; effectively cut short;
#5 (adj sat) - sharp;clearly defined;
#6 (adj sat) - frizzly; frizzy; kinky; nappy;in small tight curls;
#7 (adj sat) - pleasingly firm and fresh;
#8 (adj sat) - frosty; nipping; nippy; snappy;pleasantly cold and invigorating;
#9 (adj sat) - crispy;tender and brittle;
crook(n) - shepherd's crook;a long staff with one end being hook shaped;
#2 (n) - criminal; felon; malefactor; outlaw;someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime;
#3 (n) - bend; turn; twist;a circular segment of a curve;
#4 (v) - curve;bend or cause to bend;
cruel(adj sat) - barbarous; brutal; fell; roughshod; savage; vicious;able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering;
crush(n) - compaction; crunch;the act of crushing;
#2 (n) - calf love; infatuation; puppy love;temporary love of an adolescent;
#3 (n) - jam; press;a dense crowd of people;
#4 (n) - crushed leather;leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated;
#5 (v) - break into small pieces;
#6 (v) - become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure;
#7 (v) - beat; beat out; shell; trounce; vanquish;come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;
#8 (v) - break down;make ineffective;
#9 (v) - jam;crush or bruise;
#10 (v) - mash; squash; squeeze; squelch;to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition;
#11 (v) - demolish; smash;humiliate or depress completely;
#12 (v) - oppress; suppress;come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority;
cunning(n) - crafty artfulness (especially in deception);
#2 (n) - craft; craftiness; foxiness; guile; slyness; wiliness;shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception;
#3 (adj sat) - clever; ingenious;showing inventiveness and skill;
#4 (adj sat) - crafty; dodgy; foxy; guileful; knavish; slick; sly; tricksy; tricky; wily;marked by skill in deception;
#5 (adj sat) - cute;attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness;
cupboard(n) - closet;a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space;
curriculum(n) - course of study; program; programme; syllabus;an integrated course of academic studies;
curse(n) - curse word; cuss; expletive; oath; swearing; swearword;profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger;
#2 (n) - hex; jinx; whammy;an evil spell;
#3 (n) - condemnation; execration;an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group;
#4 (n) - torment;a severe affliction;
#5 (n) - bane; nemesis; scourge;something causing misery or death;
#6 (v) - blaspheme; cuss; imprecate; swear;utter obscenities or profanities;
#7 (v) - anathemise; anathemize; bedamn; beshrew; damn; imprecate; maledict;wish harm upon; invoke evil upon;
#8 (v) - heap obscenities upon;
#9 (v) - excommunicate; unchurch;exclude from a church or a religious community;
cursory(adj sat) - casual; passing; perfunctory;hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough;
customer(n) - client;someone who pays for goods or services;
daunt(v) - dash; frighten away; frighten off; pall; scare; scare away; scare off;cause to lose courage;
dead(n) - people who are no longer living;
#2 (n) - a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense;
#3 (adj sat) - devoid of activity;
#4 (adj sat) - physically inactive;
#5 (adj) - no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life;
#6 (adj) - not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat;
#7 (adj sat) - drained;drained of electric charge; discharged;
#8 (adj sat) - utter;complete;
#9 (adj sat) - no longer having force or relevance;
#10 (adj sat) - out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown;
#11 (adj sat) - lacking resilience or bounce;
#12 (adj sat) - not surviving in active use;
#13 (adj sat) - stagnant;not circulating or flowing;
#14 (adj sat) - unerringly accurate;
#15 (adj sat) - idle;not yielding a return;
#16 (adj sat) - lacking acoustic resonance;
#17 (adj sat) - deadened;devoid of physical sensation; numb;
#18 (adj sat) - numb;not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive;
#19 (adj sat) - all in; beat; bushed;very tired;
#20 (adv) - absolutely; perfectly; utterly;completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers;
#21 (adv) - abruptly; short; suddenly;quickly and without warning;
dear(n) - beloved; dearest; honey; love;a beloved person; used as terms of endearment;
#2 (n) - lamb;a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child);
#3 (adj sat) - good; near;with or in a close or intimate relationship;
#4 (adj sat) - costly; high-priced; pricey; pricy;having a high price;
#5 (adj sat) - beloved; darling;dearly loved;
#6 (adj sat) - devout; earnest; heartfelt;earnest;
#7 (adv) - dearly;at a great cost;
#8 (adv) - affectionately; dearly;with affection;
dearth(n) - paucity;an insufficient quantity or number;
#2 (n) - famine; shortage;an acute insufficiency;
debris(n) - detritus; dust; junk; rubble;the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up;
decease(n) - death; expiry;the event of dying or departure from life;
#2 (v) - buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it;pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life;
deceive(v) - betray; lead astray;cause someone to believe an untruth;
#2 (v) - cozen; delude; lead on;be false to; be dishonest with;
decimate(v) - annihilate; carry off; eliminate; eradicate; extinguish; wipe out;kill in large numbers;
#2 (v) - kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies;
decorative(adj sat) - cosmetic; ornamental;serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose;
deep(n) - literary term for an ocean;
#2 (n) - oceanic abyss; trench;a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor;
#3 (n) - the central and most intense or profound part;
#4 (adj sat) - exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy;
#5 (adj sat) - rich;strong; intense;
#6 (adj sat) - very distant in time or space;
#7 (adj) - having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination;
#8 (adj) - relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply;
#9 (adj sat) - abstruse; recondite;difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge;
#10 (adj sat) - cryptic; cryptical; inscrutable; mysterious; mystifying;of an obscure nature;
#11 (adj sat) - with head or back bent low;
#12 (adj sat) - bass;having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range;
#13 (adj sat) - large in quantity or size;
#14 (adj sat) - extreme;
#15 (adj sat) - thick;very intense;
#16 (adj sat) - marked by depth of thinking;
#17 (adj sat) - relatively thick from top to bottom;
#18 (adj sat) - extending relatively far inward;
#19 (adv) - deeply;to a great depth;far down;
#20 (adv) - to a great distance;
#21 (adv) - late;to an advanced time;
defendant(n) - suspect;a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused;
deference(n) - respect;a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard;
#2 (n) - complaisance; compliance; compliancy; obligingness;a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others;
#3 (n) - respect; respectfulness;courteous regard for people's feelings;
degrade(v) - cheapen;lower the grade of something; reduce its worth;
#2 (v) - reduce the level of land, as by erosion;
#3 (v) - demean; disgrace; put down; take down;reduce in worth or character, usually verbally;
deity(n) - divinity; god; immortal;any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force;
delight(n) - joy; pleasure;something or someone that provides a source of happiness;
#2 (n) - delectation;a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction;
#3 (v) - enjoy; revel;take delight in;
#4 (v) - please;give pleasure to or be pleasing to;
#5 (v) - enchant; enrapture; enthral; enthrall; ravish; transport;hold spellbound;
deliver(v) - bear; birth; give birth; have;cause to be born;
#2 (v) - present;deliver (a speech, oration, or idea);
#3 (v) - utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.);
#4 (v) - render; return;pass down;
#5 (v) - bring to a destination, make a delivery;
#6 (v) - pitch;throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball;
#7 (v) - cede; give up; surrender;relinquish possession or control over;
#8 (v) - fork out; fork over; fork up; hand over; render; turn in;to surrender someone or something to another;
#9 (v) - drive home;carry out or perform;
#10 (v) - deport; extradite;hand over to the authorities of another country;
#11 (v) - rescue;free from harm or evil;
#12 (v) - redeem; save;save from sins;
deluxe(adj sat) - de luxe; luxe;elegant and sumptuous;
#2 (adj sat) - gilded; grand; luxurious; opulent; princely; sumptuous;rich and superior in quality;
denigrate(v) - asperse; besmirch; calumniate; defame; slander; smear; smirch; sully;charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone;
#2 (v) - belittle; derogate; minimize;cause to seem less serious; play down;
denominate(v) - designate;assign a name or title to;
deplore(v) - express strong disapproval of;
#2 (v) - bemoan; bewail; lament;regret strongly;
deprave(v) - corrupt; debase; debauch; demoralise; demoralize; misdirect; pervert; profane; subvert; vitiate;corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality;
derelict(n) - abandoned ship;a ship abandoned on the high seas;
#2 (n) - a person without a home, job, or property;
#3 (adj sat) - bedraggled; broken-down; dilapidated; ramshackle; tatterdemalion; tumble-down;in deplorable condition;
#4 (adj sat) - delinquent; neglectful; remiss;failing in what duty requires;
#5 (adj sat) - abandoned; deserted;forsaken by owner or inhabitants;
#6 (adj sat) - creaky; decrepit; flea-bitten; run-down; woebegone;worn and broken down by hard use;
descend(v) - fall; settle;come as if by falling;
#2 (v) - come down; fall; go down;move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way;
#3 (v) - condescend; deign;do something that one considers to be below one's dignity;
#4 (v) - come; derive;come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example;
desert(n) - arid land with little or no vegetation;
#2 (v) - abandon; desolate; forsake;leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch;
#3 (v) - leave behind;
#4 (v) - defect;desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army;
designate(v) - destine; intend; specify;design or destine;
#2 (v) - destine; doom; fate;decree or designate beforehand;
#3 (v) - indicate; point; show;indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively;
#4 (v) - denominate;assign a name or title to;
#5 (v) - assign; delegate; depute;give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person);
#6 (adj sat) - appointed but not yet installed in office;
desolate(v) - devastate; lay waste to; ravage; scourge; waste;cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly;
#2 (v) - depopulate;reduce in population;
#3 (v) - abandon; desert; forsake;leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch;
#4 (adj sat) - crushed by grief;
#5 (adj sat) - bare; barren; bleak; stark;providing no shelter or sustenance;
despatch(n) - dispatch; shipment;the act of sending off something;
#2 (n) - dispatch;killing a person or animal;
#3 (n) - dispatch; expedition; expeditiousness;the property of being prompt and efficient;
#4 (n) - communique; dispatch;an official report (usually sent in haste);
#5 (v) - dispatch; send off;send away towards a designated goal;
despicable(adj sat) - slimy; ugly; unworthy; vile; worthless; wretched;morally reprehensible;
destitute(adj sat) - barren; devoid; free; innocent;completely wanting or lacking;
#2 (adj sat) - impoverished; indigent; necessitous; needy; poverty-stricken;poor enough to need help from others;
detector(n) - sensing element; sensor;any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner;
#2 (n) - electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity;
#3 (n) - demodulator;rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave;
devil(n) - deuce; dickens;a word used in exclamations of confusion;
#2 (n) - daemon; daimon; demon; fiend;an evil supernatural being;
#3 (n) - beelzebub; lucifer; old nick; prince of darkness; satan; the tempter;chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell;
#4 (n) - heller; hellion;a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man);
#5 (n) - demon; fiend; monster; ogre;a cruel wicked and inhuman person;
#6 (v) - coat or stuff with a spicy paste;
#7 (v) - annoy; bother; chafe; get at; get to; gravel; irritate; nark; nettle; rag; rile; vex;cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations;
devoid(adj sat) - barren; destitute; free; innocent;completely wanting or lacking;
diaphanous(adj sat) - cobwebby; filmy; gauze-like; gauzy; gossamer; see-through; sheer; transparent; vaporous; vapourous;so thin as to transmit light;
diatribe(n) - fulmination;thunderous verbal attack;
dictator(n) - authoritarian;a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner;
#2 (n) - potentate;a ruler who is unconstrained by law;
#3 (n) - a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine;
dictatorship(n) - absolutism; authoritarianism; caesarism; despotism; monocracy; one-man rule; shogunate; stalinism; totalitarianism; tyranny;a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.);
dictionary(n) - lexicon;a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them;
diffuse(v) - broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread;cause to become widely known;
#2 (v) - imbue; interpenetrate; penetrate; permeate; pervade; riddle;spread or diffuse through;
#3 (v) - fan out; spread; spread out;move outward;
#4 (adj sat) - spread out; not concentrated in one place;
#5 (adj sat) - lacking conciseness;
#6 (adj) - diffused; soft;transmitted from a broad light source or reflected;
dilate(v) - distend;become wider;
#2 (v) - elaborate; enlarge; expand; expatiate; exposit; expound; flesh out; lucubrate;add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing;
dilatory(adj sat) - laggard; pokey; poky;wasting time;
diplomacy(n) - delicacy; discreetness; finesse;subtly skillful handling of a situation;
#2 (n) - statecraft; statesmanship;wisdom in the management of public affairs;
#3 (n) - diplomatic negotiations;negotiation between nations;
disciple(n) - adherent;someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another;
discompose(v) - discomfit; disconcert; untune; upset;cause to lose one's composure;
disconcert(v) - discomfit; discompose; untune; upset;cause to lose one's composure;
#2 (v) - confuse; flurry; put off;cause to feel embarrassment;
discover(v) - find out; get a line; get wind; get word; hear; learn; pick up; see;get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally;
#2 (v) - describe; distinguish; identify; key; key out; name;identify as in botany or biology, for example;
#3 (v) - find;make a discovery;
#4 (v) - break; bring out; disclose; divulge; expose; give away; let on; let out; reveal; unwrap;make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret;
#5 (v) - find;make a discovery, make a new finding;
#6 (v) - see for the first time; make a discovery;
#7 (v) - detect; find; notice; observe;discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of;
#8 (v) - attain; chance on; chance upon; come across; come upon; fall upon; happen upon; light upon; strike;find unexpectedly;
disdain(n) - condescension; patronage;a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient;
#2 (n) - contempt; despite; scorn;lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike;
#3 (v) - freeze off; pooh-pooh; reject; scorn; spurn; turn down;reject with contempt;
#4 (v) - contemn; despise; scorn;look down on with disdain;
disgrace(n) - ignominy; shame;a state of dishonor;
#2 (v) - discredit;damage the reputation of;
#3 (v) - degrade; demean; put down; take down;reduce in worth or character, usually verbally;
#4 (v) - attaint; dishonor; dishonour; shame;bring shame or dishonor upon;
dishonest(adj sat) - bribable; corruptible; purchasable; venal;capable of being corrupted;
#2 (adj) - dishonorable;deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive;
disinter(v) - exhume;dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies;
dismantle(v) - strip;take off or remove;
#2 (v) - break apart; break up; disassemble; take apart;take apart into its constituent pieces;
#3 (v) - level; pull down; rase; raze; take down; tear down;tear down so as to make flat with the ground;
dismay(n) - alarm; consternation;fear resulting from the awareness of danger;
#2 (n) - discouragement; disheartenment;the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles;
#3 (v) - alarm; appal; appall; horrify;fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised;
#4 (v) - cast down; deject; demoralise; demoralize; depress; dispirit; get down;lower someone's spirits; make downhearted;
disperse(v) - break up; scatter;cause to separate;
#2 (v) - broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread;cause to become widely known;
#3 (v) - dot; dust; scatter; sprinkle;distribute loosely;
#4 (v) - separate (light) into spectral rays;
#5 (v) - dissipate; scatter; spread out;move away from each other;
#6 (v) - break up; dispel; dissipate; scatter;to cause to separate and go in different directions;
dispute(n) - contravention;coming into conflict with;
#2 (n) - conflict; difference; difference of opinion;a disagreement or argument about something important;
#3 (v) - altercate; argufy; quarrel; scrap;have a disagreement over something;
#4 (v) - challenge; gainsay;take exception to;
dissertation(n) - thesis;a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree;
dissuade(v) - deter;turn away from by persuasion;
distinguish(v) - differentiate; secern; secernate; separate; severalise; severalize; tell; tell apart;mark as different;
#2 (v) - differentiate; mark;be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense;
#3 (v) - describe; discover; identify; key; key out; name;identify as in botany or biology, for example;
#4 (v) - signalise; signalize;make conspicuous or noteworthy;
#5 (v) - discern; make out; pick out; recognise; recognize; spot; tell apart;detect with the senses;
distort(v) - deform; strain;alter the shape of (something) by stress;
#2 (v) - falsify; garble; warp;make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story;
#3 (v) - color; colour; tinge;affect as in thought or feeling;
#4 (v) - twine; twist;form into a spiral shape;
#5 (v) - contort; deform; wring;twist and press out of shape;
divisive(adj sat) - dissentious; factious;dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion);
divulge(v) - break; bring out; disclose; discover; expose; give away; let on; let out; reveal; unwrap;make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret;
dizzy(v) - make dizzy or giddy;
#2 (adj sat) - airheaded; empty-headed; featherbrained; giddy; lightheaded; light-headed; silly;lacking seriousness; given to frivolity;
#3 (adj sat) - giddy; vertiginous; woozy;having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling;
dogma(n) - a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative;
#2 (n) - tenet;a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof;
dogmatism(n) - bigotry;the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot;
doleful(adj sat) - mournful;filled with or evoking sadness;
dominant(n) - dominant allele;an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different;
#2 (n) - the fifth note of the diatonic scale;
#3 (adj) - exercising influence or control;
#4 (adj) - producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar;
#5 (adj sat) - predominant; prevailing; prevalent; rife;most frequent or common;
drag(n) - the act of dragging (pulling with force);
#2 (n) - puff; pull;a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke);
#3 (n) - clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man);
#4 (n) - something tedious and boring;
#5 (n) - something that slows or delays progress;
#6 (n) - retarding force;the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid;
#7 (v) - drag on; drag out;proceed for an extended period of time;
#8 (v) - persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting;
#9 (v) - draw; puff;suck in or take (air);
#10 (v) - dredge;search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost;
#11 (v) - pull, as against a resistance;
#12 (v) - cart; hale; haul;draw slowly or heavily;
#13 (v) - scuff;walk without lifting the feet;
#14 (v) - drop back; drop behind; get behind; hang back; trail;to lag or linger behind;
#15 (v) - move slowly and as if with great effort;
#16 (v) - use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu;
#17 (v) - drag in; embroil; sweep; sweep up; tangle;force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action;
drone(n) - stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen;
#2 (n) - bourdon; drone pipe;a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone;
#3 (n) - pilotless aircraft; radio-controlled aircraft;an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control;
#4 (n) - droning; monotone;an unchanging intonation;
#5 (n) - dawdler; laggard; lagger; poke; trailer;someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind;
#6 (v) - drone on;talk in a monotonous voice;
#7 (v) - make a monotonous low dull sound;
ductile(adj sat) - malleable; pliable; pliant; tensile; tractile;capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out;
#2 (adj sat) - malleable;easily influenced;
dull(v) - make less lively or vigorous;
#2 (v) - become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness;
#3 (v) - pall;become less interesting or attractive;
#4 (v) - make dull in appearance;
#5 (v) - blunt;make dull or blunt;
#6 (v) - benumb; blunt; numb;make numb or insensitive;
#7 (v) - damp; dampen; muffle; mute; tone down;deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping;
#8 (adj sat) - slow; sluggish;not active or brisk;
#9 (adj) - emitting or reflecting very little light;
#10 (adj sat) - very low in saturation; highly diluted;
#11 (adj sat) - dense; dim; dumb; obtuse; slow;slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity;
#12 (adj sat) - leaden;darkened with overcast;
#13 (adj) - not having a sharp edge or point;
#14 (adj) - not keenly felt;
#15 (adj) - lacking in liveliness or animation;
#16 (adj sat) - boring; deadening; ho-hum; irksome; slow; tedious; tiresome; wearisome;so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness;
#17 (adj sat) - muffled; muted; softened;being or made softer or less loud or clear;
#18 (adj sat) - thudding;not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft;
#19 (adj sat) - blunted in responsiveness or sensibility;
dweller(n) - denizen; habitant; indweller; inhabitant;a person who inhabits a particular place;
dwelling(n) - abode; domicile; dwelling house; habitation; home;housing that someone is living in;
dynamics(n) - kinetics;the branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies;
eastward(n) - due east; e; east;the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees;
#2 (adj sat) - eastbound;moving toward the east;
#3 (adv) - eastwards;toward the east;
eccentric(n) - case; character; type;a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities);
#2 (n) - eccentric person; flake; geek; oddball;a person with an unusual or odd personality;
#3 (adj) - nonconcentric;not having a common center; not concentric;
#4 (adj sat) - bizarre; flakey; flaky; freakish; freaky; gonzo; off-the-wall; outlandish; outre;conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual;
educator(n) - pedagog; pedagogue;someone who educates young people;
egregious(adj sat) - crying; flagrant; glaring; gross; rank;conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible;
elaborate(v) - work out;work out in detail;
#2 (v) - complicate; rarify; refine;make more complex, intricate, or richer;
#3 (v) - dilate; enlarge; expand; expatiate; exposit; expound; flesh out; lucubrate;add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing;
#4 (v) - produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product;
#5 (adj sat) - detailed; elaborated;developed or executed with care and in minute detail;
#6 (adj sat) - luxuriant;marked by complexity and richness of detail;
elapse(v) - glide by; go along; go by; lapse; pass; slide by; slip away; slip by;pass by;
elliptic(adj sat) - elliptical;characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements;
#2 (adj sat) - egg-shaped; elliptical; oval; oval-shaped; ovate; oviform; ovoid; prolate;rounded like an egg;
#3 (adj sat) - in the form of an ellipse;
eloquent(adj sat) - facile; fluent; silver; silver-tongued; smooth-spoken;expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively;
emancipate(v) - manumit;free from slavery or servitude;
#2 (v) - liberate;give equal rights to; of women and minorities;
embellish(v) - beautify; fancify; prettify;make more beautiful;
#2 (v) - aggrandise; aggrandize; blow up; dramatise; dramatize; embroider; lard; pad;add details to;
#3 (v) - adorn; beautify; decorate; grace; ornament;make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.;
#4 (v) - adorn; beautify; deck; decorate; grace;be beautiful to look at;
embroider(v) - aggrandise; aggrandize; blow up; dramatise; dramatize; embellish; lard; pad;add details to;
#2 (v) - broider;decorate with needlework;
enamor(v) - becharm; beguile; bewitch; captivate; capture; catch; charm; enamour; enchant; entrance; fascinate; trance;attract; cause to be enamored;
enchant(v) - bewitch; glamour; hex; jinx; witch;cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something;
#2 (v) - becharm; beguile; bewitch; captivate; capture; catch; charm; enamor; enamour; entrance; fascinate; trance;attract; cause to be enamored;
#3 (v) - delight; enrapture; enthral; enthrall; ravish; transport;hold spellbound;
enclose(v) - inclose; insert; introduce; put in; stick in;introduce;
#2 (v) - enfold; envelop; enwrap; wrap;enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering;
#3 (v) - close in; inclose; shut in;surround completely;
#4 (v) - confine; hold in;close in; darkness enclosed him;
encomium(n) - eulogy; paean; panegyric; pean;a formal expression of praise;
endeavor(n) - attempt; effort; endeavour; try;earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something;
#2 (n) - endeavour; enterprise;a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness);
#3 (v) - endeavour; strive;attempt by employing effort;
enervate(v) - weaken mentally or morally;
#2 (v) - faze; unnerve; unsettle;disturb the composure of;
engage(v) - get caught;
#2 (v) - absorb; engross; occupy;consume all of one's attention or time;
#3 (v) - affiance; betroth; plight;give to in marriage;
#4 (v) - lock; mesh; operate;keep engaged;
#5 (v) - charter; hire; lease; rent; take;engage for service under a term of contract;
#6 (v) - enlist;hire for work or assistance;
#7 (v) - prosecute; pursue;carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in;
#8 (v) - wage;carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns);
#9 (v) - ask to represent; of legal counsel;
#10 (v) - employ; hire;engage or hire for work;
engender(v) - beget; bring forth; father; generate; get; mother; sire;make children;
#2 (v) - breed; spawn;call forth;
enigma(n) - closed book; mystery; secret;something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained;
#2 (n) - brain-teaser; conundrum; riddle;a difficult problem;
enlighten(v) - clear; clear up; crystalise; crystalize; crystallise; crystallize; elucidate; illuminate; shed light on; sort out; straighten out;make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear;
#2 (v) - irradiate;give spiritual insight to; in religion;
#3 (v) - edify;make understand;
enmity(n) - hostility; ill will;the feeling of a hostile person;
#2 (n) - antagonism; hostility;a state of deep-seated ill-will;
enroll(v) - enrol; enter; inscribe; recruit;register formally as a participant or member;
entrance(n) - entering; entry; incoming; ingress;the act of entering;
#2 (n) - entranceway; entree; entry; entryway;something that provides access (to get in or get out);
#3 (n) - entering;a movement into or inward;
#4 (v) - spellbind;put into a trance;
#5 (v) - becharm; beguile; bewitch; captivate; capture; catch; charm; enamor; enamour; enchant; fascinate; trance;attract; cause to be enamored;
ephemeral(n) - ephemeron;anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form;
#2 (adj sat) - fugacious; passing; short-lived; transient; transitory;lasting a very short time;
epicure(n) - bon vivant; epicurean; foodie; gastronome; gourmet;a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink);
equate(v) - equal; equalise; equalize; match;make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching;
#2 (v) - compare; liken;consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous;
#3 (v) - correspond;be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics;
equilibrium(n) - labyrinthine sense; sense of balance; sense of equilibrium; vestibular sense;a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head;
#2 (n) - chemical equilibrium;a chemical reaction and its reverse proceed at equal rates;
#3 (n) - balance; counterbalance; equipoise;equality of distribution;
#4 (n) - a stable situation in which forces cancel one another;
eradicate(v) - annihilate; carry off; decimate; eliminate; extinguish; wipe out;kill in large numbers;
#2 (v) - exterminate; extirpate; root out; uproot;destroy completely, as if down to the roots;
escape(n) - flight;the act of escaping physically;
#2 (n) - a means or way of escaping;
#3 (n) - an avoidance of danger or difficulty;
#4 (n) - escapism;an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy;
#5 (n) - dodging; evasion;nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do;
#6 (n) - escape cock; escape valve; relief valve; safety valve;a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level;
#7 (n) - leak; leakage; outflow;the discharge of a fluid from some container;
#8 (n) - a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild;
#9 (v) - issue or leak, as from a small opening;
#10 (v) - miss;fail to experience;
#11 (v) - get away; get by; get off; get out;escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action;
#12 (v) - break loose; get away;run away from confinement;
#13 (v) - break away; bunk; fly the coop; head for the hills; hightail it; lam; run; run away; scarper; scat; take to the woods; turn tail;flee; take to one's heels; cut and run;
#14 (v) - get away;remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion;
#15 (v) - elude;be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by;
essence(n) - perfume;a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor;
#2 (n) - center; centre; core; gist; heart; heart and soul; inwardness; kernel; marrow; meat; nitty-gritty; nub; pith; substance; sum;the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;
#3 (n) - burden; core; effect; gist;the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work;
#4 (n) - any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted;
eternal(adj sat) - endless; interminable;tiresomely long; seemingly without end;
#2 (adj sat) - aeonian; ageless; eonian; everlasting; perpetual; unceasing; unending;continuing forever or indefinitely;
eulogy(n) - encomium; paean; panegyric; pean;a formal expression of praise;
#2 (n) - eulogium;a formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently;
eventful(adj) - full of events or incidents;
#2 (adj sat) - consequential;having important issues or results;
everlasting(n) - everlasting flower;any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color;
#2 (adj sat) - arrant; complete; consummate; double-dyed; gross; perfect; pure; sodding; staring; stark; thoroughgoing; unadulterated; utter;without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;
#3 (adj sat) - aeonian; ageless; eonian; eternal; perpetual; unceasing; unending;continuing forever or indefinitely;
everyday(adj sat) - commonplace and ordinary;
#2 (adj sat) - casual; daily;appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions;
#3 (adj sat) - mundane; quotidian; routine; unremarkable; workaday;found in the ordinary course of events;
evocative(adj sat) - redolent; remindful; reminiscent; resonant;serving to bring to mind;
exacerbate(v) - aggravate; exasperate; worsen;make worse;
#2 (v) - aggravate; exasperate;exasperate or irritate;
exaggeration(n) - the act of making something more noticeable than usual;
#2 (n) - magnification; overstatement;making to seem more important than it really is;
#3 (n) - hyperbole;extravagant exaggeration;
exalt(v) - raise in rank, character, or status;
#2 (v) - extol; glorify; laud; proclaim;praise, glorify, or honor;
#3 (v) - beatify; exhilarate; inebriate; thrill; tickle pink;fill with sublime emotion;
#4 (v) - animate; enliven; inspire; invigorate;heighten or intensify;
exasperate(v) - aggravate; exacerbate; worsen;make worse;
#2 (v) - incense; infuriate;make furious;
#3 (v) - aggravate; exacerbate;exasperate or irritate;
excel(v) - stand out; surpass;distinguish oneself;
excess(n) - overindulgence;excessive indulgence;
#2 (n) - excessiveness; inordinateness;immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits;
#3 (n) - nimiety; surplus; surplusage;a quantity much larger than is needed;
#4 (n) - overabundance; surfeit;the state of being more than full;
#5 (adj sat) - extra; redundant; spare; supererogatory; superfluous; supernumerary; surplus;more than is needed, desired, or required;
excise(n) - excise tax;a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate);
#2 (v) - remove by cutting;
#3 (v) - expunge; scratch; strike;remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line;
#4 (v) - levy an excise tax on;
excuse(n) - apology;a poor example;
#2 (n) - a note explaining an absence;
#3 (n) - alibi; exculpation; self-justification;a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.;
#4 (v) - condone;excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with;
#5 (v) - explain;serve as a reason or cause or justification of;
#6 (v) - exempt; let off; relieve;grant exemption or release to;
#7 (v) - beg off;ask for permission to be released from an engagement;
#8 (v) - apologise; apologize; justify; rationalise; rationalize;defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning;
#9 (v) - pardon;accept an excuse for;
exonerate(v) - acquit; assoil; clear; discharge; exculpate;pronounce not guilty of criminal charges;
exorbitant(adj sat) - extortionate; outrageous; steep; unconscionable; usurious;greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation;
expatiate(v) - dilate; elaborate; enlarge; expand; exposit; expound; flesh out; lucubrate;add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing;
expire(v) - breathe out; exhale;expel air;
#2 (v) - buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it;pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life;
#3 (v) - run out;lose validity;
exponent(n) - index; power;a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself;
#2 (n) - someone who expounds and interprets or explains;
#3 (n) - advocate; advocator; proponent;a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea;
extinguish(v) - annihilate; carry off; decimate; eliminate; eradicate; wipe out;kill in large numbers;
#2 (v) - do away with; eliminate; get rid of;terminate, end, or take out;
#3 (v) - snuff out;put an end to; kill;
#4 (v) - crush out; press out; stub out;extinguish by crushing;
#5 (v) - blow out; quench; snuff out;put out, as of fires, flames, or lights;
extol(v) - exalt; glorify; laud; proclaim;praise, glorify, or honor;
extract(n) - excerpt; excerption; selection;a passage selected from a larger work;
#2 (n) - infusion;a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water);
#3 (v) - distil; distill;extract by the process of distillation;
#4 (v) - calculate the root of a number;
#5 (v) - excerpt; take out;take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy;
#6 (v) - draw out; pull; pull out; pull up; take out;remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense;
#7 (v) - express; press out;obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action;
#8 (v) - separate (a metal) from an ore;
#9 (v) - draw out; educe; elicit; evoke;deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning);
#10 (v) - get despite difficulties or obstacles;
fake(n) - juke;a deceptive move made by a football player;
#2 (n) - postiche; sham;something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be;
#3 (n) - faker; fraud; imposter; impostor; pretender; pseud; pseudo; role player; sham; shammer;a person who makes deceitful pretenses;
#4 (v) - bull; bullshit; talk through one's hat;speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths;
#5 (v) - counterfeit; forge;make a copy of with the intent to deceive;
#6 (v) - cook; falsify; fudge; manipulate; misrepresent; wangle;tamper, with the purpose of deception;
#7 (adj sat) - bastard; bogus; phoney; phony;fraudulent; having a misleading appearance;
#8 (adj sat) - false; faux; imitation; simulated;not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article;
fallacious(adj sat) - based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information;
#2 (adj sat) - deceitful; fraudulent;intended to deceive;
#3 (adj sat) - unsound;containing or based on a fallacy;
fantastic(adj sat) - antic; fantastical; grotesque;ludicrously odd;
#2 (adj sat) - grand; howling; marvellous; marvelous; rattling; terrific; tremendous; wonderful; wondrous;extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers;
#3 (adj sat) - extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance;
#4 (adj sat) - fantastical;existing in fancy only;
#5 (adj sat) - wild;fanciful and unrealistic; foolish;
fascinate(v) - becharm; beguile; bewitch; captivate; capture; catch; charm; enamor; enamour; enchant; entrance; trance;attract; cause to be enamored;
#2 (v) - grip; spellbind; transfix;to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe;
#3 (v) - intrigue;cause to be interested or curious;
fate(n) - destiny;an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future;
#2 (n) - destiny;the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman);
#3 (n) - circumstances; destiny; fortune; lot; luck; portion;your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);
#4 (v) - designate; destine; doom;decree or designate beforehand;
fatten(v) - fat; fatten out; fatten up; fill out; flesh out; plump; plump out;make fat or plump;
fatuous(adj sat) - asinine; inane; mindless; vacuous;devoid of intelligence;
fawn(n) - a young deer;
#2 (n) - dun; grayish brown; greyish brown;a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color;
#3 (v) - have fawns;
#4 (v) - bootlick; kotow; kowtow; suck up; toady; truckle;try to gain favor by cringing or flattering;
#5 (v) - cower; crawl; creep; cringe; grovel;show submission or fear;
feasible(adj sat) - executable; practicable; viable; workable;capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are;
feast(n) - something experienced with great delight;
#2 (n) - fete; fiesta;an elaborate party (often outdoors);
#3 (n) - banquet; spread;a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed;
#4 (n) - banquet;a ceremonial dinner party for many people;
#5 (v) - feed;gratify;
#6 (v) - banquet; junket;partake in a feast or banquet;
#7 (v) - banquet; junket;provide a feast or banquet for;
feat(n) - effort; exploit;a notable achievement;
fellowship(n) - family;an association of people who share common beliefs or activities;
#2 (n) - money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research;
#3 (n) - companionship; company; society;the state of being with someone;
felon(n) - criminal; crook; malefactor; outlaw;someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime;
#2 (n) - whitlow;a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail;
fertile(adj) - capable of reproducing;
#2 (adj sat) - fat; productive; rich;marked by great fruitfulness;
#3 (adj sat) - prolific;bearing in abundance especially offspring;
#4 (adj sat) - fecund; prolific;intellectually productive;
fervid(adj sat) - fervent;extremely hot;
#2 (adj sat) - ardent; fervent; fiery; impassioned; perfervid; torrid;characterized by intense emotion;
fetid(adj sat) - foetid; foul; foul-smelling; funky; ill-scented; noisome; smelly; stinking;offensively malodorous;
fiasco(n) - debacle;a sudden and violent collapse;
flash(n) - flash bulb; flash lamp; flashbulb; flashgun; photoflash;a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph;
#2 (n) - a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification;
#3 (n) - a momentary brightness;
#4 (n) - a sudden brilliant understanding;
#5 (n) - news bulletin; newsbreak; newsflash;a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story;
#6 (n) - flare;a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate;
#7 (n) - fanfare; ostentation;a gaudy outward display;
#8 (n) - flashing;a short vivid experience;
#9 (n) - a sudden intense burst of radiant energy;
#10 (n) - blink of an eye; heartbeat; instant; jiffy; new york minute; split second; trice; twinkling; wink;a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat);
#11 (v) - appear briefly;
#12 (v) - emit a brief burst of light;
#13 (v) - make known or cause to appear with great speed;
#14 (v) - protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal;
#15 (v) - dart; dash; scoot; scud; shoot;run or move very quickly or hastily;
#16 (v) - expose or show briefly;
#17 (v) - flaunt; ostentate; show off; swank;display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously;
#18 (v) - blink; twinkle; wink; winkle;gleam or glow intermittently;
#19 (adj sat) - brassy; cheap; flashy; garish; gaudy; gimcrack; loud; meretricious; tacky; tatty; tawdry; trashy;tastelessly showy;
flout(v) - scoff;treat with contemptuous disregard;
#2 (v) - barrack; gibe; jeer; scoff;laugh at with contempt and derision;
fond(adj sat) - partial;having a strong preference or liking for;
#2 (adj sat) - adoring; doting;extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent;
#3 (adj sat) - affectionate; lovesome; tender; warm;having or displaying warmth or affection;
#4 (adj sat) - absurd or silly because unlikely;
forbid(v) - disallow; interdict; nix; prohibit; proscribe; veto;command against;
#2 (v) - foreclose; forestall; preclude; prevent;keep from happening or arising; make impossible;
foretell(v) - augur; auspicate; betoken; bode; forecast; foreshadow; omen; portend; predict; prefigure; presage; prognosticate;indicate by signs;
#2 (v) - anticipate; call; forebode; predict; prognosticate; promise;make a prediction about; tell in advance;
#3 (v) - announce; annunciate; harbinger; herald;foreshadow or presage;
fort(n) - fortress;a fortified defensive structure;
#2 (n) - garrison;a fortified military post where troops are stationed;
#3 (v) - station (troops) in a fort;
#4 (v) - fortify;enclose by or as if by a fortification;
#5 (v) - fort up;gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense;
fortune(n) - chance; hazard; luck;an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another;
#2 (n) - luck;an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome;
#3 (n) - a large amount of wealth or prosperity;
#4 (n) - circumstances; destiny; fate; lot; luck; portion;your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);
foul(n) - an act that violates the rules of a sport;
#2 (v) - become soiled and dirty;
#3 (v) - make unclean;
#4 (v) - befoul; defile; maculate;spot, stain, or pollute;
#5 (v) - contaminate; pollute;make impure;
#6 (v) - commit a foul; break the rules;
#7 (v) - hit a foul ball;
#8 (v) - back up; choke; choke off; clog; clog up; congest;become or cause to become obstructed;
#9 (adj sat) - afoul; fouled;especially of a ship's lines etc;
#10 (adj sat) - filthy; nasty;disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter;
#11 (adj sat) - cruddy; filthy; nasty; smutty;characterized by obscenity;
#12 (adj) - not hit between the foul lines;
#13 (adj sat) - cheating; dirty; unsporting; unsportsmanlike;violating accepted standards or rules;
#14 (adj sat) - fetid; foetid; foul-smelling; funky; ill-scented; noisome; smelly; stinking;offensively malodorous;
#15 (adj sat) - dirty; marked-up;defaced with changes;
#16 (adj sat) - disgustful; disgusting; distasteful; loathly; loathsome; repellant; repellent; repelling; revolting; skanky; wicked; yucky;highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust;
fracas(n) - affray; altercation;noisy quarrel;
fractious(adj sat) - unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome;
#2 (adj sat) - cranky; irritable; nettlesome; peckish; peevish; pettish; petulant; scratchy; techy; testy; tetchy;easily irritated or annoyed;
#3 (adj sat) - recalcitrant; refractory;stubbornly resistant to authority or control;
frantic(adj sat) - frenetic; frenzied; phrenetic;excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion;
#2 (adj sat) - delirious; excited; mad; unrestrained;marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion;
frenzy(n) - craze; delirium; fury; hysteria;state of violent mental agitation;
fret(n) - a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch;
#2 (n) - greek fret; greek key; key pattern;an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief);
#3 (n) - worn spot;a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion;
#4 (n) - lather; stew; sweat; swither;agitation resulting from active worry;
#5 (v) - eat away;wear away or erode;
#6 (v) - eat away; erode;remove soil or rock;
#7 (v) - chafe; fray; rub; scratch;cause friction;
#8 (v) - choke; gag;be too tight; rub or press;
#9 (v) - decorate with an interlaced design;
#10 (v) - carve a pattern into;
#11 (v) - be agitated or irritated;
#12 (v) - eat into; grate; rankle;gnaw into; make resentful or angry;
#13 (v) - cause annoyance in;
#14 (v) - fuss; niggle;worry unnecessarily or excessively;
#15 (v) - chafe; gall;become or make sore by or as if by rubbing;
#16 (v) - provide (a musical instrument) with frets;
friar(n) - mendicant;a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms;
frightful(adj sat) - atrocious; horrible; horrifying; ugly;provoking horror;
#2 (adj sat) - fearful;extremely distressing;
#3 (adj sat) - awful; terrible; tremendous;extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact;
fringe(n) - an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels;
#2 (n) - bang;a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead;
#3 (n) - a social group holding marginal or extreme views;
#4 (n) - outskirt;a part of the city far removed from the center;
#5 (n) - interference fringe;one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light;
#6 (n) - outer boundary; periphery;the outside boundary or surface of something;
#7 (v) - decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe;
#8 (v) - adorn with a fringe;
fulsome(adj sat) - buttery; oily; oleaginous; smarmy; soapy; unctuous;unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech;
fury(n) - ferocity; fierceness; furiousness; vehemence; violence; wildness;the property of being wild or turbulent;
#2 (n) - madness; rage;a feeling of intense anger;
#3 (n) - erinyes; eumenides;the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals;
#4 (n) - craze; delirium; frenzy; hysteria;state of violent mental agitation;
gall(n) - cheekiness; crust; freshness; impertinence; impudence; insolence;the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties;
#2 (n) - bile;a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats;
#3 (n) - bitterness; rancor; rancour; resentment;a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will;
#4 (n) - abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury;
#5 (n) - a skin sore caused by chafing;
#6 (n) - saddle sore;an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle;
#7 (v) - irk;irritate or vex;
#8 (v) - chafe; fret;become or make sore by or as if by rubbing;
gallery(n) - drift; heading;a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine;
#2 (n) - narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade;
#3 (n) - a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns);
#4 (n) - a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose;
#5 (n) - art gallery; picture gallery;a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited;
#6 (n) - veranda; verandah;a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed);
#7 (n) - spectators at a golf or tennis match;
garish(adj sat) - brassy; cheap; flash; flashy; gaudy; gimcrack; loud; meretricious; tacky; tatty; tawdry; trashy;tastelessly showy;
garland(n) - chaplet; coronal; lei; wreath;flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes;
#2 (n) - florilegium; miscellany;an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.;
#3 (n) - a city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas);
#4 (n) - judy garland;United States singer and film actress (1922-1969);
#5 (v) - adorn with bands of flowers or leaves;
gasp(n) - pant;a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open;
#2 (v) - heave; pant; puff;breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted;
gaunt(adj sat) - bony; cadaverous; emaciated; haggard; pinched; skeletal; wasted;very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
generalisation(n) - generalization; stimulus generalisation; stimulus generalization;transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus;
#2 (n) - generalization; induction; inductive reasoning;reasoning from detailed facts to general principles;
#3 (n) - abstraction; generalization;the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances;
#4 (n) - generality; generalization;an idea or conclusion having general application;
generate(v) - beget; bring forth; engender; father; get; mother; sire;make children;
#2 (v) - bring forth;bring into existence;
#3 (v) - produce (energy);
#4 (v) - give; render; return; yield;give or supply;
gentle(v) - stroke soothingly;
#2 (v) - appease; assuage; conciliate; gruntle; lenify; mollify; pacify; placate;cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
#3 (v) - ennoble; entitle;give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility;
#4 (adj sat) - easy;marked by moderate steepness;
#5 (adj sat) - easy; soft;having little impact;
#6 (adj sat) - having or showing a kindly or tender nature;
#7 (adj sat) - quiet and soothing;
#8 (adj sat) - soft;soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe;
#9 (adj sat) - aristocratic; aristocratical; blue; blue-blooded; patrician;belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy;
#10 (adj sat) - docile;easily handled or managed;
geographic(adj) - geographical;determined by geography;
#2 (adj) - geographical;of or relating to the science of geography;
gesture(n) - motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling;
#2 (n) - something done as an indication of intention;
#3 (n) - motion;the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals;
#4 (v) - gesticulate; motion;show, express or direct through movement;
glimmer(n) - glimmering; inkling; intimation;a slight suggestion or vague understanding;
#2 (n) - gleam; gleaming;a flash of light (especially reflected light);
#3 (v) - gleam;shine brightly, like a star or a light;
glisten(n) - glister; glitter; scintillation; sparkle;the quality of shining with a bright reflected light;
#2 (v) - gleam; glint; glitter; shine;be shiny, as if wet;
glorify(v) - bestow glory upon;
#2 (v) - cause to seem more splendid;
#3 (v) - spiritualize; transfigure;elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration;
#4 (v) - exalt; extol; laud; proclaim;praise, glorify, or honor;
grand(n) - grand piano;a piano with the strings on a horizontal harp-shaped frame; usually supported by three legs;
#2 (n) - 1000; chiliad; g; k; m; one thousand; thou; thousand; yard;the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100;
#3 (adj sat) - distinguished; imposing; magisterial;used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person;
#4 (adj sat) - the most important and magnificent in adornment;
#5 (adj sat) - expansive; heroic;of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope;
#6 (adj sat) - large and impressive in physical size or extent;
#7 (adj sat) - elevated; exalted; high-flown; high-minded; idealistic; lofty; noble-minded; rarefied; rarified; sublime;of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style;
#8 (adj sat) - august; lordly;of or befitting a lord;
#9 (adj sat) - fantastic; howling; marvellous; marvelous; rattling; terrific; tremendous; wonderful; wondrous;extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers;
#10 (adj sat) - deluxe; gilded; luxurious; opulent; princely; sumptuous;rich and superior in quality;
grate(n) - grating;a frame of iron bars to hold a fire;
#2 (n) - grating;a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air;
#3 (n) - a harsh rasping sound made by scraping something;
#4 (v) - scrape;scratch repeatedly;
#5 (v) - grind;make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together;
#6 (v) - reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface;
#7 (v) - eat into; fret; rankle;gnaw into; make resentful or angry;
#8 (v) - furnish with a grate;
grave(n) - tomb;a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone);
#2 (n) - grave accent;a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation;
#3 (n) - death of a person;
#4 (v) - engrave; inscribe; scratch;carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface;
#5 (v) - sculpt; sculpture;shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it;
#6 (adj sat) - dangerous; grievous; life-threatening; serious; severe;causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm;
#7 (adj sat) - grievous; heavy; weighty;of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought;
#8 (adj sat) - sedate; sober; solemn;dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises;
grim(adj sat) - ghastly; grisly; gruesome; macabre; sick;shockingly repellent; inspiring horror;
#2 (adj sat) - blue; dark; dingy; disconsolate; dismal; drab; drear; dreary; gloomy; sorry;causing dejection;
#3 (adj sat) - blue; depressed; dispirited; down; down in the mouth; downcast; downhearted; gloomy; low; low-spirited;filled with melancholy and despondency;
#4 (adj sat) - inexorable; relentless; stern; unappeasable; unforgiving; unrelenting;not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty;
#5 (adj sat) - dour; forbidding;harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance;
#6 (adj sat) - black; mordant;harshly ironic or sinister;
groan(n) - moan;an utterance expressing pain or disapproval;
#2 (v) - moan;indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure;
guerrilla(n) - guerilla; insurgent; irregular;a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment;
guide(n) - a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something;
#2 (n) - template; templet;a model or standard for making comparisons;
#3 (n) - guidebook;something that offers basic information or instruction;
#4 (n) - someone who shows the way by leading or advising;
#5 (n) - pathfinder; scout;someone who can find paths through unexplored territory;
#6 (n) - usher;someone employed to conduct others;
#7 (v) - draw; pass; run;pass over, across, or through;
#8 (v) - channelise; channelize; direct; head; maneuver; manoeuver; manoeuvre; point; steer;direct the course; determine the direction of travelling;
#9 (v) - conduct; direct; lead; take;take somebody somewhere;
#10 (v) - guide on;use as a guide;
#11 (v) - steer;be a guiding or motivating force or drive;
guileless(adj sat) - transparent;free of deceit;
hackneyed(adj sat) - banal; commonplace; old-hat; shopworn; stock; threadbare; timeworn; tired; trite; well-worn;repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
haggard(n) - rider haggard; sir henry rider haggard;British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925);
#2 (adj sat) - bony; cadaverous; emaciated; gaunt; pinched; skeletal; wasted;very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
#3 (adj sat) - careworn; drawn; raddled; worn;showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering;
harden(v) - indurate; inure;cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate;
#2 (v) - season;make fit;
#3 (v) - temper;harden by reheating and cooling in oil;
#4 (v) - indurate;become hard or harder;
#5 (v) - indurate;make hard or harder;
harvest(n) - harvest time;the season for gathering crops;
#2 (n) - harvest home; harvesting;the gathering of a ripened crop;
#3 (n) - the consequence of an effort or activity;
#4 (n) - crop;the yield from plants in a single growing season;
#5 (v) - remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation;
#6 (v) - glean; reap;gather, as of natural products;
haste(n) - hurry; rush; rushing;the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner;
#2 (n) - hastiness; hurriedness; hurry; precipitation;overly eager speed (and possible carelessness);
#3 (n) - hurry;a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry;
hate(n) - hatred;the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action;
#2 (v) - detest;dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards;
hatred(n) - hate;the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action;
haughty(adj sat) - disdainful; imperious; lordly; overbearing; prideful; sniffy; supercilious; swaggering;having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy;
herald(n) - forerunner; harbinger; precursor; predecessor;something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone;
#2 (n) - trumpeter;a person who announces important news;
#3 (v) - acclaim; hail;praise vociferously;
#4 (v) - hail;greet enthusiastically or joyfully;
#5 (v) - announce; annunciate; foretell; harbinger;foreshadow or presage;
humanity(n) - human beings; human race; humankind; humans; man; mankind; world;all of the living human inhabitants of the earth;
#2 (n) - humanness; manhood;the quality of being human;
#3 (n) - the quality of being humane;
humble(v) - abase; chagrin; humiliate; mortify;cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of;
#2 (v) - cause to be unpretentious;
#3 (adj sat) - base; baseborn; lowly;of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);
#4 (adj) - marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful;
#5 (adj sat) - lowly; menial;used of unskilled work (especially domestic work);
#6 (adj sat) - low; lowly; modest; small;low or inferior in station or quality;
humiliate(v) - abase; chagrin; humble; mortify;cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of;
hypnotize(v) - hypnotise; mesmerise; mesmerize;induce hypnosis in;
hypothesize(v) - conjecture; hypothecate; hypothesise; speculate; suppose; theorise; theorize;to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds;
idiom(n) - artistic style;the style of a particular artist or school or movement;
#2 (n) - parlance;a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language;
#3 (n) - idiomatic expression; phrasal idiom; phrase; set phrase;an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up;
#4 (n) - accent; dialect;the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people;
idiosyncrasy(n) - foible; mannerism;a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual;
idiot(n) - changeling; cretin; half-wit; imbecile; moron; retard;a person of subnormal intelligence;
idle(n) - the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling;
#2 (v) - tick over;run disconnected or idle;
#3 (v) - laze; slug; stagnate;be idle; exist in a changeless situation;
#4 (adj sat) - unused;not in active use;
#5 (adj) - not in action or at work;
#6 (adj sat) - jobless; out of work;not having a job;
#7 (adj sat) - dead;not yielding a return;
#8 (adj sat) - loose;lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility;
#9 (adj sat) - light;silly or trivial;
#10 (adj sat) - baseless; groundless; unfounded; unwarranted; wild;without a basis in reason or fact;
ignominious(adj sat) - black; disgraceful; inglorious; opprobrious; shameful;deserving or bringing disgrace or shame;
immense(adj sat) - brobdingnagian; huge; vast;unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope;
imminent(adj sat) - at hand; close at hand; impendent; impending;close in time; about to occur;
impecunious(adj sat) - hard up; in straitened circumstances; penniless; penurious; pinched;not having enough money to pay for necessities;
impede(v) - block; close up; jam; obstruct; obturate; occlude;block passage through;
#2 (v) - hinder;be a hindrance or obstacle to;
impulse(n) - impetus; impulsion;the act of applying force suddenly;
#2 (n) - momentum;an impelling force or strength;
#3 (n) - nerve impulse; nervous impulse; neural impulse;the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber;
#4 (n) - pulsation; pulse; pulsing;a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients);
#5 (n) - caprice; whim;a sudden desire;
#6 (n) - urge;an instinctive motive;
inane(adj sat) - asinine; fatuous; mindless; vacuous;devoid of intelligence;
inborn(adj sat) - connatural; inbred;normally existing at birth;
#2 (adj sat) - congenital; innate;present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development;
incense(n) - the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned;
#2 (n) - a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned;
#3 (v) - exasperate; infuriate;make furious;
#4 (v) - cense; thurify;perfume especially with a censer;
incipient(adj sat) - inchoate;only partly in existence; imperfectly formed;
indifference(n) - apathy; numbness; spiritlessness;the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally;
#2 (n) - nonchalance; unconcern;the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern;
#3 (n) - emotionlessness; impassiveness; impassivity; phlegm; stolidity; unemotionality;apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions;
#4 (n) - unbiased impartial unconcern;
indigenous(adj sat) - autochthonal; autochthonic; autochthonous; endemic;originating where it is found;
indignation(n) - outrage;a feeling of righteous anger;
infamous(adj sat) - ill-famed; notorious;known widely and usually unfavorably;
infuse(v) - introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes;
#2 (v) - steep;let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse;
#3 (v) - undergo the process of infusion;
#4 (v) - impregnate; instill; tincture;fill, as with a certain quality;
#5 (v) - inculcate; instill;teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions;
initiate(n) - enlightened;people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity;
#2 (n) - learned person; pundit; savant;someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field;
#3 (n) - beginner; novice; tiro; tyro;someone new to a field or activity;
#4 (v) - lead up;set in motion, start an event or prepare the way for;
#5 (v) - broach;bring up a topic for discussion;
#6 (v) - originate; start;bring into being;
#7 (v) - pioneer;take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of;
#8 (v) - induct;accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite;
innate(adj sat) - congenital; inborn;present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development;
#2 (adj sat) - born; natural;being talented through inherited qualities;
#3 (adj) - unconditioned; unlearned;not established by conditioning or learning;
innumerable(adj sat) - countless; infinite; innumerous; multitudinous; myriad; numberless; uncounted; unnumberable; unnumbered; unnumerable;too numerous to be counted;
inscrutable(adj sat) - cryptic; cryptical; deep; mysterious; mystifying;of an obscure nature;
instant(n) - minute; moment; second;a particular point in time;
#2 (n) - blink of an eye; flash; heartbeat; jiffy; new york minute; split second; trice; twinkling; wink;a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat);
#3 (adj sat) - clamant; crying; exigent; insistent;demanding attention;
#4 (adj sat) - instantaneous;occurring with no delay;
#5 (adj sat) - inst;in or of the present month;
insult(n) - affront;a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect;
#2 (n) - abuse; contumely; revilement; vilification;a rude expression intended to offend or hurt;
#3 (v) - affront; diss;treat, mention, or speak to rudely;
interdict(n) - interdiction;a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity;
#2 (n) - an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district;
#3 (v) - disallow; forbid; nix; prohibit; proscribe; veto;command against;
#4 (v) - destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication;
intransigent(adj sat) - adamant; adamantine; inexorable;impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason;
intrepid(adj sat) - audacious; brave; dauntless; fearless; hardy; unfearing;invulnerable to fear or intimidation;
introduce(v) - enclose; inclose; insert; put in; stick in;introduce;
#2 (v) - inaugurate; usher in;be a precursor of;
#3 (v) - put before (a body);
#4 (v) - acquaint; present;cause to come to know personally;
#5 (v) - precede; preface; premise;furnish with a preface or introduction;
#6 (v) - bring out;bring before the public for the first time, as of an actor, song, etc.;
#7 (v) - enter; infix; insert;put or introduce into something;
#8 (v) - bring in or establish in a new place or environment;
#9 (v) - innovate;bring something new to an environment;
#10 (v) - bring in;bring in a new person or object into a familiar environment;
inundate(v) - deluge; submerge;fill or cover completely, usually with water;
#2 (v) - deluge; flood; swamp;fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid;
irascible(adj sat) - choleric;characterized by anger;
#2 (adj sat) - choleric; hotheaded; hot-tempered; quick-tempered; short-tempered;quickly aroused to anger;
irksome(adj sat) - boring; deadening; dull; ho-hum; slow; tedious; tiresome; wearisome;so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness;
irritable(adj sat) - cranky; fractious; nettlesome; peckish; peevish; pettish; petulant; scratchy; techy; testy; tetchy;easily irritated or annoyed;
#2 (adj sat) - excitable;capable of responding to stimuli;
#3 (adj sat) - abnormally sensitive to a stimulus;
jargon(n) - specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject;
#2 (n) - argot; cant; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular;a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves);
#3 (n) - jargoon;a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon;
jingle(n) - doggerel; doggerel verse;a comic verse of irregular measure;
#2 (n) - jangle;a metallic sound;
#3 (v) - jangle; jingle-jangle;make a sound typical of metallic objects;
joke(n) - antic; caper; prank; put-on; trick;a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement;
#2 (n) - jest; jocularity;activity characterized by good humor;
#3 (n) - a triviality not to be taken seriously;
#4 (n) - gag; jape; jest; laugh;a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter;
#5 (v) - jest;act in a funny or teasing way;
#6 (v) - jest;tell a joke; speak humorously;
jolly(n) - jolly boat;a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work;
#2 (n) - a happy party;
#3 (v) - banter; chaff; josh; kid;be silly or tease one another;
#4 (adj sat) - gay; jocund; jovial; merry; mirthful;full of or showing high-spirited merriment;
#5 (adv) - fairly; middling; moderately; passably; pretty; reasonably; somewhat;to a moderately sufficient extent or degree;
kerosene(n) - coal oil; kerosine; lamp oil;a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters;
kidnap(v) - abduct; nobble; snatch;take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom;
knave(n) - jack;one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince;
#2 (n) - rapscallion; rascal; rogue; scalawag; scallywag; varlet;a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel;
laggard(n) - dawdler; drone; lagger; poke; trailer;someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind;
#2 (adj sat) - dilatory; pokey; poky;wasting time;
lament(n) - elegy;a mournful poem; a lament for the dead;
#2 (n) - coronach; dirge; requiem; threnody;a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person;
#3 (n) - lamentation; plaint; wail;a cry of sorrow and grief;
#4 (v) - bemoan; bewail; deplore;regret strongly;
#5 (v) - keen;express grief verbally;
languid(adj sat) - dreamy; lackadaisical; languorous;lacking spirit or liveliness;
lard(n) - soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog;
#2 (v) - aggrandise; aggrandize; blow up; dramatise; dramatize; embellish; embroider; pad;add details to;
#3 (v) - prepare or cook with lard;
lavish(v) - shower;expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns;
#2 (adj sat) - munificent; overgenerous; too-generous; unsparing; unstinted; unstinting;very generous;
#3 (adj sat) - lucullan; lush; plush; plushy;characterized by extravagance and profusion;
lawyer(n) - attorney;a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice;
layman(n) - layperson; secular;someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person;
legacy(n) - bequest;a gift of personal property by will;
lift(n) - heave; raise;the act of raising something;
#2 (n) - a ride in a car;
#3 (n) - airlift;transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable);
#4 (n) - cosmetic surgery; face lift; face lifting; facelift; nip and tuck; rhytidectomy; rhytidoplasty;plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised;
#5 (n) - the act of giving temporary assistance;
#6 (n) - elevator;lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building;
#7 (n) - one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot;
#8 (n) - a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg;
#9 (n) - ski lift; ski tow;a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill;
#10 (n) - rise;a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground;
#11 (n) - elevation; raising;the event of something being raised upward;
#12 (n) - aerodynamic lift;the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity;
#13 (v) - face-lift;perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face;
#14 (v) - remove from a surface;
#15 (v) - take off or away by decreasing;
#16 (v) - remove from a seedbed or from a nursery;
#17 (v) - remove (hair) by scalping;
#18 (v) - raise;put an end to;
#19 (v) - rise upward, as from pressure or moisture;
#20 (v) - elevate; raise;raise in rank or condition;
#21 (v) - raise;invigorate or heighten;
#22 (v) - call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs;
#23 (v) - annul; countermand; overturn; repeal; rescind; reverse; revoke; vacate;cancel officially;
#24 (v) - make audible;
#25 (v) - take (root crops) out of the ground;
#26 (v) - airlift;fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means;
#27 (v) - hoist; wind;raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help;
#28 (v) - take hold of something and move it to a different location;
#29 (v) - arise; come up; go up; move up; rise; uprise;move upward;
#30 (v) - raise;move upwards;
#31 (v) - bring up; elevate; get up; raise;raise from a lower to a higher position;
#32 (v) - abstract; cabbage; filch; hook; nobble; pilfer; pinch; purloin; snarf; sneak; swipe;make off with belongings of others;
#33 (v) - rustle;take illegally;
#34 (v) - plagiarise; plagiarize;take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property;
#35 (v) - pay off (a mortgage);
#36 (v) - rear; rise;rise up;
limpid(adj sat) - crystal clear; lucid; luculent; pellucid; perspicuous;transparently clear; easily understandable;
#2 (adj sat) - crystal clear; crystalline; lucid; pellucid; transparent;transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity;
#3 (adj sat) - liquid;clear and bright;
livelihood(n) - bread and butter; keep; living; support; sustenance;the financial means whereby one lives;
lone(adj sat) - lonesome; only; sole; solitary;being the only one; single and isolated from others;
#2 (adj sat) - lonely; solitary;characterized by or preferring solitude;
#3 (adj sat) - alone; lonely; solitary;lacking companions or companionship;
loquacious(adj sat) - chatty; gabby; garrulous; talkative; talky;full of trivial conversation;
loud(adj) - characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity;
#2 (adj) - forte;used chiefly as a direction or description in music;
#3 (adj sat) - brassy; cheap; flash; flashy; garish; gaudy; gimcrack; meretricious; tacky; tatty; tawdry; trashy;tastelessly showy;
#4 (adv) - aloud; loudly;with relatively high volume;
lounge(n) - waiting area; waiting room;a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait;
#2 (n) - couch; sofa;an upholstered seat for more than one person;
#3 (v) - sit or recline comfortably;
#4 (v) - footle; hang around; lallygag; linger; loaf; loiter; lollygag; lurk; mess about; mill about; mill around; tarry;be about;
loyal(adj sat) - fast; firm; truehearted;unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause;
#2 (adj) - steadfast in allegiance or duty;
#3 (adj) - patriotic;inspired by love for your country;
lucid(adj sat) - crystal clear; limpid; luculent; pellucid; perspicuous;transparently clear; easily understandable;
#2 (adj sat) - crystal clear; crystalline; limpid; pellucid; transparent;transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity;
#3 (adj sat) - coherent; logical;capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner;
#4 (adj sat) - having a clear mind;
ludicrous(adj sat) - farcical; ridiculous;broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce;
#2 (adj sat) - absurd; cockeyed; derisory; idiotic; laughable; nonsensical; preposterous; ridiculous;incongruous;inviting ridicule;
lunch(n) - dejeuner; luncheon; tiffin;a midday meal;
#2 (v) - take the midday meal;
#3 (v) - provide a midday meal for;
lure(n) - bait; decoy;something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed;
#2 (n) - come-on; enticement;qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward;
#3 (n) - bait; come-on; hook; sweetener;anything that serves as an enticement;
#4 (v) - entice; tempt;provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion;
macabre(adj sat) - ghastly; grim; grisly; gruesome; sick;shockingly repellent; inspiring horror;
machination(n) - intrigue;a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends;
malediction(n) - imprecation;the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult);
mammal(n) - mammalian;any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk;
mankind(n) - human beings; human race; humanity; humankind; humans; man; world;all of the living human inhabitants of the earth;
march(n) - a steady advance;
#2 (n) - marching;the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind);
#3 (n) - master of architecture;a degree granted for the successful completion of advanced study of architecture;
#4 (n) - marching music;genre of music written for marching;
#5 (n) - a procession of people walking together;
#6 (n) - border district; borderland; marchland;district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area;
#7 (n) - mar;the month following February and preceding April;
#8 (v) - abut; adjoin; border; butt; butt against; butt on; edge;lie adjacent to another or share a boundary;
#9 (v) - walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride;
#10 (v) - exhibit; parade;walk ostentatiously;
#11 (v) - process;march in a procession;
#12 (v) - force to march;
#13 (v) - cause to march or go at a marching pace;
#14 (v) - demonstrate;march in protest; take part in a demonstration;
maritime(adj sat) - bordering on or living or characteristic of those near the sea;
#2 (adj) - marine; nautical;relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen;
massacre(n) - butchery; carnage; mass murder; slaughter;the savage and excessive killing of many people;
#2 (v) - mow down; slaughter;kill a large number of people indiscriminately;
mastery(n) - subordination;the act of mastering or subordinating someone;
#2 (n) - command; control;great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity;
#3 (n) - domination; supremacy;power to dominate or defeat;
maternity(n) - maternal quality; maternalism; motherliness;the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother;
#2 (n) - motherhood;the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother;
#3 (n) - gestation; pregnancy;the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus;
maudlin(adj sat) - bathetic; drippy; hokey; kitschy; mawkish; mushy; schmaltzy; schmalzy; sentimental; slushy; soppy; soupy;effusively or insincerely emotional;
meager(adj) - meagerly; meagre; scrimpy; stingy;deficient in amount or quality or extent;
meagre(adj) - meager; meagerly; scrimpy; stingy;deficient in amount or quality or extent;
meal(n) - coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse;
#2 (n) - repast;the food served and eaten at one time;
#3 (n) - any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times;
meanwhile(n) - interim; lag; meantime;the time between one event, process, or period and another;
#2 (adv) - in the meantime; meantime;during the intervening time;
#3 (adv) - at the same time but in another place;
mediate(v) - arbitrate; intercede; intermediate; liaise;act between parties with a view to reconciling differences;
#2 (v) - occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others;
#3 (adj) - acting through or dependent on an intervening agency;
#4 (adj sat) - in-between; middle;being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series;
meditate(v) - chew over; contemplate; excogitate; mull; mull over; muse; ponder; reflect; ruminate; speculate; think over;reflect deeply on a subject;
#2 (v) - contemplate; study;think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes;
mellifluous(adj sat) - dulcet; honeyed; mellisonant; sweet;pleasing to the ear;
memorise(v) - con; learn; memorize;commit to memory; learn by heart;
merry(adj sat) - alert; brisk; lively; rattling; snappy; spanking; zippy;quick and energetic;
#2 (adj sat) - festal; festive; gay;offering fun and gaiety;
#3 (adj sat) - gay; jocund; jolly; jovial; mirthful;full of or showing high-spirited merriment;
meticulous(adj sat) - marked by extreme care in treatment of details;
#2 (adj sat) - punctilious;marked by precise accordance with details;
mill(n) - grind; pulverisation; pulverization;the act of grinding to a powder or dust;
#2 (n) - factory; manufactory; manufacturing plant;a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing;
#3 (n) - grinder; milling machinery;machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing;
#4 (n) - john mill; john stuart mill;English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873);
#5 (n) - james mill;Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836);
#6 (v) - grind with a mill;
#7 (v) - roll out (metal) with a rolling machine;
#8 (v) - produce a ridge around the edge of;
#9 (v) - mill about; mill around;move about in a confused manner;
mire(n) - morass; quag; quagmire; slack;a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot;
#2 (n) - a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from;
#3 (n) - slop;deep soft mud in water or slush;
#4 (v) - muck; muck up; mud;soil with mud, muck, or mire;
#5 (v) - bog down; get stuck; grind to a halt;be unable to move further;
#6 (v) - bog down;cause to get stuck as if in a mire;
#7 (v) - entangle;entrap;
miscellaneous(adj sat) - assorted; mixed; motley; sundry;consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds;
#2 (adj sat) - many-sided; multifaceted; multifarious;having many aspects;
miserable(adj sat) - measly; paltry;contemptibly small in amount;
#2 (adj sat) - wretched;characterized by physical misery;
#3 (adj sat) - abject; low; low-down; scummy; scurvy;of the most contemptible kind;
#4 (adj sat) - hapless; misfortunate; pathetic; piteous; pitiable; pitiful; poor; wretched;deserving or inciting pity;
#5 (adj sat) - suffering; wretched;very unhappy; full of misery;
#6 (adj sat) - deplorable; execrable; woeful; wretched;of very poor quality or condition;
mitigate(v) - make less severe or harsh;
#2 (v) - extenuate; palliate;lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of;
mollify(v) - make less rigid or softer;
#2 (v) - season; temper;make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate;
#3 (v) - appease; assuage; conciliate; gentle; gruntle; lenify; pacify; placate;cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
monetary(adj) - pecuniary;relating to or involving money;
morose(adj sat) - dark; dour; glowering; glum; moody; saturnine; sour; sullen;showing a brooding ill humor;
moslem(n) - muslim;a believer in or follower of Islam;
#2 (adj) - islamic; muslim;of or relating to or supporting Islamism;
motherhood(n) - maternity;the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother;
motion(n) - move; movement;the act of changing location from one place to another;
#2 (n) - motility; move; movement;a change of position that does not entail a change of location;
#3 (n) - gesture;the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals;
#4 (n) - question;a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote;
#5 (n) - movement;a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something;
#6 (n) - apparent motion; apparent movement; movement;an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object;
#7 (n) - a state of change;
#8 (v) - gesticulate; gesture;show, express or direct through movement;
motley(n) - a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England;
#2 (n) - a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume);
#3 (n) - assortment; miscellanea; miscellany; mixed bag; mixture; potpourri; salmagundi; smorgasbord; variety;a collection containing a variety of sorts of things;
#4 (v) - parti-color;make motley; color with different colors;
#5 (v) - variegate; vary;make something more diverse and varied;
#6 (adj sat) - calico; multicolor; multi-color; multicolored; multi-colored; multicolour; multi-colour; multicoloured; multi-coloured; painted; particolored; particoloured; piebald; pied; varicolored; varicoloured;having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly;
#7 (adj sat) - assorted; miscellaneous; mixed; sundry;consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds;
mournful(adj sat) - doleful;filled with or evoking sadness;
#2 (adj sat) - plaintive;expressing sorrow;
mundane(adj sat) - terrene;belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly;
#2 (adj sat) - everyday; quotidian; routine; unremarkable; workaday;found in the ordinary course of events;
#3 (adj sat) - terrestrial;concerned with the world or worldly matters;
muse(n) - the source of an artist's inspiration;
#2 (n) - in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science;
#3 (v) - chew over; contemplate; excogitate; meditate; mull; mull over; ponder; reflect; ruminate; speculate; think over;reflect deeply on a subject;
needless(adj sat) - gratuitous; uncalled-for;unnecessary and unwarranted;
neglect(n) - disregard;willful lack of care and attention;
#2 (n) - carelessness; negligence; nonperformance;failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances;
#3 (n) - neglectfulness; negligence;the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern;
#4 (n) - disregard;lack of attention and due care;
#5 (n) - disuse;the state of something that has been unused and neglected;
#6 (v) - drop; leave out; miss; omit; overleap; overlook; pretermit;leave undone or leave out;
#7 (v) - fail to attend to;
#8 (v) - disregard; ignore;give little or no attention to;
#9 (v) - fail;fail to do something; leave something undone;
neighborhood(n) - neighbourhood;people living near one another;
#2 (n) - locality; neck of the woods; neighbourhood; vicinity;a surrounding or nearby region;
#3 (n) - an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community);
#4 (n) - region;the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of');
nemesis(n) - the goddess of divine retribution and vengeance;
#2 (n) - bane; curse; scourge;something causing misery or death;
nimble(adj sat) - agile; quick; spry;moving quickly and lightly;
#2 (adj sat) - agile;mentally quick;
nobody(n) - cipher; cypher; nonentity;a person of no influence;
nonchalant(adj sat) - casual; insouciant;marked by blithe unconcern;
northward(n) - due north; n; north;the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees;
#2 (adj sat) - northbound;moving toward the north;
#3 (adv) - north; northerly; northwards;in a northern direction;
notable(n) - guiding light; leading light; luminary; notability;a celebrity who is an inspiration to others;
#2 (adj sat) - celebrated; famed; famous; far-famed; illustrious; noted; renowned;widely known and esteemed;
#3 (adj sat) - noteworthy;worthy of notice;
notify(v) - advise; apprise; apprize; give notice; send word;inform (somebody) of something;
novelty(n) - bangle; bauble; fallal; gaud; gewgaw; trinket;cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing;
#2 (n) - knickknack;a small inexpensive mass-produced article;
#3 (n) - freshness;originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel;
#4 (n) - freshness;originality by virtue of being new and surprising;
novice(n) - beginner; initiate; tiro; tyro;someone new to a field or activity;
#2 (n) - novitiate;someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows;
numeric(adj sat) - numerical;measured or expressed in numbers;
#2 (adj) - numeral; numerical;of or relating to or denoting numbers;
numerous(adj sat) - legion;amounting to a large indefinite number;
nutrient(n) - food;any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue;
#2 (n) - any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis;
#3 (adj sat) - alimental; alimentary; nourishing; nutritious; nutritive;of or providing nourishment;
obstruct(v) - block; close up; impede; jam; obturate; occlude;block passage through;
#2 (v) - block;shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight;
#3 (v) - block; blockade; embarrass; hinder; stymie; stymy;hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of;
occupant(n) - occupier; resident;someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there;
odious(adj sat) - abominable; detestable; execrable;unequivocally detestable;
offence(n) - crime; criminal offence; criminal offense; law-breaking; offense;an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act;
#2 (n) - offense; offensive;the action of attacking an enemy;
#3 (n) - discourtesy; offense; offensive activity;a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others;
#4 (n) - offense; umbrage;a feeling of anger caused by being offended;
#5 (n) - offense;the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score;
offense(n) - crime; criminal offence; criminal offense; law-breaking; offence;an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act;
#2 (n) - offence; offensive;the action of attacking an enemy;
#3 (n) - discourtesy; offence; offensive activity;a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others;
#4 (n) - offence; umbrage;a feeling of anger caused by being offended;
#5 (n) - offence;the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score;
offset(n) - set-back; setoff;structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly;
#2 (n) - offset printing;a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper;
#3 (n) - branch; offshoot; outgrowth;a natural consequence of development;
#4 (n) - runner; stolon;a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips;
#5 (n) - counterbalance;a compensating equivalent;
#6 (n) - beginning; commencement; first; get-go; kickoff; outset; showtime; start; starting time;the time at which something is supposed to begin;
#7 (v) - produce by offset printing;
#8 (v) - create an offset in;
#9 (v) - cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface;
#10 (v) - cancel; set off;make up for;
#11 (v) - countervail;compensate for or counterbalance;
offspring(n) - young;any immature animal;
#2 (n) - materialisation; materialization;something that comes into existence as a result;
#3 (n) - issue; progeny;the immediate descendants of a person;
old-fashioned(adj sat) - antique; demode; ex; old-hat; outmoded; passe; passee;out of fashion;
ominous(adj sat) - ill; inauspicious;presaging ill fortune;
#2 (adj sat) - baleful; forbidding; menacing; minacious; minatory; sinister; threatening;threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;
onward(adv) - ahead; forrader; forward; forwards; onwards;in a forward direction;
#2 (adv) - forth; forward;forward in time or order or degree;
open(n) - surface;information that has become public;
#2 (n) - a tournament in which both professionals and amateurs may play;
#3 (n) - open air; outdoors; out-of-doors;where the air is unconfined;
#4 (n) - clear;a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water;
#5 (v) - open up;make available;
#6 (v) - open up;become available;
#7 (v) - make the opening move;
#8 (v) - open up;cause to open or to become open;
#9 (v) - open up;become open;
#10 (v) - spread; spread out; unfold;spread out or open from a closed or folded state;
#11 (v) - display the contents of a file or start an application as on a computer;
#12 (v) - afford; give;afford access to;
#13 (v) - begin or set in action, of meetings, speeches, recitals, etc.;
#14 (v) - open up;start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning;
#15 (v) - have an opening or passage or outlet;
#16 (adj sat) - ready for business;
#17 (adj sat) - not having been filled;
#18 (adj sat) - candid; heart-to-heart;openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness;
#19 (adj sat) - without undue constriction as from e.g. tenseness or inhibition;
#20 (adj sat) - clear;affording free passage or view;
#21 (adj) - unfastened;affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed;
#22 (adj) - affording free passage or access;
#23 (adj) - opened;used of mouth or eyes;
#24 (adj sat) - having no protecting cover or enclosure;
#25 (adj) - of an interval that contains neither of its endpoints;
#26 (adj) - overt;open and observable; not secret or hidden;
#27 (adj sat) - open to or in view of all;
#28 (adj sat) - exposed;with no protection or shield;
#29 (adj) - receptive;ready or willing to receive favorably;
#30 (adj sat) - accessible to all;
#31 (adj sat) - opened;not sealed or having been unsealed;
#32 (adj sat) - undecided; undetermined; unresolved;not brought to a conclusion; subject to further thought;
#33 (adj sat) - loose;full of small openings or gaps;
#34 (adj sat) - capable; subject;possibly accepting or permitting;
#35 (adj sat) - not requiring union membership;
#36 (adj sat) - assailable; undefendable; undefended;not defended or capable of being defended;
opposite(n) - antonym; opposite word;a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other;
#2 (n) - opponent; opposition;a contestant that you are matched against;
#3 (n) - contrary; reverse;a relation of direct opposition;
#4 (n) - inverse;something inverted in sequence or character or effect;
#5 (adj) - paired;of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem;
#6 (adj sat) - diametric; diametrical; polar;characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed;
#7 (adj sat) - altogether different in nature or quality or significance;
#8 (adj sat) - the other one of a complementary pair;
#9 (adj sat) - being directly across from each other; facing;
#10 (adj sat) - moving or facing away from each other;
#11 (adv) - face-to-face;directly facing each other;
oppress(v) - crush; suppress;come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority;
#2 (v) - persecute;cause to suffer;
optimal(adj sat) - optimum;most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied;
opulent(adj sat) - deluxe; gilded; grand; luxurious; princely; sumptuous;rich and superior in quality;
ostentatious(adj) - pretentious;intended to attract notice and impress others;
#2 (adj sat) - pretentious;tawdry or vulgar;
outlaw(n) - criminal; crook; felon; malefactor;someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime;
#2 (v) - criminalise; criminalize; illegalise; illegalize;declare illegal; outlaw;
#3 (adj sat) - lawless;disobedient to or defiant of law;
#4 (adj sat) - illegitimate; illicit; outlawed; unlawful;contrary to or forbidden by law;
outline(n) - schema; scheme;a schematic or preliminary plan;
#2 (n) - abstract; precis; synopsis;a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory;
#3 (n) - lineation;the line that appears to bound an object;
#4 (v) - adumbrate; sketch;describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of;
#5 (v) - delineate; limn;trace the shape of;
#6 (v) - draft;draw up an outline or sketch for something;
pacify(v) - fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location);
#2 (v) - appease; assuage; conciliate; gentle; gruntle; lenify; mollify; placate;cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
pack(n) - a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film);
#2 (n) - a bundle (especially one carried on the back);
#3 (n) - a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect;
#4 (n) - face pack;a cream that cleanses and tones the skin;
#5 (n) - a complete collection of similar things;
#6 (n) - a group of hunting animals;
#7 (n) - camp; clique; coterie; ingroup; inner circle;an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose;
#8 (n) - gang; mob; ring;an association of criminals;
#9 (n) - battalion; large number; multitude; plurality;a large indefinite number;
#10 (v) - treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood;
#11 (v) - carry, as on one's back;
#12 (v) - arrange in a container;
#13 (v) - load down;load with a pack;
#14 (v) - bundle; compact; wad;compress into a wad;
#15 (v) - compact;have the property of being packable or of compacting easily;
#16 (v) - seal with packing;
#17 (v) - tamp; tamp down;press down tightly;
#18 (v) - backpack;hike with a backpack;
#19 (v) - jam; mob; pile; throng;press tightly together or cram;
#20 (v) - fill to capacity;
#21 (v) - set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome;
#22 (v) - carry; take;have with oneself; have on one's person;
package(n) - parcel;a wrapped container;
#2 (n) - computer software; software; software package; software program; software system;written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory;
#3 (n) - bundle; packet; parcel;a collection of things wrapped or boxed together;
#4 (v) - box;put into a box;
pale(n) - picket;a wooden strip forming part of a fence;
#2 (v) - blanch; blench;turn pale, as if in fear;
#3 (adj sat) - pallid; wan;abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress;
#4 (adj sat) - pallid;lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness;
#5 (adj sat) - very light colored; highly diluted with white;
#6 (adj sat) - not full or rich;
#7 (adj sat) - pallid; sick; wan;lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble;
palliate(v) - alleviate; assuage; relieve;provide physical relief, as from pain;
#2 (v) - extenuate; mitigate;lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of;
pandemonium(n) - bedlam; chaos; topsy-turvydom; topsy-turvyness;a state of extreme confusion and disorder;
panegyric(n) - encomium; eulogy; paean; pean;a formal expression of praise;
#2 (adj sat) - encomiastic; eulogistic; panegyrical;formally expressing praise;
paralyse(v) - paralyze;cause to be paralyzed and immobile;
#2 (v) - paralyze;make powerless and unable to function;
paramount(adj sat) - overriding; predominant; predominate; preponderant; preponderating;having superior power and influence;
parlor(n) - front room; living room; living-room; parlour; sitting room;a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax;
#2 (n) - parlour;reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received;
parody(n) - mockery; takeoff;humorous or satirical mimicry;
#2 (n) - burlesque; charade; lampoon; mockery; pasquinade; put-on; sendup; spoof; takeoff; travesty;a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way;
#3 (v) - burlesque; spoof;make a parody of;
#4 (v) - make a spoof of or make fun of;
parsimonious(adj sat) - penurious;excessively unwilling to spend;
pathetic(adj sat) - ridiculous; silly;inspiring scornful pity;
#2 (adj sat) - pitiable; pitiful;inspiring mixed contempt and pity;
#3 (adj sat) - hapless; miserable; misfortunate; piteous; pitiable; pitiful; poor; wretched;deserving or inciting pity;
penchant(n) - predilection; preference; taste;a strong liking;
penury(n) - indigence; need; pauperism; pauperization;a state of extreme poverty or destitution;
perennial(n) - a plant lasting for three seasons or more;
#2 (adj sat) - recurrent; repeated;recurring again and again;
#3 (adj) - lasting three seasons or more;
#4 (adj sat) - lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal;
perilous(adj sat) - parlous; precarious; touch-and-go;fraught with danger;
perpetual(adj sat) - ceaseless; constant; incessant; never-ending; unceasing; unremitting;uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing;
#2 (adj sat) - aeonian; ageless; eonian; eternal; everlasting; unceasing; unending;continuing forever or indefinitely;
persevere(v) - hang in; hang on; hold on; persist;be persistent, refuse to stop;
persistence(n) - perseverance; perseveration;the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior;
#2 (n) - doggedness; perseverance; persistency; pertinacity; tenaciousness; tenacity;persistent determination;
#3 (n) - continuity;the property of a continuous and connected period of time;
persistent(adj sat) - relentless; unrelenting;never-ceasing;
#2 (adj sat) - haunting;continually recurring to the mind;
#3 (adj) - lasting;retained; not shed;
#4 (adj sat) - dogged; dour; pertinacious; tenacious; unyielding;stubbornly unyielding;
pertinacious(adj sat) - dogged; dour; persistent; tenacious; unyielding;stubbornly unyielding;
pertinent(adj sat) - apposite; apt;being of striking appropriateness and pertinence;
#2 (adj sat) - having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand;
petulant(adj sat) - cranky; fractious; irritable; nettlesome; peckish; peevish; pettish; scratchy; techy; testy; tetchy;easily irritated or annoyed;
philosophic(adj sat) - philosophical;characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment;
#2 (adj) - philosophical;of or relating to philosophy or philosophers;
physiognomy(n) - countenance; kisser; mug; phiz; smiler; visage;the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British);
pied(adj sat) - calico; motley; multicolor; multi-color; multicolored; multi-colored; multicolour; multi-colour; multicoloured; multi-coloured; painted; particolored; particoloured; piebald; varicolored; varicoloured;having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly;
pithy(adj sat) - sententious;concise and full of meaning;
pitiable(adj sat) - pathetic; pitiful;inspiring mixed contempt and pity;
#2 (adj sat) - hapless; miserable; misfortunate; pathetic; piteous; pitiful; poor; wretched;deserving or inciting pity;
pitiful(adj sat) - pathetic; pitiable;inspiring mixed contempt and pity;
#2 (adj sat) - hapless; miserable; misfortunate; pathetic; piteous; pitiable; poor; wretched;deserving or inciting pity;
#3 (adj sat) - deplorable; distressing; lamentable; sad; sorry;bad; unfortunate;
placate(v) - appease; assuage; conciliate; gentle; gruntle; lenify; mollify; pacify;cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
place(n) - berth; billet; office; position; post; situation; spot;a job in an organization;
#2 (n) - lieu; position; stead;the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another;
#3 (n) - an abstract mental location;
#4 (n) - blank space; space;a blank area;
#5 (n) - the passage that is being read;
#6 (n) - position;an item on a list or in a sequence;
#7 (n) - property;any area set aside for a particular purpose;
#8 (n) - home;where you live at a particular time;
#9 (n) - piazza; plaza;a public square with room for pedestrians;
#10 (n) - position;the particular portion of space occupied by something;
#11 (n) - a general vicinity;
#12 (n) - seat;a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane);
#13 (n) - spot; topographic point;a point located with respect to surface features of some region;
#14 (n) - shoes;a particular situation;
#15 (n) - station;proper or designated social situation;
#16 (n) - proper or appropriate position or location;
#17 (v) - identify;recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something;
#18 (v) - grade; order; range; rank; rate;assign a rank or rating to;
#19 (v) - come in; come out;take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal;
#20 (v) - put; set;estimate;
#21 (v) - to arrange for;
#22 (v) - sing a note with the correct pitch;
#23 (v) - finish second or better in a horse or dog race;
#24 (v) - post; send; station;assign to a station;
#25 (v) - aim; direct; point; target;intend (something) to move towards a certain goal;
#26 (v) - lay; pose; position; put; set;put into a certain place or abstract location;
#27 (v) - localise; localize; set;locate;
#28 (v) - commit; invest; put;make an investment;
#29 (v) - locate; site;assign a location to;
#30 (v) - place somebody in a particular situation or location;
#31 (v) - assign to (a job or a home);
#32 (v) - localise; localize;identify the location or place of;
platitude(n) - banality; bromide; cliche; commonplace;a trite or obvious remark;
plenty(n) - plenitude; plenteousness; plentifulness; plentitude;a full supply;
#2 (n) - batch; deal; flock; good deal; great deal; hatful; heap; lot; mass; mess; mickle; mint; mountain; muckle; passel; peck; pile; pot; quite a little; raft; sight; slew; spate; stack; tidy sum; wad;a large number or amount or extent;
#3 (adv) - enough;as much as necessary;
plight(n) - troth;a solemn pledge of fidelity;
#2 (n) - predicament; quandary;a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one;
#3 (v) - pledge;promise solemnly and formally;
#4 (v) - affiance; betroth; engage;give to in marriage;
poke(n) - biff; clout; lick; punch; slug;a blow with the fist;
#2 (n) - jab; jabbing; poking; thrust; thrusting;a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow);
#3 (n) - carrier bag; paper bag; sack;a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases;
#4 (n) - dawdler; drone; laggard; lagger; trailer;someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind;
#5 (n) - garget; phytolacca americana; pigeon berry; scoke;tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous;
#6 (v) - dig; jab; prod; stab;poke or thrust abruptly;
#7 (v) - make a hole by poking;
#8 (v) - pound; thump;hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument;
#9 (v) - stir by poking;
#10 (v) - horn in; intrude; nose; pry;search or inquire in a meddlesome way;
polar(adj sat) - having a pair of equal and opposite charges;
#2 (adj sat) - pivotal;being of crucial importance;
#3 (adj sat) - arctic; frigid; gelid; glacial; icy;extremely cold;
#4 (adj sat) - diametric; diametrical; opposite;characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed;
#5 (adj) - of or existing at or near a geographical pole or within the Arctic or Antarctic Circles;
#6 (adj) - located at or near or coming from the earth's poles;
polemic(n) - a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma);
#2 (n) - polemicist; polemist;a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology);
#3 (adj sat) - polemical;of or involving dispute or controversy;
polite(adj) - showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc.;
#2 (adj) - civil;not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others;
#3 (adj sat) - civilised; civilized; cultivated; cultured; genteel;marked by refinement in taste and manners;
ponder(v) - chew over; contemplate; excogitate; meditate; mull; mull over; muse; reflect; ruminate; speculate; think over;reflect deeply on a subject;
portent(n) - omen; presage; prodigy; prognostic; prognostication;a sign of something about to happen;
position(n) - the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom;
#2 (n) - berth; billet; office; place; post; situation; spot;a job in an organization;
#3 (n) - lieu; place; stead;the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another;
#4 (n) - the role assigned to an individual player;
#5 (n) - emplacement; locating; location; placement; positioning;the act of putting something in a certain place;
#6 (n) - spatial relation;the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated;
#7 (n) - attitude; posture;the arrangement of the body and its limbs;
#8 (n) - posture; stance;a rationalized mental attitude;
#9 (n) - perspective; view;a way of regarding situations or topics etc.;
#10 (n) - place;an item on a list or in a sequence;
#11 (n) - side;an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute;
#12 (n) - place;the particular portion of space occupied by something;
#13 (n) - the appropriate or customary location;
#14 (n) - military position;a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons;
#15 (n) - situation;a condition or position in which you find yourself;
#16 (n) - status;the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society;
#17 (v) - lay; place; pose; put; set;put into a certain place or abstract location;
#18 (v) - cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation;
postpone(v) - defer; hold over; prorogue; put off; put over; remit; set back; shelve; table;hold back to a later time;
postscript(n) - addendum; supplement;textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end;
#2 (n) - ps;a note appended to a letter after the signature;
practicable(adj sat) - executable; feasible; viable; workable;capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are;
#2 (adj sat) - operable;usable for a specific purpose;
pray(v) - beg; implore;call upon in supplication; entreat;
#2 (v) - address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer;
precedence(n) - precedency; precession;the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony);
#2 (n) - antecedence; antecedency; anteriority; precedency; priority;preceding in time;
#3 (n) - precedency; priority;status established in order of importance or urgency;
predominant(adj sat) - overriding; paramount; predominate; preponderant; preponderating;having superior power and influence;
#2 (adj sat) - dominant; prevailing; prevalent; rife;most frequent or common;
preference(n) - grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties);
#2 (n) - druthers;the right or chance to choose;
#3 (n) - orientation; predilection;a predisposition in favor of something;
#4 (n) - penchant; predilection; taste;a strong liking;
premonition(n) - forewarning;an early warning about a future event;
#2 (n) - boding; foreboding; presentiment;a feeling of evil to come;
prerogative(n) - exclusive right; perquisite; privilege;a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right);
presage(n) - omen; portent; prodigy; prognostic; prognostication;a sign of something about to happen;
#2 (n) - a foreboding about what is about to happen;
#3 (v) - augur; auspicate; betoken; bode; forecast; foreshadow; foretell; omen; portend; predict; prefigure; prognosticate;indicate by signs;
presumption(n) - a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming;
#2 (n) - assumption; effrontery; presumptuousness;audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to;
#3 (n) - an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed;
#4 (n) - given; precondition;an assumption that is taken for granted;
pretense(n) - feigning; pretence; pretending; simulation;the act of giving a false appearance;
#2 (n) - guise; pretence; pretext;an artful or simulated semblance;
#3 (n) - pretence; pretension;a false or unsupportable quality;
#4 (n) - make-believe; pretence;imaginative intellectual play;
#5 (n) - dissembling; feigning; pretence;pretending with intention to deceive;
pretext(n) - guise; pretence; pretense;an artful or simulated semblance;
#2 (n) - stalking-horse;something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason;
prevalent(adj sat) - dominant; predominant; prevailing; rife;most frequent or common;
prevaricate(v) - beat around the bush; equivocate; palter; tergiversate;be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information;
prim(v) - prim out; prim up;dress primly;
#2 (v) - contract one's lips;
#3 (v) - assume a prim appearance;
#4 (adj sat) - priggish; prissy; prudish; puritanical; square-toed; straightlaced; straight-laced; straitlaced; strait-laced; tight-laced; victorian;exaggeratedly proper;
#5 (adj sat) - dainty; mincing; niminy-piminy; twee;affectedly dainty or refined;
proclaim(v) - exalt; extol; glorify; laud;praise, glorify, or honor;
#2 (v) - exclaim; promulgate;state or announce;
#3 (v) - declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles;
#4 (v) - predicate;affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of;
proclivity(n) - leaning; propensity;a natural inclination;
prodigal(n) - profligate; squanderer;a recklessly extravagant consumer;
#2 (adj sat) - extravagant; profligate; spendthrift;recklessly wasteful;
profane(v) - desecrate; outrage; violate;violate the sacred character of a place or language;
#2 (v) - corrupt; debase; debauch; demoralise; demoralize; deprave; misdirect; pervert; subvert; vitiate;corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality;
#3 (adj sat) - blasphemous; blue;characterized by profanity or cursing;
#4 (adj sat) - blasphemous; sacrilegious;grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred;
#5 (adj sat) - unconsecrated; unsanctified;not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled;
#6 (adj) - secular;not concerned with or devoted to religion;
profuse(adj sat) - exuberant; lush; luxuriant; riotous;produced or growing in extreme abundance;
prolong(v) - draw out; extend; protract;lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer;
#2 (v) - keep up; sustain;lengthen or extend in duration or space;
propagate(v) - multiply sexually or asexually;
#2 (v) - cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering;
#3 (v) - broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; spread;cause to become widely known;
#4 (v) - transmit or cause to broaden or spread;
#5 (v) - spread;become distributed or widespread;
#6 (v) - transmit;
#7 (v) - travel through the air;
#8 (v) - transmit from one generation to the next;
proscribe(v) - disallow; forbid; interdict; nix; prohibit; veto;command against;
prototype(n) - epitome; image; paradigm;a standard or typical example;
proverb(n) - adage; byword; saw;a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people;
proximity(n) - propinquity;the property of being close together;
#2 (n) - law of proximity;a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) objects or events that are near to one another (in space or time) are perceived as belonging together as a unit;
#3 (n) - the region close around a person or thing;
pursuit(n) - chase; following; pursual;the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture;
#2 (n) - interest; pastime;a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly);
#3 (n) - avocation; by-line; hobby; sideline; spare-time activity;an auxiliary activity;
#4 (n) - pursuance; quest;a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria;
quandary(n) - dilemma;state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options;
#2 (n) - plight; predicament;a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one;
radiant(adj sat) - beaming; beamy; effulgent; refulgent;radiating or as if radiating light;
rail(n) - any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud;
#2 (n) - a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal);
#3 (n) - short for railway;
#4 (n) - railing;a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports;
#5 (n) - rails; runway; track;a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll;
#6 (v) - fulminate;criticize severely;
#7 (v) - revile; vilify; vituperate;spread negative information about;
#8 (v) - inveigh;complain bitterly;
#9 (v) - fish with a handline over the rails of a boat;
#10 (v) - lay with rails;
#11 (v) - train;travel by rail or train;
#12 (v) - convey (goods etc.) by rails;
#13 (v) - rail off;separate with a railing;
#14 (v) - provide with rails;
#15 (v) - rail in;enclose with rails;
rain(n) - pelting;anything happening rapidly or in quick successive;
#2 (n) - rainfall;water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere;
#3 (n) - rainwater;drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds;
#4 (v) - rain down;precipitate as rain;
rally(n) - rallying;the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort;
#2 (n) - exchange;an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes;
#3 (n) - an automobile race run over public roads;
#4 (n) - mass meeting;a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm;
#5 (n) - a marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness;
#6 (v) - rebound;return to a former condition;
#7 (v) - bait; cod; rag; razz; ride; tantalise; tantalize; taunt; tease; twit;harass with persistent criticism or carping;
#8 (v) - call up; mobilise; mobilize;call to arms; of military personnel;
#9 (v) - come up; muster; muster up; summon;gather or bring together;
#10 (v) - beat up; drum up;gather;
ramble(n) - meander;an aimless amble on a winding course;
#2 (v) - cast; drift; range; roam; roll; rove; stray; swan; tramp; vagabond; wander;move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment;
#3 (v) - jog; ramble on;continue talking or writing in a desultory manner;
rank(n) - rank and file;the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army);
#2 (n) - membership;the body of members of an organization or group;
#3 (n) - a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another;
#4 (n) - social rank; social station; social status;position in a social hierarchy;
#5 (n) - relative status;
#6 (v) - grade; order; place; range; rate;assign a rank or rating to;
#7 (v) - take or have a position relative to others;
#8 (v) - outrank;take precedence or surpass others in rank;
#9 (adj sat) - growing profusely;
#10 (adj sat) - absolute; downright; out-and-out; right-down; sheer;complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers;
#11 (adj sat) - crying; egregious; flagrant; glaring; gross;conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible;
#12 (adj sat) - very fertile; producing profuse growth;
#13 (adj sat) - very offensive in smell or taste;
rapacious(adj sat) - edacious; esurient; ravening; ravenous; voracious; wolfish;devouring or craving food in great quantities;
#2 (adj sat) - ravening; voracious;excessively greedy and grasping;
#3 (adj sat) - predatory; raptorial; ravening; vulturine; vulturous;living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey;
rapture(n) - ecstasy; exaltation; raptus; transport;a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;
#2 (n) - ecstasy;a state of elated bliss;
rascal(n) - imp; monkey; rapscallion; scalawag; scallywag; scamp;one who is playfully mischievous;
#2 (n) - knave; rapscallion; rogue; scalawag; scallywag; varlet;a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel;
reap(v) - glean; harvest;gather, as of natural products;
#2 (v) - draw;get or derive;
rebellion(n) - insurrection; revolt; rising; uprising;organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another;
#2 (n) - refusal to accept some authority or code or convention;
rebellious(adj sat) - disaffected; ill-affected; malcontent;discontented as toward authority;
#2 (adj sat) - participating in organized resistance to a constituted government;
#3 (adj sat) - resisting control or authority;
rebuke(n) - reprehension; reprimand; reproof; reproval;an act or expression of criticism and censure;
#2 (v) - bawl out; berate; call down; call on the carpet; chew out; chew up; chide; dress down; have words; jaw; lambast; lambaste; lecture; rag; remonstrate; reprimand; reproof; scold; take to task; trounce;censure severely or angrily;
recant(v) - abjure; forswear; resile; retract;formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure;
recreant(n) - apostate; deserter; ratter; renegade; turncoat;a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.;
#2 (n) - craven; poltroon;an abject coward;
#3 (adj sat) - craven;lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful;
#4 (adj sat) - renegade;having deserted a cause or principle;
redolent(adj sat) - aromatic;having a strong pleasant odor;
#2 (adj sat) - smelling;noticeably odorous;
#3 (adj sat) - evocative; remindful; reminiscent; resonant;serving to bring to mind;
refresh(v) - freshen; refreshen;make fresh again;
#2 (v) - freshen; freshen up; refreshen;become or make oneself fresh again;
#3 (v) - freshen;make (to feel) fresh;
#4 (v) - brush up; review;refresh one's memory;
refute(v) - controvert; rebut;prove to be false or incorrect;
#2 (v) - rebut;overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof;
remonstrate(v) - bawl out; berate; call down; call on the carpet; chew out; chew up; chide; dress down; have words; jaw; lambast; lambaste; lecture; rag; rebuke; reprimand; reproof; scold; take to task; trounce;censure severely or angrily;
#2 (v) - argue in protest or opposition;
#3 (v) - point out;present and urge reasons in opposition;
remorse(n) - compunction; self-reproach;a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed);
renounce(v) - disown; repudiate;cast off;
#2 (v) - foreswear; quit; relinquish;turn away from; give up;
#3 (v) - give up; resign; vacate;leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily;
#4 (v) - abdicate;give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations;
renovate(v) - animate; quicken; reanimate; recreate; repair; revive; revivify; vivify;give new life or energy to;
#2 (v) - freshen up; refurbish;make brighter and prettier;
#3 (v) - restitute;restore to a previous or better condition;
repeal(n) - abrogation; annulment;the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation;
#2 (v) - annul; countermand; lift; overturn; rescind; reverse; revoke; vacate;cancel officially;
repentance(n) - penance; penitence;remorse for your past conduct;
replete(v) - fill; sate; satiate;fill to satisfaction;
#2 (adj sat) - instinct;deeply filled or permeated;
#3 (adj sat) - full;filled to satisfaction with food or drink;
repose(n) - ease; relaxation; rest;freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility);
#2 (n) - placidity; quiet; serenity; tranquility; tranquillity;a disposition free from stress or emotion;
#3 (n) - ataraxis; heartsease; peace; peace of mind; peacefulness; serenity;the absence of mental stress or anxiety;
#4 (v) - put or confide something in a person or thing;
#5 (v) - to put something (eg trust) in something;
#6 (v) - lay; put down;put in a horizontal position;
#7 (v) - recline; recumb;lean in a comfortable resting position;
#8 (v) - lie when dead;
#9 (v) - reside; rest;be inherent or innate in;
reprimand(n) - rebuke; reprehension; reproof; reproval;an act or expression of criticism and censure;
#2 (v) - censure; criminate;rebuke formally;
#3 (v) - bawl out; berate; call down; call on the carpet; chew out; chew up; chide; dress down; have words; jaw; lambast; lambaste; lecture; rag; rebuke; remonstrate; reproof; scold; take to task; trounce;censure severely or angrily;
reproach(n) - a mild rebuke or criticism;
#2 (n) - disgrace or shame;
#3 (v) - upbraid;express criticism towards;
reprobate(n) - miscreant;a person without moral scruples;
#2 (v) - reject (documents) as invalid;
#3 (v) - condemn; decry; excoriate; objurgate;express strong disapproval of;
#4 (v) - abandon to eternal damnation;
#5 (adj sat) - depraved; perverse; perverted;deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good;
reproduction(n) - breeding; facts of life; procreation;the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring;
#2 (n) - replication;the act of making copies;
#3 (n) - replica; replication;copy that is not the original; something that has been copied;
#4 (n) - reproductive memory;recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall;
#5 (n) - the process of generating offspring;
repugnant(adj sat) - abhorrent; detestable; obscene; repulsive;offensive to the mind;
rescind(v) - annul; countermand; lift; overturn; repeal; reverse; revoke; vacate;cancel officially;
resile(v) - return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed;
#2 (v) - abjure; forswear; recant; retract;formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure;
#3 (v) - bounce; bound; rebound; recoil; reverberate; ricochet; spring; take a hop;spring back; spring away from an impact;
#4 (v) - pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.;
resonant(adj sat) - evocative; redolent; remindful; reminiscent;serving to bring to mind;
#2 (adj sat) - resonating; resounding; reverberating; reverberative;characterized by resonance;
resuscitate(v) - come to; revive;return to consciousness;
#2 (v) - revive;cause to regain consciousness;
retract(v) - abjure; forswear; recant; resile;formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure;
#2 (v) - draw in;pull inward or towards a center;
#3 (v) - draw back; pull back;use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ);
#4 (v) - shrink back;pull away from a source of disgust or fear;
retrieve(v) - call back; call up; recall; recollect; remember; think;recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection;
#2 (v) - run after, pick up, and bring to the master;
#3 (v) - go for and bring back;
#4 (v) - find; recover; regain;get or find back; recover the use of;
reunification(n) - reunion;the act of coming together again;
revenge(n) - retaliation;action taken in return for an injury or offense;
#2 (v) - avenge; retaliate;take revenge for a perceived wrong;
revere(n) - revers;a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side;
#2 (n) - paul revere;American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming (1735-1818);
#3 (v) - hero-worship; idolise; idolize; worship;love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol;
#4 (v) - fear; reverence; venerate;regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of;
revered(adj sat) - august; venerable;profoundly honored;
reverence(n) - an act showing respect (especially a bow or curtsy);
#2 (n) - a reverent mental attitude;
#3 (n) - awe; fear; veneration;a feeling of profound respect for someone or something;
#4 (v) - fear; revere; venerate;regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of;
review(n) - followup; follow-up; reexamination;a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment;
#2 (n) - inspection;a formal or official examination;
#3 (n) - brushup;practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory;
#4 (n) - a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court);
#5 (n) - reappraisal; reassessment; revaluation;a new appraisal or evaluation;
#6 (n) - critical review; critique; review article;an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play);
#7 (n) - recap; recapitulation;a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion;
#8 (n) - a periodical that publishes critical essays on current affairs or literature or art;
#9 (n) - revue;a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians;
#10 (n) - limited review;a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of financial data;
#11 (v) - reexamine;look at again; examine again;
#12 (v) - look back; retrospect;look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember;
#13 (v) - go over; survey;hold a review (of troops);
#14 (v) - brush up; refresh;refresh one's memory;
#15 (v) - critique;appraise critically;
ribbon(n) - notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming;
#2 (n) - typewriter ribbon;a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter;
#3 (n) - decoration; laurel wreath; medal; medallion; palm;an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event;
#4 (n) - thread;any long object resembling a thin line;
riddle(n) - a coarse sieve (as for gravel);
#2 (n) - brain-teaser; conundrum; enigma;a difficult problem;
#3 (v) - set a difficult problem or riddle;
#4 (v) - explain a riddle;
#5 (v) - speak in riddles;
#6 (v) - diffuse; imbue; interpenetrate; penetrate; permeate; pervade;spread or diffuse through;
#7 (v) - pierce with many holes;
#8 (v) - screen;separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff;
rigorous(adj sat) - stringent; tight;demanding strict attention to rules and procedures;
#2 (adj sat) - strict;rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard;
rival(n) - challenger; competition; competitor; contender;the contestant you hope to defeat;
#2 (v) - be the rival of, be in competition with;
#3 (v) - equal; match; touch;be equal to in quality or ability;
rivalry(n) - competition; contention;the act of competing as for profit or a prize;
roam(v) - cast; drift; ramble; range; roll; rove; stray; swan; tramp; vagabond; wander;move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment;
rotund(adj sat) - corpulent; obese; weighty;excessively fat;
#2 (adj sat) - orotund; pear-shaped; round;full and rich;
#3 (adj sat) - spherical in shape;
roundabout(n) - carousel; carrousel; merry-go-round; whirligig;a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement;
#2 (n) - circle; rotary; traffic circle;a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island;
#3 (adj sat) - circuitous; devious;deviating from a straight course;
#4 (adj sat) - circuitous;marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct;
ruckus(n) - commotion; din; ruction; rumpus; tumult;the act of making a noisy disturbance;
ruse(n) - artifice;a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture);
sacred(adj sat) - devoted exclusively to a single use or purpose or person;
#2 (adj sat) - consecrated; sanctified;made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use;
#3 (adj sat) - hallowed;worthy of religious veneration;
#4 (adj) - concerned with religion or religious purposes;
#5 (adj sat) - worthy of respect or dedication;
sacrosanct(adj sat) - inviolable; inviolate;must be kept sacred;
salacious(adj sat) - lewd; obscene; raunchy;suggestive of or tending to moral looseness;
#2 (adj sat) - lubricious; lustful; prurient;characterized by lust;
salary(n) - earnings; pay; remuneration; wage;something that remunerates;
sarcasm(n) - caustic remark; irony; satire;witty language used to convey insults or scorn;
satiate(v) - binge; englut; engorge; glut; gorge; gormandise; gormandize; gourmandize; ingurgitate; overeat; overgorge; overindulge; pig out; scarf out; stuff;overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself;
#2 (v) - fill; replete; sate;fill to satisfaction;
#3 (adj) - satiated;supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction;
satire(n) - caustic remark; irony; sarcasm;witty language used to convey insults or scorn;
savage(n) - beast; brute; wildcat; wolf;a cruelly rapacious person;
#2 (n) - barbarian;a member of an uncivilized people;
#3 (v) - blast; crucify; pillory;criticize harshly or violently;
#4 (v) - attack brutally and fiercely;
#5 (adj sat) - barbarian; barbaric; uncivilised; uncivilized; wild;without civilizing influences;
#6 (adj sat) - barbarous; brutal; cruel; fell; roughshod; vicious;able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering;
#7 (adj sat) - feral; ferine;wild and menacing;
#8 (adj sat) - ferocious; fierce; furious;marked by extreme and violent energy;
savant(n) - initiate; learned person; pundit;someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field;
scamper(n) - scramble; scurry;rushing about hastily in an undignified way;
#2 (v) - scurry; scuttle; skitter;to move about or proceed hurriedly;
scold(n) - common scold; nag; nagger; scolder;someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault;
#2 (v) - bawl out; berate; call down; call on the carpet; chew out; chew up; chide; dress down; have words; jaw; lambast; lambaste; lecture; rag; rebuke; remonstrate; reprimand; reproof; take to task; trounce;censure severely or angrily;
#3 (v) - grouch; grumble;show one's unhappiness or critical attitude;
scorn(n) - contempt;open disrespect for a person or thing;
#2 (n) - contempt; despite; disdain;lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike;
#3 (v) - disdain; freeze off; pooh-pooh; reject; spurn; turn down;reject with contempt;
#4 (v) - contemn; despise; disdain;look down on with disdain;
scratch(n) - mark; scar; scrape;an indication of damage;
#2 (n) - a handicap of zero strokes;
#3 (n) - cacography; scrawl; scribble;poor handwriting;
#4 (n) - scrape; scraping; scratching;a harsh noise made by scraping;
#5 (n) - chicken feed;dry mash for poultry;
#6 (n) - scratch line; start; starting line;a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game;
#7 (n) - a competitor who has withdrawn from competition;
#8 (n) - boodle; bread; cabbage; clams; dinero; dough; gelt; kale; lettuce; lolly; loot; lucre; moolah; pelf; shekels; simoleons; sugar; wampum;informal terms for money;
#9 (n) - dent; incision; prick; slit;a depression scratched or carved into a surface;
#10 (n) - abrasion; excoriation; scrape;an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off;
#11 (v) - chafe; fray; fret; rub;cause friction;
#12 (v) - scrape; scratch up;cut the surface of; wear away the surface of;
#13 (v) - engrave; grave; inscribe;carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface;
#14 (v) - come up; scrape; scrape up;gather (money or other resources) together over time;
#15 (v) - excise; expunge; strike;remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line;
#16 (v) - itch; rub;scrape or rub as if to relieve itching;
#17 (v) - call off; cancel; scrub;postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled;
scrupulous(adj sat) - conscientious; painstaking;characterized by extreme care and great effort;
#2 (adj) - having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled;
scurrilous(adj sat) - abusive; opprobrious;expressing offensive reproach;
sentimental(adj sat) - bathetic; drippy; hokey; kitschy; maudlin; mawkish; mushy; schmaltzy; schmalzy; slushy; soppy; soupy;effusively or insincerely emotional;
#2 (adj sat) - given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality;
sequester(v) - isolate; keep apart; sequestrate; set apart;set apart from others;
#2 (v) - seclude; sequestrate; withdraw;keep away from others;
#3 (v) - undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion;
#4 (v) - attach; confiscate; impound; seize;take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority;
#5 (v) - requisition forcibly, as of enemy property;
sere(adj sat) - dried-up; sear; shriveled; shrivelled; withered;having lost all moisture;
sewage(n) - sewerage;waste matter carried away in sewers or drains;
shade(n) - protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight;
#2 (n) - a representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment);
#3 (n) - tincture; tint; tone;a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color;
#4 (n) - ghost; specter; spectre; spook; wraith;a mental representation of some haunting experience;
#5 (n) - nicety; nuance; refinement; subtlety;a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude;
#6 (n) - tad;a slight amount or degree of difference;
#7 (n) - a position of relative inferiority;
#8 (n) - shadiness; shadowiness;relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body;
#9 (v) - pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree;
#10 (v) - vary slightly;
#11 (v) - protect from light, heat, or view;
#12 (v) - fill in;represent the effect of shade or shadow on;
#13 (v) - shade off; shadow;cast a shadow over;
shadow(n) - refuge from danger or observation;
#2 (n) - apparition; fantasm; phantasm; phantasma; phantom;something existing in perception only;
#3 (n) - tincture; trace; vestige;an indication that something has been present;
#4 (n) - a premonition of something adverse;
#5 (n) - dark; darkness;an unilluminated area;
#6 (n) - an inseparable companion;
#7 (n) - shadower; tail;a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements;
#8 (n) - a dominating and pervasive presence;
#9 (n) - shade within clear boundaries;
#10 (v) - follow, usually without the person's knowledge;
#11 (v) - dwarf; overshadow;make appear small by comparison;
#12 (v) - shade; shade off;cast a shadow over;
shamble(n) - shambling; shuffle; shuffling;walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet;
#2 (v) - scuffle; shuffle;walk by dragging one's feet;
shame(n) - pity;an unfortunate development;
#2 (n) - a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt;
#3 (n) - disgrace; ignominy;a state of dishonor;
#4 (v) - surpass or beat by a wide margin;
#5 (v) - cause to be ashamed;
#6 (v) - compel through a sense of shame;
#7 (v) - attaint; disgrace; dishonor; dishonour;bring shame or dishonor upon;
shameful(adj sat) - black; disgraceful; ignominious; inglorious; opprobrious;deserving or bringing disgrace or shame;
#2 (adj sat) - disgraceful; scandalous; shocking;giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation;
sheer(v) - cause to sheer;
#2 (v) - curve; cut; slew; slue; swerve; trend; veer;turn sharply; change direction abruptly;
#3 (adj sat) - absolute; downright; out-and-out; rank; right-down;complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers;
#4 (adj sat) - bluff; bold;very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front;
#5 (adj sat) - plain; unmingled; unmixed;not mixed with extraneous elements;
#6 (adj sat) - cobwebby; diaphanous; filmy; gauze-like; gauzy; gossamer; see-through; transparent; vaporous; vapourous;so thin as to transmit light;
#7 (adv) - directly;
#8 (adv) - perpendicularly;straight up or down without a break;
shelf(n) - a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects;
#2 (n) - ledge;a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water;
shell(n) - carapace; cuticle; shield;hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles;
#2 (n) - the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod;
#3 (n) - plate; scale;a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners);
#4 (n) - ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun;
#5 (n) - case; casing;the housing or outer covering of something;
#6 (n) - racing shell;a very light narrow racing boat;
#7 (n) - a rigid covering that envelops an object;
#8 (n) - eggshell;the exterior covering of a bird's egg;
#9 (n) - the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts;
#10 (n) - the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals;
#11 (v) - husk;remove the husks from;
#12 (v) - remove from its shell or outer covering;
#13 (v) - beat; beat out; crush; trounce; vanquish;come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;
#14 (v) - blast;use explosives on;
#15 (v) - look for and collect shells by the seashore;
#16 (v) - hit the pitches of hard and regularly;
#17 (v) - fall out of the pod or husk;
#18 (v) - blast;create by using explosives;
shorten(v) - bowdlerise; bowdlerize; castrate; expurgate;edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate;
#2 (v) - abbreviate; abridge; contract; cut; foreshorten; reduce;reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;
#3 (v) - become short or shorter;
#4 (v) - make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration;
#5 (v) - make short or shorter;
shrewd(adj sat) - astute; sharp;marked by practical hardheaded intelligence;
#2 (adj sat) - calculating; calculative; conniving; scheming;used of persons;
shrimp(n) - small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible;
#2 (n) - prawn;any of various edible decapod crustaceans;
#3 (n) - half-pint; peewee; runt;disparaging terms for small people;
#4 (v) - fish for shrimp;
shun(v) - eschew;avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of;
#2 (v) - ban; banish; blackball; cast out; ostracise; ostracize;expel from a community or group;
sick(n) - people who are sick;
#2 (v) - barf; be sick; cast; cat; chuck; disgorge; honk; puke; purge; regorge; regurgitate; retch; spew; spue; throw up; upchuck; vomit; vomit up;eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth;
#3 (adj sat) - ghastly; grim; grisly; gruesome; macabre;shockingly repellent; inspiring horror;
#4 (adj sat) - deeply affected by a strong feeling;
#5 (adj sat) - disgusted; fed up; sick of; tired of;having a strong distaste from surfeit;
#6 (adj sat) - brainsick; crazy; demented; disturbed; mad; unbalanced; unhinged;affected with madness or insanity;
#7 (adj sat) - pale; pallid; wan;lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble;
#8 (adj) - ill;affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function;
#9 (adj sat) - nauseated; nauseous; queasy; sickish;feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit;
silent(adj sat) - dumb; mute;unable to speak because of hereditary deafness;
#2 (adj sat) - having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility;
#3 (adj sat) - unsounded;not made to sound;
#4 (adj sat) - mum;failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to;
#5 (adj sat) - tacit; understood;implied by or inferred from actions or statements;
#6 (adj sat) - soundless; still;marked by absence of sound;
silver(n) - flatware;silverware eating utensils;
#2 (n) - silver medal;a trophy made of silver (or having the appearance of silver) that is usually awarded for winning second place in a competition;
#3 (n) - ash gray; ash grey; silver gray; silver grey;a light shade of grey;
#4 (n) - coins made of silver;
#5 (n) - ag; atomic number 47;a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography;
#6 (v) - turn silver;
#7 (v) - make silver in color;
#8 (v) - coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam;
#9 (adj sat) - eloquent; facile; fluent; silver-tongued; smooth-spoken;expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively;
#10 (adj sat) - silvern; silvery;having the white lustrous sheen of silver;
#11 (adj sat) - argent; silverish; silvery;of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver;
#12 (adj sat) - made from or largely consisting of silver;
sinister(adj sat) - baleful; forbidding; menacing; minacious; minatory; ominous; threatening;threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;
#2 (adj sat) - on or starting from the wearer's left;
#3 (adj sat) - black; dark;stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable;
slack(n) - a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely;
#2 (n) - slackness;the quality of being loose (not taut);
#3 (n) - mire; morass; quag; quagmire;a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot;
#4 (n) - slack water;a stretch of water without current or movement;
#5 (n) - drop-off; falling off; falloff; slump;a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality;
#6 (n) - dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve;
#7 (v) - slake;cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water;
#8 (v) - abate; die away; let up; slack off;become less in amount or intensity;
#9 (v) - abate; slake;make less active or intense;
#10 (v) - slacken; slow; slow down; slow up;become slow or slower;
#11 (v) - relax; slack up; slacken;make less active or fast;
#12 (v) - release tension on;
#13 (v) - be inattentive to, or neglect;
#14 (v) - avoid responsibilities and work, be idle;
#15 (adj sat) - lax;lacking in rigor or strictness;
#16 (adj sat) - flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide;
#17 (adj sat) - loose;not tense or taut;
slander(n) - aspersion; calumny; defamation; denigration;an abusive attack on a person's character or good name;
#2 (n) - words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another;
#3 (v) - asperse; besmirch; calumniate; defame; denigrate; smear; smirch; sully;charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone;
slang(n) - argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; vernacular;a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves);
#2 (n) - slang expression; slang term;informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar;
#3 (v) - abuse with coarse language;
#4 (v) - befool; cod; dupe; fool; gull; put on; put one across; put one over; take in;fool or hoax;
#5 (v) - use slang or vulgar language;
slogan(n) - catchword; motto; shibboleth;a favorite saying of a sect or political group;
smell(n) - smelling;the act of perceiving the odor of something;
#2 (n) - aroma; odor; odour; olfactory property; scent;any property detected by the olfactory system;
#3 (n) - olfaction; olfactory modality; sense of smell;the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents;
#4 (n) - odor; odour; olfactory perception; olfactory sensation;the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form;
#5 (n) - feel; feeling; flavor; flavour; look; spirit; tone;the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people;
#6 (v) - sense; smell out;become aware of not through the senses but instinctively;
#7 (v) - emit an odor;
#8 (v) - smell bad;
#9 (v) - inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense;
#10 (v) - reek; smack;have an element suggestive (of something);
snap(n) - centering;putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back;
#2 (n) - catch; grab; snatch;the act of catching an object with the hands;
#3 (n) - the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand;
#4 (n) - breeze; child's play; cinch; duck soup; picnic; piece of cake; pushover; walkover;any undertaking that is easy to do;
#5 (n) - press stud; snap fastener;a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound;
#6 (n) - shot; snapshot;an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera;
#7 (n) - elasticity;the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed;
#8 (n) - a sudden breaking;
#9 (n) - crack; cracking;a sudden sharp noise;
#10 (n) - the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand;
#11 (n) - ginger nut; ginger snap; gingersnap;a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger;
#12 (n) - snap bean;tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections;
#13 (n) - a spell of cold weather;
#14 (v) - crack;break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension;
#15 (v) - close with a snapping motion;
#16 (v) - snarl;utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone;
#17 (v) - photograph; shoot;record on photographic film;
#18 (v) - click; flick;cause to make a snapping sound;
#19 (v) - put in play with a snap;
#20 (v) - snatch; snatch up;to grasp hastily or eagerly;
#21 (v) - bring the jaws together;
#22 (v) - bust; rupture; tear;separate or cause to separate abruptly;
#23 (v) - break down; lose it;lose control of one's emotions;
#24 (v) - click;move or strike with a noise;
#25 (v) - move with a snapping sound;
#26 (v) - crack;make a sharp sound;
somatic(adj sat) - bodily; corporal; corporeal;affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit;
somebody(n) - individual; mortal; person; someone; soul;a human being;
soul(n) - individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone;a human being;
#2 (n) - the human embodiment of something;
#3 (n) - a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s;
#4 (n) - soulfulness;deep feeling or emotion;
#5 (n) - psyche;the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life;
sour(n) - acidity; sourness;the property of being acidic;
#2 (n) - sourness; tartness;the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth;
#3 (n) - a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar;
#4 (v) - ferment; turn; work;go sour or spoil;
#5 (v) - acetify; acidify; acidulate;make sour or more sour;
#6 (adj sat) - rancid;smelling of fermentation or staleness;
#7 (adj sat) - dark; dour; glowering; glum; moody; morose; saturnine; sullen;showing a brooding ill humor;
#8 (adj sat) - false; off-key;inaccurate in pitch;
#9 (adj) - having a sharp biting taste;
#10 (adj sat) - off; turned;in an unpalatable state;
#11 (adj sat) - one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons;
southward(n) - due south; s; south;the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees;
#2 (adj sat) - southbound;moving toward the south;
#3 (adv) - southerly; southwards;toward the south;
speculate(v) - chew over; contemplate; excogitate; meditate; mull; mull over; muse; ponder; reflect; ruminate; think over;reflect deeply on a subject;
#2 (v) - conjecture; hypothecate; hypothesise; hypothesize; suppose; theorise; theorize;to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds;
#3 (v) - talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion;
#4 (v) - job;invest at a risk;
spire(n) - steeple;a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top;
spit(n) - expectoration; spitting;the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva);
#2 (n) - a skewer for holding meat over a fire;
#3 (n) - saliva; spittle;a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches;
#4 (n) - tongue;a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea;
#5 (v) - ptyalise; ptyalize; spew; spue;expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth;
#6 (v) - spit out;utter with anger or contempt;
#7 (v) - skewer;drive a skewer through;
#8 (v) - patter; pitter-patter; spatter; sprinkle;rain gently;
splendid(adj sat) - glorious; resplendent; splendiferous;having great beauty and splendor;
#2 (adj sat) - brilliant; glorious; magnificent;characterized by grandeur;
#3 (adj sat) - excellent; fantabulous; first-class;very good;of the highest quality;
spread(n) - spreading;act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time;
#2 (n) - bed cover; bed covering; bedcover; bedspread; counterpane;decorative cover for a bed;
#3 (n) - cattle farm; cattle ranch; ranch;farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle);
#4 (n) - gap;a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures;
#5 (n) - scatter;a haphazard distribution in all directions;
#6 (n) - the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age);
#7 (n) - facing pages; spread head; spreadhead;two facing pages of a book or other publication;
#8 (n) - spreading;process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space;
#9 (n) - banquet; feast;a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed;
#10 (n) - paste;a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes;
#11 (v) - broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate;cause to become widely known;
#12 (v) - circulate; go around;become widely known and passed on;
#13 (v) - distribute;distribute or disperse widely;
#14 (v) - propagate;become distributed or widespread;
#15 (v) - open; spread out; unfold;spread out or open from a closed or folded state;
#16 (v) - distribute over a surface in a layer;
#17 (v) - cover by spreading something over;
#18 (v) - diffuse; fan out; spread out;move outward;
#19 (v) - scatter; spread out;strew or distribute over an area;
#20 (v) - overspread;spread across or over;
#21 (adj sat) - dispersed;distributed or spread over a considerable extent;
#22 (adj sat) - outspread;fully extended in width;
#23 (adj sat) - prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out;
squalid(adj sat) - flyblown; sordid;foul and run-down and repulsive;
#2 (adj sat) - seamy; seedy; sleazy; sordid;morally degraded;
staid(adj sat) - sedate;characterized by dignity and propriety;
staircase(n) - stairway;a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps;
stanch(v) - halt; staunch; stem;stop the flow of a liquid;
stark(adj sat) - blunt; crude;devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment;
#2 (adj sat) - bare; barren; bleak; desolate;providing no shelter or sustenance;
#3 (adj sat) - arrant; complete; consummate; double-dyed; everlasting; gross; perfect; pure; sodding; staring; thoroughgoing; unadulterated; utter;without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;
#4 (adj sat) - complete or extreme;
#5 (adj sat) - austere; severe; stern;severely simple;
#6 (adv) - completely;
steep(n) - a steep place (as on a hill);
#2 (v) - infuse;let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse;
#3 (v) - absorb; engross; engulf; immerse; plunge; soak up;devote (oneself) fully to;
#4 (adj) - having a sharp inclination;
#5 (adj sat) - of a slope; set at a high angle;
#6 (adj sat) - exorbitant; extortionate; outrageous; unconscionable; usurious;greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation;
stem(n) - stem turn;a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it;
#2 (n) - bow; fore; prow;front part of a vessel or aircraft;
#3 (n) - shank;cylinder forming a long narrow part of something;
#4 (n) - the tube of a tobacco pipe;
#5 (n) - base; radical; root; root word; theme;the form of a word after all affixes are removed;
#6 (n) - stalk;a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ;
#7 (v) - remove the stem from;
#8 (v) - halt; stanch; staunch;stop the flow of a liquid;
#9 (v) - grow out of, have roots in, originate in;
#10 (v) - cause to point inward;
stiff(n) - cadaver; clay; corpse; remains;the dead body of a human being;
#2 (n) - an ordinary man;
#3 (adj sat) - besotted; blind drunk; blotto; cockeyed; crocked; fuddled; loaded; pie-eyed; pissed; pixilated; plastered; slopped; sloshed; smashed; soaked; soused; sozzled; squiffy; tight; wet;very drunk;
#4 (adj sat) - rigid;incapable of or resistant to bending;
#5 (adj sat) - buckram; starchy;rigidly formal;
#6 (adj sat) - not moving or operating freely;
#7 (adj) - potent; strong;having a strong physiological or chemical effect;
#8 (adj sat) - firm; steadfast; steady; unbendable; unfaltering; unshakable; unwavering;marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable;
#9 (adj sat) - powerful;
#10 (adv) - stiffly;in a stiff manner;
#11 (adv) - extremely;
stilted(adj sat) - artificial; contrived; hokey;artificially formal;
stimulation(n) - arousal; foreplay;mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse;
#2 (n) - the act of arousing an organism to action;
#3 (n) - input; stimulant; stimulus;any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action;
#4 (n) - the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.);
stolid(adj sat) - impassive;having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited;
stop(n) - layover; stopover;a brief stay in the course of a journey;
#2 (n) - stoppage;the act of stopping something;
#3 (n) - block; blockage; closure; occlusion; stoppage;an obstruction in a pipe or tube;
#4 (n) - catch;a restraint that checks the motion of something;
#5 (n) - diaphragm;a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens;
#6 (n) - a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes;
#7 (n) - full point; full stop; period; point;a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;
#8 (n) - occlusive; plosive; plosive consonant; plosive speech sound; stop consonant;a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it;
#9 (n) - halt;the event of something ending;
#10 (n) - a spot where something halts or pauses;
#11 (n) - arrest; check; halt; hitch; stay; stoppage;the state of inactivity following an interruption;
#12 (v) - break; break off; discontinue;prevent completion;
#13 (v) - hold on;stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments;
#14 (v) - arrest; check; contain; hold back; turn back;hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of;
#15 (v) - intercept;seize on its way;
#16 (v) - bar; barricade; block; block off; block up; blockade;render unsuitable for passage;
#17 (v) - cause to stop;
#18 (v) - halt;come to a halt, stop moving;
#19 (v) - stop over;interrupt a trip;
#20 (v) - block; halt; kibosh;stop from happening or developing;
#21 (v) - cease; end; finish; terminate;have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
#22 (v) - cease; discontinue; give up; lay off; quit;put an end to a state or an activity;
stout(n) - a garment size for a large or heavy person;
#2 (n) - a strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops;
#3 (adj sat) - portly;euphemisms for `fat';
#4 (adj sat) - stalwart;dependable;
#5 (adj sat) - hardy; stalwart; sturdy;having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships;
stroll(n) - amble; perambulation; promenade; saunter;a leisurely walk (usually in some public place);
#2 (v) - saunter;walk leisurely and with no apparent aim;
stupendous(adj sat) - colossal; prodigious;so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe;
stupid(n) - dolt; dullard; pillock; poor fish; pudden-head; pudding head; stupe; stupid person;a person who is not very bright;
#2 (adj sat) - dazed; stunned; stupefied;in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock;
#3 (adj) - lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity;
#4 (adj) - unintelligent;lacking intelligence;
sullen(adj sat) - heavy; lowering; threatening;darkened by clouds;
#2 (adj sat) - dark; dour; glowering; glum; moody; morose; saturnine; sour;showing a brooding ill humor;
supercilious(adj sat) - sneering; snide;expressive of contempt;
#2 (adj sat) - disdainful; haughty; imperious; lordly; overbearing; prideful; sniffy; swaggering;having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy;
supersede(v) - replace; supercede; supervene upon; supplant;take the place or move into the position of;
supersonic(adj sat) - ultrasonic;having frequencies above those of audible sound;
#2 (adj) - greater than the speed of sound in a given medium (especially air);
supple(v) - make pliant and flexible;
#2 (adj sat) - limber;capable of moving or bending freely;
#3 (adj sat) - limber;readily adaptable;
#4 (adj sat) - lissom; lissome; lithe; lithesome; slender; svelte; sylphlike;moving and bending with ease;
supplicant(n) - petitioner; requester; suppliant;one praying humbly for something;
#2 (n) - prayer;someone who prays to God;
#3 (adj sat) - suppliant; supplicatory;humbly entreating;
surreptitious(adj sat) - clandestine; cloak-and-dagger; hole-and-corner; hugger-mugger; hush-hush; secret; undercover; underground;conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods;
#2 (adj sat) - furtive; sneak; sneaky; stealthy;marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed;
suspension(n) - temporary removal;a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc);
#2 (n) - dangling; hanging;the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely);
#3 (n) - suspension system;a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle;
#4 (n) - abatement; hiatus; reprieve; respite;an interruption in the intensity or amount of something;
#5 (n) - abeyance;temporary cessation or suspension;
#6 (n) - a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy;
#7 (n) - break; intermission; interruption; pause;a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something;
sweat(n) - effort; elbow grease; exertion; travail;use of physical or mental energy; hard work;
#2 (n) - perspiration; sudor;salty fluid secreted by sweat glands;
#3 (n) - condensation of moisture on a cold surface;
#4 (n) - fret; lather; stew; swither;agitation resulting from active worry;
#5 (v) - perspire; sudate;excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin;
sweep(n) - a movement in an arc;
#2 (n) - end run;an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line;
#3 (n) - sweep oar;a long oar used in an open boat;
#4 (n) - expanse;a wide scope;
#5 (n) - slam;winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge;
#6 (n) - chimneysweep; chimneysweeper;someone who cleans soot from chimneys;
#7 (v) - win an overwhelming victory in or on;
#8 (v) - broom;sweep with a broom or as if with a broom;
#9 (v) - clean by sweeping;
#10 (v) - swing; swing out;make a big sweeping gesture or movement;
#11 (v) - sail;move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions;
#12 (v) - brush;sweep across or over;
#13 (v) - drag; drag in; embroil; sweep up; tangle;force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action;
#14 (v) - cross; span; traverse;to cover or extend over an area or time period;
#15 (v) - cover the entire range of;
sweet(n) - sweetness;the property of tasting as if it contains sugar;
#2 (n) - sugariness; sweetness;the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth;
#3 (n) - confection;a food rich in sugar;
#4 (n) - afters; dessert;a dish served as the last course of a meal;
#5 (n) - henry sweet;English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912);
#6 (adj sat) - odoriferous; odorous; perfumed; scented; sweet-scented; sweet-smelling;having a natural fragrance;
#7 (adj) - fresh;not containing or composed of salt water;
#8 (adj sat) - angelic; angelical; cherubic; seraphic;having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub;
#9 (adj sat) - dulcet; honeyed; mellifluous; mellisonant;pleasing to the ear;
#10 (adj sat) - gratifying;pleasing to the mind or feeling;
#11 (adj sat) - pleasing to the senses;
#12 (adj sat) - sugared; sweetened; sweet-flavored;with sweetening added;
#13 (adj) - having a high residual sugar content;
#14 (adj) - having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar;
#15 (adj sat) - fresh; unfermented;not soured or preserved;
#16 (adv) - sweetly;in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly');
swirl(n) - convolution; vortex; whirl;the shape of something rotating rapidly;
#2 (v) - eddy; purl; whirl; whirlpool;flow in a circular current, of liquids;
#3 (v) - twiddle; twirl; whirl;turn in a twisting or spinning motion;
sword(n) - blade; brand; steel;a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard;
sycophant(n) - ass-kisser; crawler; lackey; toady;a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage;
symbolise(v) - represent; stand for; symbolize; typify;express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol;
#2 (v) - symbolize;represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols;
symmetric(adj) - symmetrical;having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts;
synopsis(n) - abstract; outline; precis;a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory;
tangle(n) - maze; snarl;something jumbled or confused;
#2 (n) - a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven;
#3 (v) - entangle; mat; snarl;twist together or entwine into a confusing mass;
#4 (v) - dishevel; tousle;disarrange or rumple; dishevel;
#5 (v) - knot; ravel;tangle or complicate;
#6 (v) - drag; drag in; embroil; sweep; sweep up;force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action;
tantalize(v) - bait; cod; rag; rally; razz; ride; tantalise; taunt; tease; twit;harass with persistent criticism or carping;
taste(n) - tasting;a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds;
#2 (n) - gustation; gustatory modality; sense of taste;the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth;
#3 (n) - gustatory perception; gustatory sensation; taste perception; taste sensation;the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus;
#4 (n) - appreciation; discernment; perceptiveness;delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values);
#5 (n) - a brief experience of something;
#6 (n) - penchant; predilection; preference;a strong liking;
#7 (n) - mouthful;a small amount eaten or drunk;
#8 (v) - experience briefly;
#9 (v) - sample; try; try out;take a sample of;
#10 (v) - perceive by the sense of taste;
#11 (v) - distinguish flavors;
#12 (v) - savor; savour;have flavor; taste of something;
#13 (v) - smack;have a distinctive or characteristic taste;
tease(n) - ribbing; tantalization; teasing;the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances;
#2 (n) - coquette; flirt; minx; prickteaser; vamp; vamper;a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men;
#3 (n) - annoyer; teaser; vexer;someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity);
#4 (v) - fluff;ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect;
#5 (v) - bait; cod; rag; rally; razz; ride; tantalise; tantalize; taunt; twit;harass with persistent criticism or carping;
#6 (v) - mock or make fun of playfully;
#7 (v) - card;separate the fibers of;
#8 (v) - loosen; tease apart;disentangle and raise the fibers of;
#9 (v) - raise the nap of (fabrics);
#10 (v) - tear into pieces;
#11 (v) - badger; beleaguer; bug; pester;annoy persistently;
#12 (v) - to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them;
teem(v) - pour; pullulate; stream; swarm;move in large numbers;
#2 (v) - pullulate; swarm;be teeming, be abuzz;
tempt(v) - charm; influence;induce into action by using one's charm;
#2 (v) - entice; lure;provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion;
#3 (v) - try presumptuously;
#4 (v) - allure;dispose or incline or entice to;
#5 (v) - invite;give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting;
#6 (v) - try to seduce;
tenacious(adj sat) - coherent;sticking together;
#2 (adj) - long; recollective; retentive;good at remembering;
#3 (adj sat) - dogged; dour; persistent; pertinacious; unyielding;stubbornly unyielding;
tender(n) - supply ship;ship that usually provides supplies to other ships;
#2 (n) - cutter; pinnace; ship's boat;a boat for communication between ship and shore;
#3 (n) - car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water;
#4 (n) - bid;a formal proposal to buy at a specified price;
#5 (n) - attendant; attender;someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another;
#6 (n) - legal tender; stamp;something that can be used as an official medium of payment;
#7 (v) - tenderise; tenderize;make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer;
#8 (v) - make a tender of; in legal settlements;
#9 (v) - offer or present for acceptance;
#10 (v) - bid; offer;propose a payment;
#11 (adj sat) - not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition;
#12 (adj sat) - affectionate; fond; lovesome; warm;having or displaying warmth or affection;
#13 (adj sat) - young and immature;
#14 (adj sat) - raw; sensitive; sore;hurting;
#15 (adj sat) - crank; cranky; tippy;inclined to heel over easily under sail;
#16 (adj) - easy to cut or chew;
#17 (adj) - untoughened;physically untoughened;
#18 (adj) - given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality;
tentative(adj sat) - probationary; provisional; provisionary;under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon;
#2 (adj sat) - doubtful;unsettled in mind or opinion;
terse(adj sat) - crisp; curt; laconic;brief and to the point; effectively cut short;
theft(n) - larceny; stealing; thievery; thieving;the act of taking something from someone unlawfully;
theorise(v) - conjecture; hypothecate; hypothesise; hypothesize; speculate; suppose; theorize;to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds;
thorough(adj sat) - painstakingly careful and accurate;
#2 (adj sat) - exhaustive; thoroughgoing;performed comprehensively and completely;
thousand(n) - 1000; chiliad; g; grand; k; m; one thousand; thou; yard;the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100;
#2 (adj sat) - 1000; k; m; one thousand;denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units;
tight(adj sat) - affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow;
#2 (adj sat) - packed closely together;
#3 (adj sat) - rigorous; stringent;demanding strict attention to rules and procedures;
#4 (adj sat) - nasty;exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent;
#5 (adj sat) - besotted; blind drunk; blotto; cockeyed; crocked; fuddled; loaded; pie-eyed; pissed; pixilated; plastered; slopped; sloshed; smashed; soaked; soused; sozzled; squiffy; stiff; wet;very drunk;
#6 (adj sat) - close;evenly matched;
#7 (adj sat) - mean; mingy; miserly;characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity;
#8 (adj) - of such close construction as to be impermeable;
#9 (adj) - closely constrained or constricted or constricting;
#10 (adj sat) - compressed;pressed tightly together;
#11 (adj sat) - securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid;
#12 (adj sat) - close;of textiles;
#13 (adj sat) - taut;pulled or drawn tight;
#14 (adj sat) - set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration;
#15 (adv) - fast;firmly or closely;
#16 (adv) - close; closely;in an attentive manner;
tough(n) - bully; hooligan; roughneck; rowdy; ruffian; yob; yobbo; yobo;a cruel and brutal fellow;
#2 (n) - goon; hood; hoodlum; punk; strong-armer; thug; toughie;an aggressive and violent young criminal;
#3 (n) - street fighter;someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing;
#4 (adj sat) - bad;feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad');
#5 (adj sat) - sturdy;substantially made or constructed;
#6 (adj sat) - baffling; elusive; knotty; problematic; problematical;making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe;
#7 (adj sat) - rugged;very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution;
#8 (adj sat) - hard;unfortunate or hard to bear;
#9 (adj) - resistant to cutting or chewing;
#10 (adj) - toughened;physically toughened;
#11 (adj) - not given to gentleness or sentimentality;
#12 (adj sat) - ruffianly;violent and lawless;
tram(n) - streetcar; tramcar; trolley; trolley car;a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity;
#2 (n) - tramcar;a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine;
#3 (n) - aerial tramway; cable tramway; ropeway; tramway;a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers;
#4 (v) - travel by tram;
transient(n) - a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load;
#2 (n) - one who stays for only a short time;
#3 (adj) - transeunt;of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind;
#4 (adj sat) - ephemeral; fugacious; passing; short-lived; transitory;lasting a very short time;
treasure(n) - gem;art highly prized for its beauty or perfection;
#2 (n) - a collection of precious things;
#3 (n) - any possession that is highly valued by its owner;
#4 (n) - hoarded wealth;accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.;
#5 (v) - care for; cherish; hold dear;be fond of; be attached to;
#6 (v) - appreciate; prize; value;hold dear;
trinket(n) - bangle; bauble; fallal; gaud; gewgaw; novelty;cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing;
trite(adj sat) - banal; commonplace; hackneyed; old-hat; shopworn; stock; threadbare; timeworn; tired; well-worn;repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
tumble(n) - fall; spill;a sudden drop from an upright position;
#2 (n) - an acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end;
#3 (v) - do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully;
#4 (v) - suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat;
#5 (v) - put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying;
#6 (v) - fall suddenly and sharply;
#7 (v) - catch on; cotton on; get it; get onto; get wise; latch on; twig;understand, usually after some initial difficulty;
#8 (v) - throw together in a confused mass;
#9 (v) - roll over and over, back and forth;
#10 (v) - topple;fall down, as if collapsing;
#11 (v) - break down; collapse; crumble; crumple;fall apart;
#12 (v) - whirl; whirl around;fly around;
#13 (v) - tip; topple;cause to topple or tumble by pushing;
turgid(adj sat) - intumescent; puffy; tumescent; tumid;abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas;
#2 (adj sat) - bombastic; declamatory; large; orotund; tumid;ostentatiously lofty in style;
turncoat(n) - apostate; deserter; ratter; recreant; renegade;a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.;
turpitude(n) - depravity;a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice;
turtle(n) - any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming;
#2 (n) - polo-neck; turtleneck;a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar;
#3 (v) - hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation;
#4 (v) - capsize; turn turtle;overturn accidentally;
twist(n) - device; gimmick;any clever maneuver;
#2 (n) - spin; twirl; twisting; whirl;the act of rotating rapidly;
#3 (n) - turn;turning or twisting around (in place);
#4 (n) - wind; winding;the act of winding or twisting;
#5 (n) - social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s;
#6 (n) - braid; plait; tress;a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair;
#7 (n) - construction;an interpretation of a text or action;
#8 (n) - wrench;a jerky pulling movement;
#9 (n) - turn; turn of events;an unforeseen development;
#10 (n) - eddy;a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself;
#11 (n) - bend; crook; turn;a circular segment of a curve;
#12 (n) - kink; twirl;a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight;
#13 (n) - pull; wrench;a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments;
#14 (v) - rick; sprain; turn; wrench; wrick;twist suddenly so as to sprain;
#15 (v) - form into twists;
#16 (v) - convolute; pervert; sophisticate; twist around;practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive;
#17 (v) - turn in the opposite direction;
#18 (v) - distort; twine;form into a spiral shape;
#19 (v) - bend; deform; flex; turn;cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form;
#20 (v) - wrench;twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates;
#21 (v) - squirm; worm; wrestle; wriggle; writhe;to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling);
#22 (v) - do the twist;
#23 (v) - curve; wind;extend in curves and turns;
tyrant(n) - autocrat; despot;a cruel and oppressive dictator;
#2 (n) - any person who exercises power in a cruel way;
#3 (n) - in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it;
ugly(adj sat) - atrocious; frightful; horrible; horrifying;provoking horror;
#2 (adj) - displeasing to the senses;
#3 (adj sat) - despicable; slimy; unworthy; vile; worthless; wretched;morally reprehensible;
#4 (adj sat) - surly;inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace;
unyielding(adj sat) - resistant to physical force or pressure;
#2 (adj sat) - dogged; dour; persistent; pertinacious; tenacious;stubbornly unyielding;
upset(n) - overturn;an improbable and unexpected victory;
#2 (n) - overturn; turnover;the act of upsetting something;
#3 (n) - derangement; overthrow;the act of disturbing the mind or body;
#4 (n) - swage;a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging;
#5 (n) - disorder;a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning;
#6 (n) - disturbance; perturbation;an unhappy and worried mental state;
#7 (v) - disturb the balance or stability of;
#8 (v) - defeat suddenly and unexpectedly;
#9 (v) - swage;form metals with a swage;
#10 (v) - disturb; trouble;move deeply;
#11 (v) - discomfit; discompose; disconcert; untune;cause to lose one's composure;
#12 (v) - bowl over; knock over; overturn; tip over; tump over; turn over;cause to overturn from an upright or normal position;
#13 (adj sat) - used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win;
#14 (adj sat) - broken; confused; disordered;thrown into a state of disarray or confusion;
#15 (adj sat) - disquieted; distressed; disturbed; worried;afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief;
#16 (adj sat) - overturned; upturned;having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom;
#17 (adj sat) - mildly physically distressed;
urge(n) - itch;a strong restless desire;
#2 (n) - impulse;an instinctive motive;
#3 (v) - exhort; press; urge on;force or impel in an indicated direction;
#4 (v) - barrack; cheer; exhort; inspire; pep up; root on; urge on;spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts;
#5 (v) - advocate; recommend;push for something;
utter(v) - express; give tongue to; verbalise; verbalize;articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise;
#2 (v) - mouth; speak; talk; verbalise; verbalize;express in speech;
#3 (v) - emit; let loose; let out;express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words);
#4 (v) - put into circulation;
#5 (adj sat) - dead;complete;
#6 (adj sat) - arrant; complete; consummate; double-dyed; everlasting; gross; perfect; pure; sodding; staring; stark; thoroughgoing; unadulterated;without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;
vagabond(n) - anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place;
#2 (n) - drifter; floater; vagrant;a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support;
#3 (v) - cast; drift; ramble; range; roam; roll; rove; stray; swan; tramp; wander;move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment;
#4 (adj sat) - aimless; drifting; floating; vagrant;continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another;
#5 (adj sat) - rootless;wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community;
valiant(adj sat) - valorous;having or showing valor;
verbose(adj sat) - long-winded; tedious; windy; wordy;using or containing too many words;
veto(n) - a vote that blocks a decision;
#2 (n) - the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature);
#3 (v) - disallow; forbid; interdict; nix; prohibit; proscribe;command against;
#4 (v) - blackball; negative;vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent;
vicious(adj sat) - poisonous; venomous;marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful;
#2 (adj sat) - barbarous; brutal; cruel; fell; roughshod; savage;able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering;
#3 (adj sat) - condemnable; criminal; deplorable; reprehensible;bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure;
#4 (adj sat) - evil;having the nature of vice;
vigour(n) - energy; muscularity; vigor; vim;an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing);
#2 (n) - dynamism; heartiness; vigor;active strength of body or mind;
#3 (n) - energy; vigor; zip;forceful exertion;
vilify(v) - rail; revile; vituperate;spread negative information about;
violence(n) - force;an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists);
#2 (n) - ferocity; fierceness; furiousness; fury; vehemence; wildness;the property of being wild or turbulent;
#3 (n) - a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.;
vitality(n) - verve;an energetic style;
#2 (n) - animation;the property of being able to survive and grow;
#3 (n) - elan vital; life force; vital force;a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms;
#4 (n) - energy; vim;a healthy capacity for vigorous activity;
vitiate(v) - invalidate; void;take away the legal force of or render ineffective;
#2 (v) - deflower; impair; mar; spoil;make imperfect;
#3 (v) - corrupt; debase; debauch; demoralise; demoralize; deprave; misdirect; pervert; profane; subvert;corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality;
vituperate(v) - rail; revile; vilify;spread negative information about;
vociferous(adj sat) - blatant; clamant; clamorous; strident;conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry;
vulgar(adj sat) - crude; earthy; gross;conspicuously and tastelessly indecent;
#2 (adj sat) - common; vernacular;being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language;
#3 (adj sat) - common; plebeian; unwashed;of or associated with the great masses of people;
#4 (adj sat) - coarse; common; rough-cut; uncouth;lacking refinement or cultivation or taste;
waive(v) - forego; forfeit; forgo; give up; throw overboard;lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime;
#2 (v) - dispense with; forego; foreswear; forgo; relinquish;do without or cease to hold or adhere to;
wander(v) - digress; divagate; stray;lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking;
#2 (v) - cast; drift; ramble; range; roam; roll; rove; stray; swan; tramp; vagabond;move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment;
#3 (v) - meander; thread; weave; wind;to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course;
#4 (v) - go via an indirect route or at no set pace;
#5 (v) - betray; cheat; cheat on; cuckold;be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage;
warp(n) - yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof;
#2 (n) - warping;a moral or mental distortion;
#3 (n) - buckle;a shape distorted by twisting or folding;
#4 (n) - deflection;a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting;
#5 (v) - buckle; heave;bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat;
#6 (v) - distort; falsify; garble;make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story;
warrant(n) - a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts;
#2 (n) - guarantee; warrantee; warranty;a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications;
#3 (n) - countenance; endorsement; imprimatur; indorsement; sanction;formal and explicit approval;
#4 (n) - stock warrant; stock-purchase warrant;a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price;
#5 (v) - guarantee;stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of;
#6 (v) - justify;show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for;
waste(n) - dissipation; wastefulness;useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly;
#2 (n) - permissive waste;reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect;
#3 (n) - thriftlessness; wastefulness;the trait of wasting resources;
#4 (n) - barren; wasteland;an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation;
#5 (n) - waste material; waste matter; waste product;any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted;
#6 (v) - rot;become physically weaker;
#7 (v) - desolate; devastate; lay waste to; ravage; scourge;cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly;
#8 (v) - emaciate; macerate;cause to grow thin or weak;
#9 (v) - languish; pine away;lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief;
#10 (v) - consume; squander; ware;spend extravagantly;
#11 (v) - use inefficiently or inappropriately;
#12 (v) - do in; knock off; liquidate; neutralise; neutralize;get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing;
#13 (v) - run off;run off as waste;
#14 (v) - get rid of;
#15 (v) - blow; squander;spend thoughtlessly; throw away;
#16 (adj sat) - godforsaken; wild;located in a dismal or remote area; desolate;
whimsical(adj sat) - capricious; impulsive;determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason;
width(n) - breadth;the extent of something from side to side;
wilful(adj sat) - froward; headstrong; self-willed; willful;habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition;
#2 (adj sat) - willful;done by design;
willful(adj sat) - froward; headstrong; self-willed; wilful;habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition;
#2 (adj sat) - wilful;done by design;
wince(n) - flinch;a reflex response to sudden pain;
#2 (n) - the facial expression of sudden pain;
#3 (v) - make a face indicating disgust or dislike;
#4 (v) - cringe; flinch; funk; quail; recoil; shrink; squinch;draw back, as with fear or pain;
wise(n) - a way of doing or being;
#2 (n) - isaac mayer wise;United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900);
#3 (n) - stephen samuel wise;United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949);
#4 (adj sat) - fresh; impertinent; impudent; overbold; sassy; saucy; smart;improperly forward or bold;
#5 (adj sat) - knowing; wise to;evidencing the possession of inside information;
#6 (adj sat) - heady; judicious;marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters;
#7 (adj) - having or prompted by wisdom or discernment;
wistful(adj sat) - pensive;showing pensive sadness;
woolen(n) - wool; woollen;a fabric made from the hair of sheep;
#2 (adj) - woollen;of or related to or made of wool;
worm(n) - any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae;
#2 (n) - screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack;
#3 (n) - a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network;
#4 (n) - dirt ball; insect; louse;a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect;
#5 (v) - squirm; twist; wrestle; wriggle; writhe;to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling);
wrap(n) - wrapper;cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person;
#2 (n) - wrapper; wrapping;the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped;
#3 (n) - a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla;
#4 (v) - wrap up;arrange or fold as a cover or protection;
#5 (v) - roll; twine; wind;arrange or or coil around;
#6 (v) - crash into so as to coil around;
#7 (v) - enclose; enfold; envelop; enwrap;enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering;
wretched(adj sat) - miserable;characterized by physical misery;
#2 (adj sat) - hapless; miserable; misfortunate; pathetic; piteous; pitiable; pitiful; poor;deserving or inciting pity;
#3 (adj sat) - despicable; slimy; ugly; unworthy; vile; worthless;morally reprehensible;
#4 (adj sat) - miserable; suffering;very unhappy; full of misery;
#5 (adj sat) - deplorable; execrable; miserable; woeful;of very poor quality or condition;
writhe(v) - squirm; twist; worm; wrestle; wriggle;to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling);
yield(n) - output;production of a certain amount;
#2 (n) - fruit;an amount of a product;
#3 (n) - issue; payoff; proceeds; return; take; takings;the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property;
#4 (n) - output; production;the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time);
#5 (v) - give way;end resistance, as under pressure or force;
#6 (v) - buckle under; give in; knuckle under; succumb;consent reluctantly;
#7 (v) - concede; grant;be willing to concede;
#8 (v) - cease opposition; stop fighting;
#9 (v) - give;be flexible under stress of physical force;
#10 (v) - generate; give; render; return;give or supply;
#11 (v) - give;cause to happen or be responsible for;
#12 (v) - ease up; give; give way; move over;move in order to make room for someone for something;
#13 (v) - bear; pay;bring in;
#14 (v) - cede; concede; grant;give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another;
#15 (v) - afford; give;be the cause or source of;
#16 (v) - succumb;be fatally overwhelmed;
#17 (v) - relent; soften;give in, as to influence or pressure;
zealous(adj sat) - avid;marked by active interest and enthusiasm;
zero(n) - the sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing;
#2 (n) - zero point;the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured;
#3 (n) - aught; cipher; cypher; goose egg; nada; naught; nil; nix; nothing; null; zilch; zip; zippo;a quantity of no importance;
#4 (n) - 0; cipher; cypher; nought;a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number;
#5 (v) - zero in;adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun);
#6 (v) - adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value;
#7 (adj sat) - 0;indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration;
#8 (adj sat) - indicating an initial point or origin;
#9 (adj sat) - having no measurable or otherwise determinable value;
#10 (adj) - of or relating to the null set (a set with no members);