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foresight
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noun: an act of looking forward, power to imagine the future
synonyms: foreknowledge, prescience, providence, forms: foresee, foreseeability, foreseeable, foreseeing, foreseeingly, foreseen, foreseer, foresighted, foresightedly, foresightedness, foresightful, foresightless, foresightlessness |
They had the foresight to invest the money wisely.
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nostalgia
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noun: the state of being homesick
synonyms: sentimentality, homesickness, forms: nostalgic, nostalgically, nostalgist |
He was filled with nostalgia for his college days.
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folly
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noun: a foolish act or idea
synonyms: absurdity, foolishness, imprudence, indiscretion forms: |
The folly of such an action should be apparent to everyone.
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despair
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verb: loss of hope
synonyms: desperation, despond, forlornness, hopelessness, forms: despairer, despairful, despairfully, despairing,"", despairingly, despairingness despairful, despairfully despairing, despairingly despairingness |
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artistry
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noun: artistic quality of effect or workmanship
synonyms: artfulness, artifice, skill, craft, forms: artist, artiste, artistic, artistically |
We admired the singer's artistry.
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intricate
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adj: 1.hard to follow or understand because full of puzzling parts, details, or relationships
synonyms: baroque, byzantine, complicated, convoluted, daedal, elaborate, complex, involute, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, sophisticated, tangled forms: intricacy, intricate intricately, intricateness intrication |
The movie has an intricate plot.
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candid
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adj: very honest or frank in what one says or writes
synonyms: frank, direct, forthcoming, forthright, freehearted, honest, outspoken,straight, |
She gave us her candid opinion on the matter.
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ostentatious
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adj: someone or something designed to get notice or draw attention by being inappropriate,
synonyms: flamboyant, flaring, flashy, garish, glitzy, gaudy, splashy, swank forms: ostent, ostentate, ostentation, ostentatious ostentatiously, ostentatiousness |
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fictional
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noun: 2.anything made up or imagined
synonyms: fable, fabrication, fantasy, figment, invention forms: fict, fictile, fictional fictionalise, fictionalism fictionalistic, fictionality fictionalization, fictionalize fictionalized, fictionalizing fictionally |
She believes the fiction that crime rates are up.
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convoluted
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adj: very complicted or involved with many details
synonyms: baroque, byzantine, complicated, complex, daedal, elaborate, intricate, involute, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, sophisticated, tangled forms: convolute, convoluting convolution |
At base stands a profound respect for the integrity of history and the complex and convoluted relationship between present and the past. —Ira Berlin, New York Times Book Review, 9 Sept. 2001
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capricious
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adj: someone or something that is subject to sudden, unpredictable changes
synonyms: fickle, changeable, changeful, flickery, fluctuating, fluid, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, skittish, temperamental, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile forms: caprice, capriciously capriciousness |
The court ruled that the punishment was arbitrary and capricious.
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bombastic
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adj: using or characterized by high-sounding but unimportant or meaningless language
synonyms: rhetorical, flatulent, fustian, gaseous, gassy, grandiloquent, orotund, windy forms: bombast, bombaster bombastically |
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loquacious
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adj: very talkative; fond of talking
synonyms: blabby, chatty, conversational, gabby, garrulous, talkative, mouthy, talky |
He sipped it with relish and soon became somewhat loquacious.
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dispassionate
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adj: not influenced by strong feeling
synonyms: candid, disinterested, fair, equal, equitable, evenhanded, impartial, indifferent, just, nonpartisan, objective, square, unbiased, unprejudiced forms: dispassion, dispassionately dispassionateness, dispassioned |
Journalists aim to be dispassionate observers.
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decorous
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adj: something done properly and with good taste
synonyms: befitting, correct, decent, proper, de rigueur, genteel, nice, polite, respectable, seemly forms: decorously, decorousness |
In these coffee-houses, however, there generally prevails a very decorous stillness and silence.
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emotional
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adj: markedly aroused or agitated in feeling or sensibilities
synonyms: ardent, blazing, burning, charged, demonstrative, fervent, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming, glowing, hot-blooded, impassioned, intense, passional, passionate, perfervid, superheated, torrid, vehement, forms: emoting, emotion emotionable, emotionalism emotionalist, emotionalistic emotionality, emotionalize emotionalized, emotionalizing emotionally, emotionless emotionlessly, emotionlessness emotive, emotively, emotivism emotivist, emotivity |
You'll be able to put your feelings succinctly without getting too emotional.
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intellectual
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adj: someone or something that is rational rather than emotional
synonyms: cerebral, eggheaded, geeky, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectualistic,nerdish, nerdy forms: |
Its statement on new professionalism regards teaching as essentially intellectual as well as practical.
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chance
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noun: 2.an unpredictable event or accidental happening
synonyms: accident, casualty circumstance, hap, hazard, luck forms: |
If you give me a chance, I know I can do a good job.
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random
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adj: an action that happens without order or without reason
synonyms: aimless, arbitrary, desultory, erratic, haphazard, scattered, slapdash, stray forms: randomization, randomize randomized, randomizer, randomizing, randomly randomness |
We tasted the wines in random order and then rated each.
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intuitive
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adj: something done with from instinct, or something that is easy-to-use
synonyms: instinctive, instinctual, visceral, inherent, natural forms: intuit, intuitable intuition, intuitional intuitionalism, intuitionalist intuitionalistic, intuitionism intuitionist, intuitively intuitiveness, intuitivism intuitivist |
The menu feels cleaner overall, even tho there is more there, and the design feels more intuitive.
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impulsive
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adj: act or speak forcefully or quickly without planning
synonyms: sudden, hasty, unpredictable, besetting, driven, compulsive, obsessional, obsessive |
He needs to learn to control his impulsive behavior.
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deliberate
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verb: to think about or discuss issues and decisions carefully
synonyms: chew over, cogitate, consider, contemplate, debate, ponder, eye, meditate, mull, perpend, pore, question, revolve, ruminate, study, think |
They will deliberate the question.
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instinctive
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adj: something ingrained or something you just know, rather than something you have to be taught
synonyms: automatic, instinctual, involuntary, knee-jerk, mechanic, mechanical, robotic, spontaneous |
Cats have an instinctive desire to hunt.
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intentional
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adj: something done on purpose
synonyms: conscious, deliberate, intended, knowing, purposeful, purposive, set, voluntary, willed, willful, witting forms: intent, intention intentionalism, intentionality intentionally, intentioned intentionless |
I apologize for the omission of your name from the list. It was not intentional.
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logical
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adj: capable of reasoning or of using reason in an orderly cogent fashion
synonyms: analytic, coherent, consequent, good, rational, reasonable, sensible, sound, valid, well-founded, well-grounded forms: logic, logicality, logicalization, logicalize logically, logicalness, logician, logicism, logicist, logicize, logicless |
Since she helped us before, it's logical to assume that she'll help us again.
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stream
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adj: something made to move freely and efficiently
synonyms: modernized, sleek, trim, smooth forms: streamline, streamliner |
There was a request for the bidding system to become as streamlined as possible.
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infighting
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noun: fighting, intense competition or conflict
synonyms: conflict, disaccord, discordance,disharmony, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, disunity, division, friction, discord, inharmony, schism, strife, variance, war, warfare forms: infight, infighter |
Political infighting was in danger of pushing spain into social revolution.
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mitigate
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verb: make something less severe, less harsh or less painful
synonyms: allay, alleviate, assuage, ease, help, mollify, palliate, relieve, soothe forms: mitigated, mitigatedly, mitigating, mitigation, mitigative mitigator, mitigatory |
Emergency funds are being provided to help mitigate the effects of the disaster.
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jingoism
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noun: extreme and aggressive patriotism that results in aggressive foreign policy
synonyms: chauvinism, nationalism, superpatriotism forms: jingo, jingoes, jingoish, jingoism, jingoist, jingoistic, jingoistically |
When the war began many people were caught up in a wave of jingoism.
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ossified
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verb: to change into bone
synonyms: adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, dogged, hard, hardened, hardheaded, hard-nosed, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inconvincible, inflexible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, opinionated, ossified, pat, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful forms: ossified, ossifying |
The cartilage will ossify, becoming bone.
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bureaucratization
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synonyms: civil servant, functionary, mandarin, public servant
forms: bureaucracy, bureaucrat, bureaucratese, bureaucratic bureaucratically, bureaucratise bureaucratism, bureaucratize bureaucratized, bureaucratizing |
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cowardice
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noun: lacking in courage
synonyms: cowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, gutlessness, poltroonery, pusillanimity, spinelessness forms: coward, cowardice cowardliness, cowardly cowardness |
I believe that this exhibits professional cowardice and a stunning lack of imagination.
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prudence
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noun: the act of being careful
synonyms: alertness, care, carefulness, cautiousness, chariness, circumspection, gingerliness, guardedness, heedfulness, caution, wariness forms: prud, prudent prudential, prudentialism prudentially, prudently |
Strict fiscal policy fiscal performance will be guided by prudence.
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hospitality
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noun: taking care of your guests and anticipating their needs
synonyms: accommodation, welcome, reception, conviviality, companionship, comradeship, welcome |
It was refreshing to be met with such hospitality after our long journey.
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aloofness
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noun: removed or distant either physically or emotionally
synonyms: cool, antisocial, asocial, buttoned-up, cold, cold-eyed, detached, distant, dry, frosty, offish, remote, standoff, standoffish, unbending, unclubbable, unsociable forms: aloofly, aloofness |
They tried to keep aloof from the politics of the day.
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loyalty
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noun: the quality of being faithful to someone or something else
synonyms: allegiance, faithfulness, fidelity, devotion, constancy, fealty, homage, trustworthiness, integrity, attachment, trueness, sincerity, steadfastness, adherence, staunchness, stalwartness, dependability, devotedness, support, dedication, commitment, steadiness, single-heartedness, singleness of heart, bond, tie, group feeling, probity, uprightness, honor, reliability, good faith, faith, incorruptibility, scrupulousness, conscientiousness, singlemindedness, inviolability, firmness, zeal, ardor, earnestness, resolution, obedience, duty, espritdecorps, solidarity forms: loyal, loyalism, loyalist loyally, loyalness |
We all thank arthur for his unswerving loyalty over the years.
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applaud
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verb: to show approval or praise, usually with hand clapping
synonyms: cheer, hail, laud, praise, salute, tout forms: applaudable, applaudably applauder, applaudingly applause |
Everyone applauded the graduates as they entered the auditorium.
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derailed
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adj: cause something or someone to go off course, literally or figuratively
synonyms: wrecked, thwart, deflect, hinder, forms: derail, derailleur derailment |
The train derailed in heavy snow.
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acknowledge
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verb: state that something is real, factual or true
synonyms: admit, agree, allow, concede, confess, fess (up), grant, own (up to) forms: |
They acknowledged that the decision was a mistake.
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permit
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verb: to consent to expressly or formally
synonyms: green-light, have, allow, suffer forms: permissibility, permissible permissibleness, permissibly permission, permissive permissively, permissiveness permit, permittance, permitted permittee, permitter, permitting permittivity |
The judge permitted the release of the prisoner.
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anticipate
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verb: think or talk ahead about what may happen
synonyms: expect, foresee, look foward to, predict, forecast, prophesy, prognosticate, hope for, look for, look ahead, wait for, count on, plan on, contemplate, have a hunch, bargain for, hold in view, have in prospect, assume, suppose, forms: anticipant, anticipatable, anticipated, anticipating, anticipation, anticipative anticipatively, anticipator anticipatorily, anticipatory |
He eagerly anticipated her arrival.
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condition
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noun: the state something or someone is in or can also refer to a specific illness, to train someone to do a certain thing or react in a certain way
synonyms: estate, fettle, form, health, keeping, kilter, order, forms: conditionable, conditional conditionalism, conditionalist conditionality, conditionally |
Happiness is the state or condition of being happy.
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highlight
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verb: emphasize something
synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasize, feature, italicize, play up, point up, stress, underline, underscore forms: highlight, highlighted highlighter, highlighting |
I missed the game, but I saw the highlights on the evening news.
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stimulus
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noun: something that rouses or incites to activity
synonyms: boost, encouragement, goad, impetus, incentive, incitation, incitement, instigation, momentum, motivation, provocation, spur, stimulant, impulse, yeast forms: stimulabilitym, stimulable stimulancy, stimulant, stimulate stimulated, stimulating, stimulatingly, stimulation stimulative, stimulator stimulatory, stimuli |
The pay raise was a stimulus for production.
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dictum
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noun: a noteworthy statement, a formal pronouncement of a principle
synonyms: dictate, assertion, decree, announcement, declaration, judgment |
No wonder, even the united nations has begun to follow the unwritten dictum
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respite
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verb: delay or postpone
synonyms: reprieve, suspension, commutation, postponement, pause, interval, stop, intermission, recess, rest, break, lull, hiatus, halt, stay, deferment, acquittal, exculpation, pardon, forgiveness, discharge, immunity, deliverance, truce, cessation, interregnum, interruption, adjournment, release, surcease, remission, forms: respited, respiteless respiting |
The bad weather has continued without respite.
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negotiate
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verb: bargain or discuss both sides of an issue until an agreement is reached
synonyms: arrange, bargain, concert, conclude forms: negociate, negotiability negotiable, negotiant, negotiate negotiated, negotiating, negotiation, negotiator, negotiatory |
The customer wanted to negotiate over the price.
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concession
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noun: an act or instance of conceding, granting, or yielding
synonyms: accommodation, compromise, give-and-take, negotiation |
We are waiting for his concession of the election.
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antagonize
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verb: to oppose or counteract
synonyms: alienate, offend, forms: antagonism, antagonist antagonistic, antagonistically antagonized, antagonizing |
He didn't mean to antagonize you.
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negligible
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adj: something so small or unimportant
synonyms: chicken, footling, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, measly, minute, niggling, no-account, nominal, paltry, peanut, petty, picayune, piddling, piddly, piffling, pimping, slight, trifling, trivial forms: negligibility, negligible negligibly |
The price difference was negligible.
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surrender
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verb: give up control of something or to give something up to another
synonyms:cede, cough up, deliver, give up, hand over, lay down, relinquish, render, turn in, turn over, yield forms: surrendered surrenderee surrendering surrenderor |
The enemy finally surrendered after three days of fighting.
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enemy
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noun: a person or country who is your opponent, or someone or something that is actively against something
synonyms: adversary, antagonist, foe, hostile, opponent forms: enemies |
He made a lot of enemies during the course of his career.
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dominate
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verb: have or take control, or to get all the attention
synonyms: conquer, overpower, pacify, subdue, subject, subjugate, subordinate, vanquish forms: dominated, dominating dominatingly, domination dominative, dominator |
One company has dominated the market for years.
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inquiry
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noun: a question or an investigation
synonyms: delving, disquisition, examen, examination, exploration, inquest, inquisition, investigation, probation, probe, probing, research, study forms: inquirable, inquired inquirer, inquiries inquiring, inquiringly |
She refused to answer inquiries from the media about her marriage.
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equivocate
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verb: to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive
synonyms: fudge, hedge, pussyfoot, tergiversate, waffle, weasel forms: equivocacy, equivocal equivocality, equivocally equivocalness, equivocated equivocating, equivocation equivocator |
When asked about her tax plan, the candidate didn't equivocate.
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denunciation
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noun: the act of condemning or accusing in public, or giving formal notice of the end of an agreement
synonyms: commination, condemnation, censure, excoriation, objurgation, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reproof, riot act, stricture forms: denunciate, denunciative denunciator, denunciatory |
The attack drew strong denunciations from leaders around the world.
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rousing
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adj: giving rise to excitement
synonyms: breathtaking, charged, electric, electrifying, exhilarating, exhilarative, galvanic, galvanizing, hair-raising, heart-stopping, inspiring, intoxicating, kicky, mind-bending, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, rip-roaring, exciting, stimulating, stirring, thrilling forms: rouse, roused rousement, rouser rousing,rousingly |
She was met with a rousing reception.
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memorable
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adj: something that is not easily forgotten
synonyms: indelible, unforgettable forms: memorableness, memorably |
She gave a memorable performance.
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pedestrian
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adj: something dull, boring or lacking inspiration or excitement
synonyms: arid, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monochromatic, monotonous, numbing, old, boring, ponderous, slow, stale, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, wearisome, weary, wearying forms: pedestrianism, pedestrianization, pedestrianize |
He lived a pedestrian life, working at the paper mill and living in his trailer.
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evolving
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verb: 1.to develop by gradual changes
synonyms: elaborate, develop, unfold forms: evolute, evolution evolutional, evolutionally evolutionarily, evolutionary evolutionism, evolutionist evolutive, evolvable, evolve, evolved, evolvement, evolving |
Her company has evolved from a hobby into a thriving business.
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chaotic
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adj: someone or something that is disorganized or lacking in order
synonyms: chance-medley, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, dishevelment, disorder, disorderedness, disorderliness, disorganization, free-for-all, havoc, heck, hell, jumble, mare's nest, mess, messiness, misorder, muddle, muss, shambles, snake pit, tumble, welter forms: chaotic, chaotically |
The loss of electricity caused chaos throughout the city.
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unprecedented
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adj: something that has not happened before
synonyms: fresh, novel, original, strange, unaccustomed, unfamiliar, unheard-of, unknown, new forms: unprecedentedly |
The team has enjoyed unprecedented success this year.
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derivative
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adj: something that imitates or is based off of something else
synonyms: by-product, derivate, derivation, offshoot, outgrowth, spin-off forms: deriv, derivability, derivable derivate, derivation, derivational derivationist, derivatist derivatively, derivativeness derivatization, derivatize |
The word “childish” is a derivative of “child.”
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inept
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adj: being bad at a task or not suitable
synonyms: inapt, incapable, incompetent, inexpert, unable, unfit, unfitted, unqualified, unskilled, unskillful forms: ineptitude, ineptly ineptness |
He was completely inept at sports.
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spontaneous
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adj: unplanned or done on impulse
synonyms:instinctive, instinctual, involuntary, knee-jerk, mechanic, mechanical, robotic, automatic forms: spontaneity, spontaneously spontaneousness |
The comment was completely spontaneous.
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graceless
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adj: lacking any sense of what is right or proper
synonyms: awkward, butterfingered, cack-handed, clumsy, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed, maladroit, unhandy forms: grace, graced, graceful gracefully, gracefulness graceless, gracelessly gracelessness |
Her writing can be graceless and awkward at times.
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cheapen
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verb: to make cheap or cheaper, to depreciate, belittle, or bring into contempt
synonyms: attenuate, break, depreciate, depress, devaluate, devalue, downgrade, lower, mark down, reduce, sink, write down, write off forms: cheap, cheapened cheapening |
I thought that the show cheapened the lives of the people it portrayed.
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affordable
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adj: something that you are financially capable of purchasing or something that is possible for you to accept
forms: affordability, affordable affordably |
We were too poor to afford a doctor.
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transform
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verb: to change the form or outward appearance of
synonyms: alchemize, make over, metamorphose, transfigure, convert, transmute, transpose, transubstantiate forms:, transformation transformational, transformationalist transformationally transformationist transformative transformer transformism transformist |
The old factory has been transformed into an art gallery.
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viable
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adj: capable of living or capable of success
synonyms: achievable, attainable, doable, feasible, practicable, realizable, possible, workable forms: viability, viably |
He could not suggest a viable alternative.
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revolutionize
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verb: to make a complete and basic change in
synonyms: transform, recast, remodel, refashion forms: revolute, revoluted revolution, revolutional revolutionally, revolutionaries revolutionarily, revolutionariness revolutionary, revolutioneering revolutioner, revolutionise revolutionism, revolutionist revolutionized, revolutionizer revolutionizing |
The invention of the airplane revolutionized travel.
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prohibitive
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adj: something that is difficult to do
synonyms: limiting, preventing, restrictive, restraining forms: prohibit, prohibiter prohibition, prohibitionist prohibitively, prohibitiveness prohibitor, prohibitory |
This could finish off small welfare groups, the cost of a license could prove prohibitive.
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provoked
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verb: to excite to some action or feeling
synonyms: exasperated, incensed, enraged, arouse, encourage, excite, fire (up), impassion, incite, instigate, move, pique, rev (up), spark, stimulate, stir, forms: provocateur, provocation provocative, provocatively provocativeness, provocatory provoke, provoker, provoking provokingly |
His remarks provoked both tears and laughter.
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improbable
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adj: something unlikely to happen or unlikely to be true
synonyms: doubtful, dubious, far-fetched, flimsy, questionable, unapt, unlikely forms: improbability, improbably improbation, improbative |
The team made an improbable comeback.
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stimulate
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verb: to excite, to invigorate or to spark someone's interest
synonyms: arouse, excite, spur, incite, see animate, provoke forms: stimulability, stimulable stimulancy, stimulant stimulated, stimulating stimulatingly, stimulation stimulative, stimulator stimulatory, stimuli |
A raise in employee wages might stimulate production.
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inaccessible
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adj: not able to be reached or not obtainable
synonyms: inapproachable, inconvenient, unapproachable, unattainable, unavailable, unobtainable, unreachable, untouchable forms: inaccessibility inaccessibly |
His prose is inaccessible to many readers.
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cryptic
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adj: something with unclear or hidden meaning, or a secret
synonyms: arcane, mysterious, deep, enigmatic, impenetrable, inscrutable, mystic, occult, uncanny forms: cryptically |
His instructions were cryptic. He said only to wait until we felt certain the answer was clear.
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judicious
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adj: having good judgment
synonyms: intelligent, judgmatic, discreet, prudent forms: judiciously judiciousness |
Work procedures should be very judicious about how much they do.
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jubilant
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adj: showing great joy or happiness
synonyms: cock-a-hoop, crank crowing, exulting, glorying, exultant, prideful, proud, rejoicing, triumphant forms: jubilance jubilantly |
Perhaps had we known what the future held we should not have been so jubilant.
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supercilious
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adj: someone who feels or acts like they are better than everyone else
synonyms: assumptive, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, haughty, highfalutin, high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, huffish, huffy, imperious, important, lofty, lordly, masterful, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, self-asserting, self-assertive, sniffy, stiff-necked, arrogant, superior, toplofty, uppish, uppity forms: superciliously superciliousness |
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pugnacious
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adj: eager to fight or disagree
synonyms: aggressive, agonistic, argumentative, assaultive, bellicose, brawly, chippy, combative, confrontational, contentious, discordant, disputatious, feisty, gladiatorial, militant, belligerent, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, warlike forms: pugnaciously pugnaciousness pugnacity |
There's one pugnacious member on the committee who won't agree to anything.
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belligerence
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noun: an aggressive, rude or hostile attitude
synonyms: aggression, aggressiveness, assaultiveness, bellicosity, belligerency, combativeness, contentiousness, defiance, disputatiousness, feistiness, fight, militance, militancy, militantness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, scrappiness, truculence, forms: belligerency, belligerent belligerently |
•We must understand that belligerence, aggressiveness and causing major inconvenience to the public will quickly erode sympathy and support.
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indigence
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noun: a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking
synonyms: beggary, destituteness, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, poverty, necessity, need, neediness, pauperism, penuriousness, penury, poorness, want forms: indigency, indigent |
There are various state and federal programs to help relieve indigence
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perfidy
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noun: a deliberate betrayal
synonyms: disloyalty, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, inconstancy, perfidiousness, infidelity, unfaithfulness forms: perfidious, perfidiously perfidiousness |
They are guilty of perfidy.
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aspersion
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noun: a false or misleading charge meant to harm someone's reputation
synonyms: detraction, defamation, calumny, slur forms: asperse, aspersed asperser, aspersing |
•Is it right that you should be casting such aspersions on those sitting behind mr trimble?
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tenacity
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noun: the state of holding on to an idea or a thing very strongly
synonyms: perseverance, obstinacy, resolution, determination, stubbornness forms: tenacious, tenaciously tenaciousness |
The hero demonstrates the tenacity of god to pursue the plan of salvation despite repeated failures in the plan.
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imprecise
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adj: not precise, exact, or definite; vague
synonyms: approximate, approximative, ballpark, inexact, inaccurate, loose, squishy forms: imprecisely, impreciseness imprecision |
3.14 is an imprecise approximation of the value of pi.
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straightforward
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adj: honest, direct and to the point
synonyms: direct, forthright, foursquare, plain, straight forms: straightforwardly, straightforwardness, straightforwards |
Using the computer program is fairly straightforward.
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deficient
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adj: a person of thing that is incomplete or lacking something needed
synonyms: incomplete, fragmental, fragmentary, half, halfway, partial forms: deficience, deficiencies deficiency, deficiently |
Several bridges in the city are structurally deficient.
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obtrusive
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adj: noticeable and undesirable, or something that sticks out or is in the way
synonyms: busy, interfering, intruding, meddlesome, meddling, nosy, intrusive, officious, presuming, presumptuous, protrusive, prying, pushing, pushy, snoopy |
We used less obtrusive colors in the bedrooms.
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elliptical
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adj: something that resembles or relates to an ellipse
synonyms: oval, ovoid, egg-shaped, forms: ellipsometer, elliptic elliptical, elliptically, ellipticalness |
The moon follows an elliptical path around the Earth.
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vast
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adj/noun: a large or immense space
synonyms: astronomical, Brobdingnagian, bumper, colossal, cosmic, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, galactic, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, grand, herculean, heroic, Himalayan, humongous (also humungous), immense, jumbo, king-size, leviathan, mammoth, massive, mega, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, oceanic, pharaonic, planetary, prodigious, super, super-duper, supersize, supersized, titanic, tremendous, huge, vasty, walloping, whacking, whopping forms: vastitude, vastity, vastly vastness, vasty |
She has a vast amount of knowledge on this subject.
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hollow
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noun: an unfilled space
synonyms: cavity, concavity, dent, depression, dint, hole, indentation, indenture, pit, recess, concave, dented, depressed, dished, indented, recessed, sunken forms: hollower, hollowest hollowly, hollowness |
The owls nested in the hollow of a tree.
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sparse
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adj: a thinly spread or meager amount or supply
synonyms: exiguous, hand-to-mouth, light, niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, sparing, meager, stingy forms: sparsely, sparseness sparser, sparsest, sparsity |
The archeological evidence for anglo-saxon herefordshire is disappointingly sparse.
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thunderous
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adj: making a noise like thunder
synonyms: blaring, blasting, booming, clamorous, clangorous, deafening, earsplitting, piercing, plangent, resounding, ringing, roaring, slam-bang, sonorous, stentorian, thundering, loud forms: thunder, thunderously |
The audience responded with thunderous applause.
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enormous
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adj: something that is bigger than the usual size
synonyms: astronomical, Brobdingnagian, bumper, colossal, cosmic (also cosmical), cyclopean, elephantine, huge, galactic, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, grand, herculean, heroic, Himalayan, humongous, immense, jumbo, king-size, leviathan, mammoth, massive, mega, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, oceanic, pharaonic, planetary, prodigious, super, super-duper, supersize, supersized, titanic, tremendous, vast, vasty, walloping, whacking, whopping forms: enormity, enormously enormousness |
They live in an enormous house.
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deafening
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adj: extremely loud
synonyms: blaring, blasting, booming, clamorous, clangorous, loud, earsplitting, piercing, plangent, resounding, ringing, roaring, slam-bang, sonorous, stentorian, thundering, thunderous forms: deaf, deafen, deafened deafening, deafeningly |
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unimpressive
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adj: something that does not leave a feeling of awe or admiration
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He has an impressive vocabulary for a 10-year-old.
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muted
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adj: muffled
synonyms: hushed, silent, noiseless, quiet, quieted, soundless, still, stilly forms: mute, mutedly, mutely, muteness, muter |
The artist chose colors that are dark and muted.
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