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Definition
Verb, Noun
1. to scrape or abrade witha rough instrument
2. to scrape or rub roughly
3. to grate upon or irrate
4. to utter with a grating sound
5. to scrape or grate
6. to make a grating sound
7. an act of rasping
8. a rasping sound
9. a coarse file, used mainly on wood, having separate conical teeth.
10. (in an insect) a roughened surface used in stridulation
Syn. mar, Ant. zephyr
analogy cause:effect rasp:roughhewn
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Sunder, also, Sunderable, Sunderance |
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Definition
Verb
1. to separate
2. to become separate
Syn. Mar Ant. harmony
Analogy decreasing intensity Sunder:Deface |
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Listless, also listlessly, listlessness |
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Definition
Adjective
1. having or showing little or no interest in anything
Syn. pacified, Ant. impassioned
Analogy decreasing intensity listless:pacified |
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Definition
Noun
1. a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he/she possesses
Syn. devious, Ant. Sage
Analogy cause:effect devious:charalatan |
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Definition
Noun, Verb
1. A defeat attended with disorderly flight
2. any overwhelming defeat.
3. a tumultuos or disorderly crowd of people
4. therabble or mob
5. a disturbance of the peace by 3 or more people in a manner that suggests an intention to riot, but do not carry out the intention.
6.a large, formal evening party or social gathering
7. a company or a band of people
8. to disperse in defeat and disorderly flight
9. to defeat decisively
Syn. Quash, Ant. Pacify
Analogy increasing intensity rout:quash |
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Toothsome, also Toothsomely, Toothsomeness |
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Definition
Adjective
1. pleasing to the taste
2. pleasing or desirable, as fame or power
Syn. Aureole, Ant. Shroud
Analogy noun:closely related adjective teeth:toothsome |
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Definition
Noun
1. a very small amount
Syn. smattering, Ant. lode
Analogy increasing intensity smidgen:smattering |
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Definition
Verb
1. to decrease seriously the abundance or supply of
Syn. Siphon Ant. Larder
Analogy increasing intensity deplete:siphon
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Definition
Adjective
1. gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood
2. characterized by or expressing gloom
Syn. Brood, Ant. exult
Analogy decreasing intensity morose:pensive |
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Term
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Definition
Noun
1. harsh discordance of sound
2. a discordant and meanlingless mixture of sounds
3. frequent use of discords of a harshness and relationship difficult to understand.
Syn. quash,Ant. Sunder
analogy decreasing intensity cacophony:rasp |
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Term
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Definition
Verb, Adjective
1. to join together or unite
2. to unite by overlapping and binding the ends
3. to unite by butting and cemeting
4. to unite or join
Syn. Swaddle, Ant. exult
Analogy noun closely related adjective makeshift:spliced
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Definition
Noun
1. a temporany expediant or substitute
2. serving as or of the nature of, a makeshift.
Syn. provisional,Ant. decorum
Analogy Noun closely related adjective
Makeshift:splice |
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Term
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Definition
Noun, Verb
1. a slight, superficial, introductory knowledge of something
2. slight or superficial
3. to speak
4. to dabble in
5. slight or superficial knowledge
Syn. Smidgen, Ant. larder
Analogy part:whole smattering:sageness
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Definition
Verb
1. to linger aimlessly
2. to move in a slow idle manner
3. to waste or dawdle or over work
4. to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner
Syn. pensive, Ant. exult
Analogy increasing intensity loiter:listless |
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Definition
Adjective
1. impudent, insolent
Syn. wayward, Ant.
Analogy increasing intensity cheeky:devious |
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Definition
Noun
1. descent to a lower positions or standing
2. something causing ruin or failure
3. a fall, as of rain or snow
4. a trap using falling weight for killing, injuring prey.
Syn.
Analogy cause effect quashed:downfall
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Definition
Verb, Noun, Adjective
2. to spread out, expand, or extend
2. form with an oblique angle
3. to amke with splay or splay
4. to make with a splay or splay
5. to have an oblique or slanting direction
6. to spread or flare
7. a surface that makes an oblique angle with another
8. spread out
9. clumsy or awkward
10. oblique
Syn. trample, Ant. staunch
analogy decreasing intensity splay:serpentine
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Term
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Definition
Adjective
1. sharp or biting to the taste or smell
2. extremely or sharply stinging or bitter.
Syn. cheeky, Ant. fray
analogy increasing intensity acrid:foment |
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Definition
Noun, Verb
1. a fight, battle, or skirmish
2. a compertion or contest
3. a noisy quarrel or brawl
4. fright
5. to frighten
6. to fight or brawl
Syn. quash Ant. decorum
analogy increasing intensity fray:quash
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Definition
Verb
1. to damage or spoil to a extent
2. to disfigure, deface, or scar
Syn. deface, Ant. decorum
analogy category/example deface:mar |
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Term
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Definition
Verb, Adjective
1. a past participle of rive
2. rent or split apart
3. split radially, as a log
5.to tear or rend apart
6. to separate by striking
7. to rend, harrow, or distress
8.to split (wood) radially from a log
9. to become rent or split apart
Syn. sunder, Ant. Splice
analogy increasing intensity rive:quash
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Term
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Definition
Noun
1. agreement
2. a consistent, orderly or pleasing arrangement of parts
3. any simultaneous
4. an arrangement of the contents of the Gospels.
Syn. Steadfast, Ant. sunder
analogy decreasing intensity harmony:stauchness |
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Term
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Definition
Noun, Verb
1. a wedgelike tool with a cutting edge at the of the blade
2. chisel plow
3. the constellation Caelum
4. to cut shape, fashion by or as if by carving with a chisel
5. to cheat or swindle someone
6. to get (something) by cheating or trickery
7. to work with a chisel
8. to trick
Syn. devious, Ant. splice
analogy tool:object it is used with chisel tenement
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Definition
Adjective, Noun
1. pleasant to the ear
2. pleaseant or agreeable to the eye or the feelings
3. sweet to the taste of smell
4. an organ stop resembling the dulciana
Syn. toothsome, Ant. rasp
analogy noun:closely related adjective dulcet:zephyr |
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Term
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Definition
Adjective
1. denoting wood or stone that is not smooth
2. not sophisticated, polished, or elegant
3. denoting or possessing attractively strong or bony facial features
Syn. rive, Ant. dulcet
analogy effect:cause roughhewn:rasp |
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