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Verb 1. accentuate - to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
Synonyms: accent, emphasize, stress, punctuate, emphasise
2. accentuate - put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
Synonyms: accent, stress |
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Noun 1. adamant - very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
Synonyms: diamond
Adj. 1. adamant - not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course; unsusceptible to persuasion; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendancy"
Synonyms: intransigent, inexorable, adamantine |
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Verb 1. adorn - make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day"
Synonyms: decorate, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
2. adorn - be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"
Synonyms: deck, decorate, embellish, grace, beautify
3. adorn - furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors
Synonyms: clothe, invest |
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Adj. 1. affluent - having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations"
Synonyms: wealthy, moneyed, flush, loaded |
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Noun 1. Ailmentailment - an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
Synonyms: complaint, illness |
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Adj. 1. ambiguous - open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead; "an equivocal statement"; "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"; "the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness"; "popularity is an equivocal crown"; "an equivocal response to an embarrassing question"
Synonyms: equivocal
2. ambiguous - having more than one possible meaning; "ambiguous words"; "frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy"
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unambiguous - having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; "As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous"- Mario Vargas Llosa
3. ambiguous - having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns; "an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference"; "ambiguous inkblots" |
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Noun 1. ambivalence - mixed feelings or emotions
Synonyms: ambivalency |
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Adj. 1. amiable - disposed to please; "an amiable villain with a cocky sidelong grin"- Hal Hinson
Synonyms: good-humored, good-humoured
2. amiable - diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host"
Synonyms: affable, cordial, genial |
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Adj. 1. ample - more than enough in size or scope or capacity; "had ample food for the party"; "an ample supply"
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meager, meagerly, meagre - deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"
2. ample - affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply"
Synonyms: plenteous, plentiful, copious, rich
3. ample - fairly large; "a sizable fortune"; "an ample waistline"; "of ample proportions"
Synonyms: sizable, sizeable |
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Noun 1. Animosityanimosity - a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility
Synonyms: animus, bad blood |
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| Adj. 1. anomalous - deviating from the general or common order or type; "advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe" |
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Noun 1. Antagonistantagonist - someone who offers opposition
Synonyms: adversary, opposer, resister, opponent
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agonist - someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon)
2. antagonist - a muscle that relaxes while another contracts; "when bending the elbow the triceps are the antagonist"
3. antagonist - a drug that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of another drug
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synergist - a drug that augments the activity of another drug |
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Verb 1. appease - cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
Synonyms: assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate
2. appease - overcome or allay; "quell my hunger"
Synonyms: quell, stay
3. appease - make peace with
Synonyms: propitiate |
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Adj. 1. arduous - characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
Synonyms: backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, laborious, toilsome, punishing, hard, heavy
2. arduous - taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; "his final, straining burst of speed"; "a strenuous task"; "your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here"- F.D.Roosevelt
Synonyms: straining, strenuous
3. arduous - difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill; "the arduous work of preparing a dictionary" |
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Adj. 1. arid - lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"
Synonyms: waterless
2. arid - lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"; "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo
Synonyms: desiccate, desiccated |
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