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Other forms: siroccos
1. n. a hot, stifling wind blowing from the Libyan deserts into southern Europe
2. n. any wind like this
Synonyms: sandstorm
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Other forms: highhandedly (adv.), highhandedness (n.)
1. adj. acting or done without thought for that others want ot think
2. adj. arrogant and arbitrary
Synonyms: arrogant, arbitrary, autoritarian, overbearing, tyrannical
Antonyms: humble, democratic
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Other forms: recurred, recurring
1. vb. to occur again, periodically, or repeatedly
- (of a thought, image, or memory) to come back to the mind
- go back to (something) in thought of speech
Synonyms: persist, reappear, return, repeat, reiterate
Antonyms: halt, stop, disappear |
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Other forms: larders
1. n. a room or large cupboard for storing food
2. n. a supply of food
Synonyms: pantry, storage
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Other forms: fervently, ferventness
1. adj. having or displaying a passionate intensity.
2. adj. hot; burning; glowing
Synonyms: ardent, earnest, passionate, zealous
Antonyms: apathetic, insincere, calm, cold |
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Other forms: elicited, eliciting, elicits, elicitation, elicitor
1. v. to evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions.
Synonyms: educe, evoke, extract
Antonyms: suppress, repress, soothe, placate |
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Other forms: aureola
1. n. a circle of light or brightness surrounding something, especially as depicted in art around the head or body of a person represented as holy
Synonyms: halo, corona
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Other forms: steadfastly, steadfastness
1. adj. resolutely or dutifully firm and unwavering.
2. adj. fixed in direction; steadily directed
3. adj. firmly established, as an institution or a state ofaffairs
4. adj. firmly fixed in place or position.
Synonyms: dedicated, faithful, relentless, unwavering, unyielding
Antonyms: dishonest, disloyal, unreliable, wavering |
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Other forms: authorized, authorizing, authorizable, authorizer
1. to give official permission for or approval to
2. to give authority, or official power to
Synonyms: empower, enable, entitle
Antonyms: refuse, reject |
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Other forms:
1. a deep or seemingly bottomless chasm
2. a wide or profound difference between people
3. anything profound, unfathomable, or infinite:
Synonyms: chasm, crevasse, depth, void
Antonyms: filling, full |
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Other forms: profounder, profoundest, profoundly, profoundness
1. adj. (of a state, quality, or emotion) very great or intense
2. adj. (of a person or statement) having or showing great knowledge or insight
3. n. the vast depth of the ocean or of the mind
Synonyms: deep, intelligent, philosophical, serious
Antonyms: light, superficial, unimportant, unintelligent |
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Other forms: syphon, siphonal, siphonic, siphonless, siphonlike
1. a tube used to convey liquid upwards from a reservoir and then down to a lower level of its own accord. Once the liquid has been forced into the tube, typically by suction or immersion, flow continues unaided.
Synonyms: drain, funnel, pump, tube
Antonyms:
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1. a person who carries a ceremonial torch.
2. a leader in a movement, campaign, etc.
Synonyms: torch holder
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Other forms: impassionedly, impassionedness
1. adj. filled with intense feeling or passion
2. adj. filled with or showing great emotion
Synonyms: ardent, fervent, fierce, fiery, zealous, passionate, intense
Antonyms: apathetic, calm, cold, unenthusiastic |
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Other forms: fomenter, unfomented
1. vb. to instigate or stir up (an undesirable or violent sentiment or course of action)
2. vb. to bathe (a part of the body) with warm or medicated lotions.
Synonyms: abet, arouse, brew, insight
Antonyms: deter, discourage |
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Other forms:
1. n. a straight line or direct route between two places
Synonyms: shortcut, straightaway
Antonyms: detour |
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Other forms: pensively, pensiveness
1. adj. expressing or revealing deep or serious thought, usually marked by some sadness
2. adj. dreamily or wistfully thoughtful
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Other forms: exultingly, self-exulting
1. to show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice exceedingly; be highly elated or jubilant
Synonyms: rejoice, clebrate, cheer, jubilate
Antonyms: grieve, mourn, conceal, hide |
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Other forms: caviler/caviller, cavilingly/cavillingly
1. vb. to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily
ex: She finds something to cavil at in everything I say
2. n. an irritating, trivial, annoying, and unnecessary objection
Synonyms: carp, criticize
Antonyms: praise, admire |
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Other forms: uproariously, uproariousness
1. adj. characterized by or provoking loud noise or uproar.
2. adj. very funny, as a person or situation
Synonyms: boisterous, clamorous
Antonyms: quiet, shy |
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Other forms: broodless, unbrooded
1. n. a family of young animals, especially of a bird, produced at one hatching or birth
2. vb. to think deeply about something that makes one unhappy
3. vb. to (of a bird) sit on (eggs) to hatch them
4. adj. (of an animal) kept to be used for breeding
Synonyms: offspring, breed
Antonyms: parent, child |
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Other forms:
1. n. the often uncharted areas beyond a coastal district or a river's banks
2. n. an area lying beyond what is visible or known
Synonyms: outback
Antonyms: metropolis |
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Other forms: primly, primness
1. adj. stiffly formal and respectable; feeling or showing disapproval of anything regarded as improper
2. vb. to purse (the mouth or lips) into a prim expression
Synonyms: tidy, proper, formal
Antonyms: untidy, informal, rumpled |
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Other forms: trampler, untrampled
1. vb. to tread on and crush
2. n. an act or the sound of trampling
Synonyms: crush, flatten, injure
Antonyms: aid, asist, cure, heal, help |
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Other forms: sluicelike, undersluice, unsluiced
1. n. a sliding gate or other device for controlling the flow of water, especially one in a lock gate
2. n. an act of rinsing or showering with water
3. vb. wash or rinse freely with a stream or shower of water
Synonyms: channel, gush, gate, flush
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