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Definition
Noun
1. A hot, humid, south or southeast wind in southern Italy, Scily and other Mediterranean isalnds coming from the Sahara.
2. A warm south or southeast wind accompied by rain, occuring in same regions.
3. Any hot, oppressive wind, especially one in the warm sector of a cyclone.
Analogy increasing intensity, Sirocco:Zephyr
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Highhanded, also highandedly, and highandedness |
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Definition
Adjective
1.overbearing and/or oppressive
syn. sirocco , ant. estatic
Analogy cause:effect, eminent:highhandness |
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Recur, also recurred, recurring |
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Definition
Verb
1. to occur again, an an event, experience. etc.
2. to return to the mind
3. to come up again for consideration, as a question
4. to have recourse
Syn. brood , Ant. siphon
Analogy decreasing intensity recur:pensive |
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Definition
Noun
1. a room or place where food is kept
2. a supply of food
Syn. lode, Ant. siphon
Analogy Category:example, lode:larder |
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Fervent, also fervently, ferventness |
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Definition
Adjective
1. having or showing great warth or intesity of spirt, feeling, enthusiasm, etc
2. hot, blurning, glowin
Syn. estatic, Ant. pacify
Analogy synonyms, fervent:impassioned |
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Elicit, also elicitation, elicitor |
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Definition
Verb
1. to draw or bring out or forth, evoke
Syn. sluice, Ant. insulate
Analogy antonyms elicit:shroud |
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Definition
Noun
1. A radiance surrounding the head or the whole figure in the representation of a sacred personage.
2. any encircling ring of light, halo
3. coron
4. a zone of altered country rock around an igneous intrusion
Syn. lode, Ant. Shroud
Analogy action thing acted upon aueole:sky |
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Steadfast, also steadfastly, steadfstness |
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Definition
Adjective
1. fixed in direction, steadily directed
2. firm in purpose, ressolution, faith, attachment, etc.
3. unwavering
4. firmly established
5. firmly fixed in place or position
Syn. prim, Ant. beeline
Analogy increasing intensity steadfast:impassioned |
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Term
Authorize, also authorizable, authorization, authorizer, reauthorize |
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Definition
Verb
1. to give authority ot official power, empower
2. to give authority for, formally sanction
3. to establish by authority or usage
4. to afford a ground for, warrant, justify
Syn. sanction, Ant. veto
Analogy ratify, authorization |
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Definition
Noun
1. A deep immeasureable space
2. anything profound, unfathomable, or infinite
3. the primal chaos before creation, hell, a subterranean ocean
Syn. brood, Ant. lode
Analogy increasing intensity abyss:lode |
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Profound, also profoundly, profoundness |
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Definition
Adjective
1. penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought
2. oringinating in or penetrating to the depths if one's being
3. going far beneath the exteral or obvious
4. of deep meaning
5. pervasive or intense
6. far beneath the surface
7. low
Syn. abyss, Ant. shallow
Analogy noun closely related adjective brood:profound
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Definition
Noun
1. A tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another
2. a projecting tublar part of some animals
3. to convey, draw, or pass through
Syn. sluice, Ant. staunch
Analogy action thing acted upon siphon:pipe |
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Definition
Noun
1. A person who carries a torch
2. A leader in a movement, campaign, etc.
Syn. steadfast, Ant. peer
Analogy decreasing intensity torchbearer:staunch |
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Impassioned, also impassionedly, impassionedness |
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Definition
Adjective
1. filled with intense feeling or passion
Syn. fervent, Ant. pacfied
Analogy synonyms impassioned:fervent |
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Definition
Verb
1. to cause or try to cause the growth or development of something bad or harmful
Syn. devious, Ant. insulate
Analogy category example devious:fomenter |
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Definition
Noun
1. A direct route traveled quickly.
Syn. trample, Ant. steadfast
Analogy increasing intensity beeline:trample |
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Pensive, also pensively, pensiveness |
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Definition
Adjective
1. Dreamily or wistfully thoughtful
2. expressing or revealing thoughtfulness, usually marked by some sadness
Syn. brood, Ant. estatic
Analogy noun closely related adjective sage:pensive |
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Definition
Verb
1. to show or feel a lively or triumphant joy
2. to leap, especially for joy
Syn. impassioned, Ant. pacified
Analogy increasing intensity exult:estatic |
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Uproarious, also uproariously, uproariousness |
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Definition
Adjective
1. characterized by or in a state of uproar
2. making an uproar
3. very funny, as a person or a situation
4. very loud, as sounds or utterances
5. expressed by or producing uproar
Syn. noisy, Ant. prim, decorum
Analogy decreasing intensity uproarious:exult |
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Definition
Noun, Verb
1. An evasionof the point of the arguement by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
2.to raise trivial objections
Syn. criticize, Ant. profound
Analogy increasing intensity cavil:quash |
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Definition
Noun/Verb/Adjective
1. a family of oppspring or young
2. A breed, species, group, or kind
3. to incubate
4. (of a bird) to warm, protect, or cover (young) with the wings or the body
5. to think or worry persistently or moodily about
6. to sit upon eggs to be hatched
7. to dwell on a subject or meditate with morbid persisitence
8. kept for breeding
9. to cover loom or seem to fill the atmosphere or scene
Syn. dwell upon, Ant. exult
Analogy decreasing intensity brood:pensive
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Term
Hinterland, also hinterlands |
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Definition
Noun
1. the remote or less developed parts of a country
2. The land lying behind a coastal region
3. an area or sphere of influence in the unoccupied interior claimed by the state possessing the coast
4. an inland area supplying goods, especially trade goods, to a port
Syn. backcountry, Ant. city
Analogy decreasing intensity hinterland:tenement |
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Prim, also primly, primness |
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Definition
Adjective
1. formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior
2. to draw up the mouth in a nice way
3. to make prim, as in apperance
4. to draw one's face, lips, etc. into a prim expression
Syn. decorum, Ant. exult
Analogy increasing intensity prim:protocol
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Definition
Verb, Noun
1. to tread or step heavily and noisily
2. to tread or step heavily, roughly, or crushingly
3. to act in a harsh, domineering, or cruel manner, as if treading roughly
4. to tread underfoot
5. to domineer harshly over
6. to put out or extinguish by trampling
7. the act of trampling
8. the sound of trampling
Syn. quash, Ant. pacify
Analogy action subject performing action trample:Godzilla
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Term
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Definition
Noun, Verb
1. an artifical channel for conducting water
2. the body of water held back by a sluice gate
3. any contrivance for regulating a flow from or into a receptacle
5. a stream of surplus water
6. an artificial stream or chanel of water for moving solid mater
7. a long sloping trough with grooves on the bottem, into which is diected to separate gold from gravel or sand
8. to let out water by or as if by opening a sluice
9.to drain a pond, lake by or as if by opening a sluice
10. to open a sluice upon
11. to flush or cleanse with a rush of water
12. to wash in a sluice
Syn. lode, Ant. staunch
Analogy decreasing intensity sluice:fount
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