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🔑 Mine, verb.
💠Example: The iron ore was mined from shallow pits.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. quarry, excavate, dig, dig up, extract, unearth, remove, draw, scoop out
2. strip-mine
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🔑 Lose out to, phrase.
💠Example: Celtic have lost out to rivals Rangers.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. be defeated by, be beaten by, be conquered by, be vanquished by, be trounced by, be worsted by, be bested by, be beaten into second place by
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🔑 Essential, adjective.
💠Example: He is the essential English gentleman.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. ideal, absolute, complete, perfect, quintessential
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🔑 Edge, verb.
💠Example: A white party frock edged with lace.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. trim, pipe, band, decorate, finish
2. border, fringe
3. bind, hem
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🔑 Love, verbo.
💠Example: I love you, Rory.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. be in love with, be infatuated with, be smitten with, be besotted with, be passionate about
2. care very much for, feel deep affection for, hold very dear, adore, think the world of, be devoted to, dote on, cherish, worship, idolize, treasure, prize
3. (coloquial) be crazy about, be mad about, be nuts about, be wild about, have a pash on, carry a torch for
4. (Britanico • coloquial) be potty about
🧿 Antonyms:
1. hate, loathe, detest
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🔑 Earth, noun.
💠Example: The fox ran back to its earth.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. den, lair, sett, burrow, warren, tunnel, hole, cave
2. retreat, shelter, hideout, hideaway, hiding place
3. habitation
4. (informal) hidey-hole
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🔑 Dare, noun.
💠Example: She didn't quite know why she accepted the dare.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. challenge, provocation, goad, taunt
2. gauntlet, invitation, ultimatum, summons
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🔑 Hard, adverb.
💠Example: My mother looked hard at me.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. closely, attentively, intently, critically, carefully, keenly, searchingly, earnestly, sharply, scrutinizingly
🧿 Antonyms:
1. casually
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🔑 Shrewd, adjective.
💠Example: A shrewd businessman.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. astute, sharp-witted, sharp, acute, intelligent, clever, alert, canny, media-savvy, perceptive, perspicacious, observant, discriminating, sagacious, sage, wise, far-seeing, far-sighted
2. cunning, artful, crafty, wily, calculating, disingenuous
3. (coloquial) on the ball, smart, savvy
4. (Britanico • coloquial) suss
5. (Scottish, Northern English • coloquial) pawky
6. (Norteamericano • coloquial) heads-up
7. (marginal) long-headed, sapient, argute
8. have all one's wits about one
🧿 Antonyms:
1. stupid, unwise, ingenuous
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🔑 Thought, noun.
💠Example: He gave up any thought of taking a degree.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. hope, aspiration, ambition, dream
2. intention, idea, plan, design, purpose, aim
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🔑 Brainy, adjective.
💠Example: A brainy, high-powered lawyer.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. clever, intelligent, bright, brilliant, gifted
2. intellectual, erudite, well read, cultured, highbrow, academic, scholarly, cerebral, studious, bookish, bluestocking
3. (informal) smart, genius
4. (British • informal) swotty
5. (North American • informal) whip-smart
🧿 Antonyms:
1. stupid
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🔑 Make, verb.
💠Example: What do you make of him?
🧲 Synonyms:
1. think about, think of
2. appraise, evaluate, assess, size up, adjudge, look on, view, regard, consider, judge, deem
3. figure, figure out, value, rate, think, sum up, weigh up
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🔑 Hierarchy, noun.
💠Example: The initiative was with those lower down in the hierarchy.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. pecking order, ranking, grading, ladder, social order, social stratum, social scale, class system
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🔑 Fantasy, noun.
💠Example: The movie is ambitious in its mix of fantasy and realism.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. imagination, creativity, fancy, invention, originality, vision, speculation, make-believe, daydreaming, reverie
🧿 Antonyms:
1. truth, realism
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🔑 Give something out, phrase.
💠Example: Thousands of leaflets were given out.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. distribute, issue, hand out, pass round, dole out, dispense
2. mete out
3. allocate, allot, apportion, assign, share out, parcel out
4. disseminate
5. (informal) dish out
🧿 Antonyms:
1. collect
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🔑 Film, noun.
💠Example: She would like to work in film.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. cinema, movies, the pictures
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🔑 Interest, verb.
💠Example: Write about a topic that interests you.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. be of interest to, appeal to, attract, be attractive to, intrigue, fascinate
2. absorb, engross, rivet, grip, hold, captivate
3. amuse, divert, entertain
4. arouse one's curiosity, whet one's appetite, hold one's attention, engage one's attention
5. (informal) float someone's boat, tickle someone's fancy, light someone's fire
🧿 Antonyms:
1. bore
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🔑 Strong, adjective.
💠Example: A big strong farmer's lad.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. powerful, muscular, brawny, well built, powerfully built, strapping, sturdy, hefty, burly, meaty, robust, fit, athletic, vigorous, tough, rugged
2. stalwart, staunch, mighty, hardy
3. lusty, Herculean, strong as an horse, strong as an lion, strong as an ox
4. (informal) beefy, hunky, husky, ripped, shredded
5. (North American • informal) buff
6. (US • informal) jacked
🧿 Antonyms:
1. weak, puny
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🔑 Star, adjetivo.
💠Example: Elinor was a star pupil.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. brilliant, talented, gifted, able, bright, brainy, clever, masterly, consummate, precocious
2. (coloquial) genius
🧿 Antonyms:
1. poor
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🔑 Right, adverb.
💠Example: Keep going right on till you come to a blue house.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. straight, directly, in a straight line, as the crow flies
🧿 Antonyms:
1. indirectly
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🔑 Honourable, adjective.
💠Example: He took the honourable course and resigned.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. morally correct, honest, moral, ethical, principled, righteous, right-minded, full of integrity
2. decent, respected, respectable, venerable, virtuous, good, upstanding, upright, worthy, noble, high-principled, fair, just, truthful, trustworthy, trusty, law-abiding, incorruptible, reliable, reputable, dependable, faithful
🧿 Antonyms:
1. dishonourable, crooked
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🔑 Separate, verb.
💠Example: The skins are separated from the juice before fermentation.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. isolate, set apart, put to one side, segregate
2. sort out, sift out, winnow out, filter out, remove, weed out
3. distinguish, differentiate, dissociate
🧿 Antonyms:
1. mix
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🔑 National, noun.
💠Example: A French national.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. citizen, subject, native, resident, inhabitant
2. voter
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🔑 Start, noun.
💠Example: I gave them a quarter of an hour's start.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. lead, head start, advantage, advantageous position
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🔑 Break, verb.
💠Example: Four thousand pounds wouldn't break him.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. bankrupt, make bankrupt, ruin, reduce to penury, reduce to nothing, pauperize
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🔑 Giant, adjective.
💠Example: A dredger resembling a giant vacuum cleaner.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. huge, colossal, massive, enormous, gigantic, very big, very large, great, mammoth, vast, immense, tremendous, mighty, stupendous, monumental, epic, prodigious, mountainous, monstrous, titanic, towering, elephantine, king-sized, king-size, gargantuan, Herculean, Brobdingnagian
2. substantial, extensive, hefty, bulky, weighty, heavy, gross
3. (informal) mega, monster, whopping, whopping great, thumping, thumping great, humongous, jumbo, hulking, bumper, astronomical, astronomic
4. (British • informal) whacking, whacking great, ginormous
🧿 Antonyms:
1. miniature
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🔑 Pass for, phrase.
💠Example: She could easily pass for someone half her age.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. be mistaken for, be taken for, be regarded as, be accepted as
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🔑 Former, adjective.
💠Example: Those who take the former view.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. first-mentioned, first
🧿 Antonyms:
1. latter
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🔑 Close, adjective.
💠Example: A close examination of the language of a text.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. careful, detailed, thorough, minute, painstaking, meticulous, assiduous, diligent, rigorous, scrupulous, conscientious, attentive, focused, intent, concentrated, searching, methodical
🧿 Antonyms:
1. casual
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🔑 Go great guns, phrase.
💠Example: Her fashion business is going great guns.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. prosper, do well, get on well, go well, fare well
2. thrive, flourish, flower, bloom, burgeon, blossom
3. boom, expand, spread, pick up, improve, come on
4. succeed, be successful, make it, do all right for oneself, get ahead, progress, make progress, make headway, advance, get on in the world, go up in the world, arrive, fly high, make one's mark, make good, become rich, strike gold, strike oil, be in clover
5. (informal) go places, make the big time, be in the pink, be fine and dandy
6. (archaic) make good speed
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🔑 Disgust, noun.
💠Example: The bowler hurled his cap to the ground in disgust.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. annoyance, exasperation, anger, fury, outrage, indignation, contempt, disapproval, disapprobation, displeasure, dissatisfaction, disgruntlement, discontent, discontentment
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🔑 Representative, noun.
💠Example: A sales representative.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. commercial traveller, travelling salesman, salesman, saleswoman, agent, traveller
2. (informal) rep, knight of the road
3. (North American • informal) drummer
4. (British • archaic) commercial
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🔑 Piece of cake, phrase.
💠Example: A career is a piece of cake compared to this.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. easy task, easy job, child's play, nothing, five-finger exercise, gift, walkover, sinecure
2. (informal) breeze, doddle, walk in the park, picnic, money for old rope, money for jam, cinch, sitter, kids' stuff, cushy job, cushy number, doss, cakewalk, pushover
3. (North American • informal) duck soup, snap
4. (Australian, New Zealand • informal) bludge, snack
5. (South African • informal) a piece of old tackie
6. (British • vulgar slang) a piece of piss
7. (dated) snip
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🔑 Submission, noun.
💠Example: Tim raised his hands in mock submission.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. surrender, yielding, capitulation, resignation, succumbing, defeat, fall
2. laying down one's arms, giving in, humbling oneself, knuckling under
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🔑 Obstacle, nombre.
💠Example: Lack of childcare provision was cited as a major obstacle for women who wish to participate in training initiatives.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. barrier, hurdle, stumbling block, bar, block, impediment, hindrance, snag, catch, drawback, hitch, handicap, deterrent, complication, difficulty, problem, disadvantage, balk, curb, check, stop, interference
2. obstruction, barricade, blockade
3. (coloquial) fly in the ointment, hiccup, facer
4. (Britanico • coloquial) spanner in the works
5. (Norteamericano • coloquial) monkey wrench in the works
6. (anticuado) cumber
7. (literario) trammel
🧿 Antonyms:
1. advantage, asset, aid
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🔑 Indulgence, nombre.
💠Example: He squandered his money on the indulgence of all his desires.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. satisfaction, satisfying, gratification, gratifying, fulfilment, fulfilling, satiation, appeasement, assuagement, quenching, slaking
2. accommodation
🧿 Antonyms:
1. denial
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🔑 Separate, verb.
💠Example: The second stage of the rocket failed to separate.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. become detached, become disconnected, come apart, come away, uncouple, break off
🧿 Antonyms:
1. link up with
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🔑 Spur, noun.
💠Example: The outcome of the election added a further spur to the reform movement.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. stimulus, incentive, encouragement, stimulant, stimulation, inducement, impetus, prod, prompt
2. incitement, goad
3. fillip
4. motive, motivation
5. (informal) kick up the backside, shot in the arm
🧿 Antonyms:
1. disincentive, discouragement
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🔑 Flower, noun.
💠Example: The flower of the nation's youth.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. best, finest, top, pick, choice, choicest, prime, cream, prize, treasure, pearl, gem, jewel, the jewel in the crown, the crème de la crème, first class, elite, elect
2. (informal) the tops
🧿 Antonyms:
1. dregs
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🔑 Aberrant, adjective.
💠Example: Mrs Casper seems to be responsible for Billy's aberrant behaviour.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. deviant, deviating, divergent, abnormal, atypical, anomalous, digressive, irregular
2. nonconformist, rogue, transgressing
3. strange, odd, peculiar, uncommon, freakish, eccentric, quirky, exceptional, singular
4. twisted, warped, perverted
🧿 Antonyms:
1. normal, typical
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🔑 Dull, verb.
💠Example: Sleep had dulled her mind.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. numb, benumb, deaden, desensitize, render insensitive, stupefy, daze, stun
2. drug, sedate, tranquillize, narcotize
3. (rare) torpefy, obtund
🧿 Antonyms:
1. enliven
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🔑 Dear, adjective.
💠Example: My dear sister was talking about you only today.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. beloved, loved, much loved, darling, adored, cherished, precious
2. esteemed, respected, worshipped
3. close, intimate, confidential, bosom, boon, favourite, best
🧿 Antonyms:
1. hated
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🔑 Know, verb.
💠Example: I would write to him if I knew his address.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. have knowledge of, be aware of, be cognizant of, be informed of, be apprised of
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🔑 Be sure to, phrase.
💠Example: Be sure to send your press releases to the news desk.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. remember to, don't forget to, make sure to, see that you, mind that you, take care to, be certain to, be careful to
🧿 Antonyms:
1. neglect to, forget to
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🔑 Wrap, noun.
💠Example: He put a wrap round her shoulders.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. shawl, stole, cloak, cape, mantle, scarf
2. poncho, serape
3. (rare) pelisse, pelerine, mantlet
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🔑 Attraction, noun.
💠Example: The stars are held close together by mutual gravitational attraction.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. pull, draw
2. magnetism
🧿 Antonyms:
1. repulsion
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🔑 Customer, noun.
💠Example: Businesses need to think up new ways of attracting customers.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. shopper, consumer, buyer, purchaser
2. patron, client
3. regular, frequenter, habitué
4. clientele, patronage, business, trade
5. (British • informal) punter
6. vendee
7. (rare) emptor
🧿 Antonyms:
1. seller
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🔑 Straight, adverb.
💠Example: He looked me straight in the eyes.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. right, directly, squarely, full, plumb
2. (informal) smack, bang, slap bang
3. (North American • informal) spang, smack dab
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🔑 Brain, noun.
💠Example: Success requires brains as well as brawn.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. intelligence, intellect, intellectual capacity, mental capacity, brainpower, cleverness, wit, wits, powers of reasoning, reasoning, wisdom, sagacity, acumen, discernment, shrewdness, judgement, understanding, common sense, sense
2. mind, head
3. (informal) nous, grey matter, savvy, braininess
4. (British • informal) loaf, upper storey
5. (North American • informal) smarts
6. (South African • informal) kop
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🔑 Lift, verb.
💠Example: They needed far more supplies than the RAF could lift in the required time scale.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. airlift, transport by air, transport, move, transfer, fly, convey, shift
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🔑 Smooth, adjective.
💠Example: His face was smooth and youthful.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. clean-shaven, smooth-shaven, hairless
🧿 Antonyms:
1. rough, hirsute
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🔑 Honour, noun.
💠Example: He was welcomed with honour by the king.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. acclaim, acclamation, commendation, applause, accolades, tributes, compliments, congratulations, salutes, plaudits, bouquets, paeans, homage, praise, glory, eulogy, adoration, reverence, veneration, adulation, exaltation, glorification
2. (rare) extolment, laudation, eulogium
🧿 Antonyms:
1. contempt
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🔑 Bring something to a close, phrase.
💠Example: He has now brought this series to a close.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. bring to an end, finish, conclude, close, wind up, terminate, dissolve
2. round off
3. (informal) wrap up
4. (dated) put a period to
🧿 Antonyms:
1. start, begin, open
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🔑 Middle, adjective.
💠Example: There is a dearth of talent at middle level.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. intermediate, intermedial, intermediary, inner, inside
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🔑 Generic, adjective.
💠Example: Generic drugs are generally cheaper than branded drugs.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. unbranded, untrademarked, non-proprietary
🧿 Antonyms:
1. branded
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🔑 Play, noun.
💠Example: We enable people to give full play to their energy and abilities.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. scope, range, latitude, liberty, licence, freedom, indulgence, free rein, release
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🔑 Sensitive, adjective.
💠Example: Don't use facial scrubs if your skin is sensitive.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. delicate, easily damaged, fragile
2. tender, sore, painful, raw
🧿 Antonyms:
1. resilient, tough
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🔑 Happen, verb.
💠Example: She could not explain how the accident happened.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. occur, take place, come about, come off, come into being
2. ensue, result, transpire, materialize, arise, be, crop up, come up, fall out, pan out, turn out, follow, develop, emerge, surface, present itself, supervene
3. (North American • informal) go down
4. (literary) come to pass, betide, chance
5. (rare) eventuate, hap
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🔑 Shop, verb.
💠Example: The police got him to shop his fellow bank raiders.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. inform against, inform on, betray, sell out, tell tales on, be disloyal to, be unfaithful to, break one's promise to, break faith with, stab in the back
2. (informal) tell on, rat on, put the finger on, squeal on, snitch on, peach on, sing about, sell down the river, blow the whistle on
3. (British • informal) grass on, split on, stitch up, do the dirty on
4. (North American • informal) rat out, finger, fink on, drop a dime on, drop the dime on
5. (Australian, New Zealand • informal) pimp on, pool, put someone's pot on
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🔑 Candidate, noun.
💠Example: Candidates applying for this position should be computer-literate.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. applicant, job applicant, job-seeker, prospective employee
2. contender, contestant, nominee, aspirant, possibility, possible
3. interviewee
4. postulant, suitor, pretender
5. (informal) runner
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🔑 On offer, phrase.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. on sale, up for sale, on the market, purchasable, available, obtainable, to be had
2. (North American) on the block
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🔑 Kick someone out, phrase.
💠Example: He was kicked out of his regiment for insubordination.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. expel, send away, eject, turn out, throw out, force out, oust, evict, put out, get rid of
2. dismiss, discharge
3. (informal) chuck out, send packing, boot out, show the door to, give someone their marching orders, throw someone out on their ear, sack, fire, give someone the boot, axe
4. (British • informal) give someone the push, give someone the elbow, give someone the big E, bin off, turf out, defenestrate
5. (North American • informal) give someone the air, give someone the bum's rush
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🔑 Athlete, noun.
💠Example: She is a superbly gifted all-round athlete.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. sportswoman, sportsman, sportsperson
2. runner, racer, player, games player, gymnast, team member
3. competitor, contestant, contender
4. (informal) keep-fit buff, keep-fit freak
5. (North American • informal) jock, jockstrap
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🔑 Work, noun.
💠Example: The site of a former car works.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. factory, plant, manufacturing complex, mill, foundry, yard, industrial unit, business unit
2. workshop, shop
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🔑 Experience, noun.
💠Example: An enjoyable experience.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. incident, occurrence, event, happening, affair, episode, encounter
2. adventure, exploit, escapade
3. circumstance, case
4. test, trial, ordeal
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🔑 Harm, verb.
💠Example: He's never harmed anybody in his life.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. injure, hurt, wound, maltreat, mistreat, misuse, ill-treat, ill-use, abuse, molest, inflict pain on, inflict suffering on, handle roughly, treat roughly, do violence to, lay a finger on
2. damage, spoil, mar, destroy, do mischief to, impair, deface, defile, blemish, tarnish, taint
🧿 Antonyms:
1. benefit, improve
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🔑 Tie, noun.
💠Example: He was wearing a collar and tie.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. necktie
2. neckwear
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🔑 Bear, verb.
💠Example: Such a solution does not bear close scrutiny.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. withstand, stand up to, stand, put up with, take, cope with, handle, resist, sustain, absorb, accept
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🔑 Inflated, adjective.
💠Example: Inflated language.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. high-flown, extravagant, exaggerated, elaborate, flowery, florid, ornate, overblown, overripe, overdone, overwrought, grandiloquent, magniloquent, grandiose, lofty, rhetorical, oratorical, verbose, affected, pretentious, turgid, bombastic, declamatory
2. (informal) windy, purple, highfalutin, la-di-da
3. (rare) fustian, euphuistic, orotund, tumid
🧿 Antonyms:
1. plain, simple
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🔑 Remove, verb.
💠Example: He was removed from his post as head of the security department.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. dismiss, discharge, get rid of, dislodge, displace, throw out, evict, eject, expel, oust, purge, unseat, depose, topple, supplant
2. dethrone
3. (informal) sack, fire, kick out, boot out, defenestrate, give someone the boot, give someone their marching orders, show someone the door
4. (British • informal) turf out
5. (dated) out
🧿 Antonyms:
1. install, appoint
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🔑 Paste, noun.
💠Example: Blend the ingredients to a paste.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. puree, mixture, pulp, mush, pap, blend
2. (informal) goo
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🔑 Fussy, adjective.
💠Example: A fussy, frilly bridal gown.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. over-elaborate, over-embellished, overdecorated, over-ornate, overdone, overworked, busy, cluttered, laboured, strained, florid
2. ornate, fancy
🧿 Antonyms:
1. understated
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🔑 Pseudonym, noun.
💠Example: Hanbury wrote a novel under the pseudonym of James Aston.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. pen name, assumed name, incognito, alias, false name, professional name, sobriquet, stage name, nickname
2. nom de plume, nom de guerre
3. (rare) allonym, anonym
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🔑 Day, nombre.
💠Example: He was the leading architect of the day.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. period, time, point in time, age, era, epoch, generation
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🔑 A matter of opinion, phrase.
💠Example: Whether this is desirable or not is a matter of opinion.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. open to question, a debatable point, debatable, open to debate, a moot point, open for discussion, open to discussion, up to the individual
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🔑 Haunted, adjective.
💠Example: Haunted eyes stared at her.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. tormented, anguished, troubled, plagued, bedevilled, beleaguered, oppressed, obsessed, tortured, preoccupied, worried, disturbed
🧿 Antonyms:
1. untroubled
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🔑 Foot, noun.
💠Example: He trod on someone's foot.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. tootsie, trotter
2. (rhyming slang) plates of meat
3. (North American • informal) dogs
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🔑 Grey, adjective.
💠Example: A grey old man.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. grey-haired, hoary, grizzled
2. elderly, old, aged, senior, ancient, venerable
3. in one's dotage, long in the tooth, as old as the hills
4. past one's prime, not as young as one was, not as young as one used to be
5. decrepit, doddering, doddery, not long for this world
6. (informal) past it, over the hill, no spring chicken
7. (formal) senescent
🧿 Antonyms:
1. young
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🔑 Brim, noun.
💠Example: The rector fingered the brim of his hat.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. peak, visor, bill, projection, shield, shade
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🔑 Clan, noun.
💠Example: This clan of rich and ambitious art collectors.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. group, set, circle, clique, coterie, in-crowd, fraternity, brotherhood, community, society
2. crowd, band, ring, crew
3. faction
4. (informal) gang, bunch
5. (rare) sodality, confraternity
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🔑 Win, verb.
💠Example: She was determined to win.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. come first, finish first, be the winner, be victorious, be the victor, carry the day, win the day, carry all before one, defeat the opposition, overcome the opposition, take the crown, take the honours, gain the palm, come out ahead, come out on top, succeed, triumph, prevail, achieve mastery
2. sweep the board, make a clean sweep
3. (informal) win out, clean up
🧿 Antonyms:
1. lose, be beaten
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🔑 Valley, noun.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. dale, vale
2. hollow, depression, hole, basin, gully, gorge, pass, ravine, canyon, rift, gap
3. (British) combe, slade, dene
4. (Northern English) clough
5. (Scottish) glen, strath
6. (Indian) nullah
7. (South African) kloof
8. vega
9. wadi
10. (literary) dell, dingle
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🔑 Document, nombre.
💠Example: Their solicitor drew up a document.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. official paper, legal paper, paper, form, certificate, deed, charter, contract, legal agreement
2. record, report
3. instrument, indenture, acquittance
4. paperwork, documentation
5. (coloquial) treeware
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🔑 Trip, verb.
💠Example: They tripped up the terrace steps.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. run lightly, skip, dance, prance, waltz, bound, spring, hop, gambol, caper, frisk, scamper
🧿 Antonyms:
1. trudge
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🔑 Decipher, verbo.
💠Example: He was the only one who could decipher the code.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. decode, decrypt, break, work out, solve, interpret, translate, construe, explain
2. make sense of, make head or tail of, get to the bottom of, unravel, find the key to, find the answer to, throw light on
3. (coloquial) crack, figure out
4. (Britanico • coloquial) twig, suss, suss out
🧿 Antonyms:
1. encode
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🔑 Blend, noun.
💠Example: The chutney is a blend of bananas, raisins, and ginger.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. mixture, mix, combination, admixture, mingling, commingling, amalgamation, amalgam, union, conjunction, marriage, merging, compound, alloy, fusion, meld, composite, concoction, synthesis, homogenization
2. miscellany, jumble, hotchpotch
3. (informal) mash-up
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🔑 Scared, adjective.
💠Example: It was growing dark and she began to feel scared.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. frightened, afraid, fearful, nervous, panicky, agitated, alarmed, worried, intimidated
2. terrified, petrified, horrified, panic-stricken, scared stiff, frightened out of one's wits, scared out of one's wits, scared witless, frightened to death, scared to death, terror-stricken, terror-struck, horror-stricken, horror-struck, frantic, hysterical, beside oneself
3. with one's heart in one's mouth, shaking in one's shoes, shaking like a leaf, shaky
4. (Scottish) feart
5. (informal) in a cold sweat, in a funk, in a blue funk, jumpy, jittery
6. (British • informal) funky, windy
7. (North American • informal) spooked
8. (vulgar slang) scared shitless, shit scared, shitting bricks, bricking oneself
9. (dialect) frit
10. (archaic) afeared, affrighted
🧿 Antonyms:
1. confident, laid-back, calm
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🔑 Niggardly, adjective.
💠Example: The critic must not be niggardly with his advice.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. miserly, parsimonious, close-fisted, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, penurious, grasping, greedy, avaricious, Scrooge-like, ungenerous, illiberal, close
2. (British) mean
3. (informal) stingy, mingy, tight, tight-fisted, money-grubbing, money-grabbing
4. (North American • informal) cheap
5. (British • vulgar slang) tight-arsed
6. (North American • vulgar slang) tight-assed
7. (archaic) near
🧿 Antonyms:
1. generous
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🔑 Instantaneous, adjective.
💠Example: It may be difficult for you to make an instantaneous response to what is said.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. immediate, instant, on-the-spot, prompt, direct, swift, speedy, rapid, quick, expeditious, express, lightning
2. sudden, hurried, hasty, precipitate, abrupt
3. (informal) snappy, p.d.q., pretty damn quick
4. (literary) fleet, rathe
5. (rare) alacritous
🧿 Antonyms:
1. delayed, long-term
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🔑 Push off, phrase.
💠Example: Push off, will you — I'm busy.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. go away, depart, leave, take oneself off, take off, get out, get out of my sight
2. go, go your way, get going, get moving, be off, take your leave, decamp, absent yourself
3. be off with you, shoo
4. (informal) hit the road, fly, skedaddle, split, vamoose, scat, scram, make yourself scarce, be on your way, run along, beat it, get, get lost, shove off, buzz off, clear off, skip off, pop off, go jump in the lake, go and jump in the lake
5. on your bike, go and chase yourself
6. (British • informal) get stuffed, sling your hook, hop it, bog off, naff off
7. (North American • informal) bug off, light out, haul off, haul ass, take a powder, hit the trail, take a hike
8. (Australian, New Zealand • informal) rack off, nick off
9. (South African • informal) voetsak, hamba
10. (vulgar slang) piss off, fuck off
11. (British • vulgar slang) sod off, bugger off
12. (literary) begone, avaunt
🧿 Antonyms:
1. stay, remain
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🔑 Educational, adjective.
💠Example: It was a very educational experience.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. instructive, instructional, educative, informative, informational, illuminating, pedagogic, doctrinal, preceptive, enlightening, edifying, improving, didactic, heuristic
2. pedantic, moralistic, homiletic
3. (rare) propaedeutic
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🔑 Triumph, verb.
💠Example: He triumphed in the British Grand Prix.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. win, succeed, be successful, come first, be the victor, be victorious, gain a victory, carry the day, carry all before one, prevail, take the crown, take the honours, take the prize, come out on top
🧿 Antonyms:
1. lose, fail
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🔑 Proud, adjective.
💠Example: Moira was a delight to her proud parents.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. pleased, pleased with, glad, glad about, glad at, happy, happy about, happy at, happy with, delighted, delighted about, delighted at, delighted with, joyful, joyful at, overjoyed, overjoyed at, overjoyed over, thrilled, thrilled about, thrilled at, thrilled by, thrilled with, well pleased, well pleased with, satisfied, satisfied with, gratified, gratified at, content, content at, appreciative, appreciative of
🧿 Antonyms:
1. ashamed
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🔑 Conquer, verb.
💠Example: Peru had been conquered by Spain.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. seize, take possession of, take control of, take over, appropriate, subjugate, capture, occupy, invade, annex, overrun, win
🧿 Antonyms:
1. liberate, lose
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🔑 Front, adjective.
💠Example: The front runners headed towards the finish.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. leading, lead, first, foremost
2. in first place
🧿 Antonyms:
1. last
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🔑 Join, verb.
💠Example: I'm off to join the search party.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. become a member of, help in, participate in, join in, get involved in, contribute to, have a hand in
2. enlist, enlist in, join up, join up with, sign up, sign up with, affiliate to, team up, team up with, join forces, join forces with, play a part, play a part in
3. band together, get together, ally
🧿 Antonyms:
1. leave
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🔑 Rumble, verb.
💠Example: Thunder rumbled high above us.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. boom, thunder, roll, roar, resound, reverberate, echo, grumble, growl
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🔑 Gather, verb.
💠Example: We gathered in the hotel lobby.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. congregate, convene, assemble, meet, collect, come together, get together, muster, rally, converge
2. cluster together, crowd, mass, flock together
3. (rare) foregather
🧿 Antonyms:
1. scatter
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🔑 Break down, phrase.
💠Example: Vicky broke down, sobbing loudly.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. burst into tears, dissolve into tears
2. lose control, be overcome, collapse, go to pieces, come apart at the seams, crumble, disintegrate
3. (informal) crack up, lose it, lose one's cool
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🔑 Evening, noun.
💠Example: The evening of her life.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. latter part, last part, latter stage, close, end, later years, declining years
2. autumn
🧿 Antonyms:
1. springtime
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🔑 Work, noun.
💠Example: Haven't you got any work to do?
🧲 Synonyms:
1. tasks, jobs, duties, assignments, commissions, projects
2. chores
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🔑 Criminal, adjective.
💠Example: They were found guilty of criminal conduct.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. unlawful, illegal, against the law, illicit, illegitimate, lawbreaking, lawless, felonious, delinquent, culpable, villainous, nefarious, corrupt, fraudulent
2. indictable, punishable, actionable, unauthorized, unsanctioned, outlawed, banned, forbidden, interdicted, proscribed
3. wrong, bad, evil, wicked, iniquitous
4. (informal) crooked, shady, dirty
5. (British • informal) bent, dodgy
6. malfeasant
🧿 Antonyms:
1. lawful
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🔑 In attendance, phrase.
💠Example: His wife is in labour with three obstetricians in attendance.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. present, here, there, near, nearby, at hand, by one's side, available
2. assisting, giving assistance, helping, aiding
3. supervising, monitoring, on guard
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🔑 Patch, noun.
💠Example: He had a patch over one eye.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. cover, eyepatch, covering, pad, shield
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🔑 Man, verbo.
💠Example: Firemen manned the pumps.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. operate, work, use, utilize
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🔑 Accommodate, verb.
💠Example: Backpacking tourists can be accommodated in dormitories.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. lodge, house, put up, billet, quarter, board, take in, provide shelter for, shelter, give a bed to, give someone a roof over their head, provide a roof over someone's head, harbour, make room for, give accommodation to, provide with accommodation, provide accommodation for
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🔑 Post-mortem, noun.
💠Example: The very last thing she needed was a post-mortem of her failed relationship.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. analysis, evaluation, assessment, appraisal, examination, review, investigation, breakdown, critique, study
2. (rare) anatomization
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🔑 Inside, noun.
💠Example: My breath misted up the inside of my visor.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. interior, inner part, inner side, inner surface
2. centre, core, middle, heart, nucleus
🧿 Antonyms:
1. outside, exterior
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🔑 Personal, adjective.
💠Example: The President made personal campaign appearances.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. in person, in the flesh, actual, live, physical
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🔑 Presently, adverb.
💠Example: He is presently abroad.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. at present, currently, at the moment, at this moment, at the present moment, at the present time, now, nowadays, these days, today, in this day and age
2. (British • informal) at the minute
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🔑 Proud, adjective.
💠Example: She took a final look down the proud granite staircase.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. magnificent, splendid, resplendent, grand, noble, stately, imposing, dignified, distinguished, august, illustrious, striking, impressive, majestic, glorious, sumptuous, marvellous, awe-inspiring, awesome, monumental, palatial, statuesque, heroic
2. superb, regal, royal, kingly, queenly, princely, imperial
🧿 Antonyms:
1. unimpressive
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🔑 Flat, adverb.
💠Example: I lay down flat on the floor.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. stretched out, outstretched, spreadeagled, prone, reclining, sprawling, supine, prostrate, recumbent
2. on one's back, on one's front, on one's stomach, on one's face, flat on one's face
3. (rare) procumbent
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🔑 Party, noun.
💠Example: The trial judge must apportion blame between the parties.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. litigant, plaintiff, defendant
2. participant
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