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🔑 Call, noun.
💠Example: I heard calls of ‘Come on Steve’ from the auditorium.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. cry, shout, yell, whoop, roar, scream, shriek
2. exclamation
3. (informal) holler
4. (rare) vociferation
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🔑 Great, adjective.
💠Example: I'm not really a great follower of fashion.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. enthusiastic, eager, keen, zealous, devoted, ardent, fervent, fanatical, passionate, dedicated, diligent, assiduous, intent, habitual, active, vehement, hearty, wholehearted, committed, warm
🧿 Antonyms:
1. unenthusiastic
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🔑 Have, verb.
💠Example: The driver had trouble finding the restaurant.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. experience, encounter, undergo, face, meet, find, go through, run into, come across, be subjected to, have experience of, be faced with
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🔑 Good, adjective.
💠Example: He is basically a good person.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. virtuous, righteous, moral, morally correct, ethical, upright, upstanding, high-minded, right-minded, right-thinking, principled, exemplary, clean, law-abiding, lawful, irreproachable, blameless, guiltless, unimpeachable, just, honest, honourable, unbribable, incorruptible, anti-corruption
2. scrupulous, reputable, decent, respectable, noble, lofty, elevated, worthy, trustworthy, meritorious, praiseworthy, commendable, admirable, laudable
3. pure, pure as the driven snow, whiter than white, sinless, saintly, saintlike, godly, angelic
4. (informal) squeaky clean
🧿 Antonyms:
1. wicked
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🔑 Picture, noun.
💠Example: They have a picture of the sort of person the child should be.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. concept, idea, impression, mental picture, view, image, mental image, vision, visualization, notion, theory, abstraction
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🔑 Good, adjective.
💠Example: She's a good driver.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. capable, able, proficient, adept, adroit, accomplished, seasoned, skilful, skilled, gifted, talented, masterly, virtuoso, expert, knowledgeable, qualified, trained
2. (informal) great, mean, wicked, deadly, nifty, crack, super, ace, wizard, magic
3. (North American • informal) crackerjack
4. (vulgar slang) shit-hot
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🔑 Warm, adjective.
💠Example: She dressed in jeans and a warm sweater.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. thick, chunky, thermal, winter, woolly
🧿 Antonyms:
1. light, summery
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🔑 Forgetfulness, noun.
💠Example: Loss of function of some brain cells can result in forgetfulness.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. absent-mindedness, amnesia, poor memory, a lapse of memory, vagueness, abstraction
🧿 Antonyms:
1. a good memory, reliability
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🔑 Pain, verb.
💠Example: The memory of the event still pains her.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. sadden, grieve, distress, make miserable, make wretched, trouble, worry, bother, perturb, disturb, oppress, harrow, cause anguish to, afflict
2. cut to the quick, mortify, torment, torture, wound, sting, gnaw at
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🔑 Smart, adjective.
💠Example: Joey will know what to do — he's the smart one.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. clever, bright, intelligent, sharp, sharp-witted, quick-witted, nimble-witted, shrewd, astute, acute, apt, able
2. well educated, well read
3. perceptive, percipient, discerning
4. (informal) brainy, savvy, streetwise, on the ball, quick on the uptake, genius
5. (North American • informal) whip-smart
🧿 Antonyms:
1. stupid
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🔑 Run something down, phrase.
💠Example: Employers should run down their labour forces gradually.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. reduce, cut back on, cut, downsize, decrease, pare down, trim
2. phase out, wind down, wind up
🧿 Antonyms:
1. increase
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🔑 Overpower, verb.
💠Example: The prisoners might rebel and overpower the crew.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. gain control over, overwhelm, prevail over, get the better of, get the upper hand over, gain mastery over, master, control, overthrow, overturn, upset, subdue, suppress, subjugate, hegemonize, repress, quell, quash, crush, finish, bring someone to their knees, break, conquer, defeat, vanquish, beat, be victorious over, gain a victory over, triumph over, best, worst, trounce, rout
2. (informal) thrash, lick, clobber, whip, wipe the floor with, drub, tank, blow out of the water
3. (US • informal) own
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🔑 Hope, noun.
💠Example: He does see some hope for the future.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. optimism, grounds for hope, promise, light at the end of the tunnel
🧿 Antonyms:
1. pessimism
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🔑 Amenity, noun.
💠Example: Gravel working means lorries, dust, noise, and a general loss of amenity.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. pleasantness, agreeableness, pleasurableness, enjoyableness, niceness
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🔑 Run to, phrase.
💠Example: He was running to fat.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. tend to, show a tendency to
2. become, get, grow
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🔑 Strong, adjective.
💠Example: A strong supporter of the women's movement.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. keen, eager, enthusiastic, earnest, dedicated, staunch, loyal, steadfast, passionate, fierce, fervent
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🔑 Make ready, phrase.
💠Example: The crew were busily making ready for the departure.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. prepare, make preparations, make provisions, get everything ready, take the necessary steps, do the necessary, gear up for
2. gear oneself up
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🔑 Chilly, adjective.
💠Example: Her chilly face splintered into a smile.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. unfriendly, unsympathetic, unwelcoming, forbidding, cold, cool, frosty, glacial, frigid
2. haughty, supercilious, disdainful, aloof, distant, remote
3. reserved, withdrawn, uncommunicative, unresponsive, unemotional, dispassionate, passionless, wooden, impersonal, formal, stiff, austere
4. (informal) stand-offish, offish
5. (rare) gelid
🧿 Antonyms:
1. friendly
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🔑 Best, adverb.
💠Example: The food he liked best.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. most, to the greatest degree, to the highest degree
🧿 Antonyms:
1. least
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🔑 Open, verb.
💠Example: Sir Bryan opened the meeting by welcoming the Commissioner.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. begin, start, initiate, set in motion, launch, get going, get under way, get the ball rolling, set the ball rolling, start the ball rolling, get off the ground
2. inaugurate
3. (informal) kick off, get the show on the road
4. (formal) commence
🧿 Antonyms:
1. end, finish
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🔑 Calm, noun.
💠Example: His usual calm deserted him.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. composure, coolness, calmness, self-possession, sangfroid, presence of mind, poise, aplomb, self-control
2. serenity, tranquillity, equanimity, imperturbability, equability, placidness, placidity, impassiveness, impassivity, dispassion, phlegm, stolidity
3. (informal) cool, unflappability
4. (rare) ataraxy, ataraxia
🧿 Antonyms:
1. anxiety
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🔑 Suitable, adjective.
💠Example: A drama serial suitable for all age groups.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. appropriate, fitting, fit, fitted, acceptable, apt, right
🧿 Antonyms:
1. unsuitable, inappropriate
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🔑 Back out, phrase.
💠Example: Coleman backed out of the deal.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. renege on, go back on, withdraw from, pull out of, retreat from, fail to honour, abandon, default on, repudiate
2. back-pedal
3. (informal) get cold feet about, chicken out of
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🔑 Other, adjective.
💠Example: Are there any other questions?
🧲 Synonyms:
1. more, further, additional, extra, added, supplementary, supplemental
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🔑 Tough, adjective.
💠Example: They had tough leather gloves.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. durable, strong, resilient, resistant, sturdy, rugged, firm, solid, substantial, sound, stout, indestructible, unbreakable, hard, rigid, stiff, inflexible, toughened
2. hard-wearing, long-lasting, heavy-duty, well built, made to last
🧿 Antonyms:
1. soft, fragile, flimsy
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🔑 Blow something up, phrase.
💠Example: I blew the picture up on a colour photocopier.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. enlarge, magnify, expand, extend, increase in size, make larger, make bigger
🧿 Antonyms:
1. reduce
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🔑 Book, noun.
💠Example: He published his first book in 1610.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. volume, tome, work, printed work, publication, title, opus, treatise
2. novel, storybook
3. manual, handbook, guide, companion, reference book
4. paperback, hardback, softback
5. (historical) yellowback
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🔑 Full, adverb.
💠Example: She looked full into his face.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. directly, right, straight, squarely, square, just, dead, point-blank
2. (informal) smack, smack bang, bang, slap, plumb
🧿 Antonyms:
1. indirectly
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🔑 Shed, verb.
💠Example: Too much blood has been shed.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. spill, pour forth, let flow, discharge
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🔑 Understanding, adjective.
💠Example: He's a very good and understanding friend.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. compassionate, sympathetic, sensitive, considerate, tender, kind, kindly, kind-hearted, thoughtful, tolerant, patient, forbearing, lenient, merciful, forgiving, humane, human, good-natured, approachable, supportive, reassuring
2. tactful, diplomatic, perceptive, subtle, prudent
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🔑 Trot something out, phrase.
💠Example: He trotted out the official Downing Street line.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. recite, repeat, reiterate, restate, regurgitate, churn out
2. come out with, produce
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🔑 On course, phrase.
💠Example: He remains on course for re-election in two years.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. on track, on target, on schedule
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🔑 Wait on, phrase.
💠Example: The men ate in silence, waited on by the two girls.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. serve, attend to, tend, cater for, cater to, act as a waiter to, act as a waitress to
2. accommodate, minister to, take care of, look after, see to, succour, pander to
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🔑 Up the pole, phrase.
💠Example: A disgusted England fan went up the pole when Portugal beat them.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. mad, crazy, insane, out of one's mind, deranged, demented, distracted
2. mental, off one's head, out of one's head, off one's nut, nutty, off one's rocker, round the bend, raving mad, stark raving mad, bats, bonkers, bananas, loco
3. (British) barmy, crackers, round the twist, batty, stark staring mad
4. (North American) buggy, nutsy, nutso
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🔑 Main, adjective.
💠Example: The main office.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. principal, chief, head, leading, foremost, most important, major, ruling, dominant, central, focal, key, prime, master, premier, primary, first, high, grand, fundamental, supreme, predominant, prominent, most prominent, pre-eminent, paramount, overriding, cardinal, crucial, vital, critical, capital, pivotal, salient, elemental, essential, staple, intrinsic, urgent
🧿 Antonyms:
1. subsidiary, minor
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🔑 Cheap, adjective.
💠Example: He was so generous he made the other guests look cheap.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. miserly, niggardly, close-fisted, parsimonious, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, ungenerous, penurious, illiberal, close, grasping, greedy, avaricious, acquisitive, Scrooge-like
2. (British) mean
3. (Australian, New Zealand, Scottish) miserable
4. (informal) tight-fisted, stingy, tight, mingy, money-grubbing, skinflinty
5. (North American • informal) grabby
6. (Australian • informal) hungry
7. (British • vulgar slang) tight as a duck's arse, tight-arse, tight-arsed
8. (North American • vulgar slang) tight-ass, tight-assed
9. (archaic) near, niggard
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🔑 Increase, verb.
💠Example: Gas demand is likely to increase.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. grow, get bigger, get larger, become greater, enlarge, expand, swell
2. rise, climb, escalate, soar, surge, rocket, shoot up, spiral
3. improve, intensify, strengthen
4. heighten, lengthen, extend, stretch, spread, widen
5. multiply, snowball, mushroom, proliferate, balloon, build up, mount up, pile up, accrue, accumulate
6. (literary) wax
🧿 Antonyms:
1. decrease
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🔑 Take something over, phrase.
💠Example: She took over the editorship in 1989.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. assume control of, take control of, gain control of, take charge of, take command of, assume responsibility for
2. assume, acquire, gain, appropriate, be elevated to
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🔑 Take, verb.
💠Example: I take size 3 in shoes.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. wear, habitually wear, use
2. require, need, be fitted by, fit
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🔑 Make off with, phrase.
💠Example: Burglars made off with all the wedding presents.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. take, steal, purloin, pilfer, abscond with, appropriate, run away with, run off with, carry off, snatch
2. kidnap, abduct
3. (informal) walk away with, walk off with, swipe, filch, snaffle, nab, lift, liberate, snitch
4. (British • informal) pinch, half-inch, nick, whip, knock off, nobble, bone
5. (North American • informal) heist, glom
6. (Australian • informal) snavel
7. (West Indian • informal) tief
8. (archaic) crib, hook
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🔑 Take someone on, phrase.
💠Example: The Home Office took on extra staff.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. engage, hire, employ, enrol, enlist, sign up, take into employment, put on the payroll
2. (informal) take on board
🧿 Antonyms:
1. fire, dismiss
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🔑 Tear, verb.
💠Example: The traumas have torn her family apart.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. divide, split, split down the middle, sever, break apart, disunite, rupture
2. (literary) rend, rip asunder, cleave
3. (rare) sunder, rive, dissever
🧿 Antonyms:
1. unite, unify
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🔑 Single, adjective.
💠Example: Is she single?
🧲 Synonyms:
1. unmarried, unattached, free, available, eligible, young, free, and single, footloose and fancy free
2. unwed, unwedded, wifeless, husbandless, spouseless, partnerless, a bachelor
3. (dated, derogatory) on the shelf, a spinster
4. (archaic) sole
🧿 Antonyms:
1. married
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🔑 Take someone or something out, phrase.
💠Example: They were taken out by a sniper.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. kill, murder, assassinate, put to death, do away with, put an end to, get rid of, dispatch, execute, finish off, eliminate, exterminate, terminate
2. destroy, obliterate, annihilate
3. (informal) do in, bump off, rub out, wipe out, hit, mow down, top
4. (literary) slay
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🔑 Chase, verb.
💠Example: Figures are chased in low relief on the dish.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. engrave, etch, carve, inscribe, cut, chisel, imprint, impress, print, mark
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🔑 Tie in, phrase.
💠Example: You haven't seen how all this ties in with their long-term aims.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. be consistent, tally, correlate, agree, be in agreement, accord, concur, coincide, conform, fit in, harmonize, be in tune, dovetail
2. correspond to, match, parallel, reflect, mirror
3. (informal) square
4. (North American • informal) jibe
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🔑 Title, noun.
💠Example: The vendor is obliged to prove histitle to the land.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. ownership of, proprietorship of, freehold of, entitlement to, right to, proprietary rights to, claim to
2. possession of, holding of, hold of, tenure of, control of, keeping of, charge of, custody of, guardianship of
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🔑 Experience, noun.
💠Example: David gained his first experience of business with his father and brothers.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. involvement in, participation in
2. contact with, acquaintance with, exposure to
3. observation of, awareness of
4. familiarity with, conversance with, understanding of, impression of, insight into
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🔑 Struggle, verb.
💠Example: Research teams struggle to be first to the finish.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. compete, contend, contest, vie, fight, battle, clash, wrangle, jockey, lock horns, cross swords, war, wage war, feud
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🔑 Vehicle, noun.
💠Example: Education was a vehicle for the cultural assimilation of colonized peoples.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. channel, medium, means, means of expression, agency, agent, instrument, mechanism, organ, apparatus, structure, machine, machinery
2. force, catalyst
3. route, avenue, course, technique, method, approach
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🔑 Call to mind, phrase.
💠Example: The smell brings to mind past similar experiences.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. remind one of, cause one to remember, make one think of, cause one to remember, put one in mind of, take one back to, bring to mind, call to mind, awake one's memories of, evoke, call up, conjure up, summon up
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🔑 The runs, phrase.
💠Example: He quickly ran over the story.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. diarrhoea, loose motions, looseness of the bowels
2. (coloquial) the skitters, the trots, Spanish tummy, Delhi belly, Montezuma's revenge, Aztec revenge, Aztec two-step
3. (Britanico • coloquial) the squits, gippy tummy, holiday tummy
4. (Norteamericano • coloquial) turista
5. dysentery, lientery
6. (arcaico) the flux, lax
🧿 Antonyms:
1. constipation
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🔑 Practise, verb.
💠Example: We still practise some of these rituals today.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. carry out, perform, do, observe, put into practice, execute, follow, exercise
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🔑 Green, adjective.
💠Example: The new lieutenant was very green.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. inexperienced, unversed, callow, immature
2. new, raw, unseasoned, untried
3. inexpert, untrained, unqualified, ignorant
4. simple, unsophisticated, unpolished
5. naive, innocent, ingenuous, credulous, gullible, unworldly
6. (informal) wet behind the ears, born yesterday
🧿 Antonyms:
1. experienced
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🔑 Call, verb.
💠Example: The prime minister called a meeting of senior cabinet ministers.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. convene, summon, call together, order, assemble
2. arrange, arrange a date for, arrange a time for
3. announce, declare
4. (formal) convoke
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🔑 Call for, phrase.
💠Example: I'll call for you around seven.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. pick up, collect, fetch, come to get, go to get, come for
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🔑 Go, verb.
💠Example: His hair had gone grey.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. become, get, turn, grow, come to be
2. (literary) wax
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🔑 Orchestrate, verb.
💠Example: The piece may have been subsequently orchestrated by Mozart.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. arrange, adapt, score
2. (rare) instrument
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🔑 Relentless, adjective.
💠Example: A relentless taskmaster.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. harsh, grim, fierce, cruel, severe, strict, punishing, remorseless, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, unmerciful, unsparing, heartless, hard-hearted, hard, stony-hearted, stony, with a heart of stone, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, unforgiving, unfeeling, uncaring, unsympathetic, uncharitable, lacking compassion, unpitying
2. inflexible, unbending, uncompromising, obdurate, unyielding, unmoved, inexorable, implacable
🧿 Antonyms:
1. lenient, merciful
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🔑 Transform, verb.
💠Example: The city has been transformed into a magnet for foreign investment.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. change, alter, modify, convert, metamorphose, transfigure, transmute, mutate
2. remodel, reshape, remould, redo, reconstruct, rebuild, recast, reorganize, rearrange, reorder, reshuffle, restyle, rejig, rework, renew, revamp, renovate, overhaul, remake
3. revolutionize, stir up, turn upside down
4. (humorous) transmogrify
🧿 Antonyms:
1. preserve, keep the same
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🔑 Put someone in their place, phrase.
💠Example: Use lemon juice in place of salt.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. humiliate, take down a peg or two, deflate, crush, squelch, squash, humble, mortify, make someone eat humble pie, take the wind out of someone's sails
2. (informal) cut down to size, settle someone's hash
3. (North American • informal) make someone eat crow
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🔑 Talk, verb.
💠Example: We mustn't keep meeting like this — people will talk.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. gossip, spread rumours, pass comment, make remarks, criticize
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🔑 Get someone's back up, phrase.
💠Example: The quip immediately got his back up.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. annoy, irritate, vex, make angry, make cross, anger, exasperate, irk, gall, pique, put out, displease, antagonize, get on someone's nerves, rub up the wrong way, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, raise someone's hackles
2. enrage, infuriate, madden, make someone's blood boil, drive to distraction, goad, provoke
3. (informal) aggravate, peeve, hassle, miff, rile, nettle, needle, get, get to, bug, hack off, get under someone's skin, get in someone's hair, get someone's goat, rattle someone's cage, drive crazy, drive mad, drive round the bend, drive round the twist, drive up the wall, make someone see red
4. (British • informal) wind up, nark, get across, get on someone's wick, get up someone's nose, put someone's nose out of joint, give someone the hump
5. (North American • informal) tee off, tick off, burn up, rankle, ride, gravel
6. (vulgar slang) piss off
7. (British • vulgar slang) get on someone's tits
8. (informal, dated) give someone the pip, get someone's dander up
9. (rare) exacerbate, hump, rasp
🧿 Antonyms:
1. please, gratify
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🔑 In the process of, phrase.
💠Example: The company is in the process of moving into new premises in Palo Alto.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. in the course of, in the middle of, in the midst of
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🔑 Depression, noun.
💠Example: The car slid into a depression in the ground.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. hollow, indentation, dent, dint, cavity, concavity, dip, pit, hole, pothole, sink, sinkhole, excavation, trough, crater
2. valley, basin, bowl
3. fossa, lacuna
🧿 Antonyms:
1. protuberance
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🔑 Pick someone up, phrase.
💠Example: Be sure to pick up Kirsty from school.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. fetch, collect, go to get, come and get, go and get, call for, come for, go for
2. give someone a lift, give someone a ride
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🔑 Crook, noun.
💠Example: The leopard sat in the crook of a tree branch.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. bend, curve, curvature, kink, bow, elbow, angle, fork, intersection
2. (technical) flexure
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🔑 Lay, verb.
💠Example: He laid the blame for the crisis firmly at the Prime Minister's door.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. assign, attribute, ascribe, allocate, allot, impute, attach, impose, fix
2. hold someone responsible, hold someone accountable, hold someone answerable, condemn, find guilty of, pin the blame on
🧿 Antonyms:
1. exonerate, hold blameless
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🔑 Blame, verb.
💠Example: They blame youth crime on unemployment.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. ascribe to, attribute to, impute to, lay at the door of, put down to, set down to
2. (informal) pin, stick
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🔑 Agree, verb.
💠Example: They agreed on a price.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. settle, decide, shake hands
2. arrange, arrive at, negotiate, work out, thrash out, hammer out, reach an agreement on, come to terms about, reach terms on
3. strike a bargain, make a deal
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🔑 Put someone in their place, phrase.
💠Example: Use lemon juice in place of salt.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. humiliate, take down a peg or two, deflate, crush, squelch, squash, humble, mortify, make someone eat humble pie, take the wind out of someone's sails
2. (informal) cut down to size, settle someone's hash
3. (North American • informal) make someone eat crow
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🔑 Material, noun.
💠Example: Cleaning materials.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. things, items, articles, stuff, necessaries
2. (British • informal) gubbins
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🔑 Give way, phrase.
💠Example: She never gave way to anger.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. succumb, yield, give in, submit, surrender, fall victim
2. be overcome by, be overwhelmed by, be conquered by
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🔑 Show, noun.
💠Example: The Paris motor show.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. exhibition, demonstration, display, exposition, fair, presentation, extravaganza, spectacle, pageant
2. (North American) exhibit
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🔑 Holy, adjective.
💠Example: It is forbidden to say the name of this holy place aloud.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. sacred, consecrated, hallowed, sanctified, venerated, revered, reverenced, divine, religious, blessed, blest, dedicated
🧿 Antonyms:
1. unsanctified, cursed
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🔑 Baggage, noun.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. luggage, suitcases, cases, bags, trunks
2. things, belongings, possessions, kit, equipment, effects, goods and chattels, impedimenta, paraphernalia, accoutrements, rig, tackle
3. (informal) gear, stuff, traps
4. (British • informal) clobber
5. (South African • informal) trek
6. (dated) dunnage
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🔑 Improve, verb.
💠Example: Communications improved during the 18th century.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. get better, become better, advance, progress, develop
2. make headway, come along, make progress, take steps forward, pick up, rally, perk up, make strides
3. (informal) look up
🧿 Antonyms:
1. worsen, deteriorate
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🔑 Danger, noun.
💠Example: There is an element of danger in the show.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. peril, hazard, risk, jeopardy, endangerment, imperilment, insecurity
2. perilousness, riskiness, precariousness, uncertainty, instability
🧿 Antonyms:
1. safety
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🔑 Shower, noun.
💠Example: A shower of rain.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. fall, light fall, drizzle, flurry, sprinkling, mizzle
2. downpour, deluge
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🔑 Towards, preposition.
💠Example: It is impossible to be indifferent towards her.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. with regard to, as regards, regarding, in regard to, with regard to, in respect to, with respect to, respecting, in relation to, concerning, about, in connection with, apropos
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🔑 Stupidity, noun.
💠Example: He cursed the older man's stupidity.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. lack of intelligence, unintelligence, foolishness, denseness, brainlessness, ignorance, mindlessness, dull-wittedness, dull-headedness, dullness, slow-wittedness, doltishness, slowness, vacancy
2. gullibility, naivety
3. (informal) thickness, dimness, dumbness, dopiness, doziness, craziness
🧿 Antonyms:
1. genius
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🔑 Clear out, phrase.
💠Example: Get everyone to clear out of the building as quickly as possible.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. leave, depart from, go away from, go from, withdraw from, retire from, take oneself off from, exit from, take one's leave of, pull out of, quit, be gone from, decamp from, disappear from, abandon, vacate, absent oneself from, evacuate
2. abscond from, run away from, flee from, fly from, bolt from, escape from
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🔑 Best, noun.
💠Example: He always tries to see the best in others.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. most favourable aspect, most pleasant aspect, best point
2. advantage, asset, virtue, good point
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🔑 Engineer, noun.
💠Example: The structural engineer's drawings.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. designer, planner, builder, architect, producer, fabricator, developer, creator
2. inventor, originator, deviser, contriver, mastermind
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🔑 Upset, verb.
💠Example: His side were upset 2-1 by Sheffield United.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. defeat, beat, conquer, vanquish, rout, overthrow, overcome, triumph over, be victorious over, get the better of, worst, thrash, trounce, topple
2. (US • informal) own
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🔑 Incident, noun.
💠Example: Police are now investigating the incident.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. disturbance, fracas, melee, commotion, rumpus, scene
2. fight, skirmish, clash, brawl, free-for-all, encounter, conflict, confrontation, altercation, contretemps
3. (Irish, North American, Australian) donnybrook
4. (West Indian) bangarang
5. (informal) ruction, ruckus, argy-bargy
6. (British • informal) afters
7. (dated) affray
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🔑 Early, adverb.
💠Example: They hoped to leave school early.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. before the usual time, before the appointed time
2. prematurely, too soon
3. ahead of time, ahead of schedule, in good time
4. (literary) betimes
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🔑 Whirl, verb.
💠Example: Leaves whirled in eddies of wind.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. rotate, turn, turn round, go round, revolve, circle, wheel, orbit, pivot, swivel, gyrate, spin, roll, twirl, pirouette
2. (Scottish) birl
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🔑 Academic, adjective.
💠Example: He has a distinctly academic turn of mind.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. scholarly, studious, literary, well read, intellectual, clever, erudite, learned, educated, cultured, bookish, highbrow, pedantic, donnish, cerebral, serious
2. (informal) brainy
3. (dated) lettered
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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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🔑 Insult, verb.
💠Example: You are insulting the woman I love.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. offend, cause offence to, give offence to, affront, abuse, be rude to, call someone names, slight, disparage, discredit, libel, slander, malign, defame, denigrate, cast aspersions on, impugn, slur, revile, calumniate
2. hurt, hurt someone's feelings, mortify, humiliate, wound
3. snub, rebuff, spurn, shun, treat disrespectfully, ignore, cut dead, give someone the cold-shoulder, turn one's back on
4. (informal) bad-mouth
5. (British • informal) slag off
6. (North American • informal) trash-talk
7. (Australian • informal) sledge
8. (rare) asperse, derogate, miscall
🧿 Antonyms:
1. compliment, flatter
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🔑 Refuse, noun.
💠Example: Dogs nosed around in piles of refuse.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. waste, debris, litter, garbage, discarded matter, detritus, dross, landfill, scrap, rubble, slag, spoilage, sullage, sewage, slop
2. dregs, lees, leavings, leftovers, sweepings
3. (British) rubbish
4. (North American) trash
5. (Australian, New Zealand) mullock
6. (informal) dreck, junk
7. (British • informal) gash
8. debitage
9. (rare) draff, raffle, raff
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🔑 Heat, noun.
💠Example: Conciliation services are designed to take the heat out of disputes.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. passion, intensity of feeling, ardour, fervour, vehemence, warmth, intensity, animation, earnestness, eagerness, enthusiasm, excitement, agitation
2. anger, fury, violence
3. (rare) fervency, ardency, passionateness
🧿 Antonyms:
1. apathy
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🔑 Open, adjective.
💠Example: They are required by law to hold an open meeting.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. public, general, unrestricted, non-exclusive, accessible to everyone, non-restrictive
🧿 Antonyms:
1. private
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🔑 Succumb, verb.
💠Example: He succumbed to an obscure lung complaint.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. die from, die of, pass away as a result of, be a fatality of
2. catch, develop, contract, pick up, get, become infected with, suffer from, fall victim to, fall ill with
3. (informal) come down with, go down with
🧿 Antonyms:
1. withstand
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🔑 Drop back, phrase.
💠Example: She dropped back unnoticed by the others.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. fall back, fall behind, get left behind, lag behind, straggle, linger, dawdle, dally, hang back, loiter, bring up the rear, take up the rear
2. (informal) dilly-dally
3. (archaic, literary) tarry
🧿 Antonyms:
1. go ahead, keep up
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🔑 Welcome, adjective.
💠Example: That is very welcome news.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. pleasing, agreeable, encouraging, gratifying, heartening, promising, refreshing, favourable, propitious, cheering, much needed, pleasant, to one's liking, to one's taste
🧿 Antonyms:
1. unpleasant, disappointing
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🔑 Run high, phrase.
💠Example: Patriotic fervour was running high.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. be strong, be vehement, be fervent, be passionate, be intense
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🔑 Beguiling, adjective.
💠Example: He praised her in that soft, beguiling voice.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. charming, attractive, appealing, pleasing, pleasant, lovely, delightful, enchanting, entrancing, charismatic, captivating, bewitching, spellbinding, hypnotizing, mesmerizing, magnetic, alluring, enticing, tempting, inviting, seductive, irresistible
2. (informal) dreamy, heavenly, gorgeous, come-hither
🧿 Antonyms:
1. unappealing
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🔑 Follow, verb.
💠Example: Always follow the manufacturer's guidelines.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. act in accordance with, abide by, adhere to, stick to, keep to, comply with, conform to, obey, observe, heed, pay attention to, note, have regard to, mind, bear in mind, take to heart, be guided by, accept, yield to, defer to, respect
🧿 Antonyms:
1. flout
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