The Thesaurus:
🔑 Disorder, noun.
💠Example: He hates disorder in his house.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. untidiness, disorderliness, mess, disarray, disorganization, chaos, confusion
2. clutter, jumble
3. a muddle, a mess, a shambles, a mare's nest
4. (British • informal) a dog's dinner, a dog's breakfast, an omnishambles
🧿 Antonyms:
1. order
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🔑 Likely, adjective.
💠Example: It was a likely place for a romantic-minded young girl to frequent.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. suitable, appropriate, apposite, fit, fitting, acceptable, proper, right
2. reasonable, promising, hopeful
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🔑 Accumulate, verb.
💠Example: He accumulated considerable wealth.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. gather, collect, assemble
2. amass, stockpile, pile up, heap up, rack up, run up, scrape together, store, store up, hoard, cumulate, lay in, lay up, garner
3. mass, increase, multiply, accrue, snowball
4. (British) tot up
5. (informal) stash, stash away
🧿 Antonyms:
1. dissipate
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🔑 Watch out, phrase.
💠Example: ‘Watch out’ he yelled.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. be careful, be watchful, beware, be on the watch, be wary, be cautious, be on your guard, mind out, look out, pay attention, take care, take heed, have a care, be on the alert, be on the lookout, keep a sharp lookout, be vigilant, be on the qui vive
2. (informal) keep an eye open, keep an eye out, keep one's eyes peeled, keep one's eyes skinned
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🔑 Sharp, adjective.
💠Example: It sounds as if he's a sharp operator.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. clever, shrewd, canny, smart
2. cunning, wily, crafty, artful, guileful, unscrupulous, dishonest
3. (informal) slick
4. (British • informal) fly
🧿 Antonyms:
1. naive, ingenuous
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🔑 Clear, verb.
💠Example: The sky cleared briefly.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. brighten, brighten up, lighten, become light, light up, break, clear up, become bright, become brighter, become lighter, become fine, become sunny
🧿 Antonyms:
1. darken
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🔑 Detest, verbo.
💠Example: I do detest social climbers.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. abhor, hate, loathe, despise, abominate, execrate, regard with disgust, feel disgust for, feel repugnance towards, feel distaste for, shrink from, recoil from, shudder at, be unable to bear, be unable to abide, feel hostility to, feel aversion to, feel animosity to, find intolerable, dislike, disdain, have an aversion to
2. (arcaico) disrelish
🧿 Antonyms:
1. love, admire
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🔑 Expect, verb.
💠Example: We expect total discretion and loyalty.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. require, ask for, call for, look for, wish, want, hope for
2. count on, rely on
3. insist on, demand
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🔑 Hold out, phrase.
💠Example: British troops held out against constant attacks.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. resist, withstand, hold off, fight off, fend off, keep off, keep at bay, stand up to, square up to, fight against, bear up against, stand fast against, stand firm against, hold the line against
🧿 Antonyms:
1. yield to
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🔑 Snoop, verb.
💠Example: They decided to snoop around the building.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. investigate, explore, ferret in, ferret about in, ferret in, ferret around in, rummage in, search, delve into, peer into, prowl around, nose about, nose round, nose around, have a good look at
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🔑 Possess, verb.
💠Example: It was almost as though some supernatural force had possessed him.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. take control of, have power over, take over, have mastery over, cast a spell over, bewitch, enchant, enthral, control, dominate, influence
2. madden, drive mad
3. (rare) bedevil
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🔑 Divergent, adjective.
💠Example: Divergent statistical results.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. separating, divagating, deviating, digressing, abnormal, aberrant
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🔑 Case, verb.
💠Example: The Lee–Enfield rifle is cased in wood from butt to muzzle.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. cover, surround, coat, encase, sheathe, wrap, envelop
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🔑 Stability, noun.
💠Example: The stability of their relationship.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. steadiness, firmness, sureness, secureness, solidity, strength, durability, lasting nature, enduring nature, constancy, permanence, changelessness, invariability, immutability, indestructibility, reliability, dependability
2. (rare) lastingness, perdurability, perenniality, imperishability, inalterability, unchangeableness, unchangeability
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🔑 Right, adjective.
💠Example: John's face does not look right.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. healthy, in good health, fine, hale, in good shape, in trim, in good trim, well, fit, fighting fit, normal, sound, up to par
2. (informal) up to scratch, in the pink
🧿 Antonyms:
1. wrong, unhealthy
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🔑 Special, adjective.
💠Example: They always make a special effort at Christmas.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. exceptional, particular, extra special, unusual, marked, singular, uncommon, notable, noteworthy, remarkable, outstanding, unique
2. (British • informal) spesh
🧿 Antonyms:
1. ordinary
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🔑 Revenue, noun.
💠Example: 15% of all revenue is generated by a single product.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. income, takings, receipts, proceeds, earnings
2. profit, profits, returns, return, rewards, yield, interest, gain
3. (British • informal) bunce
🧿 Antonyms:
1. outgoings, expenditure
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🔑 Ambitious, adjective.
💠Example: He was ambitious to make it to the top.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. eager, determined, enthusiastic, desirous, anxious, hungry, impatient, striving, yearning, longing, wishing, itching, dying, hoping, avid, hankering
2. intent on
3. (informal) raring
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🔑 Mum, adjective.
💠Example: He was keeping mum about his future plans.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. silent, quiet, mute, dumb, tight-lipped, close-mouthed, uncommunicative, unforthcoming, reticent, secretive
2. (archaic) mumchance
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🔑 Adjournment, noun.
💠Example: Opposition parties forced the adjournment of the parliament.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. suspension, breaking off, discontinuation, interruption, postponement, rescheduling, deferment, deferral, delay, shelving, stay, pigeonholing, prorogation, dissolution, dissolving, disbandment, termination, halting
2. break, pause, suspension of proceedings, temporary cessation, recess, rest, time out, stoppage
3. (North American) tabling
4. (informal) let up, breather, mothballing, knocking off, taking five
5. moratorium
6. (North American) continuation
7. (rare) put-off
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🔑 Government, noun.
💠Example: The executive council was to assist him in the government of the country.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. rule, running, direction, administration, leadership, leading, control, regulation, guidance, guiding, management, conduct, supervision, superintendence, steering
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🔑 Resist, verb.
💠Example: She tried to resist him, but she hadn't the strength.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. struggle against, struggle with, fight, fight against, put up a fight against, battle against, stand up to, withstand, stand one's ground against, hold one's ground against, hold off, hold out against, contend with, confront, face up to
2. fend off, keep at bay, ward off, keep at arm's length
🧿 Antonyms:
1. submit, yield
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🔑 Recover, verb.
💠Example: The FTSE 100 share index recovered to end the day down 30.5 points.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. rally, improve, pick up, make a recovery, rebound, bounce back, come back, make a comeback
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🔑 Close, adjective.
💠Example: We need to keep a close eye on the project.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. vigilant, watchful, keen, alert
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🔑 Criticize, verb.
💠Example: They criticized the government's handling of the economy.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. find fault with, censure, denounce, condemn, arraign, attack, lambast, pillory, disapprove of, carp at, cavil at, rail against, inveigh against, cast aspersions on, pour scorn on, disparage, denigrate, deprecate, malign, vilify, besmirch, run down, give a bad press to
2. (North American) slur
3. (informal) knock, pan, slam, hammer, blast, bad-mouth, nitpick about, throw brickbats at, give flak to, lay into, lace into, pull to pieces, pull apart, pick holes in, hit out at, maul, savage, roast, skewer, crucify
4. (British • informal) slag off, have a go at, give some stick to, monster, slate, rubbish
5. (North American • informal) pummel, cut up, trash, bag on
6. (Australian, New Zealand • informal) bag
7. (Australian • informal) sledge
8. (formal) excoriate
9. (dated) rate
10. (archaic) slash, vituperate against, reprobate
11. (rare) animadvert on, objurgate, asperse, derogate, reprehend
🧿 Antonyms:
1. praise, approve of
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🔑 Slow, adjective.
💠Example: An attempt by the industry to boost sales in a slow season.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. sluggish, slack, quiet, slow-moving, not busy, inactive, flat, depressed, stagnant, dead
2. unproductive
🧿 Antonyms:
1. busy, hectic
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🔑 Run away, phrase.
💠Example: The administration has tried to run away from its responsibilities.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. evade, dodge, get out of, shirk
2. avoid, disregard, ignore, take no notice of, pay no attention to, turn one's back on
3. (coloquial) shut one's eyes to, duck, cop out of
🧿 Antonyms:
1. face up to, deal with
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🔑 Go, verb.
💠Example: She went forwards, step by step.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. move, proceed, make one's way, advance, progress, pass, walk, wend one's way
2. travel, journey
3. repair, remove, retire
4. (literary) betake oneself
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🔑 Fight, verbo.
💠Example: A war fought for freedom.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. engage in, wage, conduct, prosecute, carry on, pursue, undertake, practise, proceed with, go on with
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🔑 Middle, noun.
💠Example: A shallow dish with a spike in the middle.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. centre, mean, median, mid point, halfway point, dead centre, focal point, focus, hub, nucleus, midst
2. eye, heart, core, kernel, bosom, interior, depths, thick, bullseye
🧿 Antonyms:
1. outside, circumference
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🔑 Hunt, verb.
💠Example: In the autumn they hunted deer.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. chase, give chase to, pursue, stalk, course, hunt down, run down
2. track, trail, follow, shadow, hound, dog
3. (informal) tail
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🔑 Make something good, phrase.
💠Example: They hope he will make good his promise of payment.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. fulfil, carry out, carry through, implement, execute, effect, discharge, perform, honour, redeem
2. keep, observe, abide by, comply with, obey, respect, conform to, stick to, act in accordance with, act according to, have regard to, heed, follow, pay attention to, defer to, take notice of, be bound by, keep faith with, live up to, stand by, adhere to
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🔑 Fall, verb.
💠Example: Inflation is expected to fall.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. decrease, decline, diminish, fall off, drop off, go down, grow less, lessen, dwindle
2. plummet, plunge, slump, sink
3. depreciate, decrease in value, lose value, decline in price, cheapen, devalue
4. (informal) hit the floor, go through the floor, nosedive, take a nosedive, take a header, go into a tailspin, crash
🧿 Antonyms:
1. rise, increase
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🔑 Prime, verb.
💠Example: Mischa knew what to say, as Lucy had primed him carefully.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. brief, give information to, fill in, prepare, supply with facts, put in the picture, inform, advise, notify, tell, instruct, coach, drill
2. (informal) clue in, give someone the low-down
3. (British • informal) gen up
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🔑 Stop, verb.
💠Example: Drastic measures are needed to stop the decline.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. put an end to, put a stop to, bring to an end, end, bring to a stop, halt, bring to a halt
2. finish, bring to a close, terminate, bring to a standstill, wind up, discontinue, cut short, interrupt, nip in the bud
3. immobilize, paralyse, deactivate, shut down
🧿 Antonyms:
1. start, begin, continue
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🔑 Rape, verb.
💠Example: The Romans raped the Sabine women.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. abduct, carry off, kidnap, seize, capture, make off with
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🔑 Qualify, verb.
💠Example: She qualified as a doctor.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. gain qualifications, gain certification, be certified, be licensed, be authorized
2. pass, graduate, make the grade, succeed, get through, come through with flying colours, pass muster
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🔑 Victory, noun.
💠Example: They had won a tremendous victory.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. success, triumph, conquest, win, successful outcome, positive result, favourable result, landslide, achievement, coup, game, set, and match
2. conquering, beating, overpowering, vanquishment, crushing, mastery, superiority, supremacy, pre-eminence, the upper hand
3. (informal) walkover, thrashing, trouncing
🧿 Antonyms:
1. defeat
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🔑 Prophecy, nombre.
💠Example: The gift of prophecy.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. foretelling the future, forecasting the future, fortune telling, crystal-gazing, prediction, second sight, clairvoyance, prognostication, divination, soothsaying
2. (marginal) vaticination, augury, sortilege, auspication
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🔑 Heart, noun.
💠Example: His heart had stopped beating.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. ticker
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🔑 Ability, noun.
💠Example: He was proud of his daughter's ability to read and write.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. capacity, capability, potential, potentiality, power, faculty, aptness, facility, propensity, wherewithal, means, preparedness
🧿 Antonyms:
1. inability, incapacity
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🔑 Answer someone back, phrase.
💠Example: I answer to the Assistant Commissioner of Specialist Operations.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. be impertinent to, talk back to, respond cheekily to, be cheeky to
2. contradict, argue with, disagree with
3. retaliate, retort, counter
4. (informal) cheek
5. (North American • informal) sass, be sassy to
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🔑 Leader, noun.
💠Example: A world leader in the use of video conferencing.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. pioneer, front runner, innovator, trailblazer, pathfinder, groundbreaker, trendsetter, leading light, guiding light, torchbearer, flagbearer, pacemaker, originator, initiator, developer, discoverer, founder, architect
2. (formal) neoteric
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🔑 Of the essence, phrase.
💠Example: Approval can take months when speed is not of the essence.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. vital, essential, indispensable, crucial, key, necessary, needed, required, called for, requisite, important, all-important, vitally important, of the utmost importance, of great consequence, critical, life-and-death, imperative, mandatory, compulsory, obligatory, urgent, pressing, burning, compelling, acute, paramount, pre-eminent, high-priority, significant, consequential
🧿 Antonyms:
1. inessential
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🔑 Rush, adjective.
💠Example: A rush job.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. urgent, high-priority, top-priority, emergency
2. hurried, hasty, fast, quick, rapid, swift
3. (North American • informal) hurry-up
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🔑 Turn something out, phrase.
💠Example: The firm turns out a million meters a year.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. produce, make, manufacture, fabricate, assemble, put together, process, bring out, put out, churn out
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🔑 Set something down, phrase.
💠Example: I set it down to the fact that he'd had no experience with girls.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. attribute, put down, ascribe, assign, chalk up
2. blame on, impute, lay at the door of
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🔑 Run someone or something over, phrase.
💠Example: By eating more leafy green vegetables you can avoid feeling run down and tense.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. run down, knock down, knock over, knock to the ground, hit, strike
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🔑 Willing, adjective.
💠Example: I'm perfectly willing to give it a try.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. ready, prepared, disposed, inclined, nothing loath, of a mind, so minded, minded, in the mood
2. happy, glad, pleased
3. eager, keen, enthusiastic
4. consenting, agreeable, amenable, accommodating, obliging, compliant, acquiescent
5. (informal) game
🧿 Antonyms:
1. unwilling, reluctant, disinclined
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🔑 Propagate, verb.
💠Example: The plant can be easily propagated by taking leaf cuttings.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. breed, grow, cultivate, generate
2. (technical) layer, pipe
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🔑 Crack, adjective.
💠Example: He is a crack shot.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. expert, skilled, skilful, masterly, virtuoso, master, consummate, proficient, accomplished, talented, gifted, adept, adroit, deft, dexterous, able, good, competent, capable, efficient, experienced, seasoned, trained, practised
2. professional, polished, well versed, versed
3. magnificent, brilliant, splendid, marvellous, impressive, excellent, formidable, outstanding, first-class, first-rate, fine
4. deadly
5. (informal) great, mean, wicked, stellar, nifty, ace, wizard
6. (British • informal) a dab hand at
7. (North American • informal) crackerjack
8. (vulgar slang) shit-hot
9. (archaic, humorous) compleat
10. (rare) habile
🧿 Antonyms:
1. incompetent
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🔑 Mind, nombre.
💠Example: His words stuck in her mind.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. memory, recollection, powers of recall
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🔑 Bellicose, adjective.
💠Example: The extreme right adopted a bellicose attitude.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. belligerent, aggressive, hostile, threatening, antagonistic, pugnacious, truculent, confrontational, argumentative, quarrelsome, disputatious, contentious, militant, combative
2. quick-tempered, hot-tempered, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, irascible, captious
3. (informal) spoiling for a fight
4. (British • informal) stroppy, bolshie
5. (North American • informal) scrappy
6. (rare) oppugnant
🧿 Antonyms:
1. peaceable
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🔑 Faint, adjective.
💠Example: The baby gave a faint cry.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. quiet, muted, muffled, stifled, subdued
2. feeble, weak, thin, whispered, murmured, indistinct, scarcely audible, scarcely perceptible, hard to hear, hard to make out, vague
3. low, soft, gentle
🧿 Antonyms:
1. loud
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🔑 Collect, verb.
💠Example: A crowd soon collected.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. come together, get together, gather, assemble, meet, muster, cluster, rally, congregate, convene, converge, flock together
2. (rare) foregather
🧿 Antonyms:
1. disperse
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🔑 Snappy, adjective.
💠Example: A snappy catchphrase.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. concise, succinct, memorable, catchy, neat, clever, crisp, pithy, witty, incisive, brief, short, short and sweet, sharp, terse, curt, laconic, aphoristic, epigrammatic
🧿 Antonyms:
1. long-winded
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🔑 The middle of nowhere, phrase.
💠Example: It's rural now — out in the middle of nowhere.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. the back of beyond, the backwoods, the wilds, the hinterland, a backwater
2. (Australian, New Zealand) the back country, the backblocks, the booay
3. (South African) the backveld, the platteland
4. (North American • informal) the boondocks, the boonies, the tall timbers
5. (US • informal) hicksville
6. (Australian, New Zealand • informal) Woop Woop, beyond the black stump
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🔑 Awkward, adjective.
💠Example: The box was heavy and awkward to carry.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. cumbersome, unwieldy, unhandy
2. (informal) a devil, a bastard
3. (British • vulgar slang) a bugger
4. (rare) cumbrous, lumbersome
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🔑 Narrate, verb.
💠Example: The story is narrated by an ageing English butler.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. tell, relate, recount, give an account of, unfold, set forth, set out, describe, detail, sketch out, portray, chronicle, give a report of, report, relay, retail, delineate, rehearse, recite
2. voice-over
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🔑 Elderly, adjective.
💠Example: She has an elderly mother in a nursing home.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. aged, old, mature, older, senior, ancient, venerable
2. advanced in years, getting on, ageing
3. in one's dotage, long in the tooth, as old as the hills
4. grey, grey-haired, grey-bearded, grizzled, hoary
5. past one's prime, not as young as one was, not as young as one used to be
6. decrepit, doddering, doddery, not long for this world, senile, superannuated
7. septuagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian
8. (informal) past it, over the hill, no spring chicken
9. (formal) senescent
10. (rare) longevous
🧿 Antonyms:
1. young
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🔑 Multiply, verb.
💠Example: The difficulties seem to be multiplying by the minute.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. increase, increase exponentially, grow, become more numerous, accumulate, proliferate, mount up, mushroom, snowball, burgeon, spread, expand
2. (literary) wax
🧿 Antonyms:
1. decrease, diminish
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🔑 Mum, adjective.
💠Example: He was keeping mum about his future plans.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. silent, quiet, mute, dumb, tight-lipped, close-mouthed, uncommunicative, unforthcoming, reticent, secretive
2. (archaic) mumchance
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🔑 Communicate, verb.
💠Example: Parents and teachers should communicate on a daily basis.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. liaise, be in touch, be in contact, be in communication, make contact, have dealings, interface, commune, meet, meet up
2. talk, speak, converse, chat, have a conversation, have a chat, have a discussion
3. (North American) visit
4. (informal) have a confab, chew the fat, chew the rag
5. (British • informal) have a chinwag
6. (North American • informal) shoot the breeze
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🔑 Congeal, verbo.
💠Example: The blood had congealed around the cut.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. coagulate, clot, cake, set, solidify, harden, thicken, stiffen, dry, gel, concentrate
2. (arcaico) fix
3. (marginal) inspissate
🧿 Antonyms:
1. soften, liquefy
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🔑 Entry, noun.
💠Example: My moment of entry was masked by smoke.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. appearance, arrival, entrance, ingress, coming, coming in, going in, approach, introduction, materialization
🧿 Antonyms:
1. departure
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🔑 Seal, noun.
💠Example: The Energy Minister gave his seal of approval to the project.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. ratification, assurance, attestation, confirmation, guarantee, authentication, warrant, warranty
2. charter, licence, imprimatur, validation
3. blessing, stamp of approval, approval, consent, agreement, permission, sanction, authority, endorsement, clearance, approbation
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🔑 Fast, adverb.
💠Example: She lived fast and dangerously.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. wildly, dissolutely, intemperately, immoderately, rakishly, recklessly, self-indulgently, extravagantly
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🔑 Devour, verb.
💠Example: He was devoured by remorse.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. afflict, torture, plague, bedevil, trouble, harrow, rack
2. consume, swallow up, engulf, swamp, overcome, overwhelm
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🔑 Decrease, noun.
💠Example: A decrease in crime.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. reduction, drop, lessening, lowering, decline, falling off
2. letting up, slackening, downturn, cut, cutback, curtailment, diminution, contraction, shrinkage, ebb, wane, de-escalation
3. dying down, abatement
4. (North American) downtick
🧿 Antonyms:
1. increase
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🔑 Mass, adjective.
💠Example: Mass hysteria.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. wholesale, universal, widespread, general, large-scale, extensive, pandemic
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🔑 Ideal, adjective.
💠Example: The film-makers portray an ideal world.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. unattainable, unachievable, impracticable, unworkable, unfeasible
2. unreal, fictitious, hypothetical, theoretical, ivory-towered, imaginary, idealized, utopian, romantic, quixotic, visionary, fanciful, fairy-tale
🧿 Antonyms:
1. attainable, real
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🔑 Raise, verb.
💠Example: The city had raised troops to fight for the Government.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. recruit, enlist, sign up, conscript, call to arms, call up, muster, mobilize, levy, rally, press, gather together, get together, collect, assemble, call together
2. (North American) draft
🧿 Antonyms:
1. stand down, demobilize
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🔑 Alike, adjective.
💠Example: All the doors looked alike.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. similar, the same, indistinguishable, identical, uniform, interchangeable, undifferentiated, homogeneous, much the same, of a piece, cut from the same cloth
2. resembling, corresponding, like, parallel, analogous, cognate
3. (informal) like peas in a pod, like two peas in a pod, much of a muchness, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, like Tweedledum and Tweedledee
🧿 Antonyms:
1. different
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🔑 Work something out, phrase.
💠Example: Work out how much you can afford to spend.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. calculate, compute, reckon up, determine
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🔑 Put someone off, phrase.
💠Example: The smell put Lisa off.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. deter, discourage, dishearten, demoralize, dissuade, daunt, unnerve, intimidate, scare off
2. offend, repel, disgust, revolt, repulse, sicken, nauseate
3. (informal) turn off
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🔑 Notion, noun.
💠Example: These figures give the lie to the notion that the country is strike-ridden.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. idea, belief, concept, conception, conviction, opinion, view, thought, impression, image, perception, mental picture
2. assumption, presumption, hypothesis, theory, supposition
3. feeling, funny feeling, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, hunch
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🔑 Mangle, verb.
💠Example: He's mangling the English language.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. spoil, ruin, mar, mutilate, bungle, mess up, make a mess of, wreck
2. (informal) murder, make a hash of, muck up, screw up, butcher
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🔑 Haste, noun.
💠Example: Working with feverish haste.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. speed, hastiness, hurry, hurriedness, swiftness, rapidity, rapidness, quickness, promptness, briskness, immediateness
2. impetuosity, precipitateness, rush, rushing
3. (literary) celerity, fleetness
4. (rare) expedition, expeditiousness, promptitude
🧿 Antonyms:
1. slowness, delay
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🔑 Experience, verb.
💠Example: The company is experiencing difficulties.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. undergo, encounter, meet, have experience of, come into contact with, run into, come across, come up against, face, be faced with, confront, be forced to contend with
2. feel, know, become familiar with
3. go through, live through, sustain, suffer, endure, tolerate
4. participate in, taste, try
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🔑 Examination, noun.
💠Example: The examination of witnesses in open court.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. questioning, interrogation, cross-questioning, cross-examination, inquisition
2. the third degree
3. (informal) pumping, grilling
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🔑 Recall, noun.
💠Example: Most people find they can improve their recall of dreams with practice.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. recollection, memory, remembrance
2. (technical) anamnesis
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🔑 Treaty, noun.
💠Example: The two countries signed a peace treaty.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. agreement, settlement, pact, deal, entente, concordat, accord, concord, protocol, compact, convention, contract, covenant, bargain, pledge
2. armistice, truce
3. alliance
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🔑 Counterpart, noun.
💠Example: The president held talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. equivalent, opposite number, peer, equal, parallel, complement, match, twin, mate, fellow, brother, sister, analogue, correlative
2. copy, duplicate
3. (rare) compeer, coequal
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🔑 Steal, verb.
💠Example: He stole out of the room.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. creep, sneak, slink, slip, slither, slide, glide, sidle, slope, edge, move furtively, tiptoe, pussyfoot, pad, prowl
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🔑 Replicate, verbo.
💠Example: The technology would be very hard to replicate.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. copy, reproduce, duplicate, make a copy of, make a replica of
2. recreate, repeat, perform again
3. clone
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🔑 Open, verb.
💠Example: The lounge opens on to a terrace.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. give access, give on to, lead, be connected, communicate with
2. command a view of, face, overlook
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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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🔑 Maintenance, noun.
💠Example: The maintenance and education of his children.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. nurture, feeding, life support
2. financing, supporting, support, keeping, upkeep
3. (rare) sustentation, alimentation, appanage, corrody
🧿 Antonyms:
1. neglect
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🔑 Sovereign, adjective.
💠Example: He asserted that sovereign power belonged to the people.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. supreme, absolute, unlimited, unrestricted, unrestrained, unbounded, boundless, infinite, ultimate, total, unconditional, full, utter, paramount
2. principal, chief, dominant, predominant, ruling
3. royal, regal, kingly, monarchical
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🔑 Originally, adverb.
💠Example: The conference was originally scheduled for November.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. at first, first, at the beginning, in the beginning, to begin with, initially, in the first place, at the start, at the outset, in the first instance, from day one
2. (informal) from the word go
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🔑 Doubt, noun.
💠Example: There was some doubt as to the caller's identity.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. uncertainty, lack of certainty, unsureness, indecision, hesitation, hesitancy, dubiousness, suspicion, confusion
2. question mark, queries, questions
3. (rare) dubiety, incertitude
🧿 Antonyms:
1. certainty
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🔑 Jingle, verb.
💠Example: Her bracelets jingled noisily.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. clink, chink, tinkle, jangle, rattle, clank
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🔑 Air, noun.
💠Example: He never could stand people putting on airs.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. affectations, pretension, pretentiousness, affectedness, posing, posturing, pretence
2. self-importance, superiority, condescension, ostentation, snobbery, superciliousness, pomposity, arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, pride, conceit, airs and graces
3. (informal) swank, snootiness, uppishness, side
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🔑 Close, adjective.
💠Example: He's usually pretty close about his clients' deals.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. reticent, quiet, uncommunicative, unforthcoming, private, secretive, tight-lipped, close-mouthed, close-lipped, guarded, evasive
2. (informal) playing one's cards close to one's chest
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🔑 Animal, adjective.
💠Example: His grunt of animal passion.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. carnal, fleshly, bodily, physical, sensual
2. instinctive, instinctual
3. brutish, unrefined, uncultured, coarse, gross, inhuman, subhuman
4. (rare) appetitive
🧿 Antonyms:
1. spiritual
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🔑 Spike, verb.
💠Example: The Assembly may well spike his tax-cut proposals.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. put a stop to, put an end to, put the lid on, scupper, scotch, derail
2. frustrate, foil, thwart, stymie, balk, hinder, obstruct
3. (informal) put paid to, put the kibosh on, clobber
4. (British • informal) dish
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🔑 Move, noun.
💠Example: It's your move.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. turn, go, play
2. opportunity, chance
3. (informal) shot
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🔑 Grade, noun.
💠Example: A kid in the fifth grade.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. class, form, study group, school group, set, stream, band
2. year
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🔑 Feature, noun.
💠Example: His eyes swept over her delicate features.
🧲 Synonyms:
1. face, countenance, physiognomy, profile
2. (informal) mug, kisser, clock
3. (British • informal) mush, phiz, phizog, dial
4. (British • rhyming slang) boat race
5. (Scottish, Irish • informal) coupon
6. (Northern Irish • informal) bake
7. (North American • informal) puss, pan
8. (literary) visage, lineaments
9. (archaic) front
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