| resist | (verb) stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something | Synonyms: hold out, stand firm, withstand |
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| (verb) withstand the force of something | Synonyms: fend, stand |
| (verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: balk, baulk, jib |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: dissent, protest |
| (verb) elude, especially in a baffling way | Synonyms: defy, refuse |
| (verb) resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ | Synonyms: refuse, reject |
| rest | (verb) be at rest | - |
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| (verb) stay the same; remain in a certain state | Synonyms: remain, stay |
| (verb) take a short break from one's activities in order to relax | Synonyms: breathe, catch one's breath, take a breather |
| (verb) give a rest to | - |
| (verb) not move; be in a resting position | - |
| (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: perch, roost |
| (verb) rest on or as if on a pillow | Synonyms: pillow |
| (verb) put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying | - |
| (verb) be inactive, refrain from acting | - |
| (verb) have a place in relation to something else | Synonyms: lie |
| (verb) be inherent or innate in | Synonyms: repose, reside |
| roast | (verb) cook with dry heat, usually in an oven | - |
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| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule |
| roost | (verb) settle down or stay, as if on a roost | - |
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| (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: perch, rest |
| roughcast | (verb) hew roughly, without finishing the surface | Synonyms: rough-hew |
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| (verb) apply roughcast to | - |
| (verb) shape roughly | - |
| rust | (verb) become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid | Synonyms: corrode |
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| (verb) cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid | Synonyms: corrode, eat |
| (verb) become coated with oxide | - |
| sandblast | (verb) grind with a sandblast | - |
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| shortlist | (verb) put someone or something on a short list | - |
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| signpost | (verb) mark with a signpost, as of a path | - |
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| sportscast | (verb) broadcast a sports event | - |
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| subsist | (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: exist, live, survive |
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| suggest | (verb) make a proposal, declare a plan for something | Synonyms: advise, propose |
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| (verb) call to mind | Synonyms: evoke, paint a picture |
| (verb) imply as a possibility | Synonyms: intimate |
| (verb) drop a hint; intimate by a hint | Synonyms: hint |
| telecast | (verb) broadcast via television | Synonyms: televise |
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| test | (verb) undergo a test | - |
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| (verb) examine someone's knowledge of something | Synonyms: quiz |
| (verb) determine the presence or properties of (a substance) | - |
| (verb) achieve a certain score or rating on a test | - |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, examine, prove, try, try out |
| (verb) test or examine for the presence of disease or infection | Synonyms: screen |
| (verb) show a certain characteristic when tested | - |
| thirst | (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, hunger, lust, starve |
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| (verb) feel the need to drink | - |
| thrust | (verb) impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably | Synonyms: force |
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| (verb) penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: pierce |
| (verb) place or put with great energy | Synonyms: throw |
| (verb) push forcefully | - |
| (verb) make a thrusting forward movement | Synonyms: hurl, hurtle, lunge |
| (verb) press or force | Synonyms: shove, squeeze, stuff |
| (verb) push violently in a specified direction | Synonyms: push up |
| (verb) force (molten rock) into pre-existing rock | - |
| toast | (verb) make brown and crisp by heating | Synonyms: crisp, crispen |
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| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, salute, wassail |
| trust | (verb) have confidence or faith in | - |
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| (verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: believe |
| (verb) expect and wish | Synonyms: desire, hope |
| (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, confide, entrust, intrust |
| (verb) (chiefly archaic) extend credit to | - |
| (verb) allow without fear | - |
| twist | (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, wrench, wrick |
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| (verb) form into twists | - |
| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, pervert, sophisticate, twist around |
| (verb) turn in the opposite direction | - |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: distort, twine |
| (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, deform, flex, turn |
| (verb) twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates | Synonyms: wrench |
| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, worm, wrestle, wriggle, writhe |
| (verb) do the twist | - |
| (verb) extend in curves and turns | Synonyms: curve, wind |
| typecast | (verb) identify as belonging to a certain type | Synonyms: type |
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| (verb) cast repeatedly in the same kind of role | - |
| untwist | (verb) cause to become untwisted | - |
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| vest | (verb) clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes | Synonyms: robe |
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| (verb) clothe oneself in ecclesiastical garments | - |
| (verb) place (authority, property, or rights) in the control of a person or group of persons | - |
| (verb) become legally vested | - |
| (verb) provide with power and authority | Synonyms: enthrone, invest |
| worst | (verb) defeat thoroughly | Synonyms: mop up, pip, rack up, whip |
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| wrest | (verb) obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically | - |
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| zest | (verb) add herbs or spices to | Synonyms: spice, spice up |
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