arrack | (noun) any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses | Synonyms: arak |
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arraign | (verb) accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy | - |
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(verb) call before a court to answer an indictment | - |
arraignment | (noun) a legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment | - |
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arrange | (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, dress, set |
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(verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events | Synonyms: order, put, set up |
(verb) make arrangements for | Synonyms: fix up |
(verb) put into a proper or systematic order | Synonyms: set up |
(verb) adapt for performance in a different way | Synonyms: set |
(verb) set (printed matter) into a specific format | Synonyms: format |
(verb) plan, organize, and carry out (an event) | Synonyms: stage |
arranged | (adjective) disposed or placed in a particular kind of order | Synonyms: ordered |
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(adjective) deliberately arranged for effect | Synonyms: staged |
(adjective) organized or planned for | - |
arrangement | (noun) the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music | Synonyms: arranging, transcription |
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(noun) the spatial property of the way in which something is placed | Synonyms: placement |
(noun) an organized structure for arranging or classifying | Synonyms: organisation, organization, system |
(noun) the thing arranged or agreed to | Synonyms: agreement |
(noun) a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments | Synonyms: musical arrangement |
(noun) an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging | - |
arranger | (noun) a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise | Synonyms: organiser, organizer |
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(noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance | Synonyms: adapter, transcriber |
arranging | (noun) the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music | Synonyms: arrangement, transcription |
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arrant | (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
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arras | (noun) a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric often with pictorial designs | Synonyms: tapestry |
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array | (noun) an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics | - |
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(noun) especially fine or decorative clothing | Synonyms: raiment, regalia |
(noun) an impressive display | - |
(noun) an orderly arrangement | - |
(verb) align oneself with a group or a way of thinking | Synonyms: align |
(verb) lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line | Synonyms: lay out, range, set out |
arrayed | (adjective) in ceremonial attire and paraphernalia | Synonyms: panoplied |
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barrack | (noun) a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel | - |
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(verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: flout, gibe, jeer, scoff |
(verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: cheer, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
(verb) lodge in barracks | - |
barracking | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: heckling |
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barracouta | (noun) a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa | Synonyms: snoek |
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barracuda | (noun) any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth | - |
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barrage | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling |
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(noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: bombardment, onslaught, outpouring |
(verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: bombard |
barramundi | (noun) a species of large perch noted for its sporting and eating qualities; lives in marine, estuary, and freshwater habitats | Synonyms: Asian seabass, giant perch, giant seaperch, Lates calcarifer, white seabass |
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barrater | (noun) someone guilty of barratry | Synonyms: barrator |
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barrator | (noun) someone guilty of barratry | Synonyms: barrater |
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barratry | (noun) the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels | - |
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(noun) (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo | - |
(noun) the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery | - |
(noun) traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments | Synonyms: simony |
carrack | (noun) a large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman | Synonyms: carack |
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carrageen | (noun) dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America | Synonyms: carageen, carragheen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss |
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carrageenan | (noun) a colloidal extract from carrageen seaweed and other red algae | Synonyms: carrageenin |
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carrageenin | (noun) a colloidal extract from carrageen seaweed and other red algae | Synonyms: carrageenan |
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carragheen | (noun) dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America | Synonyms: carageen, carrageen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss |
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chaparral | (noun) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes | Synonyms: bush, scrub |
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disarrange | (verb) disturb the arrangement of | - |
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(verb) destroy the arrangement or order of | - |
disarranged | (adjective) having the arrangement disturbed; not in order | - |
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disarrangement | (noun) a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted | Synonyms: disorganisation, disorganization |
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disarray | (noun) untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance) | Synonyms: disorderliness |
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(noun) a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior | Synonyms: confusedness, confusion, mental confusion, muddiness |
(verb) bring disorder to | Synonyms: disorder |
disarrayed | (adjective) in disarray | - |
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disembarrass | (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: free, rid |
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disembarrassment | (noun) something that extricates you from embarrassment | - |
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embarrass | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: abash |
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(verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
embarrassed | (adjective) made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride | Synonyms: humiliated, mortified |
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(adjective) feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed | Synonyms: abashed, chagrined |
embarrassing | (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: awkward, sticky, unenviable |
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(adjective) causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation | Synonyms: mortifying |
embarrassingly | (adverb) causing embarrassment | - |
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embarrassment | (noun) extreme excess | Synonyms: overplus, plethora, superfluity |
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(noun) some event that causes someone to be embarrassed | - |
(noun) the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public | - |
(noun) the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy) | - |
farrago | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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mojarra | (noun) small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters | - |
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narrate | (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: recite, recount, tell |
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(verb) provide commentary for a film, for example | - |
narration | (noun) the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events | Synonyms: recital, yarn |
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(noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narrative, story, tale |
(noun) (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth | - |
narrative | (adjective) consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story | - |
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(noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narration, story, tale |
narrator | (noun) someone who tells a story | Synonyms: storyteller, teller |
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parrakeet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paraquet, paroquet, parroket, parroquet |
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prearrange | (verb) arrange beforehand | - |
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prearrangement | (noun) something arranged in advance | - |
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rearrange | (verb) put into a new order or arrangement | - |
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rearrangement | (noun) changing an arrangement | - |
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tarradiddle | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, tale, taradiddle |
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(noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
tarragon | (noun) fresh leaves (or leaves preserved in vinegar) used as seasoning | Synonyms: estragon |
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(noun) aromatic perennial of southeastern Russia | Synonyms: Artemisia dracunculus, estragon |
unembarrassed | (adjective) not embarrassed | Synonyms: unabashed |
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unwarrantable | (adjective) incapable of being justified or explained | Synonyms: indefensible, insupportable, unjustifiable, unwarranted |
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unwarrantably | (adverb) in an unwarrantable manner or to an unwarranted degree | - |
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unwarranted | (adjective) incapable of being justified or explained | Synonyms: indefensible, insupportable, unjustifiable, unwarrantable |
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(adjective) lacking justification or authorization | Synonyms: undue, unjustified |
(adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, wild |
warragal | (noun) wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia | Synonyms: Canis dingo, dingo, warrigal |
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(noun) Australian wild horse | Synonyms: warrigal |
warrant | (noun) a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts | - |
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(noun) a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications | Synonyms: guarantee, warrantee, warranty |
(noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, indorsement, sanction |
(noun) a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price | Synonyms: stock-purchase warrant, stock warrant |
(verb) provide adequate grounds to justify (a certain course of action) | - |
(verb) stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of | Synonyms: guarantee |
warrantee | (noun) a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications | Synonyms: guarantee, warrant, warranty |
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(noun) a customer to whom a warrant or guarantee is given | - |
(noun) a recipient of a warrant issued by a court in the United States | - |
warranter | (noun) one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another | Synonyms: guarantor, surety, warrantor |
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warrantor | (noun) one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another | Synonyms: guarantor, surety, warranter |
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warranty | (noun) a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications | Synonyms: guarantee, warrant, warrantee |
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