| affright | (noun) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | Synonyms: panic, terror |
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| (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: fright, frighten, scare |
| afghan | (noun) a blanket knitted or crocheted in strips or squares; sometimes used as a shawl | - |
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| (noun) a coat made of sheepskin | Synonyms: sheepskin coat |
| afghani | (noun) the basic unit of money in Afghanistan | - |
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| aforethought | (adjective) with planning and intention | Synonyms: planned, plotted |
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| afterthought | (noun) an addition that was not included in the original plan | - |
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| (noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: reconsideration, rethink, second thought |
| aghast | (adjective) struck with fear, dread, or consternation | Synonyms: appalled, dismayed, shocked |
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| airfreight | (verb) transport (cargo) by air | Synonyms: air-freight, air-ship |
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| airtight | (adjective) having no weak points | Synonyms: air-tight |
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| (adjective) not allowing air or gas to pass in or out | Synonyms: air-tight, gas-tight |
| alight | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare, on fire |
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| (verb) come down | Synonyms: climb down |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: light, perch |
| almighty | (adjective) having unlimited power | Synonyms: all-powerful, omnipotent |
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| alright | (adjective) nonstandard usage | - |
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| (adverb) an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence | Synonyms: all right, fine, OK, very well |
| (adverb) without doubt (used to reinforce an assertion) | Synonyms: all right |
| (adverb) in a satisfactory or adequate manner | Synonyms: all right, O.K., okay |
| aright | (adverb) in an accurate manner | Synonyms: correctly, right |
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| aught | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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| aweigh | (adjective) (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom | Synonyms: atrip |
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| (adjective) (used of an anchor) hanging clear of the bottom | - |
| backlighting | (noun) lighting from behind | - |
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| bantamweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the flyweight division and lighter than those in the featherweight division. | - |
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| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 115-126 pounds | - |
| battlesight | (noun) an arrangement of sights that makes possible the rapid aiming of a firearm at short ranges | Synonyms: battle sight |
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| bedight | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedeck, deck |
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| bellylaugh | (verb) laugh a deep, hearty laugh | - |
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| benight | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: bedim |
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| (verb) envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness | - |
| (verb) overtake with darkness or night | - |
| benighted | (adjective) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture | Synonyms: dark |
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| (adjective) overtaken by night or darkness | Synonyms: nighted |
| bighead | (noun) any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck | - |
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| bigheaded | (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
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| bighearted | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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| bigheartedness | (noun) the quality of being kind and generous | - |
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| bighorn | (noun) wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns | Synonyms: bighorn sheep, cimarron, Ovis canadensis, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep |
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| bight | (noun) the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends) | - |
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| (noun) a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline | - |
| (noun) a bend or curve (especially in a coastline) | - |
| (noun) a loop in a rope | - |
| (verb) fasten with a bight | - |
| birthright | (noun) a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth | - |
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| (noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | Synonyms: patrimony |
| blight | (noun) a state or condition being blighted | - |
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| (noun) any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting | - |
| (verb) cause to suffer a blight | Synonyms: plague |
| blighted | (adjective) affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity | Synonyms: spoilt |
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| blighter | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: cuss, gadfly, pest, pesterer |
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| (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
| boardinghouse | (noun) a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests | Synonyms: boarding house |
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| bobsleigh | (noun) a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism | Synonyms: bob, bobsled |
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| (noun) formerly two short sleds coupled together | Synonyms: bobsled |
| bombsight | (noun) a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs | - |
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| borough | (noun) one of the administrative divisions of a large city | - |
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| (noun) an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament | - |
| bough | (noun) any of the larger branches of a tree | - |
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| boughed | (adjective) having boughs (of trees) | - |
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| boughless | (adjective) having no boughs (of trees) | - |
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| boughten | (adjective) purchased; not homemade | Synonyms: store-bought |
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| breakthrough | (noun) a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense | - |
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| (noun) making an important discovery | - |
| (noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: discovery, find |
| bright | (adjective) emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts | - |
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| (adjective) not made dim or less bright | Synonyms: undimmed |
| (adjective) likely to turn out well in the future | Synonyms: hopeful, promising |
| (adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: brilliant, vivid |
| (adjective) splendid | - |
| (adjective) characterized by happiness or gladness | - |
| (adjective) characterized by quickness and ease in learning | Synonyms: smart |
| (adjective) having lots of light either natural or artificial | - |
| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny |
| (adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: brilliant |
| (adverb) with brightness | Synonyms: brightly, brilliantly |
| brighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: lighten, lighten up |
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| (verb) become clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, light up |
| brightly | (adverb) with brightness | Synonyms: bright, brilliantly |
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| brightness | (noun) the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness level, light, luminance, luminosity, luminousness |
| (noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: cleverness, smartness |
| brougham | (noun) a sedan that has no roof over the driver's seat | - |
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| (noun) light carriage; pulled by a single horse | - |
| bulghur | (noun) parched crushed wheat | Synonyms: bulgur, bulgur wheat |
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| bullfight | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: corrida |
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| bullfighter | (noun) someone who fights bulls | Synonyms: toreador |
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| bullfighting | (noun) the activity at a bullfight | Synonyms: tauromachy |
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| bunfight | (noun) (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion | Synonyms: bun-fight |
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| bunghole | (noun) a hole in a barrel or cask; used to fill or empty it | - |
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| (noun) vulgar slang for anus | Synonyms: arse, arsehole, asshole |
| burgh | (noun) a borough in Scotland | - |
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| burgher | (noun) a member of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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| (noun) a citizen of an English borough | Synonyms: burgess |
| candlelight | (noun) the light provided by a burning candle | Synonyms: candle flame |
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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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| cartwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons | - |
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| chickenfight | (verb) fight while sitting on somebody's shoulders | Synonyms: chicken-fight |
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| chough | (noun) a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage | - |
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| cockfight | (noun) a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs | - |
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| cockfighting | (noun) participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight | - |
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| copyright | (noun) a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work | Synonyms: right of first publication |
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| (verb) secure a copyright on a written work | - |
| copyrighted | (adjective) (of literary or musical or dramatic or artistic work) protected by copyright | - |
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| cough | (noun) a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis | Synonyms: coughing |
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| (verb) exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion | - |
| coughing | (noun) a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis | Synonyms: cough |
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| counterweight | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, equaliser, equalizer |
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| (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterpose |
| countinghouse | (noun) office used by the accountants of a business | - |
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| cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
| daughter | (noun) a female human offspring | Synonyms: girl |
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| daughterly | (adjective) befitting a daughter | - |
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| daylight | (noun) light during the daytime | - |
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| (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daytime |
| deadlight | (noun) a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather | - |
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| delight | (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: joy, pleasure |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction | Synonyms: delectation |
| (verb) take delight in | Synonyms: enjoy, revel |
| (verb) give pleasure to or be pleasing to | Synonyms: please |
| (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
| delighted | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, charmed, enthralled, entranced |
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| (adjective) greatly pleased | - |
| delightedly | (adverb) with delight | - |
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| delightful | (adjective) greatly pleasing or entertaining | Synonyms: delicious |
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| delightfully | (adverb) in a delightful manner | - |
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| dighted | (adjective) dressed or adorned (as for battle) | - |
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| dinghy | (noun) a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled | Synonyms: dory, rowboat |
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| distraught | (adjective) deeply agitated especially from emotion | Synonyms: overwrought |
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| dogfight | (noun) a violent fight between dogs (sometimes organized illegally for entertainment and gambling) | - |
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| (noun) an aerial engagement between fighter planes | - |
| (noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: hassle, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle |
| (noun) a fiercely disputed contest | - |
| (verb) engage in an aerial battle with another fighter plane | - |
| (verb) arrange for an illegal dogfight | - |
| dogfighter | (noun) a fighter pilot who engages in an aerial dogfights | - |
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| doghouse | (noun) outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog | Synonyms: dog house, kennel |
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| (noun) an idiomatic term for being in disfavor | - |
| dough | (noun) a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| doughboy | (noun) a rounded lump of dough that is deep-fried and served as hot bread | - |
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| (noun) an American infantryman in World War I | - |
| doughiness | (noun) The quality or state of having the characteristics of dough, especially in appearance or consistency. | - |
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| doughnut | (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: donut, sinker |
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| (noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, annulus, halo, ring |
| doughy | (adjective) having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking | Synonyms: soggy |
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| downright | (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
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| (adjective) characterized by plain blunt honesty | - |
| (adverb) thoroughgoing | Synonyms: outright |
| downrightness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: straightforwardness |
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| draught | (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draft, drawing |
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| (noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draft, gulp, swig |
| (noun) a dose of liquid medicine | Synonyms: draft |
| (noun) the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) | Synonyms: draft |
| (noun) a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg | Synonyms: draft, potation, tipple |
| (noun) a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle) | Synonyms: draft |
| (verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: blueprint, draft |
| draughts | (noun) a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | Synonyms: checkers |
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| draughtsman | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draftsperson |
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| draughty | (adjective) not airtight | Synonyms: drafty |
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| dreadnaught | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnought |
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| dreadnought | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnaught |
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| drought | (noun) a shortage of rainfall | Synonyms: drouth |
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| (noun) a prolonged shortage | Synonyms: drouth |
| dunghill | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: midden, muckheap, muckhill |
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| (noun) a foul or degraded condition | - |
| egghead | (noun) an intellectual; a very studious and academic person | - |
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| eight | (adjective) being one more than seven | Synonyms: 8, viii |
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| (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face | Synonyms: eight-spot |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
| eighteen | (adjective) being one more than seventeen | Synonyms: 18, xviii |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one | Synonyms: 18, XVIII |