| kick | (noun) the act of delivering a blow with the foot | Synonyms: boot, kicking |
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| (noun) a rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics | Synonyms: kicking |
| (noun) the sudden stimulation provided by strong drink (or certain drugs) | - |
| (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, gripe, squawk |
| (noun) the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired | Synonyms: recoil |
| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, rush, thrill |
| (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off |
| (verb) make a goal | - |
| (verb) stop consuming | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) strike with the foot | - |
| (verb) drive or propel with the foot | - |
| (verb) spring back, as from a forceful thrust | Synonyms: kick back, recoil |
| (verb) thrash about or strike out with the feet | - |
| (verb) kick a leg up | - |
| kickback | (noun) a commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into the transaction | - |
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| kicker | (noun) a player who kicks the football | - |
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| kicking | (noun) the act of delivering a blow with the foot | Synonyms: boot, kick |
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| (noun) a rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics | Synonyms: kick |
| kickoff | (noun) (football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score | - |
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| (noun) a start given to contestants | Synonyms: send-off, start-off |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| kickshaw | (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: dainty, delicacy, goody, treat |
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| kicksorter | (noun) scientific instrument consisting of an electronic circuit that permits only voltage pulses of predetermined height to pass | Synonyms: pulse height analyzer |
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| kickstand | (noun) a swiveling metal rod attached to a bicycle or motorcycle or other two-wheeled vehicle; the rod lies horizontally when not in use but can be kicked into a vertical position as a support to hold the vehicle upright when it is not being ridden | - |
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| klick | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) | Synonyms: kilometer, kilometre, km |
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| knickerbockers | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | Synonyms: breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickers |
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| knickers | (noun) (used in the plural) underpants worn by women | Synonyms: bloomers, drawers, pants |
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| (noun) (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | Synonyms: breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers |
| knickknack | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknackery, nicknack, whatnot |
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| (noun) a small inexpensive mass-produced article | Synonyms: novelty |
| knickknackery | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknack, nicknack, whatnot |
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| lick | (noun) touching with the tongue | Synonyms: lap |
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| (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, clout, poke, punch, slug |
| (noun) a salt deposit that animals regularly lick | Synonyms: salt lick |
| (verb) find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of | Synonyms: figure out, puzzle out, solve, work, work out |
| (verb) take up with the tongue | Synonyms: lap, lap up |
| (verb) pass the tongue over | Synonyms: lap |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, thrash |
| licked | (adjective) having been got the better of | - |
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| licking | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Synonyms: defeat |
| lightstick | (noun) A portable rod used for illumination. | - |
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| limerick | (noun) a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba | - |
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| lipstick | (noun) makeup that is used to color the lips | Synonyms: lip rouge |
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| (verb) apply lipstick to | - |
| (verb) form by tracing with lipstick | - |
| lovesick | (adjective) languishing because of love | - |
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| lovesickness | (noun) a pining for a loved one | - |
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| mahlstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: maulstick |
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| matchstick | (noun) a short thin stick of wood used in making matches | - |
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| maulstick | (noun) a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush | Synonyms: mahlstick |
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| maverick | (adjective) independent in behavior or thought | Synonyms: irregular, unorthodox |
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| (noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it | - |
| (noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: rebel |
| medick | (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medic, trefoil |
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| meterstick | (noun) a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) | Synonyms: metrestick |
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| metrestick | (noun) a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) | Synonyms: meterstick |
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| mickle | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
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| mimicker | (noun) someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress) | Synonyms: mimic |
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| mispickel | (noun) a silver-white or grey ore of arsenic | Synonyms: arsenopyrite |
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| niblick | (noun) an iron with considerable loft | Synonyms: nine iron |
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| nick | (noun) a small cut | Synonyms: notch, snick |
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| (noun) (British slang) a prison | - |
| (noun) an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) | Synonyms: dent, ding, gouge |
| (verb) mate successfully; of livestock | - |
| (verb) divide or reset the tail muscles of | - |
| (verb) cut a nick into | Synonyms: chip |
| (verb) cut slightly, with a razor | Synonyms: snick |
| nickel | (noun) a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar | - |
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| (noun) five dollars worth of a drug | Synonyms: nickel note |
| (noun) a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite | Synonyms: atomic number 28, Ni |
| (verb) plate with nickel | - |
| nickelodeon | (noun) a cabinet containing an automatic record player; records are played by inserting a coin | Synonyms: jukebox |
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| nicker | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: neigh, whicker, whinny |
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| (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: neigh, whicker, whinny |
| nicknack | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknack, knickknackery, whatnot |
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| nickname | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, sobriquet, soubriquet |
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| (noun) a descriptive name for a place or thing | - |
| (verb) give a nickname to | Synonyms: dub |
| nightstick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, billystick, truncheon |
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| nitpick | (verb) be overly critical; criticize minor details | - |
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| nitpicker | (noun) someone who makes small and unjustified criticisms | - |
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| nonstick | (adjective) (of surfaces especially of cooking utensils) permitting easy removal of adherent food particles | - |
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| nudnick | (noun) (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest | Synonyms: nudnik |
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| panicked | (adjective) thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation | Synonyms: frightened, panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicky, terrified |
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| panicky | (adjective) thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation | Synonyms: frightened, panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicked, terrified |
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| peachick | (noun) a young peafowl | Synonyms: pea-chick |
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| pernickety | (adjective) characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details | Synonyms: persnickety |
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| persnickety | (adjective) characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details | Synonyms: pernickety |
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| (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: bigheaded, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
| pick | (noun) the act of choosing or selecting | Synonyms: choice, option, selection |
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| (noun) a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body | - |
| (noun) a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends | Synonyms: pickax, pickaxe |
| (noun) a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material | - |
| (noun) the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | Synonyms: filling, weft, woof |
| (noun) a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument | Synonyms: plectron, plectrum |
| (noun) the person or thing chosen or selected | Synonyms: choice, selection |
| (noun) the best people or things in a group | Synonyms: cream |
| (noun) the quantity of a crop that is harvested | Synonyms: picking |
| (verb) remove in small bits | - |
| (verb) remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits | Synonyms: clean |
| (verb) select carefully from a group | - |
| (verb) harass with constant criticism | Synonyms: blame, find fault |
| (verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: nibble, piece |
| (verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: beak, peck |
| (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: cull, pluck |
| (verb) attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pluck, plunk |
| (verb) provoke | - |
| (verb) pay for something | Synonyms: foot |
| (verb) pilfer or rob | - |
| pickaback | (adverb) on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip | Synonyms: pig-a-back, piggyback |
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| (adverb) on a railroad flatcar | Synonyms: pig-a-back, piggyback |
| pickaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: picaninny, piccaninny |
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| pickax | (noun) a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends | Synonyms: pick, pickaxe |
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| pickaxe | (noun) a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends | Synonyms: pick, pickax |
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| pickelhaube | (noun) a spiked helmet worn by German soldiers | - |
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| picker | (noun) someone who gathers crops or fruits etc. | - |
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| (noun) a person who chooses or selects out | Synonyms: chooser, selector |
| pickerel | (noun) any of several North American species of small pike | - |
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| (noun) flesh of young or small pike | - |
| pickerelweed | (noun) American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds | Synonyms: pickerel weed, Pontederia cordata, wampee |
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| picket | (noun) a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake | Synonyms: piquet |
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| (noun) a wooden strip forming part of a fence | Synonyms: pale |
| (noun) a vehicle performing sentinel duty | - |
| (noun) a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack | - |
| (noun) a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work | - |
| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch |
| (verb) fasten with a picket | - |
| (verb) serve as pickets or post pickets | - |
| picking | (noun) the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.) | - |
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| (noun) the quantity of a crop that is harvested | Synonyms: pick |
| pickings | (noun) the act of someone who picks up or takes something | Synonyms: taking |
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| pickle | (noun) vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle |
| (verb) preserve in a pickling liquid | - |
| pickled | (adjective) (used of foods) preserved in a pickling liquid | - |
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| picklepuss | (noun) someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression | Synonyms: gloomy Gus, pouter, sourpuss |
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| picknicker | (noun) a person who is picnicking | Synonyms: picnicker |
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| pickpocket | (noun) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places | Synonyms: cutpurse, dip |
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| pickup | (noun) the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places | - |
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| (noun) the act of taking aboard passengers or freight | - |
| (noun) a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard | Synonyms: pickup truck |
| (noun) an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable | Synonyms: cartridge |
| (noun) mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge | Synonyms: pickup arm, tone arm |
| (noun) anything with restorative powers | Synonyms: pick-me-up |
| (noun) the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration | Synonyms: getaway |
| (noun) a warrant to take someone into custody | - |
| (noun) a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships | - |
| picky | (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, finicky, fussy, particular |
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| picnicker | (noun) a person who is picnicking | Synonyms: picknicker |
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| pigsticking | (noun) the sport of hunting wild boar with spears | - |
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| pinprick | (noun) small puncture (as if made by a pin) | - |
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| (noun) a minor annoyance | - |
| placekicker | (noun) (football) a kicker who makes a place kick for a goal | Synonyms: place-kicker |
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| politick | (verb) engage in political activities | - |
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| prick | (noun) the act of puncturing with a small point | Synonyms: pricking |
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| (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, putz, shaft, tool |
| (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
| (noun) a depression scratched or carved into a surface | Synonyms: dent, incision, scratch, slit |
| (verb) make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn | Synonyms: prickle |
| (verb) deliver a sting to | Synonyms: bite, sting |
| (verb) stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick | Synonyms: goad |
| (verb) to cause a sharp emotional pain | - |
| (verb) to stick up | Synonyms: cock up, prick up |
| (verb) cause a stinging pain | Synonyms: sting, twinge |
| (verb) cause a prickling sensation | Synonyms: prickle |
| pricker | (noun) an awl for making small holes for brads or small screws | Synonyms: bradawl |
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| (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: prickle, spikelet, spine, sticker, thorn |
| pricket | (noun) male deer in his second year | - |
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| (noun) a sharp metal spike to hold a candle | - |
| pricking | (noun) the act of puncturing with a small point | Synonyms: prick |
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| prickle | (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, spikelet, spine, sticker, thorn |
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| (verb) make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn | Synonyms: prick |
| (verb) cause a stinging or tingling sensation | Synonyms: tingle |
| (verb) cause a prickling sensation | Synonyms: prick |
| prickleback | (noun) small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines | - |
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| (noun) small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | Synonyms: stickleback |
| prickliness | (noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines | Synonyms: bristliness, spininess, thorniness |
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| prickling | (noun) a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings | Synonyms: tingle, tingling |
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| prickly | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| (adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: bristly, splenetic, waspish |
| prickteaser | (noun) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men | Synonyms: coquette, flirt, minx, tease, vamp, vamper |
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| pumpernickel | (noun) bread made of coarse rye flour | Synonyms: black bread |
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| quick | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: agile, nimble, spry |
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| (adjective) easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: warm |
| (adjective) accomplished rapidly and without delay | Synonyms: speedy |
| (adjective) hurried and brief | Synonyms: fast, flying |
| (adjective) apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity | Synonyms: ready |
| (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, prompt, straightaway |
| (noun) any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail) | - |
| (adverb) with little or no delay | Synonyms: promptly, quickly |
| quicken | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) show signs of life | - |
| (verb) give life or energy to | Synonyms: invigorate |
| (verb) move faster | Synonyms: accelerate, speed, speed up |
| (verb) make keen or more acute | Synonyms: whet |
| quickener | (noun) an agent that gives or restores life or vigor | Synonyms: enlivener, invigorator |
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| quickening | (noun) the act of accelerating; increasing the speed | Synonyms: acceleration, speedup |
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| (noun) the process of showing signs of life | - |
| (noun) the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus | - |
| quicker | (adverb) more quickly | Synonyms: faster |
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| quickest | (adverb) most quickly | Synonyms: fastest |
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| quickie | (noun) hurried repair | Synonyms: band aid, quick fix, quicky |
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| quicklime | (noun) a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide | Synonyms: burnt lime, calcined lime, calcium oxide, calx, fluxing lime, lime, unslaked lime |
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| quickly | (adverb) with speed | Synonyms: apace, chop-chop, in short order, rapidly, speedily |
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| (adverb) with little or no delay | Synonyms: promptly, quick |
| (adverb) without taking pains | Synonyms: cursorily |
| quickness | (noun) a rate that is rapid | Synonyms: celerity, rapidity, rapidness, speediness |
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| (noun) intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay | Synonyms: mental quickness, quick-wittedness |
| (noun) skillful performance or ability without difficulty | Synonyms: adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility |
| quicksand | (noun) a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down | - |
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| (noun) a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy | - |
| quickset | (adjective) grown from cuttings planted directly in the ground | - |
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| (noun) cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines | - |
| quicksilver | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, fickle, mercurial |
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| (noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, mercury |
| quickstep | (noun) a ballroom dance with both quick and slow steps | - |
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| (noun) military march accompanying quick time | - |
| (verb) perform a quickstep | - |
| quicky | (noun) hurried repair | Synonyms: band aid, quick fix, quickie |
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| ragpicker | (noun) an unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood | - |
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| redbrick | (adjective) of or relating to British universities founded in the late 19th century or the 20th century | Synonyms: red-brick |
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