appropriate | (adjective) suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc | - |
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(adjective) meant or adapted for an occasion or use | Synonyms: suitable, suited |
(verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: allow, earmark, reserve, set aside |
(verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: capture, conquer, seize |
appropriately | (adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances | Synonyms: befittingly, duly, fitly, fittingly, properly, suitably |
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appropriateness | (noun) the quality of being specially suitable | - |
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(noun) appropriate conduct; doing the right thing | Synonyms: rightness |
appropriation | (noun) a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner | - |
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(noun) incorporation by joining or uniting | Synonyms: annexation |
(noun) money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose | - |
appropriative | (adjective) of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself | - |
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appropriator | (noun) someone who takes for his or her own use (especially without permission) | - |
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asteriated | (adjective) (of some crystals especially gemstones) exhibiting asterism | - |
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bivariate | (adjective) having two variables | - |
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commissariat | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: provender, provisions, viands, victuals |
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covariation | (noun) (statistics) correlated variation | - |
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excoriate | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, decry, objurgate, reprobate |
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(verb) tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading | Synonyms: chafe |
excoriation | (noun) severe censure | - |
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(noun) an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off | Synonyms: abrasion, scrape, scratch |
expatriate | (noun) a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country | Synonyms: exile, expat |
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(verb) move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad | - |
(verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: deport, exile |
expatriation | (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: deportation, exile, transportation |
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(noun) migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another) | Synonyms: emigration, out-migration |
expropriate | (verb) deprive of possessions | - |
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expropriation | (noun) taking out of an owner's hands (especially taking property by public authority) | - |
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fimbriate | (adjective) having a fringe of slender processes | - |
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geriatric | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing geriatrics | Synonyms: gerontological |
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(adjective) of or relating to the aged | - |
geriatrician | (noun) a specialist in gerontology | Synonyms: gerontologist |
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geriatrics | (noun) the branch of medical science that deals with diseases and problems specific to old people | Synonyms: gerontology |
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inappropriate | (adjective) not suitable for a particular occasion etc | - |
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(adjective) not in keeping with what is correct or proper | Synonyms: incompatible, out of keeping, unfitting |
inappropriately | (adverb) in an inappropriate manner | Synonyms: unsuitably |
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inappropriateness | (noun) the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting | Synonyms: unworthiness |
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(noun) inappropriate conduct | Synonyms: wrongness |
inebriate | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, drunkard, rummy, sot, wino |
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(verb) become drunk or drink excessively | Synonyms: hit it up, soak, souse |
(verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | Synonyms: intoxicate, soak |
(verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, exhilarate, thrill, tickle pink |
inebriated | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: drunk, gone, intoxicated, ripped |
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inebriation | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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(noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, drunkenness |
infuriate | (verb) make furious | Synonyms: exasperate, incense |
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infuriated | (adjective) marked by extreme anger | Synonyms: angered, enraged, furious, maddened |
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infuriating | (adjective) extremely annoying or displeasing | Synonyms: exasperating, maddening, vexing |
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infuriation | (noun) a feeling of intense anger and impatience | Synonyms: enragement |
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lariat | (noun) a long noosed rope used to catch animals | Synonyms: lasso, reata, riata |
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lumpenproletariat | (noun) (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement | - |
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luxuriate | (verb) thrive profusely or flourish extensively | - |
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(verb) become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously | Synonyms: wanton |
(verb) enjoy to excess | Synonyms: indulge |
luxuriation | (noun) an activity that affords excessive pleasure and enjoyment | - |
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misappropriate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, malversate, peculate |
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misappropriated | (adjective) taken for your own use in violation of a trust | Synonyms: embezzled |
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misappropriation | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, peculation |
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(noun) wrongful borrowing | - |
multivariate | (adjective) pertaining to any procedure involving two or more variables | - |
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mydriatic | (noun) a drug that causes the pupil of the eye to dilate; used to aid eye examinations | Synonyms: mydriatic drug |
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paleostriatum | (noun) the inner pale yellow part of the lenticular nucleus | Synonyms: globus pallidus, pallidum |
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proletariat | (noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | Synonyms: labor, labour, working class |
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repatriate | (noun) a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored | - |
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(verb) admit back into the country | - |
(verb) send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees | - |
repatriation | (noun) the act of returning to the country of origin | - |
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riata | (noun) a long noosed rope used to catch animals | Synonyms: lariat, lasso, reata |
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salariat | (noun) the class of workers who are salaried and get regular, non-hourly pay checks. | - |
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secretariat | (noun) an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations | Synonyms: secretariate |
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secretariate | (noun) an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations | Synonyms: secretariat |
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seriatim | (adverb) in a series; point by point | - |
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striate | (adjective) marked with stria or striations | - |
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(verb) mark with striae or striations | - |
striation | (noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | Synonyms: band, banding, stria |
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(noun) any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue | Synonyms: stria |
striatum | (noun) a striped mass of white and grey matter located in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere; consists of the caudate nucleus and the lenticular nucleus | Synonyms: corpus striatum, striate body |
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thoriate | (verb) impregnate with thorium oxide to increase thermionic emission | - |
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thoriated | (adjective) being or sounding of nervous or suppressed laughter | Synonyms: tittering |
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uninebriated | (adjective) not inebriated | Synonyms: unintoxicated |
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variate | (noun) a variable quantity that is random | Synonyms: chance variable, random variable, stochastic variable, variant |
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variation | (noun) an activity that varies from a norm or standard | Synonyms: variance |
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(noun) the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard | - |
(noun) (ballet) a solo dance or dance figure | Synonyms: pas seul |
(noun) an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard | - |
(noun) something a little different from others of the same type | Synonyms: edition, variant, version |
(noun) a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished | - |
(noun) an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change | Synonyms: fluctuation |
(noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutant, mutation, sport |
(noun) (astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon) | - |
(noun) the process of varying or being varied | - |
(noun) the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north | Synonyms: magnetic declination, magnetic variation |
vicariate | (noun) the religious institution under the authority of a vicar | Synonyms: vicarship |
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