| approve | (verb) judge to be right or commendable; think well of | - |
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| (verb) give sanction to | Synonyms: O.K., okay, sanction |
| approved | (adjective) established by authority; given authoritative approval | Synonyms: sanctioned |
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| approver | (noun) an authority with power to approve | - |
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| controversial | (adjective) marked by or capable of arousing controversy | - |
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| controversialist | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: disputant, eristic |
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| controversially | (adverb) involving controversy | Synonyms: polemically |
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| controversy | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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| controvert | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: rebut, refute |
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| (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: contradict, oppose |
| disapprove | (verb) consider bad or wrong | - |
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| (verb) deem wrong or inappropriate | Synonyms: reject |
| disprove | (verb) prove to be false | Synonyms: confute |
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| disprover | (noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, rebutter, refuter |
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| drove | (noun) a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone | Synonyms: drove chisel |
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| (noun) a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together | - |
| (noun) a moving crowd | Synonyms: horde, swarm |
| drover | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: herder, herdsman |
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| extroversion | (noun) (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self | Synonyms: extraversion |
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| extroversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extraversive |
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| extrovert | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extravert |
| extroverted | (adjective) not introspective; examining what is outside yourself | Synonyms: extrospective |
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| (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extrovert, extrovertive |
| (adjective) at ease in talking to others | Synonyms: forthcoming, outgoing |
| extrovertish | (adjective) being somewhat extroverted | - |
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| extrovertive | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted |
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| grove | (noun) garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth | Synonyms: orchard, plantation, woodlet |
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| (noun) a small growth of trees without underbrush | - |
| grovel | (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, creep, cringe, fawn |
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| groveler | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveller, truckler |
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| groveling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, grovelling, wormlike, wormy |
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| groveller | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveler, truckler |
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| grovelling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, groveling, wormlike, wormy |
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| improve | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, better, meliorate |
| improved | (adjective) made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially made ready for use or marketing | - |
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| (adjective) become or made better in quality | - |
| (adjective) (of land) made ready for development or agriculture by clearing of trees and brush | - |
| improvement | (noun) the act of improving something | - |
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| (noun) a change for the better; progress in development | Synonyms: advance, betterment |
| (noun) a condition superior to an earlier condition | Synonyms: melioration |
| improver | (noun) a component that is added to something to improve it | Synonyms: add-on, addition |
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| (noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, humanitarian |
| incontrovertibility | (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibleness, positiveness, positivity |
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| incontrovertible | (adjective) necessarily or demonstrably true | Synonyms: demonstrable |
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| (adjective) impossible to deny or disprove | Synonyms: irrefutable, positive |
| incontrovertibleness | (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, positiveness, positivity |
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| incontrovertibly | (adverb) in an obvious and provable manner | Synonyms: demonstrably, provably |
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| introversion | (noun) (psychology) an introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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| (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, intussusception, invagination |
| (noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: invagination |
| introversive | (adjective) directed inward; marked by interest in yourself or concerned with inner feelings | Synonyms: introvertive |
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| introvert | (noun) (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts | - |
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| (verb) turn inside | - |
| (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: invaginate |
| introverted | (adjective) given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences | Synonyms: introspective, self-examining |
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| introvertish | (adjective) somewhat introverted | Synonyms: shut-in |
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| introvertive | (adjective) directed inward; marked by interest in yourself or concerned with inner feelings | Synonyms: introversive |
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| landrover | (noun) a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain | Synonyms: jeep |
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| mangrove | (noun) a tropical tree or shrub bearing fruit that germinates while still on the tree and having numerous prop roots that eventually form an impenetrable mass and are important in land building | Synonyms: Rhizophora mangle |
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| noncontroversial | (adjective) not likely to arouse controversy | Synonyms: uncontroversial |
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| prove | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, shew, show |
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| (verb) obtain probate of | - |
| (verb) prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof | - |
| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, show, testify |
| (verb) take a trial impression of | - |
| (verb) cause to puff up with a leaven | Synonyms: leaven, raise |
| (verb) increase in volume | Synonyms: rise |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, examine, test, try, try out |
| (verb) be shown or be found to be | Synonyms: turn out, turn up |
| proved | (adjective) established beyond doubt | Synonyms: proven |
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| proven | (adjective) established beyond doubt | Synonyms: proved |
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| provenance | (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenience |
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| provencal | (adjective) of or relating to Provence or its people or their culture | - |
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| provender | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provisions, viands, victuals |
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| (noun) food for domestic livestock | Synonyms: feed |
| provenience | (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance |
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| proverb | (noun) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people | Synonyms: adage, byword, saw |
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| proverbial | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or expressed in a proverb | - |
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| (adjective) widely known and spoken of | - |
| proverbially | (adverb) in the manner of something that has become a byword | - |
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| reprove | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: admonish, reproof |
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| reprover | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reproacher, upbraider |
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| retroversion | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retrogression, reversion |
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| (noun) translation back into the original language | - |
| (noun) a turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part | Synonyms: retroflection, retroflexion |
| retrovert | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, return, revert, turn back |
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| rove | (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
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| rover | (noun) someone who leads a wandering unsettled life | Synonyms: bird of passage, roamer, wanderer |
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| (noun) an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement | Synonyms: scouter |
| trove | (noun) treasure of unknown ownership found hidden (usually in the earth) | Synonyms: treasure trove |
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| uncontroversial | (adjective) not likely to arouse controversy | Synonyms: noncontroversial |
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| uncontroversially | (adverb) not involving any controversy | - |
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| unimproved | (adjective) not made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially not made ready for use or marketing | - |
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| (adjective) (of land) not cleared of trees and brush; in the wild or natural state | - |
| unproved | (adjective) not proved | Synonyms: unproven |
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| unproven | (adjective) not proved | Synonyms: unproved |
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