abrade | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrase, corrade, rub down, rub off |
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(verb) rub hard or scrub | Synonyms: scour |
accolade | (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: award, honor, honour, laurels |
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ade | (noun) a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice | Synonyms: fruit drink |
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aggrade | (verb) build up to a level by depositing sediment | - |
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alidade | (noun) surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles | Synonyms: alidad |
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(noun) surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments | Synonyms: alidad |
ambuscade | (noun) the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise | Synonyms: ambush, lying in wait, trap |
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(verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
anterograde | (adjective) of amnesia; affecting time immediately following trauma | - |
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antitrade | (noun) winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics | Synonyms: antitrade wind |
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arcade | (noun) a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns | Synonyms: colonnade |
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(noun) a covered passageway with shops and stalls on either side | - |
ballade | (noun) a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy | - |
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balustrade | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, banister, bannister, handrail |
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barricade | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: roadblock |
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(noun) a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy | - |
(verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricado |
(verb) prevent access to by barricading | - |
(verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
bigarade | (noun) any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock | Synonyms: bitter orange, bitter orange tree, Citrus aurantium, marmalade orange, Seville orange, sour orange |
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biodegrade | (verb) break down naturally through the action of biological agents | - |
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blade | (noun) the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge | - |
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(noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: brand, steel, sword |
(noun) flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water | Synonyms: vane |
(noun) the part of the skate that slides on the ice | - |
(noun) a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue) | - |
(noun) a cut of beef from the shoulder blade | - |
(noun) something long and thin resembling a blade of grass | - |
(noun) a dashing young man | - |
(noun) especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole | Synonyms: leaf blade |
blockade | (noun) a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy | Synonyms: encirclement |
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(noun) prevents access or progress | - |
(verb) impose a blockade on | Synonyms: seal off |
(verb) obstruct access to | Synonyms: block off |
(verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, stop |
(verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
brigade | (noun) army unit smaller than a division, typically consisting of a small number of battalions | - |
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(verb) form or unite into a brigade | - |
brocade | (noun) thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern | - |
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(verb) weave a design into (textiles) | - |
cannonade | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: drumfire |
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(verb) attack with cannons or artillery | - |
cascade | (noun) a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower | Synonyms: shower |
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(noun) a succession of stages or operations or processes or units | - |
(noun) a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls | - |
(verb) arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible | - |
(verb) rush down in big quantities, like a cascade | Synonyms: cascade down |
cavalcade | (noun) a procession of people traveling on horseback | - |
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centigrade | (adjective) of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees | - |
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charade | (noun) making a false outward show | Synonyms: masquerade |
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(noun) a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades | - |
clade | (noun) a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor | - |
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cockade | (noun) an ornament (such as a knot of ribbon or a rosette) usually worn on the hat | - |
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colonnade | (noun) structure consisting of a row of evenly spaced columns | - |
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(noun) a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns | Synonyms: arcade |
comrade | (noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, companion, familiar, fellow |
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(noun) used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement | Synonyms: brother |
corrade | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrade, abrase, rub down, rub off |
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couvade | (noun) a custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child | - |
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crusade | (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, drive, effort, movement |
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(verb) go on a crusade; fight a holy war | - |
(verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, fight, press, push |
decade | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system | Synonyms: 10, ten, tenner, X |
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(noun) a period of 10 years | Synonyms: decennary, decennium |
defilade | (noun) the arrangement of defensive fortifications to protect against enemy fire | - |
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degrade | (verb) lower the grade of something; reduce its worth | Synonyms: cheapen |
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(verb) reduce the level of land, as by erosion | - |
(verb) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally | Synonyms: demean, disgrace, put down, take down |
digitigrade | (adjective) (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do) | - |
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(noun) an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses | Synonyms: digitigrade mammal |
dissuade | (verb) turn away from by persuasion | Synonyms: deter |
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downgrade | (noun) the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends | - |
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(verb) rate lower; lower in value or esteem | - |
enfilade | (noun) gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation | Synonyms: enfilade fire |
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(verb) rake or be in a position to rake with gunfire in a lengthwise direction | - |
escalade | (noun) an act of scaling by the use of ladders (especially the walls of a fortification) | - |
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(verb) climb up and over | - |
escapade | (noun) any carefree episode | Synonyms: lark |
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(noun) a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful) | Synonyms: adventure, dangerous undertaking, risky venture |
esplanade | (noun) a long stretch of open level ground (paved or grassy) for walking beside the seashore | - |
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evade | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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(verb) use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid | - |
(verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: bilk, elude |
(verb) practice evasion | - |
eyeshade | (noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes | Synonyms: bill, peak, visor, vizor |
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facade | (noun) the face or front of a building | Synonyms: frontage, frontal |
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(noun) a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant | Synonyms: window dressing |
fade | (noun) gradually ceasing to be visible | Synonyms: disappearance |
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(noun) a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: slice, slicing |
(verb) become feeble | Synonyms: languish |
(verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fleet, pass, pass off |
(verb) lose freshness, vigor, or vitality | Synonyms: wither |
(verb) become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly | Synonyms: melt |
fusillade | (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: burst, salvo, volley |
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(verb) attack with fusillade | - |
gasconade | (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, bragging, crow, crowing, line-shooting, vaporing |
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(verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
glade | (noun) a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area | Synonyms: clearing |
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glissade | (noun) (ballet) a gliding or sliding step in ballet | - |
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(verb) perform a glissade, in ballet | - |
grade | (noun) a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed | - |
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(noun) a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality | Synonyms: degree, level |
(noun) the gradient of a slope or road or other surface | - |
(noun) the height of the ground on which something stands | Synonyms: ground level |
(noun) a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance) | Synonyms: mark, score |
(noun) a degree of ablaut | Synonyms: gradation |
(noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: class, course, form |
(noun) one-hundredth of a right angle | Synonyms: grad |
(noun) a relative position or degree of value in a graded group | Synonyms: level, tier |
(verb) determine the grade of or assign a grade to | - |
(verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: order, place, range, rank, rate |
(verb) assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation | Synonyms: mark, score |
(verb) level to the right gradient | - |
grenade | (noun) a small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile | - |
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handmade | (adjective) made by hand or a hand process | Synonyms: hand-crafted |
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harlequinade | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, japery, prank |
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homemade | (adjective) made or produced in the home or by yourself | - |
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invade | (verb) march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation | Synonyms: occupy |
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(verb) penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way | - |
(verb) to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate | Synonyms: encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon |
(verb) occupy in large numbers or live on a host | Synonyms: infest, overrun |
jade | (adjective) of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green | Synonyms: jade-green |
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(noun) an old or over-worked horse | Synonyms: hack, nag, plug |
(noun) a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green | Synonyms: jade green |
(noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop |
(noun) a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite | Synonyms: jadestone |
(verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: fatigue, pall, tire, weary |
(verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
lade | (verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: laden, load, load up |
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(verb) remove with or as if with a ladle | Synonyms: laden, ladle |
lampshade | (noun) a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view | Synonyms: lamp shade, shade |
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lemonade | (noun) sweetened beverage of diluted lemon juice | - |
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limeade | (noun) sweetened beverage of lime juice and water | - |
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made | (adjective) (of a bed) having the sheets and blankets set in order | - |
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(adjective) produced by a manufacturing process | - |
(adjective) successful or assured of success | - |
marinade | (noun) mixtures of vinegar or wine and oil with various spices and seasonings; used for soaking foods before cooking | - |
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(verb) soak in marinade | Synonyms: marinate |
marmalade | (noun) a preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits | - |
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masquerade | (noun) making a false outward show | Synonyms: charade |
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(noun) a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party | Synonyms: fancy dress, masquerade costume |
(noun) a party of guests wearing costumes and masks | Synonyms: mask, masque, masquerade party |
(verb) pretend to be someone or something that you are not | - |
(verb) take part in a masquerade | - |
motorcade | (noun) a procession of people traveling in motor cars | - |
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nightshade | (noun) any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit | - |
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orangeade | (noun) sweetened beverage of diluted orange juice | - |
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palisade | (noun) fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground | - |
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(verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, surround, wall |
parade | (noun) a visible display | - |
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(noun) a ceremonial procession including people marching | - |
(noun) an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things | - |
(verb) march in a procession in a public place | Synonyms: promenade, troop |
(verb) walk ostentatiously | Synonyms: exhibit, march |
pasquinade | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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paygrade | (noun) rank in a military organization | Synonyms: military rank, military rating, rating |
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persuade | (verb) cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm | - |
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(verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: carry, sway |
pervade | (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, riddle |
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phylloclade | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladode, cladophyll, phylloclad |
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plantigrade | (adjective) (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do) | - |
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(noun) an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings | Synonyms: plantigrade mammal |
pomade | (noun) hairdressing consisting of a perfumed oil or ointment | Synonyms: pomatum |
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(verb) apply pomade to (hair) | - |
promenade | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: amble, perambulation, saunter, stroll |
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(noun) a march of all the guests at the opening of a formal dance | - |
(noun) a square dance figure; couples march counterclockwise in a circle | - |
(noun) a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk | Synonyms: mall |
(noun) a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year | Synonyms: prom |
(verb) take a leisurely walk | - |
(verb) march in a procession in a public place | Synonyms: parade, troop |
razorblade | (noun) a blade that has very sharp edge | - |
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renegade | (adjective) having deserted a cause or principle | Synonyms: recreant |
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(noun) someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw | - |
(noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: apostate, deserter, ratter, recreant, turncoat |
(verb) break with established customs | Synonyms: rebel |
retrograde | (adjective) of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma | - |
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(adjective) moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth | - |
(adjective) going from better to worse | Synonyms: retrogressive |
(adjective) moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction | Synonyms: retral |
(verb) get worse or fall back to a previous condition | Synonyms: regress, retrogress |
(verb) go back over | Synonyms: hash over, rehash |
(verb) move back | Synonyms: retreat |
(verb) move in a direction contrary to the usual one | - |
(verb) move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies | - |
rhodomontade | (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: bluster, braggadocio, rodomontade |
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rodomontade | (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: bluster, braggadocio, rhodomontade |
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roulade | (noun) (music) an elaborate run of several notes sung to one syllable | - |
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(noun) a dish consisting of a slice of meat that is rolled around a filling and cooked | - |
saccade | (noun) a rapid, jerky movement of the eyes between positions of rest | - |
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(noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerk, jerking, jolt |
salade | (noun) a light medieval helmet with a slit for vision | Synonyms: sallet |
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serenade | (noun) a song characteristically played outside the house of a woman | - |
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(noun) a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form | Synonyms: divertimento |
(verb) sing and play for somebody | - |
sexcapade | (noun) a sexual escapade; an illicit affair | - |
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shade | (noun) protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight | - |
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(noun) a representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment) | - |
(noun) a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view | Synonyms: lamp shade, lampshade |
(noun) a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color | Synonyms: tincture, tint, tone |
(noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: ghost, specter, spectre, spook, wraith |
(noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, nuance, refinement, subtlety |
(noun) a slight amount or degree of difference | Synonyms: tad |
(noun) relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body | Synonyms: shadiness, shadowiness |
(noun) a position of relative inferiority | - |
(verb) pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree | - |
(verb) vary slightly | - |
(verb) protect from light, heat, or view | - |
(verb) represent the effect of shade or shadow on | Synonyms: fill in |
(verb) cast a shadow over | Synonyms: shade off, shadow |
spade | (noun) a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot | - |
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(noun) a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it | - |
(verb) dig (up) with a spade | - |
stockade | (noun) a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions) | Synonyms: concentration camp |
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(noun) fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense | - |
(verb) surround with a stockade in order to fortify | - |
succade | (noun) fruit cooked in sugar syrup and encrusted with a sugar crystals | Synonyms: candied fruit, crystallized fruit |
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sunshade | (noun) a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun | Synonyms: awning, sunblind |
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(noun) a handheld collapsible source of shade | Synonyms: parasol |
switchblade | (noun) a pocketknife with a blade that springs open at the press of a button | Synonyms: flick-knife, flick knife, switchblade knife |
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tamponade | (noun) blockage or closure (as of a wound or body cavity) by (or as if by) a tampon (especially to stop bleeding) | Synonyms: tamponage |
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tapenade | (noun) a spread consisting of capers and black olives and anchovies made into a puree with olive oil | - |
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tardigrade | (noun) an arthropod of the division Tardigrada | - |
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tirade | (noun) a speech of violent denunciation | Synonyms: broadside, philippic |
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toadshade | (noun) trillium of northeastern United States with sessile leaves and red or purple flowers having a pungent odor | Synonyms: red trillium, sessile trillium, Trillium sessile |
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trade | (noun) the skilled practice of a practical occupation | Synonyms: craft |
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(noun) the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers | Synonyms: patronage |
(noun) a particular instance of buying or selling | Synonyms: business deal, deal |
(noun) an equal exchange | Synonyms: barter, swap, swop |
(noun) the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services | - |
(noun) people who perform a particular kind of skilled work | Synonyms: craft |
(noun) steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator | Synonyms: trade wind |
(verb) turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase | Synonyms: trade in |
(verb) engage in the trade of | Synonyms: merchandise |
(verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: swap, switch, swop |
(verb) do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood | Synonyms: deal, sell |
(verb) be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions | - |
tribade | (noun) a female homosexual | Synonyms: gay woman, lesbian |
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twayblade | (noun) orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia | Synonyms: Listera ovata |
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(noun) an orchid of the genus Liparis having a pair of leaves | - |