| abstain | (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: desist, refrain |
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| (verb) refrain from voting | - |
| again | (adverb) anew | Synonyms: once again, once more, over again |
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| ain | (adjective) belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive | Synonyms: own |
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| amain | (adverb) with all your strength | - |
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| (adverb) at full speed; with great haste | - |
| appertain | (verb) be a part or attribute of | Synonyms: pertain |
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| ascertain | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: assure, check, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
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| (verb) learn or discover with certainty | - |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: check, determine, find out, learn, see, watch |
| (verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study | Synonyms: determine, find, find out |
| attain | (verb) reach a point in time, or a certain state or level | Synonyms: hit, reach |
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| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, gain, hit, make, reach |
| (verb) find unexpectedly | Synonyms: chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, discover, fall upon, happen upon, light upon, strike |
| (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, reach |
| bargain | (noun) an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each | Synonyms: deal |
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| (noun) an advantageous purchase | Synonyms: buy, steal |
| (verb) come to terms; arrive at an agreement | - |
| (verb) negotiate the terms of an exchange | Synonyms: dicker |
| betweenbrain | (noun) the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon | Synonyms: diencephalon, interbrain, thalmencephalon |
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| birdbrain | (noun) a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought | Synonyms: addle-head, addlehead, loon |
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| blain | (noun) an inflammatory swelling or sore | - |
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| bloodstain | (noun) a discoloration caused by blood | - |
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| boatswain | (noun) a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen | Synonyms: bo's'n, bo'sun, bos'n, bosun |
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| brain | (noun) that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord | Synonyms: encephalon |
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| (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit |
| (noun) that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason | Synonyms: head, mind, nous, psyche |
| (noun) the brain of certain animals used as meat | - |
| (noun) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | Synonyms: brainiac, Einstein, genius, mastermind |
| (verb) hit on the head | - |
| (verb) kill by smashing someone's skull | - |
| captain | (noun) a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers | Synonyms: headwaiter, maitre d', maitre d'hotel |
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| (noun) the pilot in charge of an airship | Synonyms: senior pilot |
| (noun) the naval officer in command of a military ship | Synonyms: skipper |
| (noun) an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship | Synonyms: master, sea captain, skipper |
| (noun) a policeman in charge of a precinct | Synonyms: police captain, police chief |
| (noun) an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant | - |
| (noun) the leader of a group of people | Synonyms: chieftain |
| (verb) be the captain of a sports team | - |
| catamountain | (noun) bushy-tailed wildcat of Europe that resembles the domestic cat and is regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat | Synonyms: European wildcat, Felis silvestris |
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| certain | (adjective) established beyond doubt or question; definitely known | - |
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| (adjective) having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured | Synonyms: sure |
| (adjective) certain to occur; destined or inevitable | Synonyms: sure |
| (adjective) established irrevocably | Synonyms: sealed |
| (adjective) exercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance | Synonyms: sure |
| (adjective) definite but not specified or identified | - |
| (adjective) reliable in operation or effect | Synonyms: sure |
| chain | (noun) a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament | - |
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| (noun) a necklace made by stringing objects together | Synonyms: strand, string |
| (noun) anything that acts as a restraint | - |
| (noun) a linked or connected series of objects | - |
| (noun) a series of things depending on each other as if linked together | Synonyms: concatenation |
| (noun) (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule) | Synonyms: chemical chain |
| (noun) a series of hills or mountains | Synonyms: chain of mountains, mountain chain, mountain range, range, range of mountains |
| (noun) a unit of length | - |
| (verb) fasten or secure with chains | - |
| (verb) connect or arrange into a chain by linking | - |
| chamberlain | (noun) the treasurer of a municipal corporation | - |
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| (noun) an officer who manages the household of a king or nobleman | - |
| chaplain | (noun) a clergyman ministering to some institution | - |
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| chevrotain | (noun) very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa | Synonyms: mouse deer |
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| chieftain | (noun) the head of a tribe or clan | Synonyms: chief, headman, tribal chief |
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| (noun) the leader of a group of people | Synonyms: captain |
| chilblain | (noun) inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture | Synonyms: chilblains, pernio |
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| cocain | (noun) a narcotic (alkaloid) extracted from coca leaves; used as a surface anesthetic or taken for pleasure; can become powerfully addictive | Synonyms: cocaine |
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| complain | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: kick, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off |
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| (verb) make a formal accusation; bring a formal charge | - |
| constrain | (verb) severely restrict in scope or extent | Synonyms: stiffen, tighten, tighten up |
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| (verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: confine, hold, restrain |
| (verb) compel to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: enforce, impose |
| contain | (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, check, hold back, stop, turn back |
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| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
| (verb) include or contain; have as a component | Synonyms: comprise, incorporate |
| (verb) be divisible by | - |
| (verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: bear, carry, hold |
| (verb) be capable of holding or containing | Synonyms: hold, take |
| counterstain | (noun) a stain of contrasting color that is used when the principal stain does not show the structure clearly | - |
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| coxswain | (noun) the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew | Synonyms: cox |
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| curtain | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: drape, drapery, mantle, pall |
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| (noun) any barrier to communication or vision | - |
| (verb) provide with drapery | - |
| destain | (verb) remove stain from (a laboratory specimen) to enhance contrast | - |
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| detain | (verb) cause to be slowed down or delayed | Synonyms: delay, hold up |
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| (verb) stop or halt | Synonyms: delay, stay |
| (verb) deprive of freedom; take into confinement | Synonyms: confine |
| detrain | (verb) leave a train | - |
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| disdain | (noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient | Synonyms: condescension, patronage |
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| (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: contempt, despite, scorn |
| (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, spurn, turn down |
| (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, despise, scorn |
| distrain | (verb) confiscate by distress | - |
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| (verb) levy a distress on | - |
| (verb) legally take something in place of a debt payment | - |
| domain | (noun) the content of a particular field of knowledge | Synonyms: knowledge base, knowledge domain |
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| (noun) people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest | Synonyms: world |
| (noun) (mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined | Synonyms: domain of a function |
| (noun) territory over which rule or control is exercised | Synonyms: demesne, land |
| (noun) a particular environment or walk of life | Synonyms: area, arena, field, orbit, sphere |
| drain | (noun) emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it | Synonyms: drainage |
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| (noun) a gradual depletion of energy or resources | - |
| (noun) a pipe through which liquid is carried away | Synonyms: drainpipe, waste pipe |
| (noun) tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material | - |
| (verb) empty of liquid; drain the liquid from | - |
| (verb) make weak | Synonyms: debilitate, enfeeble |
| (verb) deplete of resources | - |
| (verb) flow off gradually | Synonyms: run out |
| enchain | (verb) restrain or bind with chains | - |
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| entertain | (verb) take into consideration, have in view | Synonyms: flirt with, think about, think of, toy with |
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| (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, harbor, harbour, hold, nurse |
| (verb) provide entertainment for | - |
| entrain | (verb) board a train | - |
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| explain | (verb) make plain and comprehensible | Synonyms: explicate |
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| (verb) define | - |
| (verb) serve as a reason or cause or justification of | Synonyms: excuse |
| eyestrain | (noun) a tiredness of the eyes caused by prolonged close work by a person with an uncorrected vision problem | Synonyms: asthenopia |
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| fain | (adjective) having made preparations | Synonyms: disposed, inclined, prepared |
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| (adverb) with pleasure | Synonyms: gladly, lief |
| floodplain | (noun) a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding | Synonyms: flood plain |
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| forebrain | (noun) the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube | Synonyms: prosencephalon |
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| foreordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: predestine, preordain |
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| (verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: predestinate, predestine |
| fountain | (noun) a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water | Synonyms: fount |
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| (noun) an artificially produced flow of water | Synonyms: jet |
| (noun) a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises | - |
| (noun) a natural flow of ground water | Synonyms: natural spring, outflow, outpouring, spring |
| fusain | (noun) a stick of black carbon material used for drawing | Synonyms: charcoal |
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| gain | (noun) the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input | Synonyms: amplification |
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| (noun) the advantageous quality of being beneficial | Synonyms: profit |
| (noun) the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating | - |
| (noun) a quantity that is added | Synonyms: addition, increase |
| (verb) increase (one's body weight) | Synonyms: put on |
| (verb) rise in rate or price | Synonyms: advance |
| (verb) increase or develop | Synonyms: gather |
| (verb) obtain advantages, such as points, etc. | Synonyms: advance, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win |
| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, hit, make, reach |
| (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, clear, earn, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in |
| (verb) win something through one's efforts | Synonyms: acquire, win |
| (verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: benefit, profit |
| (verb) obtain | Synonyms: derive |
| geartrain | (noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gear, gearing, power train, train |
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| grain | (noun) the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric | - |
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| (noun) the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance) | Synonyms: texture |
| (noun) the smallest possible unit of anything | - |
| (noun) foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses | Synonyms: cereal, food grain |
| (noun) a relatively small granular particle of a substance | - |
| (noun) dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn | Synonyms: caryopsis |
| (noun) a cereal grass | - |
| (noun) 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams | - |
| (noun) 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams | - |
| (noun) a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat | Synonyms: metric grain |
| (noun) the side of leather from which the hair has been removed | - |
| (verb) form into grains | Synonyms: granulate |
| (verb) become granular | Synonyms: granulate |
| (verb) thoroughly work in | Synonyms: ingrain |
| (verb) paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood | - |
| grosgrain | (noun) a silk or silklike fabric with crosswise ribs | - |
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| hindbrain | (noun) the posterior portion of the brain including cerebellum and brainstem | Synonyms: rhombencephalon |
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| incertain | (adjective) lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance | Synonyms: uncertain, unsure |
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| ingrain | (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: impress, instill |
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| (verb) thoroughly work in | Synonyms: grain |
| interbrain | (noun) the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon | Synonyms: betweenbrain, diencephalon, thalmencephalon |
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| legerdemain | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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| main | (adjective) (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence | Synonyms: independent |
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| (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, master, primary, principal |
| (adjective) of force; of the greatest possible intensity | - |
| (noun) a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage | - |
| (noun) any very large body of (salt) water | Synonyms: briny |
| maintain | (verb) stick to correctly or closely | Synonyms: keep, observe |
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| (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, asseverate |
| (verb) state or assert | Synonyms: defend |
| (verb) support against an opponent | Synonyms: uphold |
| (verb) maintain by writing regular records | Synonyms: keep |
| (verb) supply with necessities and support | Synonyms: keep, sustain |
| (verb) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | Synonyms: conserve, keep up, preserve |
| (verb) have and exercise | Synonyms: exert, wield |
| (verb) maintain for use and service | Synonyms: keep |
| (verb) cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity | Synonyms: hold, keep |
| marocain | (noun) a dress crepe; similar to Canton crepe | Synonyms: crepe marocain |
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| midbrain | (noun) the middle portion of the brain | Synonyms: mesencephalon |
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| mortmain | (noun) the oppressive influence of past events or decisions | Synonyms: dead hand, dead hand of the past |
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| (noun) real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation) | Synonyms: dead hand |
| mountain | (noun) a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill | Synonyms: mount |
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| (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, mickle, mint, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| murrain | (noun) any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plague | - |
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| obtain | (verb) receive a specified treatment (abstract) | Synonyms: find, get, incur, receive |
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| (verb) come into possession of | - |
| (verb) be valid, applicable, or true | Synonyms: hold, prevail |
| ordain | (verb) issue an order | - |
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| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, order, ordinate |
| (verb) order by virtue of superior authority; decree | Synonyms: enact |
| (verb) invest with ministerial or priestly authority | - |
| overstrain | (noun) too much strain | - |
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| (verb) strain excessively | Synonyms: overextend |
| pain | (noun) a somatic sensation of acute discomfort | Synonyms: pain sensation, painful sensation |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, nuisance, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
| (noun) emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid | Synonyms: painfulness |
| (noun) a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder | Synonyms: hurting |
| (verb) cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | Synonyms: ail, trouble |
| (verb) cause emotional anguish or make miserable | Synonyms: anguish, hurt |
| papain | (noun) a proteolytic enzyme obtained from the unripe papaya; used as a meat tenderizer | - |
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| peneplain | (noun) a more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements | Synonyms: peneplane |
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| pertain | (verb) be a part or attribute of | Synonyms: appertain |
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| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, refer, relate, touch, touch on |
| plain | (adjective) not elaborate or elaborated; simple | - |
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| (adjective) lacking patterns especially in color | Synonyms: unpatterned |
| (adjective) free from any effort to soften to disguise | Synonyms: unvarnished |
| (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: apparent, evident, manifest, palpable, patent, unmistakable |
| (adjective) not mixed with extraneous elements | Synonyms: sheer, unmingled, unmixed |
| (adjective) lacking embellishment or ornamentation | Synonyms: bare, spare, unembellished, unornamented |
| (adjective) lacking in physical beauty or proportion | Synonyms: homely |
| (noun) a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side | Synonyms: knit, knit stitch, plain stitch |
| (noun) extensive tract of level open land | Synonyms: champaign, field |
| (adverb) unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') | Synonyms: apparently, evidently, manifestly, obviously, patently, plainly |
| (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, kvetch, quetch, sound off |
| plantain | (noun) starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics | - |
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| (noun) a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics | Synonyms: Musa paradisiaca, plantain tree |
| (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally | - |
| porcelain | (noun) ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic | - |
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| preordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: foreordain, predestine |
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| ptomain | (noun) any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria | Synonyms: ptomaine |
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| quatrain | (noun) a stanza of four lines | - |
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| rain | (noun) anything happening rapidly or in quick successive | Synonyms: pelting |
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| (noun) water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere | Synonyms: rainfall |
| (noun) drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds | Synonyms: rainwater |
| (verb) precipitate as rain | Synonyms: rain down |
| refrain | (noun) the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers | Synonyms: chorus |
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| (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: abstain, desist |
| (verb) resist doing something | Synonyms: forbear |
| regain | (verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: find, recover, retrieve |
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| (verb) come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost | Synonyms: find |
| remain | (verb) stay the same; remain in a certain state | Synonyms: rest, stay |
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| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: persist, stay, stay put, stick, stick around |
| (verb) continue in a place, position, or situation | Synonyms: continue, stay, stay on |
| (verb) be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc. | - |
| restrain | (verb) prevent the action or expression of | Synonyms: hold back, keep, keep back |
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| (verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: confine, constrain, hold |
| (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: cumber, encumber |
| (verb) prevent (someone or something) from doing something | - |
| retain | (verb) keep in one's mind | - |
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| (verb) secure and keep for possible future use or application | Synonyms: hold, hold back, keep back |
| (verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: continue, keep, keep on |
| (verb) hold back within | - |
| retrain | (verb) train again | - |
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| (verb) teach new skills | - |
| scatterbrain | (noun) a flighty and disorganized person | Synonyms: forgetful person |
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| slain | (adjective) killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors" | - |
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| (noun) people who have been slain (as in battle) | - |
| sprain | (noun) a painful injury to a joint caused by a sudden wrenching of its ligaments | - |
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| (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, turn, twist, wrench, wrick |
| stain | (noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it | Synonyms: blot, smear, smirch, spot |
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| (noun) a soiled or discolored appearance | Synonyms: discoloration, discolouration |
| (noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: brand, mark, stigma |
| (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grime, grunge, soil |
| (noun) (microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible | - |
| (verb) produce or leave stains | - |
| (verb) color with a liquid dye or tint | - |
| (verb) color for microscopic study | Synonyms: dye |
| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, maculate, sully, tarnish |
| strain | (noun) an effortful attempt to attain a goal | Synonyms: nisus, pains, striving |
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| (noun) the act of singing | Synonyms: song |
| (noun) an intense or violent exertion | Synonyms: straining |
| (noun) the general meaning or substance of an utterance | Synonyms: tenor |
| (noun) a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence | Synonyms: air, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, tune |
| (noun) a special variety of domesticated animals within a species | Synonyms: breed, stock |
| (noun) (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups | Synonyms: form, var., variant |
| (noun) (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces | - |
| (noun) injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain | - |
| (noun) (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress | Synonyms: mental strain, nervous strain |
| (noun) difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension | Synonyms: stress |
| (verb) cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious | Synonyms: tense, tense up |
| (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: deform, distort |
| (verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: reach, strive |
| (verb) use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) remove by passing through a filter | Synonyms: filter, filter out, filtrate, separate out |
| (verb) separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements | Synonyms: sieve, sift |
| (verb) become stretched or tense or taut | Synonyms: tense |
| (verb) rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender | Synonyms: puree |
| (verb) test the limits of | Synonyms: stress, try |
| supervillain | (noun) a villain with superpowers | - |
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| sustain | (verb) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) | Synonyms: get, have, suffer |
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| (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, support |
| (verb) admit as valid | - |
| (verb) supply with necessities and support | Synonyms: keep, maintain |
| (verb) provide with nourishment | Synonyms: nourish, nurture |
| (verb) be the physical support of; carry the weight of | Synonyms: hold, hold up, support |
| (verb) lengthen or extend in duration or space | Synonyms: keep up, prolong |
| suzerain | (noun) a state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign affairs | - |
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| swain | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, boyfriend, fellow |
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| terrain | (noun) a piece of ground having specific characteristics or military potential | - |
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| train | (noun) public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive | Synonyms: railroad train |
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| (noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gear, gearing, geartrain, power train |
| (noun) piece of cloth forming the long back section of a gown that is drawn along the floor | - |
| (noun) a series of consequences wrought by an event | - |
| (noun) a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file | Synonyms: caravan, wagon train |
| (noun) a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding | Synonyms: string |
| (verb) exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition | - |
| (verb) undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession | Synonyms: prepare |
| (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: develop, educate, prepare |
| (verb) teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports | Synonyms: coach |
| (verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: aim, direct, take, take aim |
| (verb) drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground | Synonyms: trail |
| (verb) travel by rail or train | Synonyms: rail |
| (verb) educate for a future role or function | Synonyms: groom, prepare |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, school |
| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: check, condition, discipline |
| (verb) cause to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it | - |
| twain | (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twosome, yoke |
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| uncertain | (adjective) not established beyond doubt; still undecided or unknown | - |
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| (adjective) lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance | Synonyms: incertain, unsure |
| (adjective) not certain to occur; not inevitable | - |
| (adjective) not established or confirmed | Synonyms: unsealed |
| (adjective) ambiguous (especially in the negative) | - |
| (adjective) not consistent or dependable | - |
| (adjective) subject to change | Synonyms: changeable, unsettled |
| unchain | (verb) remove the chains from | - |
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| (verb) make free | - |
| unstrain | (verb) cause to feel relaxed | Synonyms: loosen up, make relaxed, relax, unlax, unwind |
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| vain | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen |
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| (adjective) unproductive of success | Synonyms: bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless |