affair | (noun) a vaguely specified concern | Synonyms: matter, thing |
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(noun) a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people | Synonyms: function, occasion, social affair, social function, social gathering, social occasion |
(noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affaire, amour, intimacy, involvement, liaison |
air | (noun) travel via aircraft | Synonyms: air travel, aviation |
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(noun) a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing | Synonyms: atmosphere, aura |
(noun) a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence | Synonyms: line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, strain, tune |
(noun) medium for radio and television broadcasting | Synonyms: airwave |
(noun) the region above the ground | - |
(noun) the mass of air surrounding the Earth | Synonyms: atmosphere |
(noun) a slight wind (usually refreshing) | Synonyms: breeze, gentle wind, zephyr |
(noun) a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of | - |
(noun) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour blood | - |
(verb) expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen | Synonyms: air out, vent, ventilate |
(verb) expose to warm or heated air, so as to dry | - |
(verb) make public | Synonyms: bare, publicise, publicize |
(verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: beam, broadcast, send, transmit |
(verb) be broadcast | - |
(verb) expose to fresh air | Synonyms: aerate, air out |
armchair | (noun) chair with a support on each side for arms | - |
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backstair | (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstairs, furtive |
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bookfair | (noun) bazaar at which books are sold or auctioned off in order to raise funds for a worthy cause | Synonyms: book fair |
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(noun) fair organized by publishers or booksellers to promote the sale of books | Synonyms: book fair |
camelhair | (noun) a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel | Synonyms: camel's hair |
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chair | (noun) the position of professor | Synonyms: professorship |
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(noun) a seat for one person, with a support for the back | - |
(noun) an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person | Synonyms: death chair, electric chair, hot seat |
(noun) a particular seat in an orchestra | - |
(noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chairperson, president |
(verb) preside over | Synonyms: lead, moderate |
(verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chairman |
corsair | (noun) a swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction) | - |
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(noun) a pirate along the Barbary Coast | Synonyms: Barbary pirate |
debonair | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: chipper, debonaire, jaunty |
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(adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonaire, debonnaire, suave |
despair | (noun) the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well | - |
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(noun) a state in which all hope is lost or absent | Synonyms: desperation |
(verb) abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart | - |
disrepair | (noun) in need of repairs; in need of repair | - |
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downstair | (adjective) on or of lower floors of a building | Synonyms: downstairs |
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eclair | (noun) oblong cream puff | - |
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fair | (adjective) (of a baseball) hit between the foul lines | - |
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(adjective) free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules | Synonyms: just |
(adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, bonny, comely, sightly |
(adjective) (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored | Synonyms: fairish |
(adjective) free of clouds or rain | - |
(adjective) gained or earned without cheating or stealing | Synonyms: honest |
(adjective) attractively feminine | - |
(adjective) (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections | Synonyms: clean |
(adjective) not excessive or extreme | Synonyms: fairish, reasonable |
(adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: average, mediocre, middling |
(noun) a sale of miscellany; often for charity | Synonyms: bazaar |
(noun) a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. | Synonyms: carnival, funfair |
(noun) a competitive exhibition of farm products | - |
(noun) gathering of producers to promote business | - |
(adverb) without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner | Synonyms: evenhandedly, fairly |
(adverb) in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating | Synonyms: clean, fairly |
(verb) join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly | - |
flair | (noun) distinctive and stylish elegance | Synonyms: dash, elan, panache, style |
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(noun) a natural talent | Synonyms: genius |
(noun) a shape that spreads outward | Synonyms: flare |
funfair | (noun) a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. | Synonyms: carnival, fair |
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(noun) a commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement | Synonyms: amusement park, pleasure ground |
hair | (noun) a filamentous projection or process on an organism | - |
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(noun) cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments | Synonyms: haircloth |
(noun) a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss | - |
(noun) any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal | Synonyms: pilus |
(noun) filamentous hairlike growth on a plant | Synonyms: fuzz, tomentum |
(noun) a very small distance or space | Synonyms: hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, whisker |
highchair | (noun) a chair for feeding a very young child; has four long legs and a footrest and a detachable tray | Synonyms: feeding chair |
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horsehair | (noun) a fabric made from fibers taken from the mane or tail of horses; used for upholstery | - |
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(noun) hair taken from the mane or tail of a horse | - |
impair | (verb) make worse or less effective | - |
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(verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: deflower, mar, spoil, vitiate |
lair | (noun) the habitation of wild animals | Synonyms: den |
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maidenhair | (noun) any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds | Synonyms: maidenhair fern |
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midair | (noun) some point in the air; above ground level | - |
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mohair | (noun) fabric made with yarn made from the silky hair of the Angora goat | - |
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pair | (noun) two people considered as a unit | - |
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(noun) a set of two similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: brace |
(noun) a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value | - |
(noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
(verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: copulate, couple, mate |
(verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: couple, match, mate, twin |
(verb) arrange in pairs | Synonyms: geminate |
(verb) occur in pairs | Synonyms: geminate |
(verb) form a pair or pairs | Synonyms: couple, pair off, partner off |
pushchair | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pusher, stroller |
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repair | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation |
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(noun) a frequently visited place | Synonyms: hangout, haunt, resort, stamping ground |
(noun) a formal way of referring to the condition of something | - |
(verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, revive, revivify, vivify |
(verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, restore, touch on |
(verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, rectify, remediate, remedy |
(verb) move, travel, or proceed toward some place | Synonyms: resort |
(verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, indemnify, recompense |
stair | (noun) support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway | Synonyms: step |
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unfair | (adjective) not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception | Synonyms: unjust |
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upstair | (adjective) on or of upper floors of a building | Synonyms: upstairs |
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wheelchair | (noun) a movable chair mounted on large wheels; for invalids or those who cannot walk; frequently propelled by the occupant | - |
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wirehair | (noun) a terrier with wiry hair | Synonyms: wire-haired terrier, wirehaired terrier |
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