| advert | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advertisement, advertising, advertizement, advertizing |
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| (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: allude, touch |
| (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: bring up, cite, mention, name, refer |
| (verb) give heed (to) | Synonyms: attend, give ear, hang, pay heed |
| alert | (adjective) engaged in or accustomed to close observation | Synonyms: watchful |
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| (adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alive, awake |
| (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
| (noun) a warning serves to make you more alert to danger | Synonyms: alerting |
| (noun) an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger | Synonyms: alarm, alarum, warning signal |
| (noun) condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action | Synonyms: qui vive |
| (verb) warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | Synonyms: alarm |
| animadvert | (verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: opine, sound off, speak out, speak up |
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| (verb) express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark | - |
| assert | (verb) postulate positively and assertively | Synonyms: insist |
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| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, aver, avow, swan, swear, verify |
| (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: asseverate, maintain |
| (verb) insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized | Synonyms: put forward |
| avert | (verb) turn away or aside | Synonyms: turn away |
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| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| cert | (noun) an absolute certainty | - |
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| chert | (noun) variety of silica containing microcrystalline quartz | - |
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| concert | (noun) a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging | - |
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| (verb) settle by agreement | - |
| (verb) contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement | - |
| controvert | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: rebut, refute |
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| (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: contradict, oppose |
| convert | (noun) a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief | - |
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| (verb) change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy | Synonyms: change over |
| (verb) change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief | - |
| (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: change, commute, exchange |
| (verb) change the nature, purpose, or function of something | - |
| (verb) change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change | - |
| (verb) cause to adopt a new or different faith | - |
| (verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one | Synonyms: commute, exchange |
| (verb) make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: convince, win over |
| (verb) score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone | - |
| covert | (adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed | - |
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| (adjective) (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband | - |
| (noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: concealment, cover, screen |
| (noun) a flock of coots | - |
| culvert | (noun) a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway | - |
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| desert | (noun) arid land with little or no vegetation | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment | - |
| (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desolate, forsake |
| (verb) leave behind | - |
| (verb) desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army | Synonyms: defect |
| dessert | (noun) a dish served as the last course of a meal | Synonyms: afters, sweet |
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| disconcert | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, discompose, untune, upset |
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| (verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: confuse, flurry, put off |
| divert | (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: deviate |
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| (verb) send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one | - |
| (verb) withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions | Synonyms: hive off |
| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, disport |
| evert | (verb) turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward | - |
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| exert | (verb) put to use | Synonyms: exercise |
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| (verb) have and exercise | Synonyms: maintain, wield |
| (verb) make a great effort at a mental or physical task | - |
| expert | (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, good, practiced, proficient, skilful, skillful |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood | Synonyms: technical |
| (noun) a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully | - |
| exsert | (verb) thrust or extend out | Synonyms: extend, hold out, put out, stretch forth, stretch out |
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| extravert | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extraverted, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extrovert |
| 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 |
| filbert | (noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus | Synonyms: cob, cobnut, hazelnut |
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| (noun) small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe | Synonyms: cobnut, Corylus avellana, Corylus avellana grandis |
| gilbert | (noun) a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns | Synonyms: Gb, Gi |
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| inert | (adjective) slow and apathetic | Synonyms: sluggish, soggy, torpid |
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| (adjective) unable to move or resist motion | - |
| (adjective) having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive | Synonyms: indifferent, neutral |
| inexpert | (adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateur, amateurish, unskilled |
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| insert | (noun) (film) a still picture that is introduced and that interrupts the action of a film | Synonyms: cut-in |
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| (noun) (broadcasting) a local announcement inserted into a network program | Synonyms: cut-in |
| (noun) an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted | Synonyms: inset |
| (noun) a folded section placed between the leaves of another publication | - |
| (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: enclose, inclose, introduce, put in, stick in |
| (verb) insert casually | Synonyms: slip in, sneak in, stick in |
| (verb) put or introduce into something | Synonyms: enter, infix, introduce |
| (verb) fit snugly into | Synonyms: tuck |
| 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 |
| invert | (verb) turn inside out or upside down | Synonyms: reverse, turn back |
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| (verb) make an inversion (in a musical composition) | - |
| (verb) reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of | Synonyms: reverse |
| lambert | (noun) a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter | Synonyms: L |
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| overexert | (verb) exert (oneself) excessively and go beyond one's strength | - |
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| overt | (adjective) open and observable; not secret or hidden | Synonyms: open |
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| pert | (adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: impertinent, irreverent, saucy |
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| pervert | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviant, deviate, perv, perve |
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| (verb) change the inherent purpose or function of something | Synonyms: abuse, misuse |
| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, sophisticate, twist, twist around |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| reassert | (verb) strengthen or make more firm | Synonyms: confirm |
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| reconvert | (verb) convert back | - |
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| retrovert | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, return, revert, turn back |
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| revert | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, retrovert, return, turn back |
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| (verb) undergo reversion, as in a mutation | - |
| semidesert | (noun) a region much like a desert but usually located between a desert and the surrounding regions | - |
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| sherbert | (noun) a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin | Synonyms: sherbet |
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| subvert | (verb) to raze to the ground, also figuratively | - |
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| (verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overthrow, overturn |
| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, sabotage, undermine, weaken |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, vitiate |
| unalert | (adjective) not alert to what is potentially dangerous | Synonyms: unvigilant, unwatchful |
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