| quirk | (noun) a narrow groove beside a beading | - |
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| (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, queerness, quirkiness |
| (verb) twist or curve abruptly | - |
| racetrack | (noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racecourse, raceway, track |
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| rack | (noun) a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately | Synonyms: single-foot |
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| (noun) a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body | - |
| (noun) a support for displaying ot holding various articles | Synonyms: stand |
| (noun) an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims | Synonyms: wheel |
| (noun) the destruction or collapse of something | Synonyms: wrack |
| (noun) rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton | - |
| (verb) torture on the rack | - |
| (verb) seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block | - |
| (verb) place in a rack | Synonyms: rack up |
| (verb) work on a rack | - |
| (verb) stretch to the limits | - |
| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: excruciate, torment, torture |
| (verb) go at a rack | Synonyms: single-foot |
| (verb) draw off from the lees | - |
| (verb) run before a gale | Synonyms: scud |
| (verb) fly in high wind | - |
| (verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: extort, gouge, squeeze, wring |
| (verb) put on a rack and pinion | - |
| rank | (adjective) growing profusely | - |
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| (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, downright, out-and-out, right-down, sheer |
| (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross |
| (adjective) very fertile; producing profuse growth | - |
| (adjective) very offensive in smell or taste | - |
| (noun) a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another | - |
| (noun) the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army) | Synonyms: rank and file |
| (noun) the body of members of an organization or group | Synonyms: membership |
| (noun) relative status | - |
| (noun) position in a social hierarchy | Synonyms: social rank, social station, social status |
| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, order, place, range, rate |
| (verb) take or have a position relative to others | - |
| (verb) take precedence or surpass others in rank | Synonyms: outrank |
| ransack | (verb) search thoroughly | Synonyms: comb |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, reave, rifle, strip |
| ravehook | (noun) a hooked hand tool used to prepare the seams of a boat for oakum | - |
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| razorback | (adjective) having a sharp narrow back | Synonyms: razor-backed |
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| (noun) a mongrel hog with a thin body and long legs and a ridged back; a wild or semi-wild descendant of improved breeds; found chiefly in the southeastern United States | Synonyms: razorback hog, razorbacked hog |
| (noun) any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin | Synonyms: rorqual |
| realpolitik | (noun) politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations | Synonyms: practical politics |
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| redbrick | (adjective) of or relating to British universities founded in the late 19th century or the 20th century | Synonyms: red-brick |
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| redneck | (noun) a poor White person in the southern United States | Synonyms: cracker |
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| redshank | (noun) a common Old World wading bird with long red legs | Synonyms: Tringa totanus |
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| reek | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, stench, stink |
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| (verb) be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face | Synonyms: fume |
| (verb) smell badly and offensively | Synonyms: stink |
| (verb) have an element suggestive (of something) | Synonyms: smack, smell |
| (verb) give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc. | - |
| remark | (noun) explicit notice | - |
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| (noun) a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information | Synonyms: comment, input |
| (verb) make mention of | Synonyms: mention, note, observe |
| (verb) make or write a comment on | Synonyms: comment, notice, point out |
| restock | (verb) stock again | - |
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| rethink | (noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: afterthought, reconsideration, second thought |
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| (verb) change one's mind | - |
| retick | (verb) sew | Synonyms: tick |
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| rework | (verb) use again in altered form | Synonyms: make over, retread |
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| rick | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: hayrick, haystack |
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| (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, kink, wrick |
| (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: sprain, turn, twist, wrench, wrick |
| (verb) pile in ricks | - |
| rickrack | (noun) a narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming | Synonyms: ricrac |
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| rink | (noun) building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating | Synonyms: skating rink |
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| risk | (noun) a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury | Synonyms: danger, peril |
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| (noun) the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent | Synonyms: risk of exposure |
| (noun) the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred | Synonyms: risk of infection |
| (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: endangerment, hazard, jeopardy, peril |
| (verb) expose to a chance of loss or damage | Synonyms: lay on the line, put on the line |
| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, gamble, hazard, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| riverbank | (noun) the bank of a river | Synonyms: riverside |
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| roadblock | (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: barricade |
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| (noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: barrier |
| roadbook | (noun) a guidebook describing the roads of a country; contains maps and (sometimes) a gazetteer | - |
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| rock | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: careen, sway, tilt |
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| (noun) a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western | Synonyms: rock-and-roll, rock'n'roll, rock 'n' roll, rock and roll, rock music |
| (noun) hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint) | Synonyms: rock candy |
| (noun) a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter | Synonyms: stone |
| (noun) (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable | - |
| (noun) material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust | Synonyms: stone |
| (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: shake, sway |
| (verb) cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: sway |
| rockchuck | (noun) heavy-bodied yellowish-brown marmot of rocky areas of western North America | Synonyms: Marmota flaviventris, yellowbelly marmot |
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| roebuck | (noun) male roe deer | - |
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| rollback | (noun) the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw | Synonyms: push back |
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| (noun) reducing prices back to some earlier level | - |
| rollick | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| rook | (noun) common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow | Synonyms: Corvus frugilegus |
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| (noun) (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard | Synonyms: castle |
| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| rootstalk | (noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rhizome, rootstock |
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| rootstock | (noun) root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots | - |
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| (noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rhizome, rootstalk |
| ropebark | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, moosewood, wicopy |
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| ropewalk | (noun) workplace consisting of a long narrow path or shed where rope is made | Synonyms: rope yard |
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| roughneck | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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| rowlock | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: oarlock, peg, pin, thole, tholepin |
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| rubberneck | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubbernecker |
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| (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, sightseer, tripper |
| (verb) strain to watch; stare curiously | - |
| ruck | (noun) a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things | Synonyms: herd |
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| (noun) an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth) | Synonyms: pucker |
| (verb) become wrinkled or drawn together | Synonyms: pucker, ruck up |
| rucksack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, haversack, knapsack, packsack |
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| rudderstock | (noun) a vertical post at the forward edge of a rudder that enables the rudder to pivot | Synonyms: rudderpost |
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| rusk | (noun) slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp | Synonyms: Brussels biscuit, twice-baked bread, zwieback |
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| sack | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sacking |
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| (noun) the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter | - |
| (noun) a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases | Synonyms: carrier bag, paper bag, poke |
| (noun) a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist | Synonyms: chemise, shift |
| (noun) a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily | Synonyms: hammock |
| (noun) a woman's full loose hiplength jacket | Synonyms: sacque |
| (noun) any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry) | - |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a sack | Synonyms: sackful |
| (noun) an enclosed space | Synonyms: pocket, pouch, sac |
| (verb) put in a sack | - |
| (verb) plunder (a town) after capture | Synonyms: plunder |
| (verb) make as a net profit | Synonyms: clear, net, sack up |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, send away, terminate |
| saddleback | (noun) a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end | Synonyms: gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback roof |
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| (noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddle |
| salesclerk | (noun) a salesperson in a store | Synonyms: clerk, shop assistant, shop clerk |
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| sandbank | (noun) a submerged bank of sand near a shore or in a river; can be exposed at low tide | - |
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| sawbuck | (noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, horse, sawhorse |
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| schlock | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: dreck, shlock |
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| schmuck | (noun) (Yiddish) a jerk | Synonyms: schmo, shmo, shmuck |
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| schnook | (noun) (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised | Synonyms: shnook |
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| schoolbook | (noun) a book prepared for use in schools or colleges | Synonyms: school text, text, text edition, textbook |
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| schoolwork | (noun) work, such as schoolwork or piecework, that is done at home | Synonyms: homework, school assignment |
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| schtick | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtik, shtick, shtik |
| schtik | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtick, shtick, shtik |
| scrapbook | (noun) an album into which clippings or notes or pictures can be pasted | - |
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| screak | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screech, skreak, skreigh, squawk |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine |
| scrimshank | (verb) avoid work | - |
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| seasick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, airsick, carsick |
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| seek | (noun) the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk | - |
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| (verb) inquire for | - |
| (verb) try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of | Synonyms: look for, search |
| (verb) go to or towards | - |
| (verb) try to get or reach | - |
| (verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, attempt, essay, try |
| semidark | (adjective) partially devoid of light or brightness | - |
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| setback | (noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reversal, reverse |
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| shack | (noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling | Synonyms: hovel, hut, hutch, shanty |
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| (verb) move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly | Synonyms: trail |
| (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domicile, domiciliate, reside |
| shaddock | (noun) large pear-shaped fruit similar to grapefruit but with coarse dry pulp | Synonyms: pomelo |
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| (noun) southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits | Synonyms: Citrus decumana, Citrus grandis, Citrus maxima, pomelo, pomelo tree, pummelo |
| shagbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark hickory |
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| shamrock | (noun) clover native to Ireland with yellowish flowers; often considered the true or original shamrock | Synonyms: hop clover, lesser yellow trefoil, Trifolium dubium |
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| (noun) creeping European clover having white to pink flowers and bright green leaves; naturalized in United States; widely grown for forage | Synonyms: dutch clover, Trifolium repens, white clover |
| (noun) Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers | Synonyms: common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, Oxalis acetosella |
| shank | (noun) a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball | - |
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| (noun) lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals | Synonyms: cannon |
| (noun) the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole | Synonyms: waist |
| (noun) cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill | - |
| (noun) cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head | - |
| (noun) cylinder forming a long narrow part of something | Synonyms: stem |
| (noun) the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle | - |
| (noun) a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg | - |
| (verb) hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction | - |
| shark | (noun) any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales | - |
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| (noun) a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways | - |
| (noun) a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest | - |
| (verb) hunt shark | - |
| (verb) play the shark; act with trickery | - |
| sheepshank | (noun) a knot for shortening a line | - |
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| sheepwalk | (noun) farm devoted to raising sheep | Synonyms: sheeprun |
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| sheik | (noun) the leader of an Arab village or family | Synonyms: Arab chief, sheikh, tribal sheik, tribal sheikh |
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| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, swell |
| shelduck | (noun) female sheldrake | - |
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| shellack | (verb) cover with shellac | Synonyms: shellac |
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| shellbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark hickory |
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| sherlock | (noun) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | Synonyms: operative, PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus |
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| shipwreck | (noun) a wrecked ship (or a part of one) | - |
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| (noun) an accident that destroys a ship at sea | Synonyms: wreck |
| (noun) an irretrievable loss | - |
| (verb) destroy a ship | - |
| (verb) cause to experience shipwreck | - |
| (verb) ruin utterly | - |
| (verb) suffer failure, as in some enterprise | - |
| shirk | (verb) avoid dealing with | - |
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| (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: fiddle, goldbrick, shrink from |
| shitwork | (noun) trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores | Synonyms: scut work |
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| shlock | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: dreck, schlock |
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| shmuck | (noun) (Yiddish) a jerk | Synonyms: schmo, schmuck, shmo |
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| shnook | (noun) (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised | Synonyms: schnook |
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| shock | (noun) a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body | Synonyms: electric shock, electrical shock |
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| (noun) the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat | Synonyms: impact |
| (noun) a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses | Synonyms: cushion, shock absorber |
| (noun) an instance of agitation of the earth's crust | Synonyms: seismic disturbance |
| (noun) an unpleasant or disappointing surprise | Synonyms: blow |
| (noun) a sudden jarring impact | Synonyms: jar, jolt, jounce |
| (noun) the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally | Synonyms: daze, stupor |
| (noun) a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field | - |
| (noun) a bushy thick mass (especially hair) | - |
| (noun) (pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor | - |
| (verb) inflict a trauma upon | Synonyms: traumatise, traumatize |
| (verb) subject to electrical shocks | - |
| (verb) collect or gather into shocks | - |
| (verb) collide violently | - |
| (verb) strike with horror or terror | - |
| (verb) surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off | Synonyms: ball over, blow out of the water, floor, take aback |
| (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize |
| shoeblack | (noun) a person who polishes shoes and boots | Synonyms: bootblack |
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| shook | (noun) a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment | - |
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| shriek | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shrieking |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shrieking |
| (verb) utter a shrill cry | Synonyms: pipe, pipe up, shrill |
| shrink | (noun) a physician who specializes in psychiatry | Synonyms: head-shrinker, psychiatrist |
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| (verb) become smaller or draw together | Synonyms: contract |
| (verb) reduce in size; reduce physically | Synonyms: reduce |
| (verb) wither, as with a loss of moisture | Synonyms: shrivel, shrivel up, wither |
| (verb) decrease in size, range, or extent | Synonyms: shrivel |
| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, squinch, wince |
| shtick | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtik |
| shtik | (noun) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |
| (noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece | Synonyms: schtick, schtik, shtick |
| shuck | (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, husk, stalk, straw, stubble |
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| (verb) remove the shucks from | - |
| (verb) remove from the shell | - |
| shuttlecock | (noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: bird, birdie, shuttle |
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| (verb) send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock | - |
| shylock | (noun) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | Synonyms: loan shark, moneylender, usurer |
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| sick | (adjective) affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function | Synonyms: ill |
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| (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre |
| (adjective) having a strong distaste from surfeit | Synonyms: disgusted, fed up, sick of, tired of |
| (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, unbalanced, unhinged |
| (adjective) deeply affected by a strong feeling | - |
| (adjective) (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble | Synonyms: pale, pallid, wan |
| (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sickish |
| (noun) people who are sick | - |
| (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
| sidekick | (noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: brother, buddy, chum, crony, pal |
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| sidetrack | (noun) a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass | Synonyms: railroad siding, siding, turnout |
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| (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, digress, straggle |
| sidewalk | (noun) walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway | Synonyms: pavement |
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| silk | (noun) a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae | - |
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| (noun) animal fibers produced by silkworms and other larvae that spin cocoons and by most spiders | - |
| silverback | (noun) an adult male gorilla with grey hairs across the back | - |
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| silverwork | (noun) decorative work made of silver | - |
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| singlestick | (noun) a stick used instead of a sword for fencing | Synonyms: backsword, fencing stick |
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| sink | (noun) plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe | - |
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| (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspit, cesspool, sump |
| (noun) a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof | Synonyms: sinkhole, swallow hole |
| (noun) (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system | - |
| (verb) fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly | Synonyms: fall off, slump |
| (verb) embed deeply | Synonyms: bury |
| (verb) go under | Synonyms: go down, go under, settle |
| (verb) fall or descend to a lower place or level | Synonyms: drop, drop down |
| (verb) cause to sink | - |
| (verb) fall or sink heavily | Synonyms: slide down, slump |
| (verb) appear to move downward | Synonyms: dip |
| (verb) descend into or as if into some soft substance or place | Synonyms: subside |
| (verb) pass into a specified state or condition; sink into | Synonyms: lapse, pass |
| sixpack | (noun) a carton containing six bottles or cans | Synonyms: six-pack, six pack |
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| skank | (noun) a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees | - |
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| (noun) any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant | Synonyms: crud, filth |
| (verb) dance the skank | - |