collect | (adjective) payable by the recipient on delivery | Synonyms: cod |
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(noun) a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England | - |
(adverb) make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays | - |
(verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: garner, gather, pull together |
(verb) get or bring together | Synonyms: pull in |
(verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
(verb) call for and obtain payment of | Synonyms: take in |
(verb) gather or collect | Synonyms: call for, gather up, pick up |
complect | (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: interconnect, interlink |
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deflect | (verb) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) | Synonyms: block, parry |
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(verb) draw someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: distract |
(verb) turn aside and away from an initial or intended course | - |
(verb) turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest | Synonyms: bend, turn away |
(verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
dialect | (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | Synonyms: accent, idiom |
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elect | (adjective) elected but not yet installed in office | - |
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(adjective) selected as the best | Synonyms: elite |
(noun) an exclusive group of people | Synonyms: chosen |
(verb) choose | - |
(verb) select by a vote for an office or membership | - |
genuflect | (verb) bend the knees and bow in church or before a religious superior or image | - |
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(verb) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | Synonyms: kowtow, scrape |
idiolect | (noun) the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life | - |
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inflect | (verb) vary the pitch of one's speech | Synonyms: modulate, tone |
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(verb) change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language | - |
intellect | (noun) the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination | Synonyms: reason, understanding |
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(noun) knowledge and intellectual ability | Synonyms: mind |
(noun) a person who uses the mind creatively | Synonyms: intellectual |
neglect | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, negligence, nonperformance |
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(noun) willful lack of care and attention | Synonyms: disregard |
(noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglectfulness, negligence |
(noun) lack of attention and due care | Synonyms: disregard |
(noun) the state of something that has been unused and neglected | Synonyms: disuse |
(verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
(verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: disregard, ignore |
(verb) fail to attend to | - |
(verb) fail to do something; leave something undone | Synonyms: fail |
recollect | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, remember, retrieve, think |
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reelect | (verb) elect again | Synonyms: return |
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reflect | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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(verb) give evidence of the quality of | - |
(verb) give evidence of a certain behavior | - |
(verb) to throw or bend back (from a surface) | Synonyms: reverberate |
(verb) manifest or bring back | - |
(verb) show an image of | - |
(verb) be bright by reflecting or casting light | Synonyms: shine |
select | (adjective) selected or chosen for special qualifications | Synonyms: blue-ribbon |
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(adjective) of superior grade | Synonyms: choice, prime, prize, quality |
(verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | Synonyms: choose, pick out, take |