| responsive | (adjective) readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion | - |
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| (adjective) containing or using responses; alternating | Synonyms: antiphonal |
| (adjective) reacting to a stimulus | Synonyms: reactive |
| restive | (adjective) impatient especially under restriction or delay | - |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, uptight |
| restorative | (adjective) promoting recuperation | Synonyms: recuperative |
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| (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: renewing, revitalising, revitalizing, reviving |
| (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: corrective |
| (noun) a medicine that strengthens and invigorates | Synonyms: tonic |
| restrictive | (adjective) serving to restrict | - |
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| (adjective) (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports | - |
| retaliative | (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliatory, retributive, retributory, vindicatory |
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| retentive | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: long, recollective, tenacious |
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| (adjective) having the capacity to retain something | - |
| (adjective) having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water | - |
| retributive | (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributory, vindicatory |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributory, vindicatory |
| retrieve | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, remember, think |
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| (verb) run after, pick up, and bring to the master | - |
| (verb) go for and bring back | - |
| (verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: find, recover, regain |
| retroactive | (adjective) descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously | - |
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| (adjective) affecting things past | Synonyms: ex post facto, retro |
| retrogressive | (adjective) going from better to worse | Synonyms: retrograde |
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| retrospective | (adjective) concerned with or related to the past | - |
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| (noun) an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work | - |
| reverberative | (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating |
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| reversive | (adjective) tending to be turned back | Synonyms: returning |
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| revive | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) cause to regain consciousness | Synonyms: resuscitate |
| (verb) return to consciousness | Synonyms: come to, resuscitate |
| (verb) be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength | - |
| (verb) restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state | Synonyms: resurrect |
| revolve | (verb) turn on or around an axis or a center | Synonyms: go around, rotate |
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| (verb) move in an orbit | Synonyms: orb, orbit |
| (verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis | Synonyms: roll |
| ringdove | (noun) greyish Old World turtledove with a black band around the neck; often caged | Synonyms: Streptopelia risoria |
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| (noun) Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck | Synonyms: Columba palumbus, cushat, wood pigeon |
| rive | (verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: pull, rend, rip |
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| (verb) separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cleave, split |
| rove | (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
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| ruminative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective |
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| salve | (noun) anything that remedies or heals or soothes | - |
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| (noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: balm, ointment, unction, unguent |
| (verb) apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing | - |
| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salvage, save |
| sanative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, curative, healing, remedial, therapeutic |
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| sanctionative | (adjective) implying sanction or serving to sanction | Synonyms: sanctioning |
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| save | (noun) (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring | - |
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| (verb) make unnecessary an expenditure or effort | Synonyms: make unnecessary |
| (verb) record data on a computer | Synonyms: write |
| (verb) to keep up and reserve for personal or special use | Synonyms: preserve |
| (verb) accumulate money for future use | Synonyms: lay aside, save up |
| (verb) spend less; buy at a reduced price | - |
| (verb) retain rights to | Synonyms: hold open, keep, keep open |
| (verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of | Synonyms: economise, economize |
| (verb) bring into safety | Synonyms: bring through, carry through, pull through |
| (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salvage, salve |
| (verb) save from sins | Synonyms: deliver, redeem |
| (verb) refrain from harming | Synonyms: spare |
| secretive | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closelipped, closemouthed, tightlipped |
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| sedative | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataractic, ataraxic, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
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| (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: depressant, downer, sedative drug |
| seductive | (adjective) tending to entice into a desired action or state | - |
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| selective | (adjective) tending to select; characterized by careful choice | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by very careful or fastidious selection | - |
| semibreve | (noun) a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time) | Synonyms: whole note |
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| semiconductive | (adjective) having characteristics of a semiconductor; that is having electrical conductivity greater than insulators but less than good conductors | Synonyms: semiconducting |
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| sensitive | (adjective) responsive to physical stimuli | - |
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| (adjective) being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others | - |
| (adjective) able to feel or perceive | Synonyms: sensible |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security | - |
| (adjective) hurting | Synonyms: raw, sore, tender |
| (noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: medium, spiritualist |
| separative | (adjective) (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group | - |
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| (adjective) serving to separate or divide into parts | Synonyms: partitive |
| (adjective) (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it | - |
| serve | (noun) (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play | Synonyms: service |
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| (verb) do duty or hold offices; serve in a specific function | - |
| (verb) put the ball into play | - |
| (verb) provide (usually but not necessarily food) | Synonyms: dish, dish out, dish up, serve up |
| (verb) help to some food; help with food or drink | Synonyms: help |
| (verb) deliver a warrant or summons to someone | Synonyms: process, swear out |
| (verb) mate with | Synonyms: service |
| (verb) be used by; as of a utility | Synonyms: service |
| (verb) work for, or be a servant to | Synonyms: assist, attend, attend to, wait on |
| (verb) devote (part of) one's life or efforts to, as of countries, institutions, or ideas | - |
| (verb) do military service | - |
| (verb) spend time in prison or in a labor camp | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) contribute or conduce to | - |
| (verb) promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to | Synonyms: serve well |
| (verb) serve a purpose, role, or function | Synonyms: function |
| (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: answer, do, suffice |
| shave | (noun) the act of removing hair with a razor | Synonyms: shaving |
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| (verb) remove body hair with a razor | - |
| (verb) touch the surface of lightly | - |
| (verb) cut closely | Synonyms: trim |
| (verb) cut or remove with or as if with a plane | Synonyms: plane |
| (verb) make shavings of or reduce to shavings | - |
| (verb) cut the price of | Synonyms: knock off |
| shelve | (verb) place on a shelf | - |
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| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, table |
| shirtsleeve | (noun) the sleeve of a shirt | - |
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| shove | (noun) the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something) | - |
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| (verb) push roughly | - |
| (verb) come into rough contact with while moving | Synonyms: jostle |
| (verb) press or force | Synonyms: squeeze, stuff, thrust |
| shrive | (verb) grant remission of a sin to | Synonyms: absolve |
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| siccative | (noun) a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) | Synonyms: desiccant, drier, drying agent |
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| sieve | (noun) a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles | Synonyms: screen |
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| (verb) distinguish and separate out | Synonyms: sift |
| (verb) separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements | Synonyms: sift, strain |
| (verb) check and sort carefully | Synonyms: sift |
| (verb) examine in order to test suitability | Synonyms: screen, screen out, sort |
| significative | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, suggestive |
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| skive | (verb) remove the surface of | - |
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| skydive | (verb) jump from an airplane and perform various maneuvers before opening one's parachute | Synonyms: sky dive |
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| slave | (noun) a person who is owned by someone | - |
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| (noun) someone who works as hard as a slave | Synonyms: hard worker, striver |
| (noun) someone entirely dominated by some influence or person | - |
| (verb) work very hard, like a slave | Synonyms: break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down |
| sleeve | (noun) the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm | Synonyms: arm |
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| (noun) small case into which an object fits | - |
| solve | (verb) find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of | Synonyms: figure out, lick, puzzle out, work, work out |
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| (verb) find the solution | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) settle, as of a debt | Synonyms: clear |
| speculative | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: inquisitive, questioning, wondering |
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| (adjective) not based on fact or investigation | Synonyms: notional |
| (adjective) not financially safe or secure | Synonyms: bad, high-risk, risky |
| spokeshave | (noun) a small plane that has a handle on each side of its blade; used for shaping or smoothing cylindrical wooden surfaces (originally wheel spokes) | - |
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| sportive | (adjective) relating to or interested in sports | - |
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| (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, rollicking |
| starve | (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: famish, hunger |
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| (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, hunger, lust, thirst |
| (verb) die of food deprivation | Synonyms: famish |
| (verb) deprive of food | Synonyms: famish |
| (verb) deprive of a necessity and cause suffering | - |
| stative | (adjective) (used of verbs (e.g. `be' or `own') and most participial adjectives) expressing existence or a state rather than an action | - |
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| stave | (noun) one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket | Synonyms: lag |
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| (noun) a crosspiece between the legs of a chair | Synonyms: round, rung |
| (noun) (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written | Synonyms: staff |
| (verb) burst or force (a hole) into something | Synonyms: stave in |
| (verb) furnish with staves | - |
| sternutative | (adjective) causing sneezing | Synonyms: sternutatory |
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| stimulative | (adjective) capable of arousing or accelerating physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent | - |
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| stove | (noun) any heating apparatus | - |
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| (noun) a kitchen appliance used for cooking food | Synonyms: cooking stove, kitchen range, kitchen stove, range |
| strive | (verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: reach, strain |
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| (verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavor, endeavour |
| suave | (adjective) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication | Synonyms: bland, politic, smooth |
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| (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonair, debonaire, debonnaire |
| subjective | (adjective) taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias | - |
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| (adjective) of a mental act performed entirely within the mind | Synonyms: immanent |
| subjunctive | (adjective) relating to a mood of verbs | - |
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| (noun) a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible | Synonyms: subjunctive mood |
| submissive | (adjective) inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination | - |
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| (adjective) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant | Synonyms: slavish, subservient |
| subordinative | (adjective) serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause | Synonyms: subordinating |
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| subserve | (verb) be helpful or useful | - |
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| substantiative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| substantive | (adjective) defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established | Synonyms: essential |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something | Synonyms: substantial |
| (adjective) being on topic and prompting thought | Synonyms: meaty |
| (noun) any word or group of words functioning as a noun | - |
| subtractive | (adjective) constituting or involving subtraction | - |
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| subversive | (adjective) in opposition to a civil authority or government | Synonyms: insurgent, seditious |
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| (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, revolutionist, subverter |
| successive | (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | Synonyms: consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial |
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| suffocative | (adjective) causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat | Synonyms: choking, smothering, suffocating |
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| suffusive | (adjective) spreading through | - |
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| suggestive | (adjective) tending to suggest or imply | Synonyms: implicative |
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| (adjective) tending to suggest something improper or indecent | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, significative |
| summative | (adjective) of or relating to a summation or produced by summation | Synonyms: summational |
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| superlative | (adjective) highest in quality | Synonyms: greatest, sterling |
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| (noun) an exaggerated expression (usually of praise) | - |
| (noun) the superlative form of an adjective or adverb | Synonyms: superlative degree |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, tiptop, top |
| supersensitive | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitized |
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| supportive | (adjective) furnishing support or assistance | - |
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| suppressive | (adjective) tending to suppress | - |
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| suppurative | (adjective) relating to or characterized by suppuration | - |
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| survive | (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: exist, live, subsist |
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| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on |
| (verb) continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.) | Synonyms: come through, make it, pull round, pull through |
| (verb) live longer than | Synonyms: outlast, outlive |
| suspensive | (adjective) undecided or characterized by indecisiveness | - |
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| (adjective) (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense | Synonyms: cliff-hanging, nail-biting, suspenseful |
| swerve | (noun) the act of turning aside suddenly | Synonyms: swerving, veering |
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| (noun) an erratic deflection from an intended course | Synonyms: yaw |
| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, trend, veer |
| talkative | (adjective) friendly and open and willing to talk | Synonyms: expansive |
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| (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: bigmouthed, blabbermouthed, blabby |
| (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talky |
| tardive | (adjective) late-occurring (especially with reference to symptoms of a disease) | - |
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| tentative | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: probationary, provisional, provisionary |
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| (adjective) unsettled in mind or opinion | Synonyms: doubtful |
| terminative | (adjective) coming to an end | - |
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| thieve | (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: cop, glom, hook, knock off, snitch |
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| thrive | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, expand, flourish |
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| (verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: flourish, fly high, prosper |
| tractive | (adjective) exerting traction and serving to pull | - |
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| transitive | (adjective) designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning | - |
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| (noun) a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical | Synonyms: transitive verb, transitive verb form |
| trave | (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, crosspiece, traverse |
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| trove | (noun) treasure of unknown ownership found hidden (usually in the earth) | Synonyms: treasure trove |
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| truelove | (noun) a person loved by another person | Synonyms: steady, sweetheart, sweetie |
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| turtledove | (noun) any of several Old World wild doves | - |
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| (noun) small Australian dove | Synonyms: Australian turtledove, Stictopelia cuneata |
| twelve | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units | Synonyms: 12, dozen, xii |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one | Synonyms: 12, dozen, XII |
| ulcerative | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by ulceration | - |
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| ultraconservative | (adjective) extremely conservative | - |
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| (noun) an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism | Synonyms: extreme right-winger, reactionary |
| unacquisitive | (adjective) not acquisitive; not interested in acquiring or owning anything | - |
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| unaggressive | (adjective) not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness | Synonyms: nonaggressive |
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| unappreciative | (adjective) not feeling or expressing gratitude | - |
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| unapprehensive | (adjective) not recognizing or slow to recognize danger | - |
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| unargumentative | (adjective) not given to or characterized by argument | - |
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| unassertive | (adjective) inclined to timidity or lack of self-confidence | - |
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| unattractive | (adjective) lacking beauty or charm | - |
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| (adjective) lacking power to arouse interest | - |
| (adjective) not appealing to the senses | Synonyms: untempting |