| receiver | (noun) set that receives radio or tv signals | Synonyms: receiving system |
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| (noun) earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds | Synonyms: telephone receiver |
| (noun) a person who receives something | Synonyms: recipient |
| (noun) (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties | Synonyms: liquidator |
| (noun) a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass | Synonyms: pass catcher, pass receiver |
| (noun) the tennis player who receives the serve | - |
| recover | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: convalesce, recuperate |
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| (verb) regain a former condition after a financial loss | Synonyms: go back, recuperate |
| (verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: find, regain, retrieve |
| (verb) regain or make up for | Synonyms: recoup, recuperate |
| (verb) reuse (materials from waste products) | Synonyms: reclaim |
| (verb) cover anew | - |
| rediscover | (verb) discover again | - |
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| reliever | (noun) a pitcher who does not start the game | Synonyms: fireman, relief pitcher |
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| (noun) someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Synonyms: backup, backup man, fill-in, relief, stand-in, substitute |
| (noun) a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies | Synonyms: allayer, comforter |
| remover | (noun) someone who works for a company that moves furniture | - |
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| (noun) a solvent that removes a substance (usually from a surface) | - |
| reprover | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reproacher, upbraider |
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| retriever | (noun) a dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game | - |
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| revolver | (noun) a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets) | Synonyms: six-gun, six-shooter |
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| (noun) a door consisting of four orthogonal partitions that rotate about a central pivot; a door designed to equalize the air pressure in tall buildings | Synonyms: revolving door |
| river | (noun) a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek) | - |
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| rollover | (noun) the act of changing the institution that invests your pension plan without incurring a tax penalty | - |
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| rover | (noun) someone who leads a wandering unsettled life | Synonyms: bird of passage, roamer, wanderer |
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| (noun) an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement | Synonyms: scouter |
| salver | (noun) a tray (or large plate) for serving food or drinks; usually made of silver | - |
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| saver | (noun) someone who saves (especially money) | - |
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| (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: recoverer, rescuer |
| screwdriver | (noun) a hand tool for driving screws; has a tip that fits into the head of a screw | - |
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| (noun) a cocktail made with vodka and orange juice | - |
| semiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note | Synonyms: sixteenth note |
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| server | (noun) utensil used in serving food or drink | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network | Synonyms: host |
| (noun) a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant) | Synonyms: waiter |
| (noun) (court games) the player who serves to start a point | - |
| sever | (verb) cut off from a whole | Synonyms: discerp, lop |
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| (verb) set or keep apart | Synonyms: break up |
| shaver | (noun) a razor powered by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric razor, electric shaver |
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| (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
| (noun) an adult male who shaves | - |
| shelver | (noun) a worker who puts things (as books) on shelves | - |
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| shiver | (noun) a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement | Synonyms: shake, tremble |
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| (noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, quiver, shudder, thrill, tingle |
| (verb) shake, as from cold | Synonyms: shudder |
| (verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shudder, thrill, throb |
| shover | (noun) someone who pushes | Synonyms: pusher |
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| silver | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: argent, silverish, silvery |
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| (adjective) expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively | Synonyms: eloquent, facile, fluent, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken |
| (adjective) having the white lustrous sheen of silver | Synonyms: silvern, silvery |
| (adjective) made from or largely consisting of silver | - |
| (noun) silverware eating utensils | Synonyms: flatware |
| (noun) a trophy made of silver (or having the appearance of silver) that is usually awarded for winning second place in a competition | Synonyms: silver medal |
| (noun) a light shade of grey | Synonyms: ash gray, ash grey, silver gray, silver grey |
| (noun) coins made of silver | - |
| (noun) a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography | Synonyms: Ag, atomic number 47 |
| (verb) make silver in color | - |
| (verb) turn silver | - |
| (verb) coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam | - |
| skydiver | (noun) a person who jumps from a plane and performs various gymnastic maneuvers before pulling the parachute cord | - |
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| slaver | (noun) a person engaged in slave trade | Synonyms: slave dealer, slave trader |
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| (noun) someone who holds slaves | Synonyms: slave owner, slaveholder |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool, slabber, slobber |
| sleepover | (noun) an occasion of spending a night away from home or having a guest spend the night in your home (especially as a party for children) | - |
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| slipcover | (noun) a removable fitted cloth covering for upholstered furniture | - |
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| slipover | (noun) a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head | Synonyms: pullover |
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| sliver | (noun) a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something | Synonyms: paring, shaving |
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| (noun) a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal | Synonyms: splinter |
| (verb) break up into splinters or slivers | Synonyms: splinter |
| (verb) form into slivers | - |
| (verb) divide into slivers or splinters | Synonyms: splinter |
| solver | (noun) a thinker who focuses on the problem as stated and tries to synthesize information and knowledge to achieve a solution | Synonyms: convergent thinker, problem solver |
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| spillover | (noun) (economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure | - |
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| stopover | (noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey | Synonyms: layover, stop |
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| (noun) a stopping place on a journey | Synonyms: way station |
| stover | (noun) the dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvested | - |
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| striver | (noun) someone who works as hard as a slave | Synonyms: hard worker, slave |
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| takeover | (noun) a change by sale or merger in the controlling interest of a corporation | - |
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| (noun) a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force | Synonyms: coup, coup d'etat, putsch |
| taxidriver | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabdriver, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taximan |
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| timeserver | (noun) one who conforms to current ways and opinions for personal advantage | - |
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| turnover | (noun) the act of upsetting something | Synonyms: overturn, upset |
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| (noun) the volume measured in dollars | Synonyms: dollar volume |
| (noun) a dish made by folding a piece of pastry over a filling | - |
| (noun) the ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers | Synonyms: employee turnover, turnover rate |
| uncover | (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, unwrap |
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| (verb) remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body | Synonyms: expose |
| (verb) reveal to view as by removing a cover | Synonyms: disclose, expose |
| underachiever | (noun) a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates | Synonyms: nonachiever, underperformer |
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| undercover | (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, underground |
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| upriver | (adverb) toward the source or against the current | Synonyms: upstream |
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| waiver | (noun) a formal written statement of relinquishment | Synonyms: discharge, release |
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| walkover | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap |
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| (noun) backbends combined with handstands | - |
| waver | (noun) the act of moving back and forth | Synonyms: flicker, flutter |
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| (noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: falter, faltering, hesitation |
| (noun) someone who communicates by waving | - |
| (verb) give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency | Synonyms: quaver |
| (verb) sway from side to side | Synonyms: weave |
| (verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: fluctuate, vacillate |
| (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, flutter, quiver |
| (verb) move hesitatingly, as if about to give way | Synonyms: falter |
| (verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitate, waffle |
| (verb) be unsure or weak | Synonyms: falter |
| weaver | (noun) finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests | Synonyms: weaver finch, weaverbird |
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| (noun) a craftsman who weaves cloth | - |
| whatever | (adjective) one or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential | Synonyms: any, whatsoever |
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| whatsoever | (adjective) one or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential | Synonyms: any, whatever |
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| wheresoever | (adverb) where in the world; location, singular, elective existential pronoun | Synonyms: wherever |
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| wherever | (adverb) where in the world; location, singular, elective existential pronoun | Synonyms: wheresoever |
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| woodcarver | (noun) makes decorative wooden panels | Synonyms: carver |
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