| scarily | (adverb) in a terrifying manner | Synonyms: frighteningly |
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| scarlatina | (noun) an acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash | Synonyms: scarlet fever |
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| scarlet | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy |
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| (noun) a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge | Synonyms: orange red, vermilion |
| scarp | (noun) a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification | Synonyms: escarp, escarpment, protective embankment |
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| (noun) a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion | Synonyms: escarpment |
| scarper | (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
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| scarred | (adjective) blemished by injury or rough wear | Synonyms: marred |
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| (adjective) deeply affected or marked by mental or physical pain or injury | - |
| scary | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: chilling, shivery, shuddery |
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| scat | (noun) singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument | Synonyms: scat singing |
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| (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, take to the woods, turn tail |
| scathe | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: damage, harm, hurt |
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| scathing | (adjective) marked by harshly abusive criticism | Synonyms: vituperative |
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| scathingly | (adverb) in a scathing and unsparing manner | Synonyms: unsparingly |
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| scatological | (adjective) dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions | - |
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| scatology | (noun) (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes) | - |
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| (noun) a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions) | - |
| scatophagy | (noun) the eating of excrement or other filth | - |
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| scatter | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scattering, strewing |
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| (noun) a haphazard distribution in all directions | Synonyms: spread |
| (verb) cause to separate | Synonyms: break up, disperse |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, sprinkle |
| (verb) sow by scattering | - |
| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, dissipate, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, dissipate |
| (verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: spread, spread out |
| scatterbrain | (noun) a flighty and disorganized person | Synonyms: forgetful person |
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| scatterbrained | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatty |
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| (adjective) guided by whim and fancy | Synonyms: flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds |
| scattered | (adjective) occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space | - |
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| (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, unconnected |
| scattergood | (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: spend-all, spender, spendthrift |
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| scattergun | (noun) firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges | Synonyms: shotgun |
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| scattering | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scatter, strewing |
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| (noun) spreading widely or driving off | Synonyms: dispersion |
| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: sprinkle, sprinkling |
| (noun) the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions | - |
| (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | Synonyms: sprinkling |
| scattershot | (adjective) covering a wide range in a haphazard way | - |
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| scatty | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained |
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| (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, absentminded, abstracted |
| scaup | (noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: bluebill, broadbill, scaup duck |
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| scauper | (noun) a graver used to scoop out broad areas when engraving wood or metal | Synonyms: scorper |
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| scavenge | (verb) remove unwanted substances from | Synonyms: clean |
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| (verb) feed on carrion or refuse | - |
| (verb) clean refuse from | - |
| (verb) collect discarded material | Synonyms: salvage |
| scavenger | (noun) any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter | - |
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| (noun) someone who collects things that have been discarded by others | Synonyms: magpie, pack rat |
| (noun) a chemical agent that is added to a chemical mixture to counteract the effects of impurities | - |
| scenario | (noun) an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work) | - |
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| (noun) a postulated sequence of possible events | - |
| (noun) a setting for a work of art or literature | - |
| scenarist | (noun) a writer of screenplays | - |
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| scend | (verb) rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave | Synonyms: surge |
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| scene | (noun) the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale | Synonyms: scenery |
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| (noun) graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept | Synonyms: view |
| (noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: aspect, panorama, prospect, view, vista |
| (noun) a subdivision of an act of a play or performance | - |
| (noun) a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film | Synonyms: shot |
| (noun) an incident (real or imaginary) | - |
| (noun) the place where some action occurs | - |
| (noun) the context and environment in which something is set | Synonyms: setting |
| (noun) a situation treated as an observable object | Synonyms: picture |
| (noun) a display of bad temper | Synonyms: conniption, fit, tantrum |
| scenery | (noun) the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale | Synonyms: scene |
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| (noun) the appearance of a place | - |
| sceneshifter | (noun) a stagehand responsible for moving scenery | Synonyms: shifter |
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| scenic | (adjective) of or relating to the stage or stage scenery | - |
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| (adjective) used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery | - |
| scenically | (adverb) with respect to stage scenery | - |
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| scent | (noun) any property detected by the olfactory system | Synonyms: aroma, odor, odour, olfactory property, smell |
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| (noun) an odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced | - |
| (noun) a distinctive odor that is pleasant | Synonyms: aroma, fragrance, perfume |
| (verb) apply perfume to | Synonyms: perfume |
| (verb) catch the scent of; get wind of | Synonyms: nose, wind |
| (verb) cause to smell or be smelly | Synonyms: odorize, odourise |
| scented | (adjective) having the sense of smell | - |
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| (adjective) (used in combination) having the odor of | - |
| (adjective) having a natural fragrance | Synonyms: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, sweet |
| (adjective) filled or impregnated with perfume | Synonyms: perfumed |
| scentless | (adjective) lacking the sense of smell | - |
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| (adjective) emitting or holding no odor | - |
| scepter | (noun) a ceremonial or emblematic staff | Synonyms: sceptre, verge, wand |
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| (noun) the imperial authority symbolized by a scepter | Synonyms: sceptre |
| sceptered | (adjective) invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter | Synonyms: empowered, sceptred |
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| sceptic | (noun) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | Synonyms: doubter, skeptic |
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| sceptical | (adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: doubting, questioning, skeptical |
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| (adjective) denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion | Synonyms: disbelieving, skeptical, unbelieving |
| sceptically | (adverb) with scepticism; in a sceptical manner | Synonyms: skeptically |
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| scepticism | (noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge | Synonyms: agnosticism, skepticism |
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| (noun) doubt about the truth of something | Synonyms: disbelief, incredulity, mental rejection, skepticism |
| sceptre | (noun) a ceremonial or emblematic staff | Synonyms: scepter, verge, wand |
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| (noun) the imperial authority symbolized by a scepter | Synonyms: scepter |
| sceptred | (adjective) invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter | Synonyms: empowered, sceptered |
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| schedule | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: agenda, docket |
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| (noun) an ordered list of times at which things are planned to occur | - |
| (verb) plan for an activity or event | - |
| (verb) make a schedule; plan the time and place for events | - |
| scheduled | (adjective) planned or scheduled for some certain time or times | - |
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| scheduler | (noun) computer hardware that arranges jobs to be done by the computer in an appropriate order | - |
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| scheduling | (noun) setting an order and time for planned events | Synonyms: programing, programming |
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| scheelite | (noun) a mineral used as an ore of tungsten | - |
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| schema | (noun) a schematic or preliminary plan | Synonyms: outline, scheme |
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| (noun) an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world | Synonyms: scheme |
| schematic | (adjective) represented in simplified or symbolic form | Synonyms: conventional, formal |
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| (noun) diagram of an electrical or mechanical system | Synonyms: schematic drawing |
| schematically | (adverb) in a schematic manner | - |
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| schematisation | (noun) providing a chart or outline of a system | Synonyms: diagramming, schematization |
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| (noun) the act of reducing to a scheme or formula | Synonyms: schematization |
| schematise | (verb) give conventional form to | Synonyms: schematize |
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| schematization | (noun) providing a chart or outline of a system | Synonyms: diagramming, schematisation |
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| (noun) the act of reducing to a scheme or formula | Synonyms: schematisation |
| schematize | (verb) give conventional form to | Synonyms: schematise |
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| (verb) formulate in regular order; to reduce to a scheme or formula | - |
| scheme | (noun) an elaborate and systematic plan of action | Synonyms: strategy |
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| (noun) an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world | Synonyms: schema |
| (noun) a schematic or preliminary plan | Synonyms: outline, schema |
| (noun) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | Synonyms: dodge, dodging |
| (noun) a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole | Synonyms: system |
| (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: connive, intrigue |
| (verb) devise a system or form a scheme for | - |
| schemer | (noun) a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action | Synonyms: plotter |
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| scheming | (adjective) concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest | Synonyms: designing |
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| (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, calculative, conniving, shrewd |
| schemozzle | (noun) (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess | Synonyms: shemozzle |
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| scherzo | (noun) a fast movement (usually in triple time) | - |
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| schilling | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Austria | Synonyms: Austrian schilling |
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| schipperke | (noun) breed of small stocky black dogs originally used as watchdogs on boats in the Netherlands and Belgium | - |
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| schism | (noun) division of a group into opposing factions | Synonyms: split |
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| (noun) the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences | - |
| schismatic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in or characteristic of schism | Synonyms: schismatical |
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| schismatical | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in or characteristic of schism | Synonyms: schismatic |
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| schismatically | (adverb) in a manner that is schismatic | - |
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| schist | (noun) any metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers | - |
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| schistorrhachis | (noun) a not uncommon congenital defect in which a vertebra is malformed; unless several vertebrae are affected or there is myelomeningocele there are few symptoms; can be diagnosed by amniocentesis | Synonyms: rachischisis, spina bifida |
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| schistosome | (noun) flatworms parasitic in the blood vessels of mammals | Synonyms: blood fluke |
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| schistosomiasis | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected | Synonyms: bilharzia, bilharziasis |
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| schizanthus | (noun) any plant of the genus Schizanthus having finely divided leaves and showy variegated flowers | Synonyms: butterfly flower, poor man's orchid |
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| schizocarp | (noun) a dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed | - |
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| schizogony | (noun) asexual reproduction by multiple fission; characteristic of many sporozoan protozoans | - |
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| schizoid | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia | Synonyms: schizophrenic |
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| (adjective) marked by withdrawal and inability to form close relationships | - |
| (noun) characterized by symptoms similar to but less severe than schizophrenia | Synonyms: schizotypal personality |
| schizopetalon | (noun) a dainty South American annual having deeply pinnatifid leaves and racemes of fringed almond-scented purple-white flowers | Synonyms: Schizopetalon walkeri |
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| schizophrenia | (noun) any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact | Synonyms: dementia praecox, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis |
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| schizophrenic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia | Synonyms: schizoid |
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| (adjective) suffering from some form of schizophrenia | - |
| (noun) someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia | - |
| schizothymia | (noun) resembling schizophrenia but remaining within the bounds of normality | - |
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| schlemiel | (noun) (Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler | Synonyms: shlemiel |
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| schlep | (noun) a tedious or difficult journey | Synonyms: shlep |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person | Synonyms: schlepper, shlep, shlepper |
| (verb) pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance | Synonyms: pull along, shlep |
| schlepper | (noun) (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person | Synonyms: schlep, shlep, shlepper |
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| schlimazel | (noun) (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything | Synonyms: shlimazel |
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| schlock | (noun) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | Synonyms: dreck, shlock |
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| schlockmeister | (noun) (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise | Synonyms: shlockmeister |
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| schmaltz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmalz, shmaltz |
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| schmaltzy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| schmalz | (noun) (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | Synonyms: schmaltz, shmaltz |
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| schmalzy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| schmear | (noun) (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together | Synonyms: schmeer, shmear |
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| schmeer | (noun) (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together | Synonyms: schmear, shmear |
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| schmegegge | (noun) (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense | Synonyms: shmegegge |
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| schmo | (noun) (Yiddish) a jerk | Synonyms: schmuck, shmo, shmuck |
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| schmoose | (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze |
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| (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze |
| schmooze | (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, confabulation, schmoose |
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| (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmoose, shmoose, shmooze |
| schmoozer | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationalist, conversationist |
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| schmuck | (noun) (Yiddish) a jerk | Synonyms: schmo, shmo, shmuck |
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| schnapps | (noun) any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes | Synonyms: schnaps |
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