skedaddle | (noun) a hasty flight | - |
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(verb) run away, as if in a panic | - |
skeet | (noun) the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird | Synonyms: skeet shooting, trapshooting |
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skeg | (noun) a brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost | - |
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skein | (noun) coils of worsted yarn | - |
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skeletal | (adjective) of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton | - |
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(adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, wasted |
skeleton | (noun) the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape | Synonyms: frame, skeletal frame, underframe |
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(noun) the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal | Synonyms: frame, skeletal system, systema skeletale |
(noun) a scandal that is kept secret | Synonyms: skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard |
(noun) something reduced to its minimal form | - |
skep | (noun) a domed beehive made of twisted straw | - |
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(noun) a large round wicker basket (used on farms) | - |
skepful | (noun) the quantity a skep can hold | - |
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skeptic | (noun) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | Synonyms: doubter, sceptic |
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skeptical | (adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: doubting, questioning, sceptical |
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(adjective) denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion | Synonyms: disbelieving, sceptical, unbelieving |
skeptically | (adverb) with scepticism; in a sceptical manner | Synonyms: sceptically |
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skepticism | (noun) doubt about the truth of something | Synonyms: disbelief, incredulity, mental rejection, scepticism |
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(noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge | Synonyms: agnosticism, scepticism |
sketch | (noun) preliminary drawing for later elaboration | Synonyms: study |
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(noun) short descriptive summary (of events) | Synonyms: resume, survey |
(noun) a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: cartoon |
(noun) a brief literary description | Synonyms: vignette |
(verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of | Synonyms: adumbrate, outline |
(verb) make a sketch of | Synonyms: chalk out |
sketchbook | (noun) a book containing sheets of paper on which sketches can be drawn | Synonyms: sketch block, sketch pad |
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sketcher | (noun) an implement for sketching | - |
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(noun) someone who draws sketches | - |
sketchily | (adverb) in a sketchy incomplete manner | - |
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sketchiness | (noun) incompleteness of details | - |
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sketchy | (adjective) giving only major points; lacking completeness | Synonyms: unelaborated |
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skew | (adjective) having an oblique or slanting direction or position | Synonyms: skewed |
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(verb) turn or place at an angle | - |
skewed | (adjective) having an oblique or slanting direction or position | Synonyms: skew |
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skewer | (noun) a long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roasted | - |
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(verb) drive a skewer through | Synonyms: spit |
skewness | (noun) an oblique or slanting asymmetry | Synonyms: lopsidedness |
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