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1. Hot steady wind
Synonym: hot zephyr
Antonyms: ocean wind
Analogy: warm zephyr : sirocco
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1. using your authority in an unreasonable way, wihtout considering orhter people's feelings or opinions
Synonyms: self-centered
Antonyms: selfless
Analogy: highhanded:thief
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verb
1. if something, especially something bad happens, it happens again or happens again or happens several times
2. If a number or numbers after a decimal point, they are repeated forever in the same order
Synonyms: bad habit
Antonyms: birthday
Analogy: recur : cancer
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Noun
1. A place where you store food.
2. A supply of food.
Synonyms: celar,
Antonyms:
Analogy: larder: food
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adjective
1. Believing or feeling something very strongly.
2. Hot and glowing
Synonyms: passionate
Antonyms: neutral
Analogy: aureole:fervent
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Elicit
elicitation, elicitor
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verb
1. To get information, a reaction, etc, from someone when this is difficult.
Synonyms: reaction
Antonyms: no response
Analogy: Tutor: elicit
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noun
1. A radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred person
2. something resembling and aureole
Synonym: Halo
Antonym: Dull, nothing
Analogy: bright:aureole
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adjective
1. Faithful or very loyal
Synonyms: loyal, staunch, faithful, devoted
Antonyms: disloyal, unfaithful, undevoted
Analogy: loyal:steadfast
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verb
1. To give official permision for something
Synonym: allowed, permit, sanction
Antonym: veto, illegal
Analogy: authorize: document
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noun
1. a very dangerous or frightening situation
2. A very deep hole or space that seems to have no bottom
Synonyms: void, cavity
Antonyms: promenade
Analogy: abyss : run away
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adjective, noun
1. very great, important, or strong
2. showing strong serious feelings
3. Showing great knowledge and understanding
Synonym: eminent, fervent, sage
Antonyms: useless, non-important
Analogy: sage:profound
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Siphon
siphonned, siphonnage, siphonal, siphonic
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verb, noun
1. to take something away from the person, organization, etc for which it was intended, epecially to dishonestly take money.
2. to remove liquid from a container using a siphon
3. a bent tube that you used to get liquid out of a container, by holding one end of the tube at a lower level than the container.
Synonyms: tube, steal
Antonyms: receive
Analogy: siphon, container wiht water
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noun
1. someone who carries a torch at the head of the group of people
2. someone who leads a campaign, movement, etc.
Synonym: leader
Antonyms: bully
Analogy: fervent:torchbearer
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adj.
1. full of strong feelings and emotion
Synonyms: passionate, fervent
Antonyms: dispassionate
Analogy: impassioned:speech
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verb
1. to do something that encourages people to cause a lot of trouble in a society
Synonyms: start, provoke, brew
Antonyms: quash
Analogy: foment:crime
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verb
1. to go quickly and directly toward someone or something
Synonyms: towards
Antonyms: away
Analogy: beeline:bear
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Pensive
pensively, pensiveness
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adjective
1. thinking about something a lot and seeming slightly sad
2. Dreamily thoughtful
3. concentrate
Synonym: daydream. thoughtful
Antonym: unreflective
Analogy: student:pensive
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Exult
exultant, exultation, exulted
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verb
1. to show that you are very happy and proud becaus eyou have achieved something
Synonyms: joy, triumph
Antonyms: defeat
Analogy: winning:exult
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Cavil
caviled, caviling, caviler
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verb
1. to make unnecessary conplaints about something
Synonyms: complain
Antonyms: stoic
Analogy: cavil:customer
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adj
1. very noisy, espiecially with a lot of laughter
Synonyms: hysterical
Antonyms: calm, quiet
Analogy: party:uproarious
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Brood
brooding, broodily, broodiness
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noun, verb
1. All the yound birds or other creatures that a mother produces at one time.
2. A family of children
3. to sit on eggs to hatch thme.
4. to think for a long time about something such as a failure or a disappointment
Synonyms:family, incubation,
Antonyms:
Analogy: brood:uproarious
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noun
1. the ofter remote parts of country away from the coast or the banks of major rivers.
Synonyms: rural, remote
Antonyms: City, coastal
Analogy: remote:hinterland
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adjective
1. always behaving correctly and easily shocked by anything that is rude
2. Rather formal in appearance, behavior or manner,
Synonym: decorous, formal
Antonyms: dirty, informal
Analogy: wedding:prim
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verb
1. to tread heavily on something or somebody as to cause damage or destruction
2. to crush or harm something by treading on it
3. to fail to consider somebody's feeling, rights, etc;to treat with contempt
Synonyms: deface, tread
Antonyms: to make new, rights
Analogy: trample:carpet buildozer:trample
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noun, verb
1. a sliding gate or other device for controlling the flow of water out of or into a canal, lake, etc.
2. to wash something with a stream of water
Synonyms: hose down, canal
Antonyms: getting it dirty
Analogy: sluice:stables
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