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a hot, stiffling wind blowing from the Libyan desserts
Synoyms:Whirlwind
Antonyms: Frozen,zephyr
The sirocco from the Libyan dessert came today. |
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Def:condescending or presumptuous
Other forms:highhandedly adverb
highhadedness noun
synonyms:lordly,pushy
antonyms:democratic
John was high-handed since he was the richest and bossiest kid in the school. |
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Def:
1)to occur again, as an event, experience, etc.
2)to come up again for consideration, as a question.
Other Forms: recurrred,recurring
Synoyms:reapear
Antonym: stop
When I was leaving to school a recurred about something, I need to wear my pajamas for pajama day.
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Def:
1) a room or place where food is kept
Synonyms:pantry,storage
Antonyms:convict,seizure
I was hungry and luckily my mom put all the food in the larder.
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Def:
1)having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling,enthusiasm, etc.
Synonyms:devout,earnest
Antonyms:calm,cold
When I was a guest at my friends house they showed great fervent by offering me many foods. |
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Def:
1)to draw or bring out or forth
Other Forms:
elication(n)
elicitor(n)
Synonyms:provoke,extract
Antonyms:cover,hide
My teacher elicted me to present the first presentation of the year. |
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Def:
1)a radiance surrounding the head or the whole figure in there presentation of a sacred personage.
2)any encircling ring of light or color
Synonyms:halo,glory
Antonyms:haze,mistiness
Jacob was dooing good deabs he felt an aureole over his head. |
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Def:
1)fixed in direction
2)firm in purpose, resolution, faith, attachment, etc.
3)unwavering, as resolution, faith, adherence, etc.
4)firmly fixed in place or position.
Related forms:steadfastly,steadfastness
Synonyms:firm,staunch
Antonyms:disloyal,fickle,inconstant
Luis was steadfast in his religion christianity. |
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1)to give authority or official power to
Other Forms:authorizable,authorizer
Synoyms:permit,approve
Antonyms:deny,forbid
Joe authorized me to join boy scouts. |
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Def:
1)a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm.
2)anything profound, unfathomable, or infinite
Synonyms:chasm,depth
Antonyms:close,closure
We went to the grand canyon we learned it was an abyss. |
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Def:
1)penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge
2)originating in or penetrating to the depths of one's being
3)being or going far beneath what is superficial, external, or obvious
Other Form:
profoundly,profoundless
Synonyms:deep,intense
Antonyms:mild,shallow
The math test was so hard he went profound. |
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Def:
1)a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawinga liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placingthe shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into theone below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into thelonger one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
2)a projecting tubular part of some animals, especially certain mollusks,through which liquid enters or leaves the body.
Other Forms:siphonlike,siphonell
Synonyms:drain,funnel,pump
Antonmys:none
Grappling hooks attached to siphon electricity from low hanging powerlines.
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1)a person who carries a torch.
2)a leader in a movement, campaign, etc
Synonym:administrator,attractor
Antonyms:none
In my old school Joshua decided to be the torchbearer in a no homework campaign
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1)filled with intense feeling or passion
Other Forms:impassionedly
impassionedly
Synoyms:fierce,fiery
Antonyms:cool,unexcited
Xsaver was so impassioned about doing his homework he finished his whole math book. |
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Def:
1)promote the growth ordevelopment of soemthing
2)to apply warm water or medicated liquid, ointments
to the surface of the body.
Other Forms:fomenter
Synonyms:provoke,incite
Antonyms:allay,soothe
The forment of phones went up by the 21st century.
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Def:
1)a direct route traveled quickly
Synonyms:straightline,direct
Antonyms:sidetracked,detour
They guy was in suck a big rush he took the beeline to Colorado. |
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Def:
1)dreamily or wistfully thoughtful
2)expressing or revealing thoughtfulness, usually marked by somesadness
Other Forms:pensively
pensiveness
overpensively
Synonyms:dreamy,thoughtful
Antonyms:shallow,alert
Joe had a pensive dream about being the president. |
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Def:
1)to show or feel a lively or triumphant joy
2) to leap for joy
Other Forms:exultingly,self-exulting
Synonyms:rejoice,delight
Antonyms:bewell, be sad
Bob was so exult when he got his test back since he got an A. |
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Def:
1)to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily
2)to oppose by inconsequential, frivolous, or sham objection
Other Forms: caviled, caviling
Synonyms:critisize,complain
Antonyms:accept,acknowlege
Bob kept on caviling Joe since he killed the Bob's wife. |
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Def:
1)characterized by or in a state of uproar
2)very funny, as a person or situation.
Other forms:uproariously,uproariousness
Synonyms:noisy,wild
Antonyms:solemn,quiet
Wayne was so uproarious he got kicked out of the school. |
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Def:N
1)a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family ofoffspring or young.
Def:V
2)to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as a bird
Other Forms:broodless,unbrooded
Synonyms:hatch,incubate
Antonyms:child,ancestry
The red robin brooded to create new babies |
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Def:
1)the land lying behind a coastal region
2)an inland area supplying goods, especially
trade goods, to a port.
Synonyms:country,bush
Antonyms:varnish
Babville was a hinterland and people came there for vacation but mostly to trade there. |
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Def(adj)-
1)formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
Def(v)
2)to draw up the mouth in an affectedly nice or precise way.
Other Forms: primmer, primmest,primmed, primming.
Synonyms:stiff,proper
Antonyms:inproper,informal
Jake is the most sloppiest guy I ever met but when he got invited to a fancy restaurant he dressed up prim. |
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Def-
1)to tread or step heavily and noisily
2)to act in a harsh, domineering, or cruel manner, as if treading roughly
Other Forms:trampled, trampling.
Synonyms:tread,stamp
Antonyms:quiet,soft,nice
Joe trampled back home he was mad he lost the tennis match. |
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Def:
1)an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate at the upper end for regulating the flow.
2)the body of water held back or controlled by a sluice gate.
Other Forms: sluiced, sluicing.
Synonyms:chanell,flush
Antonyms:none
In science class we learned we sometimes get water from sluicing.
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