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Definition
1. A hot, dry, dustladen wind blowing from northern Africa and affecting parts of southern Europe.
2. A warm, sultry south or southeast wind accompanied by rain, occurring in the same regions.
3. Any hot, oppressive wind, especially one in the warm sector of a cyclone.
Synonym: Harmattan
Antonym: Blizzard
Sirocco:Fervent
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Term
Highhanded
Adjective
Highhandedly
Highhandedness |
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1. condescending or presumptuous; overbearing; arbitrary:
Synonym:Arrogant
Antonym:Considerate
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Recur
Verb
Recurred, recurring, recurringly
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Definition
1. To occur again, as an event, experience, etc.
2. To return to the mind:
3. To come up again for consideration, as a question.
4. To have recourse.
Synoym: Repeat
Antonym: Stop
Recur:Steadfast
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Definition
1. A room or place where food is kept; pantry.
2. A supply of food.
Synonym: Stock
Antonym: Lack
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Term
Fervent
Adjective
Fervently, Ferventness, Nonfervent,
Nonfervently, Nonferventness |
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Definition
1. Having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm, etc.; ardent
2. Hot; burning; glowing.
Synonym: Devout
Antonym: Indifferent
Fervent: Impassioned |
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Term
Elicit
Verb
Elitation, Elicitor, Nonelicited, Unelicited
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Definition
!. to draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke:
Synonym: Obtain
Antonym: Give
Elicit: Foment |
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Definition
1. A radiance surrounding the head or the whole figure in the representation of a sacred personage.
2. Any encircling ring of light or color; halo.
3. Astronomy, corona (def 3).
4. Geology. a zone of altered country rock around an igneous intrusion.
Synonym: Corona or Halo
Antonym: Horns
Aureole: Angelic or Fervent |
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Term
Steadfast
Adjective
Steadfastly, Steadfastness, Oversteadfast,
Oversteadfastly, Oversteadfastness |
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Definition
1. Fixed in direction; steadily directed
2. Firm in purpose, resolution, faith, attachment, etc., as a person
3. Unwavering, as resolution, faith, adherence, etc.
4. Firmly established, as an institution or a state of affairs.
5. Firmly fixed in place or position.
Synonym: Staunch
Antonym: Fickle
Steadfast: Devoted |
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Term
Authorize
Verb
authorizable, authorizer, deauthorize, deauthorized, deauthorizing.
misauthorize, misauthorized, misauthorizing, preauthorize,
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Definition
1. To give authority or official power to; empower:
2. To give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding)
3. To establish by authority or usage:
4. To afford a ground for; warrant; justify.
Synonym: Permit
Antonym: Reject
Authorize:General |
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Definition
1. A deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm.
2. Anything profound, unfathomable, or infinite:
the abyss of time.
3. A. The primal chaos before Creation.
B. The infernal regions; hell.
C. A subterranean ocean.
Synonym: Chasm or Viod
Antonym: Dent
Abyss: Deep |
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Profound
Adjective
Profoundly, Profoundly, Unprofound, Unprofoundly |
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Definition
1. Penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding:
2. Originating in or penetrating to the depths of one's being; profound grief.
4. Of deep meaning; of great and broadly inclusive significance:
5. Pervasive or intense; thorough; complete
6. Extending, situated, or originating far down, or far beneath the surface
7. Low: a profound bow.
Synonym: Deep
Antonym: Shallow
Abyss: Profound |
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Term
Siphon
Noun and Verb
siphonal, siphonic, siphonless, siphonlike,
pseudosiphonal, pseudosiphonic, |
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Definition
1. A tube for conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a intliquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg on the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the
2. A projecting tubular part of some animals, especially certain mollusks, through which liquid enters or leaves the body.
VERB 3. To convey, draw, or pass through or as if through a siphon
Synonym: Pump Antonym: Pump: Siphon |
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Term
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Definition
1. Aperson who carries a torch.
2. A leader in a movement, campaign, etc.
Synonym: Leader
Antonym: Follower
Torchbearer: Foment
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Term
Impassioned
Adjective
impassionedly, impassionedness,
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1. Filled with intense feeling or passion; passionate; ardent.
Synonym: Emotional or Vehement
Antonym: Apathetic
Imapassioned: Fervent |
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Foment
Adjective
Fomenter, Unfomented |
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Definition
1. To instigate or foster (discord, rebellion, etc.); promote the growth or development of
2. To apply warm water or medicated liquid, ointments, etc., to (the surface of the body).
Synonym: Inspirer
Antonym: Deter
Rebel: Foment |
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Term
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Definition
1. A direct route traveled quickly (usually in the phrase make a beeline for):
Synonym: Shortcut
Antonym: Detour
Beeline: Shortest Route |
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Term
Pensive
Adjective
pensively, pensiveness, overpensive,
overpensively, overpensiveness |
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Definition
1. Dreamily or wistfully thoughtful
2. Expressing or revealing thoughtfulness, usually marked by some sadness
Synonym: Contemplative
Antonym: Negligent
Pensive: Profound |
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Term
Exult
Verb
Exultingly, Self-exulting
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Definition
1. To show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice exceedingly; be highly elated or jubilant
2. Obsolete. to leap, especially for joy.
Synonym: Rejoice
Antonym: Mourn
Exult: Fervent |
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Term
Cavil
Verb or Noun
caviler; especially British, caviller,
cavilingly; especially British, cavillingly,
outcavil, outcaviled, outcaviling or (especially British) outcavilled, outcavilling.
uncaviling, uncavilling, |
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Definition
VERB(used without object), caviled, caviling or (especially British) cavilled, cavilling.
1. To raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at or about):
VERB (used with object), caviled, caviling or (especially British) cavilled, cavilling.
NOUN
3. A trivial and annoying objection.
4. The raising of such objections.
Synonym: Carb
Antonym: Succumb
Cavil: Uproarious |
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Uproarious
Adjective
Uproariously, Uproariousness |
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Definition
1. Characterized by or in a state of uproar; tumultuous.
2. Making an uproar; confused and noisy, as an assembly, person, etc.
3. Very funny, as a person or situation.
4. Very loud, as sounds or utterances.
5. Expressed by or producing uproar.
Synonym: Loud or Comical
Antonym: Quiet or Serious
Uproarious: Prim |
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Term
Brood
Noun, Verb, or Adjective
Broodless, Unbrooded |
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Definition
noun
1.a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family ofoffspring or young.
2.a breed, species, group, or kind:
verb (used with object)
3.to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as a bird; incubate.
4.(of a bird) to warm, protect, or cover (young) with the wings or body.
5.to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder:
verb (used without object)
6.to sit upon eggs to be hatched, as a bird.
7.to dwell on a subject or to meditate with morbid persistence
adjective
8.kept for breeding:
Verb phrases
9.
brood above /over, to cover, loom, or seem to fill the atmosphereor scene
Synonym: Offspring
Antonym: Parent
Brood: Breed
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Term
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Definition
1. Often, hinterlands. the remote or less developed parts of a country; back country
2. The land lying behind a coastal region.
3. An area or sphere of influence in the unoccupied interior claimed by the state possessing the coast.
4. An inland area supplying goods, especially trade goods, to a port.
Synonym: Outback
Antonym: Metropolis
Hinterland: Boondocks |
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Prim
Adjective
Primly, Primness, Unprimmed, Primmer, Primmest |
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Definition
adjective, primmer, primmest.
1.
formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.verb (used without object), primmed, primming.
2. to draw up the mouth in an affectedly nice or precise way.
verb (used with object), primmed, primming.
3.to make prim, as in appearance.
4.to draw (one's face, lips, etc.) into a prim expression.
Synonym: Demure
Antonym: Untidy
British People: Prim
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Term
Trample
Verb
Trampler, Untrampled |
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Definition
verb (used without object), trampled, trampling.
1.
to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp.
2.to tread heavily, roughly, or crushingly (usually followed by on, upon,or over):
3.to act in a harsh, domineering, or cruel manner, as if treading roughly(usually followed by on, upon, or over):
verb (used with object), trampled, trampling.
4.to tread heavily, roughly, or carelessly on or over; tread underfoot.
5.to domineer harshly over; crush:
6.to put out or extinguish by trampling (usually followed by out):
Noun
7.the act of trampling.
8.the sound of trampling.
Synonym: Stomp
Antonym: Tippy Toes
Brandy Melville Sale: Trampled People
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Sluice
Noun And Verb
Sluicelike, Undersluice, Unsluice |
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noun
1. an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate(sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow. 2. the body of water held back or controlled by a sluice gate.
3. any contrivance for regulating a flow from or into a receptacle.
4.a channel, especially one carrying off surplus water; drain.
5.a stream of surplus water.
6.an artificial stream or channel of water for moving solid matter.
7.Also called sluice box. Mining. a long,
sloping trough or the like, withgrooves on the bottom,
into which water is directed to separate goldfrom gravel or sand.
verb (used with object), sluiced, sluicing.
8.to let out (water) by or as if by opening a sluice.
9.to drain (a pond, lake, etc.) by or as if by opening a sluice.
11.to flush or cleanse with a rush of water
12.Mining. to wash in a sluice.
13. to send (logs) down a sluiceway.
verb (used without object), sluiced, sluicing.
14.to flow or pour through or as if through a sluice.
Synonym: Channel
Antonym: Ocean
Sluice: Gush
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