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- tarnish
collapse - discoloration of metal surface caused by oxidation
- make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man" related words >
- achromatize,
- asperse,
- aspersion,
- attaint,
- badge of infamy,
- bar sinister,
- baton,
- bedaub,
- befoul,
- begrime,
- benasty,
- bend sinister,
- besmear,
- besmirch,
- besmoke,
- besoil,
- bespatter,
- bestain,
- black eye,
- black mark,
- blacken,
- blanch,
- bleach,
- blemish,
- bloodstain,
- blot,
- blotch,
- blow upon,
- blur,
- brand,
- broad arrow,
- call names,
- calumniate,
- censure,
- champain,
- contaminate,
- corrupt,
- dab,
- damage,
- darken,
- daub,
- debase,
- decolor,
- decolorize,
- defame,
- defile,
- degrade,
- denigrate,
- dim,
- dirty,
- disapprove,
- discolor,
- disgrace,
- dishonor,
- disparage,
- disparagement,
- drain,
- drain of color,
- dull,
- embarrass,
- engage in personalities,
- etiolate,
- expose,
- expose to infamy,
- eyesore,
- fade,
- fleck,
- flick,
- flyspeck,
- foul,
- fume,
- gibbet,
- grime,
- hang in effigy,
- harm,
- heap dirt upon,
- hurt,
- impair,
- imputation,
- infect,
- injure,
- macula,
- maculation,
- macule,
- mar,
- mark,
- mark of Cain,
- mess,
- mess up,
- muckrake,
- muddy,
- nasty,
- onus,
- pale,
- patch,
- peroxide,
- pillory,
- pillorying,
- point champain,
- pollute,
- prejudice,
- reflection,
- reprimand,
- reproach,
- revile,
- ruin,
- scorch,
- sear,
- singe,
- slander,
- slubber,
- slur,
- smear,
- smirch,
- smoke,
- smooch,
- smouch,
- smudge,
- smut,
- smutch,
- soil,
- spatter,
- speck,
- speckle,
- splash,
- splatter,
- splotch,
- spoil,
- spot,
- stain,
- stigma,
- stigmatism,
- stigmatization,
- stigmatize,
- sully,
- taint,
- tar,
- throw mud at,
- tone down,
- vilify,
- vitiate,
- wash out,
- whiten
- random sample
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- a sample grabbed at random
- a sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected related words >
- accidentality,
- actuarial calculation,
- adjunct,
- adventitiousness,
- barometer,
- break,
- casualness,
- chance,
- component,
- contingent,
- cross section,
- destiny,
- detachment,
- detail,
- division,
- dole,
- fate,
- feeler,
- flukiness,
- fortuitousness,
- fortuity,
- fortune,
- fraction,
- gamble,
- good fortune,
- good luck,
- hap,
- happenstance,
- happy chance,
- heedless hap,
- how they fall,
- indeterminacy,
- indeterminateness,
- installment,
- item,
- law of averages,
- lot,
- luck,
- moira,
- opportunity,
- parcel,
- part,
- particular,
- percentage,
- pilot balloon,
- portion,
- principle of indeterminacy,
- probability,
- probe,
- problematicness,
- quadrant,
- quarter,
- quota,
- remainder,
- risk,
- run of luck,
- sample,
- sampling,
- section,
- sector,
- segment,
- serendipity,
- share,
- sound,
- sounder,
- statistical probability,
- straw vote,
- subdivision,
- subgroup,
- subspecies,
- the breaks,
- theory of probability,
- trial balloon,
- uncertainty,
- uncertainty principle,
- weather vane,
- weathercock,
- whatever comes
- andante
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- a moderately slow tempo (a walking pace)
- (of tempo) moderately slow
- at a moderately slow temp; "this passage must be played andante" related words >
- a poco,
- adagietto,
- adagio,
- allargando,
- allegretto,
- allegro,
- andante tempo,
- andantino,
- beat,
- calando,
- claudication,
- compound time,
- crawl,
- creep,
- crescendo,
- dead march,
- decrescendo,
- diminuendo,
- dogtrot,
- duple time,
- footpace,
- forte,
- fortissimo,
- funeral march,
- hobble,
- jog,
- jog trot,
- larghetto,
- larghissimo,
- largo,
- legato,
- leisurely gait,
- lento,
- limp,
- lumbering pace,
- marcando,
- march tempo,
- mincing steps,
- mixed times,
- pianissimo,
- piano,
- pizzicato,
- plod,
- prestissimo,
- presto,
- rack,
- rag,
- ragtime,
- rallentando,
- ritardando,
- ritenuto,
- rubato,
- saunter,
- scherzando,
- scherzo,
- sextuple time,
- shamble,
- shuffle,
- simple time,
- slouch,
- slow march,
- slow motion,
- spiccato,
- staccato,
- stretto,
- stroll,
- syncopation,
- syncope,
- tempo,
- tempo rubato,
- three-quarter time,
- time,
- time pattern,
- timing,
- triple time,
- triplet,
- trudge,
- two-four time,
- waddle,
- walk,
- waltz time
- unpromising
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- unlikely to bring about favorable results or enjoyment; "faced an unpromising task"; "music for unpromising combinations of instruments" related words >
- adverse,
- apocalyptic,
- bad,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- black,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- dark,
- dire,
- doomful,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dreary,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- fateful,
- foreboding,
- gloomy,
- hardly possible,
- hopeless,
- ill,
- ill-boding,
- ill-fated,
- ill-omened,
- ill-starred,
- implausible,
- improbable,
- inauspicious,
- incredible,
- lowering,
- menacing,
- more than doubtful,
- of evil portent,
- ominous,
- portending,
- portentous,
- questionable,
- sinister,
- somber,
- threatening,
- unfavorable,
- unfortunate,
- unlikely,
- unlucky,
- unpropitious,
- untoward
- leap year
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- in the Gregorian calendar: any year divisible by 4 except centenary years not divisible by 400 related words >
- abundant year,
- academic year,
- anniversary,
- annual holiday,
- annum,
- bicentenary,
- bicentennial,
- biennial,
- birthday,
- bissextile day,
- bissextile year,
- calendar month,
- calendar year,
- centenary,
- centennial,
- century,
- commemoration,
- common year,
- day,
- decade,
- decennary,
- decennial,
- decennium,
- defective year,
- diamond jubilee,
- fiscal year,
- fortnight,
- golden wedding anniversary,
- holy days,
- hour,
- immovable feast,
- jubilee,
- lunar month,
- lunar year,
- lunation,
- luster,
- lustrum,
- man-hour,
- microsecond,
- millennium,
- millisecond,
- minute,
- moment,
- month,
- moon,
- name day,
- natal day,
- octennial,
- quadrennial,
- quarter,
- quasquicentennial,
- quincentenary,
- quincentennial,
- quinquennial,
- quinquennium,
- regular year,
- second,
- semester,
- septennial,
- sesquicentennial,
- session,
- sextennial,
- sidereal year,
- silver wedding anniversary,
- solar year,
- sun,
- tercentenary,
- tercentennial,
- term,
- tricennial,
- triennial,
- trimester,
- twelvemonth,
- wedding anniversary,
- week,
- weekday,
- year
- agricultural region,
- arable land,
- black belt,
- citrus belt,
- corn belt,
- countryside,
- dust bowl,
- farm belt,
- farm country,
- farmland,
- fruit belt,
- grass roots,
- grassland,
- grazing region,
- highlands,
- lowlands,
- meadows and pastures,
- moors,
- plains,
- prairies,
- province,
- provinces,
- rural district,
- rustic region,
- steppes,
- the country,
- the soil,
- the sticks,
- tobacco belt,
- uplands,
- veld,
- wheat belt,
- wide-open spaces,
- woodland,
- woods and fields,
- yokeldom
- countryside
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- rural regions related words >
- agricultural region,
- arable land,
- black belt,
- citrus belt,
- corn belt,
- cotton belt,
- dust bowl,
- farm belt,
- farm country,
- farmland,
- fruit belt,
- grass roots,
- grassland,
- grazing region,
- highlands,
- lowlands,
- meadows and pastures,
- moors,
- plains,
- prairies,
- province,
- provinces,
- rural district,
- rustic region,
- steppes,
- the country,
- the soil,
- the sticks,
- tobacco belt,
- uplands,
- veld,
- wheat belt,
- wide-open spaces,
- woodland,
- woods and fields,
- yokeldom
- corn belt
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- midwestern United States (Iowa, Illinois, Indiana); excellent for raising corn and corn-fed livestock related words >
- agricultural region,
- arable land,
- black belt,
- citrus belt,
- cotton belt,
- countryside,
- dust bowl,
- farm belt,
- farm country,
- farmland,
- fruit belt,
- grass roots,
- grassland,
- grazing region,
- highlands,
- lowlands,
- meadows and pastures,
- moors,
- plains,
- prairies,
- province,
- provinces,
- rural district,
- rustic region,
- steppes,
- the country,
- the soil,
- the sticks,
- tobacco belt,
- uplands,
- veld,
- wheat belt,
- wide-open spaces,
- woodland,
- woods and fields,
- yokeldom
- radio operator
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- someone who operates a radio transmitter related words >
- ARRL,
- amateur radio operator,
- bakehead,
- black gang,
- boilerman,
- bungs,
- cabin boy,
- chips,
- commissary steward,
- complement,
- control engineer,
- deckhand,
- deckie,
- fireman,
- gun loader,
- gunner,
- ham,
- hand,
- hospital steward,
- landing signalman,
- mail orderly,
- mixer,
- monitor,
- navigator,
- oiler,
- purser,
- radio electrician,
- radio engineer,
- radio technician,
- radioman,
- radiotelegrapher,
- radiotrician,
- roustabout,
- snip,
- snips,
- sparks,
- steward,
- stewardess,
- stoker,
- torpedoman,
- watch,
- yeoman
- baneful,
- black,
- calamitous,
- cataclysmal,
- catastrophic,
- consuming,
- consumptive,
- convulsive,
- deadly,
- demolishing,
- demolitionary,
- depredatory,
- desolating,
- destroying,
- destructive,
- devastating,
- dire,
- disastrous,
- doomful,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- fratricidal,
- grievous,
- herky-jerky,
- insurrectionary,
- internecine,
- jerky,
- nihilist,
- nihilistic,
- orgasmic,
- paroxysmal,
- radical,
- ravaging,
- revolutional,
- revolutionary,
- revulsionary,
- revulsive,
- ruining,
- ruinous,
- seismic,
- self-destructive,
- spasmodic,
- spastic,
- subversionary,
- subversive,
- suicidal,
- sweeping,
- tragic,
- transilient,
- upheaving,
- vandalic,
- vandalish,
- vandalistic,
- wasteful,
- wasting,
- withering,
- wreckful
- penny
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- a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
- a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound related words >
- C,
- C-note,
- G,
- G-note,
- bawbee,
- buck,
- cartwheel,
- cent,
- century,
- copper,
- crown,
- dime,
- dollar,
- dollar bill,
- farthing,
- fifty cents,
- fin,
- fish,
- five cents,
- five hundred dollars,
- five-dollar bill,
- five-hundred-dollar bill,
- five-spot,
- fiver,
- florin,
- four bits,
- fourpence,
- fourpenny,
- frogskin,
- grand,
- groat,
- guinea,
- half G,
- half a C,
- half crown,
- half dollar,
- half grand,
- halfpenny,
- hundred-dollar bill,
- iron man,
- mag,
- meg,
- mill,
- mite,
- monkey,
- new pence,
- nickel,
- np,
- p,
- pence,
- pony,
- pound,
- quarter,
- quid,
- red cent,
- sawbuck,
- shilling,
- silver dollar,
- sixpence,
- skin,
- smacker,
- ten cents,
- ten-spot,
- tenner,
- thousand dollars,
- thousand-dollar bill,
- threepence,
- threepenny bit,
- thrippence,
- tuppence,
- twenty-dollar bill,
- twenty-five cents,
- two bits,
- two-dollar bill,
- two-spot,
- twopence,
- yard
- entertain
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- take into consideration, have in view; "He entertained the notion of moving to South America"
- provide entertainment for related words >
- accommodate,
- admit,
- allow,
- amuse,
- amusement,
- bear,
- beguile,
- bestow,
- billet,
- board,
- bosom,
- cater to,
- cherish,
- cling to,
- clip,
- consider,
- contemplate,
- convulse,
- cultivate,
- delight,
- disport,
- dissipation,
- distraction,
- diversion,
- divert,
- divertissement,
- do the honors,
- domicile,
- embosom,
- embrace,
- enjoyment,
- enliven,
- entertain guests,
- entertainment,
- exhilarate,
- feed,
- fondle,
- foster,
- fracture one,
- gaiety,
- give a party,
- gladden,
- gratify,
- guest,
- harbor,
- have,
- have and hold,
- hold,
- hold on to,
- host,
- house,
- hug,
- inquire into,
- invite,
- keep,
- kill,
- knock dead,
- lodge,
- loosen up,
- maintain,
- nourish,
- nurse,
- nurture,
- occupy,
- play,
- please,
- pleasure,
- preside,
- put up,
- quarter,
- raise a laugh,
- raise a smile,
- receive,
- recreate,
- recreation,
- refresh,
- regale,
- rejoice,
- relax,
- relaxation,
- relief,
- room,
- see about,
- slay,
- sleep upon,
- solace,
- sport,
- support,
- sustain,
- take under advisement,
- take under consideration,
- think it over,
- throw a party,
- tickle,
- titillate,
- tolerate,
- treasure,
- treasure up,
- treat,
- wow
- actionable,
- against the law,
- anarchic,
- anarchistic,
- anomic,
- banned,
- barred,
- black-market,
- bootleg,
- chargeable,
- contraband,
- contrary to law,
- criminal,
- felonious,
- flawed,
- forbade,
- forbid,
- forbidden,
- illegal,
- illegitimate,
- illicit,
- impermissible,
- irregular,
- justiciable,
- lawless,
- nonconstitutional,
- nonlegal,
- nonlicit,
- nonpermissible,
- not permitted,
- off limits,
- out of bounds,
- outlaw,
- outlawed,
- prohibited,
- punishable,
- ruled out,
- taboo,
- tabooed,
- triable,
- unauthorized,
- unconstitutional,
- under the ban,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- unlawful,
- unlicensed,
- unofficial,
- unpermissible,
- unsanctioned,
- unstatutory,
- untouchable,
- unwarrantable,
- unwarranted,
- verboten,
- vetoed,
- wrongful
- actionable,
- against the law,
- anarchic,
- anarchistic,
- anomic,
- banned,
- barred,
- black-market,
- bootleg,
- chargeable,
- contraband,
- contrary to law,
- criminal,
- felonious,
- flawed,
- forbade,
- forbid,
- forbidden,
- illegal,
- illegitimate,
- illicit,
- impermissible,
- irregular,
- justiciable,
- lawless,
- nonconstitutional,
- nonlegal,
- nonlicit,
- nonpermissible,
- not permitted,
- off limits,
- out of bounds,
- outlaw,
- prohibited,
- punishable,
- ruled out,
- taboo,
- tabooed,
- triable,
- unallowed,
- unauthorized,
- unconstitutional,
- under the ban,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- unlawful,
- unlicensed,
- unofficial,
- unpermissible,
- unsanctioned,
- unstatutory,
- untouchable,
- unwarrantable,
- unwarranted,
- verboten,
- vetoed,
- wrongful
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