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- culmination
collapse - (astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon related words >
- Z,
- accomplishment,
- acme,
- acme of perfection,
- apex,
- apodosis,
- apogee,
- bitter end,
- brow,
- cap,
- catastrophe,
- ceasing,
- cessation,
- climax,
- close,
- closure,
- cloud nine,
- coda,
- completing,
- completion,
- conclusion,
- consummation,
- crack of doom,
- crest,
- crown,
- culmen,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- death,
- decease,
- denouement,
- destination,
- destiny,
- doom,
- edge,
- effect,
- end,
- end point,
- end result,
- ending,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- eschatology,
- expiration,
- extreme limit,
- extremity,
- fate,
- final result,
- final solution,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finis,
- finish,
- finishing,
- fulfillment,
- full development,
- goal,
- heaven,
- heavens,
- height,
- high noon,
- highest pitch,
- highest point,
- izzard,
- last,
- last act,
- last breath,
- last gasp,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last word,
- last words,
- latter end,
- limit,
- maturation,
- maturity,
- maximum,
- meridian,
- mountaintop,
- ne plus ultra,
- no place higher,
- noon,
- omega,
- payoff,
- peak,
- perfection,
- period,
- peroration,
- pink,
- pink of perfection,
- pinnacle,
- pitch,
- point,
- pole,
- quietus,
- realization,
- resolution,
- resting place,
- ridge,
- ripeness,
- rounding off,
- rounding out,
- seventh heaven,
- sky,
- spire,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- summit,
- swan song,
- term,
- terminal,
- termination,
- terminus,
- tip,
- tip-top,
- top,
- topping off,
- topping-off,
- ultimate,
- upmost,
- upper extremity,
- uppermost,
- utmost,
- vertex,
- very top,
- windup,
- zenith
- cockatrice
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- monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance related words >
- Benedict Arnold,
- Brutus,
- Judas,
- Judas Iscariot,
- Quisling,
- achievement,
- alerion,
- animal charge,
- annulet,
- archtraitor,
- argent,
- armorial bearings,
- armory,
- arms,
- azure,
- bandeau,
- bar,
- bar sinister,
- baton,
- bearings,
- bend,
- bend sinister,
- betrayer,
- billet,
- blazon,
- blazonry,
- bordure,
- broad arrow,
- cadency mark,
- canton,
- chaplet,
- charge,
- chevron,
- chief,
- coat of arms,
- conniver,
- conspirator,
- conspirer,
- coronet,
- crescent,
- crest,
- cross,
- cross moline,
- crown,
- device,
- difference,
- differencing,
- double agent,
- double-crosser,
- double-dealer,
- eagle,
- ermine,
- ermines,
- erminites,
- erminois,
- escutcheon,
- falcon,
- fess,
- fess point,
- field,
- file,
- flanch,
- fleur-de-lis,
- fret,
- fur,
- fusil,
- garland,
- griffin,
- gules,
- gyron,
- hatchment,
- helmet,
- heraldic device,
- honor point,
- impalement,
- impaling,
- inescutcheon,
- informer,
- intrigant,
- intriguer,
- label,
- lion,
- lozenge,
- machinator,
- mantling,
- marshaling,
- martlet,
- mascle,
- metal,
- motto,
- mullet,
- nombril point,
- octofoil,
- or,
- ordinary,
- orle,
- pale,
- paly,
- pean,
- pheon,
- plotter,
- purpure,
- quarter,
- quartering,
- quisling,
- rat,
- rose,
- sable,
- saltire,
- schemer,
- scutcheon,
- serpent,
- shield,
- snake,
- spread eagle,
- subordinary,
- tenne,
- timeserver,
- tincture,
- torse,
- traitor,
- treasonist,
- tressure,
- trimmer,
- turncoat,
- unicorn,
- vair,
- vert,
- wreath,
- yale
- contribute
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- contribute to some cause; "I gave at the office"
- be conducive to; "The use of computers in the classroom lead to better writing" related words >
- accommodate,
- add to,
- advance,
- afford,
- aid,
- assist,
- augment,
- be enfranchised,
- be implicated in,
- bear a hand,
- bend to,
- bestow,
- bias,
- chip in,
- clothe,
- come through,
- compare,
- conduce,
- contribute to,
- dispose,
- donate,
- donate to,
- endow,
- enter into,
- fill,
- fill up,
- find,
- fortify,
- forward,
- fund,
- furnish,
- gift,
- gift with,
- give,
- give to,
- go,
- go into,
- grant,
- have a tendency,
- have suffrage,
- head,
- help,
- help decide,
- incline,
- invest,
- join,
- join in,
- keep,
- kick in,
- lead,
- lean,
- look to,
- maintain,
- make available,
- make provision for,
- make the scene,
- partake,
- partake of,
- participate,
- participate in,
- pitch in,
- pledge,
- point,
- point to,
- prepare,
- present,
- promote,
- provide,
- provide for,
- pull an oar,
- recruit,
- redound to,
- reinforce,
- replenish,
- serve,
- set,
- set toward,
- show a tendency,
- sit in,
- sit in on,
- stock,
- store,
- strengthen,
- subscribe,
- subsidize,
- supplement,
- supply,
- support,
- sweeten the kitty,
- take part in,
- tend,
- trend,
- turn,
- verge,
- vote,
- warp,
- work toward,
- yield
- acme,
- apex,
- apogee,
- beatification,
- beatitude,
- bewitchment,
- blessedness,
- bliss,
- blissfulness,
- brow,
- cap,
- celestial throne,
- cheer,
- cheerfulness,
- climax,
- cloud nine,
- crest,
- crown,
- culmen,
- culmination,
- delectation,
- delight,
- ecstasy,
- ecstatics,
- edge,
- elation,
- enchantment,
- exaltation,
- exhilaration,
- extreme limit,
- extremity,
- exuberance,
- felicity,
- gaiety,
- gladness,
- glee,
- happiness,
- heaven,
- heaven of heavens,
- heavens,
- height,
- high noon,
- high spirits,
- highest pitch,
- highest point,
- intoxication,
- joy,
- joyance,
- joyfulness,
- limit,
- maximum,
- meridian,
- mountaintop,
- ne plus ultra,
- no place higher,
- noon,
- overhappiness,
- overjoyfulness,
- paradise,
- peak,
- pinnacle,
- pitch,
- point,
- pole,
- rapture,
- ravishment,
- rhapsody,
- ridge,
- sky,
- spire,
- summit,
- sunshine,
- the empyrean,
- throne of God,
- tip,
- tip-top,
- top,
- transport,
- unalloyed happiness,
- upmost,
- upper extremity,
- uppermost,
- utmost,
- vertex,
- very top,
- zenith
- calorie
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- unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure
- a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food related words >
- accuse,
- address to,
- adduce,
- advance,
- allege,
- allude to,
- anatomize,
- arraign,
- article,
- atomize,
- bid come,
- book,
- bring accusation,
- bring charges,
- bring to attention,
- bring to book,
- bring to notice,
- call,
- call attention to,
- call away,
- call back,
- call for,
- call forth,
- call in,
- call out,
- call to mind,
- call together,
- call up,
- charge,
- circumstantiate,
- cite a particular,
- complain,
- conjure,
- conjure up,
- convene,
- convoke,
- count,
- crown,
- crown with laurel,
- decorate,
- demand,
- demonstrate,
- denounce,
- denunciate,
- descend to particulars,
- detail,
- direct attention to,
- direct to,
- do honor,
- document,
- enter into detail,
- enumerate,
- evoke,
- example,
- exemplify,
- fasten on,
- fasten upon,
- finger,
- focus on,
- give a for-instance,
- give full particulars,
- hang something on,
- honor,
- illustrate,
- impeach,
- imply,
- impute,
- indent,
- indict,
- inform against,
- inform on,
- insinuate,
- instance,
- invoke,
- itemize,
- lay,
- lay charges,
- lodge a complaint,
- lodge a plaint,
- mention,
- mind,
- muster,
- muster up,
- name,
- number,
- offer,
- order up,
- page,
- particularize,
- pay regard to,
- pay tribute,
- pick out,
- pin on,
- point at,
- point out,
- point to,
- praise,
- preconize,
- prefer charges,
- present,
- press charges,
- put on report,
- quote,
- recall,
- recollect,
- refer to,
- remind,
- reminisce,
- render honor to,
- report,
- reproach,
- requisition,
- retain,
- retrospect,
- revive,
- send after,
- send for,
- serve,
- specify,
- spell out,
- subpoena,
- substantiate,
- summon,
- summon forth,
- summon up,
- summons,
- take to task,
- task,
- taunt with,
- tax,
- tell,
- touch on,
- twit
- about ship,
- alternate,
- battledore and shuttlecock,
- bear away,
- bear off,
- bear to starboard,
- beat,
- beat about,
- box off,
- break,
- bring about,
- bring round,
- cant,
- cant round,
- cast,
- cast about,
- change,
- change course,
- change the heading,
- come about,
- come and go,
- dither,
- double a point,
- ebb and flow,
- equivocate,
- fetch about,
- flounder,
- fluctuate,
- go about,
- go through phases,
- gybe,
- heave round,
- hitch and hike,
- jibe,
- jibe all standing,
- miss stays,
- oscillate,
- pass and repass,
- pendulate,
- ply,
- reciprocate,
- ride and tie,
- ring the changes,
- round a point,
- seesaw,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shilly-shally,
- shuffle,
- shuttle,
- shuttlecock,
- slew,
- stagger,
- sway,
- swerve,
- swing,
- swing round,
- swing the stern,
- tack,
- teeter,
- teeter-totter,
- tergiversate,
- throw about,
- to-and-fro,
- totter,
- turn,
- turn back,
- vacillate,
- vary,
- veer,
- waver,
- wax and wane,
- wear,
- wear ship,
- wibble-wabble,
- wigwag,
- wind,
- wobble,
- yaw,
- zigzag
- Establishment,
- Rasputin,
- Svengali,
- access,
- aristocracy,
- bad influence,
- baron,
- barons,
- big cheese,
- big gun,
- big man,
- big name,
- big shot,
- big wheel,
- bigwig,
- brass,
- brass hat,
- celebrity,
- court,
- cream,
- dignitary,
- dignity,
- elder,
- elite,
- eminence grise,
- establishment,
- fat cat,
- father,
- figure,
- five-percenter,
- friend at court,
- good influence,
- gray eminence,
- great man,
- heavyweight,
- hidden hand,
- important person,
- influence,
- influence peddler,
- influencer,
- ingroup,
- interests,
- key,
- kingmaker,
- leader,
- lion,
- lobby,
- lobbyist,
- lords of creation,
- luminary,
- magnate,
- man of influence,
- man of mark,
- manipulator,
- mogul,
- nabob,
- name,
- nobility,
- notability,
- notable,
- open sesame,
- overlapping,
- panjandrum,
- person of renown,
- personage,
- personality,
- pillar of society,
- power,
- power elite,
- power structure,
- powers that be,
- pressure group,
- ruling circle,
- ruling circles,
- ruling class,
- sachem,
- sinister influence,
- somebody,
- something,
- special interests,
- special-interest group,
- the Establishment,
- the best,
- the best people,
- the brass,
- the great,
- the top,
- top brass,
- top people,
- tycoon,
- upper class,
- upper crust,
- very important person,
- wheeler-dealer,
- wire-puller,
- worthy
- pinpoint
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- the sharp point of a pin
- a very brief moment; "they were strangers sharing a pinpoint of time together"
- locate exactly; "can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"; "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome" related words >
- abode,
- account for,
- accredit with,
- accrete to,
- acknowledge,
- allocate,
- apply to,
- area,
- ascribe to,
- assign,
- assign to,
- attach to,
- attribute to,
- bearings,
- bench mark,
- blame,
- blame for,
- blame on,
- bring home to,
- charge on,
- charge to,
- close,
- collocate,
- confess,
- connect with,
- constant,
- credit with,
- crumb,
- delicate,
- deploy,
- determinate,
- diagnose,
- direct,
- dispose,
- distinguish,
- district,
- dot,
- drop,
- droplet,
- emplace,
- emplacement,
- even,
- exact,
- express,
- faithful,
- fasten upon,
- father upon,
- fine,
- finger,
- fix,
- fix on,
- fix upon,
- fleck,
- flyspeck,
- get a fix,
- gnat,
- grain,
- hang on,
- hole,
- home in on,
- home on,
- identify,
- impute to,
- inerrable,
- inerrant,
- infallible,
- install,
- iota,
- jot,
- latitude and longitude,
- lay to,
- lieu,
- locale,
- locality,
- localize,
- locate,
- location,
- locus,
- map,
- mathematical,
- microbe,
- micrometrically precise,
- microorganism,
- microscopic,
- midge,
- minim,
- minutia,
- minutiae,
- mite,
- mote,
- navigate,
- nice,
- particle,
- pick up,
- pin down,
- pin on,
- pinhead,
- place,
- place upon,
- placement,
- point,
- point to,
- position,
- precise,
- put in place,
- receive,
- recognize,
- refer to,
- refined,
- region,
- religious,
- religiously exact,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- saddle on,
- saddle with,
- scan,
- scientific,
- scientifically exact,
- scrap,
- set down to,
- settle upon,
- severe,
- site,
- situate,
- situation,
- situs,
- snip,
- snippet,
- speck,
- spot,
- square,
- stead,
- strict,
- subtle,
- sweep,
- tittle,
- triangulate,
- trigger,
- tune in,
- undeviating,
- unerring,
- vanishing point,
- whereabout,
- whereabouts,
- zero in on
- Mardi Gras,
- Saturnalia,
- banquet,
- blowout,
- carnival,
- do,
- fair,
- feast,
- festival,
- festive occasion,
- festivity,
- fete,
- field day,
- fiesta,
- fooling,
- gala,
- gala affair,
- gala day,
- great doings,
- jamboree,
- kermis,
- party,
- picnic,
- revel,
- revelment,
- roughhouse,
- rowdiness,
- skylarking,
- up,
- wassail,
- waygoose,
- wayzgoose,
- whoop,
- whoopee
- Mardi Gras,
- Saturnalia,
- banquet,
- blowout,
- carnival,
- carouse,
- celebration,
- charivari,
- do,
- fair,
- feast,
- festival,
- festive occasion,
- festivity,
- fete,
- field day,
- fiesta,
- frolic,
- gala,
- gala affair,
- gala day,
- gathering,
- get-together,
- great doings,
- high jinks,
- jubilee,
- kermis,
- party,
- picnic,
- revelry,
- revels,
- spree,
- waygoose,
- wayzgoose
- liberality
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- the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament
- an inclination to favor progress and individual freedom related words >
- Trinkgeld,
- abundance,
- accommodation,
- accordance,
- affluence,
- amiability,
- ample sufficiency,
- ampleness,
- amplitude,
- avalanche,
- award,
- awarding,
- bestowal,
- bestowment,
- bigheartedness,
- bigness,
- bonanza,
- bonhomie,
- bonus,
- bountifulness,
- bountiousness,
- bounty,
- bribe,
- bumper crop,
- catholicity,
- chivalrousness,
- chivalry,
- communication,
- concession,
- conferment,
- conferral,
- consideration,
- contribution,
- copiousness,
- cordiality,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- donation,
- donative,
- double time,
- elevation,
- endowment,
- errantry,
- exaltation,
- extravagance,
- exuberance,
- fee,
- fertility,
- flood,
- flow,
- foison,
- free thought,
- freethinking,
- friendliness,
- full measure,
- fullness,
- furnishment,
- generosity,
- generousness,
- geniality,
- gifting,
- giving,
- graciousness,
- grant,
- granting,
- gratuity,
- gravy,
- grease,
- great abundance,
- great heart,
- great plenty,
- greatheartedness,
- greatness,
- greatness of heart,
- gush,
- heartiness,
- heroism,
- high-mindedness,
- honorarium,
- hospitableness,
- hospitality,
- idealism,
- impartation,
- impartment,
- incentive pay,
- inducement,
- investiture,
- knight-errantry,
- knightliness,
- lagniappe,
- landslide,
- largeheartedness,
- largess,
- latitudinarianism,
- lavishness,
- liberalism,
- liberalness,
- libertarianism,
- loftiness,
- lots,
- luxuriance,
- magnanimity,
- magnanimousness,
- maximum,
- more than enough,
- much,
- myriad,
- myriads,
- neighborliness,
- nobility,
- noble-mindedness,
- nobleness,
- numerousness,
- offer,
- open door,
- openhandedness,
- openheartedness,
- opulence,
- opulency,
- outpouring,
- overflow,
- palm oil,
- perks,
- perquisite,
- plenitude,
- plenteousness,
- plentifulness,
- plenty,
- pourboire,
- premium,
- presentation,
- presentment,
- prevalence,
- princeliness,
- prodigality,
- productiveness,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- provision,
- quantities,
- receptiveness,
- repleteness,
- repletion,
- rich harvest,
- rich vein,
- richness,
- riot,
- riotousness,
- salve,
- scads,
- shower,
- something extra,
- spate,
- sportula,
- stream,
- sublimity,
- subscription,
- substantiality,
- substantialness,
- superabundance,
- supplying,
- surrender,
- sweetener,
- teemingness,
- tip,
- vouchsafement,
- warmheartedness,
- warmness,
- warmth,
- wealth
- prattler
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- someone who speaks in a childish way related words >
- agreeable rattle,
- babbler,
- big talker,
- blab,
- blabber,
- blabberer,
- blabbermouth,
- blatherer,
- chatterbox,
- chatterer,
- gabber,
- gabbler,
- gasbag,
- gibble-gabbler,
- great talker,
- hot-air artist,
- idle chatterer,
- jabberer,
- jay,
- magpie,
- moulin a paroles,
- patterer,
- prater,
- rattle,
- windbag,
- windjammer,
- word-slinger
- agreeable rattle,
- babbler,
- big talker,
- blab,
- blabber,
- blabberer,
- blabbermouth,
- blatherer,
- chatterbox,
- chatterer,
- gabber,
- gabbler,
- gasbag,
- gibble-gabbler,
- great talker,
- hot-air artist,
- idle chatterer,
- jay,
- magpie,
- moulin a paroles,
- patterer,
- prater,
- prattler,
- rattle,
- windbag,
- windjammer,
- word-slinger
- top
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- a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips; "he stared as she buttoned her top"
- covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container); "he removed the top of the carton"; "he couldn't get the top off of the bottle"; "put the cover back on the kettle"
- a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin; "he got a bright red top and string for his birthday"
- platform surrounding the head of a lower mast
- the greatest possible intensity; "he screamed at the top of his lungs"
- the highest or uppermost side of anything; "put your books on top of the desk"; "only the top side of the box was painted"
- the upper part of anything; "the mower cuts off the tops of the grass"; "the title should be written at the top of the first page"
- the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat; "a relief pitcher took over in the top of the fifth"
- finish up or conclude; "They topped off their dinner with a cognac"; "top the evening with champagne"
- cut the top off; "top trees and bushes"
- strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin
- reach or ascend the top of; "The hikers topped the mountain just before noon"
- provide with a top; "the towers were topped with conical roofs"
- be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point; "A star tops the Christmas Tree" related words >
- Establishment,
- VIP,
- acmatic,
- acme,
- acme of perfection,
- agate,
- all,
- apex,
- apical,
- apogee,
- ball,
- baron,
- baseball bat,
- bat,
- battledore,
- bauble,
- beat,
- best,
- bestraddle,
- bestride,
- better,
- big gun,
- big man,
- big name,
- big top,
- bigwig,
- blocks,
- bonnet,
- border,
- brass,
- brass hat,
- brow,
- bureaucracy,
- canvas,
- cap,
- capital,
- carousel,
- ceil,
- ceiling,
- celebrity,
- checkerboard,
- chessboard,
- chief,
- choice,
- circumference,
- clear,
- climax,
- clip,
- cloud nine,
- club,
- cockhorse,
- coif,
- command,
- consummate,
- consummation,
- cork,
- cortex,
- costly,
- cover,
- covering,
- cream,
- crest,
- cricket bat,
- crop,
- crown,
- crust,
- cue,
- culmen,
- culminate,
- culmination,
- curtail,
- cusp,
- dear,
- dear-bought,
- dignitary,
- dignity,
- directorate,
- disk,
- dock,
- doll,
- doll carriage,
- dome,
- dominate,
- eaves,
- edge,
- elder,
- elite,
- end,
- envelope,
- epidermis,
- exceed,
- excel,
- expensive,
- exterior,
- external,
- extreme,
- extreme limit,
- extremity,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- fancy,
- fat,
- father,
- figure,
- fine,
- first-class,
- first-rate,
- first-string,
- flower,
- fringe,
- front,
- frost,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- go one better,
- golf club,
- great man,
- greatest,
- hat,
- head,
- headmost,
- heaven,
- heavens,
- height,
- hierarchy,
- high,
- high noon,
- high-priced,
- higher echelons,
- higher-ups,
- highest,
- highest degree,
- highest pitch,
- highest point,
- hobbyhorse,
- hood,
- housetop,
- ice,
- important person,
- improve on,
- integument,
- interests,
- jack-in-the-box,
- jacks,
- jackstones,
- jackstraws,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- lantern,
- last word,
- lid,
- limit,
- lineaments,
- lion,
- look down upon,
- lords of creation,
- luxurious,
- magnate,
- man of mark,
- management,
- marble,
- marionette,
- maximal,
- maximum,
- meridian,
- meridional,
- merry-go-round,
- mig,
- ministry,
- mogul,
- most,
- mountaintop,
- nabob,
- name,
- ne plus ultra,
- no place higher,
- noon,
- not affordable,
- notability,
- notable,
- nth degree,
- of great cost,
- officialdom,
- operculum,
- outdo,
- outer face,
- outer layer,
- outer side,
- outer skin,
- outline,
- outshine,
- outside,
- outstrip,
- outtop,
- outweigh,
- overarch,
- overbalance,
- overbear,
- overcome,
- overhead,
- overlook,
- overmost,
- overpass,
- overshadow,
- overtop,
- panjandrum,
- paper doll,
- paramount,
- peak,
- penthouse,
- perfect,
- perfection,
- periphery,
- person of renown,
- personage,
- personality,
- pick,
- pick-up sticks,
- pillar of society,
- pink,
- pink of perfection,
- pinnacle,
- pinwheel,
- pitch,
- plafond,
- plaything,
- point,
- pole,
- pollard,
- power,
- power elite,
- predominate,
- preeminent,
- prelacy,
- premium,
- preponderate,
- prevail,
- pricey,
- pride,
- prime,
- prize,
- prune,
- puppet,
- racket,
- rag doll,
- rich,
- ridge,
- ridgepole,
- rind,
- rise above,
- rocking horse,
- roller,
- rolling stone,
- roof,
- roof garden,
- roof in,
- roof-deck,
- roofage,
- roofing,
- roofpole,
- rooftop,
- rooftree,
- rotator,
- rotor,
- round top,
- roundabout,
- ruling circle,
- ruling class,
- ruling classes,
- rundle,
- sachem,
- seventh heaven,
- shell,
- shingles,
- shorten,
- skin,
- sky,
- skylight,
- slates,
- somebody,
- something,
- spire,
- sport,
- steelie,
- steep,
- stiff,
- stopper,
- summit,
- summital,
- sumptuous,
- superficies,
- superior,
- superlative,
- superstratum,
- supreme,
- surface,
- surmount,
- surpass,
- taw,
- teetotum,
- tent,
- tentage,
- the Establishment,
- the administration,
- the authorities,
- the great,
- the ingroup,
- the interests,
- the people upstairs,
- the power elite,
- the power structure,
- the top,
- the whole,
- them,
- they,
- tiles,
- tip,
- tip-top,
- top brass,
- top off,
- top people,
- top-notch,
- topmost,
- tower above,
- tower over,
- toy,
- toy soldier,
- transcend,
- trim,
- trinket,
- trump,
- truncate,
- tycoon,
- ultimate,
- unpayable,
- upmost,
- upper extremity,
- uppermost,
- utmost,
- utmost extent,
- uttermost,
- vertex,
- vertical,
- very important person,
- very top,
- wheel,
- whim-wham,
- whirlabout,
- whirler,
- whirligig,
- whitetop,
- worthy,
- zenith,
- zenithal
- admirable
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- deserving of the highest esteem or admiration; "an estimable young professor"; "trains ran with admirable precision"; "his taste was impeccable, his health admirable"
- inspiring admiration or approval; "among her many admirable qualities are generosity and graciousness" related words >
- adorable,
- angelic,
- awe-inspiring,
- beyond all praise,
- caressable,
- charming,
- commendable,
- creditable,
- cuddlesome,
- deserving,
- estimable,
- excellent,
- exemplary,
- fine,
- first-class,
- first-rate,
- great,
- kissable,
- laudable,
- likable,
- lovable,
- lovely,
- lovesome,
- magic,
- meritorious,
- model,
- praiseworthy,
- seraphic,
- smashing,
- splendid,
- superior,
- sweet,
- top-drawer,
- unexceptionable,
- well-deserving,
- winning,
- winsome,
- wonderful,
- worthy
- apex
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- the point on the celestial sphere toward which the sun and solar system appear to be moving relative to the fixed stars related words >
- L,
- Olympian heights,
- achievement,
- acme,
- aerial heights,
- alveolar ridge,
- alveolus,
- angle,
- apogee,
- arytenoid cartilages,
- attainment,
- back,
- bend,
- bifurcation,
- bight,
- blade,
- brow,
- cant,
- cap,
- capstone,
- chevron,
- climax,
- cloud nine,
- coin,
- consummation,
- corner,
- crank,
- crescendo,
- crest,
- crook,
- crotchet,
- crown,
- culmen,
- culmination,
- deflection,
- dizzy heights,
- dogleg,
- dorsum,
- edge,
- elbow,
- elevation,
- ell,
- eminence,
- ether,
- extreme limit,
- extremity,
- fork,
- furcation,
- hard palate,
- heaven,
- heavens,
- height,
- heights,
- high noon,
- highest pitch,
- highest point,
- hook,
- inflection,
- knee,
- larynx,
- last word,
- lift,
- limit,
- lips,
- maximum,
- meridian,
- mountaintop,
- nasal cavity,
- ne plus ultra,
- no place higher,
- nook,
- noon,
- noontide,
- oral cavity,
- palate,
- peak,
- pharyngeal cavity,
- pharynx,
- pinnacle,
- pitch,
- point,
- pole,
- prime,
- prominence,
- quoin,
- raise,
- realization,
- ridge,
- rise,
- rising ground,
- roof,
- seventh heaven,
- sky,
- soft palate,
- speech organ,
- spire,
- steep,
- stratosphere,
- summit,
- swerve,
- syrinx,
- teeth,
- teeth ridge,
- tip,
- tip-top,
- tongue,
- top,
- ultimate,
- upmost,
- upper extremity,
- uppermost,
- uprise,
- utmost,
- vantage ground,
- vantage point,
- veer,
- very top,
- vocal chink,
- vocal cords,
- vocal folds,
- vocal processes,
- voice box,
- zag,
- zenith,
- zig,
- zigzag
- italicize
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- print in italics related words >
- U,
- aggrandized,
- apotheosized,
- aristocratic,
- awesome,
- beatified,
- big,
- canonized,
- deified,
- dictatorial,
- elevated,
- elitist,
- eminent,
- ennobled,
- enshrined,
- enthroned,
- exalted,
- excellent,
- glorified,
- grand,
- great,
- held in awe,
- high,
- hubristic,
- immortal,
- immortalized,
- imperious,
- lofty,
- lordly,
- magisterial,
- magnified,
- masterful,
- mighty,
- sainted,
- sanctified,
- shrined,
- sublime,
- supereminent,
- throned
- focus
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- maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system; "in focus"; "out of focus"
- maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea; "the controversy brought clearly into focus an important difference of opinion"
- the concentration of attention or energy on something; "the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology"; "he had no direction in his life"
- a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section
- a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges
- a central point or locus of an infection in an organism; "the focus of infection"
- put (an image) into focus; "Please focus the image; we cannot enjoy the movie"
- become focussed or come into focus; "The light focused"
- cause to converge on or toward a central point; "Focus the light on this image" related words >
- adductor,
- approach,
- asymptote,
- attractant,
- attrahent,
- axiom,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- bottleneck,
- bring into focus,
- center,
- center of attraction,
- center of consciousness,
- center of interest,
- clear,
- collision course,
- concenter,
- concentralization,
- concentralize,
- concentrate,
- concentration,
- concourse,
- concurrence,
- confluence,
- conflux,
- congress,
- converge,
- convergence,
- converging,
- core,
- crossing,
- cynosure,
- distinct,
- elixir,
- essence,
- essential,
- fix,
- fixate,
- flower,
- focal point,
- focalization,
- focalize,
- focus of attention,
- fundamental,
- funnel,
- fuzzy,
- gist,
- gravamen,
- heart,
- hub,
- hypostasis,
- in focus,
- indistinct,
- inner essence,
- kernel,
- lodestar,
- lure,
- magnet,
- marrow,
- meat,
- meet,
- meeting,
- mutual approach,
- narrowing gap,
- nave,
- nerve,
- nub,
- nucleus,
- nuts and bolts,
- out of focus,
- pinpoint,
- pith,
- point of convergence,
- polestar,
- postulate,
- prime focus,
- principle,
- put,
- quid,
- quiddity,
- quintessence,
- radius,
- rivet,
- sap,
- soul,
- spirit,
- spokes,
- spotlight,
- stuff,
- substance,
- tangent,
- target,
- the nitty-gritty,
- unclear,
- woolly,
- zero in
- marginal
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- being close to a lower limit or or of lower class; "marginal abilities"
- producing at a rate that barely covers production costs; "marginal industries"; "marginal land" related words >
- bordering,
- borderline,
- boundary,
- bounding,
- coastal,
- determinant,
- determinative,
- determining,
- disputable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- extreme,
- fringing,
- frontier,
- inferior,
- infinitesimal,
- insignificant,
- limbic,
- liminal,
- limit,
- limiting,
- littoral,
- low-priority,
- minimal,
- negligible,
- no great shakes,
- of no account,
- of no consequence,
- of no matter,
- of no significance,
- on the edge,
- questionable,
- rimming,
- secondary,
- skirting,
- slight,
- small,
- terminal,
- threshold,
- tiny,
- unimportant
- plainly
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- in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment; "she was dressed plainly"; "they lived very simply" related words >
- all joking aside,
- alone,
- aloud,
- apparently,
- apprehensibly,
- articulately,
- artlessly,
- audibly,
- barely,
- bluffly,
- bluntly,
- broadly,
- brusquely,
- candidly,
- casually,
- clearly,
- coherently,
- commonly,
- commonplacely,
- comprehensibly,
- conspicuously,
- definitely,
- directly,
- discernibly,
- distinctly,
- en famille,
- evidently,
- exclusively,
- explicitly,
- expressly,
- familiarly,
- frankly,
- genuinely,
- glaringly,
- guilelessly,
- in all conscience,
- in all seriousness,
- in plain English,
- in plain terms,
- in plain words,
- informally,
- ingenuously,
- intelligibly,
- just,
- limpidly,
- lucidly,
- manifestly,
- markedly,
- matter-of-factly,
- merely,
- naturally,
- noticeably,
- observably,
- obviously,
- offhand,
- offhandedly,
- only,
- openheartedly,
- openly,
- ordinarily,
- out,
- out loud,
- outspokenly,
- palpably,
- patently,
- pellucidly,
- perceivably,
- perceptibly,
- perspicuously,
- plain-spokenly,
- point-blank,
- prominently,
- pronouncedly,
- prosaically,
- purely,
- recognizably,
- relaxedly,
- roundly,
- sans ceremonie,
- seeably,
- simply,
- simply and solely,
- sincerely,
- singly,
- solely,
- staringly,
- starkly,
- straightforwardly,
- to the point,
- unaffectedly,
- unambiguously,
- unassumingly,
- unceremoniously,
- unconcealedly,
- unconstrainedly,
- understandably,
- undisguisedly,
- unequivocally,
- unmistakably,
- unofficially,
- unreservedly,
- unrestrainedly,
- visibly,
- with clarity,
- with no nonsense,
- without ceremony
- ace,
- article,
- aspect,
- atom,
- bit,
- bric-a-brac,
- case,
- chaff,
- chicken feed,
- chickenshit,
- count,
- crumb,
- dab,
- datum,
- detail,
- details,
- dole,
- dot,
- dram,
- dribble,
- driblet,
- drop,
- droplet,
- dwarf,
- element,
- facet,
- fact,
- factor,
- farthing,
- fleck,
- flyspeck,
- fragment,
- froth,
- gimcrackery,
- gnat,
- gobbet,
- grain,
- granule,
- groat,
- hair,
- handful,
- incidental,
- instance,
- iota,
- item,
- jot,
- knickknackery,
- little,
- little bit,
- matter,
- microbe,
- microorganism,
- midge,
- minim,
- minimum,
- minor detail,
- minutia,
- mite,
- modicum,
- molecule,
- mote,
- nutshell,
- ounce,
- particle,
- particular,
- peanuts,
- pebble,
- pinch,
- pinhead,
- pinpoint,
- pittance,
- point,
- regard,
- respect,
- rubbish,
- scrap,
- scruple,
- small beer,
- small change,
- small potatoes,
- smidgen,
- smitch,
- snip,
- snippet,
- speck,
- spoonful,
- spot,
- thimbleful,
- thing,
- tiny bit,
- tittle,
- trash,
- trifles,
- trifling amount,
- trivia,
- triviality,
- trumpery,
- vanishing point,
- whit
- abode,
- area,
- bearings,
- bench mark,
- district,
- emplacement,
- hole,
- latitude and longitude,
- locale,
- locality,
- location,
- locus,
- pinpoint,
- place,
- placement,
- point,
- position,
- region,
- site,
- situation,
- situs,
- spot,
- stead,
- whereabout,
- whereabouts
- amiss,
- astray,
- at a disadvantage,
- at the nadir,
- below,
- below deck,
- below par,
- below standard,
- belowstairs,
- beside the mark,
- beside the point,
- bootlessly,
- down below,
- downstairs,
- far from it,
- fruitlessly,
- in the gutter,
- in vain,
- infra,
- least,
- least of all,
- less,
- off,
- short of,
- substandard,
- to no purpose,
- under,
- under par,
- underfoot,
- vainly
- acceptable,
- adequate,
- all right,
- average,
- bourgeois,
- common,
- commonplace,
- conventional,
- garden,
- garden-variety,
- general,
- middle-class,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- naturistic,
- no great shakes,
- normal,
- orderly,
- ordinary,
- plastic,
- prosaic,
- realistic,
- regular,
- run-of-mine,
- run-of-the-mill,
- satisfactory,
- suburban,
- sufficient,
- tolerable,
- typical,
- uneventful,
- unexceptionable,
- unimpeachable,
- unnoteworthy,
- unremarkable,
- unspectacular,
- usual
- admonish,
- amend,
- awaken,
- break the spell,
- bring to book,
- burst the bubble,
- call to account,
- chastise,
- chide,
- compensate,
- conduct to,
- correct,
- debunk,
- direct to,
- disabuse,
- disappoint,
- disenchant,
- disentangle,
- disillude,
- disillusion,
- disillusionize,
- emend,
- enlighten,
- expose,
- extend,
- flatten,
- give satisfaction,
- have words with,
- lead to,
- lecture,
- let down easy,
- let in on,
- make all square,
- make good,
- make right,
- new-model,
- objurgate,
- pay reparations,
- point out to,
- point the way,
- prick the bubble,
- put right,
- put straight,
- put to rights,
- rate,
- re-form,
- rebuke,
- reclaim,
- recompense,
- rectify,
- redeem,
- redress,
- refashion,
- reform,
- regenerate,
- remedy,
- remodel,
- remunerate,
- renew,
- reprehend,
- reprimand,
- reprove,
- requite,
- reshape,
- restore self-respect,
- right,
- scold,
- set down,
- set right,
- set to rights,
- set up,
- show,
- show the way,
- show up,
- sit up,
- smooth,
- spank,
- stand up,
- steer,
- straighten,
- straighten out,
- straighten up,
- take down,
- take to task,
- tell the truth,
- unbend,
- unblindfold,
- uncharm,
- uncurl,
- undeceive,
- unkink,
- unsnarl,
- unspell,
- upbraid,
- wake up
- a little thing,
- aught,
- cipher,
- goose egg,
- hardly anything,
- inessential,
- insignificancy,
- marginal matter,
- matter of indifference,
- mere nothing,
- minor matter,
- nada,
- naught,
- nichts,
- nihil,
- nihility,
- nil,
- nix,
- no great matter,
- no such thing,
- nothing,
- nothing at all,
- nothing in particular,
- nothing on earth,
- nothing to signify,
- nothing whatever,
- nullity,
- paltry affair,
- peu de chose,
- rien du tout,
- scarcely anything,
- technicality,
- thing of naught,
- zero,
- zilch
- abode,
- accommodation,
- achievement,
- adaptation,
- adjustment,
- alerion,
- alignment,
- animal charge,
- annulet,
- area,
- argent,
- armorial bearings,
- armory,
- arms,
- aspect,
- attitude,
- azimuth,
- azure,
- bandeau,
- bar,
- bar sinister,
- baton,
- bearing,
- bench mark,
- bend,
- bend sinister,
- billet,
- blazon,
- blazonry,
- bordure,
- broad arrow,
- cadency mark,
- canton,
- case,
- celestial navigation,
- chaplet,
- charge,
- chevron,
- chief,
- circumstance,
- coat of arms,
- cockatrice,
- condition,
- coronet,
- crescent,
- crest,
- cross,
- cross moline,
- crown,
- dead reckoning,
- device,
- difference,
- differencing,
- disorientation,
- district,
- eagle,
- emplacement,
- ermine,
- ermines,
- erminites,
- erminois,
- escutcheon,
- estate,
- exposure,
- falcon,
- fess,
- fess point,
- field,
- file,
- fix,
- flanch,
- fleur-de-lis,
- footing,
- fret,
- frontage,
- fur,
- fusil,
- garland,
- griffin,
- gules,
- gyron,
- hatchment,
- helmet,
- heraldic device,
- hole,
- honor point,
- impalement,
- impaling,
- inescutcheon,
- jam,
- label,
- latitude and longitude,
- lay,
- lie,
- lieu,
- line of position,
- lion,
- locale,
- locality,
- location,
- locus,
- lot,
- lozenge,
- mantling,
- marshaling,
- martlet,
- mascle,
- metal,
- modality,
- mode,
- motto,
- mullet,
- nombril point,
- octofoil,
- or,
- ordinary,
- orientation,
- orle,
- pale,
- paly,
- pass,
- pean,
- pheon,
- pickle,
- pilotage,
- pinpoint,
- place,
- placement,
- plight,
- point,
- position,
- position line,
- posture,
- predicament,
- purpure,
- quarter,
- quartering,
- radio bearing,
- rank,
- region,
- rose,
- sable,
- saltire,
- scutcheon,
- set,
- shield,
- site,
- situation,
- situs,
- spot,
- spread eagle,
- standing,
- state,
- station,
- status,
- stead,
- subordinary,
- tenne,
- tincture,
- torse,
- tressure,
- unicorn,
- vair,
- vert,
- whereabout,
- whereabouts,
- wreath,
- yale
- abetment,
- adduce,
- anatomize,
- article,
- as an example,
- aspect,
- atomize,
- call to mind,
- case,
- case history,
- case in point,
- circumstantiate,
- citation,
- cite,
- cite a particular,
- count,
- cross reference,
- datum,
- demonstrate,
- demonstration,
- descend to particulars,
- detail,
- document,
- element,
- emblem,
- encouragement,
- enter into detail,
- event,
- example,
- exemplar,
- exemplification,
- exemplify,
- explanation,
- exponent,
- facet,
- fact,
- factor,
- for example,
- for instance,
- give a for-instance,
- give full particulars,
- goading,
- ground,
- illustrate,
- illustration,
- improper suggestion,
- incidental,
- indecent proposal,
- insistence,
- item,
- itemize,
- matter,
- minor detail,
- minutia,
- minutiae,
- motion,
- name,
- needling,
- object lesson,
- occurrence,
- particular,
- particularize,
- pass,
- point,
- precedent,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- pricking,
- prodding,
- proof,
- proposal,
- proposition,
- quotation,
- quote,
- reason,
- reference,
- regard,
- relevant instance,
- representative,
- request,
- resolution,
- respect,
- sample,
- sampling,
- say,
- sexual advance,
- specify,
- specimen,
- spell out,
- spurring,
- substantiate,
- suggestion,
- symbol,
- thing,
- type,
- typical example,
- urging
- absolute,
- ascendant,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- authorized,
- autocratic,
- clothed with authority,
- commanding,
- competent,
- consequential,
- considerable,
- controlling,
- dominant,
- eminent,
- empowered,
- ex officio,
- governing,
- great,
- hegemonic,
- hegemonistic,
- imperative,
- important,
- influential,
- leading,
- mighty,
- momentous,
- monocratic,
- official,
- potent,
- powerful,
- preeminent,
- prestigious,
- prominent,
- puissant,
- ranking,
- ruling,
- senior,
- substantial,
- superior,
- supreme,
- totalitarian,
- weighty
- eon
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- (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe
- an immeasurably long period of time; "oh, that happened eons ago"
- the longest division of geological time related words >
- about ship,
- agonize over,
- angle for,
- ask for,
- back and fill,
- be at sea,
- be hard put,
- be uncertain,
- bear away,
- bear off,
- bear to starboard,
- beat,
- beat about for,
- box off,
- break,
- bring about,
- bring round,
- cant,
- cant round,
- cast,
- cast about,
- change course,
- change the heading,
- come about,
- delve for,
- dig for,
- double a point,
- doubt,
- feel around,
- feel for,
- feel unsure,
- fetch about,
- fish for,
- flounder,
- follow,
- fumble,
- go about,
- go gunning for,
- grabble,
- grope,
- grope for,
- gun for,
- gybe,
- have trouble,
- heave round,
- hunt,
- hunt for,
- hunt up,
- jibe,
- jibe all standing,
- labor under difficulties,
- look,
- look for,
- look up,
- miss stays,
- ply,
- poke around,
- prowl after,
- pry around,
- pursue,
- put about,
- put back,
- puzzle over,
- quest,
- question,
- round a point,
- scrabble,
- search for,
- see to,
- seek,
- seek for,
- sheer,
- shift,
- slew,
- still-hunt,
- struggle,
- swerve,
- swing round,
- swing the stern,
- tack,
- thrash about,
- throw about,
- try to find,
- turn,
- turn back,
- veer,
- walk on eggshells,
- wear,
- wear ship,
- wind,
- wonder,
- wonder whether,
- yaw
- emergency
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- a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action; "he never knew what to do in an emergency"
- a state in which martial law applies; "the governor declared a state of emergency" related words >
- X ray,
- blood bank,
- breakers ahead,
- cardhouse,
- cause for alarm,
- charity ward,
- climacteric,
- clinic,
- clutch,
- consultation room,
- contingency,
- convergence of events,
- crisis,
- critical juncture,
- critical point,
- crossroads,
- crucial period,
- crunch,
- danger,
- dangerous ground,
- delivery room,
- difficulty,
- dispensary,
- endangerment,
- examining room,
- exigency,
- extremity,
- fever ward,
- gaping chasm,
- gathering clouds,
- hazard,
- high pressure,
- hinge,
- hospital room,
- house of cards,
- imperativeness,
- imperilment,
- intensive care,
- isolation,
- jeopardy,
- labor room,
- laboratory,
- maternity ward,
- menace,
- nursery,
- operating room,
- pass,
- peril,
- pharmacy,
- pinch,
- plight,
- predicament,
- press,
- pressure,
- prison ward,
- private room,
- push,
- quicksand,
- recovery room,
- risk,
- rocks ahead,
- rub,
- semi-private room,
- storm clouds,
- strait,
- stress,
- surgery,
- tension,
- therapy,
- thin ice,
- threat,
- treatment room,
- turn,
- turn of events,
- turning,
- turning point,
- urgency,
- ward
- now
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- the momentary present; "Now is a good time to do it"; "it worked up to right now"
- used to preface a command or reproof or request; "now hear this!"; "now pay attention"
- at the present moment; "goods now on sale"; "the now-aging dictator"; "they are now abroad"; "he is busy at present writing a new novel"; "it could happen any time now"
- in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events; "President Kennedy now calls in the National Guard"; "Washington now decides to cross the Delaware"; "the ship is now listing to port"
- in the immediate past; "told me just now"
- (prefatory or transitional) indicates a change of subject or activity; "Now the next problem is..." related words >
- a la mode,
- advanced,
- all at once,
- all together,
- as,
- as long as,
- as of now,
- as things are,
- at a blow,
- at a stroke,
- at once,
- at one blow,
- at one jump,
- at one stroke,
- at one swoop,
- at one time,
- at present,
- at this juncture,
- at this moment,
- at this point,
- at this time,
- avant-garde,
- away,
- but now,
- cause,
- considering,
- contemporaneity,
- contemporaneousness,
- contemporary,
- directly,
- even now,
- far out,
- fashionable,
- for,
- for the nonce,
- for this occasion,
- forthwith,
- forward-looking,
- here,
- here and now,
- hereat,
- hic et nunc,
- historical present,
- immediately,
- in,
- in a hurry,
- in our time,
- in these days,
- inasmuch as,
- instanter,
- instantly,
- just now,
- lately,
- latterly,
- mod,
- modern,
- modernistic,
- modernity,
- modernized,
- modish,
- newfashioned,
- newness,
- not long ago,
- nowadays,
- nowness,
- of late,
- on the spot,
- only yesterday,
- our times,
- per saltum,
- present,
- present tense,
- present-day,
- present-time,
- presently,
- presentness,
- progressive,
- pronto,
- recently,
- right away,
- right now,
- right off,
- seeing,
- simultaneously,
- since,
- straightaway,
- straightway,
- streamlined,
- subito,
- the Now Generation,
- the nonce,
- the now,
- the other day,
- the present,
- the present age,
- the present day,
- the present hour,
- the present juncture,
- the present time,
- the time being,
- the times,
- then and there,
- these days,
- this day,
- this hour,
- this instant,
- this minute,
- this moment,
- this night,
- this point,
- this stage,
- this very minute,
- today,
- tonight,
- twentieth-century,
- ultra-ultra,
- ultramodern,
- uno saltu,
- up-to-date,
- up-to-datish,
- up-to-the-minute,
- way out,
- whereas,
- without delay
- festival
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- an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place); "a drama festival"
- a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration related words >
- Mardi Gras,
- Saturnalia,
- anniversary,
- banquet,
- birthday,
- blowout,
- carnival,
- celebration,
- commemoration,
- do,
- entertainment,
- fair,
- feast,
- festive occasion,
- festivity,
- fete,
- field day,
- fiesta,
- gala,
- gala affair,
- gala day,
- great doings,
- high jinks,
- holiday,
- holy day,
- jamboree,
- kermis,
- party,
- picnic,
- red-letter day,
- waygoose,
- wayzgoose
- locus
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- the set of all points or lines that satisfy or are determined by specific conditions; "the locus of points equidistant from a given point is a circle"
- the specific site of a particular gene on its chromosome related words >
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