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predictive collapse: of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions

bookish collapse: characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading; "a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket"; "a quiet studious child"

worthwhile collapse: sufficiently valuable to justify the investment of time or interest; "a worthwhile book"

know-it-all collapse: someone who thinks he knows everything and refuses to accept advice or information from others

oracular collapse: of or relating to an oracle; "able by oracular means to expose a witch"

sutra collapse: a rule or aphorism in Sanskrit literature or a group of aphoristic doctrinal summaries prepared for memorization

mastermind collapse: plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery"

ungenerous collapse: lacking in magnanimity; "it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note"- Times Litt. Sup.; "a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive"

old collapse: past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old'); of a very early stage in development; "Old English is also called Anglo Saxon"; "Old High German is High German from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century"; old in experience; "an old offender"; "the older soldiers"; of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"; (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; "an old man's eagle mind"--William Butler Yeats; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"

avarice collapse: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins); extreme greed for material wealth

lavish collapse: very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain"; characterized by extravagance and profusion; "a lavish buffet"; "a lucullan feast"; expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; "He was showered with praise"

prodigal collapse: a recklessly extravagant consumer; marked by rash extravagance; "led a prodigal life"

upstart collapse: a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class; an arrogant or presumptuous person

guinea collapse: a republic in western Africa on the Atlantic; formerly a French colony; achieved independence from France in 1958; a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings

perspicacious collapse: acutely insightful and wise; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument"; "observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions"; "a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators"

divinatory collapse: resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"

logical collapse: capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning; "a logical mind"

panpipe collapse: a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together

ocarina collapse: egg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes

sweet potato collapse: the edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States; pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh

coffer collapse: a chest especially for storing valuables; an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome

scintillate collapse: physics: fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon; "the phosphor fluoresced"; give off; "the substance scintillated sparks and flashes"

shocker collapse: a sensational message (in a film or play or novel); a shockingly bad person

scholarly collapse: characteristic of scholars or scholarship; "scholarly pursuits"; "a scholarly treatise"; "a scholarly attitude"

prophetic collapse: foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic"

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