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playing possum
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mimicry
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the resemblance of an animal species to another species or to natural objects; provides concealment and protection from predators
related words >
acting
,
aggressive mimicry
,
apery
,
aping
,
buffoonery
,
business
,
caricature
,
characterization
,
cryptic mimicry
,
dumb show
,
embodiment
,
enacting
,
enactment
,
gag
,
ham
,
hammy acting
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
incarnation
,
masquerade
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
miming
,
mock
,
mockery
,
mummery
,
overacting
,
pantomime
,
pantomiming
,
parody
,
parrotry
,
patter
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
personification
,
playacting
,
playing
,
playing possum
,
portrayal
,
posing
,
projection
,
protective coloration
,
representation
,
slapstick
,
stage business
,
stage directions
,
stage presence
,
stunt
,
synaposematic mimicry
,
taking a role
protective coloration
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coloration making an organism less visible or attractive to predators
related words >
aggressive mimicry
,
apery
,
camouflage
,
cryptic mimicry
,
disguise
,
domino
,
false colors
,
false face
,
false front
,
incognito
,
mask
,
masque
,
masquerade
,
mimicry
,
mockery
,
mummery
,
parrotry
,
playing possum
,
smoke screen
,
synaposematic mimicry
,
visor
,
vizard
,
vizard mask
tinkering
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related words >
coquetry
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
fiddling
,
flirtation
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
idling
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
loitering
,
messing around
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pottering
,
puttering
,
smattering
,
toying
,
trifling
monkeying
collapse
related words >
coquetry
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
fiddling
,
flirtation
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
idling
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
loitering
,
messing around
,
monkeying around
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pottering
,
puttering
,
smattering
,
tinkering
,
toying
,
trifling
puttering
collapse
related words >
coquetry
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
fiddling
,
flirtation
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
idling
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
loitering
,
messing around
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pottering
,
smattering
,
tinkering
,
toying
,
trifling
lambent
collapse
related words >
aflicker
,
barely touching
,
beaming
,
bickering
,
blinking
,
brilliant
,
dancing
,
effulgent
,
flashing
,
flickering
,
flickery
,
flicky
,
fluttering
,
fluttery
,
incandescent
,
lucent
,
luminous
,
lustrous
,
playing
,
playing lightly over
,
quivering
,
quivery
,
radiant
,
refulgent
,
stroboscopic
,
wavering
,
wavery
coquetry
collapse
related words >
amorous looks
,
come-hither look
,
coquettish glances
,
coquettishness
,
coyness
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
fiddling
,
flirtation
,
flirtatiousness
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
goo-goo eyes
,
idling
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
loitering
,
messing around
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
ogle
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pottering
,
puttering
,
smattering
,
tinkering
,
toying
,
trifling
loitering
collapse
related words >
Micawberish
,
backward
,
coquetry
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
dawdling
,
delaying
,
dilatoriness
,
dilatory
,
dillydallying
,
dolce far niente
,
dragging
,
easygoing
,
fiddling
,
flirtation
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
foot-dragging
,
goofing off
,
idling
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
lackadaisical
,
lag
,
laggard
,
lagging
,
lax
,
lazing
,
lazy
,
lingering
,
loafing
,
lolling
,
lollygagging
,
lounging
,
messing around
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
mopery
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pottering
,
procrastinating
,
procrastination
,
procrastinative
,
procrastinatory
,
puttering
,
remiss
,
shilly-shallying
,
shuffling
,
slack
,
slow
,
sluggish
,
smattering
,
tarrying
,
tinkering
,
toying
,
trifling
dallying
collapse
related words >
Micawberish
,
backward
,
coquetry
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dawdling
,
delaying
,
dilatoriness
,
dilatory
,
dillydallying
,
dolce far niente
,
dragging
,
easygoing
,
fiddling
,
flirtation
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
foot-dragging
,
goofing off
,
idling
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
lackadaisical
,
lag
,
laggard
,
lagging
,
lax
,
lazing
,
lazy
,
lingering
,
loafing
,
loitering
,
lolling
,
lollygagging
,
lounging
,
messing around
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
mopery
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pottering
,
procrastinating
,
procrastination
,
procrastinative
,
procrastinatory
,
puttering
,
remiss
,
shilly-shallying
,
shuffling
,
slack
,
slow
,
sluggish
,
smattering
,
tarriance
,
tarrying
,
tinkering
,
toying
,
trifling
,
waiting
dalliance
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the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working
related words >
amorous dalliance
,
amorous looks
,
billing and cooing
,
bundling
,
caressing
,
come-hither look
,
coquetry
,
coquettish glances
,
coquettishness
,
coyness
,
cuddling
,
dabbling
,
dallying
,
dawdling
,
dilatoriness
,
dillydallying
,
fiddling
,
flirtation
,
flirtatiousness
,
fondling
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
goo-goo eyes
,
hugging
,
idling
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
kissing
,
lag
,
lagging
,
lingering
,
loitering
,
lollygagging
,
lovemaking
,
messing around
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
necking
,
nestling
,
nuzzling
,
ogle
,
petting
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pottering
,
procrastination
,
puttering
,
sexual intercourse
,
shilly-shallying
,
smattering
,
snuggling
,
spooning
,
tarriance
,
tarrying
,
tinkering
,
toying
,
trifling
,
waiting
smattering
collapse
a slight or superficial understanding of a subject
related words >
a little learning
,
amateurism
,
cast
,
coquetry
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
dash
,
dilettantism
,
dilettantship
,
few
,
fiddling
,
flirtation
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
gleam
,
glimmering
,
glimpse
,
half-learning
,
handful
,
hint
,
idea
,
idling
,
imperfect knowledge
,
intimation
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
lick
,
loitering
,
look
,
messing around
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pottering
,
puttering
,
scattering
,
scintilla
,
sciolism
,
semi-learning
,
shade
,
shadow
,
shallowness
,
sip
,
slight knowledge
,
smack
,
smatter
,
smattering of ignorance
,
smattering of knowledge
,
smell
,
soupcon
,
spark
,
spatter
,
spattering
,
sprinkling
,
suggestion
,
sup
,
superficiality
,
surface-scratching
,
suspicion
,
taste
,
thought
,
tincture
,
tinge
,
tinkering
,
touch
,
toying
,
trace
,
trifling
,
vague notion
raccoon
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an omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North America and Central America
the fur of the North American racoon
related words >
Cape polecat
,
ape
,
bar
,
bear
,
cavy
,
chimp
,
chimpanzee
,
coon
,
ferret
,
foumart
,
glutton
,
groundhog
,
guinea pig
,
hedgehog
,
monk
,
monkey
,
mousehound
,
opossum
,
polecat
,
porcupine
,
possum
,
prairie dog
,
quill pig
,
skunk
,
weasel
,
whistle-pig
,
wolverine
,
woodchuck
,
zoril
chimpanzee
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intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests
related words >
Cape polecat
,
ape
,
bar
,
bear
,
cavy
,
chimp
,
coon
,
ferret
,
foumart
,
glutton
,
groundhog
,
guinea pig
,
hedgehog
,
monk
,
monkey
,
mousehound
,
opossum
,
polecat
,
porcupine
,
possum
,
prairie dog
,
quill pig
,
raccoon
,
skunk
,
weasel
,
whistle-pig
,
wolverine
,
woodchuck
,
zoril
possum
collapse
related words >
Cape polecat
,
ape
,
bar
,
bear
,
cavy
,
chimp
,
chimpanzee
,
coon
,
ferret
,
foumart
,
glutton
,
groundhog
,
guinea pig
,
hedgehog
,
monk
,
monkey
,
mousehound
,
opossum
,
polecat
,
porcupine
,
prairie dog
,
quill pig
,
raccoon
,
skunk
,
weasel
,
whistle-pig
,
wolverine
,
woodchuck
,
zoril
porcupine
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relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur
related words >
Cape polecat
,
ape
,
bar
,
bear
,
cavy
,
chimp
,
chimpanzee
,
coon
,
ferret
,
foumart
,
glutton
,
groundhog
,
guinea pig
,
hedgehog
,
monk
,
monkey
,
mousehound
,
opossum
,
polecat
,
possum
,
prairie dog
,
quill pig
,
raccoon
,
skunk
,
weasel
,
whistle-pig
,
wolverine
,
woodchuck
,
zoril
wolverine
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stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal
related words >
Cape polecat
,
ape
,
bar
,
bear
,
cavy
,
chimp
,
chimpanzee
,
coon
,
ferret
,
foumart
,
glutton
,
groundhog
,
guinea pig
,
hedgehog
,
monk
,
monkey
,
mousehound
,
opossum
,
polecat
,
porcupine
,
possum
,
prairie dog
,
quill pig
,
raccoon
,
skunk
,
weasel
,
whistle-pig
,
woodchuck
,
zoril
four flush
collapse
related words >
act
,
act a part
,
affect
,
assume
,
bluff
,
counterfeit
,
cover up
,
dissemble
,
dissimulate
,
fake
,
feign
,
gammon
,
let on
,
let on like
,
make a pretense
,
make as if
,
make believe
,
make like
,
play
,
play a part
,
play possum
,
playact
,
pretend
,
profess
,
put on
,
sham
,
simulate
go through the motions
collapse
pretend to do something by acting as if one was really doing it; "She isn't really working--she's just going through the motions"
related words >
act
,
act a part
,
affect
,
assume
,
bluff
,
counterfeit
,
cover up
,
dissemble
,
dissimulate
,
fake
,
feign
,
four-flush
,
gammon
,
let on
,
let on like
,
make a pretense
,
make as if
,
make believe
,
make like
,
play
,
play a part
,
play possum
,
playact
,
pretend
,
profess
,
put on
,
sham
,
simulate
ferret
collapse
domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits
hunt with ferrets
hound or harry relentlessly
related words >
Argus
,
Cape polecat
,
ape
,
bar
,
bear
,
cat
,
cavy
,
chimp
,
chimpanzee
,
coon
,
eagle
,
foumart
,
glutton
,
groundhog
,
guinea pig
,
hawk
,
hedgehog
,
lynx
,
monk
,
monkey
,
mousehound
,
opossum
,
polecat
,
porcupine
,
possum
,
prairie dog
,
quill pig
,
raccoon
,
skunk
,
weasel
,
whistle-pig
,
wolverine
,
woodchuck
,
zoril
guinea pig
collapse
stout-bodied nearly tailless domesticated cavy; often kept as a pet and widely used in research
related words >
Cape polecat
,
ape
,
bar
,
bear
,
cavy
,
chimp
,
chimpanzee
,
coon
,
ferret
,
foumart
,
glutton
,
groundhog
,
hedgehog
,
laboratory animal
,
monk
,
monkey
,
mousehound
,
opossum
,
patient
,
polecat
,
porcupine
,
possum
,
prairie dog
,
quill pig
,
raccoon
,
skunk
,
subject
,
testee
,
weasel
,
whistle-pig
,
wolverine
,
woodchuck
,
zoril
playing
collapse
the action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation
the act of playing a musical instrument
related words >
acting
,
aflicker
,
aping
,
betting
,
bickering
,
blinking
,
buffoonery
,
business
,
cardsharping
,
casting lots
,
characterization
,
coquetry
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
dancing
,
dumb show
,
embodiment
,
enacting
,
enactment
,
fiddling
,
flashing
,
flickering
,
flickery
,
flicky
,
flirtation
,
fluttering
,
fluttery
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
gag
,
gambling
,
gaming
,
ham
,
hammy acting
,
hazarding
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
idling
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
incarnation
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
lambent
,
loitering
,
masquerade
,
messing around
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
miming
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
mummery
,
overacting
,
pantomime
,
pantomiming
,
patter
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
personification
,
piddling
,
play
,
playacting
,
playing around
,
portrayal
,
posing
,
pottering
,
projection
,
puttering
,
quivering
,
quivery
,
representation
,
risking
,
slapstick
,
smattering
,
sortition
,
speculation
,
sporting
,
stage business
,
stage directions
,
stage presence
,
staking
,
stroboscopic
,
stunt
,
taking a role
,
tinkering
,
toying
,
trifling
,
wagering
,
wavering
,
wavery
flirtation
collapse
related words >
adulterous affair
,
adultery
,
affair
,
agacerie
,
allure
,
allurement
,
amorous looks
,
amour
,
appeal
,
attraction
,
attractiveness
,
beguilement
,
beguiling
,
bewitchery
,
bewitchment
,
blandishment
,
cajolery
,
captivation
,
charisma
,
charm
,
charmingness
,
come-hither
,
come-hither look
,
coquetry
,
coquettish glances
,
coquettishness
,
coyness
,
cuckoldry
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
enchantment
,
entanglement
,
enthrallment
,
enticement
,
entrapment
,
eternal triangle
,
fascination
,
fiddling
,
flirtatiousness
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
forbidden fruit
,
forbidden love
,
glamour
,
goo-goo eyes
,
hanky-panky
,
idling
,
illicit love
,
inducement
,
infidelity
,
interest
,
intrigue
,
inveiglement
,
invitation
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
liaison
,
loitering
,
love affair
,
magnetism
,
messing around
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
ogle
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pottering
,
puttering
,
romance
,
romantic tie
,
seducement
,
seduction
,
seductiveness
,
sex appeal
,
smattering
,
snaring
,
tantalization
,
temptation
,
tinkering
,
toying
,
triangle
,
trifling
,
unfaithfulness
,
winning ways
,
winsomeness
,
witchery
,
wooing
groundhog
collapse
reddish brown North American marmot
related words >
Cape polecat
,
ape
,
bar
,
bear
,
cavy
,
chimp
,
chimpanzee
,
coon
,
digger
,
dredge
,
dredger
,
driller
,
excavator
,
ferret
,
foumart
,
glutton
,
guinea pig
,
hedgehog
,
miner
,
monk
,
monkey
,
mousehound
,
navvy
,
opossum
,
polecat
,
porcupine
,
possum
,
prairie dog
,
quill pig
,
raccoon
,
sandhog
,
sapper
,
skunk
,
steam shovel
,
tunneler
,
weasel
,
whistle-pig
,
wolverine
,
woodchuck
,
zoril
feign
collapse
make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
related words >
act
,
act a part
,
affect
,
assume
,
bluff
,
counterfeit
,
cover up
,
dissemble
,
dissimulate
,
do a bit
,
dramatize
,
fake
,
four-flush
,
gammon
,
histrionize
,
let on
,
let on like
,
make a pretense
,
make as if
,
make believe
,
make like
,
make out like
,
overact
,
play
,
play a part
,
play a scene
,
play possum
,
playact
,
pretend
,
profess
,
put on
,
put on airs
,
sham
,
simulate
,
tug the heartstrings
,
wear
personification
collapse
the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
a person who represents an abstract quality; "she is the personification of optimism"
related words >
acting
,
aping
,
characterization
,
corporealization
,
dumb show
,
embodiment
,
enacting
,
enactment
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
incarnation
,
incorporation
,
masquerade
,
materialization
,
metempsychosis
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
miming
,
pantomime
,
pantomiming
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
playing
,
portrayal
,
posing
,
reembodiment
,
reincarnation
,
substantiation
,
transmigration
let on
collapse
related words >
acknowledge
,
act
,
act a part
,
admit
,
admit everything
,
affect
,
allow
,
assume
,
avow
,
betray
,
bluff
,
come clean
,
concede
,
confess
,
cop a plea
,
counterfeit
,
cover up
,
disclose
,
dissemble
,
dissimulate
,
divulge
,
fake
,
feign
,
four-flush
,
gammon
,
give away
,
grant
,
let on like
,
let out
,
make a pretense
,
make as if
,
make believe
,
make like
,
open up
,
out with it
,
own
,
own up
,
play
,
play a part
,
play possum
,
playact
,
plead guilty
,
pretend
,
profess
,
put on
,
sham
,
simulate
,
spill
,
spill it
,
spit it out
,
tell
,
tell all
,
tell the truth
,
uncover
encroachment
collapse
related words >
adoption
,
appropriation
,
arrogation
,
assumption
,
entrance
,
entrenchment
,
impingement
,
imposition
,
incursion
,
infiltration
,
influx
,
infraction
,
infringement
,
injection
,
inroad
,
insinuation
,
interference
,
interjection
,
interloping
,
interposition
,
interposure
,
interruption
,
intervention
,
intrusion
,
invasion
,
irruption
,
obtrusion
,
overstepping
,
playing God
,
seizure
,
transgression
,
trespass
,
trespassing
,
unlawful entry
,
usurpation
stage presence
collapse
related words >
acting
,
buffoonery
,
business
,
characterization
,
gag
,
ham
,
hammy acting
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
impersonation
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
miming
,
mummery
,
overacting
,
pantomiming
,
patter
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
playacting
,
playing
,
portrayal
,
projection
,
representation
,
slapstick
,
stage business
,
stage directions
,
stunt
,
taking a role
polecat
collapse
dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened
related words >
Cape polecat
,
animal
,
ape
,
bar
,
bear
,
beast
,
cavy
,
chimp
,
chimpanzee
,
coon
,
cur
,
dog
,
ferret
,
foumart
,
glutton
,
groundhog
,
guinea pig
,
hedgehog
,
hound
,
hyena
,
insect
,
mongrel
,
monk
,
monkey
,
mousehound
,
opossum
,
pig
,
porcupine
,
possum
,
prairie dog
,
quill pig
,
raccoon
,
reptile
,
rotten egg
,
serpent
,
skunk
,
snake
,
stink ball
,
stink bomb
,
stinkard
,
stinker
,
stinkpot
,
swine
,
varmint
,
vermin
,
viper
,
weasel
,
whelp
,
whistle-pig
,
wolverine
,
woodchuck
,
worm
,
zoril
trespassing
collapse
related words >
adoption
,
appropriation
,
arrogation
,
assumption
,
breach of law
,
contravention
,
encroachment
,
entrance
,
entrenchment
,
impingement
,
imposition
,
incursion
,
infiltration
,
influx
,
infraction
,
infringement
,
injection
,
inroad
,
insinuation
,
interference
,
interjection
,
interloping
,
interposition
,
interposure
,
interruption
,
intervention
,
intrusion
,
invasion
,
irruption
,
lawbreaking
,
obtrusion
,
playing God
,
seizure
,
transgression
,
trespass
,
unlawful entry
,
usurpation
,
violation of law
mockery
collapse
related words >
a continental
,
a curse
,
a damn
,
a darn
,
a hoot
,
absurdity
,
abuse
,
affront
,
aggressive mimicry
,
apery
,
aspersion
,
atrocity
,
bagatelle
,
banter
,
bauble
,
bean
,
bibelot
,
bit
,
booing
,
brass farthing
,
brickbat
,
burlesque
,
butt
,
button
,
byword
,
byword of reproach
,
caricature
,
casuistry
,
catcalling
,
cent
,
chaffing
,
contempt
,
contumely
,
crossed fingers
,
cryptic mimicry
,
curio
,
cut
,
decrial
,
derision
,
despite
,
disappointment
,
disdain
,
disingenuousness
,
disparagement
,
dump
,
dupe
,
emptiness
,
enormity
,
fair game
,
farce
,
farthing
,
feather
,
fig
,
figure of fun
,
fleabite
,
fleering
,
flippancy
,
flout
,
flouting
,
folderol
,
fool
,
fooling
,
fribble
,
frippery
,
game
,
gaud
,
gazingstock
,
gewgaw
,
gibe
,
gimcrack
,
goat
,
grinning
,
hair
,
halfpenny
,
hill of beans
,
hissing
,
hollow mockery
,
hollowness
,
hooting
,
humiliation
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
indignity
,
injury
,
insincerity
,
insult
,
jeer
,
jeering
,
jest
,
jester
,
jestingstock
,
jesuitry
,
joke
,
joshing
,
kickshaw
,
knickknack
,
knickknackery
,
lampoon
,
laugh
,
laughingstock
,
leering
,
levity
,
mimicry
,
minikin
,
miscarriage
,
mock
,
molehill
,
monkey
,
offense
,
outrage
,
panning
,
parody
,
parrotry
,
pasquinade
,
pastiche
,
peppercorn
,
picayune
,
pilgarlic
,
pin
,
pinch of snuff
,
pinprick
,
playing possum
,
protective coloration
,
put-down
,
ragging
,
raillery
,
rallying
,
rap
,
razzing
,
red cent
,
ridicule
,
roasting
,
row of pins
,
rush
,
satire
,
scoff
,
scoffing
,
scorn
,
scurrility
,
semblance
,
sham
,
shit
,
smart-aleckiness
,
smartness
,
smirking
,
snap
,
sneering
,
sneeshing
,
snickering
,
sniggering
,
snorting
,
sophistry
,
sou
,
spoof
,
sport
,
squib
,
stock
,
straw
,
synaposematic mimicry
,
take-off
,
takeoff
,
target
,
taunt
,
taunting
,
tongue in cheek
,
toy
,
travesty
,
trifle
,
trinket
,
triviality
,
tuppence
,
twitting
,
two cents
,
twopence
,
uncandidness
,
uncandor
,
uncomplimentary remark
,
unfrankness
,
victim
,
whim-wham
,
wicked imitation
playing cards
collapse
related words >
ace
,
best bower
,
bower
,
cards
,
clubs
,
deck
,
deuce
,
diamonds
,
dummy
,
face cards
,
flush
,
full house
,
hand
,
hearts
,
jack
,
joker
,
king
,
knave
,
left bower
,
pack
,
pair
,
picture cards
,
queen
,
round
,
royal flush
,
rubber
,
ruff
,
singleton
,
spades
,
straight
,
trey
,
trick
,
trump
usurpation
collapse
wrongfully seizing and holding (an office or powers) by force (especially the seizure of a throne or supreme authority); "a succession of generals who ruled by usurpation"
related words >
accession
,
adoption
,
anointing
,
anointment
,
appointment
,
appropriation
,
arrogation
,
assignment
,
assumption
,
authorization
,
colonization
,
conquest
,
consecration
,
coronation
,
delegation
,
deputation
,
election
,
empowerment
,
encroachment
,
enslavement
,
incursion
,
indent
,
infraction
,
infringement
,
inroad
,
intrusion
,
invasion
,
legitimate succession
,
occupation
,
overstepping
,
playing God
,
preemption
,
preoccupation
,
prepossession
,
requisition
,
seizure
,
subjugation
,
succession
,
takeover
,
taking over
,
transgression
,
trespass
,
trespassing
booking
collapse
the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group); "wondered who had made the booking"
related words >
appointment
,
bespeaking
,
borscht circuit
,
briefing
,
cataloging
,
chronicling
,
circuit
,
date
,
employment
,
engagement
,
enlistment
,
enrollment
,
entering
,
entry
,
hiring
,
impanelment
,
indexing
,
inscribing
,
inscription
,
insertion
,
inventorying
,
listing
,
logging
,
matriculation
,
playing engagement
,
posting
,
preengagement
,
record keeping
,
recordation
,
recording
,
register
,
registration
,
registry
,
reservation
,
retainment
,
run
,
stand
,
tabulation
,
taking on
,
tour
,
vaudeville circuit
deuce
collapse
one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots
a tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game
related words >
ace
,
best bower
,
bower
,
cards
,
clubs
,
craps
,
deck
,
diamonds
,
doubleton
,
dummy
,
face cards
,
flush
,
full house
,
hand
,
hearts
,
jack
,
joker
,
king
,
knave
,
left bower
,
pack
,
pair
,
picture cards
,
playing cards
,
queen
,
round
,
royal flush
,
rubber
,
ruff
,
singleton
,
snake eyes
,
spades
,
straight
,
trey
,
trick
,
trump
sporting
collapse
involving risk or willingness to take a risk; "a sporting chance"; "sporting blood"
relating to or used in sports; "sporting events"; "sporting equipment"
related words >
acrobatic
,
agonistic
,
athletic
,
betting
,
cardsharping
,
casting lots
,
chase
,
chevy
,
chivy
,
coursing
,
cynegetics
,
fair-minded
,
falconry
,
fox hunting
,
gambling
,
gaming
,
gunning
,
gymnastic
,
hawking
,
hazarding
,
hunt
,
hunting
,
palaestral
,
play
,
playing
,
risking
,
shikar
,
shooting
,
sortition
,
speculation
,
sport
,
sports
,
sportsmanlike
,
sportsmanly
,
square-dealing
,
square-shooting
,
staking
,
stalking
,
still hunt
,
venery
,
wagering
miming
collapse
related words >
acting
,
aping
,
buffoonery
,
business
,
characterization
,
dumb show
,
embodiment
,
enacting
,
enactment
,
gag
,
ham
,
hammy acting
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
incarnation
,
masquerade
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
mummery
,
overacting
,
pantomime
,
pantomiming
,
patter
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
personification
,
playacting
,
playing
,
portrayal
,
posing
,
projection
,
representation
,
slapstick
,
stage business
,
stage directions
,
stage presence
,
stunt
,
taking a role
personation
collapse
related words >
acting
,
aping
,
buffoonery
,
business
,
characterization
,
dumb show
,
embodiment
,
enacting
,
enactment
,
gag
,
ham
,
hammy acting
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
incarnation
,
masquerade
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
miming
,
mummery
,
overacting
,
pantomime
,
pantomiming
,
patter
,
performance
,
performing
,
personification
,
playacting
,
playing
,
portrayal
,
posing
,
projection
,
representation
,
slapstick
,
stage business
,
stage directions
,
stage presence
,
stunt
,
taking a role
trifling
collapse
related words >
Mickey Mouse
,
airy
,
asinine
,
banal
,
bickering
,
brimful
,
brimming
,
captious
,
catchpenny
,
caviling
,
chic
,
chipper
,
chitchat
,
chitter-chatter
,
choplogic
,
classy
,
commonplace
,
coquetry
,
crammed
,
crowded
,
cursory
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
dashing
,
dawdling
,
depthless
,
dillydallying
,
dolce far niente
,
empty
,
equivocatory
,
evasive
,
fashionable
,
fatuous
,
few
,
fiddling
,
flimsy
,
flirtation
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
foolish
,
footling
,
fribble
,
fribbling
,
frivolous
,
frothy
,
futile
,
goofing off
,
hairsplitting
,
hedging
,
hollow
,
idle
,
idling
,
inane
,
incidental
,
inconsequential
,
inconsiderable
,
insignificant
,
insipid
,
jammed
,
jejune
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
lazing
,
light
,
lingering
,
little
,
loaded
,
loafing
,
logic-chopping
,
loitering
,
lolling
,
lounging
,
low
,
meager
,
measly
,
messing around
,
miniature
,
minor
,
modish
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
mopery
,
neat
,
negligible
,
niggling
,
nit-picking
,
no great shakes
,
nugacious
,
nugatory
,
orderly
,
otiose
,
packed
,
paltering
,
paltry
,
petty
,
picayune
,
picayunish
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pottering
,
puny
,
pussyfooting
,
puttering
,
quibbling
,
shallow
,
sharp
,
shipshape
,
short
,
shuffling
,
silly
,
skin-deep
,
slender
,
slight
,
small
,
smart
,
smattering
,
snappy
,
snug
,
spick-and-span
,
superficial
,
swank
,
tarrying
,
tidy
,
tinkering
,
tiny
,
toying
,
trichoschistic
,
trig
,
trim
,
trite
,
trivial
,
uncluttered
,
unimportant
,
vacuous
,
vain
,
valueless
,
vapid
,
well-groomed
,
windy
,
worthless
monk
collapse
a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982)
related words >
Cape polecat
,
abbacomes
,
abbot
,
ape
,
ascetic
,
bar
,
beadsman
,
bear
,
brother
,
caloyer
,
cavy
,
celibataire
,
celibate
,
cenobite
,
chimp
,
chimpanzee
,
coenobite
,
conventual
,
conventual prior
,
coon
,
ferret
,
foumart
,
friar
,
glutton
,
grand prior
,
groundhog
,
guinea pig
,
hedgehog
,
hermit
,
hieromonach
,
lay abbot
,
lay brother
,
mendicant
,
misogamist
,
misogynist
,
monastic
,
monkey
,
mousehound
,
nun
,
opossum
,
palmer
,
pilgrim
,
pillar saint
,
pillarist
,
polecat
,
porcupine
,
possum
,
prairie dog
,
priest
,
prior
,
quill pig
,
raccoon
,
religieux
,
religious
,
single
,
skunk
,
stylite
,
unmarried
,
weasel
,
whistle-pig
,
wolverine
,
woodchuck
,
zoril
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