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intuition collapse: instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes); an impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong"

imagination collapse: the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"; the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination"

salt collapse: the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth; white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food; a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal); (of speech) painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology"; preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships"; add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes"; sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"; add salt to

apprehension collapse: the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"; painful expectation; fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"

gamesmanship collapse: the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win a game

jester collapse: a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages

wit collapse: a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

conceit collapse: the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; an artistic device or effect; "the architect's brilliant conceit was to build the house around the tree"; a witty or ingenious turn of phrase; "he could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit"; an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things

droll collapse: comical in an odd or whimsical manner; "a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor"

shrewdness collapse: intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)

caustic collapse: any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue; of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action

calibrate collapse: make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder"; measure the caliber of; "calibrate a gun"; mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units; "he calibrated the thermometer for the Celsius scale"

comedian collapse: a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts; an actor in a comedy

sharpness collapse: thinness of edge or fineness of point; the quality of being keenly and painfully felt; "the sharpness of her loss"

brain collapse: that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord; mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"; the brain of certain animals used as meat; kill by smashing someone's skull; hit on the head

capacity collapse: a specified function; "he was employed in the capacity of director"; "he should be retained in his present capacity at a higher salary"; the maximum production possible; "the plant is working at 80 per cent capacity"; tolerance for alcohol; "he had drunk beyond his capacity"; ability to perform or produce; the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior; (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive; "the capacity of a hard disk drive is usually expressed in megabytes"; the amount that can be contained; "the gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons"

ingenuity collapse: the property of being ingenious; "a plot of great ingenuity"; "the cleverness of its design"

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