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metier collapse: an occupation for which you are especially well suited; "in law he found his true metier"

euphuism collapse: an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology; any artificially elegant style of language

manner collapse: a way of acting or behaving; how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion"; a kind; "what manner of man are you?"

knight collapse: a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa); originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit; raise (someone) to knighthood; "The Beatles were knighted"

vigorous collapse: characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity; "a vigorous hiker"; "gave her skirt a vigorous shake"; "a vigorous campaign"; "a vigorous foreign policy"; "vigorous opposition to the war"; strong and active physically or mentally; "a vigorous old man who spent half of his day on horseback"- W.H.Hudson

hijack collapse: seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination; seize control of; "they hijacked the judicial process"

synonymy collapse: the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning

prose collapse: ordinary writing as distinguished from verse; matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression

hatchet man collapse: one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior; a professional killer

pose collapse: a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes; pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"; behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself"

noise collapse: incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks; "all the noise in his speech concealed the fact that he didn't have anything to say"; the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me"; a loud outcry of protest or complaint; "the announcement of the election recount caused a lot of noise"; "whatever it was he didn't like it and he was going to let them know by making as loud a noise as he could"; sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels"; electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication

mighty collapse: having or showing great strength or force or intensity; "struck a mighty blow"; "the mighty logger Paul Bunyan"; "the pen is mightier than the sword"- Bulwer-Lytton; (Southern regional intensive) very; "the baby is mighty cute"; "he's mighty tired"; "it is powerful humid"; "that boy is powerful big now"; "they have a right nice place"

glossary collapse: an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field

rugged collapse: sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring; "a rugged trapper who spent months in the wilderness"; "those that survive are stalwart rugged men"; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture"; very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution; "a rugged competitive examination"; "the rugged conditions of frontier life"; "the competition was tough"; "it's a tough life"; "it was a tough job"

shanghai collapse: the largest city of China; located in the east on the Pacific; one of the largest ports in the world; take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship; "The men were shanghaied after being drugged"

chewy collapse: (of a consistency) requiring chewing; "chewy caramels"; requiring much chewing

unabated collapse: continuing at full strength or intensity; "the winds are unabated"; "the popularity of his books among young people continued unabated"

reeking collapse: giving off a strong unpleasant smell; wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears; "wiped his reeking neck"

gorilla collapse: largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa

cogency collapse: the quality of being logically valid; persuasive relevance

peculiarity collapse: a distinguishing trait; an odd or unusual characteristic

mumbo jumbo collapse: language that is unnecessarily difficult to understand

stalwart collapse: used especially of persons; "a stalwart knight"; "a stouthearted fellow who had an active career in the army"; dependable; "the stalwart citizens at Lexington"; "a stalwart supporter of the UN"; "stout hearts"

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