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- hat
collapse - an informal term for a person's role; "he took off his politician's hat and talked frankly"
- headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
- put on or wear a hat; "He was unsuitably hatted"
- furnish with a hat related words >
- Balmoral,
- Dutch cap,
- Panama,
- Panama hat,
- Salvation Army bonnet,
- Stetson,
- astrakhan,
- balaclava helmet,
- baseball cap,
- beany,
- bearskin,
- beaver,
- beret,
- boater,
- bonnet,
- boot,
- bowler,
- brass hat,
- breech,
- busby,
- calash,
- campaign hat,
- cap,
- capote,
- castor,
- ceil,
- chapeau,
- chapeau bras,
- cloak,
- cloche,
- coat,
- cock-and-pinch,
- coif,
- cork,
- coverchief,
- coxcomb,
- crown,
- derby,
- dome,
- fantail,
- fez,
- frock,
- gown,
- handkerchief,
- hard hat,
- headcloth,
- headdress,
- headgear,
- headpiece,
- headtire,
- headwear,
- helmet,
- homburg,
- hood,
- jacket,
- jockey cap,
- kaffiyeh,
- kelly,
- kepi,
- kerchief,
- leghorn,
- lid,
- mantle,
- millinery,
- mobcap,
- mortarboard,
- nightcap,
- opera hat,
- overseas cap,
- peaked cap,
- picture hat,
- pillbox,
- pith hat,
- pith helmet,
- plug,
- poke,
- porkpie,
- puggree,
- roof,
- roof in,
- rumal,
- sailor,
- scraper,
- shirt,
- shoe,
- shovel hat,
- silk hat,
- skullcap,
- slouch hat,
- snood,
- sock,
- sombrero,
- stocking,
- stopper,
- stovepipe,
- sun hat,
- sun helmet,
- sunbonnet,
- sundown,
- tam,
- ten-gallon hat,
- tin hat,
- tip,
- top,
- top hat,
- topee,
- topper,
- trilby,
- turban,
- tyrolean hat,
- wide-awake,
- wimple,
- wind-cutter,
- yarmulka
- highlight
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- an area of lightness in a picture
- the most interesting or memorable part; "the highlight of the tour was our visit to the Vatican"
- apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent; "highlight the area above your eyebrows" related words >
- accent,
- accentuate,
- affect,
- arc lighting,
- argue,
- be indicative of,
- be significant of,
- be symptomatic of,
- beacon,
- belabor,
- bespeak,
- betoken,
- black and white,
- brandish,
- breathe,
- brighten,
- brighten up,
- bring forth,
- bring forward,
- bring into view,
- bring out,
- bring to notice,
- characterize,
- chiaroscuro,
- connote,
- contrast,
- dangle,
- decorative lighting,
- demonstrate,
- denominate,
- denote,
- develop,
- differentiate,
- direct lighting,
- disclose,
- display,
- divulge,
- dramatize,
- dwell on,
- electric lighting,
- emanation,
- embody,
- emphasize,
- enact,
- enlighten,
- enlightenment,
- entail,
- evidence,
- evince,
- exhibit,
- expose to view,
- express,
- feature,
- festoon lighting,
- flaunt,
- flood with light,
- floodlight,
- floodlighting,
- flourish,
- fluorescent lighting,
- gaslighting,
- give emphasis to,
- give evidence,
- give sign,
- give token,
- glow lighting,
- harp on,
- high spot,
- highlights,
- hint,
- identify,
- illume,
- illuminate,
- illumination,
- illumine,
- incandescent lighting,
- incarnate,
- indicate,
- indirect lighting,
- involve,
- irradiance,
- irradiancy,
- irradiate,
- irradiation,
- italicize,
- light,
- light and shade,
- light source,
- light up,
- lighten,
- lighting,
- luminate,
- luminous energy,
- make clear,
- make plain,
- manifest,
- mark,
- materialize,
- mean,
- note,
- outstanding feature,
- overaccentuate,
- overemphasize,
- overhead lighting,
- overshine,
- overstress,
- parade,
- perform,
- photosensitivity,
- place emphasis on,
- point up,
- present,
- produce,
- punctuate,
- radiance,
- radiancy,
- radiant energy,
- radiation,
- relume,
- relumine,
- represent,
- reveal,
- roll out,
- rub in,
- set forth,
- shed light upon,
- shine upon,
- show,
- show forth,
- sidelight,
- signify,
- spot lighting,
- spotlight,
- stage lighting,
- stand for,
- star,
- stress,
- strip lighting,
- suggest,
- symptomatize,
- symptomize,
- testify,
- throw light upon,
- token,
- tonality,
- trot out,
- underline,
- underscore,
- unfold,
- visible radiation,
- wave
- bone of contention
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- the subject of a dispute; "the real bone of contention, as you know, is money" related words >
- apple of discord,
- bone to pick,
- casus belli,
- catechism,
- cross-interrogatory,
- cross-question,
- crow to pick,
- crow to pluck,
- debating point,
- demand,
- feeler,
- grounds for war,
- inquiry,
- interrogation,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- issue,
- leader,
- leading question,
- moot point,
- point at issue,
- point in question,
- problem,
- query,
- question,
- question at issue,
- question mark,
- quodlibet,
- rub,
- sore point,
- tender spot,
- ticklish issue,
- topic,
- trial balloon,
- vexed question
- today
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- the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow); "Today is beautiful"; "did you see today's newspaper?"
- the present time or age; "the world of today"; "today we have computers"
- on this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow; "I can't meet with you today" related words >
- as of now,
- as things are,
- at present,
- at this juncture,
- at this moment,
- at this point,
- at this time,
- but now,
- contemporaneity,
- contemporaneousness,
- even now,
- for the nonce,
- for this occasion,
- here,
- here and now,
- hereat,
- hic et nunc,
- historical present,
- in our time,
- in these days,
- just now,
- modernity,
- newness,
- now,
- nowadays,
- nowness,
- on the spot,
- our times,
- present,
- present tense,
- presently,
- presentness,
- the Now Generation,
- the nonce,
- the now,
- the present,
- the present age,
- the present day,
- the present hour,
- the present juncture,
- the present time,
- the time being,
- the times,
- these days,
- this day,
- this hour,
- this instant,
- this moment,
- this night,
- this point,
- this stage,
- tonight
- attaint,
- bedarken,
- bedaub,
- besmear,
- besmoke,
- besmutch,
- besoil,
- bespatter,
- bestain,
- black,
- blacken,
- blackwash,
- blot,
- blotch,
- blur,
- brand,
- call names,
- charcoal,
- cork,
- darken,
- daub,
- defile,
- denigrate,
- dinge,
- dirty,
- discolor,
- ebonize,
- engage in personalities,
- heap dirt upon,
- ink,
- mark,
- melanize,
- muckrake,
- murk,
- nigrify,
- oversmoke,
- revile,
- scorch,
- sear,
- shade,
- shadow,
- singe,
- slubber,
- slur,
- smear,
- smirch,
- smoke,
- smouch,
- smudge,
- smut,
- smutch,
- soil,
- soot,
- spot,
- stain,
- stigmatize,
- sully,
- taint,
- tar,
- tarnish,
- throw mud at,
- vilify
- modality
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- a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
- a particular sense
- a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility related words >
- Platonic form,
- Platonic idea,
- aesthetic form,
- archetype,
- art form,
- bearings,
- build,
- case,
- cast,
- circumstance,
- condition,
- configuration,
- conformation,
- cut,
- estate,
- fashion,
- figuration,
- figure,
- fix,
- footing,
- form,
- format,
- formation,
- frame,
- genre,
- impression,
- inner form,
- jam,
- layout,
- location,
- lot,
- make,
- makeup,
- matrix,
- mode,
- model,
- mold,
- pass,
- pattern,
- pickle,
- place,
- plight,
- position,
- posture,
- predicament,
- prototype,
- rank,
- set,
- shape,
- significant form,
- situation,
- spot,
- stamp,
- standing,
- state,
- station,
- status,
- structure,
- style,
- turn,
- type
- warehouse
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- a storehouse for goods and merchandise
- store in a warehouse related words >
- accommodate,
- archives,
- armory,
- arsenal,
- attic,
- bank,
- basement,
- bay,
- bestow,
- bin,
- bonded warehouse,
- bookcase,
- boutique,
- box,
- bundle away,
- bunker,
- buttery,
- cache,
- cargo dock,
- cellar,
- chain store,
- chest,
- closet,
- co-op,
- coffer,
- concession,
- conservatory,
- cooperative,
- countinghouse,
- country store,
- crate,
- crib,
- cupboard,
- department store,
- deposit,
- depository,
- depot,
- dime store,
- discount house,
- discount store,
- dock,
- drawer,
- dump,
- emporium,
- establishment,
- exchequer,
- file,
- five-and-ten,
- general store,
- glory hole,
- godown,
- guard,
- hold,
- house,
- hutch,
- lay away,
- lay down,
- lay in,
- lay in store,
- library,
- locker,
- lodge,
- lumber room,
- lumberyard,
- magasin,
- magazine,
- mail-order house,
- market,
- mart,
- pack,
- pack away,
- post,
- protect,
- put away,
- rack,
- repertory,
- reposit,
- repository,
- reservoir,
- retail store,
- rick,
- salon,
- salt away,
- salt down,
- shelf,
- shelter,
- shop,
- stack,
- stack room,
- stash,
- stock room,
- storage,
- store,
- store away,
- storehouse,
- storeroom,
- stow,
- stow away,
- stow down,
- supermarket,
- supply base,
- supply depot,
- tank,
- trading post,
- treasure house,
- treasure room,
- treasury,
- variety shop,
- variety store,
- vat,
- vault,
- wareroom,
- wholesale house,
- wine cellar
- pestilence
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- a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of; "racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation"; "according to him, I was the canker in their midst" related words >
- Black Death,
- affliction,
- ambulatory plague,
- bane,
- black death,
- black plague,
- blight,
- bubonic plague,
- bugbear,
- burden,
- calamity,
- cancer,
- canker,
- cellulocutaneous plague,
- crushing burden,
- curse,
- death,
- defervescing plague,
- destruction,
- disease,
- epidemic,
- epiphytotic,
- epizootic,
- evil,
- glandular plague,
- grievance,
- harm,
- hemorrhagic plague,
- infliction,
- larval plague,
- murrain,
- nemesis,
- open wound,
- pandemia,
- pandemic,
- pest,
- pesthole,
- plague,
- plague spot,
- pneumonic plague,
- premonitory plague,
- running sore,
- scourge,
- septicemic plague,
- siderating plague,
- thorn,
- torment,
- tuberculosis,
- vexation,
- visitation,
- white plague,
- woe
- limelight
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- a lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light; formerly used for stage lighting
- a focus of public attention; "he enjoyed being in the limelight"; "when Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency" related words >
- PR,
- arc,
- arc light,
- ballyhoo,
- blurb,
- bright light,
- celebrity,
- color filter,
- common knowledge,
- cry,
- currency,
- daylight,
- dimmer,
- eclat,
- exposure,
- fame,
- famousness,
- floats,
- flood,
- floodlight,
- footlights,
- foots,
- gelatin,
- glare,
- hoopla,
- hue and cry,
- klieg light,
- light plot,
- lights,
- marquee,
- maximum dissemination,
- medium,
- notoriety,
- plug,
- press notice,
- public eye,
- public knowledge,
- public relations,
- public report,
- publicity,
- publicity story,
- publicness,
- puff,
- reclame,
- report,
- spot,
- spotlight,
- write-up
- nutshell
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- the shell around the kernel of a nut related words >
- abridge,
- ace,
- atom,
- bit,
- brief,
- capsule,
- capsulize,
- condense,
- dab,
- digest,
- dole,
- dot,
- dram,
- dribble,
- driblet,
- dwarf,
- farthing,
- fleck,
- flyspeck,
- fragment,
- gobbet,
- grain,
- granule,
- groat,
- hair,
- handful,
- inventory,
- iota,
- jot,
- little,
- little bit,
- minim,
- minimum,
- minutiae,
- mite,
- modicum,
- molecule,
- mote,
- ounce,
- outline,
- particle,
- pebble,
- pinch,
- pittance,
- point,
- scruple,
- shorten,
- sketch,
- sketch out,
- smidgen,
- smitch,
- speck,
- spoonful,
- spot,
- sum,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- summate,
- synopsize,
- thimbleful,
- tiny bit,
- tittle,
- trifling amount,
- trivia,
- whit
- iota
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- the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet related words >
- ace,
- atom,
- bit,
- crumb,
- dab,
- dole,
- dot,
- dram,
- dribble,
- driblet,
- drop,
- droplet,
- dwarf,
- farthing,
- fleck,
- flyspeck,
- fragment,
- gnat,
- gobbet,
- grain,
- granule,
- groat,
- hair,
- handful,
- jot,
- little,
- little bit,
- microbe,
- microorganism,
- midge,
- minim,
- minimum,
- minutia,
- minutiae,
- mite,
- modicum,
- molecule,
- mote,
- nutshell,
- ounce,
- particle,
- pebble,
- pinch,
- pinhead,
- pinpoint,
- pittance,
- point,
- ray,
- scrap,
- scruple,
- smidgen,
- smitch,
- snip,
- snippet,
- speck,
- spoonful,
- spot,
- thimbleful,
- tiny bit,
- tittle,
- trifling amount,
- trivia,
- vanishing point,
- whit
- allocate
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- distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose; "I am allocating a loaf of bread to everyone on a daily basis"; "I'm allocating the rations for the camping trip" related words >
- align,
- allot,
- allow,
- appoint,
- apportion,
- appropriate to,
- array,
- assign,
- assign to,
- collocate,
- compose,
- deal,
- deal out,
- deploy,
- destine,
- detail,
- dispose,
- distribute,
- earmark,
- emplace,
- fate,
- fix,
- get a fix,
- give,
- home in on,
- install,
- line,
- line up,
- localize,
- locate,
- lot,
- make assignments,
- mark off,
- mark out for,
- marshal,
- mete out,
- navigate,
- ordain,
- parcel out,
- pin down,
- pinpoint,
- place,
- portion off,
- position,
- put in place,
- rally,
- range,
- regiment,
- reserve,
- restrict,
- restrict to,
- schedule,
- set,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- set off,
- set out,
- situate,
- space,
- spot,
- tag,
- triangulate,
- zero in on
- beverage,
- bib,
- booze,
- bumper,
- chug,
- chug-a-lug,
- draft,
- drag,
- drain,
- drain the cup,
- dram,
- drench,
- drink,
- drink in,
- drink off,
- drink to,
- drink up,
- drop,
- gargle,
- gulp,
- guzzle,
- imbibe,
- jigger,
- jolt,
- lap,
- libation,
- liquor,
- liquor up,
- lush,
- nip,
- peg,
- pledge,
- portion,
- potation,
- potion,
- pull,
- quaff,
- raise the elbow,
- round,
- round of drinks,
- shot,
- sip,
- slurp,
- snifter,
- snort,
- soak,
- souse,
- spot,
- suck,
- suck in,
- suckle,
- sup,
- swill,
- tank up,
- tipple,
- toast,
- toss down,
- toss off,
- tot,
- wash down,
- wet
- acquitment,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- amortization,
- amortizement,
- binder,
- cash,
- cash payment,
- clearance,
- defrayal,
- defrayment,
- deposit,
- disbursal,
- discharge,
- doling out,
- down payment,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- hire purchase,
- hire purchase plan,
- installment,
- installment plan,
- interest payment,
- liquidation,
- monthly payments,
- never-never,
- paying,
- paying off,
- paying out,
- paying up,
- payment,
- payment in kind,
- payoff,
- prepayment,
- quarterly payments,
- quittance,
- regular payments,
- remittance,
- retirement,
- satisfaction,
- settlement,
- sinking-fund payment,
- spot cash,
- weekly payments
- acquitment,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- amortization,
- amortizement,
- binder,
- cash,
- cash payment,
- clearance,
- debt service,
- defrayal,
- deposit,
- disbursal,
- discharge,
- doling out,
- down payment,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- hire purchase,
- hire purchase plan,
- installment,
- installment plan,
- interest payment,
- liquidation,
- monthly payments,
- never-never,
- paying,
- paying off,
- paying out,
- paying up,
- payment,
- payment in kind,
- payoff,
- prepayment,
- quarterly payments,
- quittance,
- regular payments,
- remittance,
- retirement,
- satisfaction,
- settlement,
- sinking-fund payment,
- spot cash,
- weekly payments
- libation
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- the act of pouring a liquid offering (especially wine) as a religious ceremony
- a serving (of wine) poured out in honor of a deity
- (facetious) a serving of an alcoholic beverage related words >
- beverage,
- bumper,
- burnt offering,
- collection,
- draft,
- dram,
- drench,
- drink,
- drink offering,
- drop,
- ex voto offering,
- gargle,
- gulp,
- guzzle,
- heave offering,
- hecatomb,
- holocaust,
- human sacrifice,
- immolation,
- incense,
- infanticide,
- jigger,
- jolt,
- lap,
- mactation,
- nip,
- oblation,
- offering,
- offertory,
- peace offering,
- peg,
- piacular offering,
- portion,
- potation,
- potion,
- pull,
- quaff,
- round,
- round of drinks,
- sacramental offering,
- sacrifice,
- scapegoat,
- self-immolation,
- self-sacrifice,
- shot,
- sip,
- slurp,
- snifter,
- snort,
- spot,
- suck,
- sup,
- suttee,
- sutteeism,
- swig,
- swill,
- thank offering,
- tot,
- votive offering,
- wet,
- whole offering
- pebble
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- a small smooth rounded rock related words >
- ace,
- asphalt,
- atom,
- bit,
- blacktop,
- carpet,
- causeway,
- cement,
- checkstone,
- cobblestone,
- concrete,
- dab,
- dole,
- dot,
- drakestone,
- dram,
- dribble,
- driblet,
- dwarf,
- farthing,
- fingerstone,
- flag,
- fleck,
- floor,
- flyspeck,
- fragment,
- gobbet,
- grain,
- granule,
- gravelstone,
- groat,
- hair,
- handful,
- iota,
- jackstone,
- jot,
- little,
- little bit,
- metal,
- minim,
- minimum,
- minutiae,
- mite,
- modicum,
- molecule,
- mote,
- nutshell,
- ounce,
- particle,
- pave,
- pebblestone,
- pinch,
- pittance,
- point,
- scruple,
- slingstone,
- smidgen,
- smitch,
- speck,
- spoonful,
- spot,
- tar,
- thimbleful,
- tiny bit,
- tittle,
- trifling amount,
- trivia,
- whit
- intervene
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- occur between other event or between certain points of time; "the war intervened between the birth of her two children"
- get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force; "Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?"
- be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events; "This interludes intervenes between the two movements"; "Eight days intervened" related words >
- act between,
- arbitrate,
- arrest,
- bargain,
- barge in,
- bottle up,
- break,
- break in,
- break in upon,
- burst in,
- butt in,
- call a break,
- call time,
- charge in,
- check,
- come between,
- countercheck,
- crash,
- crash in,
- crash the gates,
- creep in,
- crowd in,
- curb,
- cut in,
- dam up,
- damp,
- dampen,
- declare a recess,
- delay,
- detain,
- divide,
- drag in,
- edge in,
- elapse,
- elbow in,
- encroach,
- entrench,
- foist in,
- fudge in,
- go between,
- hinder,
- hold back,
- hold in check,
- hold up,
- horn in,
- impede,
- impinge,
- implant in,
- impose,
- impose on,
- impose upon,
- infiltrate,
- infringe,
- inhibit,
- inject in,
- insert in,
- insinuate,
- insinuate in,
- intercalate,
- intercede,
- intercept,
- interfere,
- interjaculate,
- interject,
- interlope,
- interlude,
- intermeddle,
- intermediate,
- intermit,
- interpolate,
- interpose,
- interrupt,
- interval,
- introduce in,
- intrude,
- invade,
- irrupt,
- judge,
- keep back,
- keep in check,
- lug in,
- make terms,
- meddle,
- mediate,
- meet halfway,
- moderate,
- negotiate,
- obtrude,
- oppose,
- part,
- pass,
- pause,
- press in,
- push in,
- put between,
- put on,
- put upon,
- recess,
- referee,
- represent,
- repress,
- resist,
- restrain,
- retard,
- run in,
- rush in,
- sandwich,
- scotch,
- separate,
- set back,
- sever,
- slacken,
- slink in,
- slip in,
- smash in,
- smuggle in,
- sneak in,
- snub,
- squeeze in,
- steal in,
- step in,
- storm in,
- suppress,
- take a break,
- take five,
- take ten,
- throng in,
- throw in,
- thrust in,
- treat with,
- trench,
- trespass,
- umpire,
- wedge in,
- work in,
- worm in
- pandemic
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- an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world
- existing everywhere; "pandemic fear of nuclear war"
- epidemic over a wide geographical area; "a pandemic outbreak of malaria" related words >
- ambulatory plague,
- average,
- besetting,
- black death,
- black plague,
- bubonic plague,
- catching,
- cellulocutaneous plague,
- common,
- communicable,
- contagious,
- current,
- defervescing plague,
- dominant,
- endemic,
- epidemial,
- epidemic,
- epiphytotic,
- epizootic,
- glandular plague,
- hemorrhagic plague,
- infectious,
- infective,
- inoculable,
- larval plague,
- murrain,
- normal,
- ordinary,
- pandemia,
- pest,
- pesthole,
- pestiferous,
- pestilence,
- pestilential,
- plague,
- plague spot,
- pneumonic plague,
- popular,
- predominant,
- predominating,
- premonitory plague,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- rampant,
- regnant,
- reigning,
- rife,
- routine,
- ruling,
- running,
- scourge,
- septicemic plague,
- siderating plague,
- sporadic,
- spreading,
- standard,
- stereotyped,
- taking,
- tuberculosis,
- usual,
- white plague,
- zymotic
- offense
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- the action of attacking an enemy
- the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score related words >
- affront,
- aggravated assault,
- aggression,
- amphibious attack,
- angry look,
- armed assault,
- aspersion,
- assailing,
- assailment,
- assault,
- atrocity,
- attack,
- bad faith,
- banzai attack,
- blitz,
- blitzkrieg,
- breach,
- breach of contract,
- breach of faith,
- breach of privilege,
- breach of promise,
- breach of trust,
- breaking,
- breakthrough,
- brickbat,
- casus belli,
- charge,
- contempt,
- contravention,
- contumely,
- counterattack,
- counteroffensive,
- coup de main,
- crime,
- crime against humanity,
- crippling attack,
- cut,
- dead set at,
- deadly sin,
- delict,
- delinquency,
- dereliction,
- descent on,
- despite,
- dirty look,
- diversion,
- diversionary attack,
- drive,
- dudgeon,
- dump,
- enormity,
- error,
- evil,
- failure,
- fault,
- felony,
- flank attack,
- flout,
- flouting,
- frontal attack,
- frown,
- gas attack,
- genocide,
- gibe,
- glare,
- glower,
- guilty act,
- head-on attack,
- heavy sin,
- huff,
- humiliation,
- illegality,
- impropriety,
- indignity,
- indiscretion,
- inexpiable sin,
- infiltration,
- infraction,
- infringement,
- iniquity,
- injury,
- injustice,
- insult,
- jeer,
- jeering,
- lapse,
- lightning attack,
- lightning war,
- malefaction,
- malfeasance,
- malum,
- mass attack,
- megadeath,
- miff,
- minor wrong,
- misdeed,
- misdemeanor,
- misfeasance,
- mock,
- mockery,
- mortal sin,
- mugging,
- nonfeasance,
- offensive,
- omission,
- onset,
- onslaught,
- outrage,
- overkill,
- panzer warfare,
- peccadillo,
- peccancy,
- pique,
- provocation,
- push,
- put-down,
- raw nerve,
- red rag,
- resentment,
- run against,
- run at,
- rush,
- sally,
- scoff,
- scowl,
- scurrility,
- shock tactics,
- sin,
- sin of commission,
- sin of omission,
- sinful act,
- slip,
- snuff,
- sore point,
- sore spot,
- sortie,
- strike,
- taunt,
- tender spot,
- tort,
- transgression,
- trespass,
- trip,
- umbrage,
- uncomplimentary remark,
- unprovoked assault,
- unutterable sin,
- venial sin,
- violation,
- wrong,
- wrongdoing
- remittance
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- a payment of money sent to a person in another place related words >
- acquitment,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- allowance,
- amortization,
- amortizement,
- binder,
- cash,
- cash payment,
- clearance,
- consideration,
- debt service,
- defrayal,
- defrayment,
- deposit,
- disbursal,
- discharge,
- doling out,
- down payment,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- hire purchase,
- hire purchase plan,
- installment,
- installment plan,
- interest payment,
- liquidation,
- monthly payments,
- never-never,
- paying,
- paying off,
- paying out,
- paying up,
- payment,
- payment in kind,
- payoff,
- prepayment,
- quarterly payments,
- quittance,
- regular payments,
- retirement,
- satisfaction,
- settlement,
- sinking-fund payment,
- spot cash,
- weekly payments
- dollhouse
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- a small model of a house used as a toy by children
- a house so small that it is likened to a child's plaything related words >
- agate,
- ball,
- baseball bat,
- bat,
- battledore,
- bauble,
- blocks,
- checkerboard,
- chessboard,
- club,
- cockhorse,
- cricket bat,
- cubby,
- cubbyhole,
- cue,
- doghouse,
- doll,
- doll carriage,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- golf club,
- hobbyhorse,
- hole,
- jack-in-the-box,
- jacks,
- jackstones,
- jackstraws,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- marble,
- marionette,
- mig,
- paper doll,
- pick-up sticks,
- pigeonhole,
- pinch,
- pinwheel,
- playhouse,
- plaything,
- puppet,
- racket,
- rag doll,
- rocking horse,
- sport,
- steelie,
- taw,
- teetotum,
- tight spot,
- tight squeeze,
- top,
- toy,
- toy soldier,
- trinket,
- whim-wham
- nail
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- a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener
- horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
- a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard
- attach something somewhere by means of nails; "nail the board onto the wall" related words >
- Gibraltar,
- abduct,
- adamant,
- agonize,
- articulate,
- at once,
- attach,
- bag,
- batten,
- batten down,
- be correct,
- be precise,
- be right,
- biff,
- bolt,
- bone,
- brick,
- buckle,
- butt,
- button,
- cabbage,
- capture,
- carry off,
- catch,
- cement,
- chafe,
- clasp,
- claw,
- claws,
- cleat,
- clench,
- clinch,
- clip,
- clout,
- clutch,
- clutches,
- cold,
- collar,
- complete,
- conclude,
- concrete,
- diamond,
- digits,
- ding,
- distinguish,
- dovetail,
- enmesh,
- ensnare,
- entangle,
- entrap,
- fangs,
- fasten,
- fastener,
- fastening,
- finalize,
- fingernails,
- fingers,
- fix,
- flint,
- focus,
- foul,
- fret,
- get,
- glue,
- grab,
- granite,
- grapple,
- hands,
- hard as nails,
- hardy,
- harpoon,
- hasp,
- have,
- heart of oak,
- hinge,
- hit,
- hitch,
- hook,
- hooks,
- horse,
- identify,
- immediately,
- iron,
- jam,
- jaws,
- join,
- joint,
- kidnap,
- know,
- know again,
- land,
- lasso,
- latch,
- lion,
- lock,
- make out,
- mandibles,
- marble,
- maxillae,
- meathooks,
- mesh,
- miter,
- mitts,
- mortise,
- nab,
- nail down,
- nails,
- net,
- nick,
- nip,
- nippers,
- noose,
- oak,
- on the nail,
- on the spot,
- ox,
- palm,
- peg,
- pin,
- pincers,
- pinch,
- place,
- pounces,
- prehend,
- promptly,
- punch,
- rabbet,
- realize,
- recall knowledge of,
- recognize,
- reidentify,
- resolve,
- right away,
- rivet,
- rock,
- rope,
- sack,
- scarf,
- screw,
- secure,
- settle,
- sew,
- shanghai,
- shoot,
- skewer,
- slog,
- slosh,
- snag,
- snap,
- snare,
- snatch,
- sniggle,
- sock,
- spear,
- spike,
- spot,
- staple,
- steel,
- stew over,
- stick,
- stitch,
- stone,
- strike,
- suffer,
- tack,
- take,
- talon,
- talons,
- tangle,
- tangle up with,
- teeth,
- tell,
- throttle,
- toggle,
- tough,
- trap,
- unfeeling,
- unguals,
- ungulae,
- unsentimental,
- unsympathetic,
- vigorous,
- wedge,
- whack,
- without delay,
- worry,
- zipper
- immediately
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- without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening; "he answered immediately"; "found an answer straightaway"; "an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith"; "Come here now!"
- near or close by; "he passed immediately behind her"
- bearing an immediate relation; "this immediately concerns your future" related words >
- PDQ,
- amain,
- anon,
- apace,
- at once,
- away,
- by forced marches,
- closely,
- contiguously,
- cursorily,
- decisively,
- directly,
- expeditiously,
- feverishly,
- forthwith,
- furiously,
- hand over fist,
- hastily,
- helter-skelter,
- hotfoot,
- hurriedly,
- hurry-scurry,
- in a jiffy,
- in a second,
- in a wink,
- in no time,
- in passing,
- instantaneously,
- instanter,
- instantly,
- intimately,
- just now,
- just then,
- momentaneously,
- momentarily,
- momently,
- now,
- on the dot,
- on the instant,
- on the nail,
- on the run,
- on the spot,
- pell-mell,
- pretty damned quick,
- promptly,
- pronto,
- quickly,
- right away,
- right now,
- right off,
- shortly,
- slapdash,
- smartly,
- soon,
- speedily,
- straightaway,
- straightway,
- subito,
- summarily,
- superficially,
- swiftly,
- this instant,
- tout de suite,
- when,
- with a rush,
- with all haste,
- with all speed,
- with dispatch,
- with haste,
- without delay,
- without further delay,
- without hesitation
- watermark
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- a distinguishing mark impressed on paper during manufacture; visible when paper is held up to the light related words >
- Plimsoll line,
- Plimsoll mark,
- birthmark,
- blaze,
- blemish,
- blotch,
- brand,
- caste mark,
- check,
- checkmark,
- cicatrix,
- cut,
- dapple,
- discoloration,
- dot,
- earmark,
- engraving,
- fleck,
- flick,
- freckle,
- gash,
- graving,
- hack,
- high-water mark,
- jot,
- lentigo,
- load waterline,
- macula,
- mark,
- marking,
- mole,
- mottle,
- nevus,
- nick,
- notch,
- patch,
- point,
- polka dot,
- prick,
- puncture,
- scar,
- scarification,
- score,
- scotch,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- speck,
- speckle,
- splash,
- splotch,
- spot,
- stain,
- stigma,
- strawberry mark,
- tattoo,
- tattoo mark,
- tick,
- tidemark,
- tittle,
- waterline
- stocks
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- a former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be locked
- a frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shod
- a frame that supports a boat while it is under construction related words >
- Oregon boat,
- assessable stock,
- authorized capital stock,
- bilbo,
- blue chip,
- blue chip stock,
- bond,
- bonds,
- borrowed stock,
- branks,
- bridle,
- camisole,
- capital stock,
- chains,
- collar,
- common stock,
- convertible preferred stock,
- corporate stock,
- crank,
- cucking stool,
- cuffs,
- cumulative preferred stock,
- cyclical stock,
- defensive stock,
- deferred stock,
- ducking stool,
- eighth stock,
- equities,
- equity,
- equity security,
- fancies,
- fetter,
- finger pillory,
- floating stock,
- gag,
- glamour issue,
- growth stock,
- guaranteed stock,
- gyves,
- halter,
- hamper,
- handcuffs,
- high-flier,
- hobbles,
- hopples,
- hot issue,
- hypothecated stock,
- inactive stock,
- income stock,
- irons,
- issued capital stock,
- leading strings,
- leash,
- letter stock,
- loaned stock,
- long stock,
- manacle,
- muzzle,
- nonassessable stock,
- nonvoting stock,
- ordinary shares,
- pale blue chip,
- participating preferred stock,
- penny stock,
- pillory,
- preference stock,
- preferred stock,
- protective stock,
- quarter stock,
- rails,
- reins,
- restraint,
- restraints,
- reverse split,
- seasoned stock,
- shackle,
- share ledger,
- shares,
- short stock,
- special situation stock,
- specialty stock,
- speculative stock,
- split,
- standard stock,
- steels,
- stock,
- stock ledger,
- stock list,
- stock split,
- straightjacket,
- strait-waistcoat,
- straitjacket,
- stranglehold,
- ten-share unit stock,
- tether,
- trammel,
- trammels,
- treadmill,
- treasury stock,
- trebuchet,
- triangle,
- triangles,
- unissued capital stock,
- utilities,
- voting stock,
- whipping post,
- wooden horse,
- yoke
- Elizabethan theater,
- Globe Theatre,
- Greek theater,
- amphitheater,
- amusement park,
- arena theater,
- auditorium,
- ballroom,
- cabaret,
- cafe,
- cafe chantant,
- cafe dansant,
- casino,
- circle theater,
- club,
- concert hall,
- dance floor,
- dance hall,
- dancing pavilion,
- discotheque,
- entertainment industry,
- fun-fair,
- hall,
- house,
- juke joint,
- little theater,
- music hall,
- nightclub,
- nitery,
- opera,
- opera house,
- outdoor theater,
- playhouse,
- resort,
- roadhouse,
- show biz,
- show business,
- showboat,
- supper club,
- tavern,
- theater,
- theater-in-the-round,
- theatron,
- watering place
- ace,
- atom,
- bit,
- bric-a-brac,
- chaff,
- chicken feed,
- chickenshit,
- dab,
- details,
- dole,
- dot,
- dram,
- dribble,
- driblet,
- dwarf,
- farthing,
- fleck,
- flyspeck,
- fragment,
- froth,
- gimcrackery,
- gobbet,
- grain,
- granule,
- groat,
- hair,
- handful,
- iota,
- jot,
- knickknackery,
- little,
- little bit,
- minim,
- minimum,
- minutiae,
- mite,
- modicum,
- molecule,
- mote,
- nutshell,
- ounce,
- particle,
- peanuts,
- pebble,
- pinch,
- pittance,
- point,
- rubbish,
- scruple,
- small beer,
- small change,
- small potatoes,
- smidgen,
- smitch,
- speck,
- spoonful,
- spot,
- thimbleful,
- tiny bit,
- tittle,
- trash,
- trifles,
- trifling amount,
- triviality,
- trumpery,
- whit
- anniversary
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- the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it) related words >
- Admission Day,
- Arbor Day,
- Armed Forces Day,
- Armistice Day,
- Army Day,
- Bastille Day,
- Colorado Day,
- Constitution Day,
- Decoration Day,
- Dewali,
- Discovery Day,
- Double Ten,
- Easter Monday,
- Election Day,
- Empire Day,
- Evacuation Day,
- Flag Day,
- Foundation Day,
- Fourth of July,
- Groundhog Day,
- Halifax Day,
- Halloween,
- Holi,
- Ides of March,
- Kuhio Day,
- Labor Day,
- Lenin Memorial Day,
- Loyalty Day,
- Maryland Day,
- May Day,
- Mecklenburg Day,
- Memorial Day,
- Midsummer Day,
- National Aviation Day,
- Navy Day,
- Nevada Day,
- Pan American Day,
- Pascua Florida Day,
- Pioneer Day,
- Remembrance Day,
- Roosevelt Day,
- State Day,
- Texas Independence Day,
- United Nations Day,
- V-E Day,
- Victory Day,
- West Virginia Day,
- Wyoming Day,
- anniversaries,
- annual holiday,
- bicentenary,
- bicentennial,
- biennial,
- birthday,
- bissextile day,
- celebrating,
- celebration,
- centenary,
- centennial,
- ceremony,
- commemoration,
- decennial,
- diamond jubilee,
- dressing ship,
- fanfare,
- fanfaronade,
- festivity,
- flourish of trumpets,
- golden wedding anniversary,
- holiday,
- holy days,
- immovable feast,
- jubilee,
- leap year,
- marking the occasion,
- memorialization,
- memory,
- name day,
- natal day,
- observance,
- octennial,
- ovation,
- quadrennial,
- quasquicentennial,
- quincentenary,
- quincentennial,
- quinquennial,
- rejoicing,
- religious rites,
- remembrance,
- revel,
- rite,
- ritual observance,
- salute,
- salvo,
- septennial,
- sesquicentennial,
- sextennial,
- silver wedding anniversary,
- solemn observance,
- solemnization,
- tercentenary,
- tercentennial,
- testimonial,
- testimonial banquet,
- testimonial dinner,
- toast,
- tribute,
- tricennial,
- triennial,
- triumph,
- wedding anniversary
- hurried
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- moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste; "a hurried trip to the store"; "the hurried life of a city"; "a hurried job" related words >
- abrupt,
- accident-prone,
- at the double,
- breakneck,
- brief,
- careless,
- crowded,
- cursory,
- desperate,
- devil-may-care,
- double-quick,
- double-time,
- expeditious,
- festinate,
- feverish,
- flying,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- furious,
- hard-pressed,
- hard-pushed,
- hard-run,
- harum-scarum,
- hasty,
- headlong,
- hectic,
- hotheaded,
- immediate,
- impetuous,
- instant,
- last-minute,
- mad,
- offhand,
- on the double,
- on the spot,
- overeager,
- overenthusiastic,
- overzealous,
- passing,
- perfunctory,
- precipitant,
- precipitate,
- precipitous,
- pressed,
- pressed for time,
- prompt,
- pushed,
- quick,
- reckless,
- rushed,
- rushing,
- short,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- snap,
- speedy,
- sudden,
- superficial,
- swift,
- urgent,
- wanton,
- wild
- norm
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- a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical; "the current middle-class norm of two children per family" related words >
- Procrustean law,
- Ten Commandments,
- Weltanschauung,
- Zeitgeist,
- average,
- axiology,
- balance,
- barometer,
- behavioral norm,
- benchmark,
- business ethics,
- canon,
- center,
- check,
- climate,
- climate of opinion,
- code,
- code of ethics,
- code of morals,
- commandment,
- convention,
- criterion,
- decalogue,
- degree,
- dictum,
- ethic,
- ethical system,
- ethics,
- ethos,
- form,
- formality,
- formula,
- formulary,
- gauge,
- general principle,
- generality,
- golden mean,
- golden rule,
- graduated scale,
- guideline,
- guiding principle,
- happy medium,
- ideology,
- imperative,
- intellectual climate,
- juste-milieu,
- law,
- law of nature,
- legal ethics,
- maxim,
- mean,
- measure,
- median,
- medical ethics,
- mediocrity,
- medium,
- middle,
- middle course,
- middle ground,
- middle point,
- middle position,
- middle state,
- middle-of-the-road,
- midpoint,
- mitzvah,
- model,
- moral,
- moral climate,
- moral code,
- moral principles,
- morals,
- mores,
- new morality,
- norma,
- normal,
- normative system,
- norms,
- order of nature,
- ordinance,
- par,
- parameter,
- pattern,
- prescribed form,
- prescription,
- principium,
- principle,
- principles,
- professional ethics,
- quantity,
- reading,
- readout,
- regulation,
- rubric,
- rule,
- run,
- scale,
- set form,
- settled principle,
- social ethics,
- spiritual climate,
- standard,
- standards,
- standing order,
- tenet,
- test,
- touchstone,
- type,
- universal law,
- usual,
- value,
- value system,
- via media,
- working principle,
- working rule,
- world view,
- yardstick
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