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unfamiliar collapse: not known or well known; "a name unfamiliar to most"; "be alert at night especially in unfamiliar surroundings"

discreet collapse: marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint; "his trusted discreet aide"; "a discreet, finely wrought gold necklace"

alternative collapse: necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities; "`either' and `or' in `either this or that'"; pertaining to unconventional choices; "an alternative life style"

linger collapse: take one's time; proceed slowly; remain present although waning or gradually dying; "Her perfume lingered on"

fumble collapse: (sports) dropping the ball; drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder; "fumble a grounder"; handle clumsily; make one's way clumsily or blindly; "He fumbled towards the door"

scrabble collapse: a board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game

bunt collapse: (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat; fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores; similar to Tilletia caries; disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores; hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance

interim collapse: the time between one event, process, or period and another; "meanwhile the socialists are running the government"; serving during an intermediate interval of time; "an interim agreement"

deride collapse: treat or speak of with contempt; "He derided his student's attempt to solve the biggest problem in mathematics"

theory collapse: a belief that can guide behavior; "the architect has a theory that more is less"; "they killed him on the theory that dead men tell no tales"; a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena; "theories can incorporate facts and laws and tested hypotheses"; "true in fact and theory"

undependable collapse: liable to be erroneous or misleading; "an undependable generalization"

drive in collapse: cause a run or runner to be scored; "His line double drove in Jim Lemon with the winning run"; arrive by motorcar; "The star and her manager drive in today from their motor tour across the country"

poke collapse: tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous; make a hole by poking; stir by poking; "poke the embers in the fireplace"

attempt collapse: earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something; "made an effort to cover all the reading material"; "wished him luck in his endeavor"; "she gave it a good try"

circumspect collapse: heedful of potential consequences; "circumspect actions"; "physicians are now more circumspect about recommending its use"; "a discreet investor"

backup collapse: (computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device; "he made a backup in case the original was accidentally damaged or erased"; an accumulation caused by clogging or a stoppage; "a traffic backup on the main street"; "he discovered a backup in the toilet"

lunge collapse: (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward; make a thrusting forward movement

naive collapse: inexperienced; marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances"

reluctant collapse: not eager; "foreigners stubbornly uneager to accept our ways"; "fresh from college and uneager for the moment to marry him"; "reluctant to help"; unwilling to become involved; "they were usually reluctant to socialize"; "reluctant to help"

submission collapse: the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another; (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing; an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter; a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter; something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition); "several of his submissions were rejected by publishers"; "what was the date of submission of your proposal?"; the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else; "the union was brought into submission"; "his submission to the will of God"

breath collapse: the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing; "he took a deep breath and dived into the pool"; "he was fighting to his last breath"; a slight movement of the air; "there wasn't a breath of air in the room"; the air that is inhaled and exhaled in respiration; "his sour breath offended her"; a short respite

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