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cheeseparing collapse: giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man"

intellectual collapse: a person who uses the mind creatively; appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"; of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man"; of or relating to the intellect; "his intellectual career"

similarly collapse: in like or similar manner; "He was similarly affected"; "some people have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil"- Samuel Johnson

syntax collapse: the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences; studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences; a systematic orderly arrangement

verse collapse: a piece of poetry; a line of metrical text; familiarize through thorough study or experience; "She versed herself in Roman archeology"; compose verses or put into verse; "He versified the ancient saga"

honest-to-God collapse: (used informally especially for emphasis); "a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel"

double entendre collapse: an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate

spoor collapse: the trail left by a person or an animal; what the hunter follows in pursuing game; "the hounds followed the fox's spoor"

by no means collapse: definitely not; "the prize is by no means certain"; "and that isn't all, not by a long sight"

never collapse: not ever; at no time in the past or future; "I have never been to China"; "I shall never forget this day"; "had never seen a circus"; "never on Sunday"; "I will never marry you!"; not at all; certainly not; not in any circumstances; "never fear"; "bringing up children is never easy"; "that will never do"; "what is morally wrong can never be politically right"

teaching collapse: the profession of a teacher; "he prepared for teaching while still in college"; "pedagogy is recognized as an important profession"; a doctrine that is taught; "the teachings of religion"; "he believed all the Christian precepts"

sentence collapse: a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; "he always spoke in grammatical sentences"; pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison"

lifelike collapse: free from artificiality; "a lifelike pose"; "a natural reaction"

insightful collapse: exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception; "an insightful parent"; "the chapter is insightful and suggestive of new perspectives"-R.C.Angell

unflattering collapse: showing or representing unfavorably; "an unflattering portrait"; "an uncomplimentary dress"

Scotch collapse: whiskey distilled in Scotland; especially whiskey made from malted barley in a pot still; make a small cut or score into

predicate collapse: one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements; (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula; "`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates"; affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"; make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'"

scholar collapse: a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines; a student who holds a scholarship

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