Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/03

• alkalize, acetify, acidify, acidulate, alkalify, borate, carbonate, catalyze, chemical, chlorinate, electrolyze, ferment, homopolymerize, hydrate, hydrogenate, hydroxylate, isomerize, nitrate, oxidize, pepsinate, peroxidize, phosphatize, polymerize, reduce, sulfate, sulfatize, sulfonate, work

• all around, accessible, adaptable, adjustable, all-inclusive, ambidextrous, amphibious, at hand, available, broad, complete, comprehensive, consummate, convenient, extensive, flexible, general, generally capable, global, handy, inclusive, many-sided, mobile, of all work, on call, on deck, on hand, on tap, overall, panoramic, ready, resourceful, supple, sweeping, synoptic, to hand, two-handed, versatile, wide, wide-ranging

• all at once, abruptly, all together, at a blow, at a stroke, at once, at one blow, at one jump, at one stroke, at one swoop, at one time, bang, collectively, communally, conjointly, corporately, dash, en masse, ensemble, forthwith, hastily, impetuously, impulsively, in a body, in a hurry, in association, in company, in conjunction, jointly, like a flash, like a thunderbolt, mutually, now, of a sudden, on short notice, per saltum, plop, plump, plunk, pop, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, pronto, right away, right now, right off, sharp, simultaneously, slap, smack, startlingly, straightaway, straightway, subito, sudden, suddenly, surprisingly, then and there, this minute, this very minute, together, unawares, unexpectedly, unitedly, uno saltu, without delay, without notice, without warning

• all clear, Klaxon, Mayday, SOS, above water, air-raid alarm, alarm, alarm bell, alarm clock, alarm signal, alarum, alert, all straight, beacon, blinking light, burglar alarm, buzzer, clear, crostarie, fiery cross, fire alarm, fire bell, fire flag, five-minute gun, flashing light, fog bell, fog signal, foghorn, free and clear, gale warning, hooter, horn, hue and cry, hurricane warning, lighthouse, note of alarm, occulting light, out of debt, police whistle, signal of distress, siren, small-craft warning, solvent, still alarm, storm cone, storm flag, storm warning, tocsin, two-minute gun, unindebted, unowing, upside-down flag, whistle

• all comprehensive, across-the-board, all-comprehending, all-covering, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-inclusive, all-pervading, allover, blanket, boundless, catholic, compendious, complete, comprehensive, cosmopolitan, countless, country-wide, ecumenic, encyclopedic, endless, eternal, exhaustless, extending everywhere, galactic, global, heaven-wide, illimitable, illimited, immeasurable, immense, incalculable, incomprehensible, inexhaustible, infinite, infinitely continuous, innumerable, interminable, interminate, international, limitless, measureless, national, no end of, nondenominational, nonsectarian, omnibus, over-all, panoramic, perpetual, planetary, shoreless, sumless, sweeping, synoptic, termless, total, unbounded, uncircumscribed, unfathomable, universal, unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unnumbered, unplumbed, untold, whole, without bound, without end, without exception, without limit, without measure, without number, without omission, world-wide

• all creation, Copernican universe, Einsteinian universe, Newtonian universe, Ptolemaic universe, all, all being, allness, cosmos, created nature, created universe, creation, everything that is, expanding universe, macrocosm, macrocosmos, megacosm, metagalaxy, nature, omneity, plenum, pulsating universe, sidereal universe, steady-state universe, sum of things, system, totality, totality of being, universe, whole wide world, wide world, world, world without end

• all ears, Argus-eyed, advertent, agog, alert, all eyes, assiduous, attentive, aux aguets, aware, careful, concentrated, conscious, custodial, diligent, eagle-eyed, earnest, finical, finicking, finicky, guarded, hawk-eyed, heedful, intense, intent, intentive, keen-eyed, lidless, listening, meticulous, mindful, nice, niggling, observant, observing, on guard, on the ball, on the job, on the lookout, on the watch, open-eared, open-eyed, openmouthed, prudent, regardful, sharp-eyed, sleepless, vigilant, wary, watchful, with open eyes

• all embracing, absolute, aggregate, all, all-comprehending, all-comprehensive, all-covering, all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-inclusive, all-out, all-pervading, allover, born, broad-based, catholic, clean, clear, comprehensive, congenital, consummate, cosmopolitan, country-wide, deep-dyed, downright, dyed-in-the-wool, ecumenic, egregious, entire, exhaustive, galactic, global, gross, heaven-wide, holistic, inclusive, integral, integrated, intensive, international, national, nondenominational, nonsectarian, omnibus, omnipresent, one, one and indivisible, out-and-out, outright, perfect, pervasive, plain, planetary, plumb, pure, radical, regular, sheer, straight, sweeping, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total, ubiquitous, unconditional, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, unrestricted, utter, veritable, whole, wholesale, world-wide

• all in all, all things considered, almost entirely, altogether, approximately, as a rule, as a whole, as an approximation, at large, broadly, broadly speaking, by and large, chiefly, commonly, effectually, en masse, essentially, exactly, generally, generally speaking, in general, in round numbers, in the main, in toto, just, mainly, mostly, normally, on balance, on the average, on the whole, ordinarily, overall, predominantly, prevailingly, purely, quite, roughly, roughly speaking, routinely, speaking generally, substantially, totally, usually, utterly, virtually, wholly

• all in the mind, Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, apparent, apparitional, autistic, chimeric, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, dreamlike, dreamy, erroneous, fallacious, false, fancied, fantastic, fictive, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, imaginational, imagined, misleading, nonexistent, notional, ostensible, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, specious, spectral, supposititious, unactual, unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, visional, visionary

• all in, beat, beat up, beaten, bleary, bone-weary, bushed, dead, dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat, depleted, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done in, done up, drained, exhausted, fagged out, far-gone, gone, knocked out, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, ready to drop, spent, tired out, tired to death, tuckered out, used up, washed-out, washed-up, weary unto death, whacked, wiped out, worn-out

• all inclusive, across-the-board, aggregate, all, all-comprehending, all-comprehensive, all-covering, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-pervading, allover, blanket, boundless, catholic, compendious, complete, comprehensive, cosmopolitan, countless, country-wide, ecumenic, encyclopedic, endless, entire, eternal, exhaustive, exhaustless, extending everywhere, galactic, global, gross, heaven-wide, holistic, illimitable, illimited, immeasurable, immense, incalculable, inclusive, incomprehensible, inexhaustible, infinite, infinitely continuous, innumerable, integral, integrated, interminable, interminate, international, limitless, measureless, national, no end of, nondenominational, nonsectarian, omnibus, one, one and indivisible, over-all, panoramic, perpetual, planetary, shoreless, sumless, sweeping, synoptic, termless, total, unbounded, uncircumscribed, unfathomable, universal, unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unnumbered, unplumbed, untold, whole, without bound, without end, without exception, without limit, without measure, without number, without omission, world-wide

• all of a sudden, abruptly, bang, dash, hastily, impetuously, impulsively, like a flash, like a thunderbolt, of a sudden, on short notice, plop, plump, plunk, pop, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, sharp, short, slap, smack, startlingly, sudden, suddenly, surprisingly, unawares, unexpectedly, without notice, without warning

• all out, a outrance, a toute outrance, absolute, absolutely, actively, admitting no exception, all hollow, all the way, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-pervading, allegretto, allegro, animatedly, at full blast, at full drive, at full speed, at full throttle, beyond all bounds, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, born, breezily, briskly, broad-based, categorical, clean, clear, complete, completely, comprehensive, conclusive, congenital, consummate, dead, decided, decisive, deep-dyed, definite, definitive, determinate, downright, dyed-in-the-wool, egregious, energetically, entire, essentially, exhaustive, explicit, express, extremely, final, fixed, flat, flat out, flat-out, full speed ahead, full tilt, full-blown, full-scale, fundamentally, global, immeasurably, implicit, in excess, in full sail, in full swing, in the extreme, inappealable, incalculably, indefinitely, indisputable, infinitely, intensive, lively, most, omnibus, omnipresent, out-and-out, outright, peremptory, perfect, perfectly, pervasive, plain, plumb, positive, pure, purely, radical, radically, regular, round, sheer, spiritedly, sprightly, straight, straight-out, sweeping, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, to a fare-you-well, to a fault, to excess, to extremes, to the backbone, to the extreme, to the full, to the limit, to the marrow, to the skies, to the sky, to the utmost, too far, total, totalitarian, totally, ubiquitous, uncircumscribed, unconditional, unconditionally, unconditioned, under full steam, undoubting, unequivocal, unequivocally, unhampered, unhesitating, universal, unlimited, unmistakable, unmitigated, unqualified, unquestioning, unreserved, unrestricted, unwaivable, utter, utterly, veritable, vivaciously, whole, wholesale, wide open, with a vengeance, with all speed, without exception, without reserve

• all over, ad infinitum, all over hell, all round, all through, always, and everywhere, at about, at all points, at full length, cosmically, every bit, every inch, every which way, every whit, everywhere, everywheres, far and near, far and wide, galactically, harum-scarum, head and shoulders, heart and soul, helter-skelter, here, higgledy-piggledy, high and low, hugger-mugger, in a jumble, in a mess, in a muddle, in all creation, in all places, in all quarters, in all respects, in confusion, in disarray, in disorder, in every clime, in every instance, in every place, in every quarter, in every respect, in extenso, inside and out, internationally, invariably, neck deep, never otherwise, on all counts, over, overall, root and branch, round about, skimble-skamble, the world over, there, through, through and through, throughout, throughout the world, to the brim, to the death, to the end, to the hilt, under the sun, universally, upstairs and downstairs, willy-nilly, without exception, you name it

• all overs, agitation, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, cankerworm of care, care, cold shivers, cold sweat, concern, concernment, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dither, dithers, doubt, dread, fear, foreboding, forebodingness, heebie-jeebies, inquietude, jimjams, jitters, jumps, malaise, misgiving, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, overanxiety, perturbation, pins and needles, pucker, qualm, qualmishness, quivers, shakes, shivers, solicitude, stew, strain, suspense, sweat, tension, trembles, trouble, uneasiness, unquietness, upset, vexation, willies, zeal

• all pervading, absolute, all-comprehending, all-comprehensive, all-covering, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-inclusive, all-out, allover, born, broad-based, catholic, clean, clear, comprehensive, congenital, consummate, cosmopolitan, country-wide, deep-dyed, downright, dyed-in-the-wool, ecumenic, egregious, exhaustive, galactic, global, heaven-wide, intensive, international, national, nondenominational, nonsectarian, omnibus, omnipresent, out-and-out, outright, perfect, pervasive, plain, planetary, plumb, pure, radical, regular, sheer, straight, sweeping, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total, ubiquitous, unconditional, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, unrestricted, utter, veritable, wholesale, world-wide

• all powerful, absolute, all-knowing, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, boundless, changeless, creating, creative, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, glorious, good, hallowed, highest, holy, immortal, immutable, infinite, just, limitless, loving, luminous, majestic, making, merciful, numinous, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, permanent, perpetual, plenipotentiary, radiant, sacred, shaping, sovereign, supreme, timeless, ubiquitous, unbounded, unchanging, undefined, unlimited

• all right, OK, Roger, absolute, absolutely, acceptable, accurate, adequate, admissible, agreeable, agreed, alright, alrighty, amen, as you say, assuredly, aye, better than nothing, by all means, certainly, correct, da, dead right, decent, doing nicely, exactly, fair, fairish, faultless, fine, flawless, good, good enough, goodish, hear, indeed, indeedy, ja, just, just right, just so, letter-perfect, mais oui, meticulous, moderate, most assuredly, naturally, naturellement, not amiss, not bad, not half bad, not so bad, of course, okay, oui, passable, perfect, positively, precisely, presentable, pretty good, proper, quite, rather, really, respectable, right, righto, satisfactory, straight, straight-up-and-down, sufficient, sure, sure thing, surely, tenable, tidy, to be sure, tolerable, truly, unailing, unexceptionable, unexceptional, unimpeachable, unobjectionable, unsick, unsickly, up and about, very well, viable, well, well and good, why yes, workmanlike, yea, yeah, yep, yes, yes indeed, yes indeedy, yes sir, yes sirree

• all round, all about, all over, all over hell, and everywhere, around, every which way, everywhence, everywhere, everywheres, everywhither, far and near, far and wide, from every quarter, here, high and low, in all creation, in all directions, in all places, in all quarters, in every clime, in every place, in every quarter, inside and out, on all hands, on all sides, on every side, overall, right and left, round about, the world over, there, throughout, throughout the world, under the sun, universally, upstairs and downstairs

• all seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-wise, almighty, boundless, changeless, creating, creative, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, glorious, good, hallowed, highest, holy, immortal, immutable, infinite, just, limitless, loving, luminous, majestic, making, merciful, numinous, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, permanent, perpetual, radiant, sacred, shaping, sovereign, supreme, timeless, ubiquitous, unbounded, unchanging, undefined, unlimited

• all set, all ready, armed, armed and ready, booted and spurred, briefed, coached, cocked, equipped, familiarized, good and ready, groomed, in arms, in battle array, in readiness, in the saddle, informed, loaded, loaded for bear, mature, mobilized, on the mark, planned, prearranged, prepared, prepared and ready, prepped, primed, provided, psyched up, ready, ready for anything, ripe, set, up in arms, vigilant, well-prepared

• all the way, a outrance, a toute outrance, all hollow, all out, as far as, flat out, the last extremity, to, to a fare-you-well, to a finish, to the backbone, to the end, to the full, to the limit, to the marrow, to the skies, to the sky, to the utmost, utterly, with a vengeance

• all things considered, after all, all in all, altogether, as a rule, as a whole, as an approximation, at large, before the bench, before the court, broadly, broadly speaking, by and large, ceteris paribus, chiefly, commonly, considering, everything being equal, generally, generally speaking, in court, in general, in round numbers, mainly, mostly, normally, on balance, on the average, on the whole, ordinarily, overall, predominantly, prevailingly, roughly, roughly speaking, routinely, speaking generally, sub judice, taking into account, therefore, this being so, usually, wherefore

• all thumbs, awkward, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, careless, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, inelegant, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, ponderous, sloppy, stiff, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unwieldy

• all together, all agreeing, all at once, as one, as one man, at a blow, at a clip, at a stroke, at once, at one blow, at one jump, at one stroke, at one swoop, at one time, by acclamation, coinstantaneously, concurrently, conjointly, consentaneously, corporately, forthwith, in a chorus, in a hurry, in agreement, in chorus, in common, in concert with, in concord, in partnership, in phase, in sync, in unison, inharmony, isochronously, jointly, mutually, nem con, nemine contradicente, nemine dissentiente, now, on all hands, on the beat, one and all, per saltum, pronto, right away, right now, right off, simultaneously, straightaway, straightway, subito, synchronously, then and there, this minute, this very minute, to a man, together, unanimously, uno saltu, with one accord, with one consent, with one voice, without contradiction, without delay

• all, A to Z, A to izzard, Copernican universe, Einsteinian universe, Newtonian universe, Ptolemaic universe, acme, across the board, aggregate, all and some, all and sundry, all being, all creation, all hands, all in all, all put together, all the world, all-embracing, all-inclusive, allness, alpha and omega, altogether, any, apogee, as a body, as a whole, aside, assemblage, at large, be-all, be-all and end-all, beginning and end, bodily, ceiling, climax, collectively, complement, complete, comprehensive, corporately, cosmos, created nature, created universe, creation, crown, each, each and all, each and every, each one, en bloc, en masse, end, entire, entirely, entirety, every, every man Jack, every one, everybody, everyman, everyone, everything, everything that is, exactly, exhaustive, expanding universe, extreme, extremity, full, gross, highest degree, holistic, in a body, in all, in all respects, in bulk, in its entirety, in the aggregate, in the gross, in the lump, in the mass, in toto, inclusive, integral, integrated, just, length and breadth, limit, macrocosm, macrocosmos, maximum, megacosm, metagalaxy, nature, ne plus ultra, nth degree, omneity, omnibus, on all counts, one, one and all, one and indivisible, outright, package, package deal, peak, per, per capita, pinnacle, plenary, plenum, pulsating universe, purely, quite, set, sidereal universe, steady-state universe, stick, sum, sum of things, sum total, summit, system, the corpus, the ensemble, the entirety, the lot, the whole, the whole range, top, total, totality, totality of being, totally, tote, tout ensemble, tout le monde, universal, universe, utmost, utmost extent, utterly, uttermost, whole, whole wide world, wholly, wide world, world, world without end

• allay, abate, alleviate, anesthetize, appease, assuage, attemper, balm, bank the fire, benumb, blunt, calm, chasten, cloy, compose, conciliate, constrain, control, cool, cram, cushion, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deaden the pain, defuse, deliver, diminish, disburden, disembarrass, disencumber, downplay, dulcify, dull, ease, ease matters, engorge, extenuate, feast, feed, fill, fill up, foment, free, give relief, glut, gorge, gratify, jade, keep within bounds, lay, lay the dust, lenify, lessen, lighten, lull, mitigate, moderate, modulate, mollify, numb, obtund, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overgorge, oversaturate, overstuff, pacify, pad, pall, palliate, placate, play down, poultice, pour balm into, pour balm on, pour oil on, propitiate, quench, quiet, quieten, reduce, reduce the temperature, regale, release, relieve, restrain, salve, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, settle, slacken, slake, slow down, smooth, smooth down, smooth over, smother, sober, sober down, soften, soothe, stifle, still, stuff, stupe, subdue, supersaturate, suppress, surfeit, tame, temper, tone down, tranquilize, tune down, underplay, weaken

• allegation, Parthian shot, accusal, accusation, accusing, address, admission, affidavit, affirmance, affirmation, allegement, announcement, annunciation, answer, apostrophe, arraignment, assertion, asseveration, attest, attestation, averment, avouchment, avowal, bill, bill of complaint, bill of particulars, blame, bringing of charges, bringing to book, charge, claim, comment, complaint, compurgation, conclusion, count, crack, creed, declaration, delation, denouncement, denunciation, deposition, dictum, disclosure, enunciation, exclamation, expression, greeting, impeachment, implication, imputation, indictment, information, innuendo, insinuation, instrument in proof, interjection, ipse dixit, lawsuit, laying of charges, legal evidence, libel, manifesto, mention, narratio, nolle prosequi, nonsuit, note, observation, phrase, plaint, position, position paper, positive declaration, predicate, predication, proclamation, profession, pronouncement, proposition, prosecution, protest, protestation, question, reflection, remark, reproach, say, say-so, saying, sentence, stance, stand, statement, statement of facts, subjoinder, suit, sworn evidence, sworn statement, sworn testimony, taxing, testimonial, testimonium, testimony, thought, true bill, unspoken accusation, utterance, veiled accusation, vouch, witness, word

• allege, accuse, acknowledge, adduce, advance, affirm, announce, annunciate, argue, arraign, array, article, assert, assever, asseverate, attest, aver, avouch, avow, bear witness, book, bring accusation, bring charges, bring forward, bring on, bring to bear, bring to book, certify, charge, cite, claim, complain, contend, declare, denounce, denunciate, deploy, depone, depose, disclose, enunciate, express, fasten on, fasten upon, finger, give evidence, hang something on, have, hold, impeach, imply, impute, indict, inform against, inform on, insinuate, insist, issue a manifesto, lay, lay charges, lay down, lodge a complaint, lodge a plaint, maintain, manifesto, marshal, nuncupate, offer, pin on, plead, predicate, prefer charges, present, press charges, pretend, pretext, proclaim, produce, profess, pronounce, protest, protest too much, purport, put, put it, put on report, quote, rally, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, reproach, say, set down, speak, speak out, speak up, stand for, stand on, state, submit, swear, take to task, task, taunt with, tax, testify, twit, vouch, warrant, witness

• alleged, accountable, accounted as, affirmed, announced, ascribable, asserted, asseverated, assignable, assumed, assumptive, attested, attributable, attributed, averred, avouched, avowed, certified, charged, claimed, compare, conjectural, conjectured, credible, credited, declared, deemed, deposed, derivable from, derivational, derivative, described, designated, doubtful, dubious, due, enunciated, explicable, given, granted, hypocritical, hypothetical, imputable, imputed, in name only, inferred, manifestoed, ostensible, owing, plausible, pledged, postulated, postulational, predicated, premised, presumed, presumptive, pretended, pretexted, professed, pronounced, purported, putative, questionable, referable, referred to, reputed, self-styled, so-called, soi-disant, specious, stated, supposed, suppositional, supposititious, suppositive, suspected, sworn, sworn to, taken for granted, traceable, understood, vouched, vouched for, vowed, warranted, would-be

• allegiance, acquiescence, adherence, adhesion, assigned task, attachment, bona fides, bond, bonne foi, bounden duty, burden, business, call of duty, charge, commitment, compliance, conformity, consecration, constancy, dedication, deference, devoir, devotedness, devotion, duteousness, duties and responsibilities, dutifulness, duty, ethics, faith, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, firmness, good faith, homage, honor, imperative, line of duty, loyalty, mission, must, obedience, obediency, obligation, observance, onus, ought, piety, place, respect, self-imposed duty, service, servility, servitium, staunchness, steadfastness, submission, submissiveness, suit and service, suit service, tie, troth, true blue, trueness, willingness

• allegorical, allegoric, anagogic, associational, connotational, connotative, definable, denotational, denotative, expressive, extended, extensional, fabulous, fictional, figurative, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, indicative, intelligible, intensional, interpretable, legendary, meaning, meaningful, meaty, metaphorical, mythic, mythological, mythopoeic, mythopoetic, parabolic, pithy, pointed, pregnant, readable, referential, romantic, romanticized, sententious, significant, significative, substantial, suggestive, symbolic, transferred

• allegorize, account for, allude to, assume, bring to mind, clarify, clear up, connote, crack, decipher, demonstrate, demythologize, elucidate, enlighten, entail, euhemerize, exemplify, explain, explain away, explicate, exposit, expound, fable, fabulize, fictionalize, give reason for, give the meaning, hint, illuminate, illustrate, implicate, imply, import, infer, insinuate, intimate, involve, make clear, make plain, mean, mean to say, mythicize, mythify, mythologize, narrate, novelize, point indirectly to, popularize, presume, presuppose, rationalize, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, retell, romance, shed light upon, show, show how, show the way, simplify, solve, spell out, storify, suggest, suppose, take for granted, tell, tell a story, throw light upon, unfold, unfold a tale, unlock, unravel

• allegory, Marchen, Western, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allusion, analogy, apologue, arcane meaning, assumption, balancing, bedtime story, charactery, cipher, coloration, comparative anatomy, comparative degree, comparative grammar, comparative judgment, comparative linguistics, comparative literature, comparative method, compare, comparing, comparison, confrontation, confrontment, connotation, contrast, contrastiveness, conventional symbol, correlation, detective story, distinction, distinctiveness, emblem, fable, fabliau, fairy tale, fantasy, fiction, figuration, folk story, folktale, gest, ghost story, hint, horse opera, iconology, ideogram, implication, implied meaning, import, inference, innuendo, intimation, ironic suggestion, legend, likening, logogram, logotype, love knot, love story, matching, meaning, metaphor, metaphorical sense, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythology, mythos, nuance, nursery tale, occult meaning, opposing, opposition, overtone, parable, parallelism, pictogram, presumption, presupposition, proportion, relation, romance, science fiction, shocker, simile, similitude, space fiction, space opera, subsense, subsidiary sense, suggestion, supposition, suspense story, symbol, symbolic system, symbolism, symbolization, symbology, thriller, tinge, token, totem, totem pole, touch, trope of comparison, type, typification, undercurrent, undermeaning, undertone, weighing, whodunit, work of fiction

• allegro, accelerando, actively, adagietto, adagio, affrettando, all out, allegretto, andante, andantino, animatedly, breezily, briskly, con anima, con brio, crescendo, decrescendo, desto, diminuendo, energetically, forte, fortissimo, full tilt, in full swing, larghetto, larghissimo, largo, legato, lively, marcando, moderato, pianissimo, piano, pizzicato, prestissimo, presto, rallentando, ritardando, ritenuto, scherzando, scherzo, spiccato, spiritedly, sprightly, staccato, stretto, veloce, vivace, vivaciously, vivacissimo

• Alleluia, Agnus Dei, Anamnesis, Blessing, Canon, Collect, Communion, Consecration, Credo, Dismissal, Epistle, Fraction, Gloria, Gospel, Gradual, Introit, Kyrie, Kyrie Eleison, Last Gospel, Lavabo, Offertory, Paternoster, Pax, Post-Communion, Preface, Sanctus, Secreta, Tersanctus, Tract

• alleluia, Agnus Dei, Benedicite, Gloria, Gloria Patri, Gloria in Excelsis, Introit, Magnificat, Miserere, Nunc Dimittis, Te Deum, Trisagion, Vedic hymn, answer, anthem, antiphon, antiphony, applause, canticle, chant, cheer, chorale, chorus of cheers, cry, doxology, hallelujah, hooray, hosanna, hurrah, hurray, huzzah, hymn, hymn of praise, hymnody, hymnography, hymnology, laud, mantra, motet, offertory, offertory sentence, paean, psalm, psalmody, rah, report, response, responsory, shout, versicle, yell, yippee

• allergen, Rh factor, agglutinin, allergic disorder, allergy, anaphylactin, antiantibody, antibody, antigen, antiserum, antitoxic serum, antitoxin, antivenin, asthma, conjunctivitis, cosmetic dermatitis, eczema, hay fever, hives, incomplete antibody, interferon, pollinosis, precipitin, rose cold, serum, urticaria

• allergic, anaphylactic, anemic, apoplectic, arthritic, averse, bilious, cancerous, chlorotic, colicky, consumptive, delicate, disaffected, disenchanted, disinclined, displeased, dropsical, dyspeptic, edematous, empathetic, empathic, encephalitic, epileptic, goosy, hostile, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, irritable, itchy, laryngitic, leprous, luetic, malarial, malignant, measly, nephritic, nervous, neuralgic, neuritic, not charmed, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, palsied, paralytic, passible, phthisic, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, prickly, put off, rachitic, refined, responsive, rheumatic, rickety, scorbutic, scrofulous, sensitive, skittish, supersensitive, sympathetic, tabetic, tabid, tactful, tender, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, tubercular, tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous, unfriendly

• allergy, abhorrence, abnormality, abomination, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergen, allergic disease, allergic disorder, anaphylaxis, antagonism, antipathy, asthma, atrophy, aversion, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, circulatory disease, cold sweat, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, conjunctivitis, considerateness, cosmetic dermatitis, creeping flesh, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, delicacy, disability, disease, disgust, disorder, distemper, eczema, empathy, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, enmity, epidemic disease, exquisiteness, fineness, functional disease, fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, handicap, hate, hatred, hay fever, hereditary disease, hives, horror, hostility, hyperesthesia, hyperpathia, hypersensitivity, iatrogenic disease, identification, illness, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, irritability, loathing, malady, malaise, morbidity, morbus, mortal horror, muscular disease, nausea, nervousness, neurological disease, nutritional disease, occupational disease, organic disease, oversensibility, oversensitiveness, overtenderness, pandemic disease, passibility, pathological condition, pathology, perceptiveness, perceptivity, photophobia, plant disease, pollinosis, prickliness, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, rejection, repugnance, repulsion, respiratory disease, responsiveness, revulsion, rockiness, rose cold, secondary disease, seediness, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensitization, shuddering, sickishness, sickness, signs, soreness, supersensitivity, sympathy, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, tact, tactfulness, tenderness, tetchiness, the pip, thin skin, ticklishness, touchiness, urogenital disease, urticaria, virus disease, wasting disease, worm disease

• alleviate, abate, allay, anesthetize, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, bank the fire, bate, be light, benumb, blunt, chasten, constrain, control, cure, cushion, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deaden the pain, dilute, diminish, disburden, disencumber, downplay, dull, ease, ease matters, extenuate, foment, give relief, have little weight, keep within bounds, kick the beam, lay, lenify, lessen, lighten, lull, make light, make lighter, mitigate, moderate, modulate, mollify, numb, obtund, off-load, pad, palliate, play down, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, reduce, reduce the temperature, reduce weight, relieve, remedy, remit, restrain, salve, slacken, slake, slow down, smother, sober, sober down, soften, soothe, stifle, stupe, subdue, suppress, tame, temper, tone down, tune down, unballast, unburden, underplay, unlade, unload, water down, weaken, weigh lightly

• alleviation, abatement, abridgment, allayment, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, appeasement, assuagement, attenuation, blunting, calming, contraction, dampening, damping, deadening, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, demulsion, depreciation, depression, diminishment, diminution, disburdening, disencumberment, dulcification, dulling, dying, dying off, ease, easement, easing, extenuation, fade-out, falling-off, hushing, languishment, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lowering, lulling, miniaturization, mitigation, modulation, mollification, numbing, pacification, palliation, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, relief, remedy, remission, sagging, salving, scaling down, simplicity, slackening, softening, soothing, subduement, subtraction, tempering, tranquilization, unballasting, unburdening, unfreighting, unlading, unloading, unsaddling, untaxing, weakening

• alleviative, alleviating, alleviator, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, assuager, assuasive, balm, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, calmant, calmative, cathartic, cleansing, cushion, deadening, demulcent, disburdening, disencumbering, dolorifuge, dulling, easing, emollient, lenitive, lightening, mitigating, mitigative, mitigator, moderator, modulator, mollifier, numbing, pacificator, pacifier, pain-killing, palliative, peacemaker, purgative, relieving, remedial, restraining hand, salve, sedative, shock absorber, softening, soother, soothing, soothing syrup, stabilizer, subduing, temperer, tranquilizer, unburdening, wiser head

• alley, Autobahn, US highway, access, aisle, alleyway, ambulatory, aperture, arcade, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, belt highway, blind alley, boulevard, bypass, byway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, channel, chaussee, circumferential, cloister, close, colonnade, communication, conduit, connection, corduroy road, corridor, county road, court, covered way, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, defile, dike, dirt road, drive, driveway, exit, expressway, ferry, ford, freeway, gallery, gravel road, highroad, highway, highways and byways, inlet, interchange, intersection, interstate highway, junction, lane, local road, main drag, main road, mews, motorway, opening, outlet, overpass, parkway, pass, passage, passageway, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, portico, primary highway, private road, railroad tunnel, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, route nationale, row, royal road, secondary road, speedway, state highway, street, superhighway, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, township road, traject, trajet, tunnel, turnpike, underpass, wynd

• alliance, Anschluss, Bund, NATO, Rochdale cooperative, SEATO, a world-without-end bargain, accompaniment, accord, accordance, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agglomeration, aggregation, agnation, agreement, alignment, alikeness, amalgamation, analogy, ancestry, anschluss, aping, approach, approximation, assemblage, assimilation, association, axis, band, bed, blend, blending, bloc, blood, blood relationship, body, bond, bond of matrimony, bridebed, brotherhood, brothership, cabal, cahoots, capitulation, cartel, centralization, closeness, club, co-working, coaction, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, cognation, cohabitation, coincidence, collaboration, colleagueship, collectivity, college, collegialism, collegiality, collusion, combination, combine, combined effort, combo, common ancestry, common descent, common market, community, comparability, comparison, composition, comradeship, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concord, concordance, concordat, concourse, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confluence, conformity, confraternity, congeries, conglomeration, conjugal bond, conjugal knot, conjugation, conjunction, connectedness, connection, consanguinity, consilience, consolidation, conspiracy, consumer cooperative, contiguity, contrariety, convention, cooperation, cooperative, cooperative society, copartnership, copartnery, copying, corps, correspondence, council, cousinhood, cousinship, coverture, credit union, customs union, dealings, deduction, disjunction, economic community, ecumenism, embodiment, enation, encompassment, enosis, entente, entente cordiale, fatherhood, federalization, federation, fellowship, filiation, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, free trade area, freemasonry, fusion, gang, group, grouping, holy matrimony, holy wedlock, homology, hookup, husbandhood, identity, ill-assorted marriage, imitation, inclusion, incorporation, integration, intercourse, intermarriage, international agreement, interracial marriage, intimacy, junction, junta, kindred, kinship, league, liaison, likeness, likening, link, linkage, linking, machine, marriage, marriage bed, marriage sacrament, match, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrimonial union, matrimony, matrisib, matrocliny, meld, melding, merger, mesalliance, metaphor, mimicking, misalliance, miscegenation, mixed marriage, mob, motherhood, mutual attraction, mutual-defense treaty, nearness, nonaggression pact, nuptial bond, order, package, package deal, pact, paction, parallelism, parasitism, parity, partnership, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, political machine, propinquity, proximity, rapport, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, resemblance, ring, sacrament of matrimony, sameness, saprophytism, semblance, sibship, similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, simultaneity, sisterhood, sistership, society, sodality, solidification, sorority, spousehood, symbiosis, sympathy, synchronism, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synergy, synthesis, tie, tie-in, tie-up, ties of blood, treaty, unification, union, united action, unity, wedded bliss, wedded state, weddedness, wedding, wedding knot, wedlock, wifehood

• allied, affiliate, affiliated, affinitive, agnate, akin, assembled, associate, associated, avuncular, banded together, bound, bracketed, cabalistic, closely related, cognate, collateral, collected, confederate, confederated, congeneric, congenerous, congenial, conjoined, conjugate, connate, connatural, connected, consanguine, consanguinean, consanguineous, conspecific, conspiratorial, copulate, corporate, correlated, correlative, coupled, distantly related, enate, enleagued, federate, federated, foster, gathered, german, germane, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, implicated, in cahoots, in league, in partnership, in with, incident, incorporated, integrated, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, intimate, involved, joined, kindred, knotted, leagued, linked, married, matched, mated, matrilateral, matrilineal, matroclinous, merged, novercal, of that ilk, of that kind, of the blood, paired, parallel, partners with, patrilateral, patrilineal, patroclinous, related, sib, sibling, similar, spliced, teamed, tied, twinned, undivided, united, unseparated, uterine, wed, wedded, yoked

• alliteration, assonance, blank verse, chime, clink, consonance, crambo, dingdong, double rhyme, drone, eye rhyme, harping, humdrum, jingle, jingle-jangle, monotone, monotony, near rhyme, paronomasia, pitter-patter, pun, repeated sounds, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, rhyme, rhyme royal, rhyme scheme, rhyming dictionary, single rhyme, singsong, slant rhyme, stale repetition, tail rhyme, tedium, trot, unnecessary repetition, unrhymed poetry

• alliterative, alliteral, alliterating, assonant, assonantal, belabored, chanting, chiming, cliche-ridden, dingdong, harping, humdrum, jingle-jangle, jingling, jog-trot, labored, monotone, monotonous, punning, rhymed, rhyming, singsong, tedious

• allocate, 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

• allocation, allotment, appointment, apportionment, appropriation, arrangement, array, arraying, assignment, attribution, collation, collocation, constitution, denomination, deployment, deposit, deposition, designation, determination, disposal, disposition, distribution, earmarking, emplacement, fixing, form, formation, formulation, lading, loading, localization, locating, location, marshaling, order, ordering, packing, pinning down, pinpointing, placement, placing, positioning, posting, precision, putting, regimentation, reposition, selection, setting aside, signification, situation, specification, spotting, stationing, stipulation, storage, stowage, structuring, syntax, tagging

• allocution, address, after-dinner speech, chalk talk, debate, declamation, diatribe, eulogy, exhortation, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, harangue, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, invective, jeremiad, lecture, oration, pep talk, peroration, philippic, pitch, prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, reading, recital, recitation, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, set speech, speech, speechification, speeching, talk, talkathon, tirade, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address

• allot, accord, administer, afford, align, allocate, allow, appoint, apportion, appropriate to, array, assign, assign to, award, bestow, bestow on, collocate, communicate, compose, confer, deal, deal out, destine, detail, dish out, dispense, dispose, distribute, divide, dole, dole out, donate, earmark, equip, extend, fate, fit out, fix, fork out, furnish, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give out, grant, hand out, heap, help to, impart, issue, lavish, let have, line, line up, lot, make assignments, mark off, mark out for, marshal, mete, mete out, offer, ordain, parcel out, place, portion off, pour, prescribe, present, proffer, rain, rally, range, regiment, render, reserve, restrict, restrict to, schedule, serve, set, set apart, set aside, set off, set out, share out, shell out, shower, slip, snow, space, tag, tender, vouchsafe, yield

• allotheism, acosmism, animatism, animism, anthropolatry, anthropomorphism, anthropotheism, autotheism, cosmotheism, deism, ditheism, dualism, dyotheism, heathendom, heathenism, heathenry, henotheism, hylotheism, idolatry, monolatry, monotheism, multitheism, myriotheism, pagandom, paganism, paganry, pantheism, physicomorphism, physitheism, polytheism, psychotheism, tetratheism, theism, theopantism, theriotheism, tritheism, zootheism

• allotment, C ration, K ration, aid, alimony, allocation, allowance, annuity, appointment, apportionment, appropriation, arrangement, array, arraying, assignment, assistance, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, board, bounty, budget, chunk, collation, collocation, commission, commons, constitution, contingent, cut, deal, depletion allowance, deployment, destiny, disposal, disposition, distribution, dividend, dole, earmarking, emergency rations, end, equal share, fate, fellowship, field rations, financial assistance, form, formation, formulation, grant, grant-in-aid, guaranteed annual income, half, halver, help, helping, interest, kitchen garden, lot, market garden, marshaling, meals, measure, meed, mess, modicum, moiety, old-age insurance, order, ordering, part, patch, pecuniary aid, pension, percentage, piece, placement, plot, portion, price support, proportion, public assistance, public welfare, quantum, quota, rake-off, ration, rations, regimentation, relief, retirement benefits, scholarship, segment, setting aside, share, short commons, slice, small share, stake, stipend, stock, structuring, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, support, syntax, tagging, tax benefit, tract, truck garden, tucker, welfare, welfare aid, welfare payments

• allotropy, Proteus, allotropism, diversification, diversity, her infinite variety, heterogeneity, heteromorphism, manifoldness, multifariousness, multiplicity, nonuniformity, omnifariousness, omniformity, polymorphism, shapeshifter, variation, variegation, variety

• allover, all-comprehending, all-comprehensive, all-covering, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-inclusive, all-pervading, catholic, cosmopolitan, country-wide, ecumenic, galactic, global, heaven-wide, international, national, nondenominational, nonsectarian, planetary, total, ubiquitous, universal, world-wide

• allow for, admit, admit exceptions, allow, bear with, blink at, color, concede, condone, connive at, consider, consider the circumstances, consider the source, diminish, discount, disregard, ease, endure, extenuate, gloss over, grant, ignore, leave unavenged, lessen, let it go, lift temporarily, make allowance for, make allowances for, mince, mitigate, overlook, palliate, pass over, pocket the affront, provide for, regard with indulgence, relax, relax the condition, set aside, slur over, soft-pedal, soften, take, take account of, take into account, take into consideration, varnish, waive, whitewash, wink at

• allow, OK, abate, accede, accept, accord, account, acknowledge, acquiesce, add, adjudge, adjudicate, administer, admit, admit everything, admit exceptions, afford, agree provisionally, agree to, allocate, allot, allow for, apportion, appropriate, approve, assent, assent grudgingly, assign, authorize, avow, award, bate, be judicious, bestow, bestow on, brook, budget, charge off, come clean, communicate, concede, confer, confess, consent, consent to, consider, consider the circumstances, consider the source, cop a plea, count, countenance, cut, deal, deal out, deduct, deem, defer, depreciate, discount, dish out, dispense, disregard, dole, dole out, donate, earmark, endure, entertain, esteem, exercise judgment, express an opinion, express general agreement, extend, fork out, form an opinion, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give leave, give out, give permission, give the go-ahead, give the word, go along with, grant, hand out, have, heap, help to, hold, impart, issue, judge, kick back, lavish, leave, let, let have, let on, lift temporarily, lot, make allowance, make allowance for, make possible, mete, mete out, not oppose, offer, okay, open up, out with it, own, own up, permit, pine, plead guilty, pour, present, presume, proffer, provide for, put aside, put up with, rain, rebate, recognize, reduce, refund, regard, relax, relax the condition, release, render, sanction, say the word, serve, set apart, set aside, shell out, shower, slip, snow, spill, spill it, spit it out, stand, stand for, submit, suffer, suppose, take a premium, take account of, take into account, take into consideration, take off, tell all, tell the truth, tender, think of, tolerate, vouchsafe, waive, warrant, write off, yield

• allowance, C ration, K ration, OK, abatement, acceptance, account, acknowledgment, adjustment, admission, agio, aid, alimony, allocation, allotment, allowing, annuity, apportionment, appreciation, appropriation, approximation, assessment, assignment, assistance, authorization, avowal, bank discount, big end, bigger half, bill, bit, bite, blackmail, blood money, board, bounty, breakage, budget, bulge, cash discount, cession, chain discount, charge-off, charter, chunk, circumscription, color, commission, commons, concession, confession, consent, consideration, contingent, countenance, credit, cut, deadwood, deal, declaration, decontamination, deduction, depletion allowance, depreciation, destiny, deviation, discount, dispensation, dividend, dole, drawback, edge, emergency rations, emolument, end, equal share, exception, excuses, exemption, extenuating circumstances, extenuation, extenuative, fate, favor, fee, fellowship, field rations, financial assistance, footing, gilding, gloss, grain of salt, grant, grant-in-aid, guaranteed annual income, half, halver, handicap, head start, hedge, hedging, help, helping, hush money, imprecision, inaccuracy, inaccurateness, incorrectness, indulgence, inexactitude, inexactness, initiation fee, interest, kickback, laxity, leave, liberty, license, limitation, looseness, lot, meals, measure, meed, mental reservation, mess, mileage, mitigation, modicum, modification, moiety, negligence, odds, okay, old-age insurance, overhand, palliation, palliative, part, patent, payment, pecuniary aid, penalty, penalty clause, pension, percentage, permission, permission to enter, permit, permitting, piece, pin money, pocket money, portion, predictable error, premium, price reduction, price support, price-cut, probable error, profession, proportion, public assistance, public welfare, qualification, quantum, quota, rake-off, ration, rations, rebate, rebatement, reckoning, recognition, recompense, reduction, refund, reimbursement, release, relief, remittance, remuneration, reservation, restriction, retainer, retaining fee, retirement benefits, rollback, salvage, salvo, sanction, sanctioning, scholarship, scot, segment, setoff, share, short commons, slice, small share, softening, special case, special permission, special treatment, specialness, specification, stake, standard deviation, start, stipend, stock, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, sufferance, suffering, support, tare, tax benefit, ticket, ticket of admission, time discount, tolerance, tolerating, toleration, trade discount, tret, tribute, tucker, uncorrectness, underselling, unfactualness, unpreciseness, unrigorousness, vantage, varnish, vouchsafement, waiver, welfare, welfare aid, welfare payments, whitewash, whitewashing, write-off

• allowed, God-given, accepted, accorded, acknowledged, admitted, affirmed, approved, authenticated, avowed, bestowed, certified, conceded, confessed, confirmed, countersigned, endorsed, given, granted, gratuitous, notarized, on sufferance, permitted, professed, providential, ratified, received, recognized, sealed, signed, stamped, sworn and affirmed, sworn to, tolerated, underwritten, unforbidden, unprohibited, validated, vouchsafed, warranted

• alloy, Carboloy, Duralumin, Duriron, German silver, Monel Metal, Muntz metal, Stellite, Swedish steel, admix, admixture, adulterate, aggregate, allay, alloy iron, alloy steel, alloyage, alnico, alter, amalgam, amalgamate, amalgamation, babbitt, bell metal, bemingle, blend, brass, bronze, bush metal, canker, carbon steel, case-hardened steel, cast iron, change, cheapen, chisel steel, chrome-nickel steel, cinder pig, coalesce, coarsen, coin nickel, coin silver, combination, combine, combo, commingle, commix, commixture, compose, composite, composition, compound, concoct, concoction, confection, confound, conglomerate, constantan, contaminate, corrupt, cupronickel, damask, debase, debauch, decarbonized iron, defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, denature, dental gold, deprave, desecrate, despoil, devalue, die steel, diminish, distort, drill steel, elinvar, emulsify, ensemble, fuse, fuse metal, fusion, galvanized iron, gilding metal, graphite steel, green gold, grid metal, gun metal, hard lead, hash, high brass, high-speed steel, homogenize, hot-work steel, immingle, immix, immixture, impair, infect, integrate, interblend, interfusion, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intermixture, intertwine, interweave, invar, jumble, knead, leaded bronze, magma, manganese bronze, merge, mingle, mingle-mangle, misuse, mix, mix up, mixture, moderate, modify, naval brass, nickel bronze, nickel silver, paste, pervert, pewter, phosphor bronze, pig, pinchbeck, poison, pollute, prostitute, ravage, ravish, red brass, rose metal, scramble, shot metal, shuffle, silicon bronze, silicon steel, solder, spiegeleisen, stainless steel, steel, sterling silver, stir up, structural iron, syncretize, taint, temper, throw together, tombac, tool steel, toss together, tula metal, twist, type metal, ulcerate, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, white gold, white metal, work, wrought iron, yellow brass, yellow metal

• allude to, address to, adumbrate, advert to, allegorize, assume, be taken as, blurt, blurt out, bring to attention, bring to mind, bring to notice, call attention to, cite, comment, connote, denominate, denote, designate, direct attention to, direct to, drop a hint, emblematize, entail, exclaim, figure, finger, focus on, give a hint, give the cue, glance at, hint, hint at, implicate, imply, import, indicate, infer, insinuate, interject, intimate, involve, let drop, let fall, make reference to, mean, mean to say, mention, muse, name, note, observe, opine, pick out, point at, point indirectly to, point out, point to, presume, presuppose, prompt, refer to, reflect, remark, select, speak, specify, stand for, stigmatize, suggest, suppose, symbol, symbolize, take for granted, touch on, typify

• allure, appeal, bait, bewitch, captivate, charisma, charm, decoy, delude, draw, enchant, entice, entrap, fascinate, fascination, glamour, inveigle, lead on, magnetism, magnetize, seduce, take, tempt, toll, wile, witchcraft, witchery, woo

• allurement, adduction, adorability, affinity, agreeability, amiability, appeal, attractance, attraction, attractiveness, attractivity, bait, blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, call, capillarity, capillary attraction, centripetal force, charm, coaxing, come-on, conning, decoy, desirability, drag, draw, drawing power, engagement, enlistment, enticement, exhortation, gravitation, gravity, hortation, inducement, inveiglement, jawboning, likability, lobbying, lovability, loveliness, lovesomeness, lure, magnetism, mutual attraction, persuasion, preaching, preachment, pull, pulling power, sales talk, salesmanship, seducement, seduction, selling, snare, snow job, soft soap, solicitation, suasion, sweet talk, sweetness, sympathy, temptation, traction, trap, tug, wheedling, winning ways, winsomeness, working on

• alluring, adductive, appealing, appetizing, attracting, attractive, attrahent, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, captivating, catching, challenging, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, coquettish, delusive, dragging, drawing, enchanting, encouraging, energizing, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, exciting, exotic, fascinating, fetching, flirtatious, galvanic, galvanizing, glamorous, hypnotic, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, magnetic, magnetized, mesmeric, mouth-watering, piquant, prepossessing, prompting, provocative, provoking, provoquant, pulling, ravishing, rousing, seducing, seductive, siren, sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, stimulant, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, sympathetic, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, tickling, titillating, titillative, tugging, winning, winsome, witching

• allusion, allegory, arcane meaning, assumption, coloration, connotation, hint, implication, implied meaning, import, inference, innuendo, intimation, ironic suggestion, meaning, metaphorical sense, nuance, occult meaning, overtone, presumption, presupposition, subsense, subsidiary sense, suggestion, supposition, symbolism, tinge, touch, undercurrent, undermeaning, undertone

• allusive, allusory, figurative, figured, flowery, implicational, implicative, implicatory, indicative, inferential, insinuating, insinuative, insinuatory, ironic, mannered, metaphorical, ornamented, referential, suggestive, trolatitious, tropological

• alluvium, acres, alluvion, arable land, ash, cataclysm, cinder, clay, clinker, clod, crust, debris, deluge, deposit, deposition, deposits, detritus, diluvium, dirt, draff, dregs, drift, dross, dry land, dust, earth, ember, engulfment, feces, flood, freehold, froth, glebe, grassland, ground, grounds, inundation, land, landholdings, lees, lithosphere, loess, marginal land, marl, mold, moraine, offscum, overflow, overflowing, overrunning, precipitate, precipitation, real estate, real property, region, regolith, scoria, scree, scum, sediment, settlings, silt, sinter, slag, smut, sod, soil, soot, spill, spillage, subaerial deposit, sublimate, submersion, subsoil, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the Deluge, the Flood, the country, topsoil, washout, whelming, woodland

• ally, accessory, accomplice, act in concert, act together, adjunct, affiliate, alter ego, amalgamate, analogon, analogue, apply, archduchy, archdukedom, associate, band, band together, be in cahoots, be in league, bedfellow, bind, body politic, bracket, brother, brother-in-arms, buffer state, bunch, bunch up, cabal, captive nation, cement a union, centralize, chieftaincy, chieftainry, city-state, close copy, close match, club, club together, coact, coadjutor, coalesce, cognate, cohort, collaborate, collaborator, colleague, collude, colony, combine, come together, commonweal, commonwealth, companion, compatriot, compeer, complement, comrade, concert, concord, concur, confederate, confrere, congenator, congener, connect, consociate, consolidate, consort, conspire, cooperate, coordinate, correlate, correlative, correspondent, counterpart, country, county, couple, crony, do business with, domain, dominion, draw a parallel, duchy, dukedom, earldom, empery, empire, equate, equivalent, federalize, federate, fellow, fellow member, free city, friend, fuse, gang, gang up, get heads together, get together, go in partners, go in partnership, go partners, grand duchy, hang together, harmonize, hold together, hook up, hook up with, identify, image, interrelate, join, join forces, join fortunes with, join in, join together, join up, join up with, join with, keep together, kindred spirit, kingdom, land, league, league together, like, likeness, link, make common cause, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, marry, mate, merge, nation, nationality, near duplicate, obverse, organize, pair, pair off, parallel, parallelize, partner, pendant, picture, play ball, polis, polity, possession, power, principality, principate, protectorate, province, pull together, puppet government, puppet regime, put heads together, realm, reciprocal, reciprocate, relate, relativize, republic, satellite, second self, seneschalty, settlement, side, similitude, simulacrum, sister, soul mate, sovereign nation, stand together, stand up with, state, such, suchlike, sultanate, superpower, tally, team up, team up with, team with, territory, the like of, the likes of, throw in together, throw in with, tie, tie in, tie in with, tie up, tie up with, toparchia, toparchy, twin, unionize, unite, unite efforts, unite with, wed, work together

• alma mater, academe, academia, college, college of engineering, community college, degree-granting institution, four-year college, graduate school, institute of technology, ivied halls, journalism school, junior college, law school, medical school, multiversity, normal, normal school, postgraduate school, school of communications, school of education, two-year college, university, university college, varsity

• almighty, absolute, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, awfully, boundless, changeless, creating, creative, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, exceedingly, glorious, good, hallowed, highest, holy, immortal, immutable, infinite, just, limitless, loving, luminous, majestic, making, merciful, mightily, mighty, numinous, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, only too, permanent, perpetual, plenipotentiary, powerful, powerfully, pretty, quite, radiant, real, really, right, sacred, shaping, so, sovereign, supreme, terribly, terrifically, timeless, ubiquitous, unbounded, unchanging, undefined, unlimited, very

• almond, Brazil nut, almond paste, amande, amande douce, amandes mondees, bitter almond, blanched almonds, burnt almond, goober, goober pea, ground-pea, groundnut, kernel, meat, nigger toe, noisette, noix, nut, peanut, peanut butter, salted peanuts, sweet almond

• almost, about, all but, approximately, as good as, as much as, barely, bordering on, close, closely, essentially, hardly, in effect, just about, most, much, near, nearabout, nearly, nigh, nighhand, not quite, practically, pretty near, scarcely, verging on, virtually, well-nigh

• almsgiver, Maecenas, Robin Hood, Santa Claus, almoner, angel, assignor, awarder, backer, benevolist, bestower, cheerful giver, conferrer, consignor, contributor, do-gooder, donator, donor, fairy godmother, feoffor, financer, funder, giver, grantor, humanitarian, imparter, lady bountiful, patron, patroness, philanthropist, power for good, presenter, settler, social worker, subscriber, sugar daddy, supporter, testate, testator, testatrix, vouchsafer, welfare statist, welfare worker, well-doer

• almsman, allottee, almswoman, annuitant, assign, assignee, bankrupt, beggar, beneficiary, casual, charity case, devisee, donee, down-and-out, down-and-outer, feoffee, grantee, hardcase, indigent, legatary, legatee, patentee, pauper, penniless man, pensionary, pensioner, poor devil, poor man, poorling, starveling, stipendiary, welfare client

• aloft, aboard, above, abovestairs, afloat, airward, all aboard, aloof, athwart the hawse, athwarthawse, aye, before the mast, high, high up, in flight, in sail, in the air, in the clouds, on board, on board ship, on deck, on high, on shipboard, on stilts, on the peak, on tiptoe, over, overhead, skyward, straight up, tiptoe, to the zenith, topside, up, upstairs, upward, upwards

• alone, abandoned, absolute, alienated, all alone, aloof, apart, azygous, barely, but, by itself, celibate, companionless, deserted, desolate, detached, entirely, excellent, exclusively, first and last, friendless, good, homeless, impair, in solitude, in the singular, incomparable, independently, individually, inimitable, insular, isolate, isolated, just, kithless, lone, lonely, lonesome, matchless, merely, odd, once, one and only, one by one, only, only-begotten, out-of-the-way, particularly, peerless, per se, plainly, private, purely, remote, removed, retired, rootless, secluded, second to none, separate, separated, separately, severally, simply, simply and solely, single-handed, single-handedly, singly, singular, singularly, sole, solely, solitary, solo, superior, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaided, unassisted, unattended, unequaled, unescorted, unexampled, unexcelled, unique, unmatched, unpaired, unparalleled, unrepeatable, unrepeated, unrivaled, unseconded, unsupported, unsurpassed, withdrawn, without equal

• along with, added to, as well as, attended by, coupled with, in addition to, in association with, in company with, in conjunction with, including, inclusive of, let alone, linked to, not to mention, over and above, partnered with, plus, together with, with

• along, abeam, abreast, additionally, ahead, along by, alongside, as well, at length, beside, by, en route to, endlong, endways, endwise, for, forth, forward, forwards, furthermore, in length, lengthways, lengthwise, likewise, longitudinally, longways, longwise, moreover, on, onward, onwards, too, yea, yet

• aloof, Laodicean, Olympian, above, above all that, abovestairs, airward, alienated, aloft, alone, antisocial, apart, apathetic, arrogant, at a distance, away, backward, bashful, benumbed, blah, blank, blase, bored, broken, careless, casual, chilled, chilly, cold, comatose, companionless, constrained, cool, desensitized, detached, disconnected, discontinuous, discreet, discrete, disdainful, disinterested, distant, distantly, dull, exclusive, expressionless, forbidding, formal, friendless, frigid, frosty, gapped, guarded, haughty, heartless, hebetudinous, heedless, high, high up, homeless, hopeless, icy, impassive, impersonal, in a stupor, in the air, in the clouds, inaccessible, incoherent, inconsistent, incurious, indifferent, insouciant, insular, introverted, isolated, kithless, languid, lethargic, listless, lone, lonely, lonesome, mindless, modest, nonadherent, nonadhesive, nonchalant, noncoherent, noncohesive, numb, numbed, off, offish, on high, on stilts, on the peak, on tiptoe, open, over, overhead, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, private, proud, regardless, remote, remotely, removed, repressed, reserved, resigned, restrained, reticent, retiring, rootless, seclusive, separate, separated, shrinking, single-handed, skyward, slack, sluggish, solitary, solo, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, standoff, standoffish, stoic, stolid, straight up, stupefied, subdued, supercilious, supine, suppressed, tenuous, tiptoe, to the zenith, torpid, unabetted, unaccompanied, unadhesive, unaffable, unaided, unapproachable, unassisted, unattended, unbending, uncaring, uncoherent, uncohesive, uncompanionable, unconcerned, uncongenial, unconnected, undemonstrative, unescorted, unexpansive, unfriendly, ungenial, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unjoined, unmindful, unresponsive, unseconded, unsociable, unsocial, unsupported, unsympathetic, untenacious, up, upstairs, upward, upwards, withdrawn

• alpha particle, Kern, NMR, antibaryon, antilepton, antimeson, atomic nucleus, atomic particle, aurora particle, baryon, beta particle, electron, elementary particle, heavy particle, lepton, meson, mesotron, neutron, nuclear force, nuclear magnetic resonance, nuclear particle, nuclear resonance, nucleon, nucleosynthesis, nucleus, photon, proton, radioactive particle, radion, solar particle, strangeness, strong interaction, triton, valence electron

• alpha, A, beginning, blast-off, breaking-in, commencement, creation, cutting edge, dawn, dawning, edge, establishment, first, first blush, first glance, first impression, first inning, first lap, first move, first round, first sight, first stage, first step, flying start, foundation, fresh start, gambit, genesis, initial, initiative, institution, jump-off, kick-off, le premier pas, leading edge, new departure, oncoming, onset, opening, opening move, origin, origination, outbreak, outset, outstart, prime, primitiveness, primitivity, running start, send-off, setout, setting in motion, setting-up, square one, start, start-off, starting point, take-off, warming-up

• alphabet, IPA, ITA, Initial Teaching Alphabet, International Phonetic Alphabet, alphabetics, art, basics, beginning, blueprint, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, commencement, conventional representation, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, diagram, drama, drawing, elements, exemplification, figuration, first principles, first steps, fundamentals, futhark, grammar, graphemics, hieroglyphic, hornbook, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, induction, letter, letters, limning, logogram, logograph, map, musical notation, notation, outlines, outset, paleography, pictogram, picturization, plan, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, primer, principia, principles, printing, projection, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, rudiments, runic alphabet, schema, score, script, start, syllabary, symbol, tablature, writing, writing system

• alphabetarian, abecedarian, apprentice, articled clerk, beginner, boot, catechumen, debutant, entrant, fledgling, freshman, greenhorn, ignoramus, inductee, initiate, neophyte, new boy, newcomer, novice, novitiate, postulant, probationer, probationist, raw recruit, recruit, rookie, tenderfoot, tyro

• alphabetic, abecedarian, allographic, capital, graphemic, ideographic, lettered, lexigraphic, literal, logogrammatic, logographic, lower-case, majuscule, minuscular, minuscule, pictographic, transliterated, uncial, upper-case

• alphabetical, abecedarian, allographic, alphabetic, capital, graphemic, ideographic, lettered, lexigraphic, literal, logogrammatic, logographic, lower-case, majuscule, minuscular, minuscule, pictographic, transliterated, uncial, upper-case

• alphabetize, alphabet, analyze, arrange, assort, break down, capitalize, catalog, categorize, character, class, classify, codify, digest, divide, file, grade, group, index, initial, inscribe, letter, list, mark, order, pigeonhole, place, range, rank, rate, sign, sort, subdivide, tabulate, transcribe, transliterate, type

• already, as yet, before, before all, by this time, earlier, early, ere, ere then, erenow, erstwhile, even, formerly, heretofore, hereunto, hitherto, once, or ever, previously, priorly, so far, still, then as previously, theretofore, thus far, till now, to date, to this day, until now, until this time, up to now, yet

• alright, OK, Roger, absolute, absolutely, acceptable, accurate, adequate, admissible, agreeable, all right, alrighty, amen, as you say, assuredly, aye, better than nothing, by all means, certainly, correct, da, dead right, decent, doing nicely, exactly, fair, fairish, faultless, fine, flawless, good, good enough, goodish, hear, indeed, indeedy, ja, just, just right, just so, letter-perfect, mais oui, meticulous, moderate, most assuredly, naturally, naturellement, not amiss, not bad, not half bad, not so bad, of course, okay, oui, passable, perfect, positively, precisely, presentable, pretty good, proper, quite, rather, really, respectable, right, righto, satisfactory, straight, straight-up-and-down, sufficient, sure, sure thing, surely, tenable, tidy, to be sure, tolerable, truly, unailing, unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unsick, unsickly, up and about, very well, viable, well, well and good, why yes, workmanlike, yea, yeah, yep, yes, yes indeed, yes indeedy, yes sir, yes sirree

• also ran, aspirant, baby kisser, bankrupt, booby, candidate, dark horse, defeated candidate, defeatee, duck, dud, failure, fall guy, false alarm, favorite son, flop, game loser, good loser, good sport, hopeful, lame duck, loser, office seeker, political hopeful, presidential timber, running mate, sport, stalking-horse, stooge, the vanquished, underdog, victim, washout

• also, above, additionally, again, all included, along, altogether, among other things, and, and all, and also, and so, as well, au reste, beside, besides, beyond, correspondingly, else, en plus, extra, farther, for lagniappe, further, furthermore, in addition, in like manner, inter alia, into the bargain, item, likewise, more, moreover, on the side, on top of, over, plus, similarly, so, still, then, therewith, to boot, too, vet, yea, yet

• altar, Communion table, altar carpet, altar desk, altar facing, altar of prothesis, altar rail, altar side, altar slab, altar stair, altar stone, altarpiece, ancona, bomos, chancel table, credence, eschara, frontal, gradin, hestia, holy table, mensal, missal stand, predella, prothesis, retable, retablo, rood altar, scrobis, superaltar

• altarpiece, Communion table, abstract, abstraction, altar, altar carpet, altar desk, altar facing, altar of prothesis, altar rail, altar side, altar slab, altar stair, altar stone, ancona, block print, bomos, chancel table, collage, color print, copy, credence, cyclorama, daub, diptych, engraving, eschara, fresco, frontal, gradin, hestia, holy table, icon, illumination, illustration, image, likeness, mensal, miniature, missal stand, montage, mosaic, mural, panorama, photograph, picture, predella, print, prothesis, representation, reproduction, retable, retablo, rood altar, scrobis, stained glass window, stencil, still life, superaltar, tableau, tapestry, triptych, wall painting

• alter ego, I, I myself, acquaintance, advocate, ally, alter, alternate, alterum, amicus curiae, analogon, analogue, associate, attorney, backer, backup, backup man, best friend, better self, bosom friend, brother, casual acquaintance, champion, close acquaintance, close copy, close friend, close match, cognate, companion, complement, confidant, confidante, congenator, congener, coordinate, correlate, correlative, correspondent, counterpart, deputy, dummy, ego, equivalent, ethical self, executive officer, exponent, familiar, favorer, fellow, fellow creature, fellowman, fidus Achates, figurehead, friend, he, her, herself, him, himself, image, inner man, inner self, inseparable friend, intimate, it, kindred spirit, lieutenant, like, likeness, locum, locum tenens, lover, man Friday, mate, me, my humble self, myself, near duplicate, neighbor, number one, obverse, oneself, other self, ourselves, parallel, paranymph, partisan, pendant, pickup, picture, pinch hitter, pleader, procurator, proxy, reciprocal, repository, representative, right hand, right-hand man, second in command, second self, secondary, self, she, similitude, simulacrum, sister, soul mate, stand-in, strong right hand, subconscious self, subliminal self, substitute, such, suchlike, superego, supporter, surrogate, sympathizer, tally, the like of, the likes of, them, themselves, they, twin, understudy, utility man, vicar, vicar general, vice, vicegerent, well-wisher, you, yours truly, yourself, yourselves

• alter, abate, accommodate, adapt, adjust, adjust to, alter into, ameliorate, assuage, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, become, better, bottom out, box in, break, break up, castrate, change, change into, checker, chop, chop and change, circumscribe, come about, come around, come round, come round to, condition, convert, deform, degenerate, denature, deteriorate, deviate, diminish, diverge, diversify, emasculate, eunuchize, evolve into, fall into, fit, fix, flop, geld, haul around, hedge, hedge about, improve, jibe, lapse into, leaven, limit, meliorate, melt into, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, mutate, narrow, open into, overthrow, palliate, pass into, qualify, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, redesign, reduce, refit, reform, regulate by, remake, remodel, renew, reshape, restrain, restrict, restructure, revamp, revise, revive, ring the changes, ripen into, run into, season, set conditions, set limits, settle into, shift, shift into, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, soften, spay, subvert, swerve, tack, take a turn, temper, transform, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn to, turn upside down, undergo a change, unsex, vary, veer, warp, work a change, worsen

• alteration, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, amelioration, analysis, anatomization, apostasy, atomization, betterment, break, change, change of heart, changeableness, changeover, constructive change, continuity, conversion, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, demarcation, desynonymization, deterioration, deviation, difference, differencing, differentiation, discontinuity, discrimination, disequalization, disjunction, distinction, distinguishment, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, division, fitting, flip-flop, fluctuation, gradual change, improvement, individualization, individuation, melioration, metamorphosis, mitigation, modification, modulation, mutation, overthrow, particularization, passage, personalization, qualification, radical change, re-creation, realignment, redesign, reform, reformation, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revision, revival, revivification, revolution, segregation, separation, severalization, severance, shift, shilly-shally, specialization, sudden change, switch, total change, transformation, transit, transition, turn, turnabout, upheaval, vacillation, variation, variety, violent change, wavering, worsening

• altercation, Kilkenny cats, argument, bicker, bickering, blood feud, brawl, broil, cat-and-dog life, combat, conflict, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, controversy, cut and thrust, debate, disputation, dispute, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, embroilment, enmity, falling-out, feud, fight, fighting, fliting, fracas, fuss, hostility, imbroglio, litigation, logomachy, open quarrel, paper war, polemic, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, scrapping, sharp words, slanging match, snarl, spat, squabble, squabbling, strife, struggle, tiff, tussle, vendetta, war, war of words, warfare, words, wrangle, wrangling

• alternate, advocate, agent, alter ego, alternating, alternative, amicus curiae, analogy, attorney, back and fill, back-and-forth, backup, backup man, bandy, battledore and shuttlecock, be here again, be quits with, beating, champion, change, changeling, circle, circling, come again, come and go, come around, come round, come round again, come up again, commute, comparison, compensate, complementary, cooperate, copy, corresponding, counterchange, counterfeit, cover, cycle, cyclic, deputy, dither, do a hitch, do a stint, do a tour, do time, double, dummy, ebb and flow, enlist, epochal, equal, equivalent, equivocate, ersatz, even, every other, exchange, exchangeable, executive officer, exponent, fake, figurehead, fill in for, fill-in, flounder, fluctuate, get back at, get even with, ghost, ghostwriter, give and take, go through phases, have a go, have tenure, hitch and hike, hold office, imitation, in rotation, interchange, interchangeable, intermit, intermittent, isochronal, isochronous, keep a watch, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, logroll, makeshift, measured, metaphor, metonymy, metronomic, mock, next best thing, oscillate, oscillatory, other, paranymph, pass and repass, pay back, pendulate, periodic, periodical, permute, personnel, phony, pinch, pinch hitter, pleader, procurator, provisional, proxy, pulsate, pulse, pulsing, re-up, reappear, reciprocal, reciprocate, reciprocative, recur, recurrent, recurring, reenlist, relief, relieve, reoccur, repeat, replacement, replacing, representative, requite, reserve, reserves, respond, retaliate, return, return the compliment, revolve, rhythmic, ride and tie, ring the changes, ringer, roll around, rotary, rotate, rotating, seasonal, second, second in command, second string, secondary, seesaw, serial, serve time, shift, shilly-shally, shuffle, shuttle, shuttlecock, sign, sign up, sine wave, spare, spares, spell, spell off, stagger, stand-in, steady, stopgap, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, succeed, successive, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, swap, sway, swing, switch, symbol, synecdoche, take turns, teeter, teeter-totter, temporary, tentative, tergiversate, third string, time off, to-and-fro, token, totter, trade, transpose, turn, understudy, undulant, undulate, undulatory, up-and-down, utility, utility man, utility player, vacillate, variant, vary, vicar, vicar general, vicarious, vice, vice-president, vice-regent, vicegerent, wavelike, waver, wax and wane, wheel, wheel around, wheeling, wibble-wabble, wigwag, wobble, zigzag

• alternating current, AC, DC, absorption current, active current, conduction current, convection current, cycle, delta current, dielectric displacement current, direct current, displacement current, eddy current, electric current, electric stream, emission current, exciting current, free alternating current, galvanic current, high-frequency current, idle current, induced current, induction current, ionization current, juice, low-frequency current, magnetizing current, multiphase current, pulsating direct current, reactive current, rotary current, single-phase alternating current, stray current, thermionic current, thermoelectric current, three-phase alternating current, voltaic current, watt current

• alternation, Lissajous figure, back-and-forth, battledore and shuttlecock, beat, chain, coaction, coming and going, commutation, complementary distribution, concurrence, consecution, cooperation, counterchange, cross fire, cyclicalness, ebb and flow, engagement, exchange, fluctuation, flux and reflux, give-and-take, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercourse, interlacing, intermeshing, intermittence, intermittency, intermutation, interplay, intertwining, interweaving, interworking, lex talionis, measure for measure, mesh, meshing, meter, mutual admiration, mutual support, mutual transfer, mutuality, order, oscillation, pendulation, pendulum motion, periodicalness, periodicity, permutation, piston motion, progression, pulsation, quid pro quo, reappearance, reciprocality, reciprocation, reciprocity, recurrence, regular wave motion, reoccurrence, repetition, retaliation, return, reversion, rhythm, rhythmic play, rotation, row, seasonality, seesaw, seesawing, sequel, sequence, series, shifting, shuffling, sine wave, something for something, succession, teeter, teeter-totter, teeter-tottering, teetering, tit for tat, to-and-fro, tottering, train, transposal, transposition, undulation, ups and downs, vacillation, variation, vicissitude, wavering, wigwag

• alternative, additional, agent, alternate, alternate choice, analogy, another, attainable, backup, change, changeling, choice, comparison, contingency, copy, counterfeit, deputy, different, discretion, discretional, disjunctive, double, druthers, dummy, election, elective, equal, equivalent, ersatz, escape clause, escape hatch, exchange, exchangeable, fake, fill-in, ghost, ghostwriter, imitation, interchangeable, locum tenens, loophole, makeshift, metaphor, metonymy, mock, next best thing, option, optional, optionality, personnel, phony, pinch, pinch hitter, pleasure, possibility, possible choice, preference, pretext, provisional, proxy, relief, replacement, replacing, representative, reserve, reserves, ringer, saving clause, second string, secondary, selection, sign, spare, spares, stand-in, stopgap, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, temporary, tentative, third string, token, understudy, utility, utility player, variant, vicar, vicarious, vice-president, vice-regent, volitional, voluntary, way of escape, way out, will and pleasure

• althorn, alpenhorn, alphorn, alto horn, ballad horn, baritone, bass horn, brass choir, brass wind, brass-wind instrument, brasses, bugle, bugle horn, clarion, cornet, cornet-a-pistons, corno di caccia, cornopean, double-bell euphonium, euphonium, helicon, horn, hunting horn, key trumpet, lituus, lur, mellophone, ophicleide, orchestral horn, pocket trumpet, post horn, sackbut, saxhorn, saxtuba, serpent, slide trombone, sliphorn, sousaphone, tenor tuba, tromba, trombone, trumpet, tuba, valve trombone, valve trumpet

• although, after all, again, albeit, all the same, at all events, at any rate, but, even, even so, for all that, howbeit, however, in any case, in any event, just the same, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, rather, still, though, when, whereas, while, yet

• altimetry, altimeter, bathymetry, biometrics, biometry, cadastration, cartography, chorography, craniometry, geodesy, geodetics, goniometry, hypsography, hypsometer, hypsometry, mensuration, metrology, oceanography, planimetry, psychometrics, psychometry, stereometry, surveying, topography

• altitude, Cartesian coordinates, abscissa, apex, azimuth, ceiling, clearance, coordinates, cylindrical coordinates, declination, elevation, eminence, equator coordinates, exaltation, hauteur, height, heighth, highness, latitude, loftiness, longitude, ordinate, peak, perpendicular distance, polar coordinates, prominence, right ascension, stature, sublimity, summit, tallness, toploftiness

• alto, Heldentenor, Meistersinger, accompaniment, aria singer, baritenor, baritone, bass, basso, basso buffo, basso cantante, basso continuo, basso ostinato, basso profundo, bassus, blues singer, canary, cantatrice, canto, cantor, cantus, cantus figuratus, cantus planus, caroler, chanter, chantress, coloratura soprano, comic bass, continuo, contralto, countertenor, crooner, deep bass, descant, diva, dramatic soprano, drone, falsetto, figured bass, ground bass, head register, head tone, head voice, heroic tenor, hymner, improvisator, lead singer, lieder singer, line, male alto, melodist, mezzo-soprano, opera singer, part, plain chant, plain song, prick song, prima donna, psalm singer, rock-and-roll singer, singer, singstress, songbird, songster, songstress, soprano, tenor, thorough bass, torch singer, treble, undersong, vocalist, vocalizer, voice, voice part, warbler, yodeler

• altogether, above, absolutely, across the board, additionally, again, all, all in all, all included, all put together, all things considered, all told, also, among other things, and all, and also, and so, as a body, as a rule, as a whole, as an approximation, as well, at large, au reste, bareness, beside, besides, beyond, birthday suit, bodily, broadly, broadly speaking, by and large, chiefly, collectively, commonly, completely, comprehensively, corporately, decollete, ecdysiast, else, en bloc, en masse, en plus, entirely, exactly, exhaustively, extra, farther, for lagniappe, fully, further, furthermore, generally, generally speaking, globally, gymnosophist, gymnosophy, hundred per cent, in a body, in addition, in all, in all respects, in bulk, in full, in full measure, in general, in its entirety, in the aggregate, in the gross, in the lump, in the main, in the mass, in toto, inclusively, inside out, integrally, inter alia, into the bargain, item, just, largely, likewise, mainly, more, moreover, mostly, nakedness, naturism, naturist, normally, not a stitch, nudism, nudist, nudity, on all counts, on balance, on the side, on the whole, on top of, one and all, ordinarily, outright, over, overall, perfectly, plumb, plus, predominantly, prevailingly, quite, right, roughly, roughly speaking, roundly, routinely, similarly, speaking generally, state of nature, stick, stripper, stripteaser, the altogether, the nude, the raw, then, therewith, thoroughly, to boot, to the hilt, too, toplessness, totally, tout a fait, tout ensemble, unconditionally, unreservedly, usually, utterly, wholly, yet

• altruism, BOMFOG, Benthamism, Christian charity, Christian love, agape, beneficence, benevolence, benevolent disposition, benevolentness, bigheartedness, brotherly love, caritas, charitableness, charity, commitment, consecration, dedication, devotion, disinterest, disinterestedness, do-goodism, flower power, generosity, giving, goodwill, grace, greatheartedness, humaneness, humanitarianism, humanity, humility, largeheartedness, love, love of mankind, modesty, philanthropism, philanthropy, sacrifice, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-devotion, self-effacement, self-forgetfulness, self-immolation, self-neglect, self-neglectfulness, self-renouncement, self-sacrifice, self-subjection, selflessness, unacquisitiveness, unpossessiveness, unselfishness, utilitarianism, welfarism, well-disposedness

• altruistic, almsgiving, beneficent, benevolent, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, committed, consecrated, considerate, dedicated, devoted, disinterested, eleemosynary, freehearted, generous, good, greathearted, humane, humanitarian, humble, kind, largehearted, liberal, magnanimous, modest, noble-minded, open-handed, philanthropic, sacrificing, self-abasing, self-abnegating, self-abnegatory, self-denying, self-devoted, self-effacing, self-forgetful, self-immolating, self-neglectful, self-neglecting, self-renouncing, self-sacrificing, self-unconscious, selfless, unacquisitive, unpossessive, unpretentious, unselfish, unsparing of self, welfare, welfare statist, welfarist

• alveolar, accented, alveolate, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, dented, depressed, dimpled, dissimilated, dorsal, engraved, faveolate, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, honeycombed, indented, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, notched, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, pitted, pocked, pockmarked, posttonic, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide

• alveolus, alveolar ridge, alveolation, antrum, apex, armpit, arytenoid cartilages, back, basin, blade, bowl, cavity, concave, concavity, crater, crypt, cup, dent, depression, dimple, dint, dip, dorsum, fold, follicle, funnel chest, furrow, gouge, hard palate, hole, hollow, hollow shell, honeycomb, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, lacuna, larynx, lips, nasal cavity, notch, oral cavity, palate, pharyngeal cavity, pharynx, pit, pock, pocket, pockmark, print, punch bowl, scoop, shell, sink, sinus, socket, soft palate, speech organ, sunken part, syrinx, teeth, teeth ridge, tip, tongue, trough, velum, vocal chink, vocal cords, vocal folds, vocal processes, voice box, vug

• always, abidingly, again and again, all along, all over, all the time, all the while, at all times, at every turn, ceaselessly, changelessly, constantly, continually, continuously, cosmically, daily, daily and hourly, day after day, day and night, enduringly, eternally, ever, ever and always, ever and anon, everlastingly, evermore, every day, every hour, every moment, everywhere, forever, forevermore, frequently, galactically, hour after hour, hourly, in any case, in every instance, in perpetuity, incessantly, inflexibly, internationally, invariably, lastingly, like clockwork, many times, methodically, month after month, never otherwise, night and day, often, on and on, orderly, perennially, permanently, perpetually, rapidly, regularly, right along, rigidly, statically, steadfastly, steadily, sustainedly, systematically, the world over, unceasingly, unchangingly, unendingly, unintermittently, uninterruptedly, universally, unvaryingly, unwaveringly, usually, without cease, without exception, without letup, without stopping, year after year

• AM, Ack Emma, FM, PM, amplitude modulation, ante meridiem, double sideband, foreday, forenoon, grey-eyed morn, incense-breathing morn, matins, modulation, morn, morning, morning time, morntime, side frequency, sideband, this AM, this morning, waking time

• amah, abigail, au pair girl, ayah, betweenmaid, biddy, chambermaid, chaperon, companion, cook, dry nurse, duenna, femme de chambre, fille de chambre, gentlewoman, girl, handmaid, handmaiden, hired girl, housemaid, kitchenmaid, lady-help, lady-in-waiting, live-in maid, live-out maid, maid, maidservant, mammy, nanny, nurse, nursemaid, nurserymaid, parlormaid, scullery maid, servant girl, servitress, sitter, soubrette, tweeny, upstairs maid, waiting maid, wench, wet nurse

• amalgam, admixture, alloy, alloyage, amalgamation, blend, combination, combo, commixture, composite, composition, compound, concoction, confection, ensemble, fusion, immixture, interfusion, intermixture, magma, mix, mixture, paste

• amalgamate, act in concert, act together, add, admix, affiliate, alloy, ally, assimilate, associate, band, band together, be in league, bemingle, blend, club together, coact, coalesce, collaborate, collude, combine, come together, commingle, commix, compact, compose, compound, comprise, concert, concoct, concord, concur, confederate, conglomerate, connect, consolidate, conspire, cooperate, do business with, embody, emulsify, encompass, federate, flux, fuse, get heads together, get together, go partners, hang together, harmonize, hash, hold together, homogenize, hook up, immingle, immix, include, incorporate, integrate, interblend, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intertwine, interweave, join, join in, join together, jumble, keep together, knead, league, league together, lump together, make common cause, make one, meld, melt into one, merge, mingle, mingle-mangle, mix, mix up, partner, play ball, pull together, put heads together, put together, reciprocate, reembody, roll into one, scramble, shade into, shuffle, solidify, stand together, stir up, syncretize, syndicate, synthesize, team up, throw in together, throw together, tie in, tie up, toss together, unify, unite, unite efforts, work, work together

• amalgamation, Anschluss, addition, admixture, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, alloy, alloyage, amalgam, assimilation, association, blend, blending, cabal, cahoots, cartel, centralization, coadunation, coalescence, coalescing, coalition, colleagueship, collegialism, collegiality, combination, combine, combo, comminglement, commingling, commixture, composite, composition, compost, compound, comradeship, confederacy, confederation, confraternity, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidating, consolidation, conspiracy, copartnership, copartnery, eclecticism, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, federalization, federation, fellowship, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, freemasonry, fusing, fusion, hookup, immixture, inclusion, incorporation, integration, interfusion, interlarding, interlardment, interminglement, intermingling, intermixture, joining, junction, junta, league, marriage, meld, melding, merger, mingling, mixing, mixture, package, package deal, partnership, pluralism, sodality, solidification, sorority, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie-in, tie-up, unification, union, uniting, wedding

• amanuensis, Federal, accountant, agent, archivist, baggage agent, bookkeeper, business agent, calligrapher, chirographer, claim agent, clerk, commercial agent, commission agent, consignee, copier, copyist, customer agent, documentalist, dupe, engraver, factor, fed, federal agent, filing clerk, freight agent, functionary, general agent, implement, ink spiller, inkslinger, instrument, insurance agent, land agent, law agent, letterer, librarian, literary agent, loan agent, marker, news agent, notary, notary public, official, parliamentary agent, passenger agent, pen, pencil driver, penman, penner, press agent, prothonotary, puppet, purchasing agent, real estate agent, record clerk, recorder, recording secretary, recordist, register, registrar, sales agent, scorekeeper, scorer, scribbler, scribe, scrivener, secretary, special agent, station agent, stenographer, steward, stonecutter, theatrical agent, ticket agent, timekeeper, tool, transcriber, travel agent, walking delegate, word-slinger, writer

• amass, accouple, accumulate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggregate, aggroup, articulate, assemble, associate, backlog, band, batch, bond, bracket, bridge, bridge over, bring together, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, cement, chain, clap together, clump, cluster, collect, colligate, collocate, combine, compare, compile, comprise, concatenate, conglobulate, conglomerate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, copulate, corral, couple, cover, cull, cumulate, dig up, draw together, dredge up, drive together, embrace, encompass, garner, garner up, gather, gather in, gather into barns, gather together, get in, get together, glean, glue, group, grub, grub up, heap up, hide, hive, hoard, hoard up, hold, include, join, juxtapose, keep, knot, lay together, lay up, league, link, lump together, make up, marry, marshal, mass, match, merge, mobilize, muster, pair, partner, pick, pick up, piece together, pile up, pluck, put together, put up, raise, rake up, rally, roll into one, roll up, round up, save, save up, scare up, scrape together, scrape up, secrete, set aside, solder, span, splice, squirrel, squirrel away, stock up, stockpile, store up, take in, take up, tape, tie, treasure, treasure up, unify, unite, weld, whip in, yoke

• amassed, accumulated, agglomerate, aggregate, assembled, backlogged, bunched, bundled, clumped, clustered, collected, combined, conglomerate, congregate, congregated, cumulate, fascicled, fasciculated, garnered, gathered, glomerate, heaped, hoarded, in session, joined, joint, knotted, laid up, leagued, lumped, massed, meeting, packaged, piled, stacked, stockpiled, stored, treasured, wrapped up

• amateur, Sunday painter, abecedarian, admirer, aesthete, aficionado, amateurish, apprentice, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, authority, avocational, beginner, bon vivant, booster, buff, bungler, bungling, clumsy, cognoscente, collector, connaisseur, connoisseur, coquet, crank, critic, criticaster, crude, dabbler, dabbling, dabster, dallier, devotee, dilettante, dilettantish, enthusiast, epicure, epicurean, expert, faddist, fan, fancier, flirt, follower, freak, fribble, good judge, gourmand, gourmet, grammaticaster, greenhorn, groupie, half scholar, half-assed, half-baked, half-cocked, idolater, idolizer, immature, inexpert, infatuate, inferior, judge, lay, layman, maven, mediocre, neophyte, nonprofessional, novice, nut, philologaster, philosophaster, piddler, potterer, probationer, pundit, putterer, refined palate, rooter, savant, scholar, sciolist, sciolistic, second-rate, shallow, smatterer, smattering, sophomoric, specialist, superficial, technical expert, technician, tinker, trifler, tyro, unpaid, unprofessional, unskilled, untrained, virtuoso, votary, worshiper, zealot

• amateurish, amateur, clumsy, crude, dabbling, defective, deficient, dilettante, dilettantish, faulty, flawed, green, half-assed, half-baked, half-cocked, immature, jackleg, raw, sciolistic, semiskilled, shallow, smattering, sophomoric, superficial, unaccomplished, unbusinesslike, uncoached, unendowed, unfinished, ungifted, uninitiated, unpolished, unprepared, unprimed, unprofessional, unschooled, unskilled, untalented, untaught, untrained, untutored

• Amati, A string, Cremona, D string, E string, G string, Strad, Stradivari, Stradivarius, bass, bass viol, bow, bridge, bull fiddle, cello, contrabass, crowd, double bass, fiddle, fiddlebow, fiddlestick, fingerboard, kit, kit fiddle, kit violin, scroll, soundboard, string, tenor violin, tuning peg, viola, violin, violinette, violoncello, violoncello piccolo, violone, violotta

• amatory, admiring, amative, amorous, aphrodisiac, ardent, attracted, caressive, coquettish, coy, desirous, erotic, flirtatious, flirty, impassioned, lascivious, loverlike, loverly, passionate, sexual, yearning

• amaze, addle, admiration, affect, amazement, astonish, astound, awe, awestrike, baffle, bamboozle, beat, bedaze, bedazzle, bewilder, boggle, bowl down, bowl over, buffalo, confound, confoundment, daze, dazzle, dumbfound, dumbfounder, flabbergast, floor, fuddle, get, impress, keep in suspense, lick, marveling, maze, move, muddle, mystify, nonplus, overwhelm, paralyze, perplex, petrify, puzzle, stagger, startle, stick, strike, strike dead, strike dumb, strike with wonder, stump, stun, stupefy, surprise, take aback, throw, touch, wonderment

• amazed, agape, aghast, agog, all agog, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awed, awestruck, beguiled, bewildered, bewitched, breathless, captivated, confounded, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, fascinated, flabbergasted, gaping, gauping, gazing, hypnotized, in awe, in awe of, lost in wonder, marveling, mesmerized, open-eyed, openmouthed, overwhelmed, popeyed, puzzled, rapt in wonder, spellbound, staggered, staring, stupefied, surprised, thunderstruck, under a charm, wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wondering

• amazement, admiration, amaze, astonishing thing, astonishment, astoundment, awe, beguilement, bewilderment, breathless wonder, confoundment, curiosity, dumbfoundment, exception, fascination, gazingstock, marvel, marveling, marvelment, miracle, nonesuch, phenomenon, prodigy, puzzlement, quite a thing, rarity, sensation, sense of mystery, sense of wonder, sight, something else, spectacle, stunner, stupefaction, surprise, wonder, wonderful thing, wonderment

• amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, breathtaking, confounding, dazzling, extraordinary, eye-opening, fabulous, mind-boggling, miraculous, overwhelming, prodigious, remarkable, spectacular, staggering, startling, strange, stunning, stupendous, surprising, wonderful, wondrous

• amazon, Xanthippe, androgyne, butch, colossus, dyke, fishwife, giant, harpy, hoyden, lesbian, ogress, romp, scold, shrew, termagant, titan, tomboy, virago, vixen

• ambages, anfractuosity, bypass, circuit, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution, convolution, crinkle, crinkling, detour, deviation, deviousness, digression, excursion, flexuosity, flexuousness, indirection, intorsion, involution, meander, meandering, obliqueness, periphrase, periphrasis, rivulation, roundabout, roundabout way, roundaboutness, sinuation, sinuosity, sinuousness, slinkiness, snakiness, torsion, tortility, tortuosity, tortuousness, turning, twisting, undulation, wave, waving, winding

• ambassador, agent, ambassadress, apostolic delegate, attache, career diplomat, chancellor, charge, commercial attache, consul, consul general, consular agent, delegate, deputy, diplomat, diplomatic, diplomatic agent, diplomatist, emissary, envoy, envoy extraordinary, foreign service officer, internuncio, legate, messenger, military attache, minister, minister plenipotentiary, minister resident, nuncio, plenipotentiary, representative, resident, secretary of legation, vice-consul, vice-legate

• ambergris, ambrosia, aromatic, aromatic gum, aromatic water, attar, attar of roses, balm, balm of Gilead, balsam, bay oil, bergamot oil, champaca oil, civet, essence, essential oil, extract, fixative, heliotrope, jasmine oil, lavender oil, musk, myrcia oil, myrrh, parfum, perfume, perfumery, rose oil, scent, volatile oil

• ambidextrous, Janus-like, Machiavellian, adaptable, adjustable, all-around, ambidexter, ambidextral, amphibious, artful, bifacial, bifold, biform, bilateral, binary, binate, biparous, bivalent, conduplicate, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, dextrosinistral, dishonest, disomatous, double, double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted, dual, duple, duplex, duplicate, duplicitous, faithless, false, false-principled, falsehearted, flexible, geminate, geminated, generally capable, hypocritical, left-handed, many-sided, mobile, perfidious, resourceful, second, secondary, shifty, sinistrodextral, slippery, supple, treacherous, tricky, twin, twinned, two-faced, two-handed, two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofold, versatile

• ambience, alentours, ambient, ambit, atmosphere, borderlands, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, climate, compass, context, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, gestalt, habitat, medium, milieu, mise-en-scene, neighborhood, outposts, outskirts, perimeter, periphery, precincts, purlieus, situation, suburbs, surroundings, total environment, vicinage, vicinity

• ambient, ambience, atmosphere, circling, circumambient, circumferential, circumflex, circumfluent, circumfluous, circumjacent, climate, embracing, encircling, enclosing, encompassing, enfolding, enveloping, environing, medium, milieu, mise-en-scene, neighboring, peripheral, roundabout, suburban, surrounding, surroundings, wrapping

• ambiguity, Janus, ambivalence, amphibologism, amphibology, amphiboly, antinomy, asymmetry, biformity, bifurcation, cavil, conjugation, counterword, dichotomy, disproportion, disproportionateness, dodge, double entendre, double meaning, double-talk, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, dualism, duality, duplexity, duplication, duplicity, equivocacy, equivocal, equivocality, equivocalness, equivocation, equivoque, evasion, haggling, hair-splitting, halving, hedge, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, impenetrability, imprecision, inapprehensibility, inarticulateness, incognizability, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibility, incomprehensibility, inconclusiveness, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, indefiniteness, indistinctness, inscrutability, irony, irreconcilability, nonconformability, nonconformity, numinousness, obscurity, oxymoron, pairing, paradox, polarity, polysemant, polysemousness, portmanteau word, pun, quibbling, ramblingness, self-contradiction, shift, squinting construction, subterfuge, tergiversation, twinning, two-facedness, twoness, uncertainty, unconformability, unconformity, unconnectedness, unfathomableness, unintelligibility, unknowability, unorthodoxy, unsearchableness, vagueness, weasel word

• ambiguous, Greek to one, agnostic, amalgamated, ambivalent, amphibious, amphibolic, amphibological, amphibolous, antinomic, beyond understanding, blended, capricious, chancy, changeable, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, confusable, conglomerate, cryptic, dappled, dicey, double-faced, doubtful, doubting, dubious, eclectic, enigmatic, enigmatical, equivocal, equivocatory, erratic, fickle, fifty-fifty, fishy, foggy, half-and-half, hesitant, hesitating, heterogeneous, impenetrable, inarticulate, incalculable, incognizable, incoherent, incomprehensible, inconclusive, indecisive, indefinite, indemonstrable, indeterminate, indiscriminate, indistinct, inscrutable, intricate, ironic, irresolute, jumbled, many-sided, medley, mingled, miscellaneous, misleading, misty, mixed, motley, multifaceted, multinational, multiracial, multivocal, mysterious, numinous, obscure, opaque, oracular, oxymoronic, paradoxical, past comprehension, patchy, pluralistic, polysemantic, polysemous, problematic, promiscuous, puzzling, questionable, rambling, scrambled, self-contradictory, skeptical, suspect, syncretic, tenebrous, thrown together, touch-and-go, unaccountable, uncertain, unclear, unconfirmable, unconnected, unconvinced, undefined, undependable, undivinable, unfathomable, unforeseeable, unintelligible, unknowable, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unreliable, unsearchable, unsettled, unsure, unverifiable, vague, variable, varied, wavering, whimsical

• ambit, alentours, ambience, arena, bailiwick, beat, border, borderland, borderlands, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, compass, constituency, context, cycle, demesne, department, domain, dominion, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, extension, extent, field, footing, full circle, gestalt, habitat, hemisphere, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, lap, loop, march, milieu, neighborhood, orb, orbit, outposts, outskirts, pale, perimeter, periphery, precinct, precincts, province, purlieus, purview, radius, reach, realm, revolution, round, round trip, rounds, scope, situation, sphere, sphere of influence, stamping ground, suburbs, surroundings, sweep, territory, total environment, tour, turf, turn, vantage, vicinage, vicinity, walk

• ambition, aim, ambitiousness, animus, anxiety, appetite, aspiration, avidity, basis, calling, careerism, catch, cause, climbing, consideration, counsel, craving, dearest wish, desideration, desideratum, design, desire, determination, dream, drive, eagerness, effect, energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, fancy, fixed purpose, forbidden fruit, function, get-up-and-go, glimmering goal, go-ahead, goad, goal, golden vision, ground, guiding light, guiding star, hope, hunger, idea, ideal, incentive, initiative, inspiration, intendment, intent, intention, keenness, lodestar, lodestone, lofty ambition, magnanimity, magnet, mainspring, mark, matter, meaning, mind, motive, nirvana, nisus, object, objective, plan, plum, point, power-hunger, pretension, principle, prize, project, proposal, prospectus, purpose, push, reason, resolution, resolve, sake, score, social climbing, source, spirit, spring, spur, status-seeking, striving, study, target, temptation, thirst, trophy, ulterior motive, vaulting ambition, view, vigor, vocation, will, wish, zeal

• ambitious, adventuresome, adventurous, aggressive, anxious, aspiring, audacious, avaricious, avid, bold, careerist, careeristic, chimerical, classy, daring, driving, dynamic, eager, emulous, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, extravagant, fancy, flossy, forceful, go-ahead, grandiose, greedy, hard-working, high-flown, high-flying, high-reaching, high-toned, highfalutin, highfaluting, hopeful, hustling, impractical, indefatigable, keen, lofty, on the make, ostentatious, overambitious, overzealous, power-hungry, pretentious, pushful, pushing, pushy, sky-aspiring, social-climbing, tony, unrealistic, up-and-coming, utopian, vaulting, vaunting, venturesome, venturous, vigorous, visionary, yuppy, zealous

• ambivalence, Janus, ambiguity, ambitendency, ambivalence of impulse, antinomy, asymmetry, biformity, bifurcation, capriciousness, change of mind, changeableness, conflict, conjugation, decompensation, dichotomy, disproportion, disproportionateness, double-mindedness, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, dualism, duality, dubiety, dubiousness, duplexity, duplication, duplicity, emotional shock, equivocality, equivocation, external frustration, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickleness, frustration, halving, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inconstancy, indecision, indecisiveness, infirmity of purpose, instability, irony, irreconcilability, irresolution, mental shock, mercuriality, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, nonconformability, nonconformity, oxymoron, pairing, paradox, polarity, psychological stress, second thoughts, self-contradiction, stress, tergiversation, trauma, traumatism, twinning, two-facedness, twoness, uncertainty, unconformability, unconformity, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unorthodoxy, unsettledness, unsettlement

• ambivalent, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambitendent, amphibious, antinomic, at loose ends, blended, capricious, changeable, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, conflict, conglomerate, contrasting, dappled, double-minded, dubious, eclectic, equivocal, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickle, fifty-fifty, fluctuate, half-and-half, heterogeneous, indecisive, indiscriminate, infirm of purpose, intricate, ironic, irresolute, irresolved, jumbled, many-sided, medley, mercurial, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, multifaceted, multinational, multiracial, mutable, of two minds, oxymoronic, paradoxical, patchy, pluralistic, promiscuous, scrambled, self-contradictory, syncretic, thrown together, uncertain, undecided, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, varied

• amble, airing, barge, bowl along, bundle, canter, caracole, claudicate, clump, constitutional, crawl, creep, curvet, dally, dillydally, dogtrot, drag, drag along, drag out, drift, droop, flounce, foot, footslog, forced march, frisk, gait, gallop, go dead slow, go on horseback, go slow, hack, halt, hike, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, idle, inch, inch along, jaunt, jog, jog-trot, jolt, jump, laze, limp, linger, lock step, loiter, lope, lumber, lunge, lurch, march, mince, mincing steps, mope, mosey, mount, muck, mush, pace, paddle, parade, peg, peripatetic journey, peripateticism, piaffe, piaffer, plod, poke, poke along, prance, promenade, rack, ramble, ride bareback, ride hard, roll, sashay, saunter, schlep, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shamble, shuffle, shuffle along, sidle, single-foot, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slowness, stagger, stagger along, stalk, stamp, step, stomp, straddle, straggle, stretch, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, stump, swagger, swing, take horse, tittup, toddle, toddle along, totter, totter along, traipse, tramp, tread, trip, trot, trudge, turn, velocity, waddle, walk, walking tour, wamble, wiggle, wobble, worm, worm along

• ambling, ambulation, backpacking, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, deliberate, easy, faltering, flagging, foot-dragging, footing, footing it, footwork, gentle, going on foot, gradual, halting, hiking, hitchhiking, hitching, hobbled, hobbling, hoofing, idle, indolent, languid, languorous, lazy, legwork, leisurely, limping, lumbering, marching, moderate, pedestrianism, perambulation, poking, poky, relaxed, reluctant, sauntering, shuffling, slack, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, snail-paced, snaillike, staggering, strolling, tentative, thumbing, thumbing a ride, toddling, tortoiselike, tottering, tramping, treading, trudging, turtlelike, unhurried, waddling, walking

• ambrosia, Caesar salad, Jell-O salad, Waldorf salad, ambergris, aromatic, aromatic gum, aromatic water, artificial sweetener, aspic, attar, attar of roses, balm, balm of Gilead, balsam, bay oil, bergamot oil, blackstrap, bonne bouche, calcium cyclamate, cane syrup, cate, champaca oil, chef salad, choice morsel, civet, clover honey, cole slaw, comb honey, combination salad, corn syrup, crab Louis, cyclamates, dainty, delicacy, dessert, edulcoration, essence, essential oil, extract, fixative, fruit salad, goody, green salad, heliotrope, herring salad, honey, honeycomb, honeydew, honeypot, jasmine oil, kickshaw, lavender oil, macaroni salad, manna, maple syrup, molasses, morsel, musk, myrcia oil, myrrh, nectar, parfum, perfume, perfumery, potato salad, rose oil, saccharification, saccharin, salad, salade, salmagundi, savory, scent, slaw, sodium cyclamate, sorghum, sugar, sugar-making, sugaring off, sweetener, sweetening, sweets, syrup, tidbit, titbit, tossed salad, treacle, treat, volatile oil

• ambrosial, adorable, agreeable, aromatic, balmy, bittersweet, candied, dainty, darling, delectable, delicate, delicious, delightful, essenced, exquisite, flowery, fragrant, fruity, good, good to eat, good-tasting, gustable, gusty, heavenly, honeyed, honeysweet, incense-breathing, juicy, likable, luscious, lush, melliferous, mellifluent, mellifluous, musky, nectareous, nectarous, nice, odorate, odoriferous, odorous, of gourmet quality, palatable, perfumed, perfumy, pleasing, redolent, sacchariferous, sapid, savorous, savory, scented, scrumptious, sour-sweet, spicy, succulent, sugarcoated, sugared, sugarsweet, sugary, sweet, sweet and pungent, sweet and sour, sweet as sugar, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, sweetened, sweetish, syrupy, tasty, thuriferous, toothsome, yummy

• ambulatory, access, aisle, alley, ambulant, ambulative, aperture, arcade, artery, avenue, channel, circuit-riding, cloister, colonnade, communication, conduit, connection, corridor, covered way, defile, exit, expeditionary, ferry, ford, gallery, globe-girdling, globe-trotting, going, inlet, interchange, intersection, itinerant, itinerary, journeying, junction, lane, locomotive, moving, mundivagant, nomadic, on tour, opening, outlet, overpass, pass, passage, passageway, passing, pedestrian, perambulating, perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrine, peripatetic, pilgrimlike, portico, progressing, railroad tunnel, roving, strolling, touring, touristic, touristy, traject, trajet, traveling, trekking, tunnel, underpass, vagabond, vagrant, walking, wayfaring

• ambush, ambuscade, ambushment, assail, assault, astonish, attack, blind, blitz, booby trap, bushwhack, catch off-guard, catch unawares, come at, come down on, come from behind, come upon unexpectedly, cover, crack down on, descend on, descend upon, do the unexpected, drop in on, ensnare, entrap, fall on, fall upon, gang up on, go at, go for, harry, have at, hideout, hit, hit like lightning, intercept, jump, land on, lay at, lay for, lay hands on, lay into, lay wait for, lie in ambush, lie in wait, light into, lure, lurk, lurking hole, mug, pitch into, pounce upon, pound, pull up short, retreat, sail into, set on, set upon, shadowing, snare, spring a surprise, spring upon, stalking-horse, strike, surprise, surveillance, swoop down on, take by surprise, take short, take the offensive, take unawares, trap, wade into, waylay

• amebic, Euglena, adenovirus, aerobe, aerobic bacteria, amoeba, anaerobe, anaerobic bacteria, animalcule, bacillus, bacteria, bacterium, bug, coccus, colon bacillus, diatom, disease-producing microorganism, dyad, echovirus, enterovirus, filterable virus, flagellate, fungus, germ, gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, microbe, microorganism, microspore, microzoa, mold, monad, nematode, nonfilterable virus, paramecium, pathogen, picornavirus, protozoa, protozoon, reovirus, rhinovirus, rickettsia, salmonella, saprophyte, spirillum, spirochete, spore, sporozoon, staphylococcus, streptococcus, tetrad, triad, trypanosome, vibrio, virus, volvox, vorticellum, zoospore

• ameliorate, accommodate, acculturate, adapt, adjust, advance, alleviate, alter, amend, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, better, boost, bottom out, break, break up, bring forward, change, checker, chop, chop and change, civilize, come about, come along, come around, come on, come round, convalesce, convert, deform, degenerate, denature, deteriorate, develop, deviate, diverge, diversify, edify, educate, elevate, emend, enhance, enlighten, enrich, fatten, favor, fit, flop, forward, foster, gain, gain ground, get ahead, get along, go ahead, go forward, go straight, graduate, grow better, haul around, help, improve, improve upon, jibe, lard, lift, lighten, look up, make an improvement, make headway, make progress, make strides, meliorate, mend, mitigate, modify, modulate, mutate, nurture, overthrow, perk up, pick up, progress, promote, qualify, raise, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, recuperate, redesign, refine upon, refit, reform, relieve, remake, renew, reshape, restructure, revamp, revive, ring the changes, shape up, shift, shift the scene, show improvement, shuffle the cards, skyrocket, socialize, straighten out, subvert, swerve, tack, take a turn, take off, transfigure, transform, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, undergo a change, upgrade, uplift, vary, veer, warp, work a change, worsen

• amelioration, Great Leap Forward, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, advance, advancement, alteration, amendment, apostasy, ascent, bettering, betterment, boost, break, change, change of heart, changeableness, constructive change, continuity, conversion, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, enhancement, enrichment, eugenics, euthenics, fitting, flip-flop, furtherance, gradual change, headway, improvement, lift, melioration, mend, mending, mitigation, modification, modulation, overthrow, pickup, preferment, progress, progression, promotion, qualification, radical change, re-creation, realignment, recovery, redesign, reform, reformation, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restoration, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, rise, shift, sudden change, switch, total change, transition, turn, turnabout, upbeat, upheaval, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility, variation, variety, violent change, worsening

• amen, OK, Roger, absolutely, affirmative, affirmative attitude, affirmativeness, agreed, all right, alright, alrighty, as you say, assuredly, aye, be it so, by all means, certainly, da, done, exactly, fine, good, good enough, hear, indeed, indeedy, it is that, ja, just so, mais oui, most assuredly, naturally, naturellement, nod, nod of assent, of course, okay, oui, positively, precisely, quite, rather, really, right, right as rain, right you are, righto, so be it, so is it, so it is, sure, sure thing, surely, that is so, thumbs-up, to be sure, truly, very well, well and good, why yes, yea, yea-saying, yeah, yep, yes, yes indeed, yes indeedy, yes sir, yes sirree, you are right, you bet, you said it, you speak truly

• amenable, accessible, accommodating, accountable, acquiescent, adaptable, adapting, adaptive, adjusting, advance, agreeable, alacritous, ameliorate, amend, answerable, ardent, better, biddable, chargeable, compliant, consenting, content, cooperative, dependent, disposed, docile, eager, elevate, emend, enthusiastic, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, forward, game, help, humble, impressionable, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, influenceable, liable, lift, malleable, meek, meliorate, mend, minded, movable, obedient, open, open-minded, passive, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, pliant, predisposed, promote, prompt, prone, quick, raise, ready, ready and willing, receptive, reconciled, rectify, repair, resigned, responsible, responsible for, responsive, right, suasible, subdued, subject, submissive, subordinate, suggestible, susceptible, swayable, tame, to blame, tractable, uncomplaining, unresisting, weak, well-disposed, well-inclined, willed, willing, willinghearted, zealous

• amend, acculturate, advance, ameliorate, better, blue-pencil, boost, bring forward, civilize, come along, come on, compensate, correct, develop, edify, edit, educate, elevate, emend, emendate, enhance, enlighten, enrich, fatten, favor, fix, forward, foster, gain, gain ground, get ahead, get along, give satisfaction, go ahead, go forward, go straight, graduate, grow better, improve, improve upon, lard, lift, look up, make all square, make an improvement, make good, make headway, make progress, make right, make strides, meliorate, mend, new-model, nurture, pay reparations, perk up, pick up, progress, promote, put right, put straight, put to rights, raise, re-form, recense, reclaim, recompense, rectify, redact, redeem, redraft, redress, refashion, refine upon, reform, regenerate, remedy, remodel, remunerate, renew, repair, requite, reshape, restore self-respect, revamp, revise, rework, rewrite, right, set right, set straight, set to rights, set up, shape up, show improvement, skyrocket, socialize, straighten out, take off, transfigure, transform, upgrade, uplift, work over

• amendment, Great Leap Forward, addendum, addition, advance, advancement, alteration, amelioration, ascent, attachment, bettering, betterment, bill, boost, calendar, change, change of allegiance, change of heart, change of mind, clause, companion bills amendment, correction, dragnet clause, editing, emendation, enacting clause, enhancement, enrichment, escalator clause, eugenics, euthenics, furtherance, headway, hold-up bill, improvement, joker, lift, melioration, mend, mending, motion, new birth, omnibus bill, paragraph, pickup, preferment, privileged question, progress, progression, promotion, proviso, question, rebirth, recension, reclamation, recovery, recrudescence, rectification, redaction, redemption, reform, reformation, regeneration, renascence, renewal, repair, rescript, rescription, restoration, revampment, revisal, revise, revised edition, revision, revival, rewrite, rewriting, rider, rise, saving clause, upbeat, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility

• amends, atonement, balancing, blood money, commutation, compensate, compensation, composition, compromise, consideration, correction, counteraction, counterbalancing, damages, expiation, expiatory offering, fixing, guerdon, honorarium, indemnification, indemnity, lex talionis, make amends, make reparation, make restitution, making amends, making good, making right, making up, meed, mending, offsetting, overhaul, overhauling, pay, paying back, peace offering, piaculum, price, propitiation, quittance, reclamation, recompense, rectification, redemption, redress, refund, reimbursement, remedy, remuneration, repair, repairing, reparation, repay, repayment, reprisal, requital, requite, requitement, restitution, retaliation, retribution, return, revenge, reward, salvage, satisfaction, smart money, solatium, squaring, substitution, troubleshooting, wergild

• amenities, cakes and ale, ceremonies, civilities, civility, comforts, comity, conveniences, convention, courtliness, creature comforts, decencies, decorum, dignities, diplomatic code, elegance, elegancies, etiquette, excellent accommodations, exquisite manners, formalities, gentilities, good form, good manners, graces, manners, mores, natural politeness, point of etiquette, politeness, politesse, proprieties, protocol, punctilio, quiet good manners, rites, rituals, rules of conduct, social code, social conduct, social graces, social procedures, social usage

• amenity, accommodation, act of courtesy, advantage, affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amiability, amicability, appliance, appurtenance, attention, attractiveness, betterment, bliss, blissfulness, charm, civilities, civility, comfort, comity, compatibility, complaisance, congeniality, considerateness, convenience, cordiality, courteousness, courtesy, deference, delightfulness, enhancement, enjoyableness, enrichment, etiquette, excellence, extravagance, facility, fascination, favor, felicitousness, frill, gallantry, geniality, goodliness, goodness, graceful gesture, gracefulness, graciousness, gratefulness, harmoniousness, improvement, mellifluousness, mellowness, merit, mores, niceness, pleasance, pleasantness, pleasantry, pleasingness, pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure, pleasurefulness, polite act, politeness, proprieties, quality, rapport, respect, respectfulness, sociability, solicitousness, solicitude, superfluity, sweetness, sweetness and light, tact, tactfulness, thoughtfulness, urbanity, virtue, welcomeness

• ament, born fool, capitulum, catkin, clot, cone, congenital idiot, corymb, cretin, cyme, defective, golem, half-wit, head, idiot, imbecile, juggins, mongoloid idiot, moron, natural, natural idiot, natural-born fool, panicle, pine cone, raceme, simp, simpleton, spadix, spike, spikelet, strobile, thyrse, umbel, verticillaster, zany

• amentia, arrested development, backwardness, blithering idiocy, cretinism, half-wittedness, idiocy, idiotism, imbecility, infantilism, insanity, mental defectiveness, mental deficiency, mental handicap, mental retardation, mongolianism, mongolism, mongoloid idiocy, moronism, moronity, profound idiocy, retardation, retardment, simple-wittedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, subnormality

• America, Africa, Antipodes, Asia, Asia Major, Asia Minor, Australasia, Columbia, East, Eastern Hemisphere, Eurasia, Europe, Far East, Land of Liberty, Levant, Middle East, Near East, New World, Occident, Oceania, Old World, Orient, US, USA, Uncle Sugar, United States, West, Western Hemisphere, Yankeeland, continent, down under, eastland, landmass, stateside, the States, the melting pot, the old country

• Americanism, Anglicism, Briticism, Frenchism, Gallicism, Hibernicism, Irishism, Latinism, Scotticism, Yankeeism, chauvinism, flag waving, jingoism, love of country, nationalism, nationality, overpatriotism, patriotics, patriotism, ultranationalism

• amethystine, lavender, lilac, livid, magenta, mauve, mulberry, orchid, pansy-purple, plum-colored, plum-purple, purple, purplescent, purplish, purply, purpurate, purpure, purpureal, purpurean, purpureous, raisin-colored, violaceous, violet

• Amex, American Stock Exchange, Wall Street, board, bourse, commodity exchange, corn pit, curb, curb exchange, curb market, exchange, exchange floor, outside market, over-the-counter market, pit, quotation board, stock exchange, stock market, stock ticker, telephone market, the Big Board, the Exchange, third market, ticker, ticker tape, wheat pit

• amiable, accommodating, affable, affectionate, agreeable, amicable, approachable, benevolent, benign, benignant, blissful, bonhomous, brotherly, cheerful, civil, clubbable, clubbish, clubby, communicative, companionable, companionate, compatible, complaisant, compliant, congenial, cordial, courteous, decent, desirable, dulcet, easy, easy-natured, en rapport, enjoyable, fair, fair and pleasant, favorable, felicific, felicitous, fine, fit for society, fond of society, fraternal, friendlike, friendly, generous, genial, gentle, good, good-hearted, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, gregarious, harmonious, heart-warming, hearty, honeyed, hospitable, indulgent, kind, kindly, lenient, liberal, likable, mannerly, mellifluous, mellow, mild, neighborlike, neighborly, nice, obliging, open, openhearted, overindulgent, overpermissive, peaceable, permissive, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, receptive, responsive, rewarding, satisfying, simpatico, sisterly, sociable, social, social-minded, sweet, sweet-tempered, sympathique, tractable, unhostile, urbane, warm, warmhearted, welcome, welcoming, well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant, well-natured, winning, winsome

• amicable, accordant, affable, agreeable, agreeing, akin, amiable, at one, attuned, beneficent, benevolent, benign, benignant, blissful, brotherly, cheerful, civil, compatible, complaisant, concordant, congenial, cooperative, cordial, corresponding, courteous, desirable, dulcet, empathetic, empathic, en rapport, enjoyable, fair, fair and pleasant, favorable, felicific, felicitous, fine, fraternal, frictionless, friendlike, friendly, genial, good, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, harmonious, heart-warming, honeyed, in accord, in concert, in rapport, in tune, inharmony, kind, kindly, kindly-disposed, likable, like-minded, mellifluous, mellow, neighborlike, neighborly, nice, of one mind, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, polite, propitious, rewarding, satisfying, simpatico, sisterly, sociable, sweet, sympathetic, sympathique, together, understanding, unhostile, united, warm, welcome, well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant

• amicus curiae, JA, advocate, agent, alter ego, alternate, assessor, attorney, attorney-at-law, backup, backup man, barmaster, barrister, barrister-at-law, champion, chancellor, circuit judge, counsel, counselor, counselor-at-law, deputy, dummy, executive officer, exponent, figurehead, friend at court, intercessor, judge advocate, judge ordinary, jurat, justice in eyre, justice of assize, lawyer, lay judge, legal adviser, legal assessor, legal counselor, legal expert, legal practitioner, legalist, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, master, military judge, mouthpiece, ombudsman, ordinary, paranymph, pinch hitter, pleader, police judge, presiding judge, probate judge, proctor, procurator, proxy, puisne judge, recorder, representative, sea lawyer, second in command, secondary, self-styled lawyer, solicitor, stand-in, substitute, surrogate, understudy, utility man, vicar, vicar general, vice, vice-chancellor, vicegerent

• amidships, average, betwixt and between, central, core, equatorial, equidistant, half-and-half, halfway, in medias res, in the mean, in the middle, interior, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial, medially, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mediumly, mesial, mezzo, mezzo-mezzo, mid, middle, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midships, midway, nuclear

• amigo, ace, acquaintance, associate, bedfellow, bedmate, bosom buddy, buddy, bunkie, bunkmate, butty, camarade, chamberfellow, chum, classmate, colleague, comate, companion, company, compeer, comrade, confidant, confrere, consociate, consort, copartner, crony, familiar, fellow, fellow student, girl friend, gossip, intimate, mate, messmate, old crony, pal, pard, pardner, partner, playfellow, playmate, roommate, schoolfellow, schoolmate, shipmate, side partner, sidekick, teammate, workfellow, yokefellow, yokemate

• amino acid, alanine, albuminoid, arginine, chromoprotein, dipeptide, glycine, glycoprotein, leucine, lipoprotein, lysine, methionine, nucleoprotein, peptide, phenylalanine, phosphoprotein, proteid, protein, protide, sarcosine, serine, threonine, valine

• amiss, aberrant, abroad, adrift, afield, all abroad, all off, all wrong, askew, astray, at fault, awry, bad, badly, below the mark, beside the mark, beside the point, blamable, blameful, bootlessly, bum, censurable, cockeyed, confused, convulsed, corrupt, crappy, culpable, deceptive, defective, delusive, deranged, deviant, deviational, deviative, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, dissatisfactory, distorted, disturbed, errant, erring, erroneous, erroneously, evil, evilly, fallacious, fallaciously, false, falsely, far from it, faultful, faultfully, faultily, faulty, flawed, fruitlessly, guilty, haywire, heretical, heterodox, ill, illogical, illusory, imperfect, imperfectly, improper, improperly, in disorder, in vain, inaccurately, inappropriately, incorrect, incorrectly, indiscreetly, inopportunely, misinterpret, misplaced, mistake, mistakenly, misunderstand, not right, not true, off, off the track, on the fritz, out, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, peccant, perturbed, perverse, perverted, poor, poorly, punk, reprehensible, roily, rotten, self-contradictory, shuffled, sick, sinful, straying, to no purpose, turbid, turbulent, unfactual, unfavorably, unholy, unorthodox, unpropitiously, unproved, unsatisfactory, unsettled, untoward, untrue, untruly, unwisely, up, upset, vainly, wide, wrong, wrongly

• amity, accord, accordance, affinity, agape, agreement, amiability, amiableness, amicability, amicableness, benevolence, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, caritas, cement of friendship, charity, comity, communion, community, community of interests, compatibility, concord, concordance, congeniality, correspondence, empathy, esprit, esprit de corps, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, frictionlessness, friendliness, friendship, good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmony, identity, kindliness, kindness, kinship, like-mindedness, love, mutuality, neighborlikeness, neighborliness, oneness, peace, peaceableness, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, sharing, sociability, solidarity, sympathy, symphony, team spirit, understanding, unhostility, union, unison, unity, well-affectedness

• ammonia, Dry Ice, Freon, acetylene, argon, asphyxiating gas, butane, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, castor-bean meal, chlorine, coal gas, commercial fertilizer, compost, coolant, dressing, dung, enrichener, ethane, ether, ethyl chloride, ethylene, fertilizer, fluorine, formaldehyde, freezing mixture, guano, helium, hydrogen, ice, ice cubes, illuminating gas, krypton, lewisite, liquid air, liquid helium, liquid oxygen, manure, marsh gas, methane, muck, mustard gas, natural gas, neon, night soil, nitrate, nitrogen, organic fertilizer, oxygen, ozone, phosphate, poison gas, propane, radon, refrigerant, sewer gas, superphosphate, xenon

• amnesia, agnosia, blackout, catalepsy, cataplexy, catatonic stupor, daydreaming, daze, dream state, fugue, fugue state, hypnotic trance, loss of memory, reverie, sleepwalking, somnambulism, stupor, trance, word deafness

• amnesty, absolution, exculpation, excuse, exemption, exoneration, grace, immunity, impunity, indemnity, nolle prosequi, non prosequitur, nonprosecution, pardon, redemption, remission, remission of sin, reprieve, shrift, sparing, stay

• amnion, allantoic membrane, amniotic sac, arachnoid membrane, basement membrane, conjuctiva, eardrum, hymen, maidenhead, membrana serosa, membrana tympana, membrane, meninges, meninx, neurilemma, pellicle, pericardium, perineurium, pleura, serosa, tympanic membrane, tympanum, velum

• amoeba, Euglena, adenovirus, aerobe, aerobic bacteria, anaerobe, anaerobic bacteria, animalcule, bacillus, bacteria, bacterium, bug, coccus, colon bacillus, diatom, disease-producing microorganism, dyad, echovirus, enterovirus, filterable virus, flagellate, fungus, germ, gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, microbe, microorganism, microspore, microzoa, mold, monad, nematode, nonfilterable virus, paramecium, pathogen, picornavirus, protozoa, protozoon, reovirus, rhinovirus, rickettsia, salmonella, saprophyte, spirillum, spirochete, spore, sporozoon, staphylococcus, streptococcus, tetrad, triad, trypanosome, vibrio, virus, volvox, vorticellum, zoospore

• amok, Dionysiac, abandoned, attack, bacchic, bellowing, berserk, carried away, convulsion, corybantic, delirious, demoniac, desperate, distracted, ecstatic, enraptured, feral, ferocious, fever, fierce, fit, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, frenzy, fulminating, furious, furor, fury, haggard, hog-wild, howling, hysterical, in a transport, in hysterics, intoxicated, like one possessed, mad, madding, maenadic, maniac, maniacal, murderous insanity, orgasmic, orgiastic, paroxysm, possessed, psychokinesia, rabid, rage, raging, ramping, ranting, raving, raving mad, ravished, roaring, running mad, running wild, seizure, spasm, stark-raving mad, storming, transported, uncontrollable, violent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking

• among, amid, amidst, among, amongst, at, between, betwixt, betwixt and between, by, from, in, mid, midst, near, next to, on, to, together with, toward, with

• Amor, Agdistis, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Astarte, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Eros, Freya, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kama, Kore, Kronos, Love, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus

• amoral, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, dark, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, doubtful, dubious, evasive, felonious, fishy, fraudulent, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral, indirect, insidious, nonmoral, not kosher, questionable, rotten, shady, shameless, shifty, sinister, slippery, steeped in vice, suspicious, tricky, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unmoral, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, vice-laden, vice-prone, vicious, without remorse, without shame

• amorality, amoralism, backsliding, carnality, criminality, delinquency, evil, evil nature, immorality, impurity, moral delinquency, peccability, prodigality, recidivism, unangelicalness, unchastity, uncleanness, ungodliness, ungoodness, unmorality, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unvirtuousness, vice, viciousness, wantonness, waywardness, wrongdoing

• amorous, amative, amatory, aphrodisiac, ardent, carnal, desirous, enamored, erogenic, erogenous, erotic, erotogenic, fleshly, gamic, heterosexual, impassioned, infatuated, lascivious, libidinal, loverlike, loverly, lustful, nuptial, oversexed, passionate, potent, procreative, sensual, sex, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexy, straight, undersexed, venereal, voluptuous

• amorphous, aberrant, abnormal, adrift, afloat, aimless, aleatoric, aleatory, alternating, amorphic, anarchic, anomalistic, anomalous, baggy, blind, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, capricious, casual, chance, chancy, changeable, changeful, chaotic, characterless, clear as mud, cloudy, confused, dark, desultory, deviable, deviative, different, dim, disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, disorderly, dispersed, disproportionate, divergent, dizzy, eccentric, erratic, fast and loose, featureless, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, foggy, formless, freakish, frivolous, fuzzy, general, giddy, gratuitous, haphazard, hazy, heteroclite, heteromorphic, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, immethodical, impetuous, imprecise, impulsive, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indiscriminate, indistinct, inexact, infirm, inform, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, kaleidoscopic, lax, loose, lumpen, mazy, meaningless, mercurial, misshapen, misty, moody, muddy, murky, nebulous, nondescript, nonspecific, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, obscure, opaque, orderless, planless, promiscuous, rambling, random, restless, roving, scatterbrained, senseless, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, spasmodic, spineless, sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly, stray, straying, subnormal, sweeping, systemless, transcendent, unaccountable, unarranged, uncertain, unclassified, unclear, uncontrolled, undefined, undependable, undestined, undetermined, undirected, undisciplined, unfixed, unformed, ungraded, unjoined, unmethodical, unnatural, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unshaped, unsorted, unspecified, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vacillating, vagrant, vague, variable, veiled, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy

• amortization, abalienation, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, alienation, amortizement, assignation, assignment, bargain and sale, barter, bequeathal, binder, cash, cash payment, cession, clearance, conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment, conveyance, conveyancing, debt service, deeding, defrayal, defrayment, deliverance, delivery, demise, deposit, disbursal, discharge, disposal, disposition, doling out, down payment, earnest, earnest money, enfeoffment, exchange, giving, hire purchase, hire purchase plan, installment, installment plan, interest payment, lease and release, 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, sale, satisfaction, settlement, settling, sinking-fund payment, spot cash, surrender, trading, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, vesting, weekly payments

• amortize, abalienate, alien, alienate, assign, barter, bequeath, cede, clear, confer, consign, convey, deed, deed over, deliver, demise, devolve upon, discharge, enfeoff, exchange, give, give title to, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, honor, lift, liquidate, make accounts square, make over, negotiate, pass, pass on, pass over, pay in full, pay off, pay the bill, pay the shot, pay up, redeem, retire, satisfy, sell, settle, settle on, sign away, sign over, square, square accounts, strike a balance, surrender, take up, trade, transfer, transmit, turn over

• amount to, add up to, afford, aggregate, aggregate to, balance, break even, bring, bring in, come to, come up to, comprise, contain, correspond, cost, ditto, draw, equal, even, even off, fetch, keep pace with, knot, match, match up with, measure up to, mount up to, number, parallel, reach, reckon up to, rival, run abreast, run into, run to, sell for, set one back, stack up with, tie, tot up to, total, total up to, tote up to, touch, unitize

• amount, account, add up, add up to, aggregate, amount to, amplitude, approach, batch, become, body, box score, budget, bulk, bunch, burden, caliber, cast, charge, chunk, clutch, come, come up to, compass, comprehend, comprise, core, correspond to, cost, count, cut, damage, deal, degree, difference, dose, embody, entirety, equal, expanse, expenditure, expense, extent, figure, force, gob, grade, grand total, gross amount, group, heap, height, hint, hunk, imply, include, incorporate, interval, intimate, large amount, leap, level, lot, magnitude, mark, mass, match, matter, measure, measurement, mess, notch, nuance, number, numbers, pack, parcel, part, partake of, pas, peg, period, pitch, plane, plateau, point, portion, price, price tag, product, proportion, purport, quantity, quantum, range, rate, ratio, ration, reach, reckoning, remove, rival, round, run into, rung, scale, scope, score, sense, shade, shadow, short, small amount, space, stair, standard, step, stint, strength, substance, subsume, suggest, sum, sum and substance, sum total, summation, supply, tab, tale, tally, the amount, the bottom line, the story, the whole story, thrust, total, touch, tread, upshot, volume, whole, whole amount, x number

• amour, adulterous affair, adultery, affair, amorousness, cuckoldry, entanglement, eternal triangle, flirtation, forbidden love, hanky-panky, illicit love, infidelity, intimacy, intrigue, liaison, love, love affair, passion, relationship, romance, romantic tie, triangle, unfaithfulness

• amphetamine, Benzedrine, Benzedrine pill, C, Dexamyl, Dexamyl pill, Dexedrine, Dexedrine pill, Methedrine, amphetamine sulfate, cocaine, coke, crystal, dextroamphetamine sulfate, football, heart, jolly bean, methamphetamine hydrochloride, pep pill, purple heart, snow, speed, stimulant, upper

• amphibian, Reptilia, Surinam toad, aeroboat, air, airy nothing, angiosperm, anguine, annual, aquatic plant, batrachian, biennial, boat seaplane, bubble, bullfrog, caecilian, clipper, colubriform, cosmopolite, crawling, creeping, croaker, crocodilian, cutting, deciduous plant, dicot, dicotyledon, eft, ephemeral, ether, evergreen, exotic, floatplane, flowering plant, flying boat, frog, froggy, fungus, gametophyte, grass frog, gymnosperm, hellbender, hoppytoad, hoptoad, hydrophyte, hydroplane, illusion, leopard frog, lizardlike, midwife toad, mist, monocot, monocotyl, mud puppy, newt, ophidian, paddock, perennial, phantom, pickerel frog, plant, polliwog, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, repent, reptant, reptile, reptilelike, reptilian, reptiliform, reptiloid, salamander, saurian, seaplane, seed plant, seedling, serpentiform, serpentile, serpentine, serpentlike, serpentoid, shadow, siren, slithering, smoke, snakelike, snaky, spermatophyte, spirit, sporophyte, spring frog, tadpole, thallophyte, thin air, toad, toadish, tree frog, tree toad, triennial, vapor, vascular plant, vegetable, viperiform, viperish, viperlike, viperoid, viperous, vipery, water dog, waterplane, weed, wood frog

• amphibious, adaptable, adjustable, all-around, amalgamated, ambidextrous, ambiguous, ambivalent, blended, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, conglomerate, dappled, eclectic, equivocal, fifty-fifty, flexible, generally capable, half-and-half, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, intricate, ironic, jumbled, many-sided, medley, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, multifaceted, multinational, multiracial, patchy, pluralistic, promiscuous, resourceful, scrambled, supple, syncretic, thrown together, two-handed, varied, versatile

• amphitheater, Elizabethan theater, Globe Theatre, Greek theater, agora, arena, arena theater, assembly hall, athletic field, auditorium, background, bear garden, bowl, boxing ring, bull ring, cabaret, campus, canvas, chapel, circle theater, circus, classroom, club, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, concert hall, convention hall, course, dance hall, exhibition hall, field, floor, forum, gallery, ground, gym, gymnasium, hall, hippodrome, house, lecture hall, lecture room, lists, little theater, locale, marketplace, mat, meetinghouse, milieu, music hall, night spot, nightclub, open forum, opera, opera house, outdoor theater, palaestra, parade ground, pit, place, platform, playhouse, precinct, prize ring, public square, purlieu, range, recitation room, ring, scene, scene of action, scenery, schoolroom, setting, showboat, site, sphere, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, terrain, theater, theater-in-the-round, theatron, tilting ground, tiltyard, walk, wrestling ring

• ample, abounding, abundant, adequate, affluent, all-sufficing, amplify, amplitudinous, aplenty, augment, barely sufficient, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, broad, capacious, commensurate, commodious, competent, complete, comprehensive, copious, corresponding, countless, decent, deep, detailed, develop, diffuse, dilate, distend, distended, due, effuse, elaborate, enlarge, enough, epidemic, equal to, exhaustless, expanded, expansive, extend, extended, extending, extensive, extravagant, exuberant, far-reaching, fat, fertile, fit, flush, fruitful, full, galore, generous, good, good enough, great, handsome, in plenty, in quantity, increase, inexhaustible, infinite, inflate, inflated, large, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, many, maximal, minimal, minimum, much, multitudinous, numerous, opulent, overflowing, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty good enough, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proportionable, proportionate, rampant, replete, rich, rife, riotous, roomy, running over, satisfactory, satisfying, spacious, spreading, substantial, sufficient, sufficient for, sufficing, suitable, superabundant, swell, swollen, teeming, thorough, unfold, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, up to, vast, voluminous, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, wide, wide-ranging, widespread

• amplification, access, accession, accomplishment, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, adjunct, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, aggravation, ampliation, annoyance, appreciation, ascent, augmentation, ballooning, ballyhoo, big talk, bilingual text, bloating, blossoming, blowing up, boom, boost, broadening, buildup, burlesque, caricature, clavis, contentiousness, crescendo, crib, decipherment, decoding, deepening, deliberate aggravation, deployment, deterioration, development, developmental change, dilatation, dilation, dispersion, edema, elaboration, elevation, embittering, embitterment, enhancement, enlargement, evolution, evolutionary change, evolvement, evolving, exacerbation, exaggerating, exaggeration, exasperation, excess, exorbitance, expansion, expatiation, explication, extension, extravagance, extreme, faithful translation, fanning out, flare, flood, flowering, free translation, furtherance, gain, gloss, glossary, gradual change, grandiloquence, greatening, growth, gush, heightening, hike, hiking, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, increase, increment, inflation, inordinacy, intensification, interlinear, interlinear translation, irritation, jump, key, leap, loose translation, magnification, maturation, metaphrase, mounting, multiplication, natural development, natural growth, nonviolent change, overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overstatement, paraphrase, pony, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, progress, progression, proliferation, provocation, puffery, puffing up, raise, raising, restatement, rewording, ripening, rise, sensationalism, sharpening, snowballing, souring, splay, spread, spreading, stretching, superlative, surge, swelling, tall talk, touting, transcription, translation, transliteration, travesty, trot, tumescence, unfolding, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, waxing, widening, working-out, worsening

• amplified, accelerated, aggrandized, aggravated, ampliate, annoyed, augmented, ballyhooed, beefed-up, bloated, boosted, broadened, built-up, crescendoed, deepened, deliberately provoked, disproportionate, elevated, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated, exaggerated, exasperated, excessive, exorbitant, expanded, extended, extravagant, extreme, grandiloquent, heated up, heightened, high-flown, hiked, hotted up, hyperbolic, increased, inflated, inordinate, intensified, irritated, jazzed up, magnified, multiplied, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overlarge, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, prodigal, profuse, proliferated, provoked, puffed, raised, reinforced, soured, spread, stiffened, strengthened, stretched, superlative, swollen, tightened, touted, upped, widened, worse, worsened

• amplifier, attenuator, audio-frequency tube, ballast regulator, ballast tube, beam-switching tube, convertor, current regulator, damper, detector, discriminator, doubler, ear trumpet, electronic hearing aid, focus tube, generator, hard-of-hearing aid, hearing aid, iconoscope, inverter, limiter, local-oscillator tube, megaphone, mixer tube, modulator, multiplier, multipurpose tube, multivibrator, oscillator, output tube, phase inverter, picture tube, power tube, preamp, preamplifier, pulse generator, radio-frequency tube, receiving tube, rectifier tube, regulator, repeater, speaking trumpet, stethoscope, transducer, transistor hearing aid, trigger tube, vacuum-tube hearing aid

• amplify, add to, agent provocateur, aggrandize, aggravate, annoy, augment, ballyhoo, bloat, blow up, boost, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, burlesque, caricature, carry too far, charge, complete, crescendo, deepen, descant, detail, deteriorate, develop, dilate, distend, draw the longbow, elaborate, electrify, embellish, embitter, embroider, energize, enhance, enlarge, enlarge upon, enter into detail, evolve, exacerbate, exaggerate, exalt, exasperate, expand, expatiate, explicate, extend, fatten, fill out, galvanize, generate, go into, go to extremes, heat up, heighten, hike, hike up, hot up, huff, hyperbolize, increase, inflate, intensify, irritate, jack up, jump up, labor, lay it on, lengthen, loop in, magnify, make acute, make much of, make worse, maximize, overcharge, overdo, overdraw, overestimate, overpraise, overreach, overreact, oversell, overspeak, overstate, overstress, parlay, particularize, pile it on, plug in, provoke, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put up, pyramid, raise, rarefy, rehearse in extenso, relate at large, sharpen, shock, short, short-circuit, sour, spell out, step down, step up, stiffen, stretch, stretch the truth, sufflate, supplement, swell, switch off, switch on, talk big, talk in superlatives, thicken, tout, travesty, turn off, turn on, unfold, up, widen, work out, worsen

• amplitude, abundance, affluence, amount, ample sufficiency, ampleness, antinode, area, auditory effect, auditory phenomenon, avalanche, beam, bigness, body, bonanza, boundlessness, bountifulness, bountiousness, breadth, broadness, bulk, bumper crop, caliber, camber, capaciousness, capacity, cloud of words, commodiousness, comprehensiveness, congestion, copiousness, coverage, crest, de Broglie wave, depth, diameter, diffraction, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, dimension, dimensions, distance, distance across, effusion, effusiveness, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic wave, enormity, enormousness, expanse, expansion, expansiveness, extension, extensiveness, extent, extravagance, exuberance, fecundity, fertility, flight path, flood, flood tide, flow, fluency, foison, force, formidableness, formlessness, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, full, full measure, fullness, gauge, generosity, generousness, gigantism, girth, grandeur, grandness, great abundance, great plenty, great scope, greatness, guided wave, gush, gushing, height, high tide, high water, hugeness, immensity, impletion, in phase, infinity, intensity, interference, landslide, largeness, latitude, lavishness, length, liberality, liberalness, light, logorrhea, longitudinal wave, lots, loudness, luxuriance, macrology, magnitude, mass, matter, maximum, measure, measurement, mechanical wave, might, mightiness, more than enough, much, muchness, myriad, myriads, node, noise, numbers, numerousness, opulence, opulency, out of phase, outpour, outpouring, overflow, overfullness, palilogy, period, periodic wave, phone, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, pleonasm, plethora, power, prevalence, prodigality, prodigiousness, productiveness, productivity, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, proportion, proportions, quantities, quantity, quantum, radio wave, radius, rampancy, range, rankness, ray, reach, redundancy, reinforcement, reiteration, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, repleteness, repletion, resonance, resonance frequency, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, roominess, satiety, saturation, saturation point, scads, scale, scope, seismic wave, shock wave, shower, size, skin effect, skin friction, slip, sonance, sound, sound intensity level, sound propagation, sound wave, space, spaciousness, span, spate, speech sound, spread, spring tide, stagger, stream, strength, stretch, stupendousness, substance, substantiality, substantialness, sum, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, surface wave, surfeit, talkativeness, tautology, teemingness, tidal wave, tirade, transverse wave, tremendousness, trough, ultrasound, vastness, volume, wave, wave equation, wave motion, wave number, wavelength, wealth, whole, wideness, width

• amply, abundantly, acceptably, acutely, adequately, admissibly, agreeably, amazingly, appropriately, astonishingly, awesomely, becomingly, broadly, commensurately, competently, conspicuously, copiously, eminently, emphatically, enough, exceptionally, expansively, exquisitely, extensively, extraordinarily, exuberantly, famously, fittingly, fully, generously, glaringly, greatly, impressively, incredibly, intensely, largely, lavishly, liberally, magically, magnanimously, magnificently, markedly, marvelously, minimally, nobly, notably, particularly, passably, peculiarly, pointedly, preeminently, profusely, prominently, pronouncedly, properly, remarkably, richly, right, satisfactorily, satisfyingly, signally, singularly, splendidly, strikingly, substantially, sufficiently, suitably, superlatively, surpassingly, surprisingly, tolerably, uncommonly, unstintingly, unusually, well, widely, wonderfully, wondrous, worthily

• amputate, abscind, annihilate, ax, ban, bar, bisect, bob, butcher, carve, chop, cleave, clip, crop, cull, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cut out, dichotomize, dissever, dock, eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, except, excise, exclude, extinguish, extirpate, fissure, gash, hack, halve, hew, incise, isolate, jigsaw, knock off, lance, lop, mutilate, nip, pare, peel, pick out, prune, rend, rive, root out, rule out, saw, scissor, set apart, set aside, sever, shave, shear, slash, slice, slit, snip, split, stamp out, strike off, strip, strip off, sunder, take off, take out, tear, truncate, whittle, wipe out

• amputation, abscission, anastomotic operation, annihilation, bloodless operation, butchering, capital operation, chopping, cleavage, compensating operation, corneal transplant, crescent operation, cutting, destruction, dichotomy, elective operation, elimination, emergency operation, enucleation, eradication, excision, exclusion, exploratory operation, extinction, extirpation, fenestration operation, fission, heart transplant, interval operation, kidney transplant, laceration, major operation, minor operation, mutilation, operation, organ transplant, organ transplantation, palliative operation, radical operation, removal, rending, rescission, resection, ripping, scission, section, severance, slashing, slicing, splitting, surgery, surgical intervention, surgical operation, surgical technique, tearing, the knife, transplant

• amulet, charm, fetish, fylfot, gammadion, good-luck charm, hoodoo, juju, love charm, luck, lucky bean, lucky piece, madstone, mascot, mumbo jumbo, obeah, periapt, philter, phylactery, scarab, scarabaeus, scarabee, sudarium, swastika, talisman, veronica, voodoo, whammy

• amuse, absorb, animate, beguile, charm, cheer, convulse, delight, distract, divert, enchant, engross, enliven, entertain, exhilarate, fascinate, fleet, fracture one, interest, kill, knock dead, loosen up, occupy, please, quicken, raise a laugh, raise a smile, recreate, refresh, regale, relax, slay, solace, tickle, titillate, while, wile, wow

• amusement, animal pleasure, beguilement, bodily pleasure, carnal delight, comfort, content, contentment, coziness, creature comforts, dissipation, distraction, diversion, divertissement, ease, endpleasure, enjoyment, entertainment, euphoria, forepleasure, frivolity, fruition, fun, game, glee, gleefulness, gratification, great satisfaction, gusto, hearty enjoyment, high glee, hilariousness, hilarity, intellectual pleasure, jocularity, jocundity, joie de vivre, joke, jolliness, jollity, joviality, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, keen pleasure, kicks, lark, laughter, levity, luxury, merriment, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness, pastime, physical pleasure, pleasure, quiet pleasure, recreation, relaxation, relish, satisfaction, self-gratification, self-indulgence, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure, sexual pleasure, sport, sweetness of life, titillation, voluptuousness, well-being, zest

• amusing, absurd, beguiling, bizarre, delightful, diverting, droll, eccentric, entertaining, fun, funny, hilarious, humorous, incongruous, laughable, ludicrous, priceless, quaint, quizzical, recreational, rich, ridiculous, risible, screaming, titillating, titillative, whimsical, witty

• ana, Festschrift, adage, album, analects, anthology, aphorism, apothegm, aquarium, archives, axiom, beauties, biographical material, biographical records, body, byword, canon, catchword, chrestomathy, clippings, collectanea, collected sayings, collected works, collection, compilation, complete works, corpus, current saying, cuttings, data, delectus, dictate, dictum, distich, epigram, excerpta, excerpts, expression, extracts, florilegium, flowers, fragments, fund, garden, garland, gleanings, gnome, golden saying, government archives, government papers, historical documents, historical records, holdings, library, life records, maxim, memorabilia, menagerie, miscellanea, miscellany, moral, mot, motto, museum, omnibus, oracle, papers, parish rolls, photograph album, phrase, pithy saying, posy, precept, prescript, presidential papers, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, public records, quotation book, raw data, saw, saying, scrapbook, sentence, sententious expression, sloka, stock saying, sutra, symposium, teaching, text, treasure, verse, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, words of wisdom, zoo

• anabolism, assimilation, avatar, basal metabolism, catabolism, catalysis, consubstantiation, displacement, heterotopia, metabolism, metagenesis, metamorphism, metamorphosis, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, mutant, mutated form, mutation, permutation, reincarnation, sport, transanimation, transfiguration, transfigurement, transformation, transformism, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmogrification, transmutation, transposition, transubstantiation

• anachronism, antedate, antedating, anticipation, defect, faux pas, flaw, gaffe, metachronism, misapplication, misdate, misdating, mistake, mistiming, parachronism, postdate, postdating, prochronism, prolepsis, slip, solecism

• anachronistic, ahead of time, antedated, beforehand, behind time, behindhand, dated, early, foredated, late, metachronistic, misdated, mistimed, out of date, out of season, overdue, parachronistic, past due, postdated, prochronistic, tardy, unpunctual, unseasonable

• anaerobe, adenovirus, aerobe, aerobic bacteria, amoeba, anaerobic bacteria, bacillus, bacteria, bacterium, bug, coccus, disease-producing microorganism, echovirus, enterovirus, filterable virus, fungus, germ, gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, microbe, microorganism, mold, nonfilterable virus, pathogen, picornavirus, protozoa, protozoon, reovirus, rhinovirus, rickettsia, spirillum, spirochete, spore, staphylococcus, streptococcus, trypanosome, vibrio, virus

• anagram, abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, calembour, charade, conundrum, corruption, equivocality, equivoque, jeu de mots, logogram, logogriph, malapropism, metagram, missaying, palindrome, paronomasia, play on words, pun, punning, rebus, riddle, spoonerism, wordplay

• anal, abdominal, accordant, appendical, bourgeois, cardiac, cecal, colic, colonic, compulsive, concordant, conformist, conventional, coronary, corresponding, dinky, duodenal, enteric, formalistic, gastric, harmonious, ileac, in accord, in keeping, in line, in step, intestinal, jejunal, kosher, mesogastric, neat, orthodox, pedantic, plastic, precisianistic, pyloric, rectal, shipshape, sleek, slick, smart, snug, splanchnic, spruce, square, straight, stuffy, tidy, tight, traditionalist, trig, trim, uptight, visceral, well-cared-for, well-groomed

• analects, Festschrift, adage, album, ana, anthology, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, beauties, byword, canon, catchword, chrestomathy, clippings, collectanea, collected sayings, collected works, collection, compilation, complete works, current saying, cuttings, delectus, dictate, dictum, distich, epigram, excerpta, excerpts, expression, extracts, florilegium, flowers, fragments, garden, garland, gleanings, gnome, golden saying, maxim, miscellanea, miscellany, moral, mot, motto, omnibus, oracle, photograph album, phrase, pithy saying, posy, precept, prescript, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, quotation book, saw, saying, scrapbook, sentence, sententious expression, sloka, stock saying, sutra, symposium, teaching, text, verse, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, words of wisdom

• analeptic, adjuvant, alterative, bracing, corrective, corroborant, curative, healing, iatric, invigorating, medicative, medicinal, refreshing, remedial, reparative, reparatory, restitutive, restitutory, restorative, reviving, roborant, sanative, sanatory, stimulating, strengthening, therapeutic, theriac, tonic

• analgesia, abatement, allayment, alleviation, anesthesia, anesthetizing, anxiety equivalent, appeasement, assuagement, callousness, deadening, deadness, depraved appetite, diminishment, diminution, dulling, dullness, ease, easement, easing, electronarcosis, impassibility, imperception, imperceptiveness, imperceptivity, impercipience, inconsiderateness, insensibility, insensibleness, insensitiveness, insensitivity, insentience, lessening, lulling, mitigation, mollification, narcosis, narcotization, neurasthenia, numbing, numbness, obtuseness, palliation, paresthesia, parorexia, pica, pins and needles, reduction, relief, remedy, salving, softening, soothing, speech abnormality, subduement, thick skin, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unperceptiveness

• analgesic, Amytal, Amytal pill, Darvon, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Pyramidon, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, acetanilide, acetophenetidin, acetylsalicylic acid, alcohol, alleviating, alleviative, amobarbital sodium, anesthetic, anodyne, aspirin, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, benumbing, black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, calmant, calmative, cathartic, chloral hydrate, cleansing, codeine, codeine cough syrup, deadening, demulcent, depressant, depressor, dolly, dope, downer, drug, dulling, easing, emollient, goofball, hard stuff, heroin, hop, horse, hypnotic, junk, knockout drop, knockout drops, laudanum, lenitive, liquor, lotus, meperidine, methadone, mitigating, mitigative, morphia, morphine, narcotic, numbing, opiate, opium, pacifier, pain killer, pain-killer, pain-killing, palliative, paregoric, pen yan, phenacetin, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, purgative, purple heart, quietener, quietening, rainbow, red, relieving, remedial, scag, secobarbital sodium, sedative, shit, sleep-inducer, sleep-inducing, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, sodium salicylate, sodium thiopental, softening, somnifacient, somniferous, soother, soothing, soothing syrup, soporific, stunning, stupefying, subduing, tar, tranquilizer, tranquilizing, turps, white stuff, yellow, yellow jacket

• analogous, akin, aligned, alike, analogical, answering, coequal, coextending, coextensive, collatable, collateral, commensurable, commensurate, comparable, comparative, complemental, complementary, concurrent, consonant, convertible, correlative, correspondent, corresponding, duplicate, equal, equidistant, equipollent, equispaced, equivalent, even, homologous, interchangeable, kindred, lined up, matchable, matching, much at one, nonconvergent, nondivergent, of a kind, of a piece, of a size, parallel, parallelepipedal, parallelinervate, paralleling, parallelodrome, parallelogrammatic, parallelogrammic, parallelotropic, reciprocal, reciprocative, relative, similar, tantamount, twin, undifferentiated, uniform

• analogue, ally, alter ego, analogon, associate, brother, close copy, close match, cognate, companion, complement, congenator, congener, coordinate, correlate, correlative, correspondent, counterpart, each other, equivalent, fellow, image, kindred spirit, like, likeness, match, mate, near duplicate, obverse, one another, parallel, pendant, picture, reciprocal, reciprocatist, reciprocator, second self, similitude, simulacrum, sister, soul mate, such, suchlike, tally, the like of, the likes of, twin

• analogy, accordance, affinity, agent, agreement, alignment, alikeness, allegory, alliance, alternate, alternative, ambiguity, aping, approach, approximation, assimilation, backup, balancing, change, changeling, closeness, coextension, collineation, community, comparability, comparative anatomy, comparative degree, comparative grammar, comparative judgment, comparative linguistics, comparative literature, comparative method, compare, comparing, comparison, concurrence, conformity, confrontation, confrontment, contrast, contrastiveness, copy, copying, correlation, correspondence, counterfeit, deputy, distinction, distinctiveness, double, dummy, equal, equidistance, equivalent, equivocation, equivoque, ersatz, exchange, fake, fill-in, ghost, ghostwriter, identity, imitation, likeness, likening, locum tenens, makeshift, matching, metaphor, metonymy, mimicking, nearness, next best thing, nondivergence, opposing, opposition, parallelism, parity, personnel, phony, pinch hitter, proportion, proxy, relation, relief, replacement, representative, resemblance, reserves, ringer, sameness, second string, secondary, semblance, sign, similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, spares, stand-in, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, tergiversation, third string, token, trope of comparison, understudy, utility player, vicar, vice-president, vice-regent, weighing

• analysis, Baconian method, Boolean algebra, Euclidean geometry, Fourier analysis, Lagrangian function, a fortiori reasoning, a posteriori reasoning, a priori reasoning, abstraction, accounting, airing, algebra, algebraic geometry, alteration, analytic geometry, anatomization, anatomy, arithmetic, arrangement, assay, associative algebra, atomization, audit, automatic electronic navigation, binary arithmetic, braking, breakdown, breakup, buzz session, calculus, canvassing, cataloging, categorization, change, checkup, circle geometry, circumstantiation, classification, codification, colloquium, comment, commentary, commentation, computation, conference, consideration, coordination, critical review, criticism, critique, debate, debating, decomposition, deduction, deductive reasoning, deliberation, demarcation, depth interview, depth psychology, descriptive geometry, desynonymization, diaeresis, dialectic, dialogue, differencing, differential calculus, differentiation, discrimination, discussion, disequalization, disintegration, disjunction, dissection, distinction, distinguishment, diversification, division, division algebra, doctrinairism, doctrinality, doctrinarity, dream analysis, dream symbolism, editorial, enquiry, epagoge, equivalent algebras, examination, exchange of views, explanation, fact distribution, filing, forecasts, forum, game theory, generalization, geodesy, geometry, gloss, grading, graphic algebra, group analysis, group theory, grouping, higher algebra, higher arithmetic, hyperbolic geometry, hypothesis and verification, indexing, individualization, individuation, induction, inductive reasoning, inference, infinitesimal calculus, inquest, inquirendo, inquiring, inquiring mind, inquiry, inquisition, inspection, integral calculus, interpretation, interpretation of dreams, intuitional geometry, invariant subalgebra, inverse geometry, investigation, itemization, joint discussion, judgement, leader, leading article, line geometry, linear algebra, logical analysis, logical discussion, manipulation, mathematical physics, matrix algebra, mere theory, metageometry, modification, modular arithmetic, n-tuple linear algebra, natural geometry, nilpotent algebra, nonlinear calibrations, notice, number theory, open discussion, open forum, opinion, output measurement, panel discussion, particularization, perlustration, personalization, philosophical induction, pigeonholing, placement, plane trigonometry, political arithmetic, processing, projective geometry, proper subalgebra, psychanalysis, psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic method, psychoanalytic therapy, psychognosis, psychognosy, psychology of depths, quaternian algebra, ranging, ranking, rap, rap session, rating, record keeping, reducible algebra, remark, report, resolution, review, running commentary, scan, scrutiny, segregation, seminar, separation, set theory, severalization, severance, simple algebra, solid geometry, sorting, specialization, specification, speculation, speculative geometry, spherical trigonometry, statistics, steering, stratification, study, subalgebra, subdivision, supersonic flow detection, survey, syllogism, syllogistic reasoning, symposium, synthesis, systems analysis, tabulation, taxonomy, the couch, theoretic, theoretical basis, theoretics, theoria, theoric, theorization, theory, topology, town meeting, treatment, trig, trigonometry, typology, universal algebra, universal geometry, variation, vector algebra, ventilation, view, write-up, zero algebra

• analyst, analyzer, assayer, behavior therapist, clinical psychologist, essayer, examiner, experimenter, headshrinker, hypnotherapist, narcotherapist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychoanalyzer, psychotherapeutist, psychotherapist, research worker, researcher, shrink, shrinker, test driver, test pilot, tester, tryer-out

• analytic, a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, acute, algebraic, analytical, categorical, classificatory, conditional, deductive, deep, dialectic, discursive, enthymematic, enumerative, epagogic, examinational, examinatorial, examining, explorational, explorative, exploratory, fact-finding, feeling, geometric, groping, heuristic, hypothetical, indagative, inductive, inferential, inspectional, inspectorial, investigational, investigative, investigatory, keen, maieutic, mathematical, numeric, penetrating, piercing, profound, ratiocinative, ratiocinatory, rational, reasoning, schematic, segmental, sharp, soritical, subtle, syllogistic, synthetic, tentative, testing, trying, zetetic

• analytical, a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, algebraic, analytic, categorical, classificatory, conditional, deductive, dialectic, discursive, enthymematic, enumerative, epagogic, examinational, examinatorial, examining, explorational, explorative, exploratory, fact-finding, feeling, geometric, groping, heuristic, hypothetical, indagative, inductive, inferential, inspectional, inspectorial, investigational, investigative, investigatory, maieutic, mathematical, numeric, ratiocinative, ratiocinatory, rational, reasoning, schematic, segmental, soritical, subtle, syllogistic, synthetic, tentative, testing, trying, zetetic

• analyze, air, alphabetize, anatomize, apply reason, arrange, assay, assort, atomize, bracket, break down, break up, canvass, catalog, categorize, change, chop logic, class, classify, codify, comment upon, conjugate, consider, contradistinguish, controvert, deal with, debate, decline, decompose, deduce, deliberate, deliberate upon, demarcate, demark, desynonymize, difference, differentiate, digest, discourse about, discriminate, discuss, disequalize, disjoin, dissect, distinguish, diversify, divide, draw the line, examine, exchange views, file, generalize, go into, grade, group, handle, hyphenate, hypothesize, index, individualize, individuate, infer, inflect, inspect, intellectualize, investigate, knock around, list, logicalize, logicize, make a distinction, mark, mark off, mark out, mark the interface, modify, order, parenthesize, parse, part, particularize, pass under review, personalize, philosophize, pick out, pigeonhole, place, point, provide a rationale, punctuate, range, rank, rap, rate, rationalize, reason, reason about, reason the point, reduce, reduce to elements, refine a distinction, resolve, review, screen, screen out, scrutinize, segment, segregate, select, separate, set a limit, set apart, set off, sever, severalize, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, sort, sort out, specialize, split hairs, study, subdivide, subtilize, syllogize, synthesize, tabulate, take up, talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, theorize, thresh out, treat, type, use reason, vary, ventilate, winnow

• analyzer, analyst, assayer, breaker, centrifuge, cutter, essayer, examiner, experimenter, gas analyzer, mass spectrograph, mass spectrometer, research worker, researcher, scanner, separator, sieve, stripper, test driver, test pilot, tester, tryer-out

• analyzing, EDP, appraisal, appraisement, appraising, appreciation, assessing, assessment, classifying, collating, computer technology, computer typesetting, computing, data processing, data retrieval, electronic data processing, estimate, estimation, evaluating, evaluation, evaluative criticism, gauging, high-speed data handling, machine computation, measurement, opinion, ranking, rating, reckoning, reporting, scanning, sorting, valuation, valuing, view, weighing

• anapest, Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, antispast, arsis, bacchius, beat, cadence, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, colon, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, feminine caesura, foot, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic, jingle, lilt, masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus, mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period, proceleusmatic, pyrrhic, quantity, rhythm, spondee, sprung rhythm, stress, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee

• anaphylactic, allergic, delicate, empathetic, empathic, goosy, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, irritable, itchy, nervous, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, passible, prickly, refined, responsive, sensitive, skittish, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, tender, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy

• anaphylaxis, allergy, considerateness, delicacy, empathy, exquisiteness, fineness, hyperesthesia, hyperpathia, hypersensitivity, identification, irritability, nervousness, oversensibility, oversensitiveness, overtenderness, passibility, perceptiveness, perceptivity, photophobia, prickliness, responsiveness, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensitization, soreness, supersensitivity, sympathy, tact, tactfulness, tenderness, tetchiness, thin skin, ticklishness, touchiness

• anarchic, Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Carbonarist, Castroist, Castroite, Communist, Fenian, Guevarist, Jacobinic, Leninist, Maoist, Marxist, Mau-Mau, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, Vietcong, actionable, against the law, agin the government, amorphic, amorphous, anarchial, anarchistic, angry, anomic, antinomian, arsy-varsy, ass-backwards, baggy, balled up, black-market, blobby, blurred, blurry, blustering, blusterous, blustery, bollixed up, bootleg, chaotic, characterless, chargeable, confused, contraband, contrary to law, criminal, disorderly, disorganized, featureless, felonious, flawed, formless, fouled up, frantic, frenzied, furious, fuzzy, galley-west, hazy, hellish, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, impermissible, in a mess, inchoate, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, inform, infuriate, insensate, irregular, jumbled, justiciable, kaleidoscopic, lawless, lumpen, mad, mindless, misty, mixed up, mucked up, muddled, nihilistic, nonconstitutional, nondescript, nonlegal, nonlicit, obscure, orderless, orgasmic, orgastic, outlaw, outlawed, pandemoniac, punishable, raging, ravening, raving, revolutionist, rip-roaring, sans-culottic, sans-culottish, scattered, screwed up, shapeless, skimble-skamble, snafu, storming, stormy, syndicalistic, tempestuous, terrorist, topsy-turvy, triable, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, unallowed, unauthorized, unclear, unconstitutional, undefined, under-the-counter, under-the-table, unlawful, unofficial, unordered, unorganized, unruly, unstatutory, unwarrantable, unwarranted, uproarious, upside-down, vague, wild, wrongful

• anarchism, Bolshevikism, Bolshevism, Carbonarism, Castroism, Jacobinism, Maoism, Marxism, New Left, Old Left, Sinn Feinism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, antinomianism, chaos, communism, confusion, criminal syndicalism, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disruption, distemper, extreme left, extreme left wing, extremism, left-wing extremism, lynch law, misrule, mob law, mob rule, mobocracy, nihilism, not, ochlocracy, primal chaos, radicalism, radicalization, rebellion, revolution, revolutionism, sans-culotterie, sans-culottism, syndicalism, terrorism, tohubohu, turmoil, ultraconservatism, ultraism, unruliness, utopianism

• anarchist, Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshie, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist, Castroite, Charley, Communist, Cong, Fenian, Guevarist, Jacobin, Leninist, Maoist, Marxist, Mau-Mau, Puritan, Red, Red Republican, Roundhead, Sinn Feiner, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, VC, Vietcong, Wobbly, Yankee, Yankee Doodle, anarch, anarcho-syndicalist, antinomian, bonnet rouge, criminal syndicalist, extreme left-winger, extremist, frondeur, insurgent, insurrectionist, left-wing extremist, lunatic fringe, malcontent, mild radical, mutineer, nihilist, parlor Bolshevik, parlor pink, pink, pinko, radical, rebel, red, revel, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionary junta, revolutioner, revolutionist, revolutionizer, sans-culotte, sans-culottist, subversive, syndicalist, terrorist, ultra, ultraist, yippie

• anarchistic, actionable, against the law, anarchial, anarchic, anarcho-syndicalist, anomic, antinomian, black-market, bootleg, chaotic, chargeable, contraband, contrary to law, criminal, disorderly, disorganized, extreme, extremist, extremistic, felonious, flawed, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, impermissible, irregular, justiciable, lawless, mildly radical, nihilistic, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, outlaw, outlawed, pink, punishable, radical, red, revolutionary, revolutionist, subversive, syndicalist, syndicalistic, triable, ultraconservative, ultraist, ultraistic, unallowed, unauthorized, unconstitutional, under-the-counter, under-the-table, unlawful, unofficial, unruly, unstatutory, unwarrantable, unwarranted, wrongful

• anarchy, aloofness, amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anomie, antinomianism, blurriness, chaos, confusion, criminal syndicalism, criminalism, criminality, diffusion, discontinuity, discreteness, disjunction, dislocation, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, dispersal, dispersion, disruption, dissolution, distemper, entropy, fabulous formless darkness, formlessness, foul-up, fuzziness, hassle, haziness, illegality, illicit business, illicitness, impermissibility, incoherence, inconsistency, indecisiveness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, lawlessness, legal flaw, license, lynch law, messiness, misrule, mistiness, mix-up, mob law, mob rule, mobocracy, morass, muddle, nihilism, nonadhesion, noncohesion, obscurity, ochlocracy, orderlessness, outlawry, primal chaos, rebellion, reign of terror, revolution, riot, scattering, screw-up, separateness, shapelessness, snafu, syndicalism, technical flaw, tohubohu, turmoil, unadherence, unadhesiveness, unclearness, unlawfulness, unruliness, untenacity, vagueness, wrongfulness

• anathema, abhorrence, abomination, antipathy, arraignment, aversion, ban, bete noire, blame, blasphemy, bugbear, castigation, censure, commination, condemnation, curse, damnation, decrial, denouncement, denunciation, detestation, evil eye, excommunication, excoriation, execration, flaying, fulmination, fustigation, hate, hex, impeachment, imprecation, indictment, leper, malediction, malison, malocchio, outcast, pariah, peeve, pet peeve, phobia, pillorying, proscription, reprehension, reprobation, reproof, skinning alive, stricture, thundering, untouchable, whammy

• anatomize, adduce, analyze, assay, atomize, break down, break up, change, chop logic, circumstantiate, cite, decompose, descend to particulars, desynonymize, detail, difference, differentiate, discriminate, disequalize, disjoin, dissect, distinguish, diversify, divide, document, enter into detail, give full particulars, individualize, individuate, instance, itemize, make a distinction, mark, mark off, mark out, modify, particularize, personalize, reduce, reduce to elements, refine a distinction, resolve, segment, segregate, separate, set apart, set off, sever, severalize, specialize, specify, spell out, split hairs, subdivide, substantiate, vary

• anatomy, aerobiology, agrobiology, amnion, analysis, analyzation, anatomist, anatomizing, angiography, angiology, animal physiology, anthropography, anthropologist, anthropology, anthropometry, anthropotomy, appendicular skeleton, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, assay, assaying, astrobiology, axial skeleton, bacteriology, behavioral science, biochemics, biochemistry, biochemy, bioecology, biological science, biology, biometrics, biometry, bionics, bionomics, biophysics, bladder, bleb, blister, body, body-build, boll, bones, botany, breakdown, breaking down, breaking up, breakup, build, building, calyx, capsule, carcass, cell, cell physiology, clay, clod, comparative anatomy, composition, conchology, conformation, constitution, construction, corpus, craniology, craniometry, creation, cryobiology, cybernetics, cyst, cytology, demography, diaeresis, dissection, division, docimasy, ecology, electrobiology, embryology, entomology, enzymology, ethnobiology, ethnography, ethnologist, ethnology, ethology, exobiology, exoskeleton, fabric, fabrication, fashion, fashioning, figure, fistula, flesh, follicle, forging, form, format, formation, frame, gallbladder, genetics, geomorphology, getup, gnotobiotics, gravimetric analysis, helminthology, herpetology, histologist, histology, hulk, human ecology, human geography, ichthyology, legume, life science, loculus, make, makeup, making, malacology, mammalogy, manufacture, marsupium, material body, microbiology, mold, molding, molecular biology, morphologist, morphology, myography, myology, organic structure, organism, organization, organography, organology, ornithology, osteography, osteology, pattern, patterning, pericarp, person, pharmacology, physical body, physiology, physique, plan, pocket, pod, production, protozoology, proximate analysis, psychology, quantitative analysis, radiobiology, reduction to elements, resolution, sac, saccule, sacculus, saccus, science of man, scrotum, seedcase, segmentation, semimicroanalysis, separation, setup, shape, shaping, silique, sinus, skeleton, sociologist, sociology, soma, sound, splanchnography, splanchnology, stomach, structure, structuring, subdivision, taxidermy, taxonomy, tectology, tectonics, texture, tissue, torso, trunk, udder, vasculum, ventricle, vesica, vesicle, virology, warp and woof, weave, web, xenobiology, zoogeography, zoography, zoology, zoonomy, zoopathology, zoophysics, zootaxy, zootomy

• ancestor, ancestress, announcer, antecedent, ascendant, avant-garde, begetter, bellwether, buccinator, bushwhacker, explorer, forebear, forefather, foregoer, forerunner, front runner, frontiersman, fugleman, grandparent, groundbreaker, guide, harbinger, herald, innovator, lead runner, leader, messenger, parent, pathfinder, pioneer, point, precedent, precursor, predecessor, premise, primogenitor, procreator, progenitor, progenitress, progenitrix, prototype, scout, stormy petrel, trailblazer, trailbreaker, vanguard, vaunt-courier, voortrekker

• ancestors, antecedents, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, ascendants, author, begetter, beginner, builder, conceiver, constructor, craftsman, creator, designer, deviser, discoverer, effector, elders, engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, father, fathers, forebears, forefathers, founder, generator, grandfathers, grandparents, grower, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, mother, organizer, originator, past master, patriarchs, planner, precursor, predecessors, prime mover, producer, progenitors, raiser, realizer, shaper, sire, smith, wright

• ancestral, aboriginal, ancestorial, antepatriarchal, atavistic, autochthonous, fatherlike, fatherly, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, grandparental, humanoid, maternal, mother, motherlike, motherly, parent, parental, paternal, patriarchal, preadamite, preglacial, prehistoric, prehuman, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, primoprimitive, primordial, pristine, protohistoric, protohuman

• ancestry, affiliation, agnate, agnation, alliance, aristocracy, aristocraticalness, birth, blood, blood relation, blood relationship, blood relative, blue blood, breed, breeding, brotherhood, brothership, clansman, cognate, cognation, collateral, collateral relative, common ancestry, common descent, connection, connections, consanguinean, consanguinity, cousinhood, cousinship, derivation, descent, distaff side, distant relation, distinction, enate, enation, extraction, family, fatherhood, filiation, flesh, flesh and blood, folks, fraternity, genteelness, gentility, german, honorable descent, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinship, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, line, lineage, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, near relation, next of kin, nobility, noble birth, nobleness, origin, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, pedigree, people, posterity, propinquity, quality, race, rank, relation, relations, relationship, relatives, royalty, sib, sibling, sibship, sisterhood, sistership, source, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, stock, sword side, ties of blood, tribesman, uterine kin

• anchor, Baldt anchor, Navy anchor, Northill anchor, affix, anchorage, annex, attach, batten, batten down, belay, berth, billet at, bind, bivouac, bower, bridle, burrow, camp, cast anchor, catch, cement, chain, cinch, clamp, clinch, colonize, come to anchor, cramp, dinghy anchor, disembark, dock, domesticate, drag anchor, drogue, drop anchor, drop the hook, enchain, engraft, ensconce, entrammel, establish residence, fasten, fasten down, fetter, fix, floating anchor, fluke, glue, graft, grapnel, grapple, gyve, hamper, handcuff, hive, hobble, hog-tie, holdfast, hook, hopple, imbed, inhabit, kedge, kedge anchor, kedge off, keep house, knit, lash, lash and tie, lay anchor, leash, live at, locate, mainstay, make fast, make secure, make sure, manacle, moor, mooring, mooring buoy, moorings, move, mudhook, mushroom anchor, nest, park, peg down, people, perch, picket, pin, pin down, pinion, plant, populate, put in irons, put to, relocate, reside, restrain, rivet, roost, rope, screw anchor, screw up, sea anchor, secure, security, set, set to, set up housekeeping, set up shop, settle, settle down, shackle, shank, sheet anchor, sit down, slip, squat, stability, stabilizer, stand, starboard anchor, stay at, stock, straitjacket, strap, strike root, support, take residence at, take root, take up residence, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, tighten, trammel, trice up, trim

• anchorage, admission, admission fee, anchor, anchorage ground, basin, berth, bourn, breakwater, brokerage, bulkhead, carfare, cellarage, charge, charges, chuck, colonization, cover charge, demand, destination, dock, dockage, dockyard, dry dock, dues, embankment, entrance fee, establishment, exaction, exactment, fare, fee, fixation, foundation, goal, groin, harbor, harborage, haven, hire, hook, inauguration, initiation, installation, installment, investiture, jetty, jutty, landing, landing place, landing stage, last stop, license fee, lodgment, marina, mole, mooring, mooring buoy, moorings, mudhook, peopling, pier, pilotage, plantation, population, port, portage, protected anchorage, quay, riding, road, roads, roadstead, salvage, scot, scot and lot, seaport, seawall, settlement, settling, shipyard, shot, slip, stop, stopping place, storage, terminal, terminal point, terminus, toll, towage, wharf, wharfage

• anchored, aground, caught, chained, fast, fastened, fixed, grounded, held, high and dry, impacted, inextricable, jammed, moored, packed, riveted, set, settled, staple, stated, stranded, stuck, stuck fast, tethered, tied, transfixed, wedged

• anchorite, Albigensian, Catharist, Diogenes, Franciscan, Hieronymian, Hieronymite, Sabbatarian, Timon of Athens, Trappist, Waldensian, abstainer, anchoress, ascetic, bedridden invalid, bhikshu, cloistered monk, closet cynic, dervish, desert fathers, desert saints, eremite, fakir, flagellant, hermit, hermitess, homebody, invalid, isolationist, loner, marabout, mendicant, outcast, pariah, pillar saint, pillarist, puritan, recluse, sannyasi, seclusionist, shut-in, solitaire, solitary, solitudinarian, stay-at-home, stylite, yogi, yogin

• ancient, Bronze Age man, Hominidae, Iron Age man, Stone Age man, abiding, aboriginal, aborigine, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, age-long, age-old, aged, ageing, ageless, along in years, antediluvian, anthropoid, antiquated, antique, ape-man, archaic, auld, autochthon, better, brass hat, bushman, bygone, cave dweller, caveman, chronic, constant, continuing, dateless, diuturnal, doddering, doting, durable, earlier, early, elder, elderly, enduring, erstwhile, evergreen, fading, fore, forgotten, former, fossil, fossil man, fossilized, golden-ager, gray, gray with age, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grown old, hardy, higher-up, hoar, hoary, hominid, humanoid, immemorial, immutable, intransient, inveterate, lasting, late, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, macrobiotic, man of old, missing link, obsolescent, obsolete, of long duration, of long standing, of old, of yore, old, old as Methuselah, old as history, old as time, old-fashioned, old-time, old-timer, olden, once, onetime, past, patriarchal, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, preadamite, prehistoric, prehistoric man, prehuman, previous, primal, primate, primeval, primitive, primordial, prior, pristine, protohuman, quondam, recent, remaining, remote, sempervirent, senectuous, senior, senior citizen, sinking, sometime, stable, staying, steadfast, superannuated, then, timeless, timeworn, tough, traditional, troglodyte, unfading, venerable, vital, waning, wasting, white, white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old

• ancillary, accessory, accompanying, additional, adjuvant, another, appurtenant, assistant, assisting, attendant, attending, auxiliary, coincident, collateral, contributory, extra, farther, fostering, fresh, further, helping, incident, instrumental, ministerial, ministering, ministrant, more, new, nurtural, nutricial, other, plus, satellite, serving, spare, subservient, subsidiary, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus, ulterior

• andante, a poco, adagietto, adagio, allargando, allegretto, allegro, andante tempo, andantino, beat, calando, claudication, compound time, crawl, creep, crescendo, dead march, decrescendo, diminuendo, dogtrot, duple time, footpace, forte, fortissimo, funeral march, hobble, jog, jog trot, larghetto, larghissimo, largo, legato, leisurely gait, lento, limp, lumbering pace, marcando, march tempo, mincing steps, mixed times, pianissimo, piano, pizzicato, plod, prestissimo, presto, rack, rag, ragtime, rallentando, ritardando, ritenuto, rubato, saunter, scherzando, scherzo, sextuple time, shamble, shuffle, simple time, slouch, slow march, slow motion, spiccato, staccato, stretto, stroll, syncopation, syncope, tempo, tempo rubato, three-quarter time, time, time pattern, timing, triple time, triplet, trudge, two-four time, waddle, walk, waltz time

• andiron, chain, coal tongs, crane, crook, damper, fire hook, fire tongs, firedog, grate, grating, grid, griddle, gridiron, grill, griller, lifter, poker, pothook, salamander, spit, tongs, tripod, trivet, turnspit

• androgyny, androgynism, effeminacy, effeminateness, epicenism, epicenity, feminism, gynandrism, gynandry, hermaphroditism, intersexualism, intersexuality, muliebrity, prissiness, pseudohermaphroditism, sissiness, transsexualism, transsexuality, unmanliness, womanishness

• anemia, Christmas disease, Hand-Schuller-Christian disease, Letterer-Siwe syndrome, Lombardy leprosy, abscess, acute leukemia, adynamia, ague, angiohemophilia, ankylosis, anoxia, aplastic anemia, apnea, ariboflavinosis, ashiness, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atony, atrophy, backache, beriberi, blah feeling, bleeding, blennorhea, bloodlessness, cachexia, cachexy, cadaverousness, chill, chills, chloranemia, chlorosis, chronic leukemia, colic, constipation, convulsion, coughing, cowardice, cyanosis, cyclic neutropenia, deathly hue, deathly pallor, debilitation, debility, deficiency anemia, dermatitis, diarrhea, dimness, dizziness, dropsy, dullness, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, erythrocytosis, etiolation, exsanguination, fadedness, fainting, faintness, fairness, fatigue, feebleness, fever, fibrillation, flabbiness, flaccidity, flux, ghastliness, goiter, greensickness, growth, haggardness, hemoglobinopathy, hemophilia, hemophilia A, hemophilia B, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypochromia, hypochromic anemia, hypotension, icterus, impotence, indigestion, infectious granuloma, inflammation, insomnia, iron deficiency anemia, itching, jaundice, keratomalacia, kwashiorkor, labored breathing, languishment, languor, lassitude, leukemia, leukemic reticuloendotheliosis, lightness, listlessness, lividness, low blood pressure, lumbago, macrocytic anemia, maidism, malnutrition, marasmus, muddiness, multiple myeloma, myelogenous leukemia, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, neutropenia, night blindness, osteomalacia, osteoporosis, pain, paleness, pallidity, pallidness, pallor, paralysis, pastiness, pellagra, pernicious anemia, plasma cell leukemia, plasmacytoma, polycythemia, prison pallor, prostration, protein deficiency, pruritus, pseudoleukemia, purpura, purpura hemorrhagica, rachitis, rash, rheum, rickets, sallowness, sclerosis, scurvy, seizure, shock, sickle-cell anemia, sickliness, sickly hue, skin eruption, sluggishness, sneezing, softness, sore, spasm, strengthlessness, struma, tabes, tachycardia, thalassemia, tumor, upset stomach, vascular hemophilia, vertigo, vitamin deficiency, vomiting, wanness, wasting, weakliness, weakness, weariness, xerophthalmia

• anemic, achromatic, achromic, allergic, apoplectic, arthritic, ashen, ashy, asthenic, bilious, bled white, bloodless, cadaverous, cancerous, chicken, chloranemic, chlorotic, colicky, colorless, consumptive, cowardly, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, debilitated, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, drooping, droopy, dropsical, dull, dyspeptic, edematous, effete, encephalitic, epileptic, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, faintish, fallow, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, floppy, ghastly, gone, gray, gutless, haggard, hueless, hypochromic, imbecile, impotent, lackluster, languid, languorous, laryngitic, leaden, leprous, limber, limp, listless, livid, luetic, lurid, lusterless, lustless, malarial, malignant, marrowless, mat, mealy, measly, muddy, nephritic, nerveless, neuralgic, neuritic, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, palsied, paralytic, pasty, phthisic, pithless, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, pooped, powerless, rachitic, rheumatic, rickety, rubbery, sallow, sapless, scorbutic, scrofulous, sickly, sinewless, slack, soft, spineless, strengthless, tabetic, tabid, tallow-faced, toneless, tubercular, tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous, uncolored, unhardened, unnerved, unstrung, wan, washed-out, waterish, watery, waxen, weak, weakly, whey-faced, white

• anemology, Beaufort scale, aerography, aerology, anemometry, barometric wind rose, barometry, climatography, climatology, dynamic wind rose, forecasting, long-range forecasting, meteorology, microclimatology, nephology, pneumatics, rain wind rose, temperature wind rose, weatherology, wind arrow, wind direction, wind force, wind marker, wind rose

• anemometer, Mach meter, accelerometer, anemograph, anemometrograph, anemoscope, cock, ground log, harpoon log, log, log line, patent log, speedometer, tachometer, taffrail log, vane, weather vane, weathercock, wind cone, wind gauge, wind indicator, wind sock, wind vane, wind-speed indicator

• anesthesia, abatement, allayment, alleviation, analgesia, anesthetizing, anxiety equivalent, appeasement, assuagement, autism, callousness, catatonia, chill, chilliness, cold blood, cold heart, coldheartedness, coldness, coolness, deadening, deadness, deadpan, depraved appetite, diminishment, diminution, dispassion, dispassionateness, dulling, dullness, ease, easement, easing, electronarcosis, emotional deadness, emotionlessness, frigidity, frostiness, heartlessness, iciness, immovability, impassibility, impassiveness, impassivity, imperception, imperceptiveness, imperceptivity, impercipience, inconsiderateness, inexcitability, insensibility, insensibleness, insensitiveness, insensitivity, insentience, lack of affect, lack of feeling, lack of touch, lessening, lulling, mitigation, mollification, narcosis, narcotization, neurasthenia, numbing, numbness, objectivity, obtuseness, palliation, paresthesia, parorexia, passionlessness, pica, pins and needles, poker face, reduction, relief, remedy, salving, self-absorption, softening, soothing, soullessness, speech abnormality, spiritlessness, straight face, subduement, thick skin, unemotionalism, unexcitability, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unimpressibility, unimpressionableness, unpassionateness, unperceptiveness, unresponsiveness, unsusceptibility, unsympatheticness, untouchability, withdrawal

• anesthetic, Mickey Finn, Pentothal, alleviating, alleviative, analgesic, anodyne, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, cathartic, chloroform, cleansing, cocaine, deadening, demulcent, dope, drug, dull, dulling, easing, emollient, ether, ethyl chloride, ethylene, gas, hard, hypnotic, impassible, impenetrable, impermeable, impervious, insensate, insensitive, knockout drop, lenitive, lullaby, mandrake, menthol, mitigating, mitigative, morphia, morphine, narcotic, nightcap, nitrous oxide, numbing, obtuse, opiate, opium, pain-killer, pain-killing, palliative, poppy, purgative, relieving, remedial, rocky, sedative, sleep-bringer, sleep-inducer, sleep-producer, sleeping pill, softening, somnifacient, soothing, soporific, stunning, stupefying, subduing, tranquilizer

• anesthetize, KO, abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, bedaze, benumb, besot, blunt, chloroform, coldcock, cushion, deaden, deaden the pain, desensitize, diminish, dope, drug, dull, ease, ease matters, entrance, etherize, foment, freeze, give relief, hypnotize, kayo, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay, lay out, lessen, lull, lull to sleep, magnetize, mesmerize, mitigate, mollify, narcotize, numb, obtund, pad, palliate, palsy, paralyze, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, put to sleep, put under, reduce, relieve, rock to sleep, salve, sedate, slacken, slake, soften, soothe, stun, stupe, stupefy, subdue, trance

• anesthetized, affectless, arctic, asleep, autistic, benumbed, blunt, cataleptic, catatonic, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, comatose, cool, dead, deadened, dispassionate, doped, dozy, dreamy, drowsy, drugged, drugged with sleep, dull, emotionally dead, emotionless, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, half asleep, heartless, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, in a stupor, inexcitable, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, languid, lethargic, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotized, narcous, nodding, nonemotional, numbed, objective, obtuse, oscitant, out of it, out of touch, passionless, sedated, self-absorbed, senseless, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleepy, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somnolent, soporific, soulless, spiritless, stretchy, stuporose, stuporous, unaffectionate, unemotional, unfeeling, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, yawning, yawny

• anew, ab ovo, afresh, again, another time, as new, bis, da capo, de novo, ditto, encore, freshly, from scratch, from the beginning, lately, new, newly, of late, once again, once more, over, over again, recently, twice over, two times, yet again

• anfractuous, ambagious, circuitous, circumlocutory, cochlear, cochleate, convoluted, convolutional, corkscrew, corkscrewy, flexuose, flexuous, helical, helicoid, involute, involuted, involutional, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, meandrous, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, ruffled, screw-shaped, scrolled, serpentine, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, snaky, spiral, spiroid, torsional, tortile, tortuous, turbinal, turbinate, turning, twisting, twisty, verticillate, volute, voluted, whorled, winding, wreathlike, wreathy

• angel, Dionysus, Maecenas, Santa Claus, abettor, admirer, advocate, aficionado, almoner, almsgiver, ancestral spirits, angelology, angels, apologist, archangels, assignor, attendant godling, awarder, babe, baby, baby-doll, backer, bestower, buff, buttercup, champion, cheerful giver, cherub, cherubim, chick, chickabiddy, child, conferrer, consignor, contributor, control, daemon, darling, dear, deary, defender, demon, dependence, doll, dominations, dominions, donator, donor, dove, duck, duckling, encourager, endorser, exponent, fairy godmother, familiar, familiar spirit, fan, favorer, feoffor, financer, friend at court, funder, genius, genius domus, genius loci, giver, good angel, good genius, grantor, great soul, grubstaker, guarantor, guardian, guardian angel, guardian spirit, guide, guru, holy man, hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child, household gods, imparter, infant, innocent, invisible helper, lady bountiful, lamb, lambkin, lares and penates, lares compitales, lares familiaris, lares permarini, lares praestites, lares viales, love, lover, mahatma, mainstay, maintainer, manes, meal ticket, mere child, ministering angel, newborn babe, numen, paranymph, partisan, patron, patroness, penates, pet, petkins, philanthropist, powers, precious, precious heart, presenter, principalities, promoter, protagonist, reliance, rishi, saint, second, seconder, sectary, seraphim, settler, sider, snookums, special providence, sponsor, staker, stalwart, standby, starets, subscriber, sugar, sugar daddy, support, supporter, surety, sustainer, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, sympathizer, testate, testator, testatrix, thrones, totem, tutelar god, tutelary, upholder, virtues, votary, vouchsafer, well-wisher

• angelic, Christlike, Christly, God-fearing, admirable, adorable, archangelic, beatified, blameless, canonized, caressable, celestial, charming, cherubic, childlike, clear, cuddlesome, dovelike, faultless, glorified, godlike, godly, godly-minded, good, guiltless, heavenly, holy, holy-minded, honest, in glory, in the clear, incorrupt, innocent, just, kissable, lamblike, likable, lovable, lovely, lovesome, martyred, moral, not guilty, offenseless, otherworldly, prelapsarian, pristine, pure, pure in heart, purehearted, redeemed, reproachless, right-minded, righteous, sainted, saintlike, saintly, sans reproche, saved, seraphic, sinless, spiritual, spiritual-minded, straight, sweet, uncorrupted, undefiled, unearthly, unfallen, unlapsed, untouched by evil, unworldly, upright, virtuous, winning, winsome, with clean hands, without reproach

• Angelus, Angelus bell, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, aid prayer, alarm, alarum, appeal, battle cry, beadroll, beads, beseechment, bidding prayer, birdcall, breviary, bugle call, call, chaplet, collect, communion, contemplation, devotions, entreaty, grace, impetration, imploration, intercession, invocation, last post, litany, meditation, moose call, obsecration, obtestation, orison, petition, prayer, prayer wheel, rallying cry, rebel yell, reveille, rogation, rosary, silent prayer, suit, summons, supplication, taps, thanks, thanksgiving, trumpet call, war cry, whistle

• anger, a transient madness, acedia, affront, aggravate, angriness, annoy, annoyance, antagonism, ardency, ardor, arouse, asperity, avarice, avaritia, bad humor, bad temper, bile, biliousness, blow up, boil, boil over, bridle, bridle up, bristle, bristle up, burn, causticity, chafe, choler, corrosiveness, dander, deadly sin, discontent, displease, displeasure, dudgeon, dutch, eagerness, enrage, enragement, envy, exasperate, exasperation, excite, excitement, fervency, fervidity, fervidness, fervor, flare up, flip out, fret, fury, gall, get mad, get sore, gluttony, grapes of wrath, greed, gula, heat, hit the ceiling, huff, ill humor, ill nature, ill temper, incense, incite, indignation, inflame, infuriate, infuriation, invidia, ira, irateness, ire, irk, irritability, irritate, irritation, kindle, love, lust, luxuria, mad, madden, make angry, make mad, make sore, monkey, nettle, offend, outrage, pet, pique, pride, provoke, rage, rant, rave, reach boiling point, resentment, rile, saeva indignatio, see red, seethe, sexual desire, sloth, soreness, sourness, spleen, steam up, stew, storm, superbia, temper, tick off, umbrage, vex, vexation, vials of wrath, wrath, wrathfulness

• angina, ache, aching, angina pectoris, aortic insufficiency, aortic stenosis, apoplectic stroke, apoplexy, arrhythmia, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, atrial fibrillation, auricular fibrillation, backache, bellyache, beriberi heart, cardiac arrest, cardiac insufficiency, cardiac shock, cardiac stenosis, cardiac thrombosis, carditis, cephalalgia, colic, collywobbles, congenital heart disease, cor biloculare, cor juvenum, cor triatriatum, coronary, coronary insufficiency, coronary thrombosis, diastolic hypertension, earache, encased heart, endocarditis, extrasystole, fatty heart, fibroid heart, flask-shaped heart, fret, frosted heart, gnawing, gripe, gripes, gut-ache, hairy heart, headache, heart attack, heart block, heart condition, heart disease, heart failure, heartburn, hemicrania, high blood pressure, hypertension, hypertensive heart disease, ischemic heart disease, megrim, migraine, mitral insufficiency, mitral stenosis, myocardial infarction, myocardial insufficiency, myocarditis, myovascular insufficiency, odontalgia, otalgia, ox heart, palpitation, paralytic stroke, paroxysmal tachycardia, pericarditis, pile, premature beat, pseudoaortic insufficiency, pulmonary insufficiency, pulmonary stenosis, pyrosis, rheumatic heart disease, round heart, sclerosis, sick headache, splitting headache, stomachache, stony heart, stroke, tachycardia, throbbing pain, thrombosis, toothache, tricuspid insufficiency, tricuspid stenosis, turtle heart, varicose veins, varix, ventricular fibrillation

• angle for, address, ask for, beat about for, bid for, canvass, court, delve for, dig for, fish for, follow, go gunning for, gun for, hunt, hunt for, hunt up, look, look for, look up, pop the question, prowl after, pursue, quest, search for, see to, seek, seek for, solicit, still-hunt, sue, sue for, try to find, woo

• angle, Anschauung, L, action, aim, anagnorisis, angle for, angle of vision, angle off, apex, approach, architectonics, architecture, argument, aspect, atmosphere, background, bait the hook, base, basis, be after, bear off, bend, bias, bifurcate, bifurcation, bight, bob, bow, branch, brew, cabal, cant, catastrophe, characterization, chevron, clam, coign of vantage, coin, collude, color, complication, complot, concoct, configuration, connive, conspire, continuity, contrivance, contrive, cook up, corner, countermine, counterplot, crank, crook, crotchet, cusp, dap, deflect, deflection, denouement, design, detail, development, deviate, device, dib, dibble, direction, distance, divagate, diverge, dogleg, drive, edge, effect, eidolon, elbow, ell, engineer, episode, eye, fable, facet, falling action, fashion, feature, figure, finagle, finesse, fish, fish for, flection, flexure, fly-fish, footing, fork, form, frame, frame of reference, frame up, framework, furcate, furcation, gerrymander, gestalt, gig, gimmick, go fishing, grig, ground, guddle, guise, hand, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, hook, hunt for, image, imago, impression, incident, inflection, intersection, intrigue, item, jack, jacklight, jig, jockey, knee, lay a plot, light, likeness, line, lineaments, local color, look, look for, machinate, maneuver, manipulate, manner, mental outlook, mood, motif, movement, mythos, net, nook, oblique, oblique angle, operate, outlook, particular, peripeteia, perspective, phase, phasis, place, plan, play games, plot, point, point of view, position, post, projection, pull strings, quoin, recognition, reference, reference system, regard, respect, rig, right angle, rising action, salient angle, scheme, seat, secondary plot, seek, seeming, seine, semblance, shape, sheer, shrimp, side, sight, simulacrum, situation, skew, slant, slue, spin, stand, standing, standpoint, station, status, still-fish, story, structure, style, subject, subplot, sway, swerve, switch, system, thematic development, theme, tone, topic, torch, total effect, trawl, troll, try for, turn, turning, twist, universe, vantage, vantage point, veer, venue, vertex, view, viewpoint, wangle, whale, wise, zag, zig, zigzag

• Anglicism, Americanism, Briticism, Frenchism, Gallicism, Hibernicism, Irishism, Latinism, Scotticism, Yankeeism, chauvinism, flag waving, jingoism, love of country, nationalism, nationality, overpatriotism, patriotics, patriotism, ultranationalism

• angry, acid, acrimonious, aggravated, algetic, anarchic, angered, annoyed, blustering, blusterous, blustery, bothered, browned off, browned-off, bugged, burning, burnt-up, caustic, chafed, chaotic, choleric, cloudy, corrosive, cross, cyclonic, dirty, discontented, disturbed, enraged, exasperated, feeling evil, festering, fiery, foul, frantic, frenzied, fuming, furious, galled, griped, heated, hellish, in a temper, incensed, indignant, inflamed, infuriate, infuriated, insensate, irascible, irate, ireful, irked, irritable, irritated, livid, mad, maddened, miffed, mindless, nettled, orgasmic, orgastic, out of humor, out of sorts, out of temper, pandemoniac, peeved, perturbed, piqued, pissed, pissed off, pissed-off, provoked, put out, raging, rainy, rankling, ravening, raving, raw, red, red-faced, resentful, riled, riled up, riley, rip-roaring, roiled, ruffled, sensitive, shirty, smarting, sore, splenetic, storming, stormy, tempestuous, tender, ticked off, tingling, tornadic, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, typhonic, typhoonish, up in arms, uproarious, upset, uptight, vexed, waxy, wild, wild-eyed, worked up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought up, wrought-up

• angst, agitation, all-overs, anguish, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, boredom, cankerworm of care, care, cheerlessness, concern, concernment, discomfort, discomposure, discontent, dislike, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, dissatisfaction, distress, disturbance, dread, dullness, emptiness, ennui, existential woe, fear, flatness, foreboding, forebodingness, grimness, inquietude, joylessness, lack of pleasure, malaise, misgiving, nausea, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, overanxiety, painfulness, perturbation, pins and needles, pucker, savorlessness, solicitude, spleen, staleness, stew, strain, suspense, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, tension, trouble, uncomfortableness, unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, unpleasure, unquietness, unsatisfaction, upset, vexation, vexation of spirit, zeal

• anguish, ache, aching heart, afflict, affliction, aggrieve, agonize, agony, agony of mind, ail, angst, anxiety, atrocious pain, bale, barb the dart, bitterness, blanch, bleed, bleeding heart, blench, boredom, break down, bring to tears, broken heart, bruise, care, carking care, cheerlessness, crucifixion, crush, crushing, cut, cut up, depression, depth of misery, desolate, desolation, despair, discomfort, discomposure, discontent, dislike, displeasure, disquiet, dissatisfaction, distress, disturb, dole, draw tears, dread, dullness, embitter, emptiness, ennui, excruciation, existential woe, extremity, feel pain, feel the pangs, flatness, go hard with, grief, grieve, grimace, grimness, have a misery, heartache, heartbreak, heartfelt grief, heartgrief, heavy heart, hurt, hurt the feelings, infelicity, inquietude, inundate, joylessness, lack of pleasure, lamentation, languishment, malaise, martyrdom, martyrization, melancholia, melancholy, misery, nausea, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, oppress, overwhelm, pain, painfulness, pang, pierce, pining, pound, prick, prostrate, prostration, rack, regret, rue, sadness, savorlessness, shoot, shrink, smart, sorrow, sorrowing, spleen, stab, staleness, sting, suffer, suffer anguish, suffering, suicidal despair, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, thrill, throb, tingle, torment, torture, trouble, twinge, twist the knife, twitch, uncomfortableness, unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, upset, vexation of spirit, wince, woe, worry, wound, wretchedness, writhe

• anguished, aching, aggrieved, anxious, bleeding, bored, bruised, careworn, cheerless, cut, depressed, disgusted, doleful, dolorous, dumb with grief, grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, grim, hurt, in grief, injured, joyless, lamentable, lugubrious, mauled, mournful, nauseated, nauseous, pained, plaintive, plangent, pleasureless, plunged in grief, prey to malaise, repelled, revolted, rueful, sad, sickened, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, stung, suffering angst, tearful, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unquiet, unsatisfied, woeful, wounded

• angular, V-shaped, Y-shaped, akimbo, bent, bony, cornered, crooked, crotched, crude, forked, furcal, furcate, gaunt, geniculate, geniculated, hooked, jagged, knee-shaped, lank, lanky, pointed, raw, rawboned, rough, roughhewn, rude, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scraggy, scrawny, serrate, sharp, sharp-cornered, skinny, spare, undressed, unfashioned, unfinished, unpolished, unworked, weedy, zigzag

• anhydrous, Saharan, arid, athirst, bone-dry, desert, droughty, dry, dry as dust, dusty, high and dry, juiceless, like parchment, sandy, sapless, thirsting, thirsty, undamped, unwatered, waterless

• anility, advanced age, advanced years, age of retirement, an incurable disease, caducity, childishness, debility, decline, decline of life, declining years, decrepitude, dotage, dotardism, eld, elderliness, feebleness, green old age, hale old age, hoary age, infirm old age, infirmity, infirmity of age, longevity, old age, oldness, pensionable age, ricketiness, ripe old age, second childhood, senectitude, senile debility, senile dementia, senile psychosis, senile weakness, senilism, senility, senior citizenship, superannuation, the downward slope, the golden years, vale of years, white hairs

• anima, anima humana, animating force, animus, atman, ba, bathmism, beating heart, biological clock, biorhythm, blood, breath, breath of life, buddhi, coconscious, collective unconscious, conscience, conscious self, death instinct, divine breath, divine spark, ego, ego ideal, ego-id conflict, elan vital, essence of life, ethical self, force of life, foreconscious, growth force, heart, heartbeat, heartblood, id, impulse of life, inner man, inspiriting force, jiva, jivatma, khu, libidinal energy, libido, life breath, life cycle, life essence, life force, life principle, life process, lifeblood, living force, manes, mind, motive force, nephesh, persona, personality, pleasure principle, pneuma, prana, preconscious, primitive self, psyche, psychic apparatus, purusha, racial unconscious, ruach, seat of life, self, shade, shadow, soul, spark of life, spirit, spiritual being, spiritus, subconscious, subconscious mind, subliminal, subliminal self, submerged mind, superego, the self, unconscious, unconscious mind, vis vitae, vis vitalis, vital energy, vital flame, vital fluid, vital force, vital impulse, vital principle, vital spark, vital spirit

• animadversion, accusation, adverse criticism, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, censure, criticism, exception, faultfinding, flak, hairsplitting, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, insinuation, knock, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, obloquy, overcriticalness, pestering, pettifogging, priggishness, quibble, quibbling, rap, reflection, reprehension, reproachfulness, slam, slur, stricture, swipe, taking exception, trichoschistism

• animal kingdom, Animalia, and fish, animal life, animality, beasts, beasts of field, beasts of prey, big game, birds, blood, breed, brood, brute creation, cattle, chain of being, clan, class, class structure, deme, domain, domestic animals, establishment, family, fauna, folk, furry creatures, game, gens, hierarchy, house, kind, kingdom, line, lineage, livestock, matriclan, mineral kingdom, nation, natural hierarchy, order, patriclan, pecking order, people, phratry, phyle, plant kingdom, power structure, pyramid, race, realm, sept, small game, species, stem, stirps, stock, strain, totem, tribe, vegetable kingdom, wild animals, wildlife

• animal spirits, animate existence, animation, being alive, birth, capersomeness, coltishness, elan, esprit, existence, exuberance, friskiness, frolicsomeness, gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, gusto, having life, heartiness, immortality, life, lifetime, liveliness, living, long life, longevity, piss and vinegar, playfulness, rollicksomeness, rompishness, skittishness, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, spriteliness, verve, viability, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity, zest, zestfulness, zip

• animal worship, Druidism, Parsiism, Sabaism, Zoroastrianism, demonism, demonolatry, devil worship, fetishism, fire worship, heathenism, hero worship, iconoduly, iconolatry, idol worship, idolatrousness, idolatry, idolism, idolodulia, idolomancy, image worship, paganism, phallic worship, phallicism, pyrolatry, snake worship, star worship, sun worship, tree worship

• animal, Adamic, Angora goat, Arctic fox, Belgian hare, Caffre cat, Circean, Draconian, Goth, Gothic, Indian buffalo, Kodiak bear, Neanderthal, Tartarean, Virginia deer, aardvark, aardwolf, alpaca, ammonite, animalian, animalic, animalistic, ankylosaur, anteater, antelope, antelope chipmunk, anthropophagite, anthropophagous, aoudad, apar, aphrodisiomaniacal, archaeohippus, archaeotherium, archelon, armadillo, arthrodiran, ass, atrocious, aurochs, badger, bandicoot, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bassarisk, bat, bawdy, bear, beast, beastlike, beastly, beaver, being, bestial, bettong, binturong, bison, black bear, black buck, black cat, black fox, black sheep, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, blue fox, bobcat, bodily, bothriolepis, brachiosaur, brontops, brontothere, brown bear, brush deer, brush wolf, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutelike, brutish, buffalo, buffalo wolf, burro, burro deer, cachalot, camel, camelopard, cannibal, cannibalistic, capybara, carabao, caribou, carnal, carpincho, cat, cat-a-mountain, catamount, cattalo, cavy, chamois, cheetah, chevrotain, chinchilla, chipmunk, cinnamon bear, clitoromaniacal, coarse, coccostean, coelodont, compsognathus, concupiscent, coon, coon cat, coryphodon, cotton mouse, cotton rat, cotylosaur, cougar, cow, coyote, coypu, creature, creeping thing, creodont, critter, crossopterygian, crude, cruel, cruel-hearted, cur, cynodictis, deer, deer tiger, demoniac, demoniacal, destroyer, devilish, diabolic, diatryma, dimetrodon, dingo, dinichthyid, dinothere, diplodocus, dirty, dog, donkey, dormouse, dromedary, duck-billed dinosaur, dumb, dumb animal, dumb friend, earthy, echidna, edaphosaurid, eland, elasmosaur, elephant, elk, ermine, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, eryopsid, eurypterid, eyra, fallen, fallow deer, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, ferret, field mouse, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fisher, fitch, fleshly, flying phalanger, foumart, fox, fox squirrel, gazelle, gemsbok, genet, giant sloth, giraffe, glutton, glyptodont, gnu, gnu goat, goat, goat antelope, goatish, gopher, grizzly bear, gross, ground squirrel, groundhog, guanaco, guinea pig, gynecomaniacal, hadrosaur, hamster, hare, harnessed antelope, hartebeest, hedgehog, hellish, hippopotamus, hog, horny, horse, hot, hound, hyena, hyrax, hysteromaniacal, ibex, ill-bred, impolite, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, insect, instinctive, instinctual, ithyphallic, jackal, jackass, jackrabbit, jaguar, jaguarundi, jerboa, jerboa kangaroo, kaama, kangaroo, kangaroo mouse, kangaroo rat, karakul, kinkajou, kit fox, koala, lapin, lapsed, lascivious, lecherous, lemming, leopard, leopard cat, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lion, living being, living thing, llama, lubricious, lustful, lynx, mammal, mammoth, man-eater, mara, marmot, marten, mastodon, material, materialistic, meerkat, mindless, mink, mole, mongoose, mongrel, monster, moose, mouflon, mountain goat, mountain lion, mountain sheep, mouse, mule, mule deer, muntjac, murderous, musk deer, musk hog, musk-ox, muskrat, musquash, nihilist, nilgai, noncivilized, nonrational, nonspiritual, nutria, nymphomaniacal, obscene, ocelot, okapi, onager, oont, opossum, organism, orgiastic, otter, ounce, outlandish, ox, pack rat, painter, palaeodictyopteron, palaeoniscid, palaeophis, palaeosaur, palaeospondylus, panda, pangolin, panther, peccary, peludo, pelycosaur, phalanger, physical, phytosaur, pig, pine mouse, platypus, plesiosaur, pocket gopher, pocket mouse, pocket rat, polar bear, polar fox, polecat, porcupine, possum, postlapsarian, pouched rat, poyou, prairie dog, prairie wolf, priapic, primitive, pronghorn, protoceratops, protylopus, prurient, pteranodon, pteraspid, pterichthys, pterodactyl, pterosaur, puma, rabbit, raccoon, randy, rat, red deer, red squirrel, reindeer, reptile, rhinoceros, roe, roe deer, roebuck, rough-and-ready, rude, ruthless, sable, sadistic, salacious, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, satyric, sauropod, savage, scelidosaur, sensual, serpent, serval, sexual, sexy, shark, sharkish, sheep, shrew, shrew mole, sika, silver fox, skunk, slavering, sloth, smilodon, snake, snowshoe rabbit, springbok, squirrel, stoat, subhuman, suslik, swamp rabbit, swine, swinish, takin, tamandua, tamarin, tapir, tarpan, tatou, tatou peba, tatouay, tiger, tiger cat, timber wolf, titanosaur, trachodon, tree shrew, triceratops, trilobite, troglodyte, troglodytic, truculent, tyrannosaur, uintathere, unchristian, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unhuman, unkempt, unlicked, unpolished, unrefined, unspiritual, untamed, urus, vandal, varmint, vermin, vicious, viper, vole, wallaby, warthog, water buffalo, waterbuck, weasel, wharf rat, whelp, whistler, white fox, wild, wild ass, wild boar, wild goat, wild man, wild ox, wildcat, wildebeest, wolf, wolfish, wolverine, wombat, wood rat, woodchuck, woolly mammoth, worm, wrecker, yak, zebra, zebu, zoic, zooid, zooidal, zoologic, zoological, zoril

• animalism, Adam, Marxism, animality, atomism, beastliness, behaviorism, bestiality, brutality, brutishness, carnal nature, carnal-mindedness, carnality, coarseness, commonsense realism, dialectical materialism, earthiness, earthliness, empiricism, epiphenomenalism, fallen nature, fallen state, flesh, fleshliness, grossness, historical materialism, hylomorphism, hylotheism, hylozoism, lapsed state, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, licentiousness, lustfulness, materialism, mechanism, natural realism, naturalism, new realism, nonspirituality, physicalism, physicism, positive philosophy, positivism, postlapsarian state, pragmaticism, pragmatism, realism, representative realism, secularism, sensualism, sensuality, substantialism, swinishness, temporality, the Old Adam, the beast, the flesh, the offending Adam, unchastity, unspirituality, voluptuousness, worldliness

• animalistic, Adamic, Circean, animal, animalian, animalic, beastlike, beastly, bestial, bodily, brutal, brute, brutelike, brutish, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse, dumb, earthy, fallen, fleshly, gross, instinctive, instinctual, lapsed, material, materialistic, mindless, nonrational, nonspiritual, orgiastic, physical, postlapsarian, subhuman, swinish, unspiritual, zoic, zooidal, zoologic

• animality, Adam, Animalia, Gothicism, Neanderthalism, acuteness, and fish, animal kingdom, animal life, animalism, atrociousness, atrocity, barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness, bawdiness, beastliness, beasts, beasts of field, beasts of prey, bestiality, big game, birds, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brute creation, brutishness, cannibalism, carnal nature, carnal-mindedness, carnality, cattle, clitoromania, coarseness, concupiscence, cruelness, cruelty, destructiveness, dirtiness, domestic animals, earthiness, eroticism, eroticomania, erotomania, extremity, fallen nature, fallen state, fauna, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, flesh, fleshliness, force, furiousness, furor uterinus, furry creatures, game, goatishness, grossness, gynecomania, harshness, horniness, hysteromania, ill breeding, impetuosity, impoliteness, incivility, inclemency, inhumaneness, inhumanity, intensity, lapsed state, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, lewdness, libidinousness, lickerishness, livestock, lubriciousness, lubricity, lust, lustfulness, maleness, malignity, masculinity, materialism, mercilessness, mindlessness, murderousness, nonspirituality, nymphomania, obscenity, philistinism, pitilessness, postlapsarian state, prurience, pruriency, randiness, rigor, roughness, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, salaciousness, salacity, sanguineousness, satyriasis, satyrism, savagery, savagism, sensuality, severity, sexiness, sexuality, sharpness, small game, stock, swinishness, terrorism, the Old Adam, the beast, the flesh, the offending Adam, troglodytism, truculence, uncivilizedness, uncouthness, uncultivatedness, uncultivation, unculturedness, ungentleness, unrefinement, unspirituality, uteromania, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, violence, virility, virulence, wanton cruelty, wild animals, wildlife, wildness

• animate, aboveground, activate, activated, active, actuate, alert, alive, alive and kicking, among the living, animated, arouse, biological, biotic, boost, brace, brace up, breathe life into, breathing, brighten, bring into being, bring into existence, bring to life, brisk, brisken, buck up, buoy up, call into being, call into existence, cant, capable of life, cheer, chirk up, common gender, compel, conceive, conscious, drive, drive on, dynamic, dynamize, electrify, embolden, embue, encourage, endow with life, endowed with life, energize, energized, enliven, enlivened, exalt, excite, exhilarate, existent, feminine, fillip, fire, fire up, force, fortify, forward, foster, fresh up, freshen, freshen up, galvanize, gay, gender, give a lift, give an impetus, give birth, give life to, give momentum, gladden, goad, hearten, imbue, impel, in the flesh, inanimate, incite, infect, inflame, inform, infuse, infuse life into, inject, inoculate, inspire, inspirit, inspirited, instinct with life, invigorate, jazz up, keen, kindle, live, lively, liven, living, long-lived, masculine, motivate, move, move to action, moving, nerve, neuter, organic, organized, pep up, perk up, physiological, pick up, pique, power, promote, propel, provoke, put in motion, quick, quicken, reanimate, recreate, refresh, refreshen, regale, reinforce, reinvigorate, rejoice, rejoice the heart, renew, resuscitate, revitalize, revive, revivify, rouse, set agoing, set going, set in motion, set up, sharpen, snap up, spark, spirit, spirit up, spirited, sprightly, spur on, steel, stimulate, stir, strengthen, tenacious of life, thrust, very much alive, viable, vital, vitalize, vivacious, vivified, vivify, warm, whet, whip on, zip up, zoetic

• animated cartoon, 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, black-and-white film, caricature, cartoon, chiller, cinema, color film, comic book, comic strip, comics, creepie, documentary, documentary film, educational film, feature, film, flick, flicker, funnies, horror picture, horse opera, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, newsreel, nudie, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film, preview, short, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, talkie, talking picture, thriller, trailer, underground film

• animated, aboveground, activated, active, activist, activistic, actuated, acute, aggressive, alert, alive, alive and kicking, all agog, among the living, animate, antic, anxious, ardent, automated, avid, bouncing, bouncy, breathing, breathless, breezy, brisk, bubbly, bursting to, cant, capable of life, capersome, chipper, coltish, conscious, desirous, dynamic, eager, ebullient, effervescent, endowed with life, energetic, energized, enlivened, enterprising, enthusiastic, excited, exhilarated, existent, exuberant, fervent, forceful, forcible, forward, frisky, frolicsome, full of beans, full of go, full of life, full of pep, gamesome, gay, go-go, hearty, high-spirited, impassioned, impatient, impelled, impetuous, in the flesh, incisive, inclined, inner-directed, inspirited, instinct with life, intense, invigorated, keen, kinetic, lifelike, live, lively, living, long-lived, lusty, mechanical, mercurial, mettlesome, militant, minded, motivated, moved, moving, other-directed, panting, passionate, peppy, perky, pert, playful, prompt, prompted, quick, quicksilver, raring to, ready, ready and willing, reanimated, recharged, recreated, refreshed, renewed, revived, robust, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, skittish, smacking, snappy, spanking, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, stimulated, strenuous, strong, take-charge, take-over, tenacious of life, trenchant, very much alive, viable, vibrant, vigorous, vital, vivacious, vivid, vivified, zestful, zesty, zingy, zippy, zoetic

• animation, activity, actuation, afflatus, aggravation, agitation, alacrity, animal spirits, animate existence, animating spirit, animus, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, ardency, ardor, arousal, arousing, avidity, avidness, being alive, birth, breathless impatience, breeziness, brio, briskness, bubbliness, capersomeness, cheerful readiness, coltishness, dash, direction, divine afflatus, dynamism, eagerness, ebullience, effervescence, elan, electrification, energizing, energy, enlivening, enlivenment, enthusiasm, esprit, exacerbation, exasperation, excitation, excitement, exhilaration, existence, exuberance, fervor, fire, firing, fomentation, forwardness, friskiness, frolicsomeness, gaiety, galvanization, gamesomeness, gayness, genius, glow, gust, gusto, having life, heartiness, immortality, impatience, impetuosity, impetus, incitement, infection, inflammation, influence, infuriation, infusion, inner-direction, inspiration, intensity, invigoration, irritation, joie de vivre, keen desire, keenness, lathering up, life, lifetime, liveliness, living, long life, longevity, lustiness, mettle, motivation, moving, moving spirit, moxie, oomph, other-direction, pep, peppiness, perkiness, pertness, perturbation, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, playfulness, prompting, promptness, provocation, quickening, quickness, readiness, revitalization, revival, robustness, rollicksomeness, rompishness, skittishness, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, spriteliness, steaming up, stimulation, stimulus, stirring, stirring up, verve, viability, vigor, vim, vitality, vitalization, vivaciousness, vivacity, vivification, warmth, whipping up, working up, zest, zestfulness, zing, zip

• animism, Berkeleianism, Hegelianism, Kantianism, Neoplatonism, Platonic form, Platonic idea, Platonism, absolute idealism, allotheism, animatism, form, heathendom, heathenism, heathenry, hylozoism, idealism, idolatry, immaterialism, metaphysical idealism, monistic idealism, pagandom, paganism, paganry, panpsychism, personalism, psychism, solipsism, spiritualism, subjectivism, transcendental, universal

• animosity, acerbity, acid, acidity, acidulousness, acrimony, animus, antagonism, antipathy, asperity, bad blood, bad feeling, bile, bitter feeling, bitter resentment, bitterness, bitterness of spirit, causticity, choler, contempt, detestation, disaffinity, enmity, feud, gall, gnashing of teeth, hard feelings, hardheartedness, hatred, heartburning, hostility, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, immediate dislike, loathing, malevolence, malice, personality conflict, rancor, rankling, resentment, slow burn, soreness, sourness, spleen, vendetta, venom, virulence, vitriol

• animus, acrimony, afflatus, aim, ambition, anima, animating spirit, animation, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, appetence, appetency, appetite, aptitude, aspiration, bad blood, bent, bias, bitter feeling, bitterness, cast, character, choice, command, conation, conatus, constitution, counsel, decision, desideration, desideratum, design, desire, determination, diathesis, discretion, discrimination, disposition, divine afflatus, eccentricity, effect, elan vital, enlivenment, exhilaration, fancy, feud, fire, firing, fixed purpose, free choice, free will, function, genius, grain, grudge, hard feelings, hostility, idea, idiosyncrasy, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, inclination, individualism, infection, infusion, inspiration, intendment, intent, intention, kidney, leaning, liking, lust, make, makeup, meaning, mental set, mettle, mind, mind-set, mold, motive, moving spirit, nature, nisus, objective, passion, plan, pleasure, pneuma, point, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, proclivity, project, propensity, proposal, prospectus, psyche, purpose, rancor, resolution, resolve, sake, set, sexual desire, slant, soreness, sourness, spirit, stamp, strain, streak, stripe, striving, study, temper, temperament, tendency, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, velleity, vendetta, venom, view, virulence, vital force, vitriol, volition, warp, will, will power, wish

• anion, acid, acidity, agent, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, antacid, atom, base, biochemical, cation, chemical, chemical element, chromoisomer, compound, copolymer, dimer, electrocoating, electroetching, electrogalvanization, electrogilding, electrograving, electrolysis, electrolyte, electroplating, element, galvanization, heavy chemicals, high polymer, homopolymer, hydracid, inorganic chemical, ion, ionization, ionogen, isomer, macromolecule, metamer, molecule, monomer, neutralizer, nonacid, nonelectrolyte, organic chemical, oxyacid, polymer, pseudoisomer, radical, reagent, sulfacid, trimer

• ankh, Calvary cross, Christogram, Greek cross, Jerusalem cross, Latin cross, Maltese cross, Russian cross, T, X, avellan cross, chi, chi-rho, christcross, crisscross, cross, cross ancre, cross botonee, cross bourdonee, cross fitche, cross fleury, cross formee, cross fourchee, cross grignolee, cross moline, cross of Cleves, cross of Lorraine, cross patee, cross recercelee, cross-crosslet, crossbones, crosslet, crucifix, cruciform, crux, crux ansata, crux capitata, crux decussata, crux gammata, crux immissa, crux ordinaria, dagger, ex, exing, fork cross, gammadion, inverted cross, long cross, papal cross, pectoral cross, potent cross, rood, saltire, swastika, tau, trefled cross, voided cross

• ankle deep, cursory, deep, deep-cut, deep-down, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-laid, deep-lying, deep-reaching, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, deep-sinking, deep-sunk, deep-sunken, deepish, deepsome, depthless, epidermal, jejune, knee-deep, light, not deep, on the surface, profound, shallow, shallow-rooted, shoal, skin-deep, slight, superficial, surface, thin, trivial, unprofound

• ankle, articulation, bayonet legs, boundary, bowlegs, butt, calf, cervix, clinch, closure, cnemis, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, coupling, dovetail, drumstick, elbow, embrace, foreleg, gamb, gambrel, gigot, gliding joint, ham, hind leg, hinge, hinged joint, hip, hock, interface, jamb, join, joining, joint, juncture, knee, knuckle, leg, limb, link, miter, mortise, neck, pivot, pivot joint, podite, popliteal space, rabbet, scarf, scissor-legs, seam, shank, shin, shoulder, stems, stitch, stumps, suture, symphysis, tarsus, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, trotters, union, weld, wrist

• annalist, Boswell, advertising writer, art critic, author, authoress, autobiographer, autobiographist, belletrist, bibliographer, biographer, calendar maker, calendarist, chronicler, chronographer, chronologer, chronologist, clockmaker, coauthor, collaborator, columnist, compiler, composer, copywriter, creative writer, critic, dance critic, diarist, drama critic, dramatist, encyclopedist, essayist, free lance, free-lance writer, genealogist, ghost, ghostwriter, historian, historiographer, horologist, humorist, inditer, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, magazine writer, man of letters, memorialist, monographer, music critic, newspaperman, novelettist, novelist, pamphleteer, penwoman, poet, prose writer, reviewer, scenario writer, scenarist, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer, storyteller, technical writer, timekeeper, timer, watchmaker, word painter, wordsmith, writer

• annals, Clio, Muse of history, account, adventures, autobiography, biographical sketch, biography, case history, catalog, check sheet, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, clock card, confessions, correspondence, curriculum vitae, date slip, datebook, daybook, diary, documentation, experiences, fortunes, hagiography, hagiology, historiography, history, inventory, journal, legend, letters, life, life and letters, life story, list, log, martyrology, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, necrology, obituary, photobiography, pipe roll, profile, record, recording, register, registry, relic, remains, resume, roll, rolls, roster, rota, scroll, story, table, theory of history, time book, time chart, time scale, time schedule, time sheet, time study, timecard, timetable, token, trace, vestige

• annex, L, abstract, accession, accessory, accompaniment, accroach, acquire, add, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additive, additory, additum, adjoin, adjunct, adjuvant, affix, agglutinate, anchor, and, annexation, appanage, append, appendage, appendant, appropriate, appurtenance, appurtenant, arm, arrogate, associate, attach, attachment, augment, augmentation, bag, belay, block, boost, borrow, burden, cabbage, cement, cinch, clamp, clinch, coda, collar, collectivize, commandeer, communalize, communize, complement, complicate, concomitant, confiscate, conjoin, connect, continuation, cop, corollary, cramp, crib, decorate, defraud, distrain, ell, embezzle, encumber, engraft, expropriate, extension, extort, extrapolation, fasten, filch, fix, fixture, gain, garnish, get at, get hold of, glom on to, glue on, grab, graft, grapple, have, hitch on, hook, impound, impress, increase, increment, infix, join, join with, knit, land, lay hands on, levy, lift, link, make fast, make off with, moor, nationalize, nip, obtain, offshoot, ornament, palm, paste on, pendant, pick up, pilfer, pinch, plus, poach, postfix, preempt, prefix, press, procure, purloin, put to, put with, reinforcement, replevin, replevy, run away with, rustle, saddle with, screw up, scrounge, secure, seize, sequester, sequestrate, set, set to, shoplift, side effect, side issue, slap on, snare, snatch, snitch, socialize, steal, subjoin, suffix, superadd, superpose, supplement, swindle, swipe, tack on, tag, tag on, tailpiece, take, take on, take over, take possession, take up, thieve, tighten, trice up, trim, undergirding, unite, unite with, walk off with, wing

• annexation, abstraction, accession, accessory, accompaniment, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additive, additory, additum, adhesive, adjunct, adjunction, adjuvant, affixation, agglutination, angary, annex, annexure, appanage, appendage, appendant, appropriation, appurtenance, appurtenant, attachment, augment, augmentation, binding, bond, boosting, clasping, coda, collectivization, commandeering, communalization, communization, complement, concomitant, confiscation, continuation, conversion, conveyance, corollary, distraint, distress, embezzlement, eminent domain, execution, expropriation, extension, extrapolation, fastener, fastening, filching, fixture, fraud, garnishment, girding, graft, hooking, impoundment, impressment, increase, increment, joining, junction, juxtaposition, knot, lashing, levy, liberation, lifting, ligation, nationalization, offshoot, pendant, pilferage, pilfering, pinching, poaching, prefixation, reinforcement, right of angary, scrounging, sequestration, shoplifting, side effect, side issue, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, socialization, splice, stealage, stealing, sticking, suffixation, superaddition, superfetation, superjunction, superposition, supplement, supplementation, swindle, swiping, tailpiece, theft, thievery, thieving, tieing, undergirding, uniting, zipping

• annihilate, abate, abolish, abrogate, abscind, amputate, annul, ban, bar, bereave of life, blot out, bob, bring to naught, cancel, carry away, carry off, chloroform, clip, crop, cull, cut, cut away, cut down, cut off, cut out, decimate, demolish, deprive of life, deracinate, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do away with, do for, do to death, dock, efface, eliminate, end, enucleate, eradicate, erase, except, excise, exclude, execute, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, finish, finish off, immolate, invalidate, isolate, kill, knock off, launch into eternity, liquidate, lop, lynch, make away with, martyr, martyrize, massacre, murder, mutilate, negate, negative, nip, nullify, obliterate, pare, peel, pick out, poison, prune, purge, put away, put down, put to death, put to sleep, quash, quell, quench, raze, remove, remove from life, repeal, revoke, root out, root up, rout, ruin, rule out, sacrifice, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, slay, squash, stamp out, starve, strike off, strip, strip off, suppress, sweep away, take life, take off, take out, truncate, unbuild, undo, uproot, vitiate, void, wipe out, wrack, wreck

• annihilation, abolishment, abolition, abscission, amputation, annulment, bane, biological death, cessation of life, choking, choking off, clinical death, crossing the bar, curtains, death, death knell, debt of nature, decease, demise, departure, deracination, destruction, dissolution, doom, dying, ebb of life, elimination, end, end of life, ending, eradication, eternal rest, excision, exclusion, exit, expiration, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, final summons, finger of death, going, going off, grave, hand of death, jaws of death, knell, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leaving life, liquidation, loss of life, making an end, mutilation, negation, nullification, parting, passing, passing away, passing over, perishing, purge, quietus, release, rescission, rest, reward, rooting out, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, silencing, sleep, snuffing out, somatic death, stifling, strangulation, suffocation, summons of death, suppression, uprooting, voiding

• anniversary, 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

• annotation, adversaria, aide-memoire, apparatus criticus, comment, commentary, commentation, docket, entry, exegesis, footnote, gloss, item, jotting, marginal note, marginalia, memo, memoir, memorandum, memorial, minutes, notation, note, note of explanation, register, registry, reminder, scholia, scholium, word of explanation

• announce, advertise, affirm, allege, annunciate, antecede, antedate, anticipate, argue, assert, assever, asseverate, attest, augur, aver, avouch, avow, be before, be early, bespeak, betoken, blazon, break the news, bring word, broadcast, bruit about, circulate, come before, communicate, confirm, contend, declare, declare roundly, disclose, divulge, enunciate, express, forebode, forecast, forerun, foreshow, foretell, give a report, give notice, give tidings of, harbinger, have, herald, hint at, hold, impart, inform, insist, intimate, issue a manifesto, issue a statement, lay down, maintain, make a statement, make an announcement, make known, make public, manifesto, notify, portend, preannounce, precede, precurse, predate, predicate, predict, preexist, preindicate, presage, present, proclaim, profess, promulgate, pronounce, propound, protest, publicize, publish, publish a manifesto, put, put forth, put it, put out, rehearse, relate, report, reveal, rumor, run before, say, set down, set forth, show forth, signal, sound, speak, speak out, speak up, stand for, stand on, state, submit, suggest, tell, testify, usher in, witness, write up

• announcement, account, acquaintance, ad, advert, advertisement, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, annunciation, assertion, asseveration, averment, avouchment, avowal, blue book, briefing, broadcast, bulletin, bulletin board, circular, commercial, communication, communique, conclusion, conveyance, creed, data, datum, declaration, dictum, directory, disclosure, dispatch, edict, encyclical, enlightenment, enunciation, evidence, facts, factual information, familiarization, gen, general information, giving, guidebook, handout, hard information, impartation, imparting, impartment, incidental information, info, information, instruction, intelligence, ipse dixit, knowledge, light, manifesto, mention, message, notice, notification, position, position paper, positive declaration, predicate, predication, presentation, proclamation, profession, program, programma, promotional material, promulgation, pronouncement, pronunciamento, proof, proposition, protest, protestation, public notice, publication, publicity, release, report, say, say-so, saying, sharing, sidelight, spot, stance, stand, statement, telling, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, ukase, utterance, vouch, white book, white paper, word

• announcer, AFTRA, DJ, MC, adviser, ancestor, anchor, anchor man, anchorman, annunciator, antecedent, authority, avant-garde, bellman, bellwether, broadcaster, buccinator, buccinator novi temporis, bushwhacker, channel, commentator, communicant, communicator, crier, disk jockey, emcee, enlightener, enunciator, expert witness, explorer, forebear, foregoer, forerunner, foreshadower, front runner, frontiersman, fugleman, gossipmonger, grapevine, groundbreaker, guide, harbinger, herald, informant, information center, information medium, informer, innovator, interviewee, lead runner, leader, master of ceremonies, messenger, monitor, mouthpiece, news commentator, newscaster, newsmonger, notifier, nunciate, pathfinder, pioneer, point, precedent, precursor, predecessor, premonitor, presager, presenter, press, proclaimer, program director, programmer, public relations officer, publisher, radio, radiobroadcaster, reporter, scout, sound-effects man, source, spokesman, sportscaster, stormy petrel, television, teller, tipster, tout, town crier, trailblazer, trailbreaker, vanguard, vaunt-courier, voortrekker, weatherman, witness

• annoy, abrade, agent provocateur, aggravate, agitate, amplify, arouse, augment, awake, awaken, badger, bait, be at, bedevil, beleaguer, beset, blow the coals, blow up, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, build up, bullyrag, burn up, call forth, call up, chafe, chivy, deepen, deteriorate, devil, discompose, distemper, distress, disturb, dog, embitter, enhance, enkindle, enlarge, enrage, exacerbate, exasperate, excite, exercise, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, fash, feed the fire, fire, flame, foment, frenzy, fret, gall, get, get at, gnaw, gripe, harass, harry, hassle, heat, heat up, heckle, hector, heighten, hot up, hound, huff, impassion, incense, incite, increase, inflame, infuriate, intensify, irk, irritate, key up, kindle, lather up, light the fuse, light up, madden, magnify, make acute, make worse, miff, molest, move, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, overexcite, peeve, persecute, perturb, pester, pick on, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, provoke, rankle, ride, rile, roil, rouse, rub, ruffle, set astir, set fire to, set on fire, set up, sharpen, sour, steam up, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, summon up, tease, torment, trouble, try the patience, turn on, tweak the nose, upset, vex, wake, wake up, waken, warm, warm the blood, whip up, work into, work up, worry, worsen

• annoyance, ado, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, amplification, anger, annoyingness, anxiety, augmentation, aversion, bad news, bedevilment, besetment, blight, bore, bother, botheration, bothering, bothersomeness, bummer, can of worms, care, contentiousness, crashing bore, cross, curse, deepening, deliberate aggravation, deterioration, devilment, difficulties, difficulty, disadvantage, disapprobation, disapproval, discontent, disgust, dislike, displeasure, dissatisfaction, distaste, distress, dogging, downer, drag, embittering, embitterment, enhancement, enlargement, evil, exacerbation, exasperation, great ado, harassment, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardship, harrying, headache, heightening, hounding, inconvenience, increase, indignation, intensification, ire, irking, irksomeness, irritant, irritation, magnification, matter, molestation, nuisance, pain, peck of troubles, persecution, peskiness, pest, pester, pestering, pestiferousness, pique, plague, plaguesomeness, plight, pother, predicament, pressure, problem, provocation, provoking, provokingness, repugnance, repulsion, resentfulness, resentment, revulsion, riding, rigor, sea of troubles, sharpening, souring, stress, stress of life, teasing, tiresomeness, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, troublesomeness, vale of tears, vexation, vexatiousness, vexing, vicissitude, wearisomeness, worriment, worrisomeness, worry, worsening, wrath

• annoyed, aggravated, amplified, angry, anxious, augmented, beset, bothered, browned-off, bugged, burnt-up, chafed, deliberately provoked, distressed, disturbed, embarrassed, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated, exasperated, galled, griped, harassed, heated up, heightened, hotted up, huffy, inconvenienced, increased, intensified, irked, irritated, magnified, miffed, nettled, peeved, perturbed, piqued, plagued, provoked, put to it, put-out, puzzled, resentful, riled, roiled, ruffled, sore beset, soured, troubled, vexed, worried, worse, worsened