Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/28

• estop, anticipate, avert, bar, debar, deflect, deter, discourage, dishearten, exclude, fend, fend off, forbid, foreclose, forestall, help, keep from, keep off, obviate, preclude, prevent, prohibit, repel, rule out, save, stave off, turn aside, ward off

• estrange, abrupt, aggravate, alien, alienate, antagonize, break up, cast off, cast out, come between, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, delete, depart, disaffect, disarticulate, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, dissociate, disunify, disunite, divide, divorce, eject, embitter, envenom, exacerbate, expel, fan the flame, heat up, infuriate, irritate, isolate, leave, light the fuse, madden, make trouble, part, pit against, provoke, pull away, pull back, pull out, segregate, separate, sequester, set against, set apart, set aside, set at odds, set at variance, set on, sever, shut off, sic on, sow dissension, split, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, step aside, stir up trouble, subtract, sunder, throw off, throw out, uncouple, unyoke, wean, withdraw

• estranged, alienated, detached, disaffected, disarticulated, disassociated, disconnected, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, dispersed, dissociated, disunited, divided, divorced, irreconcilable, isolated, removed, scattered, segregated, separated, sequestered, shut off, torn, withdrawn

• estuarine, alluvial, aquatic, balneal, bayed, deep-sea, embayed, fluviomarine, grallatorial, gulfed, gulflike, gulfy, littoral, natant, natatorial, natatory, seashore, shore, swimming, tidal, tidewater, water-dwelling, water-growing, water-living, water-loving

• estuary, arm, armlet, avenue, bay, bayou, belt, bight, blowhole, boca, channel, chute, cove, creek, debouch, door, egress, emunctory, escape, euripus, exhaust, exit, fjord, floodgate, flume, frith, gulf, gut, harbor, inlet, kyle, loch, loophole, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, pore, port, reach, road, roads, roadstead, sally port, sluice, sound, spiracle, spout, strait, straits, tap, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, way out, weir

• et cetera, and all, and all that, and everything else, and other things, and others, and so forth, and so on, and suchlike, and the following, and the like, and the rest, and then some, and what not, et alii, et seq, et sequens, in the majority, und so weiter

• etch, bed, bite, bring home to, carve, confirm, corrode, cut, deep-dye, define, delineate, depict, describe, eat, eat into, eat out, embed, engraft, engrave, engrave on, entrench, establish, fix, found, grave, ground, impact, implant, impress, impress upon, imprint, incise, inculcate, infix, ingrain, inscribe, instill, jam, lodge, make it felt, outline, pack, picture, plant, portray, print, represent, root, score, scratch, seat, set, set forth, set in, settle, stamp, stamp on, stereotype, wedge

• etched, confirmed, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, engrafted, engraved, entrenched, established, firmly established, graven, implanted, impressed, imprinted, indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, inveterate, inwrought, long-established, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, rooted, set, settled, stabilized, vested, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled

• etching, abstract art, aquatint, art, art form, artist, arts and crafts, arts of design, autolithograph, block, block print, burr, calligraphy, cave art, ceramics, cerography, chalcography, chiseling, chromolithograph, color print, copperplate, copperplate print, crayon engraving, cribbling, cross-hatching, cut, decoration, demitint, design, designing, drypoint, engravement, engraving, etch, fine arts, folk art, gem-engraving, glass-cutting, glyptic, graphic arts, graphotype, graving, half tint, hatching, impress, impression, imprint, incision, inscript, inscription, intaglio, line, lining, linoleum-block print, lithograph, marking, metal cut, mezzotint, negative, photoengraving, photography, plastic art, plate engraving, primitive art, print, pyrogravure, relief method, rubber-block print, score, scoring, scratch, scratching, sculpture, slash, slashing, steel engraving, stipple, stippling, the arts, tint, tooling, type-cutting, vignette, wood engraving, woodblock, woodburning, woodcut, woodprint, xylograph, zincography

• eternal, ageless, all-comprehensive, all-inclusive, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, boundless, ceaseless, changeless, coeternal, constant, continual, continuous, countless, creating, creative, dateless, deathless, endless, enduring, eternally the same, eterne, ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, everlasting, everliving, exhaustless, extending everywhere, fixed, glorious, good, hallowed, highest, holy, illimitable, illimited, immeasurable, immemorial, immense, immortal, immutable, incalculable, incessant, incomprehensible, indestructible, inexhaustible, infinite, infinitely continuous, innumerable, interminable, interminate, invariable, just, lasting, limitless, loving, luminous, majestic, making, measureless, merciful, never-ceasing, never-ending, no end of, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, numinous, olamic, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, perdurable, permanent, perpetual, persistent, radiant, recurrent, relentless, sacred, sempiternal, shaping, shoreless, sovereign, steady, sumless, supreme, termless, timeless, ubiquitous, unalterable, unbounded, unceasing, unchanged, unchanging, uncircumscribed, undefined, undiminished, undying, unending, unfaltering, unfathomable, unintermitting, uninterrupted, universal, unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unnumbered, unplumbed, unremitting, untold, unvarying, unwavering, without bound, without end, without limit, without measure, without number

• eternally, ad infinitum, always, boundlessly, ceaselessly, constantly, continually, endlessly, ever, everlastingly, evermore, forever, forevermore, illimitably, immeasurably, immensely, in perpetuity, incalculably, incessantly, incomprehensibly, indestructibly, infinitely, innumerably, interminably, limitlessly, measurelessly, never-endingly, perdurably, perennially, permanently, perpetually, steadily, time without end, to infinity, unceasingly, unendingly, without end, without limit, world without end

• eternity, Beulah, Beulah Land, Heaven, Land of Beulah, Paradise, a better place, aeon, afterlife, age, ages, all-comprehensiveness, all-inclusiveness, an eternity, better world, blue moon, boundlessness, ceaselessness, century, coeternity, constancy, continualness, continuance, countlessness, datelessness, durability, endless time, endlessness, eternal home, eternalness, ever-duringness, everlasting moment, everlastingness, everness, exhaustlessness, forever, foreverness, glory, happy hunting ground, heaven above, heavenly kingdom, high heaven, holiness, illimitability, immeasurability, immensity, immortality, immutability, incalculability, incessancy, incomprehensibility, indestructibility, inexhaustibility, infinite duration, infinite goodness, infinite justice, infinite love, infinite mercy, infinite power, infinite wisdom, infiniteness, infinitude, infinity, innumerability, interminability, kingdom come, kingdom of God, kingdom of glory, kingdom of heaven, light, limitlessness, long, long time, long while, majesty, measurelessness, month of Sundays, never-endingness, neverness, no time, numberlessness, omnipotence, omnipotency, omnipresence, omniscience, omnisciency, otherworld, perdurability, perenniality, perennialness, permanence, perpetualness, perpetuity, presence of God, realm of light, right smart spell, sempiternity, sovereignty, stability, termlessness, the Promised Land, the happy land, the world above, time without end, timelessness, ubiquity, unceasingness, unity, universality, unmeasurability, world without end, years, years on end

• ethane, alcohol, benzine, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon, charcoal, coal, coke, combustible, dope, ethanol, fireball, firing, flammable, flammable material, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, heptane, hexane, inflammable, inflammable material, isooctane, jet fuel, kerosene, methane, methanol, natural gas, octane, oil, paraffin, peat, pentane, rocket fuel, turf

• ether, Caelus, Dry Ice, Freon, Olympian heights, Pentothal, acme, aerial heights, air, airy nothing, ammonia, apex, azure, blue sky, bubble, caelum, canopy, canopy of heaven, carbon dioxide, cerulean, chaff, chip, chloroform, cobweb, cocaine, coolant, cope, cork, dizzy heights, down, dust, elevation, eminence, empyrean, ethyl chloride, ethylene, fairy, feather, firmament, flue, fluff, foam, freezing mixture, froth, fuzz, gas, gossamer, heaven, heavens, height, heights, hyaline, ice, ice cubes, illusion, lift, lifts, liquid air, liquid helium, liquid oxygen, menthol, mist, mote, nitrous oxide, ozone, phantom, raise, refrigerant, rise, rising ground, shadow, sky, smoke, spirit, sponge, spume, starry heaven, steep, stratosphere, straw, the blue, the blue serene, thin air, thistledown, uprise, vantage ground, vantage point, vapor, vault, vault of heaven, welkin, zenith

• ethereal, Elysian, Olympian, adulterated, aerial, aeriform, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, air-built, airish, airlike, airy, alfresco, altitudinous, ascending, asomatous, aspiring, astral, atmospheric, attenuate, attenuated, beatific, beatified, blessed, bodiless, boyish, breezy, bubbly, celestial, chimeric, chimerical, cloud-born, cloud-built, cloud-woven, colossal, cut, decarnate, decarnated, delicate, diaphanous, dilute, diluted, discarnate, disembodied, dominating, downy, dreamlike, ectoplasmic, elevated, eminent, empyreal, empyrean, etheric, exalted, exposed, extramundane, extraterrestrial, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, feathery, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, fluffy, foamy, fragile, frail, from on high, frothy, fuming, fumy, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, gauzy, ghostish, ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, girlish, glorified, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, haughty, heavenly, high, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, illusory, imaginary, immaterial, impalpable, imponderable, imponderous, in glory, incorporate, incorporeal, insubstantial, intangible, lacy, leger, light, light as air, lighter than vanity, lofty, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, misty, monumental, mounting, mousse, nonmaterial, nonphysical, occult, open-air, otherworldly, outtopping, overlooking, overtopping, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, papery, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisiac, paradisic, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, phantomic, phantomlike, pneumatic, prominent, psychic, rare, rarefied, reeking, reeky, roomy, shadowy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, smoking, smoky, soaring, souffle, specterlike, spectral, spiring, spiritual, spirituous, steaming, steamy, steep, sublime, subtile, subtle, superlative, supernal, supernatural, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike, topless, toplofty, topping, towering, towery, transcendental, transmundane, tropospheric, uncompact, uncompressed, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unheavy, unphysical, unreal, unsubstantial, unworldly, uplifted, upreared, vague, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vaporous, vapory, volatile, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, weightless, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy, wraithlike, wraithy, yeasty

• etherealize, adulterate, attenuate, cut, dematerialize, dilute, disembody, disincarnate, enervate, expand, idealize, immaterialize, rarefy, sap, spiritize, spiritualize, subtilize, thin, thin out, unsubstantialize, water, water down, weaken

• etherize, KO, aerate, aerify, anesthetize, atomize, bedaze, benumb, besot, blunt, carbonate, chlorinate, chloroform, coldcock, deaden, desensitize, distill, dope, drug, dull, emit, etherify, evaporate, exhale, fluidize, fractionate, freeze, fume, fumigate, gasify, give off, hydrogenate, kayo, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay out, narcotize, numb, obtund, oxygenate, palsy, paralyze, perfume, put to sleep, reek, send out, smoke, spray, steam, stun, stupefy, sublimate, sublime, vaporize, volatilize

• ethical, Christian, axiological, blameless, clean, conscientious, correct, creditable, decent, deferential, duteous, dutiful, elevated, erect, estimable, ethological, fair, full of integrity, good, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, honest, honorable, immaculate, inviolate, irreproachable, just, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, manly, moral, moralistic, noble, obedient, observant, open, principled, proper, pure, reputable, respectable, respectful, right, right-minded, righteous, scrupulous, spotless, stainless, sterling, straightforward, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, unblemished, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, unimpeachable, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, virtuous, worthy, yeomanly

• ethics, aesthetics, allegiance, assigned task, axiology, bounden duty, burden, business, call of duty, casuistry, charge, commitment, cosmology, dedication, deference, devoir, devotion, duties and responsibilities, duty, epistemology, fealty, first philosophy, gnosiology, homage, imperative, line of duty, logic, loyalty, mental philosophy, metaphysics, mission, moral philosophy, must, obligation, ontology, onus, ought, phenomenology, philosophastry, philosophic doctrine, philosophic system, philosophic theory, philosophical inquiry, philosophical speculation, philosophy, place, respect, school of philosophy, school of thought, science of being, self-imposed duty, sophistry, theory of beauty, theory of knowledge, value theory

• ethnic group, breakaway group, camp, caucus, community, culture, division, faction, interest, interest group, minority group, nation, nationality, offshoot, party, people, political party, pressure group, race, sect, side, silent majority, society, speech community, splinter, splinter group, stock, strain, vocal minority, wing

• ethnocentric, clannish, cliquey, cliquish, exceptional, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, inadmissible, insular, narrow, parochial, preclusive, prescriptive, preventive, prohibitive, restrictive, seclusive, segregative, select, selective, separative, snobbish, xenophobic

• ethos, Ten Commandments, Weltanschauung, Zeitgeist, acculturation, assumption, attitude, axiology, behavioral norm, body of ideas, body-build, brand, business ethics, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, civilization, climate, climate of opinion, code, code of ethics, code of morals, common belief, community sentiment, complex, complexion, composition, conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, consensus gentium, consideration, constituents, constitution, crasis, cultural drift, culture, culture area, culture center, culture complex, culture conflict, culture contact, culture pattern, culture trait, decalogue, dharma, diathesis, disposition, estimate, estimation, ethic, ethical system, ethics, eye, feeling, fiber, folkways, frame, general belief, genius, grain, habit, hue, humor, humors, idea, ideology, ilk, impression, intellectual climate, judgment, key trait, kind, legal ethics, lights, makeup, medical ethics, mind, mold, moral climate, moral code, moral principles, morals, mores, mystique, nature, new morality, norm, normative system, norms, notion, observation, opinion, personal judgment, philosophy, physique, point of view, popular belief, position, posture, practices, presumption, prevailing belief, principles, professional ethics, property, public belief, public opinion, quality, reaction, sentiment, sight, social ethics, society, somatotype, sort, spirit, spiritual climate, stamp, stance, standards, streak, stripe, suchness, system, system of ideas, system of theories, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, theory, thinking, thought, tone, trait, trait-complex, type, value system, vein, view, way, way of thinking, world view

• ethyl, avgas, crude, crude oil, ethyl gas, fossil oil, gas, gasoline, high-octane gas, high-test, kerosene, lead-free gas, low-lead gas, motor oil, paraffin, petrol, petroleum, premium gas, regular, rock oil

• etiology, accounting for, answerability, antecedents, application, arrogation, ascription, assignation, assignment, attachment, attribution, base, basis, blame, call, causation, cause, cause and effect, charge, connection with, credit, derivation from, determinant, determinative, element, factor, ground, grounds, honor, imputation, occasion, palaetiology, placement, principle, reference to, responsibility, saddling, stimulus

• etiquette, amenities, approbatory, approving, behavior, bienseance, bon ton, civilities, civility, comity, commendatory, complimentary, conduct, conformity, consuetude, convenance, convention, conventional usage, conventionalism, conventionality, correct deportment, correctness, courtesy, courtliness, custom, decencies, decency, decorousness, decorum, deportment, dignity, diplomatic code, discourtesy, elegance, elegancies, encomiastic, established way, eulogistic, exquisite manners, fashion, folkway, form, formalities, formality, good behavior, good citizenship, good form, good manners, laudatory, manner, manners, misbehavior, mores, natural politeness, observance, panegyrical, point of etiquette, politeness, politesse, poor behavior, practice, praiseful, praxis, prescription, proper thing, proprieties, propriety, protocol, punctilio, quiet good manners, ritual, rules of conduct, sanctioned behavior, seemliness, sociability, social code, social conduct, social convention, social graces, social procedures, social usage, standard behavior, standard usage, standing custom, time-honored practice, tradition, usage, use, way, what is done, wont, wonting

• etude, Nachtmusik, absolute music, adaptation, air varie, aleatory, aleatory music, arrangement, article, causerie, chamber music, chamber orchestra, composition, descant, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, electronic music, essay, examination, excursus, exercise, exposition, feature, first approach, harmonization, homily, incidental music, instrumental music, introductory study, invention, lucubration, memoir, monograph, morceau, nocturne, note, opus, orchestration, outline, pandect, paper, paragraph, piece, preliminary study, production, program music, prolegomenon, research paper, ricercar, score, screed, sketch, sonata, sonatina, special article, string orchestra, string quartet, study, survey, term paper, theme, theme and variations, thesis, tract, tractate, treatise, treatment, trio, variation, work

• etymology, bowwow theory, comparative linguistics, derivation, descriptive linguistics, dialectology, dingdong theory, eponymy, folk etymology, glossematics, glossology, glottochronology, glottology, grammar, graphemics, historical linguistics, language study, lexicology, lexicostatistics, linguistic geography, linguistic science, linguistics, mathematical linguistics, morphology, morphophonemics, origin, paleography, philology, phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, semantic history, semantics, sociolinguistics, structuralism, syntactics, transformational linguistics, word history

• Eucharist, Communion, Holy Communion, Host, Last Supper, Sacrament Sunday, altar bread, baptism, bread, bread and wine, confirmation, consecrated bread, consecrated elements, consubstantiation, elements, extreme unction, holy orders, impanation, intinction, loaf, matrimony, penance, real presence, seven sacraments, subpanation, the Eucharist, the Holy Sacrament, the Sacrament, transubstantiation, wafer

• euchre, beat, beguile of, bilk, bunco, burn, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, crib, defraud, diddle, do in, do out of, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, fudge, gouge, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, mulct, pack the deal, pigeon, practice fraud upon, rook, scam, screw, sell gold bricks, shave, shortchange, stack the cards, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, thimblerig, throw a fight, victimize

• eugenics, Altmann theory, DNA, De Vries theory, Galtonian theory, Great Leap Forward, Mendelianism, Mendelism, RNA, Verworn theory, Weismann theory, Weismannism, Wiesner theory, advance, advancement, allele, allelomorph, amelioration, amendment, ascent, bettering, betterment, birth, boost, character, chromatid, chromatin, chromosome, determinant, determiner, diathesis, endowment, enhancement, enrichment, euthenics, factor, furtherance, gene, genesiology, genetic code, genetics, headway, hereditability, heredity, heritability, heritage, improvement, inborn capacity, inheritability, inheritance, lift, matrocliny, melioration, mend, mending, patrocliny, pharmacogenetics, pickup, preferment, progress, progression, promotion, recessive character, recovery, replication, restoration, revival, rise, upbeat, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility

• eulogize, acclaim, adulate, apotheosize, applaud, appreciate, belaud, bepraise, bless, blow up, boast of, brag about, celebrate, compliment, cry up, deify, emblazon, exalt, extol, flatter, glorify, hero-worship, honor, hymn, idolize, laud, lionize, magnify, make much of, overpraise, panegyrize, pay tribute, porter aux nues, praise, puff, puff up, salute, trumpet

• eulogy, acclaim, acclamation, accolade, address, adulation, after-dinner speech, allocution, apotheosis, applause, bepraisement, burial service, chalk talk, citation, commendation, compliment, congratulation, coronach, dead march, death knell, death song, deathwatch, debate, declamation, deification, diatribe, dirge, elegy, eloge, encomium, epicedium, eulogium, exaltation, excessive praise, exequies, exhortation, extreme unction, filibuster, flattery, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral march, funeral oration, funeral rites, funeral song, glorification, glory, graveside oration, harangue, hero worship, homage, hommage, honor, honorable mention, hortatory address, idolatry, idolizing, inaugural, inaugural address, invective, jeremiad, keen, knell, kudos, last duty, last honors, last offices, last rites, laud, laudation, lionizing, magnification, meed of praise, mention, monody, muffled drums, obsequies, oration, overpraise, paean, panegyric, passing bell, pep talk, peroration, philippic, pitch, plaudits, praise, prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, reading, recital, recitation, requiem, requiem mass, sales talk, salutation, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, set speech, speech, speechification, speeching, talk, talkathon, threnode, threnody, tirade, tribute, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, viaticum, wake

• eupeptic, accepting, alive and kicking, at ease, beaming, blithe, blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, charmed, cheerful, cheery, chipper, comfortable, composed, content, contented, cozy, delighted, easy, easygoing, elated, enjoying health, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, favorably impressed with, fine, fit, fit and fine, flushed, full of beans, genial, glad, gladsome, glowing, gratified, happy, healthful, healthy, high, hopeful, in clover, in condition, in fine fettle, in fine whack, in good case, in good health, in good shape, in good spirits, in health, in high feather, in high spirits, in mint condition, in shape, in the pink, intrigued, irrepressible, laughing, of good cheer, of good comfort, optimistic, pleasant, pleased, pleased as Punch, pleased with, radiant, reconciled, resigned, riant, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, sans souci, satisfied, smiling, sold on, sparkling, sunny, taken with, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink, tickled to death, uncomplaining, unrepining, winsome, without care

• euphemism, Gongorism, affectation, affectedness, amelioration, artfulness, artifice, artificiality, cushioning, elegance, euphuism, exquisiteness, formalism, formality, goody-goodness, goody-goodyism, hyperelegance, indirect, manneredness, mannerism, mild, mitigation, mollification, overelaboration, overelegance, overniceness, overpreciseness, overrefinement, pedantry, preciosity, preciousness, precisianism, pretentiousness, purism, substitution, unnaturalness, vague

• euphemistic, elegant, euphuistic, exquisite, formalistic, goody good-good, goody-goody, mincing, namby-pamby, overnice, overprecise, overrefined, pedantic, precieuse, precious, precisian, precisianistic, precisionistic, puristic, simpering

• euphonious, achingly sweet, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, appealing, ariose, arioso, balanced, canorous, cantabile, catchy, concinnate, concinnous, dulcet, euphonic, euphonical, euphonous, fine-toned, flowing, fluent, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, harmonious, honeyed, measured, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, music-flowing, music-like, musical, ordered, orderly, pleasant, pleasant-sounding, rich, silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, singable, smooth, smooth-sounding, songful, songlike, sonorous, sweet, sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, symmetrical, tripping, tunable, tuneful

• euphony, accord, accordance, attune, attunement, balance, beauty, chime, chiming, concentus, concert, concinnity, concord, concordance, consonance, consonancy, consort, diapason, equilibrium, harmonics, harmony, heavy harmony, homophony, measure, measuredness, monochord, monody, order, orderedness, proportion, rhythm, sweetness, symmetry, symphony, synchronism, synchronization, three-part harmony, tune, unison, unisonance

• euphoria, abstraction, abulia, acceptance, alienation, amusement, animal pleasure, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, bodily pleasure, carnal delight, catatonic stupor, comfort, composure, compulsion, content, contentedness, contentment, coziness, creature comforts, dejection, depression, detachment, ease, ecstasy, elation, emotionalism, endpleasure, enjoyment, entertainment, entire satisfaction, exaltation, exhilaration, folie du doute, forepleasure, frenzy, fruition, fulfillment, fun, glee, gratification, great satisfaction, gusto, happiness, hearty enjoyment, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, indifference, insensibility, intellectual pleasure, intoxication, joie de vivre, keen pleasure, kicks, lethargy, luxury, madness, mania, melancholia, mental distress, obsession, pathological indecisiveness, peace of mind, physical pleasure, pleasure, preoccupation, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, quiet pleasure, reconcilement, reconciliation, relish, resignation, satisfaction, self-gratification, self-indulgence, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure, sexual pleasure, stupor, sweetness of life, tic, titillation, twitching, unresponsiveness, voluptuousness, well-being, withdrawal, zest

• euphoric, accepting, at ease, beaming, blithe, blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, charmed, cheerful, cheery, comfortable, composed, content, contented, cozy, delighted, easy, easygoing, elated, eupeptic, exalted, exhilarated, favorably impressed with, flushed, genial, glad, gladsome, glowing, gratified, happy, high, hopeful, in clover, in good spirits, in high spirits, intrigued, irrepressible, laughing, of good cheer, of good comfort, optimistic, pleasant, pleased, pleased as Punch, pleased with, radiant, reconciled, resigned, riant, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, sans souci, satisfied, smiling, sold on, sparkling, sunny, taken with, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink, tickled to death, uncomplaining, unrepining, winsome, without care

• euphuism, Gongorism, affectation, affectedness, artfulness, artifice, artificiality, asiaticism, device, elegance, euphemism, exquisiteness, figurative language, figurativeness, figure, figure of speech, floridity, flourish, flower, flowery style, formalism, formality, goody-goodness, goody-goodyism, hyperelegance, image, imagery, manner of speaking, manneredness, mannerism, nonliterality, nonliteralness, ornament, overelaboration, overelegance, overniceness, overpreciseness, overrefinement, pedantry, preciosity, preciousness, precisianism, pretentiousness, purism, purple passage, trope, turn of expression, unnaturalness, way of speaking

• Eurasian, Cape Colored, cattalo, citrange, cross, crossbreed, griffe, half blood, half-bred, half-breed, half-caste, high yellow, hinny, hybrid, ladino, liger, mestee, mestiza, mestizo, metis, metisse, mixblood, mixed-blood, mongrel, mulatto, mule, mustee, octoroon, plumcot, quadroon, quintroon, sambo, tangelo, tigon, zebrass, zebrule

• Europe, Africa, America, Antarctica, Antipodes, Asia, Asia Major, Asia Minor, Australasia, Australia, East, Eastern Hemisphere, Eurasia, Eurasian landmass, Far East, Levant, Middle East, Near East, New World, North America, Occident, Oceania, Old World, Orient, South America, West, Western Hemisphere, continent, down under, eastland, landmass, main, mainland, peninsula, subcontinent, the old country

• eurythmics, balance, bilateral symmetry, calisthenics, conformity, congruity, consistency, correspondence, dynamic symmetry, equality, equilibrium, eurythmy, evenness, finish, gymnastics, harmony, keeping, multilateral symmetry, parallelism, physical culture, physical education, polarity, proportion, proportionality, regularity, shapeliness, symmetricalness, symmetry, trilateral symmetry, uniformity

• Euterpe, Apollo, Apollo Musagetes, Bragi, Calliope, Castilian Spring, Clio, Erato, Helicon, Hippocrene, Melpomene, Muse, Orpheus, Parnassus, Pierian Spring, Pierides, Polyhymnia, Polymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, afflatus, artistic imagination, conception, creative imagination, creative power, creative thought, esemplastic imagination, esemplastic power, fire of genius, genius, inspiration, muse, mythicization, mythification, mythopoeia, poesy, poetic genius, poetic imagination, sacred Nine, shaping imagination, the Muses, the Nine, tuneful Nine

• euthanasia, bane, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, dealing death, destruction, destruction of life, dispatch, execution, extermination, flow of blood, gore, immolation, kill, killing, lapidation, martyrdom, martyrization, mercy killing, natural death, poisoning, quiet end, ritual killing, ritual murder, sacrifice, shooting, slaughter, slaying, stoning, taking of life, welcome release

• evacuate, abandon, abscond, back out, beat a retreat, beg off, blow, blow out, bow out, breathe out, ca-ca, clean out, clear, clear away, clear off, clear out, clear the decks, crap, cry off, defecate, depart from, deplete, deprive, desert, disappear, discard, discharge, divest, drain, drop out, dung, eliminate, emit, empty, empty out, exhale, exhaust, expire, forsake, fume, get rid of, give off, give out, give vent to, go back on, jettison, jilt, leave, leave behind, leave flat, let out, maroon, move, number two, open the floodgates, open the sluices, puff, pull out, purge, quit, quit cold, reek, relinquish, relocate, remove, renege, retire, retreat, say goodbye to, scour out, shit, smoke, stand down, steam, stool, sweep out, take a shit, take leave of, throw off, throw over, unclog, unfoul, vacate, vanish, vapor, vent, void, withdraw, withdraw from

• evacuation, BM, abandonment, absentation, bloody flux, bowel movement, casting away, catharsis, cessation, cleaning out, clearance, clearing, crap, decampment, defecation, dejection, departure, depletion, desuetude, diarrhea, discharging cargo, disuse, drainage, draining, dysentery, egress, elimination, emptying, escape, excretion, exhausting, exhaustion, exit, exodus, flight, flux, forsaking, getaway, going, hegira, jettison, jettisoning, leaving, lientery, loose bowels, movement, off-loading, parting, passing, pulling out, purgation, purge, removal, retirement, retreat, runs, shit, shits, stool, throwing overboard, trots, turistas, unloading, venting, voidance, voiding, walkout, withdrawal

• evacuee, DP, absconder, bolter, displaced person, eloper, emigrant, emigre, escapee, evacue, exile, expatriate, fleer, fugitive, immigrant, in-migrant, migrant, migrator, migratory worker, out-migrant, refugee, runagate, runaway, skedaddler, stateless person, trekker, wetback

• evade, abstain, around the bush, avoid, back and fill, bail out, beat about, beg, beg the question, bicker, bilk, blench, blink, boggle, break away, break jail, break loose, bypass, cavil, cheat, choplogic, circumvent, cop out, cringe, cut loose, deceive, ditch, dodge, double, draw back, duck, duck the issue, elude, equivocate, escape, escape prison, eschew, evade the issue, fade, fall back, falsify, fence, flee, flinch, fly, fly the coop, foil, frustrate, fudge, get around, get away, get away from, get clear of, get free, get out, get out of, get round, give the runaround, give the slip, go one better, hang back, hedge, hem and haw, hum and haw, jib, jump, lie, make a getaway, mince the truth, mince words, mystify, nitpick, obscure, outfigure, outflank, outgeneral, outguess, outmaneuver, outplay, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, palter, parry, pass the buck, pick nits, prevaricate, pull back, pussyfoot, quail, quibble, recoil, reel back, retreat, shake, shake off, sheer off, shift, shift about, shirk, shrink, shrink back, shuffle, shuffle out of, shun, shy, sidestep, sit it out, skip, skirt, slip away, slip the collar, split hairs, stand neuter, start aside, start back, stonewall, straddle, swerve, tergiversate, thwart, trim, turn aside, victimize, waffle, weasel, weasel out, wince

• evaluate, appraise, appreciate, approximate, ascertain, assay, assess, calculate, calibrate, caliper, call, catalog, categorize, check a parameter, class, classify, compute, criticize, determine, dial, divide, estimate, factor, fair-trade, fathom, figure, form an estimate, gauge, give an appreciation, grade, graduate, group, guess, identify, judge, make an estimation, mark, measure, mensurate, mete, meter, pace, plumb, price, prize, probe, quantify, quantize, quote a price, rank, rate, reckon, set at, sift, size, size up, sort, sort out, sound, span, step, survey, take a reading, thrash out, triangulate, valorize, valuate, value, weigh, winnow

• evaluation, analyzing, appraisal, appraisement, appraising, appreciation, apprizal, approximation, assessing, assessment, assize, assizement, calculation, categorization, classification, computation, correction, decision, determination, dual pricing, estimate, estimation, evaluating, evaluative criticism, factoring, figuring, gauging, grouping, identification, instrumentation, interpretation, judgement, judging, judgment, measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration, metric system, opinion, price determination, pricing, quantification, quantization, ranking, rating, reckoning, sifting, sifting out, sorting, sorting out, stock, survey, surveying, telemetering, telemetry, triangulation, unit pricing, valuation, valuing, view, weighing, winnowing

• evanescent, atomic, brittle, capricious, changeable, corpuscular, corruptible, deciduous, disappearing, dissolving, dying, embryonic, ephemeral, evaporating, fading, fickle, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, germinal, granular, impalpable, imperceptible, impermanent, impetuous, imponderable, impulsive, inappreciable, inconstant, indiscernible, infinitesimal, insubstantial, intangible, invisible, melting, microcosmic, microscopic, molecular, momentary, mortal, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing, perishable, short-lived, subatomic, temporal, temporary, tenuous, thin, transient, transitive, transitory, ultramicroscopic, undurable, unenduring, unseeable, unstable, vanishing, volatile

• evangelical, Biblical, Christian, Gospel, Mosaic, New-Testament, Old-Testament, Sabbatarian, accepted, apocalyptic, apostolic, approved, authentic, authoritative, bigoted, canonical, conventional, correct, creedbound, customary, dogmatic, evangelic, evangelistic, faithful, firm, fundamentalist, gospel, hidebound, hyperorthodox, inspired, literal, literalist, literalistic, of the faith, orthodox, orthodoxical, precisianist, precisianistic, proper, prophetic, purist, puristic, puritanical, received, revealed, revelational, right, scriptural, sound, standard, staunch, straitlaced, strict, textual, textuary, theopneustic, traditional, traditionalistic, true, true-blue

• evangelist, Ambrose of Milan, Athanasius, Barnabas, Basil, Clement of Alexandria, Clement of Rome, Cyprian of Carthage, Cyril of Jerusalem, Gabriel, Gregory of Nyssa, Hermas, Ignatius, Irenaeus, Jerome, John, John Chrysostom, Justin Martyr, Lactantius Firmianus, Luke, Mark, Origen, Papias, Paul, Peter, Polycarp, Tertullian, adorer, ante-Nicene Fathers, apostle, beadsman, celebrant, chapelgoer, churchgoer, colporteur, communicant, congregation, converter, daily communicant, disciple, evangel, forerunner, harbinger, herald, herald angel, idolater, missionary, missionary apostolic, missionary rector, missioner, petitioner, prayer, propagandist, proselyter, proselytizer, revivalist, saint, suppliant, supplicant, supplicator, venerator, votary, worshiper

• evangelistic, Biblical, Gospel, Mosaic, New-Testament, Old-Testament, abbatial, abbatical, apocalyptic, apostolic, archiepiscopal, canonical, capitular, capitulary, churchly, clerical, ecclesiastic, episcopal, episcopalian, evangelic, gospel, inspired, ministerial, missionary, pastoral, prelatial, prelatic, priest-ridden, priestish, priestly, prophetic, rabbinic, revealed, revelational, sacerdotal, scriptural, textual, textuary, theopneustic, ultramontane

• evaporate, aerate, aerify, air-dry, anhydrate, atomize, attenuate, bake, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be gone, be no more, be wiped out, blast-freeze, blot, blow off, brine, brush, burn, carbonate, cast forth, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, chlorinate, clear, clear away, corn, cure, dehumidify, dehydrate, dematerialize, depart, desiccate, die, die away, die out, dilute, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, distill, do a fade-out, drain, drive away, dry, dry-cure, dry-salt, dwindle, embalm, emit, erode, escape, etherify, etherize, evanesce, exhale, exit, expire, exsiccate, fade, fade away, fade out, fire, flee, fleet, flit, fluidize, fly, fractionate, freeze, freeze-dry, fume, fumigate, gasify, give off, go, go away, hide, hydrogenate, insolate, irradiate, jerk, kiln, kipper, leave no trace, leave the scene, marinade, marinate, melt, melt away, melt like snow, mummify, oxygenate, parch, pass, pass away, pass off, pass out, perfume, perish, peter out, pickle, preservatize, quick-freeze, reek, refrigerate, retire from sight, rub, salt, scorch, sear, season, send out, shrivel, sink, sink away, smoke, smoke-cure, soak up, sponge, spray, steam, stuff, sublimate, sublime, suffer an eclipse, sun, sun-dry, swab, thin, thin out, torrefy, towel, vanish, vanish from sight, vaporize, volatilize, waste, waste away, weaken, wear away, weazen, wipe, wither, wizen

• evaporated, adust, baked, burnt, corky, dehydrated, desiccated, dried, dried-up, exsiccated, mummified, parched, scorched, sear, seared, sere, shriveled, sun-dried, sunbaked, weazened, wind-dried, withered, wizened

• evaporation, ablation, aeration, aerification, air-drying, anhydration, atomization, attenuation, blackout, blast-freezing, blocking, bottling, brining, broadcast, broadcasting, canning, circumfusion, consumption, corning, curing, decrease, decrement, dehumidification, dehydration, dematerialization, departure, depletion, depreciation, desiccation, diffraction, diffusion, dilution, disappearance, disappearing, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, dissemination, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, distillation, distribution, divergence, drain, drainage, dry-curing, drying, drying up, eclipse, elimination, embalming, erasure, erosion, etherealization, etherification, evanescence, exhalation, exhaustion, expansion, expenditure, extinction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, fluidization, fractionation, fragmentation, freeze-drying, freezing, fumigation, fuming, gasification, going, impoverishment, insolation, irradiation, jerking, leakage, marination, melting, mummification, occultation, passing, peppering, pickling, potting, propagation, publication, quick-freezing, radiation, refrigeration, salting, scattering, scatterment, seasoning, shotgun pattern, shrinkage, smoking, sowing, spattering, splay, spread, spreading, sprinkling, steaming, strewing, stuffing, sublimation, taxidermy, tinning, using, using up, vanishing, vanishing point, vaporization, volatilization, wastage, waste, wearing, wearing away, wipe, withering

• evasion, abstention, airtight secrecy, anythingarianism, artifice, avoidance, avoiding reaction, bickering, boggling, break, breakout, buck-passing, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, circumvention, close secrecy, closeness, concealment, cop-out, cringe, crypticness, cunning, deceit, deception, defense mechanism, deliverance, delivery, discreetness, discretion, dodge, dodging, double-talk, duck, elusion, elusiveness, emergence, equivocating, equivocation, escape, escapism, eschewal, evasive action, evasiveness, excuse, extrication, fallback, fence-sitting, fencing, flight, flinch, foiling, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, freeing, frustration, fudging, getaway, getting around, getting round, haggling, hairsplitting, hedging, hiddenness, hugger-mugger, hugger-muggery, impartiality, independence, issuance, issue, jailbreak, jink, leak, leakage, liberation, logic-chopping, lying, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, neutralism, neutrality, nit-picking, nonalignment, noncommitment, nonintervention, noninvolvement, nonpartisanism, nothingarianism, outguessing, outlet, outmaneuvering, outwitting, paltering, parrying, passing the buck, pettifoggery, prevarication, prevention, prisonbreak, pullback, pullout, pussyfooting, quibbling, recoil, refraining, release, rescue, retreat, riddance, runaround, secrecy, secretiveness, secretness, setting-free, shifting, shirking, shuffle, shuffling, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidestepping, sidetracking, slip, sophistry, strict neutrality, subterfuge, suppressio veri, tergiversation, the dark, the runaround, the slip, thwarting, trichoschistism, trickery, uncommunicativeness, vent, weasel words, wince, zigzag

• evasive, ambiguous, amoral, bickering, cagey, captious, casuistic, caviling, choplogic, close, closemouthed, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, cunning, dark, deceitful, devious, discreet, dishonest, dishonorable, dissembling, doubtful, dubious, elusive, elusory, equivocal, equivocating, equivocatory, felonious, fishy, fraudulent, hairsplitting, hedging, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral, indirect, insidious, intangible, logic-chopping, malingering, misleading, nit-picking, not kosher, oblique, paltering, petty, picayune, prevaricating, pussyfooting, questionable, quibbling, rotten, secret, secretive, shady, shameless, shifty, shirking, shuffling, sinister, sliding, slippery, sly, sophistical, suspicious, tergiversant, tergiversating, trichoschistic, tricky, trifling, trivial, unclear, uncommunicative, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, vague, weasel-worded, without remorse, without shame

• even tempered, bovine, calm, cool, dispassionate, dull, equable, even, impassive, imperturbable, inexcitable, inirritable, levelheaded, patient, reposeful, serene, steady, stoic, stolid, tranquil, undisturbable, unflappable, unirritable, unnervous, unpassionate

• even, Laodicean, a fortiori, above all, absolutely, accommodate, accordant, adjust, after all, again, albeit, algorismic, algorithmic, align, aligned, alike, aliquot, all the more, all the same, already, alternate, although, amount to, analogous, apathetic, appease, arrowlike, as well, assimilate to, at all events, at any rate, at par, au pair, automatic, balance, balanced, beating, break even, but, by turns, calm, calm down, cancel, cardinal, centrist, changeable, chiefly, circling, close, coequal, coextending, coextensive, collateral, come to, come up to, commensurate, commutable, commutative, comparable, compensate, compose, composed, concurrent, consistent, consonant, constant, continual, continuous, convertible, cool, coordinate, correspond, correspondent, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, cradle, cyclic, dab, damp, dead, dead straight, decimal, defensible, definitely, delicate, deserved, despite, differential, digital, direct, directly, disinterested, dispassionate, ditto, dominantly, downy, drag, draw, drawn, dress, dub, due, dulcify, ease, epochal, equable, equal, equalize, equalized, equalizing, equanimous, equate, equidistant, equilateral, equilibrize, equispaced, equitable, equivalent, especially, eurythmic, even off, even out, even so, even stephen, even up, even with, even-tempered, evenhanded, ever so, every other, exact, exactly, exchangeably, exchanged, exponential, express, expressly, fair, fair and square, faithful, faithfully, fell, fifty-fifty, figural, figurate, figurative, fine, finished, finite, first of all, fit, flat, flatten, flattened, flush, for all that, fractional, gentle, get even with, give-and-take, glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, good, grade, grease, half-and-half, harmonious, harmonize, harrow, homaloidal, homogeneous, homogenize, honest, horizontal, howbeit, however, hush, identical, imaginary, immutable, impair, impartial, impassive, imperturbable, impossible, in a line, in all respects, in any case, in any event, in chief, in every respect, in exchange, in return, in spite of, in the main, in turn, indeed, independent, indifferent, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, infinite, integral, integrate, interchangeable, interchanged, intermittent, invariable, ipsissimis verbis, irrational, isochronal, just, just the same, justifiable, justified, keep pace with, knot, knotted, lawful, lay, lay down, lay flat, lay level, lay low, lay out, legal, leiotrichous, level, level with, levelheaded, like, lineal, linear, lined up, literally, literatim, logarithmic, logometric, lubricate, lull, mainly, make uniform, match, match up with, mathematical, measure up to, measured, mechanical, meet, meet and right, merited, methodic, methodical, metrical, metronomic, micrometrically precise, microscopic, midway, moderate, mollify, monolithic, monotonous, more than ever, mostly, mow, mutual, mutually, nay, negative, neuter, neutral, never so, nevertheless, nice, nip and tuck, no end, nonaligned, noncommitted, nonconvergent, nondivergent, nonetheless, nonpartisan, normalize, notwithstanding, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, odd, of a piece, oil, on a footing, on a level, on a par, on even ground, on the fence, on the level, ordered, orderly, ordinal, oscillatory, pacify, pair, pancake, par, parallel, parallelepipedal, parallelinervate, paralleling, parallelodrome, parallelogrammatic, parallelogrammic, parallelotropic, particularly, passive, peaceful, peculiarly, periodical, permutable, persistent, pinpoint, placid, plain, plane, planish, plaster, plumb, point-blank, poise, positive, positively, possible, pour balm into, precise, precisely, predominantly, primarily, prime, principally, proper, proportion, proportionate, proportioned, pulsing, quell, quiet, quite, quits, radical, rase, rather, rational, raze, reach, real, really, reciprocal, reciprocally, reciprocate, reciprocating, reciprocative, rectilineal, rectilinear, recurrent, recurring, refined, regular, regularize, regulate, religious, religiously exact, repay, reposeful, requite, rest, retaliate, retaliatory, returnable, rhythmic, rhythmical, right, right and proper, rightful, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, rigorously, rival, robotlike, rock, rock to sleep, roll, roll flat, rolled, rotary, round, ruler-straight, run abreast, run to, same, scientific, scientifically exact, seasonal, sedate, self-possessed, serene, serial, set, settle, severe, shave, smooth, smooth down, smooth out, smooth over, smooth-shaven, smoothed out, smoothen, smoothened, sober, soothe, square, squarely, squashed, squashed flat, stabile, stabilize, stable, stack up with, staid, stalemated, standard, standardize, steadfast, steady, steamroll, steamroller, stereotype, still, still more, straight, straight-cut, straight-front, straight-side, straightforward, streamlined, strict, strictly, strike a balance, suave, subdue, submultiple, subtle, surd, swapped, switched, symmetric, symmetrize, systematic, tabloid, tabular, temperate, the same, third-force, third-world, though, tie, tied, to the letter, touch, traded, tranquil, tranquilize, transcendental, transposed, trodden, trodden flat, true, truly, turn about, unbending, unbent, unbiased, unbowed, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, uncommitted, uncurved, undeflected, undeviating, undeviatingly, undifferentiated, undistorted, undisturbed, undiversified, undulant, undulatory, unerring, unerringly, uniform, uniform with, uniformize, uninterrupted, uninvolved, unprejudiced, unrough, unroughened, unruffled, unswerving, unturned, unvaried, unvarying, upright, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, verily, vertical, warrantable, warranted, wavelike, well-balanced, well-set, well-set-up, wheeling, when, word by word, word for word, yea, yet

• evenhanded, balanced, defensible, deserved, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, due, equitable, even, fair, fair and square, fit, good, impartial, impersonal, indifferent, just, justifiable, justified, lawful, legal, level, meet, meet and right, merited, neutral, objective, proper, right, right and proper, rightful, square, unbiased, undazzled, uninfluenced, unjaundiced, unprejudiced, unprepossessed, unswayed, warrantable, warranted

• evening, accommodation, adjustment, afternoon, balancing, close of day, cockshut, coordination, crepuscular, dimpsy, dusk, duskiness, duskness, dusky, equalization, equalizing, equating, equation, equilibration, eve, even, evening up, evensong, eventide, gloaming, grayness, harmonization, integration, nightfall, party, reception, regularization, salon, setting sun, shut of day, soiree, sundown, sunset, sunsetty, symmetrization, the expiring day, twilight, twilighty, vesper, vespertine

• evenly, ad eundem, as, as well, at full length, calmly, ceteris paribus, composedly, conservatively, coolly, correspondingly, deservedly, disinterestedly, dispassionately, dully, duly, equably, equally, equitably, equivalently, fair, fairly, fifty-fifty, flat, flatly, flatways, flatwise, flush, horizontally, identically, impartially, impersonally, in a rut, in balance, in moderation, in reason, indifferently, judiciously, justifiably, justifiedly, justly, lengthways, lengthwise, level, like clockwork, meetly, moderately, monotonously, on a level, on wheels, properly, proportionately, prudently, regularly, restrainedly, rightfully, rightly, routinely, serenely, smooth, smoothly, so, soberly, soothingly, squarely, steadily, subduedly, tediously, temperately, tranquilly, uniformly, unrelievedly, upon even terms, warrantably, warrantedly, within bounds, within compass, within reason, without distinction

• evenness, abnegation, abstinence, accordance, balance, bilateral symmetry, calm, calmness, clockwork regularity, coequality, coextension, conformity, congruity, conservatism, consistency, consonance, constancy, constraint, continence, continuity, control, cool, correspondence, dispassion, downiness, dynamic symmetry, equability, equality, equanimity, equation, equilibrium, equipoise, equipollence, equiponderance, equity, equivalence, equivalency, eurythmics, eurythmy, finish, flatness, flushness, frictionlessness, gentleness, glabriety, glabrousness, glossiness, golden mean, greasiness, happy medium, harmony, homogeneity, horizontalism, horizontality, horizontalness, identity, impartiality, judiciousness, juste-milieu, justice, keeping, lenity, levelness, likeness, lubricity, meden agan, methodicalness, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, monolithism, multilateral symmetry, neutrality, nonviolence, nothing in excess, oiliness, pacifism, par, parallelism, parity, persistence, planeness, poise, polarity, proportion, proportionality, prudence, punctuality, regularity, repetition, repose, restraint, satininess, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, serenity, shapeliness, silkiness, sleekness, slickness, slipperiness, smoothness, sobriety, stability, steadfastness, steadiness, suavity, symmetricalness, symmetry, systematicalness, temperance, temperateness, tranquillity, trilateral symmetry, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, uniformity, unity, unruffledness, velvetiness, via media

• evensong, Mass, bedtime prayer, camp meeting, church, church service, close of day, cockshut, compline, crepuscular, devotions, divine service, dusk, dusky, duty, eve, even, evening, evening devotions, eventide, exercises, grayness, lauds, liturgy, matins, meeting, morning devotions, night song, nightfall, none, nones, novena, office, praise meeting, prayer, prayer meeting, prayers, prime, prime song, public worship, revival, revival meeting, service, setting sun, sext, shut of day, sundown, sunset, sunsetty, tent meeting, the expiring day, tierce, twilight, twilighty, undersong, vesper, vespers, vespertine, vigils, watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service

• event, accident, achievement, act, action, adventure, affair, aftereffect, aftermath, anyhow, anyway, at any rate, bout, by-product, case, chance, circumstance, come what may, competition, conclusion, condition, conjuncture, consequence, consequent, contest, contingency, corollary, decathlon, deed, delight, derivation, derivative, development, distillate, double-header, doubles, effect, end, end result, episode, eventuality, eventuation, experience, exploit, fact, feat, fortuity, fortune, foursome, fruit, game, games of chance, go, hap, happening, happenstance, harvest, in any case, incident, issue, juncture, landmark, legacy, logical outcome, match, matter of fact, meet, milepost, milestone, occasion, occurrence, offshoot, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, particular, pentathlon, phenomenon, play, play-off, precipitate, product, race, reality, regardless, result, resultant, runoff, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, singles, sport, thing, threesome, treat, turn of events, twosome, upshot

• eventful, active, bustling, busy, consequential, exciting, full, full of incident, important, interesting, lively, memorable, momentous, notable, noteworthy, phenomenal, signal, significant, stirring

• eventide, close of day, cockshut, dimpsy, dusk, eve, even, evening, evensong, gloaming, grayness, nightfall, setting sun, shut of day, sundown, sunset, the expiring day, twilight, vesper

• eventual, anticipated, closing, concluding, consequent, destined, due, ending, endmost, ensuing, expected, final, foreordained, hindmost, ineluctable, inevitable, lag, last, latest, latter, likely, predestined, preordained, probable, resultant, resulting, succeeding, terminal, ultimate, unavoidable

• eventuality, accident, aftereffect, aftermath, aftertime, afteryears, aptitude, aptness, bare possibility, by-and-by, by-product, case, chance, circumstance, coming to be, conceivability, conceivableness, condition, conjuncture, consequence, consequent, contingency, contingent, corollary, course ahead, crystal ball, derivation, derivative, determinism, development, distant future, distillate, effect, even chance, event, eventuation, expectation, finality, foresight, forward look, fruit, future, future tense, futureness, futurism, futurity, good chance, good possibility, happening, harvest, hereafter, hope, immediate future, immediate prospect, imminence, incidence, incident, issue, juncture, legacy, liability, liableness, likelihood, likeliness, logical outcome, materialization, near future, obligation, occasion, occurrence, off chance, offing, offshoot, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, outlook, outside chance, outside hope, possibility, possibleness, posteriority, potential, potentiality, precipitate, prediction, probability, product, project, proneness, prophecy, prospect, realization, remote possibility, result, resultant, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, small hope, the attainable, the feasible, the future, the morrow, the possible, the sweet by-and-by, thinkability, thinkableness, time ahead, time just ahead, time to come, tomorrow, ultimateness, upshot, virtuality, weakness, what is possible, what may be, what might be

• eventually, after all, as things go, as times go, at last, at length, at long last, at the end, at the last, conclusively, finally, in conclusion, in due course, in due season, in due time, in fine, in time, last, lastly, once for all, someday, sometime, somewhen, sooner or later, ultimately, yet

• ever so, a deal, a fortiori, a great deal, a lot, above all, abundantly, all the more, as all creation, as all get-out, beaucoup, chiefly, considerable, considerably, dominantly, especially, even, ever so much, first of all, galore, greatly, highly, in chief, in great measure, in the main, indeed, largely, mainly, more than ever, mostly, much, muchly, never so, no end, no end of, not a little, particularly, peculiarly, plenty, predominantly, pretty much, primarily, principally, so, so very much, still more, to the skies, very much, yea

• ever, all the time, always, annoyingly, anytime, anyway, anywise, at all, at all times, at any cost, aye, by any chance, by any means, by merest chance, ceaselessly, confoundedly, consistently, constantly, consummately, continually, continuously, daily, daily and hourly, day after day, day and night, endlessly, eternally, even, ever and again, ever and anon, everlastingly, evermore, every day, every hour, every moment, excessively, extremely, for all time, for aye, for good, for keeps, forever, forever and aye, forevermore, grievously, hour after hour, hourly, if at all, immensely, in all ages, in any case, in any way, incessantly, inordinately, invariably, month after month, mortally, night and day, now and forever, on and on, once, over, overfull, overly, overmuch, perennially, perpetually, plaguey, rapidly, regularly, right along, steadily, still, super, sustainedly, throughout the ages, till doomsday, till time stops, too, unceasingly, unduly, unintermittently, uninterruptedly, unvaryingly, usually, without cease, without letup, without stopping, year after year, yet

• everglade, baygall, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, fen, fenland, glade, hog wallow, holm, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mire, moor, moorland, morass, moss, mud, mud flat, peat bog, quagmire, quicksand, salt marsh, slob land, slough, sough, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, wallow, wash

• evergreen, abiding, age-long, aged, amphibian, ancient, angiosperm, annual, antique, aquatic plant, arborary, arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arborical, arboriform, biennial, bushlike, bushy, callow, chronic, citrous, conifer, coniferous, constant, continuing, cosmopolite, cutting, deciduous, deciduous plant, dendriform, dendritic, dendroid, dewy, dicot, dicotyledon, diuturnal, durable, enduring, ephemeral, ever-blooming, ever-new, exotic, firsthand, fledgling, flowering plant, fresh, fruit tree, fungus, gametophyte, green, gymnosperm, half-hardy, hardwood, hardwood tree, hardy, hydrophyte, immature, immutable, indeciduous, intact, intransient, inveterate, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, macrobiotic, maiden, maidenly, monocot, monocotyl, neoteric, nestling, new, nondeciduous, of long duration, of long standing, original, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, piny, plant, pollard, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, pristine, raw, remaining, sapling, scrubbly, scrubby, scrublike, seed plant, seedling, sempervirent, shade tree, shrubby, shrublike, softwood, softwood tree, spermatophyte, sporophyte, stable, staying, steadfast, thallophyte, timber, timber tree, tough, tree, treelike, triennial, unbeaten, undeveloped, unfading, unfledged, unhandled, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, vascular plant, vegetable, vernal, virgin, virginal, vital, weed, young

• everlasting, ageless, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, amaranthine, blah, boundless, broken-record, ceaseless, changeless, coeternal, constant, continual, continuous, creating, creative, dateless, deathless, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, embalmed, endless, eternal, eternally the same, eterne, ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, ever-fresh, everliving, fadeless, frozen, glorious, good, hallowed, harping, highest, holy, humdrum, immemorial, immortal, immutable, imperishable, incessant, incorruptible, indestructible, infinite, interminable, invariable, jog-trot, just, lasting, limitless, long-winded, loving, luminous, majestic, making, merciful, monotonous, never-ceasing, never-dying, never-ending, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, numinous, olamic, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, perdurable, permanent, perpetual, prolix, radiant, sacred, sempiternal, shaping, singsong, sovereign, steady, supreme, tedious, termless, timeless, treadmill, ubiquitous, unbounded, unceasing, unchanging, undefined, undying, unending, uneventful, unfading, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unlimited, unremitting, unvarying, without end

• evermore, always, aye, eternally, ever, ever and again, ever and anon, for all time, for aye, for good, for keeps, forever, forever and aye, forevermore, in all ages, now and forever, throughout the ages, till doomsday, till time stops

• everted, arsy-varsy, ass over elbows, back-to-front, backwards, capsized, chiastic, hyperbatic, inside out, introverted, invaginated, inversed, inverted, outside in, palindromic, resupinate, retroverted, reversed, topsy-turvy, transposed, upside-down, wrong side out

• every other, alternate, alternately, beating, by turns, circling, cyclic, epochal, even, in rotation, in turns, intermittent, isochronal, make and break, measured, metronomic, off and on, oscillatory, periodical, pulsing, reciprocal, reciprocally, recurrent, recurring, rhythmic, rotary, round and round, seasonal, serial, steady, to and fro, turn about, undulant, undulatory, up and down, wavelike, wheeling

• everybody, Everyman, John Doe, Public, all, all hands, all the world, body politic, citizenry, common man, commonwealth, community, community at large, estate, every man Jack, everyman, everyone, everywoman, folk, folks, general public, gentry, men, nation, nationality, one and all, people, people in general, persons, polity, populace, population, public, society, state, totality, tout le monde, whole, world, you and me

• everyday, Attic, accepted, accustomed, average, chaste, circadian, classic, classical, colloquial, common, commonplace, conformable, consuetudinary, conventional, conversational, current, customary, daily, diurnal, dull, established, familiar, frequent, frequentative, garden, garden-variety, generally accepted, habitual, homely, homespun, household, inferior, informal, lowly, many, many times, matter-of-fact, mediocre, mundane, nondescript, nonstandard, normal, normative, not rare, obtaining, of common occurrence, oft-repeated, oftentime, ordinary, plain, popular, predominating, prescribed, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, prosaic, prosy, pure, pure and simple, quotidian, received, recurrent, regular, regulation, routine, run-of-the-mill, set, simple, spoken, standard, stock, substandard, thick-coming, time-honored, traditional, uneducated, unexceptional, unexciting, unimaginative, universal, unliterary, unremarkable, unstudied, usual, vernacular, widespread, wonted, workaday, workday

• Everyman, Cockney, John Doe, John Smith, Public, average, average man, body politic, bourgeois, citizenry, common man, common run, commoner, commonwealth, community, community at large, estate, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, folk, folks, general public, generality, gentry, girl next door, homme moyen sensuel, little fellow, little man, men, nation, nationality, ordinary Joe, ordinary run, people, people in general, persons, pleb, plebeian, polity, populace, population, proletarian, public, roturier, ruck, run, society, state, world, you and me

• everyone, Everyman, John Doe, Public, all, all and sundry, all hands, all the world, body politic, citizenry, common man, commonwealth, community, community at large, estate, every man Jack, everybody, everyman, everywoman, folk, folks, general public, gentry, men, nation, nationality, one and all, people, people in general, persons, polity, populace, population, public, society, state, totality, tout le monde, whole, world, you and me

• everything, A to Z, A to izzard, aggregate, all, all and sundry, alpha and omega, assemblage, be-all, be-all and end-all, beginning and end, complement, each and every, length and breadth, one and all, package, package deal, set, the corpus, the ensemble, the entirety, the lot, the whole, the whole range

• everywhere, all over, all over hell, all round, all-present, always, and everywhere, around, at large, cosmically, diffusely, dispersedly, every which way, everywhence, everywheres, everywhither, far, far and wide, from every quarter, from everywhere, galactically, globally, here, here and there, high and low, in all creation, in all directions, in all places, in all quarters, in every clime, in every instance, in every place, in every quarter, in places, in spots, infinite, inside and out, internationally, invariably, never otherwise, omnipresent, on every side, passim, round about, sparsely, sparsim, sporadically, the world over, there, throughout, throughout the world, ubiquitous, under the sun, universally, upstairs and downstairs, where, wherever you look, without exception

• evict, boot out, chase, chuck, cut off, disendow, disherison, disinherit, dislodge, dismiss, disown, dispossess, disseise, eject, expel, expropriate, extrude, force out, foreclose, kick out, oust, out, put out, remove, shut out, throw out, toss out, turn out, unhouse, unkennel

• eviction, disendowment, disherison, disinheritance, dislodgment, disownment, dispossession, disseisin, ejection, expropriation, expulsion, foreclosure, ouster, ousting, reclaiming, removal, repossessing, repossession, the boot

• evidence, Christophany, Satanophany, account, acquaintance, affect, affidavit, affirmation, angelophany, announcement, apparentness, appearance, approve, argue, argument, assertion, atmospheric visibility, attest, attestation, avatar, averment, basis, bear witness, bespeak, betoken, blue book, brandish, breathe, briefing, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, bulletin, catchword, ceiling, ceiling unlimited, certification, clarity, clearness, clue, communication, communique, confirm, confirmation, connote, conspicuity, conspicuousness, corroboration, crystal-clearness, cue, cue word, dangle, data, datum, definiteness, definition, demonstrate, demonstration, denote, deposition, develop, directory, disclose, disclosure, dispatch, display, dissemination, distinctness, divulge, documentation, dramatize, embodiment, embody, enact, enlightenment, epiphany, evidentness, evince, evincement, exhibit, expose, expose to view, express, expression, facts, factual information, familiarization, flaunt, flourish, furnish evidence, gen, general information, give indication of, give sign, give token, go to show, grounds, guidebook, handout, hard information, high visibility, highlight, hint, hot lead, illuminate, illustrate, imply, incarnate, incarnation, incidental information, index, indicate, indication, info, information, instruction, intelligence, intimation, involve, key, key word, knowledge, lead, light, low visibility, make clear, make plain, manifest, manifestation, manifestness, mark, materialization, materialize, mean, mention, message, notice, notification, obviousness, openness, openness to sight, overtness, palpability, parade, patentness, percipi, perform, perspicuity, plainness, pneumatophany, point to, present, presentation, proclaim, produce, prominence, promotional material, proof, prove, publication, publicity, release, report, represent, reveal, revelation, roll out, scent, seeing, set forth, show, show forth, show signs of, sidelight, sign, signalize, significant, signify, speak for itself, speak volumes, spoor, spotlight, statement, substantiation, suggest, suggestion, summation, summing up, support, symptom, symptomatize, tangibility, tell, telltale, tend to show, testament, testify, testimonial, testimony, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, theophany, tip-off, token, trace, transmission, trot out, unfold, unmistakableness, unquestionability, validation, verification, vestige, visibility, visibility unlimited, visibility zero, wave, whiff, white book, white paper, witness, word

• evident, apparent, beholdable, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear-cut, comprehensible, conspicuous, crystal-clear, defined, definite, detectable, discernible, disclosed, distinct, explicit, exposed, exposed to view, express, glaring, hanging out, in evidence, in focus, in full view, in plain sight, in view, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, insight, manifest, naked, noticeable, observable, obvious, open, open to view, open-and-shut, outcropping, palpable, patent, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, plain as day, prominent, pronounced, recognizable, revealed, seeable, self-evident, self-explaining, self-explanatory, showing, staring, straightforward, tangible, to be seen, unambiguous, unclouded, unconcealed, understandable, undisguised, unhidden, unmistakable, viewable, visible, visual, well-defined, well-marked, well-pronounced, well-resolved, witnessable

• evidential, Christophanic, Satanophanic, absolute, adducible, admissible, angelophanic, appearing, attestative, attestive, authentic, based on, certain, circumstantial, conclusive, connotative, convincing, cumulative, damning, decisive, demonstrating, demonstrative, denominative, denotative, designative, determinative, diagnostic, disclosive, displaying, documentary, documented, emblematic, epiphanic, evidentiary, evincive, ex parte, exhibitive, expositional, expository, expressive, eye-witness, factual, figural, figurative, final, firsthand, founded on, grounded on, hearsay, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, implicative, implicit, incarnating, incarnational, incontrovertible, indicating, indicative, indicatory, indisputable, individual, irrefutable, irresistible, manifestative, material, materializing, meaningful, metaphorical, naming, nuncupative, overwhelming, pathognomonic, peculiar, pneumatophanic, presentational, presumptive, probative, promulgatory, reliable, representative, revelational, revelatory, semantic, semiotic, showing, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying, suggestive, sure, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, telling, theophanic, typical, valid, weighty

• evidently, apparently, certainly, clearly, conspicuously, definitely, discernibly, distinctly, doubtlessly, explicitly, expressly, glaringly, incontestably, indisputably, indubitably, manifestly, markedly, noticeably, observably, obviously, officially, ostensibly, outwardly, palpably, patently, perceivably, perceptibly, plainly, professedly, prominently, pronouncedly, recognizably, seeably, seemingly, staringly, starkly, surely, to all appearances, to be sure, unconcealedly, undeniably, undisguisedly, undoubtedly, unmistakably, unquestionably, visibly, with clarity

• evil eye, Jonah, anathema, bad blood, bad influence, bad temper, bad will, ban, bedroom eyes, blasphemy, blighting glance, cantrip, charm, come-hither look, commination, curse, damnation, denunciation, enchantment, evil disposition, evil genius, evil star, excommunication, execration, exorcism, fulmination, gape, gaze, glad eye, glamour, glare, glower, glowering look, goggle, hex, hoodoo, ill nature, ill will, ill wind, ill-disposedness, imprecation, jinx, magic spell, malevolence, malevolent influence, malison, malocchio, ogle, penetrating look, proscription, spell, stare, thundering, voodoo, wanga, weird, whammy

• evil looking, evil-eyed, evil-faced, evil-fashioned, evil-favored, evil-gotten, evil-minded, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, hard-favored, hard-featured, hard-visaged, ill-affected, ill-conceived, ill-fashioned, ill-favored, ill-featured, ill-gotten, ill-looking, ill-shaped, unprepossessing

• evil minded, base-minded, dirty, dirty-minded, evil-eyed, evil-faced, evil-fashioned, evil-favored, evil-gotten, evil-looking, evilhearted, ill-affected, ill-conceived, ill-fashioned, ill-favored, ill-gotten, ill-looking, ill-shaped, low-minded, low-thoughted

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

• evil spirit, Baba Yaga, Lilith, afreet, atua, barghest, cacodemon, daemon, daeva, demon, devil, dybbuk, evil genius, evil spirits, fiend, fiend from hell, genie, genius, ghoul, gyre, hellion, incubus, intelligence, jinni, jinniyeh, lamia, rakshasa, satan, shedu, specter, spirit, succubus, supernatural being, the undead, vampire, yogini

• evil, Loki, Nemesis, Set, Typhon, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, abomination, accursed, ado, affliction, agony, amorality, angry, anguish, annoyance, anxiety, apocalyptic, arrant, atrocious, atrocity, awful, backsliding, bad, badness, baleful, bane, baneful, base, baseness, befoulment, besetment, bitchy, black, blamable, blameworthy, blight, bodeful, boding, bother, breach, bugbear, burden, calamitous, calamity, can of worms, carnality, cataclysm, catastrophe, catastrophic, catty, corrupt, corruption, crime, crime against humanity, criminal, criminality, crooked, crushing burden, crying evil, curse, damage, damaging, damnable, dark, deadly, deadly sin, death, debt, defilement, degeneracy, degradation, deleterious, delinquency, delinquent, depraved, depravity, dereliction, despiteful, despoliation, destruction, destructive, detriment, detrimental, deviant, devilry, deviltry, diablerie, diabolism, difficult, dire, dirty, disadvantage, disagreeable, disaster, disastrous, disease, disgrace, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonest, dishonorable, distasteful, doomful, dreadful, dreary, enormity, error, evil nature, evil-minded, evil-starred, evildoing, evilness, execrable, failure, fateful, fault, felonious, felony, fetid, flagitious, flagitiousness, flagrant, foreboding, foul, foulness, genocide, ghastly, gloomy, great ado, grievance, grisly, guilty act, hard, hardly the thing, harm, harmful, hateful, havoc, headache, heavy sin, heinous, heinousness, hideous, horrible, horrid, hurt, hurtful, ignominious, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, illegal, immoral, immorality, improper, impropriety, impurity, inaccurate, inappropriate, inauspicious, inconvenience, incorrect, indecorous, indiscretion, inexpedient, inexpiable sin, infamous, infamy, infection, infelicitous, inferior, infliction, iniquitous, iniquity, injurious, injury, injustice, insidious, invalid, knavery, knavish, lapse, lethal, loathsome, low, lowering, malefaction, malefic, maleficence, maleficent, malevolent, malfeasance, malign, malignant, malum, matter, menacing, mephitic, minor wrong, mischief, mischievous, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, misery, misfeasance, misfortune, monstrous, moral delinquency, mortal sin, nasty, naughty, nefarious, nefariousness, nemesis, nonfeasance, not done, not the thing, noxious, obliquity, obscene, of evil portent, off-base, off-color, offense, offensive, ominous, omission, open wound, out-of-line, outrage, pain, peccability, peccadillo, peccancy, peccant, peck of troubles, perfidious, pernicious, pest, pestilence, pestilential, plague, poison, poisonous, pollution, portending, portentous, problem, prodigality, profligacy, putrid, rancorous, rank, recidivism, repellent, reprehensible, reprobacy, reprobate, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, ruin, ruinous, running sore, sacrilegious, satanism, scandal, scandalous, scourge, sea of troubles, shame, shameful, shameless, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful, sinful act, sinfulness, sinister, slip, somber, sorrow, spiteful, stinking, suffering, terrible, the worst, thorn, threatening, torment, tort, toxic, toxin, traitorous, transgression, treacherous, trespass, trip, trouble, trying, turpitude, ugly, unangelicalness, unchastity, uncleanness, underhanded, undue, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, unfortunate, ungodliness, ungoodness, unhealthy, unkind, unlawful, unlucky, unmorality, unpardonable, unpleasant, unprincipled, unpromising, unpropitious, unrighteous, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unscrupulous, unseemly, unskillful, unspeakable, unsuitable, untoward, unutterable sin, unvirtuousness, unworthy, venial sin, venom, vexation, vice, vicious, viciousness, vile, vileness, villainous, villainy, virulent, visitation, wantonness, waywardness, wicked, wickedness, woe, woeful, worry, wrathful, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongful

• evil-minded, bad, depraved, dirty-minded, evil, filthy, flagitious, foul-mouthed, hateful, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, licentious, malevolent, malicious, nasty, obscene, salacious, sinful, smutty, spiteful, vicious, wicked

• evildoing, crime, criminal, criminal tendency, criminality, criminosis, evil courses, felonious, feloniousness, iniquitous, lawbreaking, malefactory, malfeasance, malfeasant, malpractice, malversation, misconduct, misdemeanor, misdoing, misfeasance, misprision, misprision of treason, positive misprision, sin, sinful, thou scarlet sin, vice, viciousness, wicked, wrong, wrong conduct, wrongdoing

• evilness, arrantness, badness, baseness, damnability, devilishness, devilry, deviltry, fiendishness, flagitiousness, foulness, heinousness, hellishness, improperness, inaccuracy, inauspiciousness, inexpedience, inferiority, iniquitousness, invalidity, malevolence, moral badness, naughtiness, nefariousness, peccancy, rankness, reprehensibility, sinfulness, unfavorableness, unhealthiness, unkindness, unpleasantness, unskillfulness, viciousness, vileness, villainousness, wickedness

• evince, affect, approve, argue, attest, bespeak, betoken, brandish, breathe, bring about, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, cause, confirm, connote, dangle, demonstrate, denote, develop, disclose, display, divulge, dramatize, elicit, embody, enact, evidence, evoke, exhibit, expose, expose to view, express, extort, extract, flaunt, flourish, furnish evidence, give indication of, give sign, give token, go to show, highlight, illuminate, illustrate, imply, incarnate, indicate, involve, make clear, make plain, manifest, mark, materialize, mean, milk, parade, perform, point to, present, proclaim, produce, prove, provoke, represent, reveal, roll out, set forth, show, show forth, show signs of, signalize, signify, speak for itself, speak volumes, spotlight, stimulate, suggest, symptomatize, tell, tend to show, token, trot out, unfold, wave

• eviscerate, abate, attenuate, blunt, bowel, cramp, cripple, damp, dampen, deaden, debilitate, devitalize, disembowel, draw, dull, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, extenuate, gruel, gut, lay low, mitigate, paunch, rattle, reduce, sap, shake, shake up, soften up, unbrace, undermine, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, weaken

• evisceration, abatement, attenuation, attrition, blunting, damping, deadening, debilitation, devitalization, dilution, disembowelment, dulling, effemination, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion, extenuation, fatigue, gutting, inanition, languishment, mitigation, reduction, relaxation, slackening, softening, thinning, weakening

• evocation, arousal, beck, beck and call, bidding, bringing out, call, calling, calling forth, cameo, catalog, cataloging, character, character sketch, characterization, conjuration, conjurement, convocation, delineation, depiction, description, details, drawing out, eduction, exorcisation, exorcism, exsufflation, graphic account, image, imagery, impression, incantation, indent, invocation, itemization, limning, nod, particularization, photograph, picture, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, preconization, profile, rendering, rendition, representation, requisition, sketch, specification, summons, vignette, vivid description, word painting

• evocative, arousing, causing, educible, eductive, elicitory, eradicative, exacting, exactive, extortionary, extortionate, extortive, extractive, in retrospect, inducing, meaningful, memoried, mindful, mnemonic, pregnant, producing, redolent, remindful, reminiscent, retentive, retrospective, stimulating, stirring, suggestive, uprooting, weighty

• evoke, ape, appear like, approach, approximate, arouse, awake, awaken, be like, be redolent of, bear resemblance, bid come, bring, bring about, bring back, bring forth, bring on, bring out, bring to life, bring to light, bring to mind, call, call away, call back, call for, call forth, call in, call out, call to mind, call together, call up, call up spirits, cause, character, characterize, cite, come close, come near, compare with, conjure, conjure up, conjure up spirits, contrive, convene, convoke, copy, correspond, counterfeit, deduce, delineate, demand, depict, derive, describe, drag out, draw, draw down, draw forth, draw on, draw out, educe, effect, elicit, evince, excite, express, extort, extract, favor, follow, get, get from, get out of, give words to, go back, go back over, hark back, imitate, indent, induce, inspire, instigate, invoke, lead, limn, look back, look like, match, milk, mimic, mind, mirror, motivate, muster, muster up, near, nearly reproduce, not tell apart, obtain, order up, outline, page, paint, parallel, partake of, picture, portray, preconize, procure, prompt, provoke, raise, raise ghosts, rally, recall, recall to mind, recapture, recollect, reevoke, reflect, remember, remind one of, render, represent, requisition, resemble, retrace, retrospect, review, review in retrospect, revive, rouse, savor of, secure, see in retrospect, seem like, send after, send for, serve, set forth, simulate, sketch, smack of, sound like, stack up with, stimulate, stir, subpoena, suggest, summon, summon forth, summon spirits, summon up, summons, superinduce, take after, think back, think of, use hindsight, waken, wangle, wangle out of, winkle out, worm out, worm out of, write

• evolution, addition, advance, approximation, beautification, change, developing, development, differentiation, division, elaboration, embellishment, equation, evolvement, evolving, extrapolation, flowering, formation, growing, growth, integration, interpolation, inversion, involution, maturation, multiplication, notation, perfection, phylogeny, practice, production, progress, progression, proportion, reduction, refinement, ripening, seasoning, subtraction, transformation, unfolding, upgrowth

• evolutionary, advancing, bradytelic, developing, evolutional, evolutionist, evolutionistic, evolving, genetic, horotelic, maturational, maturative, maturing, ontogenetic, phylogenetic, physiogenetic, progressing, tachytelic, unfolding

• evolve, advance, alter into, amplify, assemble, avulse, be converted into, bear fruit, beautify, become, beget, bloom, blossom, breed, bring forth, bring into being, build, call into being, cast, change into, coin, come round to, compose, compound, conceive, concoct, construct, contrive, cook up, create, cultivate, cut out, deracinate, descant, design, detail, develop, devise, dig out, dig up, dilate, discover, disentangle, draw, draw out, dream up, dredge, dredge up, educe, elaborate, embellish, engender, enlarge, enlarge upon, eradicate, erect, evolute, evolve into, evulse, excavate, excise, excogitate, expand, expatiate, explicate, exsect, extract, extricate, extrude, fabricate, fall into, fashion, finish, flower, form, formulate, frame, fudge together, generate, get at, get out, get up, give being to, give rise to, gouge out, grow, grub up, hatch, improvise, indite, invent, lapse into, make, make do with, make up, manufacture, maturate, mature, mellow, melt into, mine, mint, mold, obtain, open into, open up, originate, particularize, pass into, patch together, perfect, pick out, piece together, plan, pluck out, pluck up, polish, prefabricate, prepare, procreate, produce, progress, pull, pull out, pull up, put together, put up, quarry, raise, rake out, rear, refine, rehearse in extenso, relate at large, remove, rip out, ripen, ripen into, root out, root up, run into, run up, season, set up, settle into, shape, shift into, spawn, strike out, take out, tear out, think out, think up, turn into, turn to, unearth, unfold, unravel, uproot, wax, weed out, whomp up, withdraw, work out, wrest out, write

• evolving, accomplishment, advance, advancement, advancing, amplification, blossoming, bradytelic, developing, development, developmental change, elaboration, enlargement, evolution, evolutional, evolutionary change, evolutionist, evolutionistic, evolvement, expansion, explication, flowering, furtherance, genetic, gradual change, growth, horotelic, maturation, maturational, maturative, maturing, natural development, natural growth, nonviolent change, ontogenetic, phylogenetic, physiogenetic, progress, progressing, progression, ripening, rise, tachytelic, unfolding

• evulsion, avulsion, cutting out, deracination, disentanglement, drawing, drawing out, dredging, drilling, enucleation, eradication, evolvement, excavation, excision, expression, exsection, extirpation, extraction, extrication, mining, pressing out, pulling, quarrying, removal, ripping out, squeezing out, unrooting, uprooting, withdrawal, wresting out

• ewe, Partlet, bellwether, biddy, bitch, bossy, brood mare, cow, doe, ewe lamb, filly, guinea hen, gyp, heifer, hen, hind, jenny, jumbuck, lamb, lambkin, lioness, mare, mutton, nanny, nanny goat, peahen, ram, roe, she-bear, she-goat, she-lion, sheep, slut, sow, teg, tigress, tup, vixen, wether, yeanling

• ex officio, absolute, ascendant, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, clothed with authority, commanding, competent, consequential, considerable, controlling, dominant, duly constituted, eminent, empowered, ex cathedra, governing, great, hegemonic, hegemonistic, imperative, important, influential, leading, mighty, momentous, monocratic, official, potent, powerful, preeminent, prestigious, prominent, puissant, ranking, ruling, senior, substantial, superior, supreme, totalitarian, weighty

• ex post facto, a priori, after, after all, after that, afterwards, back, backward, early, in the aftermath, in the sequel, into the past, later, next, retroactive, retrospective, since, subsequently, then, thereafter, thereon, thereupon, therewith

• ex, aside from, bar, barring, beside, besides, except, except for, excepting, excluding, exclusive of, from, leaving out, let alone, omitting, out, out of, outside of, precluding, save, save and except, saving, than, unless, without

• exacerbate, accelerate, acerbate, agent provocateur, aggravate, alienate, amplify, annoy, antagonize, augment, beef up, bitter, blow up, build up, chafe, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, damage, deepen, deteriorate, dilapidate, double, embitter, endamage, enhance, enlarge, envenom, estrange, exaggerate, exasperate, feed the fire, fret, gall, grate, grate on, gravel, grit, harm, heat up, heighten, hop up, hot up, hurt, impair, increase, inflame, infuriate, injure, intensify, irritate, jazz up, key up, madden, magnify, make acute, make complex, make worse, provoke, put back, ramify, rasp, redouble, reinforce, set against, set at odds, set on edge, sharpen, soup up, sour, step up, strengthen, triple, weaken, whet, worsen

• exacerbation, accelerando, acceleration, aggravation, agitation, amplification, animation, annoyance, arousal, arousing, augmentation, beefing-up, blowing up, blowup, chafe, concentration, condensation, consolidation, contentiousness, deepening, deliberate aggravation, deterioration, electrification, embittering, embitterment, enhancement, enlargement, exaggeration, exasperation, excitation, excitement, exhilaration, explosion, fomentation, fret, gall, galvanization, heating-up, heightening, incitement, increase, inflammation, information explosion, infuriation, intensification, irritant, irritation, lathering up, magnification, perturbation, pickup, population explosion, provocation, redoubling, reinforcement, sharpening, souring, speedup, steaming up, step-up, stimulation, stimulus, stirring, stirring up, strengthening, tightening, whipping up, working up, worsening

• exact, accurate, appreciative, ask, ask for, assess, attentive, badger, be hurting for, be indicated, blackmail, brook no denial, burden with, call for, careful, challenge, charge, charge for, claim, clamor for, close, compel, conscientious, conscionable, constant, consummate, correct, critical, cry for, cry out for, delicate, demand, demanding, detailed, dictate, differential, direct, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing, enforce, enjoin, even, exacting, exigent, express, exquisite, extort, extract, faithful, fasten upon, fastidious, faultless, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, force from, freight with, full, fussy, gouge, have occasion for, heedful, identical, impose, impose on, impose upon, indent, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, inflict on, inflict upon, insist on, insist upon, issue an ultimatum, lay, lay on, leave no option, levy, levy blackmail, literal, make a demand, make dutiable, mathematical, methodical, meticulous, micrometrically precise, microscopic, minute, narrow, necessitate, need, nice, oblige, order, order up, orderly, painstaking, particular, perfect, picayune, pinch, pinpoint, place, place an order, precious, precise, precisian, precisianistic, precisionist, precisionistic, prerequire, pro rata, proper, prorate, pry loose from, punctilious, punctual, puristic, put, put down, put in requisition, put on, put upon, refined, religious, religiously exact, rend, rend from, require, requisition, right, rigid, rigorous, rip, rip from, saddle with, scientific, scientifically exact, screw, scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective, selfsame, sensitive, set, severe, shake, shake down, snatch from, special, specific, square, squeeze, stick for, strict, subject to, subtle, tactful, take doing, take no denial, task, tax, tear from, thorough, tithe, true, undeviating, unerring, very, want, want doing, warn, weight down with, wrench, wrench from, wrest, wring, wring from, yoke with

• exacting, Herculean, Spartan, Spartanic, abstruse, accurate, arduous, arousing, astringent, attentive, austere, authoritarian, brutal, burdensome, censorious, choicy, choosy, clamant, clamorous, close, complex, conscientious, correct, critical, crying, cutthroat, delicate, demanding, detailed, difficile, difficult, discriminating, discriminative, dour, draining, educible, eductive, elicitory, eradicative, evocative, exact, exactive, excessive, exigent, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionary, extortionate, extortive, extractive, extravagant, fancy, fastidious, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, formidable, fussy, gouging, grasping, grievous, grim, grossly overpriced, hairy, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, harsh, hypercritical, immoderate, imperative, importunate, inflationary, inordinate, insistent, instant, intricate, jawbreaking, knotted, knotty, laborious, loud, mean, meticulous, minute, narrow, nice, no picnic, not easy, operose, oppressive, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, overpriced, particular, perfectionistic, persistent, pertinacious, picky, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, preposterous, pressing, priggish, prohibitive, prudish, punctilious, punctual, puristic, puritanic, refined, religious, rigid, rigorous, rough, rugged, scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective, sensitive, set with thorns, severe, skyrocketing, spiny, spiraling, steep, stern, strenuous, strict, stringent, subtle, taxing, thorny, ticklish, toilsome, tough, tricky, trying, tyrannical, unconscionable, undue, unreasonable, unsparing, unwarranted, uphill, uprooting, urgent, usurious, weighty, wicked

• exaction, admission, admission fee, anchorage, blackmail, bother, brokerage, burdening, call, call for, carfare, cellarage, charge, charges, charging, claim, contribution, cover charge, demand, demand for, dockage, draft, drain, dues, duty, entrance fee, exactment, extortion, extortionate demand, fare, fee, freighting, heavy demand, hire, imposing an onus, imposition, impost, inconsiderateness, inconvenience, indent, infliction, insistent demand, laying on, levy, license fee, loading, loading down, nonnegotiable demand, notice, obtrusiveness, order, pilotage, portage, presumptuousness, rending, requirement, requisition, ripping, rush, rush order, salvage, scot, scot and lot, shot, storage, tasking, tax, taxing, tearing, toll, towage, tribute, trouble, ultimatum, unwarranted demand, warning, weighting, wharfage, wrench, wrenching, wrest, wresting, wring, wringing

• exactly, OK, Roger, absolutely, accurately, all, all in all, all right, alright, alrighty, altogether, amen, as well, as you say, assuredly, at the gun, aye, bang, by all means, certainly, closely, completely, concretely, conscientiously, correctly, da, dead, definitely, directly, distinctly, especially, even, exactingly, explicitly, expressly, exquisitely, faithfully, faultlessly, fine, flush, full, fussily, good, good enough, hear, in all respects, in detail, in every respect, in particular, in toto, indeed, indeedy, ipsissimis verbis, item by item, ja, just, just so, kerplunk, literally, literatim, mais oui, methodically, meticulously, minutely, most assuredly, naturally, naturellement, nicely, of course, okay, on the dot, on the instant, on the minute, on time, oui, particularly, perfectly, plop, plumb, plump, plunk, point-blank, positively, precisely, punctiliously, punctually, quite, rather, really, refinedly, right, righto, rigidly, rigorously, scrupulously, separately, sharp, singly, smack, smack-dab, spang, specially, specifically, square, squarely, stick, straight, strictly, sure, sure thing, surely, systematically, to be specific, to be sure, to the letter, to the minute, totally, truly, undeniably, undeviatingly, unequivocally, unerringly, utterly, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, very well, well and good, wholly, why yes, with exactitude, with great nicety, with precision, word by word, word for word, yea, yeah, yep, yes, yes indeed, yes indeedy, yes sir, yes sirree

• exactness, absoluteness, accuracy, attention to detail, attention to fact, care for truth, circumstantiality, conscientiousness, correctness, criticality, criticalness, definiteness, delicacy, detail, exactingness, exactitude, exquisiteness, faithfulness, faultlessness, fidelity, fineness, finicality, finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, flawlessness, fussiness, literalism, literality, literalness, mathematical precision, meticulousness, minuteness, niceness, nicety, particularity, particularness, perfection, preciseness, precisianism, precision, punctiliousness, punctuality, refinement, right, rightness, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, severity, strictness, subtlety, textualism, the letter

• exaggerate, accelerate, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, ballyhoo, be untruthful, beef up, belie, blow up, build up, burlesque, camouflage, caricature, carry too far, color, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, deceive, deepen, disguise, distort, double, draw the longbow, embellish, enhance, equivocate, exacerbate, exceed, exhaust, falsify, fib, fudge, garble, go beyond, go overboard, go to extremes, go too far, heat up, heighten, hop up, hot up, hyperbolize, idealize, intensify, jazz up, key up, know no bounds, lay it on, lie, lie flatly, magnify, make complex, make much of, miscolor, mislead, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, misteach, overact, overappraise, overassess, overcalculate, overcarry, overcharge, overcount, overdevelop, overdo, overdraw, overdrive, overelaborate, overemphasize, overesteem, overestimate, overexercise, overexert, overexpend, overgo, overindulge, overjump, overlabor, overleap, overmeasure, overpaint, overpass, overplay, overpraise, overprize, overrate, overreach, overreact, overreact to, overreckon, overrun, oversell, overshoot, overshoot the field, overshoot the mark, overspeak, overspend, overstate, overstep, overstrain, overstress, overstride, overstudy, overtask, overtax, overtrain, overuse, overvalue, overwork, pad, parody, pass all bounds, pervert, pile it on, prevaricate, protest too much, puff, ramify, redouble, reinforce, romance, romanticize, sharpen, slant, soup up, speak falsely, step up, story, strengthen, stretch, stretch the truth, superabound, talk big, talk in superlatives, tell a lie, tout, travesty, triple, twist, understate, warp, whet, wrench

• exaggerated, a bit much, abandoned, aggrandized, amplified, ballyhooed, boundless, disproportionate, egregious, enormous, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, gigantic, gluttonous, grandiloquent, high, high-flown, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immoderate, incontinent, inflated, inordinate, intemperate, magnified, monstrous, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, overbig, overdeveloped, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overmuch, overpraised, overrated, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overvalued, overweening, overwrought, prodigal, profuse, puffed, puffed up, steep, stiff, stretched, superlative, too much, touted, unbridled, unconscionable, undue, unreasonable, unrestrained

• exaggeration, abandon, abstractionism, accelerando, acceleration, affectation, aggrandizement, aggravation, amplification, beefing-up, blague, blowing up, blowup, boundlessness, cock-and-bull story, coloring, command of language, concentration, condensation, confabulation, consolidation, deepening, deformation, distortion, egregiousness, embellishment, enhancement, enlargement, enormousness, equivocation, exacerbation, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, explosion, expression of ideas, expressionism, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extremes, extremism, extremity, fabulousness, fairy tale, false coloring, false swearing, falsehood, falsification, falsifying, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fashion, feeling for words, fib, fiction, fish story, flam, flight of fancy, flimflam, form of speech, garbling, ghost story, giantism, gigantism, gluttony, grace of expression, grandiloquence, half-truth, heating-up, heightening, hyperbole, hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, inaccuracy, incontinence, inflation, information explosion, injustice, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, intemperance, intemperateness, intensification, inundation, legal fiction, lie, literary style, litotes, little white lie, magnification, manner, manner of speaking, mannerism, mendacity, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdrawing, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, mode, mode of expression, monstrousness, nimiety, nonrealism, outrageousness, overappraisal, overassessment, overcalculation, overdevelopment, overdrawing, overestimate, overestimation, overflowing, overgreatness, overgrowth, overindulgence, overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness, overpass, overrating, overreaction, overreckoning, overrun, overrunning, overspreading, overstatement, overvaluation, peculiarity, perjury, personal style, perversion, pickup, pious fiction, population explosion, prevarication, radicalism, redoubling, reinforcement, rhetoric, romance, sense of language, slanting, slight stretching, speedup, step-up, story, strain, straining, strengthening, stretching, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, superiority, surplus, tale, tall story, tall tale, tall talk, taradiddle, the grand style, the plain style, the sublime, tightening, too much, too-muchness, trick, trumped-up story, twisting, unconscionableness, understatement, undueness, unreasonableness, unrestrainedness, untruth, vein, way, white lie, yarn

• exalt, acclaim, accord respect to, add to, admire, adore, adulate, advance, aggrandize, amplify, animate, apotheose, apotheosize, appreciate, arouse, augment, awaken, beatify, belaud, bepraise, bless, bless the Lord, blow up, boast of, boost, brag about, broaden, build, build up, canonize, celebrate, cleanse, consecrate, crown, cry up, dedicate, deepen, defer to, deify, devote, dignify, distinguish, doxologize, elate, electrify, elevate, emblazon, encourage, enhance, enlarge, ennoble, enshrine, entertain respect for, enthrone, erect, esteem, eulogize, excite, expand, extend, extol, fatten, favor, fill out, fire, flatter, flush, glamorize, glorify, glorify the Lord, graduate, hallow, heighten, hero-worship, hike, hike up, hold in esteem, hold in reverence, honor, hymn, idolize, immortalize, increase, inflate, inform, inspire, inspirit, intensify, jack up, jump up, kick upstairs, knight, laud, lengthen, lift, lionize, look up to, magnify, make legendary, make much of, maximize, overpraise, panegyrize, parlay, pass, pay tribute, pedestal, pique, porter aux nues, praise, praise God, prefer, prize, promote, puff, puff up, purify, put up, pyramid, quicken, raise, regard, respect, revere, reverence, saint, salute, sanctify, set apart, set up, sharpen, sing praises, spirit up, spur, stimulate, stir up, sublime, thicken, think highly of, think much of, think well of, throne, trumpet, up, upgrade, uplift, upraise, venerate, worship

• exaltation, accolade, adulation, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, altitude, apotheosis, ascent, assumption, beatification, beatitude, bepraisement, bewitchment, bigheartedness, bigness, blessedness, blessing, bliss, blissfulness, boost, canonization, ceiling, cheer, cheerfulness, chivalrousness, chivalry, cloud nine, congratulation, consecration, consequence, conspicuousness, dedication, deification, delectation, delight, devotion, dignification, distinction, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, elevation, eloge, eminence, enchantment, encomium, ennoblement, enshrinement, enthronement, erection, errantry, escalation, eulogium, eulogy, euphoria, excellence, excessive praise, exhilaration, extolment, exuberance, felicity, flattery, gaiety, generosity, generousness, gladness, glee, glorification, glory, grace, graduation, grandeur, great heart, greatheartedness, greatness, greatness of heart, hallowing, happiness, hauteur, heaven, height, heighth, hero worship, heroism, high mightiness, high spirits, high-mindedness, highness, homage, hommage, honor, idealism, idolatry, idolizing, immortalization, importance, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, justification, justification by works, knight-errantry, knighting, knightliness, kudos, largeheartedness, laud, laudation, liberality, liberalness, lifting, lionizing, loftiness, magnanimity, magnanimousness, magnification, mark, meed of praise, nobility, noble-mindedness, nobleness, notability, note, openhandedness, outstandingness, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, overpraise, paean, panegyric, paradise, passing, pay raise, perpendicular distance, praise, preferment, princeliness, prominence, promotion, purification, raise, raising, rapture, ravishment, rearing, rise, sainthood, sainting, sanctification, setting apart, seventh heaven, significance, state of grace, stature, sublimity, sunshine, supereminence, sursum corda, tallness, toploftiness, transport, tribute, unalloyed happiness, upbuoying, upcast, upgrading, upheaval, uplift, uplifting, upping, uprearing, upthrow, upthrust

• exalted, Olympian, aerial, aggrandized, airy, altitudinous, analysis, apotheosized, aristocratic, ascending, aspiring, assay, astral, audit, august, awesome, beaming, beatified, big, bighearted, blissful, blithe, blithesome, breakdown, bright, bright and sunny, bursting with happiness, canonized, canvass, carried away, catechization, celebrated, checkup, cheerful, cheery, chivalrous, colossal, deified, diagnosis, dignified, dissection, distinguished, dominating, ducal, ecstatic, elate, elated, elevated, eminent, enchanted, ennobled, enraptured, enravished, enshrined, enthroned, entranced, erect, ethereal, eupeptic, euphoric, exaggerated, examination, excellent, excited, exhilarated, exultant, famed, famous, first, flushed, foremost, freaked out, generous, genial, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, glad, gladsome, glorified, glorious, glowing, godlike, grand, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, happy, haughty, heightened, held in awe, heroic, high, high and mighty, high-flown, high-minded, high-pitched, high-ranking, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, highest, highest-ranking, honored, hopeful, idealistic, illustrious, immortal, immortalized, imparadised, in ecstasies, in good spirits, in heaven, in high spirits, in paradise, in raptures, in seventh heaven, inflated, inquiry, inspection, irrepressible, joyful, joyous, jubilant, kinglike, kingly, knightly, ladylike, largehearted, lauded, laughing, leading, liberal, lifted, lofty, magnanimous, magnificent, magnified, majestic, mighty, monumental, mounting, noble, noble-minded, notable, noted, number one, of gentle blood, of good cheer, of rank, on cloud nine, on stilts, openhanded, optimistic, outstanding, outtopping, overblown, overjoyed, overjoyful, overlooking, overtopping, patrician, perlustration, pleasant, possessed, prestigious, pretentious, princelike, princely, prominent, queenlike, queenly, questioning, quite the lady, quizzing, radiant, raised, rampant, rapt, raptured, rapturous, ravished, renowned, review, rhapsodic, riant, rosy, sainted, sanctified, sanguine, sanguineous, scan, scrutiny, sent, shrined, sifting, smiling, soaring, sparkling, spiring, steep, stilted, sublime, sunny, superb, supereminent, superior, superlative, supernal, survey, testing, throned, titled, top-drawer, topless, toplofty, topping, towering, towery, transported, upcast, upflung, uplifted, uplifting, upraised, upreared, upright, upthrown, view, winnowing, winsome

• exam, audition, blue book, examen, examination, final, final examination, great go, hearing, honors, midsemester, midterm, oral, oral examination, prelim, quiz, take-home examination, test, trial, tripos, viva, written, written examination

• examination, Pap test, Socratic method, airing, analysis, anatomic diagnosis, appraisal, article, asking, assessment, assize, audition, biological diagnosis, biopsy, blue book, bringing into question, buzz session, canvassing, catechetical method, catechism, catechization, catechizing, causerie, challenge, change of venue, checkout, clinical diagnosis, colloquium, conference, consideration, contemplation, court-martial, cross-examination, cytodiagnosis, debate, debating, deliberation, descant, diagnosis, dialectic, dialogue, differential diagnosis, digital examination, discourse, discussion, dispute, disquisition, dissertation, electrocardiography, electroencephalography, electromyography, enquiry, essay, etude, exam, examen, exchange of views, excursus, exploration, exposition, eyeball inspection, feature, final, final examination, first approach, forum, going-over, great go, grilling, hearing, homily, honors, inquest, inquiring, inquiry, inquisition, inspection, interpellation, interrogation, introductory study, investigation, joint discussion, jury trial, laboratory diagnosis, logical analysis, logical discussion, lucubration, mammography, memoir, midsemester, midterm, mistrial, monograph, morceau, note, ocular inspection, open discussion, open forum, oral, oral examination, outline, overhaul, overhauling, overview, pandect, panel discussion, paper, paragraph, perlustration, perusal, physical diagnosis, physical examination, piece, postmortem diagnosis, prelim, preliminary study, probe, probing, prolegomenon, pumping, quality control, querying, questioning, quiz, quizzing, rap, rap session, research, research paper, review, run-through, scan, screed, scrutiny, search, seeking, seminar, serodiagnosis, sketch, smear, special article, study, survey, symposium, take-home examination, term paper, test, testing, the eye, theme, thesis, third degree, town meeting, tract, tractate, treatise, treatment, trial, trial by jury, tripos, urinalysis, uroscopy, ventilation, vetting, visitation, visual examination, viva, work-up, written, written examination

• examine, air, analyze, appraise, archetype, asleep, assess, autopsy, beau ideal, bone, canvass, case, case history, case in point, catechize, check, check out, check over, check up, check up on, cold, comment upon, con, consider, contemplate, controvert, cross-examine, dead, deal with, debate, deceased, defunct, deliberate, deliberate upon, departed, dig, discourse about, discuss, drill, elucubrate, example, exanimate, exchange views, exemplar, explore, extinct, eye, give an examination, give the eye, give the once-over, go into, go over, grill, grind, handle, hard look, ideal, illustration, inanimate, inquire into, inspect, interrogate, interview, investigate, knock around, late, leer, leer at, lifeless, look at, look into, look over, lucubrate, mirror, model, monitor, observe, ogle, ogle at, overhaul, overlook, paradigm, pass over, pass under review, pattern, peer at, peruse, plunge into, pore, pore over, postmortem, practice, probe, problem, pump, query, question, quiz, rap, read, reason, reason about, reason the point, regard studiously, representative, research, restudy, review, run over, sample, sampling, scan, scrutinize, search, set an examination, shining example, sift, size, size up, sound out, specimen, standard, study, survey, swot, take a long, take stock of, take the measure, take up, talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, test, thresh out, treat, ventilate, vet, view, wade through, weigh, worm out of

• examiner, analyst, analyzer, asker, catechist, cross-interrogator, cross-questioner, detective, examinant, inquirer, inquisitionist, inquisitor, inspector, interlocutor, interpellator, interrogator, interrogatrix, interviewer, investigator, observer, opinion-sampler, poller, pollster, prober, querier, querist, questioner, questionist, quizzer, sampler, scrutineer, secret agent, tester, visitator, visitor

• examining, analytic, examinational, examinatorial, explorational, explorative, exploratory, fact-finding, feeling, groping, heuristic, indagative, inspectional, inspectorial, investigational, investigative, investigatory, tentative, testing, trying, zetetic

• example, admonishment, admonition, alarm, archetype, as an example, benchmark, call to mind, case, case in point, caution, caveat, citation, cite, cite a particular, criterion, cross reference, cross section, demonstrate, demonstration, deterrent example, document, emblem, embodiment, exemplar, exempli gratia, exemplification, exemplify, explanation, exponent, final notice, final warning, for example, for instance, give a for-instance, hint, illustrate, illustration, instance, item, itemize, lesson, little bite, little smack, model, monition, moral, name, norm, notice, notification, object lesson, particular, particularize, pattern, prototype, quotation, quote, reference, relevant instance, representation, representative, sample, specimen, standard, symbol, taste, taster, threat, tip-off, to illustrate, type, typical example, typification, ultimatum, verbum sapienti, warning, warning piece

• exasperate, TB, aggravate, agitate, annoy, arouse, badger, bait, be at, bedevil, beset, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, chafe, chivy, consumption, devil, discompose, distemper, disturb, dog, embitter, exercise, fash, fret, gall, get, gripe, harass, harry, heckle, hector, hound, huff, incense, inflame, irk, irritate, miff, molest, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, peeve, persecute, pester, pick on, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, provoke, rankle, ride, rile, roil, ruffle, set up, stir the blood, stir up, tease, torment, trouble, try the patience, tweak the nose, vex, work up, worry

• exasperated, aggravated, amplified, angry, annoyed, augmented, bothered, browned-off, bugged, burnt-up, chafed, deliberately provoked, disturbed, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated, galled, griped, heated up, heightened, hotted up, huffy, increased, intensified, irked, irritated, magnified, miffed, nettled, peeved, piqued, provoked, put-out, resentful, riled, roiled, ruffled, soured, troubled, vexed, worse, worsened

• exasperating, aggravating, aggravative, annoying, bothering, bothersome, contentious, disturbing, exasperative, galling, harassing, importunate, importune, irking, irksome, irritating, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, provocative, provoking, teasing, tiresome, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, worrisome, worrying

• exasperation, aggravation, agitation, amplification, animation, annoyance, annoyingness, arousal, arousing, augmentation, bad news, bedevilment, besetment, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, contentiousness, crashing bore, deepening, deliberate aggravation, deterioration, devilment, difficulty, disapprobation, disapproval, discontent, displeasure, dissatisfaction, dogging, downer, drag, electrification, embittering, embitterment, enhancement, enlargement, exacerbation, excitation, excitement, exhilaration, firing, fomentation, galvanization, harassment, harrying, headache, heightening, hounding, incitation, incitement, increase, inflammation, infuriation, instigation, intensification, irksomeness, irritant, irritation, lathering up, magnification, molestation, nuisance, pep rally, pep talk, persecution, perturbation, peskiness, pest, pester, pestiferousness, plague, plaguesomeness, pother, problem, provocation, provokingness, rabble-rousing, resentfulness, resentment, sharpening, souring, steaming up, stimulation, stimulus, stirring, stirring up, stirring-up, tiresomeness, trial, trouble, troublesomeness, vexation, vexatiousness, wearisomeness, whipping up, working up, worriment, worrisomeness, worry, worsening

• excavate, avulse, bore, bring to light, bring up, burrow, clear, countersink, cut out, deepen, delve, depress, deracinate, dig, dig out, dig up, dike, disclose, disentangle, disinter, dive, draw, draw out, dredge, dredge up, drill, drive, eradicate, evolve, evulse, excise, exhume, expose, exsect, extract, extricate, ferret out, fish up, furrow, get out, gouge, gouge out, groove, grub, grub up, hollow out, lay bare, lower, mine, pick out, pluck out, pluck up, pull, pull out, pull up, quarry, rake out, remove, reveal, rip out, root out, root up, sap, scoop, scoop out, scrabble, scrape, scratch, shovel, sink, spade, take out, tear out, trench, trough, tunnel, turn up, uncover, unearth, unravel, uproot, weed out, withdraw, worm out, wrest out

• excavation, abysm, abyss, arroyo, avulsion, box canyon, breach, break, bringing to light, burrow, canyon, casual discovery, catching, cavity, chance discovery, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crater, crevasse, crevice, cut, cutting out, cwm, deepening, defile, dell, depression, deracination, detection, determination, determining, dig, digging, diggings, dike, disclosure, discovery, disentanglement, distinguishment, ditch, donga, draw, drawing, drawing out, dredging, drilling, engraving, enucleation, eradication, espial, evolvement, evulsion, excision, exhumation, exposure, expression, exsection, extirpation, extraction, extrication, fault, find, finding, finding out, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hole, hollow, incision, indentation, invention, joint, kloof, leak, locating, location, lowering, lucky strike, mine, mining, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, pit, pressing out, probing, pulling, quarry, quarrying, ravine, recognition, rediscovery, removal, rent, revelation, rift, rime, ripping out, rupture, scissure, seam, serendipity, shaft, sinkage, sinking, slit, slot, split, spotting, squeezing out, strike, treasure trove, trench, trough, trouvaille, trove, tunnel, tunneling, uncovering, unearthing, unrooting, uprooting, valley, void, wadi, well, withdrawal, workings, wresting out

• exceed, beat, best, better, bulk, bulk large, cap, dare, eclipse, exaggerate, excel, go beyond, go one better, improve on, loom, loom large, outdistance, outdo, outpace, outrank, outreach, outrun, outshine, outsoar, outstep, outstrip, outweigh, overbalance, overbear, overcome, overdo, overextend, overgo, overjump, overleap, overpass, overreach, overrun, overshadow, overshoot, overshoot the field, overshoot the mark, overstep, overstride, overtake, overtop, overwhelm, pass, perfect, predominate, preponderate, presume, prevail, rear, rise above, soar, stand out, superabound, surpass, top, tower, tower above, tower over, transcend, trump, venture

• exceedingly, almighty, awfully, considerably, egregiously, eminently, enormously, especially, exceptionally, excessively, extraordinarily, extremely, far and away, greatly, hugely, immeasurably, incomparably, inimitably, just, mightily, mighty, notably, only too, par excellence, paramountly, parlous, powerful, powerfully, preeminently, pretty, prominently, quite, real, really, remarkably, right, so, strikingly, superlatively, supremely, surpassingly, terribly, terrifically, the most, to crown all, transcendently, very, vitally

• excel, be born for, be master of, beat, best, better, cap, dominate, eclipse, exceed, go beyond, go one better, improve on, outdo, outpace, outrank, outshine, outstrip, outweigh, overbalance, overbear, overcome, overpass, overshadow, overtop, perfect, predominate, preponderate, prevail, shine, shine in, surpass, top, tower above, tower over, transcend, trump

• excellence, accomplishment, acquired taste, advantageousness, agreeableness, appreciation of excellence, arete, ascendancy, auspiciousness, beneficialness, benevolence, benignity, choiceness, civilized taste, civilizedness, class, cogency, consequence, conspicuousness, cultivated taste, cultivation, culture, daintiness, deanship, delicacy, desert, discrimination, distinction, elegance, elevation, eminence, exaltation, excellency, expedience, fairness, fastidiousness, favor, favorableness, fineness, finesse, first-rateness, good taste, goodliness, goodness, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, grandeur, greatness, healthiness, helpfulness, high mightiness, importance, incomparability, inimitability, kindness, lead, loftiness, majority, mark, merit, niceness, nicety, nobility, notability, note, one-upmanship, outstandingness, perfection, pleasantness, polish, precedence, predominance, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, prestige, priority, privilege, profitableness, prominence, quality, refinement, rewardingness, right-of-way, seniority, significance, skill, skillfulness, sophistication, soundness, sublimity, subtlety, success, superbness, supereminence, superiority, supremacy, taste, tastefulness, transcendence, transcendency, usefulness, validity, value, virtue, virtuosity, virtuousness, wholeness, worth

• excellent, Al, Attic, Daedalian, Grade A, a cut above, above, adept, admirable, adroit, advantageous, aesthetic, aggrandized, ahead, apotheosized, apt, artistic, ascendant, auspicious, authoritative, awesome, bang-up, banner, beatified, beneficial, benevolent, better, big, blue-ribbon, bon, bonny, bonzer, boss, bravura, braw, brilliant, bueno, bully, bunkum, canonized, capital, capping, champion, chaste, choice, chosen, classic, classical, clean, clever, cogent, commendable, cool, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, dandy, deft, deified, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, distinguished, eclipsing, elegant, elevated, eminent, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, estimable, exalted, exceeding, excelling, exceptional, expedient, expert, extraordinary, fair, famous, fancy, fantastic, favorable, fine, finer, first-class, first-rate, first-string, glorified, good, goodish, goodly, graceful, grand, great, greater, handy, healthy, hear, held in awe, helpful, high, high and mighty, higher, immortal, immortalized, in ascendancy, in good taste, in the ascendant, ingenious, kind, laudable, lofty, magic, magisterial, magnified, major, marked, masterful, masterly, matchless, mighty, neat, nice, no mean, noble, nonpareil, notable, noteworthy, number one, of choice, of quality, one up on, ordinary, outstanding, over, par excellence, peerless, pleasant, pleasing, politic, prime, professional, proficient, profitable, pure, quality, quick, quiet, quite some, rare, ready, regal, remarkable, resourceful, restrained, ripping, rivaling, royal, sainted, sanctified, select, shrined, simple, skillful, slap-up, slick, smashing, some, sound, sovereign, splendid, statesmanlike, sterling, stunning, stylish, subdued, sublime, super, superb, supereminent, superior, superlative, supreme, surpassing, swingeing, tactful, tasteful, terrific, the best, the compleat, the complete, throned, top, top-hole, top-notch, topping, transcendent, transcendental, transcending, unaffected, understated, unobtrusive, upper, useful, valid, very good, virtuoso, virtuous, well-chosen, well-done, without equal, workmanlike, worthy

• except, abjure, abscind, absolve, amputate, annihilate, apart from, aside from, ban, bar, barring, bate, beside, besides, bob, brush aside, but, chuck, chuck out, clip, contemn, contradict, count out, crop, cull, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, debar, decline, deny, despise, disapprove, discard, discharge, disclaim, discount, discounting, disdain, dismiss, disown, dispense from, dispense with, disregard, dock, eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, ex, except for, except that, excepting, exception taken of, excise, exclude, excluding, exclusive of, excuse, exempt, expostulate, extinguish, extirpate, forswear, free, from, give dispensation from, grant immunity, however, if not, ignore, inveigh against, isolate, kick, knock off, leave out, leaving out, less, let alone, let go, let off, lop, minus, mutilate, nip, not counting, object, off, omit, omitting, other than, outside of, pare, pass by, pass over, pass up, peel, pick out, precluding, protest, prune, push aside, rebuff, recant, refuse, refuse to consider, reject, release, remise, remit, remonstrate, renounce, repel, repudiate, repulse, root out, rule out, save, save and except, save the necessity, saving, scout, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, shove away, spare, spurn, stamp out, strike off, strip, strip off, suspend, take off, take out, than, throw away, throw out, truncate, turn away, turn out, unless, unless that, waive, were it not, wipe out, without, yet

• excepted, chartered, contemned, declined, declined with thanks, denied, despised, disapproved, discarded, discounted, disdained, dismissed, disowned, excluded, excused, exempt, exempted, favored, forsworn, ignored, immune, irresponsible, let off, licensed, not considered, permitted, privileged, rebuffed, refused, rejected, released, renounced, repudiated, repulsed, scouted, spared, spurned, unaccountable, unanswerable, unliable, unsubject

• excepting, aside from, bar, barring, beside, besides, but, discounting, ex, except, except for, except that, exception taken of, excluding, exclusive of, from, if not, leaving out, less, let alone, minus, not counting, off, omitting, outside of, precluding, save, save and except, saving, than, unless, unless that, were it not, without

• exception, abjuration, abjurement, abnormality, adverse criticism, allowance, amazement, animadversion, anomaly, answer, argument, aspersion, astonishing thing, astonishment, bad notices, bad press, ban, bar, barring, beef, bitch, blockade, blockage, boycott, call into question, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, cession, challenge, charter, chucking, chucking out, circumscription, complaint, compunction, concession, condition, contempt, contradiction, conversation piece, counterstatement, criticism, curio, curiosity, debarment, debarring, declination, declining, defense, demarcation, demonstration, demur, demurrer, denial, departure, despisal, despising, diplomatic immunity, disagree with, disapproval, discard, discharge, disclamation, discounting, dismissal, disownment, disregard, embargo, exclusion, exemption, expostulation, extenuating circumstances, faultfinding, flak, franchise, freak, gazingstock, grain of salt, grant, grievance, grievance committee, hairsplitting, hedge, hedging, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, howl, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, ignoring, immunity, improbability, imputation, inadmissibility, indignation meeting, injunction, irregularity, kick, knock, legislative immunity, liberty, license, limitation, lockout, march, marvel, marvelment, mental reservation, miracle, modification, museum piece, nagging, narrowing, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, nonacceptance, nonadmission, nonapproval, nonconsideration, nonesuch, nonviolent protest, object to, objection, obloquy, oddity, omission, oppose, overcriticalness, passing by, patent, peculiarity, permission, pestering, pettifogging, phenomenon, picketing, plea, pleading, preclusion, priggishness, privilege, prodigiosity, prodigy, prohibition, protest, protest demonstration, protestation, provision, proviso, putting away, putting out, qualification, qualm, quibble, quibbling, quirk, quite a thing, rally, rap, rarity, rebuff, rebuttal, recantation, reflection, refusal, refutation, rejection, release, relegation, remonstrance, remonstration, renouncement, reply, reproachfulness, repudiation, repulse, reservation, response, restriction, riposte, salvo, scouting, scruple, sensation, sight, sit-in, slam, something else, special case, special demurrer, special pleading, special treatment, specialness, specification, spectacle, spurning, squawk, statement of defense, stipulation, strange thing, stricture, strike, string, stunner, swipe, taboo, take exception to, taking exception, teach-in, term, throwing out, trichoschistism, turning out, waiver, wonder, wonderful thing, wonderment

• exceptional, aberrant, abnormal, absolute, anomalous, appalling, astonishing, beguiling, bewildering, celebrated, certain, concrete, conspicuous, crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety, deficient, defined, definite, detailed, determinate, deviant, deviative, different, distinct, distinguished, divergent, dotty, eccentric, egregious, eminent, enigmatic, erratic, esoteric, especial, esteemed, estimable, ethnocentric, excellent, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, express, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, fey, fixed, flaky, formidable, freakish, funny, gifted, good, handicapped, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, inadmissible, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, indescribable, individual, ineffable, infrequent, inner, insular, intimate, irregular, kinky, kooky, legendary, maggoty, marked, marvelous, memorable, minute, miraculous, mythical, narrow, noble, notable, noteworthy, noticeable, nutty, odd, oddball, of mark, outlandish, outstanding, parochial, particular, passing strange, peculiar, personal, phenomenal, portentous, precise, preclusive, premium, prescriptive, prestigious, preventive, private, prodigious, prohibitive, prominent, puzzling, queer, quirky, rare, remarkable, rememberable, reputable, respective, restrictive, salient, scarce, screwball, screwy, seclusive, segregative, select, selective, sensational, separative, several, signal, singular, snobbish, solipsistic, special, specific, strange, striking, stupefying, stupendous, superior, talented, telling, twisted, uncommon, unconventional, uncustomary, unexampled, unforgettable, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unnatural, unordinary, unparalleled, unprecedented, unspeakable, unthinkable, unusual, unwonted, wacky, whimsical, wonderful, wondrous, xenophobic

• exceptionally, abundantly, acutely, amazingly, amply, astonishingly, awesomely, beguilingly, bewilderingly, choose, cite, conspicuously, copiously, cull, eminently, emphatically, enigmatically, especially, exceedingly, excerpt, exquisitely, extract, extraordinarily, extremely, exuberantly, fabulously, famously, fantastically, fascinatingly, generously, glaringly, glean, hugely, impressively, incomprehensibly, inconceivably, incredibly, ineffably, intensely, magically, magnanimously, magnificently, markedly, marvelously, miraculously, nobly, notably, outlandishly, parlous, particularly, peculiarly, phenomenally, pick, pick out, pointedly, preeminently, prodigiously, profusely, prominently, pronouncedly, puzzlingly, quote, remarkably, richly, select, sensationally, signally, single, singularly, splendidly, strangely, strikingly, stupendously, superlatively, surpassingly, surprisingly, uncommonly, unimaginably, unspeakably, unusually, vitally, wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously, worthily

• excerpt, choose out, citation, cite, cull, cull out, decide between, excerption, extract, extraction, glean, handpick, make a selection, passage, pick, pick out, quotation, quote, select, selected passage, selection, sift, single out, take, winnow

• excess, Saturnalia, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, burlesque, caricature, crapulence, crapulency, crapulousness, de trop, debauchery, dilatation, dilation, disentitlement, dispensable, dissipation, dissoluteness, drunkenness, empty claim, empty title, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excessive, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, expansion, expendable, expletive, extortionateness, extra, extravagance, extreme, false claim, fat, glut, gluttony, grandiloquence, gratuitous, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, impropriety, in excess, inappropriateness, incontinence, indiscipline, indulgence, inflation, inordinacy, inordinateness, intemperance, intemperateness, inundation, invalid claim, lack of claim, leftover, leftovers, magnification, needless, nimiety, no claim, nonessential, outrageousness, overabundance, overage, overbalance, overdoing, overemphasis, overestimation, overflow, overflowing, overgrowth, overindulgence, overkill, overmeasure, overmuch, overpass, overplus, overproduction, overrun, overrunning, overspill, overspreading, overstatement, overstock, oversupply, pleonastic, plethora, plus, preposterousness, prodigality, profuseness, profusion, prolix, puffery, puffing up, redundancy, redundant, remaining, residual, self-indulgence, self-restraint, sensationalism, spare, stretching, superabundance, supererogation, supererogatory, superfluity, superfluous, superiority, superlative, supernumerary, surfeit, surplus, surplusage, swinishness, tall talk, tautologic, tautologous, to spare, too much, too-muchness, touting, travesty, uncalled-for, unconscionableness, unconstraint, uncontrol, undeservedness, undeservingness, undueness, unentitledness, unessential, unmeritedness, unnecessary, unneeded, unreasonableness, unrestraint, verbose

• excessive, a bit much, abandoned, acute, aggrandized, amplified, ballyhooed, bibulous, boundless, cloying, crapulent, crapulous, cutthroat, cutting, disgusting, disproportionate, dissipated, dizzy, drastic, egregious, enormous, exacting, exaggerated, excess, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, fierce, fulsome, furious, gigantic, gluttonous, gouging, grandiloquent, great, grossly overpriced, high, high-flown, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immoderate, improper, inappropriate, incontinent, indulgent, inflated, inflationary, inordinate, intemperate, intense, keen, limitless, magnified, monstrous, nauseating, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, over, overbig, overboard, overdeveloped, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overgrown, overindulgent, overindulging, overlarge, overmuch, overpraised, overpriced, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overweening, overwrought, piercing, preposterous, prodigal, profuse, prohibitive, puffed, rigorous, rough, self-indulgent, severe, sharp, sky-high, skyrocketing, spiraling, splitting, steep, stiff, stretched, super, superfluous, superlative, supernatural, swinish, too much, tough, touted, towering, unbounded, unbridled, unconscionable, unconstrained, uncontrolled, undisciplined, undue, unfrugal, unjustifiable, unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained, untempered, unthrifty, unwarranted, usurious, vehement, venomous, violent, virulent

• excessively, abominably, agonizingly, awfully, baldly, balefully, beyond all bounds, bitterly, blatantly, brashly, confoundedly, cruelly, damnably, deadly, deathly, deucedly, distressingly, dolorously, dreadfully, egregiously, ever, excruciatingly, exorbitantly, extortionately, extravagantly, extremely, flagrantly, frightfully, gougingly, grievously, grossly, hellishly, high, horribly, immensely, immoderately, improperly, inexcusably, infernally, inordinately, intemperately, intolerably, lamentably, miserably, nakedly, openly, outrageously, over, overfull, overly, overmuch, overweeningly, painfully, piteously, preposterously, prodigally, sadly, shatteringly, shockingly, something awful, something fierce, sorely, staggeringly, terribly, to excess, to extremes, too, too much, too-too, torturously, unashamedly, unbearably, unconscionably, unduly, unpardonably, unreasonably, usuriously, without restraint, woefully

• excessiveness, abandon, bigotry, boundlessness, crapulence, crapulency, crapulousness, drunkenness, egregiousness, enormousness, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extortionateness, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extremeness, extremes, extremism, extremity, fabulousness, fanaticalness, fanaticism, giantism, gigantism, gluttony, hyperbole, hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, incontinence, indiscipline, indulgence, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, intemperance, intemperateness, monstrousness, nimiety, outrageousness, overdevelopment, overdoing, overenthusiasm, overgreatness, overgrowth, overindulgence, overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness, overreaction, overreligiousness, overzealousness, perfervidness, preposterousness, prodigality, rabidness, radicalism, self-indulgence, swinishness, too much, too-muchness, ultrazealousness, unconscionableness, unconstraint, uncontrol, undueness, unreasonableness, unrestrainedness, unrestraint, zealotism, zealotry

• exchange, American Stock Exchange, Amex, ESP, Wall Street, abalienate, abalienation, agency, agent, alien, alienate, alienation, altercation, alternate, alternation, alternative, amortization, amortize, amortizement, analogy, answer, area code, argument, assign, assignation, assignment, backup, badinage, bandy, banter, bargain, bargain and sale, barter, bartering, battledore and shuttlecock, be quits with, bequeath, bequeathal, board, boomerang, bourse, brokerage, buy and sell, buying and selling, cede, cession, chaff, change, change for, changeling, colloquial discourse, colloquy, comeback, commerce, commodity exchange, communication, communion, commutation, commute, comparison, compensate, compound for, confer, conferment, conferral, congress, connection, consign, consignation, consignment, contact, conversation, converse, conversing, convey, conveyance, conveyancing, cooperate, cooperation, copy, corn pit, correspondence, counter, counterblast, counterblow, counterchange, counterfeit, counterstroke, cross fire, curb, curb exchange, curb market, deal, dealing, dealings, deed, deed over, deeding, delegation, deliver, deliverance, delivery, demise, deputation, deputy, deputyship, devolve upon, disagreement, discourse, displace, displacement, disposal, disposition, do business, doing business, double, dub in, dummy, enfeoff, enfeoffment, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange floor, fake, fill-in, fooling, fooling around, get back at, get even with, ghost, ghostwriter, give, give and take, give in exchange, give place to, give title to, give-and-take, giving, good-natured banter, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, harmless teasing, horse trading, horse-trade, imitation, information, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, interlocution, intermutation, interplay, jape, jest, jive, jobbing, joke, josh, kidding, kidding around, lease and release, lex talionis, linguistic intercourse, locum tenens, logroll, make do with, make over, make way for, makeshift, market, measure for measure, merchandising, message, metaphor, metonymy, mutual admiration, mutual support, mutual transfer, mutuality, negotiate, next best thing, offer in exchange, outside market, over-the-counter market, pass, pass on, pass over, pay back, permutation, permute, persiflage, personnel, phone book, phone number, phony, pinch hitter, pit, pleasantry, power of attorney, proxy, put up with, quarrel, quid pro quo, quotation board, raillery, rallying, rapping, reciprocality, reciprocate, reciprocation, reciprocity, recoil, redeem, relief, replace, replacement, reply, representation, representative, requite, reserves, respond, response, retailing, retaliate, retaliation, retort, return, return the compliment, ridicule, ring in, ringer, sale, second string, secondary, sell, settle, settle on, settlement, settling, shift with, sign, sign away, sign over, social intercourse, something for something, spares, speaking, speech, speech circuit, speech situation, sport, stand-in, stock exchange, stock market, stock ticker, sub, subrogation, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, supersedence, superseder, superseding, supersedure, supersession, supplantation, supplanter, supplanting, supplantment, surrender, surrogate, swap, swap horses, swapping, switch, symbol, synecdoche, take in exchange, talking, telepathy, telephone area, telephone directory, telephone exchange, telephone market, telephone number, the Big Board, the Exchange, the Street, third market, third string, ticker, ticker tape, tit for tat, token, touch, trade, trade in, trade off, trade sight unseen, trading, traffic, trafficking, transfer, transference, transmission, transmit, transmittal, transposal, transpose, transposition, truck, turn over, twit, two-way communication, understudy, unpleasantness, utility player, verbal intercourse, vesting, vicar, vicariousness, vice-president, vice-regent, wheat pit, wheeling and dealing, wholesaling

• exchequer, Fort Knox, Swiss bank account, archives, armory, arsenal, assets, attic, balance, bank, bank account, basement, bay, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, bottom dollar, box, budget, bunker, bursary, buttery, cargo dock, cash register, cash reserves, cashbox, cellar, checking account, chest, closet, coffer, coin box, command of money, conservatory, crate, crib, cupboard, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dump, finances, fisc, fund, funds, glory hole, godown, gold depository, hold, hutch, kitty, library, life savings, locker, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, means, money chest, moneys, nest egg, pecuniary resources, penny bank, piggy bank, pocket, pool, pork barrel, public crib, public till, public treasury, public trough, purse, rack, repertory, repository, reserves, reservoir, resources, rick, safe, safe-deposit box, savings, savings account, shelf, stack, stack room, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, strong room, strongbox, substance, subtreasury, supply base, supply depot, tank, till, treasure, treasure house, treasure room, treasure-house, treasury, unregistered bank account, vat, vault, warehouse, wherewithal, wine cellar

• excise, VAT, abscind, ad valorem duty, alcohol tax, amputate, amusement tax, annihilate, assessment on default, avulse, ax, ban, bar, bisect, bob, butcher, capital gains tax, capitation, capitation tax, carve, chop, cleave, clip, corporation tax, crop, cull, customs, customs duty, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cut out, death duty, death tax, delete, deracinate, dichotomize, dig out, dig up, disentangle, dissever, dock, doomage, draw, draw out, dredge, dredge up, duty, elide, eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, estate duty, estate tax, evolve, evulse, excavate, except, excess profits tax, excise tax, exclude, export tax, expurgate, exsect, extinguish, extirpate, extract, extricate, federal tax, fissure, gabelle, gash, get out, gift tax, gouge out, grub up, hack, halve, head tax, hew, import tax, incise, income tax, inheritance tax, internal revenue tax, isolate, jigsaw, knock off, lance, land tax, liquor tax, local tax, lop, luxury tax, mine, mutilate, nip, nuisance tax, pare, peel, personal property tax, pick out, pluck out, pluck up, poll, poll tax, property tax, property-increment tax, protective tariff, provincial tax, prune, pull, pull out, pull up, quarry, rake out, rates, remove, rend, revenue tariff, rip out, rive, root out, root up, rule out, sales tax, salt tax, saw, school tax, scissor, set apart, set aside, sever, severance tax, shave, shear, slash, slice, slit, snip, specific duty, split, stamp out, state tax, strike off, strike out, strip, strip off, sunder, take off, take out, tariff, tariff duty, tear, tear out, telephone tax, truncate, unearth, unravel, uproot, use tax, value added tax, weed out, whittle, window tax, wipe out, withdraw, wrest out

• excision, abscission, amputation, anastomotic operation, annihilation, avulsion, bloodless operation, butchering, capital operation, chopping, cleavage, compensating operation, corneal transplant, crescent operation, cutting, cutting out, deracination, destruction, dichotomy, disentanglement, drawing, drawing out, dredging, drilling, elective operation, elimination, emergency operation, enucleation, eradication, evolvement, evulsion, excavation, exclusion, exploratory operation, expression, exsection, extinction, extirpation, extraction, extrication, fenestration operation, fission, heart transplant, interval operation, kidney transplant, laceration, major operation, mining, minor operation, mutilation, operation, organ transplant, organ transplantation, palliative operation, pressing out, pulling, quarrying, radical operation, removal, rending, rescission, resection, ripping, ripping out, scission, section, severance, slashing, slicing, splitting, squeezing out, surgery, surgical intervention, surgical operation, surgical technique, tearing, the knife, transplant, unrooting, uprooting, withdrawal, wresting out

• excitable, agitable, all nerves, apprehensive, bearish, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, combustible, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, cussed, disagreeable, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, eruptive, explosive, fearful, feisty, feverish, fidgety, fractious, frightened, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hot-blooded, huffish, huffy, hysterical, inflammable, irascible, irritable, jumpy, mean, mercurial, mettlesome, nerves on edge, nervous, nervy, on edge, ornery, overstrung, panicky, perturbable, perverse, prickly, quick-tempered, restive, restless, sensitive, skittery, skittish, snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, startlish, temperamental, testy, touchy, ugly, uneasy, unstable, volatile, volcanic, waspish

• excite, activate, affect the interest, agitate, anger, animate, annoy, arouse, attract, awake, awaken, beat, beat up, begin, blow the coals, blow up, bring about, call forth, call up, cause, churn, churn up, concern, convulse, cultivate, disarrange, discompose, disconcert, disquiet, disturb, effect, electrify, elicit, energize, enkindle, enliven, enrage, excite interest, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, fascinate, feed the fire, ferment, fire, fire up, flame, flurry, fluster, foment, frenzy, fret, galvanize, generate, get going, heat, heat up, hop up, ignite, impassion, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, initiate, inspire, inspirit, instigate, interest, intrigue, invigorate, invite, involve in, key up, kindle, lather up, light the fuse, light up, madden, make sensitive, motivate, move, nettle, occasion, overexcite, paddle, perturb, perturbate, pique, prime, prod, provoke, put up to, quicken, rally, refine, rile, ripple, roil, roughen, rouse, ruffle, rumple, sensibilize, sensitize, set astir, set fire to, set in motion, set on, set on fire, shake, shake up, sharpen, sic on, spark, spur on, start, steam up, stimulate, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, summon up, swirl, tantalize, thrill, tickle, titillate, touch off, trouble, turn on, upset, urge, wake, wake up, waken, warm, warm the blood, whet, whip, whip up, whisk, wind up, work into, work up

• excited, ablaze, active, afire, aflame, agitated, agog, animated, antsy, antsy-pantsy, anxious, aquiver, ardent, aroused, atingle, attracted, atwitter, boiling over, breathless, brisk, burning, bursting, carried away, cathectic, chafing, concerned, cordial, curious, delighted, delirious, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, disquieted, disturbed, drunk, eager, ebullient, edgy, effervescent, elated, electrified, energetic, energized, enthusiastic, exhilarated, exuberant, fascinated, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fidgety, fiery, fired, flaming, flurried, flushed, flustered, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fretful, fretting, galvanized, glowing, hasty, hearty, heated, high, hopped up, hopped-up, hot, hysterical, impassioned, impatient, impetuous, in a lather, in a stew, in a sweat, inflamed, intense, interested, intoxicated, itchy, jittery, jumpy, keen, keen on, keyed up, lathered up, lively, manic, moved, nervous, nervy, on edge, on fire, overwrought, passionate, perturbed, pink, piqued, ready to burst, red-hot, restive, restless, roused, ruffled, shaken, shaken up, spirited, squirming, squirmy, steamed up, steaming, steamy, stimulated, stirred, stirred up, tantalized, thrilled, tickled, tingling, tingly, titillated, troubled, troublous, turbulent, turned on, turned-on, uneasy, unpatient, unpeaceful, unquiet, unrestrained, upset, vehement, vigorous, warm, whipped up, worked up, wound up, wrought up, yeasty, zealous

• excitement, action, activity, ado, aggravation, agitation, anger, animation, anxiety, ardency, ardor, arousal, arousing, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, breathless impatience, brouhaha, bustle, chafing, churn, commotion, conturbation, discomfort, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, eagerness, ebullience, ebullition, ecstasy, electrification, embroilment, enthusiasm, exacerbation, exasperation, excitation, exhilaration, ferment, fermentation, fervency, fervidity, fervidness, fervor, fever, feverishness, fidgets, fire, fireworks, firing, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foment, fomentation, fretfulness, fretting, fume, furor, fury, fuss, galvanization, gusto, haste, heart, heartiness, heat, hubbub, hurly-burly, impassionedness, impatience, impatientness, impetuousness, incitation, incitement, inflammation, infuriation, inquietude, instigation, irritation, jitters, jumpiness, lather, lathering up, liveliness, love, maelstrom, malaise, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, passion, passionateness, pep rally, pep talk, perturbation, provocation, rabble-rousing, relish, restiveness, restlessness, roil, rout, row, savor, seethe, seething, sexual desire, soul, spirit, steaming up, stew, stimulation, stimulus, stir, stirring, stirring up, stirring-up, sweat, swirl, tense readiness, tension, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, uneasiness, unpatientness, unquietness, unrest, upset, vehemence, verve, warmth, warmth of feeling, whipping up, working up, zeal

• exciting, acceptable, adorable, agitating, agreeable, alluring, amazing, appealing, appetizing, ardent, arresting, astonishing, astounding, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, breathtaking, burning, cajoling, captivating, catching, challenging, charged, charismatic, charming, cliff-hanging, coaxing, come-hither, coquettish, desirable, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, electric, electrifying, emphatic, enchanting, encouraging, energizing, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enthusiastic, enticing, entrancing, enviable, exhilarating, exhilarative, exotic, fascinating, fervent, fetching, fiery, flirtatious, galvanic, galvanizing, glamorous, glowing, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, hypnotic, impassioned, impressive, inflammatory, inspiring, interesting, intoxicating, intriguing, invigorating, inviting, irresistible, jarring, jolting, juicy, likable, lively, lovable, maddening, mesmeric, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, mouth-watering, moving, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, passionate, perturbing, piquant, pleasing, prepossessing, prompting, provocative, provoking, provoquant, racy, ravishing, readable, rich, rip-roaring, rousing, seducing, seductive, sensuous, sexy, siren, sirenic, soul-stirring, spellbinding, spellful, spicy, spirit-stirring, stimulant, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking, succulent, suspenseful, suspensive, taking, tantalizing, teasing, telling, tempting, thought-challenging, thought-inspiring, thought-provoking, thrilling, thrilly, tickling, titillating, titillative, to be desired, toothsome, troubling, unobjectionable, unsettling, upsetting, urgent, vehement, voluptuous, warm, winning, winsome, witching, worth having

• exclaim, allude to, bark, bawl, bellow, blare, blat, blubber, blurt, blurt out, bolt, boom, bray, breathe, burst out, buzz, cackle, call attention to, call out, chant, chirp, comment, coo, crow, cry out, declare, drawl, ejaculate, flute, gasp, growl, grunt, hiss, holler, interject, keen, let drop, let fall, lilt, make reference to, mention, mumble, murmur, muse, mutter, note, observe, opine, pant, pipe, proclaim, refer to, reflect, remark, roar, rumble, scream, screech, shout, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, snap, snarl, snort, sob, speak, squall, squawk, squeal, thunder, trumpet, twang, utter, vociferate, wail, warble, whine, whisper, yap, yawp, yell, yelp

• exclamation, Parthian shot, address, affirmation, allegation, answer, apostrophe, assertion, averment, bellow, blurt, call, comment, crack, cry, declaration, dictum, ecphonesis, ejaculation, expletive, expression, greeting, holler, interjection, mention, note, observation, outburst, outcry, phrase, position, pronouncement, question, reflection, remark, say, saying, sentence, shout, statement, subjoinder, thought, utterance, vociferation, word, yell

• exclude, abjure, abscind, amputate, annihilate, anticipate, avert, ban, banish, bar, bar out, bate, blackball, blockade, bob, boot out, bounce, brush aside, cast, cast out, categorically reject, chuck, chuck out, clip, contemn, contradict, count out, crop, cull, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, debar, decline, defenestrate, deflect, deny, deport, despise, deter, detrude, disallow, disapprove, disapprove of, discard, discharge, disclaim, discount, discourage, disdain, disfavor, disfellowship, dishearten, dismiss, disown, disregard, dissent from, dock, eject, eliminate, embargo, enjoin, enucleate, eradicate, estop, evict, except, excise, exclude from, excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expel, extinguish, extirpate, extradite, extrude, fend, fend off, forbid, foreclose, forestall, forswear, freeze out, frown at, frown down, frown upon, fugitate, get rid of, give the hook, grimace at, heave out, help, ignore, inhibit, interdict, isolate, jettison, junk, keep away, keep from, keep off, keep out, kick downstairs, kick out, knock off, leave out, lock out, look askance at, look black upon, lop, mutilate, nip, not approve, not go for, not hear of, not hold with, object, object to, obtrude, obviate, omit, oppose, ostracize, oust, outlaw, pare, pass by, pass over, pass up, peel, pick out, preclude, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, protest, prune, push aside, put out, rebuff, recant, refuse, refuse to consider, reject, relegate, remove, renounce, repel, repress, repudiate, repulse, root out, rule, rule out, rusticate, save, say no to, scout, send away, send down, send to Coventry, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, shove away, shut out, snub, spurn, stamp out, stave off, strike off, strip, strip off, suppress, taboo, take exception to, take off, take out, think ill of, think little of, throw away, throw out, throw overboard, thrust out, thumb down, toss out, transport, truncate, turn aside, turn away, turn out, view with disfavor, waive, ward off, wipe out

• excluded, absurd, banned, barred, closed-out, contemned, contrary to reason, debarred, declined, declined with thanks, denied, deported, despised, disapproved, discarded, discounted, disdained, dismissed, disowned, ejected, excepted, exiled, expelled, forsworn, hopeless, ignored, impossible, inconceivable, left out, liquidated, logically impossible, not considered, not in it, not included, not possible, oxymoronic, paradoxical, precluded, preposterous, prohibited, purged, rebuffed, refused, rejected, renounced, repudiated, repulsed, ridiculous, ruled-out, scouted, self-contradictory, shut out, spurned, tabooed, unimaginable, unthinkable

• excluding, aside from, bar, barring, beside, besides, but, discounting, ethnocentric, ex, except, except for, excepting, exception taken of, exceptional, exclusive, exclusive of, exclusory, from, inadmissible, insular, leaving out, less, let alone, minus, narrow, not counting, off, omitting, outside of, parochial, precluding, preclusive, prescriptive, preventive, prohibitive, restrictive, save, save and except, saving, seclusive, segregative, select, selective, separative, snobbish, than, unless, without, xenophobic

• exclusion, Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, abjuration, abjurement, abscission, amputation, annihilation, ban, banishment, bar, blackball, blackballing, chucking, chucking out, complaint, contempt, contraband, contradiction, declination, declining, defrocking, degradation, demotion, denial, depluming, deportation, deprivation, despisal, despising, destruction, dim view, disagreement, disallowance, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, disbarment, discard, disclamation, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, discounting, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disfellowship, disgruntlement, disillusion, disillusionment, dismissal, disownment, displeasure, displuming, disregard, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissent, distaste, ejection, elimination, embargo, eradication, eviction, exception, excision, excommunication, exile, expatriation, expulsion, extinction, extirpation, extradition, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, fugitation, ignoring, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, indignation, inhibition, injunction, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, law, lockout, low estimation, low opinion, mutilation, no-no, nonacceptance, nonapproval, nonconsideration, objection, omission, opposition, opposure, ostracism, ostracization, ouster, outlawing, outlawry, passing by, preclusion, prevention, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscription, protest, putting away, putting out, rebuff, recantation, refusal, rejection, relegation, removal, renouncement, repression, repudiation, repulse, rescission, restrictive covenants, riddance, ruling out, rustication, scouting, spurning, statute, stripping, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo, throwing out, thumbs-down, transportation, turning out, unfrocking, unhappiness, zoning, zoning laws

• exclusive of, aside from, bar, barring, beside, besides, but, discounting, ex, except, except for, excepting, exception taken of, excluding, from, leaving out, less, let alone, minus, not counting, off, omitting, outside of, precluding, save, save and except, saving, than, unless, without

• exclusive, Olympian, a certain, absolute, aloof, an, any, any one, apart from, aristocratic, arrogant, article, atomic, barring, beat, budget of news, chic, chilly, choice, chosen, clannish, classy, cliquish, closed, cold, concentrated, confining, contemptuous, contumelious, cool, copy, dashing, debarring, defining, definitive, detached, disdainful, distant, either, elect, elegant, elite, ethnocentric, except for, excepting, exceptional, excluding, exclusive of, exclusory, fashionable, fixed, forbidding, frigid, frosty, haughty, high-hat, icy, ignoring, inaccessible, inadmissible, incompatible, individual, indivisible, inhibitive, inhibitory, inimical, insular, integral, interdictive, interdictory, irreducible, limitary, limitative, limited, limiting, lone, modish, monadic, monistic, narrow, news item, not counting, offish, omitting, one, only, parochial, pick, picked, piece, preclusive, preferred, prescriptive, preventive, private, privileged, prohibiting, prohibitive, prohibitory, proscriptive, remote, removed, repressive, restricted, restricting, restrictive, scoop, scornful, seclusive, segregative, select, selected, selective, separative, simple, single, singular, smart, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, sole, solid, solitary, spot news, standoff, standoffish, story, stylish, supercilious, suppressive, swank, swish, tony, toploftical, toplofty, trendy, unanalyzable, unapproachable, undistracted, undivided, uniform, unique, unitary, unshared, unswerving, whole, with-it, withdrawn, withering, xenophobic

• exclusively, alone, barely, but, completely, entirely, integrally, irreducibly, just, merely, only, particularly, plainly, purely, simply, simply and solely, singly, solely, totally, unanalyzably, undividedly, wholly

• exclusiveness, Jim Crow, airs, alien, apartheid, arrogance, clannishness, clanship, cliqueyness, cliquishness, cliquism, color bar, contempt, contemptuousness, contumely, denominationalism, despite, disdain, disdainfulness, disparagement, division, esprit de corps, ethnocentricity, ethnocentrism, faction, factionalism, foreigner, hauteur, insularity, insulation, insult, isolation, know-nothingism, narrowness, out-group, outcast, outsider, parochialism, partiality, partisanism, partisanship, party spirit, persona non grata, quarantine, race hatred, racial segregation, ridicule, scorn, scornfulness, seclusion, seclusiveness, sectarianism, sectionalism, segregation, selectiveness, selectivity, selectness, separation, sniffiness, snobbery, snobbishness, snobbism, snootiness, snottiness, sovereign contempt, stranger, superciliousness, tightness, toploftiness, xenophobia

• excogitate, cogitate, contemplate, contrive, develop, educe, evolve, give thought to, invent, mind, perpend, ponder, puzzle out, reason out, sort out, study, think about, think out, think over, think through, think up, weigh

• excommunicate, accurse, anathematize, attaint, ban, banish, blackball, blacklist, blaspheme, blast, break, bring home to, bust, cashier, cast out, censure, condemn, confound, convict, curse, cut, damn, darn, deconsecrate, defrock, denounce, denunciate, deport, depose, dethrone, disbar, discrown, disenthrone, disfellowship, dismiss, displace, doom, drum out, exclude, execrate, exile, expatriate, expel, extradite, find guilty, fugitate, fulminate against, give the gate, hex, imprecate, kick upstairs, liquidate, ostracize, oust, outlaw, overthrow, pass sentence on, penalize, pension, pension off, pronounce judgment, pronounce sentence, proscribe, purge, read out of, relegate, remove, remove from office, retire, rusticate, send to Coventry, sentence, snub, spurn, strip of office, strip of rank, superannuate, suspend, throw a whammy, thrust out, thunder against, transport, unchurch, unfrock, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone

• excoriate, abrade, assail, attack, bark, blister, castigate, decorticate, flay, fret, fustigate, gall, lash, pare, peel, roast, rub, scalp, scarify, scathe, scorch, scourge, skin, skin alive, slash, strip, trounce

• excrement, carrion, corruption, dandruff, decay, dejecta, dejection, dejecture, discharge, effluent, egesta, ejecta, ejectamenta, ejection, excreta, excretes, extravasate, extravasation, exudate, exudation, filth, foul matter, furfur, gangrene, mess, muck, mucus, obscenity, ordure, pus, putrid matter, rot, scurf, scuz, slime, smut, snot, sordes, transudate, transudation, waste, waste matter

• excrete, bleed, discharge, effuse, egest, eliminate, emit, exfiltrate, extravasate, exudate, exude, filter, filtrate, give off, give out, lactate, leach, lixiviate, ooze, pass, percolate, produce, reek, secern, secrete, seep, strain, tear, transpire, transude, water, weep

• excretion, cleaning out, clearance, clearing, defecation, depletion, discharging cargo, drainage, draining, effusion, egress, elimination, emptying, evacuation, exfiltration, exhausting, exhaustion, external secretion, extravasation, exudation, filtering, filtration, internal secretion, lacrimation, lactation, leaching, lixiviation, off-loading, ooze, oozing, percolating, percolation, removal, secernment, secreta, secretion, seep, seepage, straining, transudation, unloading, venting, voidance, voiding, weep, weeping

• excretory, egestive, eliminative, excretionary, excretive, exudative, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, leaky, oozy, percolative, permeable, pervious, porous, rheumy, runny, salivant, salivary, salivous, secretional, secretive, secretory, seminal, serous, sialagogic, spermatic, transudative, watering, watery, weepy

• excruciating, acute, afflictive, agonizing, atrocious, biting, consuming, cramping, cruel, desolating, distressful, distressing, exquisite, extreme, gnawing, grave, griping, hard, harrowing, harsh, heartbreaking, heartrending, heartsickening, heartwounding, hurtful, hurting, insufferable, intense, keen, painful, paroxysmal, piercing, poignant, pungent, racking, rending, severe, sharp, shooting, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, stabbing, stinging, tearing, tormenting, torturing, torturous, unbearable, unendurable, vivid

• excruciatingly, abominably, agonizingly, awfully, baldly, balefully, bitterly, blatantly, brashly, confoundedly, cruelly, damnably, deadly, deathly, deplorably, deucedly, distressfully, distressingly, dolorously, dreadfully, egregiously, excessively, exorbitantly, extravagantly, flagrantly, frightfully, grievously, harrowingly, heartbreakingly, hellishly, horribly, improperly, inexcusably, infernally, inordinately, intolerably, lamentably, miserably, nakedly, openly, painfully, pathetically, piteously, pitiably, ruefully, sadly, shatteringly, shockingly, something awful, something fierce, sorely, staggeringly, terribly, torturously, unashamedly, unbearably, unconscionably, unduly, unpardonably, woefully

• exculpate, absolve, account for, acquit, amnesty, clear, condone, cry sour grapes, decontaminate, destigmatize, discharge, dismiss, dispense from, do justice to, excuse, exempt, exempt from, exonerate, explain, forgive, free, give absolution, grant amnesty to, grant forgiveness, grant immunity, grant remission, justify, let go, let off, nonpros, pardon, purge, quash the charge, rationalize, rehabilitate, reinstate, release, remit, restore, set free, shrive, spare, vindicate, warrant, whitewash, withdraw the charge

• exculpation, absolution, acquittal, acquittance, amnesty, clearance, clearing, compurgation, destigmatization, destigmatizing, discharge, disculpation, dismissal, excuse, exemption, exoneration, explanation, forgiveness, grace, immunity, indemnity, justification, pardon, purgation, purging, quietus, quittance, rationalization, redemption, rehabilitation, reinstatement, release, remission, remission of sin, reprieve, restoration, shrift, sparing, verdict of acquittal, vindication

• excursion, aberrancy, aberration, airing, ambages, aside, bend, bias, branching off, bypass, bypath, byway, campaign, circling, circuit, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulation, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulation, circumbendibus, circumflexion, circumlocution, circummigration, circumnavigation, corner, course, crook, crosswiseness, cruise, curve, declination, deflection, deflexure, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, digression, discursion, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, drive, episode, errantry, excursus, exorbitation, expedition, grand tour, gyre, gyring, hairpin, hike, indirection, indirectness, jaunt, journey, junket, lionism, meandering, nonconformity, obliqueness, obliquity, orbit, orbiting, outing, package tour, parenthesis, peregrination, pererration, pilgrimage, pleasure trip, progress, ramble, rambling, ride, round trip, roundabout, roundabout way, roundaboutness, rounding, rubberneck tour, run, safari, sail, sally, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shoot, side path, side road, sidetrack, sight-seeing, skew, skewness, slant, spiral, spiraling, squint, stalk, straying, stroll, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, tour, transverseness, trek, trip, turn, turning, twist, vagary, variation, veer, voyage, walk, walkabout, wandering, warp, wheeling, yaw, zigzag

• excursive, O-shaped, aberrant, aberrative, aimless, ambagious, backhand, backhanded, by the way, circuitous, circular, deflectional, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive, divagational, divergent, episodic, errant, erratic, helical, indirect, labyrinthine, left-handed, loose, maundering, mazy, meandering, oblique, orbital, out-of-the-way, planetary, rambling, rotary, round, roundabout, roving, serpentine, shifting, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistral, snaky, spiral, stray, swerving, turning, twisting, undirected, vagrant, veering, wandering, winding, zigzag

• excusable, admissible, allowable, condonable, defensible, dispensable, exemptible, expiable, forgivable, inoffensive, justifiable, legitimate, pardonable, reasonable, remissible, tenable, unobjectionable, venial, vindicable, warrantable

• excuse, abject apology, absolution, absolve, acknowledgment, acquit, acquittal, acquittance, alibi, alibi out of, allow, amnesty, apologize for, apology, basis, be blind to, blind, breast-beating, cause, clear, clearance, clearing, cloak, color, compurgation, condonation, condone, confession, contrition, cop-out, cover, cover story, cover with excuses, cover-up, decontaminate, defence, defend, defense, destigmatization, destigmatize, destigmatizing, device, discharge, disculpation, dismiss, dismissal, dispense, dispense from, dispense with, disregard, escape, evasion, except, exculpate, exculpation, exempt, exempt from, exemption, exonerate, exoneration, explain, explanation, extenuate, extenuation, facade, feint, forgive, forgiveness, foundation, free, front, give absolution, give dispensation from, gloss, gloss over, grace, grant amnesty to, grant forgiveness, grant immunity, grant remission, grounds, guise, handle, heedlessness, ignore, immunity, indemnity, indulgence, justification, justify, lame excuse, let go, let off, liberate, lie out of, likely story, locus standi, loophole, make apology for, makeshift, mask, mea culpa, mitigate, mitigation, nonpros, offer excuse for, ostensible motive, out, overlook, palliate, palliation, pardon, pass over, penitence, permit, plea, plead ignorance, poor excuse, pretense, pretension, pretext, protestation, public motive, purgation, purge, purging, put-off, quash the charge, quietus, quittance, rational ground, rationale, rationalization, rationalize, reason, reason for, reason why, redemption, refuge, regrets, release, relieve, remise, remission, remission of sin, remit, reprieve, right, save the necessity, screen, semblance, set free, sham, shift, show, shrift, shrive, shrug off, smoke screen, spare, sparing, squirm out of, stalking-horse, stall, stated cause, stopgap, story, stratagem, substitute, subterfuge, the big idea, the idea, the whatfor, the wherefore, the why, trick, underlying reason, varnish, veil, verdict of acquittal, vindicate, vindication, warrant, way out, whitewash, wink at, withdraw the charge, worm out of

• excused, absolved, acquitted, blotted, canceled, chartered, condoned, disregarded, excepted, exculpated, exempt, exempted, exonerated, favored, forgiven, forgotten, immune, indulged, irresponsible, let off, licensed, overlooked, pardoned, permitted, privileged, redeemed, released, remitted, reprieved, shriven, spared, unaccountable, unanswerable, unavenged, uncondemned, unliable, unresented, unrevenged, unsubject, wiped away

• execrable, abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, arrant, atrocious, bad, base, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, black, blamable, blameworthy, cheesy, contemptible, criminal, crude, crummy, cursed, damn, damnable, damned, dark, debased, degraded, demoniac, demonic, depraved, despicable, detestable, devilish, diabolic, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, evil, fetid, fiendish, flagitious, flagrant, forbidding, foul, fulsome, ghoulish, goddamn, goddamned, grave, gross, hateful, heinous, hellish, horrific, horrifying, ignoble, improper, infamous, infernal, iniquitous, knavish, little, loathsome, low, low-down, lumpen, malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous, nasty, naughty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, paltry, peccant, petty, poky, poor, rank, rebarbative, repellent, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, satanic, scabby, scandalous, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shoddy, sickening, sinful, small, squalid, stinking, unforgivable, ungodly, unmentionable, unpardonable, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wretched, wrong

• execrate, abhor, abominate, abuse, accurse, anathematize, ban, bark at, berate, betongue, blacken, blaspheme, blast, censure, condemn, confound, curse, curse and swear, cuss, damn, darn, denounce, detest, dysphemize, excommunicate, fulminate against, hate, hex, hold in abomination, imprecate, jaw, load with reproaches, loathe, objurgate, rag, rail at, rate, rave against, reprehend, reprobate, reprove, revile, scatologize, shudder at, swear, talk dirty, throw a whammy, thunder against, tongue-lash, utterly detest, vilify, vituperate, yell at, yelp at

• execration, Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, abomination, abuse, anathema, anti-Semitism, antipathy, assailing, assault, attack, aversion, ban, berating, bigotry, bitter words, blackening, blasphemy, commination, contumely, curse, cursing, cussing, damnation, denunciation, despitefulness, detestation, diatribe, dislike, evil eye, excommunication, fulmination, hard words, hate, hatred, hex, imprecation, invective, jawing, jeremiad, loathing, malevolence, malice, malignity, malison, malocchio, misandry, misanthropy, misogyny, odium, onslaught, peeve, pet peeve, philippic, phobia, profanity, proscription, race hatred, racism, rating, repugnance, revilement, screed, spite, spitefulness, swearing, thundering, tirade, tongue-lashing, vials of hate, vials of wrath, vilification, vituperation, whammy, xenophobia

• execute, abide by, accompany, accomplish, achieve, act, adhere to, administer, administrate, annihilate, assassinate, attain, be productive, behead, bereave of life, bowstring, bring about, bring into being, bring off, bring to fruition, bump off, burn, butcher, carry away, carry into execution, carry off, carry out, carry through, cause, chloroform, chord, compass, complete, concertize, conduct, consummate, cool, cope with, countersign, crucify, cut, cut down, cut off, deal with, decapitate, decollate, defenestrate, deliver, deprive of life, destroy, discharge, dispatch, dispose of, do, do away with, do for, do in, do the job, do the trick, do to death, dust off, effect, effectuate, electrocute, eliminate, enact, end, enforce, engineer, exterminate, fetch, fill out, finish, finish off, fulfill, garrote, govern, guillotine, handle, honor, ice, immolate, implement, industrialize, inflict capital punishment, interpret, kill, knock off, lapidate, launch into eternity, liquidate, lynch, make, make away with, make music, make out, manage, martyr, martyrize, mass-produce, murder, observe, overproduce, perform, play, play by ear, poison, polish off, practice, produce, promulgate, prosecute, pull off, purge, put away, put down, put in force, put over, put through, put to death, put to sleep, realize, remove, remove from life, render, rub out, sacrifice, seal, shoot, sign, slay, snuff out, starve, stone, strangle, succeed, swing, symphonize, take care of, take life, take off, transact, turn the trick, validate, volume-produce, waste, wipe out, work, work out

• executed, accomplished, achieved, attained, brought about, caused, compassed, consummated, discharged, dispatched, disposed of, done, effected, effectuated, fulfilled, grown, implemented, made, mass-produced, performed, produced, raised, realized, set at rest, wrought, wrought out

• execution, accomplished fact, accomplishment, accordance, achievement, acquittal, acquittance, action, adherence, administration, agency, angary, annexation, annexure, approach, art, assassination, attachment, attainment, ax, bane, beheading, block, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, bringing to fruition, burning, cantando, capital punishment, care, carrying out, collectivization, commandeering, commission, communalization, communization, completion, compliance, conduct, confiscation, conformance, conformity, consummation, cross, crucifixion, dealing death, death chair, death chamber, decapitation, decollation, defenestration, delivery, demilegato, destruction, destruction of life, direction, discharge, dispatch, distraint, distress, doing, driving, drop, effectuation, electric chair, electrocution, eminent domain, enactment, enforcement, euthanasia, exercise, expression, expropriation, extermination, fait accompli, fingering, flow of blood, fruition, fulfillment, functioning, fusillade, gallows, gallows-tree, garnishment, garrote, gas chamber, gassing, gibbet, glissando, gore, guillotine, halter, handling, hanging, heed, heeding, hemlock, hemp, hempen collar, hot seat, immolation, implementation, impoundment, impressment, intonation, judicial murder, keeping, kill, killing, lapidation, legato, lethal chamber, levy, liquidation, maiden, management, manipulation, manner, martyrdom, martyrization, mastery, mercy killing, mezzo staccato, mission accomplished, mode, murder, music-making, nationalization, necktie party, noose, observance, observation, occupation, operancy, operation, overproduction, parlando, performance, performing, perpetration, pianism, pizzicato, poisoning, practice, production, productiveness, prosecution, pursuance, realization, removal, rendering, rendition, repercussion, respect, responsibility, right of angary, ritual killing, ritual murder, rope, rubato, running, sacrifice, satisfaction, scaffold, sequestration, shooting, skill, slaughter, slaying, slur, socialization, spiccato, staccato, stake, steering, stoning, strangling, strangulation, style, success, taking of life, technique, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, touch, transaction, tree, work, working, workings

• executive officer, ADC, CO, OD, acolyte, adjutant, advocate, agent, aid, aide, aide-de-camp, aider, alter ego, alternate, amicus curiae, archon, assistant, attendant, attorney, auxiliary, backup, backup man, best man, brigadier, brigadier general, captain, champion, chancellor, chicken colonel, chief executive, chief executive officer, chief of staff, coadjutant, coadjutor, coadjutress, coadjutrix, colonel, commandant, commander, commander in chief, commanding officer, commissioned officer, company officer, dean, deputy, dummy, exec, executive, executive director, executive secretary, exponent, field marshal, field officer, figurehead, first lieutenant, five-star general, four-star general, general, general officer, generalissimo, help, helper, helpmate, helpmeet, jemadar, junior officer, lieutenant, lieutenant colonel, lieutenant general, locum, locum tenens, magistrate, major, major general, management, managing director, marechal, marshal, officer, official, one-star general, orderly officer, paranymph, paraprofessional, pinch hitter, pleader, prefect, president, prexy, procurator, provost, proxy, representative, risaldar, second, second in command, secondary, secretary, senior officer, servant, shavetail, sideman, sirdar, staff officer, stand-in, subahdar, subaltern, sublieutenant, substitute, supporting actor, supporting instrumentalist, surrogate, the Old Man, the administration, the brass, three-star general, top brass, treasurer, two-star general, understudy, utility man, vicar, vicar general, vice, vice-chancellor, vice-president, vicegerent, warden

• executive, administrating, administration, administrative, administrator, archon, big cheese, board, board of directors, board of regents, board of trustees, boss, bureaucratic, businessman, businesswoman, cabinet, cadre, captain, castellan, chancellor, chatelain, chatelaine, chief executive, chief executive officer, commandant, commander, council, dean, directing, director, directorate, directorship, directory, entrepreneur, exec, executive arm, executive committee, executive director, executive hierarchy, executive officer, executive secretary, foreman, governing, governing board, governing body, government, governmental, governor, gubernatorial, head, infrastructure, intendant, interlocking directorate, kingpin, leader, leadership, magistrate, management, manager, managerial, managing, managing director, master, ministerial, number one, officer, official, officiating, overseer, prefect, president, presiding, prexy, principal, provost, regulatory, ruler, secretary, steering committee, superintendent, supervision, supervisor, supervisory, the administration, the brass, the executive, the people upstairs, top brass, top dog, treasurer, vice-chancellor, vice-president, warden

• executor, actor, agent, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, begetter, beginner, builder, conceiver, constructor, craftsman, creator, designer, deviser, discoverer, doer, effector, engenderer, engineer, executant, executrix, fabricator, father, founder, generator, grower, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, medium, mother, mover, operant, operative, operator, organizer, originator, past master, performer, perpetrator, planner, practitioner, precursor, prime mover, producer, raiser, realizer, shaper, sire, smith, subject, worker, wright

• exegesis, allegorization, annotation, apparatus criticus, clarification, comment, commentary, commentation, construction, cracking, decipherment, decoding, demonstration, demythologization, editing, elucidation, emendation, enlightenment, euhemerism, exemplification, explanation, explication, expose, exposition, expounding, footnote, gloss, illumination, illustration, interpretation, light, notation, note, note of explanation, rationale, reason, scholium, simplification, solution, unlocking, word of explanation

• exemplar, Geistesgeschichte, Hegelian idea, Kantian idea, Platonic form, Platonic idea, archetype, beau ideal, case, case in point, classic, complex idea, demonstration, emblem, eternal object, eternal universal, example, exemplification, explanation, exponent, formal cause, good example, highest category, history of ideas, ideal, idealism, ideate, ideatum, idee-force, illustration, innate idea, instance, man of men, masterpiece, masterwork, mirror, model, nonpareil, noosphere, noumenon, object lesson, paradigm, paragon, pattern, pattern of perfection, percept, prototype, quintessence, regulative first principle, relevant instance, representative, shining example, simple idea, soul, standard, subsistent form, symbol, the Absolute, the Absolute Idea, the Self-determined, the realized ideal, transcendent idea, transcendent nonempirical concept, transcendent universal, type, typical example, universal, universal concept, universal essence, very model

• exemplary, admirable, admonishing, admonitory, archetypal, archetypical, beyond all praise, blameless, cautionary, cautioning, characteristic, classic, classical, commendable, consummate, creditable, deserving, deterrent, developed, distinctive, distinguishing, estimable, excellent, expert, finished, fully developed, guiltless, ideal, illustrative, inculpable, innocent, irreprehensible, laudable, masterful, masterly, mature, matured, meritorious, model, monitorial, monitory, natural, naturalistic, normal, noteworthy, notificational, notifying, outstanding, paradigmatic, perfected, polished, praiseworthy, precedential, proficient, prototypal, pure, quintessential, realistic, refined, regular, representative, righteous, ripe, ripened, sample, standard, superior, t, true to form, true to type, typal, typic, typical, unblamable, unexceptionable, usual, virtuous, warning, well-deserving, worthy

• exemplification, allegorization, alphabet, art, blueprint, case, case in point, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, citation, clarification, conventional representation, cracking, cross reference, dance notation, decipherment, decoding, delineation, demonstration, demythologization, depiction, depictment, diagram, drama, drawing, editing, elucidation, emblem, emendation, enlightenment, euhemerism, example, exegesis, exemplar, explanation, explication, exponent, exposition, expounding, figuration, hieroglyphic, iconography, ideogram, illumination, illustration, imagery, imaging, instance, item, letter, light, limning, logogram, logograph, map, musical notation, notation, object lesson, particular, pictogram, picturization, plan, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, printing, projection, quotation, rationale, realization, reason, reference, relevant instance, rendering, rendition, representation, representative, schema, score, script, simplification, solution, syllabary, symbol, tablature, type, typical example, unlocking, writing

• exemplify, absolve, account for, adumbrate, allegorize, body forth, call to mind, cite, cite a particular, clarify, clear up, crack, decipher, demonstrate, demythologize, depict, discharge, dispense, display, document, elucidate, emblematize, embody, enlighten, epitomize, euhemerize, example, except, excuse, exempt, exhibit, explain, explain away, explicate, exposit, expound, figure, fit the pattern, foreshadow, free, give a for-instance, give reason for, give the meaning, illuminate, illustrate, image, impersonate, incarnate, instance, itemize, lead the way, let off, make clear, make plain, mirror, model, name, particularize, personate, personify, popularize, prefigure, pretypify, project, quote, rationalize, realize, reflect, relieve, represent, set an example, set the pace, shadow, shadow forth, shed light upon, show, show how, show the way, simplify, solve, spare, spell out, symbolize, throw light upon, typify, unfold, unlock, unravel

• exempt, absolve, acquit, amnesty, chartered, clear, decontaminate, destigmatize, discharge, dismiss, dispense from, dispense with, except, excepted, exculpate, excuse, excused, exempt from, exempted, exonerate, favored, forgive, free, give absolution, give dispensation from, grant amnesty to, grant immunity, grant remission, immune, irresponsible, justify, let go, let off, liberated, licensed, nonpros, pardon, permitted, privileged, purge, quash the charge, release, released, remise, remit, save the necessity, set free, shrive, spare, spared, unaccountable, unanswerable, unliable, unsubject, vindicate, whitewash, withdraw the charge

• exemption, absolution, allowance, amnesty, cession, charter, circumscription, concession, diplomatic immunity, discharge, dispensation, exception, exclusion, exculpation, excuse, exoneration, extenuating circumstances, franchise, freedom, grace, grain of salt, grant, hedge, hedging, immunity, impunity, indemnity, legislative immunity, liberty, license, limitation, mental reservation, modification, nolle prosequi, non prosequitur, nonprosecution, pardon, patent, permission, privilege, qualification, redemption, release, remission, remission of sin, reprieve, reservation, restriction, salvo, shrift, sparing, special case, special treatment, specialness, specification, stay, waiver

• exercise, Nachtmusik, abrade, absolute music, absorb, absorb the attention, act, acting, action, active use, activism, activity, adaptation, aerobics, agency, aggravate, agitate, air varie, aleatory, aleatory music, annoy, appliance, application, apply, apprentice, apprenticeship, arrangement, arrest, assignment, athletics, baccalaureate service, badger, bait, basic training, be at, bedevil, behavior, beset, bestow, boning, bother, brainwork, break, break in, breaking, breather, breed, breeding, bring to bear, bring up, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burden, burn up, busywork, calisthenics, callisthenics, carry on, catch, celebration, ceremonial, ceremony, chafe, chalk talk, chamber music, chamber orchestra, chare, charge, charm, chivy, chore, commencement, commission, composition, concern, condition, conditioning, conduct, conning, constitutional, consumption, contemplation, convocation, cram, cramming, cultivate, cultivation, daily dozen, descant, develop, development, devil, direction, discharge, discipline, discompose, discourse, disquisition, distemper, distress, disturb, do, do with, dog, doing, drill, drilling, driving, duty, effect, electronic music, employ, employment, empty formality, enchant, engage, engage in, engage the attention, engage the mind, engage the thoughts, engross, engross the mind, engross the thoughts, engrossment, enthrall, errand, etude, exasperate, execute, execution, exercises, exercising, exert, exertion, exploit, exposition, extensive study, fascinate, fash, fetch up, fetching-up, fish to fry, fit, fix, follow, form, formal, formality, foster, fostering, fret, function, functioning, gall, get, go in for, good use, grab, graduation, graduation exercises, grind, grinding, grip, gripe, groom, grooming, gymnastic exercises, gymnastics, handle, handling, harangue, harass, hard usage, hard use, harmonization, harry, headwork, heckle, hector, hold, hold spellbound, hold the interest, homework, homily, hound, house-train, housebreak, housebreaking, hypnotize, ill use, immerse, improve, improvement, in-service training, inaugural, inauguration, incidental music, initiation, inspection, instruction, instrumental music, invention, involve, involve the interest, irk, irritate, isometrics, job, job of work, labor, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lesson, lick into shape, limber up, liturgy, lucubration, make use of, make-work, manage, management, manipulate, manipulation, manual training, matters in hand, mental labor, mesmerize, miff, military training, mission, misuse, molest, monopolize, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, movement, movements, mummery, nag, needle, nettle, nocturne, nudzh, nurse, nurture, nurturing, object lesson, observance, obsess, occupation, occupy, occupy the attention, odd job, office, on-the-job training, operancy, operate, operation, operations, opus, orchestration, peeve, performance, performing, persecute, perturb, perusal, pester, physical education, physical jerks, pick on, piece, piece of work, pique, plague, play, pluck the beard, ply, pother, practice, praxis, preachment, preoccupy, preparation, prepare, production, program music, project, prosecute, provoke, pursue, put forth, put in tune, put into practice, put out, put to school, put to use, raise, raising, reading, ready, readying, rear, rearing, recital, recitation, rehearsal, rehearse, religious ceremony, responsibility, restudy, restudying, review, ricercar, ride, rile, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, roil, rough usage, ruffle, running, score, send to school, sermon, service, set, set task, setting-up exercises, skull session, sloyd, solemnity, solemnization, sonata, sonatina, specialize in, spellbind, steering, stint, stretch, string orchestra, string quartet, study, studying, subject, swing, swotting, tackle, take in hand, take on, take to, take up, talk, task, teaching, tease, theme and variations, things to do, throw, torment, train, training, trio, trouble, try, try the patience, tweak the nose, undertake, upbringing, usage, use, using up, utilization, utilize, variation, vex, vocational education, vocational training, wage, warm up, warm-up, wide reading, wield, work, work at, work out, working, working-out, workings, workout, worry, wrong use, yoga

• exert, apply, attempt, bring into play, bring to bear, bust a gut, do with, employ, endeavor, exercise, expend, go all out, handle, make an effort, make use of, manage, manipulate, operate, play, ply, practice, push, put forth, put out, strain, strive, struggle, throw, toil, try, use, utilize, wield, work

• exertion, action, active use, activity, appliance, application, assiduity, assiduousness, consumption, determination, diligence, drive, effort, elbow grease, employ, employment, endeavor, exercise, exercising, good use, hard pull, hard usage, hard use, ill use, industry, misuse, operation, pains, push, resolution, rough usage, sedulity, sedulousness, strain, striving, struggle, toil, trouble, usage, use, using up, while, work, wrong use

• exfoliate, arrange in layers, breach, break, burst, bust, check, chip, crack, delaminate, desquamate, fissure, flake, flake off, fracture, laminate, lay down, lay up, layer, peel, rupture, scale, scale off, snap, split, stratify

• exhalation, air, breath, effluvium, emanation, emission, evaporation, exhaust, expiration, fog, fume, gas, mist, puff, respiration, steam, suspiration, vapor, whiff

• exhale, aerate, aerify, atomize, be aromatic, be redolent of, blow, blow off, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, carbonate, chlorinate, cough, discharge, distill, eject, emanate, emit, emit a smell, etherify, etherize, evacuate, evaporate, exhaust, expel, expire, fluidize, fractionate, fume, fumigate, gasify, gasp, give forth, give off, give out, give vent to, gulp, hack, hiccup, huff, hydrogenate, inhale, inspire, issue forth, let out, open the floodgates, open the sluices, oxygenate, pant, pass off, perfume, puff, reek, respire, send out, sigh, smell, smell of, smoke, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, spray, steam, stink, sublimate, sublime, throw off, vapor, vaporize, volatilize, wheeze, yield an odor

• exhaust, abate, ablate, absorb, assimilate, attenuate, avenue, backwash, bankrupt, beat, blackdamp, bleed, bleed white, blow, blow out, blowhole, blunt, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, broach, burden, burn out, burn up, carry too far, cast forth, castrate, channel, charge, chokedamp, chute, clean out, clear, clear away, clear off, clear out, clear the decks, coal gas, condensation trail, consume, contrail, cough, cramp, cripple, crush one, damp, dampen, deaden, debilitate, debouch, decant, defecate, defluxion, demasculinize, denude, deplete, deplume, desex, desexualize, despoil, devitalize, digest, disable, discharge, disembogue, disgorge, displume, dissipate, divest, do in, do up, door, draft, draft off, drain, drain of resources, drain off, drain out, drainage, draw, draw from, draw off, dry, dull, eat, eat up, effeminize, effluence, effluent, effluvium, efflux, effluxion, effusion, egress, ejaculate, eliminate, emanation, emasculate, emission, emit, empty, empty out, emunctory, enervate, enfeeble, erode, eruct, erupt, escape, estuary, etiolate, evacuate, eviscerate, exaggerate, exhalation, exhale, exhaust gas, exit, expel, expend, expire, extenuate, extravasate, fag, fag out, fatigue, find vent, finish, finish off, firedamp, flag, flay, fleece, floodgate, flow, flow out, flowoff, flume, frazzle, fritter away, fuel, fume, fumes, gas, gasp, give off, give out, give vent to, go overboard, go to extremes, go too far, gobble, gobble up, gruel, gulp, gush, gush out, hack, harass, haunt, haunt the memory, hiccup, huff, impoverish, ingest, inhale, inspire, issue, jade, jet, jet propulsion, knock out, knock up, know no bounds, lay low, let, let blood, let out, liquid oxygen, loophole, lose, malaria, mephitis, milk, mitigate, obsess, open the floodgates, open the sluices, opening, oppress, out, outcome, outfall, outflow, outflowing, outgate, outgo, outlet, outpour, outpouring, overact, overcarry, overdevelop, overdo, overdrive, overelaborate, overemphasize, overexercise, overexert, overexpend, overfatigue, overindulge, overlabor, overplay, overreact, overspend, overstrain, overstress, overstudy, overtask, overtax, overtire, overtrain, overuse, overweary, overwork, pant, pass all bounds, phlebotomize, pick clean, pipette, pluck, poop, poop out, pore, port, pour, pour forth, pour out, prey on, propellant, propulsion charge, prostrate, protest too much, puff, pump, pump out, purge, rattle, reaction propulsion, reduce, reek, remove, respire, rocket propulsion, run out, run through, runoff, sally port, sap, scour out, send forth, send out, shake, shake up, shear, sigh, siphon off, skin, sluice, sluice out, smoke, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, soften up, spend, spew, spew out, spill, spiracle, spout, spout out, spurt, squander, squirt, steam, sterilize, strain, stream, strip, strip bare, suck, suck dry, suck out, surge, swallow, swallow up, sweep out, tap, tax, throw off, throw out, thrust, tire, tire out, tire to death, tucker, unbrace, unclog, undermine, unfoul, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, use up, vapor, vapor trail, venesect, vent, ventage, venthole, void, vomit forth, vomitory, vortex, wake, wash, waste, waste away, way out, weaken, wear, wear away, wear down, wear on, wear out, wear upon one, weary, weigh upon, weight down, weir, well, well out, wheeze, wilt, wind

• exhausted, ablated, acarpous, all in, arid, at an end, ausgespielt, bare, barren, beat, beat up, beaten, bleary, bone-weary, burned-out, burnt up, bushed, cachectic, celibate, childless, consumed, dead, dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat, debilitated, depleted, desert, desolate, devitalized, disabled, dissipated, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done in, done up, drained, dried-up, dry, eaten up, effete, emptied, empty, enervated, enfeebled, eroded, eviscerated, fagged out, failing, fallow, far-gone, fatigued, feeble, finished, frail, frazzled, fruitless, gaunt, gelded, gone, healthless, impotent, impoverished, in poor health, incapacitated, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, infirm, invalid, issueless, jaded, jejune, knocked out, laid low, languishing, leached, limp, menopausal, moribund, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, pale, peaked, peaky, played out, pooped, pooped out, poor, prostrate, ready to drop, reduced, reduced in health, run-down, sapped, shotten, sickly, sine prole, spent, sterile, sucked dry, teemless, tired, tired out, tired to death, tuckered out, uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, unhealthy, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsound, unsown, untilled, used up, valetudinarian, valetudinary, virgin, washed-out, washed-up, waste, wasted, weak, weakened, weakly, wearied, weary, weary unto death, whacked, wiped out, with low resistance, without issue, worn, worn away, worn out, worn-out

• exhausting, arduous, burdensome, crippling, debilitating, devitalizing, difficult, draining, enervating, enfeebling, fatiguesome, fatiguing, grinding, grueling, hard, harsh, heavy, killing, laborious, onerous, oppressive, overburdensome, punishing, sapping, straining, strenuous, stressful, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, trying, tyrannous, weakening, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, weighty

• exhaustion, abatement, ablation, absorption, assimilation, attenuation, attrition, blunting, breakdown, burning up, cachexia, cachexy, chronic ill health, circulatory collapse, cleaning out, clearance, clearing, collapse, consumption, corrosion, crack-up, crackup, damping, deadening, debilitation, debility, decrease, decrement, decrepitude, defecation, delicacy, delicate health, deliquescence, depletion, depreciation, devitalization, digestion, dilution, discharge, discharging cargo, dissipation, dissolution, drain, drainage, draining, drawing out, dulling, eating up, effemination, egress, elimination, emptying, enervation, enfeeblement, erosion, evacuation, evaporation, evisceration, excretion, exhaustedness, exhausting, expending, expenditure, extenuation, fatigue, feebleness, finishing, fragility, frailty, healthlessness, hypochondria, hypochondriasis, ill health, impoverishment, inanition, infirmity, ingestion, invalidism, invalidity, languishing, languishment, lassitude, leakage, loss, mitigation, morbidity, morbidness, nervous breakdown, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neurasthenia, off-loading, peakedness, poor health, prostration, reduction, relaxation, removal, shrinkage, sickliness, slackening, softening, spending, squandering, thinning, tiredness, unhealthiness, unloading, unsoundness, unwholesomeness, using, using up, valetudinarianism, venting, voidance, voiding, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting, wasting away, weakening, weakliness, wear and tear, weariness, wearing, wearing away, wearing down

• exhaustive, absolute, aggregate, all, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, all-out, all-pervading, born, broad-based, clean, clear, complete, comprehensive, congenital, consequential, considerable, consummate, deep, deep-dyed, downright, dyed-in-the-wool, egregious, encyclopedic, entire, extensive, far-reaching, full, full-dress, full-scale, fully realized, grand, grave, great, gross, heavy, holistic, inclusive, integral, integrated, intense, intensive, irresistible, main, maximal, maximum, mighty, omnibus, omnipresent, one, one and indivisible, out-and-out, outright, perfect, pervasive, plain, plenary, plumb, polished, powerful, pure, radical, regular, serious, sheer, straight, strong, sweeping, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total, ubiquitous, unconditional, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, unrestricted, utter, veritable, whole, wholesale

• exhibit, advertise, affect, air, approve, argue, attest, basis for belief, benefit, bespeak, betoken, betray, bill, blazon forth, body of evidence, brandish, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, chain of evidence, clue, connote, cosmorama, cyclorama, dangle, data, datum, debut, demonstrate, demonstration, denote, develop, diorama, disclose, display, disport, divulge, documentation, dramatize, emblazon, embody, enact, enactment, entertainment, evidence, evince, exemplify, exhibition, expose, expose to view, exposition, exposure, express, fact, facts, fair, farewell performance, flash, flaunt, flesh show, flourish, furnish evidence, georama, give indication of, give sign, give token, go to show, grounds, grounds for belief, highlight, hold up, illuminate, illustrate, imply, incarnate, indicate, indication, involve, item of evidence, light show, make clear, make plain, manifest, manifestation, mark, material grounds, materialize, mean, muniments, mute witness, myriorama, offer, opening, ostentation, pageant, pageantry, panorama, parade, perform, performance, phantasmagoria, piece of evidence, point to, pomp, premiere, premises, present, presentation, presentment, proclaim, produce, production, projection, proof, psychedelic show, put forth, put forward, reason to believe, relevant fact, represent, representation, retrospective, reveal, roll out, set forth, shifting scene, show, show forth, show off, show signs of, showing, sight, sign, signalize, signify, speak for itself, speak volumes, spectacle, sport, spotlight, stage presentation, stage show, suggest, swan song, symptom, symptomatize, tableau, tableau vivant, tell, tend to show, theatrical performance, token, trot out, trumpet, trumpet forth, tryout, unfold, unfolding, unfoldment, unveiling, varnishing day, vaunt, vernissage, wave

• exhibition, benefit, bill, blazon, bravura, brilliancy, cosmorama, cyclorama, daring, dash, debut, demo, demonstration, diorama, display, dramatics, eclat, enactment, entertainment, etalage, exhibit, exhibitionism, expo, exposition, exposure, fair, false front, fanfaronade, farewell performance, figure, flair, flaunt, flaunting, flesh show, flourish, georama, histrionics, light show, manifestation, myriorama, offering, opening, ostentation, pageant, pageantry, panorama, parade, performance, phantasmagoria, pomp, premiere, presentation, presentment, production, projection, psychedelic show, representation, retrospective, sham, shifting scene, show, showing, showing-off, sight, spectacle, splash, splurge, stage presentation, stage show, staginess, swan song, tableau, tableau vivant, theatrical performance, theatrics, tryout, unfolding, unfoldment, unveiling, varnishing day, vaunt, vernissage

• exhibitionism, active algolagnia, algolagnia, algolagny, amphierotism, autoeroticism, baring, bisexuality, blazon, boldness, bravura, brazenness, brilliancy, coprophilia, daring, dash, demonstration, denudation, desquamation, display, divestment, dramatics, eclat, etalage, excoriation, exfoliation, exhibition, exposure, false front, fanfaronade, fetishism, figure, flagrancy, flair, flaunt, flaunting, flourish, forwardness, heterosexuality, histrionics, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality, immodesty, impudicity, incest, incestuousness, indecent exposure, laying bare, lesbianism, manifestation, masochism, narcissism, necrophilia, notoriousness, pageant, pageantry, parade, paraphilia, passive algolagnia, pedophilia, removal, sadism, sadomasochism, sapphism, scotophilia, sexual inversion, sexual normality, sexual preference, sham, shamelessness, show, showing-off, spectacle, splash, splurge, staginess, stripping, swinging both ways, theatrics, transvestitism, tribadism, tribady, uncovering, unembarrassedness, unmodestness, vaunt, voyeurism, zooerastia, zoophilia

• exhibitionist, bugger, coprophiliac, erotomaniac, fetishist, flaunter, grandstand player, grandstander, hot dog, masochist, narcissist, necrophiliac, nymphomaniac, paraphiliac, pederast, pedophiliac, rapist, sadist, satyr, scotophiliac, show-off, showboat, sodomist, sodomite, transvestite, voyeur, zoophiliac

• exhilarate, amuse, animate, arouse, beguile, boost, brace, brace up, brighten, brisk, brisken, buck up, buoy, buoy up, cheer, chirk up, convulse, delight, divert, dynamize, electrify, embue, encourage, energize, enliven, entertain, excite, fillip, fire, fortify, fracture one, fresh up, freshen, freshen up, galvanize, give a lift, gladden, hearten, imbue, infect, inflame, inform, infuse, infuse life into, inject, inoculate, inspire, inspirit, invigorate, jazz up, kill, kindle, knock dead, lift, liven, loosen up, pep up, perk up, pick up, pique, provoke, quicken, raise a laugh, raise a smile, reanimate, recreate, refresh, refreshen, regale, reinvigorate, rejoice, rejoice the heart, relax, renew, resuscitate, revive, revivify, rouse, send, set up, sharpen, slay, snap up, solace, spirit, spirit up, stimulate, thrill, tickle, titillate, uplift, vitalize, vivify, warm, whet, wow, zip up

• exhilarated, agog, animated, aquiver, aroused, atingle, atwitter, beaming, blithe, blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, bursting, carried away, charmed, cheerful, cheery, comfortable, content, contented, cozy, delighted, easy, ebullient, effervescent, elated, energized, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, excited, favorably impressed with, fired, flushed, genial, glad, gladsome, glowing, gratified, happy, high, hopeful, hopped up, impassioned, in clover, in good spirits, in high spirits, inflamed, intrigued, invigorated, irrepressible, keyed up, lathered up, laughing, manic, moved, of good cheer, optimistic, pleasant, pleased, pleased as Punch, pleased with, radiant, ready to burst, reanimated, recharged, recreated, refreshed, renewed, revived, riant, rosy, roused, sanguine, sanguineous, satisfied, smiling, sold on, sparkling, steamed up, stimulated, stirred, stirred up, sunny, taken with, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink, tickled to death, tingling, tingly, turned-on, whipped up, winsome, worked up, wrought up, yeasty

• exhilarating, activating, agitating, animating, animative, bracing, breathtaking, brisk, charged, cheerful, cheering, cheery, cliff-hanging, comforting, cordial, crisp, crispy, delightful, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, elating, electric, elevating, encouraging, energizing, enlivening, exciting, exhilarative, fortifying, fresh, galvanic, glad, gladdening, good, happy, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, heart-warming, heartening, impressive, inflammatory, infusive, inspirational, inspiring, inspiriting, intoxicating, invigorating, invigorative, jarring, jolting, joyful, maddening, mind-blowing, moving, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, perturbing, piquant, provocative, provoking, quickening, ravishing, reassuring, refreshful, refreshing, regaling, rejuvenating, restorative, rousing, soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, tonic, troubling, unsettling, uplifting, upsetting, viable, vitalizing, vivifying, zestful, zesty

• exhilaration, a high, afflatus, aggravation, agitation, animating spirit, animation, animus, arousal, arousing, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, bracer, bracing, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, cordial, delectation, delight, divine afflatus, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, electrification, elevation, emotion, enchantment, energizing, enlivenment, euphoria, exacerbation, exaltation, exasperation, excitation, excitedness, excitement, exuberance, felicity, fire, firing, fomentation, gaiety, galvanization, genius, gladness, glee, good humor, good spirits, happiness, heaven, high spirits, incitement, infection, inflammation, infuriation, infusion, inspiration, intoxication, invigoration, irritation, joy, joyance, joyfulness, lathering up, manic state, moving spirit, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, perturbation, pick-me-up, provocation, quickening, rapture, rare good humor, ravishment, reanimation, recreation, refection, refreshing, refreshment, regale, regalement, reinvigoration, renewal, revitalization, revival, revivescence, revivescency, revivification, seventh heaven, steaming up, stimulation, stimulus, stirring, stirring up, sunshine, tonic, transport, unalloyed happiness, uplift, vitalization, vivification, whipping up, working up

• exhort, admonish, advocate, blandish, cajole, call on, call upon, caution, charge, coax, egg on, encourage, enjoin, expostulate, goad, high-pressure, importune, incite, induce, insist, insist upon, issue a caveat, jawbone, lobby, move, nag, persuade, plead, plead with, preach, press, pressure, prick, prod, prompt, propel, push, recommend, remonstrate, sic, soft-soap, spur, stimulate, sweet-talk, urge, warn, wheedle, work on

• exhortation, address, admonition, advice, advising, advocacy, after-dinner speech, allocution, allurement, blandishment, briefing, bugle call, cajolement, cajolery, call to arms, call-up, catchword, caution, caveat, chalk talk, clarion, clarion call, coaxing, conning, conscription, consultation, council, counsel, debate, declamation, diatribe, direction, engagement, enlistment, eulogy, expostulation, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, go for broke, guidance, gung ho, harangue, hortation, hortatory address, idea, inaugural, inaugural address, inducement, instruction, invective, jawboning, jeremiad, levy, lobbying, mobilization, monition, muster, opinion, oration, parley, pep talk, peroration, persuasion, philippic, pitch, preaching, preachment, prepared speech, prepared text, proposal, public speech, rally, rallying cry, reading, rebel yell, recital, recitation, recommendation, recruitment, remonstrance, sales talk, salesmanship, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, selling, set speech, slogan, snow job, soft soap, solicitation, speech, speechification, speeching, suasion, suggestion, sweet talk, talk, talkathon, thought, tirade, trumpet call, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, war cry, war whoop, warning, watchword, wheedling, working on

• exigency, case of need, climacteric, clutch, compulsion, constraint, contingency, convergence of events, crisis, critical juncture, critical point, crossroads, crucial period, crunch, demandingness, dire necessity, drive, emergency, exigence, extremity, high pressure, hinge, immediacy, imperative, imperativeness, importunacy, importunateness, importunity, impulse, impulsion, insistence, matter of necessity, pass, persistence, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pinch, predicament, press, pressingness, pressure, push, rash impulse, rub, strait, stress, tension, turn, turning, turning point, urge, urgency, urgent need

• exigent, Spartan, Spartanic, accurate, acute, astringent, attentive, austere, authoritarian, burdensome, burning, charged, choiceless, clamant, clamorous, climacteric, close, compelling, compulsory, conscientious, correct, critical, crucial, crying, decisive, delicate, demanding, detailed, dour, draining, emergent, exact, exacting, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, grasping, grievous, grim, harsh, high-pressure, high-priority, imperative, imperious, importunate, insistent, instant, kairotic, loaded, loud, mandatory, menacing, meticulous, minute, narrow, necessary, necessitous, nice, obligatory, oppressive, particular, persistent, pertinacious, pivotal, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, pregnant, pressing, punctilious, punctual, refined, religious, rigid, rigorous, rugged, scrupulous, scrutinizing, severe, stern, strict, stringent, subtle, superincumbent, taxing, threatening, tough, unsparing, urgent, weighty, without choice

• exiguity, Lenten fare, airiness, airy texture, attenuation, austerity, chinchiness, chintziness, daintiness, delicacy, diaphanousness, dilutedness, dilution, diminutiveness, ethereality, exiguousness, exility, fewness, fineness, flimsiness, frailty, gauziness, gossameriness, gracility, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, infrequency, insignificance, insubstantiality, insufficiency, jejuneness, jejunity, laciness, leanness, lightness, littleness, meagerness, meanness, minuteness, miserliness, mistiness, moderateness, narrowness, niggardliness, paltriness, paperiness, parsimony, paucity, pettiness, picayunishness, pokiness, puniness, rarity, restrictedness, scantiness, scantness, scarcity, scrawniness, scrimpiness, shortness, skimpiness, slenderness, slightness, slim pickings, slimness, smallness, spareness, sparseness, sparsity, stinginess, stringency, subtility, tenuity, thinness, tightness, tininess, triviality, undersize, unimportance, vagueness, wateriness, weakness, wispiness

• exiguous, Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, cramped, dinky, dwarfed, dwarfish, frugal, half-pint, impoverished, infrequent, jejune, knee-high, lean, limited, little, meager, mean, miserly, narrow, niggardly, one-horse, paltry, parsimonious, petite, piddling, pindling, pint-sized, poky, poor, puny, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, short, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, smallish, spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, thin, tight, two-by-four, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered, watery

• exile, DP, Ishmael, Uitlander, abstract, alien, alienate, ban, banish, banishment, bar, barbarian, blackball, blackballing, cast off, cast out, castaway, chuck, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks, clearance, cut, cut out, declasse, defrocking, degradation, demotion, depluming, deport, deportation, deported population, deportee, deprivation, deracine, derelict, detachment, diaspora, disbarment, discard, disfellowship, disjunction, dispersion, displace, displaced person, displacement, displuming, disposal, dispose of, disposition, dispossess, drive out, eject, ejection, elide, eliminate, elimination, emigrant, emigrate, emigration, emigre, eradicate, eradication, evacuate, evacue, evacuee, evict, evictee, exclude, exclusion, excommunicate, excommunication, expatriate, expatriation, expel, expellee, expulsion, extradite, extradition, foreign devil, foreigner, fugitate, fugitation, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, gringo, immigrant, in-migrant, leper, liquidate, liquidation, maroon, migrant, migration, migrator, migratory worker, nonperson, ostracism, ostracization, ostracize, oust, out-migrant, out-migrate, out-migration, outcast, outcast of society, outcaste, outlander, outlaw, outlawing, outlawry, outsider, pariah, persona non grata, pick out, proscribe, purge, refugee, relegate, relegation, remigrate, remigration, removal, remove, riddance, root out, root up, rusticate, rustication, scattering, send away, send down, send to Coventry, separation, severance, snub, social outcast, spurn, stateless person, stranger, strike off, strike out, stripping, suspension, the Wandering Jew, throw over, throw overboard, thrust out, tramontane, transport, transportation, trekker, ultramontane, unacceptable person, undesirable, unfrocking, unperson, untouchable, wanderer, weed out, wetback, withdrawal

• exiled, banned, barred, debarred, deported, ejected, excluded, expelled, homeless, houseless, left out, liquidated, not in it, not included, outcast, precluded, prohibited, purged, shut out, stateless, tabooed, unestablished, unharbored, unhoused, unplaced, unsettled

• exist, Be, abide, abide in, be, be alive, be animate, be coextensive with, be comprised in, be constituted by, be contained in, be extant, be found, be in existence, be located, be met with, be present, be present in, be situated, be the case, be there, bide, breathe, carry on, consist in, continue, continue to be, defeat time, defy time, draw breath, dwell, dwell in, endure, exist in, extend, fetch breath, get along, get by, go on, happen, happen to be, have being, have life, have place, hold, hold on, hold out, indwell, inhabit, inhere, inhere in, keep, keep on, last, last long, last out, lie, lie in, live, live and breathe, live on, live through, maintain, move, obtain, occur, perdure, perennate, persist, prevail, remain, repose in, reside, reside in, respire, rest in, run, run on, stand, stay, stay on, subsist, subsist in, survive, sustain, tarry, tide over, walk the earth, wear, wear well

• existence, accessibility, actual presence, actuality, an existence, animal spirits, animate existence, animation, availability, being, being alive, being here, being there, birth, body, continuance, continuation, creature, critter, duration, endurance, ens, entelechy, entity, essence, existent, fact, having life, hereness, immanence, immediacy, immortality, individual, individuality, indwellingness, inherence, life, lifetime, liveliness, living, long life, longevity, monad, object, occurrence, organism, permanence, persistence, person, persona, personality, physical presence, presence, quiddity, reality, something, soul, spiritual presence, spriteliness, thereness, thing, ubiety, unit, viability, vitality, vivacity, whereness

• existent, aboveground, actual, alive, alive and kicking, among the living, animate, animated, around, as is, being, breathing, capable of life, conscious, contemporaneous, contemporary, current, endowed with life, enlivened, existence, existing, extant, fresh, immanent, immediate, in being, in effect, in existence, in force, in the flesh, individual, inspirited, instant, instinct with life, latest, live, living, long-lived, modern, new, on foot, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, prevalent, quick, running, something, subsistent, subsisting, tenacious of life, that be, that is, thing, topical, under the sun, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute, very much alive, viable, vital, vivified, zoetic

• existential, Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Megarian, Stoic, animist, animistic, atomistic, cosmotheistic, eclectic, empirical, eudaemonistic, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist, humanistic, idealistic, instrumentalist, materialistic, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic, naturalistic, nominalist, panlogistical, pantheistic, positivist, positivistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, rationalistic, realist, realistic, scholastic, sensationalistic, syncretistic, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, utilitarian, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic

• existing, actual, alive, around, as is, being, contemporaneous, contemporary, current, existent, extant, fresh, immanent, immediate, in being, in effect, in existence, in force, instant, latest, living, modern, new, on foot, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, prevalent, running, subsistent, subsisting, that be, that is, topical, under the sun, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute

• exit, AWOL, French leave, abandonment, absence without leave, absquatulation, access, adit, aisle, alley, ambulatory, annihilation, aperture, arcade, artery, avenue, bane, be consumed, be getting along, be gone, beat a retreat, beat it, biological death, blowhole, bolt, bow out, break out, break through, buzz off, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, cessation of life, channel, chute, clinical death, cloister, colonnade, come away, come forth, come out, communication, conduit, connection, corridor, course, covered way, crossing the bar, curtains, cut out, death, death knell, debouch, debt of nature, decampment, decease, defile, dematerialize, demise, depart, departure, desertion, die, die away, die out, disappear, disappearance, disappearing act, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolution, dissolve, ditch, do a fade-out, doom, door, duck out, duct, dwindle, dying, ebb of life, egress, egression, elopement, emerge, emunctory, end, end of life, ending, entrance, erode, erupt, escape, estuary, eternal rest, evacuation, evanesce, evaporate, exhaust, exodus, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, extraction, fade, fade away, fade out, ferry, final summons, find vent, finger of death, flee, flight, floodgate, flume, fly, ford, forthcoming, fugitation, gallery, gang along, gate, get along, get away, get off, get on, get out, get under way, getaway, go, go along, go away, go off, go on, go on furlough, go on leave, go out, going, going off, going out, grave, hand of death, hasty retreat, hegira, hide, ingress, inlet, interchange, intersection, issue, issue forth, jaws of death, junction, knell, lane, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leak out, leave, leave no trace, leave the scene, leave-taking, leaving, leaving life, loophole, loss of life, make an exit, making an end, march off, march out, melt, melt away, mosey, move, move away, move off, move out, ooze out, opening, out, outcome, outcoming, outfall, outgate, outgo, outgoing, outlet, overpass, parting, pass, pass away, pass out, passage, passageway, passing, passing away, passing over, perish, perishing, pore, port, portico, pull out, quick exit, quietus, quit, railroad tunnel, release, removal, rest, retire, retire from sight, retirement, retreat, reward, run, run out, running away, sally port, sashay, sashay off, scramming, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, sink, sink away, skedaddle, skedaddling, sleep, slip away, slip off, slip out, sluice, sneak out, somatic death, spiracle, spout, stagger along, suffer an eclipse, summons of death, take a walk, take flight, take leave, take off, take wing, tap, toddle along, traject, trajet, trench, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel, underpass, up and go, vanish, vanish from sight, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, walk out, walkout, waste, waste away, way, way out, wear away, weir, wing it, withdraw, withdrawal

• exodus, abandonment, act, afterpiece, bit, chaser, curtain, curtain call, curtain raiser, decampment, departure, divertimento, divertissement, egress, egression, emigration, epilogue, escape, evacuation, exit, exode, expository scene, extraction, finale, flight, forthcoming, getaway, going, going out, hegira, hoke act, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, introduction, leaving, migration, number, outcome, outcoming, outgo, outgoing, parting, passing, prologue, removal, retirement, retreat, routine, scene, shtick, sketch, skit, song and dance, stand-up comedy act, striptease, turn, walkout, withdrawal

• exonerate, absolve, acquit, amnesty, clear, decontaminate, destigmatize, disburden, discharge, dismiss, dispense from, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exempt from, forgive, free, give absolution, grant amnesty to, grant forgiveness, grant immunity, grant remission, justify, let go, let off, nonpros, pardon, purge, quash the charge, release, remit, set free, shrive, spare, vindicate, whitewash, withdraw the charge

• exoneration, absolution, acquittal, acquittance, amnesty, clearance, clearing, compurgation, destigmatization, destigmatizing, discharge, disculpation, dismissal, exculpation, excuse, exemption, forgiveness, grace, immunity, indemnity, pardon, purgation, purging, quietus, quittance, redemption, release, remission, remission of sin, reprieve, shrift, sparing, verdict of acquittal, vindication

• exorbitance, abandon, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, boundlessness, burlesque, caricature, dilatation, dilation, egregiousness, enhancement, enlargement, enormousness, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exorbitancy, expansion, extortionateness, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extremes, extremism, extremity, fabulousness, giantism, gigantism, gluttony, grandiloquence, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, incontinence, inflation, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, intemperance, intemperateness, magnification, monstrousness, nimiety, outrageousness, overdevelopment, overemphasis, overestimation, overgreatness, overgrowth, overindulgence, overkill, overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness, overstatement, preposterousness, prodigality, profuseness, puffery, puffing up, radicalism, sensationalism, stretching, superlative, tall talk, too much, too-muchness, touting, travesty, unconscionableness, undueness, unreasonableness, unrestrainedness

• exorbitant, a bit much, abandoned, acute, aggrandized, amplified, ballyhooed, boundless, clamant, clamorous, crying, cutthroat, cutting, demanding, disproportionate, dizzy, draining, drastic, egregious, enormous, exacting, exaggerated, excessive, exigent, extortionate, extraordinary, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, fierce, furious, gigantic, gluttonous, gouging, grandiloquent, grasping, great, grossly overpriced, high, high-flown, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immoderate, importunate, incontinent, inflated, inflationary, inordinate, insistent, instant, intemperate, intense, keen, loud, magnified, monstrous, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, overbig, overboard, overdeveloped, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overmuch, overpraised, overpriced, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overweening, overwrought, persistent, pertinacious, piercing, preposterous, pressing, prodigal, profuse, prohibitive, puffed, rigorous, rough, severe, sharp, skyrocketing, spiraling, splitting, steep, stiff, stretched, superlative, taxing, too much, tough, touted, towering, unbridled, unconscionable, undue, unjustifiable, unjustified, unmeasurable, unreasonable, unrestrained, unwarranted, urgent, usurious, vehement, venomous, violent, virulent

• exorcism, cantrip, charm, conjuration, conjurement, curse, evil eye, evocation, exorcisation, exsufflation, glamour, hex, incantation, invocation, jinx, magic spell, malocchio, spell, wanga, weird, whammy

• exorcist, acolyte, acolytus, deacon, diaconus, doorkeeper, exorciser, exorcista, holy orders, lector, major orders, medicine man, minor orders, mundunugu, obeah doctor, ostiarius, presbyter, priest, reader, shaman, shamanist, subdeacon, subdiaconus, unspeller, voodoo, voodooist, wangateur, witch doctor, witch master, witch-finder, witchman

• exotic, alien, alluring, apart, appealing, appetizing, asunder, at a distance, attractive, away, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, beguiling, belly, bewitching, bizarre, blandishing, bottomless, bright, bright-hued, brilliant, burning, cajoling, captivating, catching, charismatic, charming, coaxing, colorful, colory, come-hither, coquettish, crazy, deep-colored, detached, different, disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disrelated, dissociated, distal, distant, enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, exciting, exterior, external, extraneous, extraordinary, extraterrestrial, extrinsic, far, far off, faraway, fascinating, fetching, flirtatious, foreign, foreign-born, gay, gay-colored, glamorous, go-go, gorgeous, high-colored, hypnotic, imported, incommensurable, incomparable, independent, insular, intense, interesting, intriguing, intrusive, inviting, irrelative, irresistible, isolated, long-distance, long-range, mesmeric, mouth-watering, mysterious, naturalized, nude, odd, other, outland, outlandish, outside, peculiar, piquant, prepossessing, provocative, provoquant, ravishing, remarkable, remote, removed, rich, rich-colored, romanesque, romantic, seducing, seductive, segregate, separate, separated, singular, siren, sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, strange, striptease, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, tickling, titillating, titillative, topless, ulterior, unaffiliated, unallied, unassociated, unconnected, unearthly, unfamiliar, unique, unrelatable, unrelated, unusual, vivid, weird, winning, winsome, witching

• expand, add to, adulterate, aggrandize, amplify, attenuate, augment, balloon, beef up, bloat, blow up, bolster, boost, branch, branch out, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, complete, crescendo, cut, deal in generalities, deepen, deploy, descant, detail, develop, dilate, dilute, discourse, disperse, distend, ecumenicize, elaborate, embellish, enlarge, enlarge upon, enter into detail, etherealize, evolve, exalt, expatiate, explicate, extend, fan, fan out, fatten, fill out, flare, generalize, globalize, go into, greaten, grow, heighten, hike, hike up, huff, increase, inflate, jack up, jump up, labor, lengthen, magnify, make a generalization, maximize, mount, multiply, mushroom, open, open up, outspread, outstretch, overgrow, overrun, parlay, particularize, prolong, protract, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put up, pyramid, raise, ramify, rarefy, rehearse in extenso, relate at large, snowball, spell out, splay, spraddle, sprangle, sprawl, spread, spread like wildfire, spread out, stretch, subtilize, sufflate, swell, thicken, thin, thin out, tumefy, unfold, universalize, up, upsurge, vise, water, water down, wax, widen, work out

• expanded, accelerated, aggrandized, ampliate, amplified, augmented, beefed-up, bloated, boosted, broadened, built-up, crescendoed, deepened, elevated, enhanced, enlarged, extended, heightened, hiked, increased, inflated, intensified, jazzed up, magnified, multiplied, proliferated, raised, reinforced, spread, stiffened, strengthened, swollen, tightened, upped, widened

• expanding, amplifying, crescendoing, crescent, developmental, dilatative, dilative, enlarging, expatiating, growing, increasing, incremental, intensifying, lengthening, multiplying, on the increase, proliferating, snowballing, spreading, swelling, tightening, waxing

• expanse, acreage, ampleness, amplitude, area, beam, bigness, body, boundlessness, breadth, broadness, bulk, caliber, compass, continuum, coverage, depth, diameter, dimension, dimensions, distance, distance across, domain, emptiness, empty space, enormity, enormousness, expansion, extension, extent, field, formidableness, fullness, galactic space, gauge, gigantism, girth, grandeur, grandness, great scope, greatness, height, hugeness, immensity, infinite space, infinity, intensity, interstellar space, largeness, latitude, length, length and breadth, magnitude, mass, measure, measurement, might, mightiness, muchness, nothingness, orbit, outer space, plenitude, power, prodigiousness, proportion, proportions, radius, range, reach, scale, scope, size, space, span, spatial extension, sphere, spread, strength, stretch, stupendousness, superficial extension, surface, sweep, territory, tract, tremendousness, vastness, void, volume, wideness, width

• expansion, access, accession, accomplishment, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, acreage, addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, amplification, amplitude, appreciation, area, ascent, attenuation, augmentation, ballooning, ballyhoo, big talk, bigness, bloating, blossoming, blowing up, body, boom, boost, bottoming out, breadth, broadcast, broadcasting, broadening, buildup, bulk, burgeoning, burlesque, business cycle, business fluctuations, bust, caliber, caricature, circumfusion, continuum, cooling off, coverage, crescendo, crisis, depression, depth, development, developmental change, diameter, diffraction, diffusion, dilatation, dilation, dilution, dimension, dimensions, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, dissemination, dissipation, distance, distension, distention, distribution, divergence, downturn, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, edema, elaboration, elevation, emptiness, empty space, enhancement, enlargement, evaporation, evolution, evolutionary change, evolvement, evolving, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expanding economy, expanse, expatiation, explication, extension, extent, extravagance, extreme, field, flood, flourishing, flowering, fragmentation, furtherance, gain, galactic space, gauge, girth, gradual change, grandiloquence, greatening, greatness, growth, gush, height, heightening, high growth rate, hike, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, increase, increment, infinite space, inflation, inordinacy, interstellar space, jump, largeness, leap, length, low, magnification, magnitude, market expansion, mass, maturation, measure, measurement, mounting, multiplication, natural development, natural growth, nonviolent change, nothingness, outer space, overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overstatement, peak, peaking, peppering, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, progress, progression, proliferation, propagation, proportion, proportions, prosperity, publication, puffery, puffing up, radiation, radius, raise, range, reach, recession, recovery, ripening, rise, scale, scattering, scatterment, scope, sensationalism, shotgun pattern, size, slowdown, slump, snowballing, sowing, space, spatial extension, spattering, sphere, splay, spread, spreading, sprinkling, stretch, stretching, strewing, superficial extension, superlative, surface, surge, swelling, tall talk, touting, tract, travesty, tumescence, unfolding, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, void, volatilization, volume, waxing, widening, width, working-out

• expansive, accessible, affable, airy, all jaw, all-embracing, all-inclusive, amiable, ample, amplitudinous, approachable, big, bouncy, broad, buoyant, candid, capacious, chatty, commodious, communicable, communicative, comprehensive, conversable, conversational, copious, deep, demonstrative, dilatable, dilatant, distensive, easy, effervescent, effusive, elastic, enlarging, expandable, expanding, expansible, expansile, expansional, extendable, extended, extending, extensible, extensile, extensional, extensive, extroverted, far-reaching, flip, fluent, frank, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, friendly, full, gabby, garrulous, gassy, generous, genial, glib, gossipy, great, gregarious, gushy, infinite, inflatable, inflationary, large, lavish, liberal, long-winded, loquacious, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, open, openhanded, outgoing, outspoken, overtalkative, prolix, resilient, roomy, scopic, self-revealing, self-revelatory, smooth, sociable, spacious, spreading, talkative, talky, unconstrained, unhampered, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive, unshrinking, unsilent, unsuppressed, vast, verbose, volatile, voluble, voluminous, warm, wide, wide-ranging, widespread, windy

• expatiate, amplify, descant, detail, develop, dilate, discuss, dissert, dissertate, elaborate, enlarge, enlarge upon, evolve, expand, explicate, narrate, particularize, ramble, recite, recount, rehearse, rehearse in extenso, relate, relate at large, sermonize, unfold, work out

• expatriate, DP, Ishmael, abstract, ban, banish, blackball, cast off, cast out, castaway, chuck, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks, cut, cut out, declasse, deport, derelict, disfellowship, displace, displaced person, dispose of, eject, elide, eliminate, emigrant, emigrate, emigre, eradicate, evacue, evacuee, evictee, exclude, excommunicate, exile, expel, expellee, extradite, flit, fugitate, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, go from home, immigrant, immigrate, in-migrant, in-migrate, intermigrate, lag, leave home, leave the country, leper, liquidate, migrant, migrate, migrator, migratory worker, ostracize, oust, out-migrant, out-migrate, outcast, outcast of society, outcaste, outlaw, pariah, persona non grata, pick out, proscribe, purge, relegate, remigrate, remove, root out, root up, run, rusticate, send away, send down, send to Coventry, snub, social outcast, spurn, stateless person, strike off, strike out, swarm, take wing, throw over, throw overboard, thrust out, transmigrate, transport, trek, trekker, unacceptable person, undesirable, untouchable, weed out, wetback

• expect, account as, anticipate, apprehend, approach, aspire to, assume, await, bank on, be afraid, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, believe, come, come on, conceive, conclude, confide, conjecture, consider, contemplate, count, count on, daresay, deduce, deem, demand, desire, divine, draw near, draw on, dread, dream, envisage, envision, esteem, estimate, face, fancy, feel, feel confident, foreknow, foresee, foretell, gather, grant, guess, harbor the hope, have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling, have in mind, have in view, have the idea, hold, hold as, hope, hope against hope, hope and pray, hope for, hope in, hope to God, imagine, infer, judge, keep in view, lean upon, let, let be, lie ahead, live in hopes, look, look for, look forward to, look upon as, loom, maintain, near, need, nurture the hope, opine, plan, plot, predict, prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, project, prophesy, provisionally accept, reckon, reckon on, regard, rely on, repute, require, rest assured, say, sense, set down as, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, think, threaten, trow, trust, understand, view as, wait for, want, ween, wish

• expectant, agape, agog, alert, all agog, anticipant, anticipating, anticipative, anticipatory, anxious, apprehensive, aspiring, assured, atiptoe, awaiting, big, certain, confident, eager, expecting, fond, forearmed, forestalling, forewarned, full of hope, gaping, gone, gravid, heavy, hopeful, hoping, in anticipation, in expectation, in good heart, in hopes, looking, looking for, looking forward to, not surprised, of good cheer, of good hope, open-eyed, openmouthed, optimistic, parturient, prepared, ready, sanguine, sure, undespairing, unsurprised, waiting, waiting for, watchful, watching for, with bated breath

• expectation, aftertime, afteryears, anticipation, apprehension, apprehensiveness, aptitude, aspiration, assumption, assurance, assured faith, awelessness, belief, by-and-by, calmness, chance, cheerful expectation, composure, confidence, conjecture, conviction, cool, coolness, course ahead, crystal ball, demand, dependence, design, desire, determinism, distant future, doomed hope, dueness, entitledness, entitlement, eventuality, expectancy, fair expectation, fair prospect, faith, favorable prospect, fervent hope, foresight, forward look, future, future tense, futurism, futurity, good chance, good cheer, good hope, great expectations, guess, hereafter, high hopes, hope, hopeful prognosis, hopefulness, hopes, hoping, hoping against hope, immediate future, immediate prospect, imminence, inexcitability, insistence, intention, justice, justifiable expectation, liability, likelihood, likeliness, meritedness, motive, near future, nodding acceptance, nonamazedness, nonamazement, nonastonishment, nonmarveling, nonwonder, nonwondering, notion, odds, offing, outlook, posteriority, prayerful hope, prediction, presumption, presumptive evidence, probabilism, probability, project, promise, prophecy, prospect, prospects, reasonable ground, reasonable hope, reliance, requirement, sanguine expectation, security, supposition, surmise, suspense, tendency, the future, the morrow, the sweet by-and-by, time ahead, time just ahead, time to come, tomorrow, trust, unamazedness, unamazement, unastonishment, unimpressibleness, unsurprise, unsurprisedness, verisimilitude, want, watchfulness, well-grounded hope, wish, wonderlessness

• expected, anticipated, awaited, aweless, calm, composed, cool, due, expecting, foreseen, hoped-for, imminent, in prospect, in view, inexcitable, long-expected, on the horizon, overdue, presumed, probable, promised, prospective, unamazed, unastonished, unastounded, unawed, unbewildered, undazed, undazzled, undumbfounded, unimpressed, unmarveling, unmoved, unsurprised, unwondering, wonderless

• expecting, agape, agog, all agog, anticipant, anticipating, anticipative, anticipatory, atiptoe, awaiting, aweless, big, big with child, big-laden, breeding, calm, carrying, carrying a fetus, certain, composed, confident, cool, eager, expectant, expected, forearmed, forestalling, forewarned, gaping, gestating, gone, gravid, great, heavy, heavy with child, hopeful, in anticipation, in expectation, inexcitable, knocked up, looking for, looking forward to, not surprised, optimistic, parturient, preggers, pregnant, prepared, ready, sanguine, superfetate, superimpregnated, sure, teeming, unamazed, unastonished, unastounded, unawed, unbewildered, undazed, undazzled, undumbfounded, unimpressed, unmarveling, unmoved, unsurprised, unwondering, waiting, waiting for, watching for, with child, wonderless

• expedience, advantageousness, agreeableness, appropriateness, auspiciousness, beneficialness, benevolence, benignity, chargedness, class, cogency, convenience, criticality, crucialness, desert, excellence, fairness, favorableness, felicitousness, fineness, first-rateness, fitness, fittingness, goodliness, goodness, grace, healthiness, helpfulness, kindness, loadedness, meetness, merit, niceness, opportuneness, pleasantness, pregnancy, profitableness, propitiousness, propriety, quality, rewardingness, rightness, ripeness, seasonableness, skillfulness, soundness, suitability, superiority, timeliness, usefulness, validity, value, virtue, virtuousness, wholeness, worth

• expediency, appositeness, appropriateness, aptness, careworn, convenience, dernier ressort, design, expedient, fitness, makeshift, measure, meetness, order, propitiousness, propriety, recourse, resort, rightness, shift, step, stopgap, strategy, substitute, suitability, suitableness, surrogate, tactic

• expedient, action, ad hoc measure, advantageous, advisable, agency, answer, applicable, appropriate, apropos, art, artful dodge, artifice, auspicious, banausic, becoming, befitting, behind-the-scenes influence, beneficial, benevolent, blind, bon, bonny, braw, bueno, capital, chicanery, cogent, commendable, commodious, congruous, conspiracy, contrivance, convenient, correct, countermove, coup, course of action, craft, cute trick, deceit, decent, demarche, dernier ressort, design, desirable, device, devices, dodge, effective, effort, elegant, employable, estimable, excellent, expediency, expedients, fair, fakement, famous, favorable, feasible, feint, felicitous, fetch, fine, fit, fitten, fitting, fortunate, fructuous, functional, gambit, game, gimmick, going between, good, good for, goodly, grand, grift, happy, healthy, helpful, hope, improvisation, influence, instrument, instrumentality, intermediation, intrigue, judicious, jugglery, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, kind, knavery, last expedient, last resort, last shift, laudable, likely, little game, lucky, machination, machinery, makeshift, maneuver, maneuvering, maneuvers, manipulation, means, measure, mechanism, mediation, medium, meet, move, nice, noble, of general utility, of help, of service, of use, opportune, pertinent, pis aller, pleasant, plot, ploy, politic, political influence, possible, practicable, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, profitable, proper, propitious, providential, prudent, racket, recommendable, recommended, recourse, red herring, refuge, regal, resort, resource, right, ripe, royal, ruse, scheme, seasonable, seemly, service, serviceable, shake-up, shift, skillful, sleight, solution, sortable, sound, splendid, step, stopgap, stratagem, strategy, stroke, stroke of policy, substitute, subterfuge, suitable, tactic, tactical, tactical maneuvers, tactics, temporary expedient, timely, to be desired, trick, trickery, trump, useful, utilitarian, valid, very good, virtuous, well-timed, wile, wily device, wire-pulling, wise, working hypothesis, working proposition, worthwhile

• expedite, accelerate, advance, advantage, aid, air-express, airfreight, airmail, boost, bundle, bustle, clear the way, conduce to, consign, contribute to, crowd, dispatch, drive on, drop a letter, ease, embark, enable, encourage, explain, export, express, facilitate, favor, forward, freight, further, grease, grease the ways, grease the wheels, haste, hasten, hasten on, help along, hie on, hurry, hurry along, hurry on, hurry up, hustle, hustle up, lend wings to, loose, lubricate, mail, make clear, make for, make way for, oil, open the way, open up, pave the way, post, precipitate, prepare the way, press, promote, push, push forward, push on, push through, put forward, quicken, railroad through, remit, remove friction, run interference for, rush, rush along, send, send away, send forth, send off, set forward, ship, simplify, smooth, smooth the way, soap the ways, speed, speed along, speed up, spur, stampede, step up, transmit, unbar, unblock, unclog, unjam, urge, whip, whip along

• expedition, advance, advancement, adventure, agility, air speed, alacrity, briskness, campaign, celerity, circuit, clarification, course, crusade, decisiveness, dispatch, drive, easing, emprise, enterprise, excursion, expediting, expeditiousness, exploration, facilitation, fastness, flight, flit, flurry, forwarding, furtherance, goodwill, grand tour, ground speed, haste, hastening, helping along, holy war, hurry, hustle, immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness, jaunt, jihad, journey, junket, knots, lightning speed, miles per hour, mission, nimbleness, outing, package tour, peregrination, peregrinations, pilgrimage, pleasure trip, precipitation, preferential treatment, progress, promotion, promptitude, promptness, punctuality, punctualness, quest, quickening, quickness, rapidity, readiness, round pace, round trip, rpm, rubberneck tour, run, rush, rushing, rustle, safari, sally, sharpness, shoot, simplification, simplifying, smartness, smoothing, snappiness, special treatment, speed, speediness, speeding, spryness, stalk, streamlining, summariness, swift rate, swiftness, tour, travels, trek, trip, turn, undertaking, velocity, voyage, war

• expeditious, agile, alacritous, alert, apt, breakneck, brisk, cursory, dashing, decisive, diligent, dispatchful, double-quick, eagle-winged, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, express, fast, festinate, feverish, fleet, flying, furious, galloping, hair-trigger, hasty, headlong, hurried, hustling, immediate, instant, instantaneous, last-minute, light of heel, light-footed, lively, mercurial, nimble, nimble-footed, on the spot, passing, precipitate, prompt, punctual, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, rapid, ready, reckless, running, sharp, slap-bang, slapdash, smart, snap, snappy, spanking, speedy, spry, summary, superficial, swift, urgent, winged

• expeditiously, PDQ, agilely, amain, apace, at flank speed, at once, by forced marches, cursorily, decisively, directly, double-quick, effectively, fast, feverishly, flat-out, forthwith, furiously, hand over fist, hand over hand, hastily, hell for leather, hell-bent, hell-bent for election, helter-skelter, hotfoot, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, immediately, in double time, in double-quick time, in high, in high gear, in no time, in passing, in seven-league boots, instanter, instantly, lickety-cut, lickety-split, nimbly, on the double, on the instant, on the run, on the spot, pell-mell, post, posthaste, pretty damned quick, promptly, pronto, punctually, quick, quickly, rapidly, readily, right away, right off, slapdash, smartly, snappily, speedily, spryly, straightaway, straightway, subito, summarily, superficially, swiftly, trippingly, under forced draft, whip and spur, with a rush, with all haste, with all speed, with dispatch, with giant strides, with haste, with rapid strides, with speed, without delay, without further delay

• expel, abrupt, abstract, alienate, assign, ban, banish, bar, belch, blackball, blow, blow off, blow out, boot, boot out, bounce, break, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, bump, bust, can, carry over, cashier, cast, cast forth, cast off, cast out, chuck, chuck out, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks, communicate, consign, cough, cut, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, debar, debouch, decant, deconsecrate, defenestrate, defrock, degrade, delete, deliver, demote, depart, deplume, deport, depose, deprive, dethrone, detrude, diffuse, disarticulate, disbar, discard, discharge, disconnect, discrown, disembogue, disemploy, disengage, disenthrone, disfellowship, disgorge, disjoin, disjoint, dislodge, dismiss, displace, displume, dispose of, dispossess, disseminate, dissociate, disunite, divide, divorce, drive out, drum out, ejaculate, eject, elide, eliminate, eradicate, eruct, erupt, estrange, evict, exclude, excommunicate, exhale, exhaust, exile, expatriate, expire, export, extradite, extravasate, extrude, fire, force out, fugitate, furlough, gasp, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give, give the ax, give the gate, give the hook, gulp, hack, hand forward, hand on, hand over, heave out, hiccup, huff, impart, import, inhale, inspire, irrupt, isolate, jet, jettison, junk, kick, kick downstairs, kick out, kick upstairs, lag, lay off, leave, let go, let out, liquidate, make over, make redundant, maroon, metastasize, metathesize, obtrude, ostracize, oust, outlaw, outpour, overthrow, pant, part, pass, pass on, pass over, pass the buck, pension, pension off, perfuse, pick out, pour, pour forth, pour out, proscribe, puff, pull away, pull back, pull out, purge, push out, put out, read out of, reject, relay, release, relegate, remove, remove from office, replace, respire, retire, root out, root up, rusticate, sack, segregate, send away, send down, send forth, send out, send to Coventry, separate, separate forcibly, sequester, set apart, set aside, show the door, shut off, sigh, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snub, snuff, snuffle, spew, split, spout, spread, spurn, spurt, squirt, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, step aside, strike off, strike out, strip, strip of office, strip of rank, subtract, superannuate, surplus, suspend, switch, throw away, throw off, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, thrust out, toss out, transfer, transfer property, transfuse, translate, translocate, transmit, transplace, transplant, transport, transpose, turn off, turn out, turn over, unchurch, uncouple, unfrock, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone, unyoke, weed out, wheeze, withdraw

• expend, ablate, absorb, assimilate, bestow, bleed white, blow, budget, burn up, consecrate to, consume, cost, cost out, dedicate to, deplete, devote, digest, disburse, disbursement, dish out, dispense, dissipate, distribute, drain, drain of resources, eat, eat up, employ, erode, exhaust, expenditure, finish, finish off, fork out, give, give over to, give to, go, go through, gobble, gobble up, impoverish, incur costs, ingest, invest, lay out, lose, open the purse, outlay, pass, pay, pay out, put in, put out, run through, sap, schedule, shell out, sink money in, spend, spill, splurge, squander, suck dry, swallow, swallow up, throw money around, use, use up, wash up, waste, waste away, wear away, while, while away, wile

• expendable, consumable, de trop, dispensable, disposable, excess, expletive, gratuitous, in excess, inessential, insignificant, needless, no-deposit, nonessential, pleonastic, prolix, redundant, replaceable, spare, spendable, substitutable, supererogatory, superfluous, supersedable, tautologic, tautologous, throwaway, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unimportant, unnecessary, unneeded, verbose

• expended, ablated, acquitted, by the board, consumed, depleted, discharged, dissipated, eroded, forfeit, forfeited, gone, hired, irretrievable, liquidated, long-lost, lost, lost to, out the window, paid, paid in full, postpaid, prepaid, receipted, remitted, salaried, settled, shrunken, spent, squandered, used, used up, waged, wasted, worn away

• expenditure, ablation, absorption, accounts, accounts payable, accounts receivable, amount, assets, assimilation, attrition, budget, budgeting, burning up, charge, consumption, cost, costing-out, damage, decrease, decrement, depletion, depreciation, digestion, disbursement, dissipation, drain, eating up, erosion, evaporation, exhaustion, expending, expenditures, expense, fee, figure, finishing, impoverishment, ingestion, leakage, liabilities, outgoings, outlay, outstanding accounts, payment, price, price tag, rate, receipts, score, shrinkage, spending, squandering, tab, unpaid accounts, using, using up, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting away, wearing, wearing away, wearing down

• expense, amount, bereavement, budget, budget items, burden of expenditure, carrying charge, charge, charges, cost, cost of living, cost-of-living allowance, cost-of-living index, costs, damage, dead loss, debit, decrement, denial, denudation, deprivation, despoilment, destruction, detriment, direct costs, disbursals, disbursement, dispossession, distributed costs, divestment, expenditure, expense account, expenses, fee, figure, forfeit, forfeiture, general expenses, impairment, indirect costs, injury, labor costs, liabilities, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, material costs, operating costs, operating expense, outgoings, outlay, overhead, payment, perdition, price, price tag, prime cost, privation, rate, replacement cost, robbery, ruin, sacrifice, score, spending, spoliation, stripping, swindle sheet, tab, taking away, toll, total loss, unit cost

• expensive, cheap, costly, dear, dear-bought, extravagant, fancy, high, high-priced, immoderate, luxurious, not affordable, of great cost, overpriced, precious, premium, priced, priceless, pricey, rich, steep, stiff, sumptuous, thrifty, top, uneconomical, unpayable, valuable

• experience, accept, acquaintance, adventure, affair, affect, affection, apprehend, awareness, background, be aware of, be conscious of, be exposed to, be sensible of, be subjected to, behold, blaseness, circumstance, common sense, consciousness, contact, corpus, data, datum, emotion, emotional charge, emotional shade, encounter, endure, episode, event, expertise, exposure, face, fact, facts, factual base, familiarity, feel, feel deeply, feeling, feeling tone, foreboding, go through, gut reaction, hap, happening, happenstance, have, have a sensation, hear, heartthrob, impression, incident, information, intelligence, intimacy, involvement, inwardness, judgement, ken, know, know-how, knowing, knowledge, labor under, live through, matter of fact, meet, meet up with, meet with, observation, occasion, occurrence, ordeal, participation, particular, pass through, passion, past experience, pay, perceive, percept, perception, phenomenon, practical knowledge, practice, presentiment, private knowledge, privity, profound sense, ratio cognoscendi, reaction, reality, receive, receive an impression, respond, respond to stimuli, response, response to stimuli, run up against, sagacity, sample, savoir faire, savor, savvy, seasoning, see, self-knowledge, sensation, sense, sense impression, sense perception, sensory experience, sentiment, skill, smell, sophistication, spend, stand under, suffer, survey, sustain, taste, technic, technics, technique, tempering, test, touch, trial, turn of events, undercurrent, undergo, view, wisdom, worldly wisdom

• experienced, acclimated, acclimatized, accommodated, accomplished, accustomed, adapted, adept, adjusted, au fait, blase, capable, case-hardened, competent, conditioned, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, efficient, expert, familiarized, hardened, in the know, inured, knowing, knowledgeable, master, masterly, mature, matured, naturalized, not born yesterday, old, old-line, old-time, on the ball, orientated, oriented, practical, practiced, prepared, professional, proficient, qualified, ripe, ripened, run-in, sagacious, sage, savvy, seasoned, shrewd, skilled, skillful, sophisticated, trained, tried, tried and true, used to, versed, vet, veteran, well-informed, well-versed, wise, wont, wonted, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise

• experiment, analysis, analyze, approach, assay, attempt, bid, bring to test, confirm, crack, cut and try, effort, endeavor, enquiry, essay, examination, examine, experimentation, fling, gambit, give a try, give a tryout, go, have a go, inquiry, investigate, investigation, lick, move, offer, play around with, policy, practice upon, probe, procedure, proof, prove, put to trial, research, road-test, run a sample, sample, scrutinize, search, shake down, shot, stab, step, stroke, strong bid, study, substantiate, taste, tentative, test, trial, trial and error, trial run, try, try anything once, try it on, try out, undertaking, validate, verify, weigh, whack

• experimental, conjectural, cut-and-try, determined, developmental, empirical, experiential, exploratory, heuristic, hit-or-miss, hypothetical, pilot, preliminary, preparatory, probationary, probative, probatory, proving, provisional, resolute, speculative, temporary, tentative, test, testing, theoretical, trial, trial-and-error, trying, venturesome, verificatory, willing

• experimentation, R and D, control, control experiment, controlled experiment, cut and try, empiricism, experiment, experimental design, experimental method, experimental proof, experimentalism, hit and miss, noble experiment, pragmatism, research and development, rule of thumb, tentative method, tentativeness, test, testing, trial, trial and error, trial run, trying

• expert, Admirable Crichton, Daedalian, Dutch uncle, Polonius, accomplished, ace, acquainted with, adept, adept in, admonisher, adroit, adviser, aficionado, amateur, apt, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, archetypical, artisan, artist, artiste, artistic, at home in, at home with, attache, au fait, authoritative, authority, backseat driver, bon vivant, bravura, brilliant, buff, buttinsky, championship, classic, clean, clever, cognoscente, collector, confidant, confined, connaisseur, connoisseur, consultant, consummate, conversant with, coordinated, cordon bleu, counsel, counselor, crack, crack shot, crackerjack, craftsman, critic, cunning, cute, dab, dabster, daedal, darb, dead shot, deft, developed, dexterous, dextrous, dilettante, diplomat, diplomatic, diplomatist, doyen, elder statesman, epicure, epicurean, excellent, exemplary, experienced, experienced hand, experimental scientist, expert at, expert consultant, familiar with, fan, fancy, feature, featured, finished, first-rate, freak, fully developed, good, good at, good judge, goodish, gourmand, gourmet, graceful, graduate, guide, handy, handy at, handy man, informed in, ingenious, instructor, intellectual, intimate with, journeyman, judge, kibitzer, knowledgeable, learned, limited, magisterial, man of science, marksman, master, master of, masterful, masterly, mature, matured, maven, meddler, mentor, model, monitor, neat, nestor, no mean, no slouch, nut, orienter, past master, perfected, polished, politic, politician, practical scientist, preceptist, pro, professional, professor, proficient, proficient in, pundit, qualified, quick, quintessential, quite some, ready, refined, refined palate, resourceful, restricted, ripe, ripened, savant, scholar, schooled, scientist, shark, sharp, skilled, skilled in, skillful, slick, some, specialist, specialistic, specialized, statesman, statesmanlike, strong in, stylish, superb, superior, swell, tactful, teacher, technical, technical adviser, technical expert, technician, technologist, the compleat, the complete, top-notch, trained, up on, versed in, virtuoso, well up on, well-done, well-read in, well-versed, whiz, wizard, wonderful, workmanlike

• expertise, ability, acquaintance, address, adeptness, adroitness, aesthetics, airmanship, all-knowingness, art, artfulness, artisanship, artistic taste, artistry, bravura, brilliance, capability, capacity, cleverness, command, competence, connoisseurship, control, coordination, corpus, craft, craftsmanship, cross-disciplinary knowledge, cunning, data, datum, deep knowledge, deftness, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, dilettantism, diplomacy, efficiency, encyclopedic knowledge, epicureanism, epicurism, experience, expertism, expertness, extensive knowledge, facility, facts, factual base, familiarity, finesse, friandise, gastronomy, general knowledge, grace, grip, handiness, horsemanship, information, ingeniousness, ingenuity, intelligence, intimacy, judgement, ken, knack, know-how, knowing, knowledge, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, omniscience, pansophy, polyhistory, polymathy, practical ability, practical knowledge, private knowledge, privity, proficiency, profound knowledge, prowess, quickness, ratio cognoscendi, readiness, resource, resourcefulness, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, self-knowledge, skill, skillfulness, special knowledge, style, tact, tactfulness, technic, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technics, technique, timing, virtu, virtuosity, wit, wizardry, workmanship

• expertly, ably, adeptly, adroitly, agilely, aptly, artfully, artistically, brilliantly, capably, cleverly, competently, cunningly, deftly, dexterously, dextrously, efficiently, excellently, featly, handily, ingeniously, masterfully, neatly, nimbly, proficiently, resourcefully, skillfully, spryly, superbly, well, with consummate skill, with finesse, with genius, with skill

• expiate, amend, atone, atone for, compensate, compensate for, correct, cover, do penance, fill up, give and take, give satisfaction, indemnify, live down, make amends, make compensation, make good, make matters up, make reparation, make right, make up for, pay back, pay the forfeit, pay the penalty, propitiate, put right, recompense, rectify, redeem, redress, remedy, repair, repay, retaliate, satisfy, set right, square it, square things

• expiation, amends, atonement, balancing, commutation, compensation, composition, compromise, counteraction, counterbalancing, expiatory offering, indemnification, indemnity, lex talionis, making amends, making good, making right, making up, offsetting, peace offering, piaculum, propitiation, quittance, reclamation, recompense, rectification, redemption, redress, reparation, repayment, restitution, retaliation, revenge, satisfaction, squaring, substitution

• expiration, Aqua-Lung, Z, annihilation, apodosis, artificial respiration, aspiration, asthmatic wheeze, bane, biological death, breath, breath of air, breathing, broken wind, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, cessation of life, clinical death, close, closing, coda, concluding, conclusion, consummation, cough, crack of doom, crossing the bar, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, death knell, debt of nature, decease, demise, denouement, departure, destination, destiny, discontinuance, discontinuation, dissolution, doom, dying, ebb of life, effect, end, end of life, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, eternal rest, exhalation, exit, expiry, exsufflation, extinction, extinguishment, fate, final solution, final summons, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finger of death, finis, finish, gasp, goal, going, going off, grave, gulp, hack, hand of death, hiccup, inhalation, inhalator, inspiration, insufflation, iron lung, izzard, jaws of death, knell, last, last breath, last debt, last gasp, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, leaving life, loss of life, making an end, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, omega, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, parting, passing, passing away, passing over, payoff, period, perishing, peroration, puff, quietus, release, resolution, respiration, rest, resting place, reward, scuba, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, sigh, sleep, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snoring, snuff, snuffle, somatic death, sternutation, stertor, stoppage, stopping place, summons of death, suspiration, swan song, term, terminal, termination, terminus, wheeze, wind, windup

• expire, advance, be all over, be annihilated, be destroyed, be done for, be lost, be no more, be wiped out, become extinct, become void, blow, blow over, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, cease to live, close, come to naught, come to nothing, conclude, conk, conk out, continue, cough, croak, decease, demise, depart, depart this life, die, die away, die out, disappear, discontinue, dissolve, elapse, emit, end, endure, evacuate, evaporate, exhale, exhaust, expel, fade, fade away, fade out, fall, fall asleep, finish, flee, flit, flow, flow on, fly, fume, gasp, give off, give out, give vent to, glide, go, go by, go on, go out, gulp, hack, have it, have its time, hiccup, huff, inhale, inspire, kick off, lapse, last, leave no trace, let out, melt away, open the floodgates, open the sluices, pant, part, pass, pass away, pass by, pass on, pass over, peg out, perish, peter out, press on, proceed, puff, put off mortality, quit this world, reek, respire, return to dust, roll on, run, run its course, run on, run out, sigh, slide, slip, smoke, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, steam, stop breathing, succumb, terminate, throw off, up and die, vanish, vapor, wear away, wear off, wheeze, yield the ghost

• expired, ago, all gone, annihilated, antiquated, antique, blown over, by, bygone, bypast, dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct, departed, done for, down the drain, elapsed, extinct, finished, forgotten, gone, gone glimmering, gone-by, had it, has-been, irrecoverable, kaput, kaputt, lapsed, no more, obsolete, over, passe, passed, passed away, past, perished, run out, vanished, wound up

• explain, absolve, account, account for, acquit, aid, allegorize, analyze, answer, bottom, break down, clarify, clear, clear the way, clear up, condone, construe, crack, cry sour grapes, debug, decipher, decode, define, delineate, demonstrate, demythologize, describe, destigmatize, detail, disclose, discourse, disentangle, divine, do, do justice to, dope, dope out, ease, elucidate, enlighten, euhemerize, exculpate, excuse, exemplify, exonerate, expedite, explain away, explicate, exposit, expound, extenuate, facilitate, fathom, figure out, find out, find the answer, find the solution, get, get across, get over, get right, give reason for, give the meaning, grease, grease the ways, grease the wheels, guess, guess right, harangue, hasten, have it, help along, hit it, hold forth, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, justify, lecture, legitimate, legitimatize, loose, lubricate, make clear, make it clear, make out, make plain, make way for, moralize, oil, open the lock, open the way, open up, palliate, pave the way, plumb, point a moral, popularize, preach, prepare the way, psych, psych out, purge, put across, put over, puzzle out, quicken, rationalize, ravel, ravel out, read a lesson, rehabilitate, reinstate, remove friction, resolve, restore, riddle, run interference for, sermonize, shed light upon, show, show how, show the way, simplify, smooth, smooth the way, soap the ways, solve, sort out, speed, spell out, throw light upon, unbar, unblock, unclog, undo, unfold, unjam, unlock, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, untangle, untwist, unweave, vindicate, vulgarize, warrant, work, work out

• explanation, abstraction, accomplishment, account, allegorization, analysis, answer, ascertainment, body of theory, case, case in point, cause, clarification, clearance, clearing, clearing up, commentary, construction, cracking, criticism, decipherment, decoding, definition, delineation, demonstration, demythologization, denouement, description, destigmatization, destigmatizing, determination, disclosure, disentanglement, doctrinairism, doctrinality, doctrinarity, editing, elucidation, emblem, emendation, end, end result, enlightenment, euhemerism, example, exculpation, excuse, exegesis, exemplar, exemplification, explication, exponent, expose, exposition, expounding, finding, finding-out, grounds, illumination, illustration, instance, interpretation, issue, justification, key, light, meaning, mere theory, motive, object lesson, outcome, pretense, pretext, purgation, purging, rational ground, rationale, rationalization, reason, reason why, rehabilitation, reinstatement, relevant instance, representative, resolution, resolving, restoration, result, riddling, signification, simplification, solution, solving, sorting out, speculation, stated cause, symbol, tentative explanation, the big idea, the idea, the whatfor, the wherefore, the why, theoretic, theoretical basis, theoretical structure, theoretics, theoria, theoric, theorization, theory, type, typical example, underlying reason, unified theory, unlocking, unraveling, unriddling, unscrambling, unspinning, untangling, untwisting, unweaving, upshot, vindication, working, working-out

• explanatory, allegorizing, annotative, clarifying, critical, demonstrative, demythologizing, descriptive, discursive, editorial, elucidative, enlightening, euhemeristic, exegetic, exegetical, exemplificative, explaining, explicative, explicatory, expositional, expositive, expository, glossarial, illuminating, illuminative, illustrative, interpretative, interpretive, rationalistic, rationalizing, revelatory, scholiastic

• expletive, battology, bedizenment, blurt, curse, cuss, cuss word, de trop, dirty name, dirty word, dispensable, duplication, duplication of effort, dysphemism, ecphonesis, ejaculation, embellishment, epithet, excess, exclamation, expendable, extravagance, fat, featherbedding, filler, filling, foul invective, frill, frills, frippery, gingerbread, gratuitous, in excess, iterative, luxury, macrology, naughty word, needless, needlessness, no-no, nonessential, oath, obscenity, ornamentation, outburst, overadornment, overlap, padding, payroll padding, pleonasm, pleonastic, profane oath, prolix, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, redundant, reiterative, repetitious, spare, stammering, stuttering, supererogatory, superfluity, superfluous, superfluousness, swear, swearword, tautologic, tautological, tautologism, tautologous, tautology, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unnecessariness, unnecessary, unneeded, verbose, verbosity, wordy

• explicable, Englishable, accountable, alleged, answerable, ascertainable, ascribable, assignable, attributable, attributed, capable of solution, charged, construable, credited, decipherable, decodable, definable, derivable from, derivational, derivative, describable, determinable, doable, due, explainable, imputable, imputed, interpretable, open to solution, owing, putative, referable, referred to, renderable, resolvable, soluble, solvable, traceable, translatable, workable

• explicate, account for, allegorize, amplify, clarify, clear up, construe, crack, decipher, demonstrate, demythologize, descant, detail, develop, dilate, elaborate, elucidate, enlarge, enlarge upon, enlighten, euhemerize, evolve, exemplify, expand, expatiate, explain, explain away, exposit, expound, get across, get over, give reason for, give the meaning, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, make clear, make it clear, make plain, particularize, popularize, put across, put over, rationalize, rehearse in extenso, relate at large, shed light upon, show, show how, show the way, simplify, solve, spell out, throw light upon, unfold, unlock, unravel, vulgarize, work out

• explicit, absolute, accurate, admitting no exception, all-out, apparent, artless, bluff, blunt, broad, brusque, candid, categorical, categorically, certain, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, coherent, complete, conclusive, connected, consistent, correct, crisp, crystal-clear, crystalline, decided, decisive, defined, definite, definitely, definitive, determinate, direct, discernible, distinct, downright, entire, evident, exact, explicitly, express, final, fixed, flat, flat-out, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, genuine, global, heart-to-heart, implicit, inappealable, indisputable, indubitable, ingenuous, limpid, loud and clear, lucid, luminous, manifest, noticeable, observable, obvious, open, open-and-shut, openhearted, out-and-out, outright, outspoken, palpable, patent, pellucid, perceivable, perceptible, peremptory, perfect, perspicuous, plain, plain as day, plain-spoken, positive, precise, round, seeable, self-evident, self-explaining, self-explanatory, simple, sincere, specific, specifically, stated, straight, straight-out, straightforward, sure, tangible, to be seen, total, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, unambiguous, unchecked, uncircumscribed, unconditional, unconditioned, unconfused, unconstrained, understandable, undoubting, unequivocal, unguarded, unhampered, unhesitating, univocal, unlimited, unmistakable, unmitigated, unqualified, unquestioning, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unwaivable, utter, visible, well-defined, whole, without exception, without reserve

• explode, backfire, bang, bark, be angry, be excitable, belie, bellow, blast, blow a fuse, blow a gasket, blow out, blow sky-high, blow up, break out, burst, burst forth, bust, catch fire, catch the infection, coal, come apart, come to nothing, crack, debunk, deflate, detonate, discharge, disconfirm, discredit, disprove, erupt, excite easily, expose, fail miserably, feed, fill up, fire, fire up, fizz out, fizzle, fizzle out, flame up, flare up, flash up, flip, fly apart, fly out, freak out, fuel, fuel up, fulminate, get excited, get nowhere, go into hysterics, go off, go phut, hang up, have a tantrum, hit the ceiling, invalidate, let off, misfire, mushroom, negate, negative, oil, poop out, pop, prove the contrary, puncture, rage, ramp, rant, rant and rave, rave, refuel, refute, reject, repudiate, run a temperature, seethe, set off, shoot, show up, smolder, stoke, storm, take fire, top off, touch off, turn a hair, undercut

• exploded, belied, confounded, confuted, contested, deflated, denied, disbelieved, discarded, discredited, dismissed, disproved, disputed, doubted, exposed, impugned, invalidated, mistrusted, moot, negated, negatived, overthrown, overturned, punctured, questioned, refuted, rejected, shown up, suspect, suspected, under a cloud, under suspicion, upset

• exploit, abuse, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, adventure, apply, aristeia, attainment, beguile, benefit from, bestow, bleed, bleed white, blow, bold stroke, capitalize on, cash in on, clip, coup, cultivate, dealings, deed, do, doing, doings, drain, effort, employ, emprise, endeavor, enterprise, exercise, fait accompli, feat, finesse, fleece, gest, go, gouge, hand, handiwork, handle, heroic act, hold up, ill-use, impose, impose upon, improve, improve the occasion, job, jockey, make capital of, make hay, make use of, maneuver, manipulate, measure, milk, misuse, move, operation, overcharge, overprice, overt act, overtax, passage, performance, play, play on, presume upon, proceeding, production, profit by, profiteer, put to advantage, res gestae, screw, skin, soak, step, stick, sting, stroke, stunt, suck dry, surcharge, swindle, take advantage of, thing, thing done, tour de force, trade on, transaction, turn, turn to account, turn to profit, turn to use, undertaking, use, use ill, use to advantage, utilize, venture, victimize, work, work on, work upon, works

• exploitable, appliable, applicable, compliant, cullible, deceivable, deludable, dupable, easy, foolable, green, gullible, hoaxable, hoodwinkable, humbugable, ingenuous, manipulable, naive, operable, persuadable, pliable, practical, reusable, seduceable, simple, soft, unsophisticated, usable, utilizable, victimizable

• exploration, adventure, analysis, domiciliary visit, dragnet, emprise, enquiry, examination, expedition, forage, frisk, house-search, hunt, hunting, inquiry, inspection, investigation, mission, observation, perquisition, pilgrimage, posse, probe, quest, ransacking, recce, recco, recon, reconnaissance, reconnoiter, reconnoitering, research, review, rummage, scouting, scrutiny, search, search party, search warrant, search-and-destroy operation, searching, stalk, stalking, still hunt, study, survey, turning over

• exploratory, advanced, analytic, avant-garde, examinational, examinatorial, examining, explorational, explorative, fact-finding, feeling, groping, heuristic, inaugural, indagative, inspectional, inspectorial, investigational, investigative, investigatory, original, preceding, preliminary, tentative, testing, trying, zetetic

• explore, beat the bushes, burrow, delve, delve into, dig, dig into, examine, fathom, forage, frisk, go into, go through, hunt, indagate, inquire into, inspect, investigate, look around, look into, look round, look through, nose around, observe, peer into, plumb, poke, poke around, poke into, probe, prospect, pry, pry into, quarry, question, research, review, root, scrutinize, search, search into, search through, sift, smell around, sound, study, survey, test, tour, travel, traverse, try

• explorer, adventurer, alpinist, ancestor, announcer, antecedent, astronaut, avant-garde, bellwether, buccinator, bushwhacker, camper, climber, comers and goers, commuter, cosmopolite, cruiser, excursionist, fare, forebear, foregoer, forerunner, front runner, frontiersman, fugleman, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, groundbreaker, guide, hajji, harbinger, herald, innovator, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, lead runner, leader, mariner, messenger, mountaineer, palmer, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pilgrim, pioneer, point, precedent, precursor, predecessor, rubberneck, rubbernecker, sailor, scout, sightseer, stormy petrel, straphanger, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker, tripper, vanguard, vaunt-courier, viator, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer, world-traveler

• explosion, accelerando, acceleration, access, aggravation, backfire, bang, bark, beefing-up, blast, blaze, blaze of temper, blowing up, blowout, blowup, boom, burgeoning, burst, clap, concentration, condensation, consolidation, convulsion, crack, crash, cyclone, deepening, detonation, discharge, disconfirmation, disproof, disproval, disproving, enhancement, eruption, exacerbation, exaggeration, expansion, expose, exposure, fit, flare, flare-up, flash, fulguration, fulmination, fusillade, gale, gunshot, gust, heating-up, heightening, high words, hurricane, increase, information explosion, intensification, invalidation, irruption, magnification, mushrooming, negation, outbreak, outburst, paddy, paroxysm, pickup, pop, population explosion, redargution, redoubling, reductio ad absurdum, reinforcement, report, sally, salvo, scene, seizure, shot, spasm, speedup, step-up, storm, strengthening, tantrum, tempest, tightening, tornado, upheaval, volley, wax, whirlwind

• explosive, Ballistite, TNT, agitable, alarming, allophone, alveolar, anxious, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, bad, banging, bilabial, blasting, bursting, cacuminal, cellulose nitrate, cerebral, chancy, check, combustible, consonant, continuant, cordite, cracking, crashing, critical, dangerous, dangersome, delicate, dental, detonating, dicey, diphthong, dissimilation, dynamite, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, epenthetic vowel, eruptive, excitable, explodable, exploding, explosible, fiery, flapping, fraught, fraught with danger, fulminating, gelignite, glide, glottal, glottalization, gunpowder, guttural, hasty, hazardous, high explosive, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hot, hot-tempered, hotheaded, iffy, inflammable, irascible, irritable, jeopardous, knocking, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lingual, liquid, manner of articulation, melinite, menacing, mettlesome, modification, monophthong, morphophoneme, mute, nasal, nasty, nervous, nitrocotton, nitroglycerin, occlusive, palatal, parasitic vowel, parlous, passionate, peak, peppery, periculous, perilous, perturbable, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phone, phoneme, plastic, plastic explosive, plosive, popping, powder, precarious, prickly, prothetic vowel, quick, quick-tempered, rapping, retroflex, segmental phoneme, semivowel, sensitive, serious, shaky, short-tempered, skittish, slapping, slatting, smokeless powder, sonant, sonority, speech sound, spunky, startlish, stop, surd, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tapping, tense, threatening, touch-and-go, touchy, transition sound, trinitrotoluol, triphthong, ugly, uncertain, unpredictable, unsound, unstable, velar, villanous saltpetre, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless sound, voicing, volatile, volcanic, vowel

• exponent, Maecenas, abettor, admirer, advocate, aficionado, allegorist, alter ego, alternate, amicus curiae, angel, annotator, apologist, attorney, backer, backup, backup man, booster, buff, case, case in point, champion, cicerone, clarifier, commentator, critic, cross section, cryptanalyst, cryptographer, cryptologist, decoder, defender, definer, demonstration, demonstrator, demythologizer, dependence, deputy, diaskeuast, dragoman, dummy, editor, emblem, embodiment, emendator, emender, encourager, endorser, euhemerist, example, executive officer, exegesist, exegete, exegetist, exemplar, exemplification, explainer, explanation, explicator, expositor, expounder, fan, favorer, figurehead, friend at court, go-between, guide, hermeneut, illustration, instance, interpreter, lexicographer, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, lover, mainstay, maintainer, metaphrast, object lesson, oneirocritic, paranymph, paraphrast, partisan, patron, pinch hitter, pleader, procurator, promoter, proponent, protagonist, proxy, relevant instance, reliance, representation, representative, scholiast, second, second in command, secondary, seconder, sectary, sider, specimen, sponsor, stalwart, stand-in, standby, substitute, support, supporter, surrogate, sustainer, symbol, sympathizer, textual critic, translator, type, typical example, typification, understudy, upholder, utility man, vicar, vicar general, vice, vicegerent, votary, well-wisher

• exponential, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, cardinal, decimal, differential, digital, even, figural, figurate, figurative, finite, fractional, imaginary, impair, impossible, infinite, integral, irrational, logarithmic, logometric, negative, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, odd, ordinal, pair, positive, possible, prime, radical, rational, real, reciprocal, submultiple, surd, transcendental

• export, air-express, airfreight, airmail, assign, carry over, communicate, communication, conduction, consign, contagion, convection, deliver, delivery, deport, deportation, diapedesis, diffuse, diffusion, dispatch, disseminate, dissemination, drop a letter, embark, expedite, expel, exportation, exporting, express, expulsion, extradite, extradition, forward, freight, hand forward, hand on, hand over, impart, import, importation, interchange, mail, make over, metastasis, metastasize, metathesis, metathesize, metempsychosis, migration, mutual transfer, osmosis, pass, pass on, pass over, pass the buck, passage, passing over, perfuse, perfusion, post, relay, remit, send, send abroad, send away, send forth, send off, ship, spread, spreading, switch, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transfer property, transference, transfuse, transfusion, transit, transition, translate, translation, translocate, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmit, transmittal, transmittance, transplace, transplacement, transplant, transplantation, transposal, transpose, transposition, travel, turn over

• expose, advertise, air, apocalypse, attaint, awaken, bare, baring, belie, bespatter, betray, blacken, blot, blow sky-high, blow up, blow upon, brand, brandish, break the seal, break the spell, bring to light, broadcast, burst the bubble, censure, clear, compromise, construction, correct, debunk, defame, defile, deflate, denudate, denude, deobstruct, develop, dig up, disabuse, disappoint, disapprove, disclose, disclosing, disclosure, disconfirm, disconfirmation, discover, discovering, discovery, discredit, disenchant, disillude, disillusion, disillusionize, disinter, dismask, disparage, display, disport, disproof, disproval, disprove, disproving, divest, divulge, draw the veil, encounter danger, endanger, enlighten, excavate, exegesis, exhibit, exhume, explication, explode, explosion, expose to infamy, exposition, exposure, ferret out, fish up, flash, flaunt, fleece, free, gamble, gamble with, gibbet, hang in effigy, hazard, impart, imperil, incur danger, interpretation, invalidate, invalidation, jeopard, jeopardize, jeopardy, lay bare, lay open, laying bare, leak, let daylight in, let down easy, let in on, let out, make known, manifest, manifestation, negate, negation, negative, open, open up, parade, patefaction, patefy, peril, pillory, pluck, present, prick the bubble, prove the contrary, publish, puncture, put in danger, put in jeopardy, put in writing, put straight, raise the curtain, redargution, reductio ad absurdum, remove, removing the veil, reprimand, reveal, revealing, revealment, revelation, risk, root up, set right, set straight, shear, show, show off, show up, showing up, showup, slur, smear, soil, stain, stigmatize, strip, strip bare, stripping, subject, subject to, sully, taint, tarnish, tell the truth, trot out, turn up, unblindfold, unblock, uncase, uncharm, unclench, uncloak, uncloaking, unclog, unclothe, unclutch, uncork, uncover, uncovering, uncurtain, undeceive, undercut, undo, undrape, undress, unearth, unfold, unfolding, unfoldment, unfoul, unfurl, unkennel, unlatch, unlock, unmask, unmasking, unpack, unplug, unroll, unscreen, unseal, unsheathe, unshroud, unshut, unspell, unstop, unveil, unveiling, unwrap, unwrapping, ventilate, vilify, wake up, worm out