Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/45

• intimation, allegory, allusion, arcane meaning, assumption, bare suggestion, breath, broad hint, cast, catchword, clue, coloration, connotation, cue, cue word, dash, evidence, feeling, foreboding, forefeeling, funny feeling, gentle hint, gesture, gleam, glimmer, glimmering, half an idea, hazy idea, hint, hot lead, hunch, idea, implication, implied meaning, import, impression, index, indication, inference, infusion, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intuition, intuitive impression, ironic suggestion, key, key word, kick, lead, lick, look, meaning, mere notion, metaphorical sense, nod, notion, nuance, nudge, occult meaning, overtone, preapprehension, premonition, presentiment, presumption, presupposition, prompt, sauce, scent, scintilla, seasoning, shade, shadow, sign, signal, sip, smack, smattering, smell, sneaking suspicion, soupcon, spark, spice, spoor, sprinkling, strain, streak, subsense, subsidiary sense, suggestion, sup, supposition, suspicion, symbolism, symptom, taint, taste, telltale, tempering, thought, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tip-off, touch, trace, track, undercurrent, undermeaning, undertone, vague feeling, vague idea, vestige, whiff, whisper, wind, wink

• intimidate, abash, admonish, alarm, awe, badger, bait, be imminent, beat down, blackjack, bludgeon, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, bluster out of, bounce, brag, break, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, bullyrag, castrate, caution, chivy, clamp down on, coerce, comminate, compel, constrain, cow, cry out against, daunt, demoralize, denounce, despotize, dismay, disquiet, dissuade, domineer, domineer over, dragoon, enslave, expostulate, force, forebode, frighten, frighten off, gasconade, grind, grind down, harass, hector, henpeck, hijack, hound, huff, keep down, keep under, kid out of, look threatening, lord it over, lower, menace, oblige, oppress, out-herod Herod, overawe, overbear, overmaster, override, petrify, press heavy on, rage, rant, rave, remonstrate, repress, ride, ride over, ride roughshod over, roister, rollick, ruffle, scare, shanghai, slang, splutter, sputter, steamroller, storm, strong-arm, subjugate, suppress, swagger, swashbuckle, systematically terrorize, talk out of, terrify, terrorize, threaten, trample down, trample upon, tread down, tread upon, tyrannize, tyrannize over, unman, unpersuade, use violence, utter threats against, vapor, walk all over, walk over, warn, weigh heavy on

• intimidated, afraid, aghast, appalled, ashen, astounded, awed, awestricken, awestruck, blanched, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, cowed, daunted, deadly pale, dismayed, fainthearted, fearful, frozen, funking, funky, gray with fear, henhearted, horrified, horror-struck, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy, overtimid, overtimorous, pale as death, pallid, panic-prone, panicky, paralyzed, petrified, pigeonhearted, rabbity, scared stiff, scared to death, sissified, sissy, soft, stunned, stupefied, terrified, terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden, terror-riven, terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-struck, terror-troubled, timid, timorous, undone, unmanly, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted, white-livered, yellow

• intimidating, abusive, admonitory, bludgeoning, blustering, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, cautionary, comminatory, denunciatory, deterrent, discouraging, disinclining, dissuading, dissuasive, expostulatory, fear-inspiring, foreboding, hectoring, imminent, lowering, menacing, minacious, minatory, monitory, ominous, terroristic, terrorizing, threatening, threatful

• intimidation, admonition, argumentum baculinum, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, blustering, boastfulness, bravado, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, bustle, caution, cautioning, caveat, coercion, commination, cowing, demoralization, denunciation, determent, deterrence, duress, empty threat, expostulation, fanfaronade, flurry, fluster, foreboding, frightening, frightening off, fuss, hectoring, high pressure, idle threat, imminence, implied threat, menace, monition, pressure, promise of harm, psychological warfare, rant, remonstrance, rodomontade, side, splutter, sputter, strong-arm tactics, swagger, swashbucklery, sword of Damocles, talking out of, the big stick, the bludgeon, the club, the jackboot, the mailed fist, the strong arm, the sword, threat, threateningness, threatfulness, violence, war of nerves, warning

• intolerable, a bit much, abhorrent, absolute, arrant, classical, complete, consummate, crass, decided, definitive, dislikable, displeasing, distasteful, downright, egregious, exceptionable, flagrant, glaring, gross, impossible, inadmissible, indefensible, insufferable, insupportable, mislikable, objectionable, odious, out-and-out, outright, past bearing, perfect, positive, precious, profound, pronounced, proper, rank, regular, shattering, shocking, stark, stark-staring, superlative, surpassing, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, too much, total, unacceptable, unbearable, uncongenial, unconscionable, undeniable, undesirable, unendurable, unequivocal, uninviting, unlikable, unlovable, unmitigated, unpleasant, unqualified, unrelieved, unspoiled, unsuitable, unsupportable, untenable, utter

• intolerably, abominably, agonizingly, awfully, baldly, balefully, bitterly, blatantly, brashly, confoundedly, cruelly, damnably, deadly, deathly, deucedly, dissatisfactorily, distressingly, dolorously, dreadfully, egregiously, excessively, excruciatingly, exorbitantly, extravagantly, flagrantly, frightfully, grievously, hellishly, horribly, improperly, inadequately, inadmissibly, inexcusably, infernally, inordinately, insufferably, insufficiently, insupportably, lamentably, miserably, nakedly, objectionably, openly, painfully, piteously, sadly, shatteringly, shockingly, something awful, something fierce, sorely, staggeringly, terribly, torturously, unacceptably, unashamedly, unbearably, unconscionably, undesirably, unduly, unendurably, ungratifyingly, unpardonably, unsatisfactorily, unsatisfyingly, unsuitably, woefully

• intolerance, ageism, balkiness, bias, bigotry, bullheadedness, classism, determination, discrimination, doggedness, dogmatism, fanaticism, fixed mind, hardheadedness, headstrongness, illiberality, inflexible will, intoleration, mulishness, narrow-mindedness, nonendurance, obduracy, obstinacy, obstinateness, opinionatedness, overzealousness, partiality, perseverance, pertinacity, pigheadedness, prejudice, racialism, racism, restiveness, self-will, sexism, stiff neck, stiff-neckedness, strongheadness, stubbornness, sulkiness, sullenness, tenaciousness, tenacity, uncharitableness, uncooperativeness, unforbearance, ungenerousness, unregenerateness, willfulness, xenophobia

• intolerant, ageist, antipathetic, averse, balking, balky, biased, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case-hardened, classist, contemptuous, discriminatory, disdainful, dogged, dogmatic, fanatic, fractious, hardheaded, headstrong, hidebound, illiberal, impatient, inconsiderate, indignant, inflexible, inhospitable, irate, irritable, jaundiced, mulish, narrow, narrow-minded, obdurate, obstinate, one-sided, opinionated, outraged, overzealous, parochial, partial, persevering, pertinacious, pigheaded, prejudiced, provincial, racist, restive, self-willed, set, sexist, small-minded, snappish, stiff-necked, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, stuffy, sulky, sullen, tenacious, twisted, uncharitable, uncondoning, uncooperative, unforbearing, unindulgent, unregenerate, unsympathetic, upset, warped, waspish, willful, worked up, xenophobic

• intonate, anthem, ballad, carol, chant, chirp, chirrup, choir, chorus, croon, descant, do-re-mi, hum, hymn, inflect, intone, lilt, minstrel, modulate, pipe, psalm, quaver, roulade, serenade, shake, sing, sing in chorus, sol-fa, solmizate, tremolo, trill, troll, tweedle, tweedledee, twit, twitter, vocalize, warble, whistle, yodel

• intonation, AF, accent, accentuation, adaptation, arrangement, articulation, audio frequency, bel canto, bravura, cantando, choral singing, coloratura, croon, crooning, delivery, demilegato, emphasis, execution, expression, fingering, folk singing, frequency, fundamental, fundamental tone, glissando, grammatical accent, harmonic, harmonization, hum, humming, ictus, inflection, instrumentation, intonation pattern, legato, lyricism, mezzo staccato, modulation, monotone, monotony, music-making, operatic singing, orchestration, overtone, parlando, partial, partial tone, performance, phrasing, pianism, pitch, pitch accent, pizzicato, preparation, pronunciation, rendering, rendition, repercussion, resolution, rhetorical accent, rhythmical accent, rubato, scat, scat singing, setting, singing, slur, sol-fa, sol-fa exercise, solfeggio, solmization, solution, song, speech tune, spiccato, staccato, stress accent, stress arsis, suprasegmental, suspension, thesis, tone, tone accent, tone painting, tonelessness, tonic sol-fa, touch, transcription, vocal music, vocalization, warbling, yodel, yodeling

• intone, anthem, ballad, carol, chant, chirp, chirrup, choir, chorus, croon, descant, do-re-mi, hum, hymn, intonate, lilt, minstrel, pipe, psalm, quaver, roulade, serenade, shake, sing, sing in chorus, sol-fa, solmizate, tremolo, trill, troll, tweedle, tweedledee, twit, twitter, vocalize, warble, whistle, yodel

• intoxicate, addle, animate, befuddle, bemuse, besot, bewitch, cause vertigo, dizzy, elate, electrify, enchant, enliven, enrapture, ensorcel, entrance, excite, exhilarate, fascinate, flush, galvanize, give a thrill, inebriate, infatuate, inspirit, invigorate, muddle, overwhelm, stimulate, stupefy, swirl the senses, thrill, tickle, titillate, whirl the mind

• intoxicated, abandoned, ablaze, addled, affected, afire, amok, ardent, beery, befuddled, bellowing, bemused, berserk, besotted, blind, blind drunk, blotto, boiled, boiling over, bombed, boozy, breathless, burning, canned, carried away, cockeyed, concerned, cordial, crapulent, crapulous, crocked, cut, dazed, delirious, demoniac, disguised, distracted, dizzy, dopey, drenched, drunk, drunken, ecstatic, elated, enraptured, enthusiastic, excited, exhilarated, exuberant, far-gone, febrile, feral, ferocious, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, flaming, flushed, flustered, fou, frantic, frenzied, fried, fuddled, full, fulminating, furious, galvanized, gay, giddy, glorious, glowing, haggard, half-seas over, happy, hearty, heated, hog-wild, hot, howling, hysterical, impassioned, in a transport, in hysterics, in liquor, in the bag, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intense, interested, jagged, jolly, juiced, keen, lit, lit up, lively, loaded, looped, loopy, mad, madding, maniac, maudlin, mellow, merry, moved, muddled, nappy, oiled, on fire, organized, orgasmic, orgiastic, passionate, pickled, pie-eyed, piqued, pissed, pixilated, plastered, polluted, possessed, potted, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, raving, ravished, red-hot, reeling, roaring, running mad, screwy, shikker, shot, sloppy, smashed, sodden, soppy, sotted, sozzled, steaming, steamy, stewed, stiff, stimulated, stinking, stinko, stoned, storming, swacked, tanked, tiddly, tight, tipsy, transported, turned-on, uncontrollable, under the influence, under the weather, unrestrained, vigorous, violent, warm, wet, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, zealous, zonked

• intoxicating, agitating, alcoholic, breathtaking, charged, cliff-hanging, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, electric, electrifying, entrancing, exciting, exhilarating, exhilarative, fascinating, galvanic, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, impressive, inebriant, inebriating, inebriative, inflammatory, inspiring, intoxicative, invigorating, jarring, jolting, maddening, mind-blowing, moving, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, perturbing, piquant, provocative, provoking, ravishing, rousing, soul-stirring, spirituous, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, troubling, unsettling, upsetting

• intoxication, abandon, autointoxication, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, blood poisoning, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, craze, delectation, delight, delirium, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, ergotism, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, fire and fury, food poisoning, frenzy, furor, furore, fury, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, heaven, high spirits, hysteria, joy, joyance, joyfulness, madness, milk sickness, orgasm, orgy, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, passion, poisoning, ptomaine poisoning, pyemia, rage, rapture, ravishment, sepsis, septic poisoning, septicemia, septicopyemia, seventh heaven, sunshine, tearing passion, towering rage, toxemia, transport, unalloyed happiness, venenation

• intractability, civil disobedience, contumaciousness, contumacy, defiance, disobedience, fractiousness, frowardness, immovability, immutability, incorrigibility, indiscipline, indocility, indomitability, inductility, inelasticity, inextensibility, inflexibility, infraction, infringement, insubordination, insuppressibility, irrepressibility, irresilience, irresiliency, lawbreaking, lawlessness, naughtiness, noncompliance, nonconformity, noncooperation, nonobedience, obstreperousness, passive resistance, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recusancy, refractoriness, resistance, restiveness, shrewishness, stubbornness, transgression, unalterability, unbendingness, uncontrollability, uncooperativeness, unduteousness, undutifulness, ungovernability, unlimberness, unmalleability, unmanageability, unmoldableness, unpliability, unruliness, unsubmissiveness, untamableness, unyieldingness, violation, waywardness, wildness, willful disobedience

• intractable, adamant, adamantine, beyond control, breachy, bullheaded, contumacious, defiant, fractious, headstrong, immovable, immutable, incorrigible, indocile, indomitable, inductile, inelastic, inextensible, inextensile, inextensional, inflexible, insubordinate, insuppressible, intractile, intransigent, irrepressible, irresilient, mulish, noncooperating, noncooperative, nonelastic, nonstretchable, obstreperous, out of hand, pertinacious, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant, resisting, restive, self-willed, shrewish, stubborn, tough, unalterable, unbending, unbiddable, uncompliant, uncontrollable, uncooperative, undisciplined, unextendible, unextensible, unflexible, ungiving, ungovernable, unlimber, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmoldable, unpliable, unpliant, unruly, unsubmissive, untractable, unyielding, wild, willful

• intransient, abiding, age-long, aged, ancient, antique, chronic, constant, continuing, diuturnal, durable, enduring, evergreen, hardy, immutable, inveterate, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, macrobiotic, of long duration, of long standing, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, remaining, sempervirent, stable, staying, steadfast, tough, unfading, vital

• intransigence, adamantness, dourness, firmness, flintiness, grimness, hard-bittenness, hard-nosedness, immovability, immutability, implacability, impliability, inelasticity, inexorability, inflexibility, intransigeance, intransigency, intransigentism, irreconcilability, obduracy, relentlessness, rigidity, rigorism, steeliness, sternness, stiff temper, stiffness, toughness, unalterability, unbendingness, unchangeability, uncompromisingness, ungivingness, unrelentingness, unyieldingness

• intransigent, adamant, adamantine, ass, bigot, bitter-ender, brawler, bullethead, cast-iron, defendant, diehard, disputant, dissentient, dissident, dogmatist, donkey, dour, fanatic, firm, flinty, grim, hard, hard-core, hardnose, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intransigeant, iron, irreconcilable, last-ditcher, litigant, maverick, mule, naysayer, negativist, noncooperator, objector, obstructionist, obstructive, opposer, oppositionist, perverse fool, pighead, plaintiff, positivist, protester, purist, quarreler, relentless, resister, rigid, rigorous, rock-ribbed, scrapper, standpat, standpatter, steely, stern, stickler, stiff, unaffected, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompromising, ungiving, unmoved, unrelenting, unyielding, wrangler

• intransitive, adjectival, adverbial, attributive, auxiliary, auxiliary verb, conjunctive, copula, copulative, correct, defective verb, deponent verb, finite verb, formal, functional, glossematic, grammatic, impersonal verb, infinitive, intransitive verb, linking, linking verb, modal auxiliary, neuter verb, nominal, participial, postpositional, prepositional, pronominal, structural, substantive, syntactic, tagmemic, transitive, verb, verb phrase, verbal

• intransmutable, changeless, constant, immutable, incommutable, inconvertible, indefeasible, inert, insusceptible of change, invariable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, lasting, noble, nonreturnable, nonreversible, permanent, reverseless, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeflectable, undeviating, unmodifiable, unremitting, unrestorable, unreturnable, unsusceptible, unvariable, unvarying

• intrepid, adventurous, audacious, bold, bold-spirited, brave, chivalric, chivalrous, courageous, daring, dashing, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, game, greathearted, hardy, heroic, herolike, ironhearted, knightlike, knightly, lionhearted, manful, manly, plucky, resolute, soldierlike, soldierly, stalwart, steadfast, stout, stouthearted, unafraid, undaunted, valiant, valorous, venturesome

• intrepidly, audaciously, boldly, bravely, bulldoggishly, chivalrously, courageously, daringly, doughtily, fearlessly, gallantly, gamely, gutsily, hardily, heroically, knightly, like a man, like a soldier, pertinaciously, pluckily, resolutely, spunkily, stalwartly, stoutly, tenaciously, unfearfully, unfearingly, valiantly, valorously, yeomanly

• intricacy, abstruseness, arduousness, bothersomeness, burdensomeness, complexity, complexness, complication, convolution, crabbedness, crampedness, deepness, difficultness, difficulty, entanglement, esoterica, hairiness, hardness, intricateness, involution, involvement, knottiness, laboriousness, onerousness, oppressiveness, perplexity, profoundness, profundity, ramification, reconditeness, rigor, rigorousness, ruggedness, strenuousness, subtlety, tanglement, technicality, toilsomeness, toughness, troublesomeness

• intricate, Byzantine, Daedalian, Herculean, abstruse, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, anfractuous, arduous, baffling, balled up, bewildering, beyond one, blended, bothering, brutal, combined, complex, complicated, composite, compound, compounded, confounded, confounding, confused, confusing, conglomerate, convoluted, crabbed, cramp, critical, daedal, dappled, dedal, delicate, demanding, devious, difficile, difficult, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, distracting, disturbing, eclectic, elaborate, embarrassing, embrangled, enigmatic, entangled, equivocal, exacting, fancy, fifty-fifty, formidable, fouled up, garbled, gordian, hairy, half-and-half, hard, hard to understand, hard-earned, hard-fought, heterogeneous, implicated, indiscriminate, involuted, involved, ironic, jawbreaking, jumbled, knotted, knotty, laborious, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up, many-faceted, many-sided, matted, mazy, mean, meandering, medley, messed up, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, mixed up, motley, mucked up, multifaceted, multifarious, multinational, multiracial, mysterious, mystifying, no picnic, not easy, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, operose, ornate, overtechnical, patchy, perplexed, perplexing, perturbing, pluralistic, problematic, promiscuous, puzzling, ramified, rigorous, rococo, rough, roundabout, rugged, scrambled, screwed up, set with thorns, severe, sinuous, snarled, sophisticated, spiny, steep, strenuous, subtle, syncretic, tangled, tangly, thorny, thrown together, ticklish, toilsome, tortuous, tough, tricky, twisted, uphill, upsetting, varied, wicked, winding

• intrigue, Byzantine intrigues, absorb, adulterous affair, adultery, affair, amor, amour, angle, appeal, art, artful dodge, artfulness, artifice, attract, backstairs influence, becharm, beguile, bewitch, blind, brew, cabal, captivate, carry away, cast a spell, charm, chicanery, cogitate, collogue, collude, collusion, complicity, complot, concoct, confederacy, connections, connivance, connive, conspiracy, conspire, contrivance, contrive, contriving, cook up, countermine, counterplot, coup, covin, craft, craftiness, credibility gap, cuckoldry, cute trick, deals, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deep-laid plot, design, device, devise, disingenuousness, dodge, double-dealing, enchant, engineer, engineering, enrapture, enravish, entanglement, enthrall, entrance, eternal triangle, excite, expedient, fakement, falseheartedness, fascinate, feint, fetch, finagle, finagling, finesse, flirtation, forbidden love, forswearing, frame, frame up, frame-up, fraud, gambit, game, games, gerrymander, gimmick, grift, guile, hanky-panky, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, hypnotize, illicit love, infatuate, infidelity, influence peddling, insincerity, interest, intimacy, intrigues, jockey, jugglery, knavery, lay a plot, liaison, little game, lobbying, lobbyism, love affair, machinate, machination, maneuver, maneuvering, manipulate, manipulation, mesmerize, move, operate, perjury, pique, play games, plot, plotting, ploy, ploys, practice, pull strings, racket, red herring, rig, rigging, romance, romantic tie, ropes, ruse, scheme, schemery, schemes, scheming, sharp practice, shift, sleight, spell, spellbind, stratagem, strategy, strings, subterfuge, tactic, titillate, transport, triangle, trick, trickery, uncandidness, uncandor, underplot, unfaithfulness, unfrankness, unsincereness, untruthfulness, vamp, wangle, web of intrigue, wile, wily device, wire-pulling, wires, witch

• intriguing, Byzantine, Machiavellian, alluring, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, calculating, captivating, catching, charismatic, charming, coaxing, collusive, come-hither, connivent, conniving, conspiring, contriving, coquettish, delightful, designing, enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, exciting, exotic, exquisite, fascinating, fetching, flirtatious, glamorous, heart-robbing, hypnotic, interesting, inviting, irresistible, lovely, luxurious, mesmeric, mouth-watering, piquant, plotting, prepossessing, provocative, provoquant, ravishing, scheming, seducing, seductive, sensuous, siren, sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, stratagemical, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, thrilling, tickling, titillating, titillative, up to, voluptuous, winning, winsome, witching

• intrinsic, actual, appropriate, basic, central, characteristic, congenital, connate, constitutional, deep, deep-seated, distinctive, distinguished, elemental, esoteric, essential, fundamental, genuine, hereditary, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, immanent, implanted, implicit, in character, inalienable, inborn, inbred, indoor, indwelling, infixed, ingrained, inherent, inherited, inmost, innate, inner, innermost, inside, interior, internal, intestine, intimate, inward, inwrought, irreducible, marked, native, natural, organic, peculiar, private, proper, quintessential, real, resident, secret, single, singular, subjective, true, true to form, unalienable, unchallengeable, underlying, unique, unquestionable

• intrinsically, by birth, by nature, centrally, characteristically, congenitally, deeply, distinctively, genetically, immanently, inly, innately, interiorly, internally, intimately, inwardly, like no other, markedly, naturally, originally, peculiarly, primally, primitively, profoundly, singularly, under the surface, uniquely

• introduce, acquaint, add, admit, advance, announce, begin, blaze the trail, break the trail, bring before, bring forward, bring in, bring out, bring up, broach, christen, coin, commend to attention, discover, do the honors, drag in, ease in, edge in, establish, fill in, float, foist in, forerun, found, fudge in, give a knockdown, give an introduction, go before, guide, herald, implant in, import, inaugurate, induct, infuse, initiate, inject, inject in, inlay, inlet, innovate, inoculate, insert, insert in, inset, insinuate, insinuate in, install, instill, institute, intercalate, interjaculate, interject, interpolate, interpose, intervene, introduce in, introduce new blood, intromit, intrude, invent, launch, lay before, lead, lift up, lug in, make a motion, make acquainted, make innovations, make known, mention, moot, move, neologize, offer, offer a resolution, open up, organize, originate, perfuse, pioneer, pop in, pose, postulate, pre-educate, preamble, precede, preface, prefer, prefix, prelude, premise, present, prologize, propose, proposition, propound, put between, put forth, put forward, put in, put it to, quaint, raise, recommend, revolutionize, ring in, run in, sandwich, set agoing, set before, set forth, set in, set on foot, set up, slip in, smuggle in, squeeze in, start, start going, start up, stick in, submit, suggest, throw in, thrust in, tuck in, turn on, unveil, usher, usher in, ventilate, wedge in, whip in, work in, worm in

• introducer, agent, alterant, alterative, alterer, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, begetter, beginner, builder, catalyst, catalytic agent, conceiver, constructor, craftsman, creator, designer, deviser, discoverer, effector, engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, father, ferment, founder, generator, grower, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, innovationist, innovator, instigator, institutor, inventor, journeyman, leaven, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, modificator, modifier, mother, organizer, original, originator, past master, planner, precursor, prime mover, producer, raiser, realizer, shaper, sire, smith, transformer, transmogrifier, wright, yeast

• introduction, Vorspiel, abecedarium, abecedary, access, acknowledgments, acquaintance, acquaintedness, act, admission, afterpiece, and arithmetic, aside, avant-propos, back, back matter, bastard title, bibliography, bit, breakthrough, catch line, catchword, chaser, close acquaintance, cloture, coinage, colophon, coming out, committee consideration, concert overture, contents, contents page, copyright page, curtain, curtain call, curtain raiser, debate, debut, dedication, deliberation, descant, discovery, divertimento, divertissement, division, dramatic overture, elementary education, elements, embarkation, embarkment, embedment, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, entrance, entree, entry, epilogue, episode, errata, exode, exodus, exordium, expository scene, filibuster, filibustering, filing, finale, first appearance, first reading, first steps, floating, flotation, flyleaf, folio, fore edge, foreword, front matter, frontispiece, graft, grafting, half-title page, head, hoke act, hornbook, impaction, impactment, implantation, import, importation, importing, imprint, inaugural address, inauguration, income, incoming, index, induction, infiltration, infix, infixion, infusion, ingoing, ingress, ingression, initiation, injection, innovation, inoculation, input, inscription, insert, insertion, insinuation, installation, installment, intake, intercalation, interjection, interlineation, interlocution, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, interpenetration, interpolation, introgression, intromission, intrusion, invention, knockdown, launching, leaf, leakage, leap, logrolling, maiden speech, makeup, neologism, new phase, novelty, number, obiter dictum, opener, operatic overture, overture, page, parenthesis, penetration, percolation, perfusion, postulate, preamble, preface, prefix, prefixture, preliminaries, preliminary, prelude, premise, presentation, presupposition, primer, proem, prolegomena, prolegomenon, prolepsis, prologue, propaedeutic, protasis, reading, reception, recto, remark, reverso, roll call, routine, rudiments, running title, scene, second reading, seepage, shtick, side remark, signature, sketch, skit, song and dance, stand-up comedy act, steamroller methods, striptease, subtitle, table of contents, tabling, tail, talkathon, tessellation, text, third reading, title, title page, tossing-in, trim size, turn, type page, unveiling, vamp, verse, verso, voluntary, vote, writing

• introductory, abecedarian, aboriginal, antenatal, autochthonous, autodidactic, baptismal, basic, beginning, budding, coeducational, creative, cultural, didactic, disciplinary, edifying, educating, educational, educative, elemental, elementary, embryonic, enlightening, exhortatory, fetal, first, formative, foundational, fundamental, gestatory, homiletic, hortatory, illuminating, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, inductive, infant, infantile, informative, initial, initiative, initiatory, instructive, introductive, inventive, lecturing, nascent, natal, opening, original, parturient, postnatal, preaching, preceptive, prefatory, pregnant, preliminary, preludial, prelusive, prenatal, preparative, preparatory, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, proemial, propaedeutic, rudimental, rudimentary, self-teaching, teaching, tuitionary, ur

• Introit, Agnus Dei, Alleluia, Anamnesis, Benedicite, Blessing, Canon, Collect, Communion, Consecration, Credo, Dismissal, Epistle, Fraction, Gloria, Gloria Patri, Gloria in Excelsis, Gospel, Gradual, Kyrie, Kyrie Eleison, Last Gospel, Lavabo, Magnificat, Miserere, Nunc Dimittis, Offertory, Paternoster, Pax, Post-Communion, Preface, Sanctus, Secreta, Te Deum, Tersanctus, Tract, Trisagion, Vedic hymn, alleluia, answer, anthem, antiphon, antiphony, canticle, chant, chorale, doxology, hallelujah, hosanna, hymn, hymn of praise, hymnody, hymnography, hymnology, laud, mantra, motet, offertory, offertory sentence, paean, psalm, psalmody, report, response, responsory, versicle

• introit, Negro spiritual, anthem, cantata, canticle, chorale, church music, doxology, gospel, gospel music, hymn, hymn-tune, hymnody, hymnology, mass, motet, offertory, offertory sentence, oratorio, paean, passion, prosodion, psalm, psalmody, recessional, requiem, requiem mass, sacred music, spiritual, white spiritual

• intromission, acceptance, admission, admittance, baptism, embedment, enlistment, enrollment, entrance, graft, grafting, immission, impaction, impactment, implantation, inauguration, induction, infixion, infusion, initiation, injection, inoculation, insertion, insinuation, installation, instatement, interjection, interpolation, introduction, investiture, ordination, penetration, perfusion, tessellation, transplant, transplantation

• intromit, admit, ease in, give an entree, immit, infuse, inject, inoculate, insert, insinuate, interject, introduce, let in, perfuse, pop in, put in, receive, set in, slip in, stick in, take in, throw in, throw open to, tuck in, whip in

• introspect, be abstracted, brood, chew the cud, consider, contemplate, debate, deliberate, digest, meditate, muse, perpend, play around with, play with, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, study, toy with, weigh

• introspective, absorbed, abstracted, buried in thought, cogitative, cognitive, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, contemplating, contemplative, deliberating, deliberative, engaged in thought, engrossed, engrossed in thought, excogitating, ideative, immersed in thought, lost in thought, meditating, meditative, mental, museful, musing, noetic, occupied, pensive, pondering, prehensive, preoccupied, rapt, reflecting, reflective, ruminant, ruminating, ruminative, serious, sober, speculative, thinking, thought, thoughtful, wistful, wrapped in thought

• introversion, aloofness, ambiversion, backwardness, bashfulness, blankness, chilliness, coldness, complexion, constraint, coolness, cycloid personality, cyclothymia, depth, detachment, discreetness, discretion, distance, ectomorphism, ectomorphy, ectropion, endomorphism, endomorphy, eversion, expressionlessness, extroversion, extrovertedness, frigidity, frostiness, guardedness, humor, iciness, impassiveness, impassivity, impersonality, inaccessibility, ingoingness, innerness, inness, interiority, internality, internalization, intrinsicality, introvertedness, intussusception, invagination, inversion, inwardness, mesomorphism, mesomorphy, modesty, other-directedness, outgoingness, personality tendency, pronation, remoteness, repression, reserve, reservedness, restraint, resupination, reticence, reticency, retirement, retroflexion, retroversion, reversal, reversing, reversion, revulsion, schizoid personality, schizothymia, somatotype, standoffishness, subduedness, supination, suppression, syntony, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, transposal, transposition, turning back, turning backwards, turning inside out, turning inward, turning over, unaffability, unapproachability, uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness, unexpansiveness, withdrawal, withdrawnness

• introvert, ambivert, choleric, convert, cycloid, cyclothyme, cyclothymic, ectomorph, endomorph, evert, extrovert, intussuscept, invaginate, inverse, invert, melancholic, mesomorph, phlegmatic, pronate, resupinate, reverse, revolve, rotate, sanguine, schizoid, schizothyme, supinate, syntone, transpose, turn about, turn around, turn down, turn in, turn inside out, turn out, turn over, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn upside down

• introverted, Olympian, aloof, arsy-varsy, ass over elbows, back-to-front, backward, backwards, bashful, blank, capsized, chiastic, chilled, chilly, cold, constrained, cool, detached, discreet, distant, everted, expressionless, forbidding, frigid, frosty, guarded, hyperbatic, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, ingoing, inner-directed, inside out, introversive, introvert, invaginated, inversed, inverted, modest, offish, outside in, palindromic, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, resupinate, reticent, retiring, retroverted, reversed, shrinking, standoff, standoffish, subdued, subjective, suppressed, topsy-turvy, transposed, unaffable, unapproachable, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unexpansive, ungenial, upside-down, withdrawn, wrong side out

• intrude, admit, advance upon, barge in, be admitted, blow it, bother, break bounds, break in, break in upon, breeze in, burst in, bust in, butt in, charge in, come barging in, come between, come breezing in, come busting in, come in, crash, crash in, crash the gates, creep in, cross the threshold, crowd in, cut in, disturb, drag in, drop in, edge in, elbow in, encroach, enter, entrench, foist in, fudge in, gain admittance, get in, go in, go into, go off half-cocked, go too far, have an entree, have an in, hop in, horn in, impinge, implant in, impose, impose on, impose upon, infiltrate, infringe, inject in, insert, insert in, insinuate, insinuate in, intercalate, interfere, interjaculate, interject, interlope, intermeddle, interpolate, interpose, interrupt, intervene, introduce, introduce in, invade, irrupt, jam in, jump in, know no bounds, look in, lug in, make an inroad, meddle, muscle, obtrude, overstep, overstep the bounds, pack in, pester, pop in, press in, presume, push in, put between, put in, put on, put upon, run in, rush in, sandwich, set foot in, slink in, slip in, smash in, smuggle in, sneak in, speak inopportunely, speak too late, squeeze in, steal in, step in, storm in, take in, throng in, throw in, thrust in, transgress, trench, trespass, usurp, visit, wedge in, work in, worm in

• intruder, arrival, arriviste, black sheep, blemish, burglar, busybody, buttinsky, comer, crasher, emigrant, encroacher, entrant, foreign body, foreign intruder, gate-crasher, gatecrasher, greenhorn, immigrant, impurity, in-migrant, incomer, infiltrator, interloper, invader, kibitzer, meddler, misfit, monkey wrench, mote, new arrival, new boy, newcomer, novus homo, oddball, parvenu, recruit, rookie, settler, sliver, snooper, speck, splinter, squatter, stone, stowaway, tenderfoot, thief, trespasser, uninvited guest, unwelcome guest, upstart, visitant, visitor, weed

• intrusion, access, admission, alienage, alienism, encroachment, entrance, entree, entry, exteriority, extraneousness, extrinsicality, foreignness, import, importation, importing, impropriety, inappropriateness, inauspiciousness, income, incoming, inconvenience, incursion, inexpedience, infelicity, infiltration, infraction, infringement, ingoing, ingress, ingression, inopportuneness, inopportunity, input, inroad, insertion, insinuation, intake, intempestivity, intercurrence, interjacence, interlocation, intermediacy, interpenetration, interposition, interposure, interruption, intervenience, intervention, introduction, introgression, irrelevance, lateness, leakage, nonassimilation, nonconformity, overstepping, penetration, percolation, prematurity, reception, sandwiching, seepage, transgression, trespass, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unpropitiousness, unripeness, unseasonableness, unsuitability, untimeliness, usurpation, wrongness

• intrusive, alien, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, busy, entering, exotic, exterior, external, extraneous, extraterrestrial, extrinsic, foreign, foreign-born, forward, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, hectic, hyperactive, hyperkinetic, ill-considered, ill-seasoned, ill-timed, importunate, improper, in, inappropriate, inauspicious, inbound, incoming, inconvenient, inexpedient, infelicitous, inflooding, inflowing, ingoing, ingressive, inopportune, inpouring, inquisitive, intempestive, interfering, interruptive, intervenient, intruding, invasive, inward, inward-bound, irrelevant, irruptive, late, mal a propos, malapropos, meddlesome, meddling, mistimed, nosy, obtrusive, off base, officious, out of line, out of phase, out of time, outland, outlandish, outside, premature, presumptuous, prying, pushy, snoopy, strange, too late, too soon, ulterior, unbefitting, uncalled-for, unearthly, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unlucky, unpropitious, unready, unripe, unseasonable, unsought, unsuitable, untimely, untoward, unwanted, unwelcome, wrong

• intuition, ESP, anschauung, clairsentience, clairvoyance, common sense, extrasensory perception, feeling, foreboding, forefeeling, foresight, funny feeling, hunch, impression, insight, instinct, intimation, intuitive impression, intuitiveness, lucidity, mother wit, perception, perceptiveness, percipience, perspicacity, preapprehension, premonition, presentiment, psychometry, second sight, sixth sense, suspicion, vague feeling, vague idea

• intuitive, anticipant, anticipatory, augural, clairvoyant, direct, divinatory, farseeing, farsighted, feeling, forehanded, foreknowing, forerunning, foreseeing, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foresighted, forethoughted, forethoughtful, foretokening, forewarning, heavy with meaning, immediate, indicative, instinctual, intuitional, longsighted, meaningful, monitory, precognitive, precognizant, precursive, precursory, predictive, prefigurative, preindicative, premonitory, prepared, presageful, presaging, prescient, prognostic, prognosticative, provident, providential, prudent, ready, sagacious, second-sighted, sensing, significant, visceral, warning

• intumescence, benign tumor, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, boil, bump, bunion, callosity, callus, cancer, carbuncle, carcinoma, corn, cyst, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distension, dropsy, edema, excrescence, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, fungosity, fungus, furuncle, gassiness, growth, inflation, lump, malignant growth, metastatic tumor, meteorism, mole, morbid growth, neoplasm, nevus, nonmalignant tumor, outgrowth, pimple, pock, proud flesh, puff, puffiness, puffing, pustule, rising, sarcoma, sebaceous cyst, stretching, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, verruca, wart, wen, windiness

• inundate, afflict, aggrieve, anguish, baptize, be prodigal with, board, break down, bring to tears, bury, cascade, cataract, crush, cut up, deluge, desolate, dip, douse, draw tears, drown, duck, dunk, embitter, engulf, escalade, float, flood, flood the market, flow on, foray, grieve, hit and run, immerge, immerse, inroad, invade, make a raid, make an inroad, merge, oppress, overbrim, overdose, overequip, overflow, overfurnish, overlavish, overprovender, overprovide, overprovision, override, overrun, oversell, overstock, oversupply, overwhelm, plunge in water, pour on, pour out, pour over, prostrate, raid, rain, ride down, ride over, ride roughshod over, run down, run over, scale, scale the walls, sink, slop, slosh, sluice, sorrow, souse, spill, spill out, spill over, storm, submerge, submerse, swamp, sweep, take by storm, torment, trample, trample on, trample underfoot, trample upon, tread upon, whelm

• inundated, afloat, at flood, awash, bathed, broken-down, brokenhearted, buried, crushed, cut up, deluged, desolated, dipped, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, engulfed, flooded, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartbroken, immersed, in spate, inflood, macerated, oozing, overcome, overflowed, overwhelmed, permeated, saturated, seeping, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, steeped, stricken, subaqueous, submarine, submerged, submersed, sunken, swamped, swept, undersea, underwater, undone, washed, water-washed, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, whelmed, wringing wet

• inundation, affusion, alluvion, alluvium, aspergation, aspersion, avalanche, baptism, bath, bathing, bedewing, burial, cataclysm, cataract, dampening, damping, deluge, dewing, dip, dipping, dousing, drowning, duck, ducking, dunking, embarras de richesses, engulfment, enough, exaggeration, excess, extravagance, extravagancy, flood, flooding, hosing, hosing down, humidification, immergence, immersion, irrigation, landslide, laving, lavishness, moistening, money to burn, more than enough, overabundance, overaccumulation, overbounteousness, overcopiousness, overdose, overflow, overflowing, overgrowth, overlavishness, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overpass, overplentifulness, overplenty, overpopulation, overprofusion, overrun, overrunning, overspreading, oversufficiency, oversupply, plenty, plethora, pour, prodigality, redundancy, rinsing, sinking, souse, sousing, sparging, spate, spattering, spill, spillage, splashing, splattering, spraying, sprinkling, submergence, submersion, superabundance, superflux, superiority, surplus, swashing, the Deluge, the Flood, torrent, washout, watering, wetting, whelming

• inure, acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, adapt, adjust, break, break in, brutalize, callous, case harden, condition, confirm, discipline, domesticate, domesticize, establish, familiarize, fix, gentle, habituate, harden, housebreak, indurate, naturalize, orient, orientate, ossify, season, steel, tame, train, use, wont

• inured, Philistine, acclimated, acclimatized, accommodated, accustomed, adapted, adjusted, brazen, callous, calloused, case-hardened, conditioned, conscienceless, experienced, familiarized, flinty, hard, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, impervious, indurated, insensitive, lost to shame, naturalized, obdurate, orientated, oriented, pachydermatous, proof against, run-in, seared, seasoned, shameless, steeled against, steely, stony, thick-skinned, trained, unblushing, used to, wont, wonted

• invade, adopt, advance upon, appropriate, arrogate, assume, barge in, beset, board, break bounds, break in, break in upon, burst in, butt in, charge in, come between, crash, crash in, crash the gates, crawl with, creep in, creep with, crowd in, cut in, edge in, elbow in, encroach, entrench, escalade, foist in, foray, go too far, horn in, impinge, impose, impose on, impose upon, infest, infiltrate, infringe, inroad, insinuate, interfere, interlope, interpose, intervene, intrude, inundate, irrupt, know no bounds, make a raid, make an inroad, obtrude, overrun, overspread, overstep, overstep the bounds, overswarm, overwhelm, plague, play God, press in, pretend to, push in, put on, put upon, raid, ravage, rush in, scale, scale the walls, seize, slink in, slip in, smash in, sneak in, squeeze in, steal in, storm, storm in, swarm, swarm with, take by storm, take over, throng in, thrust in, transgress, trench, trespass, usurp, work in, worm in

• invalid, Diogenes, Hieronymian, Hieronymite, Timon of Athens, absonant, afflict, ailing, anchoress, anchorite, annulled, apoplectic, arthritic, ascetic, bad, barren, bedridden invalid, black, blank cartridge, bootless, cachectic, case, castrato, cloistered monk, closet cynic, consumptive, contradictory, contrary to reason, counterproductive, criminal, cripple, debilitate, debilitated, derange, desert fathers, desert saints, devitalize, disable, disabled, disorder, drained, dud, dyspeptic, effete, empty, enervate, enervated, enfeeble, epileptic, eremite, erroneous, etiolated, eunuch, evil, exhausted, failing, fallacious, false, fatuitous, fatuous, faulty, feckless, feeble, flawed, frail, fruitless, futile, gelding, healthless, hermit, hermitess, homebody, hospitalize, ill, illogical, impaired, imperfect, impotent, improper, in poor health, inaccurate, inadequate, inane, inauspicious, inauthentic, incapacitate, incompetent, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, incorrect, incurable, indispose, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inexpedient, inferior, infirm, inoperative, inpatient, irrational, isolationist, languishing, lay up, loner, loose, mad, malevolent, marabout, moribund, nonrational, nonscientific, not following, nugacious, nugatory, null and void, of no force, outcast, outpatient, pale, paralogical, pariah, patient, peaked, peaky, peccant, pillar saint, pillarist, reasonless, recluse, reduce, reduced, reduced in health, repealed, repudiated, revoked, rheumatic, run-down, seclusionist, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, shut-in, sick, sick person, sicken, sickly, sinful, sinister, solitaire, solitary, solitudinarian, sophistic, spastic, spurious, stay-at-home, sterile, stylite, sufferer, terminal case, the sick, unauthentic, unavailing, unconnected, unfavorable, unhealthy, unkind, unphilosophical, unpleasant, unreasonable, unscientific, unskillful, unsound, untenable, untoward, untrue, useless, vain, valetudinarian, valetudinary, vicious, victim, void, weaken, weakened, weakling, weakly, wicked, with low resistance, without reason, wrong

• invalidate, abate, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, belie, blow sky-high, blow up, bring to naught, bring to nothing, buffer, cancel, cancel out, come to nothing, counterbalance, countermand, counterorder, deflate, disannul, disconfirm, discredit, disprove, disqualify, do away with, explode, expose, frustrate, make void, negate, negativate, negative, neutralize, nullify, offset, override, overrule, prove the contrary, puncture, quash, recall, recant, renege, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, set aside, show up, stultify, suspend, thwart, undercut, undo, unfit, vacate, vitiate, void, waive, withdraw, write off

• invalidated, belied, confounded, confuted, crippled, deflated, denied, disabled, disarmed, discarded, discredited, dismissed, disproved, disputed, disqualified, exploded, exposed, hamstrung, hog-tied, impugned, incapacitated, negated, negatived, overthrown, overturned, paralyzed, prostrate, punctured, refuted, rejected, shown up, upset

• invalidation, abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annulment, cancel, canceling, cancellation, cassation, counterbalancing, countermand, counterorder, defeasance, disconfirmation, disproof, disproval, disproving, explosion, expose, exposure, frustration, negation, neutralization, nullification, offsetting, recall, recantation, redargution, reductio ad absurdum, renege, repeal, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, retraction, reversal, revocation, revoke, revokement, setting aside, suspension, thwarting, undoing, vacation, vacatur, vitiation, voidance, voiding, waiver, waiving, withdrawal, write-off

• invariable, abiding, accordant, alike, automatic, balanced, blah, broken-record, changeless, consistent, consonant, constant, continuous, correspondent, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, enduring, equable, equal, eternal, even, everlasting, fast, fixed, flat, harping, homogeneous, humdrum, immovable, immutable, inalterable, incommutable, inconvertible, indefeasible, inert, inflexible, insusceptible of change, intransmutable, invariant, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, jog-trot, lasting, level, long-winded, measured, mechanical, methodic, monolithic, monotonous, noble, nonreturnable, nonreversible, of a piece, ordered, orderly, permanent, persistent, prolix, regular, reverseless, rigid, robotlike, set, singsong, smooth, stable, steadfast, steady, systematic, tedious, treadmill, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeflectable, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiversified, uneventful, unexceptional, unfailing, uniform, unmodifiable, unmodified, unmovable, unremitting, unrestorable, unreturnable, unruffled, unsusceptible, unvariable, unvaried, unvarying, unwavering

• invariably, abidingly, all along, all over, all the time, all the while, always, at all times, at every turn, changelessly, constantly, continually, cosmically, enduringly, ever, ever and always, everywhere, galactically, in every instance, inflexibly, internationally, lastingly, like clockwork, methodically, never otherwise, orderly, permanently, perpetually, regularly, rigidly, statically, steadfastly, steadily, systematically, the world over, unchangingly, universally, unwaveringly, without exception

• invasion, adoption, aggression, air attack, air raid, air strike, appropriation, arrogation, assault, assumption, attack, blitzkrieg, boarding, breach, drive, encroachment, entrance, entrenchment, escalade, fire raid, foray, impingement, imposition, incursion, infestation, infiltration, influx, infraction, infringement, injection, inroad, insinuation, interference, interjection, interloping, interposition, interposure, interruption, intervention, intrusion, irruption, lousiness, obtrusion, offense, offensive, onslaught, overrunning, overspreading, overswarming, plague, playing God, raid, ravage, razzia, saturation raid, scaling, seizure, shuttle raid, storming, swarm, swarming, teeming, transgression, trespass, trespassing, unlawful entry, usurpation, violation

• invasive, advancing, assailing, assaulting, attacking, charging, driving, entering, in, inbound, incoming, incursionary, incursive, inflooding, inflowing, ingoing, ingressive, inpouring, interfering, interruptive, intervenient, intrusive, invading, invasionary, inward, inward-bound, irruptive, obtrusive, thrusting

• invective, abuse, abusive, address, after-dinner speech, allocution, assailing, assault, attack, berating, billingsgate, bitter words, blackening, blameful, calumny, causticity, censorious, chalk talk, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, contumely, cynicism, damnatory, debate, declamation, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, derisive, diatribe, disparaging, eulogy, execrating, execration, execrative, execratory, exhortation, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, harangue, hard words, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, innuendo, inveighing, irony, jawing, jeremiad, judgmental, objurgatory, obloquy, onslaught, opprobrious, opprobrium, oration, pep talk, peroration, philippic, pitch, prepared speech, prepared text, priggish, public speech, rating, reading, recital, recitation, reproachful, reprobative, revilement, reviling, ridiculing, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, sarcasm, satire, satiric wit, say, scoffing, screed, scurrile, scurrility, scurrilous, set speech, speech, speechification, speeching, talk, talkathon, tirade, tongue-lashing, truculent, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, vilification, vilifying, vituperation, vituperative

• inveigh against, accuse, anathematize, anathemize, animadvert on, arraign, blame, call to account, cast blame upon, cast reflection upon, censure, complain against, condemn, cry down, cry out against, cry out on, cry shame upon, damn, decry, denounce, denunciate, fulminate against, impeach, impugn, indict, reflect upon, reprehend, reproach, reprobate, shake up

• inveigle, allure, bait, bait the hook, birdlime, blandish, cajole, catch, catch out, coax, decoy, draw, draw in, draw on, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entice, entoil, entrap, enweb, flirt, flirt with, gin, give the come-on, hook, hook in, lead on, lime, lure, mesh, net, noose, offer bait to, rope in, seduce, snare, snarl, sniggle, spread the toils, suck in, tangle, tempt, toll, trap, trip, wind, woo

• inveiglement, agacerie, allure, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, bait, beguilement, beguiling, bewitchery, bewitchment, blandishment, cajolery, captivation, charisma, charm, charmingness, come-hither, come-on, decoy, enchantment, enthrallment, enticement, entrapment, fascination, flirtation, forbidden fruit, glamour, inducement, interest, invitation, magnetism, seducement, seduction, seductiveness, sex appeal, snare, snaring, tantalization, temptation, trap, winning ways, winsomeness, witchery, wooing

• invent, beget, break ground, break the ice, breed, bring forth, bring into being, call into being, coin, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, contrive, cook up, counterfeit, create, design, determine, develop, devise, discover, dream up, engender, envision, evolve, experience imaginatively, fabricate, fake, fancy, fantasize, fictionalize, find, find out, forge, formulate, frame, fudge, generate, get, give being to, give rise to, hatch, hatch up, head, head up, hit, hit upon, hoke up, hunt down, ideate, imagine, improvise, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, introduce, introduce new blood, lead, lead off, lead the way, locate, make do with, make innovations, make up, manufacture, mature, mint, mold, neologize, neoterize, originate, pioneer, plan, precede, procreate, produce, rediscover, renew, renovate, revolutionize, run down, run to earth, shape, spawn, stand first, strike, strike out, suppose, take the initiative, take the lead, take the plunge, think out, think up, trace, trace down, track down, trump up, turn out, vamp up

• invented, coined, conceived, concocted, cooked-up, discovered, fabricated, fabulous, fancied, fantasied, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, figmental, forged, hatched, legendary, made-up, manufactured, minted, mythical, new-minted, originated, put-up, trumped-up

• invention, Nachtmusik, absolute music, adaptation, air varie, aleatory, aleatory music, apparition, arrangement, artifact, authorship, beginning, brainchild, breakthrough, bringing to light, bubble, canard, casual discovery, catching, chamber music, chamber orchestra, chance discovery, child, chimera, coinage, composition, conception, concoction, contraption, contrivance, contriving, creation, creative effort, creativeness, creativity, creature, crowning achievement, delirium, descant, detection, determination, determining, development, device, devising, disclosure, discovery, distillation, distinguishment, effect, eidolon, electronic music, end product, espial, essence, etude, excavation, exercise, exhumation, exposure, extract, extravaganza, fable, fabrication, fake, falsehood, falsification, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fecundity, fertile mind, fertility, fib, fiction, figment, find, finding, finding out, forgery, fruit, gadget, generation, gizmo, hallucination, handiwork, harmonization, hatching, idle fancy, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, improvisation, incidental music, ingenuity, innovation, instrumental music, insubstantial image, introduction, inventiveness, issue, leap, lie, locating, location, lucky strike, maggot, make-believe, making do, manufacture, masterpiece, masterwork, mintage, myth, neologism, new mintage, new phase, nocturne, novelty, offspring, opera, opus, opuscule, orchestration, original, originality, origination, outcome, outgrowth, phantasm, phantom, piece, pregnant imagination, prevarication, product, production, productivity, program music, prolificacy, recognition, rediscovery, result, revelation, ricercar, romance, score, serendipity, sham, sick fancy, sonata, sonatina, spotting, story, strike, string orchestra, string quartet, study, tale, tall story, tall tale, teeming imagination, theme and variations, thick-coming fancies, treasure trove, trio, trip, trouvaille, trove, uncovering, unearthing, vapor, variation, vision, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams, work, yarn

• inventive, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, abecedarian, aboriginal, acute, antenatal, arch, artful, astute, autochthonous, beginning, budding, cagey, canny, causative, clever, conceptive, conceptual, constructive, crafty, creative, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, demiurgic, designing, diplomatic, elemental, elementary, embryonic, esemplastic, fecund, feline, fertile, fetal, formative, foundational, foxy, fruitful, fundamental, generative, germinal, gestatory, guileful, ideational, ideative, imaginative, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, infant, infantile, ingenious, initial, initiative, initiatory, innovational, innovative, insidious, inspired, introductory, knowing, nascent, natal, notional, original, originative, parturient, pawky, politic, postnatal, pregnant, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, productive, prolific, ready, resourceful, rudimental, rudimentary, scheming, seminal, serpentine, shaping, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, tactical, teeming, trickish, tricksy, tricky, ur, visioned, vulpine, wary, wily

• inventiveness, Italian hand, acuteness, art, artfulness, artifice, astuteness, authenticity, cageyness, callidity, canniness, cleverness, craft, craftiness, creativeness, creativity, cunning, cunningness, fecundity, fertile mind, fertility, fine Italian hand, finesse, foxiness, freshness, gamesmanship, guile, ingeniousness, ingenuity, innovation, insidiousness, invention, newness, nonimitation, novelty, one-upmanship, originality, pregnant imagination, productivity, prolificacy, readiness, resourcefulness, satanic cunning, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slipperiness, slyness, sneakiness, sophistry, stealth, stealthiness, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, suppleness, teeming imagination, trickiness, uniqueness, wariness, wiles, wiliness, wit

• inventor, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, begetter, beginner, builder, conceiver, constructor, craftsman, creative artist, creator, designer, deviser, discoverer, effector, engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, fancier, fantasist, fantast, father, founder, generator, grower, imaginer, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, instigator, institutor, introducer, journeyman, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, mother, mythicizer, mythifier, mythmaker, mythopoet, organizer, original, originator, past master, patriarch, planner, poet, precursor, prime mover, producer, raiser, realizer, shaper, sire, smith, wright

• inventory, abundance, account, account book, accounts, accounts payable ledger, accounts receivable ledger, accumulation, active list, add up, amassment, annals, assemblage, assembly, audit, backlog, balance, balance sheet, balance the books, bank ledger, bankbook, blacklist, body count, book, books, budget, calendar, call-up, canvass, capitulation, card ledger, cashbook, cast up, catalog, catalog goods, census, check, check out, checklist, chronicle, cipher up, civil list, code, collection, colligation, collocation, combination, commissariat, commissary, commodities, comparison, composition, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congregation, constituents, consumer goods, consumer items, content, contents, convergence, cornucopia, corralling, correspondence, cost card, cost ledger, cost sheet, count, count up, cumulation, data-gathering, daybook, demonstrate, detail, digest, divisions, documentation, double-check, dump, effects, elements, enroll, enter, enumerate, enumeration, factory ledger, figure up, file, foot up, fund, gathering, goods, goods for sale, guts, head count, heap, history, hoard, impanel, index, ingathering, ingredients, innards, insides, inspect the books, itemization, itemize, items, job lot, journal, junction, juxtaposition, keep score, larder, ledger, letters, line, line of goods, list, log, logbook, mail-order goods, mass, material, materials, materiel, memorial, merchandise, mobilization, munitions, muster, nest egg, nose count, overhaul, part, parts, passbook, pigeonhole, pile, pipe roll, plenitude, plenty, post, program, prove, provisionment, provisions, purchase ledger, rations, recap, recapitulate, recapitulation, recite, reckon up, reckoning, record, record book, recording, recount, recounting, register, registry, rehearsal, rehearse, relate, relic, remains, repertoire, repertory, reservoir, retired list, rick, rodeo, roll, rolls, roster, rota, roundup, sales journal, sales ledger, schedule, score, score up, scroll, sick list, sideline, stack, staples, statement, stock, stock ledger, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, stores, stores ledger, sum, sum up, summarize, summary, summate, summation, summing, summing up, supplies, supply on hand, survey, suspense ledger, synopsize, table, table of organization, tabulate, take account of, take stock, tally, tally sheet, tally up, token, tot up, total, total up, tote up, trace, treasure, treasury, vendibles, verify, vestige, wares, whole

• inverse, adversative, adverse, adversive, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antipodal, antipode, antipodes, antipole, antithesis, antithetic, antonym, antonymous, at cross-purposes, balancing, change, clashing, compensating, conflicting, confronting, contra, contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarious, contrary, contrasted, converse, counter, counterbalance, counterbalancing, countercheck, counterpoint, counterpoise, counterpoised, counterpole, counterterm, countervailing, dead against, discordant, discrepant, eyeball to eyeball, eyeball-to-eyeball, facing, foil, heads, hostile, inconsistent, inimical, invert, obverse, offset, opposed, opposing, opposite, opposite number, opposite side, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, other face, other side, perverse, polar, polaric, polarized, repugnant, reverse, revert, setoff, squared off, tails, the contrary, the other side, transplace, transpose, turn, vis-a-vis

• inversely, a rebours, against the grain, arsy-varsy, backwards, bottom side up, bottom up, by contraries, contra, contrarily, contrariously, contrariwise, conversely, head over heels, heels over head, in flat opposition, just the opposite, nay rather, on the contrary, oppositely, otherwise, over, per contra, quite the contrary, rather, to the contrary, topsy-turvy, tout au contraire, turned around, upside down, vice versa

• inversion, about-face, addition, approximation, differentiation, division, equation, evolution, extrapolation, integration, interpolation, involution, multiplication, notation, practice, proportion, reduction, reversal, reverse, reversion, subtraction, transformation, turn, turnabout, turning, volte-face

• invert, auntie, bi-guy, bisexual, bull dyke, butch, catamite, change, chicken, convert, dyke, evert, fag, faggot, fairy, femme, flip, flit, fricatrice, fruit, gunsel, homo, homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, introvert, intussuscept, invaginate, inverse, lesbian, nance, pansy, pathic, pronate, punk, queen, queer, resupinate, reverse, revert, revolve, rotate, sapphist, supinate, transplace, transpose, tribade, turn, turn about, turn around, turn down, turn in, turn inside out, turn out, turn over, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn upside down

• invertebrate, Milquetoast, abulic, afraid, amphibian, aquatic, baby, big baby, biped, canine, cannibal, carnivore, chicken, chicken liver, cosmopolite, coward, cowardly, crustacean, crustaceous, crybaby, disorganized, doormat, dull tool, emasculate, faint, fainthearted, feeble, feebleminded, feline, forceless, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, frail, funk, funker, gnawer, gutless wonder, herbivore, impotent, inadequate, ineffective, ineffectual, infirm, insectivore, jellyfish, lightweight, lily liver, mammal, mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, meek soul, milksop, molluscan, mollycoddle, mouse, namby-pamby, nebbish, nonentity, omnivore, pansy, pantywaist, pliable, primate, protozoan, protozoic, pushover, quadruped, reptile, rodent, ruminant, sad sack, scaredy-cat, scavenger, sissy, softling, softy, sop, spineless, ungulate, varmint, vermin, vertebrate, weak, weak sister, weak-kneed, weak-minded, weak-willed, weakling, white feather, white liver

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

• invest, accommodate, afford, allot, anoint, apparel, arm, array, attire, authorize, base, bedeck, bedrape, beleaguer, bequeath, beset, besiege, bless with, blockade, box, budget, build, build in, bundle up, buy in, buy into, case, chair, close, clothe, clothe with power, compass, compass about, consecrate, contribute, cost, cost out, crate, crown, deck, deputize, devote, dight, disburse, donate, dower, drape, dress, dud, embay, embosom, embox, embrace, empower, enable, encapsulate, encase, encircle, enclasp, enclose, enclothe, encompass, endow, endow with, endue, enfold, enlist, enrobe, enroll, enshroud, enthrone, envelop, environ, enwrap, establish, expend, favor with, fill, fill up, financier, find, fix, fork out, found, fund, furnish, garb, garment, give, go around, go round, go through, grace with, ground, habilitate, harass, harry, honor, imbue, inaugurate, incur costs, induct, ingrain, initiate, inoculate, install, instate, invest in, involve, keep, lap, lay out, lay out money, lay siege to, lay the foundation, leaven, maintain, make an investment, make available, make provision for, muffle up, open the purse, ordain, outlay, pack, package, pay, pay out, pitch, place, place in office, plant, plow back into, plunge, prepare, present, provide, provide for, put, put in, put out, put up, rag out, raiment, recruit, reinvest, replenish, risk, robe, run through, schedule, seat, set, set up, settle on, settle upon, sheathe, shell out, shroud, sign on, sign up, sink, sink money in, smother, soften up, speculate, spend, splurge, squander, steep, stock, store, subsidize, suffuse, supply, support, surround, swaddle, swathe, swear in, throne, throw money around, tire, veil, venture, vest, vest with, wrap, wrap about, wrap up, yield

• invested, accoutered, appareled, armed, arrayed, attired, bedecked, breeched, capped, catered, chausse, clad, cloaked, clothed, coifed, costumed, decked, dight, disguised, dotal, dower, dowered, dowry, dressed, endowed, endued, equipped, fitted, fitted out, furnished, garbed, garmented, gowned, habilimented, habited, heeled, hooded, liveried, mantled, outfitted, pantalooned, pensionary, prepared, provided, purveyed, raimented, rigged, rigged out, robed, shod, shoed, stipendiary, subsidiary, supplied, tired, togged, tricked out, trousered, vested, vestmented

• investigate, air, analyze, canvass, comment upon, consider, controvert, deal with, debate, deliberate, deliberate upon, delve into, dig into, discourse about, discuss, examine, exchange views, explore, fathom, go, go into, handle, indagate, inquire into, knock around, look into, pass under review, peer into, plumb, poke into, probe, pry, pry into, rap, reason, reason about, reason the point, research, review, scrutinize, search into, sift, sound, study, take up, talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, thresh out, treat, ventilate, winnow

• investigation, airing, amassing evidence, analysis, buzz session, canvassing, close inquiry, colloquium, conference, consideration, debate, debating, deliberation, delving, department of investigation, detection, detective work, dialectic, dialogue, discussion, enquiry, examination, exchange of views, exhaustive study, exploration, forum, hearing, indagation, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, interrogation, investigative bureau, joint discussion, legislative investigation, legwork, logical analysis, logical discussion, observation, observing, open discussion, open forum, panel discussion, perscrutation, probe, probing, quest, questioning, rap, rap session, research, review, scrutiny, search, seminar, sifting, sleuthing, sounding, study, survey, surveying, symposium, town meeting, treatment, ventilation, witch-hunt

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

• investigator, Bow Street runner, FBI, FBI agent, Federal, G-man, Secret Service, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, T-man, detective, dick, examinant, examiner, eye, fed, gumshoe, hawkshaw, hotel detective, house detective, house dick, inquiry agent, inspector, narc, observer, operative, plainclothesman, police detective, private detective, private investigator, revenuer, scrutineer, sleuth, store detective, tec, tester, treasury agent, visitator, visitor

• investiture, accedence, acceptance, accession, accommodation, accordance, admission, admittance, anchorage, apostolic orders, apparel, appointment, array, attire, award, awarding, baptism, bedizenment, bestowal, bestowment, calling, canonization, clothes, clothing, colonization, communication, concession, conferment, conferral, consecration, contribution, coronation, costume, deliverance, delivery, donation, drapery, dress, dressing, duds, election, endowment, enlistment, enrollment, enthronement, establishment, fashion, fatigues, feathers, fig, fixation, foundation, furnishment, garb, garments, gear, gifting, giving, grant, granting, guise, habiliment, habit, holy orders, immission, impartation, impartment, inaugural, inauguration, induction, initiation, installation, installment, instatement, institution, intromission, investment, liberality, linen, lodgment, major orders, minor orders, mooring, nomination, offer, ordainment, orders, ordination, peopling, placement, plantation, population, presentment, provision, rags, raiment, reading in, robes, settlement, settling, sportswear, style, subscription, supplying, surrender, taking office, threads, togs, toilette, trim, vestment, vesture, vouchsafement, wear, wearing apparel

• investment, accouterment, aerial tactics, airborne tactics, appanage, apparel, applied tactics, armament, armored tactics, array, attire, barrier tactics, bedizenment, beleaguerment, besiegement, blockade, blockading, catering, cavalry tactics, chandlery, clothes, clothing, costume, defensive strategy, diversion, dot, dower, dowry, drapery, dress, dressing, duds, empowerment, enablement, encirclement, encompassment, endowment, envelopment, equipment, fashion, fatigues, feathers, feint, fig, finding, fire tactics, fitting out, foundation, furnishing, furnishment, garb, garments, gear, guise, habiliment, habit, infantry tactics, infiltration, investiture, jointure, legal jointure, linen, logistics, marriage portion, mob tactics, mobile tactics, outfitting, pincer movement, pincers movement, plunge, portion, preparation, prime investment, procurement, providing, provision, provisioning, purveyance, rags, raiment, reinforcement, replenishment, resupply, retailing, risk, robes, selling, settlement, shock tactics, siege, speculation, sportswear, strategy, style, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, supply, supplying, tactics, thirds, threads, togs, toilette, trim, venture, vertical envelopment, vestment, vesture, victualing, wear, wearing apparel

• inveteracy, abidingness, aboriginality, accustomedness, age, ancien regime, ancientness, antiquity, atavism, changelessness, cobwebs of antiquity, commonness, confirmation, confirmedness, constancy, customariness, deep-rootedness, deep-seatedness, durability, durableness, duration, dust of ages, eld, elderliness, eldership, embedment, endurance, entrenchment, establishment, firmness, fixation, fixedness, fixity, fixture, frozenness, great age, habitualness, hardening, hoary age, hoary eld, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, implantation, infixion, invariability, invariableness, inveterateness, lastingness, long standing, old age, old order, old style, oldness, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence, persistency, prevalence, primitiveness, primogeniture, primordialism, primordiality, quiescence, rigidity, senility, seniority, settledness, solidity, stability, stabilization, standing, stasis, steadfastness, torpor, unchangeability, unchangingness, venerableness, wontedness

• inveterate, abiding, accustomed, acknowledged, addicted, admitted, age-long, aged, ancient, antique, chronic, confirmed, constant, continuing, conventional, customary, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, diuturnal, durable, dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, enduring, engrafted, engraved, entrenched, established, etched, evergreen, fast, firmly established, fixed, folk, graven, habitual, habituated, hallowed, handed down, hardened, hardy, heroic, hoary, immemorial, immutable, implanted, impressed, imprinted, inbred, incorrigible, inculcated, indelibly impressed, indurated, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, innate, instilled, intransient, inwrought, irreversible, lasting, legendary, lifelong, long-established, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, macrobiotic, mythological, of long duration, of long standing, of the folk, old, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, oral, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, prescriptive, received, recognized, remaining, rooted, sempervirent, set, settled, settled in habit, stabilized, stable, staying, steadfast, sworn, thorough, time-honored, tough, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood, unfading, unwritten, usual, venerable, vested, vital, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled, worshipful

• invidious, abhorrent, abominable, baleful, begrudging, bitchy, bitter, calumnious, covetous, cussed, defamatory, desirous of, detestable, detracting, detractory, distrustful, envious, envying, green, green with envy, green with jealousy, green-eyed, grudging, harmful, hateful, horn-mad, iniquitous, jaundice-eyed, jaundiced, jealous, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, malignant, maligning, mean, nasty, noxious, obnoxious, odious, ornery, repellent, revulsive, scandalous, slanderous, suspicious, vilifying, wicked, yellow, yellow-eyed

• invigorate, activate, animate, arouse, beef up, boost, brace, brace up, brighten, brisk, brisken, buck up, buoy up, buttress, case harden, cheer, chirk up, confirm, dynamize, electrify, encourage, energize, enliven, exhilarate, fillip, fire, fortify, fresh up, freshen, freshen up, galvanize, gird, give a lift, gladden, harden, hearten, inflame, infuse life into, inspire, inspirit, interesting, jazz up, kindle, liven, nerve, pep up, perk up, pick up, pique, prop, provoke, quicken, rally, reanimate, recreate, refresh, refreshen, regale, reinforce, reinvigorate, rejoice, rejoice the heart, rejuvenate, renew, restore, restrengthen, resuscitate, revive, revivify, rouse, set up, sharpen, shore up, snap up, steel, stiffen, stimulate, stir, strengthen, support, sustain, temper, toughen, undergird, vitalize, vivify, warm, whet, zip up

• invigorating, activating, analeptic, animating, animative, beneficial, benign, bracing, brisk, cheerful, cheering, cheery, chill, chilly, constitutional, cool, coolish, cordial, corroborant, crisp, crispy, encouraging, energizing, enlivening, exhilarating, exhilarative, fresh, glad, gladdening, good, good for, health-enhancing, health-preserving, healthful, healthy, heart-warming, heartening, hygeian, hygienic, inspiring, inspiriting, invigorative, joyful, quickening, refreshful, refreshing, regaling, rejuvenating, restorative, reviving, roborant, rousing, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, stimulating, stimulative, strengthening, temperate, tonic, viable, vitalizing, vivifying, wholesome, zestful, zesty

• invincibility, authenticity, authoritativeness, calculability, deathlessness, dependability, faithworthiness, firmness, immortality, impenetrability, imperishability, impregnability, incorruptibility, indelibility, indestructibility, indomitability, ineffaceability, ineradicability, inerasableness, inexpugnability, insuperability, inviolability, invulnerability, irresistibility, predictability, reliability, secureness, security, solidity, soundness, stability, staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, substantiality, trustworthiness, unassailability, unattackableness, unbeatableness, unconquerableness, unerringness, validity

• invincible, assiduous, beyond compare, beyond comparison, calculable, constant, continuing, deathless, dependable, diligent, dogged, easily first, enduring, facile princeps, faithful, faithworthy, fast, firm, immortal, immutable, impassable, impenetrable, imperishable, impregnable, inalterable, incomparable, incontestable, incorruptible, indefatigable, indelible, indestructible, indomitable, industrious, ineffaceable, ineradicable, inexpugnable, inextinguishable, inimitable, insistent, insuperable, insurmountable, inviolable, invulnerable, irresistible, lasting, loyal, matchless, never-tiring, nonperishable, nulli secundus, obstinate, overpowering, overwhelming, patient, patient as Job, peerless, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, plugging, predictable, preoccupied, quenchless, rapt, relentless, reliable, resistless, resolute, second to none, secure, sedulous, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, solid, sound, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, stubborn, substantial, sui generis, sure, surefire, tenacious, tireless, trustworthy, trusty, unabating, unapproachable, unapproached, unassailable, unattackable, unbeatable, unconquerable, undampable, undaunted, undefeatable, undefeated, undestroyable, undiscouraged, undrooping, undying, unequaled, unexampled, unexcelled, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unique, unmatchable, unmatched, unnodding, unparagoned, unparalleled, unpeered, unquenchable, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unrivaled, unsleeping, unstoppable, unsubduable, unsurmountable, unsurpassable, unsurpassed, unswerving, untiring, untouchable, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, unyielding, utterly attentive, weariless, well-founded, well-grounded, without equal, without parallel

• inviolable, awesome, awful, blessed, chaste, consecrated, dependable, divine, faithworthy, hallowed, heavenly, holy, impenetrable, impregnable, incontestable, incorruptible, indomitable, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, inexpugnable, insuperable, invincible, inviolate, invulnerable, irresistible, numinous, overpowering, overwhelming, proven, pure, reliable, religious, resistless, responsible, sacred, sacrosanct, spiritual, straight, sure, tested, to be trusted, tried, tried and true, true, trustable, trustworthy, trusty, unassailable, unbeatable, unconquerable, unfalse, unperfidious, unspeakable, unsubduable, unsurmountable, untouchable, untreacherous, unutterable, unyielding, venerable

• inviolate, Christian, abiding, awesome, awful, blameless, bright, changeless, clean, constant, continuing, creditable, decent, divine, durable, enduring, erect, estimable, ethical, fair, faultless, firm, fixed, flawless, fresh, frozen, full of integrity, good, harmless, heavenly, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, holy, honest, honorable, immaculate, immobile, immutable, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, intact, inviolable, irreproachable, just, lasting, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, manly, mint, moral, noble, numinous, perfect, permanent, perpetual, persistent, principled, pristine, pure, quiescent, religious, remaining, reputable, respectable, right, right-minded, righteous, rigid, sacred, sacrosanct, scatheless, solid, spiritual, spotless, stable, stainless, static, stationary, staying, steadfast, sterling, sustained, torpid, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, unaltered, unblemished, unbroken, unbruised, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unchecked, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undamaged, undefaced, undefiled, undeformed, undemolished, undestroyed, unfaded, unfading, unfailing, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, unimpeachable, uninjured, unmaimed, unmangled, unmarked, unmarred, unscarred, unscathed, unscratched, unshattered, unshifting, unspeakable, unspoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, untorn, untouchable, untouched, unutterable, unvaried, unvarying, unwithered, unworn, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, venerable, virgin, virtuous, worthy, yeomanly

• invisibility, burial, burying, clouding, concealedness, concealment, covering, covering up, covertness, darkening, deception, evanescence, hiddenness, hiding, impalpability, imperceptibility, imponderability, intangibility, interment, masking, mystification, obscuration, obscurement, occultation, putting away, screening, secrecy, secretion, subterfuge, tenuousness, uncommunicativeness

• invisible, atomic, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, camouflaged, concealed, corpuscular, covered, disguised, embryonic, evanescent, germinal, granular, hidden, impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable, indiscernible, infinitesimal, insensible, intangible, latent, masked, microcosmic, microscopic, molecular, out of sight, secret, sightless, subatomic, submerged, tenuous, thin, ultramicroscopic, unapparent, unappreciable, unbeheld, unbeholdable, undetected, undiscernible, undisclosed, undiscovered, undivulged, unexplained, unexplored, unexposed, unnoticed, unobservable, unobserved, unperceivable, unperceived, unrealized, unrevealed, unseeable, unseen, unsolved, unspied, untraced, untracked, unviewed, unwitnessed, veiled, viewless

• invitation, advance, agacerie, allure, allurement, appeal, approach, asking price, attraction, attractiveness, bait, beguilement, beguiling, bewitchery, bewitchment, bid, biddance, bidding, blandishment, bribe, cajolery, call, calling, captivation, carrot, charisma, charm, charmingness, come-hither, draw, enchantment, encouragement, engraved invitation, enthrallment, enticement, entrapment, fascination, feeler, fillip, flirtation, forbidden fruit, glamour, incentive, incitement, inducement, interest, inveiglement, invite, lure, magnetism, offer, offering, overture, payment, percentage, persuasive, preliminary approach, presentation, proffer, profit, proposition, provocation, pull, request, reward, seducement, seduction, seductiveness, sex appeal, snaring, stimulation, stimulative, stimulus, submission, suggestion, summons, sweetener, sweetening, tantalization, temptation, tentative approach, whet, winning ways, winsomeness, witchery, wooing

• invite, abet, acquire, affect the interest, aid and abet, appeal, ask, ask for, attract, be attractive, be responsible for, beckon, bid, bid come, biddance, bidding, bring down, bring on, bring upon, call, call in, calling, concern, contract, countenance, court, encourage, engage, engraved invitation, entice, excite, excite interest, fall in with, fall into, fascinate, feed, fetch, foster, gain, get, give encouragement, incur, interest, inveigle, invitation, involve in, issue an invitation, keep in countenance, lure, nourish, nurture, pique, provoke, run, solicit, stimulate, summon, summons, tantalize, tease, tempt, tickle, titillate, welcome, whet the appetite, woo

• inviting, admissible, admissive, admissory, alluring, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beckoning, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, captivating, catching, challenging, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, coquettish, delightful, enchanting, encouraging, energizing, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, exciting, exotic, exquisite, fascinating, fetching, flirtatious, galvanic, galvanizing, glamorous, heart-robbing, hospitable, hypnotic, imbibitory, ingestive, interesting, intriguing, intromissive, intromittent, invitational, invitatory, irresistible, juicy, lively, lovely, luxurious, mesmeric, mouth-watering, open, piquant, prepossessing, prompting, provocative, provoking, provoquant, racy, ravishing, readable, receivable, receptible, receptive, recipient, rich, rousing, seducing, seductive, sensuous, siren, sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, spicy, stimulant, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, succulent, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, thought-challenging, thought-inspiring, thought-provoking, thrilling, tickling, titillating, titillative, voluptuous, welcoming, winning, winsome, witching

• invocation, Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, adjuration, agape, aid prayer, appeal, asperges, aspersion, auricular confession, bar mitzvah, bas mitzvah, beadroll, beads, beck, beck and call, benedicite, benediction, benison, beseechment, bid, bidding, bidding prayer, blessing, breviary, call, calling, calling forth, celebration, chaplet, circumcision, clamor, collect, communion, confession, confirmation, conjuration, conjurement, contemplation, convocation, cry, devotions, entreaty, evocation, exorcisation, exorcism, exsufflation, grace, high celebration, impetration, imploration, imploring, imprecation, incantation, incense, indent, intercession, invocation of saints, invocatory plea, kiss of peace, lesser litany, litany, love feast, lustration, meditation, nod, obsecration, obtestation, orison, pax, petition, plea, prayer, prayer wheel, preconization, processional, reciting the rosary, requisition, rogation, rosary, silent prayer, suit, summons, supplication, telling of beads, thanks, thanksgiving, the confessional, the confessionary

• invoice, account, bill, bill of account, bill of fare, bill of lading, books, call, call in, carte, check, demand payment, dun, itemized bill, ledger, manifest, menu, reckoning, score, send a statement, statement, tab

• invoke, accost, address, adjure, apostrophize, appeal, appeal to, approach, beg, beseech, bespeak, bid come, buttonhole, call, call away, call back, call for, call for help, call forth, call in, call on, call out, call to, call together, call up, call up spirits, call upon, cite, clamor for, commune with God, conjure, conjure up, conjure up spirits, convene, convoke, crave, cross-refer, cross-reference, cry for, cry on, cry to, demand, direct attention to, effect, entreat, evoke, give thanks, greet, hail, halloo, impetrate, implement, implore, importune, imprecate, indent, kneel to, make a cross-reference, make reference to, make supplication, muster, muster up, obtest, offer a prayer, order up, page, petition, plead, plead for, pray, pray over, preconize, raise, raise ghosts, recall, recite the rosary, refer to, reference, requisition, return thanks, run to, salute, say grace, send after, send for, serve, speak, speak fair, speak to, subpoena, summon, summon forth, summon spirits, summon up, summons, supplicate, take aside, talk to

• involuntarily, automatically, blindly, by reflex, carelessly, compulsively, heedlessly, inadvertently, inconsiderately, indeliberately, instinctively, malgre soi, mechanically, reflexively, thoughtlessly, unadvisedly, uncalculatedly, unconsciously, under compulsion, undesignedly, unexpectedly, unintentionally, unpremeditatedly, unreasoningly, unthinkingly, unthoughtfully, unwillingly, unwittingly, without design, without premeditation, without willing

• involuntary, at odds, automatic, averse, binding, blind, casual, compulsive, compulsory, conditioned, cursory, dictated, differing, disagreeing, disinclined, disobedient, forced, fractious, gut, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-devised, imperative, impulsive, inadvertent, indeliberate, indisposed, indocile, inevitable, inherent, innate, instinctive, instinctual, libidinal, mandatory, mechanical, mutinous, natural, necessary, obligatory, opposed, perfunctory, recalcitrant, reflex, reflexive, refractory, required, resistant, snap, spontaneous, subliminal, sulky, sullen, unadvised, uncalculated, unconscious, unconsenting, unconsidered, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, undeliberate, undeliberated, undesigned, unguarded, unguided, unintended, unintentional, unlearned, unmeant, unmeditated, unplanned, unpremeditated, unprompted, unpurposed, unstudied, unthinking, unthought-of, unwilled, unwilling, unwitting

• involuted, Byzantine, ambagious, anfractuous, balled up, circuitous, circumlocutory, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, convoluted, convolutional, crabbed, daedal, devious, elaborate, embrangled, entangled, flexuose, flexuous, fouled up, implicated, intricate, involute, involutional, involved, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, meandrous, messed up, mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, perplexed, ramified, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, ruffled, screwed up, serpentine, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, snaky, snarled, subtle, tangled, tangly, torsional, tortile, tortuous, turning, twisted, twisting, twisty, whorled, winding, wreathlike, wreathy

• involution, absorption, addition, ambages, anfractuosity, approximation, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution, comedown, complexity, complexness, complication, convolution, crabbedness, crinkle, crinkling, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demotion, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, derogation, descent, deterioration, devolution, differentiation, division, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dying, ebb, effeteness, embarrassment, engagement, enmeshment, entanglement, equation, evolution, extrapolation, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling-off, flexuosity, flexuousness, implication, inclusion, integration, interpolation, intorsion, intricacy, intricateness, inversion, involvement, lapse, loss of tone, meander, meandering, multiplication, notation, perplexity, practice, proportion, ramification, reduction, regression, relation, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, rivulation, sinuation, sinuosity, sinuousness, slinkiness, slippage, slump, snakiness, subtlety, subtraction, tanglement, technicality, torsion, tortility, tortuosity, tortuousness, transformation, turning, twisting, undulation, wane, wave, waving, winding

• involve, absorb, absorb the attention, adorn, affect, affect the interest, allegorize, allude to, answer to, appertain to, apply to, approve, argue, arrest, assail, associate with, assume, attack, attest, attract, ball up, be indicative of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, bear on, bear upon, belong to, bespeak, betoken, breathe, bring, bring to mind, burden, call for, catch, catch up, catch up in, censure, characterize, charm, close, compass, compass about, complicate, comprehend, comprise, concern, confound, confuse, connect, connect with, connote, contain, convolute, correspond to, count in, cover, cramp, criminate, cripple, cry out against, cry out on, cry shame upon, cumber, deal with, decorate, demonstrate, denominate, denote, differentiate, disclose, display, draw in, elaborate, embarrass, embay, embellish, embody, embosom, embrace, embrangle, embroider, embroil, enchant, enclasp, enclose, encompass, encumber, enfold, engage, engage the attention, engage the mind, engage the thoughts, engross, engross the mind, engross the thoughts, enmesh, enrich, ensnarl, entail, entangle, enthrall, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, envelop, environ, enwrap, evidence, evince, excite, excite interest, exercise, exhibit, express, fascinate, festoon, fetter, flourish, foul up, furnish evidence, gild, give evidence, give indication of, give token, go around, go round, go to show, grab, grip, hamper, hamstring, handicap, have, have connection with, highlight, hint, hobble, hold, hold spellbound, hold the interest, hypnotize, identify, illustrate, immerse, impede, implicate, imply, import, impugn, include, incorporate, incriminate, inculpate, indicate, infer, insinuate, interest, intimate, invest, invite, involve in, involve the interest, knot, lame, lap, lead to, liaise with, lime, link with, load with ornament, louse up, lumber, manifest, mark, mean, mean to say, mesmerize, mess up, mire, mix up, monopolize, muck up, muddle, necessitate, net, note, number among, obsess, occupy, occupy the attention, ornament, overcharge, overlay, overload, perplex, pertain to, pique, point indirectly to, point to, preoccupy, press down, presume, presuppose, provoke, ramify, ravel, refer to, regard, relate to, require, respect, reveal, saddle with, screw up, set forth, shackle, show, show signs of, signalize, signify, snarl, snarl up, speak for itself, speak volumes, spellbind, stand for, stimulate, subsume, suck into, suggest, suppose, surround, symptomatize, symptomize, take, take for granted, take in, take up, tangle, tantalize, tell, tend to show, testify, tickle, tie in with, titillate, toil, touch, touch upon, trammel, treat of, trick out, varnish, weigh down, wrap

• involved, Byzantine, a party to, absorbed, absorbed in, accessory, accused, active, affected, affiliate, affiliated, allied, arraignable, arraigned, associate, associated, assumed, at fault, balled up, biased, blamed, bound, bound up with, bracketed, burdened with debt, buried in, caught up in, censurable, charged, cited, collateral, complex, complicated, comprehended, comprised, concerned, confounded, confused, confusing, conjugate, connected, contemplating, contemplative, convoluted, correlated, coupled, covered, crabbed, criminal, culpable, daedal, deep in debt, denounced, devious, devoted, devoted to, elaborate, embarrassed, embraced, embrangled, encompassed, encumbered, engaged, engrossed, engrossed in, enmeshed, entangled, envisaged, faulty, fouled up, gordian, guilty, hinted, immersed in, impeachable, impeached, implicated, implied, impugned, in complicity, in debt, in difficulties, in embarrassed circumstances, in hock, in the hole, in the red, included, incriminated, inculpated, indebted, indicated, indictable, indicted, inferred, influenced, intent, intent on, interested, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, intimated, intricate, involuted, joined, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, linked, lost in, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, meant, meditating, meditative, messed up, mixed up, monomaniacal, monopolized, mortgaged, mucked up, muddled, multifarious, obsessed, occupied, of that ilk, of that kind, one-sided, parallel, partaking, partial, participant, participating, participative, participatory, partisan, peccant, perplexed, plunged in debt, preoccupied, presumed, presupposed, ramified, related, reprehensible, reproachable, reproached, reprovable, roundabout, screwed up, sharing, single-minded, snarled, sophisticated, spliced, studious, studying, submerged in, subtle, suggested, supposed, swayed, swept up, taken up with, tangled, tangly, tasked, taxed, tied, tied up, to blame, tortuous, totally absorbed, twinned, twisted, under attack, under fire, undetached, undispassionate, unneutral, warped, wed, wedded, wrapped in, wrapped up in, yoked

• involvement, absorbed attention, absorption, application, arraignability, arraignableness, assault, association, assumption, attack, bias, blameworthiness, bloody hands, burden, caring, censurability, censurableness, censure, chargeability, chord, cincture, circling, circumambience, circumambiency, circumcincture, circumflexion, circumjacence, circumposition, citation, cochairmanship, complexity, complexness, complication, complicity, concentration, concern, condominium, containment, contemplation, contribution, convolution, copartnership, copartnery, cotenancy, crabbedness, criminality, culpability, deep study, deep thought, dirty hands, discrimination, echo, embracement, embroilment, empathy, encincture, encirclement, enclosure, encompassment, enfoldment, engagement, engrossment, enmeshment, entailment, entanglement, envelopment, environment, favoritism, fellow feeling, girding, girdling, guilt, guiltiness, guilty conscience, having a part, identification, immersion, impeachability, impeachableness, implication, impugnment, inclination, inclusion, incrimination, inculpation, indictability, indictableness, inequality, intentness, interagency, intercession, interest, intermediation, interposition, intervention, intricacy, intricateness, involution, joint chairmanship, joint control, joint ownership, joint tenancy, leaning, mediation, meditation, monomania, nepotism, obsession, one-sidedness, onus, partaking, parti pris, partiality, participation, partisanism, partisanship, partnership, pathos, peccancy, perplexity, preference, preferential treatment, preoccupation, presumption, profound thought, ramification, rapt attention, red-handedness, relating, reprehensibility, reproachableness, reprovability, reprovableness, response, responsiveness, sharing, single-mindedness, stepping in, studiousness, study, submersion, subsumption, subtlety, suffrage, surrounding, sympathetic chord, sympathetic response, sympathy, tanglement, technicality, undetachment, undispassionateness, unneutrality, vibes, vibrations, voting

• invulnerable, armed, cloaked, copyrighted, covered, deathless, defended, dependable, fail-safe, firm, guaranteed, guarded, harmless, immortal, impenetrable, imperishable, impregnable, incontestable, incorruptible, indelible, indestructible, indomitable, ineffaceable, ineradicable, inexpugnable, inextinguishable, insuperable, invincible, inviolable, irresistible, nonperishable, overpowering, overwhelming, patented, policed, protected, quenchless, reliable, resistless, riskless, safe, safeguarded, screened, sheltered, shielded, sound, stable, steady, trustworthy, unassailable, unbeatable, unconquerable, undampable, undangerous, undefeatable, undestroyable, undying, unhazardous, unperilous, unprecarious, unquenchable, unrisky, unsubduable, unsurmountable, unyielding, warranteed

• inward, anonymous, bosom, center, central, closet, core, deep, deep-seated, deepest recesses, entering, esoteric, guts, heart, heart of hearts, immanent, implanted, implicit, in, inalienable, inbound, incognito, incoming, indoor, indwelling, infixed, inflooding, inflowing, ingoing, ingrained, ingressive, inherent, inland, inmost, innards, inner, inner landscape, inner life, inner man, inner nature, inner recess, inner self, innermost, inpouring, inshore, inside, insides, interior, interior man, intern, internal, internals, intestine, intimate, intrados, intrinsic, intrusive, invasive, inward-bound, inwardly, inwards, inwrought, irreducible, irruptive, isolated, penetralia, personal, private, privy, recesses, resident, retired, secluded, secret, secret place, secret places, sequestered, soul, stuffing, subjective, tripes, unalienable, unchallengeable, unquestionable, viscera, vital center, vitals, withdrawn, within, withinwards

• inwardly, by birth, by nature, centrally, congenitally, deeply, genetically, immanently, in, inland, inly, innately, inshore, interiorly, internally, intimately, intrinsically, inward, inwards, naturally, originally, primally, primitively, profoundly, under the surface, withinwards

• inwardness, depth, essentiality, experience, familiarity, fundamentality, immanence, inbeing, indigenousness, indwelling, inherence, innateness, innerness, inness, interiority, internality, internalization, intimacy, intrinsicality, introversion, nonobjectivity, subjectivity

• iodine, Argyrol, Mercurochrome, Merthiolate, Salol, alcohol, boric acid, calomel, camphor, carbolic acid, chloramine, cresol, gentian violet, gramicidin, hexachloraphene, hydrogen peroxide, peroxide, phenol, phenyl salicylate, resorcinol, silver vitellin, thimerosal, thymol, tincture of iodine

• ion, acid, acidity, agent, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, anion, antacid, atom, atomic model, base, biochemical, cation, chemical, chemical element, chromoisomer, compound, copolymer, dimer, electrocoating, electroetching, electrogalvanization, electrogilding, electrograving, electrolysis, electrolyte, electron, electroplating, element, galvanization, heavy chemicals, high polymer, homopolymer, hydracid, inorganic chemical, ionization, ionogen, isomer, macromolecule, meson, metamer, molecule, monad, monomer, neutralizer, nonacid, nonelectrolyte, nuclear atom, nuclear particle, nuclide, organic chemical, oxyacid, planetary shell, polymer, proton, pseudoisomer, quark, radical, reagent, shell, subshell, sulfacid, tagged atom, tracer, tracer atom, trimer, valence shell

• ionization, alpha decay, anion, atom-chipping, atom-smashing, atomic disintegration, atomic reaction, atomization, beta decay, bombardment, breeding, bullet, cation, chain reaction, cleavage, disintegration series, dissociation, electrocoating, electroetching, electrogalvanization, electrogilding, electrograving, electrolysis, electrolyte, electroplating, exchange reaction, fission, fission reaction, galvanization, gamma decay, ion, ionogen, neutron reaction, nonelectrolyte, nonreversible reaction, nuclear fission, nucleization, photodisintegration, proton gun, proton reaction, reversible reaction, splitting the atom, stimulation, target, thermonuclear reaction

• ionosphere, Appleton layer, CAT, F layer, Heaviside-Kennelly layer, Van Allen belt, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole, air pocket, airspace, belt, bump, ceiling, chemosphere, crosswind, empty space, favorable wind, fog, front, head wind, high-pressure area, hole, isothermal region, jetstream, layer, low-pressure area, lower atmosphere, outer atmosphere, overcast, photosphere, pocket, roughness, soup, space, stratosphere, stratum, substratosphere, tail wind, tropopause, troposphere, trough, turbulence, upper atmosphere, visibility, visibility zero

• iota, ace, atom, bit, crumb, dab, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet, dwarf, farthing, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gnat, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, jot, little, little bit, microbe, microorganism, midge, minim, minimum, minutia, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nutshell, ounce, particle, pebble, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint, pittance, point, ray, scrap, scruple, smidgen, smitch, snip, snippet, speck, spoonful, spot, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, vanishing point, whit

• IOU, CD, MO, acceptance, acceptance bill, bank acceptance, bank check, bill, bill of draft, bill of exchange, blank check, certificate, certificate of deposit, certified check, check, checkbook, cheque, commercial paper, debenture, demand bill, demand draft, draft, due bill, exchequer bill, letter of credit, money order, negotiable instrument, note, note of hand, paper, postal order, promissory note, sight bill, sight draft, time bill, time draft, trade acceptance, treasury bill, voucher, warrant

• ipse dixit, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, announcement, annunciation, appointment, assertion, asseveration, averment, avouchment, avowal, brevet, bull, conclusion, creed, declaration, decree, decree-law, decreement, decretal, decretum, dictum, diktat, edict, edictum, enunciation, fiat, law, manifesto, ordinance, ordonnance, position, position paper, positive declaration, predicate, predication, proclamation, profession, pronouncement, pronunciamento, proposition, protest, protestation, rescript, rule, ruling, say, say-so, saying, senatus consult, senatus consultum, stance, stand, statement, ukase, utterance, vouch, word

• IQ, Bernreuter personality inventory, Binet-Simon test, Brown personality inventory, Goldstein-Sheerer test, IQ test, Kent mental test, Minnesota preschool scale, Oseretsky test, Rorschach test, Stanford revision, Stanford-Binet test, Szondi test, TAT, Wechsler-Bellevue intelligence scale, achievement test, alpha test, apperception test, apprehension, aptitude test, association test, beta test, caliber, capacity, comprehension, conception, controlled association test, deductive power, esemplastic power, free association test, ideation, inkblot test, integrative power, intellect, intellectual grasp, intellectual power, intellectualism, intellectuality, intelligence, intelligence quotient, intelligence test, interest inventory, knowledge, mental age, mental capacity, mental grasp, mental ratio, mental test, mentality, mother wit, native wit, personality test, power of mind, psychological test, rationality, reasoning power, sanity, scope of mind, sense, standardized test, thematic apperception test, thinking power, understanding, wit, word association test

• irascibility, aggressiveness, agitability, bearishness, bellicosity, belligerence, bickering, bitchiness, cantankerousness, churlishness, combativeness, combustibility, contentiousness, contrariness, crabbedness, crankiness, crossness, crustiness, cussedness, difficultness, disagreeability, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dourness, edginess, emotional instability, emotionalism, eruptiveness, excitability, excitableness, explosiveness, faction, factiousness, flak, fractiousness, frowardness, huffiness, huffishness, infighting, inflammability, irritability, latent violence, litigiousness, meanness, nervousness, orneriness, partisan spirit, partisanship, perturbability, perverseness, perversite, perversity, prickliness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, sensitivity, shrewishness, skittishness, snappishness, startlishness, stuffiness, sulkiness, sullenness, tempestuousness, testiness, touchiness, ugliness, violence, waspishness, waywardness, wrongheadedness

• irascible, agitable, bearish, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, contrary, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, cussed, difficult, disagreeable, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, eruptive, excitable, explosive, feisty, fractious, froward, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, huffish, huffy, inflammable, irritable, mean, mettlesome, nervous, ornery, perturbable, perverse, prickly, sensitive, skittish, snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, startlish, stuffy, sulky, sullen, testy, touchy, ugly, volcanic, waspish, wayward, wrongheaded

• irate, angered, angry, browned-off, choleric, cross, incensed, indignant, ireful, livid, mad, pissed, pissed-off, riled up, sore, ticked off, waxy, worked up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought-up

• ire, a transient madness, anger, angriness, enrage, enragement, fury, grapes of wrath, heat, incense, indignation, infuriate, infuriation, irateness, mad, madden, rage, saeva indignatio, soreness, steam up, umbrage, vials of wrath, wrath, wrathfulness

• irenic, appeasing, civilian, conciliatory, dovish, mollifying, nonaggressive, noncombatant, nonmilitant, nonviolent, pacific, pacificatory, pacifist, pacifistic, pacifying, peace-loving, peaceable, peaceful, placative, placatory, propitiative, propitiatory, reconciliatory, soothing, unbellicose, uncontentious, unhostile, unmilitant, unmilitary

• iridescent, burele, chatoyant, creamy, delicate, eggshell, flat, gloss, iridal, iridial, iridian, irisated, irised, light, mellow, moire, mother-of-pearl, nacre, nacred, nacreous, nacry, opalescent, opaline, opaloid, pale, pastel, patinaed, pavonian, pavonine, pearl-like, pearlish, pearly, quiet, rainbowlike, rainbowy, sad, semigloss, simple, sober, soft, soft-colored, soft-hued, softened, somber, subdued, subtle, sweet, tender, tortoise-shell

• iris, Dalmatian, antigorite, baby blues, band, banjo eyes, bar, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, blotch, bright eyes, butterfly, candy cane, chameleon, check, checker, cheetah, chrysotile, clear eyes, confetti, cornea, crazy quilt, dapple, dot, eye, eyeball, eyelid, firedog, flake, fleck, freckle, goggle eyes, harlequin, iridesce, iridize, jaguar, lens, leopard, lid, mackerel, mackerel sky, maculate, marble, marbled paper, marbleize, moire, mother-of-pearl, motley, mottle, nacre, naked eye, nictitating membrane, ocelot, oculus, opal, opalesce, ophite, optic, optic nerve, orb, organ of vision, patchwork quilt, peacock, peeper, pepper, polychrome, polychromize, popeyes, pupil, rainbow, retina, saucer eyes, sclera, serpentine, serpentine marble, shot silk, spangle, speck, speckle, spectrum, splotch, spot, sprinkle, starry orbs, stigmatize, stipple, streak, striate, stripe, stud, tattoo, tessellate, tortoise shell, unaided eye, variegate, vein, visual organ, zebra

• irk, abrade, aggravate, ail, annoy, badger, bait, be at, be infinitely repetitive, be tedious, be the matter, bedevil, beset, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, chivy, complicate matters, concern, devil, discommode, discompose, distemper, distress, disturb, dog, drag on, exasperate, exercise, fash, fatigue, fret, gall, get, glut, go on forever, gripe, harass, harry, heckle, hector, hound, incommode, inconvenience, jade, miff, molest, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, pain, pall, peeve, perplex, persecute, perturb, pester, pick on, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, provoke, put out, put to it, puzzle, ride, rile, roil, ruffle, satiate, strain, stress, tease, tire, tire to death, torment, trouble, try, try the patience, tweak the nose, vex, wear, wear on, weary, worry

• irked, aggravated, angry, annoyed, anxious, beset, blase, bothered, browned-off, bugged, burnt-up, chafed, dispirited, distressed, disturbed, embarrassed, exasperated, fed-up, galled, good and tired, griped, harassed, inconvenienced, irritated, jaded, life-weary, melancholic, melancholy, miffed, nettled, peeved, perturbed, piqued, plagued, provoked, put to it, puzzled, resentful, riled, roiled, ruffled, satiated, sick, sick of, sore beset, splenetic, tired, tired of, tired of living, tired to death, troubled, vexed, wearied, weariful, weary, weary unto death, world-weary, worried

• irksome, aggravating, annoying, backbreaking, besetting, boresome, boring, bothering, bothersome, burdensome, chafing, crushing, disturbing, drudging, dull, exasperating, exhausting, fagging, fatiguing, galling, grueling, harassing, heavy, hefty, importunate, importune, irking, irritating, nettling, onerous, oppressive, painful, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, provoking, stupefyingly boring, stupid, stuporific, teasing, tedious, tiresome, tiring, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, trying, uninteresting, vexatious, vexing, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, worrisome, worrying, yawny

• iron curtain, Berlin wall, Bolshevism, Castroism, Communist Information Bureau, Communist Party, Maoism, Marxian socialism, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Pillars of Hercules, Stalinism, Titoism, Trotskyism, arch dam, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, barrier of secrecy, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, blackout, boom, border, border ground, borderland, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, censorship, cofferdam, communism, curtain, dam, defense, democratic centralism, dialectical materialism, dike, ditch, earthwork, embankment, fence, frontier, frontier post, gate, gravity dam, groin, hush-up, hydraulic-fill dam, ironbound security, jam, jetty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, march, marches, marchland, milldam, moat, mole, mound, oath of secrecy, official secrecy, outpost, outskirts, pall, parapet, portcullis, rampart, repression, revisionism, roadblock, rock-fill dam, seal of secrecy, seawall, security, shutter dam, smothering, stifling, stone wall, suppression, three-mile limit, twelve-mile limit, veil, veil of secrecy, wall, weir, wicket dam, work, wraps

• iron grip, bear hug, bite, clamp, clasp, clench, clinch, cling, clinging, clutch, death grip, embrace, firm hold, foothold, footing, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hold, hug, nip, purchase, seizure, tight grip, toehold

• iron hand, administration, argumentum baculinum, authority, big stick, claws, clutches, command, control, despotism, disposition, domination, domineering, dominion, empery, empire, fascism, firm hand, governance, government, grasp, grip, gripe, hand, hands, heavy hand, helm, high hand, hold, iron boot, iron heel, jurisdiction, mastership, mastery, oppression, power, raj, regnancy, reign, reign of terror, reins of government, rule, sovereignty, strong hand, sway, talons, terrorism, thought control, tight hand, tight rein, tight ship, tyranny

• iron lung, Aqua-Lung, artificial respiration, aspiration, asthmatic wheeze, breath, breath of air, breathing, broken wind, cough, exhalation, expiration, exsufflation, gasp, gulp, hack, hiccup, inhalation, inhalator, inspiration, insufflation, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, puff, respiration, resuscitator, scuba, sigh, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snoring, snuff, snuffle, sternutation, stertor, suspiration, wheeze, wind

• iron, Gibraltar, Oregon boat, adamant, adamantine, aluminum, americium, aureate, barium, beryllium, bicycle, bike, bilbo, bismuth, bond, bonds, bone, brass, brassy, brazen, brick, bridle, bronze, bronzy, buff, buffer, cadmium, calcium, calender, camisole, cast-iron, cement, cerium, cesium, chains, chamois, chopper, chrome, chromium, cobalt, collar, concrete, copper, coppery, cuffs, cupreous, cuprous, cycle, diamond, dour, drag, dysprosium, erbium, europium, ferrous, ferruginous, fetter, fetters, firm, flint, flinty, fundamentalist, gadolinium, gag, gallium, germanium, gilt, glazer, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, goose, grader, granite, grim, gyves, halter, hamper, handcuffs, hard, hard-core, harrow, heart of oak, hidebound, hobbles, holmium, hopples, horse, hot-press, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, indium, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, iridium, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, ironlike, irons, irreconcilable, lanthanum, lead, leaden, leading strings, leash, lion, lithium, lutetium, magnesia, magnesium, manacle, manganese, mangle, marble, mercurial, mercurous, mercury, minibike, molybdenum, motocycle, motorbike, motorcycle, muscle-bound, muzzle, nails, neodymium, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, niobium, oak, obdurate, obstinate, orthodox, osmium, ox, palladium, pedicab, pewter, pewtery, phosphorus, pig, pillory, plane, platinum, polisher, polonium, potassium, praseodymium, press, procrustean, promethium, protactinium, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, quicksilver, radium, reins, relentless, restraint, restraints, rhenium, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, road-bike, rock, rock-ribbed, rockbound, roll, roller, rolling pin, rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, sander, scandium, shackle, silver, silver-plated, silvery, sodium, steamroller, steel, steely, stern, stiff, stocks, stone, straightjacket, straightlaced, strait-waistcoat, straitjacket, straitlaced, stranglehold, strontium, stubborn, tantalum, technetium, terbium, tether, thallium, thulium, tin, tinny, titanium, trail bike, trammel, trammels, tricycle, trike, trowel, tungsten, unaffected, unalterable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompromising, ungiving, unmoved, unrelenting, unyielding, uranium, vanadium, wheel, wolfram, wringer, yoke, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium

• ironbound, asperous, bound, corrugated, cragged, craggy, crinkled, crumpled, dour, fettered, firm, fundamentalist, gravelly, hampered, handcuffed, hard, harsh, hidebound, impliable, in bonds, in chains, in irons, inexorable, inflexible, iron, ironclad, ironhanded, jagged, jaggy, manacled, muscle-bound, obdurate, obstinate, orthodox, procrustean, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, ragged, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, rocky, rugged, rugose, rugous, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scabrous, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, serrate, serrated, shackled, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, stiff, stony, straightlaced, straitlaced, strapped, stubborn, tethered, tied, tied down, tied up, trammeled, unbending, uncompromising, uneven, unrelenting, unsmooth, unyielding, wrinkled

• ironclad, armed cap-a-pie, armor-plated, armored, constant, dour, firm, fixed, fundamentalist, hard, hidebound, immovable, immutable, impliable, in armor, in complete steel, in harness, inalterable, inexorable, inflexible, invariable, iron, ironbound, ironhanded, loricate, loricated, mailclad, mailed, muscle-bound, obdurate, obstinate, orthodox, panoplied, procrustean, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, stiff, straightlaced, straitlaced, stubborn, unalterable, unbending, uncompromising, unmodifiable, unrelenting, unyielding

• ironic, Rabelaisian, allusive, allusory, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, amphibological, amphibolous, antinomic, biting, blended, caustic, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, conglomerate, cutting, cynical, dappled, dry, eclectic, enigmatic, equivocal, equivocatory, fifty-fifty, half-and-half, heterogeneous, implicational, implicative, implicatory, incisive, indicative, indiscriminate, inferential, insinuating, insinuative, insinuatory, intricate, jumbled, many-sided, medley, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, mordant, motley, multifaceted, multinational, multiracial, multivocal, mysterious, obscure, oxymoronic, paradoxical, patchy, pluralistic, polysemantic, polysemous, promiscuous, referential, sarcastic, sardonic, satiric, scathing, scrambled, self-contradictory, suggestive, syncretic, thrown together, trenchant, uncertain, varied, wry

• ironmonger, baker, bookdealer, bookseller, butcher, chandler, clothing merchant, confectioner, draper, drysalter, fishmonger, fishwife, florist, footwear merchant, fruiterer, furnisher, furrier, greengrocer, grocer, groceryman, haberdasher, hardwareman, jeweler, liquor merchant, newsdealer, perfumer, poulterer, saddler, stationer, tobacconist, vintner, wine merchant

• irony, Atticism, Janus, agile wit, ambiguity, ambiguousness, ambivalence, amphibology, antinomy, biformity, bifurcation, black humor, burlesque, caricature, causticity, comedy, complexity of meaning, conjugation, cynicism, dichotomy, double entendre, double meaning, double reference, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, dry wit, dualism, duality, duplexity, duplication, duplicity, equivocacy, equivocality, equivocalness, equivocation, esprit, farce, halving, humor, innuendo, invective, lampoon, levels of meaning, multivocality, nimble wit, oxymoron, pairing, paradox, parody, paronomasia, pleasantry, polarity, polysemousness, polysemy, pretty wit, punning, quick wit, ready wit, richness of meaning, salt, sarcasm, satire, satiric wit, savor of wit, self-contradiction, slapstick, slapstick humor, squib, subtle wit, travesty, twinning, two-facedness, twoness, uncertainty, visual humor, wit

• irradiate, X-ray, activate, anhydrate, beacon, blast-freeze, brighten, brighten up, brine, charge, contaminate, corn, cure, dehydrate, desiccate, dry, dry-cure, dry-salt, edify, embalm, enlighten, evaporate, flood with light, floodlight, freeze, freeze-dry, fume, highlight, illume, illuminate, illumine, improve, infect, jerk, kipper, light, light up, lighten, luminate, marinade, marinate, mummify, overshine, pickle, poison, preservatize, quick-freeze, radiumize, refrigerate, relume, relumine, roentgenize, salt, season, shed light upon, shine upon, smoke, smoke-cure, spotlight, stuff, throw light upon, uplift

• irradiated, ablaze, activated, aglow, alight, autoluminescent, bathed with light, bespangled, brightened, candlelit, charged, contaminated, enlightened, firelit, gaslit, hot, illuminated, in a blaze, infected, irradiate, lamplit, lanternlit, lighted, lightened, lit, lit up, luminous, moonlit, poisoned, radiferous, radioactivated, radioactive, radioluminescent, spangled, star-spangled, star-studded, starlit, studded, sunlit, tinseled

• irradiation, X-ray dosimetry, X-ray therapy, anhydration, arc lighting, black and white, blast-freezing, bottling, brining, canning, chiaroscuro, cobalt therapy, contrast, corning, curietherapy, curing, decorative lighting, dehydration, desiccation, direct lighting, dry-curing, drying, electric lighting, emanation, embalming, enlightenment, evaporation, festoon lighting, floodlighting, fluorescent lighting, freeze-drying, freezing, fuming, gaslighting, glow lighting, highlight, highlights, illumination, incandescent lighting, indirect lighting, interstitial irradiation therapy, irradiance, irradiancy, irradiation therapy, isotope therapy, jerking, light, light and shade, light source, lighting, luminous energy, marination, mummification, overhead lighting, photosensitivity, pickling, potting, quick-freezing, radiance, radiancy, radiant energy, radiation, radiation therapy, radiotherapeutics, radiotherapy, radium therapy, radiumization, ray therapy, refrigeration, roentgen ray therapy, roentgenization, roentgenometry, roentgenotherapy, roentgentherapy, salting, seasoning, sidelight, smoking, spot lighting, stage lighting, strip lighting, stuffing, taxidermy, tinning, tonality, visible radiation

• irrational, abnormal, absonant, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, bereft of reason, bigoted, brainless, brainsick, cardinal, contradictory, contrary to reason, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, decimal, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, differential, digital, disoriented, distraught, even, exponential, extravagant, extreme, extremist, fallacious, fanatic, faulty, figural, figurate, figurative, finite, flawed, flighty, foolish, fractional, haggard, hallucinated, headless, ignorant, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, illogical, imaginary, impair, impolitic, impossible, imprudent, inadvisable, inauthentic, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderate, inconsistent, indiscreet, inept, inexpedient, infinite, injudicious, inordinate, insane, insensate, integral, invalid, lackbrained, lean-minded, lean-witted, loco, logarithmic, logometric, loose, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, mindless, misadvised, misguided, moon-struck, myopic, negative, non compos, non compos mentis, nonrational, nonscientific, not all there, not bright, not following, not right, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, odd, of little brain, of unsound mind, off, ordinal, overenthusiastic, overreligious, overzealous, pair, paralogical, pea-brained, perfervid, pin-brained, positive, possible, prime, psycho, queer, rabid, radical, rational, real, reasonless, reciprocal, reckless, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, shortsighted, sick, slackminded, slackwitted, sophistic, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, submultiple, surd, tetched, thoughtless, touched, transcendental, ultrazealous, unadvised, unauthentic, unbalanced, unconnected, unconsidered, undiscerning, unforeseeing, ungifted, unhinged, unintellectual, unintelligent, unphilosophical, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflecting, unreflective, unsane, unscientific, unseeing, unsensible, unsettled, unsound, untalented, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwise, wandering, wild-eyed, wild-looking, without reason, witless, zealotic

• irrationality, Urdummheit, aberration, abnormality, alienation, antilogy, brain damage, brainlessness, brainsickness, callowness, childishness, clouded mind, craziness, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disorientation, distraction, folie, foolishness, furor, ignorance, illogic, illogicality, illogicalness, immaturity, imprudence, inadvisability, inattention, incapacity, inconclusiveness, incongruity, inconsideration, inconsistency, indiscreetness, indiscretion, ineptitude, inexpedience, injudiciousness, insaneness, insanity, invalidity, lackbrainedness, lackwittedness, loss of mind, loss of reason, low IQ, lunacy, madness, mania, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mental weakness, mind overthrown, mindlessness, mindsickness, oddness, pixilation, pompousness, possession, primal stupidity, puerility, queerness, rabidness, reasonlessness, recklessness, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, slackmindedness, slackwittedness, strangeness, stuffiness, thoughtlessness, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unintellectuality, unintelligence, unreason, unreasonableness, unsaneness, unscientificness, unsensibleness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, untenableness, unthoughtfulness, unwisdom, unwiseness, witlessness

• irreclaimable, beyond recall, beyond remedy, cureless, gone, graceless, immedicable, incorrigible, incurable, inoperable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreformable, irremediable, irreparable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, lost, past hope, past praying for, remediless, ruined, shriftless, terminal, undone, unmitigable, unredeemable, unregenerate, unrelievable, unsalvable, unsalvageable

• irreconcilable, abnormal, absurd, adamant, adamantine, alienated, anomalous, assorted, at odds, at variance, avenging, bitter-ender, brawler, cast-iron, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, defendant, departing, deviating, deviative, diehard, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disaffected, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, disproportionate, disputant, dissentient, dissident, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, disunited, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, divided, dour, estranged, firm, flinty, grim, grudgeful, hard, hard-core, heterogeneous, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, in disagreement, inaccordant, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate, incompatible, incongruent, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, inharmonious, intransigent, iron, last-ditcher, litigant, many, motley, multifarious, naysayer, negativist, noncooperator, objector, obstructionist, obstructive, opposer, oppositionist, out of proportion, oxymoronic, paradoxical, plaintiff, poles apart, poles asunder, protester, punitive, punitory, quarreler, rancorous, relentless, resister, retaliatory, revanchist, revengeful, rigid, rigorous, rock-ribbed, scrapper, self-contradictory, separate, separated, several, steely, stern, stiff, torn, unaffected, unalterable, unappeasable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompromising, unconformable, unequal, ungiving, unlike, unmoved, unrelenting, unyielding, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, vengeful, vindicatory, vindictive, widely apart, worlds apart, wrangler

• irrecoverable, ago, antiquated, antique, beyond recall, beyond remedy, blown over, by, bygone, bypast, cureless, dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct, departed, elapsed, expired, extinct, finished, forgotten, gone, gone glimmering, gone-by, has-been, immedicable, incorrigible, incurable, inoperable, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irreformable, irremediable, irreparable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, lapsed, lost, no more, obsolete, over, passe, passed, passed away, past, past hope, past praying for, remediless, ruined, run out, terminal, undone, unmitigable, unrelievable, unsalvable, unsalvageable, vanished, wound up

• irredeemable, beyond recall, beyond remedy, cureless, gone, graceless, immedicable, inconvertible, incorrigible, incurable, inoperable, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irreformable, irremediable, irreparable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, lost, past hope, past praying for, remediless, ruined, shriftless, terminal, undone, unmitigable, unpayable, unredeemable, unregenerate, unrelievable, unsalvable, unsalvageable

• irreducible, a certain, an, any, any one, atomic, austere, bare, basic, called for, chaste, deep-seated, either, elementary, esoteric, essential, exclusive, fundamental, homely, homespun, homogeneous, immanent, implanted, implicit, inalienable, indicated, indispensable, individual, indivisible, indwelling, inextricable, infixed, ingrained, inherent, inner, integral, internal, intrinsic, inward, inwrought, irreductible, irreplaceable, lone, mere, monadic, monistic, monolithic, necessary, needed, needful, of a piece, one, plain, prerequisite, primal, primary, private, pure, pure and simple, required, requisite, resident, secret, severe, simon-pure, simple, single, singular, sole, solid, solitary, spare, stark, subjective, unadorned, unalienable, unanalyzable, unchallengeable, uncluttered, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undivided, unforgoable, uniform, unique, unitary, unquestionable, unsolvable, vital, wanted, whole

• irreformable, beyond recall, beyond remedy, cureless, gone, graceless, immedicable, incorrigible, incurable, inoperable, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irremediable, irreparable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, lost, past hope, past praying for, remediless, ruined, shriftless, terminal, undone, unmitigable, unredeemable, unregenerate, unrelievable, unsalvable, unsalvageable

• irrefutable, absolute, actual, adducible, admissible, admitting no question, attestative, attestive, authentic, based on, certain, circumstantial, conclusive, confirmable, convincing, cumulative, damning, decisive, demonstrable, demonstratable, determinative, documentary, documented, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, eye-witness, factual, final, firsthand, founded on, grounded on, hearsay, historical, implicit, inappealable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indicative, indisputable, indubitable, irrefragable, irresistible, material, nuncupative, overwhelming, presumptive, probative, provable, real, reliable, self-evident, significant, suggestive, sure, symptomatic, telling, testable, unanswerable, unconfutable, uncontestable, undeniable, unimpeachable, unquestionable, unrefutable, valid, verifiable, weighty

• irregardless, anyhow, anyway, anywise, at all, at all costs, at any cost, at any rate, by any means, despite, even with, however, in any case, in any event, in any way, in despite of, in spite of, irrespective of, nevertheless, nohow, nonetheless, regardless, regardless of, regardless of cost, spite of, with

• irregular, Bohemian, Charley, Mickey Mouse, VC, Vietcong, aberrant, abnormal, actionable, adrift, affable, afloat, against the law, aimless, alternating, amorphous, anamorphous, anarchic, anarchistic, anomalistic, anomalous, anomic, askew, asymmetric, asymmetrical, atypical, base, bent, bizarre, black-market, bootleg, bowed, broken, broken off, bumpy, bushfighter, bushwhacker, capricious, careening, casual, catchy, changeable, changeful, changing, chargeable, cheap, cheesy, chopped-off, choppy, coarse, coarse-grained, cockeyed, common, contorted, contraband, contrary to law, cordial, corrugated, craggy, crank, crankish, cranky, crazy, criminal, crooked, cross-grained, crotchety, crumpled, crunched, decousu, degage, designless, desultory, deviable, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disarticulated, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, disjunct, disjunctive, disordered, disorderly, disparate, dispersed, disproportional, disproportionate, distorted, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, dizzy, dotty, easy, easygoing, eccentric, episodic, erose, erratic, exceptional, extraordinary, familiar, fast and loose, felonious, fey, fickle, fitful, flaky, flawed, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, folksy, formless, fourth-class, freakish, freaky, free and easy, frivolous, funny, giddy, gracious, grainy, granulated, gratuitous, guerrilla, guttering, halting, haphazard, haymish, herky-jerky, heteroclite, heteromorphic, hit-or-miss, homely, homespun, homey, horripilant, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, ill-matched, ill-sorted, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, immethodical, impermissible, impetuous, impulsive, inadequate, inchoate, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indiscriminate, inequal, inferior, infirm, informal, insufficient, intermittent, intermitting, interrupted, irresolute, irresponsible, jagged, jerky, jolty, justiciable, kinky, kooky, labyrinthine, lawless, linsey-woolsey, loose, lopsided, low-class, low-grade, low-quality, low-test, lumpy, lurching, maggoty, maquis, maquisard, mazy, mean, meaningless, mercurial, mismatched, misshapen, moody, motley, mutable, natural, nonconforming, nonconformist, nonconstitutional, noncontinuous, nonlegal, nonlicit, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonstandard, nonsymmetric, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, nutty, occasional, odd, oddball, off-balance, off-key, offbeat, offhand, offhanded, one-sided, orderless, out of proportion, outlaw, outlawed, overbalanced, paltry, parenthetic, partisan, patchy, patriot, peculiar, pimply, pitted, plain, planless, pluralistic, pocky, poor, potholed, promiscuous, punishable, punk, purposeless, queer, quirky, ragged, rambling, random, rank, relaxed, resistance, resistance fighter, restless, ripply, rough, rough-grained, rough-hewn, roving, ruffled, rutted, rutty, scatterbrained, schlock, schmatte, scrappy, screwball, screwy, second, second-best, second-class, seedy, senseless, shabby, shagged, shaggy, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, simple, singular, skew, skewed, snatchy, sociable, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spineless, sporadic, spotty, sprung, staggering, straggling, straggly, strange, stray, straying, subnormal, suspended, systemless, tacky, textured, third, third-class, third-rate, tinny, tortuous, triable, twisted, unaccountable, unaffected, unallowed, unarranged, unassuming, unauthorized, unbalanced, unceremonious, uncertain, unclassified, uncommon, unconnected, unconsidered, unconstitutional, unconstrained, uncontrolled, unconventional, undependable, under-the-counter, under-the-table, underground, underground fighter, undirected, undisciplined, unequable, unequal, uneven, unfixed, ungraded, unique, unjoined, unkempt, unlawful, unlevel, unmethodical, unmetrical, unnatural, unofficial, unordered, unorganized, unorthodox, unpolished, unpredictable, unrefined, unregular, unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsmooth, unsorted, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unstatutory, unsteadfast, unsteady, unstudied, unsuccessive, unsymmetric, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, unusual, unwarrantable, unwarranted, vacillating, vagrant, vague, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, veering, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wacky, wandering, wanton, warped, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, weird, whimsical, wimpled, wishy-washy, wobbling, wobbly, wrongful

• irregularity, Bohemianism, aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, affability, amorphism, anamorphism, anamorphosis, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, asperity, asymmetry, broken thread, brokenness, buckle, bumpiness, capriciousness, cardialgia, casualness, changeability, changeableness, cholera morbus, choppiness, colic, common touch, conceit, constipation, contortion, contrariety, cordiality, costiveness, crackpotism, cragginess, crank, crankiness, crankism, crookedness, crotchet, crotchetiness, dappleness, derangement, desultoriness, detorsion, deviability, deviancy, deviation, diarrhea, difference, differentiation, differentness, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, discontinuousness, discreteness, disequilibrium, disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disparity, disproportion, disruption, distortion, disturbance, divarication, divergence, diversification, dottiness, dysentery, dyspepsia, ease, easiness, easygoingness, eccentricity, entropy, episode, erraticism, erraticness, familiarity, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, flux, folksiness, freakiness, freakishness, gnarl, graciousness, granulation, gripe, gripes, haphazardness, harshness, heartburn, heterogeneity, heteromorphism, hispidity, homeliness, homeyness, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, imbalance, impulsiveness, inadequacy, incoherence, incompleteness, inconsistency, inconstancy, indigestion, indiscriminateness, inequality, inequity, inferiority, informality, informalness, inharmonious harmony, injustice, instability, insufficiency, intermittence, jaggedness, jerkiness, joltiness, kink, knot, lientery, looseness, lopsidedness, maggot, mannerism, mercuriality, monstrosity, moodiness, most admired disorder, motleyness, mutability, naturalness, non sequitur, nonconformism, nonconformity, noncontinuance, nonlinearity, nonseriality, nonstandardization, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, obstipation, oddity, odds, offhandedness, overbalance, parenthesis, peculiarity, perturbation, plainness, pluralism, promiscuity, promiscuousness, pyrosis, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, raggedness, randomness, relaxedness, restlessness, rough air, roughness, ruggedness, rugosity, scraggliness, screw, shiftiness, shortcoming, simplicity, singularity, sociability, strangeness, subnormality, superiority, teratism, tooth, torsion, tortuosity, trick, trots, turbulence, turn, twist, unaffectedness, unbalance, unceremoniousness, uncertainty, unconformism, unconformity, unconstrainedness, unconstraint, unconventionality, undependability, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unfixedness, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, unorthodoxy, unpredictability, unpretentiousness, unreliability, unsettledness, unsmoothness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset, variability, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, wantonness, warp, wavering, waywardness, whim, whimsicality, whimsy, wrench, wrest, wring

• irregularly, at haphazard, at intervals, at irregular intervals, at random, brokenly, by catches, by chance, by fits, by jerks, by snatches, capriciously, carelessly, chaotically, choppily, desultorily, disconnectedly, discontinuously, eccentrically, erratically, every which way, fitfully, haltingly, haphazardly, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hit or miss, impulsively, in snatches, in spots, in the rough, inconsistently, inconstantly, indiscriminately, infrequently, intermittently, jaggedly, jerkily, lurchingly, nonuniformly, off and on, on, patchily, promiscuously, raggedly, randomly, rough, roughly, sloppily, spasmodically, sporadically, spottily, uncertainly, uncommonly, unequally, unevenly, unmethodically, unpredictably, unrhythmically, unsteadily, unsystematically, ununiformly, variably, whimsically, wobblingly

• irrelevance, abnormality, anomaly, disassociation, disconnection, discreteness, disjunction, disjuncture, dissociation, immateriality, impertinence, impropriety, inadmissibility, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, inauspiciousness, inconnection, inconsequence, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, inconvenience, independence, indifference, ineffectuality, inexpedience, infelicity, inferiority, inopportuneness, inopportunity, insignificance, intempestivity, interruption, intrusion, irrelation, irrelevancy, lateness, littleness, low priority, maladjustment, marginality, mesalliance, misalliance, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, negligibility, pettiness, picayune, picayunishness, pokiness, prematurity, puniness, secondariness, separateness, slightness, smallness, uncongeniality, unconnectedness, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unimportance, unimpressiveness, unnoteworthiness, unpropitiousness, unrelatedness, unripeness, unseasonableness, unsuitability, untimeliness, wrongness

• irrelevant, adrift, alien, back-burner, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, dinky, dispensable, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, gratuitous, ill-adapted, ill-assorted, ill-chosen, ill-considered, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-seasoned, ill-sorted, ill-suited, ill-timed, immaterial, impertinent, improper, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappreciable, inappropriate, inapt, inauspicious, incidental, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconvenient, inept, inessential, inexpedient, infelicitous, inferior, inopportune, insignificant, intempestive, intrusive, irrelative, late, little, mal a propos, maladjusted, malapropos, minor, minute, misjoined, mismatched, mismated, misplaced, mistimed, negligible, nihil ad rem, nonessential, not at issue, not vital, off base, off the subject, out of character, out of joint, out of keeping, out of line, out of phase, out of place, out of proportion, out of season, out of time, out of tune, out-of-the-way, parenthetical, petit, premature, small, technical, too late, too soon, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, uncalled-for, unconnected, unessential, unfavorable, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unimportant, unimpressive, unlucky, unnoteworthy, unpropitious, unqualified, unready, unrelated, unripe, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, untimely, untoward, wrong

• irreligion, apostasy, atheism, backsliding, desertion, fall from grace, godlessness, impiety, impiousness, irreverence, lapse, lapse from grace, recidivism, recreancy, sinfulness, un-Christliness, unangelicalness, unchristianliness, undutifulness, ungodliness, unholiness, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, wickedness

• irreligious, amoral, apostate, atheistic, backsliding, blasphemous, creedless, disbelieving, faithless, fallen, fallen from grace, godless, heretical, impious, incredulous, indevout, irreverent, lapsed, minimifidian, nonbelieving, nonreligious, nullifidian, profanatory, profane, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, repudiative, sacrilegious, sinful, un-Christly, unangelic, unbelieving, unchristian, unconfident, unconverted, unconvinced, undevout, undutiful, ungodly, unholy, unmoral, unreligious, unrighteous, unsaintly, wicked, without faith

• irremediable, ausgespielt, bankrupt, beyond recall, beyond remedy, blasted, blighted, broken, cureless, desolated, destroyed, devastated, done for, done in, down-and-out, fallen, finished, gone, gone to pot, immedicable, impossible, in ruins, incorrigible, incurable, inoperable, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreformable, irreparable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, kaput, lost, overthrown, past hope, past praying for, ravaged, remediless, ruined, ruinous, spoiled, terminal, uncorrectable, undone, unmitigable, unrelievable, unsalvable, unsalvageable, wasted, wrecked

• irremovable, adamant, adamantine, at a standstill, firm, fixed, frozen, immobile, immotile, immotive, immovable, inflexible, pat, rigid, standpat, stationary, steadfast, unmovable, unmoving, unyielding

• irreparable, beyond recall, beyond remedy, cureless, gone, immedicable, impossible, incorrigible, incurable, inoperable, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreformable, irremediable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, lost, past hope, past praying for, remediless, ruined, terminal, uncorrectable, undone, unmitigable, unrelievable, unsalvable, unsalvageable

• irrepressible, abandoned, beaming, beyond control, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, breachy, bright, bright and sunny, bubbling, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, contumacious, defiant, ebullient, effervescent, elated, enthusiastic, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, flushed, fractious, genial, glad, gladsome, glowing, go-go, happy, high, hopeful, immoderate, in good spirits, in high spirits, incontinent, incorrigible, indocile, indomitable, indulgent, insuppressible, intemperate, intractable, laughing, lax, licentious, loose, nonrestrictive, obstreperous, of good cheer, optimistic, out of control, out of hand, permissive, pleasant, radiant, rampant, recalcitrant, refractory, reinless, resistant, resisting, restive, rhapsodical, riant, riotous, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, shrewish, smiling, sparkling, sunny, unbiddable, unbridled, unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, uncurbed, unforced, ungovernable, ungoverned, uninhibited, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmastered, unmeasured, unmoldable, unmuzzled, unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unruly, unstoppable, unsubdued, unsubmissive, unsuppressed, wanton, wild, winsome

• irreproachable, Christian, above suspicion, absolute, beyond all praise, blameless, chaste, clean, creditable, decent, defectless, erect, errorless, estimable, ethical, exemplary, exquisite, fair, faultless, flawless, full of integrity, good, guiltless, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, honest, honorable, ideal, immaculate, impeccable, inculpable, indefectible, indefective, infallible, innocent, inviolate, irreprehensible, irreprovable, just, just right, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, manly, moral, noble, peerless, perfect, principled, pure, reputable, respectable, right, right-minded, righteous, sinless, spotless, stainless, sterling, taintless, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, unadulterated, unarraignable, unblamable, unblameworthy, unblemished, uncensurable, uncontaminated, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, unexceptionable, unfaultable, unimpeachable, unindictable, unmixed, unobjectionable, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, virtuous, worthy, yeomanly

• irresistible, absolute, adducible, admissible, alluring, appealing, appetizing, armipotent, attestative, attestive, attractive, authentic, authoritative, based on, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, captivating, catching, certain, charismatic, charming, circumstantial, coactive, coaxing, cogent, come-hither, compelling, comprehensive, compulsatory, compulsive, compulsory, conclusive, consequential, considerable, constraining, convincing, coquettish, cumulative, damning, decisive, deep, delightful, determinative, documentary, documented, driving, dynamic, effective, enchanting, energetic, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, exciting, exhaustive, exotic, exquisite, eye-witness, factual, fascinating, fated, fateful, fetching, final, firsthand, flirtatious, forceful, forcible, founded on, full, glamorous, grand, grave, great, grounded on, hearsay, heart-robbing, heavy, high-potency, high-powered, high-pressure, high-tension, hypnotic, impenetrable, imperative, imperious, implicit, impregnable, in force, in power, incontestable, incontrovertible, indefeasible, indicative, indisputable, indomitable, ineluctable, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, inexorable, inexpugnable, inflexible, insuperable, intense, interesting, intriguing, invincible, inviolable, inviting, invulnerable, irrefutable, irrepressible, irrevocable, lovely, luxurious, main, material, maximum, mesmeric, mighty, mighty in battle, mouth-watering, necessary, nuncupative, operative, overpowering, overriding, overwhelming, piquant, plenary, potent, powerful, prepossessing, prepotent, pressing, presumptive, probative, provocative, provoquant, puissant, ravishing, relentless, reliable, resistless, restraining, ruling, seducing, seductive, sensuous, serious, significant, siren, sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, striking, strong, suggestive, sure, sure as death, sure as fate, symptomatic, taking, tantalizing, teasing, telling, tempting, thrilling, tickling, titillating, titillative, total, unassailable, unavoidable, unbearable, unbeatable, unconquerable, uncontrollable, undeflectable, ungovernable, unmanageable, unpreventable, unstoppable, unsubduable, unsurmountable, unyielding, valid, vigorous, vital, voluptuous, weighty, winning, winsome, witching

• irresolute, adrift, afloat, agnostic, alternating, ambiguous, ambitendent, ambivalent, amorphous, at loose ends, bland, capricious, chancy, changeable, changeful, changing, desultory, deviable, dicey, dizzy, double-minded, doubting, dubious, eccentric, equivocal, erratic, faltering, fast and loose, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, freakish, giddy, halfhearted, halting, hesitant, hesitating, impetuous, impulsive, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indemonstrable, infirm, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, insipid, irregular, irresolved, irresponsible, mazy, mercurial, milk-and-water, milky, moody, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, mushy, mutable, neutral, of two minds, polysemous, rambling, restless, roving, scatterbrained, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shilly-shallying, shuffling, skeptical, spasmodic, spineless, tasteless, tentative, touch-and-go, unaccountable, uncertain, unconfirmable, uncontrolled, unconvinced, undecided, undependable, undetermined, undisciplined, undivinable, unfixed, unforeseeable, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unreliable, unresolved, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsure, unverifiable, vacillating, vacillatory, vagrant, vapid, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, watery, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbly

• irresolution, amiable weakness, breakability, brittleness, capriciousness, chance, chanciness, changeableness, collapse, daintiness, delicacy, destructibility, disintegration, effeminacy, erraticism, erraticness, fickleness, flimsiness, fragility, frailty, frangibility, hesitancy, hesitation, human frailty, incalculability, incertitude, indecision, indecisiveness, indemonstrability, indeterminacy, indetermination, indeterminism, infirmity of will, inherent vice, lightness, luck, moral weakness, randomness, shilly-shally, sleaziness, slightness, suspense, suspensefulness, to-and-fro, unaccountability, uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unforeseeableness, unpredictability, unprovability, unsubstantiality, unsureness, unverifiability, vacillation, velleity, wavering, whimsicality, wispiness, womanishness

• irresponsible, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, capricious, carefree, careless, changeable, changeful, chartered, desultory, deviable, devil-may-care, disobedient, dizzy, eccentric, erratic, excepted, excused, exempt, exempted, fast and loose, favored, feckless, fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, fly-by-night, freakish, giddy, headstrong, heady, immune, impetuous, impulsive, incautious, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, ineffectual, infirm, insubordinate, irregular, irresolute, lawless, let off, licensed, licentious, mazy, mercurial, moody, mutinous, permitted, privileged, rambling, rampant, rash, reckless, reinless, released, restless, roving, scatterbrained, self-willed, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, spared, spasmodic, spineless, trustless, unaccountable, unanswerable, unbridled, uncertain, unchecked, uncontrolled, uncurbed, undependable, undisciplined, unfaithworthy, unfixed, ungoverned, unliable, unpredictable, unreined, unreliable, unrestrained, unruly, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubject, unsure, untrustworthy, untrusty, vacillating, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, weak, whimsical, wild, wildcat, willful, wishy-washy

• irretrievable, ablated, beyond recall, beyond remedy, by the board, changeless, constant, consumed, cureless, depleted, dissipated, eroded, expended, forfeit, forfeited, gone, immedicable, immutable, incommutable, inconvertible, incorrigible, incurable, indefeasible, inert, inoperable, insusceptible of change, intransmutable, invariable, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreformable, irremediable, irreparable, irreversible, irrevocable, lasting, long-lost, lost, lost to, noble, nonreturnable, nonreversible, out the window, past hope, past praying for, permanent, remediless, reverseless, ruined, shrunken, squandered, terminal, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, uncorrectable, undeflectable, undeviating, undone, unmitigable, unmodifiable, unrelievable, unremitting, unrestorable, unreturnable, unsalvable, unsalvageable, unsusceptible, unvariable, unvarying, used, used up, wasted, worn away

• irretrievably, absolutely, clean, irreclaimably, irrecoverably, irredeemably, irremediably, irreparably, irreversibly, irrevocably, perfectly, plain, plumb, quite, right, sheer, stark, unrelievedly, unsalvably, unsalvageably

• irreverence, apostasy, atheism, backsliding, desertion, discourtesy, disesteem, dishonor, disparagement, disrespect, disrespectfulness, fall from grace, impiety, impiousness, impudence, insolence, irreligion, lack of respect, lapse, lapse from grace, recidivism, recreancy, ridicule, undutifulness

• irreverent, apostate, atheistic, aweless, backsliding, blasphemous, cheeky, derisive, discourteous, disparaging, disrespectful, fallen, fallen from grace, flip, flippant, impertinent, impious, impudent, insolent, insulting, irreligious, lapsed, mocking, profanatory, profane, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, ridiculing, rude, sacrilegious, saucy, uncivil, undutiful, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy

• irreversible, beyond recall, beyond remedy, changeless, chronic, confirmed, constant, cureless, deep-dyed, deep-fixed, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, direct, dyed-in-the-wool, established, fast, final, fixed, gone, immediate, immedicable, immutable, implanted, incommutable, inconvertible, incorrigible, inculcated, incurable, indefeasible, inert, infixed, ingrained, inoperable, instilled, insusceptible of change, intransmutable, invariable, inveterate, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreformable, irremediable, irreparable, irretrievable, irrevocable, lasting, long-established, lost, noble, nonreturnable, nonreversible, one-way, past hope, past praying for, permanent, remediless, reverseless, rooted, ruined, set, settled, settled in habit, straight, straightaway, straightforward, straightway, terminal, thorough, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeflectable, undeviating, undone, unidirectional, uninterrupted, unmitigable, unmodifiable, unrelievable, unremitting, unrestorable, unreturnable, unsalvable, unsalvageable, unsusceptible, unswerving, unvariable, unvarying

• irrevocable, absolute, beyond recall, beyond remedy, binding, certain, changeless, compulsory, conclusive, constant, cureless, decisive, decretory, dictated, enduring, entailed, established, everlasting, fated, fateful, final, fixed, gone, hard-and-fast, immedicable, immutable, imperative, imposed, incommutable, inconvertible, incorrigible, incurable, indefeasible, ineluctable, inert, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, inexorable, inflexible, inoperable, insusceptible of change, intransmutable, invariable, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreformable, irremediable, irreparable, irresistible, irretrievable, irreversible, lasting, lost, mandated, mandatory, must, necessary, noble, nonreturnable, nonreversible, obligatory, past hope, past praying for, peremptory, permanent, prescript, prescriptive, relentless, remediless, required, resistless, reverseless, ruined, settled, sure, sure as death, sure as fate, terminal, ultimate, unalterable, unalterative, unaltered, unavoidable, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, uncontrollable, undeflectable, undeviating, undone, unmitigable, unmodifiable, unpreventable, unrelievable, unremitting, unrestorable, unreturnable, unsalvable, unsalvageable, unstoppable, unsusceptible, unvariable, unvarying, unyielding, without appeal

• irrevocably, absolutely, certainly, clean, fatefully, indefeasibly, ineluctably, inescapably, inevasibly, inevitably, inexorably, inflexibly, irreclaimably, irrecoverably, irredeemably, irremediably, irreparably, irretrievably, irreversibly, necessarily, perfectly, plain, plumb, quite, relentlessly, right, sheer, stark, surely, unavoidably, uncontrollably, unpreventably, unrelievedly, unsalvably, unsalvageably, unyieldingly

• irrigate, adulterate, asperge, attenuate, baptize, bath, bathe, bedew, bespatter, besprinkle, cut, dabble, damp, dampen, dash, dew, dilute, douche, flush, flush out, gargle, holystone, hose, hose down, humect, humectate, humidify, lather, launder, lave, moisten, mop, mop up, paddle, rarefy, reduce, rinse, rinse out, ritually immerse, scour, scrub, scrub up, shampoo, shower, slobber, slop, slosh, sluice, sluice out, soap, sparge, spatter, splash, splatter, sponge, spray, sprinkle, swab, swash, syringe, thin, toivel, tub, wash, wash out, wash up, water, water down, wet, wet down

• irrigation, ablution, affusion, aspergation, aspersion, baptism, bath, bathing, bedewing, cleaning out, dampening, damping, deluge, dewing, douche, douching, drowning, elution, elutriation, enema, flooding, flush, flushing, flushing out, hosing, hosing down, humidification, immersion, inundation, lathering, lavabo, lavage, lavation, laving, moistening, mopping, mopping up, rinse, rinsing, scouring, scrub, scrubbing, scrubbing up, shampoo, soaping, sparging, spattering, splashing, splattering, sponge, sponging, spraying, sprinkling, submersion, swabbing, swashing, wash, washing, washing up, washout, washup, watering, wetting, wiping up

• irritable, aggressive, agitable, all nerves, allergic, anaphylactic, apprehensive, bad-tempered, bearish, bellicose, belligerent, bickering, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, combative, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, cussed, delicate, disagreeable, disputatious, divisive, dyspeptic, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, empathetic, empathic, eristic, eruptive, excitable, explosive, factional, factious, fearful, feisty, fractious, fretful, frightened, goosy, grouchy, gruff, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, huffish, huffy, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, ill-humored, ill-tempered, impatient, inflammable, irascible, itchy, litigious, mean, mettlesome, moody, nerves on edge, nervous, nervy, on edge, ornery, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overstrung, overtender, panicky, partisan, passible, peevish, perturbable, perverse, pettish, petulant, pindling, polarizing, polemic, prickly, pugnacious, quarrelsome, querulous, raspy, refined, responsive, sensitive, short-tempered, shrewish, skittish, snappish, snappy, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, startlish, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, temperamental, tender, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, ugly, uneasy, volcanic, waspish, whiny, wrangling

• irritate, abrade, afflict, affront, agent provocateur, aggravate, agonize, ail, alienate, amplify, anger, annoy, arouse, augment, bite, bother, bristle, bug, build up, burn, burn up, chafe, come between, convulse, crucify, cut, damage, deepen, deteriorate, dilapidate, disaffect, distress, disunite, divide, embitter, endamage, enhance, enlarge, enrage, estrange, exacerbate, exasperate, excruciate, exercise, fan the flame, fester, fluster, fret, gall, get, give pain, gnaw, grate, grate on, gravel, grind, gripe, grit, harass, harm, harrow, harry, hassle, heat up, hector, heighten, hot up, huff, hurt, impair, incense, increase, inflame, inflict pain, injure, intensify, irk, jangle the nerves, jar on, kill by inches, lacerate, light the fuse, magnify, make acute, make trouble, make worse, martyr, martyrize, miff, nag, needle, nettle, nip, offend, pain, peeve, pester, pick at, pick on, pierce, pinch, pique, pit against, plague, prick, prolong the agony, provoke, put back, put on edge, put out, put to torture, rack, rankle, rasp, rile, roil, rub, ruffle, separate, set against, set at odds, set at variance, set on, set on edge, set up, sharpen, sic on, sour, sow dissension, stab, sting, stir the blood, stir up, stir up trouble, torment, torture, trouble, try, tweak, twist, vex, weaken, work up, worry, worsen, wound, wring

• irritated, aggravated, algetic, amplified, angry, annoyed, augmented, bothered, broken, browned-off, bugged, burned, burning, burnt-up, burst, busted, chafed, checked, chipped, cracked, crazed, cut, damaged, deliberately provoked, deteriorated, disturbed, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated, exasperated, festering, fiery, galled, griped, harmed, heated up, heightened, hotted up, huffy, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in shards, increased, inflamed, injured, intensified, irked, lacerated, magnified, mangled, miffed, mutilated, nettled, peeved, piqued, provoked, put-out, rankling, raw, red, rent, resentful, riled, roiled, ruffled, ruptured, scalded, scorched, sensitive, shattered, slashed, slit, smarting, smashed, sore, soured, split, sprung, tender, the worse for, tingling, torn, troubled, vexed, weakened, worse, worse off, worsened

• irritating, acerbic, acid, acrid, aggravating, aggravative, annoying, asperous, astringent, biting, bitter, bothering, bothersome, caustic, chafing, contentious, cutting, disturbing, escharotic, exasperating, exasperative, fretting, galling, grating, grinding, harassing, harsh, importunate, importune, irking, irksome, irritant, irritative, keen, mordant, nose-tickling, penetrating, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, piercing, piquant, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, poignant, provocative, provoking, pungent, rasping, rough, scratchy, severe, sharp, sour, stinging, teasing, tiresome, tormenting, trenchant, troublesome, troubling, vexatious, vexing, vitriolic, wearisome, worrisome, worrying

• irritation, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, agitation, algesia, amplification, animation, annoyance, arousal, arousing, augmentation, blight, bummer, care, chafe, contentiousness, cross, curse, deepening, deliberate aggravation, deterioration, difficulties, difficulty, disapprobation, disapproval, discontent, displeasure, dissatisfaction, downer, electrification, embittering, embitterment, enhancement, enlargement, exacerbation, exasperation, excitation, excitement, exhilaration, festering, firing, fomentation, fret, gall, galvanization, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardship, heightening, incitation, incitement, increase, inflammation, infuriation, instigation, intensification, irritant, lathering up, magnification, pep rally, pep talk, perturbation, plight, predicament, pressure, provocation, rabble-rousing, rankling, resentfulness, resentment, rigor, sea of troubles, sensitiveness, sharpening, sore, sore spot, soreness, souring, steaming up, stimulation, stimulus, stirring, stirring up, stirring-up, stress, stress of life, tenderness, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, vale of tears, vexation, vicissitude, whipping up, working up, worsening

• irrupt, admit, advance upon, arise, barge in, be admitted, be born, become, belch, bob up, break bounds, break forth, break in, break in upon, break out, breeze in, burst forth, burst in, bust in, butt in, charge in, come barging in, come between, come breezing in, come busting in, come forth, come in, come out, come to be, crash, crash in, crash the gates, creep in, crop up, cross the threshold, crowd in, cut in, debouch, disgorge, drop in, edge in, eject, elbow in, encroach, enter, entrench, eruct, erupt, expel, flare up, flash, foist in, gain admittance, get in, get to be, gleam, go in, go into, go too far, have an entree, have an in, have origin, hop in, horn in, impinge, impose, impose on, impose upon, infiltrate, infringe, insert, insinuate, interfere, interlope, interpose, intervene, intrude, invade, issue, issue forth, jam in, jump in, know no bounds, look in, make an inroad, obtrude, originate, overstep, overstep the bounds, pack in, pop in, pop up, press in, push in, put in, put on, put upon, rise, rush in, set foot in, slink in, slip in, smash in, sneak in, spew, spring up, squeeze in, start up, steal in, step in, storm in, take birth, take in, take rise, throng in, thrust in, transgress, trench, trespass, usurp, visit, wedge in, work in, worm in

• irruption, air attack, air raid, air strike, blaze, boarding, burst, convulsion, cyclone, encroachment, entrance, entrenchment, eruption, escalade, explosion, fire raid, fit, flare-up, foray, gale, gust, hurricane, impingement, imposition, incursion, infiltration, influx, infringement, injection, inroad, insinuation, interference, interjection, interloping, interposition, interposure, interruption, intervention, intrusion, invasion, obtrusion, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, raid, razzia, saturation raid, scaling, seizure, shuttle raid, spasm, storm, tempest, tornado, trespass, trespassing, unlawful entry, upheaval, whirlwind

• irruptive, advancing, assailing, assaulting, attacking, charging, driving, entering, in, inbound, incoming, incursionary, incursive, inflooding, inflowing, ingoing, ingressive, inpouring, intrusive, invading, invasionary, invasive, inward, inward-bound, thrusting

• Isaiah, Abraham, Amos, Daniel, Ezekiel, Haggai, Hosea, Isaac, Jacob, Jeremiah, Joel, Jonah, Joseph, Joshua, Malachi, Micah, Moses, Nahum, Samuel, Zephaniah, prophet, vates sacer

• Ishmael, DP, castaway, declasse, derelict, displaced person, evictee, exile, expatriate, expellee, leper, outcast, outcast of society, outcaste, outlaw, pariah, persona non grata, social outcast, unacceptable person, undesirable, untouchable

• Isis, Amen-Ra, Anubis, Ashtoreth, Astarte, Baal, Bast, Ceres, Demeter, Dionysus, Frey, Horus, Khem, Min, Neph, Nephthys, Nut, Osiris, Pan, Priapus, Ptah, Ra, Set, Thoth

• island universe, Milky Way, Via Lactea, barred spiral, barred spiral galaxy, cosmic noise, galactic circle, galactic cluster, galactic coordinates, galactic latitude, galactic longitude, galactic nebula, galactic noise, galactic pole, galaxy, spheroidal galaxy, spiral, spiral galaxy, spiral nebula, supergalaxy

• island, aerodrome, air base, airdrome, airfield, airport, ait, archipelagian, archipelagic, archipelago, atoll, bar, cay, close off, continental island, coral head, coral island, coral reef, cut off, enisle, field, heliport, holm, insular, insularity, insulate, insulated, island group, island-dotted, islanded, islandish, islandlike, islandology, islandy, isle, islet, isleted, isolated, key, landing, landing field, oceanic island, port, reef, sandbank, sandbar, seagirt, segregate, separate, sequester

• isle, ait, archipelago, atoll, bar, cay, continental island, coral head, coral island, coral reef, holm, insularity, island, island group, islandology, islet, key, oceanic island, reef, sandbank, sandbar

• ism, Weltanschauung, adherents, articles of religion, catechism, church, class, communion, confession, credenda, credo, creed, cult, cultism, denomination, disciples, doctrinal statement, faith, followers, formulated belief, gospel, ideology, mystique, order, persuasion, political faith, political philosophy, religion, school, sect, system of belief, world view

• isobar, air mass, anticyclone, artificial isotope, cold front, cold sector, cyclone, deuterium, front, heavy hydrogen, high, high-pressure area, isomer, isometric, isometric line, isopiestic line, isotherm, isothermal line, isotone, isotope, low, low-pressure area, nuclear isomer, occluded front, polar front, protium, radioactive isotope, radioisotope, squall line, stationary front, strontium 90, warm front, weather map, wind-shift line

• isolate, abrupt, abscind, abstract, alienate, amputate, annihilate, apart, avoid, ban, banish, bar, block off, bob, bolt, cast off, cast out, clip, cloister, close off, cordon, cordon off, crop, cull, cull out, cut, cut adrift, cut away, cut off, cut out, debar, delete, depart, deport, detach, detached, disarticulate, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divide, divorce, dock, eject, eliminate, enisle, enucleate, eradicate, estrange, except, excise, exclude, exile, expel, extinguish, extirpate, ghettoize, gin, ground, ignore, insulate, island, island-hop, isolated, keep apart, keep aside, knock off, lay aside, leave, lop, maroon, mutilate, nip, ostracize, pare, part, peel, pick out, prune, pull away, pull back, pull out, put aside, quarantine, reject, remove, removed, riddle, root out, rope off, rule out, screen, seal off, seclude, segregate, send to Coventry, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shave, shear, shun, shut off, shut out, sieve, sift, snub, sort out, split, spurn, stamp out, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, step aside, strike off, strip, strip off, subtract, sunder, take off, take out, thrash, thresh, throw off, throw out, transport, truncate, unaccompanied, uncouple, unyoke, winnow, wipe out, withdraw

• isolated, abandoned, alien, alienated, alone, aloof, anchoretical, anomalous, anonymous, apart, archipelagian, archipelagic, at rest, calm, cloistered, closet, companionless, cool, cordoned, cordoned off, cut off, deserted, detached, disarticulated, disconnected, discrete, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, dispersed, disrelated, dissociated, disunited, divided, divorced, dwindling, ebbing, estranged, even-tenored, exceptional, excluded, exotic, extraneous, foreign, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, halcyon, hermitical, hidden, homeless, hushed, impassive, in a backwater, incognito, incommensurable, incomparable, independent, individual, inmost, innermost, insular, insulated, interior, intimate, inward, irrelative, island, island-dotted, islanded, islandish, islandlike, islandy, isleted, isolate, kithless, lone, lonely, lonesome, moldering, monastic, other, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, outlandish, pacific, particular, peaceable, peaceful, personal, placid, private, privy, quarantined, quiescent, quiet, remote, removed, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, retired, rootless, roped off, scattered, seagirt, sealed off, secluded, secret, segregate, segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, sequestrated, set apart, sheltered, shut off, single, single-handed, singular, smooth, solitary, solo, special, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, stranded, strange, subsiding, tranquil, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaffiliated, unagitated, unaided, unallied, unassisted, unassociated, unattended, unconnected, undisturbed, unescorted, unfrequented, unique, unmoved, unperturbed, unrelatable, unrelated, unruffled, unseconded, unstirring, unsupported, untroubled, unvisited, waning, withdrawn

• isolation, Jim Crow, X ray, abstraction, alien, alienation, aloneness, aloofness, anonymity, apartheid, apartness, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame-shifting, blood bank, celibacy, charity ward, clinic, closed meeting, color bar, compensation, confidentiality, confidentialness, consultation room, cordon, cordon sanitaire, cordoning off, decompensation, defense mechanism, delivery room, dereism, dereistic thinking, detachment, disarticulation, disassociation, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, disengagement, disjointing, disjunction, dislocation, dispensary, displacement, dissociation, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, emergency, emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, ethnocentrism, examining room, exclusiveness, executive session, fantasizing, fantasy, fever ward, flight, foreigner, hospital room, incognito, incoherence, insularity, insulation, intensive care, isolationism, keeping apart, know-nothingism, labor room, laboratory, loneliness, loneness, lonesomeness, luxation, maternity ward, moving apart, narrowness, negativism, nursery, operating room, out-group, outcast, outsider, overcompensation, parochialism, parting, partition, persona non grata, pharmacy, prison ward, privacy, private conference, private room, privatism, privatization, projection, psychotaxis, quarantine, quarantine flag, race hatred, racial segregation, rationalization, recess, reclusion, recovery room, removal, resistance, retirement, retreat, rustication, sanitary cordon, seclusion, secrecy, segmentation, segregation, semi-private room, separateness, separation, separatism, sequestration, single blessedness, snobbishness, sociological adjustive reactions, solitariness, solitude, splendid isolation, stranger, subdivision, sublimation, substitution, subtraction, surgery, therapy, tightness, treatment room, ward, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal, xenophobia, yellow flag, yellow jack, zoning

• isolationism, Eisenhower Doctrine, Jim Crow, Monroe Doctrine, Nixon Doctrine, Truman Doctrine, apartheid, apartness, appeasement, balance of power, brinkmanship, capitalism, coexistence, colonialism, compromise, containment, detachment, detente, deterrence, diplomacy, diplomatic, diplomatics, dollar diplomacy, dollar imperialism, expansionism, foreign affairs, foreign policy, free competition, free enterprise, free trade, good-neighbor policy, imperialism, internationalism, isolation, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, let-alone policy, let-alone principle, liberalism, manifest destiny, militarism, nationalism, neocolonialism, neutralism, noninterference, nonintervention, nonresistance, open door, open-door policy, peace offensive, peaceful coexistence, preparedness, privacy, privatism, privatization, quarantine, recess, reclusion, retirement, retreat, rustication, seclusion, secrecy, segregation, self-regulating market, separation, sequestration, shirt-sleeve diplomacy, shuttle diplomacy, spheres of influence, splendid isolation, the big stick, tough policy, withdrawal, world politics

• isolationist, Diogenes, Hieronymian, Hieronymite, Timon of Athens, anchoress, anchorite, ascetic, bedridden invalid, cloistered monk, closet cynic, desert fathers, desert saints, eremite, free lance, free spirit, free trader, freethinker, hermit, hermitess, homebody, independent, individualist, invalid, latitudinarian, liberal, libertarian, libertine, loner, marabout, mugwump, neutral, nonpartisan, outcast, pariah, pillar saint, pillarist, recluse, rugged individualist, seclusionist, shut-in, solitaire, solitary, solitudinarian, stay-at-home, stylite, third force, third world

• isomer, acid, acidity, agent, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, anion, antacid, artificial isotope, atom, base, biochemical, cation, chemical, chemical element, chromoisomer, compound, copolymer, deuterium, dimer, element, heavy chemicals, heavy hydrogen, high polymer, homopolymer, hydracid, inorganic chemical, ion, isobar, isotone, isotope, macromolecule, metamer, molecule, monomer, neutralizer, nonacid, nuclear isomer, organic chemical, oxyacid, polymer, protium, pseudoisomer, radical, radioactive isotope, radioisotope, reagent, strontium 90, sulfacid, trimer

• isometric, aerographic, aerologic, baric, barographic, barometric, climatologic, cyclonic, elemental, equiangular, equidimensional, equilateral, equiproportional, equisided, equisized, equispaced, high-pressure, isobaric, isopiestic, macroclimatic, meteorologic, microclimatic, microclimatologic

• isotherm, air mass, anticyclone, cold front, cold sector, cyclone, front, high, high-pressure area, isobar, isometric, isometric line, isopiestic line, isothermal line, low, low-pressure area, occluded front, polar front, squall line, stationary front, warm front, weather map, wind-shift line

• issue forth, appear, arise, bail out, be born, be illegitimate, be off, become, become manifest, become visible, break cover, break forth, break out, break through, burst forth, come, come forth, come forward, come in sight, come out, come to be, come to hand, come to light, crop out, crop up, debouch, disembogue, effuse, emanate, emerge, enter, erupt, exit, extrude, fade in, find vent, get off, get to be, go forth, hatch, have birth, have origin, heave in sight, irrupt, issue, jump out, leak out, look forth, loom, materialize, ooze out, originate, outcrop, outset, outstart, peep out, protrude, put forth, rear its head, rise, run out, sally, sally forth, see the light, set forth, set forward, set off, set out, show, show up, spring up, start, start off, start out, stream forth, strike out, strike the eye, surface, take birth, take rise, turn up

• issue price, asking price, bearish prices, bid price, book value, bullish prices, call price, closing price, decline, face value, fixed price, flash price, flurry, flutter, high, issue par, low, market price, market value, nominal value, offering price, opening price, par, par value, parity, price, put price, quotation, quoted price, rally, settling price, stated value, swings

• issue, accomplishment, accord, activity, administer, affair, afford, airing, allot, allow, announce, answer, appear, argue, arise, artifact, ascertainment, at issue, attend, award, back number, bail out, bandying, basis, be born, be off, become, become manifest, become of, become public, become visible, bench mark, bestow, bestow on, bestrew, birth, bone of contention, book, brainchild, break, break cover, break forth, break out, break through, breakout, breed, bring out, broadcast, broadcasting, brood, bruiting, bruiting about, burden, burst forth, buzz about, by-product, campaign, cardinal point, case, catechism, cause, chapter, chief thing, child, children, circulate, circulation, circumfuse, clearing up, climax, coinage, collection, come, come about, come after, come forth, come forward, come in sight, come of, come out, come to be, come to hand, come to light, commitment, communicate, composition, concern, conclusion, concoction, confer, consequence, consequent, consummation, contend, controversy, copy, core, cornerstone, corollary, course, cracking, creation, creature, crisis, critical point, crop out, crop up, cross-interrogatory, cross-question, crowning achievement, crusade, crux, culmination, daughters, deal, deal out, debating point, debouch, debouchment, decipherment, declaration of policy, declare, decoding, deliver, deliverance, delivery, demand, demonetize, denouement, derivation, derivative, descendants, descent, determination, devaluate, devalue, develop, development, diffract, diffuse, diffusion, disagree, disburse, discharge, disembogue, disentanglement, dish out, dispense, disperse, displace, display, dispose, dispread, dispute, disseminate, dissemination, distillate, distillation, distribute, distribution, diverge, dole, dole out, donate, drive, ebb, edition, effect, efflux, effuse, egress, emanate, emanation, emerge, emergence, emersion, emission, emit, end, end product, end result, engrave, ensue, enter, erupt, escape, escapism, essence, essential, essential matter, evasion, event, eventuality, eventuate, eventuation, evulgation, exit, explanation, extend, extract, extrication, extrude, extrusion, fade in, faith, fall out, family, fan out, fare, feeler, fight, find vent, finding, finding-out, flight, float, flood, flotation, flow, flow back, flow in, flow out, flush, fly about, focus of attention, focus of interest, folks, follow, follow after, follow up, fork out, freeing, fruit, fundamental, get, get about, get abroad, get afloat, get around, get exposure, get off, get out, get to be, getaway, gift, gift with, gist, give, give forth, give freely, give off, give out, go about, go after, go forth, go public, go the rounds, grandchildren, grant, gravamen, great cause, great point, great-grandchildren, gush, hand out, handiwork, harvest, have currency, have origin, head, heading, heap, heart, hearth, heave in sight, hectograph, heirs, help to, high point, homefolks, hostages to fortune, house, household, impart, important thing, impress, impression, imprint, in dispute, inheritors, inquiry, interest, interpretation, interrogation, interrogative, interrogatory, invention, irrupt, issuance, issue forth, issue stock, issuing, jailbreak, jump out, kernel, keynote address, keynote speech, keystone, kids, landmark, lavish, leader, leading question, leak, leak out, leakage, legacy, let have, liberation, library, library edition, lifework, lineage, little ones, living issue, logical outcome, look forth, loom, main point, main thing, make, manufacture, mass movement, masterpiece, masterwork, material point, materialize, matter, matter in hand, measure out, meat, menage, mete, mete out, milestone, mimeograph, mintage, moot point, motif, motive, movement, multigraph, new generation, new mintage, nub, number, nut, offer, offshoot, offspring, ooze out, opera, oppose, opus, opuscule, originate, origination, outcome, outcrop, outflow, outgoing, outgrowth, outlet, outset, outstart, overprint, overscatter, oversow, overspread, overtake, pan out, parcel out, party platform, pass around, pay out, peep out, people, periodical, pith, pivot, plank, platform, point, point at issue, point in question, portion out, posterity, pour, precipitate, present, principle, print, printing, prisonbreak, problem, proceed, proclaim, proclamation, product, production, proffer, progeniture, progeny, program, promulgate, promulgation, proof, propagate, propagation, protrude, prove, prove to be, publication, publish, publishing, pull, pull a proof, put forth, put out, put to bed, put to press, query, question, question at issue, question mark, quodlibet, radiate, rain, real issue, rear its head, reason, reason for being, regurgitate, reissue, release, remonetize, render, replace, reprint, rescue, resolution, resolving, result, resultant, retail, revalue, riddance, riddling, rise, rising generation, rubric, run out, rush, salient point, sally, sally forth, scatter, school edition, scions, see the light, seed, send forth, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, series, serve, set, set forth, set forward, set off, set out, setting-free, shell out, show, show up, shower, sine qua non, slip, snow, solution, solving, sons, sorting out, sow, sow broadcast, splay, spoon out, spread, spread about, spread like wildfire, spread out, spreading, spreading abroad, spring, spring up, stamp, start, start off, start out, stem, stock issue, stream, stream forth, strew, strike, strike out, strike the eye, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, substance, substantive point, succeed, succession, supervene, surface, surfacing, surge, surge back, take birth, take exception, take issue, take rise, telecasting, tender, terminate, text, the bottom line, the point, theme, throw off, topic, track, trade book, trade edition, trail, treasures, trend, trial balloon, turn out, turn up, turning point, uncertain, unfold, unraveling, unresolved, unriddling, unscrambling, unsettled, unspinning, untangling, untwisting, unweaving, upshot, utter, vent, ventilation, version, vexed question, volume, vouchsafe, work, work out, working, working-out, yield, young, younglings, youngsters

• issueless, acarpous, arid, barren, celibate, childless, desert, desolate, drained, dried-up, dry, exhausted, fallow, fruitless, gaunt, gelded, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, jejune, leached, menopausal, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, sine prole, sterile, sucked dry, teemless, uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue

• isthmus, abbreviation, astriction, astringency, bottleneck, canal, cervix, channel, circumscription, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, consolidation, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, curtailment, decrease, defile, diminuendo, hourglass, hourglass figure, knitting, narrow, narrow place, narrowing, narrows, neck, pass, puckering, pursing, reduction, shortening, solidification, strait, stranglement, strangulation, striction, stricture, systole, throat, wasp waist, wrinkling

• it, I, I myself, alter, alter ego, alterum, better self, ego, ethical self, he, her, herself, him, himself, inner man, inner self, me, my humble self, myself, not an illusion, number one, oneself, other self, ourselves, self, she, subconscious self, subliminal self, superego, the article, the genuine article, the goods, the very model, the very thing, them, themselves, they, you, yours truly, yourself, yourselves

• italic, ascender, autograph, autographic, back, bastard type, beard, belly, bevel, black letter, body, calligraphic, cap, capital, case, chirographic, counter, cursive, descender, em, en, engrossed, face, fat-faced type, feet, flowing, font, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric, groove, holograph, holographic, in longhand, in shorthand, in writing, inscribed, italicized, letter, ligature, logotype, longhand, lower case, majuscule, manuscript, minuscule, nick, on paper, penciled, penned, pi, pica, point, print, printed, roman, running, sans serif, script, scriptorial, scriptural, shank, shorthand, shoulder, small cap, small capital, stamp, stem, stylographic, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, upper case, written

• italicize, accent, accentuate, belabor, dwell on, emphasize, feature, give emphasis to, harp on, highlight, overaccentuate, overemphasize, overstress, place emphasis on, play up, point up, punctuate, rub in, spotlight, star, stress, underline, underscore

• italicized, accented, accentuated, autograph, autographic, calligraphic, chirographic, cursive, decided, emphasized, emphatic, engrossed, flowing, forceful, forcible, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric, holograph, holographic, in longhand, in red letters, in shorthand, in writing, inscribed, italic, longhand, manuscript, on paper, penciled, penned, pointed, positive, printed, punctuated, running, scriptorial, scriptural, shorthand, starred, stressed, stylographic, underlined, underscored, written

• itch for, ache for, be dying for, be hurting for, be in heat, clamor for, come in, cry for, desire, estruate, gape for, hone for, hope for, languish for, long for, lust, lust after, lust for, pant for, pine for, rut, sigh for, spoil for, thirst for, weary for, wish for, yearn for, yen for

• itch to, ache to, be dying to, burn to, chafe, choose to, dearly love to, fret, fuss, get excited, hardly wait, hasten, jump the gun, like to, long to, love to, squirm, stew, sweat, sweat and stew, sweat it out, wait impatiently, want to, wish to

• itch, ache, acne, acne vulgaris, an universal wolf, andromania, aphrodisia, appetence, appetency, appetite, appetition, biological urge, bodily appetite, carnal desire, concupiscence, coveting, crave, craving, dermamycosis, dermatitis, dermatosis, desire, die, eczema, elephantiasis, epithelioma, eromania, eroticism, eroticomaniac, erotism, erotomania, erysipelas, erythema, exanthem, fidget, fleshly lust, furor uterinus, goatishness, gynecomania, hanker, hankering, have the fidgets, heat rash, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, hives, horniness, hot blood, hot pants, hunger, impetigo, indecency, infantile sexuality, irritation, itchiness, itching, jerk, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jungle rot, lasciviousness, leprosy, libidinousness, lichen, lichen primus, lickerishness, longing, lupus, lupus vulgaris, lust, lustfulness, mania, miliaria, nymphomania, passion, pemphigus, pine, polymorphous perversity, prick, prickle, prickling, prickly heat, pruigo, prurience, pruriency, pruritus, psora, ringworm, satyriasis, satyrism, scabies, scratch, sexual desire, sexual longing, sexual passion, shingles, sigh, skin cancer, sting, tetter, thirst, thrill, tickle, tickling, tingle, tingling, twitch, urge, vellicate, venereal appetite, want, wish, yearn, yearning, yen, yeuk

• itching palm, acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, avidness, covetousness, cupidity, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttony, grasping, graspingness, greed, greediness, hoggishness, incontinence, inordinate desire, insatiability, insatiable desire, intemperateness, lust, overgreediness, piggishness, rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, sordidness, swinishness, voraciousness, voracity, wolfishness

• itching, abscess, aching for, ague, an universal wolf, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, appetence, appetency, appetite, appetition, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, athirst, atrophy, backache, bent on, bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy, chill, chills, colic, concupiscent, constipation, consumed with desire, convulsion, coughing, coveting, craving, crazy to, cyanosis, desirous of, devoured by desire, diarrhea, dizziness, dropsy, dying for, dying to, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, ejaculatory, emaciation, fain of, fainting, fatigue, fervid, fever, fibrillation, flux, fond of, goatish, growth, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, horny, hot, hot-blooded, hunger, hungering, hungry, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, inclined toward, indigestion, inflammation, insomnia, itch, itchiness, itching for, itchy, jaundice, keen on, labored breathing, lascivious, leaning toward, libidinous, lickerish, low blood pressure, lumbago, lustful, mad on, mad with lust, mania, marasmus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, orgasmic, orgastic, pain, paralysis, partial to, passionate, prurience, pruriency, prurient, pruritus, randy, rash, rheum, salacious, sclerosis, seizure, set on, sex-starved, sexual desire, sexy, shock, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, spoiling for, steamy, tabes, tachycardia, thirst, thirsting, thirsty, tumor, unsatisfied, upset stomach, vertigo, vomiting, wasting, wild to, yeuk

• itchy, acquisitive, agape, agog, all agog, allergic, anaphylactic, burning with curiosity, consumed with curiosity, curious, delicate, desirous, empathetic, empathic, ghoulish, goosy, gossipy, grabby, grasping, greedy, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, inquiring, inquisitive, interested, irritable, itching, morbid, morbidly curious, nervous, open-eyed, openmouthed, overcurious, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, passible, prehensile, prickly, prurient, quizzical, refined, responsive, scopophiliac, sensitive, skittish, supercurious, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, tender, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, voyeuristic

• item, above, additionally, adjunct, adversaria, again, aide-memoire, all included, along, also, altogether, among other things, and all, and also, and so, annotation, appurtenance, article, article of commerce, article of merchandise, as well, aspect, au reste, beside, besides, beyond, case, circumstance, citation, commodity, component, constituent, contents, contingent, count, credit, cross reference, cross section, datum, debit, demonstration, detachment, detail, division, docket, dole, double entry, drug, element, else, en plus, entity, entry, example, exemplification, extra, facet, fact, factor, farther, feature, filler, fixings, footnote, for lagniappe, fraction, further, furthermore, illustration, in addition, incidental, individual, ingredient, installment, instance, integer, integrant, inter alia, into the bargain, jotting, lead item, leader, likewise, loss leader, makings, marginal note, marginalia, matter, memo, memoir, memorandum, memorial, mention, minor detail, minute, minutes, minutia, minutiae, module, more, moreover, notation, note, notice, on the side, on top of, over, parcel, part, part and parcel, particular, percentage, person, persona, piece, plus, point, portion, product, quadrant, quarter, quota, quotation, random sample, reference, regard, register, registry, remainder, reminder, respect, sample, sampling, scholia, scholium, seconds, section, sector, segment, share, similarly, single, single entry, singleton, soul, special, specialty, standard article, staple, staple item, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, then, therewith, thing, to boot, too, unit, vendible, ware, well, yet

• itemization, active list, analysis, anatomization, atomization, blacklist, blocking, cameo, catalog, cataloging, character, character sketch, characterization, checklist, circumstantiation, civil list, delineation, depiction, description, detailing, details, enrollment, enumeration, evocation, filing, graphic account, image, imagery, impression, indexing, individualization, inventory, items, limning, list, listing, localization, parsing, particularization, peculiarization, personalization, photograph, picture, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, profile, register, registration, registry, rendering, rendition, repertory, representation, resolution, retired list, scansion, schedule, schematization, sick list, sketch, specialization, specification, tabulation, tally, tally sheet, vignette, vivid description, word painting

• itemize, add up, adduce, anatomize, atomize, block out, book, calendar, call to mind, cast up, catalog, cipher up, circumstantiate, cite, cite a particular, count, count up, demonstrate, descend to particulars, detail, document, enroll, enter, enter into detail, enumerate, example, exemplify, figure up, file, foot up, give a for-instance, give full particulars, illustrate, impanel, index, individualize, instance, inventory, keep score, list, mention, name, number, outline, parse, particularize, peculiarize, personalize, pigeonhole, post, precise, program, quote, recap, recapitulate, recite, reckon up, record, recount, register, rehearse, relate, resolve, scan, schedule, schematize, score, score up, specialize, specify, spell out, substantiate, sum, sum up, summarize, summate, tabulate, tally, tally up, tot up, total, total up, tote up

• itemized, blow-by-blow, cadastral, cataloged, detailed, entered, enumerated, filed, full, indexed, inventorial, listed, minute, particular, particularized, programmed, scheduled, tabulated, tallied, thorough

• items, active list, blacklist, census, checklist, civil list, composition, constituents, content, contents, divisions, elements, enumeration, guts, index, ingredients, innards, insides, inventory, itemization, list, part, parts, register, registry, repertory, retired list, schedule, sick list, tally, tally sheet, whole

• iterate, battologize, fill, give an encore, go over, go through, ingeminate, pad, practice, reaffirm, reassert, recapitulate, recite, recount, rehash, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, renew, reprint, reprise, resay, restate, resume, retail, retell, review, reword, run over, say over, say over again, sum up, summarize, tautologize

• iteration, conduplication, copy, copying, critique, doubling, duplicate, duplication, dwelling upon, elaboration, gemination, going over, imitation, ingemination, practicing, reaffirmation, recap, recapitulation, recital, recountal, recounting, reduplication, rehash, rehearsal, reissue, reiteration, repetition, replication, reprint, reproduction, restatement, resume, retelling, review, summary, summing up, twinning

• iterative, battological, duplicative, echoic, echoing, imitative, parrotlike, recapitulative, redundant, reduplicative, reechoing, reiterant, reiterative, repeating, repetitional, repetitionary, repetitious, repetitive, tautological, tautologous

• itinerancy, Wanderjahr, afoot and lighthearted, bumming, discursion, divagation, drifting, errantry, flitting, gadding, hoboism, itineracy, nomadism, peregrination, pererration, ramble, rambling, roam, roaming, rove, roving, straying, traipsing, vagabondage, vagabondia, vagabondism, vagrancy, wandering, wanderlust, wayfaring

• itinerant, Ahasuerus, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Flying Dutchman, Goliard, Odysseus, Oisin, Ossian, Ulysses, ambulant, ambulative, ambulatory, bird of passage, circuit-riding, drifter, expeditionary, floater, gad, gadabout, globe-girdling, globe-trotting, go-about, going, itinerary, journeying, locomotive, mover, moving, mundivagant, nomadic, on tour, passing, pedestrian, perambulating, perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrinator, peregrine, peripatetic, pilgrimlike, progressing, rambler, rambling, ranging, roamer, roaming, rolling stone, rover, roving, runabout, shifting, straggler, stroller, strolling, strolling player, touring, touristic, touristy, traveling, trekking, troubadour, vagabond, vagrant, visitant, walking, wanderer, wandering, wandering minstrel, wandering scholar, wayfaring

• itinerary, Baedeker, Yellow Pages, air lane, beat, bibliography, business directory, catalog, checklist, circuit, city directory, classified directory, course, directory, finding list, flight path, guidebook, handbook, handlist, index, line, orbit, path, phone book, primrose path, reference book, road, road map, roadbook, round, route, run, sea lane, shortcut, telephone book, telephone directory, tour, track, trade route, traject, trajectory, trajet, walk

• itself, I, I myself, alter, alter ego, alterum, better self, ego, ethical self, he, her, herself, him, himself, inner man, inner self, it, me, my humble self, myself, number one, oneself, other self, ourselves, self, she, subconscious self, subliminal self, superego, them, themselves, they, you, yours truly, yourself, yourselves

• ivories, alveolar ridge, bird cage, bones, bridgework, choir, claviature, console, crap game, crap shooting, craps, crooked dice, cubes, dental bridge, dentition, denture, dice, die, echo, eighty-eight, false teeth, fingerboard, great, gums, keyboard, keys, loaded dice, manual, organ manual, pedals, periodontal tissue, piano keys, plate, poker dice, set of teeth, solo, swell, teeth, uppers and lowers

• ivory carving, CYSP sculpture, anaglyptics, anaglyptography, architectural sculpture, bone-carving, casting, ceroplastics, chasing, clay sculpture, decorative sculpture, earth art, embossing, engraving, founding, garden sculpture, gem-cutting, glass sculpture, glyptic, lost-wax process, metal sculpture, modeling, molding, monumental sculpture, paper sculpture, plaster casting, plastic art, portrait sculpture, relief, relief-carving, relievo, sculptor, sculpture, sculpturing, shell-carving, statuary, stone sculpture, stonecutting, whittling, wire sculpture, wood carving, xyloglyphy

• ivory tower, adytum, ashram, cell, cloister, den, hermitage, hideaway, hideout, hiding place, holy of holies, lair, mew, privacy, recess, retreat, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, secret place

• ivory, alabaster, alabastrine, albescent, billiard table, bones, bowling alley, bowling green, chalk, cream, creamy, cubes, dice, driven snow, dun-white, eggshell, fair, flat, fleece, flour, foam, glass, glaucescent, glaucous, gray-white, ice, ivory-white, level, light, lily, lint-white, maggot, mahogany, marble, milk, off-white, pale, paper, pearl, pearly, pearly-white, plane, satin, sheet, silk, silver, slide, smooth, snow, swan, tennis court, velvet, whitish, whity

• ivy, aestival, algae, autophyte, bean, beryl-green, berylline, blue-green, bluish-green, bracken, brown algae, chartreuse, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, citrine, citrinous, climber, conferva, confervoid, creeper, diatom, emerald, fern, foliaged, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, grapevine, grassy, green, green algae, green as grass, green-blue, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greensick, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, holly, ivy-green, kelp, leafy, leaved, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss, mushroom, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, porraceous, puffball, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, smaragdine, smut, springlike, succulent, summerlike, summery, toadstool, verdant, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert, vetch, vine, virescent, wort, wrack, yellowish-green

• izzard, Z, apodosis, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, coda, conclusion, consummation, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, decease, denouement, destination, destiny, doom, effect, end, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, expiration, fate, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, goal, last, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, omega, payoff, period, peroration, quietus, resolution, resting place, stoppage, stopping place, swan song, term, terminal, termination, terminus, windup

• jab, Parthian shot, assault, back answer, bang, barrack, bash, bat, bear, bear upon, bearing, beating, belt, biff, blow, bonk, boost, buck, bull, bulldoze, bump, bump against, bunt, butt, butt against, caustic remark, chaff, chop, clap, clip, clobber, clout, clump, coldcock, comeback, crack, cram, crowd, cut, cut at, cutting remark, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, dig, dig at, dint, drive, drub, drubbing, drumming, dump, dump on, elbow, feint, fetch, fetch a blow, fleer, flout, foolery, force, fusillade, gibe, gibing retort, goad, head, hit, hit a clip, home thrust, hurtle, hustle, jab at, jam, jape, jeer, jest, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, leg-pull, let have it, lick, lunge, mock, nudge, parting shot, pass, paste, pelt, pile drive, plunk, poke, pooh, pooh-pooh, pound, press, pressure, prod, punch, push, put down, put-down, put-on, quip, rail at, rally, ram, ram down, rank out, rap, rattle, revile, rude reproach, run, run against, scoff, scout, scurrility, shake, short answer, shoulder, shove, slam, slap, slap at, slog, slug, smack, smash, smite, snap, sneer, sneer at, soak, sock, stab, stress, strike, strike at, stroke, swat, swing, swipe, tamp, tattoo, taunt, thrust, thump, thwack, twit, verbal thrust, wallop, whack, wham, whop, yerk

• jabber, Greek, absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, blubber, bombast, bull, bullshit, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitter-chatter, clack, claptrap, clatter, dither, double-talk, drivel, drone, droning, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gab, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gas, gibber, gibbering, gibberish, gibble-gabble, go on, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gush, haver, hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug, idle talk, jabberwocky, jargon, jaw, jibber, maunder, maundering, mere talk, mouth, mouthing, mumble, mumbling, mumbo jumbo, murmur, murmuring, mutter, muttering, narrishkeit, natter, niaiserie, nonsense, nonsense talk, pack of nonsense, palaver, patter, piffle, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, ramble on, rant, rattle, rattle on, reel off, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, run on, skimble-skamble, sob, speak incoherently, splutter, spout, spout off, sputter, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, susurrate, susurration, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, tittle-tattle, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vapor, vaporing, waffle, waffling, whisper, whispering, yak, yakkety-yak, yap

• jabberer, agreeable rattle, babbler, big talker, blab, blabber, blabberer, blabbermouth, blatherer, chatterbox, chatterer, gabber, gabbler, gasbag, gibble-gabbler, great talker, hot-air artist, idle chatterer, jay, magpie, moulin a paroles, patterer, prater, prattler, rattle, windbag, windjammer, word-slinger

• jack up, add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, bawl out, boost, broaden, build, build up, chew, chew ass, chew out, cuss out, enlarge, exalt, expand, extend, fatten, fill out, give a going-over, give hail Columbia, give hell, give the deuce, give what-for, hike, hike up, increase, inflate, jump, jump up, lambaste, lengthen, maximize, parlay, put up, pyramid, raise, ream, ream ass, ream out, sit on, thicken, up

• jack, AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Dannebrog, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Jolly Roger, Neptune, OD, Old Glory, Poseidon, Rocky Mountain canary, Star-Spangled Banner, Stars and Stripes, Union Flag, Union Jack, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, ace, and blue, ass, baluster, balustrade, banderole, banister, banner, banneret, base, best bower, black flag, blue ensign, bluejacket, blunt, boodle, bower, brass, bread, buccaneer, bucks, bunting, burgee, burro, cabbage, cards, caryatid, cash, chips, clubs, coachwhip, coin, colonnade, color, colors, column, crab, crane, cuddy, dado, deck, deep-sea man, derrick, deuce, diamonds, dickey, die, dinero, donkey, dough, dummy, ensign, erector, face cards, fair-weather sailor, fisherman, flag, flush, footstalk, forklift, full house, gantry crane, gelt, gilt, gonfalon, gonfanon, grease, green, green stuff, greenbacks, guidon, hand, hearts, hearty, hoist, house flag, hydraulic tailgate, jack afloat, jack-tar, jackass, jackscrew, jacky, jennet, jenny, jenny ass, joker, kale, king, knave, left bower, lever, lift, lifter, limey, lobsterman, long pennant, mariner, matelot, mazuma, merchant flag, money, moolah, mopus, national flag, navigator, neddy, newel-post, oil of palms, ointment, oof, ooftish, oriflamme, pack, pair, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, pendant, pennant, pennon, pennoncel, picture cards, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, pirate, playing cards, plinth, pole, post, privateer, queen, queen-post, red, red ensign, rhino, rocks, round, royal flush, royal standard, rubber, ruff, sailor, salt, scratch, sea dog, sea rover, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shaft, shekels, shipman, signal flag, simoleons, singleton, socle, spades, spondulics, staff, stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, stem, straight, streamer, subbase, sugar, surbase, swallowtail, tackle, tar, tarpaulin, the needful, tin, trey, trick, tricolor, trump, trunk, upright, vexillum, viking, wampum, water dog, whaler, white, windjammer, windlass, windsailor

• jackal, African hunting dog, Cape hunting dog, adherent, apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, brownie, brush wolf, clawback, courtier, coyote, creature, cringer, dingo, disciple, dummy, dupe, fawner, figurehead, flatterer, flunky, follower, footlicker, fox, gillie, goon, groveler, handshaker, hanger-on, helot, henchman, hyena, instrument, kowtower, lackey, led captain, lickspit, lickspittle, lobo, man, mealymouth, medicine wolf, minion, myrmidon, peon, prairie wolf, puppet, reynard, satellite, serf, slave, spaniel, stooge, suck, sycophant, thug, timber wolf, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, truckler, tufthunter, votary, wolf, yes-man

• jackass, Rocky Mountain canary, ass, born fool, buffoon, burro, clown, cuddy, dickey, donkey, doodle, egregious ass, figure of fun, fool, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, jack, jennet, jenny, jenny ass, jerk, lunatic, milksop, mooncalf, neddy, nincompoop, perfect fool, schmuck, stupid ass, tomfool, zany

• jacket, Eton jacket, Leatherette, Leatheroid, Mao jacket, Smyth sewing, backing, bandage, bandaging, bark, bibliopegy, binder, binder board, binding, blazer, blouse, body coat, bolero, bomber jacket, bonnet, book cloth, book cover, book jacket, bookbinding, bookcase, boot, bran, breech, cap, capsule, capuchin, car coat, case, casemaking, casing-in, chaff, chaqueta, chesterfield, claw hammer, claw-hammer coat, cloak, coat, coif, collating, collating mark, corn shuck, cornhusk, cover, cutaway coat, cuticle, dermis, dinner jacket, doublet, dress coat, duffel, dust cover, dust jacket, envelope, envelopment, fell, fingertip coat, fitted coat, fleece, flesh, folding, footband, frock, frock coat, fur, furring, gathering, gift wrapping, gluing-off, gown, greatcoat, hard binding, hat, headband, hide, hood, hull, husk, imitation fur, imitation leather, integument, jerkin, jumper, jupe, leather, leather paper, library binding, lining, lining-up, loden coat, mackinaw, mantle, mechanical binding, mess jacket, midicoat, monkey jacket, niggerhead, outer layer, outer skin, overcoat, palea, parka, pea jacket, peel, pelt, peltry, perfect binding, plastic binding, pod, rawhide, reefer, rind, rounding, sack, saddle stitching, san benito, sewing, sheath, shell, shirt, shoe, shuck, side sewing, signature, ski jacket, skin, skins, sleeve waistcoat, slipcase, slipcover, smashing, smoking jacket, sock, soft binding, spiketail coat, spiral binding, stamping, stapling, stocking, swallowtail, tabard, tail coat, tailband, tails, tegument, tipping, topcoat, trimming, vair, watch coat, windbreaker, wire stitching, woolly, wrap, wrapper, wrapping

• jackknife, adz, ax, belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, bread knife, bushwhacker, butcher knife, cannonball, carving knife, chaser, chisel, cleaver, clipper, clippers, crash dive, dagger, dive, drop, fall, gainer, gouge, hack, hatchet, header, hoe, hunting knife, knife, lance, lancet, letter-opener, machete, mattock, nippers, nose dive, paper cutter, paper knife, parachute jump, paring knife, penknife, pick, pickax, pitch, plowshare, plunge, pounce, power dive, razor, razor blade, running dive, saw knife, sax, scalpel, scissors, scoop, scraper, scuffle hoe, scythe, share, shears, sheath knife, sickle, sidecutters, sky dive, snips, spear, spokeshave, stationary dive, stoop, surgical knife, swan dive, swoop, sword, table knife, wedge

• jackrabbit, Belgian hare, broad jumper, buck, bucking bronco, buckjumper, bunny, cottontail, doe, flea, frog, gazelle, goat, grasshopper, hare, high jumper, hopper, hurdle racer, hurdler, jumper, jumping bean, jumping jack, kangaroo, lapin, leaper, leporide, leveret, pole vaulter, rabbit, salmon, stag, sunfisher, timber topper, vaulter

• jacks, agate, ball, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, blocks, checkerboard, chessboard, club, cockhorse, cricket bat, cue, doll, doll carriage, gewgaw, gimcrack, golf club, hobbyhorse, jack-in-the-box, jackstones, jackstraws, kickshaw, knickknack, marble, marionette, mig, paper doll, pick-up sticks, pinwheel, plaything, puppet, racket, rag doll, rocking horse, sport, steelie, taw, teetotum, top, toy, toy soldier, trinket, whim-wham

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

• jactitation, ague, bluster, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, bravado, bumpiness, chattering, chorea, cold shivers, conceit, fanfaronade, fits and starts, gasconade, gasconism, heroics, jactation, jerkiness, joltiness, palsy, quaking, quavering, quivering, rodomontade, shakes, shaking, shivering, shivers, shuddering, side, spasms, succussion, swagger, trembling, tremulousness, vanity, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, vibration

• jade, Egyptian green, Guinea green, Irish green, Janus green, Jezebel, Kelly green, Kendal green, Kildare green, Lincoln green, Mitis green, Montpellier green, Nile green, Paris green, Quaker green, Saxony green, Schweinfurt green, Spanish green, Vienna green, Wedgwood green, absinthe, adamant, agate, alexandrite, allay, amethyst, apple green, aqua green, aquamarine, avocado green, bad woman, baggage, balker, balky horse, be infinitely repetitive, be tedious, beat, beldam, beryl, beryl green, bice, bitch, bloodstone, blow, bottle green, break down, brilliant, broad, burn out, carbuncle, carnelian, celadon, chalcedony, chartreuse, chartreuse green, chartreuse tint, chippy, chrome oxide green, chrysoberyl, chrysolite, chrysoprase green, citrine, citron green, civette green, clitoromaniac, cloy, cobalt green, cocotte, collapse, coral, corbeau, crack up, cram, crock, crone, crowbait, cucumber green, cypress green, debilitate, demantoid, depress, diamond, do in, do up, dog, drab, drag on, drain, droop, drop, duck green, easy lay, easy woman, emasculate, emerald, emeraude, enervate, engorge, exhaust, fag, fag out, faint, fatigue, fill, fill up, fir, flag, floozie, floozy, frail sister, frazzle, garnet, garron, gasp, get tired, girasol, give out, glauconite, glaucous, glaucous green, glut, go on forever, goat, gorge, grass green, green ocher, grisette, grow weary, hack, hag, harass, harlequin opal, harridan, heliotrope, holly green, hussy, hyacinth, hysteromaniac, irk, jadestone, jargoon, jasper, jezebel, jughead, knock out, knock up, lapis lazuli, leaf green, loose woman, malachite green, malapert, meadow brook, methyl green, mignonette, milori green, minx, moonstone, morganite, moss green, myrtle, nag, nymphet, nympho, nymphomaniac, olive, onyx, opal, oppress, overdose, overfatigue, overfeed, overfill, overgorge, oversaturate, overstrain, overstuff, overtire, overweary, pall, pant, parrot green, patina green, pea green, peridot, peter out, pickup, plasma, play out, plug, poop, poop out, prostrate, puff, puff and blow, quean, reseda, roarer, rogue, rose quartz, rosinante, ruby, run down, run out, sap green, sapphire, sard, sardonyx, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, saucebox, scalawag, screw, sea-water green, serpentine green, shamrock, shrew, sink, slake, slattern, slut, snip, spinel, spinel ruby, stall, stiff, stodge, strumpet, stuff, succumb, supersaturate, surfeit, tart, termagant, terre-verte, tire, tire out, tire to death, topaz, tramp, trollop, trull, tucker, turquoise, unman, unnerve, use up, uteromaniac, verd gay, verdant green, verdet, verdigris, virago, viridian, viridine green, vixen, wanton, weaken, wear, wear down, wear on, wear out, weary, weigh, wench, wheeze, whistler, whore, wilt, wind, witch

• jaded, allayed, apathetic, ausgespielt, benumbed, blase, bone-weary, bored, bushed, cloyed, crammed, dead, debilitated, disgusted, dispirited, dog-tired, done, done up, dopey, dormant, drooping, droopy, drugged, dull, effete, emptied, enervated, enfeebled, engorged, exanimate, exhausted, fagged, faint, fainting, far-gone, fatigued, fed up, fed-up, feeling faint, flagging, footsore, frazzled, full, full of, glutted, good and tired, gorged, heavy, hebetudinous, inanimate, inert, irked, lackadaisical, laid low, languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, life-weary, lifeless, listless, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, moribund, numb, overfed, overfull, overgorged, oversaturated, overstuffed, phlegmatic, played out, pooped, ready to drop, replete, run ragged, run-down, sagging, sated, satiate, satiated, satisfied, saturated, seedy, shotten, sick, sick of, slaked, sleepy, slow, sluggish, somnolent, spent, splenetic, stagnant, stagnating, stuffed, stultified, supersaturated, supine, surfeited, tired, tired of, tired of living, tired to death, tired-winged, toilworn, torpid, unrefreshed, unrestored, used up, vegetable, vegetative, wan, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, weaned, wearied, weariful, weary, weary unto death, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn, wilting, with a bellyful, with a snootful, with enough of, world-weary, worn, worn down, worn-down, worn-out

• jag, Vandyke, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat, bear, bender, binge, blaze, booze, bout, buck, bum, bust, carousal, carouse, celebration, chop, cleft, cog, comb, compotation, convey, crag, crena, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, cut, debauch, depression, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, fang, ferry, gash, guzzle, hack, harrow, hump, incise, incision, indent, indentation, jab, jog, joggle, kerf, knurl, lug, machicolate, mill, nick, nock, notch, orgy, pack, peak, pecten, picot, pink, potation, projection, pub-crawl, puncture, rake, ratchet, sawtooth, scallop, scarify, score, scotch, serrate, slash, snag, snaggle, soak, souse, spire, spree, sprocket, spur, stab, steeple, symposium, tear, toot, tooth, tote, transport, wassail

• Jaganmati, Agni, Asvins, Avalokita, Bhairava, Bhairavi, Brahma, Chandi, Daksha, Devaki, Devi, Dharma, Dharti Mai, Durga, Dyaus, Ganapati, Ganesa, Ganesha, Garuda, Hanuman, Himavat, Indra, Kali, Kama, Kamsa, Karttikeya, Lakshmi, Parjanya, Parvati, Pushan, Rahu, Rhibhus, Rudra, Sarasvati, Savitar, Shiva, Sita, Soma, Surya, Uma, Ushas, Vaja, Varuna, Varuni, Vayu, Vishnu, Yama

• jagged, V-shaped, Y-shaped, akimbo, angular, asperous, battlemented, bent, boozy, broken, broken off, canned, capricious, changeable, changing, chipped, chopped, chopped-off, choppy, cornered, corrugated, cragged, craggy, crenate, crenated, crenellated, crenulate, crinkled, crooked, crotched, crumpled, decousu, dentate, dentated, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, disguised, disjunctive, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, drunk, embrasured, episodic, erose, erratic, fitful, forked, furcal, furcate, gashed, geniculate, geniculated, gravelly, harsh, herky-jerky, hooked, impulsive, incised, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, indented, inebriated, intermittent, interrupted, ironbound, irregular, jaggy, jerky, knee-shaped, lacerate, lacerated, mercurial, motley, muddled, mutable, nicked, nonconformist, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonstandard, nonuniform, notched, parenthetic, patchy, pixilated, plastered, pluralistic, pointed, ragged, rockbound, rocky, rough, rugged, rugose, rugous, saw-toothed, sawlike, sawtooth, scabrous, scalloped, scored, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, scrappy, serrate, serrated, serrulated, sharp, sharp-cornered, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, snatchy, spasmodic, spiked, sporadic, spotty, stony, suspended, toothed, unconnected, unequable, unequal, uneven, unjoined, unlevel, unorthodox, unsmooth, unstable, unsteady, unsuccessive, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, wavering, wrinkled, zigzag

• jaguar, Dalmatian, Leo, Siberian tiger, antigorite, bobcat, butterfly, candy cane, cat-a-mountain, catamount, chameleon, cheetah, chrysotile, confetti, cougar, crazy quilt, firedog, harlequin, iris, leopard, lion, lynx, mackerel, mackerel sky, marble, marbled paper, moire, mother-of-pearl, mountain lion, nacre, ocelot, opal, ophite, painter, panther, patchwork quilt, peacock, puma, rainbow, serpentine, serpentine marble, shot silk, simba, spectrum, tiger, tortoise shell, wildcat, zebra

• jail, POW camp, bastille, beleaguer, beset, besiege, big house, black hole, blockade, bolt in, borstal, borstal institution, bound, box in, bridewell, brig, bucket, caboose, cage, calaboose, can, cast in prison, cell, chamber, chokey, clap in jail, clap up, clink, close in, college, compass, concentration camp, condemned cell, confine, constrain, contain, cooler, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, corral, death cell, death house, death row, detain, detention camp, encircle, enclose, encompass, enshrine, federal prison, fence in, forced-labor camp, freezer, gaol, guardhouse, guardroom, hedge in, hem in, hold captive, hold in captivity, hold prisoner, hoosegow, house in, house of correction, house of detention, immure, impound, imprison, incarcerate, include, industrial school, intern, internment camp, jailhouse, jug, keep, kennel, labor camp, leaguer, lock in, lock up, lockup, maximum-security prison, mew, mew up, minimum-security prison, nick, oubliette, pen, pen in, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, pocket, pokey, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, quarantine, quod, rail in, reform school, reformatory, rock pile, send down, shrine, shut in, shut up, slammer, sponging house, stable, state prison, stir, stockade, surround, the hole, throw into jail, tollbooth, training school, wall in, wrap, yard, yard up

• jailbird, Judas, POW, betrayer, cageling, captive, chain gang, con, convict, criminal, crook, deceiver, desperado, desperate criminal, detenu, double-dealer, ex-convict, felon, fugitive, gallows bird, gangster, gaolbird, internee, lag, lawbreaker, lifer, loser, mobster, outlaw, parolee, political prisoner, prisoner, prisoner of war, public enemy, quisling, racketeer, scofflaw, stir bird, swindler, thief, thug, ticket-of-leave man, ticket-of-leaver, traitor, trusty, two-timer

• jailbreak, break, breakout, deliverance, delivery, emergence, escape, escapism, evasion, extrication, flight, freeing, getaway, issuance, issue, leak, leakage, liberation, outlet, prisonbreak, release, rescue, riddance, setting-free, vent

• jailed, barred, behind bars, beleaguered, beset, besieged, blockaded, bound, cabined, caged, cloistered, closed-in, confined, cooped, cordoned, cordoned off, corralled, cramped, cribbed, enclosed, fenced, hedged, hemmed, immured, imprisoned, in captivity, in durance vile, in prison, in stir, incarcerated, leaguered, locked up, mewed, paled, penned, pent-up, quarantined, railed, restrained, shut-in, walled, walled-in

• jailer, advance guard, armed guard, bank guard, bull, coast guard, commandant, cordon, cordon sanitaire, custodian, gaoler, garrison, goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, governor, guard, guarder, guardian, guardsman, inlying picket, keeper, outguard, outpost, penologist, picket, principal keeper, prison guard, rear guard, screw, security guard, train guard, turnkey, van, vanguard, warden, warder

• jailing, captivity, close arrest, confinement, detention, dismemberment, durance, durance vile, duress, estrapade, galleys, hard labor, house arrest, immuration, immurement, impalement, imprisonment, incarceration, internment, keelhauling, martyrdom, penal servitude, picketing, railriding, rock pile, strappado, tar-and-feathering, term of imprisonment, the gantlet, torment, torture

• jalopy, auto, autocar, automobile, boat, buggy, bus, car, crate, dog, heap, machine, motor, motor vehicle, motorcar, motorized vehicle, tub, voiture, wheels, wreck

• jam in, admit, barge in, be admitted, break in, breeze in, burst in, bust in, come barging in, come breezing in, come busting in, come in, cram in, creep in, cross the threshold, crowd in, drive in, drop in, edge in, enter, force in, gain admittance, get in, go in, go into, have an entree, have an in, hop in, impact, insert, intrude, irrupt, jump in, knock in, look in, pack in, plunge in, poke in, pop in, pound in, press in, push in, put in, ram in, run in, set foot in, slip in, squeeze in, step in, stuff in, take in, tamp in, thrust in, visit, wedge in, work in

• jam packed, SRO, alive with, bloated, brimful, brimming, bristling, bulging, bursting, capacity, chock-full, choked, chuck-full, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, congested, consolidated, cram-full, crammed, crammed full, crawling, crowded, crowding, dense, distended, drenched, farci, filled, filled to overflowing, firm, flush, full, full to bursting, gluey, glutted, gorged, hard, heavy, hyperemic, impenetrable, impermeable, in profusion, in spate, jammed, lavish, massive, nonporous, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweighted, packed, packed like sardines, plenary, plethoric, populous, prodigal, profuse, proliferating, prolific, ready to burst, replete, rife, round, running over, satiated, saturated, serried, soaked, solid, standing room only, studded, stuffed, stuffed up, substantial, superabundant, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swarming, swollen, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thick-growing, thickset, thronged, thronging, topful, viscid, viscose, viscous

• jam, Great Mogul, Jell-O, Mogul, a mass of, a world of, abound with, afterthought, albumen, arch dam, army, articulate, assault, backstop, baffle, bafflement, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barricade, barrier, batten, batten down, batter, be alive with, beam, bear, bear upon, bear-trap dam, bearings, beaver dam, bed, bevy, bewilderment, bind, blancmange, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, block up, blockade, blockage, bolt, bonnyclabber, boom, boost, bother, bottleneck, box, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, brim, bristle with, buck, buckle, buffer, bulkhead, bull, bulldoze, bulwark, bump, bump against, bunch, bung, bunt, bureaucratic delay, burst with, butt, butt against, butter, button, candy, case, catch, caulk, cecum, charge, chink, chock, choke, choke off, choke up, choking, choking off, circumstance, clabber, clasp, cleat, clip, clog, clog up, close, close off, close tight, close up, cloud, cluster, clutch, clutter, cofferdam, cohue, comfit, compact, complication, compote, compress, concentrate, condense, condition, confection, confectionery, confirm, confiture, confoundment, confusion, congest, congestion, conserve, consolidate, constipate, constipation, constrict, cork, corner, cornstarch, costiveness, cover, covey, cram, crawl with, cream, creep with, crowd, crunch, crush, cul-de-sac, curd, dam, dam up, dead end, debar, deep-dye, defense, define, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, deluge, densen, densify, detention, dig, dike, dilemma, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, disturbance, ditch, dog, double take, dough, dovetail, dragging, drench, drive, drown out, earthwork, egg white, elbow, embankment, embarrassing position, embarrassment, embed, embolism, embolus, engraft, engrave, enigma, entrench, establish, estate, etch, fence, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up, fine how-do-you-do, fix, flight, flock, flocks, flood, footing, force, foul, found, freight, frosting, galaxy, gate, gaum, gel, gelatin, glair, glaze, glop, glue, glut, gluten, gluttonize, goad, goo, gook, goop, gorge, gravity dam, groin, ground, gruel, gumbo, gunk, hail, halt, hang-up, hasp, heap, hell to pay, hindrance, hinge, hitch, hive, hobble, holdup, hole, honey, hook, horde, host, hot water, how-do-you-do, hurtle, hustle, hydraulic-fill dam, icing, imbroglio, impact, impasse, impediment, implant, impress, imprint, infarct, infarction, infix, ingrain, inscribe, interim, iron curtain, jab, jam-pack, jell, jelly, jetty, jog, joggle, joint, jolt, jostle, lade, lag, lagging, large amount, latch, leaping weir, legion, levee, load, loblolly, location, lock, lodge, logjam, lot, lots, maharaja, many, marmalade, mass, masses of, meringue, mess, milldam, miter, mix, moat, mob, modality, mode, molasses, mole, morass, moratorium, mortise, mound, mousse, muchness, mucilage, mucus, multiply, multitude, mystery, nail, nest, nizam, nonplus, nudge, numbers, obstacle, obstipate, obstipation, obstruct, obstruction, occlude, outroar, outshout, overburden, overcharge, overfeed, overfill, overflow with, overlade, overload, overpower, overstuff, overweight, overwhelm, pack, pad, pang, panoply, pap, paperasserie, parapet, parlous straits, pass, paste, pause, peg, perplexity, perturbation, pickle, pile drive, pin, pinch, place, plant, plight, plug, plug up, plurality, poke, porridge, portcullis, position, posture, pother, predicament, preserve, press, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, print, problem, prod, pudding, pullulate with, pulp, punch, puree, push, putty, puzzle, puzzlement, quagmire, quandary, quantities, quicksand, quite a few, rabbet, rabble, radiate, raja, ram, ram down, ram in, rampart, rana, rank, rattle, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, reprieve, respite, retardance, retardation, riddle, rivet, roadblock, rob, rock-fill dam, root, rout, ruck, run, run against, satiate, saturate, scores, scrape, screw, sealing off, seat, seawall, semifluid, semiliquid, send, set, set in, settle, sew, shake, shoal, shoulder, shout down, shove, shut off, shut out, shut tight, shutter dam, situation, size, skewer, slough, slow-up, slowdown, slowness, snap, soak, solidify, soup, spate, spile, spot, squab, squash, squeeze, squeeze shut, squish, stamp, stanch, standing, staple, starch, state, station, status, stay, stay of execution, stench, stereotype, stew, stick, stick fast, sticky mess, sticky wicket, stifle, stitch, stone wall, stop, stop up, stoppage, stopper, stopple, strait, straits, strangle, strangulate, strangulation, stress, strike root, stuff, stuff up, suffocate, supercharge, supersaturate, surcharge, surfeit, suspension, swamp, swarm, swarm with, sweet, sweet stuff, sweetmeat, sweets, syrup, tack, take root, tamp, teem with, throng, throng with, thrust, tidy sum, tie-up, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, time lag, toggle, top off, transmit, treacle, tricky spot, tutti-frutti, unassuredness, unholy mess, upset, wad, wait, wall, wedge, weight, weir, whipped cream, wicket dam, work, worlds of, zipper

• jamb, Samson post, ankle, baluster, balustrade, banister, bayonet legs, bowlegs, calf, cnemis, doorjamb, doorpost, drumstick, foreleg, gamb, gambrel, gatepost, gigot, ham, hind leg, hitching post, hock, king post, knee, leg, limb, milepost, mullion, podite, popliteal space, post, scissor-legs, shank, shin, signpost, snubbing post, stanchion, standard, stems, stile, stumps, tarsus, trotters, upright

• jamboree, Mardi Gras, Saturnalia, banquet, blowout, carnival, carouse, celebration, charivari, do, fair, feast, festival, festive occasion, festivity, fete, field day, fiesta, frolic, gala, gala affair, gala day, gathering, get-together, great doings, high jinks, jubilee, kermis, party, picnic, revelry, revels, spree, waygoose, wayzgoose

• jammed, aground, alive with, anchored, arrested, back, backward, behindhand, belated, bloated, blocked, bonded, bound, brimful, brimming, bristling, bursting, caught, cemented, chained, chock-full, choked, choked up, clogged, clogged up, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, congested, consolidated, constipated, costive, crammed, crammed full, crawling, crowded, crowding, delayed, delayed-action, dense, detained, distended, drenched, fast, fastened, filled to overflowing, firm, fixed, foul, fouled, full, glued, gluey, glutted, gorged, grounded, hard, heavy, held, held up, high and dry, hung up, hyperemic, impacted, impenetrable, impermeable, in a bind, in abeyance, in profusion, in spate, inextricable, infarcted, jam-packed, late, latish, lavish, massive, moored, moratory, never on time, nonporous, obstipated, obstructed, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overdue, overfed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweighted, packed, plethoric, plugged, plugged up, populous, prodigal, profuse, proliferating, prolific, ready to burst, retarded, rife, running over, satiated, saturated, secure, serried, set, slow, soaked, solid, stopped, stopped up, stranded, stuck, stuck fast, studded, stuffed, stuffed up, substantial, superabundant, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swarming, swollen, taped, tardy, teeming, tethered, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thick-growing, thickset, thronged, thronging, tied, tight, transfixed, unpunctual, unready, untimely, viscid, viscose, viscous, wedged

• jangle, Babel, Bedlam let loose, Discordia, Eris, agree to disagree, babel, be at cross-purposes, be at variance, bedlam, belch, blare, blast, blat, bobbery, brawl, bray, break, break off, brouhaha, burr, buzz, cackle, cacophony, caw, change ringing, charivari, chime, chiming, chink, chirm, chirr, clamor, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, clap, clash, clashing, clatter, clink, collide, commotion, conflict, contention, contradict, counter, crash, craunch, croak, crump, crunch, differ, differ in opinion, din, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, disaccord, disaffinity, disagree, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissent, dissonance, dong, donging, donnybrook, drunken brawl, dustup, enmity, flap, fracas, free-for-all, friction, gong, grate, grind, groan, growl, grumble, harshness, hell broke loose, hit a clinker, hold opposite views, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, incompatibility, incompatibleness, inharmoniousness, inharmony, irritate, jangling, jar, jarring, jingle, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, jostle, knell, knelling, loud noise, mere noise, mischief, mismatch, mismate, misunderstand one another, negate, noise, noise and shouting, noncooperation, not get along, object, open conflict, outcry, pandemonium, peal, peal ringing, pealing, pull different ways, racket, rasp, rattle, reverberation, rhubarb, ring, ring changes, ringing, roar, row, rub, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, scranch, scrape, scratch, scrunch, shindy, shivaree, snarl, snore, sound, sound a knell, strained relations, stridor, tension, thunder, thunderclap, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintamarre, tintinnabulate, toll, tolling, tumult, twang, unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, unstring, untune, uproar, upset, vary

• jangling, ajar, antagonistic, antipathetic, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, clashing, conflicting, confused, contradictory, contrary, cranky, cross, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, disharmonious, disproportionate, dissident, dissonant, divergent, grating, grinding, harsh, hostile, immiscible, inaccordant, incompatible, inharmonious, jangly, jarring, jostling, negative, out of accord, out of whack, rasping, raspy, repugnant, scraping, scrapy, scratching, scratchy, uncongenial, unharmonious, variant, warring

• janitor, air warden, attendant, caretaker, castellan, cerberus, char, charwoman, cleaner, cleaner-off, cleaner-up, cleaning lady, cleaning man, cleaning woman, concierge, conservator, curator, custodian, doorkeeper, doorman, forest ranger, game warden, gamekeeper, gatekeeper, governor, guardian, guardian angel, janitress, keeper, lifeguard, lifesaver, next friend, ostiary, porter, prochein ami, ranger, receptionist, shepherd, steward, usher, warden, warder

• Janus like, ambidextrous, bifacial, bifold, biform, bilateral, binary, binate, biparous, bivalent, conduplicate, disomatous, double, double-faced, dual, duple, duplex, duplicate, geminate, geminated, second, secondary, twin, twinned, two-faced, two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofold

• Janus, ambiguity, ambivalence, biformity, bifurcation, conjugation, dichotomy, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, dualism, duality, duplexity, duplication, duplicity, equivocality, halving, irony, pairing, polarity, twinning, two-facedness, twoness

• jape, Parthian shot, back answer, badinage, banter, barrack, be merry with, belly laugh, blue story, caustic remark, chaff, comeback, crack, crack a joke, crack wise, cut, cut at, cutting remark, dig, dig at, dirty joke, dirty story, double entendre, drollery, dump, dump on, ethnic joke, exchange, fleer, fleer at, flout, foolery, fooling, fooling around, fun, funny story, gag, gibe, gibe at, gibing retort, give-and-take, good one, good story, good-natured banter, harmless teasing, haze, howler, jab, jab at, jeer, jest, jestbook, jive, joke, jolly, josh, kid, kid around, kidding, kidding around, laugh, leg-pull, make a funny, make fun, make fun of, mock, needle, panic, parting shot, persiflage, play, play on words, pleasantry, point, poke fun at, pooh, pooh-pooh, pun, put down, put on, put-down, put-on, quip, rag, rail at, raillery, rally, rallying, rank out, razz, revile, rib, rib tickler, ride, ridicule, riot, roast, rude reproach, scintillate, scoff, scoff at, scout, scream, scurrility, short answer, sick joke, sidesplitter, sight gag, slam, slap, slap at, sneer, sneer at, sparkle, sport, story, swipe, taunt, tease, twit, utter a mot, verbal thrust, visual joke, waggery, wheeze, wisecrack, witticism, wow, yak, yarn

• jar, Babel, Discordia, Eris, agitate, agitation, agree to disagree, bag, barrel, basket, be at cross-purposes, be at variance, belch, blare, blat, bob, bobble, bottle, bounce, bowl down, bowl over, box, box up, bray, break, break off, bump, burr, buzz, cackle, calabash, can, canteen, capsule, carafe, carboy, carton, case, cask, caster, caw, chatter, chirr, clamor, clang, clangor, clank, clash, clashing, collide, collision, concussion, conflict, contention, contradict, counter, crash, crate, craunch, croak, cruet, crump, crunch, cruse, decanter, demijohn, didder, differ, differ in opinion, disaccord, disaffinity, disagree, discombobulate, discompose, disconcert, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, disquiet, dissent, disturb, disturbance, dither, do up, electrify, encase, encyst, enmity, ewer, falter, fifth, flacon, flagon, flask, flasket, fluctuation, flurry, fluster, flutter, friction, frighten, fuss, gourd, grate, grate on, grimace, grind, groan, growl, grumble, hamper, harshness, have an ague, hipflask, hit a clinker, hold opposite views, hot-water bottle, hustle, incompatibility, incompatibleness, inharmoniousness, inharmony, irritate, jactitate, jangle, jangle the nerves, jar on, jerk, jeroboam, jig, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, jug, jump, lota, magnum, mere noise, mischief, mismatch, mismate, misunderstand one another, mussuk, negate, noise, noncooperation, not get along, object, olla, open conflict, pack, package, parcel, perturb, phial, pot, pull different ways, put on edge, put up, quake, quaver, quiver, rasp, rattle, rictus, rock, rub, ruffle, sack, scranch, scrape, scratch, scrunch, shake, shake up, shiver, shock, shudder, smash, snarl, snore, stagger, start, startle, stir, stoup, strained relations, stun, sway, take aback, tank, tension, tic, tin, tremble, tremor, trouble, turn, twang, twitch, twitter, unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, unsettle, unstring, untune, upset, vacuum bottle, vary, vial, vibrate, vibration, wobble

• jargon, Aesopian language, Babel, Beach-la-mar, Greek, Kitchen Kaffir, Oregon Jargon, Sabir, abracadabra, absurdity, amphigory, argot, auxiliary language, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage, bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bombast, bosh, bull, bunk, cackle, cant, chatter, cipher, claptrap, code, colloquialize, crap, creole, creole language, creolized language, cryptogram, dialect, dictionary, double Dutch, double-talk, drivel, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flapdoodle, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gab, gabble, galimatias, gammon, garbage, garble, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gift of tongues, glossolalia, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, hogwash, humbug, idiom, interlanguage, jabber, jabberwocky, jargonize, jumble, koine, language, lexicon, lingo, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, noise, nonsense, pack of nonsense, palaver, parlance, patois, patter, phraseology, pidgin, pidgin English, piffle, prate, prattle, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rot, rubbish, scatology, scramble, secret language, skimble-skamble, slang, speak, speech, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, taboo language, talk, talkee-talkee, trade language, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, use language, vaporing, vernacular, vocabulary, vulgar language, waffling

• jarring, agitating, ajar, antagonistic, antipathetic, astonishing, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, bouncy, breathtaking, bumpy, charged, choppy, clashing, cliff-hanging, conflicting, confused, contradictory, contrary, cranky, cross, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, disharmonious, disproportionate, disquieting, dissident, dissonant, distracting, disturbing, divergent, dry, electric, electrifying, exciting, exhilarating, galvanic, grating, grinding, harsh, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, hoarse, hostile, immiscible, impressive, inaccordant, incompatible, inflammatory, inharmonious, intoxicating, jangling, jangly, jogglety, joggling, joggly, jolting, jolty, jostling, maddening, mind-blowing, moving, negative, nerve-jangling, nerve-racking, nerve-rending, nerve-shaking, nerve-trying, out of accord, out of whack, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, perturbing, piquant, provocative, provoking, rasping, raspy, raucous, ravishing, repugnant, rough, scraping, scrapy, scratching, scratchy, shocking, soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, staggering, startling, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, strident, stridulous, striking, stunning, surprising, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, thrilling, thrilly, troubling, uncongenial, unharmonious, unsettling, upsetting, variant, warring

• jaundice, abscess, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, aurify, backache, begild, bend, bent, bias, bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy, chill, chills, cholangitis, cholecystitis, cirrhosis, colic, constipation, convulsion, coughing, cyanosis, diarrhea, distort, dizziness, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, engild, envy, fainting, fatigue, favoritism, fever, fibrillation, flux, forejudgment, gild, green-eyed jealousy, green-eyed monster, growth, heartburn, heartburning, hemorrhage, hepatitis, hepatoma, high blood pressure, horn-madness, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, inclination, indigestion, infectious hepatitis, inflammation, influence, insomnia, itching, jalousie, jaundiced eye, jealousness, jealousy, labored breathing, leaning, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, one-sidedness, pain, paralysis, partialism, partiality, partisanship, preconception, predilection, prejudgment, prejudice, prejudice against, prejudice the issue, prepossess, prepossession, pruritus, rash, rheum, sallow, sallowness, sclerosis, seizure, serum hepatitis, shock, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, sway, tabes, tachycardia, tumor, turn yellow, twist, undetachment, undispassionateness, upset stomach, vertigo, vomiting, warp, wasting, xanthochroism, yellow, yellow complexion, yellow race, yellow skin

• jaundiced eye, bent, bias, envy, favoritism, forejudgment, green-eyed jealousy, green-eyed monster, heartburn, heartburning, horn-madness, inclination, jalousie, jaundice, jealousness, jealousy, leaning, one-sidedness, partialism, partiality, partisanship, preconception, predilection, prejudgment, prejudice, prepossession, twist, undetachment, undispassionateness

• jaundiced, antiblack, biased, bigoted, bilious, bitter, chauvinistic, choleric, colored, corrupt, critical, cynical, disapproving, dishonest, disparaging, distorted, distrustful, doctrinaire, dogmatic, dyspeptic, embittered, envious, green, green with jealousy, green-eyed, horn-mad, hostile, icterous, influenced, interested, invidious, jaundice-eyed, jealous, know-nothing, nonobjective, one-sided, opinionated, partial, partisan, perverted, preconceived, prejudiced, prepossessed, racist, resentful, sallow, sexist, sour, sour-tempered, soured, spiteful, splenetic, superpatriotic, suspicious, swayed, tainted, tendentious, twisted, ultranationalist, undetached, undispassionate, unfair, unfavorable, unfriendly, untrustworthy, vinegarish, warped, xenophobic, yellow, yellow-eyed

• jaunt, airing, amble, bat around, bum, campaign, circuit, constitutional, count ties, course, cruise, divagate, drift, excursion, expedition, fare, flit, forced march, gad, gad about, gallivant, globe-trot, go about, go abroad, go on safari, go overseas, go the rounds, grand tour, hike, hit the road, hit the trail, hobo, journey, junket, knock about, knock around, make a journey, make a pilgrimage, make a trip, march, meander, mooch, mush, nomadize, outing, package tour, parade, peregrinate, peregrination, pererrate, peripatetic journey, peripateticism, pilgrim, pilgrimage, pleasure trip, progress, promenade, prowl, ramble, range, range the world, roam, round trip, roundabout, rove, rubberneck, rubberneck tour, run, run about, safari, sally, saunter, schlep, shoot, sight-see, stalk, straggle, stray, stretch, stroll, take a trip, take the road, tour, traipse, tramp, trek, trip, trudge, turn, vagabond, vagabondize, voyage, walk, walk the tracks, walking tour, wander, wayfare

• jaunty, airy, blithe, brave, bravura, braw, breezy, brisk, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, chic, chichi, classy, clothes-conscious, colorful, corky, cosmopolitan, dapper, daring, dashing, debonair, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, dressy, elegant, exhibitionistic, exquisite, flamboyant, flash, flashing, flashy, flaunting, free and easy, frilly, frisky, frothy, gallant, gay, genteel, glittering, happy, high-spirited, jazzy, jolly, jovial, jubilant, light, lighthearted, lightsome, lively, merry, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, perky, posh, rakish, recherche, resilient, ritzy, sharp, showy, sleek, smart, smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, spiffy, spirited, splashy, splurgy, sporty, sprightly, spruce, style-conscious, stylish, swank, swanky, swell, tricksy, trig, trim, well-dressed, well-groomed

• jaw, abuse, babble, bark at, baste, bat the breeze, bazoo, beat the gums, berate, betongue, blab, blabber, blacken, blather, blether, carpet, chaps, chat, chatter, chin, chops, clack, clatter, dither, embouchure, execrate, fulminate against, gab, gabble, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, go on, gob, gossip, gush, haver, jabber, jaws, jowls, kisser, lip, lips, load with reproaches, mandibles, maw, maxilla, mouth, mug, mush, muzzle, natter, oral cavity, palaver, patter, pour forth, prate, prattle, premaxilla, rag, rail, rail at, ramble on, rate, rattle, rattle on, rave against, reel off, revile, run on, sass, sauce, shoot the breeze, spiel, spout, spout off, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, thunder against, tittle-tattle, tongue-lash, trap, twaddle, twattle, upbraid, vilify, vituperate, waffle, wig, yak, yakkety-yak, yap, yell at, yelp at

• jawboning, allurement, blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, coaxing, conning, engagement, enlistment, exhortation, hortation, inducement, lobbying, persuasion, preaching, preachment, sales talk, salesmanship, selling, snow job, soft soap, solicitation, suasion, sweet talk, wheedling, working on

• jawbreaking, Herculean, abstruse, arduous, brutal, complex, critical, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult, exacting, formidable, hairy, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, intricate, knotted, knotty, laborious, mean, no picnic, not easy, operose, polysyllabic, rigorous, rough, rugged, sesquipedal, sesquipedalian, set with thorns, severe, spiny, steep, strenuous, thorny, ticklish, toilsome, tough, tricky, uphill, wicked

• jawing, abuse, assailing, assault, attack, berating, bitter words, blackening, contumely, diatribe, execration, hard words, invective, jeremiad, onslaught, philippic, rating, revilement, screed, tirade, tongue-lashing, vilification, vituperation

• jaws, bazoo, chaps, chops, claws, clutches, digits, embouchure, fangs, fingernails, fingers, gab, gob, hands, hooks, jaw, jowls, kisser, lips, mandibles, maw, maxilla, maxillae, meathooks, mitts, mouth, mug, mush, muzzle, nails, nippers, oral cavity, palm, pincers, pounces, premaxilla, talons, teeth, trap, unguals, ungulae, yap

• jaywalk, ambulate, ankle, circumambulate, foot, foot it, hoof it, jog on, leg, leg it, pace, pad, pedestrianize, perambulate, peripateticate, shuffle along, step, stride, stump it, traipse, tread, walk

• jaywalker, ambulator, backpacker, foot passenger, foot soldier, foot traveler, footslogger, hiker, hitchhiker, hoofer, infantryman, marcher, paddlefoot, pedestrian, peripatetic, trailsman, tramper, walker, walkist

• jazz band, German band, Philharmonic, band, big band, brass, brass band, brass choir, brass quintet, brass section, brasses, callithumpian band, chamber orchestra, combo, concert band, desks, dixieland band, ensemble, gamelan orchestra, group, jug band, military band, orchestra, quartet, quintet, ragtime band, rock-and-roll group, sextet, skiffle band, steel band, street band, string band, string choir, string orchestra, string quartet, strings, swing band, symphony, symphony orchestra, trio, waits, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind quartet, woodwinds

• jazz up, accelerate, aggravate, animate, arouse, beef up, blow up, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, deepen, double, dynamize, electrify, energize, enhance, enliven, exacerbate, exaggerate, exhilarate, fillip, fire, galvanize, hearten, heat up, heighten, hop up, hot up, inflame, infuse life into, intensify, invigorate, key up, kindle, liven, magnify, make complex, pep up, perk up, pick up, pique, provoke, quicken, ramify, redouble, reinforce, renew, resuscitate, revive, rouse, sharpen, snap up, soup up, step up, stimulate, strengthen, triple, vitalize, warm, whet, zip up

• jazz, acid rock, avant-garde jazz, ballroom music, baloney, bebop, boogie-woogie, bop, bull, bushwa, concert, country rock, crap, dance music, dances, dramatico-musical, flimflam, folk rock, guff, hard rock, hot, hot jazz, instrumental, jazzed up, jazzy, jive, mainstream jazz, malarkey, moonshine, musical suite, orchestral, poppycock, rag, ragtime, ragtimey, rhythm-and-blues, rock, rock-and-roll, suite, suite of dances, swing, swingy, symphonic, syncopated, syncopated music, syncopation, the new music

• jazzy, brave, bravura, braw, chichi, concert, daring, dashing, dramatico-musical, dressy, exhibitionistic, flashing, flashy, flaunting, frilly, frothy, gallant, gay, glittering, hot, instrumental, jaunty, jazz, jazzed up, orchestral, ragtime, ragtimey, rakish, rock, showy, snazzy, splashy, splurgy, sporty, swing, swingy, symphonic, syncopated

• jealous, anxious, begrudging, bitter, covetous, demanding, desirous of, distrustful, doubting, envious, enviousness, envying, grasping, green, green with envy, green with jealousy, green-eyed, grudging, horn-mad, insecure, invidious, invidiousness, jaundice-eyed, jaundiced, jealousy, mistrustful, mistrusting, possessive, possessory, questioning, resentful, suspicious, threatened, vulnerable, yellow, yellow-eyed

• jeer, Parthian shot, affront, aspersion, atrocity, back answer, barrack, boo, brickbat, bullyrag, call names, catcall, caustic remark, chaff, comeback, contempt, contumely, crack, cut, cut at, cutting remark, decry, deride, derision, despite, dig, dig at, dishonor, disoblige, dump, dump on, enormity, fleer, fleer at, flout, flouting, foolery, gibe, gibe at, gibing retort, gird, give offense to, hiss, hoot, humiliate, humiliation, hurl a brickbat, indignity, injury, insult, jab, jab at, jape, jeer at, jeering, jest, jibe, jibe at, knock, leg-pull, make fun of, mock, mockery, obloquy, offend, offense, outrage, parting shot, pooh, pooh-pooh, put down, put-down, put-on, quip, rag, rail at, rally, rank out, revile, ridicule, roast, rude reproach, scoff, scoff at, scout, scurrility, short answer, slam, slap, slap at, sneer, sneer at, swipe, taunt, treat with indignity, twit, uncomplimentary remark, verbal thrust

• jeering, affront, aspersion, atrocity, banter, bantering, booing, brickbat, catcalling, chaffing, contempt, contumely, cut, derision, derisive, derisory, despite, dump, enormity, fleering, flippancy, flippant, flout, flouting, fooling, gibe, grinning, hissing, hooting, humiliation, indignity, injury, insult, jeer, joshing, kidding, leering, levity, mock, mockery, mocking, offense, outrage, panning, put-down, quizzical, ragging, railing, raillery, rallying, razzing, ridicule, ridiculing, roasting, scoff, scoffing, scurrility, smart, smart-aleckiness, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, taunt, taunting, teasing, twitting, uncomplimentary remark

• Jehovah, Almighty God, Alpha and Omega, Demiourgos, Demiurge, God, God Almighty, Heaven, I Am, King of Kings, Lord, Lord of Lords, Lord of hosts, Omnipotence, Omniscience, Providence, the Absolute, the Absolute Being, the All-holy, the All-knowing, the All-merciful, the All-powerful, the All-wise, the Almighty, the Creator, the Deity, the Divinity, the Eternal, the Eternal Being, the First Cause, the Infinite, the Infinite Spirit, the Maker, the Omnipotent, the Omniscient, the Preserver, the Supreme Being, the Supreme Soul

• jejune, Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, acarpous, ankle-deep, arid, ascetic, attenuated, austere, banal, barren, blah, bland, blank, bloodless, cadaverous, celibate, characterless, childless, cold, colorless, corpselike, cursory, dead, depthless, desert, desolate, dilute, diluted, dismal, draggy, drained, drearisome, dreary, dried-up, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, dwarfed, dwarfish, effete, elephantine, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, empty, empty-headed, empty-minded, empty-pated, empty-skulled, epidermal, etiolated, exhausted, exiguous, fade, fallow, flat, flavorless, frugal, fruitless, gaunt, gelded, gruelly, haggard, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, hollow-eyed, impotent, impoverished, inane, indifferent, ineffectual, inexcitable, infecund, infertile, innocuous, insipid, issueless, knee-deep, leached, leaden, lean, lifeless, light, limited, low-spirited, marantic, marasmic, meager, mean, menopausal, mild, milk-and-water, miserly, namby-pamby, narrow, niggardly, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, not deep, on the surface, pale, pallid, paltry, pappy, parsimonious, peaked, peaky, pedestrian, pinched, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, poor, pulpy, puny, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, sapless, savorless, scant, scanty, scatterbrained, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, shallow, shallow-rooted, shoal, shriveled, sine prole, skeletal, skimp, skimpy, skin-deep, slender, slight, slim, slow, small, solemn, spare, sparing, spiceless, spiritless, stale, starvation, starved, starveling, sterile, stiff, stingy, stinted, stodgy, straitened, stuffy, stunted, subsistence, sucked dry, superficial, surface, tabetic, tabid, tasteless, tedious, teemless, tenuous, thin, trivial, uncultivated, underfed, undernourished, unfertile, unflavored, unfruitful, unlively, unnourishing, unnutritious, unplowed, unproductive, unprofound, unprolific, unsavory, unsown, untilled, vacant, vacuous, vapid, virgin, washy, waste, wasted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, weazeny, wishy-washy, withered, without issue, wizened, wooden, wraithlike

• jell, albumen, batter, beat up, bonnyclabber, butter, cake, churn, clabber, clot, clump, cluster, coagulate, cohere, colloid, colloidize, come together, concrete, congeal, cornstarch, cream, crystallize, curd, curdle, dough, egg white, emulsify, emulsionize, gaum, gel, gelatin, gelatinate, gelatinize, glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, gruel, gumbo, gunk, harden, incrassate, inspissate, jam, jellify, jelly, knot, loblolly, lopper, lump, materialize, molasses, mucilage, mucus, pap, paste, porridge, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, rob, semifluid, semiliquid, set, size, solidify, soup, starch, stick, sticky mess, stiffen, syrup, take form, take shape, thick, thicken, treacle, whip

• jellied, adhesive, amylaceous, caked, cakey, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, congealed, curded, curdled, doughy, gaumy, gelatinized, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, incrassate, inspissate, inspissated, jelled, jellylike, lumpish, lumpy, mucilaginous, pasty, ropy, slabby, slimy, slithery, starchy, sticky, stodgy, stringy, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thickened, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, viscid, viscose, viscous

• jelly, Jell-O, albumen, batter, beat up, blancmange, bonnyclabber, butter, cake, candy, churn, clabber, clot, clump, cluster, coagulate, colloid, colloidize, comfit, compote, concrete, confection, confectionery, confiture, congeal, conserve, cornstarch, cream, curd, curdle, dough, egg white, emulsify, emulsionize, frosting, gaum, gel, gelatin, gelatinate, gelatinize, glair, glaze, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, gruel, gumbo, gunk, honey, icing, incrassate, inspissate, jam, jell, jellify, knot, loblolly, lopper, lump, marmalade, meringue, molasses, mousse, mucilage, mucus, pap, paste, porridge, preserve, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, rob, semifluid, semiliquid, set, size, soup, starch, sticky mess, sweet, sweet stuff, sweetmeat, sweets, syrup, thick, thicken, treacle, tutti-frutti, whip, whipped cream

• jellyfish, Chilopoda, Chordata, Echiuroidea, Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, Milquetoast, Monoplacophora, Nemertinea, Phoronidea, baby, big baby, chicken, chicken liver, coward, crybaby, doormat, dull tool, fence-sitter, fraid-cat, fraidy-cat, funk, funker, gutless wonder, invertebrate, lightweight, lily liver, meek soul, milksop, mollycoddle, mouse, mugwump, namby-pamby, nebbish, nonentity, pansy, pantywaist, pushover, sad sack, scaredy-cat, shilly-shally, sissy, softling, softy, sop, waverer, weak sister, weakling, white feather, white liver, wobbler

• jenny, Partlet, Rocky Mountain canary, ass, biddy, bitch, bossy, brood mare, burro, cow, cuddy, dickey, doe, donkey, ewe, ewe lamb, filly, guinea hen, gyp, heifer, hen, hind, jack, jackass, jennet, jenny ass, lioness, mare, mule, nanny, nanny goat, neddy, peahen, roe, she-bear, she-goat, she-lion, silkworm, slut, sow, spider, spinner, spinning frame, spinning jenny, spinster, throstle, tigress, vixen

• jeopardize, compromise, encounter danger, endanger, expose, gamble, gamble with, hazard, imperil, incur danger, jeopard, jeopardy, lay open, menace, peril, put in danger, put in jeopardy, risk, threaten, venture

• jeopardy, accident, breakers ahead, cardhouse, cause for alarm, chance, compromise, crisis, danger, dangerous ground, emergency, endangerment, exposure, gaping chasm, gathering clouds, hap, hazard, house of cards, imperil, imperilment, jeopard, jeopardize, liability, menace, openness, pass, peril, pinch, plight, predicament, quicksand, risk, rocks ahead, sensitiveness, storm clouds, strait, susceptibility, thin ice, threat, uncertainty, vulnerability

• Jeremiah, Abraham, Amos, Cassandra, Daniel, Ezekiel, Haggai, Hosea, Isaac, Isaiah, Jacob, Joel, Jonah, Joseph, Joshua, Malachi, Micah, Moses, Nahum, Samuel, Zephaniah, admonisher, cautioner, flagman, lighthouse keeper, lookout, lookout man, monitor, prophet, prophet of doom, sentinel, sentry, signaler, signalman, vates sacer, warner