Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/75

• scrounger, beggar, body snatcher, booster, bum, bummer, cadger, chicken thief, con man, crook, den of thieves, embezzler, filcher, ganef, ghoul, grafter, grave robber, hobo, jewel thief, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, larcener, larcenist, lifter, loafer, mendicant, mendicant friar, mendicant order, moocher, panhandler, peculator, petty thief, pilferer, poacher, prowler, purloiner, robber, schnorrer, shoplifter, sneak thief, stealer, swindler, thief, tramp, white-collar thief

• scrounging, abstraction, annexation, appropriation, beggary, begging, bone-lazy, boosting, bumming, cadging, conversion, conveyance, dilatory, do-nothing, doless, dronish, drony, easy, embezzlement, ergophobic, faineant, filching, fraud, good-for-nothing, graft, indolent, laggard, lax, lazy, liberation, lifting, mendicancy, mendicant, mendicity, mooching, nonaggressive, panhandling, parasitic, petitionary, pilferage, pilfering, pinching, poaching, prayerful, precative, procrastinative, remiss, shiftless, shoplifting, slack, slothful, slow, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, sponging, stealage, stealing, suppliant, supplicant, supplicating, supplicatory, swindle, swiping, theft, thievery, thieving, unenterprising, work-shy

• scrub, a nobody, a nothing, abandon, ablate, ablation, ablution, abort, abrade, abrase, abrasion, abrasive, afforestation, arboretum, attrition, baptize, bark, bath, bathe, belay, boondocks, bramble, brier, brier bush, brush, brushwood, buff, buffing, burnishing, bush, bushveld, call off, cancel, cease, chafe, chafing, chase, cipher, cleaning out, cleanse, climax forest, cloud forest, common man, cut it out, dendrology, desist, detrition, discontinue, do away with, douche, douching, dressing, drop, drop it, dummy, elution, elutriation, end, enema, erase, erasure, erode, erosion, figurehead, file, filing, flush, flush out, flushing, flushing out, forest, forest land, forest preserve, forestry, fray, frazzle, fret, fretting, fringing forest, gall, gallery forest, galling, gargle, give over, give up, gnaw, gnaw away, grate, graze, grazing, greenwood, grind, grinding, halt, hanger, have done with, hold, holystone, index forest, insignificancy, irrigate, irrigation, jackstraw, jungle, jungles, knock it off, lather, lathering, launder, lavabo, lavage, lavation, lave, laving, lay off, leave off, lightweight, limation, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity, mop, mop up, mopping, mopping up, national forest, nebbish, nobody one knows, nonentity, obscurity, palmetto barrens, park, park forest, pine barrens, pip-squeak, polish, polishing, poor relation, primeval forest, protection forest, punk, quit, rain forest, rasp, rasping, raze, reforestation, refrain, relinquish, renounce, rinse, rinse out, rinsing, ritually immerse, rub, rub away, rub off, rub out, rubbing away, runt, sandblasting, sanding, scour, scouring, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub up, scrubbing, scrubbing up, scrubland, scrubwood, scuff, secondary, selection forest, shampoo, shining, shower, shrimp, shrub, shrubbery, shrubland, shrubwood, silviculture, skin, sluice, sluice out, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, smoothing, soap, soaping, sponge, sponging, sprout forest, squirt, squit, stand of timber, state forest, stay, stop, subaltern, subordinate, swab, swabbing, syringe, terminate, timber, timberland, toivel, tree veld, tub, underling, understrapper, virgin forest, wash, wash out, wash up, washing, washing up, washout, washup, wear, wear away, wearing away, whiffet, whippersnapper, wildwood, wiping up, wood, woodland, woods

• scrubby, Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, abject, abominable, afforestational, arborary, arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arborical, arboriform, arrant, atrocious, base, base-minded, bedraggled, beggarly, beneath contempt, bosky, braky, broken-down, bushlike, bushy, cheap, cheesy, citrous, common, coniferous, contemptible, copsy, crummy, debased, deciduous, degraded, dendriform, dendritic, dendroid, dendrologic, depraved, despicable, dingy, dirty, disgusting, down-at-heel, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, evergreen, execrable, faded, flagrant, forest, forestal, forested, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grave, gross, hardwood, heinous, ignoble, incipient, little, low, low-down, low-minded, lumpen, mangy, meager, mean, measly, meretricious, midget, miserable, monstrous, nanoid, nefarious, nondeciduous, obnoxious, odious, paltry, pathetic, petty, piny, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, pygmy, rank, reforestational, reptilian, rubbishy, rudimental, rudimentary, run-down, runty, sad, scabby, scraggy, scrubbly, scrublike, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, shriveled, shrubby, shrublike, shrunk, shrunken, silvicultural, small, softwood, sorry, squalid, squat, stunted, sylvan, tacky, timbered, trashy, treelike, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, undersize, undersized, unmentionable, valueless, vile, wizened, wooded, woodland, woodsy, woody, worthless, wretched

• scrubland, afforestation, arboretum, boondocks, bush, bushveld, chase, climax forest, cloud forest, dendrology, forest, forest land, forest preserve, forestry, fringing forest, gallery forest, greenwood, hanger, index forest, jungle, jungles, national forest, palmetto barrens, park, park forest, pine barrens, primeval forest, protection forest, rain forest, reforestation, scrub, selection forest, shrubland, silviculture, sprout forest, stand of timber, state forest, timber, timberland, tree veld, virgin forest, wildwood, wood, woodland, woods

• scruffy, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, base, beggarly, beneath contempt, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dingy, dirty, disgusting, dowdy, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, dusty, execrable, flagrant, foul, frayed, frazzled, full of holes, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grave, grimy, gross, grubby, grungy, heinous, holey, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, little, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, meretricious, messy, miry, miserable, monstrous, moth-eaten, muddy, nefarious, obnoxious, odious, paltry, patchy, pathetic, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, ragged, raggedy, rank, ratty, reptilian, rubbishy, run-down, sad, scabby, scrubby, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slovenly, small, smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, sooty, sorry, squalid, tacky, tattered, tatty, threadbare, torn, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unmentionable, untidy, valueless, vile, worthless, wretched

• scrumptious, OK, ace-high, adorable, agreeable, ambrosial, bad, bang-up, bonzer, boss, bully, but good, cool, corking, crackerjack, dainty, dandy, darling, delectable, delicate, delicious, delightful, ducky, exquisite, fab, fine and dandy, gear, good, good to eat, good-tasting, great, groovy, gustable, gusty, heavenly, heavy, hot, hunky-dory, jam-up, juicy, just dandy, keen, likable, luscious, lush, marvy, mean, neat, nectareous, nectarous, nice, nifty, nobby, of gourmet quality, okay, out of sight, palatable, peachy, peachy-keen, pleasing, ripping, rum, sapid, savorous, savory, slap-up, smashing, solid, something else, spiffing, spiffy, stunning, succulent, swell, tasty, toothsome, tough, wizard, yummy

• scrunch, abrade, atomize, beat, belch, blare, blat, bray, brecciate, burr, buzz, cackle, caw, champ, chaw, chew, chirr, chomp, chump, clang, clangor, clank, clash, comminute, contriturate, craunch, crimp, crimple, crinkle, croak, crumb, crumble, crump, crunch, crush, disintegrate, flour, fragment, grain, granulate, granulize, grate, grind, grind to powder, groan, growl, grumble, jangle, jar, levigate, mash, masticate, mill, munch, pestle, pound, powder, pulverize, rasp, reduce to powder, rimple, ruckle, ruminate, rumple, scranch, scrape, scratch, screw, shard, shred, smash, snarl, snore, squash, triturate, twang, wrinkle

• scruple, Pyrrhonism, ace, apprehension, atom, awake a doubt, back down, balance, balk, balk at, bashfulness, be diffident, be doubtful, be dubious, be skeptical, be uncertain, beef, better self, bit, bitch, blench, boggle, boggling, boycott, call in question, challenge, complain, complaint, compunction, conscience, conscientiousness, contest, cry out against, dab, debate, deliberate, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demonstration, demur, demurral, demurrer, diffidence, discomfort, dispute, distrust, distrustfulness, dole, dot, doubt, doubtfulness, dram, dribble, driblet, dubiety, dubiousness, dwarf, enter a protest, exception, expostulate, expostulation, falter, faltering, farthing, fastidiousness, fear, fight shy of, fleck, flinch, flyspeck, fragment, fret, gag, gobbet, grain, granule, greet with skepticism, grievance, grievance committee, groat, hair, half believe, half-belief, handful, hang back, hang off, harbor suspicions, have qualms, have reservations, hem and haw, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hold off, holler, hover, howl, hum and haw, indignation meeting, iota, jib, jot, kick, leeriness, little, little bit, lota, make bones about, march, meticulousness, minim, minimum, minutiae, misdoubt, misgive, misgiving, mistrust, mistrustfulness, mite, modesty, modicum, molecule, mote, nonviolent protest, nutshell, object, objection, ounce, overconscientiousness, overscrupulousness, pangs, pangs of conscience, particle, pause, pebble, picket, picketing, pinch, pittance, point, point of honor, ponder, press objections, pricking of heart, protest, protest demonstration, protestation, pull back, punctilio, punctiliousness, quail, qualm, qualm of conscience, qualmishness, qualms, query, question, raise a howl, raise a question, rally, recoil, reconsideration, reluctance, remonstrance, remonstrate, remonstration, retreat, scrap, scruples, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, second thought, second thoughts, self-doubt, shadow of doubt, shilly-shally, shred, shrink, shrink from, shrinking, shy, shy at, shyness, sit in, sit-in, skepticalness, skepticism, smell a rat, smidgen, smitch, speck, spoonful, spot, squawk, squeamishness, state a grievance, stick, stick at, stickle, stickling, stop to consider, straddle the fence, strain, strain at, strike, stumble, suspect, suspicion, suspiciousness, teach in, teach-in, thimbleful, think twice about, throes, throw doubt upon, tiny bit, tittle, total skepticism, touch of conscience, treat with reserve, trifling amount, trivia, twinge of conscience, uncertainty, uneasiness, vacillate, voice of conscience, wariness, waver, whit, wince, withdraw, worry, yell bloody murder, yield

• scrupulous, Pyrrhonic, accurate, active, agnostic, analyze, attentive, bashful, boggling, canvass, careful, case, cautious, censorious, check over, check up, choicy, choosy, close, comb, compliant, con, conforming, conscientious, conscionable, consider, constant, contemplate, correct, critical, deferential, delicate, demanding, demurring, detailed, devoted, devout, diffident, dig into, discriminating, discriminative, dissect, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, duteous, dutiful, ethical, exact, exacting, examine, exigent, exquisite, eye, eyeball, fair-minded, faithful, faltering, fastidious, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, from Missouri, fussy, heedful, hesitant, hesitating, high-minded, honest, honorable, in doubt, inspect, just, leery, look over, loyal, methodical, meticulous, mindful, minute, mistrustful, mistrusting, modest, moral, narrow, neat, nice, obedient, observant, orderly, overconscientious, overlook, overscrupulous, painstaking, particular, penetrate, perfectionistic, perlustrate, peruse, picky, pierce, pore over, practicing, precious, precise, precisian, precisianistic, precisionist, precisionistic, priggish, principled, probe, prudish, punctilious, punctual, puristic, puritanic, qualmish, questioning, refined, regardful, religious, respectful, right, righteous, rigid, rigorous, scan, scrutinize, scrutinizing, selective, sensitive, severe, shrinking, shy, skeptical, squeamish, stickling, strict, study, subtle, survey, suspecting, suspicious, tender-conscienced, true, uncertain, untrusting, upstanding, vet, view, wary, watch, weigh

• scrutinize, attend to business, autopsy, be alert, be obsessed with, canvass, check, check out, check over, check up on, concentrate on, contemplate, dissect, examine, examine thoroughly, eye, fix on, focus on, give an examination, give heed, give the eye, give the once-over, go deep into, go over, go through, hard look, inspect, investigate, leer, leer at, look at, look closely at, look lively, look out, look over, look sharp, miss nothing, monitor, observe, ogle, ogle at, overhaul, overlook, pass over, pass under review, pay attention, pay heed, peer at, perlustrate, perscrutate, peruse, pore, pore over, postmortem, probe, review, run over, scan, set an examination, sift, size, size up, study, survey, take a long, take care, take heed, take stock of, take the measure, vet, watch out

• scrutiny, analysis, attention to detail, audit, check, close study, contemplation, eagle eye, enquiry, examination, exploration, eye, eyeball inspection, fascinated attention, finicalness, finickiness, fixed regard, harping, inquiry, inspection, investigation, look-in, meticulous attention, minute attention, ocular inspection, overhaul, overhauling, overview, perlustration, perusal, probe, probing, quality control, rapt attention, review, run-through, scan, sifting, special consideration, strict attention, study, surveillance, survey, tab, the eye, undivided attention, unrelenting attention, vetting, view, visitation, visual examination, watch

• scuba, Aqua-Lung, air cylinder, aquascope, artificial respiration, aspiration, asthmatic wheeze, bathyscaphe, bathysphere, benthoscope, breath, breath of air, breathing, broken wind, cough, diving bell, diving boat, diving chamber, diving goggles, diving helmet, diving hood, diving mask, diving suit, exhalation, expiration, exsufflation, gasp, gulp, hack, hiccup, inhalation, inhalator, inspiration, insufflation, iron lung, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, periscope, puff, respiration, sigh, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snoring, snorkel, snuff, snuffle, sternutation, stertor, submarine, suspiration, swim fins, wet suit, wheeze, wind

• scud, Cloudcuckooland, alto-cumulus, alto-stratus, anvil cloud, banner cloud, billowy cloud, blast, blow, bolt, brash, breakers, burst, burst of rain, burst of speed, canter, cap cloud, career, cirro-cumulus, cirro-fillum, cirro-nebula, cirro-stratus, cirro-velum, cirrus, cirrus cloud, cirrus haze, cirrus stripe, cloud, cloud band, cloud bank, cloud drift, cloud mass, cloud street, cloudburst, cloudland, cloudling, cloudscape, cocktail, collar, cottony cloud, cumulo-cirro-stratus, cumulo-cirrus, cumulo-nimbus, cumulo-stratus, cumulus, cumulus cloud, curl cloud, dart, dash, dead run, deluge, dogtrot, downfall, downflow, downpour, drencher, drift, flank speed, flat-out speed, flaw, fleecy cloud, fling, float, flood, flurry, fly, foam, foot, forced draft, fractocumulus, froth, full gallop, gallop, ghost, glide, gushing rain, gust, hand gallop, haste, hasten, head, headlong rush, heavy rain, heavy right foot, hie, high fog, high lope, hump, hump it, hurry, hurtle, jog trot, lather, lope, mackerel sky, make haste, mammatocumulus, maximum speed, meringue, mousse, mushroom cloud, nimbus, nimbus cloud, offscum, open throttle, plash, plow the deep, plunge, post, pour, puff, race, rain cloud, rainburst, rainspout, rainstorm, ride, ride the sea, run, rush, sail, scamper, scoot, scour, scramble, scum, scurry, scuttle, sea foam, shoot, skedaddle, skim, slip, snail cloud, soaker, soaking rain, soapsuds, souffle, spate, speed, spindrift, spoondrift, spout, spray, sprint, spume, spurt, squall cloud, step on it, stinging, storm cloud, strato-cumulus, stratus, stratus cloud, suds, surf, tear, thundercloud, thunderhead, torrent of rain, trot, walk the waters, water carrier, waterspout, white water, wide-open speed, wind gust, woolpack

• scuff, ablate, ablation, abrade, abrase, abrasion, abrasive, amble, attrition, barge, bark, blemish, bloody, bowl along, break, buffing, bundle, burn, burnishing, chafe, chafing, check, chip, claw, clump, concussion, crack, crackle, craze, cut, detrition, drag, dressing, erase, erasure, erode, erosion, file, filing, flash burn, flounce, foot, footslog, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, fretting, gall, galling, gash, gnaw, gnaw away, grate, graze, grazing, grind, grinding, halt, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, hurt, incise, incision, injure, injury, jog, jolt, jump, lacerate, laceration, lesion, limation, limp, lumber, lunge, lurch, maim, make mincemeat of, maul, mince, mortal wound, mutilate, mutilation, pace, paddle, peg, piaffe, piaffer, pierce, plod, polishing, prance, puncture, rack, rasp, rasping, raze, rend, rent, rip, roll, rub away, rub off, rub out, rubbing away, run, rupture, sandblasting, sanding, sashay, saunter, savage, scald, scorch, scotch, scour, scouring, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub, scrubbing, scuffle, scuttle, second-degree burn, shamble, shining, shovel, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skin, skip, slash, slink, slit, slither, slog, slouch, smoothing, sore, sprain, stab, stab wound, stagger, stalk, stamp, stick, stomp, straddle, straggle, strain, stride, stroll, strut, stump, swagger, swing, tear, third-degree burn, tittup, toddle, totter, traipse, trauma, traumatize, trip, trudge, waddle, wamble, wear, wear away, wearing away, wiggle, wobble, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench

• scuffle, action, aerial combat, affray, agonize, amble, armored combat, barge, battle, battle royal, bobbery, bowl along, box, brawl, broil, brush, buffet, bullfight, bundle, clash, clash of arms, close, clump, cockfight, collide, combat, come to blows, conflict, contend, contest, cuff, cut and thrust, dogfight, drag, duel, embroilment, exchange blows, exchange of blows, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel, fire fight, flounce, foot, footslog, fracas, fray, give and take, give satisfaction, grapple, grapple with, ground combat, grunt and sweat, halt, hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand fight, hassle, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, house-to-house combat, huff and puff, jog, jolt, jostle, joust, jump, limp, lumber, lunge, lurch, mince, mix it up, naval combat, pace, paddle, passage of arms, peg, piaffe, piaffer, pitched battle, plod, prance, quarrel, rack, rassle, riot, roll, row, rumble, run a tilt, running fight, sashay, saunter, scramble, scrap, scrimmage, scuff, scuttle, set-to, shamble, shovel, shoving match, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, skirmish, slink, slither, slog, slouch, spar, stagger, stalk, stamp, stand-up fight, stomp, straddle, straggle, street fight, stride, strive, stroll, struggle, strut, stump, swagger, swing, tauromachy, thrust and parry, tilt, tittup, toddle, totter, tourney, traipse, trip, trudge, tug-of-war, tussle, waddle, wage war, wamble, war, wiggle, wobble, wrestle

• scull, boat, canoe, carry sail, catch a crab, circumnavigate, coast, cross, cruise, cut a crab, feather, feather an oar, give way, go by ship, go on shipboard, go to sea, make a passage, motorboat, navigate, oar, pace, paddle, ply, ply the oar, pole, pull, punt, row, row away, row dry, run, sail, sail round, sail the sea, seafare, ship oars, shoot, sky an oar, steam, steamboat, steering oar, sweep, take a voyage, traverse, voyage, yacht

• sculler, bargee, bargeman, barger, boat-handler, boater, boatman, boatsman, ferrier, ferryman, galley slave, gondolier, lighterman, oar, oarsman, punter, rower, waterman, yachter, yachtsman

• scullery maid, abigail, amah, au pair girl, ayah, betweenmaid, biddy, chambermaid, chaperon, companion, cook, dishwasher, dishwiper, dry cleaner, duenna, femme de chambre, fille de chambre, gentlewoman, girl, handmaid, handmaiden, hired girl, housemaid, kitchenmaid, lady-help, lady-in-waiting, launderer, laundress, laundryman, laundrywoman, live-in maid, live-out maid, maid, maidservant, nursemaid, parlormaid, pot-walloper, scullion, servant girl, servitress, soubrette, tweeny, upstairs maid, waiting maid, washer, washerman, washerwife, washerwoman, wench

• scullion, dishwasher, dishwiper, domestic, domestic servant, drudge, dry cleaner, help, launderer, laundress, laundryman, laundrywoman, menial, pot-walloper, scullery maid, servant, servitor, slavey, turnspit, washer, washerman, washerwife, washerwoman

• sculpt, assemble, block out, carve, cast, chase, chisel, create, cut, efform, engrave, fashion, figure, fix, forge, form, formalize, found, frame, grave, hew, insculpture, knead, knock out, lay out, lick into shape, mint, model, mold, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, sculp, sculpture, set, shape, solder, stamp, tailor, thermoform, weld, work

• sculptor, Arp, CYSP sculpture, French, Maillol, Michelangelo, Milles, Moore, Oldenburg, Phidias, Picasso, Pisano, Praxiteles, Saint-Gaudens, anaglyptics, anaglyptography, architectural sculpture, bone-carving, carver, casting, ceroplastics, chaser, chasing, clay modeler, clay sculpture, decorative sculpture, earth art, earth artist, embossing, engraving, figurer, figuriste, founding, garden sculpture, gem carver, gem-cutting, glass sculpture, glyptic, graver, ivory-carving, lost-wax process, mason, metal sculpture, modeler, modeling, molder, molding, monumental mason, monumental sculpture, paper sculpture, plaster casting, plastic art, portrait sculpture, relief, relief-carving, relievo, sculptress, sculpture, sculpturer, sculpturing, shell-carving, statuary, stone sculpture, stonecutter, stonecutting, wax modeler, whittling, wire sculpture, wood carver, wood carving, xyloglyphy

• sculpture, abstract art, art, art form, artist, arts and crafts, arts of design, assemble, autolithograph, be a printmaker, block out, bronze, bust, calligraphy, carve, carving, cast, cave art, ceramics, character, chase, chisel, conformation, crease, create, creation, cribble, crosshatch, cut, decoration, design, designing, doll, dolly, dummy, efform, efformation, enchase, engrave, engraving, etching, fantoccini, fashion, fashioning, figuration, figure, figurehead, figurine, fine arts, fix, folk art, forge, form, formalize, formation, formature, forming, found, frame, furrow, gingerbread man, graphic arts, grave, groove, group, hatch, head, hew, incise, inscribe, insculpture, knead, knock out, lay figure, lay out, lick into shape, line, lithograph, make prints, man of straw, manikin, mannequin, marble, marionette, mark, mint, mobile, model, modeling, mold, molding, monument, morphogenesis, morphogeny, photography, plastic art, portrait bust, primitive art, print, puppet, relief, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, scarecrow, score, scrape, scratch, sculp, sculpt, set, shape, shaping, snowman, solder, stabile, stamp, statuary, statue, statuette, stipple, tailor, terra cotta, the arts, thermoform, tool, wax figure, waxwork, weld, wood carving, work

• sculptured, anaglyphic, anaglyptic, anastatic, carved, ceroplastic, chased, creased, cut, embossed, enchased, engraved, engraven, furrowed, glyphic, glyptic, graved, graven, grooved, hammered, impressed, imprinted, in relief, incised, inscribed, insculptured, lined, marked, modeled, molded, printed, sculpted, sculptile, stamped, tooled, toreutic

• scum of the earth, bilge, bilgewater, carrion, cattle, chaff, children of darkness, dishwater, ditchwater, dregs, dregs of society, garbage, limbs of Satan, offal, offscourings, offscum, raff, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scum, scurf, sewage, sewerage, slop, slops, slough, sons of Belial, sons of men, sordes, swill, swinish multitude, the bad, the evil, the reprobate, the unrighteous, the wicked, trash, vermin

• scum, aerate, alluvion, alluvium, androcyte, antheridium, antherozoid, apply to, ash, beat, bilge, bilgewater, blanket, block, bones, breakers, canaille, canopy, carrion, cattle, chaff, cinder, clinker, cloak, clothe, cloud, coat, coating, collar, collop, cope, cover, cover up, covering, cowl, cream, culm, cur, curtain, cut, deadwood, deal, deposition, deposits, diluvium, dishwater, disk, ditchwater, draff, dregs, dregs of society, dross, dust, eclipse, ember, enamel, facing, feces, feuille, filings, film, flap, foam, foil, fold, froth, fur, garbage, gash, glop, grounds, gunk, head, hogwash, hood, husks, lacquer, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lather, lay on, lay over, leaf, leavings, lees, loess, male gamete, mantle, mask, masses, membrane, meringue, milt, mire, mob, moraine, mousse, muck, muffle, obduce, obscure, occult, offal, offscourings, offscum, ooze, orts, overlay, overspread, paint, pane, panel, parings, patina, peel, pellicle, plait, plank, plate, plating, ply, plywood, pollen, potsherds, precipitate, precipitation, prick, proletariat, protein, puff, put on, raff, rags, ragtag and bobtail, rasher, raspings, refuse, revetment, riffraff, rubbish, safety glass, scale, scoria, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, screen, scud, scurf, sea foam, sediment, seed, semen, seminal fluid, settlings, sewage, sewerage, shards, shavings, sheet, shield, shit, shithead, silt, sinter, skin, skunk, slab, slack, slag, slat, slice, slime, slob, slop, slops, slosh, slough, sludge, slush, smut, snake, soapsuds, soot, sordes, souffle, sperm, sperm cell, spermagonium, spermatic fluid, spermatid, spermatiophore, spermatium, spermatocyte, spermatogonium, spermatophore, spermatozoa, spermatozoid, spermatozoon, spindrift, splosh, spoondrift, spray, spread over, spume, stinging, stinker, stubble, sublimate, sud, suds, superimpose, superpose, surf, sweepings, swill, swinish multitude, table, tablet, tares, toad, trash, turd, unwashed, varnish, veil, veneer, vermin, wafer, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds, whip, whisk, white water

• scummy, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, barfy, base, beggarly, beneath contempt, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crappy, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dirty, disgusting, execrable, fecal, feculent, fetid, filmy, filthy, flagrant, flyblown, foliaceous, foliated, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, gloppy, grave, gross, gunky, heinous, icky, in layers, lamellar, lamellate, lamellated, lamelliform, laminate, laminated, laminous, leaflike, leafy, little, low, low-down, lumpen, maggoty, malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, membranous, mephitic, meretricious, miserable, monstrous, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, obnoxious, odious, ordurous, paltry, pathetic, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, puky, putrid, rank, reptilian, repulsive, rotten, rubbishy, sad, scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scurfy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shitty, shoddy, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, small, sorry, spathic, spathose, sposhy, squalid, stratified, stratiform, three-ply, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, two-ply, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unmentionable, valueless, vile, vomity, wormy, worthless, wretched, yecchy

• scurf, bilge, bilgewater, canaille, carrion, chip, corruption, dandruff, decay, dishwater, ditchwater, excrement, filth, flake, floccule, flocculus, flock, foul matter, furfur, gangrene, garbage, hoi polloi, masses, mess, mob, muck, mucus, obscenity, offal, offscourings, ordure, other half, paring, proletariat, pus, putrid matter, refuse, riffraff, rot, scale, scum, scuz, sewage, sewerage, shaving, slime, slop, slops, slough, smut, snot, sordes, swill, trash

• scurfy, asperous, barfy, branny, chalklike, chalky, comminute, comminuted, crappy, crushed, detrital, detrited, disgusting, disintegrated, dusty, efflorescent, farinaceous, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, fine, flaky, flocculent, floury, flyblown, foul, furfuraceous, gloppy, gone to dust, grated, ground, gunky, icky, impalpable, lentiginous, lepidote, levigated, maggoty, malodorous, mealy, mephitic, milled, mucky, nasty, nauseating, odious, ordurous, pestled, powdered, powdery, puky, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, putrid, rank, reduced to powder, repulsive, rotten, scabby, scabious, scabrous, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scummy, sharded, shitty, shredded, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, sposhy, squamous, triturated, vile, vomity, wormy, yecchy

• scurrilous, Fescennine, Rabelaisian, abusive, atrocious, back-biting, backhand, backhanded, bawdy, belittling, bitchy, blasphemous, blue, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, coarse, comminatory, contemptuous, contumelious, cursing, damnatory, defamatory, degrading, denunciatory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detractory, dirty, disparaging, dysphemistic, epithetic, excommunicative, excommunicatory, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulminatory, fulsome, gross, humiliating, imprecatory, impure, indecent, insolent, insulting, invective, ithyphallic, left-handed, lewd, libelous, licentious, low, lurid, maledictory, malign, minimizing, nasty, obscene, offending, offensive, opprobrious, outrageous, pejorative, pornographic, profane, raunchy, raw, ribald, ridiculing, risque, salacious, scabrous, scandalous, scatologic, scurrile, slanderous, slighting, smoking-room, smutty, sultry, truculent, unchaste, unclean, unprintable, unrepeatable, unspeakable, vile, vilifying, vituperative, vulgar

• scurry, bolt, bundle, burst, burst of speed, bustle, canter, career, chase, crowd, dart, dash, dash off, dash on, dead run, dogtrot, double-time, drive, festinate, flank speed, flat-out speed, fling, flurry, flutter, fly, forced draft, full gallop, gallop, get going, get moving, hand gallop, haste, hasten, headlong rush, heavy right foot, helter-skelter, hie, high lope, hump, hump it, hurry, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hurtle, hustle, jog trot, leap, lope, lose no time, make haste, maximum speed, move quickly, open throttle, plunge, post, press on, push on, race, rip, run, rush, rush through, scamper, scoot, scour, scramble, scud, scuffle, scuttle, shin, shoot, skedaddle, speed, sprint, spurt, step on it, tear, trot, wide-open speed, zip, zoom

• scurvy, Lombardy leprosy, abject, abominable, anemia, ariboflavinosis, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, base-minded, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, beriberi, blameworthy, brutal, cachexia, cheap, cheesy, chlorosis, common, contemptible, crummy, debased, deficiency anemia, degraded, deplorable, depraved, dermatitis, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgusting, dishonorable, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, goiter, grave, greensickness, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, infamous, keratomalacia, kwashiorkor, lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, low-minded, lumpen, maidism, malnutrition, mangy, mean, measly, meretricious, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nefarious, night blindness, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, osteomalacia, osteoporosis, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, pellagra, pernicious anemia, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, protein deficiency, rachitis, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, reptilian, repulsive, rickets, rotten, rubbishy, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scuzzy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, small, sordid, sorry, squalid, struma, terrible, too bad, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unclean, unmentionable, valueless, vile, villainous, vitamin deficiency, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, xerophthalmia

• scutcheon, achievement, alerion, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry, bordure, broad arrow, cadency mark, canton, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, coat of arms, cockatrice, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, device, difference, differencing, eagle, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, label, lion, lozenge, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto, mullet, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pean, pheon, purpure, quarter, quartering, rose, sable, saltire, shield, spread eagle, subordinary, tenne, tincture, torse, tressure, unicorn, vair, vert, wreath, yale

• scuttle, French door, KO, amble, archway, back door, back out, bankrupt, barge, barway, be lost, boggle, bolt, bowl along, break, bulkhead, bundle, burst, burst of speed, bust, bustle, canter, capsize, career, carriage entrance, cellar door, cellarway, chase, chicken, chicken out, clump, cook, crowd, dart, dash, dash off, dash on, dead run, defeat, desert under fire, dish, do for, do in, dogtrot, door, doorjamb, doorpost, doorway, double-time, drag, drive, droop, falter, festinate, fix, flank speed, flat-out speed, fling, flounce, flurry, flutter, foot, footslog, forced draft, founder, front door, full gallop, funk, funk out, gait, gallop, gate, gatepost, gateway, get cold feet, get going, get moving, go down, halt, hand gallop, haste, hasten, hatch, hatchway, headlong rush, heavy right foot, helter-skelter, hie, high lope, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, hump, hump it, hurry, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hurtle, hustle, impoverish, jog, jog trot, jolt, jump, keel, keel over, knock out, leap, limp, lintel, lock step, lope, lose courage, lose no time, lumber, lunge, lurch, make haste, maximum speed, mince, mincing steps, move quickly, open throttle, overset, overturn, pace, paddle, peg, piaffe, piaffer, pitchpole, plod, plunge, porch, portal, porte cochere, post, postern, prance, press on, propylaeum, push on, pylon, race, rack, roll, ruin, run, rush, rush through, sashay, saunter, scamper, scoot, scour, scramble, scud, scuff, scuffle, scurry, settle, shamble, shoot, shoot down, shuffle, side door, sidle, single-foot, sink, sink like lead, skedaddle, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slowness, somersault, sprint, spurt, stagger, stalk, stamp, step, step on it, stile, stomp, storm door, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, stump, swagger, swing, tear, threshold, tittup, toddle, tollgate, torpedo, totter, traipse, trap, trap door, tread, trip, trot, trudge, turn over, turn turtle, turnpike, turnstile, undo, upset, upset the boat, velocity, waddle, walk, wamble, wide-open speed, wiggle, wobble

• scuttlebutt, bruit, buzz, canard, common talk, cry, flying rumor, gossip, grapevine, hearsay, idea afloat, latrine rumor, news stirring, on-dit, report, roorback, rumble, rumor, talk, town talk, unconfirmed report, whisper

• scuz, carrion, corruption, dandruff, decay, excrement, filth, foul matter, furfur, gangrene, mess, muck, mucus, obscenity, ordure, pus, putrid matter, rot, scurf, slime, smut, snot, sordes

• scuzzy, beggarly, beneath contempt, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crummy, despicable, gaudy, gimcracky, mean, meretricious, miserable, paltry, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, rubbishy, sad, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shoddy, sorry, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, valueless, vile, worthless, wretched

• sea cock, ball cock, ball valve, bung, bunghole, check valve, cock, cork, drain cock, draw cock, faucet, gate, lid, needle valve, peg, petcock, pin, plug, spigot, spike, spile, spill, stop, stopcock, stopgap, stopper, stopple, tap, valve, valvula, valvule

• sea dog, AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Neptune, OD, Poseidon, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, bluejacket, buccaneer, corsair, deep-sea man, fair-weather sailor, fisherman, freebooter, hearty, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacky, limey, lobsterman, mariner, matelot, navigator, picaroon, pirate, privateer, rover, sailor, salt, sea robber, sea rover, sea wolf, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, tar, viking, water dog, whaler, windjammer, windsailor

• sea lane, air lane, approaches, beat, channel, circuit, course, fairway, flight path, itinerary, line, orbit, path, primrose path, road, round, route, run, seaway, ship route, shortcut, steamer track, tour, track, trade route, traject, trajectory, trajet, walk, waterway

• sea rover, AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Blackbeard, Captain Hook, Captain Kidd, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Henry Morgan, Jean Lafitte, Neptune, OD, Poseidon, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, air pirate, airplane hijacker, bluejacket, buccaneer, corsair, deep-sea man, fair-weather sailor, fisherman, freebooter, hearty, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacky, limey, lobsterman, mariner, matelot, navigator, picaroon, pirate, privateer, rover, sailor, salt, sea dog, sea king, sea robber, sea wolf, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, skyjacker, tar, viking, water dog, whaler, windjammer, windsailor

• sea serpent, Loch Ness monster, alevin, benthon, benthos, cetacean, dolphin, fingerling, fish, fry, game fish, grilse, kipper, man-eater, man-eating shark, marine animal, minnow, minny, nekton, panfish, plankton, porpoise, salmon, sea monster, sea pig, sea snake, shark, smolt, sponge, tropical fish, whale

• sea, abundance, acres, bags, barrels, big drink, billow, blue, blue water, bore, breakers, brine, briny, bushel, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, comb, comber, copiousness, countlessness, deep, dirty water, drink, eagre, flood, gravity wave, ground swell, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, high sea, high seas, hydrosphere, lift, load, lop, main, main sea, mass, mountain, much, multitude, numerousness, ocean, ocean depths, ocean main, ocean sea, oceans, peak, peck, plenitude, plenty, popple, profusion, quantities, quantity, riffle, ripple, rise, roll, roller, rough water, salt sea, salt water, scend, send, spate, superabundance, superfluity, surf, surge, swell, thalassa, the bounding main, the brine, the briny, the briny deep, the deep, the deep sea, the seven seas, the vasty deep, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide, tide wave, tons, trough, tsunami, undulation, volume, water wave, wave, wavelet, white horses, whitecaps, world, worlds

• Seabee, Naval Construction Battalion, Naval Reservist, RN, Royal Marine, Royal Navy, Seabees, USN, United States Navy, argosy, armada, bluejacket, boot, cadet, coast guard, combat engineer, division, engineer, escadrille, fleet, flotilla, frogman, gob, horse marine, jolly, marine, merchant fleet, merchant marine, merchant navy, midshipman, midshipmite, mosquito fleet, naval cadet, naval forces, naval militia, naval reserve, navy, navy man, pioneer, sapper, sapper and miner, squadron, swabbie, task force, task group

• seacoast, bank, beach, berm, coast, coastland, coastline, embankment, foreshore, ironbound coast, lido, littoral, plage, playa, riverside, riviera, rockbound coast, sands, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seashore, seaside, shingle, shore, shoreline, strand, submerged coast, tidewater, waterfront, waterside

• seafarer, AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Neptune, OD, Poseidon, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, bluejacket, buccaneer, deep-sea man, fair-weather sailor, fisherman, hearty, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacky, limey, lobsterman, mariner, matelot, navigator, pirate, privateer, sailor, salt, sea dog, sea rover, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, tar, viking, water dog, whaler, windjammer, windsailor

• seafaring, boating, canoeing, circumnavigation, coasting, cruising, gunkholing, marine, maritime, motorboating, nautical, naval, navigability, navigating, navigation, navigational, ocean-going, oceanic, passage-making, pelagic, periplus, rowing, sailing, salty, sculling, sea travel, seamanlike, seamanly, steaming, travel by water, voyaging, water travel, water-borne, yachting

• seal off, bang, bar, barricade, batten, batten down, bolt, button, button up, choke, choke off, clap, close, close up, constrict, contain, contract, cordon, cordon off, cover, fasten, fold, fold up, isolate, key, latch, lock, lock out, lock up, occlude, padlock, plumb, quarantine, rope off, seal, seal up, seclude, secure, segregate, separate, shut, shut the door, shut up, slam, snap, squeeze shut, strangle, zip up, zipper

• seal up, bang, bar, barricade, batten, batten down, bolt, bosom, bottle up, box up, bury, button, button up, cache, cage, check, choke, choke off, clap, cloister, close, close up, confine, constrain, constrict, contain, contract, coop, coop in, coop up, cork up, cover, crib, deposit, detain, embosom, encage, enclose, fasten, fence in, file and forget, fold, fold up, hem in, hide away, hold, hold in custody, hold in restraint, immure, impound, inhibit, keep hidden, keep in, keep in custody, keep in detention, keep secret, key, latch, lock, lock out, lock up, mew, mew up, occlude, padlock, pen, pen up, plant, plumb, pound, put away, rail in, restrain, restrict, seal, seal off, secrete, secure, shackle, shut, shut in, shut the door, shut up, slam, snap, squeeze shut, stash, store away, stow away, strangle, wall in, zip up, zipper

• seal, John Hancock, OK, X, accept, acceptance, accredit, affirm, affirmance, affirmation, agree on terms, amen, approbation, approval, approve, aroma, assurance, assure, attest, attestation, attribute, authenticate, authentication, authorization, authorize, autograph, badge, bang, banner, bar, barricade, batten, batten down, bearing, beige, billhead, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, bolt, book stamp, bookplate, boss, brand, broad arrow, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, bump, burin, button, button up, cachet, cap of dignity, cap of maintenance, cartouche, cast, casting, certification, certify, chalk, chalk up, character, characteristic, check, check off, chocolate, choke, choke off, christcross, cicatrize, cinnamon, cipher, clap, clinch, close, close off, close up, coat of arms, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, colophon, concavity, conclude, configuration, confirm, confirmation, constrict, contain, contract, convexity, cork, coronet, corroborate, corroboration, cosign, counterfoil, countermark, countersign, countersignature, counterstamp, cover, crest, cross, crown, cut, dactylogram, dactylograph, dapple, dash, decide, define, delimit, demarcate, dent, design, determine, device, diadem, die, differentia, differential, dint, discolor, distinctive feature, docket, dot, drab, dun, dun-brown, dun-drab, earmark, ecru, emblem, embossment, endorse, endorsement, engrave, engraving tool, ensure, ermine, escutcheon, etching ball, etching ground, etching needle, etching point, evidence, excrescence, fasten, fawn, fawn-colored, feature, figure, fingerprint, fix, flavor, fleck, fold, fold up, footmark, footprint, footstep, form, formalize, fossil footprint, freckle, fuscous, gash, give permission, give the go-ahead, give the imprimatur, give thumbs up, go-ahead, government mark, government stamp, graver, great seal, green light, grege, guarantee, guaranty, gust, hallmark, hand, hatch, hazel, ichnite, ichnolite, identification, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, image, impress, impression, imprimatur, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, index, indicant, indicator, individualism, initial, initials, insignia, intaglio, key, keynote, khaki, label, last, latch, letterhead, line, lineaments, lock, lock out, lock up, logo, logotype, lump, lurid, make a mark, mannerism, mark, mark of signature, mark off, mark out, marking, masthead, matrix, measure, mint, mold, molding, monogram, mottle, nature, needle, negative, nick, nod, notarization, notarize, notch, note, notice, notification, nut-brown, occlude, odor, okay, olive-brown, olive-drab, orb, pad, padlock, particularity, pass, pass on, pass upon, paw print, pawmark, peculiarity, pencil, pepper, permission, permit, picture, pimple, plate, plug up, plumb, point, price tag, prick, print, privy seal, property, pug, pugmark, punch, punctuate, puncture, purple, purple pall, purpose, quality, quirk, ratification, ratify, regalia, registered trademark, representation, representative, resolve, riddle, robe of state, rocker, rod, rod of empire, royal crown, rubber stamp, running head, running title, sanction, savor, say amen to, scar, scarify, scepter, score, scorper, scotch, scratch, seal off, seal up, seal-brown, seam, second, secure, sepia, settle, shake hands, shape, shoe last, shut, shut off, shut the door, shut up, sigil, sign, sign and seal, sign manual, signal, signature, signet, singularity, slam, smack, snap, snuff-colored, sorrel, specialty, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, squeeze shut, stain, stamp, stamp of approval, step, sticker, stigmatize, stop up, strangle, streak, striate, strike a bargain, stripe, stub, stud, style, subscribe to, subscription, substantiation, support, sure sign, swear and affirm, swear to, symbol, symptom, tab, tag, taint, take a resolution, tally, tan, tang, taste, tattoo, taupe, tawny, telltale sign, template, the nod, thumbmark, thumbprint, tiara, tick, tick off, ticket, title page, toast, toast-brown, token, trace, trade name, trademark, trademark name, trait, trick, triple plume, umber, umber-colored, underline, underscore, undersign, uraeus, validate, validation, verification, verify, vestige, visa, vise, walnut, walnut-brown, warrant, will, yellowish-brown, zip up, zipper

• sealed, able, accepted, acknowledged, admitted, affirmed, agreed, airtight, allowed, approved, arranged, auricular, authenticated, avowed, between us, certified, close, compact, compacted, conceded, confessed, confidential, confirmed, contracted, countersigned, covenanted, dustproof, dusttight, endorsed, engaged, enigmatic, esoteric, fast, firm, gasproof, gastight, granted, hermetic, hermetically sealed, in petto, incalculable, incognizable, inside, lightproof, lighttight, mysterious, not for publication, notarized, off the record, oilproof, oiltight, privileged, professed, promised, puzzling, rainproof, raintight, ratified, received, recognized, settled, shut fast, signed, smokeproof, smoketight, snug, stamped, staunch, stipulated, stormproof, stormtight, strange, sworn and affirmed, sworn to, tight, unapparent, unapprehended, unascertained, unbeknown, uncharted, unclassified, under privilege, undertaken, underwritten, undisclosed, undiscoverable, undiscovered, undivulged, unexplained, unexplored, unexposed, unfamiliar, unfathomed, unheard, unheard-of, unidentified, uninvestigated, unknowable, unknown, unperceived, unplumbed, unpublishable, unrevealed, unsuspected, untouched, validated, virgin, warranted, water-repellant, waterproof, watertight, windproof, windtight

• seam, abysm, abyss, ankle, arroyo, articulation, band, bed, bedding, belt, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, bond, boundary, box canyon, brand, breach, break, butt, canyon, cavity, cervix, chalk, chalk up, chap, chasm, check, check off, chimney, chink, cicatrix, cicatrize, cleft, cleuch, clinch, closure, clough, col, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, couche, coulee, couloir, coupling, course, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, dapple, dash, deck, defile, define, delimit, dell, demarcate, dike, discolor, ditch, donga, dot, dovetail, draw, elbow, embrace, engrave, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, fleck, floor, flume, fracture, freckle, furrow, gallery, gap, gape, gash, gliding joint, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hatch, hinge, hinged joint, hip, hole, impress, imprint, incision, interface, join, joining, joint, junction, juncture, kloof, knee, knuckle, layer, leak, ledge, level, line, link, lode, make a mark, mark, mark off, mark out, measures, miter, moat, mortise, mottle, neck, nick, notch, nullah, opening, overlayer, overstory, pass, passage, pencil, pepper, pivot, pivot joint, point, prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, rabbet, ravine, rent, riddle, ridge, rift, rime, rupture, scar, scarf, scarify, scissure, score, scotch, scratch, seal, shelf, shoulder, slit, slot, speck, speckle, split, splotch, spot, stage, stain, stamp, step, stigmatize, stitch, story, stratum, streak, striate, stripe, substratum, superstratum, suture, symphysis, tattoo, thickness, tick, tick off, tie rod, tier, toggle, toggle joint, topsoil, trace, trench, underlayer, underline, underscore, understory, understratum, union, valley, vein, void, wadi, weld, wrist, zone

• seaman, AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Davy, Davy Jones, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Neptune, Nereid, Nereus, OD, Oceanid, Oceanus, Poseidon, Thetis, Triton, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, bluejacket, buccaneer, deep-sea man, fair-weather sailor, fisherman, hearty, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacky, limey, lobsterman, mariner, matelot, mermaid, merman, navigator, pirate, privateer, sailor, salt, sea devil, sea dog, sea god, sea rover, seafarer, seafaring man, shipman, siren, tar, tarpaulin, viking, water dog, whaler, windjammer, windsailor

• seamanship, ability, address, adeptness, adroitness, airmanship, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, bravura, brilliance, capability, capacity, cleverness, command, competence, control, coordination, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, deftness, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, efficiency, expertise, facility, finesse, grace, grip, handiness, horsemanship, ingeniousness, ingenuity, know-how, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, practical ability, proficiency, prowess, quickness, readiness, resource, resourcefulness, savoir-faire, savvy, sea legs, seamanlikeness, seamanliness, shipmanship, skill, skillfulness, style, tact, tactfulness, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, timing, virtuosity, weather eye, wit, wizardry, workmanship

• seamless, articulated, catenated, ceaseless, concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, cyclical, direct, endless, featureless, gapless, immediate, incessant, interminable, joined, jointless, linked, monotonous, never-ending, nonstop, perennial, periodic, recurrent, repetitive, round-the-clock, running, serried, smooth, stable, steady, straight, twenty-four-hour, unbroken, unceasing, undifferentiated, unending, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped

• seamy, abhorrent, contemptible, dark, degenerate, degraded, depraved, derogatory, discreditable, dishonorable, disreputable, distasteful, foul, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, low, nasty, notorious, odious, repellent, repulsive, rotten, scurvy, shady, shameful, sordid, squalid, ugly, unattractive, unpalatable, unpraiseworthy, unrespectable, unsavory, unseemly, unwholesome, vile

• seance, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, audience, ball, bargaining, bargaining session, brawl, caucus, colloquium, commission, committee, conclave, concourse, confab, confabulation, conference, confrontation, congregation, congress, consultation, conventicle, convention, convocation, council, council fire, council of war, dance, date, diet, discussion, eisteddfod, exchange of views, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, festivity, fete, forgathering, forum, gathering, get-together, high-level talk, housewarming, huddle, interchange of views, interview, levee, mediumism, meet, meeting, necromancy, negotiations, news conference, palaver, panel, parley, party, plenum, pourparler, powwow, press conference, prom, quorum, rally, reception, rendezvous, session, shindig, sit-in, sitting, soiree, spirit, spiritism, spiritualism, summit, summit conference, summitry, symposium, synod, turnout

• seaplane, aeroboat, aeroplane, airlift, airplane, amphibian, balloon, be airborne, boat seaplane, clipper, cruise, drift, ferry, flit, floatplane, fly, flying boat, glide, hop, hover, hydroplane, jet, navigate, sail, sailplane, soar, take the air, take wing, volplane, waterplane, wing

• seaport, anchorage, anchorage ground, basin, berth, breakwater, bulkhead, dock, dockage, dockyard, dry dock, embankment, groin, harbor, harborage, haven, jetty, jutty, landing, landing place, landing stage, marina, mole, moorings, pier, port, protected anchorage, quay, road, roads, roadstead, seawall, shipyard, slip, wharf

• sear, Sanforize, Sanforized, adust, air-dry, anhydrate, attaint, attenuate, attenuated, bake, baked, barbecue, baste, bedaub, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, bestain, blacken, blanch, blaze, blister, blot, blur, boil, braise, brand, brew, broil, brown, brush, burn, burn in, burn off, burn up, burnt, cast, cauterize, char, coal, coddle, consume, consumed, cook, corky, crack, cupel, cure, curry, darken, daub, dehumidify, dehydrate, dehydrated, desiccate, desiccated, devil, diminish, dirty, discolor, do, do to perfection, drain, dried, dried-up, droop, dry, dry up, emacerate, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, evaporate, evaporated, exsiccate, exsiccated, fade, fade away, fire, flag, flame, found, fricassee, frizz, frizzle, fry, griddle, grill, heat, insolate, kiln, languish, macerate, mark, mat burn, mummified, mummify, oven-bake, oxidate, oxidize, pan, pan-broil, parboil, parch, parched, pine, poach, prepare, prepare food, preshrink, preshrunk, pyrolyze, roast, rub, saute, scald, scallop, scorch, scorched, seared, second-degree burn, sere, shirr, shrink, shrivel, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, simmer, singe, sizzle, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smoke, soak up, soil, solder, sponge, stain, steam, stew, stigmatize, stir-fry, sun, sun-dried, sun-dry, sunbaked, sunburn, sunscald, swab, swinge, taint, tarnish, thin, third-degree burn, toast, torrefy, towel, vesicate, vulcanize, waste, waste away, wasted, wasted away, weazen, weazened, weld, wilt, wind-dried, windburn, wipe, wither, withered, wizen, wizen-faced, wizened

• search warrant, bench warrant, capias, caveat, death warrant, domiciliary visit, dragnet, exploration, fieri facias, forage, frisk, habere facias possessionem, house-search, hunt, hunting, injunction, interdict, mandamus, mandate, mandatory injunction, mittimus, nisi prius, notice, notification, perquisition, posse, precept, probe, process, prohibitory injunction, quest, ransacking, rummage, search, search party, search-and-destroy operation, searching, stalk, stalking, still hunt, turning over, warrant, warrant of arrest, warrant of attorney, writ

• search, analysis, angle for, ask for, beat, beat about for, beat the bushes, burrow, cast about, chase, check, chivy, comb, delve, delve for, delve into, dig, dig for, dig into, dog, domiciliary visit, dragnet, enquiry, examination, examine, exploration, explore, fan, fathom, fish for, follow, follow up, forage, frisk, give chase, go after, go gunning for, go into, go through, grub, gun for, hollo after, hound, house-search, hunt, hunt for, hunt up, hunting, indagate, inquire of, inquiry, inspect, inspection, investigate, look, look around, look at, look for, look into, look over, look round, look through, look up, make after, nose around, peer into, perquisition, perusal, plumb, poke, poke around, poke into, posse, probe, prosecute, prowl after, pry, pry into, pursual, pursuance, pursue, pursuing, pursuit, quest, quest after, raise the hunt, rake, ransack, ransacking, research, researching, root, rummage, run after, run down, scan, scour, scouring, scout out, scrimmage, scrutinize, scrutiny, search for, search into, search party, search through, search warrant, search-and-destroy operation, searching, see to, seek, seek for, seek out, seeking, shake down, sift, sifting, skirmish, smell around, sound, stalk, stalking, still hunt, still-hunt, study, take out after, try to find, turning over

• searching, chase, cynegetic, delving, digging, dogging, domiciliary visit, dragnet, exploration, fishing, follow, follow-up, following, forage, frisk, halieutic, house-search, hue and cry, hunt, hunting, in full cry, in hot pursuit, in pursuit, in search of, loaded for bear, looking for, nosy, out for, out for bear, perquisition, piscatorial, piscatory, poking, posse, probe, probing, prosecution, prying, pursuance, pursuant, pursuing, pursuit, quest, questing, ransacking, rummage, search, search party, search warrant, search-and-destroy operation, seeking, shadowing, stalk, stalking, still hunt, tracking, tracking down, trailing, turning over

• seared, adust, ashen, ashy, baked, blistered, boiled, braised, brazen, broiled, browned, burned, burnt, burnt-up, callous, calloused, case-hardened, coddled, conscienceless, consumed, consumed by fire, cooked, corky, curried, dehydrated, desiccated, deviled, dried, dried-up, evaporated, exsiccated, fired, fricasseed, fried, grilled, gutted, hard, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, heated, incinerated, indurated, inured, lost to shame, mummified, obdurate, oven-baked, pan-broiled, parboiled, parched, poached, pyrographic, pyrolyzed, roast, roasted, sauteed, scalloped, scorched, sear, sere, shameless, shirred, shriveled, singed, steamed, stewed, sun-dried, sunbaked, sunburned, toasted, unblushing, weazened, wind-dried, withered, wizened

• seascape, airscape, cityscape, cloudscape, diorama, exterior, farmscape, interior, landscape, lookout, outlook, panorama, pastoral, perspective, prospect, riverscape, scape, scene, scenery, scenic view, seapiece, sight, skyscape, snowscape, sweep, townscape, view, vista, waterscape

• seashore, aquatic, balneal, bank, beach, berm, coast, coastland, coastline, deep-sea, embankment, estuarine, foreshore, grallatorial, ironbound coast, lido, littoral, natant, natatorial, natatory, plage, playa, riverside, riviera, rockbound coast, sands, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seaside, shingle, shore, shoreline, strand, submerged coast, swimming, tidal, tidewater, water-dwelling, water-growing, water-living, water-loving, waterfront, waterside

• seaside, bank, beach, berm, coast, coastal, coastland, coastline, embankment, foreshore, ironbound coast, lido, littoral, plage, playa, riparial, riparian, riparious, riverside, riviera, rockbound coast, sands, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, shingle, shore, shoreline, shoreside, shoreward, strand, submerged coast, tidewater, waterfront, waterside

• season, abate, acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, adapt, adjust, adjust to, age, alter, anhydrate, assuage, attain majority, available, beautify, besprinkle, blast-freeze, bloom, box in, break, break in, breathe, brew, brine, case harden, circumscribe, color, come of age, come to maturity, condition, confirm, corn, cultivate, cure, day, decoct, dehydrate, desiccate, develop, diminish, discipline, domesticate, domesticize, dredge, dry, dry-cure, dry-salt, dye, edible, elaborate, embalm, embellish, enliven, entincture, establish, evaporate, evolve, familiarize, fateful moment, finish, fit, fix, flavor, fledge, flower, freeze, freeze-dry, fume, gentle, grow, grow up, habituate, harden, hedge, hedge about, hour, housebreak, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, instant, instill, interval, inure, irradiate, jerk, juncture, kairos, kipper, leave the nest, leaven, limit, marinade, marinate, mature, mellow, minute, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, moment, moment of truth, mummify, narrow, naturalize, occasion, opportunity, orient, orientate, palliate, penetrate, pep up, pepper, perfect, period, permeate, pervade, pickle, point, polish, pregnant moment, prepare, preservatize, psychological moment, qualify, quick-freeze, reach manhood, reach twenty-one, reach voting age, ready, reduce, refine, refrigerate, regulate by, restrain, restrict, ripe, ripen, salt, saturate, sauce, savor, school, seasonable, seasoned, set conditions, set limits, settle down, smoke, smoke-cure, soften, space, span, spell, spice, stage, steel, steep, stretch, stuff, suffuse, tame, temper, term, time, time lag, tincture, tinge, toga virilis, toughen, train, transfuse, while, wont

• seasonable, a propos, ad rem, adapted, advantageous, advisable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, auspicious, becoming, befitting, congruous, convenient, decent, desirable, dovetailing, expedient, favorable, feasible, felicitous, fit, fitted, fitten, fitting, fortunate, fructuous, geared, good, happy, just right, likely, lucky, meet, meshing, on the button, opportune, pat, pertinent, politic, profitable, proper, propitious, prosperous, providential, qualified, recommendable, relevant, right, ripe, seemly, sortable, suitable, suited, suiting, tailored, timely, to be desired, to the point, to the purpose, useful, welcome, well-suited, well-timed, wise, worthwhile

• seasonal, aestival, alternate, arctic, autumn, autumnal, beating, boreal, brumal, canicular, circling, cyclic, epochal, equinoctial, even, every other, hibernal, hiemal, intermittent, isochronal, measured, metronomic, midsummer, midwinter, oscillatory, out of season, periodical, pulsing, reciprocal, recurrent, recurring, rhythmic, rotary, serial, solstitial, spring, springlike, steady, summer, summerlike, summerly, summery, undulant, undulatory, vernal, wavelike, wheeling, winter, winterlike, wintery, wintry

• seasoned, acclimated, acclimatized, accommodated, accustomed, adapted, adjusted, aged, blase, brisk, burning, case-hardened, conditioned, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, curried, developed, established, experienced, familiarized, full-blown, full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, habituated, hardened, hedged, hedged about, high-seasoned, hot, hot as pepper, in full bloom, inured, knowing, leavened, limited, lively, long-standing, maturated, mature, matured, mellow, mellowed, mitigated, modified, modulated, naturalized, nippy, not born yesterday, old, old-time, orientated, oriented, peppery, practical, practiced, prepared, qualified, racy, restricted, ripe, ripened, run-in, sagacious, skilled, snappy, softened, sophisticated, spiced, spicy, steeled, tangy, tempered, toughened, trained, tried, tried and true, used to, versed, vet, veteran, well-versed, with a kick, wont, wonted, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise, zestful, zesty, zippy

• seasoning, ability, acclimation, acclimatization, accommodation, accustoming, adaption, adjustment, aging, anhydration, background, beautification, blaseness, blast-freezing, bottling, breaking, breaking-in, brining, canning, capability, case hardening, competence, competency, condiment, condiments, condition, conditioning, corning, curing, dash, dehydration, desiccation, development, domestication, dry-curing, drying, elaboration, embalming, embellishment, evaporation, evolution, experience, familiarization, fitness, fittedness, flavor, flavorer, flavoring, freeze-drying, freezing, fuming, habituation, hardening, hint, housebreaking, infusion, inkling, intimation, inurement, irradiation, jerking, marination, mastery, maturation, maturescence, maturity, mellowing, mummification, naturalization, orientation, past experience, perfection, pickling, potting, practical knowledge, practice, preparedness, proficiency, qualification, quick-freezing, readiness, refinement, refrigeration, relish, ripeness, ripening, sagacity, salting, sauce, seasoner, senescence, shade, smack, smoking, sophistication, soupcon, spice, sprinkling, stuffing, suggestion, suitability, suitableness, suitedness, suspicion, taint, taming, taxidermy, tempering, thought, tinct, tincture, tinge, tinning, tint, touch, trace, training, trim, vestige, worldly wisdom, zest

• seat belt, aegis, arm guard, backstop, buffer, bulwark, bumper, contraceptive, copyright, crash helmet, cushion, dashboard, dodger, face mask, fender, finger guard, foot guard, fuse, goggles, governor, guard, guardrail, hand guard, handrail, hard hat, helmet, insulation, interlock, knee guard, knuckle guard, laminated glass, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, mask, mudguard, nose guard, pad, padding, palladium, patent, pilot, preventive, prophylactic, protective clothing, protective umbrella, safeguard, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, screen, shield, shin guard, sun helmet, umbrella, windscreen, windshield

• seat, CP, Eames chair, GHQ, HQ, Hitchcock chair, TV chair, abiding place, abode, accommodate, address, angle, armchair, armless chair, arse, ass, back seat, backside, banquette, bar stool, barber chair, barrel chair, base, base of operations, basement, basis, basket chair, batwing chair, beam, bearing wall, bed, bed chair, bedding, bedrock, behind, bench, bicycle seat, bottom, boudoir chair, bow-back chair, bucket seat, build, build in, bum, butt, buttocks, camp chair, campaign chair, can, cantonment, capital, capital city, center of authority, central administration, central office, central station, chair, club chair, club lounge chair, comb-back chair, command post, company headquarters, confirm, contain, contour chair, county seat, county site, county town, cradle, crash pad, crib, cricket, cricket chair, curule chair, dais, deep-dye, define, derriere, dining chair, distance, domicile, domus, draft chair, duff, dwelling, dwelling place, easy chair, elbowchair, embed, engraft, engrave, ensconce, enthrone, entrench, establish, estate, etch, fan-back chair, fanny, fauteuil, fender stool, fix, floor, flooring, focal point, focus, folding chair, foldstool, fond, footing, form, found, foundation, fundament, fundamental, garden chair, general headquarters, ground, grounds, groundwork, habitation, hardpan, hassock, headquarters, heart, helm, high chair, hindquarters, hold, home, horse, hub, impact, implant, impress, imprint, incumbency, infix, ingrain, inscribe, install, instate, invest, jam, ladder-back chair, lay, lay the foundation, lodge, lodging, lodging place, lodgment, main office, mansion, membership, milking stool, nerve, nest, ottoman, overstuffed chair, pack, pad, park, pavement, perspective, pew, pitch, place, place to live, plant, platform rocker, pose, posit, position, post, posterior, principle, print, put, put in, put up, radical, rear end, residence, riprap, rock bottom, rocker, rocking chair, roof, root, rudiment, rump, saddle, seat of government, seat of power, seat of state, seating, sedan chair, set, set in, set up, settee, settle, shire town, sill, sit, site, sofa, solid ground, solid rock, stamp, stand, standing, station, status, step stool, stereobate, stereotype, stick, stool, stylobate, submit, substratum, substruction, substructure, swear in, swing, taboret, tail, terra firma, throne, tush, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, understruction, understructure, venue, vest, viewpoint, wedge, woolsack

• seated, assigned, deployed, embosomed, emplaced, ensconced, established, fixed, installed, located, placed, planted, positioned, posted, set, settled, situate, situated, spotted, stationed

• SEATO, AL, ANZUS Council, ASPAC, Arab League, BIS, British Commonwealth, CACM, CENTO, Central Treaty Organization, Colombo Plan, Common Market, Commonwealth of Nations, Council of Europe, ECSC, EEC, EFTA, Euratom, European Economic Community, French Community, ICRC, Interpol, LAFTA, NATO, Nordic Council, OAS, OAU, OCAM, OECD, OPEC, WCC, Warsaw Pact, alliance, capitulation, cartel, concord, concordat, convention, entente, entente cordiale, international agreement, league, mutual-defense treaty, nonaggression pact, paction, treaty

• seawall, abutment, anchorage, anchorage ground, arc-boutant, arch dam, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, basin, beam, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, berth, boom, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, buttress, buttress pier, buttressing, cofferdam, dam, defense, dike, ditch, dock, dockage, dockyard, dry dock, earthwork, embankment, fence, flying buttress, gate, gravity dam, groin, hanging buttress, harbor, harborage, haven, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, jutty, landing, landing place, landing stage, leaping weir, levee, logjam, marina, milldam, moat, mole, moorings, mound, parapet, pier, pier buttress, port, portcullis, protected anchorage, quay, rampart, retaining wall, road, roadblock, roads, roadstead, rock-fill dam, seaport, shipyard, shoulder, shutter dam, slip, stone wall, wall, weir, wharf, wicket dam, work

• seaward, anticlockwise, clockwise, counterclockwise, earthward, heavenward, homeward, in blue water, landward, leeward, leftward, oceanward, oceanwards, off, off soundings, offshore, out of soundings, rightward, seawards, widdershins, windward

• seaweed, algae, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, climber, conferva, confervoid, creeper, diatom, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, ivy, kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss, mushroom, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, smut, succulent, toadstool, vetch, vine, wort, wrack

• sebaceous, adipose, blubbery, buttery, butyraceous, chrismal, chrismatory, fat, fatty, greasy, lardaceous, lardy, mucoid, oily, oleaginous, oleic, rich, sleek, slick, slippery, smooth, soapy, suety, tallowy, unctuous, unguent, unguentary, unguentous

• sec, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acescent, breath, coup, crab, crabbed, crack, dry, flash, green, half a jiffy, half a mo, half a second, half a shake, instant, jiff, jiffy, microsecond, millisecond, minute, moment, pickled, pungent, second, shake, sour, sour as vinegar, soured, sourish, split second, stroke, tart, tartish, tick, trice, twink, twinkle, twinkling, twitch, two shakes, unripe, unsweet, unsweetened, vinegarish, vinegary, wink

• SEC, AEC, Appalachian Regional Commission, Atomic Energy Commission, CAB, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, Civil Aeronautics Board, District of Columbia, Domestic Council, EDA, EEOC, EIB, EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, FAA, FBI, FCA, FCC, FDA, FPC, FTC, Federal Aviation Agency, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Maritime Commission, Federal Power Commission, GAO, GSA, General Accounting Office, General Services Administration, Government Printing Office, ICC, Indian Claims Commission, Interstate Commerce Commission, Library of Congress, NASA, NLRB, NSF, National Mediation Board, National Science Foundation, National Security Council, OEO, Panama Canal Company, Railroad Retirement Board, Smithsonian Institution, TVA, Tennessee Valley Authority, USIA, VA

• secant, air line, axis, beeline, chiasmal, chiasmic, chiastic, chord, crisscross, cross, crosscut, crossed, crossing, cut across, decussate, decussated, diagonal, diameter, direct line, directrix, edge, great-circle course, intersected, intersecting, normal, perpendicular, radius, radius vector, right line, segment, shortcut, side, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, streamline, tangent, transversal, vector

• secede, abandon, agree to differ, agree to disagree, apostacize, apostatize, be at variance, be in dissent, beg to differ, betray, bolt, break away, change sides, defect, desert, differ, disagree, disagree with, discord with, dissent, dissent from, divide on, drop out, fall away, fall off, forsake, go over, leave, let down, not agree, oppose, pull out, quit, rat, run out on, sell out, switch, switch over, take exception, take issue, turn cloak, withdraw, withhold assent

• secession, agreement to disagree, alienation, apostasy, backsliding, betrayal, bolt, break, breakaway, breaking, counter-culture, defection, dereliction, deserter, desertion, difference, disaccord, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, disloyalty, disparity, dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, diversity, dropping out, faithlessness, going over, minority opinion, nonagreement, nonassent, nonconcurrence, nonconformity, nonconsent, opposition, ratting, recidivation, recidivism, recreancy, recusance, recusancy, rejection, repudiation, retirement, schism, separation, treason, turning traitor, underground, variance, walkout, withdrawal

• secessionist, abjuratory, apostate, backslider, bolter, breakaway, collaborationist, collaborator, convert, defector, deserter, fifth columnist, mugwump, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, proselyte, quisling, recidivist, recreant, renegade, renegado, renegate, renunciative, renunciatory, repudiative, repudiatory, reversionist, revocatory, runagate, schismatic, seceder, separatist, strikebreaker, tergiversant, tergiversator, traitor, turnabout, turncoat, turntail

• seclude, bolt, cloister, closet, confine, cop out, cordon, cordon off, cull out, divide, enclose, forsake the world, ghettoize, gin, go into retirement, immure, insulate, isolate, keep apart, keep aside, lay aside, live alone, live apart, live in retirement, pick out, put aside, quarantine, remain incommunicado, retire, riddle, rope off, rusticate, screen, seal off, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, shut off, sieve, sift, sort out, stay at home, take the veil, thrash, thresh, winnow, withdraw

• secluded, abstruse, alone, anonymous, apart, at rest, beclouded, blind, buried, calm, cloistered, close, closet, clouded, concealed, cool, covered, covert, detached, dwindling, ebbing, eclipsed, eremitic, even-tenored, far-off, halcyon, hermetic, hid, hidden, hushed, impassive, in a backwater, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings, incognito, incommunicado, inmost, innermost, insular, interior, intimate, inward, isolated, latent, lonely, moldering, monastic, mysterious, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, personal, placid, private, privy, quarantined, quiescent, quiet, recluse, recondite, remote, removed, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, retired, screened, secluse, seclusive, secret, segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, shut off, shy, smooth, solitary, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding, tranquil, unagitated, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under wraps, underground, undisturbed, unfrequented, unknown, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, unvisited, waning, withdrawn, wrapped in clouds

• seclusion, Jim Crow, alien, alienation, aloneness, aloofness, anonymity, apartheid, celibacy, closed meeting, color bar, confidentiality, confidentialness, cordon, cordon sanitaire, cordoning off, detachment, division, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, executive session, foreigner, incognito, insularity, insulation, isolation, keeping apart, know-nothingism, loneliness, loneness, lonesomeness, moving apart, narrowness, out-group, outcast, outsider, parochialism, persona non grata, privacy, private, private conference, privateness, quarantine, quarantine flag, race hatred, racial segregation, reclusion, retirement, sanitary cordon, seclusiveness, segregation, separateness, separation, sequestration, single blessedness, snobbishness, solitariness, solitude, splendid isolation, stranger, tightness, withdrawal, xenophobia, yellow flag, yellow jack

• Seconal, Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, calmative, chloral hydrate, codeine, codeine cough syrup, depressant, depressor, dolly, downer, goofball, hard stuff, heroin, hop, horse, hypnotic, junk, knockout drops, laudanum, liquor, lotus, meperidine, methadone, morphia, morphine, narcotic, opiate, opium, pacifier, pain killer, paregoric, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, purple heart, quietener, rainbow, red, scag, secobarbital sodium, sedative, shit, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, sodium thiopental, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, tar, tranquilizer, turps, white stuff, yellow, yellow jacket

• second best, Mickey Mouse, base, cheap, cheesy, coarse, common, disappointing, falling short, fourth-class, inferior, irregular, low class, low quality, low-class, low-grade, low-quality, low-test, mean, paltry, poor, punk, second best, second-class, seedy, shabby, tacky, tantalizing, teasing, third-class, third-rate, tinny, unsatisfactory

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

• second class, Mickey Mouse, base, cheap, cheesy, coarse, common, declasse, fourth-class, hack, inferior, irregular, low-class, low-grade, low-quality, low-test, mean, paltry, poor, punk, second-best, second-rate, seedy, shabby, tacky, third-class, third-rate, tinny

• second fiddle, back seat, cog, commonality, commonalty, creature, flunky, follower, hoi polloi, humbleness, humility, inferior, inferiority, junior, juniority, lightweight, lower class, lower orders, lowliness, masses, minority, pawn, second string, secondariness, secondary, servility, subaltern, subjection, subordinacy, subordinate, subordination, subservience, third string, third stringer, underling, understrapper, yes-man

• second nature, automatism, bad habit, characteristic, creature of habit, custom, force of habit, habit, habit pattern, habitude, pattern, peculiarity, practice, praxis, stereotype, stereotyped behavior, trick, usage, use, way, wont

• second rate, Mickey Mouse, base, cheap, cheesy, coarse, common, declasse, fourth-class, hack, inferior, irregular, low-class, low-grade, low-quality, low-test, mean, paltry, poor, punk, second-best, second-class, seedy, shabby, tacky, third-class, third-rate, tinny

• second sight, ESP, a priori knowledge, anticipation, buddhi, clairsentience, clairvoyance, direct apprehension, extrasensory perception, foresight, immediate cognition, insight, inspiration, intuition, intuitionism, intuitive reason, intuitiveness, intuitivism, knowledge without thought, lucidity, precognition, premonition, psychometry, satori, second-sightedness, sixth sense, subconscious knowledge, subconscious perception, unmediated perception

• second string, agent, alternate, alternative, analogy, back seat, backup, cast, change, changeling, common, company, comparison, complement, copy, counterfeit, crew, demeaning, deputy, disadvantaged, double, dummy, eight, eleven, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange, fake, fill-in, first string, first team, five, ghost, ghostwriter, humble, humbleness, humility, imitation, in the shade, inferior, inferiority, infra dig, junior, juniority, less, lesser, locum tenens, low, lower, lowliness, lowly, makeshift, metaphor, metonymy, minor, minority, modest, next best thing, nine, ordinary, personnel, phony, pinch hitter, platoon, proxy, relief, replacement, representative, reserves, ringer, rowing crew, second fiddle, second rank, second team, secondariness, secondary, servile, servility, sign, spares, squad, stand-in, string, sub, subaltern, subject, subjection, subordinacy, subordinate, subordination, subservience, subservient, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, team, third rank, third string, token, underprivileged, understudy, utility player, varsity, vicar, vice-president, vice-regent, vulgar

• second thoughts, about-face, afterthought, afterthoughts, ambitendency, ambivalence, better thoughts, capriciousness, change of mind, changeableness, developed thought, double-mindedness, dubiety, dubiousness, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickleness, flip, flip-flop, inconstancy, indecision, indecisiveness, infirmity of purpose, instability, irresolution, mature judgment, mature thought, mercuriality, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, re-examination, reappraisal, reconsideration, rethinking, revaluation, reversal, reverse, review, right-about, right-about-face, ripe idea, second thought, tergiversating, tergiversation, turnabout, turnaround, uncertainty, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unsettledness, unsettlement, volte-face

• second to none, beyond compare, beyond comparison, easily first, facile princeps, immortal, incomparable, inimitable, invincible, matchless, nulli secundus, peerless, sui generis, unapproachable, unapproached, unbeatable, unequaled, unexampled, unexcelled, unique, unmatchable, unmatched, unparagoned, unparalleled, unpeered, unrivaled, unsurpassable, unsurpassed, without equal, without parallel

• second wind, new birth, palingenesis, palingenesy, reanimation, rebirth, recrudescence, refreshment, regeneracy, regenerateness, regeneration, regenesis, rejuvenation, rejuvenescence, renaissance, renascence, renewal, resurgence, resurrection, resuscitation, revival, revivescence, revivescency, revivification, second youth

• second, B, Janus-like, Maecenas, OK, abettor, abundant year, academic year, accept, accredit, acolyte, adjutant, admirer, advance, advocate, affirm, aficionado, agent, aid, aide, aide-de-camp, aider, alternate, alternative, ambidextrous, amen, angel, annum, another, apologist, approve, approve of, assign, assist, assistant, attendant, authenticate, authorize, autograph, auxiliary, back, back up, backer, best man, bifacial, bifold, biform, bilateral, binary, binate, biparous, bissextile year, bivalent, breath, buff, calendar month, calendar year, century, certify, champion, coadjutant, coadjutor, coadjutress, coadjutrix, common year, conduplicate, confirm, consecutive intervals, cosign, countersign, coup, crack, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective, defective year, defender, degree, dependence, deputy, diapason, diatessaron, diatonic interval, diatonic semitone, disomatous, double, double-faced, dual, duple, duplex, duplicate, encourage, encourager, endorse, endorser, enharmonic diesis, enharmonic interval, espouse, executive officer, exponent, fan, favor, favorer, fifth, fiscal year, flash, following, fortnight, fourth, friend at court, geminate, geminated, get behind, get in behind, girl Friday, give permission, give the go-ahead, give the imprimatur, give thumbs up, go along with, half a jiffy, half a mo, half a second, half a shake, half step, halftone, help, helper, helpmate, helpmeet, hour, initial, instant, interval, irregular, jiff, jiffy, later, leap year, less semitone, lieutenant, lover, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, mainstay, maintainer, man Friday, man-hour, melodic interval, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month, moon, move, newer, next, notarize, note, number two, octave, other, parallel octaves, paranymph, paraprofessional, partisan, pass, pass on, pass upon, patron, patronize, permit, promote, promoter, protagonist, quarter, quinquennium, ratify, regular year, reliance, relocate, right hand, rubber stamp, run interference for, sanction, say amen to, schlock, schmatte, seal, sec, second-best, secondarily, secondary, seconder, secondly, sectary, semester, semitone, servant, session, seventh, shake, shift, side with, sideman, sider, sidereal year, sign, sign and seal, sixth, solar year, split second, sponsor, stalwart, stand back of, stand behind, stand by, stand-in, standby, step, stick by, stick up for, stroke, subordinate, subscribe to, subsequent, substitute, sun, support, supporter, supporting actor, supporting instrumentalist, surrogate, sustainer, swear and affirm, swear to, sympathizer, take sides with, term, third, tick, tone, transfer, trice, trimester, twelvemonth, twin, twink, twinkle, twinkling, twinned, twitch, two shakes, two-faced, two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofold, undersign, understudy, underwrite, unison interval, upholder, validate, visa, vise, votary, warrant, week, weekday, well-wisher, whole step, wink, year, younger

• secondary school, Gymnasium, Latin school, Realgymnasium, Realschule, academy, grammar school, high, high school, intermediate school, junior high, junior high school, middle school, prep school, preparatory school, public school, seminary, senior high, senior high school

• secondary, Janus-like, Maxwell triangle, Munsell scale, accessory, accident, accidental, addendum, addition, additional, adjunct, adscititious, adventitious, advocate, agent, alter ego, alternate, alternative, ambidextrous, amicus curiae, analogy, ancillary, appendage, appurtenance, appurtenant, ascititious, assistant, attorney, auxiliary, backup, backup man, bifacial, bifold, biform, bilateral, binary, binate, biparous, bivalent, borrowed, casual, champion, change, changeling, chromatic circle, chromatic spectrum, chromaticity diagram, circumstantial, cog, collateral, color circle, color cycle, color index, color mixture curve, color solid, color spectrum, color system, color triangle, coming, common, commonality, commonalty, comparison, complementary color, conduplicate, consequent, contingency, contingent, copied, copy, counterfeit, covert, creature, demeaning, demitint, dependent, deputy, derivational, derivative, derived, dinky, disadvantaged, disomatous, double, double-faced, dual, dummy, duple, duplex, duplicate, employee, equal, equivalent, ersatz, eventual, exchange, executive officer, exponent, extra, fake, feather, feathers, figurehead, fill-in, final, flunky, follower, fortuitous, full color, fundamental colors, geminate, geminated, ghost, ghostwriter, hackle, half tint, halftone, happenstance, helper, hoi polloi, hue cycle, humble, imitated, imitation, in the shade, incidental, indirect, inessential, inferior, infra dig, insignificant, junior, last, less, lesser, lieutenant, lightweight, locum, locum tenens, low, low-priority, lower, lower class, lower orders, lowly, mail, makeshift, marginal, masses, mere chance, metamer, metaphor, metonymy, minor, mock, modest, monochrome, next best thing, no great shakes, nonessential, not-self, of no account, of no consequence, of no matter, of no significance, ordinary, other, paranymph, pawn, personnel, phony, pinch, pinch hitter, pleader, plumage, poor relation, primary, primary color, procurator, provisional, proxy, pure color, relief, replacement, representative, reserve, reserves, resultant, right-hand man, ringer, scrub, second, second fiddle, second in command, second rank, second string, secondary color, secondhand, servant, servile, sign, small, small-fry, small-time, solar spectrum, spare, spares, spectral color, spectrum, spectrum color, speculum, stand-in, stopgap, sub, subaltern, subject, subordinate, subsequent, subservient, subsidiary, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superadded, superaddition, superfluous, superseder, supervenient, supplanter, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, supporting, supportive, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, temporary, tentative, tertiary, tertiary color, third rank, third string, third stringer, token, tributary, twin, twinned, two-faced, two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofold, ultimate, under, underling, underprivileged, understrapper, understudy, unessential, unimportant, unoriginal, utility, utility man, utility player, vicar, vicar general, vicarious, vice, vice-president, vice-regent, vicegerent, vulgar, yes-man

• seconder, Maecenas, abettor, admirer, advocate, aficionado, angel, apologist, backer, buff, champion, defender, dependence, encourager, endorser, exponent, fan, favorer, friend at court, lover, mainstay, maintainer, paranymph, partisan, patron, promoter, protagonist, reliance, second, sectary, sider, sponsor, stalwart, standby, support, supporter, sustainer, sympathizer, upholder, votary, well-wisher

• seconds, Burley, Cuban, Fannie Mae, Federal Agency bond, Ginnie Mae, Havana, Havana seed, Latakia, Maryland, Russian, Series E bond, Series H bond, Turkish, Virginia, adjustment bond, annuity bond, appreciation bond, article, article of commerce, article of merchandise, assented bond, assumed bond, baby bond, bearer bond, bearer certificate, bond, bond anticipation note, bright, callable bond, canaster, collateral trust bond, commodity, consolidated annuities, consolidated stock, consols, convertible bond, convertible debenture, corporate bond, corporation stock, coupon bond, coupon rate, current income bond, current yield, debenture, deep-discount bond, defense bond, deferred bond, definitive bond, discount bond, drug, equipment bond, equipment note, equipment trust, equipment trust bond, equipment trust certificate, extended bond, feature, first mortgage bond, firsts, flue-cured, general mortgage bond, general obligation bond, government bond, guaranteed bond, high-grade bond, income bond, indenture, interchangeable bond, interim bond, item, joint bond, lead item, leader, leaf, loss leader, lugs, mortgage bond, municipal bond, negotiable bond, nominal rate, nonnegotiable bond, optional bond, par bond, participating bond, perpetual bond, plug tobacco, premium bond, product, purchase money bond, refunding bond, registered bond, registered certificate, revenue bond, savings bond, second mortgage bond, secured bond, shag, small bond, special, standard article, staple, staple item, state bond, tax anticipation note, tax-free bond, treasury bond, trust indenture, trustee mortgage bond, unsecured bond, vendible, voting bond, war bond, ware, yield to maturity

• secrecy, Jim Crow, apartheid, apartness, burial, burying, censorship, clandestineness, clouding, concealedness, concealment, confidentiality, confidentially, covering, covering up, covertly, covertness, darkening, deception, detachment, disappearance, furtively, furtiveness, hiddenness, hiding, hugger-mugger, hugger-muggery, hush, hush-hush, immateriality, imperceptibility, indiscernibility, interment, invisibility, isolation, isolationism, masking, mysteriously, mystery, mystification, nonappearance, obscuration, obscurement, occultation, privacy, privately, privatism, privatization, putting away, quarantine, recess, reclusion, retirement, retreat, rustication, screening, seclusion, secretion, secretively, secretiveness, secretly, secretness, segregation, separation, sequestration, silence, sneakily, splendid isolation, stealth, stealthily, subterfuge, suppression, surreptitiously, surreptitiousness, the invisible, the unseen, uncommunicativeness, unperceivability, unseeableness, unsubstantiality, viewlessness, withdrawal

• secret agent, CIA man, asker, catechist, cloak-and-dagger operative, counterintelligence agent, counterspy, cross-interrogator, cross-questioner, detective, double agent, espionage agent, examiner, inquirer, inquisitionist, inquisitor, inside man, intelligence agent, interlocutor, interpellator, interrogator, interrogatrix, interviewer, military-intelligence man, naval-intelligence man, operative, opinion-sampler, poller, pollster, prober, querier, querist, questioner, questionist, quizzer, reconnoiterer, sampler, scout, spotter, spy, spy-catcher, undercover man

• secret language, Aesopian language, Babel, Greek, argot, babble, cant, cipher, code, coded message, cryptoanalysis, cryptoanalytics, cryptogram, cryptograph, cryptographer, cryptography, double Dutch, garble, gibberish, gift of tongues, glossolalia, gobbledygook, invisible ink, jargon, jumble, noise, scramble, secret writing, slang, sympathetic ink

• secret place, adytum, ashram, asylum, being, bolt-hole, bones, bosom, breast, cache, cell, center, cloister, concealment, core, corner, cover, covert, coverture, cranny, cubby, cubbyhole, dark corner, deepest recesses, den, dugout, esprit, foxhole, funk hole, guts, heart, heart of hearts, heartstrings, hermitage, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hole, holy of holies, inmost heart, inmost soul, inner, inner landscape, inner life, inner man, inner nature, inner recess, inner self, innermost being, inside, interior, interior man, intern, internal, intrados, inward, ivory tower, lair, mew, niche, nook, penetralia, privacy, recess, recesses, refuge, retreat, sanctuary, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, secret places, soul, spirit, stash, undercovert, viscera, vital center, vitals

• secret police, Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, bugging, cloak-and-dagger work, constabulary, counterespionage, counterintelligence, county police, electronic surveillance, espial, espionage, following, highway patrol, intelligence, intelligence work, law enforcement agency, military intelligence, military police, observation, police, police force, political police, posse, provincial police, riot police, secret service, security force, shadowing, shore patrol, special police, spying, stakeout, state police, surveillance, tactical police, tailing, trailing, troopers, vigilance committee, vigilantes, wiretap, wiretapping

• Secret Service, Bow Street runner, FBI, FBI agent, Federal, G-man, Sherlock Holmes, T-man, detective, fed, hotel detective, house detective, house dick, inquiry agent, investigator, narc, operative, plainclothesman, police detective, private detective, private investigator, revenuer, sleuth, store detective, treasury agent

• secret service, bugging, cloak-and-dagger work, counterespionage, counterintelligence, electronic surveillance, espial, espionage, following, intelligence, intelligence bureau, intelligence service, intelligence work, military intelligence, naval intelligence, observation, secret police, shadowing, spying, stakeout, surveillance, tailing, trailing, wiretap, wiretapping

• secret, abstract, abstruse, arcane, arcanum, beclouded, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, blind, buried, by stealth, cabala, cabalistic, camouflaged, censored, clandestine, classified, classified information, close, closed, closemouthed, clouded, concealed, confidence, confidential, confidential communication, confidentially, covered, covert, cryptic, cryptographic, dark, deep, deep-seated, devious, discreet, disguised, eclipsed, encrypted, enigma, enigmatic, esoteric, esoterica, evasive, furtive, furtively, genitals, guarded secret, heavy, hermetic, hermetics, hid, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, immanent, imperceptible, implanted, implicit, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in secret, in the wings, inalienable, incommunicado, incomprehensible, indiscernible, indwelling, infixed, ingrained, inherent, inner, insensible, internal, intrinsic, invisible, inward, inwrought, irreducible, latent, lonesome, mysterious, mystery, mystery of mysteries, mystical, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, on the sly, out of sight, out-of-the-way, parts, personal matter, private, private matter, private parts, privately, privates, privileged communication, privity, privy, privy parts, profound, profound secret, pudenda, quiet, quietly, recondite, remote, removed, resident, restricted, restricted information, retired, screened, sealed book, secluded, secluse, secretive, secretly, sequestered, shifty, shrouded, sightless, smothered, sneak, stealthily, stealthy, stifled, subjective, submerged, suppressed, surreptitious, surreptitiously, the occult, top secret, top-secret, transcendental, ulterior, unacknowledged, unalienable, unapparent, unbeheld, unbeholdable, unbreatheable, unchallengeable, uncommunicative, undeclared, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under security, under wraps, under-the-table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, underneath, undiscernible, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unknown, unnoticed, unobserved, unperceivable, unperceived, unpublishable, unpublished, unquestionable, unrealized, unrevealable, unrevealed, unseeable, unseen, unspoken, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unviewed, unwhisperable, unwitnessed, viewless, wrapped in clouds

• secrete, accumulate, amass, backlog, bosom, bottle up, bury, cache, camouflage, classify, cloak, collect, conceal, cover, cumulate, deposit, discharge, disguise, drain, dribble, drip, drop, effuse, egest, eliminate, emanate, embosom, emit, ensconce, enshroud, excrete, extravasate, exudate, exude, file and forget, garner, garner up, gather into barns, generate, give off, give out, heap up, hide, hide away, hoard, hoard up, hold, hold out on, in petto, keep, keep back, keep between us, keep buttoned up, keep close, keep dark, keep from, keep hidden, keep in ignorance, keep mum, keep secret, keep snug, keep under wraps, lactate, lay up, leak, lock up, make no sign, mask, never let on, not give away, not tell, ooze, pass, pile up, plant, play dumb, produce, put away, put up, release, run, save, save up, screen, seal up, secern, seep, shroud, squirrel, squirrel away, stash, stock up, stockpile, store away, store up, stow away, tear, transude, treasure, treasure up, trickle, veil, water, weep, withhold, yield

• secretion, burial, burying, clouding, concealedness, concealment, covering, covering up, covertness, darkening, deception, discharge, discharging, drain, draining, dribbling, drip, dripping, drop, dropping, effusion, egestion, ejaculation, ejection, elimination, emanating, emanation, emission, escape, excreta, excreting, excretion, extravasate, extravasation, extrusion, exudation, flow, flux, generation, hiddenness, hiding, interment, invisibility, leak, leakage, leaking, masking, mystification, obscuration, obscurement, occultation, oozing, putting away, release, running, screening, secrecy, secreting, seepage, seeping, subterfuge, transudate, transudation, trickle, trickling, uncommunicativeness

• secretive, close, closemouthed, dark, discreet, disinclined to communicate, evasive, excretory, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, meaningless, mum, reserved, reticent, rheumy, salivant, salivary, salivous, secret, secretional, secretory, seminal, serous, shifty, sialagogic, silent, spermatic, taciturn, tight-lipped, uncommunicative, unconversable, unsociable, watering, watery

• secretly, behind closed doors, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, behind the veil, by stealth, confidentially, covertly, furtively, hugger-mugger, in a corner, in a whisper, in camera, in darkness, in hidlings, in secret, in the background, in the dark, mysteriously, nobody the wiser, on the quiet, on the sly, privately, privily, quietly, slyly, sotto voce, stealthily, sub rosa, surreptitiously, under the breath, under the rose, undercover, underground, with bated breath

• secretory, egestive, eliminative, excretionary, excretive, excretory, exudative, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, rheumy, salivant, salivary, salivous, secretional, secretive, seminal, serous, sialagogic, spermatic, transudative, watering, watery

• sect, Babi, Babism, Bahaism, Brahmanism, Brahmoism, Buddhism, Chen Yen Buddhism, Christianity, adherents, affiliation, anthroposophy, body, branch, breakaway group, cabal, camp, caucus, church, class, clique, communion, community, confession, connection, creed, cult, denomination, disciples, division, ethnic group, faction, faith, fellowship, followers, group, interest, interest group, ism, minority group, offshoot, order, organization, party, persuasion, political party, pressure group, religious order, schism, school, school of thought, sectarism, segment, set, side, silent majority, society, splinter, splinter group, variety, version, vocal minority, wing

• sectarian, Bohemian, adherent, alienated, antiestablishment, apostate, at odds with, at variance with, beatification, beatitude, beatnik, bigot, bigoted, blessedness, blessing, breakaway, bug, canonization, clannish, cliquish, consecration, counter-culture, cultish, cultist, dedication, demurrer, denominational, denominationalist, deviant, devotion, differing, disagreeing, dissenter, dissentient, dissenting, dissident, doctrinaire, dogmatic, dogmatist, dropout, enshrinement, exaltation, extremist, factional, factionist, fanatic, fanatical, fiend, flower child, freak, glorification, grace, hallowing, heretic, heterodox, hippie, in opposition, insular, interested, justification, justification by works, limited, local, maverick, member, misfit, narrow, narrow-minded, nonconforming, nonconformist, nonjuror, nut, objector, opinionist, opposing, opposition voice, original, parochial, partial, partisan, party, prejudiced, prejudicial, protestant, protester, provincial, purification, recusant, rigid, sainthood, sainting, sanctification, schismatic, sectary, sectional, separatist, setting apart, small-town, splinter, state of grace, swinger, true believer, ugly duckling, unconformist, underground, unorthodox, votary, yippie, zealot

• sectarianism, clannishness, clanship, cliqueyness, cliquishness, cliquism, denominationalism, eclecticism, esprit de corps, ethnocentricity, exclusiveness, faction, factionalism, partiality, partisanism, partisanship, party spirit, schismatism, sectarism, sectionalism, syncretism

• sectary, Bohemian, Maecenas, Young Turk, abettor, adherent, admirer, advocate, aficionado, alienated, angel, antiestablishment, apologist, apostate, appendage, at odds with, at variance with, attendant, backer, beatnik, bigot, breakaway, buff, cavaliere servente, champion, cohort, counter-culture, courtier, dangler, defender, demurrer, denominational, denominationalist, dependence, dependent, deviant, differing, disagreeing, disciple, dissenter, dissentient, dissenting, dissident, dropout, encourager, endorser, exponent, factional, factionist, fan, favorer, flower child, flunky, follower, following, freak, friend at court, hanger-on, henchman, heretic, hippie, homme de cour, in opposition, interested, liberal, lover, mainstay, maintainer, maverick, misbeliever, misfit, nonconforming, nonconformist, nonjuror, objector, opinionist, opposing, opposition voice, original, paranymph, parasite, partial, partisan, party, patron, promoter, protagonist, protestant, protester, public, pursuer, pursuivant, radical, rebel, recusant, reliance, revolutionary, satellite, schismatic, second, seconder, sectarian, sectional, separatist, shadow, sider, sponsor, stalwart, standby, stooge, successor, support, supporter, sustainer, swinger, sympathizer, tagtail, tail, trainbearer, ugly duckling, unconformist, underground, upholder, votary, ward heeler, well-wisher, yippie

• section, KP, abscission, adjunct, airspace, allocate, allot, amputation, anacrusis, anastomotic operation, apportion, area, army, army group, article, back matter, bass passage, battalion, battery, battle group, belt, biotype, block, blood, bloodless operation, book, bourdon, bracket, branch, break up, bridge, brigade, burden, butchering, cadence, cadre, capital operation, caste, category, chapter, chopping, chorus, clan, class, clause, cleavage, cleave, clos, close, coda, cohort, column, combat command, combat team, company, compensating operation, component, confines, continental shelf, contingent, corneal transplant, corps, corridor, country, crescent operation, croft, cross section, cut, cut up, cutting, department, detachment, detail, development, dichotomy, district, divide, divide up, division, divvy, divvy up, dole, elective operation, element, emergency operation, enclave, enucleation, environs, estate, excision, exploratory operation, exposition, family, fascicle, fenestration operation, field, field army, field train, figure, file, fission, flying column, folderol, folio, forty, fraction, front matter, garrison, gathering, genotype, genus, grade, ground, group, grouping, harmonic close, head, heading, heart transplant, heartland, hinterland, installment, interlude, intermezzo, interval operation, introductory phrase, item, kidney transplant, kin, kingdom, kitchen police, kraal, label, laceration, land, leg, legion, level, livraison, locality, lot, major operation, maniple, measure, measure out, member, milieu, minor operation, moiety, movement, musical phrase, musical sentence, mutilation, neighborhood, number, offshore rights, operation, order, organ transplant, organ transplantation, organization, ornament, outfit, page, pale, palliative operation, paragraph, parcel, parcel of land, parcel out, part, particular, partition, parts, passage, patch, percentage, period, phalanx, phrase, phylum, piece, pigeonhole, place, plat, platoon, plot, plot of ground, portion, position, posse, precinct, precincts, predicament, premises, purlieus, quad, quadrangle, quadrant, quarter, quota, race, radical operation, random sample, rank, rating, real estate, refrain, regiment, region, remainder, removal, rending, resection, resolution, response, ripping, ritornello, rubric, salient, sample, sampling, scission, sector, segment, sentence, separate, sept, serial, series, set, severance, share, sheet, signature, slashing, slice, slicing, soil, space, species, sphere, split, split up, splitting, squad, squadron, square, stage, stanza, statement, station, status, strain, stratum, subclass, subdivide, subdivision, subfamily, subgenus, subgroup, subkingdom, suborder, subspecies, subtribe, superclass, superfamily, superorder, superspecies, surgery, surgical intervention, surgical operation, surgical technique, tactical unit, tailpiece, task force, tearing, terrain, territory, text, the knife, three-mile limit, title, tract, train, transplant, tribe, troop, tutti, tutti passage, twelve-mile limit, unit, variation, variety, verse, vicinage, vicinity, volume, wing, zone

• sectional, areal, denominational, factional, fractional, fragmentary, geographical, incomplete, interested, locational, part, partial, partisan, party, regional, sectarian, sectary, segmental, segmentary, territorial, topographic, zonal

• sectionalism, autarky, bimetallism, clannishness, clanship, cliqueyness, cliquishness, cliquism, denominationalism, economic self-sufficiency, esprit de corps, ethnocentricity, exclusiveness, faction, factionalism, free enterprise, free trade, governmentalism, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, line, localism, managed currency, noninterference, nonintervention, nullification, partiality, partisanism, partisanship, party line, party principle, party spirit, planned economy, policy, polity, position, price supports, protection, protectionism, public policy, pump-priming, sectarianism

• sector, adjunct, component, contingent, crescent, cross section, detachment, detail, district, division, dole, fraction, half circle, hemicycle, installment, item, parcel, part, particular, percentage, portion, precinct, quadrant, quarter, quota, random sample, remainder, sample, sampling, section, segment, semicircle, sextant, share, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies

• secular, Philistine, annual, biannual, biennial, bimonthly, biweekly, bodily, brother, carnal, carnal-minded, catamenial, catechumen, centenary, centennial, centesimal, centigrado, centuple, centuplicate, centurial, church member, churchman, churchwoman, civil, communicant, congregational, corporal, corporeal, daily, decennial, diurnal, down-to-earth, earthly, earthy, fleshly, fortnightly, hardheaded, hebdomadal, hourly, hundredfold, hundredth, hylic, laic, laical, lay, lay brother, lay sister, layman, laywoman, material, materialistic, materiate, matter-of-fact, menstrual, momentary, momently, monthly, mundane, nonclerical, nonecclesiastical, nonministerial, nonordained, nonpastoral, nonreligious, nonsacred, nonspiritual, parishioner, physical, popular, positivistic, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, profane, quarterly, quotidian, rational, realist, realistic, reasonable, reprobate, sane, scientific, scientistic, secularist, secularistic, semestral, semiannual, semimonthly, semiweekly, semiyearly, sensible, sister, sober-minded, somatic, sound, sound-thinking, state, straight-thinking, substantial, temporal, terrestrial, tertian, triennial, unblessed, unhallowed, unholy, unideal, unidealistic, unregenerate, unromantic, unsacred, unsanctified, unsentimental, unspiritual, weekly, worldly, yearly

• secularism, Buddhology, Mariolatry, Mariology, Marxism, Mercersburg theology, animalism, apologetics, atheism, atomism, behaviorism, canonics, commonsense realism, crisis theology, dialectical materialism, dialogical theology, disbelief, divinity, doctrinalism, doctrinism, dogmatics, down-to-earthness, earthiness, earthliness, empiricism, epiphenomenalism, eschatology, existential theology, faithlessness, freedom from illusion, hagiography, hagiology, hardheadedness, hierology, historical materialism, hylomorphism, hylotheism, hylozoism, infidelity, lack of feelings, logos Christology, logos theology, materialism, matter-of-factness, mechanism, minimifidianism, natural realism, natural theology, naturalism, neoorthodox theology, neoorthodoxy, new realism, nullifidianism, patristic theology, phenomenological theology, physicalism, physicism, physicotheology, positive philosophy, positivism, practical-mindedness, practicality, practicalness, pragmaticism, pragmatism, rationalism, rationality, realism, reasonableness, religion, representative realism, saneness, scholastic theology, scientism, sensibleness, sober-mindedness, soteriology, substantialism, systematics, temporality, theology, unbelief, unidealism, unromanticalness, unsentimentality, worldliness

• secure, accept, acquire, admit, advocate, affix, anchor, anchored, annex, arm, armor, arouse, arrogant, arrogate, ascertained, assume, assumed, assure, assured, attach, attest, attested, back, bag, balanced, bang, bar, barricade, batten, batten down, be seized of, be sponsor for, belay, believing, bind, bless, bolt, bond, bonded, bridle, bring, bring back, bring forth, bring out, bring to light, bulwark, button, button up, calculable, call a strike, call for, call forth, call it quits, call out, call up, capture, catch, cement, cemented, certain, certified, certify, chain, champion, chase after, choke, choke off, cinch, clamp, clap, clinch, cloak, close, close down, close shop, close up, closed, cocksure, collar, come by, come in for, come into, compass about, confident, confirm, constrict, contain, contract, convinced, cool, copyright, corral, cosy, countersecure, cover, cramp, cushion, decided, deduce, defend, definite, dependable, derive, derive from, determinate, determined, devout, dogmatic, doubtless, drag down, drag out, draw, draw forth, draw from, draw out, earn, easy, educe, elicit, enchain, endorse, engraft, ensure, ensured, enter into possession, entrammel, established, evident, evoke, faithful, faithworthy, fast, fasten, fasten down, fastened, fence, fend, fetch, fetch and carry, fetter, fideistic, fiducial, firm, firm as Gibraltar, fix, fixed, flank, fold, fold up, gain, get, get from, get hold of, get out of, glued, go after, go and get, go fetch, go for, go get, go on strike, go to get, good, graft, grapple, guarantee, guaranteed, guaranty, guard, guard against, gyve, hamper, handcuff, harbor, harvest, have, have coming in, haven, healthy, hobble, hog-tie, hopple, hubristic, hypothecate, immovable, immune, immunized, imperturbable, impressed with, in equilibrium, in the bag, induce, inevitable, insure, insured, intact, invincible, jammed, keep, keep from harm, key, knit, knock off, lash, latch, lay off, leash, lock, lock out, lock up, locked up, made sure, make, make fast, make safe, make secure, make sure, manacle, moor, moored, nail, nailed down, nestle, net, obtain, obvious, occlude, on ice, open-and-shut, overconfident, oversure, overweening, padlock, patent, peg down, persuaded, pick up, picket, pietistic, pin down, pinion, pious, pistic, plumb, poised, police, pompous, positive, predictable, prehend, preserve, probable, procure, produce, profitable, protect, protected, proud, proved, pull down, put in irons, put to, reap, reassured, receive, register, reliable, restrain, retrieve, ride shotgun for, rivet, rope, rouse, run after, sack, safe, safe and sound, safeguard, sanguine, satisfied, score, screen, screw up, seal, seal off, seal up, self, self-assured, self-confident, self-important, self-reliant, set, set to, settled, shackle, shag, shelter, sheltered, shield, shielded, shroud, shut, shut down, shut the door, shut up, shut up shop, sign, sign for, slam, snap, snug, sold on, solid, sound, sponsor, squeeze shut, stable, stand behind, stand up for, stated, staunch, steadfast, steady, stimulate, straitjacket, strangle, strap, strike, strong, stuck, sturdy, subscribe to, substantial, summon forth, summon up, sure, surefire, take, take in, take on, take over, take possession of, taped, tested, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, tight, tighten, trammel, trice up, tried, trim, trustworthy, trusty, unafraid, undamaged, under the impression, undersign, underwrite, undoubtful, undoubting, unexposed, unfailing, unfaltering, unflappable, unflinching, unharmed, unhesitating, unhurt, unquestionable, unscathed, unshakable, unthreatened, untouched, unwavering, walk out, wangle, wangle out of, warrant, warranted, wedged, well-balanced, well-founded, well-grounded, win, winkle out, without nerves, worm out, worm out of, zip up, zipper

• security blanket, aid, backing, carriage, carrying, maintenance, moral support, psychological support, reliance, subsidy, subvention, support, supportive relationship, supportive therapy, sustaining, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, upholding, upkeep

• security, Easy Street, aegis, affluence, aplomb, armament, armor, arrogance, aspiration, assumption, assurance, assured faith, assuredness, asylum, authenticity, authoritativeness, bail, balance, balanced personality, bamboo curtain, barrier of secrecy, bed of roses, belief, blackout, bond, calculability, care, censorship, certainty, certification, certitude, cheerful expectation, clear sailing, clover, cocksureness, collateral, comfort, confidence, confidentness, constancy, conviction, cool, courage, curtain, custodianship, custody, dependability, dependence, deposit, desire, doomed hope, earnest, ease, easy circumstances, equilibrium, expectation, fair prospect, faith, faithworthiness, fastness, felicity, fervent hope, firmness, fleshpots, gage, good cheer, good hope, gracious life, gracious living, great expectations, guarantee, guaranty, guard, guarding, happiness, harmlessness, high hopes, homeostasis, hope, hopeful prognosis, hopefulness, hopes, hoping, hoping against hope, hubris, hush-up, immunity, imperturbability, insurance, invariability, invincibility, invulnerability, iron curtain, ironbound security, lap of luxury, life of ease, loaves and fishes, luxury, nerve, oath of secrecy, official secrecy, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, pall, pawn, pledge, poise, pomposity, positiveness, prayerful hope, predictability, presumption, pride, promise, prospect, prospects, prosperity, prosperousness, protection, refuge, reliability, reliance, repression, risklessness, rootedness, safeguard, safeguarding, safeness, safety, sanctuary, sang-froid, sanguine expectation, seal of secrecy, secureness, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-importance, self-reliance, settled belief, shelter, shield, smothering, solidity, soundness, stability, stable equilibrium, stable state, stableness, staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, steady nerves, steady state, stifling, strength, subjective certainty, substantiality, success, suppression, sureness, surety, surveillance, the affluent life, the good life, thriving condition, token, trust, trustworthiness, undeflectability, unerringness, uniformity, unshakable nerves, unshakableness, upward mobility, validity, veil, veil of secrecy, velvet, ward, warrant, warranty, weal, wealth, welfare, well-being, well-grounded hope, wraps

• sedate, anesthetize, aristocratic, august, calm, collected, composed, controlled, conventional, cool, courtly, decorous, demure, detached, dignified, dispassionate, dope, drug, earnest, entrance, even-tempered, formal, frowning, fussy, grand, grave, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, hypnotize, imperturbable, imposing, kingly, long-faced, lordly, lull to sleep, magisterial, magnetize, majestic, mesmerize, moderate, narcotize, no-nonsense, noble, old-fashioned, peaceful, placid, prim, princely, proper, prudish, put to sleep, put under, queenly, refined, regal, rock to sleep, royal, seemly, serene, serious, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, solemn, somber, staid, stately, statuesque, stiff, stone-faced, straight-faced, strait-laced, temperate, thoughtful, trance, tranquil, undisturbed, unflappable, unperturbed, unruffled, unsmiling, venerable, weighty, worthy

• sedated, anesthetized, cataleptic, comatose, doped, dozy, dreamy, drowsy, drugged, drugged with sleep, half asleep, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, in a stupor, languid, lethargic, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotized, narcous, nodding, oscitant, out of it, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleepy, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somnolent, soporific, stretchy, stuporose, stuporous, yawning, yawny

• sedation, catalepsy, coma, encephalitis lethargica, high, lethargy, narcohypnosis, narcolepsy, narcoma, narcosis, narcotic stupor, narcotization, nod, shock, sleeping sickness, sopor, stupor, swoon, thanatosis, trance

• sedative, Mickey Finn, allaying, anodyne, balm, barbiturate, calmant, calmative, calming, depressant, depressing, downer, hypnotic, lenitive, narcotic, opiate, pacifier, relaxing, sleep-inducing, sleeping, sleeping pill, soothing, soporific, tranquilizer

• sedentary, abeyant, apathetic, at a standstill, cataleptic, catatonic, dead, dopey, dormant, dull, fixed, flat, foul, groggy, heavy, immobile, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inert, languid, languorous, latent, leaden, lifeless, logy, motionless, passive, phlegmatic, quiescent, seated, sitting, slack, sleeping, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, stagnant, standing, static, stationary, suspended, tame, torpid, unactive, unaroused, unmoving

• sediment, alluvion, alluvium, ash, bottoms, cinder, clinker, debris, deposit, deposition, deposits, detritus, diluvium, draff, dregs, drift, dross, ember, feces, froth, grounds, lees, loess, moraine, offscum, precipitate, precipitation, remains, residue, residuum, scoria, scree, scum, sedimentate, settlings, silt, sinter, slag, smut, soot, sublimate

• sedition, action, agitation, alienation, collaboration, coup, disaffection, estrangement, extremism, factiousness, fifth-column activity, fomentation, fraternization, high treason, instigation, insurgence, insurgency, insurgentism, insurrection, insurrectionism, lese majesty, misprision of treason, mutinousness, mutiny, petty treason, protest, putsch, quislingism, rabble-rousing, rebellion, rebelliousness, revolt, revolution, riotousness, seditiousness, stirring up, strike, subversiveness, traitorousness, treachery, treason, treasonableness, uprising, whipping up

• seditionist, agent provocateur, agitator, agitprop, catalyst, demagogue, exciter, firebrand, fomenter, incendiary, inciter, inflamer, instigator, mischief-maker, provocateur, provoker, rabble-rouser, ringleader, rouser, seditionary, troublemaker, urger

• seditious, alienated, breakaway, contumacious, disaffected, disloyal, dissident, extreme, extremistic, factious, faithless, inflammatory, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, lawless, mutineering, mutinous, perfidious, rabble-rousing, rebel, rebellious, refractory, revolutional, revolutionary, riotous, seditionary, subversive, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, turbulent, turncoat, unfaithful, violent

• seduce, abuse, allure, attract, bait, bait the hook, becharm, beguile, betray, bewitch, blandish, cajole, captivate, carry away, charm, coax, corrupt, debauch, deceive, decoy, defile, deflower, degrade, delude, despoil, dishonor, draw, draw in, draw on, enamor, endear, enrapture, enslave, ensnare, entice, entrance, entrap, fascinate, flirt, flirt with, force, give the come-on, hold in thrall, infatuate, inflame with love, inveigle, lead astray, lead on, lure, mislead, offer bait to, overpower, overwhelm, pervert, rape, ravage, ravish, rope in, ruin, soil, suck in, sully, sweet-talk, tantalize, tease, tempt, train, trap, undo, vamp, violate, woo

• seducer, Artful Dodger, Casanova, Circe, Don Juan, Lorelei, Lothario, Machiavel, Machiavelli, Machiavellian, Parthenope, Romeo, Siren, actor, amoroso, bamboozler, beau, befuddler, beguiler, betrayer, boyfriend, caballero, cavalier, cavaliere servente, charmer, coquette, counterfeiter, debauchee, debaucher, deceiver, defiler, deluder, despoiler, dissembler, dissimulator, dodger, double-dealer, duper, enchanter, enchantress, enticer, entrancer, esquire, faker, fellow, femme fatale, flame, flirt, fooler, forger, gallant, gay deceiver, gigolo, heartbreaker, hoaxer, hypnotizer, inamorato, inveigler, jilt, jilter, joker, jokester, kidder, lady-killer, lecher, leg-puller, libertine, love-maker, lover, man, masher, mesmerizer, misleader, necker, old man, petter, philander, philanderer, plagiarist, plagiarizer, playactor, playboy, practical joker, ragger, raper, rapist, ravager, ravisher, role-player, roue, seductress, sheik, siren, skirt chaser, spoofer, squire, sugar daddy, swain, tease, teaser, tempter, temptress, vamp, vampire, violator, wolf, woman chaser, young man

• seduction, abuse, agacerie, allure, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, beguilement, beguiling, betrayal, bewitchery, bewitchment, blandishment, cajolery, call, captivation, charisma, charm, charmingness, come-hither, corruption, criminal assault, debauchment, defilement, defloration, deflowering, degradation, despoilment, draw, drawing power, enchantment, enthrallment, enticement, entrapment, fascination, flirtation, forbidden fruit, glamour, inducement, interest, inveiglement, invitation, lorelei, lure, magnetism, perversion, priapism, pull, rape, ravage, ravishment, ruin, seducement, seductiveness, sex appeal, sexual assault, siren song, snaring, tantalization, temptation, violation, winning ways, winsomeness, witchery, wooing

• seductive, acceptable, adorable, agreeable, alluring, appealing, appetizing, attracting, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, captivating, catching, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, coquettish, desirable, drawing, enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, enviable, exciting, exotic, fascinating, flirtatious, glamorous, hypnotic, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, likable, lovable, magnetic, mesmeric, mouth-watering, piquant, pleasing, prepossessing, provocative, provoquant, ravishing, seducing, sexy, siren, sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, tickling, titillating, titillative, to be desired, toothsome, unobjectionable, winning, winsome, witching, worth having

• seductress, Aspasia, Circe, Delilah, Don Juan, Jezebel, Lorelei, Messalina, Parthenope, Phryne, Siren, Thais, adventuress, charmer, coquette, courtesan, demimondaine, demimonde, demirep, enchanter, enchantress, enticer, femme fatale, flirt, harem girl, hetaera, houri, inveigler, odalisque, seducer, siren, teaser, tempter, temptress, vamp, vampire

• sedulous, active, ardent, assiduous, busy, constant, continuing, diligent, dogged, elaborate, enduring, energetic, faithful, fervent, hard, hardworking, hustling, immutable, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, insistent, invincible, laborious, lasting, loyal, never idle, never-tiring, obstinate, operose, painstaking, patient, patient as Job, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, rapt, relentless, resolute, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, stable, steadfast, steady, strenuous, stubborn, tenacious, thorough, thoroughgoing, tireless, unabating, unconquerable, undaunted, undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unsleeping, unsparing, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, vehement, weariless, zealous

• see after, attend to, baby-sit, care for, chaperon, cherish, conserve, foster, keep watch over, look after, look out for, look to, matronize, mind, minister to, mother, nurse, nurture, preserve, protege, provide for, ride herd on, see to, shepherd, support, take care of, take charge of, tend, watch, watch out for, watch over

• see fit, choose, choose rather, choose to, command, decide, decree, desire, determine, favor, have a bias, have preference, have rather, honor before, lean towards, like better, please, prefer, prefer to, rather, resolve, set before, think best, think fit, think good, think proper, will, wish

• see it through, carry through, exhaust every move, follow out, follow through, follow up, get along, get on, go all lengths, go all out, go for broke, go on, go on with, go the limit, hang in, hang tough, keep at it, leave nothing undone, make out, manage, never say die, overlook nothing, persevere, persist, see out, stick it out, stick to it, survive

• see the light, appear, arise, awake, awaken, be begotten, be born, be incarnated, become manifest, become public, become visible, break, buzz about, circulate, come, come alive, come forth, come forward, come in sight, come into being, come into existence, come out, come to, come to hand, come to life, come to light, crop out, descry, discern, emerge, enter, fade in, find vent, fly about, get about, get abroad, get afloat, get around, get exposure, go about, go forth, go the rounds, have currency, heave in sight, issue, issue forth, live again, look forth, loom, make out, materialize, outcrop, peep out, penetrate, perceive, pierce, plumb, quicken, reanimate, rear its head, resurge, resuscitate, return to life, revive, rise, rise again, see, see daylight, see into, see through, show, show up, spread, spread about, spread like wildfire, stream forth, strike the eye, turn up

• see through, be hep to, be on to, be wise to, catch on to, come alive, descry, discern, make out, penetrate, perceive, pierce, plumb, see, see daylight, see into, see the light, tumble to, wise up to

• see to, advert to, angle for, ask for, attend to, baby-sit, be aware of, be engrossed in, be responsible for, beat about for, care for, carry on, carry out, carry through, chaperon, cherish, conduct, conserve, deal with, delve for, dig for, direct, drink in, drive, fish for, follow, foster, give heed to, give mind to, give thought to, go gunning for, gun for, handle, hunt, hunt for, hunt up, keep watch over, look, look after, look for, look out for, look to, look up, make go, manage, maneuver, manipulate, matronize, mind, minister to, mother, not forget, nurse, nurture, operate, pay attention to, pay regard to, perform on, pilot, play, practice, preserve, protege, provide for, prowl after, pursue, quest, ride herd on, run, search for, see after, seek, seek for, shepherd, steer, still-hunt, support, take care of, take charge of, tend, try to find, turn to, watch, watch out for, watch over, work

• see, NB, animadvert, ante, ante up, appear, appraise, appreciate, apprehend, archbishopric, archdiocese, ascertain, assister, assure, attend, back, be acquainted with, be apprised of, be at, be aware of, be cognizant of, be conscious of, be conversant with, be informed, be present at, be sensible of, behold, bet, bet on, bishopric, call, call on, call to mind, call up, call upon, catch, catch sight of, certify, cinch, clap eyes on, clear up, clinch, cognize, come alive, come to, comprehend, conceive, conceptualize, conference, conjure up, consider, contemplate, cover, decide, descry, detect, determine, diocese, discern, discover, dismiss all doubt, distinguish, do, drop in, ensure, envisage, envision, espy, establish, examine, experience, fade, fathom, feel, find out, fix, gamble, get at, glimpse, go to, grasp, have, have in sight, have information about, have knowledge of, hazard, hear, heed, identify, image, imagine, inspect, insure, just see, ken, know, lay, lay a wager, lay down, lay eyes on, look, look in, look on, look upon, make a bet, make certain, make no doubt, make no mistake, make out, make sure, make sure of, mark, meet a bet, mind, nail down, note, notice, objectify, observe, occupy, parish, parlay, pass, pay a visit, penetrate, perceive, pick out, pick up, picture, pierce, play against, plumb, plunge, ponder, possess, prehend, probe, province, punt, realize, reassure, recognize, regard, remark, remove all doubt, represent, respond, respond to stimuli, run in, savvy, scan, scrutinize, see daylight, see into, see that, see the light, see through, see to it, seize, sense, set at rest, settle, show up, sight, sit in, smell, sort out, spot, spy, stake, stand pat, stop by, stop off, stop over, study, summon up, synod, take in, take note, take notice, taste, tend, touch, turn up, twig, understand, view, vision, visit, visualize, wager, watch, weigh, witness, wot, wot of

• seeable, apparent, beholdable, clear, clear as crystal, crystal-clear, detectable, discernible, disclosed, distinct, evident, explicit, exposed, exposed to view, express, hanging out, in evidence, in full view, in plain sight, in view, indisputable, indubitable, insight, manifest, naked, noticeable, observable, obvious, ocular, open, open to view, open-and-shut, outcropping, palpable, patent, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, plain as day, recognizable, revealed, self-evident, self-explaining, self-explanatory, showing, tangible, to be seen, unclouded, unconcealed, undisguised, unhidden, unmistakable, viewable, visible, visual, witnessable

• seed, Anlage, acorn, affiliation, androcyte, antheridium, antherozoid, apparentation, basis, bed, berry, bird seed, birth, blood, bloodline, branch, breed, broadcast, brood, bud, bulb, cause, children, common ancestry, conceit, concept, conception, consanguinity, core, corm, decay, decline, degenerate, derivation, descendants, descent, deteriorate, dibble, direct line, disseminate, distaff side, distribute, drill, egg, embryo, extraction, family, female line, filiation, flaxseed, forest, fruit, germ, germen, go downhill, go to pot, grain, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, grounds, hayseed, heirs, hostages to fortune, house, image, implant, impression, inheritors, inseminate, issue, kernel, kids, line, line of descent, lineage, linseed, little ones, loins, male gamete, male line, milt, motivation, motive, new generation, notion, nucleus, nut, offspring, origin, ovule, ovum, phylum, pip, pit, pitch, plant, pollen, posterity, pot, progeniture, progeny, protein, provocation, put in, race, reason, reforest, reset, retimber, rising generation, root, rudiment, run down, scatter, scatter seed, scum, seed down, semen, seminal fluid, seminate, sept, set, side, sons, source, sow, sow broadcast, spark, spear side, sperm, sperm cell, spermagonium, spermatic fluid, spermatid, spermatiophore, spermatium, spermatocyte, spermatogonium, spermatophore, spermatozoa, spermatozoid, spermatozoon, spindle side, spore, stem, stirps, stock, stone, strain, succession, successors, sword side, transplant, treasures, tuber, young, younglings, youngsters

• seeding, Dry Ice, artificial nucleation, broadcast, broadcasting, cloud seeder, cloud-seeding, dissemination, insemination, planting, rain doctor, rainmaker, rainmaking, reforestation, resetting, retimbering, semination, setting, silver iodide, sowing, transplantation

• seedling, amphibian, angiosperm, annual, aquatic plant, biennial, conifer, cosmopolite, cutting, deciduous plant, dicot, dicotyledon, ephemeral, evergreen, exotic, flowering plant, fruit tree, fungus, gametophyte, gymnosperm, hardwood tree, hydrophyte, monocot, monocotyl, perennial, plant, pollard, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, sapling, scion, seed plant, set, shade tree, shoot, slip, softwood tree, spermatophyte, sporophyte, sprig, sprout, sucker, thallophyte, timber, timber tree, tree, triennial, twig, vascular plant, vegetable, weed

• seedy, Mickey Mouse, ailing, bad, base, beat-up, bedraggled, below par, blowzy, broken-down, careless, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, coarse, common, critically ill, debilitated, decayed, decaying, decrepit, deteriorated, dilapidated, dingy, dowdy, down, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, drooping, droopy, enervated, enfeebled, faded, fagged, faint, fainting, faintish, fatigued, feeling awful, feeling faint, feeling something terrible, flagging, footsore, fourth-class, frayed, frazzled, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, full of holes, good and tired, grubby, holey, ill, in danger, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, indisposed, inferior, informal, irregular, jaded, laid low, languid, loose, low-class, low-grade, low-quality, low-test, lumpen, mangy, mean, messy, mortally ill, mussy, neglected, negligent, not quite right, off-color, out of sorts, overgrown, paltry, patchy, poky, poor, poorly, punk, ragged, raggedy, ratty, ready to drop, rocky, ruinous, run ragged, run-down, sagging, scraggly, scruffy, second-best, second-class, shabby, shoddy, sick, sick unto death, sickish, sickly, slack, slatternly, sleazy, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, sordid, squalid, tacky, taken ill, tattered, tatty, third-class, third-rate, threadbare, tinny, tired, tired-winged, toilworn, torn, under the weather, unkempt, unneat, unrefreshed, unrestored, unsightly, untidy, unwell, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn, wilted, wilting, worn, worn out, worn-down

• seek, address, aim, angle for, ask for, aspire, be after, be curious, be determined, beat about for, beg, bid for, burn with curiosity, canvass, cast about, chase, chivy, court, delve, delve for, demand, dig, dig around for, dig for, dig up, dog, endeavor, essay, ferret out, fish, fish for, follow, follow up, gape, gawk, give chase, go after, go gunning for, gun for, hollo after, hope, hound, hunt, hunt for, hunt up, inquire, interrogate, invite, labor, look, look for, look up, make after, mouse, nose, nose around for, nose out, peer, pop the question, prosecute, prowl after, pursue, query, quest, quest after, question, quiz, raise the hunt, request, resolve, root, rubber, rubberneck, run after, search, search for, search out, see to, seek for, seek out, smell, solicit, stare, still-hunt, strain, strive, struggle, study, sue, sue for, sweat, sweat blood, take out after, try, try to find, undertake, want to know, woo

• seeker, applicant, aspirant, bidder, candidate, chaser, claimant, delver, digger, follower, hopeful, hunter, perquisitor, petitioner, postulant, pursuant, pursuer, quester, ransacker, research worker, researcher, researchist, rummager, searcher, solicitant, solicitor, suitor, suppliant, supplicant, zetetic

• seem, ape, appear, appear like, approach, approximate, be like, be redolent of, bear resemblance, bring to mind, call to mind, call up, come close, come near, compare with, copy, correspond, counterfeit, evoke, favor, feel, follow, hint, imitate, imply, insinuate, intimate, look, look like, match, mimic, mirror, near, nearly reproduce, not tell apart, parallel, partake of, remind one of, resemble, savor of, seem like, seem to be, simulate, smack of, sound, sound like, stack up with, suggest, take after

• seeming, Barmecidal, Barmecide, Prospero, acting, affectation, airiness, airy, alleged, angle, apparent, apparitional, appearance, appearing, aspect, assumed, attitudinizing, autistic, bearing, bluff, bluffing, cheating, chimeric, color, colorable, colored, coloring, configuration, cortical, deception, deceptive, delusion, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusiveness, delusory, demeanor, dereistic, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, dreamlike, dreamy, effect, eidolon, epidermic, erroneous, evident, exomorphic, exterior, exteriority, external, externality, externalness, extrinsic, extrinsicality, facade, face, facet, fakery, faking, fallacious, fallaciousness, false, false air, false appearance, false face, false front, false light, false show, falseness, falsity, fantastic, fashion, feature, feigned, feigning, feint, figure, foreignness, form, four-flushing, fraud, fringe, front, gestalt, gilded, gilt, gloss, guise, humbug, humbuggery, idealization, illusion, illusional, illusionary, illusionism, illusionist, illusive, illusiveness, illusory, image, imaginary, imago, immateriality, imposture, impression, light, likeness, lineaments, look, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, manner, masquerade, meretricious, meretriciousness, mien, misleading, open, openness, ostensible, ostentation, out, outer, outermost, outerness, outlying, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward appearance, outward show, outward-facing, outwardness, peripheral, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, phase, phasis, plausible, playacting, pose, posing, posture, prestidigitation, pretended, pretense, pretension, pretext, professed, public, purported, reference, regard, representation, respect, roundabout, self-deceptive, self-deluding, semblance, shallowness, sham, shape, show, showing, side, simulacrum, simulation, slant, sleight of hand, so-called, sorcerer, sorcery, specious, specious appearance, speciousness, spectral, style, superficial, superficiality, supposititious, surface, tinsel, total effect, twist, unactual, unactuality, unfounded, unreal, unreality, unsubstantial, unsubstantiality, varnish, view, viewpoint, visible, visionary, window dressing, wise

• seemingly, allegedly, apparently, artificially, as it seems, as it were, assumably, assumedly, assumptively, at first sight, conceivably, erroneously, evidently, factitiously, falsely, feasibly, in name only, in seeming, nominally, officially, on the surface, ostensibly, outwardly, plausibly, possibly, presumably, presumedly, presumptively, prima facie, professedly, purportedly, quasi, reputedly, speciously, spuriously, superficially, supposably, supposedly, suppositionally, supposititiously, synthetically, to all appearances, to all seeming, to the eye, truthlessly, ungenuinely, unnaturally, untruly, unveraciously

• seemly, accepted, according to Hoyle, acknowledged, admitted, advantageous, advisable, apposite, appropriate, approved, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, being done, characteristic, civil, comely, comme il faut, compatible, condign, conformable, conforming, congenial, congruous, consistent, consonant, convenient, conventional, correct, customary, de rigueur, decent, decorous, delicate, desirable, dignified, diplomatic, discreet, due, elegant, expedient, favorable, feasible, felicitous, fit, fitten, fitting, formal, fructuous, genteel, gentlemanly, good, happy, inspired, just, kosher, ladylike, likely, meet, modest, nice, normal, normative, opportune, orthodox, pleasing, politic, profitable, proper, prudent, reasonable, received, recognized, recommendable, right, right and proper, righteous, rightful, seasonable, sensible, sortable, suitable, suited, timely, to be desired, traditional, urbane, useful, well-chosen, well-expressed, well-put, well-timed, wise, worthwhile

• seep in, absorb, adsorb, assimilate, blot, blot up, chemisorb, chemosorb, digest, drink, drink in, drink up, engross, filter in, imbibe, infiltrate, ingest, leak in, osmose, percolate in, percolate into, slurp up, soak in, soak up, sorb, sponge, swill up, take in, take up

• seep, bleed, condense, discharge, distill, dribble, drip, dripple, drop, effuse, emit, excrete, exfiltrate, extravasate, exudate, exude, filter, filtrate, flow, give off, gurgle, leach, leak, lixiviate, ooze, percolate, reek, sew, spurtle, strain, sweat, transpire, transude, trickle, weep

• seepage, absorbency, absorbent, absorption, access, admission, adsorbent, adsorption, assimilation, blotter, blotting, blotting paper, chemisorption, chemosorption, condensation, digestion, distillation, dribble, drip, dripping, drop, effusion, endosmosis, engrossment, entrance, entree, entry, excretion, exfiltration, exosmosis, extravasation, exudation, filtering, filtration, import, importation, importing, income, incoming, infiltration, ingoing, ingress, ingression, input, insertion, insinuation, intake, interpenetration, introduction, introgression, intrusion, leaching, leakage, lixiviation, ooze, oozing, osmosis, penetration, percolating, percolation, reception, seep, seeping, sorption, sponge, sponging, spurtle, straining, sweating, transudation, trickle, tricklet, weep, weeping

• seer, Cassandra, Don Quixote, Druid, Quixote, TV-viewer, astrologer, augur, authority, beholder, bird-watcher, bystander, calamity howler, clairvoyant, crystal gazer, daydreamer, divinator, diviner, divineress, doctor, dreamer, dreamer of dreams, drugstore cowboy, elder, elder statesman, enthusiast, escapist, eyewitness, forecaster, foreknower, foreseer, foreshower, foreteller, fortune-teller, fortuneteller, gaper, gazer, gazer-on, geomancer, girl-watcher, goggler, great soul, guru, haruspex, idealist, illuminate, intellect, intellectual, kibitzer, looker, looker-on, lotus-eater, lover of wisdom, mahatma, man of intellect, man of wisdom, mandarin, master, mastermind, mentor, observer, ogler, onlooker, oracle, palmist, perceiver, percipient, philosopher, predictor, prefigurer, presager, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, prophet of doom, prophetess, psychic, pythoness, rabbi, religious prophets, rhapsodist, rishi, romancer, romantic, romanticist, sage, sapient, savant, scholar, seeress, sibyl, sidewalk superintendent, soothsayer, spectator, spectatress, spectatrix, starets, televiewer, television-viewer, thinker, utopian, utopianist, utopianizer, vates, video-gazer, viewer, visionary, watcher, weather prophet, wise man, wise old man, wishful thinker, witness

• seesaw, Ferris wheel, Lissajous figure, alternate, alternately, alternation, back and fill, back and forth, back-and-forth, backward and forward, backwards and forwards, battledore and shuttlecock, cant, carousel, chute-the-chutes, chutes, coaction, come and go, coming and going, complementary distribution, concurrence, cooperation, ebb and flow, engagement, flounder, fluctuate, flux and reflux, flying horses, go through phases, hitch and hike, in and out, incline, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercourse, interlacing, intermeshing, interplay, intertwining, interweaving, interworking, lean, list, lurch, merry-go-round, mesh, meshing, metronome, mutatis mutandis, off and on, oscillate, oscillator, pass and repass, pendulate, pendulum, pitch, quid pro quo, reciprocal, reciprocally, reciprocate, reciprocation, reciprocative, rhythmic play, ride and tie, ring the changes, rock, rocker, rocking chair, rocking stone, roll, roller coaster, round and round, roundabout, seesawing, shift, shuffle, shuttle, shuttlecock, shuttlewise, sine wave, stagger, swag, sway, swing, teeter, teeter-totter, teeter-tottering, teeterboard, teetering, teetery-bender, tilt, tilter, tit for tat, to and fro, to-and-fro, totter, tottering, turn, up and down, up-and-down, ups and downs, vacillate, vary, vibrator, vice versa, waver, wax and wane, whip, whirligig, wibble-wabble, wigwag, wobble, yaw, zigzag

• seethe, abound, assemble, bake, bathe, be angry, be excitable, be in heat, be livid, be pissed, be turbulent, bellow, blaze, bloom, blow a gasket, blow up, blubber, blunder, bluster, boil, boil over, brew, bristle, broil, browned off, bubble, bubble over, bubble up, bunch, bunch up, burble, burn, careen, career, carry on, catch fire, catch the infection, chafe, choke, churn, clot, cluster, collect, combust, come apart, come together, congregate, converge, cook, copulate, couple, crowd, date, distill, douche, drench, drouk, effervesce, erupt, excite easily, explode, falter, ferment, fire up, fizz, fizzle, flame, flame up, flare, flare up, flash up, flicker, flip, flock together, flounce, flounder, flow together, flush, foam, forgather, fret, fry, fume, fuse, gang around, gang up, gasp, gather, gather around, get excited, glow, go into hysterics, go on, guggle, gurgle, have a conniption, have a tantrum, herd together, hiss, hit the ceiling, hive, horde, huddle, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, incandesce, infiltrate, infuse, inject, labor, lave, leach, league, link, lixiviate, lurch, macerate, mass, meet, merge, mill, mill around, moil, muster, overflow, pant, parboil, parch, percolate, permeate, pissed off, pitch, pitch and plunge, plop, plunge, radiate heat, rage, raise Cain, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, rally, rally around, ramp, rant, rant and rave, rave, reel, rendezvous, rinse, roast, rock, roil, roll, run a temperature, saturate, scald, scorch, shimmer with heat, simmer, sizzle, smoke, smolder, smother, smoulder, soak, sodden, sop, souse, spark, sparkle, stagger, steam, steep, stew, stifle, stir, storm, stream, struggle, stumble, suffocate, surge, swarm, sway, sweat, swelter, swing, take fire, take on, teem, thrash about, throng, throw a fit, toast, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, tumble, turn a hair, unite, wallop, wallow, wash, waterlog, welter, work

• seething, agitation, ardent, baking, blistering, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, boiling over, brewing, broiling, brouhaha, burning, burning hot, burning with excitement, bustle, canicular, churn, coction, commotion, conturbation, decoction, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, drench, drenching, ducking, dunking, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullient, ebulliometer, ebullition, embroilment, excitement, febrile, ferment, fermentation, fervent, fervid, fever, feverish, feverishness, fidgets, fiery, flaming, flap, flurry, flushed, fluster, flutteration, foment, fume, fuss, glowing, grilling, heated, hectic, het up, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, hubbub, hurly-burly, imbruement, imbuement, impregnation, in rut, infiltration, infusion, injection, inquietude, jitters, jumpiness, leaching, like a furnace, like an oven, lixiviation, maceration, maelstrom, malaise, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, overheated, overwarm, parching, passionate, percolation, permeation, perturbation, piping hot, pulping, red-hot, restlessness, roasting, roil, rout, row, saturation, scalding, scorching, searing, seethe, sexually excited, simmer, simmering, sizzling, sizzling hot, smoking hot, smoldering, soak, soakage, soaking, sopping, souse, sousing, steaming, steamy, steeping, stewing, stir, sudorific, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, swirl, to-do, toasting, torrid, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unrest, upset, warm, white-hot

• segment, adjunct, affiliation, air line, allotment, allowance, analyze, anatomize, apportion, assay, axis, beeline, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, body, branch, break down, break up, budget, categorize, chord, chunk, church, cleave, commission, communion, community, component, contingent, cross section, cut, cut up, deal, denomination, destiny, detachment, detail, diagonal, diameter, direct line, directrix, dissect, district, divide, divide up, dividend, division, divvy, divvy up, dole, edge, element, end, equal share, faction, fate, fellowship, fraction, fragment, great-circle course, group, half, halver, helping, installment, interest, isolate, item, joint, length, lot, measure, meed, member, mess, modicum, moiety, normal, offshoot, order, organization, parcel, parcel out, part, particular, partition, party, percentage, perpendicular, persuasion, piece, portion, proportion, quadrant, quantum, quarter, quota, radius, radius vector, rake-off, random sample, ration, reduce, reduce to elements, religious order, remainder, resolve, right line, sample, sampling, schism, school, secant, seclude, sect, sectarism, section, sector, separate, set off, share, shortcut, side, slice, small share, society, split, split up, stake, stock, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, streamline, subdivide, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, tangent, transversal, variety, vector, version, wedge, zone

• segmentation, abstraction, alienation, analysis, analyzation, anatomizing, anatomy, assay, assaying, breakdown, breaking down, breaking up, breakup, detachment, disarticulation, disassociation, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, disengagement, disjointing, disjunction, dislocation, dissection, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, docimasy, gravimetric analysis, incoherence, isolation, luxation, parting, partition, proximate analysis, quantitative analysis, reduction to elements, removal, resolution, semimicroanalysis, separation, separatism, subdivision, subtraction, withdrawal, zoning

• segregate, abrupt, alien, alienate, analyze, anatomize, apart, atomize, bolt, cast off, cast out, change, choose, chop logic, close off, contradistinguish, cordon, cordon off, cull out, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, delete, demarcate, demark, depart, desynonymize, detached, difference, differentiate, disarticulate, disconnect, disconnected, discrete, discriminate, disengage, disequalize, disjoin, disjoint, disjunct, disrelated, dissociate, dissociated, distinguish, disunite, diversify, divide, divorce, draw the line, eject, enisle, estrange, exotic, expel, extraneous, foreign, ghettoize, gin, incommensurable, incomparable, independent, individualize, individuate, insular, insulate, irrelative, island, isolate, isolated, keep apart, keep aside, lay aside, leave, make a distinction, mark, mark off, mark out, mark the interface, modify, other, outlandish, part, particularize, personalize, pick out, pull away, pull back, pull out, put aside, quarantine, refine a distinction, removed, riddle, rope off, screen, screen out, seal off, seclude, select, separate, separated, sequester, set a limit, set apart, set aside, set off, sever, severalize, shut off, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, single, sort, sort out, specialize, split, split hairs, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, step aside, strange, subdivide, subtilize, subtract, thrash, thresh, throw off, throw out, unaffiliated, unallied, unassociated, unconnected, uncouple, unrelatable, unrelated, unyoke, vary, winnow, withdraw

• segregated, alienated, apart, cordoned, cordoned off, detached, disarticulated, disconnected, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, dispersed, disunited, divided, divorced, estranged, in a backwater, insular, isolated, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, quarantined, remote, removed, retired, roped off, scattered, sealed off, secluded, separate, separated, sequestered, shut off, unfrequented, unvisited, withdrawn

• segregation, Jim Crow, Jim Crow law, alien, alteration, analysis, anatomization, anti-Semitism, apartheid, apartness, atomization, black power, black supremacy, change, chauvinism, class consciousness, class distinction, class hatred, class prejudice, class war, color bar, color line, contradistinction, cordon, cordon sanitaire, cordoning off, demarcation, desynonymization, detachment, differencing, differentiation, discrimination, disequalization, disjunction, distinction, distinctiveness, distinguishment, diversification, division, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, fascism, foreigner, hairsplitting, individualization, individuation, insularity, insulation, isolation, isolationism, know-nothingism, male chauvinist, microscopic distinction, minority prejudice, modification, narrowness, nice distinction, nuance, out-group, outcast, outsider, parochialism, particularization, persona non grata, personalization, privacy, privatism, privatization, quarantine, quarantine flag, race hatred, race prejudice, race snobbery, racial discrimination, racial segregation, racialism, racism, recess, reclusion, red-baiting, retirement, retreat, rustication, sanitary cordon, seclusion, secrecy, separateness, separation, separatism, sequestration, severalization, severance, sex discrimination, sexism, shade of difference, snobbishness, social barrier, social discrimination, specialization, splendid isolation, stranger, subtle distinction, superpatriotism, tightness, trichoschistism, ultranationalism, variation, white power, white supremacy, withdrawal, xenophobia, yellow flag, yellow jack

• seigneur, Brahman, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, baron, baronet, blue blood, boss, bwana, chef, chief, church dignitary, count, daimio, duke, earl, ecclesiarch, elder, employer, esquire, gentleman, goodman, grand duke, grandee, guru, hidalgo, husband, lace-curtain, laird, landgrave, liege, liege lord, lord, lord paramount, lordling, magnate, magnifico, margrave, marquis, master, noble, nobleman, optimate, overlord, padrone, palsgrave, paramount, paterfamilias, patriarch, patrician, patron, peer, rabbi, sahib, seignior, silk-stocking, squire, starets, swell, teacher, thoroughbred, upper-cruster, viscount, waldgrave

• seize the day, blow, capitalize on, carpe diem, cash in, dissipate, gamble away, go through, hang the expense, improve the occasion, lavish, make no provision, not be behindhand, profit by, put to advantage, run through, scatter, slather, sow broadcast, squander, take advantage of, throw away, throw money around, turn to account

• seize, abduct, absorb, accroach, adopt, afflict, annex, appreciate, apprehend, appropriate, arrest, arrogate, assimilate, assume, assume command, be acquainted with, be apprised of, be aware of, be cognizant of, be conscious of, be conversant with, be informed, be with one, beset, bind, bust, capture, carry, carry off, catch, catch at, catch on, clutch, cognize, collar, commandeer, comprehend, conceive, conceptualize, confiscate, dig, digest, discern, encroach, expropriate, fasten, fasten upon, fathom, follow, get, get hold of, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, have, have information about, have it taped, have knowledge of, hold, impound, infringe, invade, jam, jump, jump at, ken, kidnap, know, latch, learn, lock up, make an arrest, make out, master, mount the throne, nab, nail, net, nick, occupy, perceive, pick up, pinch, play God, possess, pounce upon, preempt, prehend, pretend to, put under arrest, read, realize, recognize, round up, savvy, scramble for, secure, see, seize on, seize power, seize the meaning, seize the throne, sense, sequester, shanghai, snap at, snatch, snatch at, spring upon, stick, stop, subject, swoop down upon, take, take advantage of, take away, take captive, take charge, take command, take hold of, take in, take into custody, take over, take possession of, take prisoner, take the helm, take the lead, throttle, transfix, trespass, understand, usurp, visit, wot, wot of

• seizure, Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, abduction, abscess, access, accession, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, acute pain, adoption, affect epilepsy, ague, akinetic epilepsy, amok, anemia, ankylosis, annexation, anointing, anointment, anoxia, apnea, apoplexy, appointment, apprehension, appropriation, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, arrogation, asphyxiation, assignment, assumption, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, attack, authorization, autonomic epilepsy, backache, bag, bear hug, bite, blaze, bleeding, blennorhea, blockage, booty, boring pain, breakdown, burst, bust, cachexia, cachexy, capture, cardiac epilepsy, catch, catching, charley horse, chill, chills, clench, clinch, cling, clinging, clonic spasm, clonus, clutch, colic, collaring, commandeering, confiscation, consecration, constipation, convulsion, coronation, cortical epilepsy, coughing, coup, cramp, cramps, crick, cursive epilepsy, cyanosis, cyclone, darting pain, death grip, delegation, deputation, diarrhea, diurnal epilepsy, dizziness, dragnet, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, eclampsia, edema, election, emaciation, embrace, empowerment, encroachment, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, epitasis, eruption, explosion, fainting, falling sickness, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, firm hold, fit, flare-up, flux, focal epilepsy, foothold, footing, forcible seizure, frenzy, fulgurant pain, furor, fury, gale, girdle pain, gnawing, grab, grabbing, grand mal, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, griping, growth, gust, haul, haute mal, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hitch, hold, hug, hurricane, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, hysterical epilepsy, icterus, ictus, impounding, indigestion, inflammation, infringement, insomnia, invasion, iron grip, irruption, itching, jaundice, jumping pain, kidnapping, kink, labored breathing, lancinating pain, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, latent epilepsy, legitimate succession, lockjaw, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, matutinal epilepsy, menstrual epilepsy, murderous insanity, musicogenic epilepsy, myoclonous epilepsy, nabbing, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, netting, nip, nocturnal epilepsy, occlusion, orgasm, outbreak, outburst, pain, pang, paralysis, paroxysm, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, picking up, pinch, playing God, possession, power grab, prehension, prick, pruritus, psychic epilepsy, psychokinesia, psychomotor epilepsy, purchase, rage, rash, reflex epilepsy, rheum, rotatoria, running in, sclerosis, seizing, seizure of power, sensory epilepsy, sequestration, serial epilepsy, sexual climax, sharp pain, shock, shoot, shooting, shooting pain, skin eruption, snatch, snatching, sneezing, sore, spasm, spell, stab, stabbing pain, stitch, stoppage, storm, stroke, succession, tabes, tachycardia, take, taking, taking in, taking into custody, taking over, tardy epilepsy, tempest, tetanus, tetany, thrill, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, tight grip, toehold, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, tormen, tornado, torsion spasm, traumatic epilepsy, trespass, trespassing, trismus, tumor, turn, tweak, twinge, twitch, ucinate epilepsy, upheaval, upset stomach, usurpation, vertigo, visitation, vomiting, wasting, whirlwind, wrench

• seldom, abnormally, at infrequent intervals, few, hardly, hardly ever, incredibly, infrequently, irregularly, little, not often, occasional, occasionally, rare, rarely, scarce, scarcely, scarcely ever, seldom if ever, sparsely, sporadic, sporadically, uncommon, uncommonly, uncustomarily, unexpectedly, unfrequent, unfrequently, unnaturally, unoften, unordinarily, unusually, very seldom

• select, accepted, adopted, advert to, allude to, analyze, appoint, appointed, approved, assign, be taken as, best, better, carried, champion, choice, choose, choose out, chosen, clannish, cliquish, closed, contradistinguish, cream, cull, dainty, decide between, delicate, demarcate, demark, denominate, denote, designate, designated, determine, differentiate, discriminate, discriminating, distinguish, divide, draw the line, elect, elected, elected by acclamation, elegant, elite, emblematize, embraced, espoused, ethnocentric, excellent, exceptional, excerpt, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, exquisite, extract, fat, favored, favorite, figure, fine, finest, finger, first-class, first-rate, fix, flower, for the best, glean, greatest, handpick, handpicked, inadmissible, indicate, insular, limited, make a selection, mark, mark the interface, matchless, mention, name, named, narrow, nominate, nominated, nonesuch, nonpareil, opt for, optimal, optimum, ordain, ordinate, paragon, paramount, parochial, passed, peerless, pick, pick out, picked, pin down, point at, point out, point to, preclusive, prefer, preferable, preferred, prescriptive, preventive, prime, privileged, prize, prohibitive, queen, quintessence, quintessential, rare, ratified, recherche, refer to, restricted, restrictive, screen, screen out, screened, seclusive, segregate, segregative, selected, selective, separate, separative, set, set a limit, set apart, set off, sever, severalize, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, signify, single out, snobbish, snobby, sort, sort out, special, specialize, specify, split hairs, stand for, state, stigmatize, stipulate, subdivide, subtilize, superior, superlative, supreme, surpassing, symbol, symbolize, tab, take, the best, the best ever, the tops, the very best, top, typify, unanimously elected, unmatchable, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed, very best, winnow, xenophobic

• selection, abstract, acumen, allocation, alternative, alternativity, appointment, assignment, assortment, attribution, batch, categorization, characterization, choice, choosing, co-optation, co-option, collection, culling, decision, denomination, denotation, designation, determination, differentiation, discernment, disclosure, discrimination, draft, drafting, druthers, electing, election, excerpt, excerption, expression, extract, extraction, fingering, first choice, fixing, free choice, free will, gradation, group, grouping, hint, identification, indication, indicativeness, insight, manifestation, meaning, naming, nomination, number, option, ordainment, ordination, passage, pick, picking, picking out, piece, pinning down, placement, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, posting, precision, preference, preoption, quotation, quote, range, ranking, screening, selected passage, selecting, series, set, show, showing, sifting, signification, sorting, sorting out, specification, stipulation, subordination, suggestion, symptomaticness, tabbing, taxonomy, the pick, transferral, triage, variety, volition, will

• selective service, active service, call, call-up, compulsory military service, conscription, draft, draft call, drafting, duty, enlistment, enrollment, impressment, induction, levy, mobilization, muster, national service, press, recruiting, recruitment, service, summons

• selective, accurate, adoptive, appointive, appreciative, censorious, choicy, choosing, choosy, clannish, cliquish, conscientious, constituent, critical, delicate, demanding, differential, discerning, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, discriminatory, distinctive, distinguishing, eclectic, elect, elective, electoral, ethnocentric, exact, exacting, exceptional, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, fastidious, fine, inadmissible, insular, meticulous, narrow, nice, parochial, particular, perfectionistic, picky, precise, precisianistic, preclusive, prescriptive, preventive, priggish, prohibitive, prudish, punctilious, puristic, puritanic, refined, restrictive, scrupulous, seclusive, segregative, select, selecting, sensitive, separative, snobbish, snobby, strict, subtle, tactful, xenophobic

• selectman, alderman, archon, bailie, burghermaster, burgomaster, cabinet member, cabinet minister, chancellor, city councilman, city father, city manager, commissar, commissioner, councillor, councilman, councilwoman, county commissioner, county supervisor, elder, headman, induna, legislator, lord mayor, magistrate, maire, mayor, minister, minister of state, portreeve, reeve, secretary, secretary of state, supervisor, syndic, undersecretary, warden

• self, I, I myself, alter, alter ego, alterum, anima, anima humana, atman, ba, better self, breath, breath of life, buddhi, coconscious, collective unconscious, conscience, conscious self, death instinct, divine breath, ego, ego ideal, ego-id conflict, ethical self, foreconscious, he, heart, her, herself, him, himself, id, inner man, inner self, it, jiva, jivatma, khu, libidinal energy, libido, manes, me, mind, motive force, my humble self, myself, nephesh, number one, oneself, other self, ourselves, persona, personality, pleasure principle, pneuma, preconscious, primitive self, psyche, psychic apparatus, purusha, racial unconscious, ruach, shade, shadow, she, soul, spirit, spiritual being, spiritus, subconscious, subconscious mind, subconscious self, subliminal, subliminal self, submerged mind, superego, the self, them, themselves, they, unconscious, unconscious mind, vital impulse, you, yours truly, yourself, yourselves

• self-abasement, abasement, altruism, comedown, commitment, consecration, debasement, dedication, deflation, descent, devotion, disgrace, disinterest, disinterestedness, dump, embarrassment, hangdog look, humbled pride, humiliation, humility, letdown, modesty, mortification, put-down, sacrifice, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-devotion, self-diminishment, self-effacement, self-forgetfulness, self-immolation, self-neglect, self-neglectfulness, self-renouncement, self-sacrifice, self-subjection, selflessness, setdown, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, unacquisitiveness, unpossessiveness, unselfishness

• self-absorption, acquisitiveness, anesthesia, autism, careerism, catatonia, chill, chilliness, cold blood, cold heart, coldheartedness, coldness, coolness, deadpan, dispassion, dispassionateness, dullness, ego trip, egotism, emotional deadness, emotionlessness, frigidity, frostiness, graspingness, greed, heartlessness, iciness, immovability, impassibility, impassiveness, impassivity, individualism, inexcitability, interest, lack of affect, lack of feeling, lack of touch, narcissism, objectivity, obtuseness, passionlessness, personal aims, personal ambition, personal desires, personalism, poker face, possessiveness, privatism, remoteness, self-admiration, self-advancement, self-centeredness, self-consideration, self-containment, self-devotion, self-esteem, self-indulgence, self-interest, self-interestedness, self-jealousy, self-occupation, self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-serving, self-solicitude, self-sufficiency, selfishness, selfism, soullessness, spiritlessness, straight face, unemotionalism, unexcitability, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unimpressibility, unimpressionableness, unpassionateness, unresponsiveness, unsusceptibility, unsympatheticness, untouchability, withdrawal

• self-acting, arbitrary, automated, automatic, automatous, autonomous, cybernated, discretional, discretionary, elective, free, free will, gratuitous, independent, nonmandatory, offered, optional, proffered, self-active, self-adjusting, self-closing, self-controlled, self-cooking, self-determined, self-determining, self-directed, self-directing, self-dumping, self-governed, self-governing, self-lighting, self-operative, self-regulative, self-starting, self-winding, self-working, semiautomatic, spontaneous, unasked, unbesought, unbidden, uncalled-for, uncoerced, uncompelled, unforced, uninfluenced, uninvited, unpressured, unprompted, unrequested, unrequired, unsolicited, unsought, voluntary, volunteer, willful

• self-adjusting, automated, automatic, automatous, cybernated, self-acting, self-active, self-closing, self-controlled, self-cooking, self-directed, self-directing, self-dumping, self-governed, self-governing, self-lighting, self-operative, self-regulative, self-starting, self-winding, self-working, semiautomatic, spontaneous

• self-admiration, acquisitiveness, amour propre, amour-propre, autism, autoeroticism, careerism, complacency, conceitedness, consequentiality, ego trip, egotism, graspingness, greed, individualism, interest, narcism, narcissism, overproudness, overweening pride, personal aims, personal ambition, personal desires, personalism, possessiveness, privatism, remoteness, self-absorption, self-advancement, self-approbation, self-centeredness, self-complacency, self-conceit, self-congratulation, self-consideration, self-containment, self-content, self-delight, self-devotion, self-endearment, self-esteem, self-gratulation, self-importance, self-indulgence, self-infatuation, self-interest, self-interestedness, self-jealousy, self-love, self-occupation, self-pleasing, self-respect, self-satisfaction, self-seeking, self-serving, self-solicitude, self-sufficiency, self-worship, selfishness, selfism, smugness, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness, vanity

• self-appointed, assuming, busy, busybody, forward, impertinent, inquisitive, insolent, meddlesome, meddling, nosy, officious, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, prying, pushing, pushy, self-elect, snoopy, would-be

• self-assertive, assertive, audacious, bold, cocksure, controlled, firm-minded, forward, impertinent, importunate, independent, intrusive, meddlesome, militant, obtrusive, officious, overweening, presuming, pushful, pushing, pushy, self-asserting, self-controlled, self-expressive, self-possessed, self-restrained, strong-minded, strong-willed, sure, uppish, uppity

• self-assured, arrogant, assured, balanced, cocksure, collected, composed, confident, convinced, decided, determined, equanimous, equilibrious, hubristic, levelheaded, overconfident, oversure, overweening, persuaded, poised, pompous, positive, proud, reassured, recollected, sanguine, secure, self-confident, self-controlled, self-important, self-possessed, self-reliant, self-restrained, self-satisfied, smug, sure, together, unafraid, undoubtful, undoubting, unfaltering, unhesitating, unwavering, well-balanced

• self-centered, acquisitive, ambitious for self, autistic, careerist, egocentric, egocentristic, egoistic, egotistical, grasping, greedy, individualistic, narcissan, narcissine, narcissistic, narcistic, personalistic, possessive, privatistic, remote, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-advancing, self-besot, self-considerative, self-contained, self-devoted, self-esteeming, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-jealous, self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-serving, self-sufficient, selfish

• self-command, aplomb, assurance, balance, composure, confidence, constraint, control, discipline, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, independence, level head, levelheadedness, poise, possession, presence of mind, restraint, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-conquest, self-containment, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-government, self-mastery, self-possession, self-restraint, uncommunicativeness, well-regulated mind, willpower

• self-complacent, bovine, complacent, consequential, narcissan, narcissine, narcissistic, narcistic, overproud, overweening, priggish, self-admiring, self-approving, self-assuming, self-congratulating, self-congratulatory, self-content, self-contented, self-delighting, self-endeared, self-esteeming, self-gratulating, self-gratulatory, self-important, self-loving, self-respecting, self-satisfied, self-sufficient, selfish, smug, vain, vainglorious

• self-confidence, aplomb, arrogance, assurance, assuredness, balance, belief, boastfulness, certitude, cockiness, cocksureness, conceit, confidence, confidentness, conviction, courage, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, face, faith, haughtiness, hubris, independence, level head, levelheadedness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, pardonable pride, poise, pomposity, positiveness, possession, presence of mind, pride, pridefulness, proudness, purse-pride, restraint, sanguineness, security, self-assurance, self-command, self-consequence, self-control, self-esteem, self-importance, self-possession, self-reliance, self-respect, self-restraint, self-sufficiency, settled belief, stiff-necked pride, stiff-neckedness, subjective certainty, sureness, surety, trust, vanity, well-regulated mind

• self-confident, arrogant, assertive, assured, balanced, cocksure, collected, composed, confident, convinced, decided, definite, determined, equanimous, equilibrious, erect, house-proud, hubristic, independent, levelheaded, overconfident, oversure, overweening, persuaded, poised, pompous, positive, prideful, proud, proud as Lucifer, proud-blooded, proud-looking, proud-minded, proud-spirited, proudful, proudhearted, purse-proud, reassured, recollected, sanguine, secure, self-assured, self-controlled, self-esteeming, self-important, self-possessed, self-reliant, self-respecting, self-restrained, self-sufficient, stiff-necked, sure, together, unafraid, undoubtful, undoubting, unfaltering, unhesitating, unwavering, well-balanced

• self-congratulatory, complacent, consequential, narcissan, narcissine, narcissistic, narcistic, overproud, overweening, self-admiring, self-approving, self-assuming, self-complacent, self-congratulating, self-content, self-contented, self-delighting, self-endeared, self-esteeming, self-gratulating, self-gratulatory, self-important, self-loving, self-respecting, self-satisfied, self-sufficient, smug, vain, vainglorious

• self-conscious, affected, anxious, apprehensive, artificial, awkward, bashful, confused, conscious, coy, demure, diffident, embarrassed, exhibitionist, formal, hesitant, ill at ease, inarticulate, insecure, mannered, modest, mousy, nervous, ostentatious, prim, reserved, retiring, self-effacing, shamefaced, shamefast, sheepish, shrinking, shy, skittish, stammering, stiff, stilted, timid, timorous, uncomfortable, uneasy, unsure

• self-contained, acquisitive, aloof, ambitious for self, autarchic, autarkic, autistic, autonomous, bashful, calm, careerist, close, collected, complete, composed, controlled, cool, detached, dissociable, distant, egotistical, entire, even-tempered, formal, free-spirited, freewheeling, grasping, grave, greedy, imperturbable, in control, incompatible, independent, individualistic, inner-directed, insociable, mopey, mopish, morose, narcissistic, neutral, nonaligned, nongregarious, nonpartisan, peaceful, personalistic, placid, possessive, privatistic, remote, reserved, reticent, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-advancing, self-besot, self-centered, self-considerative, self-controlled, self-dependent, self-determined, self-devoted, self-directing, self-esteeming, self-governed, self-governing, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-jealous, self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-possessed, self-reliant, self-seeking, self-serving, self-subsistent, self-sufficient, self-supporting, selfish, serene, serious, snug, sober, socially incompatible, solemn, sovereign, standoffish, sullen, third-force, third-world, tranquil, unclubbable, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, uncongenial, undisturbed, unemotional, unflappable, unfriendly, ungenial, unitary, unperturbed, unruffled, unsociable, unsocial, whole, withdrawn

• self-content, amour-propre, autoeroticism, bovine, bovinity, complacence, complacency, complacent, consequential, consequentiality, ego trip, narcism, narcissan, narcissine, narcissism, narcissistic, narcistic, overproud, overproudness, overweening, overweening pride, self-admiration, self-admiring, self-approbation, self-approving, self-assuming, self-complacency, self-complacent, self-congratulating, self-congratulation, self-congratulatory, self-contented, self-contentedness, self-delight, self-delighting, self-endeared, self-endearment, self-esteem, self-esteeming, self-gratulating, self-gratulation, self-gratulatory, self-importance, self-important, self-infatuation, self-love, self-loving, self-respect, self-respecting, self-satisfaction, self-satisfied, self-sufficiency, self-sufficient, self-worship, smug, smugness, vain, vainglorious, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness, vanity

• self-contradiction, aberrancy, aberration, absurdity, ambiguity, ambivalence, antinomy, asymmetry, defectiveness, delusion, deviancy, disproportion, disproportionateness, distortion, equivocality, equivocation, errancy, erroneousness, error, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, hopelessness, illusion, impossibility, impossible, impossibleness, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibility, inconceivability, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, irony, irreconcilability, misapplication, misconstruction, misdoing, misfeasance, misinterpretation, misjudgment, no chance, nonconformability, nonconformity, oxymoron, paradox, peccancy, perversion, sin, sinfulness, the impossible, unconformability, unconformity, unimaginability, unorthodoxy, unthinkability, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, what cannot be, what cannot happen, wrong, wrongness

• self-contradictory, aberrant, abnormal, abroad, absonant, absurd, adrift, all abroad, all off, all wrong, ambiguous, ambivalent, amiss, anomalous, antinomic, askew, astray, at fault, awry, barred, beside the mark, closed-out, contradictory, contrary to reason, corrupt, deceptive, defective, delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative, disproportionate, distorted, equivocal, errant, erring, erroneous, excluded, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, flawed, heretical, heterodox, hopeless, illogical, illusory, impossible, inauthentic, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate, incompatible, inconceivable, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, inconsonant, invalid, ironic, irrational, irreconcilable, logically impossible, loose, nonscientific, not following, not possible, not right, not true, off, off the track, out, out of proportion, oxymoronic, paradoxical, paralogical, peccant, perverse, perverted, preposterous, prohibited, reasonless, ridiculous, ruled-out, self-annulling, self-refuting, senseless, straying, unauthentic, unconnected, unfactual, unimaginable, unorthodox, unphilosophical, unproved, unreasonable, unscientific, unthinkable, untrue, wide, without reason, wrong

• self-control, abnegation, abstinence, acceptance, aplomb, arrest, arrestation, assurance, balance, calm, calmness, check, composure, confidence, conservatism, constancy, constraint, continence, control, cool, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, coolness, curb, curtailment, deceleration, denial, determination, dignity, discipline, dispassion, doggedness, endurance, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, even temper, evenness, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness, fortitude, frugality, gentleness, golden mean, happy medium, hindrance, impartiality, imperturbability, independence, indulgence, inhibition, injunction, interdict, judiciousness, juste-milieu, legal restraint, lenience, leniency, lenity, level head, level-headedness, levelheadedness, long-sufferance, long-suffering, longanimity, meden agan, mettle, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, monopoly, neutrality, nonviolence, nothing in excess, obduracy, pacifism, patience, patience of Job, patientness, perseverance, persistence, placidity, poise, possession, presence of mind, prohibition, protection, protectionism, protective tariff, prudence, rationing, rein, renouncement, renunciation, repose, reserve, resoluteness, resolve, restraint, restraint of trade, retardation, retrenchment, self-abnegation, self-assurance, self-command, self-confidence, self-conquest, self-denial, self-discipline, self-government, self-mastery, self-possession, self-restraint, serenity, slowing down, soberness, sobriety, sophrosyne, stability, steadfastness, steadiness, stoicism, sufferance, sweet reasonableness, tariff wall, temperance, temperateness, thought control, tolerance, toleration, tranquillity, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, via media, waiting game, waiting it out, well-regulated mind, will, willpower

• self-controlled, Spartan, accepting, armed with patience, assured, automated, automatic, automatous, balanced, collected, composed, confident, controlled, cybernated, disciplined, endurant, enduring, equanimous, equilibrious, firm-minded, forbearing, forward, importunate, independent, indulgent, lenient, levelheaded, long-suffering, longanimous, patient, patient as Job, persevering, philosophical, poised, pushy, recollected, self-acting, self-active, self-adjusting, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-assured, self-closing, self-confident, self-cooking, self-directed, self-directing, self-dumping, self-expressive, self-governed, self-governing, self-lighting, self-operative, self-possessed, self-regulative, self-restrained, self-starting, self-winding, self-working, semiautomatic, spontaneous, stoic, strong-minded, strong-willed, together, tolerant, tolerating, tolerative, understanding, well-balanced

• self-deception, airy nothing, autism, bamboozlement, befooling, bluffing, bubble, calculated deception, chimera, circumvention, conning, daydream, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defrauding, deluded belief, delusion, delusiveness, dereism, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, dupery, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, fallaciousness, fallacy, false belief, falseness, flimflam, flimflammery, fond illusion, fooling, hallucination, hoodwinking, ignis fatuus, illusion, kidding, mirage, misbelief, misconception, misinterpretation, misunderstanding, outwitting, overreaching, phantasm, pipe dream, putting on, self-deceit, self-delusion, snow job, song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, subterfuge, swindling, trick, trickiness, tricking, trip, vapor, victimization, vision, willful misconception, wishful thinking, wrong impression

• self-defense, avoidance reaction, defence, defense, defense in depth, defense mechanism, defenses, deterrent capacity, ego defenses, escape mechanism, guard, negative taxis, protection, psychological defenses, resistance, self-preservation, self-protection, the defensive, ward

• self-denial, Albigensianism, Catharism, Franciscanism, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, abnegation, abstaining, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, altruism, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, aplomb, asceticism, austerity, calm, calmness, commitment, composure, consecration, conservatism, constraint, continence, control, cool, dedication, denial, desisting, devotion, discipline, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, eremitism, evenness, fasting, flagellation, forbearance, frugality, gentleness, giving up, golden mean, happy medium, hardship, humility, impartiality, independence, judiciousness, juste-milieu, lenity, maceration, magnanimity, meden agan, mendicantism, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, modesty, monachism, monasticism, mortification, neutrality, nonviolence, nothing in excess, pacifism, possession, privation, prudence, puritanism, refusal, refusing, renouncement, renouncing, renunciation, repose, restraint, rigor, sacrifice, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-command, self-conquest, self-control, self-devotion, self-discipline, self-effacement, self-forgetful, self-forgetfulness, self-government, self-immolation, self-mastery, self-mortification, self-neglect, self-neglectfulness, self-possession, self-renouncement, self-restraint, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing, self-subjection, selflessness, serenity, soberness, sobriety, sophrosyne, stability, steadiness, suffering, swearing off, temperance, temperateness, tranquillity, unacquisitiveness, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, unpossessiveness, unselfishness, via media, voluntary poverty

• self-denying, Albigensian, Catharist, Franciscan, Sabbatarian, Trappist, Waldensian, abstinent, altruistic, anchoritic, ascetic, austere, committed, consecrated, dedicated, devoted, disinterested, eremitic, flagellant, humble, mendicant, modest, puritanical, rigoristic, sacrificing, self-abasing, self-abnegating, self-abnegatory, self-devoted, self-effacing, self-forgetful, self-immolating, self-neglectful, self-neglecting, self-renouncing, self-sacrificing, self-unconscious, selfless, unacquisitive, unpossessive, unpretentious, unselfish, unsparing of self, wedded to poverty

• self-destructive, baneful, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, cruel, cutthroat, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, disastrous, doomful, fatal, fateful, fratricidal, gory, homicidal, internecine, murderous, nihilist, nihilistic, ravaging, red-handed, ruining, ruinous, sanguinary, slaughterous, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasteful, wasting, withering

• self-determination, Communist threat, Declaration of Independence, Western imperialism, absolute monarchy, aristocracy, atrocity story, autarchy, autarky, autocracy, automatic control, automation, automatism, automatization, autonomousness, autonomy, banner, battle hymn, bloody shirt, coalition government, colonialism, colors, commonwealth, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, crostarie, democracy, dictatorship, dominion rule, duarchy, duumvirate, dyarchy, expansionism, face, federal government, federation, feudal system, fiery cross, free will, garrison state, gerontocracy, gonfalon, gratuitousness, heteronomy, hierarchy, hierocracy, home rule, imperialist threat, independence, individualism, inner-direction, internationalism, internationality, limited monarchy, manifest destiny, martial law, martial music, meritocracy, militarism, military government, mob rule, mobocracy, monarchy, national anthem, nationalism, nationality, nationhood, neocolonialism, ochlocracy, oligarchy, pantisocracy, patriarchate, patriarchy, peoplehood, police state, pure democracy, regency, representative democracy, representative government, republic, rugged individualism, self-action, self-activity, self-containment, self-direction, self-government, self-motion, self-propulsion, self-regulation, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, social democracy, sovereign nationhood, sovereignty, spontaneity, spontaneousness, statehood, stratocracy, technocracy, thearchy, theocracy, totalitarian government, totalitarian regime, triarchy, triumvirate, tyranny, unforcedness, voluntariness, voluntarism, voluntaryism, volunteer, volunteering, war song, welfare state, yellow peril

• self-determined, arbitrary, autarchic, autarkic, autonomous, discretional, discretionary, elective, free, free will, free-spirited, freewheeling, gratuitous, independent, individualistic, inner-directed, neutral, nonaligned, nonmandatory, nonpartisan, offered, optional, proffered, self-acting, self-active, self-contained, self-dependent, self-determining, self-directing, self-governed, self-governing, self-reliant, self-subsistent, self-sufficient, self-supporting, sovereign, spontaneous, third-force, third-world, unasked, unbesought, unbidden, uncalled-for, uncoerced, uncompelled, unforced, uninfluenced, uninvited, unpressured, unprompted, unrequested, unrequired, unsolicited, unsought, voluntary, volunteer, willful

• self-discipline, abnegation, aplomb, composure, constraint, control, denial, discipline, forbearance, frugality, golden mean, independence, moderateness, moderation, nothing in excess, possession, renouncement, renunciation, restraint, self-command, self-conquest, self-control, self-denial, self-government, self-mastery, self-possession, self-restraint, soberness, sobriety, sophrosyne, temperance, temperateness, willpower

• self-doubt, Pyrrhonism, apprehension, diffidence, distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, half-belief, lack of self-confidence, lack of self-reliance, leeriness, misdoubt, misgiving, mistrust, mistrustfulness, question, scruple, scrupulousness, self-depreciation, self-detraction, self-distrust, self-effacement, shadow of doubt, skepticalness, skepticism, suspicion, suspiciousness, total skepticism, uncertainty, wariness, weak ego

• self-effacing, altruistic, backward, bashful, committed, consecrated, dedicated, deprecative, deprecatory, devoted, diffident, disinterested, humble, modest, rabbity, retiring, sacrificing, self-abasing, self-abnegating, self-abnegatory, self-denying, self-deprecating, self-depreciating, self-depreciative, self-devoted, self-distrustful, self-doubting, self-forgetful, self-immolating, self-neglectful, self-neglecting, self-renouncing, self-sacrificing, self-unconscious, selfless, shy, timid, unacquisitive, unassertive, unassured, unpossessive, unpretentious, unselfconfident, unselfish, unselfreliant, unsparing of self

• self-esteem, acquisitiveness, amour propre, amour-propre, arrogance, autism, autoeroticism, boastfulness, careerism, clear, complacency, conceit, consequentiality, ego trip, egoism, egotism, face, graspingness, greed, haughtiness, independence, individualism, interest, manifest, narcism, narcissism, obvious, overproudness, overweening pride, pardonable pride, personal aims, personal ambition, personal desires, personalism, plain, possessiveness, pride, pridefulness, prima facie, privatism, proudness, purse-pride, remoteness, self-absorption, self-admiration, self-advancement, self-approbation, self-centeredness, self-complacency, self-confidence, self-congratulation, self-consequence, self-consideration, self-containment, self-content, self-delight, self-devotion, self-endearment, self-evident, self-glorification, self-gratulation, self-importance, self-indulgence, self-infatuation, self-interest, self-interestedness, self-jealousy, self-love, self-occupation, self-pleasing, self-regard, self-reliance, self-respect, self-satisfaction, self-seeking, self-serving, self-solicitude, self-sufficiency, self-worship, selfishness, selfism, smugness, stiff-necked pride, stiff-neckedness, unmistakable, unquestionable, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness, vanity

• self-esteeming, acquisitive, ambitious for self, autistic, careerist, complacent, consequential, egotistical, erect, grasping, greedy, house-proud, independent, individualistic, narcissan, narcissine, narcissistic, narcistic, overproud, overweening, personalistic, possessive, prideful, privatistic, proud, proud as Lucifer, proud-blooded, proud-looking, proud-minded, proud-spirited, proudful, proudhearted, purse-proud, remote, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-advancing, self-approving, self-assuming, self-besot, self-centered, self-complacent, self-confident, self-congratulating, self-congratulatory, self-considerative, self-contained, self-content, self-contented, self-delighting, self-devoted, self-endeared, self-gratulating, self-gratulatory, self-important, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-jealous, self-loving, self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-reliant, self-respecting, self-satisfied, self-seeking, self-serving, self-sufficient, selfish, smug, stiff-necked, vain, vainglorious

• self-evident, absolute, actual, admitting no question, apparent, axiomatic, clear, clear as crystal, clear-cut, confirmable, crystal-clear, definite, demonstrable, demonstratable, discernible, distinct, evident, explicit, express, factual, historical, inappealable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, inescapable, irrefragable, irrefutable, manifest, noticeable, observable, obvious, open-and-shut, palpable, patent, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, plain as day, provable, proverbial, real, seeable, self-explaining, self-explanatory, tangible, testable, to be seen, true, unanswerable, unconfutable, undeniable, unimpeachable, unmistakable, unquestionable, unrefutable, verifiable, visible

• self-explanatory, apparent, clear, clear as crystal, comprehensible, crystal-clear, discernible, distinct, evident, explicit, express, indisputable, indubitable, manifest, noticeable, observable, obvious, open-and-shut, palpable, patent, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, plain as day, seeable, self-contained, self-evident, self-explaining, tangible, to be seen, understandable, unmistakable, visible

• self-governing, absolute, aristocratic, autarchic, autarkic, authoritarian, autocratic, automated, automatic, automatous, autonomous, bureaucratic, civic, civil, constitutional, cybernated, democratic, despotic, dictatorial, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic, free-spirited, freewheeling, governmental, gubernatorial, heteronomous, independent, individualistic, inner-directed, matriarchal, matriarchic, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, neutral, nonaligned, nonpartisan, official, oligarchal, oligarchic, parliamentarian, parliamentary, patriarchal, patriarchic, pluralistic, political, popular, republican, self-acting, self-active, self-adjusting, self-closing, self-contained, self-controlled, self-cooking, self-dependent, self-determined, self-directed, self-directing, self-dumping, self-governed, self-lighting, self-operative, self-regulative, self-reliant, self-starting, self-subsistent, self-sufficient, self-supporting, self-winding, self-working, semiautomatic, sovereign, spontaneous, theocratic, third-force, third-world, totalitarian

• self-government, Declaration of Independence, absolute monarchy, aplomb, aristocracy, autarchy, autarky, autocracy, automatic control, automation, automatism, automatization, autonomy, coalition government, colonialism, commonwealth, composure, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, constraint, control, democracy, dictatorship, discipline, dominion rule, duarchy, duumvirate, dyarchy, federal government, federation, feudal system, freedom, garrison state, gerontocracy, heteronomy, hierarchy, hierocracy, home rule, independence, individualism, inner-direction, internationalism, internationality, limited monarchy, martial law, meritocracy, militarism, military government, mob rule, mobocracy, monarchy, nationalism, nationality, nationhood, neocolonialism, ochlocracy, oligarchy, pantisocracy, patriarchate, patriarchy, peoplehood, police state, possession, pure democracy, regency, representative democracy, representative government, republic, restraint, rugged individualism, self-action, self-activity, self-command, self-conquest, self-containment, self-control, self-denial, self-determination, self-direction, self-discipline, self-mastery, self-motion, self-possession, self-propulsion, self-regulation, self-reliance, self-restraint, self-sufficiency, social democracy, sovereign nationhood, sovereignty, statehood, stratocracy, technocracy, thearchy, theocracy, totalitarian government, totalitarian regime, triarchy, triumvirate, tyranny, welfare state, willpower

• self-gratification, amusement, animal pleasure, bodily pleasure, carnal delight, comfort, content, contentment, coziness, creature comforts, ease, endpleasure, enjoyment, entertainment, euphoria, forepleasure, fruition, fun, gratification, great satisfaction, gusto, hearty enjoyment, intellectual pleasure, joie de vivre, keen pleasure, kicks, luxury, physical pleasure, pleasure, quiet pleasure, relish, satisfaction, self-indulgence, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure, sexual pleasure, sweetness of life, titillation, voluptuousness, well-being, zest

• self-identity, agreement, coequality, coincidence, congruence, correspondence, differentiation, differentness, distinctiveness, egohood, equality, equivalence, homogeneity, homoousia, human factor, identity, indistinguishability, individualism, individuality, integrity, no difference, nominalism, nonconformity, oneness, particularism, particularity, personal equation, personal identity, personality, personship, sameness, selfhood, selfness, selfsameness, singularity, soul, synonymity, synonymousness, synonymy, uniqueness, unity

• self-immolation, altruism, blazing, blistering, branding, burning, burnt offering, calcination, car of Jagannath, carbonization, cauterization, cautery, cineration, collection, combustion, commitment, concremation, consecration, cracking, cremation, cupellation, dedication, deflagration, destructive distillation, devotion, disembowelment, disinterest, disinterestedness, distillation, distilling, drink offering, ex voto offering, felo-de-se, flaming, hara-kiri, heave offering, hecatomb, holocaust, human sacrifice, humility, immolation, incense, incineration, infanticide, libation, mactation, mass suicide, modesty, oblation, offering, offertory, oxidation, oxidization, parching, peace offering, piacular offering, pyrolysis, refining, ritual suicide, sacramental offering, sacrifice, scapegoat, scorching, scorification, searing, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction, self-devotion, self-effacement, self-forgetfulness, self-murder, self-neglect, self-neglectfulness, self-renouncement, self-sacrifice, self-subjection, selflessness, seppuku, singeing, smelting, suicide, suttee, sutteeism, thank offering, the stake, thermogenesis, unacquisitiveness, unpossessiveness, unselfishness, vesication, votive offering, whole offering

• self-importance, accent, amour-propre, arrogance, assurance, assuredness, autoeroticism, belief, certitude, cocksureness, complacency, concern, concernment, confidence, confidentness, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, conviction, courage, ego trip, egoism, egotism, emphasis, excellence, faith, grandiloquence, high order, high rank, hubris, import, importance, inflation, interest, mark, materiality, merit, moment, narcism, narcissism, note, orotundity, overconfidence, overproudness, oversureness, overweening, overweening pride, overweeningness, paramountcy, poise, pomposity, pompousness, pontificality, pontification, positiveness, precedence, preeminence, pride, primacy, priority, security, self-admiration, self-approbation, self-assurance, self-complacency, self-confidence, self-congratulation, self-consequence, self-content, self-delight, self-endearment, self-esteem, self-gratulation, self-infatuation, self-love, self-reliance, self-respect, self-satisfaction, self-sufficiency, self-worship, settled belief, significance, smugness, stress, stuffiness, subjective certainty, superiority, supremacy, sureness, surety, trust, turgidity, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness, value, vanity, weight, worth

• self-important, arrogant, assured, big, big-league, big-name, big-time, bigwig, bigwigged, bloated, bombastic, cocksure, complacent, conceited, confident, consequential, considerable, convinced, decided, determined, double-barreled, earthshaking, egotistical, flatulent, formal, gassy, grand, grandiloquent, great, haughty, heavyweight, high-powered, hubristic, important, inflated, magisterial, major, material, momentous, name, narcissan, narcissine, narcissistic, narcistic, overbearing, overconfident, overproud, oversure, overweening, persuaded, poised, pompous, pontifical, positive, presumptuous, proud, puffy, reassured, secure, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-approving, self-assuming, self-assured, self-complacent, self-confident, self-congratulating, self-congratulatory, self-content, self-contented, self-delighting, self-endeared, self-esteeming, self-gratulating, self-gratulatory, self-loving, self-reliant, self-respecting, self-satisfied, self-seeking, self-sufficient, significant, smug, snobbish, snooty, snotty, solemn, stilted, stuck-up, stuffy, substantial, superior, sure, swollen, tumid, turgid, unafraid, undoubting, unfaltering, unhesitating, unwavering, vain, vainglorious, world-shaking

• self-indulgence, acquisitiveness, amusement, animal pleasure, autism, bodily pleasure, careerism, carnal delight, comfort, content, contentment, coziness, crapulence, crapulency, crapulousness, creature comforts, drunkenness, ease, ego trip, egotism, endpleasure, enjoyment, entertainment, euphoria, excess, excessiveness, extravagance, forepleasure, fruition, fun, gluttony, graspingness, gratification, great satisfaction, greed, gusto, hearty enjoyment, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, incontinence, indiscipline, individualism, indulgence, inordinacy, inordinateness, intellectual pleasure, intemperance, intemperateness, interest, joie de vivre, keen pleasure, kicks, luxury, narcissism, onanism, overdoing, overindulgence, personal aims, personal ambition, personal desires, personalism, physical pleasure, pleasure, possessiveness, privatism, prodigality, quiet pleasure, relish, remoteness, satisfaction, self-absorption, self-admiration, self-advancement, self-centeredness, self-consideration, self-containment, self-devotion, self-esteem, self-gratification, self-interest, self-interestedness, self-jealousy, self-occupation, self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-serving, self-solicitude, self-sufficiency, selfishness, selfism, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure, sexual pleasure, sweetness of life, swinishness, titillation, too much, too-muchness, unconstraint, uncontrol, unrestraint, voluptuousness, well-being, zest

• self-indulgent, acquisitive, ambitious for self, autistic, bibulous, careerist, crapulent, crapulous, debauching, dissipating, dissolute, egotistical, epicurean, excessive, extravagant, extreme, gluttonous, grasping, greedy, hedonistic, immoderate, incontinent, individualistic, indulgent, inordinate, intemperate, licentious, narcissistic, overindulgent, overindulging, personalistic, pleasure-seeking, possessive, privatistic, prodigal, profligate, remote, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-advancing, self-besot, self-centered, self-considerative, self-contained, self-devoted, self-esteeming, self-interested, self-jealous, self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-serving, self-sufficient, selfish, sensual, swinish, sybaritic, too much, unbridled, unconstrained, uncontrolled, undisciplined, unfrugal, unlimited, unmeasured, unrestrained, unthrifty

• self-interest, acquisitiveness, autism, careerism, ego, ego trip, egocentricity, egocentrism, egoism, egoisticalness, egotism, egotisticalness, graspingness, greed, individualism, interest, narcissism, personal aims, personal ambition, personal desires, personalism, possessiveness, privatism, remoteness, self-absorption, self-admiration, self-advancement, self-centeredness, self-centerment, self-consideration, self-containment, self-devotion, self-esteem, self-indulgence, self-interestedness, self-jealousy, self-occupation, self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-serving, self-solicitude, self-sufficiency, selfishness, selfism

• self-knowledge, acquaintance, corpus, data, datum, experience, expertise, facts, factual base, familiarity, information, intelligence, intimacy, introspection, ken, know-how, knowing, knowledge, practical knowledge, private knowledge, privity, ratio cognoscendi, self-examination, technic, technics, technique

• self-pity, benevolence, clemency, commiseration, compassion, condolence, favor, feeling, forbearance, forgiveness, grace, humanity, kindness, leniency, mercy, mitigation, pardon, pathos, pity, quarter, relief, reprieve, ruth, sympathy

• self-possessed, aloof, assured, balanced, calm, collected, composed, confident, controlled, cool, detached, dignified, easy, easygoing, equanimous, equilibrious, even-tempered, firm-minded, forward, imperturbable, importunate, independent, levelheaded, peaceful, placid, poised, pushy, recollected, refined, reserved, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-assured, self-confident, self-contained, self-controlled, self-expressive, self-restrained, serene, strong-minded, strong-willed, together, tranquil, undisturbed, unflappable, unperturbed, unruffled, well-balanced

• self-possession, aplomb, assurance, ataraxy, balance, calmness, composure, confidence, constraint, control, coolness, discipline, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, imperturbability, independence, level head, levelheadedness, phlegm, poise, possession, presence of mind, restraint, sangfroid, self-assurance, self-command, self-confidence, self-conquest, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-government, self-mastery, self-restraint, well-regulated mind

• self-preservation, avoidance reaction, defence, defense, defense in depth, defense mechanism, defenses, deterrent capacity, ego defenses, escape mechanism, guard, negative taxis, protection, psychological defenses, resistance, self-defense, self-protection, the defensive, ward

• self-protection, avoidance reaction, defence, defense, defense in depth, defense mechanism, defenses, deterrent capacity, ego defenses, escape mechanism, guard, negative taxis, protection, psychological defenses, resistance, self-defense, self-preservation, the defensive, ward

• self-regulating, automated, automatic, automatous, cybernated, self-acting, self-active, self-adjusting, self-closing, self-controlled, self-cooking, self-directed, self-directing, self-dumping, self-governed, self-governing, self-lighting, self-operative, self-regulative, self-starting, self-winding, self-working, semiautomatic, spontaneous

• self-reliance, Declaration of Independence, arrogance, assurance, assuredness, autarchy, autarky, autonomy, belief, boastfulness, certitude, cocksureness, conceit, confidence, confidentness, conviction, courage, face, faith, haughtiness, home rule, hubris, independence, individualism, inner-direction, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, pardonable pride, poise, pomposity, positiveness, pride, pridefulness, proudness, purse-pride, rugged individualism, security, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-consequence, self-containment, self-determination, self-direction, self-esteem, self-government, self-importance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, settled belief, stiff-necked pride, stiff-neckedness, subjective certainty, sureness, surety, trust, vanity

• self-reliant, arrogant, assured, autarchic, autarkic, autonomous, cocksure, confident, convinced, decided, determined, erect, free-spirited, freewheeling, house-proud, hubristic, independent, individualistic, inner-directed, neutral, nonaligned, nonpartisan, overconfident, oversure, overweening, persuaded, poised, pompous, positive, prideful, proud, proud as Lucifer, proud-blooded, proud-looking, proud-minded, proud-spirited, proudful, proudhearted, purse-proud, reassured, secure, self-assured, self-confident, self-contained, self-dependent, self-determined, self-directing, self-esteeming, self-governed, self-governing, self-important, self-respecting, self-subsistent, self-sufficient, self-supporting, sovereign, stiff-necked, sure, third-force, third-world, unafraid, undoubting, unfaltering, unhesitating, unwavering

• self-respect, amour propre, amour-propre, arrogance, autoeroticism, boastfulness, complacency, conceit, consequentiality, dignity, ego trip, face, haughtiness, honor, independence, integrity, morale, narcism, narcissism, overproudness, overweening pride, pardonable pride, pride, pridefulness, proudness, purse-pride, self-admiration, self-approbation, self-complacency, self-confidence, self-congratulation, self-consequence, self-content, self-delight, self-endearment, self-esteem, self-gratulation, self-importance, self-infatuation, self-love, self-regard, self-reliance, self-satisfaction, self-sufficiency, self-worship, smugness, stiff-necked pride, stiff-neckedness, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness, vanity

• self-respecting, complacent, consequential, erect, house-proud, independent, narcissan, narcissine, narcissistic, narcistic, overproud, overweening, prideful, proud, proud as Lucifer, proud-blooded, proud-looking, proud-minded, proud-spirited, proudful, proudhearted, purse-proud, self-admiring, self-approving, self-assuming, self-complacent, self-confident, self-congratulating, self-congratulatory, self-content, self-contented, self-delighting, self-endeared, self-esteeming, self-gratulating, self-gratulatory, self-important, self-loving, self-reliant, self-satisfied, self-sufficient, smug, stiff-necked, vain, vainglorious

• self-restrained, assured, balanced, collected, composed, confident, controlled, equanimous, equilibrious, firm-minded, forward, importunate, independent, levelheaded, poised, pushy, recollected, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-assured, self-confident, self-controlled, self-expressive, self-possessed, strong-minded, strong-willed, together, well-balanced

• self-restraint, abnegation, abstinence, aplomb, assurance, balance, calm, calmness, composure, confidence, conservatism, constraint, continence, control, cool, denial, discipline, dispassion, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, evenness, forbearance, frugality, gentleness, golden mean, happy medium, impartiality, independence, judiciousness, juste-milieu, lenity, level head, levelheadedness, meden agan, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, neutrality, nonviolence, nothing in excess, pacifism, poise, possession, presence of mind, prudence, renouncement, renunciation, repose, restraint, self-abnegation, self-assurance, self-command, self-confidence, self-conquest, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-government, self-mastery, self-possession, serenity, soberness, sobriety, sophrosyne, stability, steadiness, temperance, temperateness, tranquillity, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, via media, well-regulated mind, willpower

• self-revealing, accessible, approachable, candid, communicative, conversable, demonstrative, effusive, expansive, extroverted, frank, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, gossipy, newsy, open, outgoing, outspoken, self-revelatory, sociable, talkative, unconstrained, unhampered, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive, unshrinking, unsilent, unsuppressed

• self-righteous, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, affected, canting, complacent, false, goody, goody-goody, holier-than-thou, hypocritical, insincere, mealy-mouthed, mealymouthed, pecksniffian, pharisaic, pharisaical, pi, pietistic, pious, priggish, sanctified, sanctimonious, self-satisfied, smug, sniveling, superior, unctuous

• self-righteousness, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, affectation, cant, false piety, falseness, goody-goodiness, hypocrisy, insincerity, mealymouthedness, mummery, oiliness, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, pietism, pietisticalness, piety, piousness, religionism, religiosity, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, snivel, snuffle, unction, unctuousness

• self-sacrificing, altruistic, committed, consecrated, dedicated, devoted, disinterested, humble, modest, sacrificing, self-abasing, self-abnegating, self-abnegatory, self-denying, self-devoted, self-effacing, self-forgetful, self-immolating, self-neglectful, self-neglecting, self-renouncing, self-unconscious, selfless, unacquisitive, unpossessive, unpretentious, unselfish, unsparing of self

• self-satisfaction, amour-propre, autoeroticism, bovinity, complacence, complacency, consequentiality, ego trip, narcism, narcissism, overproudness, overweening pride, self-admiration, self-approbation, self-complacency, self-congratulation, self-content, self-contentedness, self-delight, self-endearment, self-esteem, self-gratulation, self-importance, self-infatuation, self-love, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-worship, smugness, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness, vanity

• self-satisfied, bovine, complacent, consequential, narcissan, narcissine, narcissistic, narcistic, overproud, overweening, self-admiring, self-approving, self-assuming, self-complacent, self-congratulating, self-congratulatory, self-content, self-contented, self-delighting, self-endeared, self-esteeming, self-gratulating, self-gratulatory, self-important, self-loving, self-respecting, self-sufficient, smug, vain, vainglorious

• self-seeking, acquisitive, acquisitiveness, ambitious for self, autism, autistic, careerism, careerist, ego trip, egoistic, egomaniacal, egotism, egotistic, egotistical, grasping, graspingness, greed, greedy, individualism, individualistic, interest, narcissism, narcissistic, personal aims, personal ambition, personal desires, personalism, personalistic, possessive, possessiveness, privatism, privatistic, remote, remoteness, self-absorbed, self-absorption, self-admiration, self-admiring, self-advancement, self-advancing, self-besot, self-centered, self-centeredness, self-concerned, self-consideration, self-considerative, self-contained, self-containment, self-devoted, self-devotion, self-esteem, self-esteeming, self-indulgence, self-indulgent, self-interest, self-interested, self-interestedness, self-jealous, self-jealousy, self-occupation, self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-regard, self-serving, self-solicitude, self-sufficiency, self-sufficient, selfhood, selfish, selfishness, selfism

• self-serving, acquisitive, acquisitiveness, ambitious for self, autism, autistic, careerism, careerist, ego trip, egoistic, egomaniacal, egotism, egotistic, egotistical, grasping, graspingness, greed, greedy, individualism, individualistic, interest, narcissism, narcissistic, personal aims, personal ambition, personal desires, personalism, personalistic, possessive, possessiveness, privatism, privatistic, remote, remoteness, self-absorbed, self-absorption, self-admiration, self-admiring, self-advancement, self-advancing, self-besot, self-centered, self-centeredness, self-concerned, self-consideration, self-considerative, self-contained, self-containment, self-devoted, self-devotion, self-esteem, self-esteeming, self-indulgence, self-indulgent, self-interest, self-interested, self-interestedness, self-jealous, self-jealousy, self-occupation, self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-solicitude, self-sufficiency, self-sufficient, selfish, selfishness, selfism

• self-styled, affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, byname, cognominal, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, diminutive, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, epithetic, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, formal, garbled, honorific, hypocoristic, illegitimate, imitation, in name only, junky, make-believe, man-made, mock, nominal, nominative, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, professed, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, self-appointed, self-called, self-christened, self-proclaimed, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, titular, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped, would-be

• self-sufficient, acquisitive, ambitious for self, autarchic, autarkic, autistic, autonomous, bashful, careerist, close, closed, complacent, consequential, dissociable, egotistical, erect, free-spirited, freewheeling, grasping, greedy, house-proud, incompatible, independent, individual, individualistic, inner-directed, insociable, mopey, mopish, morose, narcissan, narcissine, narcissistic, narcistic, neutral, nonaligned, nongregarious, nonpartisan, one-man, overproud, overweening, personalistic, possessive, prideful, privatistic, proud, proud as Lucifer, proud-blooded, proud-looking, proud-minded, proud-spirited, proudful, proudhearted, purse-proud, remote, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-advancing, self-approving, self-assuming, self-besot, self-centered, self-complacent, self-confident, self-congratulating, self-congratulatory, self-considerative, self-contained, self-content, self-contented, self-delighting, self-dependent, self-determined, self-devoted, self-directing, self-endeared, self-esteeming, self-governed, self-governing, self-gratulating, self-gratulatory, self-important, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-jealous, self-loving, self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-reliant, self-respecting, self-satisfied, self-seeking, self-serving, self-subsistent, self-supporting, self-sustained, self-sustaining, selfish, smug, snug, socially incompatible, sovereign, stiff-necked, sullen, third-force, third-world, unclubbable, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, uncongenial, unfriendly, ungenial, unit, unsociable, unsocial, vain, vainglorious

• self-willed, balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case-hardened, contrary, contumacious, determined, difficult, disobedient, dogged, dogmatic, fanatic, forceful, froward, hardheaded, headstrong, heady, incorrigible, indisciplined, insubordinate, intolerant, intractable, irresponsible, lawless, licentious, mulish, mutinous, naughty, nonconforming, obstinate, opinionated, overzealous, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rampant, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, reinless, restive, set, stiff-necked, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, tenacious, transgressive, unaccountable, unbridled, unchecked, uncomplying, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, uncooperative, uncurbed, undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, ungovernable, ungoverned, unmanageable, unregenerate, unreined, unrestrained, unruly, vexatious, violative, wayward, wildcat, willful

• self-winding, automated, automatic, automatous, cybernated, self-acting, self-active, self-adjusting, self-closing, self-controlled, self-cooking, self-directed, self-directing, self-dumping, self-governed, self-governing, self-lighting, self-operative, self-regulative, self-starting, self-working, semiautomatic, spontaneous

• selfish, acquisitive, ambitious for self, autistic, avaricious, careerist, covetous, egocentric, egocentristic, egoistic, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistic, egotistical, grasping, greedy, grudging, illiberal, inconsiderate, individualistic, mean, mercenary, miserly, narcissan, narcissine, narcissistic, narcistic, narrow, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, personalistic, possessive, privatistic, remote, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-advancing, self-aggrandizing, self-besot, self-centered, self-concerned, self-considerative, self-contained, self-devoted, self-esteeming, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-jealous, self-loving, self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-seeking, self-serving, self-sufficient, stingy, thoughtless, tight, tight-fisted, uncharitable, ungenerous

• selfishness, autotheism, ego, egocentricity, egocentrism, egoism, egoisticalness, egotism, egotisticalness, individualism, self, self-absorption, self-centeredness, self-centerment, self-interest, self-regard, self-seeking, self-worship, selfhood, selfism, selfness

• selfless, Olympian, altruistic, candid, charitable, committed, consecrated, considerate, dedicated, detached, devoted, disinterested, dispassionate, elevated, generous, high-minded, humble, impartial, impersonal, lofty, magnanimous, modest, neutral, open, sacrificing, self-abasing, self-abnegating, self-abnegatory, self-denying, self-devoted, self-effacing, self-forgetful, self-immolating, self-neglectful, self-neglecting, self-renouncing, self-sacrificing, self-unconscious, thoughtful, unacquisitive, unbiased, ungrudging, uninfluenced, unpossessive, unpretentious, unselfish, unsparing of self, unswayed

• selflessness, Olympian detachment, altruism, commitment, consecration, dedication, detachment, devotion, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, dispassionateness, humility, impartiality, loftiness, modesty, neutrality, sacrifice, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-devotion, self-effacement, self-forgetfulness, self-immolation, self-neglect, self-neglectfulness, self-renouncement, self-sacrifice, self-subjection, unacquisitiveness, unbias, unbiasedness, unpossessiveness, unselfishness

• selfness, agreement, coequality, coincidence, congruence, correspondence, differentiation, differentness, distinctiveness, egohood, equality, equivalence, homogeneity, homoousia, human factor, identity, indistinguishability, individualism, individuality, integrity, no difference, nominalism, nonconformity, oneness, particularism, particularity, personal equation, personal identity, personality, personship, sameness, self-identity, selfhood, selfsameness, singularity, soul, synonymity, synonymousness, synonymy, uniqueness, unity

• selfsame, Doppelganger, actual thing, alike, all one, all the same, carbon copy, consubstantial, copy, dead ringer, ditto, double, duplicate, equivalent, exact, exact counterpart, exactly alike, facsimile, homograph, homonym, homoousian, homophone, idem, identic, identical, identical same, indistinguishable, just alike, like, no other, none other, one, replica, same, spit and image, spitting image, synonym, the same, the same difference, twin, undifferent, very, very image, very same, without difference, without distinction

• sell out, apostatize, bear witness against, beguile, betray, blab, blow the whistle, bolt, break away, bunk, clear the trade, close out, convert, convert into cash, cross, cut under, defect, delude, desert, double-cross, dump, effect a sale, fink, four-flush, humbug, inform against, inform on, job, let down, liquidate, make a sale, market, merchandise, mislead, move, narc, peach, pull out, rat, resell, retail, run out on, sacrifice, secede, sell, sell off, sell on consignment, sell over, sell retail, sell short, sell up, sell wholesale, snitch, snitch on, split, squeal, stool, take in, tattle, tell on, terminate the account, testify against, turn in, turn informer, turn into money, turn over, two-time, undercut, undersell, unload, wholesale

• sell short, belittle, clear the trade, close out, convert, convert into cash, cut under, deprecate, depreciate, disparage, dump, effect a sale, job, liquidate, make a sale, make light of, make little of, make nothing of, market, merchandise, minimize, misestimate, misprize, move, resell, retail, sacrifice, sell, sell off, sell on consignment, sell out, sell over, sell retail, sell up, sell wholesale, set at naught, set little by, shrug off, terminate the account, think little of, think nothing of, turn into money, turn over, undercut, underestimate, underprize, underrate, underreckon, undersell, undervalue, unload, wholesale

• sell, abalienate, advertise, alien, alienate, amortize, argue into, assign, assure, ballyhoo, bark, barter, be convincing, be in, be sold, bequeath, betray, bill, boost, brim, bring, bring home to, bring in, bring over, bring round, bring to reason, brink, build up, bulletin, bunker, captivate, carry, carry conviction, cater, cede, charm, cheat, circularize, clear the trade, close out, coal, command, con, confer, consign, convert, convert into cash, convey, convict, convince, convinced, cross, cry up, cut under, deal in, deceit, deception, deed, deed over, deliver, demise, devolve upon, dispose of, double-cross, draw, draw over, drive home to, dump, edge, effect a sale, enfeoff, establish, exchange, fake, feed, fetch, fill up, flimflam, flog, forage, fringe, fuel, furnish, gain, gain over, gas, gas up, give, give a write-up, give away, give publicity, give title to, gross, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, handle, hawk, hem, hoax, hook, hook in, inform against, inspire belief, job, lead to believe, liquidate, make a sale, make over, market, merchandise, move, negotiate, net, offer, oil, outtalk, pass, pass on, pass over, peddle, perimeter, periphery, persuade, persuaded, placard, plug, post, post bills, post up, press-agent, prevail on, prevail upon, prevail with, promote, provender, provision, publicize, puff, purvey, push, put across, put over, put-on, realize, resell, retail, return, sacrifice, satisfy, sell for, sell off, sell on consignment, sell one on, sell out, sell over, sell retail, sell short, sell up, sell wholesale, selvage, settle, settle on, sham, shop, sign away, sign over, skirt, spiel, spoof, stock, supply, surrender, sway, talk into, talk over, tattle on, tell on, terminate the account, top off, trade, trade in, traffic, traffic in, transfer, transmit, turn into money, turn over, undercut, undersell, unload, vend, verge, victual, wangle, wangle into, wear down, wholesale, win, win over, write up, yield

• seller, agent, chandler, clerk, colporteur, dealer, drummer, fishmonger, floorwalker, hawker, ironmonger, merchant, peddler, rep, representative, retailer, sales agent, sales engineer, sales force, sales manager, sales personnel, salesclerk, salesgirl, saleslady, salesman, salespeople, salesperson, saleswoman, scalper, selling agent, shop assistant, shop clerk, shopkeeper, store clerk, sutler, ticket scalper, traveller, vendor

• selling, accouterment, allurement, armament, blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, catering, chandlery, coaxing, conning, consumer preference study, consumer research, consumer survey, direct-mail selling, endowment, engagement, enlistment, equipment, exhortation, finding, fitting out, furnishing, furnishment, hard sell, hawking, high-pressure salesmanship, hortation, huckstering, inducement, investment, jawboning, jobbing, lobbying, logistics, low-pressure salesmanship, mail-order selling, market, market research, marketing, marketing research, merchandising, outfitting, peddling, persuasion, preaching, preachment, preparation, procurement, promotion, providing, provision, provisioning, purveyance, reinforcement, replenishment, resupply, retail, retailing, sales, sales campaign, sales promotion, sales talk, salesmanship, sellout, snow job, soft sell, soft soap, solicitation, suasion, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, supply, supplying, sweet talk, victualing, wheedling, wholesale, wholesaling, working on

• sellout, Judas kiss, betrayal, consumer preference study, consumer research, consumer survey, direct-mail selling, double cross, hard sell, hawking, high-pressure salesmanship, huckstering, jobbing, low-pressure salesmanship, mail-order selling, market research, marketing, marketing research, merchandising, peddling, promotion, retailing, sales campaign, sales promotion, salesmanship, selling, soft sell, wholesaling

• selvage, bank, beading, binding, board, border, bordering, bordure, brim, brink, brow, coast, edge, edging, featheredge, fimbria, fimbriation, flange, flounce, frame, frill, frilling, fringe, furbelow, galloon, hem, labellum, labium, labrum, ledge, limb, limbus, lip, list, marge, margin, motif, ragged edge, rim, ruffle, shore, side, sideline, skirt, skirting, trimming, valance, verge, welt

• semantic, connotative, demonstrative, denominative, denotative, descriptive, designative, diagnostic, emblematic, evidential, exhibitive, expressive, figural, figurative, glossematic, glottochronological, grammatic, graphemic, iconic, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, implicative, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual, lexemic, lexical, lexicographic, lexicological, lexicostatistical, lingual, linguistic, meaningful, metalinguistic, metaphorical, morphemic, morphological, morphophonemic, naming, pathognomonic, peculiar, philological, phonemic, phonetic, phonological, phrasal, psycholinguistic, representative, semantological, semasiological, sememic, semiotic, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying, structural, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, syntactic, typical, verbal

• semantics, bowwow theory, comparative linguistics, derivation, descriptive linguistics, dialectology, dingdong theory, etymology, glossematics, glossography, glossology, glottochronology, glottology, grammar, graphemics, historical linguistics, language study, lexicography, lexicology, lexicostatistics, lexigraphy, linguistic geography, linguistic science, linguistics, mathematical linguistics, morphology, morphophonemics, onomasiology, onomastics, onomatology, paleography, philology, phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, semasiology, semiotic, semiotics, significs, sociolinguistics, structuralism, syntactics, transformational linguistics

• semaphore, Roman candle, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, balefire, beacon, beacon fire, bell, bell buoy, blinker, blue peter, buoy, caution light, flare, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, glance, go light, gong buoy, green light, heliograph, high sign, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, kick, leer, marker beacon, nod, nudge, parachute flare, pilot flag, poke, police whistle, quarantine flag, radio beacon, red flag, red light, rocket, sailing aid, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, spar buoy, stop light, the nod, the wink, touch, traffic light, traffic signal, watch fire, white flag, wigwag, wigwag flag, wink, yellow flag

• semblance, Prospero, accordance, acting, affectation, affinity, agreement, air, airiness, alibi, alikeness, alliance, analogy, angle, aping, apology, appearance, approach, approximation, aspect, assimilation, atmosphere, attitudinizing, aura, blind, bluff, bluffing, certified copy, cheating, cloak, closeness, color, coloring, community, companion, comparability, comparison, configuration, conformity, copy, copying, correspondence, counterfeit, cover, cover story, cover-up, dead ringer, deception, delusion, delusiveness, device, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, double, duplicate, ectype, effect, effigy, eidolon, exact likeness, excuse, facade, face, facet, fair copy, faithful copy, fake, fakery, faking, fallaciousness, false air, false appearance, false front, false light, false show, falseness, falsity, fashion, feature, feel, feeling, feigning, feint, fellow, figure, forgery, form, four-flushing, fraud, front, gestalt, gilt, gloss, guise, handle, humbug, humbuggery, icon, idealization, identity, idol, illusionism, illusionist, illusiveness, image, imago, imitation, immateriality, imposture, impression, lame excuse, light, likeness, likening, lineaments, living image, living picture, locus standi, look, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, manner, mask, masquerade, match, mate, meretriciousness, metaphor, mimicking, miniature, mirroring, model, mood, nearness, ostensible motive, ostentation, outward show, parallelism, parity, pasticcio, pastiche, phase, phasis, phony, photograph, picture, playacting, poor excuse, portrait, pose, posing, posture, prestidigitation, pretense, pretension, pretext, protestation, public motive, put-off, reference, reflection, refuge, regard, representation, resemblance, respect, rubbing, sameness, screen, seeming, shadow, sham, shape, show, showing, side, similarity, simile, similitude, simulacrum, simulation, slant, sleight of hand, smoke screen, sorcerer, sorcery, specious appearance, speciousness, spit and image, spitting image, stalking-horse, stratagem, style, subterfuge, total effect, trace, tracing, trick, twin, twist, unactuality, unreality, unsubstantiality, varnish, veil, veneer, very image, very picture, view, viewpoint, window dressing, wise

• semen, androcyte, antheridium, antherozoid, autacoid, bile, chalone, digestive secretion, endocrine, gall, gastric juice, hormone, intestinal juice, male gamete, milt, mucus, pancreatic juice, pollen, prostatic fluid, protein, rheum, salivary secretion, scum, seed, seminal fluid, sperm, sperm cell, spermagonium, spermatic fluid, spermatid, spermatiophore, spermatium, spermatocyte, spermatogonium, spermatophore, spermatozoa, spermatozoid, spermatozoon, tears, thyroxin

• semester, abundant year, academic year, annum, bissextile year, calendar month, calendar year, century, common year, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, fiscal year, fortnight, hour, leap year, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month, moon, quarter, quinquennium, regular year, second, session, sidereal year, solar year, sun, term, trimester, twelvemonth, week, weekday, year

• semiannual, annual, biannual, biennial, bimonthly, biweekly, catamenial, centenary, centennial, daily, decennial, diurnal, fortnightly, hebdomadal, hourly, menstrual, momentary, momently, monthly, quarterly, quotidian, secular, semestral, semimonthly, semiweekly, semiyearly, tertian, triennial, weekly, yearly

• semiautomatic, automated, automatic, automatic device, automaton, automatous, cybernated, cyborg, mechanical man, robot, self-acting, self-active, self-adjusting, self-closing, self-controlled, self-cooking, self-directed, self-directing, self-dumping, self-governed, self-governing, self-lighting, self-mover, self-operative, self-regulative, self-starting, self-winding, self-working, spontaneous

• semicircle, crescent, crescent moon, fifty percent, fifty-fifty, half, half circle, half-and-half, half-moon, hemicycle, hemisphere, horseshoe, lunula, lunule, mediety, meniscus, moiety, quadrant, scythe, sector, semisphere, sextant, sickle

• semicircular, Cynthian, S-shaped, bicorn, corniform, crescent, crescent-shaped, crescentic, crescentiform, crescentlike, falcate, falciform, horn-shaped, horned, lunar, lunate, luniform, lunular, menisciform, meniscoid, moon-shaped, moonlike, semilunar, sickle-like, sickle-shaped, sigmoid, two-horned

• semiconscious, asleep, cataleptic, catatonic, cold, comatose, dead, doped, drugged, half-conscious, narcotized, nirvanic, oblivious, out, out cold, out of it, senseless, spaced out, stoned, strung out, unconscious, zonked, zonked out

• semigloss, creamy, delicate, eggshell, flat, gloss, iridescent, light, mellow, mother-of-pearl, nacreous, opalescent, pale, pastel, patinaed, pearly, quiet, sad, simple, sober, soft, soft-colored, soft-hued, softened, somber, subdued, subtle, sweet, tender

• semimonthly, annual, biannual, biennial, bimonthly, biweekly, catamenial, centenary, centennial, daily, decennial, diurnal, fortnightly, hebdomadal, hourly, menstrual, momentary, momently, monthly, quarterly, quotidian, secular, semestral, semiannual, semiweekly, semiyearly, tertian, triennial, weekly, yearly

• seminal, aboriginal, abundant, basal, basic, benchmark, blooming, bountiful, bursting, bursting out, central, cervical, clitoral, conceptive, conceptual, copious, creative, crucial, elemental, elementary, embryonic, esemplastic, excretory, exuberant, fattening, fecund, fecundative, fertile, fertilizing, flourishing, formative, fructiferous, fructificative, fruitful, fundamental, gametic, gamic, generative, generous, genetic, genital, germinal, ideational, ideative, imaginative, important, in embryo, in ovo, incipient, influential, ingenious, innovative, inspired, inventive, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, landmark, life-giving, lush, luxuriant, multiparous, new, notional, original, originative, ovarian, penial, penile, phallic, plenteous, plentiful, potential, pregnant, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, procreant, procreative, productive, proliferous, prolific, propagative, protogenic, radical, reproductive, rheumy, rich, richening, rudimentary, salivant, salivary, salivous, scrotal, secretional, secretive, secretory, serous, sexual, shaping, sialagogic, spermatic, spermatozoal, spermatozoan, spermatozoic, spermic, sporal, sporogenous, sporoid, sporous, superabundant, swarming, teeming, telling, testicular, thriving, uberous, undeveloped, unprecedented, uterine, vaginal, visioned, vulval, vulvar, watering, watery

• seminar, academic specialty, airing, analysis, area, buzz session, canvassing, classical education, colloquium, colloquy, conference, consideration, core curriculum, course, course of study, curriculum, debate, debating, deliberation, dialectic, dialogue, discipline, discussion, elective, examination, exchange of views, field, forum, general education, general studies, humanities, investigation, joint discussion, liberal arts, logical analysis, logical discussion, major, minor, open discussion, open forum, palaver, panel discussion, proseminar, quadrivium, rap, rap session, refresher course, review, scientific education, specialty, study, subdiscipline, subject, symposium, technical education, town meeting, treatment, trivium, ventilation

• seminary, Bible institute, Gymnasium, Hebrew school, Latin school, Realgymnasium, Realschule, Sabbath school, Schule, Sunday school, Talmud Torah, academy, church school, college, convent school, denominational school, ecole, educational institution, escuela, grammar school, high, high school, institute, institution, intermediate school, junior high, junior high school, mesivta, middle school, parish school, parochial school, prep school, preparatory school, public school, scholastic institution, school, secondary school, senior high, senior high school, teaching institution, university, yeshiva

• semiskilled, amateurish, unaccomplished, unbusinesslike, uncoached, unendowed, unfinished, ungifted, uninitiated, unpolished, unprepared, unprimed, unprofessional, unschooled, unskilled, untalented, untaught, untrained, untutored

• semiweekly, annual, biannual, biennial, bimonthly, biweekly, catamenial, centenary, centennial, daily, decennial, diurnal, fortnightly, hebdomadal, hourly, menstrual, momentary, momently, monthly, quarterly, quotidian, secular, semestral, semiannual, semimonthly, semiyearly, tertian, triennial, weekly, yearly

• semiyearly, annual, biannual, biennial, bimonthly, biweekly, catamenial, centenary, centennial, daily, decennial, diurnal, fortnightly, hebdomadal, hourly, menstrual, momentary, momently, monthly, quarterly, quotidian, secular, semestral, semiannual, semimonthly, semiweekly, tertian, triennial, weekly, yearly

• Senate, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, House of Lords, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Liberia, Malagasy Republic, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Portugal, Rhodesia, South Africa, Swaziland, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, US, Venezuela, West Germany

• senator, MP, Member of Congress, Member of Parliament, alderman, assemblyman, chosen freeholder, city father, congressman, congresswoman, councilman, floor leader, lawgiver, lawmaker, legislator, majority leader, minority leader, party whip, representative, solon, state senator, whip

• send away, air-express, airfreight, airmail, ban, banish, beat back, blackball, bow out, brush off, bundle, bundle off, cast out, chase, chase away, chase off, consign, cut, deport, disfellowship, dismiss, dispatch, drive away, drive back, drop a letter, embark, exclude, excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expedite, expel, export, express, extradite, fend off, forward, freight, fugitate, give the air, give the gate, hold off, hustle out, keep off, mail, ostracize, outlaw, pack off, post, proscribe, push back, put back, rebuff, refuse, relegate, remit, repel, repulse, rusticate, send, send down, send forth, send off, send packing, send to Coventry, ship, show the door, show the gate, snub, spurn, thrust back, thrust out, transmit, transport, turn away, turn back, turn off, ward off

• send for, bid come, call, call away, call back, call for, call forth, call in, call out, call together, call up, cite, conjure, conjure up, convene, convoke, demand, evoke, indent, invoke, muster, muster up, order up, page, preconize, recall, requisition, send after, serve, subpoena, summon, summon forth, summon up, summons

• send forth, air-express, airfreight, airmail, blow out, bring out, bundle, bundle off, cast forth, consign, debouch, decant, discharge, disembogue, disgorge, dispatch, drop a letter, ejaculate, embark, emit, eruct, erupt, exhaust, expedite, expel, export, express, extravasate, float, forward, freight, get off, get out, give a start, give forth, issue, jet, kick off, launch, mail, outpour, post, pour, pour forth, pour out, put forth, put in motion, put out, remit, send, send away, send off, send out, set afloat, set agoing, set going, set in motion, set on foot, ship, spew, spout, spurt, squirt, start, start going, start off, start up, throw out, transmit

• send off, A, Godspeed, adieu, air-express, airfreight, airmail, aloha, alpha, beat back, begin, beginning, blast away, blast off, blast-off, bow out, brush off, bundle, bundle off, chase, chase away, chase off, commence, commencement, conge, consign, creation, cut, cutting edge, dawn, dismiss, dispatch, dive in, doch-an-dorrach, drive away, drive back, drop a letter, edge, embark, establishment, expedite, export, express, fall to, farewell, fend off, float, flying start, forward, foundation, freight, fresh start, get to, give a start, give the air, give the gate, go ahead, good-bye, head into, hold off, hustle out, institution, jump off, jump-off, keep off, kick off, kick-off, launch, leading edge, leave, leave-taking, mail, new departure, oncoming, onset, opening, origin, origination, outbreak, outset, pack off, parting, parting words, pitch in, plunge into, post, push back, put back, put in motion, rebuff, refuse, remit, repel, repulse, running start, send, send away, send forth, send packing, set about, set afloat, set agoing, set going, set in, set in motion, set on foot, set out, set sail, set to, setting in motion, setting-up, ship, show the door, show the gate, snub, spurn, square one, start, start going, start in, start off, start out, start up, start-off, starting point, stirrup cup, take off, take-off, thrust back, transmit, turn away, turn back, turn off, turn to, valediction, valedictorian, valedictory, valedictory address, viaticum, ward off

• send out, accredit, aerate, aerify, assign, atomize, authorize, blow out, carbonate, cast forth, charge, charter, chlorinate, commission, commit, consign, debouch, decant, delegate, depute, deputize, detach, detail, devolute, devolve, devolve upon, discharge, disembogue, disgorge, distill, ejaculate, emit, empower, entrust, eruct, erupt, etherify, etherize, evaporate, exhale, exhaust, expel, extravasate, fluidize, fractionate, fume, fumigate, gasify, give in charge, give off, hydrogenate, jet, license, mission, outpour, oxygenate, perfume, post, pour, pour forth, pour out, reek, send forth, smoke, spew, spout, spray, spurt, squirt, steam, sublimate, sublime, throw out, transfer, vaporize, volatilize, warrant

• send, address, address to, advance, air-express, airfreight, airmail, allocate, ask for, assign, be poised, beam, becharm, bewitch, billow, break, broadcast, bundle, bundle off, burlesque, call for, captivate, carry away, carry off, cart away, cast, charge, charm, comb, commission, commit, communicate, consign, convey, crash, dash, delectate, delegate, delight, deliver, delocalize, depute, discharge, dislodge, dismiss, dispatch, displace, disseminate, drop a letter, ebb and flow, electrify, embark, emit, enchant, enrapture, enravish, enthrall, enthuse, entrance, expedite, export, express, exude, fascinate, fax, fire, fling, float, forward, freak out, freight, get across, get over, give, give a start, give off, give word, grow, hand on, heave, hurl, imparadise, impart, imprison, incarcerate, jam, kick off, knock dead, knock out, lampoon, launch, lay aside, leave word, let fly, lift, mail, make fun of, make known, manhandle, move, newscast, order, parody, pass, pass along, pass on, peak, please, popple, post, project, propel, put aside, put in motion, radiate, radio, radiobroadcast, ravish, release, relocate, remit, remove, render, report, request, rise, rise and fall, roll, route, rush, satirize, scend, send away, send down, send for, send forth, send off, send up, send word, set afloat, set agoing, set aside, set going, set in motion, set on foot, share, share with, shift, ship, shoot, shortwave, shunt, side, sign off, sign on, signal, slay, smash, spoof, sportscast, start, start going, start off, start up, stir, summon, surge, swell, take away, take off, telecast, telegraph, televise, tell, thrill, throw, tickle, tickle pink, titillate, toss, transfer, transmit, transport, undulate, wave, wireless, wow

• senile, aged, aging, ancient, anile, childish, childlike, crabbed, debilitated, declining, decrepit, doddered, doddering, doddery, doited, dotard, doting, dotty, enfeebled, failing, feeble, fogy, fogyish, forgetful, fossilized, fuddy-duddy, gerontal, gerontic, infirm, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, old, old fart, old fogy, old-fogy, old-fogyish, palsied, papery-skinned, ravaged with age, rickety, run to seed, rusty, senescent, shaky, shattered, shriveled, simple, stodgy, stricken in years, stuffy, timeworn, tottering, tottery, weak, withered, wizened

• senility, aboriginality, abulia, advanced age, advanced years, age, age of retirement, an incurable disease, ancien regime, ancientness, anility, antiquity, arteriosclerotic psychosis, atavism, caducity, certifiability, childishness, cobwebs of antiquity, debility, decline, decline of life, declining years, decrepitude, dementia paralytica, dipsomania, dotage, dotardism, drug addiction, dust of ages, eld, elderliness, eldership, feebleness, folie du doute, functional psychosis, general paralysis, general paresis, great age, green old age, hale old age, hoary age, hoary eld, incapacity, infirm old age, infirmity, infirmity of age, insipidity, instability, invalidism, inveteracy, longevity, metabolic psychosis, moral insanity, neurosis, old age, old order, old style, oldness, organic psychosis, paralytic dementia, pathological drunkenness, pensionable age, presenile dementia, primitiveness, primogeniture, primordialism, primordiality, prison psychosis, psychopathia, psychopathia sexualis, psychopathic condition, psychopathic personality, psychopathy, psychosis, ricketiness, ripe old age, second childhood, senectitude, senescence, senile debility, senile dementia, senile psychosis, senile weakness, senilism, senior citizenship, seniority, sexual pathology, shakiness, situational psychosis, superannuation, syphilitic paresis, the downward slope, the golden years, toxic psychosis, unfirmness, unsoundness, unsteadiness, unsturdiness, unsubstantiality, vale of years, vapidity, venerableness, wateriness, white hairs, wishy-washiness

• senior citizen, Father Time, Methuselah, Nestor, Old Paar, ancient, centenarian, dotard, elder, gaffer, geezer, golden-ager, gramps, grandfather, grandsire, graybeard, nonagenarian, octogenarian, old chap, old codger, old dog, old duffer, old geezer, old gent, old gentleman, old man, old party, old-timer, older, oldster, pantaloon, patriarch, pensioner, presbyter, senior, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, the quiet-voiced elders, venerable sir, veteran

• senior, A per se, absolute, ace, ancient, antecedent, anterior, anticipatory, ascendant, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, better, boss, brass hat, cadet, champion, chief, ci-devant, clothed with authority, commander, commanding, competent, consequential, considerable, controlling, dean, dominant, doyen, doyenne, duly constituted, earlier, early, elder, eldest, eminent, empowered, ex officio, father, first, first-born, firstling, fore, foregoing, former, freshman, fugleman, genius, golden-ager, governing, great, head, hegemonic, hegemonistic, high priest, higher-up, imperative, important, important person, influential, junior, kingfish, kingpin, laureate, leader, leading, major, master, midshipman, mighty, momentous, monocratic, nonpareil, official, old-timer, older, oldest, paragon, personage, plebe, potent, powerful, preceding, precurrent, preeminent, preexistent, prestigious, previous, prime, primogenitary, principal, prior, prodigy, prominent, puissant, ranking, ruler, ruling, senior citizen, sire, soph, sophomore, star, substantial, superior, superman, superstar, supreme, the greatest, the most, top dog, totalitarian, undergrad, undergraduate, upperclassman, virtuoso, weighty

• seniority, aboriginality, accomplishment, age, ancien regime, ancientness, antiquity, ascendancy, atavism, authority, cobwebs of antiquity, consequence, deanship, dust of ages, eld, elderliness, eldership, eminence, excellence, favor, great age, greatness, hoary age, hoary eld, importance, incomparability, influence, influentialness, inimitability, inveteracy, lead, majority, moment, old age, old order, old style, oldness, one-upmanship, precedence, predominance, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, pressure, prestige, primitiveness, primogeniture, primordialism, primordiality, priority, privilege, prominence, rank, right-of-way, senility, skill, stature, success, superiority, transcendence, transcendency, venerableness, virtuosity, weight, weightiness

• senora, Frau, Fraulein, Miss, Mistress, Mlle, Mme, Mmes, dame, dona, donna, lady, madam, madame, mademoiselle, mem-sahib, mesdames, senhora, senhorita, signora, signorina, vrouw

• senorita, Frau, Fraulein, Miss, Mistress, Mlle, Mme, Mmes, dame, dona, donna, lady, madam, madame, mademoiselle, mem-sahib, mesdames, senhora, senhorita, signora, signorina, vrouw

• sensation, affect, affection, amazement, astonishing thing, astonishment, awareness, bang, bean, best seller, big hit, bomb, bombshell, boot, brain, brilliant success, charge, commotion, consciousness, curiosity, emotion, emotional charge, emotional shade, encephalon, exception, excitement, experience, fad, feeling, feeling tone, flush, foreboding, funny feeling, gas, gasser, gazingstock, gray matter, great success, gut reaction, head, heartthrob, hit, hunch, impression, jollies, kick, killing, lift, marvel, marvelment, meteoric success, miracle, momentary success, noddle, noggin, nonesuch, noodle, organ of thought, passion, pate, perception, phenomenon, portent, prescience, presentiment, prodigy, profound sense, quite a thing, quiver, rarity, reaction, resounding triumph, response, riot, roaring success, rush, rush of emotion, sconce, seat of thought, sense, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensorium, sensory, sentiment, shiver, shudder, sight, smash, smash hit, sneaking suspicion, something else, spectacle, stir, stunner, success, surge of emotion, susceptibility, suspicion, thrill, tingle, tingling, titillation, tremor, tremor of excitement, triumph, undercurrent, wonder, wonderful thing, wonderment, wow

• sensational, Barnumesque, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, acid, affected, amazing, arresting, astonishing, astounding, bedizened, beguiling, bewildering, big-sounding, biting, blatant, brazen, brazenfaced, breathtaking, cloak-and-dagger, coarse, colored, colorful, conspicuous, convoluted, cool, corrosive, crashing, crude, cutting, dandy, declamatory, divine, dramatic, driving, effective, electrifying, elevated, emotionalistic, emotive, enigmatic, euphuistic, exaggerated, exceptional, exciting, exquisite, extraordinary, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, flagrant, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashy, flaunting, forceful, forcible, fulsome, galvanizing, garish, gaudy, gilt-edged, glaring, glorious, golden, gorgeous, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, great, groovy, gutsy, hair-raising, hammy, heavenly, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, histrionic, hot, hunky-dory, hysteric, immense, imperative, impressive, incisive, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, inkhorn, juicy, keen, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, livid, lofty, loud, lurid, magnificent, magniloquent, marked, marvelous, matchless, melodramatic, meretricious, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, miraculous, mordant, nervous, nonpareil, nonrational, obtrusive, orotund, ostentatious, outlandish, outstanding, overdone, overdrawn, overelaborate, overemotional, overinvolved, overwrought, passing strange, pedantic, peerless, penetrating, phenomenal, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pompous, powerful, pretentious, prodigious, prominent, punchy, pungent, puzzling, rare, remarkable, rhetorical, rousing, salient, screaming, sensationalistic, sensatory, sensitive, sensorial, sensual, sententious, shameless, shocking, showy, signal, sinewed, sinewy, slashing, smash, smashing, sonorous, spectacular, spine-chilling, splendid, splendiferous, staggering, sterling, stilted, stimulating, stirring, strange, striking, strong, stunning, stupendous, sultry, super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent, superfine, superior, tabloid, tall, tawdry, telling, terrific, theatrical, thrilling, tortuous, tremendous, trenchant, unbelievable, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unprecedented, unreasoning, very good, vigorous, vital, vivid, vulgar, wonderful, wondrous, yellow

• sensationalism, Barnumism, Thespian art, affectation, aggrandizement, amateur theatricals, amplification, ballyhoo, bedizenment, big talk, blatancy, blood and thunder, blowing up, brazenness, burlesque, caricature, colorfulness, convolution, crudeness, dash, dazzle, dazzlingness, demonstrativeness, dilatation, dilation, dramatic art, dramatic form, dramatic irony, dramatic stroke, dramatic structure, dramaticism, dramatics, dramatism, dramaturgy, emotional appeal, emotionalism, emotionality, emotionalization, emotionalizing, emotiveness, emotivity, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, extravagance, extravaganza, extravagation, extreme, flagrancy, flamboyance, flashiness, flatulence, flatulency, fulsomeness, gaiety, garishness, gaudery, gaudiness, glare, glitter, gorgeousness, grandiloquence, grandioseness, grandiosity, heightening, high-flown diction, histrionics, histrionism, huckstering, human interest, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflatedness, inflation, inordinacy, jauntiness, jazziness, lexiphanicism, loftiness, loudness, love interest, luridness, magnification, magniloquence, making scenes, melodrama, melodramatics, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, nonrationalness, obtrusiveness, orotundity, ostentation, ostentatious complexity, overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overstatement, panache, platitudinous ponderosity, play construction, polysyllabic profundity, pomposity, pompous prolixity, pompousness, pontification, pretension, pretentiousness, prodigality, profuseness, prose run mad, puffery, puffing up, rhetoric, rhetoricalness, sententiousness, shamelessness, showiness, sportiness, staginess, stiltedness, stretching, superlative, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness, tall talk, tawdriness, theatricalism, theatricality, theatricals, theatricism, theatrics, tortuosity, tortuousness, touting, travesty, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, unreasoningness, visceralness, vulgarness, yellow journalism

• sense, IQ, absorb, acceptation, admissibility, affect, affection, affective meaning, air, anticipate, appreciate, appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciativeness, apprehend, apprehension, artistic judgment, assimilate, atmosphere, aura, awareness, balance, be aware of, be conscious of, be sensible of, be with one, bearing, believe, brains, burden, caliber, capacity, catch, catch on, center, climate, cognizance, coherence, coloring, common sense, comprehend, comprehension, conceive, conception, connoisseurship, connotation, consciousness, consequence, consider, cool head, coolheadedness, coolness, core, credit, critical niceness, criticalness, deductive power, deem, delicacy, denotation, descry, detect, dig, digest, discern, discernment, discretion, discriminating taste, discriminatingness, discrimination, discriminativeness, distinguish, divine, drift, due sense of, effect, emotion, emotional charge, emotional shade, esemplastic power, espy, essence, experience, extension, faculty, fastidiousness, fathom, feel, feel deeply, feel intuitively, feeling, feeling tone, fine palate, finesse, focus, follow, force, foreboding, foresight, get, get hold of, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, gist, good sense, grammatical meaning, grasp, gumption, gut reaction, have, have a feeling, have a hunch, have a sensation, have it taped, have the impression, hear, heartthrob, hold, horse sense, idea, ideation, identify, impact, implication, import, impression, integrative power, intellect, intellectual grasp, intellectual power, intellectualism, intellectuality, intelligence, intelligence quotient, intelligibility, intendment, intension, intuit, intuition, judgement, judgment, judiciousness, just know, justifiability, justness, ken, know, knowledge, learn, level head, levelheadedness, lexical meaning, literal meaning, logic, logicality, logicalness, lucidity, make out, making distinctions, marbles, master, matter, meaning, meat, mental age, mental capacity, mental grasp, mental ratio, mentality, message, milieu, mind, mother wit, native wit, niceness of distinction, nicety, note, notice, nous, nuance, nucleus, overtone, palate, passion, penetration, perceive, percept, perception, pertinence, pick up, pith, plain sense, plausibility, point, power of mind, practical consequence, practical mind, practical wisdom, practicality, presentiment, profound sense, prudence, purport, quality, quick-wittedness, quickness, range of meaning, rationality, reaction, read, real meaning, realize, reason, reasonability, reasonableness, reasoning power, receive an impression, recognition, recognize, reference, referent, refined discrimination, refined palate, refinement, relation, relevance, respond, respond to stimuli, response, response to stimuli, sagacity, saneness, sanity, savvy, scope, scope of mind, see, seize, seize the meaning, selectiveness, semantic cluster, semantic field, sensation, sense impression, sense perception, sensibility, sensibleness, sensitivity, sensory experience, sentiment, short, significance, significancy, signification, significatum, signifie, smarts, smell, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobriety, sound sense, soundness, span of meaning, spirit, spot, spy, structural meaning, substance, subtlety, sum, sum and substance, suspect, sweet reason, symbolic meaning, tact, tactfulness, take, take in, taste, tenor, think, thinking power, thrust, tone, totality of associations, touch, transferred meaning, unadorned meaning, undercurrent, understand, understanding, undertone, upshot, value, wisdom, wit

• senseless, abiotic, abnormal, absonant, absurd, aimless, amorphous, anesthetized, apish, asinine, asleep, azoic, batty, befooled, beguiled, benumbed, bereft of reason, besotted, brainless, brainsick, buffoonish, capricious, casual, cataleptic, catatonic, cockeyed, cold, comatose, contradictory, contrary to reason, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dead, deadened, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, designless, desultory, dippy, disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct, disordered, disoriented, dispersed, disproportionate, distraught, dizzy, doped, doting, drugged, dumb, empty, empty-headed, erratic, exanimate, fallacious, fatuitous, fatuous, faulty, fitful, flaky, flawed, flighty, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, formless, frivolous, fuddled, futile, gaga, garbled, goofy, gratuitous, gulled, half-conscious, hallucinated, haphazard, headless, hit-or-miss, idiotic, ignorant, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, illogical, imbecile, imbecilic, immethodical, impolitic, importless, imprudent, inadvisable, inane, inanimate, inanimated, inauthentic, inchoate, incoherent, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderate, inconsistent, indiscreet, indiscriminate, inept, inert, inexpedient, infatuated, injudicious, insane, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insignificant, invalid, irrational, irregular, kooky, lackbrained, lean-minded, lean-witted, lifeless, loco, loony, loose, ludicrous, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, maudlin, mazed, meaningless, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, mindless, misadvised, misguided, misshapen, moon-struck, moronic, mute, myopic, narcotized, nirvanic, nitwitted, non compos, non compos mentis, nonconnotative, nonconscious, nondenotative, nonliving, nonscientific, nonsensical, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, not all there, not bright, not following, not right, null, numbed, nutty, oblivious, odd, of little brain, of unsound mind, off, orderless, out, out cold, out of it, paralogical, pea-brained, phatic, pin-brained, planless, pointless, promiscuous, psycho, purportless, purposeless, queer, random, reasonless, reckless, ridiculous, sappy, scrambled, screwy, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, semiconscious, sentimental, shapeless, shortsighted, sick, silly, slackminded, slackwitted, soulless, spaced out, spasmodic, sporadic, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, stoned, straggling, straggly, strange, strung out, stunned, stupid, surd, systemless, tetched, thoughtless, touched, trinal, unadvised, unanimated, unarranged, unauthentic, unaware, unbalanced, unclassified, unconnected, unconscious, unconsidered, undirected, undiscerning, unfeeling, unforeseeing, ungifted, ungraded, unhinged, unimportant, unintellectual, unintelligent, unjoined, unmeaning, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unphilosophical, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflecting, unreflective, unsane, unscientific, unseeing, unsensible, unsettled, unsignificant, unsorted, unsound, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, untalented, unthinking, unthoughtful, ununiform, unwise, unwitty, vague, wacky, wandering, weak-minded, wet, wild, without reason, witless, wooden, zonked, zonked out

• senses, balance, chromesthesia, color hearing, consciousness, contact with reality, faculties, five senses, healthy mind, hearing, intellectual gifts, intellectuals, lucid interval, lucidity, mental balance, mental equilibrium, mental health, mental hygiene, mental poise, normalcy, normality, normalness, parts, phonism, photism, rationality, reason, reasonableness, receptor, right mind, sanemindedness, saneness, sanity, sense organ, sensillum, sensorium, sensory organ, sight, sixth sense, smell, sober senses, sobriety, sound mind, soundness, soundness of mind, synesthesia, taste, touch, wholesomeness, wits