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Adjectives
1. (adj.) akimbo;
  - (used of arms and legs) bent outward with the joint away from the body;
  - “a tailor sitting with legs akimbo”; “stood with arms akimbo”;

Adverbs
1. (adv.) akimbo;
  - with hands on hips and elbows extending outward;
  - “she stood there akimbo”;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) collapsable, collapsible;
  - capable of collapsing or being collapsed;
  - “a collapsible boat”;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible;
  - arousing or provoking laughter;
  - “an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls”; “an amusing fellow”; “a comic hat”; “a comical look of surprise”; “funny stories that made everybody laugh”; “a very funny writer”; “it would have been laughable if it hadn’t hurt so much”; “a mirthful experience”; “risible courtroom antics”;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) dead, stagnant;
  - not circulating or flowing;
  - “dead air”; “dead water”; “stagnant water”;

2. (adj.) moribund, stagnant;
  - not growing or changing; without force or vitality;

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Verbs
1. (verb) lavish, shower;
  - expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns;
  - “He was showered with praise”;

Adjectives
1. (adj.) lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting;
  - very generous;
  - “distributed gifts with a lavish hand”; “the critics were lavish in their praise”; “a munificent gift”; “his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent”; “prodigal praise”; “unsparing generosity”; “his unstinted devotion”; “called for unstinting aid to Britain”;

2. (adj.) lavish, lucullan, lush, plush, plushy;
  - characterized by extravagance and profusion;
  - “a lavish buffet”; “a lucullan feast”;

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Verbs
1. (verb) lean back, recline;
  - move the upper body backwards and down;

2. (verb) recline;
  - cause to recline;
  - “She reclined her head on the pillow”;

3. (verb) recline, recumb, repose;
  - lean in a comfortable resting position;
  - “He was reposing on the couch”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) princedom, principality;
  - territory ruled by a prince;

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Verbs
1. (verb) protuberate;
  - cause to bulge out or project;

2. (verb) protuberate;
  - form a rounded prominence;
  - “The starved child’s belly protuberated”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) mutability, mutableness;
  - the quality of being capable of mutation;

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Nouns
1. (n.) venom;
  - toxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions);

2. (n.) malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom;
  - feeling a need to see others suffer;

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