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Verbs
1. (verb) conceive, conceptualise, conceptualize, gestate;
  - have the idea for;
  - “He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients”; “This library was well conceived”;

2. (verb) believe, conceive, consider, think;
  - judge or regard; look upon; judge;
  - “I think he is very smart”; “I believe her to be very smart”; “I think that he is her boyfriend”; “The racist conceives such people to be inferior”;

3. (verb) conceive;
  - become pregnant; undergo conception;
  - “She cannot conceive”; “My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day”;

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Verbs
1. (verb) construct, fabricate, manufacture;
  - put together out of artificial or natural components or parts;
  - “the company fabricates plastic chairs”; “They manufacture small toys”; “He manufactured a popular cereal”;

2. (verb) cook up, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture;
  - make up something artificial or untrue;

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Nouns
1. (n.) aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo;
  - a quantity of no importance;
  - “it looked like nothing I had ever seen before”; “reduced to nil all the work we had done”; “we racked up a pathetic goose egg”; “it was all for naught”; “I didn’t hear zilch about it”;

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Verbs
1. (verb) misconduct, mishandle, mismanage;
  - manage badly or incompetently;
  - “The funds were mismanaged”;

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Verbs
1. (verb) amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate;
  - to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth;
  - “tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South’ imagery”;

2. (verb) exaggerate, overdo;
  - do something to an excessive degree;
  - “He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups”;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) rancid;
  - (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition;
  - “rancid butter”; “rancid bacon”;

2. (adj.) rancid, sour;
  - smelling of fermentation or staleness;

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Nouns
1. (n.) foursome, quartet, quartette;
  - four people considered as a unit;
  - “he joined a barbershop quartet”; “the foursome teed off before 9 a.m.”;

2. (n.) 4, four, foursome, iv, little joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad;
  - the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one;

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Nouns
1. (n.) blowup, ebullition, effusion, gush, outburst;
  - an unrestrained expression of emotion;

2. (n.) effusion;
  - flow under pressure;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) conscienceless, unconscionable;
  - lacking a conscience;
  - “a conscienceless villain”; “brash, unprincipled, and conscienceless”; “an unconscionable liar”;

2. (adj.) exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious;
  - greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation;
  - “exorbitant rent”; “extortionate prices”; “spends an outrageous amount on entertainment”; “usurious interest rate”; “unconscionable spending”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) beau ideal, idol, paragon, perfection;
  - an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept;

2. (n.) apotheosis, ideal, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon, saint;
  - model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal;

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