correlate

31 03 2008

Nouns
1. (n.) correlate, correlative;
  - either of two or more related or complementary variables;

Verbs
1. (verb) correlate;
  - to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation;
  - “Do these facts correlate?”;

2. (verb) correlate;
  - bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation;
  - “I cannot correlate these two pieces of information”;

Adjectives
1. (adj.) correlate, correlated, correlative;
  - mutually related;

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misrule

31 03 2008

Nouns
1. (n.) misgovernment, misrule;
  - government that is inefficient or dishonest;

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inextricable

31 03 2008

Adjectives
1. (adj.) inextricable;
  - not permitting extrication; incapable of being disentangled or untied;
  - “an inextricable knot”; “inextricable unity”;

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allege

31 03 2008

Verbs
1. (verb) allege, aver, say;
  - report or maintain;
  - “He alleged that he was the victim of a crime”; “He said it was too late to intervene in the war”; “The registrar says that I owe the school money”;

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frantic

31 03 2008

Adjectives
1. (adj.) frantic, frenetic, frenzied, phrenetic;
  - excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion;
  - “frantic with anger and frustration”; “frenetic screams followed the accident”; “a frenzied look in his eye”;

2. (adj.) delirious, excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained;
  - marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion;
  - “a crowd of delirious baseball fans”; “something frantic in their gaiety”; “a mad whirl of pleasure”;

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permanent

30 03 2008

Nouns
1. (n.) perm, permanent, permanent wave;
  - a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals;

Adjectives
1. (adj.) lasting, permanent;
  - continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place;
  - “permanent secretary to the president”; “permanent address”; “literature of permanent value”;

2. (adj.) permanent;
  - not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition;
  - “permanent brain damage”;

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gastronomy

30 03 2008

Nouns
1. (n.) gastronomy;
  - a particular style of cookery (as of a region);
  - “New England gastronomy”;

2. (n.) gastronomy;
  - the art and practice of choosing and preparing and eating good food;

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brazen

30 03 2008

Verbs
1. (verb) brazen;
  - face with defiance or impudence;
  - “brazen it out”;

Adjectives
1. (adj.) audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent;
  - unrestrained by convention or propriety;
  - “an audacious trick to pull”; “a barefaced hypocrite”; “the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim”; “bald-faced lies”; “brazen arrogance”; “the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress”;

2. (adj.) brazen;
  - made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness);

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subvert

30 03 2008

Verbs
1. (verb) bring down, overthrow, overturn, subvert;
  - cause the downfall of; of rulers;
  - “The Czar was overthrown”; “subvert the ruling class”;

2. (verb) corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate;
  - corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality;
  - “debauch the young people with wine and women”; “Socrates was accused of corrupting young men”; “Do school counselors subvert young children?”; “corrupt the morals”;

3. (verb) counteract, countermine, sabotage, subvert, undermine, weaken;
  - destroy property or hinder normal operations;
  - “The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war”;

4. (verb) subvert;
  - destroy completely;
  - “we must not let our civil liberties be subverted by the current crisis”;

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conjunction

30 03 2008

Nouns
1. (n.) co-occurrence, coincidence, concurrence, conjunction;
  - the temporal property of two things happening at the same time;
  - “the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable”;

2. (n.) colligation, conjugation, conjunction, junction;
  - the state of being joined together;

3. (n.) conjunction, conjunctive, connective, continuative;
  - an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences;

4. (n.) conjunction;
  - the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction;

5. (n.) alignment, conjunction;
  - (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac;

6. (n.) conjunction, junction;
  - something that joins or connects;

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