CozyEnglish

Nouns
1. (n.) buzzword, cant;
  - stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition;

2. (n.) bank, camber, cant;
  - a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force;

3. (n.) argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular;
  - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves);
  - “they don’t speak our lingo”;

4. (n.) cant, pious platitude;
  - insincere talk about religion or morals;

5. (n.) bevel, cant, chamfer;
  - two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees;

Verbs
1. (verb) cant, cant over, pitch, slant, tilt;
  - heel over;
  - “The tower is tilting”; “The ceiling is slanting”;

Adjectives
1. (adj.) allowable, permissible;
  - that may be permitted especially as according to rule;
  - “permissible behavior in school”; “a permissible tax deduction”;

2. (adj.) permissible;
  - that may be accepted or conceded;
  - “a kind of speculation that was permissible in cosmology but inadmissible in medicine”;

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Verbs
1. (verb) do, execute, perform;
  - carry out or perform an action;
  - “John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters”; “the skater executed a triple pirouette”; “she did a little dance”;

2. (verb) perform;
  - perform a function;
  - “Who will perform the wedding?”;

3. (verb) perform;
  - give a performance (of something);
  - “Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight”; “We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera”;

4. (verb) do, perform;
  - get (something) done;
  - “I did my job”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) botany, flora, vegetation;
  - all the plant life in a particular region or period;
  - “Pleistocene vegetation”; “the flora of southern California”; “the botany of China”;

2. (n.) botany, phytology;
  - the branch of biology that studies plants;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening;
  - threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;
  - “a baleful look”; “forbidding thunderclouds”; “his tone became menacing”; “ominous rumblings of discontent”; “sinister storm clouds”; “a sinister smile”; “his threatening behavior”; “ugly black clouds”; “the situation became ugly”;