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{
"eddy":{
"a circular movement of air or water":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The boat was caught in a powerful eddy ."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in swirl , purl":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"edge":{
"a harsh or sharp quality":{
"examples":[
"the teacher's voice had a sarcastic edge as she welcomed the tardy student to class"
],
"synonyms":[
"acerbity",
"acidity",
"acidness",
"acridity",
"acridness",
"acrimoniousness",
"acrimony",
"acuteness",
"asperity",
"bite",
"bitterness",
"harshness",
"keenness",
"poignance",
"poignancy",
"pungency",
"roughness",
"sharpness",
"tartness"
],
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"near synonyms":[
"ginger",
"punch",
"spice",
"tang",
"raucousness",
"severeness",
"severity",
"shrillness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"cattiness",
"maliciousness",
"pointedness",
"thorniness"
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],
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"near antonyms":[
"gentleness",
"kindliness"
],
"antonyms":[
"mildness",
"softness"
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]
},
"the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something":{
"examples":[
"the design along the edge of the plate is badly worn"
],
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"synonyms":[
"border",
"borderline",
"bound",
"boundary",
"brim",
"circumference",
"compass",
"confines",
"edging",
"end",
"frame",
"fringe",
"hem",
"margin",
"perimeter",
"periphery",
"rim",
"skirt",
"skirting",
"verge"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"ambit",
"brink",
"crest",
"curb",
"cusp",
"lip",
"ceiling",
"maximum",
"demarcation",
"extent",
"limitation",
"measure",
"mere",
"restriction",
"termination",
"borderland",
"frontier",
"march",
"outskirts",
"pale",
"selvage",
"lap",
"shore"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"center",
"core",
"heart",
"inner",
"inside",
"interior",
"middle",
"within"
],
"antonyms":[]
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},
"the more favorable condition or position in a competition":{
"examples":[
"my big feet give me something of an edge in swimming"
],
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"synonyms":[
"advantage",
"better",
"bulge",
"catbird seat",
"drop",
"high ground",
"inside track",
"jump",
"pull",
"stead",
"upper hand",
"vantage",
"whip hand"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"allowance",
"head start",
"lead",
"leg up",
"margin",
"odds",
"start",
"ascendancy",
"ascendency",
"command",
"dominance",
"mastery",
"predominance",
"superiority",
"supremacy",
"transcendence",
"transcendency",
"precedence",
"preference",
"prerogative",
"privilege",
"seniority",
"break",
"foothold",
"opportunity",
"benefit",
"blessing",
"boon",
"felicity",
"godsend",
"manna",
"windfall"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"detriment",
"stranglehold",
"disparity",
"imbalance",
"inequality",
"unevenness",
"disability",
"failing",
"impairment",
"shortcoming",
"bar",
"catch",
"check",
"clog",
"crimp",
"embarrassment",
"hindrance",
"hitch",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"rub",
"shackle",
"stop",
"trammel",
"lurch",
"setback"
],
"antonyms":[
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"handicap",
"liability",
"minus",
"penalty",
"strike"
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]
},
"the power to produce a desired result":{
"examples":[
"the utter lack of enforcement provisions totally blunts the edge of the law"
],
"synonyms":[
"effectiveness",
"effectualness",
"efficaciousness",
"efficacity",
"efficacy",
"efficiency",
"productiveness"
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],
"near synonyms":[
"ability",
"capability",
"capacity",
"potency",
"puissance",
"strength"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inability",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness",
"incompetence",
"incompetency"
],
"antonyms":[
"ineffectiveness",
"ineffectuality",
"ineffectualness",
"inefficiency"
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]
},
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"an interval of time just before the onset of something":{
"examples":[
"the nation's economy was on the edge of collapse when the Federal Reserve took exceptionally bold action"
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],
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"synonyms":[
"brink",
"cusp",
"point",
"threshold",
"verge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nick"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make sharp or sharper":{
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"examples":[
"if you edge the tip of that stick, it should be a fine skewer for roasting marshmallows"
],
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"synonyms":[
"grind",
"hone",
"sharpen",
"stone",
"strop",
"whet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"file"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"buff",
"burnish",
"gloss",
"polish",
"round",
"smooth"
],
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"antonyms":[
"blunt",
"dull"
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]
},
"to serve as a border for":{
"examples":[
"pavement edging the flower bed"
],
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"synonyms":[
"border",
"bound",
"frame",
"fringe",
"margin",
"rim",
"skirt"
],
"near synonyms":[
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"hem",
"trim",
"circumscribe",
"define",
"delineate",
"demarcate",
"outline",
"silhouette",
"sketch",
"trace",
"circle",
"compass",
"encircle",
"enclose",
"inclose",
"environ",
"girdle",
"girth",
"loop",
"ring",
"round",
"surround",
"wall",
"check",
"confine",
"control",
"curb",
"limit",
"restrain",
"restrict"
],
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"edge in":{
"to put among or between others":{
"examples":[
"although she likes to profess journalistic impartiality when covering a story, she seldom refrains from edging in her personal observations"
],
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"synonyms":[
"fit (in or into)",
"inject",
"insert",
"insinuate",
"intercalate",
"interject",
"interpolate",
"interpose",
"intersperse",
"introduce",
"sandwich (in or between)",
"work in"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"cut in",
"inlay",
"inset",
"install",
"interfile",
"interline",
"lard",
"weave",
"cram",
"shove",
"thrust",
"wedge",
"add",
"append",
"attach"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"eject",
"eliminate",
"exclude",
"expel",
"extract",
"withdraw",
"deduct",
"detach",
"subtract",
"reject"
],
"antonyms":[]
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"edged (out)":{
"as in nosed out , pipped":{
"examples":[],
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"nosed out",
"pipped",
"swept",
"annihilated",
"blew away",
"blew out",
"bombed",
"broke",
"buried",
"clobbered",
"creamed",
"crushed",
"drubbed",
"finished",
"flattened",
"overwhelmed",
"routed",
"shellacked",
"skinned",
"slaughtered",
"smoked",
"snowed under",
"thrashed",
"trounced",
"upset",
"walloped",
"waxed",
"whipped",
"beat",
"bested",
"conquered",
"defeated",
"did down",
"dispatched",
"got",
"got around",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"skunked",
"stopped",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"took",
"trimmed",
"triumphed (over)",
"upended",
"won (against)",
"worsted",
"capped",
"excelled",
"flourished",
"scored",
"succeeded",
"knocked off",
"knocked over",
"overpowered",
"overthrew",
"subjugated",
"unseated",
"vanquished",
"aced (out)",
"bettered",
"eclipsed",
"exceeded",
"excelled",
"outdid",
"outdistanced",
"outfought",
"outshone",
"outshined",
"outstripped",
"overtopped",
"surpassed",
"topped",
"transcended"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lost (to)",
"fell",
"gave up",
"went down",
"went under",
"collapsed",
"failed",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"washed out"
],
"antonyms":[]
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"edging (out)":{
"as in nosing out , pipping":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"edgy":{
"feeling or showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"with an edgy voice the spelling-bee contestant started to spell the tongue twister"
],
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"synonyms":[
"aflutter",
"antsy",
"anxious",
"atwitter",
"dithery",
"goosey",
"het up",
"hinky",
"hung up",
"ill at ease",
"insecure",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"nervous",
"nervy",
"perturbed",
"queasy",
"queazy",
"tense",
"troubled",
"uneasy",
"unquiet",
"upset",
"uptight",
"worried"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"aggrieved",
"bothered",
"concerned",
"disquieted",
"distraught",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"freaked",
"freaked-out",
"shook-up",
"apprehensive",
"foreboding",
"hesitant",
"misgiving",
"fretful",
"fretting",
"stewing",
"vexed",
"qualmish",
"qualmy",
"flustered",
"twittered",
"undone",
"unnerved",
"unstrung",
"obsessed",
"preoccupied",
"restless",
"fidgety",
"flighty",
"fluttery",
"high-strung",
"hypertense",
"skittish",
"spooky"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"sure",
"controlled",
"self-controlled"
],
"antonyms":[
"calm",
"collected",
"cool",
"easy",
"happy-go-lucky",
"nerveless",
"relaxed"
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]
},
"having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something":{
"examples":[
"be careful as you walk along the beach\u2014those broken clam shells are edgy enough to cut your feet"
],
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"synonyms":[
"cutting",
"edged",
"ground",
"honed",
"keen",
"sharp",
"sharpened",
"stropped",
"trenchant",
"whetted"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"clawlike",
"daggerlike",
"knifelike",
"jabbing",
"jagged",
"lacerating",
"piercing",
"scratching",
"stabbing",
"pointed",
"pointy",
"spiky",
"spikey"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"rounded",
"smooth",
"soft",
"even",
"flat",
"level",
"slick"
],
"antonyms":[
"blunt",
"blunted",
"dull",
"dulled",
"obtuse"
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]
},
"serving or likely to arouse a strong reaction":{
"examples":[
"a director known for his edgy , over-the-top satires on modern life"
],
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"synonyms":[
"charged",
"exciting",
"inciting",
"instigating",
"instigative",
"piquing",
"provocative",
"provoking",
"stimulating"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"explosive",
"fiery",
"incendiary",
"inflammatory",
"triggering",
"inducing",
"inspirational",
"inspiring",
"motivating",
"motivational",
"motivative",
"jeering",
"taunting",
"teasing",
"activating",
"energizing",
"galvanizing",
"quickening",
"vitalizing",
"angering",
"enraging",
"maddening",
"upsetting",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"pesky",
"vexatious",
"vexing"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"subduing"
],
"antonyms":[
"noninflammatory"
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]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"editorialize":{
"to make a statement of one's opinion":{
"examples":[
"she never misses a chance to editorialize on the issues of the day\u2014even the ones she knows nothing about"
],
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"synonyms":[
"allow",
"comment",
"note",
"observe",
"opine",
"reflect",
"remark",
"weigh in"
],
"near synonyms":[
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"commentate",
"articulate",
"express",
"say",
"speak",
"state",
"talk",
"tell",
"utter",
"verbalize",
"vocalize",
"conjecture",
"daresay",
"guess",
"speculate",
"suppose",
"surmise"
],
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"editorialized":{
"to make a statement of one's opinion":{
"examples":[
"she never misses a chance to editorialize on the issues of the day\u2014even the ones she knows nothing about"
],
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"synonyms":[
"allowed",
"commented",
"noted",
"observed",
"opined",
"reflected",
"remarked",
"weighed in"
],
"near synonyms":[
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"commentated",
"articulated",
"expressed",
"said",
"spoke",
"stated",
"talked",
"told",
"uttered",
"verbalized",
"vocalized",
"conjectured",
"daresaid",
"guessed",
"speculated",
"supposed",
"surmised"
],
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"educated":{
"having or displaying advanced knowledge or education":{
"antonyms":[
"benighted",
"dark",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"uneducated",
"unlearned",
"unlettered",
"unscholarly"
],
"examples":[
"educated people are often more aware and tolerant of cultural and ethnic diversity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncivilized",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"lowbrow",
"semiliterate",
"unintellectual",
"ill-bred",
"unpolished",
"unrefined",
"uninformed",
"unknowledgeable",
"uninstructed",
"unschooled",
"untaught",
"untutored",
"semiliterate",
"undereducated"
],
"related":[
"civilized",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"cerebral",
"highbrow",
"highbrowed",
"intellectual",
"polished",
"refined",
"well-bred",
"academic",
"academical",
"bookish",
"didactic",
"didactical",
"inkhorn",
"pedantic",
"professorial",
"informed",
"instructed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"homeschooled",
"self-educated",
"self-instructed",
"self-taught",
"briefed",
"enlightened",
"informed",
"versed",
"overeducated",
"polyhistoric",
"polymath",
"polymathic"
],
"synonyms":[
"erudite",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"lettered",
"literate",
"scholarly",
"well-read"
]
},
"having or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavor":{
"antonyms":[
"amateur",
"amateurish",
"inexperienced",
"inexpert",
"jackleg",
"unprofessional",
"unseasoned",
"unskilled",
"unskillful"
],
"examples":[
"a violinist caressing the instrument with an educated touch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"inept",
"unable",
"unfit",
"unfitted",
"unqualified",
"weak",
"artless",
"crude",
"rude",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"inefficient",
"talentless",
"ungifted",
"untalented",
"ignorant",
"unschooled",
"untaught",
"untrained",
"untutored",
"beginning",
"green",
"inexperienced",
"new",
"raw",
"unseasoned",
"untested",
"untried",
"would-be",
"primitive",
"rough",
"unpolished",
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"ham-fisted",
"ham-handed",
"heavy-handed"
],
"related":[
"adroit",
"clever",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"handy",
"slick",
"sure-handed",
"gifted",
"talented",
"polished",
"refined",
"effective",
"effectual",
"efficient",
"workmanlike",
"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"employable",
"fit",
"fitted",
"habile",
"qualified",
"knowledgeable",
"schooled",
"taught",
"trained",
"tutored",
"all-around",
"all-round",
"well-rounded",
"long-term",
"old",
"multiskilled",
"multitalented"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplished",
"ace",
"adept",
"compleat",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crack",
"crackerjack",
"experienced",
"expert",
"good",
"great",
"master",
"masterful",
"masterly",
"practiced",
"practised",
"professed",
"proficient",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"versed",
"veteran",
"virtuoso"
]
},
"to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a revered professor of astronomy who is credited with educating many of today's leading astronomers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"coached",
"mentored",
"drilled",
"fitted",
"fit",
"grounded",
"habilitated",
"prepared",
"primed",
"qualified",
"directed",
"guided",
"led",
"reared",
"catechized",
"lectured",
"moralized",
"preached",
"implanted",
"inculcated",
"instilled",
"homeschooled",
"edified",
"enlightened",
"briefed",
"familiarized",
"imparted (to)",
"informed",
"versed",
"initiated",
"introduced",
"showed",
"reeducated",
"reschooled",
"retaught",
"retrained"
],
"synonyms":[
"indoctrinated",
"instructed",
"lessoned",
"schooled",
"taught",
"trained",
"tutored"
]
},
"to provide (someone) with moral or spiritual understanding":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the belief that parents better educate their children by example than by sending them to Sunday school"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confused",
"perplexed",
"puzzled",
"beclouded",
"clouded",
"darkened",
"obscured"
],
"related":[
"elevated",
"ennobled",
"enriched",
"ensouled",
"lifted",
"uplifted",
"bettered",
"improved",
"regenerated",
"renewed",
"transformed",
"exalted",
"glorified",
"transfigured"
],
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"edified",
"enlightened",
"illumed",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"inspired",
"nurtured"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"educates":{
"to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field":{
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"examples":[
"a revered professor of astronomy who is credited with educating many of today's leading astronomers"
],
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"mentors",
"drills",
"fits",
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"primes",
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"guides",
"leads",
"rears",
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"preaches",
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"instills",
"instils",
"homeschools",
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"briefs",
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"imparts (to)",
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"verses",
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"introduces",
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"reschools",
"reteaches",
"retrains"
],
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"indoctrinates",
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"schools",
"teaches",
"trains",
"tutors"
]
},
"to provide (someone) with moral or spiritual understanding":{
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"examples":[
"the belief that parents better educate their children by example than by sending them to Sunday school"
],
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"confuses",
"perplexes",
"puzzles",
"beclouds",
"clouds",
"darkens",
"obscures"
],
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"elevates",
"ennobles",
"enriches",
"ensouls",
"lifts",
"uplifts",
"betters",
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"regenerates",
"renews",
"transforms",
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"nurtures"
]
},
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"verb"
]
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"educational":{
"providing useful information or knowledge":{
"examples":[
"we found the talk on easy ways for families to recycle household products very educational"
],
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"synonyms":[
"educative",
"enlightening",
"illuminating",
"informational",
"informative",
"informatory",
"instructional",
"instructive"
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],
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"near synonyms":[
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"comprehensive",
"copious",
"detailed",
"full",
"communicatory",
"edifying",
"elucidative",
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"chatty",
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"newsy",
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"beneficial",
"constructive",
"helpful",
"profitable",
"practical",
"serviceable",
"usable",
"useable",
"useful",
"worthwhile"
],
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"near antonyms":[
"impractical",
"unhelpful",
"unusable",
"useless"
],
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"unenlightening",
"unilluminating",
"uninformative",
"uninstructive"
]
},
"of or relating to schooling or learning especially at an advanced level":{
"examples":[
"the community college strives to meet the educational needs of the residents of its urban location"
],
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"synonyms":[
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"academic",
"academical",
"intellectual",
"scholarly",
"scholastic"
],
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"donnish",
"geeky",
"nerdish",
"nerdy",
"pedagogical",
"pedagogic",
"pedantic",
"professorial",
"tweedy",
"curricular",
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"educative",
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"instructive",
"collegiate",
"graduate",
"postgraduate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cocurricular",
"extracurricular",
"noncollegiate"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonacademic",
"noneducational",
"unacademic",
"unscholarly"
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]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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},
"eduction":{
"an opinion arrived at through a process of reasoning":{
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"the policeman's eduction was that there was more than one murderer involved"
],
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"resolution",
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"guess",
"surmise",
"assumption",
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"supposition"
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"synonyms":[
"conclusion",
"consequence",
"deduction",
"determination",
"induction",
"inference",
"sequitur"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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},
"educationist":{
"a person whose occupation is to give formal instruction in a school":{
"examples":[
"educationists around the U.K. were largely in support of the reforms"
],
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"schoolteacher",
"teacher"
],
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"intern",
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"lecturer",
"moralizer",
"preacher"
],
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},
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"noun"
]
},
"edifies":{
"to provide (someone) with moral or spiritual understanding":{
"examples":[
"a family-oriented show that tried to edify the television audience as well as entertain it"
],
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"educates",
"enlightens",
"illumes",
"illuminates",
"illumines",
"inspires",
"nurtures"
],
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"ennobles",
"enriches",
"ensouls",
"lifts",
"uplifts",
"betters",
"improves",
"regenerates",
"renews",
"transforms",
"exalts",
"glorifies",
"transfigures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confuses",
"perplexes",
"puzzles",
"beclouds",
"clouds",
"darkens",
"obscures"
],
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"verb"
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"a large, magnificent, or massive building":{
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"the U.S. Capitol is one of our nation's most impressive edifices"
],
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"cathedral",
"hall",
"palace",
"tower"
],
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"erection",
"structure",
"castle",
"ch\u00e2teau",
"countryseat",
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"hacienda",
"manor",
"manor house",
"mansion",
"showplace",
"villa",
"mausoleum",
"memorial",
"monument"
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"something built as a dwelling, shelter, or place for human activity":{
"examples":[
"the first edifices built by the colonists were primitive huts with walls of dried mud and roofs covered with thatch"
],
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"building",
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"the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form":{
"examples":[
"the edifice of the argument is quite simple, once you get past the fancy language"
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"architecture",
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"fabric",
"frame",
"framework",
"framing",
"infrastructure",
"shell",
"skeleton",
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"network",
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"outline",
"profile",
"shape",
"silhouette",
"chassis"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"edit":{
"to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating":{
"examples":[
"the publisher edited a new version of its best-selling school dictionary"
],
"synonyms":[
"redraft",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework"
],
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"perfect",
"polish",
"touch up",
"copyedit",
"read",
"sub",
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"reedit",
"amend",
"annotate",
"correct",
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"rectify",
"fact-check",
"anthologize",
"collect",
"compile",
"get out",
"issue",
"print",
"publish",
"abridge",
"blue-pencil",
"redact",
"red-pencil",
"engross",
"recopy"
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},
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
"examples":[
"the restaurant chef has edited several of his gourmet dishes for preparation by the home cook"
],
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"adapt",
"adjust",
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"conform",
"doctor",
"fashion",
"fit",
"put",
"shape",
"suit",
"tailor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readapt",
"readjust",
"customize",
"gear",
"match",
"model",
"pattern",
"attune",
"correct",
"harmonize",
"square",
"tune",
"establish",
"root",
"settle",
"acquaint",
"familiarize",
"orient",
"orientate",
"equip",
"prepare",
"prime",
"rehearse",
"harden",
"inure",
"season",
"toughen",
"alter",
"convert",
"make over",
"modify",
"recast",
"reclaim",
"recycle",
"redesign",
"redevelop",
"redo",
"reengineer",
"refashion",
"refigure",
"refit",
"refocus",
"reinvent",
"rejigger",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"transform",
"accustom",
"habilitate",
"habituate",
"naturalize",
"ready",
"train",
"bend",
"fiddle (with)",
"fine-tune",
"phase",
"register",
"regulate",
"rig"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjust"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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},
"edify":{
"to provide (someone) with moral or spiritual understanding":{
"examples":[
"a family-oriented show that tried to edify the television audience as well as entertain it"
],
"synonyms":[
"educate",
"enlighten",
"illume",
"illuminate",
"illumine",
"inspire",
"nurture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elevate",
"ennoble",
"enrich",
"ensoul",
"lift",
"uplift",
"better",
"improve",
"regenerate",
"renew",
"transform",
"exalt",
"glorify",
"transfigure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confuse",
"perplex",
"puzzle",
"becloud",
"cloud",
"darken",
"obscure"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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},
"educationese":{
"as in legalese , psychobabble":{
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"near synonyms":[
"bureaucratese",
"computerese",
"governmentese",
"legalese",
"Pentagonese",
"psychobabble",
"technobabble",
"bafflegab",
"double-talk",
"gibberish",
"gobbledygook",
"gobbledegook",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"song and dance",
"bombast",
"fustian",
"gas",
"grandiloquence",
"hot air",
"hype",
"oratory",
"rhetoric",
"wind"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"edict":{
"an order publicly issued by an authority":{
"examples":[
"the school board's edict put a new student dress code into effect"
],
"synonyms":[
"bull",
"decree",
"diktat",
"directive",
"fiat",
"rescript",
"ruling",
"ukase"
],
"near synonyms":[
"call",
"conclusion",
"decision",
"deliverance",
"determination",
"diagnosis",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"opinion",
"resolution",
"verdict",
"announcement",
"declaration",
"dictum",
"manifesto",
"proclamation",
"pronouncement",
"canon",
"encyclical"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a statement of what to do that must be obeyed by those concerned":{
"examples":[
"this household's edict of long standing: no television until all homework has been completed"
],
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"behest",
"charge",
"command",
"commandment",
"decree",
"dictate",
"direction",
"directive",
"do",
"imperative",
"injunction",
"instruction",
"order",
"word"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demand",
"requirement",
"mandate",
"countermand",
"counterorder",
"law",
"precept",
"prescript",
"prescription",
"rule",
"ordinance",
"regulation",
"statute"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeal",
"entreaty",
"petition",
"plea",
"urging",
"proposal",
"recommendation",
"suggestion"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"edification":{
"the process by which one gains a greater understanding of something":{
"examples":[
"They showed the children films that provided edification and not just entertainment."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"culture",
"enlightenment",
"improvement",
"education",
"erudition",
"knowledge",
"learnedness",
"learning",
"literacy",
"scholarship",
"reading",
"bookishness",
"pedantry",
"awareness",
"consciousness",
"realization",
"absorption",
"assimilation",
"digestion",
"uptake",
"appreciation",
"apprehension",
"comprehension",
"grasp",
"grip",
"hold",
"perception",
"percipience",
"understanding",
"cultivation",
"development",
"improvement"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ignorance",
"illiteracy",
"illiterateness",
"incomprehension",
"noncomprehension",
"misapprehension",
"miscomprehension",
"misinterpretation",
"misperception",
"misunderstanding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"educate":{
"to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field":{
"examples":[
"a revered professor of astronomy who is credited with educating many of today's leading astronomers"
],
"synonyms":[
"indoctrinate",
"instruct",
"lesson",
"school",
"teach",
"train",
"tutor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coach",
"mentor",
"drill",
"fit",
"ground",
"habilitate",
"prepare",
"prime",
"qualify",
"direct",
"guide",
"lead",
"rear",
"catechize",
"lecture",
"moralize",
"preach",
"implant",
"inculcate",
"instill",
"instil",
"homeschool",
"edify",
"enlighten",
"brief",
"familiarize",
"impart (to)",
"inform",
"verse",
"initiate",
"introduce",
"show",
"reeducate",
"reschool",
"reteach",
"retrain"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide (someone) with moral or spiritual understanding":{
"examples":[
"the belief that parents better educate their children by example than by sending them to Sunday school"
],
"synonyms":[
"edify",
"enlighten",
"illume",
"illuminate",
"illumine",
"inspire",
"nurture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elevate",
"ennoble",
"enrich",
"ensoul",
"lift",
"uplift",
"better",
"improve",
"regenerate",
"renew",
"transform",
"exalt",
"glorify",
"transfigure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confuse",
"perplex",
"puzzle",
"becloud",
"cloud",
"darken",
"obscure"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"educationeses":{
"as in bureaucrateses , governmenteses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bureaucrateses",
"computereses",
"cyberspeaks",
"governmenteses",
"journaleses",
"technobabbles",
"slanguages",
"colloquialisms",
"colloquials",
"idioms",
"localisms",
"parlances",
"pidgins",
"provincialisms",
"regionalisms",
"speeches",
"vernacularisms",
"vernaculars",
"argots",
"cants",
"dialects",
"jargons",
"jives",
"languages",
"lingos",
"lingoes",
"patois",
"patter",
"shops",
"shoptalk",
"slangs",
"terminologies",
"vocabularies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"educations":{
"the act or process of imparting knowledge or skills to another":{
"examples":[
"a teacher who devoted herself to the education of children with special needs"
],
"synonyms":[
"instruction",
"schooling",
"teaching",
"training",
"tuition",
"tutelage",
"tutoring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"didactics",
"pedagogics",
"pedagogy",
"higher education",
"higher learning",
"coaching",
"conditioning",
"cultivation",
"preparation",
"readying",
"development",
"direction",
"guidance",
"nurturance",
"nurturing",
"edification",
"enlightenment",
"improvement"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the understanding and information gained from being educated":{
"examples":[
"a person whose extensive education was obvious to all who met him"
],
"synonyms":[
"erudition",
"knowledge",
"learnedness",
"learning",
"literacy",
"scholarship"
],
"near synonyms":[
"culture",
"edification",
"enlightenment",
"reading",
"bookishness",
"pedantry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"functional illiteracy"
],
"antonyms":[
"ignorance",
"illiteracy",
"illiterateness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"edited (out)":{
"to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it":{
"examples":[
"anything potentially offensive or disturbing was edited out of the newsletter before it was mailed"
],
"synonyms":[
"blue-penciled",
"canceled",
"cancelled",
"crossed (out)",
"deled",
"deleted",
"elided",
"killed",
"scratched (out)",
"stroked (out)",
"struck (out)",
"x-ed (out)",
"x'd (out)",
"xed (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blotted out",
"effaced",
"eradicated",
"erased",
"expunged",
"obliterated",
"rooted (out)",
"rubbed out",
"wiped out",
"bleeped",
"blipped",
"clipped",
"cut",
"excised",
"removed",
"bowdlerized",
"censored",
"cleaned (up)",
"expurgated",
"laundered",
"redacted",
"red-penciled",
"abbreviated",
"cropped",
"shortened",
"blacked out",
"repressed",
"silenced",
"suppressed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"educing":{
"to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved)":{
"examples":[
"the gift of a puppy finally educed a response from the shy boy"
],
"synonyms":[
"eliciting",
"evoking",
"inspiring",
"raising"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dragging",
"dredging (up)",
"extorting",
"extracting",
"pulling",
"wangling",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"coaxing (out)",
"gaining",
"getting",
"obtaining",
"procuring",
"securing",
"baring",
"disclosing",
"discovering",
"divulging",
"evincing",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"unveiling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarding",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"missing",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"passing over"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"edifices":{
"a large, magnificent, or massive building":{
"examples":[
"the U.S. Capitol is one of our nation's most impressive edifices"
],
"synonyms":[
"cathedrals",
"halls",
"palaces",
"towers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"constructions",
"erections",
"structures",
"castles",
"ch\u00e2teaus",
"ch\u00e2teaux",
"countryseats",
"estates",
"haciendas",
"manor houses",
"manors",
"mansions",
"showplaces",
"villas",
"mausoleums",
"mausolea",
"memorials",
"monuments"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something built as a dwelling, shelter, or place for human activity":{
"examples":[
"the first edifices built by the colonists were primitive huts with walls of dried mud and roofs covered with thatch"
],
"synonyms":[
"buildings",
"structures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"constructions",
"erections",
"bungalows",
"cabins",
"chalets",
"cottages",
"houses",
"lodges",
"summerhouses",
"hovels",
"hutments",
"huts",
"shacks",
"shanties",
"sheds",
"castles",
"ch\u00e2teaus",
"ch\u00e2teaux",
"estates",
"halls",
"manors",
"mansions",
"palaces",
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"villas",
"skyscrapers",
"towers"
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"the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form":{
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"armatures",
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"fabrics",
"frames",
"frameworks",
"framings",
"infrastructures",
"shells",
"skeletons",
"structures"
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"lattices",
"networks",
"contours",
"figures",
"outlines",
"profiles",
"shapes",
"silhouettes",
"chassis"
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},
"type":[
"noun"
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"a short piece of writing expressing the author's opinion on a topic":{
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"The editorial about business regulations drew many responses from those on both sides of the issue."
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"type":[
"noun"
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"pressman",
"reporter"
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"author",
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"litt\u00e9rateur",
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"penman",
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"scrivener",
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"writer",
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"fictioneer",
"fictionist",
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"romancer",
"storyteller",
"ghostwriter",
"hack",
"hatchet man",
"scribbler",
"wordmonger",
"autobiographer",
"memoirist",
"memorialist",
"auteur",
"belletrist",
"belle-lettrist",
"stylist",
"coauthor",
"coscenarist",
"cowriter",
"biographer",
"hagiographer",
"definer",
"lexicographer",
"linguist"
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"nonauthor"
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"a short piece of writing expressing the author's opinion on a topic":{
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"type":[
"noun"
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"an often imaginary place or state of utter perfection and happiness":{
"examples":[
"some of the first Europeans to explore Polynesia thought that they had indeed discovered a tropical Eden"
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"Cockaigne",
"Elysium",
"empyrean",
"fantasyland",
"heaven",
"lotusland",
"never-never land",
"New Jerusalem",
"nirvana",
"paradise",
"promised land",
"Shangri-la",
"utopia",
"Zion",
"Sion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arcadia",
"dreamland",
"dreamworld",
"fairyland",
"wonderland",
"blessedness",
"bliss",
"blissfulness",
"euphoria",
"gladness",
"joy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fool's paradise"
],
"antonyms":[
"anti-utopia",
"dystopia",
"hell"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"edges":{
"the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something":{
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"the design along the edge of the plate is badly worn"
],
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"borders",
"boundaries",
"bounds",
"brims",
"circumferences",
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"confines",
"edgings",
"ends",
"frames",
"fringes",
"hems",
"margins",
"perimeters",
"peripheries",
"rims",
"skirtings",
"skirts",
"verges"
],
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"ambits",
"brinks",
"crests",
"curbs",
"cusps",
"lips",
"ceilings",
"maxima",
"maximums",
"demarcations",
"extents",
"limitations",
"measures",
"meres",
"restrictions",
"terminations",
"borderlands",
"frontiers",
"marches",
"outskirts",
"pales",
"selvages",
"laps",
"shores"
],
"near antonyms":[
"centers",
"cores",
"hearts",
"inners",
"insides",
"interiors",
"middles",
"withins"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the more favorable condition or position in a competition":{
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"my big feet give me something of an edge in swimming"
],
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"advantages",
"betters",
"bulges",
"catbird seats",
"drops",
"high grounds",
"inside tracks",
"jumps",
"pulls",
"steads",
"upper hands",
"vantages",
"whip hands"
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"allowances",
"head starts",
"leads",
"legs up",
"margins",
"odds",
"starts",
"ascendancies",
"ascendencies",
"commands",
"dominances",
"masteries",
"predominances",
"superiorities",
"supremacies",
"transcendences",
"transcendencies",
"precedences",
"preferences",
"prerogatives",
"privileges",
"seniorities",
"breaks",
"footholds",
"opportunities",
"benefits",
"blessings",
"boons",
"felicities",
"godsends",
"mannas",
"windfalls"
],
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"detriments",
"strangleholds",
"disparities",
"imbalances",
"inequalities",
"disabilities",
"failings",
"impairments",
"shortcomings",
"bars",
"catches",
"checks",
"clogs",
"crimps",
"embarrassments",
"hindrances",
"hitches",
"hurdles",
"impediments",
"interferences",
"lets",
"manacles",
"obstacles",
"obstructions",
"rubs",
"shackles",
"stops",
"trammels",
"lurches",
"setbacks"
],
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"disadvantages",
"drawbacks",
"handicaps",
"liabilities",
"minuses",
"penalties",
"strikes"
]
},
"an interval of time just before the onset of something":{
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"the nation's economy was on the edge of collapse when the Federal Reserve took exceptionally bold action"
],
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"brinks",
"cusps",
"points",
"thresholds",
"verges"
],
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"nicks"
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},
"to make sharp or sharper":{
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"if you edge the tip of that stick, it should be a fine skewer for roasting marshmallows"
],
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"grinds",
"hones",
"sharpens",
"stones",
"strops",
"whets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"files"
],
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"buffs",
"burnishes",
"glosses",
"polishes",
"rounds",
"smooths",
"smoothes"
],
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"blunts",
"dulls"
]
},
"to serve as a border for":{
"examples":[
"pavement edging the flower bed"
],
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"borders",
"bounds",
"frames",
"fringes",
"margins",
"rims",
"skirts"
],
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"trims",
"circumscribes",
"defines",
"delineates",
"demarcates",
"outlines",
"silhouettes",
"sketches",
"traces",
"circles",
"compasses",
"encircles",
"encloses",
"incloses",
"environs",
"girdles",
"girths",
"loops",
"rings",
"rounds",
"surrounds",
"walls",
"checks",
"confines",
"controls",
"curbs",
"limits",
"restrains",
"restricts"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it":{
"examples":[
"anything potentially offensive or disturbing was edited out of the newsletter before it was mailed"
],
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"blue-penciling",
"canceling",
"cancelling",
"crossing (out)",
"deleing",
"deleting",
"eliding",
"killing",
"scratching (out)",
"striking (out)",
"stroking (out)",
"x-ing (out)",
"x'ing (out)"
],
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"blotting out",
"effacing",
"eradicating",
"erasing",
"expunging",
"obliterating",
"rooting (out)",
"rubbing out",
"wiping out",
"bleeping",
"blipping",
"clipping",
"cutting",
"excising",
"removing",
"bowdlerizing",
"censoring",
"cleaning (up)",
"expurgating",
"laundering",
"redacting",
"red-penciling",
"abbreviating",
"cropping",
"shortening",
"blacking out",
"repressing",
"silencing",
"suppressing"
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"education":{
"the act or process of imparting knowledge or skills to another":{
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"a teacher who devoted herself to the education of children with special needs"
],
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"instruction",
"schooling",
"teaching",
"training",
"tuition",
"tutelage",
"tutoring"
],
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"didactics",
"pedagogics",
"pedagogy",
"higher education",
"higher learning",
"coaching",
"conditioning",
"cultivation",
"preparation",
"readying",
"development",
"direction",
"guidance",
"nurturance",
"nurturing",
"edification",
"enlightenment",
"improvement"
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"antonyms":[]
},
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"examples":[
"a person whose extensive education was obvious to all who met him"
],
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"erudition",
"knowledge",
"learnedness",
"learning",
"literacy",
"scholarship"
],
"near synonyms":[
"culture",
"edification",
"enlightenment",
"reading",
"bookishness",
"pedantry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"functional illiteracy"
],
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"ignorance",
"illiteracy",
"illiterateness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"eductions":{
"an opinion arrived at through a process of reasoning":{
"examples":[
"the policeman's eduction was that there was more than one murderer involved"
],
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"conclusions",
"consequences",
"deductions",
"determinations",
"inductions",
"inferences",
"sequiturs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decisions",
"deliverances",
"diagnoses",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"resolutions",
"rulings",
"verdicts",
"conjectures",
"guesses",
"surmises",
"assumptions",
"presumptions",
"suppositions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"edition":{
"as in sheet , supplement":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"broadside",
"extra",
"sheet",
"supplement",
"tab",
"tabloid",
"pictorial",
"slick",
"newsletter",
"newsmagazine",
"newsweekly",
"fanzine",
"digest",
"little magazine",
"annual",
"bimonthly",
"biweekly",
"daily",
"monthly",
"quarterly",
"semimonthly",
"semiweekly",
"triweekly",
"weekly",
"yearbook",
"book",
"bulletin",
"diurnal",
"gazette",
"journal",
"mag",
"magazine",
"newspaper",
"organ",
"paper",
"periodical",
"rag",
"review",
"serial",
"zine"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"eddied":{
"as in swirled , purled":{
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"near synonyms":[
"purled",
"swirled",
"bubbled",
"dribbled",
"guggled",
"gurgled",
"lapped",
"plashed",
"rippled",
"splashed",
"trickled",
"washed",
"swashed",
"swished",
"swooshed",
"whished",
"dripped",
"dropped",
"gushed",
"jetted",
"rushed",
"spewed",
"spouted",
"spurted",
"squirted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"poured",
"rolled",
"streamed",
"ran",
"run"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"educed":{
"to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved)":{
"examples":[
"the gift of a puppy finally educed a response from the shy boy"
],
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"elicited",
"evoked",
"inspired",
"raised"
],
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"dragged",
"dredged (up)",
"extorted",
"extracted",
"pulled",
"wangled",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"coaxed (out)",
"gained",
"got",
"obtained",
"procured",
"secured",
"bared",
"disclosed",
"discovered",
"divulged",
"evinced",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"unveiled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarded",
"forgot",
"ignored",
"missed",
"neglected",
"overlooked",
"overpassed",
"passed over"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"edits":{
"to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating":{
"examples":[
"the publisher edited a new version of its best-selling school dictionary"
],
"synonyms":[
"redrafts",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"perfects",
"polishes",
"touches up",
"copyedits",
"reads",
"subedits",
"subs",
"reedits",
"amends",
"annotates",
"corrects",
"emends",
"rectifies",
"fact-checks",
"anthologizes",
"collects",
"compiles",
"gets out",
"issues",
"prints",
"publishes",
"abridges",
"blue-pencils",
"redacts",
"red-pencils",
"engrosses",
"recopies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
"examples":[
"the restaurant chef has edited several of his gourmet dishes for preparation by the home cook"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimates",
"acclimatizes",
"accommodates",
"adapts",
"adjusts",
"conditions",
"conforms",
"doctors",
"fashions",
"fits",
"puts",
"shapes",
"suits",
"tailors"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readapts",
"readjusts",
"customizes",
"gears",
"matches",
"models",
"patterns",
"attunes",
"corrects",
"harmonizes",
"squares",
"tunes",
"establishes",
"roots",
"settles",
"acquaints",
"familiarizes",
"orientates",
"orients",
"equips",
"prepares",
"primes",
"rehearses",
"hardens",
"inures",
"seasons",
"toughens",
"alters",
"converts",
"makes over",
"modifies",
"recasts",
"reclaims",
"recycles",
"redesigns",
"redevelops",
"redoes",
"reengineers",
"refashions",
"refigures",
"refits",
"refocuses",
"reinvents",
"rejiggers",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks",
"transforms",
"accustoms",
"habilitates",
"habituates",
"naturalizes",
"readies",
"trains",
"bends",
"fiddles (with)",
"fine-tunes",
"phases",
"registers",
"regulates",
"rigs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"edit (out)":{
"to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it":{
"examples":[
"anything potentially offensive or disturbing was edited out of the newsletter before it was mailed"
],
"synonyms":[
"blue-pencil",
"cancel",
"cross (out)",
"dele",
"delete",
"elide",
"kill",
"scratch (out)",
"strike (out)",
"stroke (out)",
"x (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blot out",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"erase",
"expunge",
"obliterate",
"root (out)",
"rub out",
"wipe out",
"bleep",
"blip",
"clip",
"cut",
"excise",
"remove",
"bowdlerize",
"censor",
"clean (up)",
"expurgate",
"launder",
"redact",
"red-pencil",
"abbreviate",
"crop",
"shorten",
"black out",
"repress",
"silence",
"suppress"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"editors":{
"as in copyreaders":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"copyreaders",
"byliners",
"columnists",
"commentators",
"muckrakers",
"photojournalists",
"police reporters",
"sportswriters",
"staffers",
"stringers",
"anchormen",
"anchorpeople",
"anchors",
"anchorwomen",
"announcers",
"broadcasters",
"newscasters",
"newspapermen",
"newspaperwomen",
"newswomen",
"correspondents",
"intelligencers",
"journalists",
"newshounds",
"newsmen",
"newspeople",
"pressmen",
"reporters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"educative":{
"providing useful information or knowledge":{
"examples":[
"college students discover that what they experience outside the classroom can be just as educative as anything that happens within"
],
"synonyms":[
"educational",
"enlightening",
"illuminating",
"informational",
"informative",
"informatory",
"instructional",
"instructive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comprehensive",
"copious",
"detailed",
"full",
"communicatory",
"edifying",
"elucidative",
"explanatory",
"chatty",
"gossipy",
"newsy",
"availing",
"beneficial",
"constructive",
"helpful",
"profitable",
"practical",
"serviceable",
"usable",
"useable",
"useful",
"worthwhile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impractical",
"unhelpful",
"unusable",
"useless"
],
"antonyms":[
"unenlightening",
"unilluminating",
"uninformative",
"uninstructive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"edacious":{
"having a huge appetite":{
"examples":[
"my edacious dining companion could always be counted on to order the largest\u2014and often most expensive\u2014item on the menu"
],
"synonyms":[
"esurient",
"gluttonous",
"greedy",
"hoggish",
"piggish",
"rapacious",
"ravenous",
"swinish",
"voracious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hearty",
"wolfish",
"devouring",
"gobbling",
"gorging",
"gormandizing",
"gulping",
"insatiable",
"unquenchable",
"unslakable",
"empty",
"famished",
"hungry",
"peckish",
"starved",
"starving",
"malnourished",
"underfed",
"undernourished"
],
"near antonyms":[
"content",
"full",
"glutted",
"sated",
"satiated",
"satisfied",
"stuffed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"edibility":{
"as in digestibility , edibleness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"digestibility",
"edibleness",
"delectability",
"deliciousness",
"lusciousness",
"palatability",
"palatableness",
"savor",
"savour",
"savoriness",
"tastiness",
"toothsomeness",
"choiceness",
"daintiness",
"delicacy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distastefulness",
"flatness",
"insipidity",
"staleness",
"tastelessness",
"unpalatability"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"educating":{
"to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field":{
"examples":[
"a revered professor of astronomy who is credited with educating many of today's leading astronomers"
],
"synonyms":[
"indoctrinating",
"instructing",
"lessoning",
"schooling",
"teaching",
"training",
"tutoring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coaching",
"mentoring",
"drilling",
"fitting",
"grounding",
"habilitating",
"preparing",
"priming",
"qualifying",
"directing",
"guiding",
"leading",
"rearing",
"catechizing",
"lecturing",
"moralizing",
"preaching",
"implanting",
"inculcating",
"instilling",
"homeschooling",
"edifying",
"enlightening",
"briefing",
"familiarizing",
"imparting (to)",
"informing",
"versing",
"initiating",
"introducing",
"showing",
"reeducating",
"reschooling",
"reteaching",
"retraining"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide (someone) with moral or spiritual understanding":{
"examples":[
"the belief that parents better educate their children by example than by sending them to Sunday school"
],
"synonyms":[
"edifying",
"enlightening",
"illuminating",
"illuming",
"illumining",
"inspiring",
"nurturing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elevating",
"ennobling",
"enriching",
"ensouling",
"lifting",
"uplifting",
"bettering",
"improving",
"regenerating",
"renewing",
"transforming",
"exalting",
"glorifying",
"transfiguring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confusing",
"perplexing",
"puzzling",
"beclouding",
"clouding",
"darkening",
"obscuring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"edibles":{
"substances intended to be eaten":{
"examples":[
"even if the storm turns out to be a blizzard, there are enough edibles in the refrigerator to last us a week"
],
"synonyms":[
"bread",
"chow",
"chuck",
"comestibles",
"eatables",
"eats",
"fare",
"food",
"foodstuffs",
"grub",
"meat",
"provender",
"provisions",
"table",
"tucker",
"viands",
"victuals",
"vittles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commissary",
"rations",
"supplies",
"aliment",
"nutriment",
"diet",
"nourishment",
"nurture",
"sustenance",
"mess",
"pap",
"ensilage",
"feed",
"fodder",
"forage",
"silage",
"slop",
"swill",
"feast",
"meal",
"refreshments",
"regale",
"repast",
"spread",
"board",
"dish",
"plate",
"platter",
"serving",
"finger food",
"natural food"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bane",
"poison",
"toxin",
"venom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"edgeways":{
"with one side faced forward":{
"examples":[
"he shoved the oversized book in edgeways so it would fit between the shelves"
],
"synonyms":[
"broadside",
"crabwise",
"edgewise",
"sideways",
"sidewise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aslant",
"indirectly",
"obliquely",
"laterally",
"sideward",
"sidewards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dead",
"direct",
"right",
"straight"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"edge (out)":{
"as in nose out , pip":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"nose out",
"pip",
"sweep",
"annihilate",
"blow away",
"blow out",
"bomb",
"break",
"bury",
"clobber",
"cream",
"crush",
"drub",
"finish",
"flatten",
"overwhelm",
"rout",
"shellac",
"skin",
"slaughter",
"smoke",
"snow under",
"thrash",
"trounce",
"upset",
"wallop",
"wax",
"whip",
"beat",
"best",
"conquer",
"defeat",
"dispatch",
"do down",
"get",
"get around",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"skunk",
"stop",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"take",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"upend",
"win (against)",
"worst",
"cap",
"excel",
"flourish",
"score",
"succeed",
"knock off",
"knock over",
"overpower",
"overthrow",
"subjugate",
"unseat",
"vanquish",
"ace (out)",
"better",
"eclipse",
"exceed",
"excel",
"outdistance",
"outdo",
"outfight",
"outshine",
"outstrip",
"overtop",
"surpass",
"top",
"transcend"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lose (to)",
"fall",
"give up",
"go down",
"go under",
"collapse",
"fail",
"flop",
"flunk",
"fold",
"wash out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"educator":{
"a person whose occupation is to give formal instruction in a school":{
"examples":[
"decided at a fairly young age that there is no more rewarding career than that of an educator"
],
"synonyms":[
"educationist",
"instructor",
"pedagogue",
"pedagog",
"preceptor",
"schoolteacher",
"teacher"
],
"near synonyms":[
"headmaster",
"master",
"rector",
"schoolmaster",
"headmistress",
"instructress",
"mistress",
"schoolmarm",
"schoolma'am",
"schoolmistress",
"coach",
"guide",
"guru",
"preparer",
"trainer",
"mentor",
"tutor",
"tutoress",
"drillmaster",
"inculcator",
"dean",
"docent",
"doctor",
"don",
"prof",
"professor",
"regius professor",
"academe",
"academic",
"academician",
"didact",
"pedant",
"governess",
"homeschooler",
"intern",
"interne",
"practice teacher",
"reader",
"student teacher",
"catechist",
"lecturer",
"moralizer",
"preacher"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Edens":{
"an often imaginary place or state of utter perfection and happiness":{
"examples":[
"some of the first Europeans to explore Polynesia thought that they had indeed discovered a tropical Eden"
],
"synonyms":[
"Camelots",
"Cockaignes",
"Elysiums",
"Elysia",
"empyreans",
"fantasylands",
"heavens",
"lotuslands",
"never-never lands",
"New Jerusalems",
"nirvanas",
"paradises",
"promised lands",
"Shangri-las",
"utopias",
"Zions",
"Sions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arcadias",
"dreamlands",
"dreamworlds",
"fairylands",
"wonderlands",
"blisses",
"euphorias",
"joys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fool's paradises"
],
"antonyms":[
"anti-utopias",
"dystopias",
"hells"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"edges in":{
"to put among or between others":{
"examples":[
"although she likes to profess journalistic impartiality when covering a story, she seldom refrains from edging in her personal observations"
],
"synonyms":[
"fits (in or into)",
"injects",
"inserts",
"insinuates",
"intercalates",
"interjects",
"interpolates",
"interposes",
"intersperses",
"introduces",
"sandwiches (in or between)",
"works in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cuts in",
"inlays",
"insets",
"installs",
"interfiles",
"interlines",
"lards",
"weaves",
"crams",
"shoves",
"thrusts",
"wedges",
"adds",
"appends",
"attaches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejects",
"eliminates",
"excludes",
"expels",
"extracts",
"withdraws",
"deducts",
"detaches",
"subtracts",
"rejects"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"edged":{
"having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something":{
"examples":[
"always store your finely edged knives in a knife block"
],
"synonyms":[
"cutting",
"edgy",
"ground",
"honed",
"keen",
"sharp",
"sharpened",
"stropped",
"trenchant",
"whetted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clawlike",
"daggerlike",
"knifelike",
"jabbing",
"jagged",
"lacerating",
"piercing",
"scratching",
"stabbing",
"pointed",
"pointy",
"spiky",
"spikey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rounded",
"smooth",
"soft",
"even",
"flat",
"level",
"slick"
],
"antonyms":[
"blunt",
"blunted",
"dull",
"dulled",
"obtuse"
]
},
"to make sharp or sharper":{
"examples":[
"if you edge the tip of that stick, it should be a fine skewer for roasting marshmallows"
],
"synonyms":[
"ground",
"honed",
"sharpened",
"stoned",
"stropped",
"whetted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"filed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buffed",
"burnished",
"glossed",
"polished",
"rounded",
"smoothed"
],
"antonyms":[
"blunted",
"dulled"
]
},
"to serve as a border for":{
"examples":[
"pavement edging the flower bed"
],
"synonyms":[
"bordered",
"bounded",
"framed",
"fringed",
"margined",
"rimmed",
"skirted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hemmed",
"trimmed",
"circumscribed",
"defined",
"delineated",
"demarcated",
"outlined",
"silhouetted",
"sketched",
"traced",
"circled",
"compassed",
"encircled",
"enclosed",
"inclosed",
"environed",
"girdled",
"girthed",
"looped",
"ringed",
"rounded",
"surrounded",
"walled",
"checked",
"confined",
"controlled",
"curbed",
"limited",
"restrained",
"restricted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"editorializing":{
"to make a statement of one's opinion":{
"examples":[
"she never misses a chance to editorialize on the issues of the day\u2014even the ones she knows nothing about"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowing",
"commenting",
"noting",
"observing",
"opining",
"reflecting",
"remarking",
"weighing in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commentating",
"articulating",
"expressing",
"saying",
"speaking",
"stating",
"talking",
"telling",
"uttering",
"verbalizing",
"vocalizing",
"conjecturing",
"daresaying",
"guessing",
"speculating",
"supposing",
"surmising"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"edifying":{
"as in explanatory , elucidative":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"communicatory",
"elucidative",
"explanatory",
"comprehensive",
"copious",
"detailed",
"full",
"chatty",
"gossipy",
"newsy",
"educational",
"educative",
"enlightening",
"illuminating",
"informational",
"informative",
"informatory",
"instructional",
"instructive",
"availing",
"beneficial",
"constructive",
"helpful",
"profitable",
"practical",
"serviceable",
"usable",
"useable",
"useful",
"worthwhile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unenlightening",
"unilluminating",
"uninformative",
"uninstructive",
"impractical",
"unhelpful",
"unusable",
"useless"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in uplifting , elevating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"elevating",
"uplifting",
"affecting",
"inspiring",
"inspiriting",
"moving",
"poignant",
"stirring",
"touching",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"encouraging",
"fulfilling",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"heartening",
"heartwarming",
"rewarding",
"satisfying",
"kind",
"kindly",
"loving",
"warm",
"animating",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"invigorating",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"thrilling",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"welcoming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demoralizing",
"depressing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"cheerless",
"disappointing",
"disgruntling",
"displeasing",
"dissatisfying",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"saddening",
"discomforting",
"disconcerting",
"dismaying",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"upsetting",
"cold",
"unfeeling",
"unfriendly",
"unkind",
"unloving",
"unpleasant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide (someone) with moral or spiritual understanding":{
"examples":[
"a family-oriented show that tried to edify the television audience as well as entertain it"
],
"synonyms":[
"educating",
"enlightening",
"illuminating",
"illuming",
"illumining",
"inspiring",
"nurturing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elevating",
"ennobling",
"enriching",
"ensouling",
"lifting",
"uplifting",
"bettering",
"improving",
"regenerating",
"renewing",
"transforming",
"exalting",
"glorifying",
"transfiguring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confusing",
"perplexing",
"puzzling",
"beclouding",
"clouding",
"darkening",
"obscuring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"educators":{
"a person whose occupation is to give formal instruction in a school":{
"examples":[
"decided at a fairly young age that there is no more rewarding career than that of an educator"
],
"synonyms":[
"educationists",
"instructors",
"pedagogues",
"pedagogs",
"preceptors",
"schoolteachers",
"teachers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"headmasters",
"masters",
"rectors",
"schoolmasters",
"headmistresses",
"instructresses",
"mistresses",
"schoolmarms",
"schoolma'ams",
"schoolmistresses",
"coaches",
"guides",
"gurus",
"preparers",
"trainers",
"mentors",
"tutoresses",
"tutors",
"drillmasters",
"inculcators",
"deans",
"docents",
"doctors",
"dons",
"professors",
"profs",
"regius professors",
"academes",
"academicians",
"academics",
"didacts",
"pedants",
"governesses",
"homeschoolers",
"interns",
"internes",
"practice teachers",
"readers",
"student teachers",
"catechists",
"lecturers",
"moralizers",
"preachers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"edge cities":{
"as in central cities , garden cities":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"central cities",
"garden cities",
"exurbs",
"suburbias",
"suburbs",
"core cities",
"downtowns",
"inner cities",
"midtowns",
"urban sprawls",
"conurbations",
"boroughs",
"asphalt jungles",
"burgs",
"cities",
"cosmopolises",
"megacities",
"megalopolises",
"metropolises",
"municipalities",
"towns"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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}
}