dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/ori_MWT.json
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{
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"examples":[
"will orientate all incoming freshmen to the layout of the campus"
],
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"separate categories for original and adapted screenplays"
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"please make copies to hand out, but keep the original"
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"the town's singing mailman is an original , all right"
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"nut",
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"oddity",
"quiz",
"screwball",
"weirdo",
"zany"
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"sheep"
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"the theory of relativity originated with Albert Einstein"
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"shape (up)",
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"persist",
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"desist",
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"finish",
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"terminate",
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"vanish",
"depart",
"die",
"expire",
"pass away",
"perish"
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"end",
"stop"
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"the state or fact of facing a particular direction":{
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"a building's orientation is an important consideration in the Chinese practice of feng shui"
],
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"aspect",
"exposure",
"frontage"
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"alignment",
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"noun"
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"fountainhead",
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"strain"
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"family",
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"child",
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"chink",
"cleft",
"crack",
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"cut",
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"gash",
"notch",
"rent",
"rift",
"rupture",
"slash",
"slit",
"split",
"tear",
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"mouth",
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"airhole",
"armhole",
"buttonhole",
"keyhole",
"knothole",
"peephole",
"pothole",
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"seal",
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"obstacle",
"obstruction"
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"a training program to orient new employees to the requirements and dimensions of the job"
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"enlighten",
"ground",
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"tell",
"tip (off)",
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"verb"
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"to impart knowledge of a new thing or situation to":{
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"one who creates or introduces something new":{
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"Thomas Edison was the originator of the light bulb"
],
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"duplicator",
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"Copernicus is sometimes hailed as the originator of modern astronomy, for he overturned the notion of an earth-centered universe"
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"the theory of relativity originated with Albert Einstein"
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"setting in",
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"a building's orientation is an important consideration in the Chinese practice of feng shui"
],
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"hipness",
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"a poet of great originality , she brought a whole new range of subject matter and imagery to poetry"
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"breaks",
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"tears",
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"inlets",
"intakes",
"pinholes",
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"airholes",
"armholes",
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"peepholes",
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"fills",
"patches",
"plugs",
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"strangeness",
"unfamiliarity",
"unusualness",
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"recentness",
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"shoot"
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"outdatedness",
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"fertility",
"fruitfulness",
"productiveness",
"productivity",
"prolificacy",
"prolificity",
"prolificness",
"capableness",
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"genius",
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"talent",
"fire",
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"dullness",
"dulness"
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"inventiveness"
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"resourcefulness",
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"envoys",
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"aftermaths",
"cessations",
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"closings",
"conclusions",
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"primitively"
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"coproducers",
"co-producers",
"coresearchers",
"co-researchers"
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"apers",
"copiers",
"copycats",
"duplicators",
"imitators",
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"development",
"fabrication",
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"foreword",
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"introduction",
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"envoi",
"envoy",
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"aftermath",
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"closing",
"conclusion",
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"finale",
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"prototypes"
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"paradigms",
"patterns",
"beau ideals",
"classics",
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"models",
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"paragons",
"blueprints",
"drafts"
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"copies",
"imitations",
"replicas",
"reproductions",
"counterfeits",
"fakes",
"forgeries",
"shams"
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"the town's singing mailman is an original , all right"
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"codgers",
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"cracks",
"cranks",
"eccentrics",
"flakes",
"fruitcakes",
"head cases",
"kooks",
"nutcases",
"nuts",
"nutters",
"oddballs",
"oddities",
"quizzes",
"screwballs",
"weirdos",
"zanies"
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"mavericks",
"nonconformists",
"quixotes",
"coots",
"geezers",
"curios",
"rarities",
"freaks",
"fantasticoes",
"fantasts"
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"conformists",
"followers",
"sheep"
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