dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/ver_MWT.json
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{
"veraciously":{
"as in truthfully":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"truthfully",
"impolitely",
"inconsiderately",
"rudely",
"tactlessly",
"abruptly",
"bluntly",
"brusquely",
"curtly",
"gruffly",
"point-blank",
"sharply",
"artlessly",
"earnestly",
"simply",
"sincerely",
"baldly",
"bluffly",
"candidly",
"frankly",
"honestly",
"openheartedly",
"openly",
"unguardedly",
"unreservedly",
"directly",
"forthrightly",
"foursquare",
"plain",
"plainly",
"straight",
"straightforward",
"straightforwards",
"straightforwardly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"long-windedly",
"verbosely",
"wordily",
"civilly",
"courteously",
"diplomatically",
"politely",
"tactfully",
"deceitfully",
"mendaciously",
"untruthfully",
"erroneously",
"fallaciously",
"falsely",
"hypocritically",
"insincerely",
"ambiguously",
"circuitously",
"equivocally",
"evasively",
"indirectly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"veracity":{
"devotion to telling the truth":{
"examples":[
"her innate veracity is beyond question"
],
"synonyms":[
"honesty",
"integrity",
"probity",
"truthfulness",
"verity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"honor",
"honorableness",
"incorruptibility",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"right-mindedness",
"scrupulosity",
"scrupulousness",
"uprightness",
"artlessness",
"candidness",
"candor",
"forthrightness",
"frankness",
"good faith",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"plainspokenness",
"sincerity",
"straightforwardness",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"reliableness",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness",
"accuracy",
"objectivity",
"authenticity",
"correctness",
"genuineness",
"truth",
"credibility"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artifice",
"cozenage",
"crookedness",
"deception",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"fraudulentness",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"two-facedness",
"beguilement",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"cunningness",
"furtiveness",
"guile",
"indirection",
"insidiousness",
"oiliness",
"perfidy",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"smoothness",
"treacherousness",
"trickery",
"underhandedness",
"unscrupulousness",
"wiliness",
"equivocation",
"prevarication",
"exaggeration",
"inaccuracy"
],
"antonyms":[
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"dishonesty",
"lying",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"untruthfulness"
]
},
"the quality or state of being very accurate":{
"examples":[
"I challenge the veracity of many of the quotations in his memoirs, for he recreates conversations that occurred decades ago"
],
"synonyms":[
"accuracy",
"accurateness",
"closeness",
"delicacy",
"exactitude",
"exactness",
"fineness",
"nicety",
"perfection",
"preciseness",
"precision",
"rigor",
"rigorousness",
"ultraprecision"
],
"near synonyms":[
"correctness",
"fidelity",
"rightness",
"strictness",
"truth",
"definiteness",
"definitiveness",
"definitude",
"determinacy",
"subtlety",
"care",
"carefulness",
"fastidiousness",
"meticulousness",
"persnicketiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approximation",
"roundness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"incorrectness",
"wrongness",
"carelessness",
"guesswork",
"looseness",
"indefiniteness",
"vagueness"
],
"antonyms":[
"coarseness",
"impreciseness",
"imprecision",
"inaccuracy",
"inexactitude",
"inexactness",
"roughness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"verbalize":{
"to express (a thought or emotion) in words":{
"examples":[
"couldn't quite verbalize the cause of his mental distress"
],
"synonyms":[
"articulate",
"bring out",
"enunciate",
"pass",
"say",
"speak",
"state",
"talk",
"tell",
"utter",
"vocalize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"air",
"discuss",
"give",
"look",
"share",
"sound",
"vent",
"ventilate",
"voice",
"blabber",
"bolt",
"blurt",
"get off",
"shoot",
"advertise",
"announce",
"blaze",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"post",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"publicize",
"publish",
"affirm",
"allege",
"assert",
"aver",
"avouch",
"avow",
"breathe",
"chirp",
"drawl",
"gasp",
"lip",
"mouth",
"murmur",
"purr",
"shout",
"splutter",
"spout",
"whisper",
"clothe",
"couch",
"formulate",
"formulize",
"phrase",
"put",
"word",
"comment",
"pipe up (with)",
"remark",
"rip (out)",
"snarl"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stifle",
"suppress"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"verbiage":{
"the use of too many words to express an idea":{
"examples":[
"teachers loathe the verbiage that students resort to in order to pad a paper"
],
"synonyms":[
"circumlocution",
"diffuseness",
"diffusion",
"garrulity",
"garrulousness",
"logorrhea",
"long-windedness",
"periphrasis",
"prolixity",
"redundancy",
"verbalism",
"verboseness",
"verbosity",
"windiness",
"wordage",
"wordiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circuitousness",
"circularity",
"digressiveness",
"pleonasm",
"tautology",
"reiteration",
"repetition",
"repetitiousness",
"repetitiveness",
"embellishment",
"embroidering",
"exaggeration",
"hyperbole",
"overstatement"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brevity",
"briefness",
"compactness",
"conciseness",
"concision",
"crispness",
"pithiness",
"succinctness",
"terseness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"language that is impressive-sounding but not meaningful or sincere":{
"examples":[
"the pretentious verbiage that one finds in the reviews of self-important art critics"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombast",
"fustian",
"gas",
"grandiloquence",
"hot air",
"oratory",
"rhetoric",
"wind"
],
"near synonyms":[
"claptrap",
"drivel",
"gibberish",
"hogwash",
"humbug",
"jabberwocky",
"jazz",
"moonshine",
"nonsense",
"affectedness",
"floweriness",
"grandiosity",
"loftiness",
"pomposity",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"garrulity",
"garrulousness",
"verboseness",
"verbosity",
"windiness",
"wordiness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the way in which something is put into words":{
"examples":[
"as per the standard verbiage of military reports, the assault was launched at \"0700 hours\""
],
"synonyms":[
"diction",
"language",
"phraseology",
"phrasing",
"wording"
],
"near synonyms":[
"expression",
"formulation",
"locution",
"enunciation",
"phrase",
"speech",
"style",
"utterance",
"voice"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"verge (on)":{
"to be adjacent to":{
"examples":[
"our land verges on a wildlife refuge"
],
"synonyms":[
"abut",
"adjoin",
"border (on)",
"butt (on or against)",
"flank",
"fringe",
"join",
"march (with)",
"neighbor",
"skirt",
"touch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attach (to)",
"communicate (with)",
"connect (with)",
"link (with)",
"bound",
"embrace",
"encircle",
"enclose",
"inclose",
"fence",
"line",
"margin",
"rim",
"surround",
"contact",
"converge",
"meet"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come very close to being":{
"examples":[
"a comment that verged on an insult"
],
"synonyms":[
"border (on)",
"touch (on)",
"trench (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"approach",
"near",
"appear",
"look",
"resemble",
"seem",
"suggest",
"approximate",
"compare (with)",
"measure up (to)",
"stack up (against or with)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"verifications":{
"the act or process of showing that something is true, real, or accurate":{
"examples":[
"She asked for verification of his identity."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"authentications",
"attestations",
"confirmations",
"corroborations",
"documentations",
"evidences",
"proofs",
"substantiations",
"testaments",
"testimonials",
"testimonies",
"validations",
"vouchers",
"witnesses",
"identifications",
"manifestations",
"(the) goods",
"certificates",
"documents",
"exhibits",
"papers",
"demonstrations",
"illustrations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rebuttals",
"refutations",
"accusations",
"allegations",
"charges",
"assumptions",
"conjectures",
"guesses",
"presumptions",
"surmises",
"suspicions",
"disproofs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"verified":{
"as in valid , validated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attested",
"authenticated",
"confirmed",
"demonstrated",
"established",
"proven",
"substantiated",
"valid",
"validated",
"actual",
"concrete",
"de facto",
"effective",
"existent",
"factual",
"genuine",
"real",
"sure-enough",
"true",
"very",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"inescapable",
"irrefutable",
"undeniable",
"unquestionable",
"believable",
"convincing",
"literal",
"realistic",
"unmistakable",
"verifiable",
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"real-life",
"real-world",
"absolute",
"certain",
"final",
"hard",
"objective",
"palpable",
"positive",
"substantial",
"tangible",
"authoritative",
"certifiable",
"certified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conjectural",
"hypothetical",
"ideal",
"inexistent",
"nonexistent",
"platonic",
"possible",
"potential",
"suppositional",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"alleged",
"assumed",
"reputed",
"supposed",
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"imagined",
"pictured",
"visualized",
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabled",
"fanciful",
"fictional",
"fictitious",
"illusory",
"legendary",
"fabricated",
"fake",
"imaginary",
"invented",
"made-up",
"make-believe",
"pretend",
"romantic",
"abstract",
"symbolic",
"unreal",
"virtual"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of":{
"examples":[
"the dispatcher was able to verify the caller's location"
],
"synonyms":[
"argued",
"attested",
"authenticated",
"bore out",
"certified",
"confirmed",
"corroborated",
"substantiated",
"supported",
"validated",
"vindicated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avouched",
"backed (up)",
"testified (to)",
"vouched (for)",
"witnessed",
"guaranteed",
"warranted",
"affirmed",
"asserted",
"averred",
"avowed",
"declared",
"professed",
"demonstrated",
"documented",
"established",
"proved",
"reinforced",
"reenforced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradicted",
"gainsaid",
"denied",
"disavowed",
"disclaimed",
"challenged",
"contested",
"disputed",
"questioned"
],
"antonyms":[
"disproved",
"rebutted",
"refuted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"verify":{
"to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of":{
"examples":[
"the dispatcher was able to verify the caller's location"
],
"synonyms":[
"argue",
"attest",
"authenticate",
"bear out",
"certify",
"confirm",
"corroborate",
"substantiate",
"support",
"validate",
"vindicate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avouch",
"back (up)",
"testify (to)",
"vouch (for)",
"witness",
"guarantee",
"warrant",
"affirm",
"assert",
"aver",
"avow",
"declare",
"profess",
"demonstrate",
"document",
"establish",
"prove",
"reinforce",
"reenforce"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradict",
"gainsay",
"deny",
"disavow",
"disclaim",
"challenge",
"contest",
"dispute",
"question"
],
"antonyms":[
"disprove",
"rebut",
"refute"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"verity":{
"agreement with fact or reality":{
"examples":[
"the local tourist bureau is less concerned with the verity of the legend than the fact that it attracts visitors to the area"
],
"synonyms":[
"facticity",
"factuality",
"sooth",
"trueness",
"truth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accuracy",
"accurateness",
"actuality",
"authenticity",
"correctness",
"credibility",
"honesty",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"dependability",
"reliability"
],
"near antonyms":[
"erroneousness",
"fallaciousness",
"fallacy",
"falsehood",
"fiction",
"half-truth",
"lie",
"impreciseness",
"imprecision",
"inaccuracy",
"incorrectness",
"inexactitude",
"inexactness",
"deceit",
"dishonesty",
"equivocation",
"lying",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"untruthfulness"
],
"antonyms":[
"falseness",
"falsity",
"untruth"
]
},
"devotion to telling the truth":{
"examples":[
"no one is questioning your verity \u2014just your memory of events that happened long ago"
],
"synonyms":[
"honesty",
"integrity",
"probity",
"truthfulness",
"veracity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"honor",
"honorableness",
"incorruptibility",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"right-mindedness",
"scrupulosity",
"scrupulousness",
"uprightness",
"artlessness",
"candidness",
"candor",
"forthrightness",
"frankness",
"good faith",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"plainspokenness",
"sincerity",
"straightforwardness",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"reliableness",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness",
"accuracy",
"objectivity",
"authenticity",
"correctness",
"genuineness",
"truth",
"credibility"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artifice",
"cozenage",
"crookedness",
"deception",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"fraudulentness",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"two-facedness",
"beguilement",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"cunningness",
"furtiveness",
"guile",
"indirection",
"insidiousness",
"oiliness",
"perfidy",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"smoothness",
"treacherousness",
"trickery",
"underhandedness",
"unscrupulousness",
"wiliness",
"equivocation",
"prevarication",
"exaggeration",
"inaccuracy"
],
"antonyms":[
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"dishonesty",
"lying",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"untruthfulness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vertu":{
"as in ephemera , curiosa":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"curiosa",
"ephemera",
"curio",
"curiosity",
"exotic",
"objet d'art",
"objet",
"oddity",
"oddment",
"rarity",
"found object",
"objet trouv\u00e9",
"marvel",
"prodigy",
"rara avis",
"rare bird",
"wonder",
"abnormality",
"anomaly",
"freak",
"monster",
"monstrosity",
"malformation",
"mutant",
"mutation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"verve":{
"active strength of body or mind":{
"examples":[
"the actor plays the part of the superhero with tremendous verve and obvious enjoyment"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"bounce",
"brio",
"dash",
"drive",
"dynamism",
"energy",
"esprit",
"gas",
"get-up-and-go",
"ginger",
"go",
"gusto",
"hardihood",
"juice",
"life",
"moxie",
"oomph",
"pep",
"punch",
"sap",
"snap",
"starch",
"vigor",
"vim",
"vinegar",
"vitality",
"zing",
"zip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animal spirits",
"animation",
"briskness",
"jauntiness",
"liveliness",
"snappiness",
"spirit",
"spiritedness",
"sprightliness",
"spunk",
"spunkiness",
"vibrance",
"vibrancy",
"vivaciousness",
"vivacity",
"ardor",
"\u00e9lan",
"fervor",
"fire",
"passion",
"zeal",
"main",
"metal",
"mettle",
"might",
"muscle",
"potency",
"power",
"puissance",
"stamina",
"strength",
"brawniness",
"fitness",
"hardiness",
"huskiness",
"sturdiness",
"virility",
"health",
"healthiness",
"soundness",
"verdure",
"wellness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indolence",
"laziness",
"debilitation",
"debility",
"delicacy",
"disablement",
"enfeeblement",
"faintness",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"impotence",
"impotency",
"infirmity",
"powerlessness",
"puniness",
"slightness",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"weakness",
"enervation",
"exhaustion",
"inanition",
"prostration"
],
"antonyms":[
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"sluggishness",
"torpidity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vertebrate":{
"an animal that has a backbone":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"animal",
"beast",
"beastie",
"brute",
"creature",
"critter",
"blastie",
"varmint",
"vermin",
"biped",
"quadruped",
"carnivore",
"herbivore",
"insectivore",
"domestic animal",
"pet",
"feral",
"livestock",
"stock"
],
"near antonyms":[
"invertebrate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"verdict":{
"a position arrived at after consideration":{
"examples":[
"the marketing consultant's verdict was that we were doing just fine"
],
"synonyms":[
"award",
"call",
"conclusion",
"decision",
"deliverance",
"determination",
"diagnosis",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"opinion",
"resolution"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behest",
"charge",
"commandment",
"decree",
"dictate",
"directive",
"edict",
"instruction",
"mandate",
"order",
"word",
"last word",
"say-so",
"adjudication",
"disposition",
"doom",
"finding",
"ruling",
"sentence",
"choice",
"option",
"selection",
"consensus",
"belief",
"conviction",
"eye",
"feeling",
"mind",
"notion",
"persuasion",
"sentiment",
"view"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deadlock",
"draw",
"halt",
"stalemate",
"standoff",
"tie"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge":{
"examples":[
"was anxious to hear her best friend's verdict on her new boyfriend"
],
"synonyms":[
"belief",
"conviction",
"eye",
"feeling",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"mind",
"notion",
"opinion",
"persuasion",
"sentiment",
"view"
],
"near synonyms":[
"say",
"impression",
"perception",
"take",
"attitude",
"assumption",
"presumption",
"presupposition",
"conclusion",
"decision",
"determination",
"deliverance",
"esteem",
"estimate",
"estimation",
"credence",
"credit",
"faith",
"concept",
"conception",
"idea",
"thought",
"position",
"stance",
"stand",
"comment",
"obiter dictum",
"observation",
"reflection",
"remark",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"hunch",
"hypothesis",
"surmise",
"theory",
"advice",
"input",
"recommendation",
"suggestion",
"angle",
"outlook",
"perspective",
"shoes",
"slant",
"standpoint",
"viewpoint",
"counterview"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fact",
"truth"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"veracious":{
"being in the habit of telling the truth":{
"examples":[
"he has a reputation for being veracious , so people generally take his word for things"
],
"synonyms":[
"honest",
"truthful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"candid",
"direct",
"forthcoming",
"forthright",
"foursquare",
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"plainspoken",
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"genuine",
"real",
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"slipshod",
"slovenly",
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"flawless",
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"infallible",
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"strict",
"stringent"
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"faulty",
"flawed",
"imperfect"
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"testimony",
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"refutation",
"accusation",
"allegation",
"charge",
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"conjecture",
"guess",
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"new",
"recent",
"contemporary",
"current",
"latest",
"mod",
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"brand-new",
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"unworn"
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"age-old",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"antique",
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"hoar",
"hoary",
"immemorial",
"old",
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"aging",
"ageing",
"mature",
"antiquated",
"archaic",
"archaistic",
"dated",
"fusty",
"geriatric",
"medieval",
"mediaeval",
"moldy",
"Noachian",
"obsolete",
"outmoded",
"out-of-date",
"pass\u00e9"
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"wordings"
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"phrases",
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"diffuseness",
"diffusion",
"garrulity",
"garrulousness",
"logorrhea",
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"redundancy",
"verbalism",
"verbiage",
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"windiness",
"wordage",
"wordiness"
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"circularity",
"digressiveness",
"pleonasm",
"tautology",
"reiteration",
"repetition",
"repetitiousness",
"repetitiveness",
"embellishment",
"embroidering",
"exaggeration",
"hyperbole",
"overstatement"
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"briefness",
"compactness",
"conciseness",
"concision",
"crispness",
"pithiness",
"succinctness",
"terseness"
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"stoops"
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"porticoes",
"porticos",
"sleeping porches",
"solaria",
"solariums",
"sunporches",
"sunrooms",
"sun parlors",
"porte cocheres"
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"noun"
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"quit",
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"Once you reach the vertex of the mountain, the remainder of the route is all downhill."
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"apex",
"apogee",
"capstone",
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"crescendo",
"crest",
"crown",
"culmination",
"head",
"height",
"high noon",
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"meridian",
"ne plus ultra",
"noon",
"noontime",
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"pinnacle",
"sum",
"summit",
"tip-top",
"top",
"zenith",
"bloom",
"blossom",
"flood tide",
"flower",
"glory",
"heyday",
"prime",
"cap",
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"roof",
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"base",
"foot",
"minimum",
"bottom",
"nadir",
"rock bottom"
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"noun"
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"coinages",
"colloquialisms",
"euphemisms",
"loanwords",
"modernisms",
"neologisms",
"expressions",
"terms",
"words",
"linguistic forms",
"monosyllables",
"morphemes",
"speech forms",
"polysyllables",
"collocations",
"idioms",
"locutions",
"phrases"
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"noun"
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"lanai",
"piazza",
"porch",
"stoop"
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"portico",
"sleeping porch",
"solarium",
"sunporch",
"sunroom",
"sun parlor",
"porte cochere"
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"noun"
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"examples":[
"Once you reach the vertex of the mountain, the remainder of the route is all downhill."
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"extremities",
"tips",
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"apogees",
"capstones",
"climaxes",
"crescendos",
"crescendoes",
"crescendi",
"crests",
"crowns",
"culminations",
"heads",
"heights",
"high noons",
"high-water marks",
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"noons",
"noontimes",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"summits",
"sums",
"tip-tops",
"tops",
"zeniths",
"blooms",
"blossoms",
"flood tides",
"flowers",
"glories",
"heydays",
"primes",
"caps",
"ceilings",
"roofs",
"highlights",
"highs",
"highspots"
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"abysses",
"bases",
"feet",
"foot",
"minima",
"minimums",
"bottoms",
"nadirs",
"rock bottoms"
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"noun"
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"animals",
"beasties",
"beasts",
"brutes",
"creatures",
"critters",
"blasties",
"varmints",
"vermin",
"bipeds",
"quadrupeds",
"carnivores",
"herbivores",
"insectivores",
"domestic animals",
"pets",
"ferals",
"livestocks",
"stocks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"invertebrates"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"a column of bones supporting the trunk of a vertebrate animal":{
"examples":[
"carefully reconstructed the vertebral column of the dinosaur"
],
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"backbones",
"chines",
"spinal columns",
"spines"
],
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"backs",
"spinal cords",
"vertebrae",
"vertebras"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of":{
"examples":[
"the dispatcher was able to verify the caller's location"
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"attests",
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"corroborates",
"substantiates",
"supports",
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"avouches",
"backs (up)",
"testifies (to)",
"vouches (for)",
"witnesses",
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"warrants",
"affirms",
"asserts",
"avers",
"avows",
"declares",
"professes",
"demonstrates",
"documents",
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"reinforces",
"reenforces"
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"near antonyms":[
"contradicts",
"gainsays",
"denies",
"disavows",
"disclaims",
"challenges",
"contests",
"disputes",
"questions"
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"disproves",
"rebuts",
"refutes"
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"verb"
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"vocalizations",
"announcements",
"declamations",
"declarations",
"manifestos",
"manifestoes",
"proclamations",
"pronouncements",
"communications",
"messages",
"statements",
"utterances",
"words"
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"noun"
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"in the same words":{
"examples":[
"you can't just copy the encyclopedia article verbatim for your report\u2014that's plagiarism"
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"ad verbum",
"directly",
"exactly",
"word for word"
],
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"accurately",
"precisely",
"identically",
"literally"
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"basically",
"essentially",
"virtually",
"carelessly",
"freely",
"imprecisely",
"inaccurately",
"loosely"
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"inexactly"
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"adverb"
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"examples":[
"that was a very brave thing to do"
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"almighty",
"archly",
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"awfully",
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"blisteringly",
"bone",
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"cracking",
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"especially",
"ever",
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"exceeding",
"extra",
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"fantastically",
"far",
"fiercely",
"filthy",
"frightfully",
"full",
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"hugely",
"immensely",
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"mighty",
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"right",
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"so",
"sore",
"sorely",
"spanking",
"specially",
"stinking",
"such",
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"supremely",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"that",
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"too",
"unco",
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"vitally",
"way",
"whacking",
"wicked",
"wildly"
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"near synonyms":[
"absolutely",
"altogether",
"completely",
"downright",
"entirely",
"flat-out",
"fully",
"positively",
"purely",
"radically",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"utterly",
"wholly",
"deeply",
"profoundly",
"exceptionally",
"notably",
"remarkably",
"considerably",
"extensively",
"significantly",
"substantially",
"appreciably",
"discernibly",
"markedly",
"noticeably",
"obviously",
"palpably",
"plainly",
"visibly",
"abundantly",
"plentifully",
"astronomically",
"grandly",
"monstrously",
"monumentally",
"excessively",
"obscenely",
"overmuch",
"amazingly",
"astonishingly",
"staggeringly"
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"meagerly",
"scantily",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
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"minimally",
"scarcely"
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"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly",
"somewhat"
]
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"examples":[
"the very same thing happened to me"
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"actually",
"authentically",
"certifiably",
"genuinely",
"really",
"truly",
"veritably"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accurately",
"exactly",
"just",
"precisely",
"right",
"sharp",
"smack-dab",
"squarely",
"almost",
"nearly",
"practically",
"virtually",
"literally",
"positively",
"simply"
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"near antonyms":[
"apparently",
"ostensibly",
"outwardly",
"plausibly",
"seemingly"
],
"antonyms":[
"professedly",
"supposedly"
]
},
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"examples":[
"we stayed in the very hotel my parents stayed in for their honeymoon"
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"identical",
"same",
"selfsame"
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"differentiable",
"discriminable",
"disparate",
"dissimilar",
"distinct",
"distinctive",
"distinguishable",
"diverse",
"unalike",
"unlike",
"varied",
"various"
],
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"another",
"different",
"other"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the very thought of having to go through that again is scary"
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"bare",
"mere"
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"absolute",
"all-out",
"arrant",
"out-and-out",
"outright",
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"sheer",
"simple",
"stark",
"total",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"unmitigated",
"unqualified",
"utter",
"alone",
"lone",
"only",
"singular",
"sole",
"solitary",
"solo",
"unique"
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"antonyms":[]
},
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"examples":[
"tourism is the very lifeblood of this community\u2014the town would surely die without it"
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"actual",
"concrete",
"de facto",
"effective",
"existent",
"factual",
"genuine",
"real",
"sure-enough",
"true"
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"attested",
"authenticated",
"confirmed",
"demonstrated",
"established",
"proven",
"substantiated",
"valid",
"validated",
"verified",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"inescapable",
"irrefutable",
"undeniable",
"unquestionable",
"believable",
"convincing",
"literal",
"realistic",
"unmistakable",
"verifiable",
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"bona fide",
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"real-world",
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"certain",
"final",
"hard",
"objective",
"palpable",
"positive",
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"tangible",
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"certifiable",
"certified"
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"assumed",
"reputed",
"supposed",
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"imagined",
"pictured",
"visualized",
"chimerical",
"chimeric",
"fabled",
"fanciful",
"fictional",
"fictitious",
"illusory",
"legendary",
"fabricated",
"fake",
"imaginary",
"invented",
"made-up",
"make-believe",
"pretend",
"romantic",
"abstract",
"symbolic",
"unreal",
"virtual"
],
"antonyms":[
"conjectural",
"hypothetical",
"ideal",
"inexistent",
"nonexistent",
"platonic",
"possible",
"potential",
"suppositional",
"theoretical",
"theoretic"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the very nerve of that woman\u2014telling me how to raise my own children"
],
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"absolute",
"all-out",
"arrant",
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"blooming",
"bodacious",
"categorical",
"categoric",
"clean",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crashing",
"damn",
"damned",
"dead",
"deadly",
"definite",
"downright",
"dreadful",
"fair",
"flat",
"flat-out",
"out-and-out",
"outright",
"perfect",
"plumb",
"profound",
"pure",
"rank",
"regular",
"sheer",
"simple",
"stark",
"stone",
"straight-out",
"thorough",
"thoroughgoing",
"total",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"unconditional",
"unmitigated",
"unqualified",
"utter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authentic",
"classic",
"genuine",
"real",
"veritable",
"constant",
"endless",
"eternal",
"perpetual",
"undying",
"unremitting",
"extreme",
"unrestricted",
"confirmed",
"habitual",
"hopeless",
"inveterate",
"extraordinary",
"frightful",
"horrible",
"huge",
"main",
"superlative",
"supreme",
"surpassing",
"terrible",
"terrific"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"equivocal",
"qualified",
"questionable",
"restricted",
"uncertain"
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"type":[
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"adverb"
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"version":{
"a presentation of an artistic work (as a piece of music) from a particular point of view":{
"examples":[
"a very Freudian version of the ballet \"The Nutcracker\""
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"graphical",
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"nonrealistic",
"unnatural",
"unrealistic",
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"off",
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"unlike",
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"unmatched",
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"fake",
"mock",
"phony",
"phoney",
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"decidedly",
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"noun"
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"bibelots",
"curios",
"curiosities",
"doodads",
"gauds",
"gewgaws",
"geegaws",
"gimcracks",
"kickshaws",
"knickknacks",
"nicknacks",
"novelties",
"ornamentals",
"tchotchkes",
"trinkets",
"bagatelles",
"trifles",
"figurines",
"objets d'art",
"objets",
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"keepsakes",
"mementos",
"mementoes",
"souvenirs",
"conversation pieces",
"collectibles",
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"type":[
"noun"
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"lyrics",
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"runes",
"songs",
"rhymes",
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"lays",
"anacreontics",
"clerihews",
"dithyrambs",
"eclogues",
"elegies",
"English sonnets",
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"epigrams",
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"epopees",
"eposes",
"georgics",
"idylls",
"idyls",
"jingles",
"laments",
"limericks",
"madrigals",
"odes",
"pastorales",
"pastorals",
"psalms",
"rondeaux",
"rondelets",
"rondelles",
"rondels",
"sonnets",
"triolets",
"villanelles",
"haiku",
"senryu",
"tankas"
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"noun"
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"confirmatory",
"confirming",
"corroborating",
"corroborative",
"corroboratory",
"probative",
"probatory",
"substantiating",
"supporting",
"supportive",
"vindicating"
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"supplementary",
"beneficial",
"helpful"
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"contrary",
"counter",
"opposing"
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"disproving",
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"certifying",
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"supporting",
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"warranting",
"affirming",
"asserting",
"averring",
"avowing",
"declaring",
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"demonstrating",
"documenting",
"establishing",
"proving",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing"
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"near antonyms":[
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"gainsaying",
"denying",
"disavowing",
"disclaiming",
"challenging",
"contesting",
"disputing",
"questioning"
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"rebutting",
"refuting"
]
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"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
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"to be adjacent to":{
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"our land verges on a wildlife refuge"
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"adjoins",
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"neighbors",
"skirts",
"touches"
],
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"encloses",
"incloses",
"fences",
"lines",
"margins",
"rims",
"surrounds",
"contacts",
"converges",
"meets"
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"examples":[
"a comment that verged on an insult"
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"touches (on)",
"trenches (on)"
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"nears",
"appears",
"looks",
"resembles",
"seems",
"suggests",
"approximates",
"compares (with)",
"measures up (to)",
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"type":[
"verb"
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"capable of being proven as true or real":{
"examples":[
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"confirmable",
"demonstrable",
"empirical",
"empiric",
"provable",
"supportable",
"sustainable"
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"documentable",
"well-founded",
"defensible",
"excusable",
"justifiable",
"vindicable",
"warrantable",
"alleged",
"assumed",
"conjectured",
"guessed",
"presumed",
"surmised",
"suspected"
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"near antonyms":[
"debatable",
"disprovable",
"disputable",
"refutable"
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"insupportable",
"unprovable",
"unsupportable",
"unsustainable",
"unverifiable"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"had to wade through a verbose letter of complaint"
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"circumlocutory",
"diffuse",
"garrulous",
"logorrheic",
"long-winded",
"pleonastic",
"prolix",
"rambling",
"windy",
"wordy"
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"communicative",
"conversational",
"gabby",
"loquacious",
"talkative",
"talky",
"voluble",
"periphrastic",
"redundant",
"repetitious",
"tautological",
"tautologous",
"embellished",
"embroidered",
"exaggerated",
"bombastic",
"gaseous",
"gassy",
"grandiloquent",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin"
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"brief",
"short",
"aphoristic",
"epigrammatic",
"sententious",
"compendious",
"summary",
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"condensed",
"shortened",
"abrupt",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"curt",
"laconic",
"snippy"
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"concise",
"crisp",
"pithy",
"succinct",
"terse"
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"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"examples":[
"the marketing consultant's verdict was that we were doing just fine"
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"awards",
"calls",
"conclusions",
"decisions",
"deliverances",
"determinations",
"diagnoses",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"opinions",
"resolutions"
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"near synonyms":[
"behests",
"charges",
"commandments",
"decrees",
"dictates",
"directives",
"edicts",
"instructions",
"mandates",
"orders",
"words",
"last words",
"say-sos",
"adjudications",
"dispositions",
"dooms",
"findings",
"rulings",
"sentences",
"choices",
"options",
"selections",
"consensuses",
"beliefs",
"convictions",
"eyes",
"feelings",
"minds",
"notions",
"persuasions",
"sentiments",
"views"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deadlocks",
"draws",
"halts",
"stalemates",
"standoffs",
"ties"
],
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"an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge":{
"examples":[
"was anxious to hear her best friend's verdict on her new boyfriend"
],
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"beliefs",
"convictions",
"eyes",
"feelings",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"minds",
"notions",
"opinions",
"persuasions",
"sentiments",
"views"
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"near synonyms":[
"says",
"impressions",
"perceptions",
"takes",
"attitudes",
"assumptions",
"presumptions",
"presuppositions",
"conclusions",
"decisions",
"determinations",
"deliverances",
"esteems",
"estimates",
"estimations",
"credences",
"credits",
"faiths",
"conceptions",
"concepts",
"ideas",
"thoughts",
"positions",
"stances",
"stands",
"comments",
"obiter dicta",
"observations",
"reflections",
"remarks",
"conjectures",
"guesses",
"hunches",
"hypotheses",
"surmises",
"theories",
"advice",
"inputs",
"recommendations",
"suggestions",
"angles",
"outlooks",
"perspectives",
"shoes",
"slants",
"standpoints",
"viewpoints",
"counterviews"
],
"near antonyms":[
"facts",
"truths"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"vertical":{
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"examples":[
"a vertical cliff face"
],
"synonyms":[
"erect",
"perpendicular",
"plumb",
"raised",
"stand-up",
"standing",
"upright",
"upstanding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elevated",
"lifted",
"upended",
"upraised",
"semierect",
"freestanding",
"stand-alone"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prostrate",
"supine",
"diagonal",
"hanging",
"sagging",
"slant",
"slanted",
"slanting",
"slanty"
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"antonyms":[
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"recumbent"
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},
"type":[
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"examples":[
"I may not be a great poet, but I'm as good as those versifiers hired by the greeting card companies"
],
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"bards",
"minstrels",
"muses",
"poetasters",
"poets",
"rhymesters",
"rimesters"
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"poets laureate",
"poet laureates",
"scops",
"troubadours",
"epigrammatists",
"epigrammatizers",
"lyricists",
"rhymers",
"sonneteers",
"rhapsodes",
"rhapsodists"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"vernaculars":{
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"colloquials",
"idioms",
"localisms",
"parlances",
"pidgins",
"provincialisms",
"regionalisms",
"speeches",
"vernacularisms",
"argots",
"cants",
"dialects",
"jargons",
"jives",
"languages",
"lingos",
"lingoes",
"patois",
"patter",
"shops",
"shoptalk",
"slangs",
"terminologies",
"vocabularies",
"slanguages",
"bureaucrateses",
"computereses",
"cyberspeaks",
"educationeses",
"governmenteses",
"journaleses",
"technobabbles"
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"as in trivial names":{
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"near synonyms":[
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"binomials",
"monomials",
"misnomers",
"aliases",
"cryptonyms",
"noms de guerre",
"noms de plume",
"pen names",
"pseudonyms",
"brand names",
"labels",
"trademarks",
"trade names",
"banners",
"rubrics",
"tags",
"bynames",
"diminutives",
"epithets",
"hypocorisms",
"nicknames",
"sobriquets",
"soubriquets",
"matronymics",
"patronymics",
"family names",
"maiden names",
"middle names",
"surnames",
"baptismal names",
"Christian names",
"first names",
"forenames",
"given names"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"verging (on)":{
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"examples":[
"our land verges on a wildlife refuge"
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"adjoining",
"bordering (on)",
"butting (on or against)",
"flanking",
"fringing",
"joining",
"marching (with)",
"neighboring",
"skirting",
"touching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attaching (to)",
"communicating (with)",
"connecting (with)",
"linking (with)",
"bounding",
"embracing",
"encircling",
"enclosing",
"inclosing",
"fencing",
"lining",
"margining",
"rimming",
"surrounding",
"contacting",
"converging",
"meeting"
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"near antonyms":[],
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"to come very close to being":{
"examples":[
"a comment that verged on an insult"
],
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"bordering (on)",
"touching (on)",
"trenching (on)"
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"near synonyms":[
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"nearing",
"appearing",
"looking",
"resembling",
"seeming",
"suggesting",
"approximating",
"comparing (with)",
"measuring up (to)",
"stacking up (against or with)"
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"type":[
"verb"
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},
"vertices":{
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"examples":[
"Once you reach the vertex of the mountain, the remainder of the route is all downhill."
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"extremities",
"tips",
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"apogees",
"capstones",
"climaxes",
"crescendos",
"crescendoes",
"crescendi",
"crests",
"crowns",
"culminations",
"heads",
"heights",
"high noons",
"high-water marks",
"meridians",
"ne plus ultras",
"noons",
"noontimes",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"summits",
"sums",
"tip-tops",
"tops",
"zeniths",
"blooms",
"blossoms",
"flood tides",
"flowers",
"glories",
"heydays",
"primes",
"caps",
"ceilings",
"roofs",
"highlights",
"highs",
"highspots"
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"near antonyms":[
"abysses",
"bases",
"feet",
"foot",
"minima",
"minimums",
"bottoms",
"nadirs",
"rock bottoms"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
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"true or real \u2014 used to emphasize a description":{
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"The island is a veritable paradise.",
"The sale attracted a veritable mob of people."
],
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"classic",
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"real",
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"arrant",
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"categoric",
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"damned",
"dead",
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"fair",
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"flat-out",
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"perfect",
"plumb",
"profound",
"pure",
"rank",
"regular",
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"simple",
"stark",
"stone",
"straight-out",
"thorough",
"thoroughgoing",
"total",
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"unalloyed",
"unconditional",
"unmitigated",
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"undying",
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"frightful",
"horrible",
"huge",
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"surpassing",
"terrible",
"terrific"
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"dubious",
"equivocal",
"qualified",
"questionable",
"restricted",
"uncertain"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
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"whiling away the afternoon from the inn's wide veranda"
],
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"galleries",
"lanais",
"piazzas",
"piazze",
"porches",
"stoops"
],
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"galilees",
"porticoes",
"porticos",
"sleeping porches",
"solaria",
"solariums",
"sunporches",
"sunrooms",
"sun parlors",
"porte cocheres"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"articulated",
"consensual",
"implicit",
"informal",
"given",
"pronounced",
"said",
"sounded",
"stated",
"told",
"voiced",
"nuncupative",
"oral",
"spoken",
"unwritten",
"verbal",
"viva voce",
"word-of-mouth"
],
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"paper",
"written",
"explicit",
"formal"
],
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"to express (a thought or emotion) in words":{
"examples":[
"couldn't quite verbalize the cause of his mental distress"
],
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"brought out",
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"passed",
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"spoke",
"stated",
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"told",
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"aired",
"discussed",
"gave",
"looked",
"shared",
"sounded",
"vented",
"ventilated",
"voiced",
"blabbered",
"blurted",
"bolted",
"got off",
"shot",
"advertised",
"announced",
"blazed",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"declared",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"published",
"affirmed",
"alleged",
"asserted",
"averred",
"avouched",
"avowed",
"breathed",
"chirped",
"drawled",
"gasped",
"lipped",
"mouthed",
"murmured",
"purred",
"shouted",
"spluttered",
"spouted",
"whispered",
"clothed",
"clad",
"couched",
"formulated",
"formulized",
"phrased",
"put",
"worded",
"commented",
"piped up (with)",
"remarked",
"ripped (out)",
"snarled"
],
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"stifled",
"suppressed"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"verdant":{
"covered with a thick, healthy natural growth":{
"examples":[
"a beautiful, verdant field"
],
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"green",
"grown",
"leafy",
"lush",
"luxuriant",
"overgrown"
],
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"fat",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"fruitful",
"productive",
"prolific",
"rich",
"dense",
"tangled"
],
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"bleak",
"depleted",
"impoverished",
"infertile",
"poor",
"stark",
"unproductive",
"arid",
"dead",
"desert",
"dry",
"parched",
"sere",
"sear",
"waterless"
],
"antonyms":[
"barren",
"leafless"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"verbally":{
"as in vocally":{
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"vocally",
"aloud",
"audibly",
"out",
"out loud",
"clearly",
"discernibly",
"distinctly",
"distinguishably",
"perceptibly",
"plainly",
"blatantly",
"bloody murder",
"boisterously",
"clamorously",
"loudly",
"lustily",
"mightily",
"noisily",
"resonantly",
"resoundingly",
"stridently",
"thunderously",
"uproariously",
"vociferously"
],
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"inaudibly",
"silently",
"soundlessly",
"voicelessly",
"faintly",
"feebly",
"low",
"noiselessly",
"quietly",
"softly"
],
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},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"vertebrae":{
"as in backs , spinal cords":{
"examples":[],
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"backs",
"spinal cords",
"backbones",
"chines",
"spinal columns",
"spines",
"vertebral columns"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"versus":{
"in opposition or contrast to":{
"examples":[
"It's your word versus his.",
"She explained the use of a semicolon versus a colon."
],
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"against",
"agin",
"anti",
"contra",
"with",
"athwart",
"contrary to",
"as opposed to",
"compared to",
"compared with",
"contrasted (to)",
"contrasted (with)",
"in comparison (to)",
"in comparison (with)",
"in contrast (to)",
"in contrast (with)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"preposition"
]
},
"vertebral column":{
"a column of bones supporting the trunk of a vertebrate animal":{
"examples":[
"carefully reconstructed the vertebral column of the dinosaur"
],
"synonyms":[
"backbone",
"chine",
"spinal column",
"spine"
],
"near synonyms":[
"back",
"spinal cord",
"vertebra"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"verging":{
"having a border in common":{
"examples":[
"the two brothers bought verging properties"
],
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"abutting",
"adjacent",
"adjoining",
"bordering",
"conterminous",
"contiguous",
"flanking",
"flush",
"fringing",
"joining",
"juxtaposed",
"neighboring",
"skirting",
"touching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"approximate",
"close",
"closest",
"immediate",
"near",
"nearby",
"nearest",
"next-door",
"nigh",
"attached",
"communicating",
"connected",
"connecting",
"interconnecting",
"joined",
"linked",
"united",
"bounding",
"circumjacent",
"embracing",
"encircling",
"enclosing",
"inclosing",
"fencing",
"rimming",
"surrounding",
"marginal",
"peripheral",
"tangent",
"tangential",
"ambient",
"encompassing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apart",
"detached",
"disconnected",
"discrete",
"free-standing",
"isolate",
"isolated",
"removed",
"separate",
"single",
"unattached",
"unconnected",
"unlinked",
"away",
"distant",
"far",
"faraway",
"far-off",
"farthest",
"remote",
"discontinuous",
"noncontinuous",
"broken up",
"disjoined",
"dissevered",
"dissociated",
"disunited",
"divided",
"divorced",
"parted",
"ramified",
"resolved",
"severed",
"split",
"sundered",
"uncoupled",
"unyoked"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonadjacent",
"noncontiguous"
]
},
"as in touching , bordering":{
"examples":[],
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"adjoining",
"bordering",
"touching",
"creeping up",
"sneaking up",
"arriving",
"attaining",
"coming",
"gaining",
"hitting",
"landing",
"making",
"reaching",
"showing up",
"turning up",
"waltzing (up)",
"approaching",
"bellying up",
"closing",
"closing in",
"coming up",
"drawing on",
"nearing",
"nighing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backing (up or away)",
"receding",
"retiring",
"retreating",
"withdrawing",
"clearing out",
"departing",
"exiting",
"going",
"leaving",
"lighting out",
"pulling out",
"quitting",
"removing",
"running away",
"shoving (off)",
"taking off",
"walking out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"versed":{
"having information especially as a result of study or experience":{
"examples":[
"versed in the latest developments in aeronautics"
],
"synonyms":[
"abreast",
"acquainted",
"au courant",
"conversant",
"familiar",
"informed",
"knowledgeable",
"up",
"up-to-date",
"well-informed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alive",
"aware",
"cognizant",
"conscious",
"heedful",
"mindful",
"sensible",
"sentient"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insensible",
"unaware",
"unconscious",
"unmindful",
"blind",
"oblivious",
"unknowing",
"unwitting",
"inattentive",
"unheeding"
],
"antonyms":[
"ignorant",
"unacquainted",
"unfamiliar",
"uninformed",
"unknowledgeable"
]
},
"having or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavor":{
"examples":[
"well versed in the techniques of laser surgery"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplished",
"ace",
"adept",
"compleat",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crack",
"crackerjack",
"educated",
"experienced",
"expert",
"good",
"great",
"master",
"masterful",
"masterly",
"practiced",
"practised",
"professed",
"proficient",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"veteran",
"virtuoso"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"amateur",
"amateurish",
"inexperienced",
"inexpert",
"jackleg",
"unprofessional",
"unseasoned",
"unskilled",
"unskillful"
]
},
"to give information to":{
"examples":[
"while in prison, he versed himself in the rights of the incarcerated"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquainted",
"advised",
"apprised",
"briefed",
"caught up",
"cleared",
"clued (in)",
"enlightened",
"familiarized",
"filled in",
"hipped",
"informed",
"instructed",
"told",
"wised (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertised",
"alerted",
"notified",
"announced (to)",
"disclosed (to)",
"assured",
"certified",
"convinced",
"reassured",
"warranted",
"educated",
"lectured",
"schooled",
"taught",
"tutored",
"disabused",
"disenchanted",
"disillusioned",
"undeceived"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misinformed",
"misled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"verses":{
"a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect":{
"examples":[
"composed a short verse for his mother's birthday"
],
"synonyms":[
"lyrics",
"poems",
"runes",
"songs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rhymes",
"rimes",
"ballads",
"lays",
"anacreontics",
"clerihews",
"dithyrambs",
"eclogues",
"elegies",
"English sonnets",
"epics",
"epigrams",
"epodes",
"epopees",
"eposes",
"georgics",
"idylls",
"idyls",
"jingles",
"laments",
"limericks",
"madrigals",
"odes",
"pastorales",
"pastorals",
"psalms",
"rondeaux",
"rondelets",
"rondelles",
"rondels",
"sonnets",
"triolets",
"villanelles",
"haiku",
"senryu",
"tankas",
"blank verses",
"free verses",
"minstrelsies",
"poesies",
"poetries",
"versifications",
"vers libres"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"writing that uses rhythm, vivid language, and often rhyme to provoke an emotional response":{
"examples":[
"skilled at verse"
],
"synonyms":[
"minstrelsies",
"poesies",
"poetries",
"songs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rhymes",
"rimes",
"blank verses",
"free verses",
"vers libres"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"proses"
]
},
"to give information to":{
"examples":[
"while in prison, he versed himself in the rights of the incarcerated"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquaints",
"advises",
"apprises",
"briefs",
"catches up",
"clears",
"clues (in)",
"enlightens",
"familiarizes",
"fills in",
"hips",
"informs",
"instructs",
"tells",
"wises (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertises",
"alerts",
"notifies",
"announces (to)",
"discloses (to)",
"assures",
"certifies",
"convinces",
"reassures",
"warrants",
"educates",
"lectures",
"schools",
"teaches",
"tutors",
"disabuses",
"disenchants",
"disillusions",
"undeceives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misinforms",
"misleads"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"versing":{
"to give information to":{
"examples":[
"while in prison, he versed himself in the rights of the incarcerated"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquainting",
"advising",
"apprising",
"briefing",
"catching up",
"clearing",
"clueing (in)",
"cluing (in)",
"enlightening",
"familiarizing",
"filling in",
"hipping",
"informing",
"instructing",
"telling",
"wising (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertising",
"alerting",
"notifying",
"announcing (to)",
"disclosing (to)",
"assuring",
"certifying",
"convincing",
"reassuring",
"warranting",
"educating",
"lecturing",
"schooling",
"teaching",
"tutoring",
"disabusing",
"disenchanting",
"disillusioning",
"undeceiving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misinforming",
"misleading"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"vers libres":{
"as in poetries , free verses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blank verses",
"free verses",
"minstrelsies",
"poesies",
"poetries",
"versifications",
"lyrics",
"poems",
"runes",
"songs",
"rhymes",
"rimes",
"ballads",
"lays",
"anacreontics",
"clerihews",
"dithyrambs",
"eclogues",
"elegies",
"English sonnets",
"epics",
"epigrams",
"epodes",
"epopees",
"eposes",
"georgics",
"idylls",
"idyls",
"jingles",
"laments",
"limericks",
"madrigals",
"odes",
"pastorales",
"pastorals",
"psalms",
"rondeaux",
"rondelets",
"rondelles",
"rondels",
"sonnets",
"triolets",
"villanelles",
"haiku",
"senryu",
"tankas"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"veridical":{
"as in real , genuine":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bona fide",
"genuine",
"real",
"authoritative",
"careful",
"conscientious",
"meticulous",
"punctilious",
"scrupulous",
"lifelike",
"realistic",
"accurate",
"authentic",
"exact",
"faithful",
"precise",
"right",
"strict",
"true",
"veracious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corrupt",
"corrupted",
"false",
"imprecise",
"inaccurate",
"inauthentic",
"inexact",
"loose",
"unfaithful",
"careless",
"slack",
"slipshod",
"slovenly",
"erroneous",
"incorrect",
"invalid",
"off",
"unsound",
"untrue",
"untruthful",
"wrong"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"vermin":{
"a person whose behavior is offensive to others":{
"examples":[
"the vermin who looted abandoned houses after the hurricane"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastard",
"beast",
"bleeder",
"blighter",
"boor",
"bounder",
"bugger",
"buzzard",
"cad",
"chuff",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cretin",
"crud",
"crumb",
"cur",
"dirtbag",
"dog",
"fink",
"heel",
"hound",
"jerk",
"joker",
"louse",
"lout",
"pill",
"rat",
"rat fink",
"reptile",
"rotter",
"schmuck",
"scum",
"scumbag",
"scuzzball",
"skunk",
"sleaze",
"sleazebag",
"sleazeball",
"slime",
"slimeball",
"slob",
"snake",
"so-and-so",
"sod",
"stinkard",
"stinker",
"swine",
"toad",
"varmint"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barbarian",
"brute",
"caveman",
"Neanderthal",
"savage",
"loudmouth",
"vulgarian",
"lowlife",
"miscreant",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"roughneck",
"scab",
"scamp",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"wretch",
"booby",
"doofus",
"fool",
"jackass",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"nut",
"schmo",
"schmoe",
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"dink",
"dolt",
"dope",
"dork",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"idiot",
"imbecile",
"moron",
"turkey",
"brat",
"insolent",
"nuisance",
"pest",
"snip",
"snob",
"snoot",
"snot",
"dweeb",
"nerd"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hero",
"heroine",
"idol",
"role model",
"gentleman",
"lady",
"angel",
"saint"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"verbosely":{
"as in diffusely , wordily":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"diffusely",
"long-windedly",
"wordily",
"redundantly",
"repetitiously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"briefly",
"compactly",
"concisely",
"crisply",
"curtly",
"elliptically",
"laconically",
"pithily",
"shortly",
"succinctly",
"summarily",
"tersely",
"aphoristically",
"sententiously",
"exactly",
"precisely"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"versification":{
"as in poetry , poesy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blank verse",
"free verse",
"minstrelsy",
"poesy",
"poetry",
"vers libre",
"lyric",
"poem",
"rune",
"song",
"rhyme",
"rime",
"ballad",
"lay",
"anacreontic",
"clerihew",
"dithyramb",
"eclogue",
"elegy",
"English sonnet",
"epic",
"epigram",
"epode",
"epopee",
"epos",
"georgic",
"idyll",
"idyl",
"jingle",
"lament",
"limerick",
"madrigal",
"ode",
"pastoral",
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"psalm",
"rondeau",
"rondel",
"rondelle",
"rondelet",
"sonnet",
"triolet",
"villanelle",
"haiku",
"senryu",
"tanka"
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],
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"truthfulness",
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"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"right-mindedness",
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"uprightness",
"artlessness",
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"plainspokenness",
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"reliability",
"reliableness",
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"trustiness",
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"objectivity",
"authenticity",
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"artifice",
"cozenage",
"crookedness",
"deception",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"fraudulentness",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"two-facedness",
"beguilement",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"cunningness",
"furtiveness",
"guile",
"indirection",
"insidiousness",
"oiliness",
"perfidy",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"smoothness",
"treacherousness",
"trickery",
"underhandedness",
"unscrupulousness",
"wiliness",
"equivocation",
"prevarication",
"exaggeration",
"inaccuracy"
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"dishonesty",
"lying",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"untruthfulness"
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"exactitude",
"exactness",
"fineness",
"nicety",
"perfection",
"preciseness",
"precision",
"rigor",
"rigorousness",
"ultraprecision"
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"correctness",
"fidelity",
"rightness",
"strictness",
"truth",
"definiteness",
"definitiveness",
"definitude",
"determinacy",
"subtlety",
"care",
"carefulness",
"fastidiousness",
"meticulousness",
"persnicketiness"
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"approximation",
"roundness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"incorrectness",
"wrongness",
"carelessness",
"guesswork",
"looseness",
"indefiniteness",
"vagueness"
],
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"coarseness",
"impreciseness",
"imprecision",
"inaccuracy",
"inexactitude",
"inexactness",
"roughness"
]
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"noun"
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"couldn't quite verbalize the cause of his mental distress"
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"states",
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"gives",
"looks",
"shares",
"sounds",
"ventilates",
"vents",
"voices",
"blabbers",
"blurts",
"bolts",
"gets off",
"shoots",
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"announces",
"blazes",
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"promulgates",
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"publishes",
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"alleges",
"asserts",
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"avouches",
"avows",
"breathes",
"chirps",
"drawls",
"gasps",
"lips",
"mouths",
"murmurs",
"purrs",
"shouts",
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"spouts",
"whispers",
"clothes",
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"puts",
"words",
"comments",
"pipes up (with)",
"remarks",
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"suppresses"
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"had to wade through a verbose letter of complaint"
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"garrulous",
"logorrheic",
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"pleonastic",
"prolix",
"rambling",
"windy",
"wordy"
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"chatty",
"communicative",
"conversational",
"gabby",
"loquacious",
"talkative",
"talky",
"voluble",
"periphrastic",
"redundant",
"repetitious",
"tautological",
"tautologous",
"embellished",
"embroidered",
"exaggerated",
"bombastic",
"gaseous",
"gassy",
"grandiloquent",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin"
],
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"brief",
"short",
"aphoristic",
"epigrammatic",
"sententious",
"compendious",
"summary",
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"condensed",
"shortened",
"abrupt",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"curt",
"laconic",
"snippy"
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"compact",
"concise",
"crisp",
"pithy",
"succinct",
"terse"
]
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"examples":[
"your ideas are good, but your penchant for verbosity is unfortunate"
],
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"circumlocution",
"diffuseness",
"diffusion",
"garrulity",
"garrulousness",
"logorrhea",
"long-windedness",
"periphrasis",
"prolixity",
"redundancy",
"verbalism",
"verbiage",
"verboseness",
"windiness",
"wordage",
"wordiness"
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"circuitousness",
"circularity",
"digressiveness",
"pleonasm",
"tautology",
"reiteration",
"repetition",
"repetitiousness",
"repetitiveness",
"embellishment",
"embroidering",
"exaggeration",
"hyperbole",
"overstatement"
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"brevity",
"briefness",
"compactness",
"conciseness",
"concision",
"crispness",
"pithiness",
"succinctness",
"terseness"
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"adjective",
"noun"
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"the use of too many words to express an idea":{
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"your ideas are good, but your penchant for verbosity is unfortunate"
],
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"diffuseness",
"diffusion",
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"long-windedness",
"periphrasis",
"prolixity",
"redundancy",
"verbalism",
"verbiage",
"verboseness",
"windiness",
"wordage",
"wordiness"
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"circuitousness",
"circularity",
"digressiveness",
"pleonasm",
"tautology",
"reiteration",
"repetition",
"repetitiousness",
"repetitiveness",
"embellishment",
"embroidering",
"exaggeration",
"hyperbole",
"overstatement"
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"brevity",
"briefness",
"compactness",
"conciseness",
"concision",
"crispness",
"pithiness",
"succinctness",
"terseness"
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"noun"
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"examples":[
"the novel's degree of verisimilitude is compromised by 18th-century characters who speak in very 21st-century English"
],
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"literalism",
"naturalism",
"realism",
"representationalism",
"verismo"
],
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"photo-realism",
"authenticity",
"grittiness"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"able to do many different kinds of things":{
"examples":[
"a versatile baseball player can play any position",
"this tool is versatile enough to serve as a wrench or pliers"
],
"synonyms":[
"adaptable",
"all-around",
"all-round",
"protean",
"universal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"general-purpose",
"mixed-use",
"multipurpose",
"well-rounded",
"able",
"ace",
"adept",
"experienced",
"expert",
"masterful",
"proficient",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"adjustable",
"alterable",
"changeable",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"fluid",
"malleable",
"modifiable",
"plastic",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"variable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"limited",
"amateur",
"inexperienced"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"verse":{
"a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect":{
"examples":[
"composed a short verse for his mother's birthday"
],
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"lyric",
"poem",
"rune",
"song"
],
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"rhyme",
"rime",
"ballad",
"lay",
"anacreontic",
"clerihew",
"dithyramb",
"eclogue",
"elegy",
"English sonnet",
"epic",
"epigram",
"epode",
"epopee",
"epos",
"georgic",
"idyll",
"idyl",
"jingle",
"lament",
"limerick",
"madrigal",
"ode",
"pastoral",
"pastorale",
"psalm",
"rondeau",
"rondel",
"rondelle",
"rondelet",
"sonnet",
"triolet",
"villanelle",
"haiku",
"senryu",
"tanka",
"blank verse",
"free verse",
"minstrelsy",
"poesy",
"poetry",
"versification",
"vers libre"
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"antonyms":[]
},
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"examples":[
"skilled at verse"
],
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"minstrelsy",
"poesy",
"poetry",
"song"
],
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"rhyme",
"rime",
"blank verse",
"free verse",
"vers libre"
],
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"antonyms":[
"prose"
]
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"to give information to":{
"examples":[
"while in prison, he versed himself in the rights of the incarcerated"
],
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"acquaint",
"advise",
"apprise",
"brief",
"catch up",
"clear",
"clue (in)",
"enlighten",
"familiarize",
"fill in",
"hip",
"inform",
"instruct",
"tell",
"wise (up)"
],
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"advertise",
"alert",
"notify",
"announce (to)",
"disclose (to)",
"assure",
"certify",
"convince",
"reassure",
"warrant",
"educate",
"lecture",
"school",
"teach",
"tutor",
"disabuse",
"disenchant",
"disillusion",
"undeceive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misinform",
"mislead"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"verboten":{
"that may not be permitted":{
"examples":[
"a college campus on which any form of hate speech was strictly verboten"
],
"synonyms":[
"banned",
"barred",
"forbidden",
"impermissible",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"taboo",
"tabu"
],
"near synonyms":[
"intolerable",
"unacceptable",
"unbearable",
"unendurable",
"illegal",
"illegitimate",
"illicit",
"improper",
"inappropriate",
"unauthorized",
"unlawful",
"unlicensed",
"ineffable",
"unmentionable",
"unseemly",
"unsuitable",
"objectionable",
"disallowed",
"disapproved",
"discouraged",
"refused",
"rejected",
"revoked",
"unsanctioned",
"vetoed",
"repressed",
"suppressed",
"precluded",
"prevented",
"stopped",
"excluded",
"ruled out",
"shut out",
"blocked",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acceptable",
"bearable",
"endurable",
"tolerable",
"accepted",
"accredited",
"allowed",
"appropriate",
"approved",
"authorized",
"certified",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"lawful",
"legal",
"legitimate",
"licensed",
"OK",
"okay",
"permitted",
"warranted",
"accorded",
"granted",
"sanctioned",
"vouchsafed",
"brooked",
"condoned",
"countenanced",
"encouraged",
"promoted",
"supported",
"commanded",
"mandatory",
"ordered",
"required",
"proper",
"seemly",
"suitable",
"tolerated",
"unobjectionable"
],
"antonyms":[
"allowable",
"permissible",
"permissive",
"sufferable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"verges":{
"an interval of time just before the onset of something":{
"examples":[
"the suspect was on the verge of confessing when the officers realized that he hadn't been read his rights"
],
"synonyms":[
"brinks",
"cusps",
"edges",
"points",
"thresholds"
],
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"nicks"
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"antonyms":[]
},
"the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something":{
"examples":[
"the southern verge of the national park"
],
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"borderlines",
"borders",
"boundaries",
"bounds",
"brims",
"circumferences",
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"confines",
"edges",
"edgings",
"ends",
"frames",
"fringes",
"hems",
"margins",
"perimeters",
"peripheries",
"rims",
"skirtings",
"skirts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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":[]
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"as in touches , borders":{
"examples":[],
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"adjoins",
"borders",
"touches",
"creeps up",
"sneaks up",
"arrives",
"attains",
"comes",
"gains",
"hits",
"lands",
"makes",
"reaches",
"shows up",
"turns up",
"waltzes (up)",
"approaches",
"bellies up",
"closes",
"closes in",
"comes up",
"draws on",
"nears",
"nighs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backs (up or away)",
"recedes",
"retires",
"retreats",
"withdraws",
"clears out",
"departs",
"exits",
"goes",
"leaves",
"lights out",
"pulls out",
"quits",
"removes",
"runs away",
"shoves (off)",
"takes off",
"walks out"
],
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
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"veraciousness":{
"as in integrity , honesty":{
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"near synonyms":[
"honesty",
"integrity",
"probity",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"verity",
"honor",
"incorruptibility",
"candidness",
"candor",
"frankness",
"good faith",
"plainspokenness",
"sincerity",
"straightforwardness",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"reliableness",
"trustworthiness",
"accuracy",
"objectivity",
"authenticity",
"correctness",
"genuineness",
"credibility"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"dishonesty",
"falsehood",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"untruthfulness",
"artifice",
"craft",
"craftiness",
"crookedness",
"cunning",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"foxiness",
"guile",
"guilefulness",
"insincerity",
"trickishness",
"wiliness",
"falseness"
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"noun"
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"realistic depiction in art and literature":{
"examples":[
"the author of this crime novel uses profuse profanity in the name of verismo , but its effectiveness palls after a couple of chapters"
],
"synonyms":[
"literalism",
"naturalism",
"realism",
"representationalism",
"verisimilitude"
],
"near synonyms":[
"photo-realism",
"authenticity",
"grittiness"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"verge":{
"an interval of time just before the onset of something":{
"examples":[
"the suspect was on the verge of confessing when the officers realized that he hadn't been read his rights"
],
"synonyms":[
"brink",
"cusp",
"edge",
"point",
"threshold"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nick"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something":{
"examples":[
"the southern verge of the national park"
],
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"border",
"borderline",
"bound",
"boundary",
"brim",
"circumference",
"compass",
"confines",
"edge",
"edging",
"end",
"frame",
"fringe",
"hem",
"margin",
"perimeter",
"periphery",
"rim",
"skirt",
"skirting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ambit",
"brink",
"crest",
"curb",
"cusp",
"lip",
"ceiling",
"maximum",
"demarcation",
"extent",
"limitation",
"measure",
"mere",
"restriction",
"termination",
"borderland",
"frontier",
"march",
"outskirts",
"pale",
"selvage",
"lap",
"shore"
],
"near antonyms":[
"center",
"core",
"heart",
"inner",
"inside",
"interior",
"middle",
"within"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in touch , border":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"adjoin",
"border",
"touch",
"creep up",
"sneak up",
"arrive",
"attain",
"come",
"gain",
"hit",
"land",
"make",
"reach",
"show up",
"turn up",
"waltz (up)",
"approach",
"belly up",
"close",
"close in",
"come up",
"draw on",
"near",
"nigh"
],
"near antonyms":[
"back (up or away)",
"recede",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw",
"clear out",
"depart",
"exit",
"go",
"leave",
"light out",
"pull out",
"quit",
"remove",
"run away",
"shove (off)",
"take off",
"walk out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"verdure":{
"green leaves or plants":{
"examples":[
"a good time to tour the wine country is when it is clothed with the verdure of midsummer"
],
"synonyms":[
"flora",
"foliage",
"green",
"greenery",
"herbage",
"leafage",
"vegetation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grassland",
"prairie",
"underbrush",
"undergrowth"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the condition of being sound in body":{
"examples":[
"a portrait of a fresh-faced teenage girl in all of her youthful verdure and irrepressible joie de vivre"
],
"synonyms":[
"fitness",
"health",
"healthiness",
"heartiness",
"robustness",
"sap",
"soundness",
"wellness",
"wholeness",
"wholesomeness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fettle",
"shape",
"cleanliness",
"hygiene",
"hardiness",
"lustiness",
"robustiousness",
"ruggedness",
"stamina",
"strength",
"toughness",
"vigor",
"vigorousness",
"vitality",
"bloom",
"flush",
"flushness",
"activeness",
"agility",
"liveliness",
"spryness",
"weal",
"welfare",
"well-being"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debility",
"decrepitude",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"infirmity",
"lameness",
"sickliness",
"weakness",
"ailment",
"condition",
"disease",
"disorder",
"malady",
"trouble"
],
"antonyms":[
"illness",
"sickness",
"unhealthiness",
"unsoundness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vers libre":{
"as in poetry , free verse":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blank verse",
"free verse",
"minstrelsy",
"poesy",
"poetry",
"versification",
"lyric",
"poem",
"rune",
"song",
"rhyme",
"rime",
"ballad",
"lay",
"anacreontic",
"clerihew",
"dithyramb",
"eclogue",
"elegy",
"English sonnet",
"epic",
"epigram",
"epode",
"epopee",
"epos",
"georgic",
"idyll",
"idyl",
"jingle",
"lament",
"limerick",
"madrigal",
"ode",
"pastoral",
"pastorale",
"psalm",
"rondeau",
"rondel",
"rondelle",
"rondelet",
"sonnet",
"triolet",
"villanelle",
"haiku",
"senryu",
"tanka"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"verdures":{
"green leaves or plants":{
"examples":[
"a good time to tour the wine country is when it is clothed with the verdure of midsummer"
],
"synonyms":[
"floras",
"florae",
"foliages",
"green",
"greeneries",
"herbages",
"leafages",
"vegetations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grasslands",
"prairies",
"underbrushes",
"undergrowths"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vertiginous":{
"having a feeling of being whirled about and in danger of falling down":{
"examples":[
"a 3-D effect that is likely to leave some audience members feeling vertiginous"
],
"synonyms":[
"aswoon",
"dizzy",
"giddy",
"light-headed",
"reeling",
"swimmy",
"whirling",
"woozy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"faint",
"weak",
"addled",
"befuddled",
"confused",
"dazed",
"groggy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clearheaded",
"stable",
"steady"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"verities":{
"agreement with fact or reality":{
"examples":[
"the local tourist bureau is less concerned with the verity of the legend than the fact that it attracts visitors to the area"
],
"synonyms":[
"facticity",
"factuality",
"sooth",
"trueness",
"truth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accuracy",
"accurateness",
"actuality",
"authenticity",
"correctness",
"credibility",
"honesty",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"dependability",
"reliability"
],
"near antonyms":[
"erroneousness",
"fallaciousness",
"fallacy",
"falsehood",
"fiction",
"half-truth",
"lie",
"impreciseness",
"imprecision",
"inaccuracy",
"incorrectness",
"inexactitude",
"inexactness",
"deceit",
"dishonesty",
"equivocation",
"lying",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"prevarication",
"untruthfulness"
],
"antonyms":[
"falseness",
"falsity",
"untruth"
]
},
"devotion to telling the truth":{
"examples":[
"no one is questioning your verity \u2014just your memory of events that happened long ago"
],
"synonyms":[
"honesty",
"integrity",
"probity",
"truthfulness",
"veracity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"honor",
"honorableness",
"incorruptibility",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"right-mindedness",
"scrupulosity",
"scrupulousness",
"uprightness",
"artlessness",
"candidness",
"candor",
"forthrightness",
"frankness",
"good faith",
"guilelessness",
"ingenuousness",
"plainspokenness",
"sincerity",
"straightforwardness",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"reliableness",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness",
"accuracy",
"objectivity",
"authenticity",
"correctness",
"genuineness",
"truth",
"credibility"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artifice",
"cozenage",
"crookedness",
"deception",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"fraudulentness",
"hypocrisy",
"insincerity",
"two-facedness",
"beguilement",
"craftiness",
"cunning",
"cunningness",
"furtiveness",
"guile",
"indirection",
"insidiousness",
"oiliness",
"perfidy",
"slickness",
"slipperiness",
"slyness",
"smoothness",
"treacherousness",
"trickery",
"underhandedness",
"unscrupulousness",
"wiliness",
"equivocation",
"prevarication",
"exaggeration",
"inaccuracy"
],
"antonyms":[
"deceit",
"deceitfulness",
"dishonesty",
"lying",
"mendaciousness",
"mendacity",
"untruthfulness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vertebras":{
"as in backs , spinal cords":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"backs",
"spinal cords",
"backbones",
"chines",
"spinal columns",
"spines",
"vertebral columns"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"verbalisms":{
"an act, process, or means of putting something into words":{
"examples":[
"the meticulous verbalism of the senator's prepared statement suggests that she knew that it would spark controversy"
],
"synonyms":[
"articulations",
"expressions",
"formulations",
"phrasings",
"statements",
"utterances",
"voices",
"wordings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outlets",
"vents",
"observations",
"reflections",
"remarks",
"thoughts",
"speeches",
"tongues"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"verbalizing":{
"to express (a thought or emotion) in words":{
"examples":[
"couldn't quite verbalize the cause of his mental distress"
],
"synonyms":[
"articulating",
"bringing out",
"enunciating",
"passing",
"saying",
"speaking",
"stating",
"talking",
"telling",
"uttering",
"vocalizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"airing",
"discussing",
"giving",
"looking",
"sharing",
"sounding",
"ventilating",
"venting",
"voicing",
"blabbering",
"blurting",
"bolting",
"getting off",
"shooting",
"advertising",
"announcing",
"blazing",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"posting",
"proclaiming",
"promulgating",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"affirming",
"alleging",
"asserting",
"averring",
"avouching",
"avowing",
"breathing",
"chirping",
"drawling",
"gasping",
"lipping",
"mouthing",
"murmuring",
"purring",
"shouting",
"spluttering",
"spouting",
"whispering",
"clothing",
"couching",
"formulating",
"formulizing",
"phrasing",
"putting",
"wording",
"commenting",
"piping up (with)",
"remarking",
"ripping (out)",
"snarling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stifling",
"suppressing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"veritably":{
"in actual fact":{
"examples":[
"the view from the summit of the mountain is veritably breathtaking"
],
"synonyms":[
"actually",
"authentically",
"certifiably",
"genuinely",
"really",
"truly",
"very"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accurately",
"exactly",
"just",
"precisely",
"right",
"sharp",
"smack-dab",
"squarely",
"almost",
"nearly",
"practically",
"virtually",
"literally",
"positively",
"simply"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apparently",
"ostensibly",
"outwardly",
"plausibly",
"seemingly"
],
"antonyms":[
"professedly",
"supposedly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"versatility":{
"as in creativity , imagination":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"contrivance",
"creativity",
"fancy",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"ideation",
"imagination",
"imaginativeness",
"invention",
"inventiveness",
"originality",
"chimera",
"daydream",
"delusion",
"dream",
"figment",
"hallucination",
"illusion",
"mind's eye",
"mirage",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"pipe dream",
"ingenuity",
"resourcefulness",
"brainstorm",
"brainstorming",
"inspiration",
"fecundity",
"fertility",
"envisaging",
"visualization"
],
"near antonyms":[
"literality",
"literalness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"vernacular":{
"used in or suitable for speech and not formal writing":{
"examples":[
"writes essays in a very easy-to-read, vernacular style"
],
"synonyms":[
"colloquial",
"conversational",
"informal",
"nonformal",
"nonliterary",
"unbookish",
"unliterary",
"vulgar"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dialectal",
"dialectical",
"dialectic",
"nonstandard",
"regional",
"incorrect",
"nongrammatical",
"substandard",
"uneducated",
"ungrammatical",
"unlearned",
"slang",
"slangy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"standard",
"undialectical",
"correct",
"educated",
"genteel",
"grammatical",
"proper"
],
"antonyms":[
"bookish",
"formal",
"learned",
"literary"
]
},
"as in colloquial , idiom":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"colloquial",
"colloquialism",
"idiom",
"localism",
"parlance",
"pidgin",
"provincialism",
"regionalism",
"speech",
"vernacularism",
"argot",
"cant",
"dialect",
"jargon",
"jive",
"language",
"lingo",
"patois",
"patter",
"shop",
"shoptalk",
"slang",
"terminology",
"vocabulary",
"slanguage",
"bureaucratese",
"computerese",
"cyberspeak",
"educationese",
"governmentese",
"journalese",
"technobabble"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in trivial name":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"trivial name",
"binomial",
"monomial",
"misnomer",
"alias",
"cryptonym",
"nom de guerre",
"nom de plume",
"pen name",
"pseudonym",
"brand name",
"label",
"trademark",
"trade name",
"banner",
"rubric",
"tag",
"byname",
"diminutive",
"epithet",
"hypocorism",
"nickname",
"sobriquet",
"soubriquet",
"matronymic",
"patronymic",
"family name",
"maiden name",
"middle name",
"surname",
"baptismal name",
"Christian name",
"first name",
"forename",
"given name"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"veranda":{
"a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building":{
"examples":[
"whiling away the afternoon from the inn's wide veranda"
],
"synonyms":[
"gallery",
"lanai",
"piazza",
"porch",
"stoop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"galilee",
"portico",
"sleeping porch",
"solarium",
"sunporch",
"sunroom",
"sun parlor",
"porte cochere"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"verbal":{
"of or relating to words or language":{
"examples":[
"the child didn't yet have the verbal skills needed to tell the doctor about the pain he was experiencing"
],
"synonyms":[
"lexical",
"linguistic",
"linguistical",
"rhetorical",
"rhetoric",
"vocabular",
"wordy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"communicative",
"conversational"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nonlexical",
"nonlinguistic",
"nonverbal"
]
},
"made or carried on through speaking rather than in writing":{
"examples":[
"a verbal agreement carries less force than a written contract"
],
"synonyms":[
"nuncupative",
"oral",
"spoken",
"unwritten",
"viva voce",
"word-of-mouth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consensual",
"implicit",
"informal",
"articulated",
"verbalized",
"given",
"pronounced",
"said",
"sounded",
"stated",
"told",
"voiced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"explicit",
"formal"
],
"antonyms":[
"paper",
"written"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"vertebra":{
"as in back , spinal cord":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"back",
"spinal cord",
"backbone",
"chine",
"spinal column",
"spine",
"vertebral column"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}