dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/pro_MWT.json
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{
"pro":{
"having or showing trained ability in a particular field of knowledge":{
"examples":[
"All the the conference attendees thought of themselves as pro coders.",
"He practiced hours on end in hopes of becoming a pro golfer."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"expert",
"professional",
"technicalized",
"specialist",
"specialistic",
"specialized",
"technical",
"accomplished",
"ace",
"adept",
"experienced",
"master",
"masterful",
"masterly",
"practiced",
"practised",
"proficient",
"qualified",
"seasoned",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"veteran",
"educated",
"prepared",
"schooled",
"trained",
"authoritative",
"directorial",
"magisterial"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inexpert",
"lay",
"nonprofessional",
"unprofessional",
"general",
"nontechnical",
"untechnical",
"common",
"generalized",
"generic",
"nonexclusive",
"nonspecific",
"ordinary",
"overall",
"universal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field":{
"examples":[
"She plays baseball like a pro ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"professional",
"consultant",
"hired gun",
"specialist",
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"craftsman",
"journeyman",
"all-rounder",
"jack-of-all-trades",
"Renaissance man",
"ace",
"adept",
"artist",
"authority",
"cognoscente",
"connoisseur",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dab",
"dab hand",
"expert",
"fiend",
"geek",
"guru",
"hand",
"hotshot",
"maestro",
"master",
"maven",
"mavin",
"meister",
"past master",
"proficient",
"scholar",
"shark",
"sharp",
"virtuoso",
"whiz",
"wizard"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apprentice",
"beginner",
"neophyte",
"novice",
"dabbler",
"dilettante",
"layman",
"nonprofessional",
"amateur",
"inexpert",
"nonexpert"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in for":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"for"
],
"near antonyms":[
"against",
"agin",
"anti",
"contra",
"athwart",
"contrary to",
"versus",
"with"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"preposition"
]
},
"probability":{
"the quality or state of being likely to occur":{
"examples":[
"the plot of the movie thriller was exciting and surprising but woefully lacking in probability"
],
"synonyms":[
"liability",
"likelihood"
],
"near synonyms":[
"credibility",
"plausibility",
"plausibleness",
"feasibility",
"feasibleness",
"possibility",
"potentiality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"viability"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtfulness",
"dubiousness",
"impracticability",
"impracticality",
"implausibility",
"incredibility",
"incredibleness"
],
"antonyms":[
"improbability",
"unlikelihood",
"unlikeliness"
]
},
"a measure of how often an event will occur instead of another":{
"examples":[
"the probability of flipping a coin and getting heads 50 times in a row is not good"
],
"synonyms":[
"chance",
"odds",
"percentage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outlook",
"prospect",
"contingency",
"possibility",
"potential",
"potentiality",
"conditional probability"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"probes":{
"a systematic search for the truth or facts about something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a congressional probe into the accusations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"quests",
"audits",
"checks",
"checkups",
"diagnoses",
"inspections",
"hearings",
"interrogations",
"trials",
"feelers",
"queries",
"questions",
"polls",
"questionaries",
"questionnaires",
"surveys",
"challenges",
"cross-examinations",
"goings-over",
"quizzes",
"rehearings",
"reinvestigations",
"self-examinations",
"self-explorations",
"self-questionings",
"self-reflections",
"self-scrutinies",
"soul-searchings"
],
"synonyms":[
"disquisitions",
"examens",
"examinations",
"explorations",
"inquests",
"inquiries",
"inquisitions",
"investigations",
"probations",
"probings",
"researches",
"studies"
]
},
"to go into or range over for purposes of discovery":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"probing the depths of the undersea trench"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"reconnoiters",
"reconnoitres",
"scouts",
"discloses",
"discovers",
"reveals",
"unearths",
"fathoms",
"plumbs",
"sounds"
],
"synonyms":[
"explores",
"hunts",
"prospects",
"searches",
"skirrs"
]
},
"to search through or into":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"tabloid reporters who seem determined to probe every detail of the singer's private life"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"inspects",
"sifts",
"studies",
"views",
"browses",
"cruises",
"peruses",
"scans",
"skims (through)",
"surfs",
"thumbs (through)",
"reinvestigates"
],
"synonyms":[
"delves (into)",
"digs (into)",
"examines",
"explores",
"inquires (into)",
"investigates",
"looks (into)",
"researches"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"problem":{
"an interrogative expression often used to test knowledge":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"there were only 10 problems on the exam, but they were all challenging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"answer",
"response",
"solution"
],
"related":[
"brainteaser",
"conundrum",
"poser",
"puzzle",
"quiz",
"riddle",
"stickler",
"stumper",
"toughie",
"toughy"
],
"synonyms":[
"interrogative",
"question"
]
},
"as in troublesome , stubborn":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"something that requires thought and skill for resolution":{
"antonyms":[
"answer",
"solution"
],
"examples":[
"the problem of world hunger"
],
"near antonyms":[
"magic bullet",
"silver bullet",
"cure-all",
"panacea"
],
"related":[
"issue",
"question",
"corner",
"fix",
"hole",
"hot water",
"jam",
"mire",
"pickle",
"predicament",
"quagmire",
"spot",
"crux",
"Gordian knot",
"sticky wicket",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"catch-22",
"dilemma",
"quandary",
"catch",
"glitch",
"hitch",
"pitfall",
"snag",
"conundrum",
"enigma",
"mystery",
"puzzle",
"puzzlement",
"riddle",
"brainteaser",
"poser",
"stumper"
],
"synonyms":[
"case",
"challenge",
"knot",
"matter",
"nut",
"trouble"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"procedure":{
"a usually fixed or ordered series of actions or events leading to a result":{
"examples":[
"followed the procedure for replacing the broken part exactly as the owner's manual instructed"
],
"synonyms":[
"course",
"operation",
"proceeding",
"process"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drill",
"routine",
"fashion",
"form",
"manner",
"method",
"mode",
"style",
"system",
"technique",
"way",
"approach",
"arrangement",
"blueprint",
"design",
"formula",
"game plan",
"ground plan",
"layout",
"plan",
"plot",
"program",
"project",
"recipe",
"scheme",
"strategy",
"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"attainment",
"enterprise",
"performance",
"undertaking",
"work",
"activity",
"functioning",
"movement"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a way of acting or proceeding":{
"examples":[
"followed standard procedure for dealing with a consumer complaint"
],
"synonyms":[
"course",
"line",
"methodology",
"policy",
"program"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blueprint",
"design",
"plan",
"scheme",
"strategy",
"intent",
"intention",
"purpose",
"approach",
"direction",
"method",
"path",
"pathway",
"tack"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"procedures":{
"a usually fixed or ordered series of actions or events leading to a result":{
"examples":[
"followed the procedure for replacing the broken part exactly as the owner's manual instructed"
],
"synonyms":[
"courses",
"operations",
"proceedings",
"processes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drills",
"routines",
"fashions",
"forms",
"manners",
"methods",
"modes",
"styles",
"systems",
"techniques",
"ways",
"approaches",
"arrangements",
"blueprints",
"designs",
"formulas",
"formulae",
"game plans",
"ground plans",
"layouts",
"plans",
"plots",
"programs",
"projects",
"recipes",
"schemes",
"strategies",
"accomplishments",
"achievements",
"attainments",
"enterprises",
"performances",
"undertakings",
"works",
"activities",
"movements"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a way of acting or proceeding":{
"examples":[
"followed standard procedure for dealing with a consumer complaint"
],
"synonyms":[
"courses",
"lines",
"methodologies",
"policies",
"programs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blueprints",
"designs",
"plans",
"schemes",
"strategies",
"intentions",
"intents",
"purposes",
"approaches",
"directions",
"methods",
"paths",
"pathways",
"tacks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proceed":{
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"you may proceed with your plan"
],
"synonyms":[
"advance",
"come",
"come along",
"do",
"fare",
"forge",
"get along",
"get on",
"go",
"go along",
"go off",
"march",
"pace",
"progress"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"fast-forward",
"speed",
"approach",
"near",
"journey",
"pass",
"repair",
"run",
"travel",
"wend",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"propel",
"push",
"take out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrest",
"balk",
"block",
"check",
"detain",
"halt",
"hinder",
"hold back",
"impede",
"nip",
"obstruct",
"slow (down or up)",
"stem",
"repress",
"retard",
"stunt",
"suppress",
"delay",
"interrupt",
"stall",
"cramp",
"hamper",
"inhibit",
"cease",
"let up",
"pause",
"regress",
"wait"
],
"antonyms":[
"remain",
"stand",
"stay",
"stop"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"proclaimed":{
"as in declared , announced":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"advertised",
"aired",
"announced",
"broadcast",
"declared",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"heralded",
"posted",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"published",
"spotlighted",
"nonclassified",
"unclassified",
"well-known",
"current",
"prevalent",
"rife",
"widespread",
"general",
"popular",
"communal",
"shared",
"open",
"public",
"reported",
"reputed",
"rumored"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confidential",
"private",
"privy",
"secret",
"classified",
"unadvertised",
"unannounced",
"undisclosed",
"clandestine",
"collusive",
"conspiratorial",
"covert",
"surreptitious",
"undercover",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"intimate",
"personal",
"concealed",
"repressed",
"reserved",
"silenced",
"stifled",
"suppressed",
"withheld",
"recanted",
"retracted",
"revoked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"loudly proclaimed her innocence, to widespread disbelief"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertised",
"announced",
"annunciated",
"blared",
"blazed",
"blazoned",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"declared",
"enunciated",
"flashed",
"gave out",
"heralded",
"placarded",
"posted",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"published",
"released",
"sounded",
"trumpeted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barked",
"called (off or out)",
"cried",
"billboarded",
"billed",
"bulletined",
"gazetted",
"knelled",
"rang",
"tolled",
"blurbed",
"featured",
"pitched",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"puffed",
"disseminated",
"spread",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"introduced",
"kithed",
"kythed",
"manifested",
"reported",
"revealed",
"showed",
"advised",
"apprised",
"handed down",
"informed",
"notified",
"communicated",
"imparted",
"intimated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealed",
"hushed (up)",
"silenced",
"suppressed",
"withheld",
"recalled",
"recanted",
"retracted",
"revoked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"proclaims":{
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"loudly proclaimed her innocence, to widespread disbelief"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertises",
"announces",
"annunciates",
"blares",
"blazes",
"blazons",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"enunciates",
"flashes",
"gives out",
"heralds",
"placards",
"posts",
"promulgates",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"releases",
"sounds",
"trumpets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barks",
"calls (off or out)",
"cries",
"billboards",
"bills",
"bulletins",
"gazettes",
"knells",
"rings",
"tolls",
"blurbs",
"features",
"pitches",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"puffs",
"disseminates",
"spreads",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"introduces",
"kithes",
"manifests",
"reports",
"reveals",
"shows",
"advises",
"apprises",
"hands down",
"informs",
"notifies",
"communicates",
"imparts",
"intimates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceals",
"hushes (up)",
"silences",
"suppresses",
"withholds",
"recalls",
"recants",
"retracts",
"revokes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"procrastinate":{
"to be slow or late about doing something that should be done; to delay doing something until a later time because you do not want to do it, because you are lazy, etc.":{
"examples":[
"He procrastinated and missed the submission deadline.",
"He told her to stop procrastinating and get to work."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"filibuster",
"stall",
"temporize",
"crawl",
"creep",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"delay",
"diddle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"lollygag",
"lallygag",
"mope",
"poke",
"shilly-shally",
"tarry",
"fiddle (around)",
"fool around",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"amble",
"ease",
"inch",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stagger",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowl",
"breeze",
"dart",
"hump",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"scramble",
"stampede",
"gallop",
"jog",
"run",
"sprint",
"trot",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"speed (up)",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake",
"barrel",
"bolt",
"career",
"course",
"dash",
"fly",
"hasten",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hurry",
"race",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"scoot",
"scud",
"scurry",
"speed",
"tear",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"procrastination":{
"a state, a habit, or an instance of being slow or late about doing something that should be done":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Though she has a tendency towards procrastination , she never fails to turn in her papers on time."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"procreate":{
"to bring forth offspring":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the common perception that our Puritan forebears procreated more out of a sense of duty than from desire"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bear",
"beget",
"engender",
"gender",
"generate",
"get",
"have",
"mother",
"parent",
"produce",
"sire",
"hatch",
"spawn"
],
"synonyms":[
"breed",
"multiply",
"propagate",
"reproduce"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"procreated":{
"to bring forth offspring":{
"examples":[
"the common perception that our Puritan forebears procreated more out of a sense of duty than from desire"
],
"synonyms":[
"bred",
"multiplied",
"propagated",
"reproduced"
],
"near synonyms":[
"begot",
"begat",
"bore",
"engendered",
"gendered",
"generated",
"got",
"had",
"mothered",
"parented",
"produced",
"sired",
"hatched",
"spawned"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"procreates":{
"to bring forth offspring":{
"examples":[
"the common perception that our Puritan forebears procreated more out of a sense of duty than from desire"
],
"synonyms":[
"breeds",
"multiplies",
"propagates",
"reproduces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bears",
"begets",
"engenders",
"genders",
"generates",
"gets",
"has",
"mothers",
"parents",
"produces",
"sires",
"hatches",
"spawns"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"procure":{
"to receive as return for effort":{
"examples":[
"a reputation for integrity and incorruptibility that has procured for him the universal respect and admiration of his colleagues"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquire",
"attain",
"bag",
"bring in",
"capture",
"carry",
"come by",
"draw",
"earn",
"gain",
"garner",
"get",
"knock down",
"land",
"make",
"obtain",
"pull down",
"realize",
"reap",
"secure",
"win"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clear",
"gross",
"net",
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"notch (up)",
"score",
"accumulate",
"amass",
"rack up",
"catch",
"pick up",
"annex",
"occupy",
"take over",
"reacquire",
"reattain",
"recapture",
"regain",
"remake"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accord",
"give",
"grant",
"pay",
"give up",
"hand over",
"part (with)",
"relinquish",
"surrender",
"yield"
],
"antonyms":[
"forfeit",
"lose"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"procured":{
"to receive as return for effort":{
"examples":[
"a reputation for integrity and incorruptibility that has procured for him the universal respect and admiration of his colleagues"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquired",
"attained",
"bagged",
"brought in",
"came by",
"captured",
"carried",
"drew",
"earned",
"gained",
"garnered",
"got",
"knocked down",
"landed",
"made",
"obtained",
"pulled down",
"realized",
"reaped",
"secured",
"won"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleared",
"grossed",
"netted",
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"notched (up)",
"scored",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"racked up",
"caught",
"picked up",
"annexed",
"occupied",
"took over",
"reacquired",
"reattained",
"recaptured",
"regained",
"remade"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accorded",
"gave",
"granted",
"paid",
"gave up",
"handed over",
"parted (with)",
"relinquished",
"surrendered",
"yielded"
],
"antonyms":[
"forfeited",
"lost"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prodigal":{
"given to spending money freely or foolishly":{
"antonyms":[
"conserving",
"economical",
"economizing",
"frugal",
"penny-pinching",
"scrimping",
"skimping",
"thrifty"
],
"examples":[
"the prodigal child always spent her allowance the minute she got it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheap",
"close",
"closefisted",
"mean",
"miserly",
"niggardly",
"parsimonious",
"penurious",
"pinching",
"spare",
"sparing",
"stingy",
"stinting",
"tight",
"tightfisted",
"careful",
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sensible",
"wise",
"farsighted",
"forehanded",
"foreseeing",
"foresighted",
"forethoughtful",
"provident"
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"myopic",
"shortsighted",
"bighearted",
"bountiful",
"charitable",
"freehanded",
"freehearted",
"generous",
"lavish",
"liberal",
"munificent",
"openhanded",
"openhearted",
"philanthropic",
"philanthropical",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"unstinting",
"careless",
"heedless",
"imprudent",
"incautious",
"injudicious",
"unwise",
"indulgent",
"reckless",
"self-indulgent",
"splurging",
"wanton"
],
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"extravagant",
"high-rolling",
"profligate",
"spendthrift",
"squandering",
"thriftless",
"unthrifty",
"wasteful"
]
},
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"economizer",
"penny-pincher"
],
"examples":[
"the million-dollar lottery winner was such a prodigal that his windfall was exhausted after only a few years"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheapskate",
"miser",
"niggard",
"piker",
"scrooge",
"skinflint",
"tightwad",
"conserver",
"saver"
],
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"dissipate"
],
"synonyms":[
"fritterer",
"high roller",
"profligate",
"spender",
"spendthrift",
"squanderer",
"waster",
"wastrel"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"prods":{
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"examples":[
"kept prodding the sheep with a staff to move along faster"
],
"synonyms":[
"digs",
"goads",
"spurs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chucks",
"jabs",
"jogs",
"knocks",
"nudges",
"pokes",
"bores",
"drills",
"perforates",
"pierces",
"pricks",
"punches",
"punctures",
"stabs",
"sticks",
"drives",
"hales",
"propels"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action":{
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"a public outcry eventually prodded the politicians into action"
],
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"exhorts",
"goads",
"nudges",
"presses",
"prompts",
"urges"
],
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"stimulates",
"hurries",
"hustles",
"pushes",
"rushes",
"adjures",
"beseeches",
"implores",
"importunes",
"blandishes",
"cajoles",
"coaxes",
"soft-soaps",
"wheedles",
"high-pressures",
"nags",
"needles",
"pressures",
"foments",
"incites",
"instigates",
"provokes",
"stirs (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deters",
"discourages",
"dissuades",
"brakes",
"checks",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"holds back",
"inhibits",
"restrains"
],
"antonyms":[]
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"as in incentives , goads":{
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"galvanizations",
"goads",
"incentives",
"inducements",
"jogs",
"spurs",
"stimulants",
"stimulations",
"stimuli",
"excitements",
"incitations",
"incitements",
"instigations",
"provocations",
"enticements",
"lures",
"inductions",
"inspirations",
"motivations",
"aggravations",
"annoyances",
"bothers",
"exasperations",
"frustrations",
"hassles",
"headaches",
"irritants",
"nuisances",
"peeves",
"pests"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"produce":{
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"examples":[
"hopefully, the new approach to fighting substance abuse will produce better results"
],
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"breed",
"bring",
"bring about",
"bring on",
"catalyze",
"cause",
"create",
"do",
"draw on",
"effect",
"effectuate",
"engender",
"generate",
"induce",
"invoke",
"make",
"occasion",
"prompt",
"result (in)",
"spawn",
"translate (into)",
"work",
"yield"
],
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"contribute (to)",
"decide",
"determine",
"begin",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"institute",
"introduce",
"launch",
"pioneer",
"set",
"set up",
"start",
"advance",
"cultivate",
"develop",
"encourage",
"forward",
"foster",
"further",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"promote",
"enact",
"render",
"turn out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impede",
"limit",
"restrict",
"clamp down (on)",
"crack down (on)",
"crush",
"dampen",
"put down",
"quash",
"quell",
"repress",
"smother",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stifle",
"subdue",
"suppress",
"arrest",
"check",
"control",
"curb",
"inhibit",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"retard",
"can",
"kill",
"snuff (out)",
"still",
"abolish",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"extinguish",
"liquidate",
"quench"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring forth from the womb":{
"examples":[
"rabbits can potentially produce many offspring at once"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear",
"birth",
"deliver",
"drop",
"have",
"mother"
],
"near synonyms":[
"labor",
"breed",
"multiply",
"propagate",
"reproduce",
"spawn",
"beget",
"father",
"generate",
"get",
"sire",
"calve",
"kid",
"kindle",
"kitten",
"litter",
"pup",
"whelp"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abort",
"lose",
"miscarry"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials":{
"examples":[
"a factory producing steel"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assemble",
"build",
"construct",
"erect",
"make up",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up",
"structure",
"throw up",
"craft",
"handcraft",
"hew",
"forge",
"mold",
"shape",
"cobble (together or up)",
"knock out",
"patch (together)",
"throw up",
"prefabricate",
"create",
"invent",
"mint",
"originate",
"establish",
"father",
"institute",
"organize",
"concoct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"design",
"devise",
"imagine",
"think (up)",
"conceive",
"envisage",
"picture",
"visualize",
"refashion",
"remake",
"remanufacture"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"take apart",
"break up",
"dismember",
"abolish",
"annihilate",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"eradicate",
"exterminate",
"extinguish",
"flatten",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"ruin",
"shatter",
"smash",
"wreck",
"blow up",
"explode"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present so as to invite notice or attention":{
"examples":[
"he produced his brand-new driver's license at every possible opportunity"
],
"synonyms":[
"display",
"disport",
"exhibit",
"expose",
"flash",
"flaunt",
"lay out",
"parade",
"show",
"show off",
"sport",
"strut",
"unveil"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brandish",
"flourish",
"wave",
"advertise",
"air",
"announce",
"blaze",
"broadcast",
"herald",
"placard",
"post",
"proclaim",
"publicize",
"sound",
"trumpet",
"divulge",
"talk (about)",
"tell (of)",
"bare",
"discover",
"reveal",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflage",
"disguise",
"mask",
"conceal",
"cover",
"curtain",
"enshroud",
"hide",
"obscure",
"occlude",
"occult",
"shroud",
"veil"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something produced by physical or intellectual effort":{
"examples":[
"a book that was the produce of a lifetime of study on the subject"
],
"synonyms":[
"affair",
"fruit",
"handiwork",
"labor",
"output",
"product",
"production",
"thing",
"work",
"yield"
],
"near synonyms":[
"article",
"commodity",
"entry",
"object",
"goods",
"line",
"merchandise",
"wares",
"handcraft",
"handicraft",
"aftereffect",
"aftermath",
"conclusion",
"consequence",
"corollary",
"development",
"effect",
"issue",
"outcome",
"result",
"resultant",
"sequel",
"sequence",
"upshot",
"by-product",
"derivative",
"offshoot",
"offspring",
"outgrowth",
"residual",
"side effect",
"side reaction",
"spin-off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"productive":{
"having a role in deciding something's final form":{
"examples":[
"contributed several productive ideas to the project"
],
"synonyms":[
"constructive",
"formative"
],
"near synonyms":[
"causal",
"creative",
"consequential",
"influential"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nonconstructive",
"nonproductive",
"unproductive"
]
},
"producing abundantly":{
"examples":[
"overfishing has depleted the stock of fish in these waters, which were once so productive"
],
"synonyms":[
"cornucopian",
"fat",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"fructuous",
"fruitful",
"lush",
"luxuriant",
"prolific",
"rich"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bearing",
"generative",
"producing",
"yielding",
"abounding",
"abundant",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"plenitudinous",
"blooming",
"bursting",
"flourishing",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thriving",
"creative",
"inventive",
"original"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meager",
"meagre",
"scant",
"scanty",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"spare",
"sparse"
],
"antonyms":[
"barren",
"dead",
"infertile",
"sterile",
"unfertile",
"unfruitful",
"unproductive"
]
},
"producing or capable of producing a desired result":{
"examples":[
"panicking during a crisis is not productive behavior"
],
"synonyms":[
"effective",
"effectual",
"efficacious",
"efficient",
"fruitful",
"operative",
"potent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hyperefficient",
"ultraefficient",
"adequate",
"capable",
"competent",
"accomplished",
"adept",
"consummate",
"experienced",
"expert",
"masterly",
"practiced",
"practised",
"proficient",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"versed",
"veteran",
"virtuoso",
"cogent",
"convincing",
"killer",
"sound",
"striking",
"telling",
"valid",
"active",
"dynamic",
"useful",
"working",
"applicable",
"feasible",
"functional",
"practicable",
"practical",
"realizable",
"usable",
"useable",
"workable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"counterproductive",
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"inexperienced",
"inexpert",
"unqualified",
"unseasoned",
"unskilled",
"unskillful",
"abortive",
"bootless",
"futile",
"vain",
"empty",
"hollow",
"idle",
"pointless",
"unavailing",
"unprofitable",
"unsuccessful",
"inoperative",
"worthless"
],
"antonyms":[
"fruitless",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"inefficient",
"inoperative",
"unfruitful",
"unproductive",
"useless"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"products":{
"a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause":{
"antonyms":[
"antecedents",
"causations",
"causes",
"occasions",
"reasons"
],
"examples":[
"her relentless ambition is a product of her home environment"
],
"near antonyms":[
"considerations",
"determinants",
"factors",
"bases",
"bases",
"foundations",
"grounds",
"groundworks",
"impetuses",
"incentives",
"inspirations",
"instigations",
"stimuli",
"mothers",
"origins",
"roots",
"sources",
"springs"
],
"related":[
"ramifications",
"denouements",
"d\u00e9nouements",
"echoes",
"echos",
"implications",
"repercussions",
"afterclaps",
"afterglows",
"aftershocks",
"blowbacks",
"by-products",
"byproducts",
"fallouts",
"offshoots",
"ripples",
"side effects",
"side reactions",
"spin-offs"
],
"synonyms":[
"aftereffects",
"aftermaths",
"backwashes",
"children",
"conclusions",
"consequences",
"corollaries",
"developments",
"effects",
"fates",
"fruits",
"issues",
"outcomes",
"outgrowths",
"precipitates",
"resultants",
"results",
"sequels",
"sequences",
"upshots"
]
},
"something produced by physical or intellectual effort":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"that biography is the product of years of work",
"a rebuilt car which is the product of several people's labor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"articles",
"commodities",
"entries",
"objects",
"goods",
"lines",
"merchandises",
"wares",
"handcrafts",
"handicrafts",
"aftereffects",
"aftermaths",
"conclusions",
"consequences",
"corollaries",
"developments",
"effects",
"issues",
"outcomes",
"resultants",
"results",
"sequels",
"sequences",
"upshots",
"by-products",
"byproducts",
"derivatives",
"offshoots",
"offspring",
"offsprings",
"outgrowths",
"residuals",
"side effects",
"side reactions",
"spin-offs"
],
"synonyms":[
"affairs",
"fruits",
"handiworks",
"labors",
"outputs",
"produces",
"productions",
"things",
"works",
"yields"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"profaned":{
"to lower in character, dignity, or quality":{
"antonyms":[
"elevated",
"ennobled",
"uplifted"
],
"examples":[
"the once-lovely landscape had been profaned by ugly factories"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dignified",
"exalted",
"honored",
"ameliorated",
"amended",
"bettered",
"enhanced",
"enriched",
"improved",
"meliorated",
"perfected",
"clarified",
"cleaned",
"cleansed",
"purified",
"refined",
"restored",
"respected"
],
"related":[
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"diluted",
"dirtied",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"thinned",
"watered down",
"weakened",
"descended",
"disgraced",
"dishonored",
"humbled",
"humiliated",
"shamed",
"took down",
"blemished",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"destroyed",
"flawed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"marred",
"ruined",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"stained",
"tarnished",
"wrecked",
"depreciated",
"downgraded"
],
"synonyms":[
"abased",
"bastardized",
"cankered",
"cheapened",
"corrupted",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"deteriorated",
"lessened",
"perverted",
"poisoned",
"prostituted",
"subverted",
"vitiated",
"warped"
]
},
"to put to a bad or improper use":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"profaned his considerable acting talents by appearing in some wretched movies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applied",
"employed",
"used",
"utilized",
"respected"
],
"related":[
"degraded",
"twisted",
"mismanaged",
"corrupted",
"debased",
"desecrated"
],
"synonyms":[
"abused",
"misapplied",
"misemployed",
"misused",
"perverted",
"prostituted"
]
},
"to treat (a sacred place or object) shamefully or with great disrespect":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"invading troops profaned the altar by playing poker on it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blessed",
"blest",
"consecrated",
"dedicated",
"hallowed",
"sanctified",
"honored",
"respected",
"cleansed",
"purged",
"purified"
],
"related":[
"deconsecrated",
"desacralized",
"desanctified",
"blasphemed",
"cursed",
"swore",
"befouled",
"contaminated",
"fouled",
"poisoned",
"polluted",
"soiled",
"sullied",
"tainted",
"affronted",
"defamed",
"insulted",
"offended",
"outraged",
"annihilated",
"crushed",
"decimated",
"demolished",
"desolated",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"ravaged",
"razed",
"ruined",
"wasted",
"wrecked",
"despoiled",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"raided",
"ransacked",
"robbed",
"sacked",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"stripped",
"stript"
],
"synonyms":[
"defiled",
"desecrated",
"violated"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"profanes":{
"to lower in character, dignity, or quality":{
"examples":[
"the once-lovely landscape had been profaned by ugly factories"
],
"synonyms":[
"abases",
"bastardizes",
"cankers",
"cheapens",
"corrupts",
"debases",
"debauches",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"demoralizes",
"depraves",
"deteriorates",
"lessens",
"perverts",
"poisons",
"prostitutes",
"subverts",
"vitiates",
"warps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befouls",
"begrimes",
"contaminates",
"defiles",
"dilutes",
"dirties",
"pollutes",
"taints",
"thins",
"waters down",
"weakens",
"descends",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"humbles",
"humiliates",
"shames",
"takes down",
"blemishes",
"damages",
"defaces",
"destroys",
"flaws",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"mars",
"ruins",
"spoils",
"stains",
"tarnishes",
"wrecks",
"depreciates",
"downgrades"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dignifies",
"exalts",
"honors",
"ameliorates",
"amends",
"betters",
"enhances",
"enriches",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"perfects",
"clarifies",
"cleans",
"cleanses",
"purifies",
"refines",
"restores",
"respects"
],
"antonyms":[
"elevates",
"ennobles",
"uplifts"
]
},
"to put to a bad or improper use":{
"examples":[
"profaned his considerable acting talents by appearing in some wretched movies"
],
"synonyms":[
"abuses",
"misapplies",
"misemploys",
"misuses",
"perverts",
"prostitutes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"degrades",
"twists",
"mismanages",
"corrupts",
"debases",
"desecrates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applies",
"employs",
"uses",
"utilizes",
"respects"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to treat (a sacred place or object) shamefully or with great disrespect":{
"examples":[
"invading troops profaned the altar by playing poker on it"
],
"synonyms":[
"defiles",
"desecrates",
"violates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deconsecrates",
"desacralizes",
"desanctifies",
"blasphemes",
"curses",
"swears",
"befouls",
"contaminates",
"fouls",
"poisons",
"pollutes",
"soils",
"sullies",
"taints",
"affronts",
"defames",
"insults",
"offends",
"outrages",
"annihilates",
"crushes",
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"desolates",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"ravages",
"razes",
"ruins",
"wastes",
"wrecks",
"despoils",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"raids",
"ransacks",
"robs",
"sacks",
"spoils",
"strips"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blesses",
"consecrates",
"dedicates",
"hallows",
"sanctifies",
"honors",
"respects",
"cleanses",
"purges",
"purifies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"professed":{
"having or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavor":{
"antonyms":[
"amateur",
"amateurish",
"inexperienced",
"inexpert",
"jackleg",
"unprofessional",
"unseasoned",
"unskilled",
"unskillful"
],
"examples":[
"a professed analyst of American presidential politics"
],
"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"
],
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"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"
],
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"ace",
"adept",
"compleat",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crack",
"crackerjack",
"educated",
"experienced",
"expert",
"good",
"great",
"master",
"masterful",
"masterly",
"practiced",
"practised",
"proficient",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"versed",
"veteran",
"virtuoso"
]
},
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"professed friendship while secretly plotting revenge"
],
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"impersonated",
"let on",
"masqueraded",
"playacted",
"played",
"posed",
"forged",
"imitated",
"camouflaged",
"concealed",
"disguised",
"masked",
"feinted",
"malingered"
],
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"acted",
"affected",
"assumed",
"bluffed",
"counterfeited",
"dissembled",
"faked",
"feigned",
"passed (for)",
"pretended",
"put on",
"shammed",
"simulated"
]
},
"to state as a fact usually forcefully":{
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"denied",
"gainsaid"
],
"examples":[
"he professed his innocence to anyone who would listen"
],
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"abandoned",
"disavowed",
"disclaimed",
"disowned",
"negated",
"negatived",
"rejected",
"repudiated",
"challenged",
"disputed",
"questioned",
"confuted",
"disproved",
"rebutted",
"refuted",
"contradicted",
"countered"
],
"related":[
"announced",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"proclaimed",
"argued",
"rationalized",
"reasoned",
"confirmed",
"justified",
"vindicated",
"defended",
"persevered",
"supported",
"upheld",
"reaffirmed",
"reasserted"
],
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"affirmed",
"alleged",
"asserted",
"averred",
"avouched",
"avowed",
"claimed",
"contended",
"declared",
"insisted",
"maintained",
"protested",
"purported",
"warranted"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the lonely woman professed her love in a series of letters to the soldier"
],
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"minimized",
"understated",
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overlooked"
],
"related":[
"advanced",
"advertised",
"boosted",
"plugged",
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"publicized",
"announced",
"blazed",
"called",
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"pronounced",
"said",
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"accentuated",
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"stressed",
"underlined",
"underscored",
"advocated",
"championed",
"defended",
"espoused",
"supported",
"upheld",
"assured",
"convinced",
"persuaded",
"explained",
"justified",
"rationalized",
"reaffirmed",
"reasserted"
],
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"asserted",
"averred",
"avouched",
"avowed",
"declared",
"guaranteed",
"laid down"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"professedly":{
"as in perchance , mayhap":{
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"synonyms":[],
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"conceivably",
"maybe",
"mayhap",
"perchance",
"perhaps",
"possibly",
"supposably",
"assumably",
"likely",
"presumedly",
"probably",
"believably",
"credibly",
"allegedly",
"purportedly",
"reportedly",
"reputedly",
"externally",
"outwardly",
"visibly",
"clearly",
"distinctly",
"manifestly",
"obviously",
"patently",
"plainly",
"self-evidently",
"appreciably",
"discernibly",
"markedly",
"noticeably",
"palpably",
"assuredly",
"positively",
"surely",
"apparently",
"evidently",
"ostensibly",
"ostensively",
"presumably",
"putatively",
"seemingly",
"supposedly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"implausibly",
"impossibly",
"improbably",
"incredibly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"proficiency":{
"a highly developed skill in or knowledge of something":{
"examples":[
"surprised by his proficiency at the game after only the briefest explanation of the rules"
],
"synonyms":[
"command",
"IQ",
"mastership",
"mastery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"virtuosity",
"facility",
"hang",
"fluency",
"literacy",
"experience",
"expertise",
"know-how",
"practice",
"practise",
"skill(s)",
"acquaintance",
"familiarity",
"intimacy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incompetence",
"incompetency",
"ignorance",
"illiteracy",
"unfamiliarity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"knowledge gained by actually doing or living through something":{
"examples":[
"acquired proficiency at golf through long hours of practice"
],
"synonyms":[
"chops",
"experience",
"expertise",
"know-how",
"moxie",
"savvy",
"skills"
],
"near synonyms":[
"background",
"command",
"mastery",
"acquaintance",
"conversance",
"familiarity",
"intimacy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ignorance",
"unawareness",
"unfamiliarity"
],
"antonyms":[
"inexperience"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"profligates":{
"someone who spends money freely or foolishly":{
"examples":[
"a profligate who could not really afford the grand style he maintained at Monticello, Jefferson died deeply in debt"
],
"synonyms":[
"fritterers",
"high rollers",
"prodigals",
"spenders",
"spendthrifts",
"squanderers",
"wasters",
"wastrels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissipates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheapskates",
"misers",
"niggards",
"pikers",
"scrooges",
"skinflints",
"tightwads",
"conservers",
"savers"
],
"antonyms":[
"economizers",
"penny-pinchers"
]
},
"a person who has sunk below the normal moral standard":{
"examples":[
"a drunken profligate , he was given to wretched excess in every aspect of his life"
],
"synonyms":[
"backsliders",
"debauchees",
"debauchers",
"decadents",
"degenerates",
"deviates",
"libertines",
"perverts",
"pervs",
"rakehells",
"rakes",
"rips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bankrupts",
"delinquents",
"derelicts",
"incorrigibles",
"blackguards",
"cads",
"heels",
"knaves",
"miscreants",
"rascals",
"reprobates",
"rogues",
"scoundrels",
"villains",
"lechers",
"playboys",
"playgirls",
"satyrs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"saints"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"profuse":{
"pouring forth in great amounts":{
"examples":[
"we received profuse thanks for our efforts",
"a profuse rush of water from the collapsing dike"
],
"synonyms":[
"copious",
"galore",
"gushing",
"lavish",
"riotous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abounding",
"abundant",
"ample",
"bounteous",
"bountiful",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"extravagant",
"luxuriant",
"fat",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"free",
"munificent",
"openhanded",
"unsparing",
"unstinting",
"excessive",
"immoderate",
"redundant",
"adequate",
"complete",
"enough",
"sufficient"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"incomplete",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"scarce",
"unsatisfactory",
"wanting",
"bare",
"mere",
"minimal"
],
"antonyms":[
"dribbling",
"trickling"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"profusion":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"apples grow in profusion in this valley"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bunch",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"good deal",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"multiplicity",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"potful",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"shipload",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemic",
"plague",
"rash",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"deluge",
"flood",
"overflow",
"army",
"bevy",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"score",
"sea",
"swarm",
"throng",
"gazillion",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillion",
"zillion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atom",
"crumb",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"fragment",
"grain",
"granule",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dash",
"drop",
"morsel",
"shot",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"absence",
"dearth",
"famine",
"lack",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"meagerness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"skimpiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"handful",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"mouthful",
"nip",
"ounce",
"peanuts",
"pinch",
"pittance",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace"
]
},
"the quality or fact of being free or wasteful in the expenditure of money":{
"examples":[
"in giving gifts to his girlfriend, he was generous to the point of profusion"
],
"synonyms":[
"extravagance",
"extravagancy",
"lavishness",
"prodigality",
"wastefulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conspicuous consumption",
"splurge",
"bountifulness",
"generosity",
"liberality",
"improvidence",
"squandering",
"indulgence",
"overindulgence",
"self-indulgence",
"excess",
"immoderacy",
"overkill"
],
"near antonyms":[
"austerity",
"moderation",
"restraint",
"temperance"
],
"antonyms":[
"economy",
"frugality",
"penny-pinching"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"progenitors":{
"a person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent":{
"examples":[
"the progenitors of today's Maya once ruled a mighty empire that stretched across much of Central America"
],
"synonyms":[
"ancestors",
"fathers",
"forebearers",
"forebears",
"forbears",
"forefathers",
"grandfathers",
"primogenitors"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antecessors",
"predecessors",
"ancestresses",
"foremothers",
"grandmothers",
"matriarchs",
"grandsires",
"patriarchs",
"sires",
"ancestries",
"antecedents",
"roots"
],
"near antonyms":[
"children",
"families",
"issues",
"lineages",
"offspring",
"offsprings",
"posterities",
"progenies",
"seed",
"seeds",
"stocks",
"daughters",
"heirs",
"inheritors",
"scions",
"sons",
"successors"
],
"antonyms":[
"descendants",
"descendents"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"programing":{
"as in planning , designing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blueprinting",
"calculating",
"charting",
"concerting",
"designing",
"drafting",
"framing",
"hammering out",
"intriguing",
"laying out",
"maneuvering",
"mapping (out)",
"planning",
"schematizing",
"scheming",
"shaping",
"squaring away",
"working out",
"contracting",
"pledging",
"promising",
"choosing",
"concluding",
"determining",
"figuring",
"opting",
"resolving",
"agreeing (on)",
"arranging",
"deciding",
"fixing",
"setting",
"settling",
"affirming",
"approving",
"authorizing",
"clearing",
"confirming",
"OK'ing",
"okaying",
"sanctioning",
"warranting",
"closing",
"completing",
"ending",
"finalizing",
"finishing",
"rounding (off or out)",
"winding up",
"wrapping up",
"bargaining",
"chaffering",
"dealing",
"dickering",
"haggling",
"horse-trading",
"negotiating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aborting",
"calling",
"calling off",
"dropping",
"recalling",
"repealing",
"rescinding",
"revoking",
"differing (over)",
"disagreeing (with)",
"countering",
"debating",
"objecting",
"opposing",
"protesting",
"resisting",
"contesting",
"disputing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"progress":{
"forward movement in time or place":{
"examples":[
"we're making slow progress against this stiff headwind"
],
"synonyms":[
"advance",
"advancement",
"furtherance",
"going",
"headway",
"march",
"onrush",
"passage",
"process",
"procession",
"progression"
],
"near synonyms":[
"current",
"drift",
"flow",
"flux",
"stream",
"way",
"advent",
"approach",
"arrival",
"coming",
"nearing",
"bound",
"jump",
"leap",
"step",
"stride",
"impetus",
"momentum"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backwash",
"ebb",
"reflux",
"retraction",
"return",
"reversal",
"reverse",
"about-face",
"turnabout",
"turnaround"
],
"antonyms":[
"recess",
"recession",
"regress",
"regression",
"retreat",
"retrogression"
]
},
"the act or process of going from the simple or basic to the complex or advanced":{
"examples":[
"the rapid progress of medical science in the last century"
],
"synonyms":[
"development",
"elaboration",
"evolution",
"expansion",
"growth",
"progression"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advancement",
"betterment",
"improvement",
"perfection",
"refinement",
"incubation",
"maturation",
"maturing",
"ripening",
"blossoming",
"flourishing",
"flowering",
"addition",
"augmentation",
"enhancement",
"supplementation",
"emergence",
"evolvement",
"metamorphosis"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backslide",
"lapse",
"relapse",
"decadence",
"decay",
"decaying",
"declension",
"declination",
"decline",
"degeneracy",
"degeneration",
"degradation",
"descent",
"deterioration",
"devaluation",
"downfall",
"downgrade",
"ebbing",
"falling",
"weakening"
],
"antonyms":[
"regress",
"regression",
"retrogression",
"reversion"
]
},
"to become mature":{
"examples":[
"generally a species progresses from simple forms to more specialized forms"
],
"synonyms":[
"age",
"develop",
"grow",
"grow up",
"mature",
"ripen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mellow",
"soften",
"bloom",
"blossom",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"flourish",
"flower",
"open",
"unfold",
"advance",
"evolve",
"get along",
"get on",
"gray",
"grey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decay",
"decline",
"degenerate",
"deteriorate",
"sink",
"worsen",
"droop",
"dry",
"fade",
"flag",
"sag",
"shrivel",
"wane",
"waste (away)",
"weaken",
"wilt",
"wither",
"regress",
"retrogress",
"revert",
"backslide",
"lapse",
"return"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"our wedding plans are progressing nicely"
],
"synonyms":[
"advance",
"come",
"come along",
"do",
"fare",
"forge",
"get along",
"get on",
"go",
"go along",
"go off",
"march",
"pace",
"proceed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"fast-forward",
"speed",
"approach",
"near",
"journey",
"pass",
"repair",
"run",
"travel",
"wend",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"propel",
"push",
"take out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrest",
"balk",
"block",
"check",
"detain",
"halt",
"hinder",
"hold back",
"impede",
"nip",
"obstruct",
"slow (down or up)",
"stem",
"repress",
"retard",
"stunt",
"suppress",
"delay",
"interrupt",
"stall",
"cramp",
"hamper",
"inhibit",
"cease",
"let up",
"pause",
"regress",
"wait"
],
"antonyms":[
"remain",
"stand",
"stay",
"stop"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"progressing":{
"to become mature":{
"examples":[
"generally a species progresses from simple forms to more specialized forms"
],
"synonyms":[
"aging",
"ageing",
"developing",
"growing",
"growing up",
"maturing",
"ripening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mellowing",
"softening",
"blooming",
"blossoming",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"flourishing",
"flowering",
"opening",
"unfolding",
"advancing",
"evolving",
"getting along",
"getting on",
"graying",
"greying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decaying",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"deteriorating",
"sinking",
"worsening",
"drooping",
"drying",
"fading",
"flagging",
"sagging",
"shriveling",
"shrivelling",
"waning",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting",
"withering",
"regressing",
"retrogressing",
"reverting",
"backsliding",
"lapsing",
"returning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"our wedding plans are progressing nicely"
],
"synonyms":[
"advancing",
"coming",
"coming along",
"doing",
"faring",
"forging",
"getting along",
"getting on",
"going",
"going along",
"going off",
"marching",
"pacing",
"proceeding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"fast-forwarding",
"speeding",
"approaching",
"nearing",
"journeying",
"passing",
"repairing",
"running",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"wending",
"actuating",
"driving",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"taking out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arresting",
"balking",
"blocking",
"checking",
"detaining",
"halting",
"hindering",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"nipping",
"obstructing",
"slowing (down or up)",
"stemming",
"repressing",
"retarding",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"delaying",
"interrupting",
"stalling",
"cramping",
"hampering",
"inhibiting",
"ceasing",
"letting up",
"pausing",
"regressing",
"waiting"
],
"antonyms":[
"remaining",
"standing",
"staying",
"stopping"
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"chain",
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"consecution",
"nexus",
"sequence",
"string",
"train"
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"belt",
"circle",
"cycle",
"vicious circle",
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"gamut",
"gauntlet",
"gantlet",
"scale",
"spectrum",
"flow",
"river",
"stream",
"file",
"line",
"queue",
"range",
"row",
"succession"
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"our progression was slow but steady"
],
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"advance",
"advancement",
"furtherance",
"going",
"headway",
"march",
"onrush",
"passage",
"process",
"procession",
"progress"
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"drift",
"flow",
"flux",
"stream",
"way",
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"approach",
"arrival",
"coming",
"nearing",
"bound",
"jump",
"leap",
"step",
"stride",
"impetus",
"momentum"
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"backwash",
"ebb",
"reflux",
"retraction",
"return",
"reversal",
"reverse",
"about-face",
"turnabout",
"turnaround"
],
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"recession",
"regress",
"regression",
"retreat",
"retrogression"
]
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"that civilization's gradual progression from simple bartering to a complex economy and monetary system"
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"evolution",
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"growth",
"progress"
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"betterment",
"improvement",
"perfection",
"refinement",
"incubation",
"maturation",
"maturing",
"ripening",
"blossoming",
"flourishing",
"flowering",
"addition",
"augmentation",
"enhancement",
"supplementation",
"emergence",
"evolvement",
"metamorphosis"
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"backslide",
"lapse",
"relapse",
"decadence",
"decay",
"decaying",
"declension",
"declination",
"decline",
"degeneracy",
"degeneration",
"degradation",
"descent",
"deterioration",
"devaluation",
"downfall",
"downgrade",
"ebbing",
"falling",
"weakening"
],
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"regression",
"retrogression",
"reversion"
]
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"bizarreness",
"strangeness",
"unfamiliarity",
"unusualness",
"freshness",
"newness",
"novelty",
"originality",
"departure",
"divergence",
"innovation",
"offshoot",
"shoot",
"hipness",
"trendiness",
"currentness",
"recentness",
"up-to-dateness"
],
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"banality",
"commonness",
"familiarity",
"outdatedness",
"staleness"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"there will be no toleration for smoking and other prohibited activities"
],
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"barred",
"forbidden",
"impermissible",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"proscribed",
"taboo",
"tabu",
"verboten"
],
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"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"
],
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"bearable",
"endurable",
"tolerable",
"accepted",
"accredited",
"allowed",
"appropriate",
"approved",
"authorized",
"certified",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"lawful",
"legal",
"legitimate",
"licensed",
"OK",
"okay",
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"accorded",
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"brooked",
"condoned",
"countenanced",
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"supported",
"commanded",
"mandatory",
"ordered",
"required",
"proper",
"seemly",
"suitable",
"tolerated",
"unobjectionable"
],
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"allowable",
"permissible",
"permissive",
"sufferable"
]
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"to order not to do or use or to be done or used":{
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"the city prohibits swimming in the lake after dark"
],
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"banned",
"barred",
"enjoined",
"forbade",
"forbad",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"proscribed"
],
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"deterred",
"discouraged",
"dissuaded",
"clamped down (on)",
"cracked down (on)",
"crushed",
"put down",
"quashed",
"quelled",
"repressed",
"silenced",
"snuffed (out)",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"subdued",
"suppressed",
"halted",
"precluded",
"prevented",
"stopped",
"embargoed",
"excluded",
"ruled out",
"shut out",
"debarred",
"deprived",
"disallowed",
"rejected",
"repudiated",
"vetoed",
"bridled",
"checked",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"reined (in)",
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"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed"
],
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"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"authorized",
"licensed",
"licenced",
"warranted",
"abetted",
"advanced",
"cultivated",
"encouraged",
"forwarded",
"furthered",
"nourished",
"nurtured",
"promoted",
"supported",
"bade",
"bid",
"commanded",
"ordered",
"abided",
"abode",
"bore",
"brooked",
"countenanced",
"endured",
"tolerated"
],
"antonyms":[
"allowed",
"let",
"permitted",
"suffered"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"project":{
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"an ambitious project to develop the city's waterfront"
],
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"arrangement",
"blueprint",
"design",
"game",
"game plan",
"ground plan",
"master plan",
"plan",
"program",
"road map",
"scheme",
"strategy",
"system"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collusion",
"conspiracy",
"plot",
"contrivance",
"device",
"gambit",
"maneuver",
"ruse",
"stratagem",
"subterfuge",
"trick",
"counterplan",
"counterstrategy",
"means",
"tactic",
"technique",
"way",
"procedure",
"protocol",
"conception",
"idea",
"projet",
"proposal",
"specific(s)",
"specification(s)",
"aim",
"intent",
"intention",
"purpose",
"diagram",
"formula",
"layout",
"map",
"pattern",
"platform",
"policy",
"recipe",
"setup"
],
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"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"some boulders projected dangerously out above the trail"
],
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"bag",
"balloon",
"beetle",
"belly",
"billow",
"bulge",
"bunch",
"jut",
"overhang",
"poke",
"pooch",
"pouch",
"pout",
"protrude",
"stand out",
"start",
"stick out",
"swell"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dome",
"blow up",
"inflate",
"dilate",
"distend",
"expand",
"mushroom",
"snowball",
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"stretch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"shrink"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to work out the details of (something) in advance":{
"examples":[
"we must project next year's budget now"
],
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"arrange",
"blueprint",
"budget",
"calculate",
"chart",
"choreograph",
"design",
"frame",
"lay out",
"map (out)",
"organize",
"plan",
"prepare",
"scheme (out)",
"shape",
"strategize (about)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conspire",
"contrive",
"devise",
"intrigue",
"machinate",
"plot",
"put up",
"concert",
"get up",
"draft",
"outline",
"sketch",
"aim",
"figure",
"have on",
"intend",
"mean",
"contemplate",
"meditate",
"premeditate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"proletarian":{
"as in commoner , plebeian":{
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"examples":[],
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"synonyms":[]
},
"belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank":{
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"aristocratic",
"blue-blooded",
"genteel",
"gentle",
"grand",
"great",
"high",
"highborn",
"highbred",
"lofty",
"noble",
"patrician",
"upper-class",
"upper-crust",
"wellborn"
],
"examples":[
"a self-made Internet magnate who is not at all ashamed of his proletarian background"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eminent",
"illustrious",
"notable",
"prominent"
],
"related":[
"bourgeois",
"middle-class",
"plain",
"poor",
"simple",
"working-class",
"d\u00e9class\u00e9",
"down-market",
"downscale"
],
"synonyms":[
"baseborn",
"common",
"humble",
"ignoble",
"inferior",
"low",
"low-life",
"lowborn",
"lower-class",
"lowly",
"lumpen",
"mean",
"plebeian",
"prole",
"unwashed",
"vulgar"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"proliferated":{
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"rumors about the incident proliferated on the Internet"
],
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"accelerated",
"accumulated",
"appreciated",
"ballooned",
"boomed",
"built up",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"climbed",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"gained",
"increased",
"mounted",
"multiplied",
"mushroomed",
"rolled up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"spread",
"swelled",
"waxed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumped",
"rocketed",
"skyrocketed",
"surged",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"redoubled",
"blew up",
"bulked",
"distended",
"inflated",
"puffed (up)",
"crescendoed",
"crested",
"peaked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracted",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"receded",
"waned"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prologue":{
"a performance, activity, or event that precedes and sets the stage for the main event":{
"examples":[
"unfortunately, the burglary, which he committed while still a teen, was but a prologue to a wasted life of crime"
],
"synonyms":[
"curtain-raiser",
"overture",
"preamble",
"preliminary",
"prelude",
"warm-up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countdown",
"run-up",
"lead-in",
"kickoff",
"start"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a short section (as of a book) that leads to or explains the main part":{
"examples":[
"a brief prologue sets the scene for the story that follows"
],
"synonyms":[
"exordium",
"foreword",
"intro",
"introduction",
"preamble",
"preface",
"prelude",
"proem",
"prolusion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beginning",
"commencement",
"initiation",
"opening",
"origin",
"origination",
"outset",
"start"
],
"near antonyms":[
"envoi",
"envoy",
"postscript",
"aftermath",
"cessation",
"close",
"closing",
"conclusion",
"end",
"finale",
"finish",
"stop",
"termination"
],
"antonyms":[
"epilogue",
"epilog"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"promenading":{
"as in parading":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"parading",
"ambulating",
"footing (it)",
"hoofing (it)",
"legging (it)",
"padding",
"stepping",
"traipsing",
"treading",
"walking",
"marching",
"pacing",
"stepping out",
"striding",
"trooping",
"power walking",
"hiking",
"peregrinating",
"trekking",
"ambling",
"moseying",
"perambulating",
"rambling",
"sauntering",
"strolling",
"wandering",
"clumping",
"stomping",
"stumping",
"tramping",
"trampling",
"tromping",
"footslogging",
"plodding",
"trudging",
"gimping",
"hobbling",
"limping",
"mincing",
"prancing",
"pussyfooting",
"tiptoeing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prominence":{
"an area of high ground":{
"antonyms":[
"lowland"
],
"examples":[
"a rocky prominence that commands a stunning view of the surrounding area"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dale",
"dell",
"depression",
"dingle",
"glen",
"hollow",
"vale",
"valley",
"basin",
"bottom",
"bottomland",
"fen",
"flat",
"floodplain",
"plain",
"tidewater"
],
"related":[
"alp",
"mount",
"mountain",
"peak",
"butte",
"mesa",
"plateau",
"table",
"tableland",
"bluff",
"cliff",
"crag",
"precipice",
"steep",
"tor",
"ridge",
"sierra",
"dome",
"sugarloaf",
"foothill",
"hillock",
"hummock",
"knob",
"knoll",
"downs"
],
"synonyms":[
"altitude(s)",
"elevation",
"eminence",
"height",
"highland",
"hill",
"hump",
"mound",
"rise",
"upland"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"promiscuous":{
"consisting of many things of different sorts":{
"examples":[
"since I just collect stamps that I happen to like, my collection is pretty promiscuous"
],
"synonyms":[
"assorted",
"eclectic",
"heterogeneous",
"indiscriminate",
"kitchen-sink",
"magpie",
"miscellaneous",
"mixed",
"motley",
"patchwork",
"piebald",
"raggle-taggle",
"ragtag",
"varied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"manifold",
"multifarious",
"multiple",
"multiplex",
"myriad",
"disparate",
"divergent",
"diverse",
"sundry",
"various",
"chaotic",
"cluttered",
"confused",
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"farraginous",
"jumbled",
"littered",
"messed",
"messy",
"muddled",
"amalgamated",
"blended",
"combined",
"commingled",
"commixed",
"conglomerated",
"fused",
"incorporated",
"intermingled",
"intermixed",
"merged",
"mingled",
"composite",
"conglomerate",
"hybrid",
"unclassified",
"unsorted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"monolithic",
"uniform",
"alike",
"identical",
"like",
"same",
"distinct",
"distinctive",
"individual",
"separate"
],
"antonyms":[
"homogeneous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"promise":{
"to make a solemn declaration of intent":{
"examples":[
"they promised to keep in touch with us after they moved away"
],
"synonyms":[
"covenant",
"pledge",
"swear",
"vow"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiance",
"betroth",
"plight",
"troth",
"accede",
"agree",
"assent",
"consent",
"contract",
"engage",
"ensure",
"guarantee",
"undertake",
"affirm",
"assert",
"aver",
"avouch",
"avow",
"declare",
"insist",
"warrant"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show signs of a favorable or successful outcome":{
"examples":[
"given the cast, the new sitcom promises to be an excellent show"
],
"synonyms":[
"augur",
"bode",
"forebode",
"forbode"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forecast",
"foretell",
"predict",
"presage",
"prognosticate",
"prophesy",
"forewarn",
"warn",
"anticipate",
"divine",
"foreknow",
"foresee",
"betoken",
"foreshadow",
"harbinger",
"portend",
"prefigure",
"presignify",
"indicate",
"signify",
"allude",
"connote",
"hint",
"imply",
"insinuate",
"intimate",
"suggest"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person's solemn declaration that he or she will do or not do something":{
"examples":[
"he made a promise to arrive on time, come hell or high water"
],
"synonyms":[
"oath",
"pledge",
"troth",
"vow",
"word"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appointment",
"arrangement",
"commitment",
"engagement",
"obligation",
"agreement",
"compact",
"contract",
"covenant",
"assurance",
"guarantee",
"guaranty",
"undertaking",
"bail",
"bond",
"deposit",
"gage",
"pawn",
"security",
"token",
"warranty"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"promising":{
"having qualities which inspire hope":{
"examples":[
"a promising writer who just may write the great American novel someday"
],
"synonyms":[
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"golden",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"likely",
"optimistic",
"propitious",
"rose-colored",
"roseate",
"rosy",
"upbeat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cheering",
"comforting",
"reassuring",
"soothing",
"assured",
"confident",
"decisive",
"doubtless",
"positive",
"sure",
"unhesitating",
"beamish",
"bullish",
"eupeptic",
"favorable",
"good"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"uncertain",
"bearish",
"grim",
"negative",
"unfavorable",
"funereal",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"miserable",
"wretched"
],
"antonyms":[
"bleak",
"dark",
"depressing",
"desperate",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismal",
"downbeat",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"hopeless",
"inauspicious",
"pessimistic",
"unencouraging",
"unlikely",
"unpromising",
"unpropitious"
]
},
"pointing toward a happy outcome":{
"examples":[
"all the signs for the new business are promising"
],
"synonyms":[
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"favorable",
"golden",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"propitious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fortunate",
"fortuitous",
"happy",
"lucky",
"providential",
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"profitable",
"prosperous",
"salutary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unfortunate",
"unhappy",
"unlucky",
"calamitous",
"catastrophic",
"disastrous",
"fatal",
"ruinous",
"baleful",
"dark",
"dire",
"direful",
"doomy",
"foreboding",
"gloomy",
"ill",
"ill-boding",
"menacing",
"minatory",
"ominous",
"portentous",
"sinister",
"threatening"
],
"antonyms":[
"dim",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"futureless",
"hopeless",
"inauspicious",
"unfavorable",
"unpromising",
"unpropitious"
]
},
"to make a solemn declaration of intent":{
"examples":[
"they promised to keep in touch with us after they moved away"
],
"synonyms":[
"covenanting",
"pledging",
"swearing",
"vowing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiancing",
"betrothing",
"plighting",
"trothing",
"acceding",
"agreeing",
"assenting",
"consenting",
"contracting",
"engaging",
"ensuring",
"guaranteeing",
"undertaking",
"affirming",
"asserting",
"averring",
"avouching",
"avowing",
"declaring",
"insisting",
"warranting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to show signs of a favorable or successful outcome":{
"examples":[
"given the cast, the new sitcom promises to be an excellent show"
],
"synonyms":[
"auguring",
"boding",
"foreboding",
"forboding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forecasting",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"presaging",
"prognosticating",
"prophesying",
"forewarning",
"warning",
"anticipating",
"divining",
"foreknowing",
"foreseeing",
"betokening",
"foreshadowing",
"harbingering",
"portending",
"prefiguring",
"presignifying",
"indicating",
"signifying",
"alluding",
"connoting",
"hinting",
"implying",
"insinuating",
"intimating",
"suggesting"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"promontory":{
"an area of high ground jutting out into a body of water beyond the line of the coast":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"stood on the windswept promontory overlooking the bay"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cape",
"foreland",
"peninsula",
"spit",
"breakwater",
"jetty",
"levee"
],
"synonyms":[
"headland",
"ness",
"point"
]
},
"an area of land that juts out into a body of water":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Cape May is Delaware Bay's largest promontory"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"breakwater",
"jetty"
],
"synonyms":[
"arm",
"cape",
"foreland",
"headland",
"ness",
"peninsula",
"point",
"spit"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"promotion":{
"a raising or a state of being raised to a higher rank or position":{
"examples":[
"after 10 years at the company he was rewarded with a promotion to vice president"
],
"synonyms":[
"advancement",
"ascent",
"creation",
"elevation",
"preference",
"preferment",
"rise",
"upgrade",
"upgrading"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggrandizement",
"ennoblement",
"exaltation",
"glorification",
"magnification"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deposition",
"dethronement",
"discharge",
"dismissal",
"expulsion",
"impeachment",
"ouster",
"overthrow",
"removal",
"suspension",
"unmaking",
"unseating",
"downfall",
"fall"
],
"antonyms":[
"abasement",
"comedown",
"degradation",
"demotion",
"disrating",
"downgrade",
"reduction"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prompt":{
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"examples":[
"a misguided pride prompted the family to refuse all offers of help"
],
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"beget",
"breed",
"bring",
"bring about",
"bring on",
"catalyze",
"cause",
"create",
"do",
"draw on",
"effect",
"effectuate",
"engender",
"generate",
"induce",
"invoke",
"make",
"occasion",
"produce",
"result (in)",
"spawn",
"translate (into)",
"work",
"yield"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conduce (to)",
"contribute (to)",
"decide",
"determine",
"begin",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"institute",
"introduce",
"launch",
"pioneer",
"set",
"set up",
"start",
"advance",
"cultivate",
"develop",
"encourage",
"forward",
"foster",
"further",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"promote",
"enact",
"render",
"turn out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impede",
"limit",
"restrict",
"clamp down (on)",
"crack down (on)",
"crush",
"dampen",
"put down",
"quash",
"quell",
"repress",
"smother",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stifle",
"subdue",
"suppress",
"arrest",
"check",
"control",
"curb",
"inhibit",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"retard",
"can",
"kill",
"snuff (out)",
"still",
"abolish",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"extinguish",
"liquidate",
"quench"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action":{
"examples":[
"prompted the reluctant performer onto the stage with loud cheers and whistles"
],
"synonyms":[
"egg (on)",
"encourage",
"exhort",
"goad",
"nudge",
"press",
"prod",
"urge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drive",
"propel",
"spur",
"stimulate",
"hurry",
"hustle",
"push",
"rush",
"adjure",
"beseech",
"implore",
"importune",
"blandish",
"cajole",
"coax",
"soft-soap",
"wheedle",
"high-pressure",
"nag",
"needle",
"pressure",
"foment",
"incite",
"instigate",
"provoke",
"stir (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deter",
"discourage",
"dissuade",
"brake",
"check",
"constrain",
"curb",
"hold back",
"inhibit",
"restrain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"done, carried out, or given without delay":{
"examples":[
"prompt treatment of snakebites is always advisable"
],
"synonyms":[
"immediate",
"punctual",
"speedy",
"timely"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apt",
"quick",
"ready",
"swift",
"willing",
"opportune",
"seasonable",
"early"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delinquent",
"latish",
"overdue",
"behind",
"behindhand",
"delayed",
"detained",
"dilatory",
"laggard",
"slow"
],
"antonyms":[
"belated",
"late",
"tardy"
]
},
"having or showing the ability to respond without delay or hesitation":{
"examples":[
"our waiter was prompt and courteous despite the fact that the restaurant was understaffed"
],
"synonyms":[
"alacritous",
"alert",
"expeditious",
"quick",
"ready",
"willing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"receptive",
"responsive",
"immediate",
"instant",
"instantaneous",
"summary",
"breakneck",
"breathless",
"brisk",
"fast",
"fleet",
"fleet-footed",
"hit-and-run",
"lightning",
"rapid",
"rapid-fire",
"rattling",
"snappy",
"speedy",
"swift",
"whirlwind",
"eager",
"keen",
"sharp",
"apt",
"clever",
"quick-witted",
"ready-witted",
"sharp-witted",
"smart"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unresponsive",
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dilatory",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"laggard",
"lagging",
"lazy",
"lazyish",
"leisurely",
"logy",
"loggy",
"poking",
"poky",
"pokey",
"slothful",
"slow",
"slowish",
"sluggish",
"tardy",
"unhurried",
"dormant",
"idle",
"inactive",
"inert"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in reminder , urging":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reminder",
"urging",
"brief",
"direction",
"feedback",
"instruction",
"observation",
"answer",
"clue",
"solution",
"caution",
"cautioning",
"sign",
"signal",
"telltale",
"tip-off",
"warning",
"advice",
"advisement",
"assistance",
"counsel",
"guidance",
"recommendation",
"suggestion",
"hint",
"lead",
"pointer",
"tip"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"prompted":{
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"examples":[
"a misguided pride prompted the family to refuse all offers of help"
],
"synonyms":[
"begot",
"begat",
"bred",
"brought",
"brought about",
"brought on",
"catalyzed",
"caused",
"created",
"did",
"drew on",
"effected",
"effectuated",
"engendered",
"generated",
"induced",
"invoked",
"made",
"occasioned",
"produced",
"resulted (in)",
"spawned",
"translated (into)",
"worked",
"wrought",
"yielded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conduced (to)",
"contributed (to)",
"decided",
"determined",
"began",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"instituted",
"introduced",
"launched",
"pioneered",
"set",
"set up",
"started",
"advanced",
"cultivated",
"developed",
"encouraged",
"forwarded",
"fostered",
"furthered",
"nourished",
"nurtured",
"promoted",
"enacted",
"rendered",
"turned out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impeded",
"limited",
"restricted",
"clamped down (on)",
"cracked down (on)",
"crushed",
"dampened",
"put down",
"quashed",
"quelled",
"repressed",
"smothered",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"stifled",
"subdued",
"suppressed",
"arrested",
"checked",
"controlled",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"reined (in)",
"restrained",
"retarded",
"canned",
"killed",
"snuffed (out)",
"stilled",
"abolished",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"extinguished",
"liquidated",
"quenched"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action":{
"examples":[
"prompted the reluctant performer onto the stage with loud cheers and whistles"
],
"synonyms":[
"egged (on)",
"encouraged",
"exhorted",
"goaded",
"nudged",
"pressed",
"prodded",
"urged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drove",
"propelled",
"spurred",
"stimulated",
"hurried",
"hustled",
"pushed",
"rushed",
"adjured",
"beseeched",
"besought",
"implored",
"importuned",
"blandished",
"cajoled",
"coaxed",
"soft-soaped",
"wheedled",
"high-pressured",
"nagged",
"needled",
"pressured",
"fomented",
"incited",
"instigated",
"provoked",
"stirred (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deterred",
"discouraged",
"dissuaded",
"braked",
"checked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"held back",
"inhibited",
"restrained"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"promptitudes":{
"the quality or habit of arriving or being ready on time":{
"antonyms":[
"tardiness",
"unpunctuality"
],
"examples":[
"his chronic tardiness has put him in poor standing with his boss, who values hustle and promptitude"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belatedness",
"lateness",
"slowness"
],
"related":[
"alacrity",
"aptness",
"quickness",
"readiness",
"willingness",
"earliness",
"prematurity"
],
"synonyms":[
"promptness",
"punctuality",
"timeliness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"promulgation":{
"as in declaration , proclamation":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"annunciation",
"declaration",
"edict",
"proclamation",
"pronouncement",
"pronunciamento",
"rescript",
"signification",
"bull",
"decree",
"diktat",
"directive",
"edict",
"fiat",
"rescript",
"ruling",
"ukase",
"statement",
"utterance",
"ad",
"advert",
"advertisement",
"announcement",
"bulletin",
"communiqu\u00e9",
"notice",
"notification",
"posting",
"release",
"broadcast",
"cablecast",
"newscast",
"telecast",
"advertising",
"billing",
"blurb",
"come-on",
"commercial",
"message",
"pitch",
"plugola",
"spot",
"word",
"communication",
"dispatch",
"report",
"ballyhoo",
"boost",
"buildup",
"campaign",
"plug",
"promo",
"promotion",
"propaganda",
"publicity"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pronouncing":{
"to correctly produce the sound of (a word or letter) with one's voice":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"How do you pronounce your last name?",
"We practiced pronouncing our Spanish vocabulary words ."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to say officially or assertively that (something or someone) is something specified":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"They pronounced the mission a success.",
"She pronounced them married."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to say or announce (something) in an official or formal way":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The priest pronounced the blessing.",
"Emotions ran high in the courtroom as the judge pronounced sentence."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pronunciamento":{
"as in pronouncement , declaration":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"annunciation",
"declaration",
"edict",
"proclamation",
"promulgation",
"pronouncement",
"rescript",
"signification",
"bull",
"decree",
"diktat",
"directive",
"edict",
"fiat",
"rescript",
"ruling",
"ukase",
"statement",
"utterance",
"ad",
"advert",
"advertisement",
"announcement",
"bulletin",
"communiqu\u00e9",
"notice",
"notification",
"posting",
"release",
"broadcast",
"cablecast",
"newscast",
"telecast",
"advertising",
"billing",
"blurb",
"come-on",
"commercial",
"message",
"pitch",
"plugola",
"spot",
"word",
"communication",
"dispatch",
"report",
"ballyhoo",
"boost",
"buildup",
"campaign",
"plug",
"promo",
"promotion",
"propaganda",
"publicity"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"propel":{
"to apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one":{
"examples":[
"playfully he propelled his rambunctious friend into the swimming pool to cool off"
],
"synonyms":[
"drive",
"push",
"shove",
"thrust"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impel",
"move",
"bear (down)",
"compress",
"depress",
"jam",
"pressure",
"squash",
"squeeze",
"weigh (upon)",
"bulldoze",
"compel",
"force",
"lean (on or against)",
"muscle",
"ram"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set or keep in motion":{
"examples":[
"the aircraft is propelled by a pair of turboprop engines"
],
"synonyms":[
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"move",
"work"
],
"near synonyms":[
"activate",
"motivate",
"provoke",
"abet",
"ferment",
"foment",
"incite",
"raise",
"stir (up)",
"whip (up)",
"set off",
"trigger",
"trip",
"arouse",
"excite",
"fire (up)",
"galvanize",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"inspire",
"instigate",
"rouse",
"stimulate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bridle",
"check",
"constrain",
"contain",
"control",
"curb",
"inhibit",
"regulate",
"rein (in)",
"restrain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"propensity":{
"a habitual attraction to some activity or thing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a neighbor who has an unfortunate propensity for snooping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allergy",
"averseness",
"aversion",
"disfavor",
"disinclination",
"dislike",
"disliking",
"disrelish",
"distaste",
"detachment",
"impartiality",
"neutrality",
"objectivity",
"apathy",
"disinterestedness",
"indifference",
"insouciance",
"nonchalance",
"unconcern"
],
"related":[
"favor",
"one-sidedness",
"partisanship",
"prejudice",
"endowment",
"faculty",
"flair",
"gift",
"knack",
"talent",
"addiction",
"appetite",
"fancy",
"fondness",
"like",
"liking",
"preference",
"taste",
"forte",
"speciality",
"specialty",
"convention",
"custom",
"habit",
"pattern",
"practice",
"practise",
"routine",
"trick",
"way",
"wont",
"eccentricity",
"idiosyncrasy",
"kink",
"oddity",
"peculiarity",
"quirk",
"singularity"
],
"synonyms":[
"affection",
"affinity",
"aptitude",
"bent",
"bias",
"bone",
"devices",
"disposition",
"genius",
"habitude",
"impulse",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"partiality",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"predisposition",
"proclivity",
"tendency",
"turn"
]
},
"an established pattern of behavior":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the criminal propensities of the family extended over several generations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"averseness",
"disinclination",
"dislike",
"indisposition"
],
"related":[
"affinity",
"aptitude",
"bent",
"disposition",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"mind-set",
"partiality",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"predisposition",
"proclivity",
"turn",
"custom",
"habit",
"pattern",
"practice",
"practise",
"routine",
"wont",
"eccentricity",
"idiosyncrasy",
"oddity",
"peculiarity",
"quirk",
"singularity",
"trick"
],
"synonyms":[
"aptness",
"proneness",
"tendency",
"way"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prophecy":{
"a declaration that something will happen in the future":{
"examples":[
"the report on climate change included alarming prophecies of rising sea levels and increased storm activity"
],
"synonyms":[
"auguring",
"augury",
"bodement",
"cast",
"forecast",
"forecasting",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"prediction",
"presaging",
"prognosis",
"prognostic",
"prognosticating",
"prognostication",
"soothsaying",
"vaticination"
],
"near synonyms":[
"foreboding",
"harbinger",
"omen",
"portent",
"prevision",
"prospectus",
"sign",
"anticipation",
"foreknowledge",
"foresight",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"surmise"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"propines":{
"as in tips , gratuities":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gratuities",
"tips",
"courtesies",
"favors",
"generosities",
"sacrifices",
"awards",
"prizes",
"rewards",
"bonuses",
"boons",
"windfalls",
"dowries",
"remembrances",
"tributes",
"valentines",
"bequests",
"legacies",
"grants",
"subsidies",
"boxes",
"care packages",
"foys",
"alms",
"benefactions",
"beneficences",
"benevolences",
"charities",
"contributions",
"doles",
"handouts",
"oblations",
"offerings",
"philanthropies",
"tithes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advances",
"loans",
"bribes",
"douceurs",
"peace offerings",
"sops"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"propitiate":{
"to lessen the anger or agitation of":{
"antonyms":[
"anger",
"enrage",
"incense",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"infuriate",
"ire",
"madden",
"outrage"
],
"examples":[
"the temple was once the site of sacrifices\u2014both to honor the gods in times of plenty and to propitiate them in times of trouble"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"antagonize",
"bother",
"bug",
"burn (up)",
"chafe",
"cross",
"exasperate",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"irk",
"irritate",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"pique",
"put out",
"rankle",
"rile",
"roil",
"ruffle",
"vex",
"provoke",
"rouse",
"harass",
"harry",
"persecute",
"pester",
"agitate",
"discomfort",
"distress",
"disturb",
"fret",
"perturb",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry",
"affront",
"insult",
"offend",
"slight"
],
"related":[
"calm",
"comfort",
"console",
"content",
"hush",
"quiet",
"soothe",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize",
"endear (to)",
"ingratiate",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"adulate",
"blarney",
"flatter",
"overpraise",
"soft-soap",
"quench",
"sate",
"satiate",
"satisfy",
"cater (to)",
"humor",
"indulge",
"blandish",
"cajole",
"coax",
"sweet-talk",
"wheedle",
"baby",
"coddle",
"mollycoddle",
"pamper",
"spoil",
"dulcify",
"sweeten"
],
"synonyms":[
"appease",
"assuage",
"conciliate",
"disarm",
"gentle",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"propitious":{
"having qualities which inspire hope":{
"antonyms":[
"bleak",
"dark",
"depressing",
"desperate",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismal",
"downbeat",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"hopeless",
"inauspicious",
"pessimistic",
"unencouraging",
"unlikely",
"unpromising",
"unpropitious"
],
"examples":[
"the success of the first big movie in May was a propitious start for the summer season of blockbusters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"uncertain",
"bearish",
"grim",
"negative",
"unfavorable",
"funereal",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"miserable",
"wretched"
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"comforting",
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"soothing",
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"sure",
"unhesitating",
"beamish",
"bullish",
"eupeptic",
"favorable",
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"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"golden",
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"hopeful",
"likely",
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"promising",
"rose-colored",
"roseate",
"rosy",
"upbeat"
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"dim",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"futureless",
"hopeless",
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"unfavorable",
"unpromising",
"unpropitious"
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"a propitious time for starting a business"
],
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"unhappy",
"unlucky",
"calamitous",
"catastrophic",
"disastrous",
"fatal",
"ruinous",
"baleful",
"dark",
"dire",
"direful",
"doomy",
"foreboding",
"gloomy",
"ill",
"ill-boding",
"menacing",
"minatory",
"ominous",
"portentous",
"sinister",
"threatening"
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"happy",
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"providential",
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"beneficial",
"profitable",
"prosperous",
"salutary"
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"golden",
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"hopeful",
"promising"
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"these beams are propping up the entire roof"
],
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"bore",
"braced",
"buttressed",
"carried",
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"stayed",
"supported",
"sustained",
"undergirded",
"underpinned",
"upheld"
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"trussed",
"underlay"
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"invariably his strong religious faith props him up in times of crisis"
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"assisted",
"backed",
"backstopped",
"helped",
"supported"
],
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"forwarded",
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"indorsed",
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"reenforced",
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"guided",
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"barred",
"blocked",
"constrained",
"hampered",
"handicapped",
"held back",
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"failed",
"let down",
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"disheartened",
"repressed",
"retarded",
"stifled",
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"stunted",
"damaged",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"injured"
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]
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"verb"
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"these beams are propping up the entire roof"
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"underlying"
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"bracing",
"buttressing",
"carrying",
"shoring (up)",
"staying",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"undergirding",
"underpinning",
"upholding"
]
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"hindering"
],
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"invariably his strong religious faith props him up in times of crisis"
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"barring",
"blocking",
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"hampering",
"handicapping",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"inhibiting",
"obstructing",
"restraining",
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"foiling",
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"disheartening",
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"straitening",
"stunting",
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"harming",
"hurting",
"injuring"
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"furthering",
"launching",
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"indorsing",
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"caring (for)",
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"succoring",
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"bolstering",
"boosting",
"buttressing",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"advising",
"counseling",
"counselling",
"guiding",
"mentoring",
"nurturing",
"bailing out",
"delivering",
"rescuing",
"saving",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"benefiting",
"benefitting",
"favoring",
"obliging",
"profiting",
"serving"
],
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"aiding",
"assisting",
"backing",
"backstopping",
"helping",
"supporting"
]
},
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"verb"
]
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"examples":[
"The restaurant's proprietary recipe for barbecue sauce is only known to the head chef."
],
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"near synonyms":[
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"single",
"sole",
"unshared",
"personal",
"private"
],
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"common",
"communal",
"conjoint",
"cooperative",
"joint",
"multiple",
"mutual",
"pooled",
"public",
"shared",
"united",
"nonexclusive"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"props":{
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"examples":[
"never got the props he deserved for being one of the pioneers of rap"
],
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"acclaim",
"accolade",
"applause",
"bay(s)",
"credit",
"distinction",
"glory",
"homage",
"honor",
"kudos",
"laud",
"laurels",
"r\u00e9clame",
"sun"
],
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"celebrity",
"fame",
"renown",
"repute",
"compliment",
"encomium",
"eulogy",
"panegyric",
"toast",
"tribute",
"acclamation",
"ovation",
"plaudit",
"praise",
"rave",
"rhapsody",
"citation",
"commendation",
"kudo",
"note",
"recommendation",
"elevation",
"enshrinement",
"enthronement",
"exaltation",
"glorification"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"props (up)":{
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"these beams are propping up the entire roof"
],
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"bears",
"bolsters",
"braces",
"buttresses",
"carries",
"shores (up)",
"stays",
"supports",
"sustains",
"undergirds",
"underpins",
"upholds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"steadies",
"trusses",
"underlies"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end":{
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"invariably his strong religious faith props him up in times of crisis"
],
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"abets",
"aids",
"assists",
"backs",
"backstops",
"helps",
"supports"
],
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"advances",
"eases",
"facilitates",
"forwards",
"fosters",
"furthers",
"launches",
"champions",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"patronizes",
"promotes",
"sponsors",
"attends",
"cares (for)",
"comforts",
"ministers (to)",
"succors",
"sustains",
"bolsters",
"boosts",
"buttresses",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"advises",
"counsels",
"guides",
"mentors",
"nurtures",
"bails out",
"delivers",
"rescues",
"saves",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"benefits",
"favors",
"obliges",
"profits",
"serves"
],
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"balks",
"bars",
"blocks",
"constrains",
"hampers",
"handicaps",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"inhibits",
"obstructs",
"restrains",
"strangles",
"baffles",
"foils",
"frustrates",
"inconveniences",
"interferes",
"opposes",
"sabotages",
"thwarts",
"deserts",
"disappoints",
"fails",
"lets down",
"discourages",
"disheartens",
"represses",
"retards",
"stifles",
"straitens",
"stunts",
"damages",
"harms",
"hurts",
"injures"
],
"antonyms":[
"hinders"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prorated":{
"to give out (something) to appropriate individuals":{
"antonyms":[
"misallocated"
],
"examples":[
"shares in the company's profits were prorated according to the workers' length of service"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrudged",
"declined",
"denied",
"deprived (of)",
"disallowed",
"refused",
"rejected",
"withheld",
"niggled (out)",
"pinched",
"skimped",
"stinted"
],
"related":[
"admeasured",
"allotted",
"allowed",
"appropriated",
"assigned",
"dished out",
"divided",
"divvied (up)",
"dolloped (out)",
"lotted",
"measured (out)",
"parted",
"proportioned",
"rationed",
"redistributed",
"set",
"shared (out)",
"split",
"bestowed",
"disbursed",
"furnished",
"issued",
"provided",
"shared",
"supplied",
"circulated",
"dispersed",
"disseminated",
"scattered",
"spread",
"chipped in",
"contributed",
"donated",
"pledged",
"reallocated",
"reapportioned"
],
"synonyms":[
"administered",
"allocated",
"apportioned",
"dealt (out)",
"dispensed",
"distributed",
"doled out",
"handed out",
"meted (out)",
"parceled (out)",
"parcelled (out)",
"portioned"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prosaic":{
"being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events":{
"examples":[
"an author with a knack for finding something of interest in the most prosaic details of suburban life"
],
"synonyms":[
"average",
"common",
"commonplace",
"cut-and-dried",
"cut-and-dry",
"everyday",
"garden-variety",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"routine",
"run-of-the-mill",
"standard",
"standard-issue",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"usual",
"workaday"
],
"near synonyms":[
"regular",
"typical",
"unextraordinary",
"familiar",
"homely",
"plain",
"plain-Jane",
"popular",
"vulgar",
"natural",
"customary",
"wonted",
"insignificant",
"trivial",
"unimportant",
"frequent",
"habitual",
"expected",
"predictable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"curious",
"funny",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"aberrant",
"anomalous",
"atypical",
"irregular",
"untypical",
"rare",
"recherch\u00e9",
"scarce",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"phenomenal",
"bizarre",
"far-out",
"Kafkaesque",
"outrageous",
"outr\u00e9",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"wild",
"eccentric",
"idiosyncratic",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"nonconformist",
"oddball",
"offbeat",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox",
"freak",
"freakish",
"conspicuous",
"notable",
"novel",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"salient",
"signal",
"striking",
"unexampled",
"unprecedented",
"singular",
"unique",
"unparalleled"
],
"antonyms":[
"abnormal",
"exceptional",
"extraordinary",
"odd",
"out-of-the-way",
"strange",
"unusual"
]
},
"having to do with the practical details of regular life":{
"examples":[
"my job at the TV station dealt with the much more prosaic business of cleaning the floors"
],
"synonyms":[
"everyday",
"mundane",
"nitty-gritty",
"terrestrial",
"workaday"
],
"near synonyms":[
"earthly",
"temporal",
"worldly",
"average",
"common",
"commonplace",
"customary",
"familiar",
"garden",
"generic",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"plain",
"popular",
"routine",
"run-of-the-mill",
"run-of-the-mine",
"run-of-mine",
"standard",
"typical",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"usual",
"frequent",
"habitual",
"regular",
"expected",
"predictable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"high-minded",
"lofty",
"noble",
"sublime",
"aberrant",
"abnormal",
"atypical",
"exceptional",
"extraordinary",
"freak",
"peculiar",
"phenomenal",
"rare",
"singular",
"special",
"uncommon",
"uncustomary",
"unique",
"unusual",
"unwonted",
"bizarre",
"curious",
"far-out",
"funny",
"odd",
"outlandish",
"out-of-the-way",
"outr\u00e9",
"quaint",
"quirky",
"remarkable",
"screwy",
"strange",
"weird",
"wild"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"proscribing":{
"the act of ordering that something not be done or used":{
"examples":[
"the proscribing of the use of alcohol was to be expected"
],
"synonyms":[
"banning",
"barring",
"enjoining",
"forbidding",
"interdicting",
"interdiction",
"outlawing",
"prohibiting",
"prohibition",
"proscription"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bidding",
"charging",
"decreeing",
"dictation",
"direction",
"instruction",
"deterrence",
"discouragement",
"dissuading",
"repression",
"suppression",
"coercion",
"compulsion",
"constraint",
"force"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allowance",
"permission",
"sufferance",
"toleration",
"approval",
"endorsement",
"indorsement",
"authorization",
"clearance",
"license",
"licence",
"sanction",
"encouragement",
"promotion",
"support",
"compliance",
"obedience",
"submission"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to order not to do or use or to be done or used":{
"examples":[
"regulations proscribe the use of electronic devices on board a plane while it is landing"
],
"synonyms":[
"banning",
"barring",
"enjoining",
"forbidding",
"interdicting",
"outlawing",
"prohibiting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deterring",
"discouraging",
"dissuading",
"clamping down (on)",
"cracking down (on)",
"crushing",
"putting down",
"quashing",
"quelling",
"repressing",
"silencing",
"snuffing (out)",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"subduing",
"suppressing",
"halting",
"precluding",
"preventing",
"stopping",
"embargoing",
"excluding",
"ruling out",
"shutting out",
"debarring",
"depriving",
"disallowing",
"rejecting",
"repudiating",
"vetoing",
"bridling",
"checking",
"curbing",
"inhibiting",
"reining (in)",
"restraining",
"blocking",
"hindering",
"impeding",
"obstructing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approving",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"sanctioning",
"authorizing",
"licensing",
"licencing",
"warranting",
"abetting",
"advancing",
"cultivating",
"encouraging",
"forwarding",
"furthering",
"nourishing",
"nurturing",
"promoting",
"supporting",
"bidding",
"commanding",
"ordering",
"abiding",
"bearing",
"brooking",
"countenancing",
"enduring",
"tolerating"
],
"antonyms":[
"allowing",
"letting",
"permitting",
"suffering"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"proscriptions":{
"an order that something not be done or used":{
"examples":[
"a strongly worded proscription against smoking indoors"
],
"synonyms":[
"bans",
"embargoes",
"interdictions",
"interdicts",
"prohibitions",
"vetoes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"no-no's",
"no-nos",
"taboos",
"tabus",
"constraints",
"inhibitions",
"limitations",
"restraints",
"restrictions",
"deterrents",
"discouragements",
"repressions",
"suppressions",
"preventions",
"denials",
"disallowances",
"negations",
"refusals",
"rejections",
"objections",
"protests",
"caveats",
"warnings",
"commandments",
"decrees",
"dictates",
"edicts",
"injunctions",
"mandates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sufferances",
"tolerances",
"tolerations",
"allowances",
"authorizations",
"clearances",
"consents",
"leaves",
"licenses",
"licences",
"permissions",
"sanctions",
"approbations",
"approvals",
"blessings",
"endorsements",
"indorsements",
"imprimaturs",
"OKs",
"okays",
"encouragements",
"facilitations",
"promotions",
"supports",
"compliances",
"obediences",
"submissions",
"accessions",
"acquiescences",
"agreements",
"assents"
],
"antonyms":[
"prescriptions"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prosecuted":{
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"the neurologists plan to prosecute their research for as long as funding remains available"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"brought off",
"carried off",
"carried out",
"committed",
"compassed",
"did",
"executed",
"followed through (with)",
"fulfilled",
"made",
"negotiated",
"performed",
"perpetrated",
"pulled off",
"put through"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brought about",
"effected",
"effectuated",
"implemented",
"aced",
"nailed",
"engaged (in)",
"practiced",
"practised",
"worked (at)",
"reduplicated",
"reenacted",
"repeated",
"actualized",
"attained",
"realized",
"completed",
"ended",
"finished",
"wound up",
"winded up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"failed",
"skimped",
"slighted",
"slurred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prospect":{
"all that can be seen from a certain point":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"gazing at the wide prospect spread out before me"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"landscape",
"scene",
"scenery",
"ken",
"sight",
"visual field"
],
"synonyms":[
"command",
"lookout",
"outlook",
"panorama",
"perspective",
"view",
"vista"
]
},
"one who seeks an office, honor, position, or award":{
"antonyms":[
"noncandidate"
],
"examples":[
"a good prospect for the position of auditor"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incumbent",
"officeholder",
"awardee",
"honoree",
"inductee",
"dropout"
],
"related":[
"competitor",
"contestant",
"entrant",
"entry",
"favorite",
"qualifier",
"dark horse",
"spoiler",
"stalking horse",
"crown prince",
"favorite son",
"claimant",
"pretender",
"nominee",
"running mate"
],
"synonyms":[
"applicant",
"applier",
"aspirant",
"campaigner",
"candidate",
"contender",
"expectant",
"hopeful",
"seeker"
]
},
"something that can develop or become actual":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"one highly desirable prospect for the city is a major-league franchise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actuality",
"reality",
"certainty"
],
"related":[
"likelihood",
"probability",
"latency",
"potency"
],
"synonyms":[
"capability",
"eventuality",
"possibility",
"potential",
"potentiality"
]
},
"the act or state of looking forward to some occurrence":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the prospect of a quiet, restful Sunday ended when our basement flooded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"alarm",
"alarum",
"apprehension",
"dread",
"foreboding",
"misgiving"
],
"synonyms":[
"anticipation",
"contemplation",
"expectance",
"expectancy",
"expectation"
]
},
"to go into or range over for purposes of discovery":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"soon all manner of people had arrived in the valley to prospect it for gold"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"reconnoiter",
"reconnoitre",
"scout",
"disclose",
"discover",
"reveal",
"unearth",
"fathom",
"plumb",
"sound"
],
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"explore",
"hunt",
"probe",
"search",
"skirr"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"prospering":{
"marked by vigorous growth and well-being especially economically":{
"examples":[
"selling a whole range of luxury products to the prospering middle class"
],
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"booming",
"boomy",
"flourishing",
"golden",
"halcyon",
"healthy",
"lush",
"palmy",
"prosperous",
"roaring",
"successful",
"thriving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affluent",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"substantial",
"wealthy",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do",
"comfortable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declining",
"dying",
"failing",
"floundering",
"languishing",
"struggling",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"insolvent"
],
"antonyms":[
"depressed",
"unprosperous",
"unsuccessful"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the plants seem to be prospering on the new fertilizers"
],
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"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"flourishing",
"thriving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"luxuriating",
"overgrowing",
"proliferating",
"shooting up",
"germinating",
"rooting",
"sprouting",
"blooming",
"flowering",
"fruiting",
"producing",
"propagating",
"regenerating",
"seeding"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"began to prosper after years of crushing setbacks"
],
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"arriving",
"flourishing",
"succeeding",
"thriving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning",
"excelling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floundering",
"struggling"
],
"antonyms":[
"failing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"marked by vigorous growth and well-being especially economically":{
"examples":[
"a prosperous business that will soon be expanding"
],
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"booming",
"boomy",
"flourishing",
"golden",
"halcyon",
"healthy",
"lush",
"palmy",
"prospering",
"roaring",
"successful",
"thriving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affluent",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"substantial",
"wealthy",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do",
"comfortable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declining",
"dying",
"failing",
"floundering",
"languishing",
"struggling",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"insolvent"
],
"antonyms":[
"depressed",
"unprosperous",
"unsuccessful"
]
},
"having attained a desired end or state of good fortune":{
"examples":[
"one of the most prosperous families in the community"
],
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"flourishing",
"going",
"palmy",
"successful",
"thriving",
"triumphant"
],
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"coming",
"promising",
"booming",
"growing",
"roaring",
"robust",
"boffo",
"gangbusters",
"gangbuster",
"runaway",
"socko"
],
"near antonyms":[
"futureless",
"hopeless",
"inauspicious",
"no-good",
"unpromising",
"collapsing",
"failing",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"washing-out",
"declining",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"bankrupt",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"kerflooey",
"destroyed",
"ruined",
"wrecked"
],
"antonyms":[
"failed",
"unsuccessful"
]
},
"growing thickly and vigorously":{
"examples":[
"our neighbor has a real green thumb and a yard full of healthy, prosperous plants"
],
"synonyms":[
"lush",
"luxuriant",
"rampant",
"rank",
"weedy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lavish",
"profuse",
"overgrown",
"overrun",
"verdant",
"close",
"dense",
"tangled",
"thick"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dormant",
"blighted",
"stunted"
],
"antonyms":[
"sparse"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"prostitute":{
"a woman who engages in sexual activities for money":{
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"examples":[
"was caught procuring the services of a prostitute"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"madam",
"madame",
"chippie",
"chippy",
"doxy",
"doxie",
"floozy",
"floozie",
"tramp",
"hussy",
"jade",
"minx",
"coquette",
"flirt",
"libertine",
"siren",
"tempter",
"temptress",
"vamp",
"wench"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawd",
"call girl",
"cocotte",
"courtesan",
"drab",
"hooker",
"hustler",
"sex worker",
"streetwalker",
"tart",
"whore"
]
},
"to lower in character, dignity, or quality":{
"antonyms":[
"elevate",
"ennoble",
"uplift"
],
"examples":[
"a serious writer prostituting himself by writing pulp novels for money"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dignify",
"exalt",
"honor",
"ameliorate",
"amend",
"better",
"enhance",
"enrich",
"improve",
"meliorate",
"perfect",
"clarify",
"clean",
"cleanse",
"purify",
"refine",
"restore",
"respect"
],
"related":[
"befoul",
"begrime",
"contaminate",
"defile",
"dilute",
"dirty",
"pollute",
"taint",
"thin",
"water down",
"weaken",
"descend",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"humble",
"humiliate",
"shame",
"take down",
"blemish",
"damage",
"deface",
"destroy",
"flaw",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"mar",
"ruin",
"spoil",
"stain",
"tarnish",
"wreck",
"depreciate",
"downgrade"
],
"synonyms":[
"abase",
"bastardize",
"canker",
"cheapen",
"corrupt",
"debase",
"debauch",
"degrade",
"demean",
"demoralize",
"deprave",
"deteriorate",
"lessen",
"pervert",
"poison",
"profane",
"subvert",
"vitiate",
"warp"
]
},
"to put to a bad or improper use":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"urged not to prostitute her musical talents by writing jingles for TV commercials"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apply",
"employ",
"use",
"utilize",
"respect"
],
"related":[
"degrade",
"twist",
"mismanage",
"corrupt",
"debase",
"desecrate"
],
"synonyms":[
"abuse",
"misapply",
"misemploy",
"misuse",
"pervert",
"profane"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"prostrated":{
"lacking bodily strength":{
"examples":[
"patients should expect to feel very prostrated after the surgery"
],
"synonyms":[
"asthenic",
"debilitated",
"delicate",
"down-and-out",
"effete",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"faint",
"feeble",
"frail",
"infirm",
"languid",
"low",
"prostrate",
"sapped",
"slight",
"soft",
"softened",
"tender",
"unsubstantial",
"wasted",
"weak",
"weakened",
"wimpish",
"wimpy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenged",
"disabled",
"incapacitated",
"invalid",
"paralyzed",
"broken-down",
"decrepit",
"impotent",
"powerless",
"breakable",
"flimsy",
"fragile",
"dizzy",
"groggy",
"rocky",
"unsteady",
"woozy",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"flagging",
"tired",
"weary",
"worn-out",
"damaged",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"lame",
"unsound",
"resistless",
"susceptible",
"unresistant",
"vulnerable",
"yielding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"able-bodied",
"athletic",
"beefy",
"brawny",
"fit",
"husky",
"muscular",
"sinewy",
"strapping",
"virile",
"hard",
"hardy",
"lusty",
"red-blooded",
"robust",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"fortified",
"hardened",
"inured",
"strengthened",
"toughened",
"energetic",
"energized",
"invigorated",
"vigorous",
"vitalized",
"hale",
"healthy",
"sound",
"capable",
"competent",
"convalescing",
"recovering",
"recuperating"
],
"antonyms":[
"mighty",
"powerful",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"strong"
]
},
"to diminish the physical strength of":{
"examples":[
"an athlete prostrated for weeks by a bout of pneumonia"
],
"synonyms":[
"debilitated",
"devitalized",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"etiolated",
"sapped",
"softened",
"tired",
"wasted",
"weakened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crippled",
"disabled",
"hamstrung",
"incapacitated",
"depleted",
"depressed",
"exhausted",
"impoverished",
"unmanned",
"washed out",
"damaged",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"invalided",
"laid up",
"broke down",
"ground (down)",
"wore down",
"wore out",
"paralyzed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"energized",
"invigorated",
"recruited",
"rejuvenated",
"vitalized",
"hardened",
"seasoned",
"toughened"
],
"antonyms":[
"beefed (up)",
"fortified",
"strengthened"
]
},
"to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move":{
"examples":[
"the huge increase in gas prices really prostrated the nation's economic engine"
],
"synonyms":[
"crippled",
"disabled",
"hamstrung",
"immobilized",
"incapacitated",
"paralyzed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attenuated",
"debilitated",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"tired",
"undercut",
"undermined",
"weakened",
"hobbled",
"lamed",
"maimed",
"mutilated",
"knocked out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"energized",
"galvanized",
"invigorated",
"vitalized",
"fortified",
"strengthened",
"empowered",
"freshened",
"refreshed",
"refreshened",
"regenerated",
"rejuvenated",
"restored",
"revitalized",
"revived"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stress":{
"examples":[
"a widow prostrated by crushing grief"
],
"synonyms":[
"crushed",
"devastated",
"floored",
"ground (down)",
"oppressed",
"overcame",
"overmastered",
"overpowered",
"overwhelmed",
"snowed under",
"swamped",
"whelmed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deluged",
"drowned",
"sank",
"sunk",
"confuted",
"defeated",
"refuted",
"broke",
"demoralized",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"rocked",
"shattered",
"staggered",
"threw",
"unmanned",
"unnerved",
"upset"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"the boxer bragged that he could prostrate any opponent with a single blow"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowled (down or over)",
"downed",
"dropped",
"felled",
"floored",
"knocked down",
"knocked over",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"mowed (down)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayoed",
"knocked out",
"KO'd",
"overthrew",
"threw down",
"toppled",
"banged",
"bashed",
"belted",
"bludgeoned",
"clobbered",
"hammered",
"hit",
"jabbed",
"pasted",
"poked",
"pounded",
"punched",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"slogged",
"slugged",
"smacked",
"smote",
"socked",
"swatted",
"swiped",
"thumped",
"thwacked",
"walloped",
"whacked",
"whaled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"protect":{
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"the mother bear was just trying to protect her cubs"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwark",
"cover",
"defend",
"fence",
"fend",
"forfend",
"guard",
"keep",
"safeguard",
"screen",
"secure",
"shield",
"ward"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avert",
"prevent",
"oppose",
"resist",
"withstand",
"battle",
"contend",
"fight",
"war",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"save",
"buffer",
"palisade",
"picket",
"wall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombard",
"storm",
"beset",
"besiege",
"overrun",
"capitulate",
"cave",
"submit",
"yield"
],
"antonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"protecting":{
"as in safeguarding , shielding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"guarding",
"safeguarding",
"sheltering",
"shielding",
"safe",
"secure",
"snug",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"sheltered",
"shielded",
"impregnable",
"inviolable",
"invulnerable",
"unassailable",
"unconquerable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dangerous",
"hazardous",
"insecure",
"risky",
"unsafe",
"menacing",
"minatory",
"parlous",
"perilous",
"threatening",
"undefended",
"unguarded",
"unprotected",
"vulnerable",
"precarious",
"treacherous",
"uncertain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"the mother bear was just trying to protect her cubs"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwarking",
"covering",
"defending",
"fencing",
"fending",
"forfending",
"guarding",
"keeping",
"safeguarding",
"screening",
"securing",
"shielding",
"warding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"averting",
"preventing",
"opposing",
"resisting",
"withstanding",
"battling",
"contending",
"fighting",
"warring",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"saving",
"buffering",
"palisading",
"picketing",
"walling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombarding",
"storming",
"besetting",
"besieging",
"overrunning",
"capitulating",
"caving",
"submitting",
"yielding"
],
"antonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"protector":{
"someone that protects":{
"examples":[
"the quarterback counted on the right guard as his main protector"
],
"synonyms":[
"custodian",
"defender",
"guard",
"guardian",
"guardian angel",
"protection"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bodyguard",
"champion",
"lookout",
"sentinel",
"sentry",
"warden",
"warder",
"watch",
"watchdog",
"watchman",
"conserver",
"harborer",
"keeper",
"preserver",
"saver"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"protract":{
"to make longer":{
"examples":[
"the highway project was protracted by years of litigation"
],
"synonyms":[
"drag (out)",
"draw out",
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"outstretch",
"prolong",
"stretch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplify",
"enlarge",
"expand",
"increase",
"attenuate",
"thin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decrease",
"diminish",
"lessen",
"reduce",
"thicken"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"curtail",
"cut",
"cut back",
"shorten"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"protracted":{
"as in prolonged , overlong":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"longish",
"overlong",
"prolonged",
"aeonian",
"aeonic",
"endless",
"everlasting",
"interminable",
"persistent",
"permanent",
"extended",
"far",
"great",
"lengthy",
"long",
"long-drawn-out",
"long-drawn",
"long-lived",
"long-term",
"marathon",
"all-day",
"all-night",
"multiday",
"multiyear"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brief",
"little",
"mini",
"short",
"shortish",
"short-lived",
"short-term",
"abrupt",
"sudden",
"abbreviated",
"condensed",
"curtailed",
"shortened",
"ephemeral",
"fleeting",
"momentary",
"transient",
"transitory",
"impermanent",
"short-range"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make longer":{
"examples":[
"the highway project was protracted by years of litigation"
],
"synonyms":[
"dragged (out)",
"drew out",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"outstretched",
"prolonged",
"stretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplified",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"increased",
"attenuated",
"thinned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"reduced",
"thickened"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"cut",
"cut back",
"shortened"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"protrusive":{
"thrusting oneself where one is not welcome or invited":{
"antonyms":[
"unobtrusive"
],
"examples":[
"his protrusive way of helping his coworkers usually provokes resentment, not gratitude"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hands-off",
"uninvolved",
"quiet",
"reclusive",
"reserved",
"reticent",
"retiring",
"silent",
"taciturn",
"withdrawn",
"inhibited",
"restrained",
"subdued"
],
"related":[
"bold",
"brazen",
"bumptious",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"rude",
"invading",
"trespassing",
"curious",
"inquisitive",
"annoying",
"harassing",
"pestiferous",
"overbearing",
"superserviceable"
],
"synonyms":[
"busy",
"interfering",
"intruding",
"intrusive",
"meddlesome",
"meddling",
"nosy",
"nosey",
"obtrusive",
"officious",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"prying",
"pushing",
"pushy",
"snoopy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"proud":{
"having or displaying feelings of scorn for what is regarded as beneath oneself":{
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"lowly",
"modest"
],
"examples":[
"the unemployed woman was too proud to take a job as a maid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demure",
"homely",
"meek",
"unassuming",
"unpretending",
"unpretentious",
"bashful",
"retiring",
"shy",
"timid",
"diffident",
"self-doubting",
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"ingratiating",
"resigned",
"submissive",
"unassertive",
"yielding",
"apologetic",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"shrinking",
"passive",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"subdued",
"unobtrusive"
],
"related":[
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egoistic",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"important",
"self-assertive",
"self-conceited",
"self-contented",
"self-important",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"uppity",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"arrogant",
"pretentious",
"sniffy",
"snobbish",
"stuck-up",
"supercilious",
"cavalier",
"overbearing",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"swaggering",
"high-sounding",
"pompous",
"condescending",
"patronizing",
"cocky",
"overconfident",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"bloated",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"self-glorifying",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brash",
"brassy",
"cheeky",
"cocksure",
"forward",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"saucy",
"confident",
"presuming",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"sure",
"bossy",
"domineering",
"high-handed",
"imperious",
"egocentric",
"self-centered",
"selfish",
"dominating",
"magisterial",
"masterful"
],
"synonyms":[
"disdainful",
"haughty",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"prideful",
"superior"
]
},
"having or expressing feelings of joy or triumph":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"in his acceptance letter he assured his soon-to-be boss that he was proud to be joining such a fine company"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crestfallen",
"defeated",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"disconsolate",
"dispirited",
"downcast"
],
"related":[
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"euphoric",
"arrogant",
"boastful",
"cocky",
"conquering",
"victorious",
"winning"
],
"synonyms":[
"cock-a-hoop",
"crank",
"crowing",
"exultant",
"exulting",
"glorying",
"jubilant",
"prideful",
"rejoicing",
"triumphant"
]
},
"having too high an opinion of oneself":{
"antonyms":[
"egoless",
"humble",
"modest",
"uncomplacent"
],
"examples":[
"a proud cheerleader who thought she should be treated like royalty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diffident",
"self-critical",
"self-distrustful",
"self-doubting",
"self-reproachful",
"self-reproving",
"meek",
"timid",
"unassertive",
"down-to-earth",
"unarrogant",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious",
"bashful",
"demure",
"introverted",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"retiring",
"sheepish",
"shrinking",
"shy"
],
"related":[
"blusterous",
"blustery",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"braggy",
"cocky",
"swaggering",
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"disdainful",
"fastuous",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-hat",
"huffy",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"peremptory",
"pontifical",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity",
"domineering",
"high-handed",
"imperious",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"holier-than-thou",
"pretentious",
"overconfident",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"confident",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"self-adulatory",
"self-congratulatory",
"self-contented",
"self-gratulatory",
"self-applauding",
"self-dramatizing",
"self-glorifying",
"self-promoting",
"self-affected",
"self-centered",
"self-engrossed",
"selfish",
"condescending",
"patronizing"
],
"synonyms":[
"assured",
"biggety",
"biggity",
"bigheaded",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"consequential",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"important",
"overweening",
"pompous",
"prideful",
"self-conceited",
"self-important",
"self-opinionated",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"swellheaded",
"vain",
"vainglorious"
]
},
"large and impressive in size, grandeur, extent, or conception":{
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"unheroic",
"unimposing",
"unimpressive"
],
"examples":[
"the old neighborhood was known for its stately trees and proud Victorian houses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lowly",
"modest",
"unprepossessing",
"average",
"common",
"mediocre",
"ordinary",
"run-of-the-mill",
"second-rate",
"abject",
"mean",
"meretricious",
"shabby",
"sordid",
"insignificant",
"measly",
"paltry",
"petty",
"puny",
"trifling",
"trivial"
],
"related":[
"colossal",
"monstrous",
"prodigious",
"stupendous",
"tremendous",
"kingly",
"lordly",
"princely",
"queenly",
"awesome",
"awful",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"sublime",
"wondrous",
"formidable",
"impressive",
"prepossessing",
"redoubtable",
"apocalyptic",
"apocalyptical",
"inflated",
"operatic",
"overblown",
"pompous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"superb",
"terrific",
"wonderful",
"extravagant",
"lavish",
"luxurious",
"opulent",
"palatial",
"palatine",
"sumptuous",
"gorgeous",
"resplendent",
"splendiferous",
"extraordinary",
"killer",
"remarkable",
"sensational",
"striking",
"celestial",
"divine",
"heavenly"
],
"synonyms":[
"august",
"baronial",
"epic",
"gallant",
"glorious",
"grand",
"grandiose",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Homeric",
"imperial",
"imposing",
"magnific",
"magnificent",
"majestic",
"massive",
"monumental",
"noble",
"regal",
"royal",
"splendid",
"stately"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"proverb":{
"an often stated observation regarding something from common experience":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"her grandfather has a proverb for every occasion"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bromide",
"clich\u00e9",
"cliche",
"commonplace",
"platitude",
"wheeze",
"expression",
"felicity",
"axiom",
"motto",
"precept",
"truism",
"truth",
"formula",
"comment",
"note",
"reflection",
"remark"
],
"synonyms":[
"adage",
"aphorism",
"apothegm",
"byword",
"epigram",
"maxim",
"saw",
"saying",
"sententia",
"word"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"provide (for)":{
"to give consideration to (as unexpected circumstances or contingencies)":{
"antonyms":[
"discount",
"disregard"
],
"examples":[
"the rules provide for emergency situations, spelling out certain exceptions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"factor (out)"
],
"related":[
"accommodate",
"adapt",
"adjust",
"condition",
"anticipate",
"contemplate",
"envisage",
"expect",
"foresee",
"assume",
"presume",
"presuppose",
"plan",
"calculate",
"face"
],
"synonyms":[
"allow (for)",
"consider",
"factor (in or into)",
"regard"
]
},
"to pay the living expenses of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"sufficient income to provide for his ever growing family"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"finance",
"fund",
"patronize",
"set up",
"sponsor",
"stake",
"underwrite"
],
"synonyms":[
"keep",
"maintain",
"support"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"providing (for)":{
"to give consideration to (as unexpected circumstances or contingencies)":{
"examples":[
"the rules provide for emergency situations, spelling out certain exceptions"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowing (for)",
"considering",
"factoring (in or into)",
"regarding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accommodating",
"adapting",
"adjusting",
"conditioning",
"anticipating",
"contemplating",
"envisaging",
"expecting",
"foreseeing",
"assuming",
"presuming",
"presupposing",
"planning",
"calculating",
"facing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"factoring (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"discounting",
"disregarding"
]
},
"to pay the living expenses of":{
"examples":[
"sufficient income to provide for his ever growing family"
],
"synonyms":[
"keeping",
"maintaining",
"supporting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"financing",
"funding",
"patronizing",
"setting up",
"sponsoring",
"staking",
"underwriting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"province":{
"a region of activity, knowledge, or influence":{
"examples":[
"a legal question outside the doctor's province"
],
"synonyms":[
"area",
"arena",
"bailiwick",
"barony",
"business",
"circle",
"demesne",
"department",
"discipline",
"domain",
"element",
"fief",
"fiefdom",
"field",
"firmament",
"front",
"game",
"kingdom",
"line",
"precinct",
"realm",
"specialty",
"sphere",
"terrain",
"walk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frontier",
"study",
"subject",
"territory",
"turf",
"occupation",
"profession",
"pursuit",
"racket",
"vocation",
"ambit",
"amplitude",
"breadth",
"compass",
"confine",
"dimension(s)",
"extent",
"ken",
"reach",
"scope",
"sweep",
"width",
"subfield",
"subspecialty"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proving":{
"to show the existence or truth of by evidence":{
"examples":[
"the prosecutor used DNA evidence to prove the defendant's guilt"
],
"synonyms":[
"demonstrating",
"documenting",
"establishing",
"substantiating",
"validating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backing (up)",
"buttressing",
"circumstantiating",
"corroborating",
"evidencing",
"evincing",
"recording",
"supporting",
"upholding",
"witnessing",
"adducing",
"attesting",
"authenticating",
"certifying",
"identifying",
"confirming",
"sustaining",
"verifying",
"vouching",
"clinching",
"nailing",
"settling",
"confessing",
"deposing",
"testifying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"challenging",
"disputing",
"objecting",
"alleging",
"assuming",
"conjecturing",
"guessing",
"presuming",
"surmising",
"suspecting"
],
"antonyms":[
"disproving",
"rebutting",
"refuting"
]
},
"to come to be":{
"examples":[
"the new automobile engine design proved impractical"
],
"synonyms":[
"coming out",
"falling out",
"panning out",
"shaking out",
"turning out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"developing",
"emerging",
"evolving",
"germinating",
"playing out",
"unfolding",
"working out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to gain full recognition or acceptance of":{
"examples":[
"proved herself a great actress on the Broadway stage"
],
"synonyms":[
"demonstrating",
"establishing",
"showing",
"substantiating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attesting",
"authenticating",
"bearing out",
"documenting",
"evidencing",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"upholding",
"confirming",
"corroborating",
"justifying",
"validating",
"verifying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confuting",
"discrediting",
"invalidating",
"rebutting",
"refuting"
],
"antonyms":[
"disproving"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"provisioning":{
"to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity":{
"examples":[
"the climbers were sufficiently provisioned to withstand just about any mountaineering emergency"
],
"synonyms":[
"accoutring",
"accoutering",
"equipping",
"fitting (out)",
"furnishing",
"girding",
"kitting (up or out)",
"outfitting",
"rigging",
"supplying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"stocking",
"storing",
"bestowing",
"contributing",
"donating",
"giving",
"presenting",
"apportioning",
"dealing (out)",
"dispensing",
"distributing",
"doling out",
"handing out",
"meting (out)",
"parceling (out)",
"parcelling (out)",
"portioning",
"prorating",
"allocating",
"allotting",
"assigning",
"arming",
"fortifying",
"preparing",
"reequipping",
"re-equipping",
"refitting",
"refurnishing",
"reoutfitting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"depriving",
"dispossessing",
"divesting",
"stripping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide food or meals for":{
"examples":[
"it was the quartermaster's job to properly equip and provision the troops"
],
"synonyms":[
"boarding",
"catering",
"feeding",
"victualing",
"victualling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"serving",
"waiting",
"nourishing",
"nurturing",
"sustaining",
"banqueting",
"dining",
"feasting",
"regaling",
"messing",
"battening",
"fattening",
"filling",
"force-feeding",
"overfeeding",
"surfeiting",
"underfeeding",
"hand-feeding",
"spoon-feeding",
"refeeding",
"reprovisioning"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"provisory":{
"intended to last, continue, or serve for a limited time":{
"examples":[
"a provisory permit to block off the street while movie scenes were being shot"
],
"synonyms":[
"ad interim",
"impermanent",
"interim",
"provisional",
"provisionary",
"short-term",
"temporary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acting",
"alternate",
"proxy",
"substitute",
"expedient",
"improvised",
"makeshift",
"intermediary",
"intermediate",
"transitional",
"ephemeral",
"fleeting",
"fugitive",
"short-lived",
"transitory",
"conditional",
"contingent",
"limited",
"qualified",
"short-range",
"tentative",
"replaceable",
"terminable",
"terminate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"final",
"fixed",
"set",
"settled",
"unconditional",
"unlimited",
"unqualified",
"extended",
"lasting",
"long-range",
"standing",
"dateless",
"deathless",
"endless",
"enduring",
"eternal",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"perpetual",
"timeless",
"undying",
"unending"
],
"antonyms":[
"long-term",
"permanent"
]
},
"serving in a position for the time being":{
"examples":[
"a provisory legal adviser who will be replaced by a court-appointed public defender"
],
"synonyms":[
"acting",
"ad interim",
"interim",
"provisional",
"provisionary",
"temporary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alternate",
"backup",
"jackleg",
"make-do",
"makeshift",
"proxy",
"stopgap",
"substitute"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"long-term",
"permanent"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"provisos":{
"something upon which the carrying out of an agreement or offer depends":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"released the drunken revelers with the proviso that they behave for the remainder of the Mardi Gras"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"strings",
"terms",
"preconditions",
"prerequisites",
"requirements",
"requisites",
"limitations",
"modifications",
"restrictions",
"exceptions",
"exemptions",
"demands",
"essentials",
"musts",
"necessities",
"needs"
],
"synonyms":[
"conditions",
"contingencies",
"ifs",
"provisions",
"qualifications",
"reservations",
"stipulations"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"provocative":{
"serving or likely to arouse a strong reaction":{
"examples":[
"a provocative editorial that sparked a heated discussion"
],
"synonyms":[
"charged",
"edgy",
"exciting",
"inciting",
"instigating",
"instigative",
"piquing",
"provoking",
"stimulating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"explosive",
"fiery",
"incendiary",
"inflammatory",
"triggering",
"inducing",
"inspirational",
"inspiring",
"motivating",
"motivational",
"motivative",
"jeering",
"taunting",
"teasing",
"activating",
"energizing",
"galvanizing",
"quickening",
"vitalizing",
"angering",
"enraging",
"maddening",
"upsetting",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"pesky",
"vexatious",
"vexing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"subduing"
],
"antonyms":[
"noninflammatory"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"provoke":{
"to rouse to strong feeling or action":{
"examples":[
"his teasing finally provoked her to anger",
"bees generally will not sting unless they are provoked"
],
"synonyms":[
"arouse",
"encourage",
"excite",
"fire (up)",
"impassion",
"incite",
"instigate",
"move",
"pique",
"rev (up)",
"spark",
"stimulate",
"stir"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fan",
"ignite",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"kindle",
"trigger",
"activate",
"animate",
"drive",
"energize",
"galvanize",
"induce",
"inspire",
"key (up)",
"motivate",
"motive",
"pump up",
"quicken",
"set off",
"vitalize",
"abet",
"ferment",
"foment",
"raise",
"whip (up)",
"anger",
"enrage",
"madden",
"upset",
"jeer",
"taunt",
"tease",
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"exasperate",
"gall",
"get",
"irritate",
"vex"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"soothe",
"subdue",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize",
"appease",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring (something volatile or intense) into being":{
"examples":[
"rankings that are sure to provoke an argument among film buffs"
],
"synonyms":[
"abet",
"brew",
"ferment",
"foment",
"incite",
"instigate",
"pick",
"raise",
"stir (up)",
"whip (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advance",
"cultivate",
"encourage",
"forward",
"foster",
"further",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"promote",
"sow",
"stimulate",
"detonate",
"set",
"set off",
"trigger",
"excite",
"galvanize",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"inspire",
"motivate",
"rouse",
"activate",
"energize",
"enliven",
"fire",
"invigorate",
"jazz (up)",
"liven (up)",
"pep (up)",
"quicken",
"stimulate",
"vitalize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bridle",
"check",
"constrain",
"curb",
"discourage",
"hold",
"inhibit",
"regulate",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"tame",
"allay",
"calm",
"quiet",
"settle",
"soothe",
"still",
"subdue",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prowess":{
"strength of mind to carry on in spite of danger":{
"antonyms":[
"cowardice",
"cowardliness",
"cravenness",
"dastardliness",
"poltroonery",
"spinelessness"
],
"examples":[
"an extraordinary display of prowess on the battlefield"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cold feet",
"faintheartedness",
"fearfulness",
"mousiness",
"timidity",
"timorousness",
"feebleness",
"softness",
"weakness",
"impotence",
"ineffectualness",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"indecisiveness",
"irresolution"
],
"related":[
"backbone",
"fiber",
"fortitude",
"grit",
"gumption",
"mettle",
"pluck",
"pluckiness",
"spunk",
"temper",
"determination",
"perseverance",
"resolution",
"endurance",
"stamina",
"stomach",
"tenacity",
"audacity",
"boldness",
"brazenness",
"cheek",
"cojones",
"effrontery",
"gall",
"temerity"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottle",
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daring",
"daringness",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"gallantry",
"greatheartedness",
"guts",
"gutsiness",
"hardihood",
"heart",
"heroism",
"intestinal fortitude",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"moxie",
"nerve",
"pecker",
"stoutness",
"valor",
"virtue"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proffering":{
"to put before another for acceptance or consideration":{
"examples":[
"proffered his assistance in helping the two sides reach a compromise"
],
"synonyms":[
"extending",
"giving",
"offering",
"tendering",
"trotting out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"posing",
"proposing",
"holding out",
"giving in",
"submitting",
"volunteering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"receiving",
"taking",
"accrediting",
"approbating",
"approving",
"authorizing",
"clearing",
"confirming",
"finalizing",
"formalizing",
"homologating",
"OK'ing",
"okaying",
"ratifying",
"sanctioning",
"warranting",
"declining",
"denying",
"disallowing",
"disapproving",
"negativing",
"rejecting",
"turning down",
"vetoing",
"rebuffing",
"rebutting",
"refusing",
"spurning",
"retracting",
"withdrawing",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set before the mind for consideration":{
"examples":[
"proffered a novel solution for getting themselves out of debt"
],
"synonyms":[
"advancing",
"bouncing",
"offering",
"posing",
"proposing",
"propounding",
"suggesting",
"voting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"moving",
"nominating",
"recommending",
"presenting",
"submitting",
"tendering",
"trotting out",
"filing",
"laying",
"lodging",
"arranging",
"calculating",
"charting",
"contriving",
"covering",
"framing",
"mapping",
"planning",
"plotting",
"shaping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pronounce":{
"to correctly produce the sound of (a word or letter) with one's voice":{
"examples":[
"How do you pronounce your last name?",
"We practiced pronouncing our Spanish vocabulary words ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"say",
"articulate",
"enunciate",
"express",
"speak",
"talk",
"tell",
"utter",
"verbalize",
"vocalize",
"voice",
"speak out",
"speak up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"falter",
"grunt",
"halt",
"hesitate",
"maunder",
"splutter",
"sputter",
"stammer",
"stumble",
"stutter",
"mouth",
"mumble",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"whisper",
"breathe",
"drawl",
"gasp"
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"examples":[
"The priest pronounced the blessing.",
"Emotions ran high in the courtroom as the judge pronounced sentence."
],
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"give",
"reel off",
"recite",
"set forth",
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"utter",
"voice",
"decide",
"determine",
"settle",
"rule (on)",
"resolve",
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"adjudicate",
"arbitrate",
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"referee",
"umpire",
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"dictate",
"direct",
"mandate",
"ordain",
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"reenact",
"repass",
"bring about",
"effect",
"allow",
"authorize",
"permit",
"sanction",
"administer",
"execute",
"approve",
"confirm",
"ratify"
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"conceal",
"hush (up)",
"silence",
"suppress",
"withhold",
"recall",
"recant",
"retract",
"revoke",
"cancel",
"countermand",
"rescind",
"repeal",
"rescind",
"revoke",
"abolish",
"abrogate",
"annul",
"invalidate",
"kill",
"nullify",
"overturn",
"reverse",
"void"
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"examples":[
"They pronounced the mission a success.",
"She pronounced them married."
],
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"proclaim",
"affirm",
"allege",
"assert",
"aver",
"avouch",
"avow",
"claim",
"contend",
"insist",
"maintain",
"profess",
"protest",
"purport",
"warrant",
"advertise",
"announce",
"annunciate",
"blare",
"blaze",
"blazon",
"broadcast",
"enunciate",
"flash",
"give out",
"herald",
"placard",
"post",
"promulgate",
"publicize",
"publish",
"release",
"sound",
"tout",
"trumpet",
"bark",
"call (off or out)",
"cry",
"bill",
"billboard",
"bulletin",
"gazette",
"knell",
"ring",
"toll",
"blurb",
"feature",
"pitch",
"plug",
"promote",
"puff",
"disseminate",
"spread",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"introduce",
"kithe",
"manifest",
"report",
"reveal",
"show",
"advise",
"apprise",
"hand down",
"inform",
"notify",
"communicate",
"impart",
"intimate",
"argue",
"rationalize",
"reason",
"confirm",
"justify",
"vindicate",
"defend",
"persevere",
"support",
"uphold",
"reaffirm",
"reassert",
"beat the drum (for or about)",
"run with"
],
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"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"conceal",
"hush (up)",
"silence",
"suppress",
"withhold",
"minimize",
"understate",
"underplay",
"de-emphasize",
"downplay",
"play down",
"soft-pedal",
"recall",
"recant",
"retract",
"revoke",
"abandon",
"disavow",
"disclaim",
"disown",
"negate",
"negative",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"challenge",
"dispute",
"question",
"confute",
"disprove",
"rebut",
"refute",
"contradict",
"counter",
"deny",
"gainsay"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"protests":{
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"examples":[
"submitted an official protest about her treatment"
],
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"challenges",
"complaints",
"demurrals",
"demurrers",
"demurs",
"difficulties",
"exceptions",
"expostulations",
"fusses",
"kicks",
"objections",
"questions",
"remonstrances",
"stinks"
],
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"compunctions",
"doubts",
"misgivings",
"qualms",
"scruples",
"misunderstandings",
"cavils",
"niggles",
"quibbles",
"arguments",
"conflicts",
"debates",
"disputes",
"dissents",
"hassles",
"quarrels",
"squabbles",
"statics",
"censures",
"criticisms",
"defiances",
"disobediences",
"rebellions",
"distrust",
"dubieties",
"dubitations",
"incertitudes",
"indeterminations",
"misdoubts",
"mistrust",
"reservations",
"skepticism",
"suspicions",
"uncertainties",
"reluctances"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approvals",
"sanctions",
"acceptances",
"acquiescences",
"agreements",
"assents",
"compliances",
"obediences"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to state as a fact usually forcefully":{
"examples":[
"he protested that he usually was very good at baseball, and all the strikeouts were just bad luck"
],
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"affirms",
"alleges",
"asserts",
"avers",
"avouches",
"avows",
"claims",
"contends",
"declares",
"insists",
"maintains",
"professes",
"purports",
"warrants"
],
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"announces",
"broadcasts",
"proclaims",
"argues",
"rationalizes",
"reasons",
"confirms",
"justifies",
"vindicates",
"defends",
"perseveres",
"supports",
"upholds",
"reaffirms",
"reasserts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandons",
"disavows",
"disclaims",
"disowns",
"negates",
"negatives",
"rejects",
"repudiates",
"challenges",
"disputes",
"questions",
"confutes",
"disproves",
"rebuts",
"refutes",
"contradicts",
"counters"
],
"antonyms":[
"denies",
"gainsays"
]
},
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"examples":[
"plans to protest against the judge's ruling regarding admissible evidence"
],
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"demurs",
"excepts",
"expostulates",
"kicks",
"objects",
"remonstrates (with)"
],
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"cavils",
"quibbles",
"challenges",
"dares",
"defies",
"fights",
"conflicts",
"debates",
"disputes",
"hassles",
"quarrels",
"squabbles",
"wrangles",
"beefs",
"bellyaches",
"bitches",
"bleats",
"carps",
"caterwauls",
"complains",
"crabs",
"croaks",
"fusses",
"gripes",
"grizzles",
"grouches",
"grouses",
"growls",
"grumbles",
"grumps",
"hollers",
"keens",
"maunders",
"moans",
"murmurs",
"mutters",
"nags",
"repines",
"screams",
"squawks",
"squeals",
"wails",
"whimpers",
"whines",
"whinges",
"yammers",
"yawps",
"yaups",
"yowls",
"balks",
"gags",
"sticks",
"censures",
"criticizes",
"denounces",
"disobeys",
"rebels",
"withstands",
"demonstrates"
],
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"approves",
"sanctions",
"accepts",
"accedes",
"acquiesces",
"agrees",
"assents",
"adheres",
"complies",
"conforms",
"follows",
"minds",
"obeys",
"observes",
"advocates",
"champions",
"defends",
"maintains",
"supports",
"sustains",
"upholds",
"applauds",
"cheers",
"commends"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"produces":{
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"examples":[
"hopefully, the new approach to fighting substance abuse will produce better results"
],
"synonyms":[
"begets",
"breeds",
"brings",
"brings about",
"brings on",
"catalyzes",
"causes",
"creates",
"does",
"draws on",
"effects",
"effectuates",
"engenders",
"generates",
"induces",
"invokes",
"makes",
"occasions",
"prompts",
"results (in)",
"spawns",
"translates (into)",
"works",
"yields"
],
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"conduces (to)",
"contributes (to)",
"decides",
"determines",
"begins",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"inaugurates",
"initiates",
"innovates",
"institutes",
"introduces",
"launches",
"pioneers",
"sets",
"sets up",
"starts",
"advances",
"cultivates",
"develops",
"encourages",
"forwards",
"fosters",
"furthers",
"nourishes",
"nurtures",
"promotes",
"enacts",
"renders",
"turns out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impedes",
"limits",
"restricts",
"clamps down (on)",
"cracks down (on)",
"crushes",
"dampens",
"puts down",
"quashes",
"quells",
"represses",
"smothers",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"stifles",
"subdues",
"suppresses",
"arrests",
"checks",
"controls",
"curbs",
"inhibits",
"reins (in)",
"restrains",
"retards",
"cans",
"kills",
"snuffs (out)",
"stills",
"abolishes",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"extinguishes",
"liquidates",
"quenches"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring forth from the womb":{
"examples":[
"rabbits can potentially produce many offspring at once"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears",
"births",
"delivers",
"drops",
"has",
"mothers"
],
"related":[
"labors",
"breeds",
"multiplies",
"propagates",
"reproduces",
"spawns",
"begets",
"fathers",
"generates",
"gets",
"sires",
"calves",
"kids",
"kindles",
"kittens",
"litters",
"pups",
"whelps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aborts",
"loses",
"miscarries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials":{
"examples":[
"a factory producing steel"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forms",
"frames",
"makes",
"manufactures"
],
"related":[
"assembles",
"builds",
"constructs",
"erects",
"makes up",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up",
"structures",
"throws up",
"crafts",
"handcrafts",
"hews",
"forges",
"molds",
"shapes",
"cobbles (together or up)",
"knocks out",
"patches (together)",
"throws up",
"prefabricates",
"creates",
"invents",
"mints",
"originates",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"concocts",
"contrives",
"cooks (up)",
"designs",
"devises",
"imagines",
"thinks (up)",
"conceives",
"envisages",
"pictures",
"visualizes",
"refashions",
"remakes",
"remanufactures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disassembles",
"dismantles",
"takes apart",
"breaks up",
"dismembers",
"abolishes",
"annihilates",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"eradicates",
"exterminates",
"extinguishes",
"flattens",
"pulverizes",
"razes",
"ruins",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"wrecks",
"blows up",
"explodes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present so as to invite notice or attention":{
"examples":[
"he produced his brand-new driver's license at every possible opportunity"
],
"synonyms":[
"displays",
"disports",
"exhibits",
"exposes",
"flashes",
"flaunts",
"lays out",
"parades",
"shows",
"shows off",
"sports",
"struts",
"unveils"
],
"related":[
"brandishes",
"flourishes",
"waves",
"advertises",
"airs",
"announces",
"blazes",
"broadcasts",
"heralds",
"placards",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"publicizes",
"sounds",
"trumpets",
"divulges",
"talks (about)",
"tells (of)",
"bares",
"discovers",
"reveals",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflages",
"disguises",
"masks",
"conceals",
"covers",
"curtains",
"enshrouds",
"hides",
"obscures",
"occludes",
"occults",
"shrouds",
"veils"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something produced by physical or intellectual effort":{
"examples":[
"a book that was the produce of a lifetime of study on the subject"
],
"synonyms":[
"affairs",
"fruits",
"handiworks",
"labors",
"outputs",
"productions",
"products",
"things",
"works",
"yields"
],
"related":[
"articles",
"commodities",
"entries",
"objects",
"goods",
"lines",
"merchandises",
"wares",
"handcrafts",
"handicrafts",
"aftereffects",
"aftermaths",
"conclusions",
"consequences",
"corollaries",
"developments",
"effects",
"issues",
"outcomes",
"resultants",
"results",
"sequels",
"sequences",
"upshots",
"by-products",
"byproducts",
"derivatives",
"offshoots",
"offspring",
"offsprings",
"outgrowths",
"residuals",
"side effects",
"side reactions",
"spin-offs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"profanities":{
"a disrespectful or indecent word or expression":{
"examples":[
"a rap song that is filled with profanities"
],
"synonyms":[
"curses",
"cusses",
"cusswords",
"dirty words",
"expletives",
"four-letter words",
"obscenities",
"swears",
"swearwords",
"vulgarisms"
],
"related":[
"bawdries",
"languages",
"scurrilities",
"execrations",
"imprecations",
"maledictions",
"epithets",
"names",
"oaths"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proceeds":{
"an increase usually measured in money that comes from labor, business, or property":{
"examples":[
"estimated that the annual proceeds from an increase in the state sales tax would be enormous"
],
"synonyms":[
"earnings",
"gain(s)",
"income",
"incoming(s)",
"profit",
"return",
"revenue",
"yield"
],
"near synonyms":[
"killing",
"windfall",
"salary",
"take-home pay",
"tips",
"wages",
"bankroll",
"capital",
"coffers",
"exchequer",
"finances",
"funds",
"money",
"pocket",
"pocketbook",
"resources",
"wherewithal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"charge",
"cost",
"disbursement",
"expenditures",
"expenses",
"outgo",
"outlay"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the amount of money left when expenses are subtracted from the total amount received":{
"examples":[
"all proceeds from the special promotion will go to charity"
],
"synonyms":[
"earnings",
"gain",
"lucre",
"net",
"payoff",
"profit",
"return"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleanup",
"killing",
"windfall",
"bottom line",
"gross",
"sales",
"compensation",
"emolument",
"income",
"pay",
"payment",
"remittal",
"requital",
"salary",
"wages",
"interest",
"revenue",
"yield"
],
"near antonyms":[
"charge",
"cost",
"disbursement",
"expenditure",
"expense",
"loss",
"outgo",
"outlay"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"you may proceed with your plan"
],
"synonyms":[
"advances",
"comes",
"comes along",
"does",
"fares",
"forges",
"gets along",
"gets on",
"goes",
"goes along",
"goes off",
"marches",
"paces",
"progresses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"fast-forwards",
"speeds",
"approaches",
"nears",
"journeys",
"passes",
"repairs",
"runs",
"travels",
"wends",
"actuates",
"drives",
"impels",
"propels",
"pushes",
"takes out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrests",
"balks",
"blocks",
"checks",
"detains",
"halts",
"hinders",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"nips",
"obstructs",
"slows (down or up)",
"stems",
"represses",
"retards",
"stunts",
"suppresses",
"delays",
"interrupts",
"stalls",
"cramps",
"hampers",
"inhibits",
"ceases",
"lets up",
"pauses",
"regresses",
"waits"
],
"antonyms":[
"remains",
"stands",
"stays",
"stops"
]
},
"type":[
"plural noun",
"verb"
]
},
"property":{
"a small piece of land that is developed or available for development":{
"examples":[
"bought a secluded property in the mountains"
],
"synonyms":[
"lot",
"parcel",
"plat",
"plot",
"tract"
],
"near synonyms":[
"patch",
"frontage",
"lease",
"development",
"real estate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind":{
"examples":[
"the ability to be magnetized is a common property of metals"
],
"synonyms":[
"affection",
"attribute",
"attribution",
"character",
"characteristic",
"criterion",
"diagnostic",
"differentia",
"feature",
"fingerprint",
"hallmark",
"mark",
"marker",
"note",
"particularity",
"peculiarity",
"point",
"quality",
"specific",
"stamp",
"touch",
"trait"
],
"near synonyms":[
"badge",
"indication",
"sign",
"emblem",
"symbol",
"token",
"charm",
"grace",
"excellence",
"merit",
"virtue",
"eccentricity",
"idiosyncrasy",
"oddity",
"quirk",
"individuality",
"singularity",
"uniqueness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prospectus":{
"as in sign , portent":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"foreboding",
"harbinger",
"omen",
"portent",
"prevision",
"sign",
"auguring",
"augury",
"bodement",
"cast",
"forecast",
"forecasting",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"prediction",
"presaging",
"prognosis",
"prognostic",
"prognosticating",
"prognostication",
"prophecy",
"prophesy",
"soothsaying",
"vaticination",
"anticipation",
"foreknowledge",
"foresight",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"surmise"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prophylactic":{
"concerned with or serving to keep something from happening":{
"examples":[
"the many prophylactic measures that city officials could have taken to reduce the scope of the disaster"
],
"synonyms":[
"precautionary",
"preventative",
"preventive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deterrent",
"deterring",
"negating",
"neutralizing",
"nullifying",
"baffling",
"balking",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"thwarting",
"blocking",
"hampering",
"hindering",
"impeding",
"retardant",
"stalling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"easing",
"facilitating",
"smoothing",
"encouraging",
"forwarding",
"fostering",
"furthering",
"nurturing",
"promoting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"profanations":{
"an act of great disrespect shown to God or to sacred ideas, people, or things":{
"examples":[
"the First Book of the Maccabees tells of the profanation of the temple of Jerusalem by Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 167 b.c."
],
"synonyms":[
"blasphemies",
"defilements",
"desecrations",
"impieties",
"irreverences",
"sacrileges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"profanities",
"affronts",
"insults",
"violations",
"contaminations",
"corruptions",
"debasements",
"pollutions",
"sins",
"trespasses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"consecrations",
"purifications",
"sanctifications",
"reverences",
"venerations"
],
"antonyms":[
"adorations",
"glorifications",
"worships"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proficiently":{
"in a skillful or expert manner":{
"examples":[
"an administrator who can deal with the problems quickly and proficiently"
],
"synonyms":[
"ably",
"adeptly",
"adroitly",
"artfully",
"capably",
"competently",
"consummately",
"deftly",
"expertly",
"masterfully",
"masterly",
"skillfully",
"well"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aptly",
"fluently",
"cleanly",
"cleverly",
"dexterously",
"neatly",
"nimbly",
"easily",
"facilely",
"handily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inaptly",
"awkwardly",
"clumsily",
"crudely"
],
"antonyms":[
"amateurishly",
"artlessly",
"incapably",
"incompetently",
"inefficiently",
"ineptly",
"inexpertly",
"poorly",
"unskillfully"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"proficient":{
"having or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavor":{
"examples":[
"she is quite proficient at computer repair",
"a proficient rendition of a difficult piano piece"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplished",
"ace",
"adept",
"compleat",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crack",
"crackerjack",
"educated",
"experienced",
"expert",
"good",
"great",
"master",
"masterful",
"masterly",
"practiced",
"practised",
"professed",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"versed",
"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"
]
},
"a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field":{
"examples":[
"an urgent call by the state department for proficients in Arabic"
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"adept",
"artist",
"authority",
"cognoscente",
"connoisseur",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dab",
"dab hand",
"expert",
"fiend",
"geek",
"guru",
"hand",
"hotshot",
"maestro",
"master",
"maven",
"mavin",
"meister",
"past master",
"scholar",
"shark",
"sharp",
"virtuoso",
"whiz",
"wizard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pro",
"professional",
"consultant",
"hired gun",
"specialist",
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"craftsman",
"journeyman",
"all-rounder",
"jack-of-all-trades",
"Renaissance man",
"mistress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apprentice",
"beginner",
"neophyte",
"novice",
"dabbler",
"dilettante",
"layman",
"nonprofessional"
],
"antonyms":[
"amateur",
"inexpert",
"nonexpert"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"prognosticating":{
"a declaration that something will happen in the future":{
"examples":[
"because there are always unforeseen breakthroughs in every field, in the past most prognosticatings have fallen short"
],
"synonyms":[
"auguring",
"augury",
"bodement",
"cast",
"forecast",
"forecasting",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"prediction",
"presaging",
"prognosis",
"prognostic",
"prognostication",
"prophecy",
"prophesy",
"soothsaying",
"vaticination"
],
"near synonyms":[
"foreboding",
"harbinger",
"omen",
"portent",
"prevision",
"prospectus",
"sign",
"anticipation",
"foreknowledge",
"foresight",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"surmise"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in predicting , foretelling":{
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"near synonyms":[
"divining",
"forecasting",
"foreknowing",
"foreseeing",
"foretelling",
"fortune-telling",
"predicting",
"presaging",
"prophesying",
"soothsaying",
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"extraordinary",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"miraculous",
"portentous",
"stunning",
"stupendous",
"sublime",
"wondrous",
"metaphysical",
"preternatural",
"unearthly",
"bewitching",
"charming",
"conjuring",
"enchanting",
"wiling",
"paranormal",
"supernormal",
"bewitched",
"enchanted",
"spellbound",
"magic",
"magical",
"mystic",
"numinous",
"occult",
"weird"
],
"near antonyms":[
"commonplace",
"everyday",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"prosaic",
"routine",
"run-of-the-mill",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"usual",
"workaday"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to tell of or describe beforehand":{
"examples":[
"using current trends to prognosticate what the workplace of the future will be like"
],
"synonyms":[
"auguring",
"calling",
"forecasting",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"presaging",
"prophesying",
"reading",
"vaticinating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alerting",
"cautioning",
"forewarning",
"warning",
"boding",
"foreboding",
"forboding",
"portending",
"promising",
"anticipating",
"divining",
"foreknowing",
"foreseeing",
"announcing",
"declaring",
"heralding",
"proclaiming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"describing",
"narrating",
"reciting",
"recounting",
"relating",
"reporting",
"telling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"propels":{
"to apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one":{
"examples":[
"playfully he propelled his rambunctious friend into the swimming pool to cool off"
],
"synonyms":[
"drives",
"pushes",
"shoves",
"thrusts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impels",
"moves",
"bears (down)",
"compresses",
"depresses",
"jams",
"pressures",
"squashes",
"squeezes",
"weighs (upon)",
"bulldozes",
"compels",
"forces",
"leans (on or against)",
"muscles",
"rams"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set or keep in motion":{
"examples":[
"the aircraft is propelled by a pair of turboprop engines"
],
"synonyms":[
"actuates",
"drives",
"impels",
"moves",
"works"
],
"near synonyms":[
"activates",
"motivates",
"provokes",
"abets",
"ferments",
"foments",
"incites",
"raises",
"stirs (up)",
"whips (up)",
"sets off",
"triggers",
"trips",
"arouses",
"excites",
"fires (up)",
"galvanizes",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"inspires",
"instigates",
"rouses",
"stimulates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bridles",
"checks",
"constrains",
"contains",
"controls",
"curbs",
"inhibits",
"regulates",
"reins (in)",
"restrains"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"proposing":{
"to set before the mind for consideration":{
"examples":[
"he proposed that we go for a walk this afternoon"
],
"synonyms":[
"advancing",
"bouncing",
"offering",
"posing",
"proffering",
"propounding",
"suggesting",
"voting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"moving",
"nominating",
"recommending",
"presenting",
"submitting",
"tendering",
"trotting out",
"filing",
"laying",
"lodging",
"arranging",
"calculating",
"charting",
"contriving",
"covering",
"framing",
"mapping",
"planning",
"plotting",
"shaping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have in mind as a purpose or goal":{
"examples":[
"we propose to buy a new house within the next year"
],
"synonyms":[
"aiming",
"allowing",
"aspiring",
"calculating",
"contemplating",
"designing",
"going",
"intending",
"looking",
"meaning",
"meditating",
"planning",
"purporting",
"purposing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dreaming",
"hoping",
"wishing",
"considering",
"debating",
"mulling (over)",
"pondering",
"attempting",
"endeavoring",
"striving",
"struggling",
"trying",
"plotting",
"scheming",
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"effecting",
"executing",
"performing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"professing":{
"to present a false appearance of":{
"examples":[
"professed friendship while secretly plotting revenge"
],
"synonyms":[
"acting",
"affecting",
"assuming",
"bluffing",
"counterfeiting",
"dissembling",
"faking",
"feigning",
"passing (for)",
"pretending",
"putting on",
"shamming",
"simulating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissimulating",
"impersonating",
"letting on",
"masquerading",
"playacting",
"playing",
"posing",
"forging",
"imitating",
"camouflaging",
"concealing",
"disguising",
"masking",
"feinting",
"malingering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to state clearly and strongly":{
"examples":[
"the lonely woman professed her love in a series of letters to the soldier"
],
"synonyms":[
"affirming",
"asserting",
"averring",
"avouching",
"avowing",
"declaring",
"guaranteeing",
"laying down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advancing",
"advertising",
"boosting",
"plugging",
"promoting",
"publicizing",
"announcing",
"blazing",
"calling",
"proclaiming",
"pronouncing",
"saying",
"accenting",
"accentuating",
"emphasizing",
"stressing",
"underlining",
"underscoring",
"advocating",
"championing",
"defending",
"espousing",
"supporting",
"upholding",
"assuring",
"convincing",
"persuading",
"explaining",
"justifying",
"rationalizing",
"reaffirming",
"reasserting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"minimizing",
"understating",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to state as a fact usually forcefully":{
"examples":[
"he professed his innocence to anyone who would listen"
],
"synonyms":[
"affirming",
"alleging",
"asserting",
"averring",
"avouching",
"avowing",
"claiming",
"contending",
"declaring",
"insisting",
"maintaining",
"protesting",
"purporting",
"warranting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"announcing",
"broadcasting",
"proclaiming",
"arguing",
"rationalizing",
"reasoning",
"confirming",
"justifying",
"vindicating",
"defending",
"persevering",
"supporting",
"upholding",
"reaffirming",
"reasserting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandoning",
"disavowing",
"disclaiming",
"disowning",
"negating",
"negativing",
"rejecting",
"repudiating",
"challenging",
"disputing",
"questioning",
"confuting",
"disproving",
"rebutting",
"refuting",
"contradicting",
"countering"
],
"antonyms":[
"denying",
"gainsaying"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"provocateur":{
"a person who stirs up public feelings especially of discontent":{
"examples":[
"a calculating provocateur , she has made a career out of controversy for its own sake"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitator",
"demagogue",
"demagog",
"exciter",
"firebrand",
"fomenter",
"incendiary",
"inciter",
"instigator",
"kindler",
"rabble-rouser"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demonstrator",
"marcher",
"objector",
"picketer",
"protester",
"protestor",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"exponent",
"persuader",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"reformer",
"reformist",
"supporter",
"alarmist",
"extremist",
"insurgent",
"insurrectionist",
"radical",
"rebel",
"revolter",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"subversive",
"troublemaker",
"prodder",
"prompter",
"provoker",
"agent provocateur"
],
"near antonyms":[
"peacemaker",
"reconciler",
"uniter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"processing":{
"as in refining , rectifying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rectifying",
"refining",
"clarifying",
"clearing",
"distilling",
"filtering",
"fining",
"garbling",
"purifying",
"cleaning",
"cleansing",
"decontaminating",
"elutriating",
"purging",
"washing",
"extracting",
"leaching",
"bolting",
"screening",
"sieving",
"sifting",
"disinfecting",
"sanitizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clouding",
"dulling",
"muddying",
"contaminating",
"dirtying",
"soiling",
"defiling",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"begriming",
"besmirching",
"fouling",
"sullying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in reprocessing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reprocessing",
"reusing",
"reclaiming",
"recovering",
"recycling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"projected":{
"as in expected , anticipated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anticipated",
"awaited",
"expected",
"planned",
"predicted",
"possible",
"potential",
"prospective",
"coming",
"future",
"unborn",
"approaching",
"forthcoming",
"imminent",
"impending",
"nearing",
"oncoming",
"pending",
"upcoming",
"after",
"ensuing",
"eventual",
"later",
"posterior",
"subsequent",
"final",
"last",
"ulterior",
"ultimate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antecedent",
"anterior",
"precedent",
"preceding",
"previous",
"prior",
"bygone",
"past"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"some boulders projected dangerously out above the trail"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagged",
"ballooned",
"beetled",
"bellied",
"billowed",
"bulged",
"bunched",
"jutted",
"overhung",
"poked",
"pooched",
"pouched",
"pouted",
"protruded",
"started",
"stood out",
"stuck out",
"swelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domed",
"blew up",
"inflated",
"dilated",
"distended",
"expanded",
"mushroomed",
"snowballed",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"stretched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"shrank",
"shrunk"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to work out the details of (something) in advance":{
"examples":[
"we must project next year's budget now"
],
"synonyms":[
"arranged",
"blueprinted",
"budgeted",
"calculated",
"charted",
"choreographed",
"designed",
"framed",
"laid out",
"mapped (out)",
"organized",
"planned",
"prepared",
"schemed (out)",
"shaped",
"strategized (about)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conspired",
"contrived",
"devised",
"intrigued",
"machinated",
"plotted",
"put up",
"concerted",
"got up",
"drafted",
"outlined",
"sketched",
"aimed",
"figured",
"had on",
"intended",
"meant",
"contemplated",
"meditated",
"premeditated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"probing":{
"a systematic search for the truth or facts about something":{
"examples":[
"questionings and probings by several committees into the affair"
],
"synonyms":[
"delving",
"disquisition",
"examen",
"examination",
"exploration",
"inquest",
"inquiry",
"inquisition",
"investigation",
"probation",
"probe",
"research",
"study"
],
"near synonyms":[
"quest",
"audit",
"check",
"checkup",
"diagnosis",
"inspection",
"hearing",
"interrogation",
"trial",
"feeler",
"query",
"question",
"poll",
"questionary",
"questionnaire",
"survey",
"challenge",
"cross-examination",
"going-over",
"grilling",
"quiz",
"rehearing",
"reinvestigation",
"self-examination",
"self-exploration",
"self-questioning",
"self-reflection",
"self-scrutiny",
"soul-searching"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to search through or into":{
"examples":[
"tabloid reporters who seem determined to probe every detail of the singer's private life"
],
"synonyms":[
"delving (into)",
"digging (into)",
"examining",
"exploring",
"inquiring (into)",
"investigating",
"looking (into)",
"researching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inspecting",
"sifting",
"studying",
"viewing",
"browsing",
"cruising",
"perusing",
"scanning",
"skimming (through)",
"surfing",
"thumbing (through)",
"reinvestigating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go into or range over for purposes of discovery":{
"examples":[
"probing the depths of the undersea trench"
],
"synonyms":[
"exploring",
"hunting",
"prospecting",
"searching",
"skirring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reconnoitering",
"reconnoitring",
"scouting",
"disclosing",
"discovering",
"revealing",
"unearthing",
"fathoming",
"plumbing",
"sounding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"protagonist":{
"a person who actively supports or favors a cause":{
"examples":[
"Milton Friedman is usually cited as the leading American protagonist of monetarism"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocate",
"advocator",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"espouser",
"exponent",
"expounder",
"friend",
"gospeler",
"gospeller",
"herald",
"hierophant",
"high priest",
"paladin",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"supporter",
"true believer",
"tub-thumper",
"white knight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"loyalist",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"stalwart",
"adherent",
"cohort",
"disciple",
"follower",
"interpreter",
"applauder",
"cheerleader",
"encourager",
"fellow traveler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enemy",
"foe",
"rival",
"belittler",
"critic",
"faultfinder"
],
"antonyms":[
"adversary",
"antagonist",
"opponent"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proceeding (along)":{
"to make one's way through, across, or over":{
"examples":[
"the hikers proceeded along the ridge for several hundred feet"
],
"synonyms":[
"coursing",
"covering",
"crossing",
"cutting (across)",
"following",
"going",
"navigating",
"passing (over)",
"perambulating",
"peregrinating",
"tracking",
"transiting",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"traversing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hiking",
"traipsing",
"tramping",
"treading",
"walking",
"riding",
"running",
"crisscrossing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pronounced":{
"likely to attract attention":{
"examples":[
"a pronounced tendency to slurp her soup"
],
"synonyms":[
"arresting",
"bodacious",
"bold",
"brilliant",
"catchy",
"commanding",
"conspicuous",
"dramatic",
"emphatic",
"eye-catching",
"flamboyant",
"grabby",
"kenspeckle",
"marked",
"noisy",
"noticeable",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"showy",
"splashy",
"striking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"detectable",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"observable",
"perceptible",
"recognizable",
"visible",
"outstanding",
"salient",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"impressive",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"highlighted",
"spotlighted",
"flagrant",
"glaring",
"howling",
"screaming",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"jazzy",
"loud",
"meretricious",
"swank",
"swanky",
"tawdry",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"ostentatious",
"pretentious",
"extravagant",
"fancy",
"florid",
"glittery",
"spectacular",
"opulent",
"ornate",
"overdone",
"overwrought",
"absorbing",
"engrossing",
"enthralling",
"fascinating",
"interesting",
"riveting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"subtle",
"concealed",
"hidden",
"shrouded",
"dim",
"faint",
"obscure",
"insignificant",
"undistinguished",
"unimportant",
"modest",
"unaffected",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious",
"conservative",
"plain",
"quiet",
"simple",
"understated",
"muted",
"restrained",
"subdued",
"subtle",
"toned-down",
"unflashy"
],
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"inconspicuous",
"unemphatic",
"unflamboyant",
"unnoticeable",
"unobtrusive",
"unremarkable",
"unshowy"
]
},
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"examples":[
"walking with a pronounced limp"
],
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"blatant",
"conspicuous",
"egregious",
"flagrant",
"glaring",
"gross",
"obvious",
"patent",
"rank",
"striking"
],
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"arresting",
"clear",
"distinct",
"dramatic",
"emphatic",
"evident",
"eye-catching",
"marked",
"notable",
"noticeable",
"outstanding",
"plain",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"salient",
"showy",
"splashy",
"absolute",
"arrant",
"downright",
"out-and-out",
"outright",
"sheer",
"stark",
"utter",
"detectable",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"observable",
"perceptible",
"visible",
"abominable",
"atrocious",
"awful",
"deplorable",
"execrable",
"heinous",
"lousy",
"monstrous",
"outrageous",
"preposterous",
"shameful",
"shocking",
"terrible",
"wretched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"imperceptible",
"inconspicuous",
"unnoticeable",
"unobtrusive",
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"slight",
"small",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"concealed",
"hidden",
"invisible"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to correctly produce the sound of (a word or letter) with one's voice":{
"examples":[
"How do you pronounce your last name?",
"We practiced pronouncing our Spanish vocabulary words ."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"said",
"articulated",
"enunciated",
"expressed",
"spoke",
"talked",
"told",
"uttered",
"verbalized",
"vocalized",
"voiced",
"spoke out",
"spoke up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"faltered",
"grunted",
"halted",
"hesitated",
"maundered",
"spluttered",
"sputtered",
"stammered",
"stumbled",
"stuttered",
"mouthed",
"mumbled",
"murmured",
"muttered",
"whispered",
"breathed",
"drawled",
"gasped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to say or announce (something) in an official or formal way":{
"examples":[
"The priest pronounced the blessing.",
"Emotions ran high in the courtroom as the judge pronounced sentence."
],
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"delivered",
"gave",
"recited",
"reeled off",
"set forth",
"stated",
"uttered",
"voiced",
"decided",
"determined",
"resolved",
"ruled (on)",
"settled",
"adjudged",
"adjudicated",
"arbitrated",
"judged",
"refereed",
"umpired",
"advertised",
"announced",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"declared",
"proclaimed",
"publicized",
"published",
"sounded",
"called",
"commanded",
"decreed",
"dictated",
"directed",
"mandated",
"ordained",
"ordered",
"constituted",
"enacted",
"laid down",
"legislated",
"made",
"passed",
"reenacted",
"repassed",
"brought about",
"effected",
"allowed",
"authorized",
"permitted",
"sanctioned",
"administered",
"executed",
"approved",
"confirmed",
"ratified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealed",
"hushed (up)",
"silenced",
"suppressed",
"withheld",
"recalled",
"recanted",
"retracted",
"revoked",
"canceled",
"cancelled",
"countermanded",
"rescinded",
"repealed",
"rescinded",
"revoked",
"abolished",
"abrogated",
"annulled",
"invalidated",
"killed",
"nullified",
"overturned",
"reversed",
"voided"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to say officially or assertively that (something or someone) is something specified":{
"examples":[
"They pronounced the mission a success.",
"She pronounced them married."
],
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"declared",
"proclaimed",
"affirmed",
"alleged",
"asserted",
"averred",
"avouched",
"avowed",
"claimed",
"contended",
"insisted",
"maintained",
"professed",
"protested",
"purported",
"warranted",
"advertised",
"announced",
"annunciated",
"blared",
"blazed",
"blazoned",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"enunciated",
"flashed",
"gave out",
"heralded",
"placarded",
"posted",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"published",
"released",
"sounded",
"touted",
"trumpeted",
"barked",
"called (off or out)",
"cried",
"billboarded",
"billed",
"bulletined",
"gazetted",
"knelled",
"rang",
"tolled",
"blurbed",
"featured",
"pitched",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"puffed",
"disseminated",
"spread",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"introduced",
"kithed",
"kythed",
"manifested",
"reported",
"revealed",
"showed",
"advised",
"apprised",
"handed down",
"informed",
"notified",
"communicated",
"imparted",
"intimated",
"argued",
"rationalized",
"reasoned",
"confirmed",
"justified",
"vindicated",
"defended",
"persevered",
"supported",
"upheld",
"reaffirmed",
"reasserted",
"beat the drum (for or about)",
"ran with"
],
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"disregarded",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overlooked",
"concealed",
"hushed (up)",
"silenced",
"suppressed",
"withheld",
"minimized",
"understated",
"underplayed",
"de-emphasized",
"downplayed",
"played down",
"soft-pedaled",
"recalled",
"recanted",
"retracted",
"revoked",
"abandoned",
"disavowed",
"disclaimed",
"disowned",
"negated",
"negatived",
"rejected",
"repudiated",
"challenged",
"disputed",
"questioned",
"confuted",
"disproved",
"rebutted",
"refuted",
"contradicted",
"countered",
"denied",
"gainsaid"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"processes":{
"a usually fixed or ordered series of actions or events leading to a result":{
"examples":[
"the process by which the elastic fibers spun by silkworms is turned into soft, lustrous cloth"
],
"synonyms":[
"courses",
"operations",
"procedures",
"proceedings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drills",
"routines",
"fashions",
"forms",
"manners",
"methods",
"modes",
"styles",
"systems",
"techniques",
"ways",
"approaches",
"arrangements",
"blueprints",
"designs",
"formulas",
"formulae",
"game plans",
"ground plans",
"layouts",
"plans",
"plots",
"programs",
"projects",
"recipes",
"schemes",
"strategies",
"accomplishments",
"achievements",
"attainments",
"enterprises",
"performances",
"undertakings",
"works",
"activities",
"movements"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"forward movement in time or place":{
"examples":[
"in the process of doing this project we all learned a lot"
],
"synonyms":[
"advancements",
"advances",
"furtherances",
"goings",
"headways",
"marches",
"onrushes",
"passages",
"processions",
"progresses",
"progressions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"currents",
"drifts",
"flows",
"fluxes",
"streams",
"ways",
"advents",
"approaches",
"arrivals",
"comings",
"bounds",
"jumps",
"leaps",
"steps",
"strides",
"impetuses",
"momenta",
"momentums"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backwashes",
"ebbs",
"refluxes",
"retractions",
"returns",
"reversals",
"reverses",
"about-faces",
"turnabouts",
"turnarounds"
],
"antonyms":[
"recesses",
"recessions",
"regresses",
"regressions",
"retreats",
"retrogressions"
]
},
"a written notice ordering a person to appear in court":{
"examples":[
"the prosecutor arranged for a process for her appearance to be issued"
],
"synonyms":[
"subpoenas",
"summonses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"capiases",
"warrants",
"writs",
"tickets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in refines , rectifies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rectifies",
"refines",
"clarifies",
"clears",
"distills",
"distils",
"filters",
"fines",
"garbles",
"purifies",
"cleans",
"cleanses",
"decontaminates",
"elutriates",
"purges",
"washes",
"extracts",
"leaches",
"bolts",
"screens",
"sieves",
"sifts",
"disinfects",
"sanitizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clouds",
"dulls",
"muddies",
"contaminates",
"dirties",
"soils",
"defiles",
"pollutes",
"taints",
"begrimes",
"besmirches",
"fouls",
"sullies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in reprocesses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reprocesses",
"reuses",
"reclaims",
"recovers",
"recycles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pronged":{
"as in barbed , spiked":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barbed",
"jagged",
"spiked",
"spikelike",
"spiky",
"spikey",
"needlelike",
"spiny",
"bladelike",
"knifelike",
"peaked",
"pointed",
"pointy",
"sharp",
"spired",
"tipped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blunt",
"dull",
"rounded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bayoneted , piked":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bayoneted",
"bayonetted",
"dirked",
"gimleted",
"piked",
"poniarded",
"quilled",
"perforated",
"riddled",
"pinpricked",
"poked",
"pricked",
"punched",
"thrust",
"spindled",
"cut",
"knifed",
"sliced",
"gored",
"harpooned",
"impaled",
"jabbed",
"lanced",
"pecked",
"picked",
"pierced",
"pinked",
"punctured",
"ran through",
"skewered",
"speared",
"spiked",
"spitted",
"stabbed",
"stuck",
"transfixed",
"transpierced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"prolificness":{
"as in fertility , productivity":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fecundity",
"fertility",
"fruitfulness",
"productiveness",
"productivity",
"prolificacy",
"prolificity",
"cleverness",
"creativeness",
"creativity",
"imagination",
"imaginativeness",
"ingeniousness",
"ingenuity",
"innovativeness",
"invention",
"inventiveness",
"originality",
"capableness",
"resourcefulness",
"genius",
"giftedness",
"talent",
"fire",
"inspiration",
"muse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dryness",
"dullness",
"dulness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"progenitor":{
"a person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent":{
"examples":[
"the progenitors of today's Maya once ruled a mighty empire that stretched across much of Central America"
],
"synonyms":[
"ancestor",
"father",
"forebear",
"forbear",
"forebearer",
"forefather",
"grandfather",
"primogenitor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antecessor",
"predecessor",
"ancestress",
"foremother",
"grandmother",
"matriarch",
"grandsire",
"patriarch",
"sire",
"ancestry",
"antecedents",
"roots"
],
"near antonyms":[
"children",
"family",
"issue",
"lineage",
"offspring",
"posterity",
"progeny",
"seed",
"stock",
"daughter",
"heir",
"inheritor",
"scion",
"son",
"successor"
],
"antonyms":[
"descendant",
"descendent"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proms":{
"a social gathering for dancing":{
"examples":[
"he resolved to ask her to the school prom at the first opportunity"
],
"synonyms":[
"balls",
"cotillions",
"cotillons",
"dances",
"formals",
"hops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowouts",
"celebrations",
"events",
"festivals",
"festivities",
"fetes",
"f\u00eates",
"galas",
"masquerades",
"masques",
"masks",
"mixers",
"parties",
"receptions",
"shindigs",
"soirees",
"soir\u00e9es",
"hoedowns",
"square dances"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"promotions":{
"a raising or a state of being raised to a higher rank or position":{
"examples":[
"after 10 years at the company he was rewarded with a promotion to vice president"
],
"synonyms":[
"advancements",
"ascents",
"creations",
"elevations",
"preferences",
"preferments",
"rises",
"upgrades"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggrandizements",
"ennoblements",
"exaltations",
"glorifications",
"magnifications"
],
"near antonyms":[
"depositions",
"dethronements",
"discharges",
"dismissals",
"expulsions",
"impeachments",
"ousters",
"overthrows",
"removals",
"suspensions",
"downfalls",
"falls"
],
"antonyms":[
"abasements",
"comedowns",
"degradations",
"demotions",
"downgrades",
"reductions"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prolong":{
"to make longer":{
"examples":[
"would like to prolong our vacation by any means possible"
],
"synonyms":[
"drag (out)",
"draw out",
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"outstretch",
"protract",
"stretch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplify",
"enlarge",
"expand",
"increase",
"attenuate",
"thin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decrease",
"diminish",
"lessen",
"reduce",
"thicken"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"curtail",
"cut",
"cut back",
"shorten"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"proliferation":{
"something added (as by growth)":{
"examples":[
"a large proliferation in the number of electrical appliances was placing enormous demands upon the region's power supply"
],
"synonyms":[
"accretion",
"accrual",
"addendum",
"addition",
"augmentation",
"boost",
"expansion",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"more",
"plus",
"raise",
"rise",
"step-up",
"supplement",
"uptick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accumulation",
"assemblage",
"collection",
"gathering",
"complement",
"accession",
"appendix",
"continuation",
"extension",
"uptrend",
"upturn",
"jump",
"run-up",
"spike"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deduction",
"subtraction"
],
"antonyms":[
"abatement",
"decline",
"decrease",
"decrement",
"depletion",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"drop-off",
"fall",
"falloff",
"lessening",
"loss",
"lowering",
"reduction",
"shrinkage",
"step-down"
]
},
"the act or process of becoming greater in number":{
"examples":[
"the proliferation of mistakes as both actors and crew became more and more tired"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulating",
"accumulation",
"addition",
"increase",
"multiplication",
"mushrooming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doubling",
"quadrupling",
"tripling",
"creep",
"growth",
"rise",
"spread",
"enlargement",
"escalation",
"expansion",
"amplification",
"distension",
"distention",
"inflation",
"accretion",
"accrual",
"augmentation",
"cumulation",
"extension",
"lengthening",
"boost",
"gain",
"hike",
"increment",
"rise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abatement",
"compressing",
"compression",
"condensation",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"constriction",
"contracting",
"contraction",
"diminishing",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"drop",
"drop-off",
"fall",
"falloff",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reduction",
"shrinkage",
"shrinking",
"retrenching",
"retrenchment",
"shortening"
],
"antonyms":[
"decrease"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"property taxes":{
"as in income taxes , sales taxes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"capitations",
"customs",
"excises",
"hidden taxes",
"income taxes",
"poll taxes",
"sales taxes",
"single taxes",
"sin taxes",
"tariffs",
"tolls",
"tributes",
"value-added taxes",
"withholding taxes",
"assessments",
"duties",
"impositions",
"imposts",
"levies",
"taxes",
"direct taxes",
"personal taxes",
"supertaxes",
"surcharges",
"surtaxes",
"death taxes",
"estate taxes",
"inheritance taxes",
"flat taxes",
"proportional taxes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"progressives":{
"as in reformers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reformers",
"centrists",
"middle-of-the-roaders",
"moderates",
"accommodationists",
"compromisers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extremists",
"radicals",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists",
"ultraists",
"conservatives",
"reactionaries",
"rightists",
"right-wingers",
"leftists",
"left-wingers",
"liberals"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prosecuting attorney":{
"as in prosecutor , district attorney":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"district attorney",
"prosecutor",
"solicitor",
"advocate",
"attorney",
"attorney-at-law",
"counsel",
"counselor",
"counsellor",
"counselor-at-law",
"lawyer",
"legal eagle",
"cocounsel",
"criminal lawyer",
"mouthpiece",
"public defender",
"trial lawyer",
"solicitor",
"jurist",
"lawgiver",
"lawmaker",
"legislator",
"solon",
"ambulance chaser",
"pettifogger",
"Philadelphia lawyer",
"shyster"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"provable":{
"capable of being proven as true or real":{
"examples":[
"the police have more than enough evidence to build a provable case against the accused"
],
"synonyms":[
"checkable",
"confirmable",
"demonstrable",
"empirical",
"empiric",
"supportable",
"sustainable",
"verifiable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"certifiable",
"documentable",
"well-founded",
"defensible",
"excusable",
"justifiable",
"vindicable",
"warrantable",
"alleged",
"assumed",
"conjectured",
"guessed",
"presumed",
"surmised",
"suspected"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debatable",
"disprovable",
"disputable",
"refutable"
],
"antonyms":[
"indemonstrable",
"insupportable",
"unprovable",
"unsupportable",
"unsustainable",
"unverifiable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"provisions":{
"substances intended to be eaten":{
"examples":[
"gave them ample provisions so they would not get hungry on the trip"
],
"synonyms":[
"bread",
"chow",
"chuck",
"comestibles",
"eatables",
"eats",
"edibles",
"fare",
"food",
"foodstuffs",
"grub",
"meat",
"provender",
"table",
"tucker",
"viands",
"victuals",
"vittles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commissary",
"rations",
"supplies",
"aliment",
"nutriment",
"diet",
"nourishment",
"nurture",
"sustenance",
"mess",
"pap",
"ensilage",
"feed",
"fodder",
"forage",
"silage",
"slop",
"swill",
"feast",
"meal",
"refreshments",
"regale",
"repast",
"spread",
"board",
"dish",
"plate",
"platter",
"serving",
"finger food",
"natural food"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bane",
"poison",
"toxin",
"venom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity":{
"examples":[
"the climbers were sufficiently provisioned to withstand just about any mountaineering emergency"
],
"synonyms":[
"accoutres",
"accouters",
"equips",
"fits (out)",
"furnishes",
"girds",
"kits (up or out)",
"outfits",
"rigs",
"supplies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"stocks",
"stores",
"bestows",
"contributes",
"donates",
"gives",
"presents",
"apportions",
"deals (out)",
"dispenses",
"distributes",
"doles out",
"hands out",
"metes (out)",
"parcels (out)",
"portions",
"prorates",
"allocates",
"allots",
"assigns",
"arms",
"fortifies",
"prepares",
"reequips",
"refits",
"refurnishes",
"reoutfits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deprives",
"dispossesses",
"divests",
"strips"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide food or meals for":{
"examples":[
"it was the quartermaster's job to properly equip and provision the troops"
],
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"boards",
"caters",
"feeds",
"victuals"
],
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"serves",
"waits",
"nourishes",
"nurtures",
"sustains",
"banquets",
"dines",
"feasts",
"regales",
"messes",
"battens",
"fattens",
"fills",
"force-feeds",
"overfeeds",
"surfeits",
"underfeeds",
"hand-feeds",
"spoon-feeds",
"refeeds",
"reprovisions"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"propagates":{
"to bring forth offspring":{
"examples":[
"the dams along the river are interfering with the salmon's ability to propagate"
],
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"breeds",
"multiplies",
"procreates",
"reproduces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bears",
"begets",
"engenders",
"genders",
"generates",
"gets",
"has",
"mothers",
"parents",
"produces",
"sires",
"hatches",
"spawns"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to be known over a considerable area or by many people":{
"examples":[
"the various ways in which churches can propagate the faith"
],
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"broadcasts",
"circulates",
"disseminates",
"spreads"
],
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"radiates",
"sprawls",
"diffuses",
"dispenses",
"disperses",
"dissipates",
"scatters",
"sows",
"communicates",
"conveys",
"imparts",
"passes (on)",
"transmits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cloaks",
"conceals",
"enshrouds",
"hides",
"holds (in)",
"masks",
"obscures",
"secretes",
"shrouds",
"veils",
"contains",
"limits",
"restricts"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"Providence":{
"careful management of material resources":{
"examples":[
"practicing its customary providence , the snowbound family was able to make the meager stores last until help arrived"
],
"synonyms":[
"economy",
"frugality",
"husbandry",
"parsimony",
"penny-pinching",
"scrimping",
"skimping",
"thrift"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conservation",
"saving",
"miserliness",
"niggardliness",
"stinginess",
"belt-tightening",
"retrenchment",
"discretion",
"forehandedness",
"prudence",
"austerity",
"moderation",
"restraint",
"temperance"
],
"near antonyms":[
"extravagance",
"improvidence",
"lavishness",
"prodigality",
"squandering"
],
"antonyms":[
"diseconomy",
"wastefulness"
]
},
"concern or preparation for the future":{
"examples":[
"had the providence to lay in supplies before the storm hit"
],
"synonyms":[
"farsightedness",
"foresight",
"foresightedness",
"forethought",
"prescience",
"vision"
],
"near synonyms":[
"precaution",
"premeditation",
"discernment",
"discretion",
"insight",
"perception",
"perceptiveness",
"prudence",
"sagaciousness",
"sagacity",
"sageness",
"sapience",
"wisdom"
],
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"antonyms":[
"improvidence",
"myopia",
"shortsightedness"
]
},
"the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe":{
"examples":[
"she trusted in Providence to see her through the crisis"
],
"synonyms":[
"Allah",
"Almighty",
"Author",
"Creator",
"deity",
"Divinity",
"Eternal",
"Everlasting",
"Father",
"God",
"Godhead",
"Jehovah",
"King",
"Lord",
"Maker",
"Supreme Being",
"Yahweh",
"Jahveh",
"Yahveh"
],
"near synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"provoked":{
"as in frustrated , harassed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"badgered",
"bedeviled",
"frustrated",
"haggled",
"harassed",
"harried",
"hassled",
"inconvenienced",
"persecuted",
"pestered",
"pinpricked",
"plagued",
"tested",
"tormented",
"tortured",
"tried",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bothered",
"exasperated",
"galled",
"irked",
"irritated",
"narked",
"peeved",
"put out",
"scunnered",
"teed off",
"vexed",
"displeased",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"troubled",
"upset",
"angered",
"angry",
"indignant",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"ireful",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rankled",
"riled",
"roiled",
"shirty",
"sore",
"steaming",
"bristly",
"cross",
"disapproving",
"huffy",
"piqued",
"resentful",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"choleric",
"churlish",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"dyspeptic",
"fretful",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"ill-humored",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"petulant",
"snappish",
"snuffy",
"testy",
"touchy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delighted",
"pleased",
"content",
"happy",
"satisfied",
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"placid",
"serene",
"tranquil"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rouse to strong feeling or action":{
"examples":[
"his teasing finally provoked her to anger",
"bees generally will not sting unless they are provoked"
],
"synonyms":[
"aroused",
"encouraged",
"excited",
"fired (up)",
"impassioned",
"incited",
"instigated",
"moved",
"piqued",
"revved (up)",
"sparked",
"stimulated",
"stirred"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fanned",
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled",
"triggered",
"activated",
"animated",
"drove",
"energized",
"galvanized",
"induced",
"inspired",
"keyed (up)",
"motivated",
"motived",
"pumped up",
"quickened",
"set off",
"vitalized",
"abetted",
"fermented",
"fomented",
"raised",
"whipped (up)",
"angered",
"enraged",
"maddened",
"upset",
"jeered",
"taunted",
"teased",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bothered",
"exasperated",
"galled",
"got",
"irritated",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calmed",
"soothed",
"subdued",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized",
"appeased",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring (something volatile or intense) into being":{
"examples":[
"rankings that are sure to provoke an argument among film buffs"
],
"synonyms":[
"abetted",
"brewed",
"fermented",
"fomented",
"incited",
"instigated",
"picked",
"raised",
"stirred (up)",
"whipped (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advanced",
"cultivated",
"encouraged",
"forwarded",
"fostered",
"furthered",
"nourished",
"nurtured",
"promoted",
"sowed",
"stimulated",
"detonated",
"set",
"set off",
"triggered",
"excited",
"galvanized",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"inspired",
"motivated",
"roused",
"activated",
"energized",
"enlivened",
"fired",
"invigorated",
"jazzed (up)",
"livened (up)",
"pepped (up)",
"quickened",
"stimulated",
"vitalized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bridled",
"checked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"discouraged",
"held",
"inhibited",
"regulated",
"reined (in)",
"restrained",
"tamed",
"allayed",
"calmed",
"quieted",
"settled",
"soothed",
"stilled",
"subdued",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"propagated":{
"to bring forth offspring":{
"examples":[
"the dams along the river are interfering with the salmon's ability to propagate"
],
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"bred",
"multiplied",
"procreated",
"reproduced"
],
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"begot",
"begat",
"bore",
"engendered",
"gendered",
"generated",
"got",
"had",
"mothered",
"parented",
"produced",
"sired",
"hatched",
"spawned"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to be known over a considerable area or by many people":{
"examples":[
"the various ways in which churches can propagate the faith"
],
"synonyms":[
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"circulated",
"disseminated",
"spread"
],
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"radiated",
"sprawled",
"diffused",
"dispensed",
"dispersed",
"dissipated",
"scattered",
"sowed",
"communicated",
"conveyed",
"imparted",
"passed (on)",
"transmitted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cloaked",
"concealed",
"enshrouded",
"held (in)",
"hid",
"masked",
"obscured",
"secreted",
"shrouded",
"veiled",
"contained",
"limited",
"restricted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"promo":{
"as in campaign , promotion":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ballyhoo",
"boost",
"buildup",
"campaign",
"plug",
"promotion",
"propaganda",
"publicity",
"ad",
"advert",
"advertisement",
"announcement",
"bulletin",
"communiqu\u00e9",
"notice",
"notification",
"posting",
"release",
"broadside",
"brochure",
"circular",
"flyer",
"flier",
"fly sheet",
"gazette",
"handbill",
"handout",
"bill",
"billboard",
"placard",
"playbill",
"poster",
"show bill",
"sign",
"broadcast",
"cablecast",
"newscast",
"telecast",
"advertising",
"billing",
"blurb",
"come-on",
"commercial",
"message",
"pitch",
"plugola",
"spot",
"word",
"communication",
"dispatch",
"report",
"annunciation",
"declaration",
"edict",
"proclamation",
"promulgation",
"pronouncement",
"pronunciamento",
"rescript",
"signification"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"promised lands":{
"an often imaginary place or state of utter perfection and happiness":{
"examples":[
"finally realized that the promised land doesn't exist"
],
"synonyms":[
"Camelots",
"Cockaignes",
"Edens",
"Elysiums",
"Elysia",
"empyreans",
"fantasylands",
"heavens",
"lotuslands",
"never-never lands",
"New Jerusalems",
"nirvanas",
"paradises",
"Shangri-las",
"utopias",
"Zions",
"Sions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arcadias",
"dreamlands",
"dreamworlds",
"fairylands",
"wonderlands",
"blisses",
"euphorias",
"joys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fool's paradises"
],
"antonyms":[
"anti-utopias",
"dystopias",
"hells"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"productions":{
"something produced by physical or intellectual effort":{
"examples":[
"the total production of one week's intensive labor"
],
"synonyms":[
"affairs",
"fruits",
"handiworks",
"labors",
"outputs",
"produces",
"products",
"things",
"works",
"yields"
],
"near synonyms":[
"articles",
"commodities",
"entries",
"objects",
"goods",
"lines",
"merchandises",
"wares",
"handcrafts",
"handicrafts",
"aftereffects",
"aftermaths",
"conclusions",
"consequences",
"corollaries",
"developments",
"effects",
"issues",
"outcomes",
"resultants",
"results",
"sequels",
"sequences",
"upshots",
"by-products",
"byproducts",
"derivatives",
"offshoots",
"offspring",
"offsprings",
"outgrowths",
"residuals",
"side effects",
"side reactions",
"spin-offs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"profligacies":{
"immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society":{
"examples":[
"a religious leader who railed against the profligacy of the nation's decadent aristocrats"
],
"synonyms":[
"corruption",
"debauchery",
"depravity",
"immorality",
"iniquitousness",
"iniquity",
"libertinage",
"libertinism",
"licentiousness",
"sin",
"vice"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bad",
"badness",
"blackness",
"evil",
"evildoing",
"ill",
"turpitude",
"villainy",
"wickedness",
"wrong",
"atrociousness",
"evilness",
"heinousness",
"sinfulness",
"unscrupulousness",
"viciousness",
"vileness",
"villainousness",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"fiendishness",
"corruptness",
"debasement",
"degeneracy",
"degeneration",
"depravedness",
"dissoluteness",
"dissolution",
"indecency",
"lasciviousness",
"lechery",
"lewdness",
"looseness",
"perversion",
"pervertedness",
"wantonness",
"abomination",
"anathema",
"taboo",
"tabu",
"criminality",
"reprehensibleness",
"baseness",
"despicableness",
"dirtiness",
"lowness",
"meanness",
"lousiness",
"miserableness",
"wretchedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"good",
"right",
"honesty",
"honor",
"integrity",
"legitimacy",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"scrupulosity",
"scrupulousness",
"uprightness",
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtuousness",
"blamelessness",
"chastity",
"innocence",
"perfection",
"pureness",
"purity",
"spotlessness",
"cleanness",
"correctness",
"decency",
"decorousness",
"propriety",
"rightness",
"seemliness"
],
"antonyms":[
"morality",
"virtue"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"promisingly":{
"as in favorably , auspiciously":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"auspiciously",
"favorably",
"perfectly",
"correctly",
"properly",
"rightly",
"aright",
"right",
"well",
"appropriately",
"fittingly",
"suitably"
],
"near antonyms":[
"afield",
"amiss",
"astray",
"awry",
"wrong",
"badly",
"faultily",
"improperly",
"inappropriately",
"incorrectly",
"mistakenly",
"wrongly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"pronunciamentoes":{
"as in pronouncements , declarations":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"annunciations",
"declarations",
"edicts",
"proclamations",
"promulgations",
"pronouncements",
"rescripts",
"significations",
"bulls",
"decrees",
"diktats",
"directives",
"edicts",
"fiats",
"rescripts",
"rulings",
"ukases",
"statements",
"utterances",
"ads",
"advertisements",
"adverts",
"announcements",
"bulletins",
"communiqu\u00e9s",
"notices",
"notifications",
"postings",
"releases",
"broadcasts",
"cablecasts",
"newscasts",
"telecasts",
"advertisings",
"billings",
"blurbs",
"come-ons",
"commercials",
"messages",
"pitches",
"plugolas",
"spots",
"words",
"communications",
"dispatches",
"reports",
"ballyhoos",
"boosts",
"buildups",
"campaigns",
"plugs",
"promos",
"promotions",
"propagandas",
"publicities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proportionate":{
"corresponding in size, amount, extent, or degree":{
"examples":[
"expect financial returns proportionate to your efforts"
],
"synonyms":[
"commensurable",
"commensurate",
"proportional"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balanced",
"symmetrical",
"symmetric",
"correlative",
"reciprocal",
"contingent",
"dependent",
"relative",
"akin",
"comparable",
"similar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"asymmetrical",
"asymmetric",
"distorted",
"irregular",
"lopsided",
"nonsymmetrical",
"twisted",
"unsymmetrical",
"unbalanced"
],
"antonyms":[
"disproportionate"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"prodigalities":{
"an instance of spending money or resources without care or restraint":{
"examples":[
"his purchase of a new yacht was only one of a series of reckless prodigalities"
],
"synonyms":[
"extravagances",
"wastes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"indulgences",
"luxuries",
"splurges",
"losses",
"wastages",
"dissipations",
"profligacies",
"profusions",
"overindulgences",
"self-indulgences",
"excesses",
"immoderacies",
"overkills"
],
"near antonyms":[
"necessities",
"belt-tightenings",
"conservations",
"economies",
"frugalities",
"parsimonies",
"penny-pinchings",
"savings",
"thrifts",
"austerities",
"moderations",
"restraints",
"temperances"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"propagation":{
"as in transmission , spread":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"spread",
"transmission",
"broadcasting",
"circulation",
"dissemination",
"distribution",
"advertising",
"announcement",
"annunciation",
"communication",
"declaration",
"enunciation",
"notification",
"proclamation",
"promotion",
"promulgation",
"propaganda",
"publicity",
"syndication",
"advent",
"appearance",
"arrival",
"debut",
"d\u00e9but",
"emergence",
"manufacture",
"printing",
"production",
"coming out",
"issuing",
"publication",
"publishing",
"putting out",
"release"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censorship",
"suppression"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prolixity":{
"the use of too many words to express an idea":{
"examples":[
"prolixity is one of the worst offenses that a writer of any age can commit"
],
"synonyms":[
"circumlocution",
"diffuseness",
"diffusion",
"garrulity",
"garrulousness",
"logorrhea",
"long-windedness",
"periphrasis",
"redundancy",
"verbalism",
"verbiage",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"probationer":{
"as in candidate , entrant":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"candidate",
"entrant",
"entry",
"abecedarian",
"apprentice",
"babe",
"beginner",
"colt",
"cub",
"fledgling",
"freshman",
"greenhorn",
"neophyte",
"newbie",
"newcomer",
"novice",
"novitiate",
"punk",
"recruit",
"rook",
"rookie",
"tenderfoot",
"tyro",
"virgin",
"competitor",
"contestant",
"favorite",
"qualifier",
"applicant",
"applier",
"aspirant",
"campaigner",
"contender",
"expectant",
"hopeful",
"prospect",
"seeker",
"amateur",
"dabbler",
"dilettante",
"learner",
"student",
"trainee"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dropout",
"noncandidate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in parolee":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"parolee",
"lifer",
"trusty",
"captive",
"capture",
"inmate",
"internee",
"prisoner",
"con",
"convict",
"jailbird"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"propping up":{
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"these beams are propping up the entire roof"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing",
"bolstering",
"bracing",
"buttressing",
"carrying",
"shoring (up)",
"staying",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"undergirding",
"underpinning",
"upholding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"steadying",
"trussing",
"underlying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end":{
"examples":[
"invariably his strong religious faith props him up in times of crisis"
],
"synonyms":[
"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"backing",
"backstopping",
"helping",
"supporting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advancing",
"easing",
"facilitating",
"forwarding",
"fostering",
"furthering",
"launching",
"championing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"patronizing",
"promoting",
"sponsoring",
"attending",
"caring (for)",
"comforting",
"ministering (to)",
"succoring",
"sustaining",
"bolstering",
"boosting",
"buttressing",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"advising",
"counseling",
"counselling",
"guiding",
"mentoring",
"nurturing",
"bailing out",
"delivering",
"rescuing",
"saving",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"benefiting",
"benefitting",
"favoring",
"obliging",
"profiting",
"serving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balking",
"barring",
"blocking",
"constraining",
"hampering",
"handicapping",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"inhibiting",
"obstructing",
"restraining",
"strangling",
"baffling",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"inconveniencing",
"interfering",
"opposing",
"sabotaging",
"thwarting",
"deserting",
"disappointing",
"failing",
"letting down",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"repressing",
"retarding",
"stifling",
"straitening",
"stunting",
"damaging",
"harming",
"hurting",
"injuring"
],
"antonyms":[
"hindering"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"professes":{
"to present a false appearance of":{
"examples":[
"professed friendship while secretly plotting revenge"
],
"synonyms":[
"acts",
"affects",
"assumes",
"bluffs",
"counterfeits",
"dissembles",
"fakes",
"feigns",
"passes (for)",
"pretends",
"puts on",
"shams",
"simulates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissimulates",
"impersonates",
"lets on",
"masquerades",
"playacts",
"plays",
"poses",
"forges",
"imitates",
"camouflages",
"conceals",
"disguises",
"masks",
"feints",
"malingers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to state clearly and strongly":{
"examples":[
"the lonely woman professed her love in a series of letters to the soldier"
],
"synonyms":[
"affirms",
"asserts",
"avers",
"avouches",
"avows",
"declares",
"guarantees",
"lays down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advances",
"advertises",
"boosts",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"publicizes",
"announces",
"blazes",
"calls",
"proclaims",
"pronounces",
"says",
"accents",
"accentuates",
"emphasizes",
"stresses",
"underlines",
"underscores",
"advocates",
"champions",
"defends",
"espouses",
"supports",
"upholds",
"assures",
"convinces",
"persuades",
"explains",
"justifies",
"rationalizes",
"reaffirms",
"reasserts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"minimizes",
"understates",
"disregards",
"ignores",
"neglects",
"overlooks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to state as a fact usually forcefully":{
"examples":[
"he professed his innocence to anyone who would listen"
],
"synonyms":[
"affirms",
"alleges",
"asserts",
"avers",
"avouches",
"avows",
"claims",
"contends",
"declares",
"insists",
"maintains",
"protests",
"purports",
"warrants"
],
"near synonyms":[
"announces",
"broadcasts",
"proclaims",
"argues",
"rationalizes",
"reasons",
"confirms",
"justifies",
"vindicates",
"defends",
"perseveres",
"supports",
"upholds",
"reaffirms",
"reasserts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandons",
"disavows",
"disclaims",
"disowns",
"negates",
"negatives",
"rejects",
"repudiates",
"challenges",
"disputes",
"questions",
"confutes",
"disproves",
"rebuts",
"refutes",
"contradicts",
"counters"
],
"antonyms":[
"denies",
"gainsays"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"profanation":{
"an act of great disrespect shown to God or to sacred ideas, people, or things":{
"examples":[
"the First Book of the Maccabees tells of the profanation of the temple of Jerusalem by Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 167 b.c."
],
"synonyms":[
"blasphemy",
"defilement",
"desecration",
"impiety",
"irreverence",
"sacrilege"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cursing",
"profanity",
"swearing",
"affront",
"insult",
"violation",
"contamination",
"corruption",
"debasement",
"pollution",
"sin",
"trespass"
],
"near antonyms":[
"consecration",
"purification",
"sanctification",
"reverence",
"veneration"
],
"antonyms":[
"adoration",
"glorification",
"worship"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prop (up)":{
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"these beams are propping up the entire roof"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear",
"bolster",
"brace",
"buttress",
"carry",
"shore (up)",
"stay",
"support",
"sustain",
"undergird",
"underpin",
"uphold"
],
"near synonyms":[
"steady",
"truss",
"underlie"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end":{
"examples":[
"invariably his strong religious faith props him up in times of crisis"
],
"synonyms":[
"abet",
"aid",
"assist",
"back",
"backstop",
"help",
"support"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advance",
"ease",
"facilitate",
"forward",
"foster",
"further",
"launch",
"champion",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"patronize",
"promote",
"sponsor",
"attend",
"care (for)",
"comfort",
"minister (to)",
"succor",
"sustain",
"bolster",
"boost",
"buttress",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"advise",
"counsel",
"guide",
"mentor",
"nurture",
"bail out",
"deliver",
"rescue",
"save",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"benefit",
"favor",
"oblige",
"profit",
"serve"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balk",
"bar",
"block",
"constrain",
"hamper",
"handicap",
"hold back",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"obstruct",
"restrain",
"strangle",
"baffle",
"foil",
"frustrate",
"inconvenience",
"interfere",
"oppose",
"sabotage",
"thwart",
"desert",
"disappoint",
"fail",
"let down",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"repress",
"retard",
"stifle",
"straiten",
"stunt",
"damage",
"harm",
"hurt",
"injure"
],
"antonyms":[
"hinder"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prohibitions":{
"an order that something not be done or used":{
"examples":[
"the school issued a prohibition against wearing clothing with obscene and provocative slogans"
],
"synonyms":[
"bans",
"embargoes",
"interdictions",
"interdicts",
"proscriptions",
"vetoes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"no-no's",
"no-nos",
"taboos",
"tabus",
"constraints",
"inhibitions",
"limitations",
"restraints",
"restrictions",
"deterrents",
"discouragements",
"repressions",
"suppressions",
"preventions",
"denials",
"disallowances",
"negations",
"refusals",
"rejections",
"objections",
"protests",
"caveats",
"warnings",
"commandments",
"decrees",
"dictates",
"edicts",
"injunctions",
"mandates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sufferances",
"tolerances",
"tolerations",
"allowances",
"authorizations",
"clearances",
"consents",
"leaves",
"licenses",
"licences",
"permissions",
"sanctions",
"approbations",
"approvals",
"blessings",
"endorsements",
"indorsements",
"imprimaturs",
"OKs",
"okays",
"encouragements",
"facilitations",
"promotions",
"supports",
"compliances",
"obediences",
"submissions",
"accessions",
"acquiescences",
"agreements",
"assents"
],
"antonyms":[
"prescriptions"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"promote":{
"to move higher in rank or position":{
"examples":[
"the navy promoted her to captain for her record of outstanding performance"
],
"synonyms":[
"advance",
"elevate",
"raise",
"upgrade"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forward",
"further",
"aggrandize",
"boost",
"heighten",
"improve",
"lift",
"uplift",
"commission",
"ennoble",
"knight",
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"celebrate",
"cite",
"commend",
"compliment",
"congratulate",
"decorate",
"eulogize",
"exalt",
"extol",
"extoll",
"glorify",
"hail",
"honor",
"laud",
"praise",
"salute"
],
"near antonyms":[
"depose",
"dethrone",
"dismiss",
"expel",
"impeach",
"oust",
"overthrow",
"remove",
"unmake",
"unseat",
"demean",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"humble",
"humiliate",
"mortify",
"shame",
"take down",
"censure",
"condemn",
"damn",
"denounce",
"reprobate"
],
"antonyms":[
"abase",
"degrade",
"demote",
"downgrade",
"lower",
"reduce"
]
},
"to help the growth or development of":{
"examples":[
"a campaign promoting good dental hygiene"
],
"synonyms":[
"advance",
"cultivate",
"encourage",
"forward",
"foster",
"further",
"incubate",
"nourish",
"nurse",
"nurture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advocate",
"back",
"champion",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"support",
"uphold",
"endow",
"finance",
"fund",
"patronize",
"stake",
"subsidize",
"underwrite",
"abet",
"aid",
"assist",
"advertise",
"boost",
"plug",
"publicize",
"tout",
"agitate (for)",
"campaign (for)",
"work (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ban",
"bar",
"enjoin",
"forbid",
"interdict",
"outlaw",
"prevent",
"prohibit",
"proscribe",
"battle",
"combat",
"contend (with)",
"counter",
"fight",
"oppose",
"repress",
"snuff (out)",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stifle",
"subdue",
"suppress",
"arrest",
"check",
"halt",
"retard",
"encumber",
"fetter",
"hobble",
"impede",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"obstruct",
"shackle"
],
"antonyms":[
"discourage",
"frustrate",
"hinder",
"inhibit"
]
},
"to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care":{
"examples":[
"spends all her time now promoting her new business"
],
"synonyms":[
"crop",
"cultivate",
"culture",
"dress",
"grow",
"raise",
"rear",
"tend"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breed",
"produce",
"propagate",
"plant",
"sow",
"gather",
"glean",
"harvest",
"reap",
"germinate",
"quicken",
"ripen",
"root",
"sprout"
],
"near antonyms":[
"kill",
"dig",
"extirpate",
"pick",
"pluck",
"pull (up)",
"uproot",
"cut",
"hay",
"mow"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide publicity for":{
"examples":[
"promoting a new line of toys based on the popular movie"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhoo",
"boost",
"hype",
"pitch",
"plug",
"publicize",
"talk up",
"tout"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertise",
"bark",
"merchandise",
"merchandize",
"sell",
"push",
"acclaim",
"hail",
"laud",
"praise",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"plump (for)",
"plunk (for)",
"plonk (for)",
"recommend",
"review",
"announce",
"broadcast",
"publish"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"provocateurs":{
"a person who stirs up public feelings especially of discontent":{
"examples":[
"a calculating provocateur , she has made a career out of controversy for its own sake"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitators",
"demagogues",
"demagogs",
"exciters",
"firebrands",
"fomenters",
"incendiaries",
"inciters",
"instigators",
"kindlers",
"rabble-rousers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demonstrators",
"marchers",
"objectors",
"picketers",
"protesters",
"protestors",
"advocates",
"apostles",
"backers",
"boosters",
"champions",
"exponents",
"persuaders",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"reformers",
"reformists",
"supporters",
"alarmists",
"extremists",
"insurgents",
"insurrectionists",
"radicals",
"rebels",
"revolters",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists",
"subversives",
"troublemakers",
"prodders",
"prompters",
"provokers",
"agents provocateurs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"peacemakers",
"reconcilers",
"uniters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prolegomena":{
"as in studies , discussions":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"discourses",
"discussions",
"expositions",
"studies",
"articles",
"compositions",
"essays",
"papers",
"themes",
"primers",
"textbooks",
"texts",
"monographs",
"tracts",
"treatises",
"causeries",
"columns",
"commentaries",
"editorials",
"features",
"reports",
"reviews",
"write-ups",
"dissertations",
"theses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prorogate":{
"to bring to a formal close for a period of time":{
"examples":[
"the conference was prorogated until the following morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"adjourn",
"prorogue",
"recess",
"suspend"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break off",
"disband",
"discontinue",
"disperse",
"intermit",
"interrupt",
"defer",
"hold off",
"postpone",
"put off",
"reserve",
"shelve",
"table",
"dissolve",
"end",
"halt",
"stop",
"terminate",
"break up",
"close",
"conclude",
"wind up",
"wrap up",
"abort",
"call",
"call off",
"drop",
"recall",
"repeal",
"rescind",
"revoke",
"abrogate",
"annul",
"invalidate",
"negate",
"nullify",
"quash",
"void"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inaugurate",
"launch",
"open",
"carry on",
"continue",
"draw out",
"extend",
"proceed",
"prolong",
"renew",
"reopen",
"resume",
"assemble",
"call",
"convene",
"convoke",
"muster",
"rally",
"summon"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"proportional":{
"corresponding in size, amount, extent, or degree":{
"examples":[
"the Web site's popularity increased exponentially, resulting in a proportional increase in advertising revenue"
],
"synonyms":[
"commensurable",
"commensurate",
"proportionate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balanced",
"symmetrical",
"symmetric",
"correlative",
"reciprocal",
"contingent",
"dependent",
"relative",
"akin",
"comparable",
"similar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"asymmetrical",
"asymmetric",
"distorted",
"irregular",
"lopsided",
"nonsymmetrical",
"twisted",
"unsymmetrical",
"unbalanced"
],
"antonyms":[
"disproportionate"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"prospects":{
"all that can be seen from a certain point":{
"examples":[
"gazing at the wide prospect spread out before me"
],
"synonyms":[
"commands",
"lookouts",
"outlooks",
"panoramas",
"perspectives",
"views",
"vistas"
],
"near synonyms":[
"landscapes",
"sceneries",
"scenes",
"kens",
"sights",
"visual fields"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one who seeks an office, honor, position, or award":{
"examples":[
"a good prospect for the position of auditor"
],
"synonyms":[
"applicants",
"appliers",
"aspirants",
"campaigners",
"candidates",
"contenders",
"expectants",
"hopefuls",
"seekers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"competitors",
"contestants",
"entrants",
"entries",
"favorites",
"qualifiers",
"dark horses",
"spoilers",
"stalking horses",
"crown princes",
"favorite sons",
"claimants",
"pretenders",
"nominees",
"running mates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incumbents",
"officeholders",
"awardees",
"honorees",
"inductees",
"dropouts"
],
"antonyms":[
"noncandidates"
]
},
"something that can develop or become actual":{
"examples":[
"one highly desirable prospect for the city is a major-league franchise"
],
"synonyms":[
"capabilities",
"eventualities",
"possibilities",
"potentialities",
"potentials"
],
"near synonyms":[
"likelihoods",
"probabilities",
"latencies",
"potencies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actualities",
"realities",
"certainties"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or state of looking forward to some occurrence":{
"examples":[
"the prospect of a quiet, restful Sunday ended when our basement flooded"
],
"synonyms":[
"anticipations",
"contemplations",
"expectances",
"expectancies",
"expectations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alarms",
"alarums",
"apprehensions",
"dreads",
"forebodings",
"misgivings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go into or range over for purposes of discovery":{
"examples":[
"soon all manner of people had arrived in the valley to prospect it for gold"
],
"synonyms":[
"explores",
"hunts",
"probes",
"searches",
"skirrs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reconnoiters",
"reconnoitres",
"scouts",
"discloses",
"discovers",
"reveals",
"unearths",
"fathoms",
"plumbs",
"sounds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"prompts":{
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"examples":[
"a misguided pride prompted the family to refuse all offers of help"
],
"synonyms":[
"begets",
"breeds",
"brings",
"brings about",
"brings on",
"catalyzes",
"causes",
"creates",
"does",
"draws on",
"effects",
"effectuates",
"engenders",
"generates",
"induces",
"invokes",
"makes",
"occasions",
"produces",
"results (in)",
"spawns",
"translates (into)",
"works",
"yields"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conduces (to)",
"contributes (to)",
"decides",
"determines",
"begins",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"inaugurates",
"initiates",
"innovates",
"institutes",
"introduces",
"launches",
"pioneers",
"sets",
"sets up",
"starts",
"advances",
"cultivates",
"develops",
"encourages",
"forwards",
"fosters",
"furthers",
"nourishes",
"nurtures",
"promotes",
"enacts",
"renders",
"turns out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impedes",
"limits",
"restricts",
"clamps down (on)",
"cracks down (on)",
"crushes",
"dampens",
"puts down",
"quashes",
"quells",
"represses",
"smothers",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"stifles",
"subdues",
"suppresses",
"arrests",
"checks",
"controls",
"curbs",
"inhibits",
"reins (in)",
"restrains",
"retards",
"cans",
"kills",
"snuffs (out)",
"stills",
"abolishes",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"extinguishes",
"liquidates",
"quenches"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action":{
"examples":[
"prompted the reluctant performer onto the stage with loud cheers and whistles"
],
"synonyms":[
"eggs (on)",
"encourages",
"exhorts",
"goads",
"nudges",
"presses",
"prods",
"urges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drives",
"propels",
"spurs",
"stimulates",
"hurries",
"hustles",
"pushes",
"rushes",
"adjures",
"beseeches",
"implores",
"importunes",
"blandishes",
"cajoles",
"coaxes",
"soft-soaps",
"wheedles",
"high-pressures",
"nags",
"needles",
"pressures",
"foments",
"incites",
"instigates",
"provokes",
"stirs (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deters",
"discourages",
"dissuades",
"brakes",
"checks",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"holds back",
"inhibits",
"restrains"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in reminders , urgings":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reminders",
"urgings",
"briefs",
"directions",
"feedback",
"instructions",
"observations",
"answers",
"clues",
"solutions",
"cautions",
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"signs",
"telltales",
"tip-offs",
"warnings",
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"advisements",
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"guidance",
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"suggestions",
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"leads",
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"tips"
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"verb"
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],
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"sacrifices",
"victims",
"libations",
"oblations",
"holocausts",
"contributions",
"donations"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"proposition":{
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"supposition",
"theory",
"thesis"
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"concession",
"premise",
"premiss",
"presumption",
"presupposition",
"theorem",
"conjecture",
"generalization",
"guess",
"guesswork",
"inference",
"speculation",
"surmise",
"proffer",
"proposal",
"suggestion",
"feeling",
"hunch",
"impression",
"inkling",
"notion",
"suspicion",
"abstraction",
"concept",
"conception",
"construct"
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"assurance",
"certainty",
"fact",
"knowledge"
],
"antonyms":[]
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"a neighbor with a business proposition to tell us about"
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"offer",
"proffer",
"proposal",
"suggestion"
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"counterproposal",
"countersuggestion",
"feeler",
"overture",
"motion",
"advancement",
"nomination",
"recommendation",
"bid",
"presentation",
"submission",
"submittal",
"tender",
"arrangement",
"game",
"ground plan",
"layout",
"line",
"plan",
"plot",
"project",
"strategy",
"system",
"conception",
"idea",
"notion",
"theory",
"thought"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"guarded",
"safeguarded",
"secure",
"secured",
"shielded",
"defendable",
"defensible",
"tenable",
"bulletproof",
"impregnable",
"indomitable",
"invincible",
"inviolable",
"invulnerable",
"unassailable",
"unbeatable",
"unconquerable",
"untouchable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indefensible",
"untenable",
"vincible",
"vulnerable",
"assailable",
"exposed",
"imperiled",
"imperilled",
"insecure",
"liable",
"open",
"susceptible",
"undefended",
"unguarded",
"unprotected",
"unsecured",
"defenseless",
"helpless",
"powerless",
"weak"
],
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"to drive danger or attack away from":{
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"the mother bear was just trying to protect her cubs"
],
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"bulwarked",
"covered",
"defended",
"fenced",
"fended",
"forfended",
"guarded",
"kept",
"safeguarded",
"screened",
"secured",
"shielded",
"warded"
],
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"averted",
"prevented",
"opposed",
"resisted",
"withstood",
"battled",
"contended",
"fought",
"warred",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"saved",
"buffered",
"palisaded",
"picketed",
"walled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombarded",
"stormed",
"beset",
"besieged",
"overran",
"capitulated",
"caved",
"submitted",
"yielded"
],
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"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"problematic":{
"requiring exceptional skill or caution in performance or handling":{
"examples":[
"the problematic situation of somehow having two dates for the same party"
],
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"catchy",
"delicate",
"difficult",
"dodgy",
"hairy",
"knotty",
"nasty",
"prickly",
"sensitive",
"spiny",
"sticky",
"thorny",
"ticklish",
"touchy",
"tough",
"tricksy",
"tricky"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abstract",
"abstruse",
"complex",
"complicated",
"hard",
"intricate",
"involved",
"recondite",
"serious",
"problem",
"scabrous",
"stubborn",
"troublesome",
"troublous",
"vexatious",
"vexing",
"worrisome",
"burdensome",
"demanding",
"discommoding",
"exacting",
"exhausting",
"importunate",
"inconvenient",
"onerous",
"oppressive",
"painful",
"stressful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"easy",
"effortless",
"manageable",
"painless",
"simple",
"straightforward",
"uncomplicated",
"undemanding",
"unproblematic"
],
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},
"giving good reason for being doubted, questioned, or challenged":{
"examples":[
"whether we should even bother finishing the project at this point is problematic"
],
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"debatable",
"disputable",
"dodgy",
"doubtable",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"dubitable",
"equivocal",
"fishy",
"queer",
"questionable",
"shady",
"shaky",
"suspect",
"suspicious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alleged",
"so-called",
"supposed",
"moot",
"ambiguous",
"open",
"unclear",
"uncertain",
"undecided",
"undetermined",
"far-fetched",
"flimsy",
"improbable",
"unlikely",
"weak"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decisive",
"definitive",
"clear",
"obvious",
"open-and-shut",
"positive"
],
"antonyms":[
"certain",
"hands-down",
"incontestable",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"questionless",
"sure",
"undeniable",
"undoubted",
"unproblematic",
"unquestionable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"profiles":{
"as in silhouettes , outlines":{
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"contours",
"outlines",
"silhouettes",
"casts",
"configurations",
"conformations",
"fashions",
"figures",
"forms",
"geometries",
"shapes",
"frames",
"frameworks",
"shells",
"skeletons",
"arrangements",
"designs",
"formats",
"layouts",
"makeups",
"organizations",
"patterns",
"plans",
"setups"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compositions",
"materials",
"matters",
"raw materials",
"stuff",
"substances"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in character sketches":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"character sketches",
"obituaries",
"chronicles",
"histories",
"pasts",
"stories",
"pathographies",
"tell-alls",
"psychobiographies",
"hagiographies",
"autobiographies",
"biographies",
"bios",
"lives",
"memoirs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to produce a representation of the shape of the head as seen from the side":{
"examples":[
"his likeness was profiled against a background of vegetation"
],
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"near synonyms":[
"outlines",
"draws",
"pictures",
"caricatures",
"cartoons",
"crayons",
"inks",
"pencils",
"scrawls",
"scribbles",
"sketches"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"prodding":{
"to urge or push forward with or as if with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"kept prodding the sheep with a staff to move along faster"
],
"synonyms":[
"digging",
"goading",
"spurring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chucking",
"jabbing",
"jogging",
"knocking",
"nudging",
"poking",
"boring",
"drilling",
"perforating",
"piercing",
"pricking",
"punching",
"puncturing",
"stabbing",
"sticking",
"driving",
"haling",
"propelling"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action":{
"examples":[
"a public outcry eventually prodded the politicians into action"
],
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"egging (on)",
"encouraging",
"exhorting",
"goading",
"nudging",
"pressing",
"prompting",
"urging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"driving",
"propelling",
"spurring",
"stimulating",
"hurrying",
"hustling",
"pushing",
"rushing",
"adjuring",
"beseeching",
"imploring",
"importuning",
"blandishing",
"cajoling",
"coaxing",
"soft-soaping",
"wheedling",
"high-pressuring",
"nagging",
"needling",
"pressuring",
"fomenting",
"inciting",
"instigating",
"provoking",
"stirring (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deterring",
"discouraging",
"dissuading",
"braking",
"checking",
"constraining",
"curbing",
"holding back",
"inhibiting",
"restraining"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"profits":{
"the amount of money left when expenses are subtracted from the total amount received":{
"examples":[
"after we deducted the cost of sugar, lemons, and paper cups, the profit from a day of lemonade sales was about $20"
],
"synonyms":[
"earnings",
"gains",
"lucre",
"nets",
"payoffs",
"proceeds",
"returns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleanups",
"killings",
"windfalls",
"bottom lines",
"grosses",
"sales",
"compensations",
"emoluments",
"incomes",
"payments",
"pays",
"remittals",
"requitals",
"salaries",
"wages",
"interests",
"revenues",
"yields"
],
"near antonyms":[
"charges",
"costs",
"disbursements",
"expenditures",
"expenses",
"losses",
"outgoes",
"outlays"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide with something useful or desirable":{
"examples":[
"an agreement that profited us all"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantages",
"avails",
"benefits",
"helps",
"serves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"succeeds",
"works (for)",
"aids",
"assists",
"betters",
"improves",
"contents",
"delights",
"gladdens",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"satisfies",
"blesses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hinders",
"impedes",
"damages",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"afflicts",
"distresses",
"upsets"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"profile":{
"as in silhouette , outline":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"contour",
"outline",
"silhouette",
"cast",
"configuration",
"conformation",
"fashion",
"figure",
"form",
"geometry",
"shape",
"frame",
"framework",
"shell",
"skeleton",
"arrangement",
"design",
"format",
"layout",
"makeup",
"organization",
"pattern",
"plan",
"setup"
],
"near antonyms":[
"composition",
"material",
"matter",
"raw material",
"stuff",
"substance"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in character sketch":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"character sketch",
"obituary",
"chronicle",
"history",
"past",
"story",
"pathography",
"tell-all",
"psychobiography",
"hagiography",
"autobiography",
"bio",
"biography",
"life",
"memoir"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to produce a representation of the shape of the head as seen from the side":{
"examples":[
"his likeness was profiled against a background of vegetation"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"outline",
"draw",
"picture",
"caricature",
"cartoon",
"crayon",
"ink",
"pencil",
"scrawl",
"scribble",
"sketch"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"proselytizer":{
"as in soldier , missionary":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"apostle",
"missionary",
"soldier",
"acolyte",
"adherent",
"convert",
"disciple",
"epigone",
"follower",
"liege man",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"pupil",
"votarist",
"votary",
"faithful",
"loyalist",
"advocate",
"backer",
"champion",
"supporter",
"prot\u00e9g\u00e9",
"scholar",
"student",
"ideologist",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"sectarian",
"admirer",
"cultist",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"idolater",
"idolator",
"worshipper",
"worshiper",
"zealot",
"apparatchik",
"camp follower",
"flunky",
"flunkey",
"flunkie",
"hanger-on",
"henchman",
"lackey",
"lickspittle",
"minion",
"myrmidon",
"satellite",
"stooge",
"sycophant",
"toady",
"yes-man"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coryphaeus",
"leader",
"apostate",
"defector",
"renegade",
"traitor",
"turncoat"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"profundity":{
"the quality of being great in extent (as of insight)":{
"examples":[
"a philosopher who is widely respected for the profundity of her thinking"
],
"synonyms":[
"deepness",
"depth",
"profoundness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discernment",
"perception",
"perceptiveness",
"perceptivity",
"percipience",
"sagacity",
"sapience",
"sense",
"sensibility",
"wisdom",
"braininess",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"intellect",
"intelligence",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"reason",
"sense",
"smartness",
"wit",
"acuity",
"acuteness",
"keenness",
"penetration",
"perspicacity",
"sensitivity",
"sharpness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shallowness",
"superficiality",
"brainlessness",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"mindlessness",
"simpleness",
"stupidity",
"witlessness",
"illogic",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"unsoundness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prostrates":{
"to diminish the physical strength of":{
"examples":[
"an athlete prostrated for weeks by a bout of pneumonia"
],
"synonyms":[
"debilitates",
"devitalizes",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"etiolates",
"saps",
"softens",
"tires",
"wastes",
"weakens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cripples",
"disables",
"hamstrings",
"incapacitates",
"depletes",
"depresses",
"exhausts",
"impoverishes",
"unmans",
"washes out",
"damages",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"invalids",
"lays up",
"breaks down",
"grinds (down)",
"wears down",
"wears out",
"paralyzes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"energizes",
"invigorates",
"recruits",
"rejuvenates",
"vitalizes",
"hardens",
"seasons",
"toughens"
],
"antonyms":[
"beefs (up)",
"fortifies",
"strengthens"
]
},
"to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move":{
"examples":[
"the huge increase in gas prices really prostrated the nation's economic engine"
],
"synonyms":[
"cripples",
"disables",
"hamstrings",
"immobilizes",
"incapacitates",
"paralyzes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attenuates",
"debilitates",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"tires",
"undercuts",
"undermines",
"weakens",
"hobbles",
"lames",
"maims",
"mutilates",
"knocks out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"energizes",
"galvanizes",
"invigorates",
"vitalizes",
"fortifies",
"strengthens",
"empowers",
"freshens",
"refreshens",
"refreshes",
"regenerates",
"rejuvenates",
"restores",
"revitalizes",
"revives"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stress":{
"examples":[
"a widow prostrated by crushing grief"
],
"synonyms":[
"crushes",
"devastates",
"floors",
"grinds (down)",
"oppresses",
"overcomes",
"overmasters",
"overpowers",
"overwhelms",
"snows under",
"swamps",
"whelms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deluges",
"drowns",
"sinks",
"confutes",
"defeats",
"refutes",
"breaks",
"demoralizes",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"rocks",
"shatters",
"staggers",
"throws",
"unmans",
"unnerves",
"upsets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"the boxer bragged that he could prostrate any opponent with a single blow"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowls (down or over)",
"downs",
"drops",
"fells",
"floors",
"knocks down",
"knocks over",
"levels",
"mows (down)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayoes",
"knocks out",
"KOs",
"overthrows",
"throws down",
"topples",
"bangs",
"bashes",
"belts",
"bludgeons",
"clobbers",
"hammers",
"hits",
"jabs",
"pastes",
"pokes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slogs",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smites",
"socks",
"swats",
"swipes",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"whacks",
"whales"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"producers":{
"a person who supervises or finances the making of a work (such as a stage show or movie) to be shown to the public":{
"examples":[
"The producer was having trouble finding an actress for the lead role."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"impresarios",
"stage managers",
"directors",
"regisseurs",
"stage directors",
"auteurs",
"directresses",
"backers",
"guarantors",
"patronesses",
"patrons",
"sponsors",
"sureties"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person or business that manufactures or grows something":{
"examples":[
"The vineyard is the biggest wine producer in the region."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"makers",
"manufacturers",
"builders",
"creators",
"agriculturists",
"agriculturalists",
"agronomists",
"cultivators",
"farmers",
"growers",
"planters",
"tillers",
"factories",
"manufactories",
"mills",
"plants",
"shops",
"works",
"workshops",
"distributors",
"providers",
"provisioners",
"purveyors",
"suppliers",
"dealers",
"merchandisers",
"merchants",
"traders",
"tradesmen",
"traffickers",
"retailers",
"sellers",
"vendors",
"venders",
"businessmen",
"businesspersons",
"businesswomen",
"enterprisers",
"entrepreneurs",
"buyers",
"marketers",
"purchasers",
"jobbers",
"middlemen",
"wholesalers",
"authors",
"begetters",
"establishers",
"fathers",
"founders",
"founding fathers",
"generators",
"inaugurators",
"initiators",
"instituters",
"institutors",
"originators",
"sires",
"groundbreakers",
"pioneers",
"planners",
"researchers",
"researchists",
"dreamers",
"conceivers",
"contrivers",
"designers",
"developers",
"devisers",
"formulators",
"innovators",
"introducers",
"inventors",
"originators",
"spawners",
"architects",
"engineers",
"masterminds",
"cocreators",
"co-creators",
"codevelopers",
"co-developers",
"cofounders",
"co-founders",
"coinventors",
"co-inventors",
"coproducers",
"co-producers",
"coresearchers",
"co-researchers",
"artists",
"mechanics",
"operatives",
"shapers",
"smiths",
"wrights",
"craftswomen",
"journeymen",
"masters",
"handymen",
"handypeople",
"workmen",
"artificers",
"artisans",
"crafters",
"craftsmen",
"craftspeople",
"handcraftsmen",
"handicrafters",
"handicraftsmen",
"handworkers",
"tradesmen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proviso":{
"something upon which the carrying out of an agreement or offer depends":{
"examples":[
"released the drunken revelers with the proviso that they behave for the remainder of the Mardi Gras"
],
"synonyms":[
"condition",
"contingency",
"if",
"provision",
"qualification",
"reservation",
"stipulation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"strings",
"terms",
"precondition",
"prerequisite",
"requirement",
"requisite",
"limitation",
"modification",
"restriction",
"exception",
"exemption",
"demand",
"essential",
"must",
"necessity",
"need"
],
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"power"
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"challenges",
"disputes",
"questions",
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"negations"
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"noun"
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"curtailments",
"cutbacks",
"shortenings"
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"tutoress",
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"noun"
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"buildups",
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"flyers",
"fliers",
"fly sheets",
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"handouts",
"billboards",
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"placards",
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"show bills",
"signs",
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"cablecasts",
"newscasts",
"telecasts",
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"noun"
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"provider",
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"supplier",
"businessman",
"enterpriser",
"entrepreneur",
"buyer",
"marketer",
"purchaser",
"hawker",
"huckster",
"hustler",
"peddler",
"pedlar",
"retailer",
"seller",
"shopkeeper",
"storekeeper",
"vendor",
"vender",
"engrosser",
"monopolist",
"jobber",
"middleman",
"wholesaler",
"dealer",
"merchandiser",
"merchant",
"trader",
"tradesman",
"trafficker"
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"noun"
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"avowal",
"claim",
"declaration",
"insistence",
"profession"
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"announcement",
"proclamation",
"pronouncement",
"argument",
"justification",
"rationalization",
"reason",
"confirmation",
"reaffirmation",
"reconfirmation",
"vindication"
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"challenge",
"dispute",
"question",
"confutation",
"disproof",
"rebuttal",
"refutation",
"contradiction",
"denial",
"negation"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"we can proceed with the meeting as soon as everyone has returned from lunch"
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"picks up",
"renews",
"reopens",
"restarts",
"resumes"
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"revives",
"recrudesces"
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"concludes",
"consummates",
"ends",
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"breaks",
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"ceases",
"checks",
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"knocks off",
"leaves off",
"quits",
"scuttles",
"shuts off",
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"stops",
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"verb"
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"as in declarations , proclamations":{
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"edicts",
"proclamations",
"pronouncements",
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"pronunciamentoes",
"rescripts",
"significations",
"bulls",
"decrees",
"diktats",
"directives",
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"fiats",
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"rulings",
"ukases",
"statements",
"utterances",
"ads",
"advertisements",
"adverts",
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"notifications",
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"broadcasts",
"cablecasts",
"newscasts",
"telecasts",
"advertisings",
"billings",
"blurbs",
"come-ons",
"commercials",
"messages",
"pitches",
"plugolas",
"spots",
"words",
"communications",
"dispatches",
"reports",
"ballyhoos",
"boosts",
"buildups",
"campaigns",
"plugs",
"promos",
"promotions",
"propagandas",
"publicities"
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"noun"
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"examples":[
"playfully he propelled his rambunctious friend into the swimming pool to cool off"
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"pushed",
"shoved",
"thrust"
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"moved",
"bore (down)",
"compressed",
"depressed",
"jammed",
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"squashed",
"squeezed",
"weighed (upon)",
"bulldozed",
"compelled",
"forced",
"leaned (on or against)",
"muscled",
"rammed"
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"examples":[
"the aircraft is propelled by a pair of turboprop engines"
],
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"drove",
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"moved",
"worked",
"wrought"
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"activated",
"motivated",
"provoked",
"abetted",
"fermented",
"fomented",
"incited",
"raised",
"stirred (up)",
"whipped (up)",
"set off",
"triggered",
"tripped",
"aroused",
"excited",
"fired (up)",
"galvanized",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"inspired",
"instigated",
"roused",
"stimulated"
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"bridled",
"checked",
"constrained",
"contained",
"controlled",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"regulated",
"reined (in)",
"restrained"
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"type":[
"verb"
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"a series of things linked together":{
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"a progression of events that ended in utter disaster for the arctic explorers"
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"catenae",
"catenas",
"catenations",
"chains",
"concatenations",
"consecutions",
"nexuses",
"nexus",
"sequences",
"strings",
"trains"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chain reactions",
"belts",
"circles",
"cycles",
"vicious circles",
"vicious cycles",
"continua",
"continuums",
"gamuts",
"gauntlets",
"gantlets",
"scales",
"spectra",
"spectrums",
"flows",
"rivers",
"streams",
"files",
"lines",
"queues",
"ranges",
"rows",
"successions"
],
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"antonyms":[]
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"examples":[
"our progression was slow but steady"
],
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"advancements",
"advances",
"furtherances",
"goings",
"headways",
"marches",
"onrushes",
"passages",
"processes",
"processions",
"progresses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"currents",
"drifts",
"flows",
"fluxes",
"streams",
"ways",
"advents",
"approaches",
"arrivals",
"comings",
"bounds",
"jumps",
"leaps",
"steps",
"strides",
"impetuses",
"momenta",
"momentums"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backwashes",
"ebbs",
"refluxes",
"retractions",
"returns",
"reversals",
"reverses",
"about-faces",
"turnabouts",
"turnarounds"
],
"antonyms":[
"recesses",
"recessions",
"regresses",
"regressions",
"retreats",
"retrogressions"
]
},
"the act or process of going from the simple or basic to the complex or advanced":{
"examples":[
"that civilization's gradual progression from simple bartering to a complex economy and monetary system"
],
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"developments",
"elaborations",
"evolutions",
"expansions",
"growths",
"progresses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advancements",
"betterments",
"improvements",
"perfections",
"refinements",
"incubations",
"maturations",
"flowerings",
"additions",
"augmentations",
"enhancements",
"supplementations",
"emergences",
"evolvements",
"metamorphoses"
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"near antonyms":[
"backslides",
"lapses",
"relapses",
"decadences",
"decays",
"declensions",
"declinations",
"declines",
"degeneracies",
"degenerations",
"degradations",
"descents",
"deteriorations",
"devaluations",
"downfalls",
"downgrades"
],
"antonyms":[
"regresses",
"regressions",
"retrogressions",
"reversions"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"to begin again or return to after an interruption":{
"examples":[
"we can proceed with the meeting as soon as everyone has returned from lunch"
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"synonyms":[
"continued",
"picked up",
"renewed",
"reopened",
"restarted",
"resumed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"resuscitated",
"revived",
"recrudesced"
],
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"completed",
"concluded",
"consummated",
"ended",
"finalized",
"finished",
"belayed",
"broke",
"canned",
"ceased",
"checked",
"cut",
"desisted",
"discontinued",
"dropped",
"halted",
"knocked off",
"left off",
"quit",
"quitted",
"scuttled",
"shut off",
"stayed",
"stopped",
"terminated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"provocation":{
"something that arouses a strong response from another":{
"examples":[
"a patient man who gets angry only from the greatest of provocations"
],
"synonyms":[
"excitement",
"incitation",
"incitement",
"instigation"
],
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"encouragement",
"galvanization",
"goad",
"incentive",
"inducement",
"jog",
"prod",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulation",
"stimulus",
"enticement",
"lure",
"induction",
"inspiration",
"motivation",
"aggravation",
"annoyance",
"bother",
"exasperation",
"frustration",
"hassle",
"headache",
"irritant",
"nuisance",
"peeve",
"pest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"subduing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that arouses action or activity":{
"examples":[
"ready to retaliate at the slightest provocation"
],
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"boost",
"encouragement",
"goad",
"impetus",
"impulse",
"incentive",
"incitation",
"incitement",
"instigation",
"momentum",
"motivation",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"yeast"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inducement",
"invitation",
"antecedent",
"cause",
"consideration",
"grounds",
"motive",
"occasion",
"reason",
"catalyst",
"catalyzer",
"fuel",
"spark"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"counterincentive",
"disincentive"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"profiled":{
"to produce a representation of the shape of the head as seen from the side":{
"examples":[
"his likeness was profiled against a background of vegetation"
],
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"near synonyms":[
"outlined",
"drew",
"pictured",
"caricatured",
"cartooned",
"crayoned",
"inked",
"penciled",
"pencilled",
"scrawled",
"scribbled",
"sketched"
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"profitable":{
"yielding a profit":{
"examples":[
"selling real estate on the side turned out to be a profitable venture for the stay-at-home mom"
],
"synonyms":[
"economic",
"fat",
"gainful",
"juicy",
"lucrative",
"moneymaking",
"money-spinning",
"paying",
"remunerative"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"favorable",
"rewarding",
"useful",
"worthwhile",
"bankable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disadvantageous",
"unfavorable"
],
"antonyms":[
"unprofitable"
]
},
"promoting or contributing to personal or social well-being":{
"examples":[
"I have always found honesty to be a profitable course of action"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantageous",
"benefic",
"beneficent",
"beneficial",
"benignant",
"favorable",
"friendly",
"good",
"helpful",
"kindly",
"salutary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gratifying",
"rewarding",
"satisfying",
"auspicious",
"promising",
"propitious",
"advisable",
"desirable",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"salubrious",
"salutiferous",
"wholesome",
"gainful",
"lucrative",
"remunerative",
"ameliorative",
"amelioratory",
"bettering",
"constructive",
"supportive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damaging",
"deleterious",
"harmful",
"injurious",
"insalubrious"
],
"antonyms":[
"bad",
"disadvantageous",
"unfavorable",
"unfriendly",
"unhelpful",
"unprofitable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"projects":{
"a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective":{
"examples":[
"an ambitious project to develop the city's waterfront"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrangements",
"blueprints",
"designs",
"game plans",
"games",
"ground plans",
"master plans",
"plans",
"programs",
"road maps",
"schemes",
"strategies",
"systems"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collusions",
"conspiracies",
"plots",
"contrivances",
"devices",
"gambits",
"maneuvers",
"ruses",
"stratagems",
"subterfuges",
"tricks",
"counterplans",
"counterstrategies",
"counter-strategies",
"means",
"tactics",
"techniques",
"ways",
"procedures",
"protocols",
"conceptions",
"ideas",
"projets",
"proposals",
"specifications",
"specifics",
"aims",
"intentions",
"intents",
"purposes",
"diagrams",
"formulas",
"formulae",
"layouts",
"maps",
"patterns",
"platforms",
"policies",
"recipes",
"setups"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"some boulders projected dangerously out above the trail"
],
"synonyms":[
"bags",
"balloons",
"beetles",
"bellies",
"billows",
"bulges",
"bunches",
"juts",
"overhangs",
"pokes",
"pooches",
"pouches",
"pouts",
"protrudes",
"stands out",
"starts",
"sticks out",
"swells"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domes",
"blows up",
"inflates",
"dilates",
"distends",
"expands",
"mushrooms",
"snowballs",
"elongates",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"stretches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"shrinks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to work out the details of (something) in advance":{
"examples":[
"we must project next year's budget now"
],
"synonyms":[
"arranges",
"blueprints",
"budgets",
"calculates",
"charts",
"choreographs",
"designs",
"frames",
"lays out",
"maps (out)",
"organizes",
"plans",
"prepares",
"schemes (out)",
"shapes",
"strategizes (about)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conspires",
"contrives",
"devises",
"intrigues",
"machinates",
"plots",
"puts up",
"concerts",
"gets up",
"drafts",
"outlines",
"sketches",
"aims",
"figures",
"has on",
"intends",
"means",
"contemplates",
"meditates",
"premeditates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"proselytizers":{
"as in soldiers , missionaries":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"apostles",
"missionaries",
"soldiers",
"acolytes",
"adherents",
"converts",
"disciples",
"epigones",
"followers",
"liege men",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"pupils",
"votaries",
"votarists",
"faithfuls",
"loyalists",
"advocates",
"backers",
"champions",
"supporters",
"prot\u00e9g\u00e9s",
"scholars",
"students",
"ideologists",
"ideologues",
"idealogues",
"sectarians",
"admirers",
"cultists",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fans",
"idolaters",
"idolators",
"worshippers",
"worshipers",
"zealots",
"apparatchiks",
"apparatchiki",
"camp followers",
"flunkies",
"flunkeys",
"hangers-on",
"henchmen",
"lackeys",
"lickspittles",
"minions",
"myrmidons",
"satellites",
"stooges",
"sycophants",
"toadies",
"yes-men"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coryphaei",
"leaders",
"apostates",
"defectors",
"renegades",
"traitors",
"turncoats"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"progressivism":{
"as in progressiveness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"progressiveness",
"broad-mindedness",
"liberalism",
"liberality",
"open-mindedness",
"tolerance"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bigotry",
"dogmatism",
"illiberalism",
"illiberality",
"illiberalness",
"intolerance",
"intolerantness",
"narrow-mindedness",
"opinionatedness",
"partisanship",
"sectarianism",
"small-mindedness",
"conservatism",
"reactionaryism",
"insularism",
"insularity",
"parochialism",
"provincialism"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proclaim":{
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"loudly proclaimed her innocence, to widespread disbelief"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertise",
"announce",
"annunciate",
"blare",
"blaze",
"blazon",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"enunciate",
"flash",
"give out",
"herald",
"placard",
"post",
"promulgate",
"publicize",
"publish",
"release",
"sound",
"trumpet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bark",
"call (off or out)",
"cry",
"bill",
"billboard",
"bulletin",
"gazette",
"knell",
"ring",
"toll",
"blurb",
"feature",
"pitch",
"plug",
"promote",
"puff",
"disseminate",
"spread",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"introduce",
"kithe",
"manifest",
"report",
"reveal",
"show",
"advise",
"apprise",
"hand down",
"inform",
"notify",
"communicate",
"impart",
"intimate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceal",
"hush (up)",
"silence",
"suppress",
"withhold",
"recall",
"recant",
"retract",
"revoke"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prostituted":{
"to lower in character, dignity, or quality":{
"examples":[
"a serious writer prostituting himself by writing pulp novels for money"
],
"synonyms":[
"abased",
"bastardized",
"cankered",
"cheapened",
"corrupted",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"deteriorated",
"lessened",
"perverted",
"poisoned",
"profaned",
"subverted",
"vitiated",
"warped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"diluted",
"dirtied",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"thinned",
"watered down",
"weakened",
"descended",
"disgraced",
"dishonored",
"humbled",
"humiliated",
"shamed",
"took down",
"blemished",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"destroyed",
"flawed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"marred",
"ruined",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"stained",
"tarnished",
"wrecked",
"depreciated",
"downgraded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dignified",
"exalted",
"honored",
"ameliorated",
"amended",
"bettered",
"enhanced",
"enriched",
"improved",
"meliorated",
"perfected",
"clarified",
"cleaned",
"cleansed",
"purified",
"refined",
"restored",
"respected"
],
"antonyms":[
"elevated",
"ennobled",
"uplifted"
]
},
"to put to a bad or improper use":{
"examples":[
"urged not to prostitute her musical talents by writing jingles for TV commercials"
],
"synonyms":[
"abused",
"misapplied",
"misemployed",
"misused",
"perverted",
"profaned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"degraded",
"twisted",
"mismanaged",
"corrupted",
"debased",
"desecrated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applied",
"employed",
"used",
"utilized",
"respected"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prose":{
"as in prosaic , unpoetic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"prosaic",
"unlyrical",
"unpoetic",
"factual",
"literal",
"matter-of-fact",
"antipoetic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bardic",
"lyric",
"lyrical",
"poetic",
"poetical",
"poeticized",
"metrical",
"metric",
"rhyming",
"riming",
"rhythmic",
"rhythmical",
"rhapsodic",
"rhapsodical"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"propounds":{
"to set before the mind for consideration":{
"examples":[
"let us propound the question whether mercy killing should ever be an option"
],
"synonyms":[
"advances",
"bounces",
"offers",
"poses",
"proffers",
"proposes",
"suggests",
"votes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"moves",
"nominates",
"recommends",
"presents",
"submits",
"tenders",
"trots out",
"files",
"lays",
"lodges",
"arranges",
"calculates",
"charts",
"contrives",
"covers",
"frames",
"maps",
"plans",
"plots",
"shapes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"protrusions":{
"a part that sticks out from the general mass of something":{
"examples":[
"the bizarrely shaped protrusions of a coral reef"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulges",
"bunches",
"convexities",
"juts",
"overhangs",
"projections",
"protuberances",
"swells"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domes",
"blobs",
"bumps",
"dilatations",
"gibbosities",
"humps",
"knobs",
"knots",
"knurls",
"lumps",
"nubs",
"obtrusions",
"puffs",
"snags",
"swellings",
"blocks",
"pieces",
"portions",
"sections",
"enlargements",
"escalations",
"expansions",
"increases",
"hills",
"mounds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"craters",
"holes",
"wells",
"basins",
"bowls",
"dips",
"valleys",
"furrows",
"grooves",
"trenches",
"troughs",
"dimples",
"gouges",
"impressions",
"notches",
"pockets"
],
"antonyms":[
"cavities",
"concaves",
"concavities",
"dents",
"depressions",
"dints",
"hollows",
"indentations",
"indents",
"indentures",
"pits",
"recesses"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"protesting":{
"as in complaining , whining":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"complaining",
"fussing",
"griping",
"grumbling",
"kvetching",
"squawking",
"whining",
"uncompromising",
"unforgiving",
"unyielding",
"impatient",
"intolerant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"enduring",
"forbearing",
"patient",
"tolerant",
"accepting",
"forgiving",
"long-suffering",
"resigned",
"uncomplaining",
"willing",
"indulgent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to state as a fact usually forcefully":{
"examples":[
"he protested that he usually was very good at baseball, and all the strikeouts were just bad luck"
],
"synonyms":[
"affirming",
"alleging",
"asserting",
"averring",
"avouching",
"avowing",
"claiming",
"contending",
"declaring",
"insisting",
"maintaining",
"professing",
"purporting",
"warranting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"announcing",
"broadcasting",
"proclaiming",
"arguing",
"rationalizing",
"reasoning",
"confirming",
"justifying",
"vindicating",
"defending",
"persevering",
"supporting",
"upholding",
"reaffirming",
"reasserting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandoning",
"disavowing",
"disclaiming",
"disowning",
"negating",
"negativing",
"rejecting",
"repudiating",
"challenging",
"disputing",
"questioning",
"confuting",
"disproving",
"rebutting",
"refuting",
"contradicting",
"countering"
],
"antonyms":[
"denying",
"gainsaying"
]
},
"to present an opposing opinion or argument":{
"examples":[
"plans to protest against the judge's ruling regarding admissible evidence"
],
"synonyms":[
"demurring",
"excepting",
"expostulating",
"kicking",
"objecting",
"remonstrating (with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caviling",
"cavilling",
"quibbling",
"challenging",
"daring",
"defying",
"fighting",
"conflicting",
"debating",
"disputing",
"hassling",
"quarreling",
"quarrelling",
"squabbling",
"wrangling",
"beefing",
"bellyaching",
"bitching",
"bleating",
"carping",
"caterwauling",
"complaining",
"crabbing",
"croaking",
"fussing",
"griping",
"grizzling",
"grouching",
"grousing",
"growling",
"grumbling",
"grumping",
"hollering",
"keening",
"maundering",
"moaning",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"nagging",
"repining",
"screaming",
"squawking",
"squealing",
"wailing",
"whimpering",
"whinging",
"whingeing",
"whining",
"yammering",
"yawping",
"yauping",
"yowling",
"balking",
"gagging",
"sticking",
"censuring",
"criticizing",
"denouncing",
"disobeying",
"rebelling",
"withstanding",
"demonstrating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approving",
"sanctioning",
"accepting",
"acceding",
"acquiescing",
"agreeing",
"assenting",
"adhering",
"complying",
"conforming",
"following",
"minding",
"obeying",
"observing",
"advocating",
"championing",
"defending",
"maintaining",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"upholding",
"applauding",
"cheering",
"commending"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"propounding":{
"to set before the mind for consideration":{
"examples":[
"let us propound the question whether mercy killing should ever be an option"
],
"synonyms":[
"advancing",
"bouncing",
"offering",
"posing",
"proffering",
"proposing",
"suggesting",
"voting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"moving",
"nominating",
"recommending",
"presenting",
"submitting",
"tendering",
"trotting out",
"filing",
"laying",
"lodging",
"arranging",
"calculating",
"charting",
"contriving",
"covering",
"framing",
"mapping",
"planning",
"plotting",
"shaping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"propellents":{
"as in kindlings":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"kindlings",
"energies",
"fuels",
"powers",
"forces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proprietorship":{
"as in ownership":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ownership",
"control",
"enjoyment",
"hands",
"keeping",
"possession",
"authority",
"command",
"dominion",
"mastery",
"power",
"repossession",
"retention",
"claiming",
"collaring",
"commandeering",
"confiscation",
"procurement"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonpossession",
"dispossession",
"relinquishment",
"surrendering",
"transferal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"procures":{
"to receive as return for effort":{
"examples":[
"a reputation for integrity and incorruptibility that has procured for him the universal respect and admiration of his colleagues"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquires",
"attains",
"bags",
"brings in",
"captures",
"carries",
"comes by",
"draws",
"earns",
"gains",
"garners",
"gets",
"knocks down",
"lands",
"makes",
"obtains",
"pulls down",
"realizes",
"reaps",
"secures",
"wins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clears",
"grosses",
"nets",
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"notches (up)",
"scores",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"racks up",
"catches",
"picks up",
"annexes",
"occupies",
"takes over",
"reacquires",
"reattains",
"recaptures",
"regains",
"remakes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accords",
"gives",
"grants",
"pays",
"gives up",
"hands over",
"parts (with)",
"relinquishes",
"surrenders",
"yields"
],
"antonyms":[
"forfeits",
"loses"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"procurators":{
"a person who acts or does business for another":{
"examples":[
"he was appointed procurator of the church and was responsible for all of the financial arrangements"
],
"synonyms":[
"agents",
"assignees",
"attorneys",
"commissaries",
"delegates",
"deputies",
"envoys",
"factors",
"ministers",
"proxies",
"representatives",
"reps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ambassadors",
"diplomatists",
"diplomats",
"emissaries",
"foreign ministers",
"legates",
"plenipotentiaries",
"alternates",
"backups",
"pinch hitters",
"reliefs",
"replacements",
"stand-ins",
"subs",
"substitutes",
"surrogates",
"understudies",
"informers",
"operatives",
"spies",
"brokers",
"distributors",
"managers",
"arbiters",
"arbitrators",
"compradors",
"compradores",
"conciliators",
"go-betweens",
"intercessors",
"intermediaries",
"interposers",
"liaisons",
"mediators",
"middlemen",
"peacemakers",
"mouthpieces",
"point men",
"point people",
"prophets",
"speakers",
"spokesmen",
"spokespeople"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"profundities":{
"the quality of being great in extent (as of insight)":{
"examples":[
"a philosopher who is widely respected for the profundity of her thinking"
],
"synonyms":[
"deepness",
"depth",
"profoundness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discernment",
"perception",
"perceptiveness",
"perceptivity",
"percipience",
"sagacity",
"sapience",
"sense",
"sensibility",
"wisdom",
"braininess",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"intellect",
"intelligence",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"reason",
"sense",
"smartness",
"wit",
"acuity",
"acuteness",
"keenness",
"penetration",
"perspicacity",
"sensitivity",
"sharpness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shallowness",
"superficiality",
"brainlessness",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"mindlessness",
"simpleness",
"stupidity",
"witlessness",
"illogic",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"unsoundness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"promptness":{
"the quality or habit of arriving or being ready on time":{
"examples":[
"the promptness of the local bus line has always been reassuring"
],
"synonyms":[
"promptitude",
"punctuality",
"timeliness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alacrity",
"aptness",
"quickness",
"readiness",
"willingness",
"earliness",
"prematurity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belatedness",
"lateness",
"slowness"
],
"antonyms":[
"tardiness",
"unpunctuality"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prompters":{
"as in prodders , provokers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"prodders",
"provokers",
"alarmists",
"extremists",
"insurgents",
"insurrectionists",
"radicals",
"rebels",
"revolters",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists",
"subversives",
"troublemakers",
"agents provocateurs",
"advocates",
"apostles",
"backers",
"boosters",
"champions",
"exponents",
"persuaders",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"reformers",
"reformists",
"supporters",
"demonstrators",
"marchers",
"objectors",
"picketers",
"protesters",
"protestors",
"agitators",
"demagogues",
"demagogs",
"exciters",
"firebrands",
"fomenters",
"incendiaries",
"inciters",
"instigators",
"kindlers",
"provocateurs",
"rabble-rousers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"peacemakers",
"reconcilers",
"uniters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"procurers":{
"a man who solicits clients for a woman who is willing to engage in sexual activities for money":{
"examples":[
"had carved out a career as a procurer of high-priced call girls for wealthy, powerful men"
],
"synonyms":[
"cadets",
"fancy men",
"panders",
"pimps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mack daddies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proselytized":{
"to persuade to change to one's religious faith":{
"examples":[
"the efforts of early missionaries to proselytize the Native Americans of Minnesota were largely unproductive"
],
"synonyms":[
"converted",
"proselyted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missionized",
"brainwashed",
"influenced",
"swayed",
"propagated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"secularized",
"dissuaded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prohibits":{
"to order not to do or use or to be done or used":{
"examples":[
"the city prohibits swimming in the lake after dark"
],
"synonyms":[
"bans",
"bars",
"enjoins",
"forbids",
"interdicts",
"outlaws",
"proscribes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deters",
"discourages",
"dissuades",
"clamps down (on)",
"cracks down (on)",
"crushes",
"puts down",
"quashes",
"quells",
"represses",
"silences",
"snuffs (out)",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"subdues",
"suppresses",
"halts",
"precludes",
"prevents",
"stops",
"embargoes",
"excludes",
"rules out",
"shuts out",
"debars",
"deprives",
"disallows",
"rejects",
"repudiates",
"vetoes",
"bridles",
"checks",
"curbs",
"inhibits",
"reins (in)",
"restrains",
"blocks",
"hinders",
"impedes",
"obstructs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approves",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"sanctions",
"authorizes",
"licenses",
"licences",
"warrants",
"abets",
"advances",
"cultivates",
"encourages",
"forwards",
"furthers",
"nourishes",
"nurtures",
"promotes",
"supports",
"bids",
"commands",
"orders",
"abides",
"bears",
"brooks",
"countenances",
"endures",
"tolerates"
],
"antonyms":[
"allows",
"lets",
"permits",
"suffers"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"produced":{
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"examples":[
"hopefully, the new approach to fighting substance abuse will produce better results"
],
"synonyms":[
"begot",
"begat",
"bred",
"brought",
"brought about",
"brought on",
"catalyzed",
"caused",
"created",
"did",
"drew on",
"effected",
"effectuated",
"engendered",
"generated",
"induced",
"invoked",
"made",
"occasioned",
"prompted",
"resulted (in)",
"spawned",
"translated (into)",
"worked",
"wrought",
"yielded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conduced (to)",
"contributed (to)",
"decided",
"determined",
"began",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"instituted",
"introduced",
"launched",
"pioneered",
"set",
"set up",
"started",
"advanced",
"cultivated",
"developed",
"encouraged",
"forwarded",
"fostered",
"furthered",
"nourished",
"nurtured",
"promoted",
"enacted",
"rendered",
"turned out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impeded",
"limited",
"restricted",
"clamped down (on)",
"cracked down (on)",
"crushed",
"dampened",
"put down",
"quashed",
"quelled",
"repressed",
"smothered",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"stifled",
"subdued",
"suppressed",
"arrested",
"checked",
"controlled",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"reined (in)",
"restrained",
"retarded",
"canned",
"killed",
"snuffed (out)",
"stilled",
"abolished",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"extinguished",
"liquidated",
"quenched"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring forth from the womb":{
"examples":[
"rabbits can potentially produce many offspring at once"
],
"synonyms":[
"birthed",
"bore",
"delivered",
"dropped",
"had",
"mothered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"labored",
"bred",
"multiplied",
"propagated",
"reproduced",
"spawned",
"begot",
"begat",
"fathered",
"generated",
"got",
"sired",
"calved",
"kidded",
"kindled",
"kittened",
"littered",
"pupped",
"whelped"
],
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"aborted",
"lost",
"miscarried"
],
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"to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials":{
"examples":[
"a factory producing steel"
],
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"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"formed",
"framed",
"made",
"manufactured"
],
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"assembled",
"built",
"constructed",
"erected",
"made up",
"put up",
"raised",
"reared",
"set up",
"structured",
"threw up",
"crafted",
"handcrafted",
"hewed",
"forged",
"molded",
"shaped",
"cobbled (together or up)",
"knocked out",
"patched (together)",
"threw up",
"prefabricated",
"created",
"invented",
"minted",
"originated",
"established",
"fathered",
"instituted",
"organized",
"concocted",
"contrived",
"cooked (up)",
"designed",
"devised",
"imagined",
"thought (up)",
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"pictured",
"visualized",
"refashioned",
"remade",
"remanufactured"
],
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"disassembled",
"dismantled",
"took apart",
"broke up",
"dismembered",
"abolished",
"annihilated",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"eradicated",
"exterminated",
"extinguished",
"flattened",
"pulverized",
"razed",
"ruined",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"wrecked",
"blew up",
"exploded"
],
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"to present so as to invite notice or attention":{
"examples":[
"he produced his brand-new driver's license at every possible opportunity"
],
"synonyms":[
"displayed",
"disported",
"exhibited",
"exposed",
"flashed",
"flaunted",
"laid out",
"paraded",
"showed",
"showed off",
"sported",
"strutted",
"unveiled"
],
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"brandished",
"flourished",
"waved",
"advertised",
"aired",
"announced",
"blazed",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"heralded",
"placarded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"publicized",
"sounded",
"trumpeted",
"divulged",
"talked (about)",
"told (of)",
"bared",
"discovered",
"revealed",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflaged",
"disguised",
"masked",
"concealed",
"covered",
"curtained",
"enshrouded",
"hid",
"obscured",
"occluded",
"occulted",
"shrouded",
"veiled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prosperity":{
"the state of being successful usually by making a lot of money":{
"examples":[
"This was a period of prosperity for our nation.",
"economic prosperity"
],
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"near synonyms":[
"abundance",
"affluence",
"success",
"assets",
"capital",
"fortune",
"means",
"opulence",
"riches",
"substance",
"wealth",
"wherewithal",
"worth",
"fitness",
"health",
"healthiness",
"robustness",
"soundness",
"wellness",
"wholeness",
"wholesomeness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"failure",
"hardship",
"nonsuccess",
"indebtedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prong":{
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"tine",
"pinpoint",
"barb",
"jag",
"prickle",
"snag",
"spike",
"sticker",
"apex",
"cusp",
"end",
"nib",
"nose",
"pike",
"point",
"tip"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bayonet , pike":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bayonet",
"dirk",
"gimlet",
"pike",
"poniard",
"quill",
"perforate",
"riddle",
"pinprick",
"poke",
"prick",
"punch",
"thrust",
"spindle",
"cut",
"knife",
"slice",
"gore",
"harpoon",
"impale",
"jab",
"lance",
"peck",
"pick",
"pierce",
"pink",
"puncture",
"run through",
"skewer",
"spear",
"spike",
"spit",
"stab",
"stick",
"transfix",
"transpierce"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"prolog":{
"a performance, activity, or event that precedes and sets the stage for the main event":{
"examples":[
"unfortunately, the burglary, which he committed while still a teen, was but a prologue to a wasted life of crime"
],
"synonyms":[
"curtain-raiser",
"overture",
"preamble",
"preliminary",
"prelude",
"warm-up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countdown",
"run-up",
"lead-in",
"kickoff",
"start"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a short section (as of a book) that leads to or explains the main part":{
"examples":[
"a brief prologue sets the scene for the story that follows"
],
"synonyms":[
"exordium",
"foreword",
"intro",
"introduction",
"preamble",
"preface",
"prelude",
"proem",
"prolusion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beginning",
"commencement",
"initiation",
"opening",
"origin",
"origination",
"outset",
"start"
],
"near antonyms":[
"envoi",
"envoy",
"postscript",
"aftermath",
"cessation",
"close",
"closing",
"conclusion",
"end",
"finale",
"finish",
"stop",
"termination"
],
"antonyms":[
"epilogue",
"epilog"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"protruded":{
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"we spotted the kitten's tail protruding from beneath the dresser"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagged",
"ballooned",
"beetled",
"bellied",
"billowed",
"bulged",
"bunched",
"jutted",
"overhung",
"poked",
"pooched",
"pouched",
"pouted",
"projected",
"started",
"stood out",
"stuck out",
"swelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domed",
"blew up",
"inflated",
"dilated",
"distended",
"expanded",
"mushroomed",
"snowballed",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"stretched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"shrank",
"shrunk"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"propriety":{
"socially acceptable behavior":{
"examples":[
"some people miss the straitlaced propriety that was largely abandoned in the 1960s"
],
"synonyms":[
"decency",
"decorum",
"form"
],
"near synonyms":[
"etiquette",
"civility",
"courteousness",
"courtesy",
"gentilesse",
"gentility",
"graciousness",
"mannerliness",
"politeness",
"politesse",
"dignity",
"grace",
"refinement",
"discretion",
"prudence",
"appropriateness",
"correctitude",
"correctness",
"decorousness",
"fitness",
"rightness",
"seemliness",
"attention",
"attentiveness",
"care",
"carefulness",
"character",
"goodness",
"high-mindedness",
"honesty",
"honor",
"integrity",
"morality",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"straightness",
"uprightness",
"virtue",
"virtuousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarseness",
"crudeness",
"gracelessness",
"discourtesy",
"impoliteness",
"incivility",
"vulgarity",
"imprudence",
"indiscretion",
"badness",
"evil",
"immorality",
"wickedness",
"debauchery",
"degeneracy",
"degradation",
"depravity",
"perversion",
"crookedness",
"dishonesty",
"underhandedness",
"unscrupulousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"impropriety",
"indecency",
"indecorum"
]
},
"personal conduct or behavior as evaluated by an accepted standard of appropriateness for a social or professional setting":{
"examples":[
"an etiquette columnist who insists that traditional proprieties are necessary in order to maintain a civil society"
],
"synonyms":[
"etiquette",
"form",
"manner",
"mores"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amenities",
"civilities",
"pleasantries",
"bearing",
"demeanor",
"deportment",
"mien",
"courtesy",
"decorum",
"mannerliness",
"politeness",
"formalities",
"protocol",
"rules",
"air",
"attitude",
"carriage",
"poise",
"polish",
"pose",
"posture",
"presence",
"custom",
"habit",
"pattern",
"practice",
"practise",
"trick",
"way",
"wont",
"convention",
"fashion",
"mode",
"style"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the quality or state of being especially suitable or fitting":{
"examples":[
"I'm not sure about the propriety of serving champagne in these glasses"
],
"synonyms":[
"appositeness",
"appropriateness",
"aptness",
"felicitousness",
"felicity",
"fitness",
"fittingness",
"happiness",
"properness",
"rightness",
"seemliness",
"suitability",
"suitableness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agreeableness",
"compatibility",
"congruity",
"harmoniousness",
"applicability",
"bearing",
"connection",
"justifiability",
"materiality",
"pertinence",
"relevance",
"relevancy",
"validity",
"acceptability",
"adequacy",
"adequateness",
"convenience",
"expedience",
"expediency",
"satisfactoriness",
"serviceableness",
"usefulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disagreeableness",
"incompatibility",
"incongruence",
"incongruity",
"incongruousness",
"inexpedience",
"inexpediency",
"inharmoniousness",
"unbecomingness",
"immateriality",
"inapplicability",
"irrelevance",
"irrelevancy",
"meaninglessness",
"pointlessness"
],
"antonyms":[
"improperness",
"impropriety",
"inappositeness",
"inappropriateness",
"inaptness",
"infelicity",
"unfitness",
"unseemliness",
"unsuitability",
"wrongness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"procrastinated":{
"to be slow or late about doing something that should be done; to delay doing something until a later time because you do not want to do it, because you are lazy, etc.":{
"examples":[
"He procrastinated and missed the submission deadline.",
"He told her to stop procrastinating and get to work."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"filibustered",
"stalled",
"temporized",
"crawled",
"crept",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"delayed",
"diddled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"lollygagged",
"lallygagged",
"moped",
"poked",
"shilly-shallied",
"tarried",
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled around",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"loafed",
"lolled",
"lounged",
"ambled",
"eased",
"inched",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"staggered",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowled",
"breezed",
"darted",
"humped",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"scrambled",
"stampeded",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"ran",
"run",
"sprinted",
"trotted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"sped (up)",
"speeded (up)",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook",
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"bolted",
"careered",
"coursed",
"dashed",
"flew",
"hastened",
"hotfooted (it)",
"hurried",
"raced",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"scooted",
"scudded",
"scurried",
"sped",
"speeded",
"tore",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"whizzed",
"zipped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"promulgated":{
"as in published , declared":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"advertised",
"aired",
"announced",
"broadcast",
"declared",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"heralded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"publicized",
"published",
"spotlighted",
"nonclassified",
"unclassified",
"well-known",
"current",
"prevalent",
"rife",
"widespread",
"general",
"popular",
"communal",
"shared",
"open",
"public",
"reported",
"reputed",
"rumored"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confidential",
"private",
"privy",
"secret",
"classified",
"unadvertised",
"unannounced",
"undisclosed",
"clandestine",
"collusive",
"conspiratorial",
"covert",
"surreptitious",
"undercover",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"intimate",
"personal",
"concealed",
"repressed",
"reserved",
"silenced",
"stifled",
"suppressed",
"withheld",
"recanted",
"retracted",
"revoked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"the encyclical that promulgated the church's position on artificial birth control"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertised",
"announced",
"annunciated",
"blared",
"blazed",
"blazoned",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"declared",
"enunciated",
"flashed",
"gave out",
"heralded",
"placarded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"publicized",
"published",
"released",
"sounded",
"trumpeted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barked",
"called (off or out)",
"cried",
"billboarded",
"billed",
"bulletined",
"gazetted",
"knelled",
"rang",
"tolled",
"blurbed",
"featured",
"pitched",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"puffed",
"disseminated",
"spread",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"introduced",
"kithed",
"kythed",
"manifested",
"reported",
"revealed",
"showed",
"advised",
"apprised",
"handed down",
"informed",
"notified",
"communicated",
"imparted",
"intimated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealed",
"hushed (up)",
"silenced",
"suppressed",
"withheld",
"recalled",
"recanted",
"retracted",
"revoked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"prodigals":{
"someone who spends money freely or foolishly":{
"examples":[
"the million-dollar lottery winner was such a prodigal that his windfall was exhausted after only a few years"
],
"synonyms":[
"fritterers",
"high rollers",
"profligates",
"spenders",
"spendthrifts",
"squanderers",
"wasters",
"wastrels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissipates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheapskates",
"misers",
"niggards",
"pikers",
"scrooges",
"skinflints",
"tightwads",
"conservers",
"savers"
],
"antonyms":[
"economizers",
"penny-pinchers"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prohibitionist":{
"as in dry":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dry",
"abstainer",
"nondrinker",
"teetotaler",
"teetotaller",
"teetotalist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bibber",
"drinker",
"alcoholic",
"barfly",
"boozehound",
"boozer",
"drunk",
"drunkard",
"inebriate",
"sot",
"souse",
"tippler",
"wet"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prognostic":{
"a declaration that something will happen in the future":{
"examples":[
"a prognostic of a global pandemic that turned out to be distressingly accurate"
],
"synonyms":[
"auguring",
"augury",
"bodement",
"cast",
"forecast",
"forecasting",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"prediction",
"presaging",
"prognosis",
"prognosticating",
"prognostication",
"prophecy",
"prophesy",
"soothsaying",
"vaticination"
],
"near synonyms":[
"foreboding",
"harbinger",
"omen",
"portent",
"prevision",
"prospectus",
"sign",
"anticipation",
"foreknowledge",
"foresight",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"surmise"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prorate":{
"to give out (something) to appropriate individuals":{
"examples":[
"shares in the company's profits were prorated according to the workers' length of service"
],
"synonyms":[
"administer",
"allocate",
"apportion",
"deal (out)",
"dispense",
"distribute",
"dole out",
"hand out",
"mete (out)",
"parcel (out)",
"portion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admeasure",
"allot",
"allow",
"appropriate",
"assign",
"dish out",
"divide",
"divvy (up)",
"dollop (out)",
"lot",
"measure (out)",
"part",
"proportion",
"ration",
"redistribute",
"set",
"share (out)",
"split",
"bestow",
"disburse",
"furnish",
"issue",
"provide",
"share",
"supply",
"circulate",
"disperse",
"disseminate",
"scatter",
"spread",
"chip in",
"contribute",
"donate",
"pledge",
"reallocate",
"reapportion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrudge",
"decline",
"deny",
"deprive (of)",
"disallow",
"refuse",
"reject",
"withhold",
"niggle (out)",
"pinch",
"skimp",
"stint"
],
"antonyms":[
"misallocate"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"proceed (along)":{
"to make one's way through, across, or over":{
"examples":[
"the hikers proceeded along the ridge for several hundred feet"
],
"synonyms":[
"course",
"cover",
"cross",
"cut (across)",
"follow",
"go",
"navigate",
"pass (over)",
"perambulate",
"peregrinate",
"track",
"transit",
"travel",
"traverse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hike",
"traipse",
"tramp",
"tread",
"walk",
"ride",
"run",
"crisscross"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"probabilities":{
"a measure of how often an event will occur instead of another":{
"examples":[
"the probability of flipping a coin and getting heads 50 times in a row is not good"
],
"synonyms":[
"chances",
"odds",
"percentages"
],
"near synonyms":[
"outlooks",
"prospects",
"contingencies",
"possibilities",
"potentialities",
"potentials",
"conditional probabilities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"profligate":{
"given to spending money freely or foolishly":{
"examples":[
"profligate movie producers hoping to create the next blockbuster"
],
"synonyms":[
"extravagant",
"high-rolling",
"prodigal",
"spendthrift",
"squandering",
"thriftless",
"unthrifty",
"wasteful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"improvident",
"myopic",
"shortsighted",
"bighearted",
"bountiful",
"charitable",
"freehanded",
"freehearted",
"generous",
"lavish",
"liberal",
"munificent",
"openhanded",
"openhearted",
"philanthropic",
"philanthropical",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"unstinting",
"careless",
"heedless",
"imprudent",
"incautious",
"injudicious",
"unwise",
"indulgent",
"reckless",
"self-indulgent",
"splurging",
"wanton"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheap",
"close",
"closefisted",
"mean",
"miserly",
"niggardly",
"parsimonious",
"penurious",
"pinching",
"spare",
"sparing",
"stingy",
"stinting",
"tight",
"tightfisted",
"careful",
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sensible",
"wise",
"farsighted",
"forehanded",
"foreseeing",
"foresighted",
"forethoughtful",
"provident"
],
"antonyms":[
"conserving",
"economical",
"economizing",
"frugal",
"penny-pinching",
"scrimping",
"skimping",
"thrifty"
]
},
"someone who spends money freely or foolishly":{
"examples":[
"a profligate who could not really afford the grand style he maintained at Monticello, Jefferson died deeply in debt"
],
"synonyms":[
"fritterer",
"high roller",
"prodigal",
"spender",
"spendthrift",
"squanderer",
"waster",
"wastrel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissipate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheapskate",
"miser",
"niggard",
"piker",
"scrooge",
"skinflint",
"tightwad",
"conserver",
"saver"
],
"antonyms":[
"economizer",
"penny-pincher"
]
},
"a person who has sunk below the normal moral standard":{
"examples":[
"a drunken profligate , he was given to wretched excess in every aspect of his life"
],
"synonyms":[
"backslider",
"debauchee",
"debaucher",
"decadent",
"degenerate",
"deviate",
"libertine",
"perv",
"pervert",
"rake",
"rakehell",
"rip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bankrupt",
"delinquent",
"derelict",
"incorrigible",
"blackguard",
"cad",
"heel",
"knave",
"miscreant",
"rascal",
"reprobate",
"rogue",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"lecher",
"playboy",
"playgirl",
"satyr"
],
"near antonyms":[
"saint"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"propitiating":{
"to lessen the anger or agitation of":{
"examples":[
"the temple was once the site of sacrifices\u2014both to honor the gods in times of plenty and to propitiate them in times of trouble"
],
"synonyms":[
"appeasing",
"assuaging",
"conciliating",
"disarming",
"gentling",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calming",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"contenting",
"hushing",
"quieting",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"endearing (to)",
"ingratiating",
"delighting",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"adulating",
"blarneying",
"flattering",
"overpraising",
"soft-soaping",
"quenching",
"satiating",
"sating",
"satisfying",
"catering (to)",
"humoring",
"indulging",
"blandishing",
"cajoling",
"coaxing",
"sweet-talking",
"wheedling",
"babying",
"coddling",
"mollycoddling",
"pampering",
"spoiling",
"dulcifying",
"sweetening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"antagonizing",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"burning (up)",
"chafing",
"crossing",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"irking",
"irritating",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"piquing",
"putting out",
"rankling",
"riling",
"roiling",
"ruffling",
"vexing",
"provoking",
"rousing",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"persecuting",
"pestering",
"agitating",
"discomforting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"fretting",
"perturbing",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrying",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"offending",
"slighting"
],
"antonyms":[
"angering",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"infuriating",
"iring",
"maddening",
"outraging"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"proliferating":{
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"rumors about the incident proliferated on the Internet"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"accumulating",
"appreciating",
"ballooning",
"booming",
"building up",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"climbing",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"gaining",
"increasing",
"mounting",
"multiplying",
"mushrooming",
"rising",
"rolling up",
"snowballing",
"spreading",
"swelling",
"waxing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumping",
"rocketing",
"skyrocketing",
"surging",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"redoubling",
"blowing up",
"bulking",
"distending",
"inflating",
"puffing (up)",
"crescendoing",
"cresting",
"peaking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracting",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"receding",
"waning"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pronging":{
"as in bayoneting , piking":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bayoneting",
"bayonetting",
"dirking",
"gimleting",
"piking",
"poniarding",
"quilling",
"perforating",
"riddling",
"pinpricking",
"poking",
"pricking",
"punching",
"thrusting",
"spindling",
"cutting",
"knifing",
"slicing",
"goring",
"harpooning",
"impaling",
"jabbing",
"lancing",
"pecking",
"picking",
"piercing",
"pinking",
"puncturing",
"running through",
"skewering",
"spearing",
"spiking",
"spitting",
"stabbing",
"sticking",
"transfixing",
"transpiercing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prophetesses":{
"as in sibyls , wisewomen":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"sibyls",
"wisewomen",
"augurs",
"diviners",
"forecasters",
"foreseers",
"foretellers",
"fortune-tellers",
"futurists",
"prognosticators",
"prophesiers",
"prophets",
"seers",
"soothsayers",
"visionaries",
"mystics",
"oracles",
"astrologers",
"crystal gazers",
"palmists",
"rhabdomancers",
"Cassandras",
"doomsayers",
"doomsdayers",
"Jeremiahs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proceed (with)":{
"to begin again or return to after an interruption":{
"examples":[
"we can proceed with the meeting as soon as everyone has returned from lunch"
],
"synonyms":[
"continue",
"pick up",
"renew",
"reopen",
"restart",
"resume"
],
"near synonyms":[
"resuscitate",
"revive",
"recrudesce"
],
"near antonyms":[
"complete",
"conclude",
"consummate",
"end",
"finalize",
"finish",
"belay",
"break",
"can",
"cease",
"check",
"cut",
"desist",
"discontinue",
"drop",
"halt",
"knock off",
"leave off",
"quit",
"scuttle",
"shut off",
"stay",
"stop",
"terminate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"probations":{
"a systematic search for the truth or facts about something":{
"examples":[
"a candidate for the priesthood must be able to withstand an intense probation of his personal character"
],
"synonyms":[
"disquisitions",
"examens",
"examinations",
"explorations",
"inquests",
"inquiries",
"inquisitions",
"investigations",
"probes",
"probings",
"researches",
"studies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"quests",
"audits",
"checks",
"checkups",
"diagnoses",
"inspections",
"hearings",
"interrogations",
"trials",
"feelers",
"queries",
"questions",
"polls",
"questionaries",
"questionnaires",
"surveys",
"challenges",
"cross-examinations",
"goings-over",
"quizzes",
"rehearings",
"reinvestigations",
"self-examinations",
"self-explorations",
"self-questionings",
"self-reflections",
"self-scrutinies",
"soul-searchings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"provide":{
"to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption":{
"examples":[
"this luxury hotel provides all the comforts of home to well-heeled vacationers"
],
"synonyms":[
"deliver",
"feed",
"furnish",
"give",
"hand",
"hand over",
"supply"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ply (with)",
"administer",
"allocate",
"apportion",
"deal (out)",
"dispense",
"distribute",
"dole out",
"mete (out)",
"parcel (out)",
"portion",
"prorate",
"assign",
"cede",
"deed",
"make over",
"transfer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserve",
"keep up",
"maintain",
"preserve",
"save"
],
"antonyms":[
"hold (back)",
"keep (back)",
"reserve",
"retain",
"withhold"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"proscribes":{
"to order not to do or use or to be done or used":{
"examples":[
"regulations proscribe the use of electronic devices on board a plane while it is landing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bans",
"bars",
"enjoins",
"forbids",
"interdicts",
"outlaws",
"prohibits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deters",
"discourages",
"dissuades",
"clamps down (on)",
"cracks down (on)",
"crushes",
"puts down",
"quashes",
"quells",
"represses",
"silences",
"snuffs (out)",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"subdues",
"suppresses",
"halts",
"precludes",
"prevents",
"stops",
"embargoes",
"excludes",
"rules out",
"shuts out",
"debars",
"deprives",
"disallows",
"rejects",
"repudiates",
"vetoes",
"bridles",
"checks",
"curbs",
"inhibits",
"reins (in)",
"restrains",
"blocks",
"hinders",
"impedes",
"obstructs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approves",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"sanctions",
"authorizes",
"licenses",
"licences",
"warrants",
"abets",
"advances",
"cultivates",
"encourages",
"forwards",
"furthers",
"nourishes",
"nurtures",
"promotes",
"supports",
"bids",
"commands",
"orders",
"abides",
"bears",
"brooks",
"countenances",
"endures",
"tolerates"
],
"antonyms":[
"allows",
"lets",
"permits",
"suffers"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prolongation":{
"the act of making longer":{
"examples":[
"the indefinite prolongation of the cease-fire"
],
"synonyms":[
"drawing out",
"elongation",
"extension",
"lengthening",
"prolonging",
"stretching"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviation",
"abridgment",
"abridgement",
"curtailment",
"cutback",
"shortening"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"propositions":{
"an idea that is the starting point for making a case or conducting an investigation":{
"examples":[
"started the discussion with the simple proposition that no one ever does anything out of pure altruism"
],
"synonyms":[
"hypotheses",
"suppositions",
"theories",
"theses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assumptions",
"concessions",
"premises",
"premisses",
"presumptions",
"presuppositions",
"theorems",
"conjectures",
"generalizations",
"guesses",
"guesswork",
"inferences",
"speculations",
"surmises",
"proffers",
"proposals",
"suggestions",
"feelings",
"hunches",
"impressions",
"inklings",
"notions",
"suspicions",
"abstractions",
"conceptions",
"concepts",
"constructs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assurances",
"certainties",
"facts",
"knowledges"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something which is presented for consideration":{
"examples":[
"a neighbor with a business proposition to tell us about"
],
"synonyms":[
"offers",
"proffers",
"proposals",
"suggestions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counteroffers",
"counterproposals",
"countersuggestions",
"counter-suggestions",
"feelers",
"overtures",
"motions",
"advancements",
"nominations",
"recommendations",
"bids",
"presentations",
"submissions",
"submittals",
"tender",
"arrangements",
"games",
"ground plans",
"layouts",
"lines",
"plans",
"plots",
"projects",
"strategies",
"systems",
"conceptions",
"ideas",
"notions",
"theories",
"thoughts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"profess":{
"to present a false appearance of":{
"examples":[
"professed friendship while secretly plotting revenge"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"affect",
"assume",
"bluff",
"counterfeit",
"dissemble",
"fake",
"feign",
"pass (for)",
"pretend",
"put on",
"sham",
"simulate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissimulate",
"impersonate",
"let on",
"masquerade",
"play",
"playact",
"pose",
"forge",
"imitate",
"camouflage",
"conceal",
"disguise",
"mask",
"feint",
"malinger"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to state clearly and strongly":{
"examples":[
"the lonely woman professed her love in a series of letters to the soldier"
],
"synonyms":[
"affirm",
"assert",
"aver",
"avouch",
"avow",
"declare",
"guarantee",
"lay down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advance",
"advertise",
"boost",
"plug",
"promote",
"publicize",
"announce",
"blaze",
"call",
"proclaim",
"pronounce",
"say",
"accent",
"accentuate",
"emphasize",
"stress",
"underline",
"underscore",
"advocate",
"champion",
"defend",
"espouse",
"support",
"uphold",
"assure",
"convince",
"persuade",
"explain",
"justify",
"rationalize",
"reaffirm",
"reassert"
],
"near antonyms":[
"minimize",
"understate",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to state as a fact usually forcefully":{
"examples":[
"he professed his innocence to anyone who would listen"
],
"synonyms":[
"affirm",
"allege",
"assert",
"aver",
"avouch",
"avow",
"claim",
"contend",
"declare",
"insist",
"maintain",
"protest",
"purport",
"warrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"announce",
"broadcast",
"proclaim",
"argue",
"rationalize",
"reason",
"confirm",
"justify",
"vindicate",
"defend",
"persevere",
"support",
"uphold",
"reaffirm",
"reassert"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandon",
"disavow",
"disclaim",
"disown",
"negate",
"negative",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"challenge",
"dispute",
"question",
"confute",
"disprove",
"rebut",
"refute",
"contradict",
"counter"
],
"antonyms":[
"deny",
"gainsay"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"protectorate":{
"a small country that is controlled and protected by a larger one":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dependency",
"mandate",
"possession",
"territory",
"colony",
"plantation",
"camp",
"diaspora",
"exclave",
"habitation",
"outpost",
"post"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prompter":{
"as in prodder , provoker":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"prodder",
"provoker",
"alarmist",
"extremist",
"insurgent",
"insurrectionist",
"radical",
"rebel",
"revolter",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"subversive",
"troublemaker",
"agent provocateur",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"exponent",
"persuader",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"reformer",
"reformist",
"supporter",
"demonstrator",
"marcher",
"objector",
"picketer",
"protester",
"protestor",
"agitator",
"demagogue",
"demagog",
"exciter",
"firebrand",
"fomenter",
"incendiary",
"inciter",
"instigator",
"kindler",
"provocateur",
"rabble-rouser"
],
"near antonyms":[
"peacemaker",
"reconciler",
"uniter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"propagate":{
"to bring forth offspring":{
"examples":[
"the dams along the river are interfering with the salmon's ability to propagate"
],
"synonyms":[
"breed",
"multiply",
"procreate",
"reproduce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bear",
"beget",
"engender",
"gender",
"generate",
"get",
"have",
"mother",
"parent",
"produce",
"sire",
"hatch",
"spawn"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to be known over a considerable area or by many people":{
"examples":[
"the various ways in which churches can propagate the faith"
],
"synonyms":[
"broadcast",
"circulate",
"disseminate",
"spread"
],
"near synonyms":[
"radiate",
"sprawl",
"diffuse",
"dispense",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"scatter",
"sow",
"communicate",
"convey",
"impart",
"pass (on)",
"transmit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cloak",
"conceal",
"enshroud",
"hide",
"hold (in)",
"mask",
"obscure",
"secrete",
"shroud",
"veil",
"contain",
"limit",
"restrict"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"propaganda":{
"ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc.":{
"examples":[
"He was accused of spreading propaganda .",
"a propaganda campaign",
"The report was nothing but lies and propaganda ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ballyhoo",
"boost",
"buildup",
"campaign",
"plug",
"promo",
"promotion",
"publicity",
"ad",
"advert",
"advertisement",
"announcement",
"bulletin",
"communiqu\u00e9",
"notice",
"notification",
"posting",
"release",
"broadside",
"brochure",
"circular",
"flyer",
"flier",
"fly sheet",
"gazette",
"handbill",
"handout",
"bill",
"billboard",
"placard",
"playbill",
"poster",
"show bill",
"sign",
"broadcast",
"cablecast",
"newscast",
"telecast",
"advertising",
"billing",
"blurb",
"come-on",
"commercial",
"message",
"pitch",
"plugola",
"spot",
"word",
"communication",
"dispatch",
"report",
"annunciation",
"declaration",
"edict",
"proclamation",
"promulgation",
"pronouncement",
"pronunciamento",
"rescript",
"signification"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"propellant":{
"as in kindling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"kindling",
"energy",
"fuel",
"power",
"force"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"profaning":{
"to lower in character, dignity, or quality":{
"examples":[
"the once-lovely landscape had been profaned by ugly factories"
],
"synonyms":[
"abasing",
"bastardizing",
"cankering",
"cheapening",
"corrupting",
"debasing",
"debauching",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"demoralizing",
"depraving",
"deteriorating",
"lessening",
"perverting",
"poisoning",
"prostituting",
"subverting",
"vitiating",
"warping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befouling",
"begriming",
"contaminating",
"defiling",
"diluting",
"dirtying",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"thinning",
"watering down",
"weakening",
"descending",
"disgracing",
"dishonoring",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"shaming",
"taking down",
"blemishing",
"damaging",
"defacing",
"destroying",
"flawing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"marring",
"ruining",
"spoiling",
"staining",
"tarnishing",
"wrecking",
"depreciating",
"downgrading"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dignifying",
"exalting",
"honoring",
"ameliorating",
"amending",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"enriching",
"improving",
"meliorating",
"perfecting",
"clarifying",
"cleaning",
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"refining",
"restoring",
"respecting"
],
"antonyms":[
"elevating",
"ennobling",
"uplifting"
]
},
"to put to a bad or improper use":{
"examples":[
"profaned his considerable acting talents by appearing in some wretched movies"
],
"synonyms":[
"abusing",
"misapplying",
"misemploying",
"misusing",
"perverting",
"prostituting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"degrading",
"twisting",
"mismanaging",
"corrupting",
"debasing",
"desecrating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applying",
"employing",
"using",
"utilizing",
"respecting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to treat (a sacred place or object) shamefully or with great disrespect":{
"examples":[
"invading troops profaned the altar by playing poker on it"
],
"synonyms":[
"defiling",
"desecrating",
"violating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deconsecrating",
"desacralizing",
"desanctifying",
"blaspheming",
"cursing",
"swearing",
"befouling",
"contaminating",
"fouling",
"poisoning",
"polluting",
"soiling",
"sullying",
"tainting",
"affronting",
"defaming",
"insulting",
"offending",
"outraging",
"annihilating",
"crushing",
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"desolating",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"ravaging",
"razing",
"ruining",
"wasting",
"wrecking",
"despoiling",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"raiding",
"ransacking",
"robbing",
"sacking",
"spoiling",
"stripping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blessing",
"consecrating",
"dedicating",
"hallowing",
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"verb"
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"plates",
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"orders",
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"conspiracies",
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"devices",
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"horse-trades",
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"calls",
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"drops",
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"repeals",
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"noun",
"verb"
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"overtures",
"preambles",
"preliminaries",
"preludes",
"warm-ups"
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"run-ups",
"lead-ins",
"kickoffs",
"starts"
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"a short section (as of a book) that leads to or explains the main part":{
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"commencements",
"initiations",
"openings",
"originations",
"origins",
"outsets",
"starts"
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"envoys",
"postscripts",
"aftermaths",
"cessations",
"closes",
"closings",
"conclusions",
"ends",
"finales",
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"stops",
"terminations"
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"epilogues",
"epilogs"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"something offered to atone":{
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"She made an offering as propitiation for her sins."
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"immolation",
"offering",
"sacrifice",
"victim",
"libation",
"oblation",
"holocaust",
"contribution",
"donation"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"able to do many different kinds of things":{
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"a protean actor who is equally comfortable with light comedy and serious drama"
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"adaptable",
"all-around",
"all-round",
"universal",
"versatile"
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"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"
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"near antonyms":[
"limited",
"amateur",
"inexperienced"
],
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"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"a woman who engages in sexual activities for money":{
"examples":[
"was caught procuring the services of a prostitute"
],
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"bawds",
"call girls",
"cocottes",
"courtesans",
"drabs",
"hookers",
"hustlers",
"sex workers",
"streetwalkers",
"tarts",
"whores"
],
"near synonyms":[
"madames",
"mesdames",
"madams",
"chippies",
"doxies",
"floozies",
"tramps",
"hussies",
"jades",
"minxes",
"coquettes",
"flirts",
"libertines",
"sirens",
"tempters",
"temptresses",
"vamps",
"wenches"
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"to lower in character, dignity, or quality":{
"examples":[
"a serious writer prostituting himself by writing pulp novels for money"
],
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"abases",
"bastardizes",
"cankers",
"cheapens",
"corrupts",
"debases",
"debauches",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"demoralizes",
"depraves",
"deteriorates",
"lessens",
"perverts",
"poisons",
"profanes",
"subverts",
"vitiates",
"warps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befouls",
"begrimes",
"contaminates",
"defiles",
"dilutes",
"dirties",
"pollutes",
"taints",
"thins",
"waters down",
"weakens",
"descends",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"humbles",
"humiliates",
"shames",
"takes down",
"blemishes",
"damages",
"defaces",
"destroys",
"flaws",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"mars",
"ruins",
"spoils",
"stains",
"tarnishes",
"wrecks",
"depreciates",
"downgrades"
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"near antonyms":[
"dignifies",
"exalts",
"honors",
"ameliorates",
"amends",
"betters",
"enhances",
"enriches",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"perfects",
"clarifies",
"cleans",
"cleanses",
"purifies",
"refines",
"restores",
"respects"
],
"antonyms":[
"elevates",
"ennobles",
"uplifts"
]
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"to put to a bad or improper use":{
"examples":[
"urged not to prostitute her musical talents by writing jingles for TV commercials"
],
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"abuses",
"misapplies",
"misemploys",
"misuses",
"perverts",
"profanes"
],
"near synonyms":[
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"twists",
"mismanages",
"corrupts",
"debases",
"desecrates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"applies",
"employs",
"uses",
"utilizes",
"respects"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
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"to set before the mind for consideration":{
"examples":[
"he proposed that we go for a walk this afternoon"
],
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"advance",
"bounce",
"offer",
"pose",
"proffer",
"propound",
"suggest",
"vote"
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"move",
"nominate",
"recommend",
"present",
"submit",
"tender",
"trot out",
"file",
"lay",
"lodge",
"arrange",
"calculate",
"chart",
"contrive",
"cover",
"frame",
"map",
"plan",
"plot",
"shape"
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"to have in mind as a purpose or goal":{
"examples":[
"we propose to buy a new house within the next year"
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"aim",
"allow",
"aspire",
"calculate",
"contemplate",
"design",
"go",
"intend",
"look",
"mean",
"meditate",
"plan",
"purport",
"purpose"
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"near synonyms":[
"dream",
"hope",
"wish",
"consider",
"debate",
"mull (over)",
"ponder",
"attempt",
"endeavor",
"strive",
"struggle",
"try",
"plot",
"scheme",
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"effect",
"execute",
"perform"
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"type":[
"verb"
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"processional":{
"as in recessional":{
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"near synonyms":[
"recessional",
"mass",
"oratorio",
"Gloria Patri",
"hallelujah",
"paean",
"dirge",
"lament",
"requiem",
"threnody",
"anthem",
"canticle",
"carol",
"chorale",
"hymn",
"psalm",
"spiritual"
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"a declaration that something will happen in the future":{
"examples":[
"the complete fulfillment of his prognostication surprised even him"
],
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"auguring",
"augury",
"bodement",
"cast",
"forecast",
"forecasting",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"prediction",
"presaging",
"prognosis",
"prognostic",
"prognosticating",
"prophecy",
"prophesy",
"soothsaying",
"vaticination"
],
"near synonyms":[
"foreboding",
"harbinger",
"omen",
"portent",
"prevision",
"prospectus",
"sign",
"anticipation",
"foreknowledge",
"foresight",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"surmise"
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"near antonyms":[],
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"a feeling that something bad will happen":{
"examples":[
"at the sight of the brooding mansion, her prognostications of ill fortune grew stronger"
],
"synonyms":[
"foreboding",
"premonition",
"presage",
"presentiment"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anticipation",
"foreknowledge",
"feel",
"insight",
"intuition",
"augury",
"omen",
"portent",
"sign",
"impression",
"suspicion",
"agitation",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anxiety",
"anxiousness",
"apprehension",
"apprehensiveness",
"care",
"concern",
"disquiet",
"doubt",
"dread",
"fear",
"misgiving",
"nervousness",
"perturbation",
"unease",
"uneasiness",
"worry",
"foresight",
"prescience"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prodigally":{
"as in wantonly , wastefully":{
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"near synonyms":[
"immoderately",
"indulgently",
"intemperately",
"wantonly",
"wastefully",
"affluently",
"comfortably",
"fine",
"wealthily",
"grandiosely",
"ostentatiously",
"pompously",
"pretentiously",
"imposingly",
"impressively",
"magnificently",
"splendidly",
"expensively",
"extravagantly",
"fatly",
"grandly",
"high",
"large",
"lavishly",
"luxuriously",
"opulently",
"palatially",
"plushly",
"richly",
"sumptuously"
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"near antonyms":[
"austerely",
"humbly",
"modestly",
"plainly",
"simply",
"unpretentiously",
"cheaply",
"economically",
"frugally",
"inexpensively",
"meagerly",
"poorly",
"skimpily",
"sparely",
"sparingly",
"thriftily",
"conservatively",
"moderately",
"prudently",
"reasonably",
"restrainedly",
"sensibly",
"temperately"
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"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"protagonists":{
"a person who actively supports or favors a cause":{
"examples":[
"Milton Friedman is usually cited as the leading American protagonist of monetarism"
],
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"advocates",
"advocators",
"apostles",
"backers",
"boosters",
"champions",
"espousers",
"exponents",
"expounders",
"friends",
"gospelers",
"gospellers",
"heralds",
"hierophants",
"high priests",
"paladins",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"supporters",
"true believers",
"tub-thumpers",
"white knights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"loyalists",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"stalwarts",
"adherents",
"cohorts",
"disciples",
"followers",
"interpreters",
"applauders",
"cheerleaders",
"encouragers",
"fellow travelers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enemies",
"foes",
"rivals",
"belittlers",
"critics",
"faultfinders"
],
"antonyms":[
"adversaries",
"antagonists",
"opponents"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prologs":{
"a performance, activity, or event that precedes and sets the stage for the main event":{
"examples":[
"unfortunately, the burglary, which he committed while still a teen, was but a prologue to a wasted life of crime"
],
"synonyms":[
"curtain-raisers",
"overtures",
"preambles",
"preliminaries",
"preludes",
"warm-ups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"countdowns",
"run-ups",
"lead-ins",
"kickoffs",
"starts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a short section (as of a book) that leads to or explains the main part":{
"examples":[
"a brief prologue sets the scene for the story that follows"
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"synonyms":[
"exordiums",
"exordia",
"forewords",
"introductions",
"intros",
"preambles",
"prefaces",
"preludes",
"proems",
"prolusions"
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"revitalization"
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"verb"
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"plusses",
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"step-ups",
"supplements",
"upticks"
],
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"accumulations",
"assemblages",
"collections",
"gatherings",
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"accessions",
"appendixes",
"appendices",
"continuations",
"extensions",
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"upturns",
"jumps",
"run-ups",
"spikes"
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"deductions",
"subtractions"
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"decrements",
"depletions",
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"diminutions",
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"falls",
"losses",
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"the proliferation of mistakes as both actors and crew became more and more tired"
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"condensations",
"constrictions",
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"falls",
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"shortenings"
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"noun"
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"column",
"line",
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"watched the constant procession of cars headed out of the city at the start of the weekend"
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"going",
"headway",
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"drift",
"flow",
"flux",
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"way",
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"approach",
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"nearing",
"bound",
"jump",
"leap",
"step",
"stride",
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"momentum"
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"near antonyms":[
"backwash",
"ebb",
"reflux",
"retraction",
"return",
"reversal",
"reverse",
"about-face",
"turnabout",
"turnaround"
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"recession",
"regress",
"regression",
"retreat",
"retrogression"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"the power to produce a desired result":{
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"the prodigious productiveness of the nation's shipyards during World War II"
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"edge",
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"efficaciousness",
"efficacity",
"efficacy",
"efficiency"
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"capacity",
"potency",
"puissance",
"strength"
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"inability",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness",
"incompetence",
"incompetency"
],
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"ineffectuality",
"ineffectualness",
"inefficiency"
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"noun"
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"to persuade to change to one's religious faith":{
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"the efforts of early missionaries to proselytize the Native Americans of Minnesota were largely unproductive"
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"converts",
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"influences",
"sways",
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"verb"
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"one who predicts future events or developments":{
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"a prophesier of good things for the team in the coming season"
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"augurs",
"diviners",
"forecasters",
"foreseers",
"foretellers",
"fortune-tellers",
"futurists",
"prognosticators",
"prophets",
"seers",
"soothsayers",
"visionaries"
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"prophetesses",
"sibyls",
"wisewomen",
"mystics",
"oracles",
"astrologers",
"crystal gazers",
"palmists",
"rhabdomancers",
"Cassandras",
"doomsayers",
"doomsdayers",
"Jeremiahs"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"something presented in support of the truth or accuracy of a claim":{
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"she presented proof that she had not cheated"
],
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"attestations",
"confirmations",
"corroborations",
"documentations",
"evidences",
"substantiations",
"testaments",
"testimonials",
"testimonies",
"validations",
"vouchers",
"witnesses"
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"near synonyms":[
"(the) goods",
"certificates",
"documents",
"exhibits",
"demonstrations",
"illustrations",
"authentications",
"identifications",
"manifestations",
"verifications"
],
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"rebuttals",
"refutations",
"accusations",
"allegations",
"charges",
"assumptions",
"conjectures",
"guesses",
"presumptions",
"surmises",
"suspicions"
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"disproofs"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"provider":{
"a person or company that supplies goods or services":{
"examples":[
"There are many things to consider when shopping for a healthcare provider ."
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"distributor",
"provisioner",
"purveyor",
"supplier",
"businessman",
"enterpriser",
"entrepreneur",
"buyer",
"marketer",
"purchaser",
"hawker",
"huckster",
"hustler",
"peddler",
"pedlar",
"retailer",
"seller",
"shopkeeper",
"storekeeper",
"vendor",
"vender",
"engrosser",
"monopolist",
"jobber",
"middleman",
"wholesaler",
"dealer",
"merchandiser",
"merchant",
"trader",
"tradesman",
"trafficker"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"difficult for one of ordinary knowledge or intelligence to understand":{
"examples":[
"a profound observation about good and evil that few listeners fully grasped"
],
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"abstruse",
"arcane",
"deep",
"esoteric",
"hermetic",
"hermetical",
"recondite"
],
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"erudite",
"learned",
"scholarly",
"academic",
"academical",
"pedantic",
"complex",
"complicated",
"hard",
"darkling",
"enigmatic",
"enigmatical",
"inscrutable",
"mysterious",
"mystic",
"mystical",
"orphic",
"uncanny",
"impenetrable",
"incomprehensible",
"unfathomable",
"unintelligible",
"ambiguous",
"cryptic",
"unanswerable",
"unknowable",
"baffling",
"bewildering",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"disorienting",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"puzzling"
],
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"easy",
"facile",
"simple",
"straightforward",
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"fathomable",
"intelligible",
"understandable",
"apparent",
"clear",
"clear-cut",
"distinct",
"evident",
"lucid",
"manifest",
"obvious",
"perspicuous",
"plain",
"transparent"
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"shallow",
"superficial"
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"examples":[
"a profound silence fell over the audience after the last note had sounded"
],
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"acute",
"almighty",
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"deep",
"dreadful",
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"explosive",
"exquisite",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"ferocious",
"fierce",
"frightful",
"furious",
"ghastly",
"hard",
"heavy",
"heavy-duty",
"hellacious",
"intense",
"intensive",
"keen",
"terrible",
"vehement",
"vicious",
"violent"
],
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"accentuated",
"aggravated",
"concentrated",
"deepened",
"emphasized",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"magnified",
"stressed",
"exhaustive",
"thorough",
"harsh",
"rigorous",
"severe"
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"near antonyms":[
"feeble",
"weak",
"shallow",
"superficial",
"moderated",
"qualified",
"alleviated",
"eased",
"lightened",
"toned (down)",
"abated",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"reduced",
"subdued"
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"light",
"moderate",
"soft"
]
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"examples":[
"a profound dislike of frauds and phonies"
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"absolute",
"all-out",
"arrant",
"blank",
"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",
"pure",
"rank",
"regular",
"sheer",
"simple",
"stark",
"stone",
"straight-out",
"thorough",
"thoroughgoing",
"total",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"unconditional",
"unmitigated",
"unqualified",
"utter",
"very"
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"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"
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"doubtful",
"dubious",
"equivocal",
"qualified",
"questionable",
"restricted",
"uncertain"
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"antonyms":[]
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"examples":[
"with eyes wide with disbelief, the explorers made their way through a canyon more profound than any they had ever imagined"
],
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"abysmal",
"bottomless",
"deep"
],
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"abyssal",
"unfathomable",
"boundless",
"endless",
"immeasurable",
"inestimable",
"infinite",
"limitless",
"measureless",
"unlimited",
"vast"
],
"near antonyms":[
"depthless",
"two-dimensional",
"even",
"flat",
"flush",
"horizontal",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth",
"confined",
"finite",
"limited",
"measured",
"restricted"
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"antonyms":[
"shallow",
"shoal",
"skin-deep",
"superficial",
"surface"
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"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"an accepted way of conducting oneself in a given situation":{
"examples":[
"Their behavior was considered a breach of diplomatic protocol ."
],
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"formality",
"rules",
"etiquette",
"form",
"manners",
"mores",
"proprieties",
"p's and q's",
"amenity",
"civility",
"courtesy",
"decorum",
"politeness",
"custom",
"habit",
"habitude",
"pattern",
"practice",
"practise",
"trick",
"wont",
"convention",
"fashion",
"form",
"mode",
"style",
"actions",
"address",
"bearing",
"behavior",
"comportment",
"conduct",
"demeanor",
"deportment",
"geste",
"gest"
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"antonyms":[]
},
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"examples":[
"The school developed a protocol for the treatment of concussions on the sports field."
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"near synonyms":[
"procedure",
"counterplan",
"counterstrategy",
"means",
"tactic",
"technique",
"way",
"conception",
"idea",
"projet",
"proposal",
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"specification(s)",
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"intent",
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"purpose",
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"formula",
"layout",
"map",
"pattern",
"platform",
"policy",
"recipe",
"setup",
"arrangement",
"blueprint",
"design",
"game",
"game plan",
"ground plan",
"master plan",
"plan",
"program",
"project",
"road map",
"scheme",
"strategy",
"system"
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"type":[
"noun"
]
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"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"the neurologists plan to prosecute their research for as long as funding remains available"
],
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"accomplish",
"achieve",
"bring off",
"carry off",
"carry out",
"commit",
"compass",
"do",
"execute",
"follow through (with)",
"fulfill",
"fulfil",
"make",
"negotiate",
"perform",
"perpetrate",
"pull off",
"put through"
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"near synonyms":[
"bring about",
"effect",
"effectuate",
"implement",
"ace",
"nail",
"engage (in)",
"practice",
"practise",
"work (at)",
"reduplicate",
"reenact",
"repeat",
"actualize",
"attain",
"realize",
"complete",
"end",
"finish",
"wind up"
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"fail",
"skimp",
"slight",
"slur"
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"verb"
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"death taxes",
"estate taxes",
"inheritance taxes",
"supertaxes",
"surcharges",
"surtaxes",
"capitations",
"customs",
"excises",
"hidden taxes",
"income taxes",
"poll taxes",
"property taxes",
"sales taxes",
"single taxes",
"sin taxes",
"tariffs",
"tolls",
"tributes",
"value-added taxes",
"withholding taxes",
"direct taxes",
"personal taxes",
"assessments",
"duties",
"impositions",
"imposts",
"levies",
"taxes"
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"noun"
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"examples":[
"a patient man who gets angry only from the greatest of provocations"
],
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"incitations",
"incitements",
"instigations"
],
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"galvanizations",
"goads",
"incentives",
"inducements",
"jogs",
"prods",
"spurs",
"stimulants",
"stimulations",
"stimuli",
"enticements",
"lures",
"inductions",
"inspirations",
"motivations",
"aggravations",
"annoyances",
"bothers",
"exasperations",
"frustrations",
"hassles",
"headaches",
"irritants",
"nuisances",
"peeves",
"pests"
],
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},
"something that arouses action or activity":{
"examples":[
"ready to retaliate at the slightest provocation"
],
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"boosts",
"encouragements",
"goads",
"impetuses",
"impulses",
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"incitations",
"incitements",
"instigations",
"momenta",
"momentums",
"motivations",
"spurs",
"stimulants",
"stimuli",
"yeasts"
],
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"inducements",
"invitations",
"antecedents",
"causes",
"considerations",
"grounds",
"motives",
"occasions",
"reasons",
"catalysts",
"catalyzers",
"fuels",
"sparks"
],
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"antonyms":[
"counterincentives",
"counter-incentives",
"disincentives"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"processions":{
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"examples":[
"a procession of mourners leaving the cemetery"
],
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"corteges",
"cort\u00e8ges",
"parades"
],
"near synonyms":[
"progresses",
"callithumps",
"columns",
"lines",
"strings",
"trains"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
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"examples":[
"watched the constant procession of cars headed out of the city at the start of the weekend"
],
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"advancements",
"advances",
"furtherances",
"goings",
"headways",
"marches",
"onrushes",
"passages",
"processes",
"progresses",
"progressions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"currents",
"drifts",
"flows",
"fluxes",
"streams",
"ways",
"advents",
"approaches",
"arrivals",
"comings",
"bounds",
"jumps",
"leaps",
"steps",
"strides",
"impetuses",
"momenta",
"momentums"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backwashes",
"ebbs",
"refluxes",
"retractions",
"returns",
"reversals",
"reverses",
"about-faces",
"turnabouts",
"turnarounds"
],
"antonyms":[
"recesses",
"recessions",
"regresses",
"regressions",
"retreats",
"retrogressions"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"promenade":{
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"examples":[
"a beautifully landscaped park with a wide promenade along the riverside"
],
"synonyms":[
"boardwalk",
"mall",
"walk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"walkway",
"alameda",
"all\u00e9e",
"arcade",
"colonnade",
"galleria",
"gallery",
"plaza"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in parade":{
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"parade",
"ambulate",
"foot (it)",
"hoof (it)",
"leg (it)",
"pad",
"step",
"traipse",
"tread",
"walk",
"march",
"pace",
"step out",
"stride",
"troop",
"power walk",
"hike",
"peregrinate",
"trek",
"amble",
"mosey",
"perambulate",
"ramble",
"saunter",
"stroll",
"wander",
"clump",
"stomp",
"stump",
"tramp",
"trample",
"tromp",
"footslog",
"plod",
"trudge",
"gimp",
"hobble",
"limp",
"mince",
"prance",
"pussyfoot",
"tiptoe"
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"examples":[
"If you want the job done right, you really should hire a professional ."
],
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"consultants",
"hired guns",
"specialists",
"addicts",
"aficionados",
"afficionados",
"buffs",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fans",
"craftsmen",
"journeymen",
"all-rounders",
"jacks-of-all-trades",
"Renaissance men",
"aces",
"adepts",
"artists",
"authorities",
"cognoscenti",
"connoisseurs",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"dab hands",
"dabs",
"experts",
"fiends",
"geeks",
"gurus",
"hands",
"hotshots",
"maestros",
"maestri",
"masters",
"mavens",
"mavins",
"meisters",
"past masters",
"proficients",
"scholars",
"sharks",
"sharps",
"virtuosos",
"virtuosi",
"whizzes",
"wizards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apprentices",
"beginners",
"neophytes",
"novices",
"dabblers",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti",
"laymen",
"nonprofessionals",
"amateurs",
"inexperts",
"nonexperts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"protest":{
"a feeling or declaration of disapproval or dissent":{
"examples":[
"submitted an official protest about her treatment"
],
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"challenge",
"complaint",
"demur",
"demurral",
"demurrer",
"difficulty",
"exception",
"expostulation",
"fuss",
"kick",
"objection",
"question",
"remonstrance",
"stink"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compunction",
"doubt",
"misgiving",
"qualm",
"scruple",
"misunderstanding",
"cavil",
"niggle",
"quibble",
"argument",
"conflict",
"debate",
"dispute",
"dissent",
"hassle",
"quarrel",
"squabble",
"static",
"censure",
"criticism",
"defiance",
"disobedience",
"rebellion",
"distrust",
"distrustfulness",
"dubiety",
"dubitation",
"incertitude",
"indetermination",
"misdoubt",
"mistrust",
"mistrustfulness",
"reservation",
"skepticism",
"suspicion",
"uncertainty",
"qualmishness",
"unease",
"uneasiness",
"reluctance",
"unwillingness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"willingness",
"approval",
"sanction",
"acceptance",
"acquiescence",
"agreement",
"assent",
"compliance",
"obedience"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to state as a fact usually forcefully":{
"examples":[
"he protested that he usually was very good at baseball, and all the strikeouts were just bad luck"
],
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"affirm",
"allege",
"assert",
"aver",
"avouch",
"avow",
"claim",
"contend",
"declare",
"insist",
"maintain",
"profess",
"purport",
"warrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"announce",
"broadcast",
"proclaim",
"argue",
"rationalize",
"reason",
"confirm",
"justify",
"vindicate",
"defend",
"persevere",
"support",
"uphold",
"reaffirm",
"reassert"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandon",
"disavow",
"disclaim",
"disown",
"negate",
"negative",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"challenge",
"dispute",
"question",
"confute",
"disprove",
"rebut",
"refute",
"contradict",
"counter"
],
"antonyms":[
"deny",
"gainsay"
]
},
"to present an opposing opinion or argument":{
"examples":[
"plans to protest against the judge's ruling regarding admissible evidence"
],
"synonyms":[
"demur",
"except",
"expostulate",
"kick",
"object",
"remonstrate (with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cavil",
"quibble",
"challenge",
"dare",
"defy",
"fight",
"conflict",
"debate",
"dispute",
"hassle",
"quarrel",
"squabble",
"wrangle",
"beef",
"bellyache",
"bitch",
"bleat",
"carp",
"caterwaul",
"complain",
"crab",
"croak",
"fuss",
"gripe",
"grizzle",
"grouch",
"grouse",
"growl",
"grumble",
"grump",
"holler",
"keen",
"maunder",
"moan",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"nag",
"repine",
"scream",
"squawk",
"squeal",
"wail",
"whimper",
"whine",
"whinge",
"yammer",
"yawp",
"yaup",
"yowl",
"balk",
"gag",
"stick",
"censure",
"criticize",
"denounce",
"disobey",
"rebel",
"withstand",
"demonstrate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approve",
"sanction",
"accept",
"accede",
"acquiesce",
"agree",
"assent",
"adhere",
"comply",
"conform",
"follow",
"mind",
"obey",
"observe",
"advocate",
"champion",
"defend",
"maintain",
"support",
"sustain",
"uphold",
"applaud",
"cheer",
"commend"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"prototype":{
"one of a group or collection that shows what the whole is like":{
"examples":[
"a literary character who is regarded as the prototype of the fanatical and intolerant pursuer of justice"
],
"synonyms":[
"case",
"example",
"exemplar",
"exemplification",
"illustration",
"instance",
"representative",
"sample",
"specimen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"archetype",
"classic",
"locus classicus",
"paradigm",
"cross section",
"microcosm",
"evidence",
"indication",
"manifestation",
"sign"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed":{
"examples":[
"the Greek epic that is the prototype of the hero myth"
],
"synonyms":[
"ancestor",
"antecedent",
"archetype",
"daddy",
"foregoer",
"forerunner",
"granddaddy",
"grandaddy",
"precursor",
"predecessor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"model",
"original",
"originator",
"sire",
"father",
"mother"
],
"near antonyms":[
"by-product",
"derivative",
"offshoot",
"outgrowth",
"spin-off",
"daughter",
"son"
],
"antonyms":[
"descendant",
"descendent"
]
},
"something from which copies are made":{
"examples":[
"the manufacturer exhaustively tested the prototype of the vehicle before approving production"
],
"synonyms":[
"archetype",
"original"
],
"near synonyms":[
"source",
"example",
"mold",
"paradigm",
"pattern",
"beau ideal",
"classic",
"exemplar",
"ideal",
"model",
"nonpareil",
"paragon",
"blueprint",
"draft"
],
"near antonyms":[
"copy",
"imitation",
"replica",
"reproduction",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"forgery",
"sham"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"professional":{
"having or showing trained ability in a particular field of knowledge":{
"examples":[
"Many of the applicants lacked the professional experience the job required.",
"She had always dreamed of becoming a professional boxer."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"expert",
"pro",
"technicalized",
"specialist",
"specialistic",
"specialized",
"technical",
"accomplished",
"ace",
"adept",
"experienced",
"master",
"masterful",
"masterly",
"practiced",
"practised",
"proficient",
"qualified",
"seasoned",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"veteran",
"educated",
"prepared",
"schooled",
"trained",
"authoritative",
"directorial",
"magisterial"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inexpert",
"lay",
"nonprofessional",
"unprofessional",
"general",
"nontechnical",
"untechnical",
"common",
"generalized",
"generic",
"nonexclusive",
"nonspecific",
"ordinary",
"overall",
"universal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"in a serious and polite manner":{
"examples":[
"She found his presentation informative and his delivery quite professional .",
"Employees were expected to act in a professional manner when dealing with potential customers."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"businesslike",
"dignified",
"distinguished",
"elevated",
"serious-minded",
"civil",
"courteous",
"gracious",
"genteel",
"mannerly",
"well-bred",
"befitting",
"correct",
"de rigueur",
"decent",
"decorous",
"nice",
"proper",
"respectable",
"seemly",
"artful",
"polished",
"refined",
"sophisticated",
"cool",
"earnest",
"grave",
"humorless",
"no-nonsense",
"po-faced",
"sedate",
"serious",
"severe",
"sober",
"sobersided",
"solemn",
"staid",
"uncomic",
"unsmiling",
"weighty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbusinesslike",
"unprofessional",
"artless",
"undignified",
"unmannerly",
"improper",
"indecent",
"unseemly",
"antic",
"comic",
"comical",
"droll",
"farcical",
"funny",
"hilarious",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"laughable",
"light",
"light-headed",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"riotous",
"risible",
"screaming",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious",
"featherbrained",
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"goofy",
"harebrained",
"lighthearted",
"puerile",
"scatterbrained",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"brainless",
"cockeyed",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dotty",
"fatuous",
"foolish",
"half-witted",
"insane",
"jerky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"senseless",
"silly",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"weak-minded",
"witless",
"zany",
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"humorous",
"jesting",
"jocular",
"joking",
"kittenish",
"ludic",
"playful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field":{
"examples":[
"If you want the job done right, you really should hire a professional ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pro",
"consultant",
"hired gun",
"specialist",
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"craftsman",
"journeyman",
"all-rounder",
"jack-of-all-trades",
"Renaissance man",
"ace",
"adept",
"artist",
"authority",
"cognoscente",
"connoisseur",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dab",
"dab hand",
"expert",
"fiend",
"geek",
"guru",
"hand",
"hotshot",
"maestro",
"master",
"maven",
"mavin",
"meister",
"past master",
"proficient",
"scholar",
"shark",
"sharp",
"virtuoso",
"whiz",
"wizard"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apprentice",
"beginner",
"neophyte",
"novice",
"dabbler",
"dilettante",
"layman",
"nonprofessional",
"amateur",
"inexpert",
"nonexpert"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"prohibitive":{
"as in exorbitant , unreasonable":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"exorbitant",
"overpriced",
"sky-high",
"steep",
"stiff",
"unaffordable",
"uneconomic",
"uneconomical",
"unreasonable",
"big-ticket",
"costly",
"dear",
"expensive",
"extravagant",
"high",
"high-end",
"high-ticket",
"precious",
"premium",
"priceless",
"pricey",
"pricy",
"spendy",
"ultraexpensive",
"valuable",
"inestimable",
"invaluable",
"deluxe",
"luxurious",
"sumptuous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheap",
"inexpensive",
"moderate",
"reasonable",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"discounted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"proposes":{
"to set before the mind for consideration":{
"examples":[
"he proposed that we go for a walk this afternoon"
],
"synonyms":[
"advances",
"bounces",
"offers",
"poses",
"proffers",
"propounds",
"suggests",
"votes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"moves",
"nominates",
"recommends",
"presents",
"submits",
"tenders",
"trots out",
"files",
"lays",
"lodges",
"arranges",
"calculates",
"charts",
"contrives",
"covers",
"frames",
"maps",
"plans",
"plots",
"shapes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have in mind as a purpose or goal":{
"examples":[
"we propose to buy a new house within the next year"
],
"synonyms":[
"aims",
"allows",
"aspires",
"calculates",
"contemplates",
"designs",
"goes",
"intends",
"looks",
"means",
"meditates",
"plans",
"purports",
"purposes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dreams",
"hopes",
"wishes",
"considers",
"debates",
"mulls (over)",
"ponders",
"attempts",
"endeavors",
"strives",
"struggles",
"tries",
"plots",
"schemes",
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"effects",
"executes",
"performs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"proverbs":{
"an often stated observation regarding something from common experience":{
"examples":[
"her grandfather has a proverb for every occasion"
],
"synonyms":[
"adages",
"aphorisms",
"apothegms",
"bywords",
"epigrams",
"maxims",
"saws",
"sayings",
"sententiae",
"words"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bromides",
"clich\u00e9s",
"cliches",
"commonplaces",
"platitudes",
"wheezes",
"expressions",
"felicities",
"axioms",
"mottoes",
"mottos",
"precepts",
"truisms",
"truths",
"formulas",
"formulae",
"comments",
"notes",
"reflections",
"remarks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"probable":{
"worthy of being accepted as true or reasonable":{
"examples":[
"the counselor could find no probable reason for the girl's bizarre actions"
],
"synonyms":[
"believable",
"credible",
"creditable",
"likely",
"plausible",
"presumptive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cogent",
"compelling",
"conclusive",
"convincing",
"decisive",
"effective",
"forceful",
"persuasive",
"satisfying",
"strong",
"telling",
"acceptable",
"cogitable",
"conceivable",
"imaginable",
"possible",
"practical",
"reasonable",
"dependable",
"reliable",
"trustworthy",
"sophistic",
"sophistical",
"specious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absurd",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"flimsy",
"outlandish",
"preposterous",
"questionable",
"ridiculous",
"impossible",
"inconceivable",
"unimaginable",
"unthinkable",
"skeptical",
"suspect",
"suspicious",
"uncertain",
"unsure",
"hopeless",
"unworkable",
"useless"
],
"antonyms":[
"far-fetched",
"implausible",
"improbable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"unlikely",
"unplausible"
]
},
"having a high chance of occurring":{
"examples":[
"a probable outcome of the price increase will be lower consumption"
],
"synonyms":[
"likely"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conceivable",
"earthly",
"imaginable",
"possible",
"potential",
"supposable",
"apt",
"bound",
"certain",
"doubtless",
"imminent",
"inescapable",
"inevitable",
"liable",
"necessary",
"sure",
"unavoidable"
],
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"impossible",
"inconceivable",
"unimaginable"
],
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"doubtful",
"dubious",
"improbable",
"questionable",
"unlikely"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"obnoxiously",
"contemptuously",
"disdainfully",
"rudely",
"scornfully",
"coldly",
"coolly",
"cooly",
"frigidly",
"hostilely",
"parsimoniously",
"stingily",
"ungenerously",
"angrily",
"belligerently",
"begrudgingly",
"grudgingly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amply",
"bounteously",
"bountifully",
"freehandedly",
"freeheartedly",
"generously",
"handsomely",
"lavishly",
"liberally",
"munificently",
"openhandedly",
"unstintingly",
"well",
"considerately",
"courteously",
"hospitably",
"kindly",
"nicely",
"reasonably",
"sweetly",
"thoughtfully",
"affably",
"amiably",
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"congenially",
"cordially",
"friendlily",
"genially",
"good-heartedly",
"good-naturedly",
"graciously"
],
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},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"propellent":{
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"synonyms":[],
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"kindling",
"energy",
"fuel",
"power",
"force"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proactive":{
"having or showing awareness of and preparation for the future":{
"examples":[
"proactive decision by the city fathers to plan for the eventual withering away of the region's manufacturing base"
],
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"farseeing",
"farsighted",
"forehanded",
"foreseeing",
"foresighted",
"forethoughtful",
"forward",
"forward-looking",
"prescient",
"provident",
"visionary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"discerning",
"insightful",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"prudent",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sapient",
"wise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"careless",
"heedless",
"incautious"
],
"antonyms":[
"half-baked",
"half-cocked",
"improvident",
"myopic",
"shortsighted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"provincial":{
"not broad or open in views or opinions":{
"examples":[
"some people regard a fear of new things as an unmistakable sign of a provincial attitude"
],
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"illiberal",
"insular",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"narrow",
"narrow-minded",
"parochial",
"petty",
"picayune",
"sectarian",
"small",
"small-minded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inflexible",
"ironbound",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"rigid",
"set",
"stubborn",
"unyielding",
"wrongheaded",
"bigoted",
"intolerant",
"biased",
"discriminating",
"discriminatory",
"jaundiced",
"one-sided",
"partial",
"partisan",
"prejudiced",
"brassbound",
"hidebound",
"old-fashioned",
"reactionary",
"stodgy",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"stuffy",
"dogmatic",
"dogmatical",
"opinionated",
"opinionative",
"limited",
"hick",
"unsophisticated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impartial",
"nonpartisan",
"objective",
"unbiased",
"unprejudiced",
"freethinking"
],
"antonyms":[
"broad-minded",
"catholic",
"cosmopolitan",
"liberal",
"open",
"open-minded",
"receptive",
"tolerant"
]
},
"an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country":{
"examples":[
"the confidence man figured that fleecing these provincials would be easy"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumpkin",
"chawbacon",
"churl",
"clodhopper",
"cornball",
"countryman",
"hayseed",
"hick",
"rube",
"rustic",
"yokel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boor",
"clod",
"clown",
"gawk",
"lout",
"oaf",
"greenhorn",
"tenderfoot",
"peasant",
"peon",
"backwoodsman",
"mountaineer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slicker",
"smoothy",
"smoothie",
"metropolitan",
"suburbanite",
"urbanite"
],
"antonyms":[
"cosmopolitan",
"cosmopolite",
"sophisticate"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"provoker":{
"as in prompter , prodder":{
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"synonyms":[],
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"prodder",
"prompter",
"alarmist",
"extremist",
"insurgent",
"insurrectionist",
"radical",
"rebel",
"revolter",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"subversive",
"troublemaker",
"agent provocateur",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"exponent",
"persuader",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"reformer",
"reformist",
"supporter",
"demonstrator",
"marcher",
"objector",
"picketer",
"protester",
"protestor",
"agitator",
"demagogue",
"demagog",
"exciter",
"firebrand",
"fomenter",
"incendiary",
"inciter",
"instigator",
"kindler",
"provocateur",
"rabble-rouser"
],
"near antonyms":[
"peacemaker",
"reconciler",
"uniter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"propounded":{
"to set before the mind for consideration":{
"examples":[
"let us propound the question whether mercy killing should ever be an option"
],
"synonyms":[
"advanced",
"bounced",
"offered",
"posed",
"proffered",
"proposed",
"suggested",
"voted"
],
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"moved",
"nominated",
"recommended",
"presented",
"submitted",
"tendered",
"trotted out",
"filed",
"laid",
"lodged",
"arranged",
"calculated",
"charted",
"contrived",
"covered",
"framed",
"mapped",
"planned",
"plotted",
"shaped"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"protects":{
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"the mother bear was just trying to protect her cubs"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwarks",
"covers",
"defends",
"fences",
"fends",
"forfends",
"guards",
"keeps",
"safeguards",
"screens",
"secures",
"shields",
"wards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"averts",
"prevents",
"opposes",
"resists",
"withstands",
"battles",
"contends",
"fights",
"wars",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"saves",
"buffers",
"palisades",
"pickets",
"walls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombards",
"storms",
"besets",
"besieges",
"overruns",
"capitulates",
"caves",
"submits",
"yields"
],
"antonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"procurator":{
"a person who acts or does business for another":{
"examples":[
"he was appointed procurator of the church and was responsible for all of the financial arrangements"
],
"synonyms":[
"agent",
"assignee",
"attorney",
"commissary",
"delegate",
"deputy",
"envoy",
"factor",
"minister",
"proxy",
"rep",
"representative"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ambassador",
"diplomat",
"diplomatist",
"emissary",
"foreign minister",
"legate",
"plenipotentiary",
"alternate",
"backup",
"pinch hitter",
"relief",
"replacement",
"stand-in",
"sub",
"substitute",
"surrogate",
"understudy",
"informer",
"operative",
"spy",
"broker",
"distributor",
"manager",
"arbiter",
"arbitrator",
"comprador",
"compradore",
"conciliator",
"go-between",
"intercessor",
"intermediary",
"interposer",
"liaison",
"mediator",
"middleman",
"peacemaker",
"mouthpiece",
"point man",
"point person",
"prophet",
"speaker",
"spokesman",
"spokesperson"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proletariats":{
"people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class":{
"examples":[
"the Bolsheviks believed that Russia's discontented proletariat made that nation ripe for revolution"
],
"synonyms":[
"rabble",
"rabblement",
"ragtag and bobtail",
"riffraff",
"rout",
"scum",
"tag, rag, and bobtail",
"tagrag and bobtail",
"trash",
"unwashed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dregs",
"commoners",
"commons",
"herd",
"hoi polloi",
"masses",
"millions",
"mob",
"multitude",
"people",
"plebeians",
"populace",
"public",
"rank and file",
"bourgeoisie",
"middle class",
"working class"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elect",
"establishment",
"gentlefolk",
"gentlefolks",
"nobility",
"peerage"
],
"antonyms":[
"A-list",
"aristocracy",
"elite",
"gentry",
"quality",
"society",
"upper class",
"upper crust"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"profanity":{
"a disrespectful or indecent word or expression":{
"examples":[
"a rap song that is filled with profanities"
],
"synonyms":[
"curse",
"cuss",
"cussword",
"dirty word",
"expletive",
"four-letter word",
"obscenity",
"swear",
"swearword",
"vulgarism"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bawdry",
"language",
"scurrility",
"execration",
"imprecation",
"malediction",
"epithet",
"name",
"oath"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the quality or state of being obscene":{
"examples":[
"once notorious for its profanity , that 1950s best seller will strike today's readers as lamentably tame"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawdiness",
"blueness",
"coarseness",
"crudeness",
"crudity",
"dirt",
"dirtiness",
"filth",
"filthiness",
"foulness",
"grossness",
"impureness",
"impurity",
"indecency",
"lasciviousness",
"lewdness",
"nastiness",
"obscenity",
"raunch",
"raunchiness",
"ribaldry",
"smut",
"smuttiness",
"vulgarity",
"wantonness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broadness",
"earthiness",
"gaminess",
"raciness",
"saltiness",
"suggestiveness",
"immodesty",
"indecorousness",
"indelicacy",
"indelicateness",
"lowness",
"unbecomingness",
"lechery",
"depravedness",
"depravity",
"kinkiness",
"naughtiness",
"perverseness",
"perversion",
"perversity",
"pervertedness",
"wickedness",
"exceptionability",
"objectionableness",
"unacceptability",
"undesirability",
"reprehensibility",
"reprehensibleness",
"abusiveness",
"scurrilousness",
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"infamy",
"loathsomeness",
"offensiveness",
"repellency",
"repugnance",
"repulsiveness",
"distastefulness",
"obnoxiousness",
"unpleasantness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"priggery",
"priggishness",
"primness",
"prudery",
"prudishness",
"puritanism",
"correctness",
"decency",
"decorousness",
"decorum",
"seemliness",
"appropriateness",
"fitness",
"suitability",
"suitableness",
"perfection",
"purity",
"spotlessness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"provenders":{
"substances intended to be eaten":{
"examples":[
"a chef who prides himself on creating all of his dishes from local provender"
],
"synonyms":[
"bread",
"chow",
"chuck",
"comestibles",
"eatables",
"eats",
"edibles",
"fare",
"food",
"foodstuffs",
"grub",
"meat",
"provisions",
"table",
"tucker",
"viands",
"victuals",
"vittles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commissary",
"rations",
"supplies",
"aliment",
"nutriment",
"diet",
"nourishment",
"nurture",
"sustenance",
"mess",
"pap",
"ensilage",
"feed",
"fodder",
"forage",
"silage",
"slop",
"swill",
"feast",
"meal",
"refreshments",
"regale",
"repast",
"spread",
"board",
"dish",
"plate",
"platter",
"serving",
"finger food",
"natural food"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bane",
"poison",
"toxin",
"venom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prostitutions":{
"the practice of engaging in sexual activities for money":{
"examples":[
"prostitution is illegal in most states"
],
"synonyms":[
"harlotries",
"vices",
"whoredoms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demimondes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prodded":{
"to urge or push forward with or as if with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"kept prodding the sheep with a staff to move along faster"
],
"synonyms":[
"dug",
"goaded",
"spurred"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chucked",
"jabbed",
"jogged",
"knocked",
"nudged",
"poked",
"bored",
"drilled",
"perforated",
"pierced",
"pricked",
"punched",
"punctured",
"stabbed",
"stuck",
"drove",
"haled",
"propelled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action":{
"examples":[
"a public outcry eventually prodded the politicians into action"
],
"synonyms":[
"egged (on)",
"encouraged",
"exhorted",
"goaded",
"nudged",
"pressed",
"prompted",
"urged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drove",
"propelled",
"spurred",
"stimulated",
"hurried",
"hustled",
"pushed",
"rushed",
"adjured",
"beseeched",
"besought",
"implored",
"importuned",
"blandished",
"cajoled",
"coaxed",
"soft-soaped",
"wheedled",
"high-pressured",
"nagged",
"needled",
"pressured",
"fomented",
"incited",
"instigated",
"provoked",
"stirred (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deterred",
"discouraged",
"dissuaded",
"braked",
"checked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"held back",
"inhibited",
"restrained"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"procrastinator":{
"as in delayer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"delayer",
"idler",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"lounger",
"slouch",
"slug",
"sluggard",
"latecomer",
"crawler",
"dallier",
"dawdler",
"dragger",
"laggard",
"lagger",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"plodder",
"slowpoke",
"snail",
"straggler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"speedster",
"go-getter",
"hustler",
"scrambler",
"hurrier",
"rusher",
"speeder"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proffers":{
"something which is presented for consideration":{
"examples":[
"a generous proffer of his baronial estate for the charity gala"
],
"synonyms":[
"offers",
"proposals",
"propositions",
"suggestions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counteroffers",
"counterproposals",
"countersuggestions",
"counter-suggestions",
"feelers",
"overtures",
"motions",
"advancements",
"nominations",
"recommendations",
"bids",
"presentations",
"submissions",
"submittals",
"tender",
"arrangements",
"games",
"ground plans",
"layouts",
"lines",
"plans",
"plots",
"projects",
"strategies",
"systems",
"conceptions",
"ideas",
"notions",
"theories",
"thoughts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put before another for acceptance or consideration":{
"examples":[
"proffered his assistance in helping the two sides reach a compromise"
],
"synonyms":[
"extends",
"gives",
"offers",
"tenders",
"trots out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"poses",
"proposes",
"holds out",
"gives in",
"submits",
"volunteers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepts",
"receives",
"takes",
"accredits",
"approbates",
"approves",
"authorizes",
"clears",
"confirms",
"finalizes",
"formalizes",
"homologates",
"OKs",
"okays",
"ratifies",
"sanctions",
"warrants",
"declines",
"denies",
"disallows",
"disapproves",
"negatives",
"rejects",
"turns down",
"vetoes",
"rebuffs",
"rebuts",
"refuses",
"spurns",
"retracts",
"withdraws",
"disregards",
"ignores",
"neglects",
"overlooks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set before the mind for consideration":{
"examples":[
"proffered a novel solution for getting themselves out of debt"
],
"synonyms":[
"advances",
"bounces",
"offers",
"poses",
"proposes",
"propounds",
"suggests",
"votes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"moves",
"nominates",
"recommends",
"presents",
"submits",
"tenders",
"trots out",
"files",
"lays",
"lodges",
"arranges",
"calculates",
"charts",
"contrives",
"covers",
"frames",
"maps",
"plans",
"plots",
"shapes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"proclivity":{
"a habitual attraction to some activity or thing":{
"examples":[
"showed artistic proclivities at an early age"
],
"synonyms":[
"affection",
"affinity",
"aptitude",
"bent",
"bias",
"bone",
"devices",
"disposition",
"genius",
"habitude",
"impulse",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"partiality",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"predisposition",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"turn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"favor",
"one-sidedness",
"partisanship",
"prejudice",
"endowment",
"faculty",
"flair",
"gift",
"knack",
"talent",
"addiction",
"appetite",
"fancy",
"fondness",
"like",
"liking",
"preference",
"taste",
"forte",
"speciality",
"specialty",
"convention",
"custom",
"habit",
"pattern",
"practice",
"practise",
"routine",
"trick",
"way",
"wont",
"eccentricity",
"idiosyncrasy",
"kink",
"oddity",
"peculiarity",
"quirk",
"singularity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allergy",
"averseness",
"aversion",
"disfavor",
"disinclination",
"dislike",
"disliking",
"disrelish",
"distaste",
"detachment",
"impartiality",
"neutrality",
"objectivity",
"apathy",
"disinterestedness",
"indifference",
"insouciance",
"nonchalance",
"unconcern"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proclamations":{
"a statement made publically":{
"examples":[
"The government issued a proclamation granting all workers the right to parental leave."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"annunciations",
"declarations",
"edicts",
"promulgations",
"pronouncements",
"pronunciamentos",
"pronunciamentoes",
"rescripts",
"significations",
"bulls",
"decrees",
"diktats",
"directives",
"edicts",
"fiats",
"rescripts",
"rulings",
"ukases",
"statements",
"utterances",
"ads",
"advertisements",
"adverts",
"announcements",
"bulletins",
"communiqu\u00e9s",
"notices",
"notifications",
"postings",
"releases",
"broadcasts",
"cablecasts",
"newscasts",
"telecasts",
"advertisings",
"billings",
"blurbs",
"come-ons",
"commercials",
"messages",
"pitches",
"plugolas",
"spots",
"words",
"communications",
"dispatches",
"reports",
"ballyhoos",
"boosts",
"buildups",
"campaigns",
"plugs",
"promos",
"promotions",
"propagandas",
"publicities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proffered":{
"to put before another for acceptance or consideration":{
"examples":[
"proffered his assistance in helping the two sides reach a compromise"
],
"synonyms":[
"extended",
"gave",
"offered",
"tendered",
"trotted out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"posed",
"proposed",
"held out",
"gave in",
"submitted",
"volunteered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"received",
"took",
"accredited",
"approbated",
"approved",
"authorized",
"cleared",
"confirmed",
"finalized",
"formalized",
"homologated",
"OK'd",
"okayed",
"ratified",
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"refused",
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"charted",
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"the part of the face bearing the nostrils and nasal cavity":{
"examples":[
"if there were a direct relation between mendacity and the length of one's proboscis , hers would be a mile long"
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"conks",
"honkers",
"nebs",
"noses",
"nozzles",
"schnozzes",
"schnozzolas",
"schnozzles",
"smellers",
"snoots",
"snouts"
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"near synonyms":[
"pugnoses",
"pugs"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"to apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one":{
"examples":[
"playfully he propelled his rambunctious friend into the swimming pool to cool off"
],
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"driving",
"pushing",
"shoving",
"thrusting"
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"moving",
"bearing (down)",
"compressing",
"depressing",
"jamming",
"pressuring",
"squashing",
"squeezing",
"weighing (upon)",
"bulldozing",
"compelling",
"forcing",
"leaning (on or against)",
"muscling",
"ramming"
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"the aircraft is propelled by a pair of turboprop engines"
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"actuating",
"driving",
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"moving",
"working"
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"activating",
"motivating",
"provoking",
"abetting",
"fermenting",
"fomenting",
"inciting",
"raising",
"stirring (up)",
"whipping (up)",
"setting off",
"triggering",
"tripping",
"arousing",
"exciting",
"firing (up)",
"galvanizing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"inspiring",
"instigating",
"rousing",
"stimulating"
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"bridling",
"checking",
"constraining",
"containing",
"controlling",
"curbing",
"inhibiting",
"regulating",
"reining (in)",
"restraining"
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"verb"
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"to lessen the anger or agitation of":{
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"the temple was once the site of sacrifices\u2014both to honor the gods in times of plenty and to propitiate them in times of trouble"
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"appeased",
"assuaged",
"conciliated",
"disarmed",
"gentled",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated"
],
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"calmed",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"contented",
"hushed",
"quieted",
"soothed",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized",
"endeared (to)",
"ingratiated",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"adulated",
"blarneyed",
"flattered",
"overpraised",
"soft-soaped",
"quenched",
"sated",
"satiated",
"satisfied",
"catered (to)",
"humored",
"indulged",
"blandished",
"cajoled",
"coaxed",
"sweet-talked",
"wheedled",
"babied",
"coddled",
"mollycoddled",
"pampered",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"dulcified",
"sweetened"
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"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"antagonized",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"burned (up)",
"burnt (up)",
"chafed",
"crossed",
"exasperated",
"galled",
"got",
"grated",
"irked",
"irritated",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"piqued",
"put out",
"rankled",
"riled",
"roiled",
"ruffled",
"vexed",
"vext",
"provoked",
"roused",
"harassed",
"harried",
"persecuted",
"pestered",
"agitated",
"discomforted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"fretted",
"perturbed",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"offended",
"slighted"
],
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"angered",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriated",
"ired",
"maddened",
"outraged"
]
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"verb"
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"an established pattern of behavior":{
"examples":[
"the quarterback's proneness to injury has prompted team owners to offer him less lucrative terms on his new contract"
],
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"aptness",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affinity",
"aptitude",
"bent",
"disposition",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"mind-set",
"partiality",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"predisposition",
"proclivity",
"turn",
"custom",
"habit",
"pattern",
"practice",
"practise",
"routine",
"wont",
"eccentricity",
"idiosyncrasy",
"oddity",
"peculiarity",
"quirk",
"singularity",
"trick"
],
"near antonyms":[
"averseness",
"disinclination",
"dislike",
"indisposition"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"to show the existence or truth of by evidence":{
"examples":[
"the prosecutor used DNA evidence to prove the defendant's guilt"
],
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"demonstrates",
"documents",
"establishes",
"substantiates",
"validates"
],
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"backs (up)",
"buttresses",
"circumstantiates",
"corroborates",
"evidences",
"evinces",
"records",
"supports",
"upholds",
"witnesses",
"adduces",
"attests",
"authenticates",
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"confirms",
"sustains",
"verifies",
"vouches",
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"nails",
"settles",
"confesses",
"deposes",
"testifies"
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"challenges",
"disputes",
"objects",
"alleges",
"assumes",
"conjectures",
"guesses",
"presumes",
"surmises",
"suspects"
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"disproves",
"rebuts",
"refutes"
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"to come to be":{
"examples":[
"the new automobile engine design proved impractical"
],
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"comes out",
"falls out",
"pans out",
"shakes out",
"turns out"
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"develops",
"emerges",
"evolves",
"germinates",
"plays out",
"unfolds",
"works out"
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"to gain full recognition or acceptance of":{
"examples":[
"proved herself a great actress on the Broadway stage"
],
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"demonstrates",
"establishes",
"shows",
"substantiates"
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"bears out",
"documents",
"evidences",
"supports",
"sustains",
"upholds",
"confirms",
"corroborates",
"justifies",
"validates",
"verifies"
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"near antonyms":[
"confutes",
"discredits",
"invalidates",
"rebuts",
"refutes"
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"disproves"
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"type":[
"verb"
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"proselyted":{
"to persuade to change to one's religious faith":{
"examples":[
"she's been trying to proselyte everyone in the office ever since she joined that church"
],
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"converted",
"proselytized"
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"missionized",
"brainwashed",
"influenced",
"swayed",
"propagated"
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"secularized",
"dissuaded"
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"type":[
"verb"
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"proliferates":{
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"rumors about the incident proliferated on the Internet"
],
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"accelerates",
"accumulates",
"appreciates",
"balloons",
"booms",
"builds up",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"climbs",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"gains",
"increases",
"mounts",
"multiplies",
"mushrooms",
"rises",
"rolls up",
"snowballs",
"spreads",
"swells",
"waxes"
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"near synonyms":[
"jumps",
"rockets",
"skyrockets",
"surges",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"redoubles",
"blows up",
"bulks",
"distends",
"inflates",
"puffs (up)",
"crescendoes",
"crests",
"peaks"
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracts",
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"recedes",
"wanes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
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"proliferate":{
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"rumors about the incident proliferated on the Internet"
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"accelerate",
"accumulate",
"appreciate",
"balloon",
"boom",
"build up",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"climb",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"gain",
"increase",
"mount",
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"mushroom",
"rise",
"roll up",
"snowball",
"spread",
"swell",
"wax"
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"jump",
"rocket",
"skyrocket",
"surge",
"heighten",
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"redouble",
"blow up",
"bulk",
"distend",
"inflate",
"puff (up)",
"crescendo",
"crest",
"peak"
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"antonyms":[
"contract",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"recede",
"wane"
]
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"type":[
"verb"
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"protracting":{
"to make longer":{
"examples":[
"the highway project was protracted by years of litigation"
],
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"dragging (out)",
"drawing out",
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"outstretching",
"prolonging",
"stretching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplifying",
"enlarging",
"expanding",
"increasing",
"attenuating",
"thinning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"lessening",
"reducing",
"thickening"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"curtailing",
"cutting",
"cutting back",
"shortening"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
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"promissory note":{
"as in cashier's check , note":{
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"banknote",
"cashier's check",
"check",
"draft",
"money order",
"note",
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"folding money",
"paper money",
"scrip",
"bill",
"dollar",
"greenback",
"coinage",
"specie",
"bankroll",
"capital",
"finances",
"funds",
"roll",
"wad",
"wallet",
"bread",
"bucks",
"cabbage",
"cash",
"change",
"chips",
"coin",
"currency",
"dough",
"gold",
"green",
"jack",
"kale",
"legal tender",
"lolly",
"long green",
"loot",
"lucre",
"money",
"moola",
"moolah",
"needful",
"pelf",
"scratch",
"shekels",
"sheqels",
"shekelim",
"shekalim",
"sheqalim",
"tender",
"wampum",
"chump change",
"dibs",
"dime",
"mite",
"peanuts",
"pittance",
"shoestring",
"big bucks",
"bomb",
"boodle",
"bundle",
"earth",
"fortune",
"king's ransom",
"megabucks",
"mint",
"packet",
"pile",
"pot",
"abundance",
"means",
"opulence",
"riches",
"treasure",
"wealth",
"resources",
"wherewithal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"programming":{
"as in planning , designing":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blueprinting",
"calculating",
"charting",
"concerting",
"designing",
"drafting",
"framing",
"hammering out",
"intriguing",
"laying out",
"maneuvering",
"mapping (out)",
"planning",
"schematizing",
"scheming",
"shaping",
"squaring away",
"working out",
"contracting",
"pledging",
"promising",
"choosing",
"concluding",
"determining",
"figuring",
"opting",
"resolving",
"agreeing (on)",
"arranging",
"deciding",
"fixing",
"setting",
"settling",
"affirming",
"approving",
"authorizing",
"clearing",
"confirming",
"OK'ing",
"okaying",
"sanctioning",
"warranting",
"closing",
"completing",
"ending",
"finalizing",
"finishing",
"rounding (off or out)",
"winding up",
"wrapping up",
"bargaining",
"chaffering",
"dealing",
"dickering",
"haggling",
"horse-trading",
"negotiating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aborting",
"calling",
"calling off",
"dropping",
"recalling",
"repealing",
"rescinding",
"revoking",
"differing (over)",
"disagreeing (with)",
"countering",
"debating",
"objecting",
"opposing",
"protesting",
"resisting",
"contesting",
"disputing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
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},
"proffer":{
"something which is presented for consideration":{
"examples":[
"a generous proffer of his baronial estate for the charity gala"
],
"synonyms":[
"offer",
"proposal",
"proposition",
"suggestion"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counteroffer",
"counterproposal",
"countersuggestion",
"feeler",
"overture",
"motion",
"advancement",
"nomination",
"recommendation",
"bid",
"presentation",
"submission",
"submittal",
"tender",
"arrangement",
"game",
"ground plan",
"layout",
"line",
"plan",
"plot",
"project",
"strategy",
"system",
"conception",
"idea",
"notion",
"theory",
"thought"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put before another for acceptance or consideration":{
"examples":[
"proffered his assistance in helping the two sides reach a compromise"
],
"synonyms":[
"extend",
"give",
"offer",
"tender",
"trot out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pose",
"propose",
"hold out",
"give in",
"submit",
"volunteer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"receive",
"take",
"accredit",
"approbate",
"approve",
"authorize",
"clear",
"confirm",
"finalize",
"formalize",
"homologate",
"OK",
"okay",
"ratify",
"sanction",
"warrant",
"decline",
"deny",
"disallow",
"disapprove",
"negative",
"reject",
"turn down",
"veto",
"rebuff",
"rebut",
"refuse",
"spurn",
"retract",
"withdraw",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set before the mind for consideration":{
"examples":[
"proffered a novel solution for getting themselves out of debt"
],
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"advance",
"bounce",
"offer",
"pose",
"propose",
"propound",
"suggest",
"vote"
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"move",
"nominate",
"recommend",
"present",
"submit",
"tender",
"trot out",
"file",
"lay",
"lodge",
"arrange",
"calculate",
"chart",
"contrive",
"cover",
"frame",
"map",
"plan",
"plot",
"shape"
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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
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"protestor":{
"as in demonstrator , marcher":{
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"near synonyms":[
"demonstrator",
"marcher",
"objector",
"picketer",
"agitator",
"demagogue",
"demagog",
"exciter",
"firebrand",
"fomenter",
"incendiary",
"inciter",
"instigator",
"kindler",
"provocateur",
"rabble-rouser",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"exponent",
"persuader",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"reformer",
"reformist",
"supporter",
"alarmist",
"extremist",
"insurgent",
"insurrectionist",
"radical",
"rebel",
"revolter",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"subversive",
"troublemaker",
"prodder",
"prompter",
"provoker",
"agent provocateur"
],
"near antonyms":[
"peacemaker",
"reconciler",
"uniter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"provincialisms":{
"as in regionalisms , colloquialisms":{
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"near synonyms":[
"colloquialisms",
"colloquials",
"idioms",
"localisms",
"parlances",
"pidgins",
"regionalisms",
"speeches",
"vernacularisms",
"vernaculars",
"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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"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"propertied":{
"as in prosperous , better-off":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"better-off",
"comfortable",
"prosperous",
"substantial",
"successful",
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"loaded",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-endowed",
"well-fixed",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"advantaged",
"blessed",
"blest",
"privileged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"destitute",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"needy",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken",
"unaffluent",
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"hand-to-mouth",
"underprivileged",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"beggared",
"broke",
"indebted",
"insolvent",
"pauperized",
"ruined",
"skint",
"depressed",
"pinched",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"low",
"short"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
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},
"profoundly":{
"as in deeply":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
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"absolutely",
"altogether",
"completely",
"downright",
"entirely",
"flat-out",
"fully",
"positively",
"purely",
"radically",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
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"almighty",
"archly",
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"awfully",
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"filthy",
"frightfully",
"full",
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"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"immensely",
"incredibly",
"intensely",
"jolly",
"majorly",
"mightily",
"mighty",
"monstrous",
"mortally",
"most",
"much",
"particularly",
"passing",
"rattling",
"real",
"really",
"right",
"roaring",
"roaringly",
"seriously",
"severely",
"so",
"sore",
"sorely",
"spanking",
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"stinking",
"such",
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"supremely",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"that",
"thumping",
"too",
"unco",
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"very",
"vitally",
"way",
"whacking",
"wicked",
"wildly",
"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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"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly",
"somewhat",
"meagerly",
"scantily",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely"
],
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"adverb"
]
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"proclaimer":{
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"advertiser",
"announcer",
"blazoner",
"crier",
"foreboder",
"foreshadower",
"foretaste",
"forewarning",
"courier",
"messenger",
"runner",
"angel",
"foregoer",
"forerunner",
"harbinger",
"herald",
"outrider",
"precursor",
"augury",
"auspice",
"boding",
"foreboding",
"foreshadowing",
"omen",
"portent",
"prefiguring",
"presage",
"mark",
"sign",
"symptom",
"bellwether"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prophesy":{
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"examples":[
"holy men were prophesying the coming of a new messiah"
],
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"augur",
"call",
"forecast",
"foretell",
"predict",
"presage",
"prognosticate",
"read",
"vaticinate"
],
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"alert",
"caution",
"forewarn",
"warn",
"bode",
"forebode",
"forbode",
"portend",
"promise",
"anticipate",
"divine",
"foreknow",
"foresee",
"announce",
"declare",
"herald",
"proclaim"
],
"near antonyms":[
"describe",
"narrate",
"recite",
"recount",
"relate",
"report",
"tell"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"the doing of an action":{
"examples":[
"oversaw the prosecution of the president's foreign policy"
],
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"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"commission",
"discharge",
"enactment",
"execution",
"fulfillment",
"fulfilment",
"implementation",
"performance",
"perpetration",
"pursuance"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispatch",
"expedition",
"administration",
"direction",
"handling",
"management",
"application",
"operation",
"practice",
"practise"
],
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"antonyms":[
"nonfulfillment",
"nonperformance"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"propagating":{
"to bring forth offspring":{
"examples":[
"the dams along the river are interfering with the salmon's ability to propagate"
],
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"breeding",
"multiplying",
"procreating",
"reproducing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bearing",
"begetting",
"engendering",
"gendering",
"generating",
"getting",
"having",
"mothering",
"parenting",
"producing",
"siring",
"hatching",
"spawning"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to be known over a considerable area or by many people":{
"examples":[
"the various ways in which churches can propagate the faith"
],
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"broadcasting",
"circulating",
"disseminating",
"spreading"
],
"near synonyms":[
"radiating",
"sprawling",
"diffusing",
"dispensing",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"scattering",
"sowing",
"communicating",
"conveying",
"imparting",
"passing (on)",
"transmitting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cloaking",
"concealing",
"enshrouding",
"hiding",
"holding (in)",
"masking",
"obscuring",
"secreting",
"shrouding",
"veiling",
"containing",
"limiting",
"restricting"
],
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},
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"verb"
]
},
"progenies":{
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"examples":[
"the rancher carefully examined the progeny of the new breed of cattle"
],
"synonyms":[
"fruit",
"get",
"issue",
"offspring",
"posterity",
"seed",
"spawn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brood",
"hatch",
"litter",
"young",
"child",
"scion",
"family",
"kin",
"lineage",
"stock"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ancestor",
"antecedent",
"father",
"forebear",
"forbear",
"forebearer",
"forefather",
"grandfather",
"parent",
"primogenitor",
"progenitor"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"provoking":{
"serving or likely to arouse a strong reaction":{
"examples":[
"the host's provoking opinions are the reason why people tune in to his radio talk show in the first place"
],
"synonyms":[
"charged",
"edgy",
"exciting",
"inciting",
"instigating",
"instigative",
"piquing",
"provocative",
"stimulating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"explosive",
"fiery",
"incendiary",
"inflammatory",
"triggering",
"inducing",
"inspirational",
"inspiring",
"motivating",
"motivational",
"motivative",
"jeering",
"taunting",
"teasing",
"activating",
"energizing",
"galvanizing",
"quickening",
"vitalizing",
"angering",
"enraging",
"maddening",
"upsetting",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"pesky",
"vexatious",
"vexing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"subduing"
],
"antonyms":[
"noninflammatory"
]
},
"to rouse to strong feeling or action":{
"examples":[
"his teasing finally provoked her to anger",
"bees generally will not sting unless they are provoked"
],
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"arousing",
"encouraging",
"exciting",
"firing (up)",
"impassioning",
"inciting",
"instigating",
"moving",
"piquing",
"revving (up)",
"sparking",
"stimulating",
"stirring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fanning",
"igniting",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"kindling",
"triggering",
"activating",
"animating",
"driving",
"energizing",
"galvanizing",
"inducing",
"inspiring",
"keying (up)",
"motivating",
"motiving",
"pumping up",
"quickening",
"setting off",
"vitalizing",
"abetting",
"fermenting",
"fomenting",
"raising",
"whipping (up)",
"angering",
"enraging",
"maddening",
"upsetting",
"jeering",
"taunting",
"teasing",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"getting",
"irritating",
"vexing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calming",
"soothing",
"subduing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"appeasing",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring (something volatile or intense) into being":{
"examples":[
"rankings that are sure to provoke an argument among film buffs"
],
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"abetting",
"brewing",
"fermenting",
"fomenting",
"inciting",
"instigating",
"picking",
"raising",
"stirring (up)",
"whipping (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advancing",
"cultivating",
"encouraging",
"forwarding",
"fostering",
"furthering",
"nourishing",
"nurturing",
"promoting",
"sowing",
"stimulating",
"detonating",
"setting",
"setting off",
"triggering",
"exciting",
"galvanizing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"inspiring",
"motivating",
"rousing",
"activating",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"firing",
"invigorating",
"jazzing (up)",
"livening (up)",
"pepping (up)",
"quickening",
"stimulating",
"vitalizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bridling",
"checking",
"constraining",
"curbing",
"discouraging",
"holding",
"inhibiting",
"regulating",
"reining (in)",
"restraining",
"taming",
"allaying",
"calming",
"quieting",
"settling",
"soothing",
"stilling",
"subduing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"proponents":{
"a person who actively supports or favors a cause":{
"examples":[
"a vocal proponent of the use of electric-powered cars"
],
"synonyms":[
"advocates",
"advocators",
"apostles",
"backers",
"boosters",
"champions",
"espousers",
"exponents",
"expounders",
"friends",
"gospelers",
"gospellers",
"heralds",
"hierophants",
"high priests",
"paladins",
"promoters",
"protagonists",
"supporters",
"true believers",
"tub-thumpers",
"white knights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"loyalists",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"stalwarts",
"adherents",
"cohorts",
"disciples",
"followers",
"interpreters",
"applauders",
"cheerleaders",
"encouragers",
"fellow travelers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enemies",
"foes",
"rivals",
"belittlers",
"critics",
"faultfinders"
],
"antonyms":[
"adversaries",
"antagonists",
"opponents"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prowesses":{
"strength of mind to carry on in spite of danger":{
"examples":[
"an extraordinary display of prowess on the battlefield"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottle",
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daring",
"daringness",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"gallantry",
"greatheartedness",
"guts",
"gutsiness",
"hardihood",
"heart",
"heroism",
"intestinal fortitude",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"moxie",
"nerve",
"pecker",
"stoutness",
"valor",
"virtue"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backbone",
"fiber",
"fortitude",
"grit",
"gumption",
"mettle",
"pluck",
"pluckiness",
"spunk",
"temper",
"determination",
"perseverance",
"resolution",
"endurance",
"stamina",
"stomach",
"tenacity",
"audacity",
"boldness",
"brazenness",
"cheek",
"cojones",
"effrontery",
"gall",
"temerity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cold feet",
"faintheartedness",
"fearfulness",
"mousiness",
"timidity",
"timorousness",
"feebleness",
"softness",
"weakness",
"impotence",
"ineffectualness",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"indecisiveness",
"irresolution"
],
"antonyms":[
"cowardice",
"cowardliness",
"cravenness",
"dastardliness",
"poltroonery",
"spinelessness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prosy":{
"as in prosaic , barren":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aseptic",
"barren",
"blah",
"dullish",
"pleasureless",
"prosaic",
"soggy",
"spiritless",
"arid",
"boring",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dreary",
"drudging",
"dry",
"dull",
"dusty",
"flat",
"heavy",
"ho-hum",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"jejune",
"leaden",
"mind-numbing",
"monochromatic",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"old",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"slow",
"stale",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"stupid",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying",
"blank",
"earthbound",
"gray",
"grey",
"inanimate",
"pallid",
"pedantic",
"sterile",
"suspenseless",
"undramatic",
"uneventful",
"unexciting",
"unimaginative",
"uninspiring",
"unnewsworthy",
"unrewarding",
"unsensational",
"unspectacular",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"longsome",
"palling",
"draining",
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"fatiguing",
"wearing",
"debilitating",
"enfeebling",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"tepid",
"unexceptional",
"unsurprising",
"vapid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting",
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"sensational",
"spectacular",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"animating",
"breathtaking",
"electrifying",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"galvanizing",
"hair-raising",
"inspiring",
"invigorating",
"rip-roaring",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"thrilling",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"attractive",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"enthralling",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"mesmerizing",
"spellbinding",
"suspenseful",
"arresting",
"provocative",
"tantalizing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"prosaist":{
"as in prosateur , proser":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"prosateur",
"proser",
"dramatist",
"playwright",
"scenarist",
"screenwriter",
"scriptwriter",
"bard",
"poet",
"rhymer",
"versifier",
"essayist",
"pamphleteer",
"satirist",
"blogger",
"columnist",
"journalist",
"newspaperman",
"paragrapher",
"reporter",
"sportswriter",
"fabulist",
"fictioneer",
"fictionist",
"novelist",
"romancer",
"storyteller",
"autobiographer",
"memoirist",
"memorialist",
"biographer",
"hagiographer",
"ghostwriter",
"hack",
"hatchet man",
"scribbler",
"wordmonger",
"coauthor",
"coscenarist",
"cowriter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonauthor"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"profitability":{
"as in advantageousness , beneficialness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"advantageousness",
"beneficialness",
"advisability",
"advisableness",
"desirability",
"desirableness",
"expedience",
"expediency",
"judiciousness",
"prudence",
"wisdom",
"feasibility",
"practicality",
"usefulness",
"opportuneness",
"seasonableness",
"timeliness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"imprudence",
"inadvisability",
"inexpedience",
"inexpediency",
"injudiciousness",
"unwisdom",
"impracticality",
"infeasibility",
"inopportuneness",
"unseasonableness",
"untimeliness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"producing":{
"as in bearing , yielding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bearing",
"generative",
"yielding",
"cornucopian",
"fat",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"fructuous",
"fruitful",
"lush",
"luxuriant",
"productive",
"prolific",
"rich",
"abounding",
"abundant",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenitudinous",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"blooming",
"bursting",
"flourishing",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thriving",
"creative",
"inventive",
"original"
],
"near antonyms":[
"barren",
"dead",
"infertile",
"sterile",
"unfertile",
"unfruitful",
"unproductive",
"meager",
"meagre",
"scant",
"scanty",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"spare",
"sparse"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"examples":[
"hopefully, the new approach to fighting substance abuse will produce better results"
],
"synonyms":[
"begetting",
"breeding",
"bringing",
"bringing about",
"bringing on",
"catalyzing",
"causing",
"creating",
"doing",
"drawing on",
"effecting",
"effectuating",
"engendering",
"generating",
"inducing",
"invoking",
"making",
"occasioning",
"prompting",
"resulting (in)",
"spawning",
"translating (into)",
"working",
"yielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conducing (to)",
"contributing (to)",
"deciding",
"determining",
"beginning",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"founding",
"inaugurating",
"initiating",
"innovating",
"instituting",
"introducing",
"launching",
"pioneering",
"setting",
"setting up",
"starting",
"advancing",
"cultivating",
"developing",
"encouraging",
"forwarding",
"fostering",
"furthering",
"nourishing",
"nurturing",
"promoting",
"enacting",
"rendering",
"turning out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impeding",
"limiting",
"restricting",
"clamping down (on)",
"cracking down (on)",
"crushing",
"dampening",
"putting down",
"quashing",
"quelling",
"repressing",
"smothering",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stifling",
"subduing",
"suppressing",
"arresting",
"checking",
"controlling",
"curbing",
"inhibiting",
"reining (in)",
"restraining",
"retarding",
"canning",
"killing",
"snuffing (out)",
"stilling",
"abolishing",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"extinguishing",
"liquidating",
"quenching"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring forth from the womb":{
"examples":[
"rabbits can potentially produce many offspring at once"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing",
"birthing",
"delivering",
"dropping",
"having",
"mothering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"laboring",
"breeding",
"multiplying",
"propagating",
"reproducing",
"spawning",
"begetting",
"fathering",
"generating",
"getting",
"siring",
"calving",
"kidding",
"kindling",
"kittening",
"littering",
"pupping",
"whelping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aborting",
"losing",
"miscarrying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials":{
"examples":[
"a factory producing steel"
],
"synonyms":[
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forming",
"framing",
"making",
"manufacturing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assembling",
"building",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"making up",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up",
"structuring",
"throwing up",
"crafting",
"handcrafting",
"hewing",
"forging",
"molding",
"shaping",
"cobbling (together or up)",
"knocking out",
"patching (together)",
"throwing up",
"prefabricating",
"creating",
"inventing",
"minting",
"originating",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"instituting",
"organizing",
"concocting",
"contriving",
"cooking (up)",
"designing",
"devising",
"imagining",
"thinking (up)",
"conceiving",
"envisaging",
"picturing",
"visualizing",
"refashioning",
"remaking",
"remanufacturing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"taking apart",
"breaking up",
"dismembering",
"abolishing",
"annihilating",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"eradicating",
"exterminating",
"extinguishing",
"flattening",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"ruining",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"wrecking",
"blowing up",
"exploding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to present so as to invite notice or attention":{
"examples":[
"he produced his brand-new driver's license at every possible opportunity"
],
"synonyms":[
"displaying",
"disporting",
"exhibiting",
"exposing",
"flashing",
"flaunting",
"laying out",
"parading",
"showing",
"showing off",
"sporting",
"strutting",
"unveiling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brandishing",
"flourishing",
"waving",
"advertising",
"airing",
"announcing",
"blazing",
"broadcasting",
"heralding",
"placarding",
"posting",
"proclaiming",
"publicizing",
"sounding",
"trumpeting",
"divulging",
"talking (about)",
"telling (of)",
"baring",
"discovering",
"revealing",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflaging",
"disguising",
"masking",
"concealing",
"covering",
"curtaining",
"enshrouding",
"hiding",
"obscuring",
"occluding",
"occulting",
"shrouding",
"veiling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"procreating":{
"to bring forth offspring":{
"examples":[
"the common perception that our Puritan forebears procreated more out of a sense of duty than from desire"
],
"synonyms":[
"breeding",
"multiplying",
"propagating",
"reproducing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bearing",
"begetting",
"engendering",
"gendering",
"generating",
"getting",
"having",
"mothering",
"parenting",
"producing",
"siring",
"hatching",
"spawning"
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"walls",
"wards"
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"arms",
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"palisades",
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"sentries",
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"warders",
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"watches",
"watchmen",
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"uniter"
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"hallelujahs",
"paeans",
"dirges",
"laments",
"requiems",
"threnodies",
"anthems",
"canticles",
"carols",
"chorales",
"hymns",
"psalms",
"spirituals"
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"noun"
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"good",
"interest",
"weal",
"welfare",
"well-being",
"fitness",
"health",
"healthiness",
"robustness",
"soundness",
"wellness",
"wholeness",
"wholesomeness",
"bliss",
"felicity",
"happiness",
"joy",
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"benefit",
"gain",
"sake",
"content",
"contentedness",
"gratification",
"satisfaction"
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"unhealthiness",
"unsoundness",
"misery",
"sadness",
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"unhappiness",
"wretchedness"
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"noun"
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"playwright",
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"screenwriter",
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"poet",
"rhymer",
"versifier",
"essayist",
"pamphleteer",
"satirist",
"blogger",
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"paragrapher",
"reporter",
"sportswriter",
"fabulist",
"fictioneer",
"fictionist",
"novelist",
"romancer",
"storyteller",
"autobiographer",
"memoirist",
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"hagiographer",
"ghostwriter",
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"hatchet man",
"scribbler",
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"cowriter"
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"nonauthor"
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"noun"
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"prophesier",
"prophet",
"seer",
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"sibyl",
"wisewoman",
"mystic",
"oracle",
"astrologer",
"crystal gazer",
"palmist",
"rhabdomancer",
"Cassandra",
"doomsayer",
"doomsdayer",
"Jeremiah"
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"noun"
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"chawbacons",
"churls",
"clodhoppers",
"cornballs",
"countrymen",
"hayseed",
"hayseeds",
"hicks",
"rubes",
"rustics",
"yokels"
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"clods",
"clowns",
"gawks",
"louts",
"oafs",
"greenhorns",
"tenderfeet",
"tenderfoots",
"peasants",
"peons",
"peones",
"backwoodsmen",
"mountaineers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slickers",
"smoothies",
"metropolitans",
"suburbanites",
"urbanites"
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"cosmopolites",
"sophisticates"
]
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"noun"
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"changed by humans or machines (as in manufacture) from its natural or original form":{
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"She's been avoiding processed foods."
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"prepared",
"refined",
"treated",
"artificial",
"man-made",
"nonnatural",
"synthetic",
"fabricated",
"manufactured",
"cultivated",
"industrial",
"mechanical",
"ersatz",
"faux",
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"near antonyms":[
"crude",
"raw",
"natural"
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"refined",
"clarified",
"cleared",
"distilled",
"filtered",
"fined",
"garbled",
"purified",
"cleaned",
"cleansed",
"decontaminated",
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"purged",
"washed",
"extracted",
"leached",
"bolted",
"screened",
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"sifted",
"disinfected",
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"clouded",
"dulled",
"muddied",
"contaminated",
"dirtied",
"soiled",
"defiled",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"begrimed",
"besmirched",
"fouled",
"sullied"
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"reclaimed",
"recovered",
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"type":[
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"verb"
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"to bring to a formal close for a period of time":{
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"adjourn",
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"recess",
"suspend"
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"break off",
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"discontinue",
"disperse",
"intermit",
"interrupt",
"defer",
"hold off",
"postpone",
"put off",
"reserve",
"shelve",
"table",
"dissolve",
"end",
"halt",
"stop",
"terminate",
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"close",
"conclude",
"wind up",
"wrap up",
"abort",
"call",
"call off",
"drop",
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"repeal",
"rescind",
"revoke",
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"invalidate",
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"quash",
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"launch",
"open",
"carry on",
"continue",
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"extend",
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"renew",
"reopen",
"resume",
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"call",
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"convoke",
"muster",
"rally",
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"the practice of engaging in sexual activities for money":{
"examples":[
"prostitution is illegal in most states"
],
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"harlotry",
"vice",
"whoredom"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"to bring to a formal close for a period of time":{
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"the legislative session was prorogued for the summer"
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"recessed",
"suspended"
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"broke off",
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"convoked",
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"verb"
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"as in planned , designed":{
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"mapped (out)",
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"promised",
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"set",
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"approved",
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"closed",
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"rounded (off or out)",
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"wrapped up",
"bargained",
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"dealt",
"dickered",
"haggled",
"horse-traded",
"negotiated"
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"aborted",
"called",
"called off",
"dropped",
"recalled",
"repealed",
"rescinded",
"revoked",
"differed (over)",
"disagreed (with)",
"countered",
"debated",
"objected",
"opposed",
"protested",
"resisted",
"contested",
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"verb"
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"to bring to a formal close for a period of time":{
"examples":[
"the legislative session was prorogued for the summer"
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"adjourns",
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"breaks off",
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"intermits",
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"defers",
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"puts off",
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"tables",
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"the quality or habit of arriving or being ready on time":{
"examples":[
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],
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"promptness",
"punctuality",
"timeliness"
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"aptness",
"quickness",
"readiness",
"willingness",
"earliness",
"prematurity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belatedness",
"lateness",
"slowness"
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"unpunctuality"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"as in predicting , foretelling":{
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"divining",
"forecasting",
"foreknowing",
"foreseeing",
"foretelling",
"fortune-telling",
"predicting",
"presaging",
"prognosticating",
"soothsaying",
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"extraordinary",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"miraculous",
"portentous",
"stunning",
"stupendous",
"sublime",
"wondrous",
"metaphysical",
"preternatural",
"unearthly",
"bewitching",
"charming",
"conjuring",
"enchanting",
"wiling",
"paranormal",
"supernormal",
"bewitched",
"enchanted",
"spellbound",
"magic",
"magical",
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"numinous",
"occult",
"weird"
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"near antonyms":[
"commonplace",
"everyday",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"prosaic",
"routine",
"run-of-the-mill",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"usual",
"workaday"
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"as in foretelling , prophecy":{
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"auguring",
"augury",
"forecasting",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"prediction",
"premonition",
"presaging",
"prognosticating",
"prophecy",
"prophesy",
"admonishment",
"admonition",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"alert",
"caution",
"forewarning",
"heads-up",
"notice",
"warning",
"apprising",
"informing",
"notification",
"notifying",
"tip-off",
"advice",
"counsel",
"guidance",
"recommendation",
"suggestion",
"tip",
"announcement",
"declaration"
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"near antonyms":[],
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"to tell of or describe beforehand":{
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"auguring",
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"forecasting",
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"predicting",
"presaging",
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"reading",
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"alerting",
"cautioning",
"forewarning",
"warning",
"boding",
"foreboding",
"forboding",
"portending",
"promising",
"anticipating",
"divining",
"foreknowing",
"foreseeing",
"announcing",
"declaring",
"heralding",
"proclaiming"
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"near antonyms":[
"describing",
"narrating",
"reciting",
"recounting",
"relating",
"reporting",
"telling"
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"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"procurer":{
"a man who solicits clients for a woman who is willing to engage in sexual activities for money":{
"examples":[
"had carved out a career as a procurer of high-priced call girls for wealthy, powerful men"
],
"synonyms":[
"cadet",
"fancy man",
"pander",
"pimp"
],
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"mack daddy"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
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"noun"
]
},
"protracts":{
"to make longer":{
"examples":[
"the highway project was protracted by years of litigation"
],
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"drags (out)",
"draws out",
"elongates",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"outstretches",
"prolongs",
"stretches"
],
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"amplifies",
"enlarges",
"expands",
"increases",
"attenuates",
"thins"
],
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"decreases",
"diminishes",
"lessens",
"reduces",
"thickens"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviates",
"abridges",
"curtails",
"cuts",
"cuts back",
"shortens"
]
},
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"verb"
]
},
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"the quality of being great in extent (as of insight)":{
"examples":[
"we were struck by the profoundness of his observations on the ultimate meaning of life"
],
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"deepness",
"depth",
"profundity"
],
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"discernment",
"perception",
"perceptiveness",
"perceptivity",
"percipience",
"sagacity",
"sapience",
"sense",
"sensibility",
"wisdom",
"braininess",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"intellect",
"intelligence",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"reason",
"sense",
"smartness",
"wit",
"acuity",
"acuteness",
"keenness",
"penetration",
"perspicacity",
"sensitivity",
"sharpness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shallowness",
"superficiality",
"brainlessness",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"mindlessness",
"simpleness",
"stupidity",
"witlessness",
"illogic",
"irrationality",
"unreasonableness",
"unsoundness"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prosers":{
"as in prosateurs , prosaists":{
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"prosaists",
"prosateurs",
"dramatists",
"playwrights",
"scenarists",
"screenwriters",
"scriptwriters",
"bards",
"poets",
"rhymers",
"versifiers",
"essayists",
"pamphleteers",
"satirists",
"bloggers",
"columnists",
"journalists",
"newspapermen",
"paragraphers",
"reporters",
"sportswriters",
"fabulists",
"fictioneers",
"fictionists",
"novelists",
"romancers",
"storytellers",
"autobiographers",
"memoirists",
"memorialists",
"biographers",
"hagiographers",
"ghostwriters",
"hacks",
"hatchet men",
"scribblers",
"wordmongers",
"coauthors",
"co-authors",
"coscenarists",
"co-scenarists",
"cowriters",
"co-writers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonauthors"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prop up":{
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"these beams are propping up the entire roof"
],
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"bear",
"bolster",
"brace",
"buttress",
"carry",
"shore (up)",
"stay",
"support",
"sustain",
"undergird",
"underpin",
"uphold"
],
"near synonyms":[
"steady",
"truss",
"underlie"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end":{
"examples":[
"invariably his strong religious faith props him up in times of crisis"
],
"synonyms":[
"abet",
"aid",
"assist",
"back",
"backstop",
"help",
"support"
],
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"ease",
"facilitate",
"forward",
"foster",
"further",
"launch",
"champion",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"patronize",
"promote",
"sponsor",
"attend",
"care (for)",
"comfort",
"minister (to)",
"succor",
"sustain",
"bolster",
"boost",
"buttress",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"advise",
"counsel",
"guide",
"mentor",
"nurture",
"bail out",
"deliver",
"rescue",
"save",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"benefit",
"favor",
"oblige",
"profit",
"serve"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balk",
"bar",
"block",
"constrain",
"hamper",
"handicap",
"hold back",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"obstruct",
"restrain",
"strangle",
"baffle",
"foil",
"frustrate",
"inconvenience",
"interfere",
"oppose",
"sabotage",
"thwart",
"desert",
"disappoint",
"fail",
"let down",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"repress",
"retard",
"stifle",
"straiten",
"stunt",
"damage",
"harm",
"hurt",
"injure"
],
"antonyms":[
"hinder"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"providers":{
"a person or company that supplies goods or services":{
"examples":[
"There are many things to consider when shopping for a healthcare provider ."
],
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"distributors",
"provisioners",
"purveyors",
"suppliers",
"businessmen",
"enterprisers",
"entrepreneurs",
"buyers",
"marketers",
"purchasers",
"hawkers",
"hucksters",
"hustlers",
"peddlers",
"pedlars",
"retailers",
"sellers",
"shopkeepers",
"storekeepers",
"vendors",
"venders",
"engrossers",
"monopolists",
"jobbers",
"middlemen",
"wholesalers",
"dealers",
"merchandisers",
"merchants",
"traders",
"tradesmen",
"traffickers"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"promoting":{
"as in encouraging , fostering":{
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"encouraging",
"forwarding",
"fostering",
"furthering",
"nurturing",
"easing",
"facilitating",
"smoothing",
"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"precautionary",
"preventative",
"preventive",
"prophylactic",
"deterrent",
"deterring",
"negating",
"neutralizing",
"nullifying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move higher in rank or position":{
"examples":[
"the navy promoted her to captain for her record of outstanding performance"
],
"synonyms":[
"advancing",
"elevating",
"raising",
"upgrading"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forwarding",
"furthering",
"aggrandizing",
"boosting",
"heightening",
"improving",
"lifting",
"uplifting",
"commissioning",
"ennobling",
"knighting",
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"celebrating",
"citing",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"congratulating",
"decorating",
"eulogizing",
"exalting",
"extolling",
"glorifying",
"hailing",
"honoring",
"lauding",
"praising",
"saluting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deposing",
"dethroning",
"dismissing",
"expelling",
"impeaching",
"ousting",
"overthrowing",
"removing",
"unmaking",
"unseating",
"demeaning",
"disgracing",
"dishonoring",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"mortifying",
"shaming",
"taking down",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"damning",
"denouncing",
"reprobating"
],
"antonyms":[
"abasing",
"degrading",
"demoting",
"downgrading",
"lowering",
"reducing"
]
},
"to help the growth or development of":{
"examples":[
"a campaign promoting good dental hygiene"
],
"synonyms":[
"advancing",
"cultivating",
"encouraging",
"forwarding",
"fostering",
"furthering",
"incubating",
"nourishing",
"nursing",
"nurturing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advocating",
"backing",
"championing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"supporting",
"upholding",
"endowing",
"financing",
"funding",
"patronizing",
"staking",
"subsidizing",
"underwriting",
"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"advertising",
"boosting",
"plugging",
"publicizing",
"touting",
"agitating (for)",
"campaigning (for)",
"working (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"banning",
"barring",
"enjoining",
"forbidding",
"interdicting",
"outlawing",
"preventing",
"prohibiting",
"proscribing",
"battling",
"combating",
"combatting",
"contending (with)",
"countering",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"repressing",
"snuffing (out)",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stifling",
"subduing",
"suppressing",
"arresting",
"checking",
"halting",
"retarding",
"encumbering",
"fettering",
"hobbling",
"impeding",
"interfering (with)",
"manacling",
"obstructing",
"shackling"
],
"antonyms":[
"discouraging",
"frustrating",
"hindering",
"inhibiting"
]
},
"to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care":{
"examples":[
"spends all her time now promoting her new business"
],
"synonyms":[
"cropping",
"cultivating",
"culturing",
"dressing",
"growing",
"raising",
"rearing",
"tending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breeding",
"producing",
"propagating",
"planting",
"sowing",
"gathering",
"gleaning",
"harvesting",
"reaping",
"germinating",
"quickening",
"ripening",
"rooting",
"sprouting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"killing",
"digging",
"extirpating",
"picking",
"plucking",
"pulling (up)",
"uprooting",
"cutting",
"haying",
"mowing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide publicity for":{
"examples":[
"promoting a new line of toys based on the popular movie"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhooing",
"boosting",
"hyping",
"pitching",
"plugging",
"publicizing",
"talking up",
"touting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertising",
"barking",
"merchandising",
"merchandizing",
"selling",
"pushing",
"acclaiming",
"hailing",
"lauding",
"praising",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"plumping (for)",
"plunking (for)",
"plonking (for)",
"recommending",
"reviewing",
"announcing",
"broadcasting",
"publishing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"projecting":{
"as in inflated , extended":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ballooning",
"bloated",
"blown up",
"bulbous",
"distended",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"extended",
"inflated",
"jutting",
"puffed",
"puffy",
"risen",
"swollen",
"bulging",
"cambered",
"convex",
"protruding",
"protrusive",
"protuberant",
"domed",
"global",
"globular",
"round",
"rounded",
"spherical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concave",
"dented",
"depressed",
"dished",
"hollow",
"indented",
"recessed",
"sunken",
"alveolar",
"cavernous",
"crescentic",
"cuplike",
"cupped",
"cuppy",
"recurved",
"dimpled",
"pockmarked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"some boulders projected dangerously out above the trail"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagging",
"ballooning",
"beetling",
"bellying",
"billowing",
"bulging",
"bunching",
"jutting",
"overhanging",
"poking",
"pooching",
"pouching",
"pouting",
"protruding",
"standing out",
"starting",
"sticking out",
"swelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doming",
"blowing up",
"inflating",
"dilating",
"distending",
"expanding",
"mushrooming",
"snowballing",
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"stretching"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"shrinking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to work out the details of (something) in advance":{
"examples":[
"we must project next year's budget now"
],
"synonyms":[
"arranging",
"blueprinting",
"budgeting",
"calculating",
"charting",
"choreographing",
"designing",
"framing",
"laying out",
"mapping (out)",
"organizing",
"planning",
"preparing",
"scheming (out)",
"shaping",
"strategizing (about)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conspiring",
"contriving",
"devising",
"intriguing",
"machinating",
"plotting",
"putting up",
"concerting",
"getting up",
"drafting",
"outlining",
"sketching",
"aiming",
"figuring",
"having on",
"intending",
"meaning",
"contemplating",
"meditating",
"premeditating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"promulgate":{
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"the encyclical that promulgated the church's position on artificial birth control"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertise",
"announce",
"annunciate",
"blare",
"blaze",
"blazon",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"enunciate",
"flash",
"give out",
"herald",
"placard",
"post",
"proclaim",
"publicize",
"publish",
"release",
"sound",
"trumpet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bark",
"call (off or out)",
"cry",
"bill",
"billboard",
"bulletin",
"gazette",
"knell",
"ring",
"toll",
"blurb",
"feature",
"pitch",
"plug",
"promote",
"puff",
"disseminate",
"spread",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"introduce",
"kithe",
"manifest",
"report",
"reveal",
"show",
"advise",
"apprise",
"hand down",
"inform",
"notify",
"communicate",
"impart",
"intimate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceal",
"hush (up)",
"silence",
"suppress",
"withhold",
"recall",
"recant",
"retract",
"revoke"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prognosticate":{
"to tell of or describe beforehand":{
"examples":[
"using current trends to prognosticate what the workplace of the future will be like"
],
"synonyms":[
"augur",
"call",
"forecast",
"foretell",
"predict",
"presage",
"prophesy",
"read",
"vaticinate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alert",
"caution",
"forewarn",
"warn",
"bode",
"forebode",
"forbode",
"portend",
"promise",
"anticipate",
"divine",
"foreknow",
"foresee",
"announce",
"declare",
"herald",
"proclaim"
],
"near antonyms":[
"describe",
"narrate",
"recite",
"recount",
"relate",
"report",
"tell"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"projectile":{
"as in missile , ammunition":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ammunition",
"cannonball",
"cap",
"cartridge",
"charge",
"dumdum",
"gunshot",
"lead",
"load",
"missile",
"pop",
"round",
"shell",
"shot",
"slug",
"ball",
"bullet",
"pellet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blank"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proceeding":{
"a court case for enforcing a right or claim":{
"examples":[
"a divorce proceeding"
],
"synonyms":[
"action",
"lawsuit",
"suit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"litigation",
"case",
"cause",
"complaint",
"counterclaim",
"countersuit",
"cross action",
"cross-claim"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a usually fixed or ordered series of actions or events leading to a result":{
"examples":[
"this is not the haphazard proceeding that it may seem to the casual observer"
],
"synonyms":[
"course",
"operation",
"procedure",
"process"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drill",
"routine",
"fashion",
"form",
"manner",
"method",
"mode",
"style",
"system",
"technique",
"way",
"approach",
"arrangement",
"blueprint",
"design",
"formula",
"game plan",
"ground plan",
"layout",
"plan",
"plot",
"program",
"project",
"recipe",
"scheme",
"strategy",
"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"attainment",
"enterprise",
"performance",
"undertaking",
"work",
"activity",
"functioning",
"movement"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"being in progress or development":{
"examples":[
"currently proceeding projects include construction of a new school gym"
],
"synonyms":[
"afoot",
"ongoing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"functioning",
"happening",
"operating",
"working",
"afloat",
"alive",
"going",
"advancing",
"continuing",
"gaining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"receding",
"regressing",
"retrogressing"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrested",
"ended",
"halted",
"stalled",
"stopped"
]
},
"to move forward along a course":{
"examples":[
"you may proceed with your plan"
],
"synonyms":[
"advancing",
"coming",
"coming along",
"doing",
"faring",
"forging",
"getting along",
"getting on",
"going",
"going along",
"going off",
"marching",
"pacing",
"progressing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"fast-forwarding",
"speeding",
"approaching",
"nearing",
"journeying",
"passing",
"repairing",
"running",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"wending",
"actuating",
"driving",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"taking out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arresting",
"balking",
"blocking",
"checking",
"detaining",
"halting",
"hindering",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"nipping",
"obstructing",
"slowing (down or up)",
"stemming",
"repressing",
"retarding",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"delaying",
"interrupting",
"stalling",
"cramping",
"hampering",
"inhibiting",
"ceasing",
"letting up",
"pausing",
"regressing",
"waiting"
],
"antonyms":[
"remaining",
"standing",
"staying",
"stopping"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"procreation":{
"as in generation , begetting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"begetting",
"breeding",
"generation",
"siring",
"spawning",
"conception",
"family way",
"gestation",
"gravidity",
"pregnancy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"barrenness",
"infertility"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proximate":{
"being soon to appear or take place":{
"examples":[
"the proximate publication of his first novel"
],
"synonyms":[
"approaching",
"coming",
"forthcoming",
"imminent",
"impending",
"nearing",
"oncoming",
"pending",
"upcoming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"future",
"anticipated",
"awaited",
"expected",
"foreseen",
"predicted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bygone",
"erstwhile",
"foregone",
"former",
"old",
"onetime",
"other",
"past",
"quondam",
"sometime",
"whilom"
],
"antonyms":[
"late",
"recent"
]
},
"not being distant in time, space, or significance":{
"examples":[
"the husband feels that their house is a little too proximate to his in-laws' condo for his peace and comfort"
],
"synonyms":[
"close",
"close-up",
"immediate",
"near",
"nearby",
"neighboring",
"next-door",
"nigh"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abutting",
"adjacent",
"adjoining",
"bordering",
"contiguous",
"approaching",
"coming",
"forthcoming",
"oncoming",
"upcoming",
"accessible",
"convenient",
"handy",
"close-in",
"hand-to-hand"
],
"near antonyms":[
"divorced",
"removed",
"separated"
],
"antonyms":[
"away",
"deep",
"distant",
"far",
"faraway",
"far-off",
"remote"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"profiling":{
"to produce a representation of the shape of the head as seen from the side":{
"examples":[
"his likeness was profiled against a background of vegetation"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"outlining",
"drawing",
"picturing",
"caricaturing",
"cartooning",
"crayoning",
"inking",
"penciling",
"pencilling",
"scrawling",
"scribbling",
"sketching"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"projections":{
"a part that sticks out from the general mass of something":{
"examples":[
"filed down all the projections until the surface was smooth"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulges",
"bunches",
"convexities",
"juts",
"overhangs",
"protrusions",
"protuberances",
"swells"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domes",
"blobs",
"bumps",
"dilatations",
"gibbosities",
"humps",
"knobs",
"knots",
"knurls",
"lumps",
"nubs",
"obtrusions",
"puffs",
"snags",
"swellings",
"blocks",
"pieces",
"portions",
"sections",
"enlargements",
"escalations",
"expansions",
"increases",
"hills",
"mounds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"craters",
"holes",
"wells",
"basins",
"bowls",
"dips",
"valleys",
"furrows",
"grooves",
"trenches",
"troughs",
"dimples",
"gouges",
"impressions",
"notches",
"pockets"
],
"antonyms":[
"cavities",
"concaves",
"concavities",
"dents",
"depressions",
"dints",
"hollows",
"indentations",
"indents",
"indentures",
"pits",
"recesses"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"protuberant":{
"sticking out from a surface usually with a curved or rounded shape":{
"examples":[
"Lemurs are known for their protuberant eyes."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bulging",
"dilated",
"bloated",
"blown",
"distended",
"overinflated",
"puffed",
"swollen",
"tumescent",
"tumid",
"turgid",
"varicose",
"varicosed",
"ballooned",
"blown up",
"expanded",
"ventricose",
"ballooning",
"dilating",
"turgescent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"deflated",
"detumescent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"prorates":{
"to give out (something) to appropriate individuals":{
"examples":[
"shares in the company's profits were prorated according to the workers' length of service"
],
"synonyms":[
"administers",
"allocates",
"apportions",
"deals (out)",
"dispenses",
"distributes",
"doles out",
"hands out",
"metes (out)",
"parcels (out)",
"portions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admeasures",
"allots",
"allows",
"appropriates",
"assigns",
"dishes out",
"divides",
"divvies (up)",
"dollops (out)",
"lots",
"measures (out)",
"parts",
"proportions",
"rations",
"redistributes",
"sets",
"shares (out)",
"splits",
"bestows",
"disburses",
"furnishes",
"issues",
"provides",
"shares",
"supplies",
"circulates",
"disperses",
"disseminates",
"scatters",
"spreads",
"chips in",
"contributes",
"donates",
"pledges",
"reallocates",
"reapportions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrudges",
"declines",
"denies",
"deprives (of)",
"disallows",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"withholds",
"niggles (out)",
"pinches",
"skimps",
"stints"
],
"antonyms":[
"misallocates"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"profanatory":{
"as in irreverent , blasphemous":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blasphemous",
"impious",
"irreverent",
"sacrilegious",
"heathen",
"pagan",
"paganish",
"ungodly",
"unholy",
"agnostic",
"atheistic",
"atheistical",
"churchless",
"unchurched",
"unconsecrated",
"unhallowed",
"godless",
"irreligious",
"nonreligious",
"religionless",
"profane",
"secular",
"temporal",
"worldly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"religious",
"devout",
"God-fearing",
"godly",
"holy",
"pious",
"prayerful",
"reverent",
"sainted",
"saintly",
"worshipful",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"sanctimonious",
"blessed",
"blest",
"consecrated",
"hallowed",
"sacred",
"sacrosanct",
"sanctified",
"devotional",
"spiritual"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"probationers":{
"as in candidates , entrants":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"candidates",
"entrants",
"entries",
"abecedarians",
"apprentices",
"babes",
"beginners",
"colts",
"cubs",
"fledglings",
"freshmen",
"greenhorns",
"neophytes",
"newbies",
"newcomers",
"novices",
"novitiates",
"punks",
"recruits",
"rookies",
"rooks",
"tenderfeet",
"tenderfoots",
"tyros",
"virgins",
"competitors",
"contestants",
"favorites",
"qualifiers",
"applicants",
"appliers",
"aspirants",
"campaigners",
"contenders",
"expectants",
"hopefuls",
"prospects",
"seekers",
"amateurs",
"dabblers",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti",
"learners",
"students",
"trainees"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dropouts",
"noncandidates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in parolees":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"parolees",
"lifers",
"trusties",
"captives",
"captures",
"inmates",
"internees",
"prisoners",
"cons",
"convicts",
"jailbirds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"progressively":{
"as in increasingly , crescively":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crescively",
"increasingly",
"gradationally",
"gradually",
"inchmeal",
"little by little",
"piece by piece",
"piecemeal",
"hierarchically",
"fractionally",
"imperceptibly",
"slowly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreasingly",
"acutely",
"sharply",
"steeply",
"hastily",
"precipitously",
"abruptly",
"suddenly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"professors":{
"a teacher especially of the highest rank at a college or university":{
"examples":[
"a professor of chemistry",
"Professor Williams will be teaching the class."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deans",
"docents",
"doctors",
"dons",
"profs",
"regius professors",
"educationists",
"educators",
"instructors",
"pedagogues",
"pedagogs",
"preceptors",
"schoolteachers",
"headmasters",
"masters",
"rectors",
"schoolmasters",
"headmistresses",
"instructresses",
"mistresses",
"schoolmarms",
"schoolma'ams",
"schoolmistresses",
"coaches",
"guides",
"gurus",
"preparers",
"trainers",
"mentors",
"tutoresses",
"tutors",
"drillmasters",
"inculcators",
"academes",
"academicians",
"academics",
"didacts",
"pedants",
"governesses",
"homeschoolers",
"interns",
"internes",
"practice teachers",
"readers",
"student teachers",
"catechists",
"lecturers",
"moralizers",
"preachers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"provident":{
"careful in the management of money or resources":{
"examples":[
"it is possible to be provident without being miserly"
],
"synonyms":[
"economical",
"economizing",
"frugal",
"scrimping",
"sparing",
"thrifty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conserving",
"preserving",
"saving",
"forehanded",
"foresighted",
"foresightful",
"prudent",
"penny-wise",
"cheap",
"close",
"closefisted",
"mean",
"miserly",
"niggard",
"niggardly",
"parsimonious",
"penny-pinching",
"penurious",
"pinching",
"spare",
"stingy",
"stinting",
"tight",
"tightfisted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"improvident",
"shortsighted",
"bountiful",
"charitable",
"freehanded",
"generous",
"liberal",
"munificent",
"openhanded",
"unselfish",
"unsparing",
"extravagant",
"indulgent",
"lavish"
],
"antonyms":[
"prodigal",
"profligate",
"spendthrift",
"squandering",
"thriftless",
"unthrifty",
"wasteful"
]
},
"having or showing awareness of and preparation for the future":{
"examples":[
"her provident measures kept us safe while we waited out the hurricane"
],
"synonyms":[
"farseeing",
"farsighted",
"forehanded",
"foreseeing",
"foresighted",
"forethoughtful",
"forward",
"forward-looking",
"prescient",
"proactive",
"visionary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"discerning",
"insightful",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"prudent",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sapient",
"wise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"careless",
"heedless",
"incautious"
],
"antonyms":[
"half-baked",
"half-cocked",
"improvident",
"myopic",
"shortsighted"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"prolonging":{
"the act of making longer":{
"examples":[
"his habitual prolonging of any task so that it fills up an entire afternoon"
],
"synonyms":[
"drawing out",
"elongation",
"extension",
"lengthening",
"prolongation",
"stretching"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviation",
"abridgment",
"abridgement",
"curtailment",
"cutback",
"shortening"
]
},
"to make longer":{
"examples":[
"would like to prolong our vacation by any means possible"
],
"synonyms":[
"dragging (out)",
"drawing out",
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"outstretching",
"protracting",
"stretching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplifying",
"enlarging",
"expanding",
"increasing",
"attenuating",
"thinning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"lessening",
"reducing",
"thickening"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"curtailing",
"cutting",
"cutting back",
"shortening"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"promiscuity":{
"as in free love":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"free love",
"criminal conversation",
"disloyalty",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"inconstancy",
"perfidiousness",
"perfidy",
"treachery",
"adultery",
"cheating",
"infidelity",
"misconduct",
"two-timing",
"unfaithfulness",
"affair",
"affaire",
"amour",
"fling",
"love",
"love affair",
"romance",
"intrigue",
"attachment",
"infatuation",
"entanglement",
"flirtation",
"liaison",
"passion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"faithfulness",
"fidelity",
"allegiance",
"constancy",
"dedication",
"devotedness",
"devotion",
"fealty",
"loyalty",
"steadfastness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"protester":{
"as in demonstrator , marcher":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"demonstrator",
"marcher",
"objector",
"picketer",
"agitator",
"demagogue",
"demagog",
"exciter",
"firebrand",
"fomenter",
"incendiary",
"inciter",
"instigator",
"kindler",
"provocateur",
"rabble-rouser",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"exponent",
"persuader",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"reformer",
"reformist",
"supporter",
"alarmist",
"extremist",
"insurgent",
"insurrectionist",
"radical",
"rebel",
"revolter",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"subversive",
"troublemaker",
"prodder",
"prompter",
"provoker",
"agent provocateur"
],
"near antonyms":[
"peacemaker",
"reconciler",
"uniter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"profit":{
"the amount of money left when expenses are subtracted from the total amount received":{
"examples":[
"after we deducted the cost of sugar, lemons, and paper cups, the profit from a day of lemonade sales was about $20"
],
"synonyms":[
"earnings",
"gain",
"lucre",
"net",
"payoff",
"proceeds",
"return"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleanup",
"killing",
"windfall",
"bottom line",
"gross",
"sales",
"compensation",
"emolument",
"income",
"pay",
"payment",
"remittal",
"requital",
"salary",
"wages",
"interest",
"revenue",
"yield"
],
"near antonyms":[
"charge",
"cost",
"disbursement",
"expenditure",
"expense",
"loss",
"outgo",
"outlay"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an increase usually measured in money that comes from labor, business, or property":{
"examples":[
"found that there was a profit in training dogs for rich people"
],
"synonyms":[
"earnings",
"gain(s)",
"income",
"incoming(s)",
"proceeds",
"return",
"revenue",
"yield"
],
"near synonyms":[
"killing",
"windfall",
"salary",
"take-home pay",
"tips",
"wages",
"bankroll",
"capital",
"coffers",
"exchequer",
"finances",
"funds",
"money",
"pocket",
"pocketbook",
"resources",
"wherewithal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"charge",
"cost",
"disbursement",
"expenditures",
"expenses",
"outgo",
"outlay"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide with something useful or desirable":{
"examples":[
"an agreement that profited us all"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantage",
"avail",
"benefit",
"help",
"serve"
],
"near synonyms":[
"succeed",
"work (for)",
"aid",
"assist",
"better",
"improve",
"content",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"satisfy",
"bless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hinder",
"impede",
"damage",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"afflict",
"distress",
"upset"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"promotes":{
"to move higher in rank or position":{
"examples":[
"the navy promoted her to captain for her record of outstanding performance"
],
"synonyms":[
"advances",
"elevates",
"raises",
"upgrades"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forwards",
"furthers",
"aggrandizes",
"boosts",
"heightens",
"improves",
"lifts",
"uplifts",
"commissions",
"ennobles",
"knights",
"acclaims",
"applauds",
"celebrates",
"cites",
"commends",
"compliments",
"congratulates",
"decorates",
"eulogizes",
"exalts",
"extols",
"extolls",
"glorifies",
"hails",
"honors",
"lauds",
"praises",
"salutes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deposes",
"dethrones",
"dismisses",
"expels",
"impeaches",
"ousts",
"overthrows",
"removes",
"unmakes",
"unseats",
"demeans",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"humbles",
"humiliates",
"mortifies",
"shames",
"takes down",
"censures",
"condemns",
"damns",
"denounces",
"reprobates"
],
"antonyms":[
"abases",
"degrades",
"demotes",
"downgrades",
"lowers",
"reduces"
]
},
"to help the growth or development of":{
"examples":[
"a campaign promoting good dental hygiene"
],
"synonyms":[
"advances",
"cultivates",
"encourages",
"forwards",
"fosters",
"furthers",
"incubates",
"nourishes",
"nurses",
"nurtures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advocates",
"backs",
"champions",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"supports",
"upholds",
"endows",
"finances",
"funds",
"patronizes",
"stakes",
"subsidizes",
"underwrites",
"abets",
"aids",
"assists",
"advertises",
"boosts",
"plugs",
"publicizes",
"touts",
"agitates (for)",
"campaigns (for)",
"works (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bans",
"bars",
"enjoins",
"forbids",
"interdicts",
"outlaws",
"prevents",
"prohibits",
"proscribes",
"battles",
"combats",
"contends (with)",
"counters",
"fights",
"opposes",
"represses",
"snuffs (out)",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"stifles",
"subdues",
"suppresses",
"arrests",
"checks",
"halts",
"retards",
"encumbers",
"fetters",
"hobbles",
"impedes",
"interferes (with)",
"manacles",
"obstructs",
"shackles"
],
"antonyms":[
"discourages",
"frustrates",
"hinders",
"inhibits"
]
},
"to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care":{
"examples":[
"spends all her time now promoting her new business"
],
"synonyms":[
"crops",
"cultivates",
"cultures",
"dresses",
"grows",
"raises",
"rears",
"tends"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breeds",
"produces",
"propagates",
"plants",
"sows",
"gathers",
"gleans",
"harvests",
"reaps",
"germinates",
"quickens",
"ripens",
"roots",
"sprouts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"kills",
"digs",
"extirpates",
"picks",
"plucks",
"pulls (up)",
"uproots",
"cuts",
"hays",
"mows"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide publicity for":{
"examples":[
"promoting a new line of toys based on the popular movie"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhoos",
"boosts",
"hypes",
"pitches",
"plugs",
"publicizes",
"talks up",
"touts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertises",
"barks",
"merchandises",
"merchandizes",
"sells",
"pushes",
"acclaims",
"hails",
"lauds",
"praises",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"plumps (for)",
"plunks (for)",
"plonks (for)",
"recommends",
"reviews",
"announces",
"broadcasts",
"publishes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prospers":{
"to grow vigorously":{
"examples":[
"the plants seem to be prospering on the new fertilizers"
],
"synonyms":[
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"flourishes",
"thrives"
],
"near synonyms":[
"luxuriates",
"overgrows",
"proliferates",
"shoots up",
"germinates",
"roots",
"sprouts",
"blooms",
"flowers",
"fruits",
"produces",
"propagates",
"regenerates",
"seeds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"began to prosper after years of crushing setbacks"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrives",
"flourishes",
"succeeds",
"thrives"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevails",
"triumphs",
"wins",
"excels"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flounders",
"struggles"
],
"antonyms":[
"fails"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"proroguing":{
"to bring to a formal close for a period of time":{
"examples":[
"the legislative session was prorogued for the summer"
],
"synonyms":[
"adjourning",
"prorogating",
"recessing",
"suspending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking off",
"disbanding",
"discontinuing",
"dispersing",
"intermitting",
"interrupting",
"deferring",
"holding off",
"postponing",
"putting off",
"reserving",
"shelving",
"tabling",
"dissolving",
"ending",
"halting",
"stopping",
"terminating",
"breaking up",
"closing",
"concluding",
"winding up",
"wrapping up",
"aborting",
"calling",
"calling off",
"dropping",
"recalling",
"repealing",
"rescinding",
"revoking",
"abrogating",
"annulling",
"invalidating",
"negating",
"nullifying",
"quashing",
"voiding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inaugurating",
"launching",
"opening",
"carrying on",
"continuing",
"drawing out",
"extending",
"proceeding",
"prolonging",
"renewing",
"reopening",
"resuming",
"assembling",
"calling",
"convening",
"convoking",
"mustering",
"rallying",
"summoning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"proportion":{
"a balanced, pleasing, or suitable arrangement of parts":{
"examples":[
"the head was drawn too large, being way out of proportion with the body"
],
"synonyms":[
"balance",
"coherence",
"concinnity",
"consonance",
"consonancy",
"harmony",
"orchestration",
"symmetry",
"symphony",
"unity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coordination",
"correlation",
"correspondence",
"equalization",
"equilibrium",
"evenness",
"order",
"orderliness",
"regularity",
"uniformity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confusion",
"disorganization",
"dissonance",
"disturbance",
"tension",
"disconnectedness",
"disjointedness",
"incompatibility",
"irregularity",
"unevenness"
],
"antonyms":[
"asymmetry",
"discordance",
"disproportion",
"disunity",
"imbalance",
"incoherence",
"violence"
]
},
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"allowance",
"cut",
"end",
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"piece",
"portion",
"quota",
"share",
"slice",
"take"
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"ration",
"commission",
"percentage",
"member",
"partition",
"section",
"segment"
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"composite",
"compound",
"pool",
"sum",
"total",
"totality",
"whole"
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"the proportion of length to width for those screens was usually three to two"
],
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"rate",
"ratio"
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"frequency",
"correspondence",
"percentage"
],
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"disproportion"
],
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"examples":[
"the exact proportions of the room were critical"
],
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"dimension",
"extent",
"magnitude",
"measure",
"measurement",
"size"
],
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"area",
"capaciousness",
"commodiousness",
"roominess",
"spaciousness",
"ampleness",
"amplitude",
"bigness",
"bulkiness",
"enormousness",
"grandness",
"greatness",
"grossness",
"heftiness",
"hugeness",
"immenseness",
"immensity",
"largeness",
"mass",
"massiveness",
"monstrousness",
"stupendousness",
"tremendousness",
"vastness",
"volume",
"voluminousness"
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"allot",
"allow",
"appropriate",
"assign",
"dish out",
"divide",
"divvy (up)",
"dollop (out)",
"lot",
"measure (out)",
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"ration",
"redistribute",
"set",
"share (out)",
"split",
"administer",
"allocate",
"apportion",
"deal (out)",
"dispense",
"distribute",
"dole out",
"hand out",
"mete (out)",
"parcel (out)",
"portion",
"prorate",
"bestow",
"disburse",
"furnish",
"issue",
"provide",
"share",
"supply",
"circulate",
"disperse",
"disseminate",
"scatter",
"spread",
"chip in",
"contribute",
"donate",
"pledge",
"reallocate",
"reapportion"
],
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"misallocate",
"begrudge",
"decline",
"deny",
"deprive (of)",
"disallow",
"refuse",
"reject",
"withhold",
"niggle (out)",
"pinch",
"skimp",
"stint"
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"aline",
"arrange",
"array",
"balance",
"equalize",
"even",
"order",
"regularize",
"standardize",
"blend",
"combine",
"connect",
"correlate",
"dovetail",
"fit",
"fuse",
"integrate",
"join",
"match",
"merge",
"orchestrate",
"pair",
"square",
"suit",
"synchronize",
"synthesize",
"unify",
"unite",
"adapt",
"tune",
"accommodate",
"attune",
"conciliate",
"conform",
"coordinate",
"harmonize",
"key",
"reconcile"
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"near antonyms":[
"disharmonize",
"confuse",
"disarray",
"disorder",
"disorganize",
"disrupt",
"disturb",
"skew",
"upset",
"alienate",
"estrange"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
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"proved":{
"as in proven":{
"examples":[],
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"proven",
"advanced",
"developed",
"conclusive",
"decisive",
"definitive",
"final",
"permanent",
"tested",
"tried",
"accepted",
"established",
"standard"
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"near antonyms":[
"developmental",
"experimental",
"pilot",
"trial",
"exploratory",
"investigative",
"probative",
"preliminary",
"preparatory",
"provisional",
"temporary",
"tentative"
],
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"examples":[
"the prosecutor used DNA evidence to prove the defendant's guilt"
],
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"demonstrated",
"documented",
"established",
"substantiated",
"validated"
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"backed (up)",
"buttressed",
"circumstantiated",
"corroborated",
"evidenced",
"evinced",
"recorded",
"supported",
"upheld",
"witnessed",
"adduced",
"attested",
"authenticated",
"certified",
"identified",
"confirmed",
"sustained",
"verified",
"vouched",
"clinched",
"nailed",
"settled",
"confessed",
"deposed",
"testified"
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"challenged",
"disputed",
"objected",
"alleged",
"assumed",
"conjectured",
"guessed",
"presumed",
"surmised",
"suspected"
],
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"disproved",
"rebutted",
"refuted"
]
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"examples":[
"the new automobile engine design proved impractical"
],
"synonyms":[
"came out",
"fell out",
"panned out",
"shook out",
"turned out"
],
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"developed",
"emerged",
"evolved",
"germinated",
"played out",
"unfolded",
"worked out"
],
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"antonyms":[]
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"to gain full recognition or acceptance of":{
"examples":[
"proved herself a great actress on the Broadway stage"
],
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"demonstrated",
"established",
"showed",
"substantiated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attested",
"authenticated",
"bore out",
"documented",
"evidenced",
"supported",
"sustained",
"upheld",
"confirmed",
"corroborated",
"justified",
"validated",
"verified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confuted",
"discredited",
"invalidated",
"rebutted",
"refuted"
],
"antonyms":[
"disproved"
]
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"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
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"prolusion":{
"a short section (as of a book) that leads to or explains the main part":{
"examples":[
"in her prolusion she sketches the religious, cultural and political milieu in which gnosticism developed"
],
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"exordium",
"foreword",
"intro",
"introduction",
"preamble",
"preface",
"prelude",
"proem",
"prologue",
"prolog"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beginning",
"commencement",
"initiation",
"opening",
"origin",
"origination",
"outset",
"start"
],
"near antonyms":[
"envoi",
"envoy",
"postscript",
"aftermath",
"cessation",
"close",
"closing",
"conclusion",
"end",
"finale",
"finish",
"stop",
"termination"
],
"antonyms":[
"epilogue",
"epilog"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prosper":{
"to grow vigorously":{
"examples":[
"the plants seem to be prospering on the new fertilizers"
],
"synonyms":[
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"flourish",
"thrive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"luxuriate",
"overgrow",
"proliferate",
"shoot up",
"germinate",
"root",
"sprout",
"bloom",
"flower",
"fruit",
"produce",
"propagate",
"regenerate",
"seed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"began to prosper after years of crushing setbacks"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrive",
"flourish",
"succeed",
"thrive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevail",
"triumph",
"win",
"excel"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flounder",
"struggle"
],
"antonyms":[
"fail"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
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"probe":{
"a systematic search for the truth or facts about something":{
"examples":[
"a congressional probe into the accusations"
],
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"delving",
"disquisition",
"examen",
"examination",
"exploration",
"inquest",
"inquiry",
"inquisition",
"investigation",
"probation",
"probing",
"research",
"study"
],
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"quest",
"audit",
"check",
"checkup",
"diagnosis",
"inspection",
"hearing",
"interrogation",
"trial",
"feeler",
"query",
"question",
"poll",
"questionary",
"questionnaire",
"survey",
"challenge",
"cross-examination",
"going-over",
"grilling",
"quiz",
"rehearing",
"reinvestigation",
"self-examination",
"self-exploration",
"self-questioning",
"self-reflection",
"self-scrutiny",
"soul-searching"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to search through or into":{
"examples":[
"tabloid reporters who seem determined to probe every detail of the singer's private life"
],
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"delve (into)",
"dig (into)",
"examine",
"explore",
"inquire (into)",
"investigate",
"look (into)",
"research"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inspect",
"sift",
"study",
"view",
"browse",
"cruise",
"peruse",
"scan",
"skim (through)",
"surf",
"thumb (through)",
"reinvestigate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go into or range over for purposes of discovery":{
"examples":[
"probing the depths of the undersea trench"
],
"synonyms":[
"explore",
"hunt",
"prospect",
"search",
"skirr"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reconnoiter",
"reconnoitre",
"scout",
"disclose",
"discover",
"reveal",
"unearth",
"fathom",
"plumb",
"sound"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"propitiates":{
"to lessen the anger or agitation of":{
"examples":[
"the temple was once the site of sacrifices\u2014both to honor the gods in times of plenty and to propitiate them in times of trouble"
],
"synonyms":[
"appeases",
"assuages",
"conciliates",
"disarms",
"gentles",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calms",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"contents",
"hushes",
"quiets",
"soothes",
"tranquilizes",
"tranquillizes",
"endears (to)",
"ingratiates",
"delights",
"gladdens",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"adulates",
"blarneys",
"flatters",
"overpraises",
"soft-soaps",
"quenches",
"sates",
"satiates",
"satisfies",
"caters (to)",
"humors",
"indulges",
"blandishes",
"cajoles",
"coaxes",
"sweet-talks",
"wheedles",
"babies",
"coddles",
"mollycoddles",
"pampers",
"spoils",
"dulcifies",
"sweetens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"antagonizes",
"bothers",
"bugs",
"burns (up)",
"chafes",
"crosses",
"exasperates",
"galls",
"gets",
"grates",
"irks",
"irritates",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"piques",
"puts out",
"rankles",
"riles",
"roils",
"ruffles",
"vexes",
"provokes",
"rouses",
"harasses",
"harries",
"persecutes",
"pesters",
"agitates",
"discomforts",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"frets",
"perturbs",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"worries",
"affronts",
"insults",
"offends",
"slights"
],
"antonyms":[
"angers",
"enrages",
"incenses",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"infuriates",
"ires",
"maddens",
"outrages"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"providing":{
"to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption":{
"examples":[
"this luxury hotel provides all the comforts of home to well-heeled vacationers"
],
"synonyms":[
"delivering",
"feeding",
"furnishing",
"giving",
"handing",
"handing over",
"supplying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"plying (with)",
"administering",
"allocating",
"apportioning",
"dealing (out)",
"dispensing",
"distributing",
"doling out",
"meting (out)",
"parceling (out)",
"parcelling (out)",
"portioning",
"prorating",
"assigning",
"ceding",
"deeding",
"making over",
"transferring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserving",
"keeping up",
"maintaining",
"preserving",
"saving"
],
"antonyms":[
"holding (back)",
"keeping (back)",
"reserving",
"retaining",
"withholding"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"probed":{
"to search through or into":{
"examples":[
"tabloid reporters who seem determined to probe every detail of the singer's private life"
],
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"delved (into)",
"dug (into)",
"examined",
"explored",
"inquired (into)",
"investigated",
"looked (into)",
"researched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inspected",
"sifted",
"studied",
"viewed",
"browsed",
"cruised",
"perused",
"scanned",
"skimmed (through)",
"surfed",
"thumbed (through)",
"reinvestigated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go into or range over for purposes of discovery":{
"examples":[
"probing the depths of the undersea trench"
],
"synonyms":[
"explored",
"hunted",
"prospected",
"searched",
"skirred"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reconnoitered",
"reconnoitred",
"scouted",
"disclosed",
"discovered",
"revealed",
"unearthed",
"fathomed",
"plumbed",
"sounded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"proper":{
"following the established traditions of refined society and good taste":{
"examples":[
"the formal ball called for proper attire\u2014tuxedos and full-length gowns only"
],
"synonyms":[
"befitting",
"correct",
"decent",
"decorous",
"de rigueur",
"genteel",
"nice",
"polite",
"respectable",
"seemly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"dress",
"dressy",
"formal",
"dignified",
"elegant",
"gracious",
"priggish",
"prim",
"stiff",
"stuffy",
"apt",
"material",
"relevant",
"compatible",
"congenial",
"harmonious",
"allowed",
"authorized",
"kosher",
"permitted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intolerable",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"casual",
"grungy",
"informal",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"tacky",
"banned",
"barred",
"disallowed",
"forbidden",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"awkward",
"gauche",
"ungraceful"
],
"antonyms":[
"improper",
"inappropriate",
"incorrect",
"indecent",
"indecorous",
"indelicate",
"unbecoming",
"ungenteel",
"unseemly"
]
},
"being in agreement with the truth or a fact or a standard":{
"examples":[
"there is really more than one proper way to pronounce that word in English"
],
"synonyms":[
"accurate",
"bang on",
"correct",
"dead-on",
"exact",
"good",
"on-target",
"precise",
"right",
"so",
"spot-on",
"true",
"veracious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"legitimate",
"logical",
"sound",
"valid",
"errorless",
"faultless",
"flawless",
"impeccable",
"inerrant",
"infallible",
"letter-perfect",
"perfect",
"rigorous",
"strict",
"stringent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"imperfect"
],
"antonyms":[
"false",
"improper",
"inaccurate",
"incorrect",
"inexact",
"off",
"untrue",
"wrong"
]
},
"marked by or showing careful attention to set forms and details":{
"examples":[
"we had nodded and said hello to one another but had never had a proper introduction"
],
"synonyms":[
"ceremonious",
"correct",
"decorous",
"formal",
"nice",
"punctilious",
"starchy",
"stiff",
"stiff-necked",
"stilted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sober",
"solemn",
"stately",
"chivalrous",
"courtly",
"gallant",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined",
"civil",
"courteous",
"polite",
"red-carpet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"improper",
"indecorous",
"unmannerly",
"discourteous",
"impolite",
"rude"
],
"antonyms":[
"casual",
"easygoing",
"informal",
"laid-back",
"unceremonious"
]
},
"meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation":{
"examples":[
"you'll need to have a proper diet if you want to lose weight"
],
"synonyms":[
"applicable",
"appropriate",
"apt",
"becoming",
"befitting",
"felicitous",
"fit",
"fitted",
"fitting",
"good",
"happy",
"meet",
"pretty",
"right",
"suitable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condign",
"deserved",
"just",
"justified",
"needed",
"required",
"requisite",
"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"cut out",
"qualified",
"trained",
"pitch-perfect",
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"decent",
"kosher",
"satisfactory",
"serviceable",
"tolerable",
"correct",
"decorous",
"respectable",
"seemly",
"balanced",
"companionate",
"congruous",
"consonant",
"harmonious",
"rightful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"inept",
"inexpert",
"unqualified",
"unskilled",
"unskillful",
"untrained",
"inadequate",
"intolerable",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"graceless",
"incorrect",
"indecorous",
"incompatible",
"uncongenial"
],
"antonyms":[
"improper",
"inapplicable",
"inapposite",
"inappropriate",
"inapt",
"incongruous",
"indecent",
"infelicitous",
"malapropos",
"misbecoming",
"unapt",
"unbecoming",
"unbeseeming",
"unfit",
"unfitting",
"unhappy",
"unmeet",
"unseemly",
"unsuitable",
"wrong"
]
},
"serving to identify as belonging to an individual or group":{
"examples":[
"malaria and other diseases that are proper to the tropics"
],
"synonyms":[
"characteristic",
"classic",
"diagnostic",
"diagnostical",
"discriminating",
"distinct",
"distinctive",
"distinguishing",
"identifying",
"individual",
"peculiar",
"symptomatic",
"typical"
],
"near synonyms":[
"idiosyncratic",
"identifiable",
"pronounced",
"unmistakable",
"general",
"generic",
"common",
"normal",
"regular",
"usual",
"especial",
"particular",
"special",
"specific",
"archetypal",
"archetypical",
"model",
"paradigmatic"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"atypical",
"nontypical",
"uncharacteristic",
"untypical"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"proclaimers":{
"as in announcers , advertisers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"advertisers",
"announcers",
"blazoners",
"criers",
"foreboders",
"foreshadowers",
"foretastes",
"forewarnings",
"couriers",
"messengers",
"runners",
"angels",
"foregoers",
"forerunners",
"harbingers",
"heralds",
"outriders",
"precursors",
"auguries",
"auspices",
"bodings",
"forebodings",
"foreshadowings",
"omens",
"portents",
"presages",
"marks",
"signs",
"symptoms",
"bellwethers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prostituting":{
"to lower in character, dignity, or quality":{
"examples":[
"a serious writer prostituting himself by writing pulp novels for money"
],
"synonyms":[
"abasing",
"bastardizing",
"cankering",
"cheapening",
"corrupting",
"debasing",
"debauching",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"demoralizing",
"depraving",
"deteriorating",
"lessening",
"perverting",
"poisoning",
"profaning",
"subverting",
"vitiating",
"warping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"befouling",
"begriming",
"contaminating",
"defiling",
"diluting",
"dirtying",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"thinning",
"watering down",
"weakening",
"descending",
"disgracing",
"dishonoring",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"shaming",
"taking down",
"blemishing",
"damaging",
"defacing",
"destroying",
"flawing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"marring",
"ruining",
"spoiling",
"staining",
"tarnishing",
"wrecking",
"depreciating",
"downgrading"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dignifying",
"exalting",
"honoring",
"ameliorating",
"amending",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"enriching",
"improving",
"meliorating",
"perfecting",
"clarifying",
"cleaning",
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"refining",
"restoring",
"respecting"
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"elevating",
"ennobling",
"uplifting"
]
},
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"examples":[
"urged not to prostitute her musical talents by writing jingles for TV commercials"
],
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"abusing",
"misapplying",
"misemploying",
"misusing",
"perverting",
"profaning"
],
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"degrading",
"twisting",
"mismanaging",
"corrupting",
"debasing",
"desecrating"
],
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"applying",
"employing",
"using",
"utilizing",
"respecting"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"examples":[
"questioned the properness of having any curfew at all for people of college age"
],
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"appropriateness",
"aptness",
"felicitousness",
"felicity",
"fitness",
"fittingness",
"happiness",
"propriety",
"rightness",
"seemliness",
"suitability",
"suitableness"
],
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"agreeableness",
"compatibility",
"congruity",
"harmoniousness",
"applicability",
"bearing",
"connection",
"justifiability",
"materiality",
"pertinence",
"relevance",
"relevancy",
"validity",
"acceptability",
"adequacy",
"adequateness",
"convenience",
"expedience",
"expediency",
"satisfactoriness",
"serviceableness",
"usefulness"
],
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"disagreeableness",
"incompatibility",
"incongruence",
"incongruity",
"incongruousness",
"inexpedience",
"inexpediency",
"inharmoniousness",
"unbecomingness",
"immateriality",
"inapplicability",
"irrelevance",
"irrelevancy",
"meaninglessness",
"pointlessness"
],
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"improperness",
"impropriety",
"inappositeness",
"inappropriateness",
"inaptness",
"infelicity",
"unfitness",
"unseemliness",
"unsuitability",
"wrongness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proceeds (along)":{
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"examples":[
"the hikers proceeded along the ridge for several hundred feet"
],
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"courses",
"covers",
"crosses",
"cuts (across)",
"follows",
"goes",
"navigates",
"passes (over)",
"perambulates",
"peregrinates",
"tracks",
"transits",
"travels",
"traverses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hikes",
"traipses",
"tramps",
"treads",
"walks",
"rides",
"runs",
"crisscrosses"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"promoted":{
"as in supported , encouraged":{
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"abetted",
"encouraged",
"suggested",
"supported",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"certified",
"licensed",
"lawful",
"legal",
"legit",
"legitimate",
"licit",
"permissible",
"regulation",
"authoritative",
"canonical",
"ex officio",
"authorized",
"official",
"sanctioned",
"semiofficial"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonofficial",
"unauthorized",
"unofficial",
"unsanctioned",
"illegal",
"illegitimate",
"illicit",
"impermissible",
"lawless",
"unlawful",
"wrongful",
"unapproved",
"unlicensed",
"verboten"
],
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"to move higher in rank or position":{
"examples":[
"the navy promoted her to captain for her record of outstanding performance"
],
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"advanced",
"elevated",
"raised",
"upgraded"
],
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"forwarded",
"furthered",
"aggrandized",
"boosted",
"heightened",
"improved",
"lifted",
"uplifted",
"commissioned",
"ennobled",
"knighted",
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"celebrated",
"cited",
"commended",
"complimented",
"congratulated",
"decorated",
"eulogized",
"exalted",
"extolled",
"glorified",
"hailed",
"honored",
"lauded",
"praised",
"saluted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deposed",
"dethroned",
"dismissed",
"expelled",
"impeached",
"ousted",
"overthrew",
"removed",
"unmade",
"unseated",
"demeaned",
"disgraced",
"dishonored",
"humbled",
"humiliated",
"mortified",
"shamed",
"took down",
"censured",
"condemned",
"damned",
"denounced",
"reprobated"
],
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"abased",
"degraded",
"demoted",
"downgraded",
"lowered",
"reduced"
]
},
"to help the growth or development of":{
"examples":[
"a campaign promoting good dental hygiene"
],
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"advanced",
"cultivated",
"encouraged",
"forwarded",
"fostered",
"furthered",
"incubated",
"nourished",
"nursed",
"nurtured"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advocated",
"backed",
"championed",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"supported",
"upheld",
"endowed",
"financed",
"funded",
"patronized",
"staked",
"subsidized",
"underwrote",
"abetted",
"aided",
"assisted",
"advertised",
"boosted",
"plugged",
"publicized",
"touted",
"agitated (for)",
"campaigned (for)",
"worked (for)",
"wrought (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"banned",
"barred",
"enjoined",
"forbade",
"forbad",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"prevented",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"battled",
"combated",
"combatted",
"contended (with)",
"countered",
"fought",
"opposed",
"repressed",
"snuffed (out)",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"stifled",
"subdued",
"suppressed",
"arrested",
"checked",
"halted",
"retarded",
"encumbered",
"fettered",
"hobbled",
"impeded",
"interfered (with)",
"manacled",
"obstructed",
"shackled"
],
"antonyms":[
"discouraged",
"frustrated",
"hindered",
"inhibited"
]
},
"to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care":{
"examples":[
"spends all her time now promoting her new business"
],
"synonyms":[
"cropped",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"dressed",
"grew",
"raised",
"reared",
"tended"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bred",
"produced",
"propagated",
"planted",
"sowed",
"gathered",
"gleaned",
"harvested",
"reaped",
"germinated",
"quickened",
"ripened",
"rooted",
"sprouted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"killed",
"dug",
"extirpated",
"picked",
"plucked",
"pulled (up)",
"uprooted",
"cut",
"hayed",
"mowed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide publicity for":{
"examples":[
"promoting a new line of toys based on the popular movie"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhooed",
"boosted",
"hyped",
"pitched",
"plugged",
"publicized",
"talked up",
"touted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertised",
"barked",
"merchandised",
"merchandized",
"sold",
"pushed",
"acclaimed",
"hailed",
"lauded",
"praised",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"plumped (for)",
"plunked (for)",
"plonked (for)",
"recommended",
"reviewed",
"announced",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"published"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"promoter":{
"a person who actively supports or favors a cause":{
"examples":[
"a promoter of greater understanding and cooperation among churches"
],
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"advocate",
"advocator",
"apostle",
"backer",
"booster",
"champion",
"espouser",
"exponent",
"expounder",
"friend",
"gospeler",
"gospeller",
"herald",
"hierophant",
"high priest",
"paladin",
"proponent",
"protagonist",
"supporter",
"true believer",
"tub-thumper",
"white knight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"loyalist",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"stalwart",
"adherent",
"cohort",
"disciple",
"follower",
"interpreter",
"applauder",
"cheerleader",
"encourager",
"fellow traveler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enemy",
"foe",
"rival",
"belittler",
"critic",
"faultfinder"
],
"antonyms":[
"adversary",
"antagonist",
"opponent"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"promptly":{
"without delay":{
"examples":[
"shipped the package promptly so that it would arrive on time"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"directly",
"forthwith",
"headlong",
"immediately",
"incontinently",
"instantaneously",
"instanter",
"instantly",
"now",
"PDQ",
"plumb",
"presently",
"pronto",
"right",
"right away",
"right now",
"right off",
"straight off",
"straightaway",
"straightway"
],
"near synonyms":[
"away",
"freely",
"anon",
"momentarily",
"shortly",
"soon",
"apace",
"briskly",
"fast",
"fleetly",
"full tilt",
"posthaste",
"quick",
"quickly",
"rapidly",
"readily",
"snappily",
"speedily",
"swift",
"swiftly",
"abruptly",
"presto",
"suddenly",
"unexpectedly",
"hastily",
"impetuously",
"impulsively",
"rashly",
"recklessly",
"exactly",
"opportunely",
"punctually",
"seasonably"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slowly",
"late",
"tardily"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"probation":{
"a systematic search for the truth or facts about something":{
"examples":[
"a candidate for the priesthood must be able to withstand an intense probation of his personal character"
],
"synonyms":[
"delving",
"disquisition",
"examen",
"examination",
"exploration",
"inquest",
"inquiry",
"inquisition",
"investigation",
"probe",
"probing",
"research",
"study"
],
"near synonyms":[
"quest",
"audit",
"check",
"checkup",
"diagnosis",
"inspection",
"hearing",
"interrogation",
"trial",
"feeler",
"query",
"question",
"poll",
"questionary",
"questionnaire",
"survey",
"challenge",
"cross-examination",
"going-over",
"grilling",
"quiz",
"rehearing",
"reinvestigation",
"self-examination",
"self-exploration",
"self-questioning",
"self-reflection",
"self-scrutiny",
"soul-searching"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"provides":{
"to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption":{
"examples":[
"this luxury hotel provides all the comforts of home to well-heeled vacationers"
],
"synonyms":[
"delivers",
"feeds",
"furnishes",
"gives",
"hands",
"hands over",
"supplies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"plies (with)",
"administers",
"allocates",
"apportions",
"deals (out)",
"dispenses",
"distributes",
"doles out",
"metes (out)",
"parcels (out)",
"portions",
"prorates",
"assigns",
"cedes",
"deeds",
"makes over",
"transfers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserves",
"keeps up",
"maintains",
"preserves",
"saves"
],
"antonyms":[
"holds (back)",
"keeps (back)",
"reserves",
"retains",
"withholds"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"proscribe":{
"to order not to do or use or to be done or used":{
"examples":[
"regulations proscribe the use of electronic devices on board a plane while it is landing"
],
"synonyms":[
"ban",
"bar",
"enjoin",
"forbid",
"interdict",
"outlaw",
"prohibit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deter",
"discourage",
"dissuade",
"clamp down (on)",
"crack down (on)",
"crush",
"put down",
"quash",
"quell",
"repress",
"silence",
"snuff (out)",
"squash",
"squelch",
"subdue",
"suppress",
"halt",
"preclude",
"prevent",
"stop",
"embargo",
"exclude",
"rule out",
"shut out",
"debar",
"deprive",
"disallow",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"veto",
"bridle",
"check",
"curb",
"inhibit",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"block",
"hinder",
"impede",
"obstruct"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approve",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"sanction",
"authorize",
"license",
"licence",
"warrant",
"abet",
"advance",
"cultivate",
"encourage",
"forward",
"further",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"promote",
"support",
"bid",
"command",
"order",
"abide",
"bear",
"brook",
"countenance",
"endure",
"tolerate"
],
"antonyms":[
"allow",
"let",
"permit",
"suffer"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"promptings":{
"as in assistances , directions":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assistances",
"briefings",
"directions",
"instructions",
"primings",
"teachings",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"observations",
"verdicts",
"interferences",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"alerts",
"cautions",
"expostulations",
"forewarnings",
"remonstrances",
"remonstrations",
"urgings",
"warnings",
"exhortations",
"lectures",
"lessons",
"sermons",
"speeches",
"advisements",
"considerations",
"thoughts",
"answers",
"solutions",
"data",
"feedback",
"information",
"hints",
"pointers",
"tips",
"recommendations",
"suggestions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prosecutes":{
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"the neurologists plan to prosecute their research for as long as funding remains available"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"brings off",
"carries off",
"carries out",
"commits",
"compasses",
"does",
"executes",
"follows through (with)",
"fulfills",
"fulfils",
"makes",
"negotiates",
"performs",
"perpetrates",
"pulls off",
"puts through"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brings about",
"effects",
"effectuates",
"implements",
"aces",
"nails",
"engages (in)",
"practices",
"practises",
"works (at)",
"reduplicates",
"reenacts",
"repeats",
"actualizes",
"attains",
"realizes",
"completes",
"ends",
"finishes",
"winds up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fails",
"skimps",
"slights",
"slurs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"provokes":{
"to rouse to strong feeling or action":{
"examples":[
"his teasing finally provoked her to anger",
"bees generally will not sting unless they are provoked"
],
"synonyms":[
"arouses",
"encourages",
"excites",
"fires (up)",
"impassions",
"incites",
"instigates",
"moves",
"piques",
"revs (up)",
"sparks",
"stimulates",
"stirs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fans",
"ignites",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"kindles",
"triggers",
"activates",
"animates",
"drives",
"energizes",
"galvanizes",
"induces",
"inspires",
"keys (up)",
"motivates",
"motives",
"pumps up",
"quickens",
"sets off",
"vitalizes",
"abets",
"ferments",
"foments",
"raises",
"whips (up)",
"angers",
"enrages",
"maddens",
"upsets",
"jeers",
"taunts",
"teases",
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"bothers",
"exasperates",
"galls",
"gets",
"irritates",
"vexes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"soothes",
"subdues",
"tranquilizes",
"tranquillizes",
"appeases",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring (something volatile or intense) into being":{
"examples":[
"rankings that are sure to provoke an argument among film buffs"
],
"synonyms":[
"abets",
"brews",
"ferments",
"foments",
"incites",
"instigates",
"picks",
"raises",
"stirs (up)",
"whips (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advances",
"cultivates",
"encourages",
"forwards",
"fosters",
"furthers",
"nourishes",
"nurtures",
"promotes",
"sows",
"stimulates",
"detonates",
"sets",
"sets off",
"triggers",
"excites",
"galvanizes",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"inspires",
"motivates",
"rouses",
"activates",
"energizes",
"enlivens",
"fires",
"invigorates",
"jazzes (up)",
"livens (up)",
"peps (up)",
"quickens",
"stimulates",
"vitalizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bridles",
"checks",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"discourages",
"holds",
"inhibits",
"regulates",
"reins (in)",
"restrains",
"tames",
"allays",
"calms",
"quiets",
"settles",
"soothes",
"stills",
"subdues",
"tranquilizes",
"tranquillizes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prospectuses":{
"as in signs , portents":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"forebodings",
"harbingers",
"omens",
"portents",
"previsions",
"signs",
"auguries",
"bodements",
"casts",
"forecasts",
"predictions",
"prognoses",
"prognostications",
"prognostics",
"prophecies",
"prophesies",
"soothsayings",
"vaticinations",
"anticipations",
"foreknowledges",
"foresights",
"conjectures",
"guesses",
"surmises"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prolegomenon":{
"as in study , discussion":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"discourse",
"discussion",
"exposition",
"study",
"article",
"composition",
"essay",
"paper",
"theme",
"primer",
"text",
"textbook",
"monograph",
"tract",
"treatise",
"causerie",
"column",
"commentary",
"editorial",
"feature",
"report",
"review",
"write-up",
"dissertation",
"thesis"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"propagations":{
"as in transmissions , spreads":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"spreads",
"transmissions",
"circulations",
"disseminations",
"distributions",
"advertisings",
"announcements",
"annunciations",
"communications",
"declarations",
"enunciations",
"notifications",
"proclamations",
"promotions",
"promulgations",
"propagandas",
"publicities",
"syndications",
"advents",
"appearances",
"arrivals",
"debuts",
"d\u00e9buts",
"emergences",
"manufactures",
"printings",
"productions",
"publications",
"publishings",
"releases"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censorships",
"suppressions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prophetic":{
"being a sign of a later course of events":{
"examples":[
"in retrospect, those lower-than-expected sales numbers were a prophetic indicator of the financial trouble the company would soon be in"
],
"synonyms":[
"predictive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apocalyptic",
"apocalyptical",
"millenarian",
"baleful",
"dire",
"foreboding",
"menacing",
"portentous",
"sinister",
"threatening",
"inauspicious",
"unpromising",
"oracular",
"revelatory",
"telling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"auspicious",
"promising",
"propitious",
"rosy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"propound":{
"to set before the mind for consideration":{
"examples":[
"let us propound the question whether mercy killing should ever be an option"
],
"synonyms":[
"advance",
"bounce",
"offer",
"pose",
"proffer",
"propose",
"suggest",
"vote"
],
"near synonyms":[
"move",
"nominate",
"recommend",
"present",
"submit",
"tender",
"trot out",
"file",
"lay",
"lodge",
"arrange",
"calculate",
"chart",
"contrive",
"cover",
"frame",
"map",
"plan",
"plot",
"shape"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"probities":{
"conduct that conforms to an accepted standard of right and wrong":{
"examples":[
"a person of indisputable probity must head the disciplinary panel"
],
"synonyms":[
"character",
"decency",
"goodness",
"honesty",
"integrity",
"morality",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"rightness",
"uprightness",
"virtue",
"virtuousness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"high-mindedness",
"honor",
"incorruptibility",
"irreproachability",
"irreproachableness",
"right-mindedness",
"scrupulosity",
"scrupulousness",
"appropriateness",
"correctness",
"decorousness",
"decorum",
"etiquette",
"fitness",
"propriety",
"seemliness",
"ethics",
"morals"
],
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"impropriety",
"indecency",
"indecorum",
"indiscretion",
"debauchery",
"degeneracy",
"degradation",
"depravity",
"perversion",
"pervertedness",
"sinfulness",
"crookedness",
"dishonesty",
"underhandedness",
"unscrupulousness",
"lowness",
"meanness",
"viciousness",
"vileness",
"corruption"
],
"antonyms":[
"badness",
"evil",
"evildoing",
"immorality",
"iniquity",
"sin",
"villainy",
"wickedness"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the defense attorney questioned the probity of the witness"
],
"synonyms":[
"honesty",
"integrity",
"truthfulness",
"veracity",
"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"
]
},
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"examples":[
"ideals of fairness and probity in journalism"
],
"synonyms":[
"honesty",
"honor",
"integrity",
"rectitude",
"righteousness",
"uprightness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blamelessness",
"character",
"conscientiousness",
"decency",
"fairness",
"high-mindedness",
"incorruptibility",
"irreproachability",
"irreproachableness",
"justice",
"morality",
"nobility",
"reputability",
"respectability",
"right-mindedness",
"scrupulousness",
"virtue",
"virtuousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corruptibility",
"corruption",
"corruptness",
"debasement",
"debauchery",
"decadence",
"degeneracy",
"degradation",
"depravity",
"disgrace",
"disgracefulness",
"disreputableness",
"dissipatedness",
"dissipation",
"dissoluteness",
"looseness",
"perversion",
"pervertedness",
"profligacy",
"shamelessness",
"venality",
"blameworthiness",
"criminality",
"crookedness",
"dishonesty",
"immorality",
"unrighteousness",
"unscrupulousness",
"knavery",
"rascality",
"roguishness",
"meanness",
"reprehensibleness",
"rottenness",
"sinfulness",
"vileness",
"villainy",
"wickedness",
"wretchedness"
],
"antonyms":[
"baseness",
"dishonor",
"lowness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"professionalism":{
"as in masterliness , expertness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"expertness",
"masterfulness",
"masterliness",
"finish",
"polish",
"ability",
"adeptness",
"competence",
"proficiency",
"skill",
"skillfulness",
"talent",
"virtuosity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amateurishness",
"amateurism",
"dilettantism",
"inexpertness",
"inexperience",
"unpreparedness",
"clumsiness",
"crudeness",
"ham-handedness",
"heavy-handedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prospecting":{
"to go into or range over for purposes of discovery":{
"examples":[
"soon all manner of people had arrived in the valley to prospect it for gold"
],
"synonyms":[
"exploring",
"hunting",
"probing",
"searching",
"skirring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reconnoitering",
"reconnoitring",
"scouting",
"disclosing",
"discovering",
"revealing",
"unearthing",
"fathoming",
"plumbing",
"sounding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prone":{
"having a tendency to be or act in a certain way":{
"examples":[
"he was prone to emotional outbursts under stress"
],
"synonyms":[
"apt",
"given",
"inclined",
"tending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choosing",
"preferring",
"disposed",
"liable",
"likely",
"minded",
"predisposed",
"willing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"averse",
"disinclined",
"indisposed",
"loath",
"loth",
"loathe",
"unwilling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"lying with the face downwards":{
"examples":[
"quickly subdue the suspect and get him into a prone position"
],
"synonyms":[
"prostrate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flat",
"recumbent",
"reclining",
"reposing",
"horizontal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"erect",
"raised",
"standing",
"upright",
"upstanding",
"vertical"
],
"antonyms":[
"supine"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"proxy":{
"a person who acts or does business for another":{
"examples":[
"sent a proxy to the meeting to cast his vote for him"
],
"synonyms":[
"agent",
"assignee",
"attorney",
"commissary",
"delegate",
"deputy",
"envoy",
"factor",
"minister",
"procurator",
"rep",
"representative"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ambassador",
"diplomat",
"diplomatist",
"emissary",
"foreign minister",
"legate",
"plenipotentiary",
"alternate",
"backup",
"pinch hitter",
"relief",
"replacement",
"stand-in",
"sub",
"substitute",
"surrogate",
"understudy",
"informer",
"operative",
"spy",
"broker",
"distributor",
"manager",
"arbiter",
"arbitrator",
"comprador",
"compradore",
"conciliator",
"go-between",
"intercessor",
"intermediary",
"interposer",
"liaison",
"mediator",
"middleman",
"peacemaker",
"mouthpiece",
"point man",
"point person",
"prophet",
"speaker",
"spokesman",
"spokesperson"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in backup , alternate":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alternate",
"backup",
"jackleg",
"make-do",
"makeshift",
"stopgap",
"substitute",
"acting",
"ad interim",
"interim",
"provisional",
"provisionary",
"provisory",
"temporary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"long-term",
"permanent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"prominences":{
"an area of high ground":{
"examples":[
"a rocky prominence that commands a stunning view of the surrounding area"
],
"synonyms":[
"altitudes",
"elevations",
"eminences",
"heights",
"highlands",
"hills",
"humps",
"mounds",
"rises",
"uplands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alps",
"mountains",
"mounts",
"peaks",
"buttes",
"mesas",
"plateaus",
"plateaux",
"tablelands",
"tables",
"bluffs",
"cliffs",
"crags",
"precipices",
"steeps",
"tors",
"ridges",
"sierras",
"domes",
"sugarloafs",
"sugarloaves",
"foothills",
"hillocks",
"hummocks",
"knobs",
"knolls",
"downs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dales",
"dells",
"depressions",
"dingles",
"glens",
"hollows",
"vales",
"valleys",
"basins",
"bottomlands",
"bottoms",
"fens",
"flats",
"floodplains",
"plains",
"tidewaters"
],
"antonyms":[
"lowlands"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prognosticated":{
"to tell of or describe beforehand":{
"examples":[
"using current trends to prognosticate what the workplace of the future will be like"
],
"synonyms":[
"augured",
"called",
"forecast",
"forecasted",
"foretold",
"predicted",
"presaged",
"prophesied",
"read",
"vaticinated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alerted",
"cautioned",
"forewarned",
"warned",
"boded",
"foreboded",
"forboded",
"portended",
"promised",
"anticipated",
"divined",
"foreknew",
"foresaw",
"announced",
"declared",
"heralded",
"proclaimed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"described",
"narrated",
"recited",
"recounted",
"related",
"reported",
"told"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"proudly":{
"as in boldly , brazenly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arrogantly",
"audaciously",
"boldly",
"brashly",
"brazenly",
"contemptuously",
"haughtily",
"huffily",
"imperiously",
"loftily",
"pompously",
"presumptuously",
"pretentiously",
"pridefully",
"scornfully",
"self-importantly",
"superciliously",
"swaggeringly",
"uppishly",
"fearlessly",
"discourteously",
"disdainfully",
"disrespectfully",
"impertinently",
"rashly",
"recklessly",
"saucily",
"bitchily",
"impolitely",
"impudently",
"rudely",
"uncivilly",
"ungraciously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abjectly",
"deferentially",
"hat in hand",
"humbly",
"lowly",
"meanly",
"meekly",
"modestly",
"sheepishly",
"submissively",
"obsequiously",
"servilely",
"subserviently",
"fearfully",
"mousily",
"timidly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"projet":{
"as in proposal , idea":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"conception",
"idea",
"proposal",
"specific(s)",
"specification(s)",
"means",
"tactic",
"technique",
"way",
"aim",
"intent",
"intention",
"purpose",
"counterplan",
"counterstrategy",
"diagram",
"formula",
"layout",
"map",
"pattern",
"platform",
"policy",
"recipe",
"setup",
"procedure",
"protocol",
"arrangement",
"blueprint",
"design",
"game",
"game plan",
"ground plan",
"master plan",
"plan",
"program",
"project",
"road map",
"scheme",
"strategy",
"system"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in accord , alliance":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accord",
"alliance",
"compact",
"convention",
"covenant",
"pact",
"treaty",
"bargain",
"bond",
"charter",
"concord",
"contract",
"deal",
"settlement",
"understanding",
"entente",
"entente cordiale"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prorogated":{
"to bring to a formal close for a period of time":{
"examples":[
"the conference was prorogated until the following morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"adjourned",
"prorogued",
"recessed",
"suspended"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broke off",
"disbanded",
"discontinued",
"dispersed",
"intermitted",
"interrupted",
"deferred",
"held off",
"postponed",
"put off",
"reserved",
"shelved",
"tabled",
"dissolved",
"ended",
"halted",
"stopped",
"terminated",
"broke up",
"closed",
"concluded",
"wound up",
"winded up",
"wrapped up",
"aborted",
"called",
"called off",
"dropped",
"recalled",
"repealed",
"rescinded",
"revoked",
"abrogated",
"annulled",
"invalidated",
"negated",
"nullified",
"quashed",
"voided"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inaugurated",
"launched",
"opened",
"carried on",
"continued",
"drew out",
"extended",
"proceeded",
"prolonged",
"renewed",
"reopened",
"resumed",
"assembled",
"called",
"convened",
"convoked",
"mustered",
"rallied",
"summoned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"producer":{
"a person who supervises or finances the making of a work (such as a stage show or movie) to be shown to the public":{
"examples":[
"The producer was having trouble finding an actress for the lead role."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"impresario",
"stage manager",
"director",
"regisseur",
"stage director",
"auteur",
"directress",
"backer",
"guarantor",
"patron",
"patroness",
"sponsor",
"surety"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person or business that manufactures or grows something":{
"examples":[
"The vineyard is the biggest wine producer in the region."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"manufacturer",
"maker",
"builder",
"creator",
"agriculturist",
"agriculturalist",
"agronomist",
"cultivator",
"farmer",
"grower",
"planter",
"tiller",
"factory",
"manufactory",
"mill",
"plant",
"shop",
"works",
"workshop",
"distributor",
"provider",
"provisioner",
"purveyor",
"supplier",
"dealer",
"merchandiser",
"merchant",
"trader",
"tradesman",
"trafficker",
"retailer",
"seller",
"vendor",
"vender",
"businessman",
"businessperson",
"businesswoman",
"enterpriser",
"entrepreneur",
"buyer",
"marketer",
"purchaser",
"jobber",
"middleman",
"wholesaler",
"author",
"begetter",
"establisher",
"father",
"founder",
"founding father",
"generator",
"inaugurator",
"initiator",
"instituter",
"institutor",
"originator",
"sire",
"groundbreaker",
"pioneer",
"planner",
"researcher",
"researchist",
"dreamer",
"conceiver",
"contriver",
"designer",
"developer",
"deviser",
"formulator",
"innovator",
"introducer",
"inventor",
"spawner",
"originator",
"architect",
"engineer",
"mastermind",
"cocreator",
"codeveloper",
"cofounder",
"coinventor",
"coproducer",
"coresearcher",
"artist",
"mechanic",
"operative",
"shaper",
"smith",
"wright",
"craftswoman",
"journeyman",
"master",
"handyman",
"handyperson",
"workman",
"artificer",
"artisan",
"crafter",
"craftsman",
"craftsperson",
"handcraftsman",
"handicrafter",
"handicraftsman",
"handworker",
"tradesman"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proscribed":{
"that may not be permitted":{
"examples":[
"the organization lost its nonprofit status after it was determined to have engaged in several proscribed fund-raising activities"
],
"synonyms":[
"banned",
"barred",
"forbidden",
"impermissible",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"taboo",
"tabu",
"verboten"
],
"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"
]
},
"to order not to do or use or to be done or used":{
"examples":[
"regulations proscribe the use of electronic devices on board a plane while it is landing"
],
"synonyms":[
"banned",
"barred",
"enjoined",
"forbade",
"forbad",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"prohibited"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deterred",
"discouraged",
"dissuaded",
"clamped down (on)",
"cracked down (on)",
"crushed",
"put down",
"quashed",
"quelled",
"repressed",
"silenced",
"snuffed (out)",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"subdued",
"suppressed",
"halted",
"precluded",
"prevented",
"stopped",
"embargoed",
"excluded",
"ruled out",
"shut out",
"debarred",
"deprived",
"disallowed",
"rejected",
"repudiated",
"vetoed",
"bridled",
"checked",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"reined (in)",
"restrained",
"blocked",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"authorized",
"licensed",
"licenced",
"warranted",
"abetted",
"advanced",
"cultivated",
"encouraged",
"forwarded",
"furthered",
"nourished",
"nurtured",
"promoted",
"supported",
"bade",
"bid",
"commanded",
"ordered",
"abided",
"abode",
"bore",
"brooked",
"countenanced",
"endured",
"tolerated"
],
"antonyms":[
"allowed",
"let",
"permitted",
"suffered"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"proportional tax":{
"as in flat tax":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flat tax",
"death tax",
"estate tax",
"inheritance tax",
"supertax",
"surcharge",
"surtax",
"capitation",
"custom(s)",
"excise",
"hidden tax",
"income tax",
"poll tax",
"property tax",
"sales tax",
"single tax",
"sin tax",
"tariff",
"toll",
"tribute",
"value-added tax",
"withholding tax",
"direct tax",
"personal tax",
"assessment",
"duty",
"imposition",
"impost",
"levy",
"tax"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"promulgating":{
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"the encyclical that promulgated the church's position on artificial birth control"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertising",
"announcing",
"annunciating",
"blaring",
"blazing",
"blazoning",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"enunciating",
"flashing",
"giving out",
"heralding",
"placarding",
"posting",
"proclaiming",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"releasing",
"sounding",
"trumpeting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barking",
"calling (off or out)",
"crying",
"billboarding",
"billing",
"bulletining",
"gazetting",
"knelling",
"ringing",
"tolling",
"blurbing",
"featuring",
"pitching",
"plugging",
"promoting",
"puffing",
"disseminating",
"spreading",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"introducing",
"kithing",
"kything",
"manifesting",
"reporting",
"revealing",
"showing",
"advising",
"apprising",
"handing down",
"informing",
"notifying",
"communicating",
"imparting",
"intimating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealing",
"hushing (up)",
"silencing",
"suppressing",
"withholding",
"recalling",
"recanting",
"retracting",
"revoking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"procrastinates":{
"to be slow or late about doing something that should be done; to delay doing something until a later time because you do not want to do it, because you are lazy, etc.":{
"examples":[
"He procrastinated and missed the submission deadline.",
"He told her to stop procrastinating and get to work."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"filibusters",
"stalls",
"temporizes",
"crawls",
"creeps",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"delays",
"diddles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"lollygags",
"lallygags",
"mopes",
"pokes",
"shilly-shallies",
"tarries",
"fiddles (around)",
"fools around",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"loafs",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"ambles",
"eases",
"inches",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"staggers",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowls",
"breezes",
"darts",
"humps",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"scrambles",
"stampedes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"runs",
"sprints",
"trots",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"speeds (up)",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes",
"barrels",
"bolts",
"careers",
"courses",
"dashes",
"flies",
"hastens",
"hotfoots (it)",
"hurries",
"races",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"scoots",
"scuds",
"scurries",
"speeds",
"tears",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"whizzes",
"zips"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"procrastinators":{
"as in delayers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"delayers",
"idlers",
"lazybones",
"loafers",
"loungers",
"slouches",
"sluggards",
"slugs",
"latecomers",
"crawlers",
"dalliers",
"dawdlers",
"draggers",
"laggards",
"laggers",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"plodders",
"slowpokes",
"snails",
"stragglers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"speedsters",
"go-getters",
"hustlers",
"scramblers",
"hurriers",
"rushers",
"speeders"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"productivity":{
"the rate at which goods are produced or work is completed":{
"examples":[
"The country has high agricultural productivity .",
"The company is looking for ways to improve worker productivity .",
"There has been an increase in productivity ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fecundity",
"fertility",
"fruitfulness",
"productiveness",
"prolificacy",
"prolificity",
"prolificness",
"cleverness",
"creativeness",
"creativity",
"imagination",
"imaginativeness",
"ingeniousness",
"ingenuity",
"innovativeness",
"invention",
"inventiveness",
"originality",
"capableness",
"resourcefulness",
"genius",
"giftedness",
"talent",
"fire",
"inspiration",
"muse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dryness",
"dullness",
"dulness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proselytize":{
"to persuade to change to one's religious faith":{
"examples":[
"the efforts of early missionaries to proselytize the Native Americans of Minnesota were largely unproductive"
],
"synonyms":[
"convert",
"proselyte"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missionize",
"brainwash",
"influence",
"sway",
"propagate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"secularize",
"dissuade"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prolific":{
"producing abundantly":{
"examples":[
"a famously prolific author who could produce several works of fiction and nonfiction a year"
],
"synonyms":[
"cornucopian",
"fat",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"fructuous",
"fruitful",
"lush",
"luxuriant",
"productive",
"rich"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bearing",
"generative",
"producing",
"yielding",
"abounding",
"abundant",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"plenitudinous",
"blooming",
"bursting",
"flourishing",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thriving",
"creative",
"inventive",
"original"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meager",
"meagre",
"scant",
"scanty",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"spare",
"sparse"
],
"antonyms":[
"barren",
"dead",
"infertile",
"sterile",
"unfertile",
"unfruitful",
"unproductive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"protectors":{
"someone that protects":{
"examples":[
"the quarterback counted on the right guard as his main protector"
],
"synonyms":[
"custodians",
"defenders",
"guardian angels",
"guardians",
"guards",
"protections"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bodyguards",
"champions",
"lookouts",
"sentinels",
"sentries",
"wardens",
"warders",
"watchdogs",
"watches",
"watchmen",
"conservers",
"harborers",
"keepers",
"preservers",
"savers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"proselyting":{
"to persuade to change to one's religious faith":{
"examples":[
"she's been trying to proselyte everyone in the office ever since she joined that church"
],
"synonyms":[
"converting",
"proselytizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missionizing",
"brainwashing",
"influencing",
"swaying",
"propagating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"secularizing",
"dissuading"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"promenaded":{
"as in paraded":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"paraded",
"ambulated",
"footed (it)",
"hoofed (it)",
"legged (it)",
"padded",
"stepped",
"traipsed",
"trod",
"treaded",
"walked",
"marched",
"paced",
"stepped out",
"strode",
"trooped",
"power walked",
"hiked",
"peregrinated",
"trekked",
"ambled",
"moseyed",
"perambulated",
"rambled",
"sauntered",
"strolled",
"wandered",
"clumped",
"stomped",
"stumped",
"tramped",
"trampled",
"tromped",
"footslogged",
"plodded",
"trudged",
"gimped",
"hobbled",
"limped",
"minced",
"pranced",
"pussyfooted",
"tiptoed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"providential":{
"coming or happening by good luck especially unexpectedly":{
"examples":[
"winning the lottery could not have come at a more providential time for the recently laid-off worker"
],
"synonyms":[
"fluky",
"flukey",
"fortuitous",
"fortunate",
"happy",
"heaven-sent",
"lucky"
],
"near synonyms":[
"convenient",
"opportune",
"seasonable",
"timely",
"unexpected",
"unforeseen",
"unlooked-for",
"accidental",
"chance",
"coincidental",
"serendipitous",
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"promising",
"propitious",
"benign",
"favorable",
"golden",
"good",
"halcyon",
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"profitable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inconvenient",
"inopportune",
"unseasonable",
"untimely",
"anticipated",
"expected",
"foreseen",
"deliberate",
"intentional",
"planned",
"inauspicious",
"unpromising",
"calamitous",
"catastrophic",
"disastrous"
],
"antonyms":[
"hapless",
"ill-fated",
"ill-starred",
"luckless",
"star-crossed",
"unfortunate",
"unhappy",
"unlucky"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"properties":{
"a small piece of land that is developed or available for development":{
"examples":[
"bought a secluded property in the mountains"
],
"synonyms":[
"lots",
"parcels",
"plats",
"plots",
"tracts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"patches",
"frontages",
"leases",
"developments",
"real estates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind":{
"examples":[
"the ability to be magnetized is a common property of metals"
],
"synonyms":[
"affections",
"attributes",
"attributions",
"characteristics",
"characters",
"criteria",
"criterions",
"diagnostics",
"differentiae",
"features",
"fingerprints",
"hallmarks",
"markers",
"marks",
"notes",
"particularities",
"peculiarities",
"points",
"qualities",
"specifics",
"stamps",
"touches",
"traits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"badges",
"indications",
"signs",
"emblems",
"symbols",
"tokens",
"charms",
"graces",
"excellences",
"merits",
"virtues",
"eccentricities",
"idiosyncrasies",
"oddities",
"quirks",
"individualities",
"singularities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"provincialism":{
"as in regionalism , colloquialism":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"colloquial",
"colloquialism",
"idiom",
"localism",
"parlance",
"pidgin",
"regionalism",
"speech",
"vernacular",
"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 insularity , parochialism":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"insularism",
"insularity",
"parochialism",
"conservatism",
"reactionaryism",
"bigotry",
"dogmatism",
"illiberalism",
"illiberality",
"illiberalness",
"intolerance",
"intolerantness",
"narrow-mindedness",
"opinionatedness",
"partisanship",
"sectarianism",
"small-mindedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broad-mindedness",
"liberalism",
"liberality",
"open-mindedness",
"tolerance",
"progressiveness",
"progressivism"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"protestors":{
"as in demonstrators , marchers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"demonstrators",
"marchers",
"objectors",
"picketers",
"agitators",
"demagogues",
"demagogs",
"exciters",
"firebrands",
"fomenters",
"incendiaries",
"inciters",
"instigators",
"kindlers",
"provocateurs",
"rabble-rousers",
"advocates",
"apostles",
"backers",
"boosters",
"champions",
"exponents",
"persuaders",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"reformers",
"reformists",
"supporters",
"alarmists",
"extremists",
"insurgents",
"insurrectionists",
"radicals",
"rebels",
"revolters",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists",
"subversives",
"troublemakers",
"prodders",
"prompters",
"provokers",
"agents provocateurs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"peacemakers",
"reconcilers",
"uniters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Promethean":{
"having the skill and imagination to create new things":{
"examples":[
"it is only through the efforts of a Promethean pioneer that an art form advances"
],
"synonyms":[
"clever",
"creative",
"imaginative",
"ingenious",
"innovational",
"innovative",
"innovatory",
"inventive",
"original",
"originative"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gifted",
"inspired",
"talented",
"resourceful",
"fecund",
"fertile",
"fruitful",
"generative",
"germinal",
"productive",
"prolific"
],
"near antonyms":[
"imitative",
"uninspired",
"infertile",
"unproductive",
"talentless"
],
"antonyms":[
"uncreative",
"unimaginative",
"uninventive",
"unoriginal"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"prohibit":{
"to order not to do or use or to be done or used":{
"examples":[
"the city prohibits swimming in the lake after dark"
],
"synonyms":[
"ban",
"bar",
"enjoin",
"forbid",
"interdict",
"outlaw",
"proscribe"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deter",
"discourage",
"dissuade",
"clamp down (on)",
"crack down (on)",
"crush",
"put down",
"quash",
"quell",
"repress",
"silence",
"snuff (out)",
"squash",
"squelch",
"subdue",
"suppress",
"halt",
"preclude",
"prevent",
"stop",
"embargo",
"exclude",
"rule out",
"shut out",
"debar",
"deprive",
"disallow",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"veto",
"bridle",
"check",
"curb",
"inhibit",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"block",
"hinder",
"impede",
"obstruct"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approve",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"sanction",
"authorize",
"license",
"licence",
"warrant",
"abet",
"advance",
"cultivate",
"encourage",
"forward",
"further",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"promote",
"support",
"bid",
"command",
"order",
"abide",
"bear",
"brook",
"countenance",
"endure",
"tolerate"
],
"antonyms":[
"allow",
"let",
"permit",
"suffer"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prostrating":{
"to diminish the physical strength of":{
"examples":[
"an athlete prostrated for weeks by a bout of pneumonia"
],
"synonyms":[
"debilitating",
"devitalizing",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"etiolating",
"sapping",
"softening",
"tiring",
"wasting",
"weakening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crippling",
"disabling",
"hamstringing",
"incapacitating",
"depleting",
"depressing",
"exhausting",
"impoverishing",
"unmanning",
"washing out",
"damaging",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"invaliding",
"laying up",
"breaking down",
"grinding (down)",
"wearing down",
"wearing out",
"paralyzing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"recruiting",
"rejuvenating",
"vitalizing",
"hardening",
"seasoning",
"toughening"
],
"antonyms":[
"beefing (up)",
"fortifying",
"strengthening"
]
},
"to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move":{
"examples":[
"the huge increase in gas prices really prostrated the nation's economic engine"
],
"synonyms":[
"crippling",
"disabling",
"hamstringing",
"immobilizing",
"incapacitating",
"paralyzing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attenuating",
"debilitating",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"sapping",
"tiring",
"undercutting",
"undermining",
"weakening",
"hobbling",
"laming",
"maiming",
"mutilating",
"knocking out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"energizing",
"galvanizing",
"invigorating",
"vitalizing",
"fortifying",
"strengthening",
"empowering",
"freshening",
"refreshening",
"refreshing",
"regenerating",
"rejuvenating",
"restoring",
"revitalizing",
"reviving"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stress":{
"examples":[
"a widow prostrated by crushing grief"
],
"synonyms":[
"crushing",
"devastating",
"flooring",
"grinding (down)",
"oppressing",
"overcoming",
"overmastering",
"overpowering",
"overwhelming",
"snowing under",
"swamping",
"whelming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deluging",
"drowning",
"sinking",
"confuting",
"defeating",
"refuting",
"breaking",
"demoralizing",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"rocking",
"shattering",
"staggering",
"throwing",
"unmanning",
"unnerving",
"upsetting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"the boxer bragged that he could prostrate any opponent with a single blow"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowling (down or over)",
"downing",
"dropping",
"felling",
"flooring",
"knocking down",
"knocking over",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"mowing (down)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayoing",
"knocking out",
"KO'ing",
"overthrowing",
"throwing down",
"toppling",
"banging",
"bashing",
"belting",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"hammering",
"hitting",
"jabbing",
"pasting",
"poking",
"pounding",
"punching",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"slogging",
"slugging",
"smacking",
"smiting",
"socking",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thumping",
"thwacking",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whaling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"prolusions":{
"a short section (as of a book) that leads to or explains the main part":{
"examples":[
"in her prolusion she sketches the religious, cultural and political milieu in which gnosticism developed"
],
"synonyms":[
"exordiums",
"exordia",
"forewords",
"introductions",
"intros",
"preambles",
"prefaces",
"preludes",
"proems",
"prologues",
"prologs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beginnings",
"commencements",
"initiations",
"openings",
"originations",
"origins",
"outsets",
"starts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"envois",
"envoys",
"postscripts",
"aftermaths",
"cessations",
"closes",
"closings",
"conclusions",
"ends",
"finales",
"finishes",
"stops",
"terminations"
],
"antonyms":[
"epilogues",
"epilogs"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prognosis":{
"a declaration that something will happen in the future":{
"examples":[
"the securities analyst's prognosis for the stock market in the new year"
],
"synonyms":[
"auguring",
"augury",
"bodement",
"cast",
"forecast",
"forecasting",
"foretelling",
"predicting",
"prediction",
"presaging",
"prognostic",
"prognosticating",
"prognostication",
"prophecy",
"prophesy",
"soothsaying",
"vaticination"
],
"near synonyms":[
"foreboding",
"harbinger",
"omen",
"portent",
"prevision",
"prospectus",
"sign",
"anticipation",
"foreknowledge",
"foresight",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"surmise"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"provided":{
"as in supplied , furnished":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"furnished",
"supplied",
"appropriable",
"purchasable",
"rentable",
"common",
"omnipresent",
"prevalent",
"ubiquitous",
"universal",
"widespread",
"getatable",
"reachable",
"free",
"free-for-all",
"open",
"public",
"unrestricted",
"accessible",
"acquirable",
"attainable",
"available",
"obtainable",
"procurable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inaccessible",
"unattainable",
"unavailable",
"unobtainable",
"limited",
"off-limits",
"restricted",
"deficient",
"lacking",
"missing",
"rare",
"scarce",
"uncommon"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption":{
"examples":[
"this luxury hotel provides all the comforts of home to well-heeled vacationers"
],
"synonyms":[
"delivered",
"fed",
"furnished",
"gave",
"handed",
"handed over",
"supplied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"plied (with)",
"administered",
"allocated",
"apportioned",
"dealt (out)",
"dispensed",
"distributed",
"doled out",
"meted (out)",
"parceled (out)",
"parcelled (out)",
"portioned",
"prorated",
"assigned",
"ceded",
"deeded",
"made over",
"transferred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserved",
"kept up",
"maintained",
"preserved",
"saved"
],
"antonyms":[
"held (back)",
"kept (back)",
"reserved",
"retained",
"withheld"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"proprietor":{
"one who has a legal or rightful claim to ownership":{
"examples":[
"the proprietor of a used-car dealership"
],
"synonyms":[
"holder",
"owner",
"possessor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"co-owner",
"coproprietor",
"landlord",
"landowner"
],
"near antonyms":[
"squatter",
"lessee",
"renter",
"tenant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prognosticators":{
"one who predicts future events or developments":{
"examples":[
"one of the best prognosticators in the weather business"
],
"synonyms":[
"augurs",
"diviners",
"forecasters",
"foreseers",
"foretellers",
"fortune-tellers",
"futurists",
"prophesiers",
"prophets",
"seers",
"soothsayers",
"visionaries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prophetesses",
"sibyls",
"wisewomen",
"mystics",
"oracles",
"astrologers",
"crystal gazers",
"palmists",
"rhabdomancers",
"Cassandras",
"doomsayers",
"doomsdayers",
"Jeremiahs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prodigiousness":{
"the quality or state of being very large":{
"examples":[
"the proverbial prodigiousness of everything within the state of Texas"
],
"synonyms":[
"enormity",
"enormousness",
"giantism",
"gigantism",
"hugeness",
"immenseness",
"immensity",
"magnitude",
"massiveness",
"vastitude",
"vastness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bigness",
"extensiveness",
"greatness",
"largeness",
"sizableness",
"voluminousness",
"weightiness",
"awesomeness",
"grandness",
"stupendousness",
"tremendousness",
"boundlessness",
"limitlessness",
"ampleness",
"capaciousness",
"commodiousness",
"spaciousness",
"excessiveness",
"extravagance",
"extremeness",
"gaudiness",
"grandiosity",
"immoderacy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"littleness",
"puniness",
"smallness",
"triviality"
],
"antonyms":[
"diminutiveness",
"minuteness",
"tininess"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pros":{
"a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field":{
"examples":[
"She plays baseball like a pro ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"professionals",
"consultants",
"hired guns",
"specialists",
"addicts",
"aficionados",
"afficionados",
"buffs",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fans",
"craftsmen",
"journeymen",
"all-rounders",
"jacks-of-all-trades",
"Renaissance men",
"aces",
"adepts",
"artists",
"authorities",
"cognoscenti",
"connoisseurs",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"dab hands",
"dabs",
"experts",
"fiends",
"geeks",
"gurus",
"hands",
"hotshots",
"maestros",
"maestri",
"masters",
"mavens",
"mavins",
"meisters",
"past masters",
"proficients",
"scholars",
"sharks",
"sharps",
"virtuosos",
"virtuosi",
"whizzes",
"wizards"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apprentices",
"beginners",
"neophytes",
"novices",
"dabblers",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti",
"laymen",
"nonprofessionals",
"amateurs",
"inexperts",
"nonexperts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"provender":{
"substances intended to be eaten":{
"examples":[
"a chef who prides himself on creating all of his dishes from local provender"
],
"synonyms":[
"bread",
"chow",
"chuck",
"comestibles",
"eatables",
"eats",
"edibles",
"fare",
"food",
"foodstuffs",
"grub",
"meat",
"provisions",
"table",
"tucker",
"viands",
"victuals",
"vittles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commissary",
"rations",
"supplies",
"aliment",
"nutriment",
"diet",
"nourishment",
"nurture",
"sustenance",
"mess",
"pap",
"ensilage",
"feed",
"fodder",
"forage",
"silage",
"slop",
"swill",
"feast",
"meal",
"refreshments",
"regale",
"repast",
"spread",
"board",
"dish",
"plate",
"platter",
"serving",
"finger food",
"natural food"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bane",
"poison",
"toxin",
"venom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"protesters":{
"as in demonstrators , marchers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"demonstrators",
"marchers",
"objectors",
"picketers",
"agitators",
"demagogues",
"demagogs",
"exciters",
"firebrands",
"fomenters",
"incendiaries",
"inciters",
"instigators",
"kindlers",
"provocateurs",
"rabble-rousers",
"advocates",
"apostles",
"backers",
"boosters",
"champions",
"exponents",
"persuaders",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"reformers",
"reformists",
"supporters",
"alarmists",
"extremists",
"insurgents",
"insurrectionists",
"radicals",
"rebels",
"revolters",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists",
"subversives",
"troublemakers",
"prodders",
"prompters",
"provokers",
"agents provocateurs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"peacemakers",
"reconcilers",
"uniters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"provision":{
"something upon which the carrying out of an agreement or offer depends":{
"examples":[
"loaned them the car with the provision that they refill the gas tank before returning it"
],
"synonyms":[
"condition",
"contingency",
"if",
"proviso",
"qualification",
"reservation",
"stipulation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"strings",
"terms",
"precondition",
"prerequisite",
"requirement",
"requisite",
"limitation",
"modification",
"restriction",
"exception",
"exemption",
"demand",
"essential",
"must",
"necessity",
"need"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"substances intended to be eaten":{
"examples":[
"gave them ample provisions so they would not get hungry on the trip"
],
"synonyms":[
"bread",
"chow",
"chuck",
"comestibles",
"eatables",
"eats",
"edibles",
"fare",
"food",
"foodstuffs",
"grub",
"meat",
"provender",
"table",
"tucker",
"viands",
"victuals",
"vittles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commissary",
"rations",
"supplies",
"aliment",
"nutriment",
"diet",
"nourishment",
"nurture",
"sustenance",
"mess",
"pap",
"ensilage",
"feed",
"fodder",
"forage",
"silage",
"slop",
"swill",
"feast",
"meal",
"refreshments",
"regale",
"repast",
"spread",
"board",
"dish",
"plate",
"platter",
"serving",
"finger food",
"natural food"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bane",
"poison",
"toxin",
"venom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity":{
"examples":[
"the climbers were sufficiently provisioned to withstand just about any mountaineering emergency"
],
"synonyms":[
"accoutre",
"accouter",
"equip",
"fit (out)",
"furnish",
"gird",
"kit (up or out)",
"outfit",
"rig",
"supply"
],
"near synonyms":[
"stock",
"store",
"bestow",
"contribute",
"donate",
"give",
"present",
"apportion",
"deal (out)",
"dispense",
"distribute",
"dole out",
"hand out",
"mete (out)",
"parcel (out)",
"portion",
"prorate",
"allocate",
"allot",
"assign",
"arm",
"fortify",
"prepare",
"reequip",
"refit",
"refurnish",
"reoutfit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deprive",
"dispossess",
"divest",
"strip"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide food or meals for":{
"examples":[
"it was the quartermaster's job to properly equip and provision the troops"
],
"synonyms":[
"board",
"cater",
"feed",
"victual"
],
"near synonyms":[
"serve",
"wait",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"sustain",
"banquet",
"dine",
"feast",
"regale",
"mess",
"batten",
"fatten",
"fill",
"force-feed",
"overfeed",
"surfeit",
"underfeed",
"hand-feed",
"spoon-feed",
"refeed",
"reprovision"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"provokers":{
"as in prompters , prodders":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"prodders",
"prompters",
"alarmists",
"extremists",
"insurgents",
"insurrectionists",
"radicals",
"rebels",
"revolters",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists",
"subversives",
"troublemakers",
"agents provocateurs",
"advocates",
"apostles",
"backers",
"boosters",
"champions",
"exponents",
"persuaders",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"reformers",
"reformists",
"supporters",
"demonstrators",
"marchers",
"objectors",
"picketers",
"protesters",
"protestors",
"agitators",
"demagogues",
"demagogs",
"exciters",
"firebrands",
"fomenters",
"incendiaries",
"inciters",
"instigators",
"kindlers",
"provocateurs",
"rabble-rousers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"peacemakers",
"reconcilers",
"uniters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"prolificacy":{
"as in fertility , productivity":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fecundity",
"fertility",
"fruitfulness",
"productiveness",
"productivity",
"prolificity",
"prolificness",
"cleverness",
"creativeness",
"creativity",
"imagination",
"imaginativeness",
"ingeniousness",
"ingenuity",
"innovativeness",
"invention",
"inventiveness",
"originality",
"capableness",
"resourcefulness",
"genius",
"giftedness",
"talent",
"fire",
"inspiration",
"muse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dryness",
"dullness",
"dulness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}