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suppletive
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polish
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high-hanging fruit
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want
another string to one's bow
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-penia
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smooth
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underfix
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rumpty
enodation
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relapse
adjust
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lemon
decay
malfunction
entangled
wasting
wear out
get worse
copout
wear thin
meagre
hardpressed
stingy
flawy
shorten
hyperdeficiency
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scrimpy
nonweakness
gross
golden mean
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ratty
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rumpty
failable
entangled
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hardpressed
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enodation
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wear
reform
wear off
relapse
adjust
wear down
decay
wear out
get worse
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shorten
skimp
fall short
go to seed
supplement
adj
- Making up for deficiencies; supplementary; suppletory.
- Supplying an etymologically unrelated word with forms, or which is used as one of its forms, by suppletion (for example, in English, better and best are suppletive forms of good).
- Relating to laws which can apply in a contract if the parties choose to agree to this.
noun
verb
- To improve after decline.
- To become firm; stabilise.
- To make firm or strong; fix securely.
- To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify.
- To shorten (of betting odds).
- To select (a higher education institution) as one's preferred choice, so as to enrol automatically if one's grades match the conditional offer.
adj
- Durable, rigid (material state)
- Fixed (in opinion).
- Insistent upon something, not accepting dissent.
- Steadfast, secure, solid (in position)
noun
adj
- Faulty; lacking in skill, reliability, or organization.
- Of a data structure: having uneven levels.
- In tatters, having the texture broken.
- Rough; shaggy; rugged.
- Harsh-sounding; having an unpleasant noise
- Having rough edges; jagged or uneven
- Performed in a syncopated manner, especially in ragtime.
- Wearing tattered clothes.
- a ragged fellow
verb
- To refine; remove imperfections from.
- To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.
- To apply shoe polish to shoes.
- To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
- To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
noun
noun
- Lack; deficiency; nonexistence.
- A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship
- The period of someone being away.
- Temporary loss or disruption of consciousness, with sudden onset and recovery, and common in epilepsy.
- Lack of contact between blades.
- Failure to be present where one is expected, wanted, or needed; nonattendance; deficiency.
- Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind).
noun
- Lack, absence, deficiency.
- A desire, wish, longing.
- Poverty.
- Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
- A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
- A mole (Talpa europea).
verb
- To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
- To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
- To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
- To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
- To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand.
- To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
suffix
verb
- To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
- To furnish or equip with.
- To fill up, or keep full.
- To act as a substitute.
- To serve instead of; to take the place of.
- To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
- To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
adv
noun
verb
- To compensate for (a deficiency, defect, etc.); to supply (something missing).
- To constitute the components of a whole.
- To draw near to, approach to.
- To apply cosmetics.
- To compensate (for).
- To make peace, to settle a dispute.
- To resolve or settle an argument, dispute, conflict, or fight (e.g., with someone).
- To make social or romantic advances to; to pay court to.
- To invent, to imagine, to concoct
- To constitute, to compose.
- To prepare (someone) for a theatrical performance by means of costume, cosmetics, etc.
- To put together (a substance, material, garment, medicine, etc.) into a specific form; to assemble.
- To invent or fabricate (a story, claim, etc.).
- To apply cosmetics or makeup to (a face, facial feature).
- To compile or draw up (a list, document, etc.).
verb
- To make improvements or repairs.
- To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.
- To benefit; gain.
- To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
- To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
- To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
- To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
- To make good; turn to good; improve.
intj
adj
- Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
- True, valid, of explanatory strength.
- Beneficial; worthwhile.
- Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more.
- Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit; used with for.
- Reasonable in amount.
- Accepting of, OK with
- Valid, of worth, capable of being honoured.
- Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
- Of food or other perishable products, still fit for use; not yet expired, stale, rotten, etc.
- Effective.
- Favourable.
- Unblemished; honourable.
- Very, extremely. See good and.
- Large in amount or size.
- Full; entire; at least as much as.
- Ready
- Healthful.
- Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
- Well-behaved (especially of children or animals).
- Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.
- Having a particularly pleasant taste.
- Pleasant; enjoyable.
- Competent or talented.
- Holy (especially when capitalized) .
noun
- The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
- The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
- An item of merchandise.
- A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
adv
noun
verb
- To improve.
- To add; to subject to addition.
- To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.
- To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.
- To sell additional related items with an original purchase.
- To increase in magnitude.
- To increase a correction.
- To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.
conj
prep
noun
adj
noun
- Reduced to a minimum or bare essentials.
- A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
- The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
- The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
- A very thin person.
- A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
- The network of veins in a leaf.
- A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.
- A very thin form of light-faced type.
- An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
- The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
prep
adj
- Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
- bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Having little duration.
- that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Of comparatively small height.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- that is relatively close to the batsman.
- Undiluted; neat.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Doubtful of, skeptical of.
noun
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
- A short film.
- A shortstop.
- A short seller.
- An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
- A short circuit.
- A short sale or short position.
- An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
- A summary account.
verb
- To shortchange.
- To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
- To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- To short circuit.
- To cause a short circuit in (something).
adv
noun
- Something added, especially to make up for a deficiency.
- A vitamin, herbal extract or chemical compound ingested to meet dietary deficiencies or enhance muscular development.
- An additional section of a newspaper devoted to a specific subject.
- An angle that, when added to a given angle, makes 180°; a supplementary angle.
- A surcharge, additional cost, especially for food in a restaurant.
- An extension to a document or publication that adds information, corrects errors or brings up to date.
verb
verb
- To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
- To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
- (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
- To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
- To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
- To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
- To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
- To defend; protect.
- To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
- To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
- To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
- To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
- To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
- To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
- To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
noun
verb
- improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition
- make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- produce by cracking
- break up the molecules of
- change for the better
noun
verb
- To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
- To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.
- To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
- Loss of airspeed due to drag.
- To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
- To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons; to undergo radioactive decay.
- To cause to rot or deteriorate.
- Of an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function.
- To rot, to go bad.
- To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
noun
noun
adj
- Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
- Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
- Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
- Highly or conspicuously offensive.
- Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
- Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
- Difficult or impossible to see through.
- Causing disgust.
verb
noun
noun
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- the quantity that was caught
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
verb
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- to hook or entangle
- attract and fix
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- reach in time
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- be struck or affected by
- check oneself during an action
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- see or watch
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- detect a blunder or misstep
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- come down with
- start burning
- perceive by hearing
- suffer from the receipt of
- attract; cause to be enamored
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- take in and retain
- spread or be communicated
- be the catcher
- become aware of
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
noun
noun
- A difficulty or predicament.
- Crime, offence, wrongdoing.
- Any of a number of criminal offences incurring similar penalties to the original offence of praemunire.
- The penalty for this offence.
- The offence in English law of bringing suit in or obeying a foreign (especially papal) court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the Crown. The offence was created by the Statute of Praemunire 1393 (16 Richard II, chapter 5), and abolished by the Criminal Law Act 1967 (chapter 58).
- The writ charging a person with this offence, the writ of praemunire facias.
verb
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