pretentious
pretentiously
purport
signalise
distinguish
signalize
obscurant
complimentary
misfigure
literal
actual
real
genuine
blazon
mudslinging
magnify
pass-remarkable
misrepresented
perverted
distorted
convert
win over
convince
twisted
authenticate
make out
diacritical
feint
similative
enable
calumny
insulting
do down
retortive
Chinese compliment
bewray
pretextual
counterfeit
impress
allegedly
featured
misemphasize
on steroids
front
pretext
pragmatize
claimability
denigrative
cut a feather
calumnious
overblow
meaning
libelous
slanderous
portrait
calumniatory
denigrating
represent
defamatory
denigratory
and all
libellous
credible
blow upon
profile
arguability
enough
positive
misleadingness
that
nominal
remark
accusatorial
deprecating
loaded
accent
distinctive
assertorical
crosswordlike
suggest
well
charge
assert
defamatoriness
backbite
pass the bottle of smoke
recognizance
play down
other end of the ball
put words in someone's mouth
derisive
presumption
take exception
wrench
disinformative
brag
fair cop
give me
brandishment
pretentious
obscurant
complimentary
literal
actual
real
genuine
pass-remarkable
misrepresented
perverted
distorted
twisted
diacritical
similative
insulting
retortive
pretextual
counterfeit
featured
denigrative
calumnious
meaning
libelous
slanderous
portrait
calumniatory
denigrating
defamatory
denigratory
libellous
credible
positive
nominal
accusatorial
deprecating
loaded
distinctive
assertorical
crosswordlike
derisive
disinformative
pretentiously
allegedly
enough
mudslinging
feint
calumny
Chinese compliment
pretext
claimability
profile
arguability
misleadingness
remark
defamatoriness
recognizance
presumption
brag
fair cop
brandishment
purport
signalise
distinguish
signalize
misfigure
blazon
magnify
convert
win over
convince
authenticate
make out
enable
do down
bewray
impress
misemphasize
front
pragmatize
cut a feather
overblow
represent
blow upon
accent
suggest
charge
assert
backbite
pass the bottle of smoke
play down
put words in someone's mouth
take exception
wrench
give me
adj
- being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something
- not to be taken lightly
- capable of being treated as fact
- (of property) fixed or immovable
- coinciding with reality
noun
noun
adj
- being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory
- no less than what is stated; worthy of the name
- of, relating to, or representing an amount that is corrected for inflation
- having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary
adv
verb
- make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something
- change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy
- change the nature, purpose, or function of something
- change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- cause to adopt a new or different faith
- score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change
noun
verb
- To represent; to make (something) appear to be true.
- To manage, get along; to do (well, badly etc.).
- To discern; to manage to see, hear etc.
- To draw up (a document etc.), to designate (a cheque) to a given recipient, payee.
- To embrace and kiss passionately.
- To engage in heavy petting or sexual intercourse.
noun
- Something feigned; a false or pretend appearance; a pretence or stratagem.
- A blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.
- A movement made to confuse an opponent; a dummy.
adj
- Of lines printed on paper as a handwriting guide: not bold; faint, light; also, of such paper: ruled with faint lines of this sort.
- Of an attack or offensive movement: directed toward a different part from the intended strike.
verb
verb
- To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.
- To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.
- To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.
- To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
- To affirm; to make firm and strong.
- To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
- To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
verb
- To make an impression, to be impressive.
- To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
- To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
- To seize or confiscate (property) by force.
- To produce a vivid impression of (something).
- To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
- To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
- To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
noun
- An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
- The act of impressing.
- Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
- The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
- An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
- A heraldic device; an impresa.
- A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
verb
- To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
- To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
- To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
- To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
- To appear before.
- To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
- To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
- To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
- Of an alter in dissociative identity disorder: to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the patient's body.
- To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
- To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
- To face, be opposite to.
adj
- Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calender month or year after the current one).
- Located at or near the front.
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
noun
- An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
- A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
- A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
- The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
- A seafront or coastal promenade.
- A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
- The beginning.
- A field of activity.
- The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
- An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
- The most conspicuous part.
- That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
- The side of a building with the main entrance.
- When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
- The direction of the enemy.
- The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
verb
- To exaggerate the significance of something.
- To blow hard or with much violence.
- To cover with blossoms or flowers.
- To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind.
- To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.
- Of a wind instrument, to move from its lower to its higher register.
- To blow over or across.
adj
noun
verb
- describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality
- take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to
- express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol
- be representative or typical for
- be a delegate or spokesperson for; represent somebody's interest or be a proxy or substitute for, as of politicians and office holders representing their constituents, or of a tenant representing other tenants in a housing dispute
- serve as a means of expressing something
- be typical of
- form or compose
- be the defense counsel for someone in a trial
- create an image or likeness of
- play a role or part
- perform (a play), especially on a stage
- point out or draw attention to in protest or remonstrance
- bring forward and present to the mind
- to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets)
noun
- Reputation, prominence; noticeability.
- A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
- A summary or collection of information, especially about a person
- The amount by which something protrudes.
- A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
- An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
- A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
- The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
- Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
- The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
- A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
verb
- To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
- To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
- To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
- To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
- To draw in profile or outline.
adj
- Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
- Not negative or neutral.
- Stated definitively and without qualification.
- Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
- Optimistic.
- Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion').
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
- Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
- Of number, greater than zero.
- Having more protons than electrons.
- HIV positive.
- Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
- Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
- Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
- Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
- Formally laid down.
- Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.
- electropositive
- Fully assured in opinion.
- Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
- Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.
- basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
noun
- A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- A positive result of a test.
- An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
- A favourable point or characteristic.
- A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.
- A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
- Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
- The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
pron
- The aforementioned quality or proposition; used to emphatically affirm or deny a previous statement or question.
- The known (thing); used to refer to something just said.
- That's my car over there.
- The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action, or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
- (plural that) Which, who; representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition.
- Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.
adv
- To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions).
- To a given extent or degree.
- To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).
noun
conj
- Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.
- Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence, or effect.
- Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.
- Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
- Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise.
det
adj
- Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
- Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation.
- Of a species, the species name without consideration of whether it is a junior synonym or in reality consists of more than one biological species.
- Insignificantly small.
- Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value.
- Assigned to or bearing a person's name.
- Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not the purchasing power or market value.
- Existing in name only.
- Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.
- Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.
- Having values whose order is insignificant.
- Of or relating to nominalism.
- According to plan or design.
noun
- A person listed in the Police National Computer database as having been convicted, cautioned or recently arrested.
- A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives. (Depending on the language, it may comprise nouns, adjectives, possibly numerals, pronouns, and participles.)
- A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier. (See nominal number on Wikipedia.)
- A noun or word group that functions as part of a noun phrase.
verb
- To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.
- To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.
- To mark with written accents.
noun
- A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
- The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
- A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
- Emphasis or importance in general.
- A manner of pronunciation suggesting that the speaker is from a different region; a foreign accent.
- Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail in sharp contrast to its surroundings.
- A word; a significant tone or sound.
- A mark used to represent this special emphasis.
- Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
- A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
- Expressions in general; speech.
- A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.
- Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice, expressing emotion; tone.
- A prime symbol.
- A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.
- A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does not normally use a certain sign language might have when using it.
- The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.
adj
- Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing.
- Distinguished, being distinct in character or position.
- Distinguishing a particular sense of word.
- Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things.
- Characteristic, typical.
- Used to separate clauses in place of stops.
noun
intj
- Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
- An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation).
- An exclamation of indignance.
- Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
- Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
- Used as a greeting
- Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.
adv
- To a significant degree.
- In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
- Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
- Completely, fully.
- Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
verb
- To have something seep out of the surface.
- To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
noun
- A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
- A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
- A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
- A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
- A source of supply.
- The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
- An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
- In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
- A well drink.
- A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
- A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
- The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
- The cockpit of a sailboat.
- The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
- A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
adj
verb
- make an accusatory claim
- to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
- blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
- demand payment
- move quickly and violently
- assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
- file a formal charge against
- fill or load to capacity
- enter a certain amount as a charge
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- give over to another for care or safekeeping
- pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt
- lie down on command, of hunting dogs
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- place a heraldic bearing on
- provide (a device) with something necessary
- direct into a position for use
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
- instruct or command with authority
- attribute responsibility to
- set or ask for a certain price
- cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
- energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge
- saturate
noun
- an impetuous rush toward someone or something
- (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
- the price charged for some article or service
- the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
- a person committed to your care
- financial liabilities (such as a tax)
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- request for payment of a debt
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence
- heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
verb
- To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to
- He would often assert that there was life on other planets.
- To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive.
- To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
- To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.
- To specify that a condition or expression is true at a certain point in the code.
- To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
noun
noun
- Acknowledgment of a person or thing; avowal; profession; recognition.
- a form of bail; a promise made by the accused to the court that they will attend all required judicial proceedings and will not engage in further illegal activity or other prohibited conduct as set by the court.
- A token; a symbol; a pledge.
verb
- To distort the original meaning of; to misrepresent.
- To rack with pain; to be hurt or distressed.
- To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
- To use a wrench; to twist with a wrench.
- To pull or twist violently.
- To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
noun
- In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
- A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
- An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
- A distorting change from the original meaning.
- In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.
- A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
- An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
- A violent emotional change caused by separation.
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